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The Wahpeton times., 1904-01-29
From the Capital.

FROM the capital.
Tho house has passed the Hepburn
pure food bill.
Representative Spalding introduced
. bill declaring non.navigable the Rec
River Of the North in North Dakota
from south Of the point where the
Cheyenne river empties into the Red
Representative Spalding has recon-
mended the reappointment Of E. H
Myhre as postmaster at Valley City
N. D., and the reappointment Of Post
master Albrech at Anamoose. This
Office was recently advanced to the
presidential class.
Representative Martin has been di-
rected to report favorably his bill set
ting aside 5000 acres of land, includ-
ing the landmark known ~ Battle
mountain, for park purposes in con
nection with the soldiers sanatorium
st Hot Springs, S. d.
People Talked About.
The Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, admiral
Of the British feet, is dead. He was
born in 1909.
M. Curie and his wife. the discover.
ers of radium, deny the reports that
they intend to visit the United States.
The bother OF Richmond P. Hobson
died at the home of Shirley Davis at
Boulder, Colo, after long illness. Her
son was with her when she died
Jose Esteva of Jalapa, in the State
of Vera Cruz, Mex, the last surviving
member of Emperor Maxmi!lian's
cabinet. is dead. He was eighty-nine
years old.
Prof. E. F. Turnauer Of Madison,
Wis, has been elected by the Univer
sity of Fisconsin board of regents to
be dean of the college of engineering
in place of E. F. Johnson, deceased.
DIR. B. G. Dysart, an ex-surgeon of
Cockrell's brigade of the Confederate
army, died at Paris, Mo-, aged sew
enty years. He was close friend of
United States Senator Francis NJ.
Cockrell.
DR.. Pollock F. Hyatt, who was Unit
ed States consul at Santiago, Cuba for
five years prior to the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war, died at his
home in Jersey Shore, Pa. DR.. Hyatt
was sixty-eight years old.
Francis A. White of Everett, WASH.
who in 1876 assisted in promoting the
New York Consolidated Mining Stock
Exchange and who was we'll known in
Wall street twenty-five years ago, died
at San Francisco at tho age of eighty.
Cyrus Jordan, formerly president of
Hillsdale College at Hillsdale. Mich,
died at Ocean Park, Me, aged seventy.
four years. From 1881 to 1900 he was
connected with the Morning Star. q
Free Will Baptist publication issued in
Boston.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29

sure to touch the double-six domino,
and then count to the right without
skipping a single domino.
The six-fve domino will be 80" you
understand; the double-five TO-" the
five-four H." and so ON until you
reach double-two. There you will be
told to stop" for the number of times
you have touched various dominoes
Q6 tines plus the number OF spots on
the double-two domino a spots) equals
20, you see.
Now all you have to do is to say,
This (the double-two) is the domino
you thought Of"
He will say, You're right" and he
will wonder how you guessed 1t.
Be sure not to count aloud nor even
TO look as II you were while you are
doing the touching.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
Tree Planting in China.

Tree planting in northern China is
being strenuously enjoined by the au-
thorities, not only as a productive in
duStry for the people. but alike as a
means OF strengthening the river EN-
bankments against foods and of check
ing drought says the Golden Penny.
or late years trees have been cut down
wholesale for agricultural purposes.
while the peasants do not take the
trouble TO plant fresh ones, because the
soil il SO loose that they must dig
down very deep for a satisfactory
foothold. SO vast tracts of fertile land
are left barren. while in the northern
provinces especially the influx of sand
carried by high winds from the Mon
golian deserts threatens to MI up the
unoccupied ground.
SO in the important province of Chill.
which contains the capital, Pel6in, there
is government proclamation notifying
the eight directions for tree planta-
tion"-most minute instructions as to
the kind Of tree required, the depth
they should be planted aud the fer
tlizers to be used--and the ten bene-
ats to be derived from the same," such,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
BRUFF's APT REPLY SAVED HIM.
story Of a Reporter Whose Quick wit
Disarmed an Angry Woman.

