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measure OF vatican,

Tie Pope's vriyaie fortune must u
be confused with The treasure Inch he
regards MS belonging tu the papacy,
though as a matter of fact, be could, il
he wished, regard rs las own all the vast
resources ATTACHED To his office. He
has preferred to regard as his own only
such money which comes IL hun through
private gifts from those to whom he
grants audiences.
The regular revenue of his office, such
as Peters pence, revenues from real es-
tate, and bonded Investments he keeps
accounts Of sepa rately out OF it he pays
the 81 600 600 that is necessary to keep
up the phpal court, consisting u! car
dlnals, diplomatic representatives, court
officials and the little standing army.
Over u million dollars "A year is
spent i'll charity by the rontitr. Out OF
the surplus Of official funds, Pope Leo
has by wise administration been able to
create Il contingent fund of $4,000
coo.
While the Vatican treasures are prac
tically the l'opc's personal property by
inheritance from his predecessors, none
Of them have asserted any thing but
stewardship over them. Tho Vatican
palace with it's 1900 rooms, is Il store
house Of priceless treasure OF art. Inter-
allure aud precious examples Of the jew
elcrs' and goldsmiths art. 1t is said to
contain more'gold than the KIondike;
more jewels than the diamond mines Of
South Africa.
Tie pontiticatc Of Leo has added an
mcstimahle treasure to his horde. When
he celebrated the golden iuhiles OF his
priesthood i'll lSSS. an exhibition WAS
opened in the Vatican Of the gifts pre-
scented to him. Tons of gold poured in
to the Vatican. On the day Of the jubi-
lee mass orer SO, 200, 900 in gold coin was
presented To him.
The crowned heads OF the world We'd
with each other in the costliuess of their
gifts. The total value Of the jubilee
gifts is estimated at Sli SCI, 900,
The Pope has since celebrated the
golden jubilee Of his ~euisropqtc and the
I~wen'y-tifth anniversary Of his %pontiti-
cate. On each occasion millions III gifts
were presented to him.
One Of the most notable gifts present
ed to Leo vas Il diamond said 10 he
worth Si.000,g0l. which came from "A
staunch disciple of Luthe-. -Oum Paul
Kruger The Transvas! pre-: lent re-
ceived il from Mcmela. a native chic!
who was given his freedom after cap.
turc by the BOer troops. II fell into
Mcme!a's hands from u chief OF the Bias.
atos, who hal taken it from IA Zulu
king.
One of the gifts presented tn him last
March was Il topaz weighing l,7S0 grams
in which the celebrated Neapoliian ar
tist. Andrea Cartcllo, had. after l. years
work, engraved Il picture OF the Last
Supper" The gem after its decoration,
was valued at $4,000.
The tiara presented him at the time,
the work OF Augusta Milaini, a celc,
bratGd Cologne goldsmith. is valued at
S2i 900. The value Of the lace in the
Popes wardrobe il estimated at SlIi..
III
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Crisis Of smiths.

Know all Smiths by the 20 presents
that they are not doing their duty: that
they are falling behind in the race; that
they are on the path to race suicide.
Once We believed in the Smiths. We
thought the world was theirs. It was
n comfort to feel that wherever you
went the Smiths were Al the head Of the
pool. Voting lists were purple with
Smiths Directories saggcd with
Smiths. Tho country was eufc and
happy under the protection Of the mul.
titudinous aud consolidated Smiths.
And now where are the Smiths? Tic
man ager Of the Chichgo directory is a
Smith. He is not the man To- let a Smith
escape from ms agents. Yet his figures
show that there are $3.50 Johnaous and
only 5,3I Smiths in Chicago.
1rhe Smiths are running Il close sec
ond,7 writes nm Inter Ocean reporter.
whose ~patronizinG manner bet.ays him
as a triumphant and snecri:Ig johnson.
j! has not been the habit ~ the Smiths
to be second. Have they lost their long
preeminence? Must they decrease and
the JohnsoDS increase?
Where is Mowbray? Where is Plan.
tageuei? Nay. what 10 more and most
Of all. where IL Smith? viii the Smiths
yield without u struggle to the john
sOnsY-Ncw York Sun.
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Ihcr" wu- Gnnd Dcri 10 See.

Grover Cleveland during his first
term as President stopped enroutc one
afternoon at Weldon. North Cnrolina,
and WAS greeted 10y n large crowd OF
natives on the platform 81 the little
Rtnlinn. y witty old chap, with "huck.
wnohs' written Hil over him. forced
his way through tlc crowd to Clevc-
lund's size. and asked. "ilc you the Pres.
iirni?7
81 am, sir" was the polite answer: and
Cicvelnud's hnud was stretched out in
greeting.
ia" old frlluw graspcd it. shook it
like Il pump handle for half q minute.
and then said. "I'yc voted Tor many n
President. hnt never aforC seed one"
lie stepped back. looked Cleveland
over admirinGly from hcad to foot.
advanced again, md nr"c more grab.
hing md shaking the visitors innd
said from the bottom 81 his hcnrt.
"Ncn, Lord! !ou are Il whorper tcw!-
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some smart Answers.

Here are some samples Of what the
British schOo:bOy can do when he tries
hard:
John Wesley was IL great sea cap.
tain. lie beat the Dutch at Waterloo
and by degrees rose to be Duke OF Wei.
lmgton. He was buried near Nelson III
the Poets corner ut Westminster all.
bey.'
The sublime porte as a very fine old
wine"
1.-The possession ease Is the case when
somebody has got yours aud won't give
il to YOU
The plural 81 penny is twopence.-
an tive sentence, i saw the GOAT butt
the map butt ia Il conjunction because
it shows the connection between the
q" az aud The man"
-iim~ironmR always grow in damp
rIa"cs, and 80 they look like umbrcI.
las"
%lhc difference between water md
nir is that air can he made wcttcr and
water cannot
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Ii!rOk .JnIt.

60 lnst Saturday james Walsh Sns
committed 10 tho branch comfy Jail
for assault with II dcadly weapon with
intcrt to kill, md tlrat evening his
friend ~. Martin broke the window
Of the jill with ~ WOW 81 ~libcrnting
him. Martin was caught in the act
and wns daily iucnrccrnt"J with his
partner, % Monday evening both pris
pbcra broke irri aud started ont across
The desert u'or' ,but wore captured by the
officers iust this eide Of Silver Peak.
Their ease cane up IT Justice Liudsny'a
court Yesterday. when both were bound
over tu the Grand Jury III tho sum 81
- 800 each aud went back go Jail IN dc.
fault foDopah Miner,
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Dissolution Settle.

The partnership heretofore EXISTING
bet ween james German " Elko and \.
K. True ri Ryns!ur. du,uy business At
Elio md Ryrdo,, urd' r the firm name
Of True N German, is this day dissolved
by mutual corsCri.
Mr.. Gorman will hereafter conduct
the Silver Brick saloon III Elku. pay nll
Claims against IT aud collect all bills due
said saloon.
Mr.. True will hereafter conduct the
Log Cabin saloon at RynInu. pay all
claims against it and collect all out
ST gndirr bills due said saloon.
Witness our hands this LIST day OF
July. 1893.
JAMES GoRMNN,
&. *. TEUE.
ELKo. Nevada. July l, 1913.
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Rusty Mike on Advertising.

Advertising is the nails aud spikes
that hold your business structure to-
gether.
Old, dead wood don't make the hot
test tire-old lead advertisements don't
bring new business.
The time to visit the never. advertised
store is when yam are looking for III
thing out OF date,
The blacksmith doesn't make one
heavy 81 rike md wait for the iron "a coal
off to feel the den;-hc Keeps it up whiir
the iron is hot and go should the advc.-
tiser.
faint good judgment to plant a
field lad then never cultivate tit
ain't good judgment to plant a store
and then never cultivate it with advcr.
Using.
You'd think it was Il crazy farmer who
only MIXED his cows once n month
some advertisers are just us crazy.
Amt nc use to go fishing for big fish
with little hait-it you want to catch
the most customers you must use the
big circulation papers .or your advertis.
ing.
No matter how big a dinner yOu eat
today, tomorrow You will he hungry and
no matter what good bargains You offer
today tomorrow the buyers will be look.
ing for new ones.
The hen that has laid the egg don't
go back into the corner and cover up
her head to cackle-she gets the rooster
to help her. The advertiser needs the
good advertising medium.
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Eatttlesnakes are more numerous in
adjacent hills this year Thar ut any seq
son within the memory Of the old set.
tier. No less than six were killed within
the past week 10y Comstock hunters who
have visited FL Dorado canyon. One Of
the lot was an old timer and carried eIev-
ven sections i'll his danger whistle.-E En-
terprIse.
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REDUCED TICKET RATES TO
SAN FRANCISCO AND RETURN
Account OF Meeting OF Grand Army of
Republic.