Story Of a Reporter Whose Quick wit
Disarmed an Angry Woman.
The nerve OF newspaper men fire.
quently keeps them from serious trou-
Bile. as well as getting them into 1t,
remarked Representative Livingston Of
Georgia while talking to group Of
friends In the cloakroom. LAS whole
they are generally pretty clever lot
and prepared for any emergency and
suppose that they make about as few
mistakes as the average run of men.
II shall never forget an incident
which happened several years ago in
Atlanta. and | laugh now every time
think OF IT, A dashing young woman
came to Atlanta and engaged the
SWEETEST suite Of rooms at the Kim
ball. and she sported diamonds as large
az walnuts and drove a fourth hand
1t was given out that the young beauty
was Miss So-andSo the cattle queen
of the West, and that she had money
enough to burn up stock yard of wet
cows
ED Bruffey of the Constitution had
an idea that the woman was fake,
and he soon had the wires hot with
messages making inquiries about her.
the result being that he got a corking
good story to the effect that the wom-
an was the rankest kind of humbug
Bruff printed the story next morning
and 1t caused a genuine sensation. but
the woman never lost her grip, driving
out that afternoon with her four-in-
hand
Late that night Bruff was In the
lobby of the Kimbal talking to Ed Cal
loway. the night clerk, when the cattle
queen swished down the steps and
walking up to Bruff, asked If he was
responsible for the story In the Con
stitution.
- have that honor was his reply
Then, air. am going TO kill you.
almost yelled the woman as she drew
gun from the folds OF her dress.
This didn't alarm the little news
paper man in the least. but, lifting his
hat, he quietly remarked:
Fire away. madam: | had rather
he killed by pretty woman any day
than to die a natural death
"Brufr won out. for the woman
laughed and retreated upstairs. =
Washington Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29

In five minutes from the commence
ment on her downward plunge there
will be no sign that she has ever
been, and only if other vessels be very
near will there be any possible chance
Of sa wing a handful of stalwart swim
mers whose superhuman struggles
have wrenched them clear of the de
youring, down-dragging eddies. More
than a mere handful there could not
be In any case. since another tremen-
dous difference between past and pres
ent sea fighting is that the steel-clad
monsters go into battle with hardly
man visible, almost all of them hid
den behind massive walls shut in from
the devastating impact of large pro-
jectiles, as well as the horrible hail
Of Hotchktss and Maxim bullets.
The pomp and pageantry of sea war
fare in Nelson's day. with its stripped
crowds Of men swarming about the
lncumbered decks, and streaming flags
from every mast have gone with the
towering ranges of sails and nimble
sailors who leapt about aloft handling
them even during the height Of battle.
The new man-of-war goes into the
fight grim. unadorned, and apparently
proceeding by her own yolition, like
some unthinkable marine monster be-
gotten of the elder slime.
Nor will the elements interfere either
TO retard or accelerate the issues as
once they did. Whether 1t be calm or
storm, blue sky or fog, night or day,
the battle will be Joined.
To a landsman, and even to a mer
chant seaman, there is something pc
culiarly terrifying In the notion of
sea fight in fog 1t Is a time of
terror even in peaceful navigation,
since the great sea breadths seem to
have contracted. and ones faculties are
kept at their utmost tension in case of
running across another ship. Fog Is
the only elemental. condition that sue
ceeds In making the great, wide sea
look a little place. where not merely
navies have no room to float. but 1t
seems impossible to avoid colliding
with the only other ship that was In
sight before those fleecy walls of mys-
terry closed In upon the seafarers. Yet
the modern sea warrior among US Is
trained to welcome that terrifying con-
dition of things to dash at utmost
speed through the thickness and burst
upon his enemy with the sudden I'M
expectedness of the lightning stroke.
And to add to all these terrible con-
ditions of modern sea warfare we have
now the submarine. Not content with
the mighty arena of conflict afforded
by the open surface of the sea. in gale,
or fog. or calm. the sea fighter must
now descend into darkness and 81
lence. the realm OF the utterly I'M
known. in order that he may haply
hurl. at one fell blow as from a burst
ing volcano, into blazing. boiling ruin
and death. eight hundred lives, and
the revenue of principally. For man
has even extended the battle ground
of the sea.-Frank r. Bullen. in Lon
don Daily Mail.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
A Bit OF Thackeray Fun.