Commencing Aug. 18th and continu.
ing until the departure OF tho last train
to arrive in San francisco on August
II, 1909. Round Trip Tickcta will 10
sold to San Francisco ut the rate Of
i30 20 for tho round trip. Tickets cx.
piro Aug, 81, 1924. and are Tor contin.
uous trip gong. Stopovcr will hc nl.
lowed in California on return trip with.
~ the time limit.
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n

All person. arr hereby warned u 4"
discharge ti--arms of any kind or des,
cript'ou whatever IN the streets ~ the
town on Eiko nor III or about the
grounds and yards OF the Elko Public
School or the Elko Comfy Hospital,
Any person firing II gun or pistol on the
streets 81 said town or in or about the
yards and grounds OF said Publ,
School or Hospital will be arrested and
prosecuted to the fullest extent OF the
law.
CHARLES Il. HENDERSON,
District Attorney Of EIko County, New
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The fact il odd: lin rnstollire saw
ing banks Of Great Britain are tcchui.
cally msolveni. Their DEF osIis at ih..
end 0i the year were 800. CO0.0O their
assets only abou, SG7n.O00.0 600. NohnGy
worries about a little thing like that: tine
government is responsible. OF course
the discrepancy rose from the high pri.
ccs the department WINS forced to pay
Tor national bonds before the l}ncr war,
The lowering Of the rate "f interest al
lowed IL mn obvious cure. Tho postal
banks were authorized in Il 81 and near.
j. sl0.000,000 was deposited the first
year. Some later developments are
curious. by the slip systrm a Rum
So small ~ two rents cau be deposited .
Deposits eau he withdrawn 10y tele-
graph. School savings banks are recog.
Dizcd, hut are not very successful. ow.
ing 10 the superior attractions ot sweets
as Il thc.lium Of investment. \ feature
Of the postal bank liz that, through their
agency. depositors can buy small frac.
tionnl portions Of government bonds,.-
New York World,
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CASH REDUCTION SALE.

Ia order tn reduce the stock in her
store, Mrs. Eltio Campbell announces II
reduction Of II per cent on al goods.
Everything IN the way OF ladies' and
chiIdren'S good. will he sold nt Il sacri.
flee for cash. Indies, don't MISS this
sale.
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Ii'or Sale,

Ten thousnnd feet 81 secondhand
lumber. mostly Ike inch boards. 8 to
10 feet long. For other ntor nation call
81 or address Mclaughlin Brothers, Mt
first camp casi Of Osino. p. o. address
R.pdou.
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ELHo. Nevada. July I, ~ 3.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-18
SPEAkER-TO-BE CANNON WILL
SHINE IN SOCIAL WASHINGTON