The following extract is taken from
one of Thackeray's letters of Miss Lib
by Strong, niece of Mr.. Baxter and
an inmate of the family at the Brown
House during both the visits OF the
novelist to America. The letter with
others is published entire In the Cen.
fury under the title, "Thackeray's
Friendship with an American Fam
lily"
Come. 1t Is time TO pack up this
note and trot down to the boat. Sup
pose was at New York now | won
der whether 1t being your birth day |
should be allowed to-yous comprenez
and II being my birth day whether
l shouldn't be authorized to do it all
round; Well now | guess I'd give a
hundred-dollar bill TO do lt-that's
thirty three S33 cents n piece | reckon
and one cent over: Miss Libby says
don't know what you mean about cents
but l know you are talking n great
deal Of noncents. SO 1t Is. And how
much of life is ditto ditto? Wait till
you are FIVE and twenty years older
like some people, aud then see SO |
send my love to all of you In the
brown house, or whersumdever the
Shade 4 the Summer has cony eyed
YOU. and am OF the 3 young ladies' es
pecinlly the
respectable old friend
''W. NJ. r.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
Willing TO Take n Chance.

\ pious citizen has a 15-year-old son
who does not promise to be exactly a
chip or the old block" Not long ago
the father discovered to his sorrow
that his boy and several others of the
neighborhood had habit of matching
nicliels. The wrathful parent led the
erring lad TO the ine-honored attic.
where hangs certain strap. The boy
didn't have any agreeable impression
Of what was to come. and, on the
ground that 1t is only the first plunge
that counts. he called out: Say, dsdI
I'll so you heads or tails for two lick
ings or noner
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
FORTUNES ON FINGER ENDS.
Queen OF Slam Has Gem-Se Thin b l.
Worth $4,000.

Queen of Slam Has Gem-set Thin bio
Worth $4,000.
The costlisst thimbls In the world Is
undoubtedly one possessed by the
Queen of Siam, says the Queen II was
presented to her by her husband, the
king, who had 1t made at cost of
rather more than $4,000. This Thin
1t Is made of pure gold, in the fashion
or shape of half-opened lotos flower,
the floral emblem OF the royal house
OF Siam.
1t is thickly studded with the most
beautiful diamonds and other precious
form the name OF the queen, together
with the date of her marriage. She
regards this thimble as one OF her
most precious possessions.
Not long since Paris jeweler made
most elaborate thlmble TO the order
of certain weli-known American mill.
icnaire. Ii was somewhat larger than
the ordinary size OF thimbles and the
agreed price was 10000. The gold set
ting was scarcely Visible. so complete
ly was II set with dia monds. rubies
and pearls. in artistic designs the
rubies showing the initials OF the in
tended recipient.
This thimhle was made as birth
day present to the miliionaire's daugh-
ter. who can now boast the possession
of the second most valua BILE thimble IN
the world. Her father was so much
pleased with the fine workmanship Ii
showed that he ordered another but
much less expensive one 10 be made
for presentation tn the school compan-
ion and bosom friend of his fortunate
child.
Five or six years ago a Jeweler in
the west end of London was paid a
sum of nearly $1,000 for thimhle
which the pampered wife OF South
American Croesus insisted on having
made for her. This was one mass of
precious gems. diamonds and rubics
which as. thimble ornaments seem to
almost monopolize feminine taste.
The eccentric prince the late Maha-
rajah Dhuleep Singh, never did things
by halves. and one OF the most beauti-
full and costly thimbles ever made was
that which was supplied TO his order
as present for great lady In Rus
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
And a little love-pat;