When Representative Joseph G. Can
non goes from Danville to Washington
Tor the next term of congress it will
not be to become merely the guest at
d hotel. Mr.. Cannon intends to go into
Washington society. He will by no
means burst upon 1t, since the man
who is to be speaker of the house has
often appeared at public and social
affairs" during his long service in
Washington, but he has seldom been
the entertainer. The new dignity that
is to come upon him has, however,
changed matters, and it is said that his
daughter, Miss Helen Cannon, has
much to do with the new order Of
things.
1t was made known last week that
Mr. Cannon had leased a house in
Washington modest but historic
residence-and this is regarded as hav-
Ing most important bearing on the
social life of the national capital 1t
is not simply because Mr.. Cannon pro-
poses to keep house instead of live In
MOTEL that society folks are talking
about the change, but because Mr..
cannon Will be speaker of the Fifty
eighth congress. 1t has been many
years since speaker had a home in
Washington which had to be reckoned
among the social mile posts to be OBJ
served in the rule of precedence.
Speaker Carlisle was the last and he
lived In modest way in the same
house he had occupied as a member.
OF congress. Speaker Reed lived at q
hotel during his three terms as speaker
and did not entertain. Speaker Crisp
and Speaker Henderson followed his
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dent of the senate. He admitted that
the vice president ranked him because
The vice president was the heir appar-
ent to the presidency, but he drew the
line there and refused to sit below the
president of the senate at table or
make much social uneaSiness over this
question in the last four years, because
there was no vice president and Sen
ator Frye as president of the senate
assumed that he had all the social
prerogatives of the vice president.
1t became necessary for those who
Intended to give a dinner with official
guests to invite the president of the
senate and the speaker at different
times. SO there would be no question
raised as to precedence. Speaker Hen
derson had no hesitancy in asking for
a list of the guests and the diagram of
the table where he was invited.
The same embarrassment was ex-
perienced at official functions at the
White house. the wives of the speaker
and president of the senate each in
s1sting on precedence.
No such difficulty is ANTICIPATED over
the election of Mr.. Cannon as speaker.
He is one of the most democratic men
In public life. He has always lived in
hotel In Washington, and he has been
most desirable guest at dinners be-
cause OF his force of character, wide
acquaintance with men and measures.
and his unique personality Mr.. Can
non has entertained but little In the
ordinary sense because he has most Of
the time been alone, his daughter nre-
ferring to remain in Danville or travel.
But Miss Cannon has for several
years desired her father to take house
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example and lived at hotels and en-
tertained but little
Uncle Joe" Cannon is more demo-
cratic than any of these predecessors
or recent years, but the announcement
that he had leased a house on one of
The best residence streets has caused
much comment as to what he will do
In the way of entertaining and where
he will draw the line as to the social
status Of the speaker. There has been
much heart burning controversy over
sais question in the past.
Thomas B. Reed held his position as
Speaker second only to that of the
president. He insisted that it was a
greater and more distinguished office
than that Of vice president, because the
speaker is the real head of the legis-
lative branch of the government, and
In one respect the equal of the presi-
dent. He twice refused to allow his
name to be used in conventions as the
candidate for vice president, because
he was speaker and regarded that Of
ice more dignified and exalted one,
as we'll as one more important to a
man of force.
Mr.. Reed did not trouble himself
much about the social status of the
speaker, but he exercised his preroga-
i've to accept or decline invitations,
even from the White house. Society
people understood Speaker Reeds
position on such questions, and were
careful about placing him at table
where there were other official guests.
Speaker Henderson lived at a hotel
while speaker, and he went much in
society, but he insisted on his recogni-
ton as taking precedence of the presi-
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clear of coal pile and landed at the
Foot of the gangway. The cabin boy,
| cleaning the gangway brass, looked
up, gave a frightened scream and
bolted down into the cabin.
Only one man about there had never
seen the mates big figure, and he was
| the dock Waterman. AS he did not see
anything particularly ghostly in it this
first time and besides, had a pretty
clear conscience, he took no part in the
panic that followed. He Is the only
one capable OF giving a concise, i'm
partial account of what happened
the rest SILVER when they think of it.
have heard the Waterman tell the
story several times, and he always
tells 1t in numerous vein. To him
1t was extremely funny. You see, he
did not know the mate should have
been dead ten days.
Trig OlafSen came up the gangWay,
his head thrown up like a lion SMELL
Ing fresh meat. The plank quivered
beneath his ponderous tread. His
huge mustache trailed back over his
set jaws, his hair bristled and his
big hairy arms were swollen and bare
to the elbows, for he had thrown off
lis hat and coat on the dock. He
paused at the top for just one mo-
ment, then, with a roar like breakers
on a reef he bounded to the deck
The Waterman says he never saw
such a wild scramble-it couldn't be
compared to the panic at Weikiki,
when the tiger go loose in the cir
Gus menagerie. Not only the ship, but
the whole island was much too small
for the Aloha's crew just then.
The ghost seized a capstant bar from
the rack at the break of the poop and
| charged midships. Five of the men
leaped overheard and swan frantically
across the harbor to the mail dock
Two fed up the rigging and the rest
sprang to the dock, a drop of nearly
! ten feet. Up the track they pelted
| Trig Olafsen after them, hurting the
| capstan bar ahead of him, picking it
up again when he got to it, and roar
| Ing out blood curdling oaths in Morse
| and English all the while.
Here the Waterman became hySter-
| Scal and saw no more until Olafsen re-
appeared on the deserted deck, roaring
and Tuning among the empty coal
buckets and using most unghostly lam
| guage. Then the skipper came up from
below and staggered against the sky
| light, white as a water soaked corpse.
What In de name of de Flying
| Dutchman's hgure-head We starin' at
me like dat for?" roared Trig Olaf
sen.
He really didn't swear by the Flying
Dutchman's figure-head: it was some
thing decidedly more expressive than
that.
The captain recovered-no drowned
] man could swear like that. no living
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, sen gave the order to square in bit at
once.
SLACK away your spanker sheet" he
ordered next. z~ -
A man did so but the block on the
boom jambed. The mate leaned over
The railing to overhaul the sheet. Sud
denly its cleared, = ana the boom shot
hut with jerk to leeward. The mate
lad been leaning against the boom, SO
,, naturally he went with 1t, but not hav-
| ing Wings herf fell, and a minute later
was shouting in the ships wake.
The mates watch was made up
partly of Melbourne larrikins and part
| ly of Frisco roughs, an unWholesome
! mixture. Olafsen had not been very
/ courteous to them on the trip, and
| they remembered it now of all times.
| The ship was making a good six
Knots, and even had the helmsman
brought her up into the wind, 1t would
have taken a good hour to pick up the
mate. But the wheel remained I'M
United and the Aloha sailed straight
bn, the men coiled up the ropes, and
loon the shouts astern died in the
Hiss of the wake. ~
But it wasn't to save trouble that
they paid no heed. An hour later the
man sat the wheel cast loose a life
buoy and roared out: g
Man overheard"
The captain came on deck, all hands
were. called. theaship was hove to and
boat lowered. They spent an hour
| hunting, but of course, It wasn't likely
| that they would find a man dropped
EiX miles astern.
| A week later the Aloha came into
Honolulu and officially reported her
mate lost at sea.
The Aloha hauled up alongside the
railroad dock and began discharging
her cargo of coal. The crew were en-
| ployed on deck manipulating burtons
and whips and driving winches, while
| the Kanakas filled the buckets below.
BY Saturday you could no longer jump
down the hatchways to the top Of the
! cargo.
1t was nearly noon. The men ex-
Dected to knock off early and were in
fretty good humor. laughing and
Eandying jokes with one another.
Suddenly there came a crash-a
bucket dropped on deck, almost driv-
Ing through the planks and nearly kill
| ing big Steve at the burton. The man
| driving the ford winch stood stiff, his
face the color of a snakes belly, his
eyes bullying. The others were about
TO swear at him, but following his
rigid gaze, horror likewise stiffened
shem. Complete stiffness had come
over the busy scene All eyes were
fixed on some thing on the dock
Picking Its way through the line OF
freight cars sOn the wharf came the
| towering figure of the drowned" mate
"Trip Olafsen. The apparition leaped
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-18
BY Albert sonnichsen, Able Seaman.