And a little love-pat;
So don't forget that
If YOU would only be gentle and kind.
And smooth my fur just the right way,
And call ME some pet name, you'd cer-
tainly find
How pleasantly then we should play"
III you were only livelier child"
Said our puppy, Rayels-called Raw
And would hop, skip and jump
Over bush. snag and stump,
What a glorious time we should have.
For dog rimes with log,
And with loud-splashing frog,
Or a twenty-mile jog
Through nice, muddy bog;
SO il you were only a livelier child,
And would call out, Here, Rayelsl
Come, Raw
And then dash Off and prance through
the wilderness wild,
What glorious time we should have"
Youths Companion.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
HORRORS OF MODERN
NAVAL WARFARE

Few as are the people who can i'm
vastly fewer who can picture with any
certainty the scene of naval conflict.
Terrible, too, as are all scenes Of
warfare. there seems something akin
to sacrilege. to destruction OF Gods
own realm, In man daring TO carry
his bloodthirsty. destructive animosi-
ties out upon the stainless blue of the
pure sea. Yet here no matter how ter
rife the slaughter, how widespread the
destruction wrought by man upon his
fellow man, the merciful sea- impol-
lutable, reticent, Immediately effaces
all trace thereof-hides mans mis-
doings from the gaze of high heaven.
nor allows the poor remains to lie and
I'LL the air with pestilence.
And this, of course, more SO now
than ever has been before. In the
days when Britain became the sover-
eign power at sea, and her wooden
walls were handled and fought
through whole days in closest proxim-
ity with their enemies, 1t often befel
that ships hulled through and through
with shot drifted for many days
while the handful of unwounded sur
vfyors accomplished tasks such as
make the mind reel to think Of
But modern sea warfare has changed
nearly all that For more terrible,
but mercifully far more swift. will be
the conflict between hostile fleets In
the future. There will be scarcely any
such thing as the lingering agony
long drawn out. of the old days of sea
fighting. For one thing, modern iron
clads and cruisers going into action
will choose the lesser of two evils CON
fronting them. Because of the deadly
peril of splinters and OF fire. every
thing of wood in their fittings, even
to the boats. will be cast away at the
beginning of the fight
Then, when the battle Is joined the
seaman must needs have heart Of
brass incased In triple steel. a mind
that refuses TO mediate upon the i'm
mediate possibility of one of those ter
riblc twelve-lnch projecties plunging
down upon his vessels deck, and out.
amid the dislntegration of all her gang
lions OF energy through the bottom.
rendering her an easy target to an un-
injured foe, and her sinking after
of minutes
And when she sinks, stone-like-
pumping being, If possible to yet I'M
damaged engine, a manifest absurdity
In that rent fabric of stee-with her
must go all her crew. 1t may sound
cruel and hard-hearted to speak of
their end being mercifully swift. but
In view of the horrors of the old wood
en- ships floating on. veritabe charnel
houses. when the battle was over.
there was hardly any other term appli-
cable.
The modern man-of-war will not. at
any rate. prolong the agonies OF her
crew when she is scutted. She will go
down quick into the pit in a halo of
steam. whlrling vortex of waves. and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29