By Albert Sonnichsen, Able Seaman.
(Author of Deep Sea Vagabonds.")
If YOU have knocked about Honolulu
much you have heard of Trig Oiafsen.
But perhaps you are stranger there.
Then go down to the docks some Sun
day morning when the seamen are loaf
Ing about the gangways and ask. They
will sing you the saga of Trig Olafsen.
It will come couched in language hide
ously profane, but no matter, you will
learn all about Trig Olafsen.
Perhaps, if they are in a good
humor, they will tell you of Trig
Olafsen's long swim with liberal criti-
cism of the ways of Providence in pre-
serving the morally unfit For Olaf
sens notoriety as a hard case bucko
mate equals his fame as a swimmer.
If you should ever meet Trig Olaf
sen you will understand why he is
feared. Big of body arms like thighs,
gnarled and hairy; a lion-like head
on a bull neck, a tawny mustache
dropping over ponderous jaws and
hair Of the most fiery hue-such a man
Is Trig Olafsen. Sailors on the West
coast will rule or be ruled. Trig.
Olafsen has never been ruled in spite
bf many efforts on the part of in
subordinate crews to subdue him. A
crowd of Irishmen tried it once on the
Island Queen, but Trig piled into
them and smote with the mighty arm
of his Viking forefathers. Those were
the days when Dave Kalakaua's ban
ner floated from the palace towers and
from the gaffs of a dozen good sail
Ing ships. Trig Olafsen was mate
of the Hawaiian bark Aloha, then in
the sugar, lumber and coal trade
coal from Australia to Honolulu,
thence to San Francisco with sugar,
and back to Australia with Puget
Sound lumber.
From a sailors point of view this
was an ideal run, and the Aloha was
a first-rate ship for living and easy
10 handle, but her crews invariably
left at the end of each passage. Few
made a full trip. AS they didn't stop
10 collect their wages, the owners
hound it profitable to retain Trig Olaf
Zen in their service But on one trip
they almost lost him.
The Aloha had cleared the doldums
and had barely caught the Northeast
trades. 1t happened in the morning
watch, about o'clock. The yards were
braced sharp up on the port tack, and
II the Aloha was making her course,
that was about all. The mate, shifting
the wind, to take prompt advantage
Of any favorable change, kept faithful
watch by the weather mizzen rigging.
Fhe men were just taking coffee when
Inc breeze hauled aft a trif1e. Instead
of waiting until they had finished Olaf