na. The price Of this ran we'll into
four figures and the gems set In It
were all pearls OF great value and no
less beauty.
So were those in a highly treasured
thimble which. on the occasion of one
OF his visits to Europe, the late Shah
OF Persia presented to a lady whose
guest he vas for few hours. In the
words Of the delighted recipient, It
looked like cluster Of glltterlng gems.
which In reality 1t was, save for the
gold In which they were set. An expert
II, precious stones valued the thimble
AT Fl 800
There are thimbles Of no intrinsic
value. but which. on account of the
famous women to whom they belonged,
would command very high prices II
submitted to public auction. In the
possession OF the wealthy Mrs. Wander
bilt there IL thimble which was for
merry used by Queen Alexandra 1t Is
an extremely dainty article. made of
gold and enamel
not OF much greater value than an
other thimble owned by the same
American lady. This Is very service
able-looking article In solid silver but
very small Its value lies In the fact
that II was the property Of the late
Queen Victoria In the days when she
was only girl OF H. From It's appear
ance our late sovereign knew how to
ply her needle In her youthful days.
The first thimble ever made was the
one presented In the year 1854 to Anna
Van Wedy. the second wife of Klllaen
Van Rensselaer,, and the thimble Is,
therefore. Dutch invention. In max
ing the presentation the giyer Van
Benschoten. begged the lady ito ac-
cept this new covering for the protec-
ton Of her diligent fingers as token
Of his great esteem and profound re-
spect"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
Johnny Appleseed.

Before the days of the Civil War
every country boy and girl had heard
of Johnny Appleseed He was queer
character wandering from place to
place, and as he played his fiddle very
well and did not beg for money most
people were glad to see him. In these
days we might have called him a
tramp. but Johnny was no idle good
for-nothing. as you will see. Whenever
he entered village every one gathered
to hear him play merry tunes. and
though he often accepted lodging and
clothing, he never passed the hat for
money.
He never talked about himself moi
told where he was going, but used to
recite the most wonderful tales In
rhymes. Children loved to hear him,
and interested people used to write
down some of his verses. Appleseed
was only a nickname which was given
him on account of a singular habit he
had of planting seeds. Whenever he
ate an apple, peach or pear, he saved
the seeds, and while tramping across
the country used to stop and plant
them in places where he thought they
would grow. Years afterwards many
a family taking up land in the wild
Western country chose a spot where
hourishing orchard was growing
that had been planted by Johnny Ap.
pleseed. This Is one of the songs that
he used to sing:
| love to plant little seed.
Whose fruit | never see;
Some hungry stranger it will feed,
When it becomes tree.
| love to sing a little song
Whose words attune the day
And round me see the children threng
When | begin to play.
SO | can never lonely be,
Although l am alone,
| think of future apple trees
Which help the men unknown.
| sing my heart into the air,
And plant my way with seed
The song sends music everywhere,
The tree will tell my deed
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
FACTS ABOUT THE BANANA
When Ripened on the Plant 1t La Not
Suitable for Food,

When Ripened on the Plant 1t La Not
Suitable for Food.
There is vast amount of ignorance
prevailing among intelligent people Of
the North concerning the growth. pro-
duction and marketing of bananas.
Many people imagine that the natives
in tropical climes step out of their huts
in the early morning and pluck and
eat bananas fresh from the plaAt the
same as they would oranges and other
fruits. Bananas ripened on the plant
are not suitable for food and would
be much the same as the pith which Is
found in the northern cornstalk or ell
der. Bananas sold in the United States,
even after travelling 5000 miles in
green state. are every bit as good as
bananas ripened under tropical sun.
This Is probably true of no other ex-
port fruit. The plant of which ba-
nanas is the fruit is not tree nor Is
1t bush or vine. 1t is simply a 81
gantic plant, growing to height OF
from fifteen to twenty feet. About
eighteen feet from the ground the
leaves. ofttimes eight feet long, come
out in a sort of cluster from the cen
ter of which springs bunch of ba-
nanas. These do not grow with the
bananas pointing upward, naturally,
and If the stem grew straight they
would hang exactly as seen in the fruit
stores and grocers' windows This,
however. is not the case; the stem
bends under the weight of the fruit
and this brings it into directly the
opposite position with the large end
of the stalk sup and the fringes point
ing toward the sun
A word of explanation concerning
some banana terms. Each banana Is
called finger" and each of these lit
tie clusters of fingers surrounding
stalk is called hand" the quality
and value of each bunch depend on the
number of hands it has. Some may
wonder how the fruit is cut from the
top of a plant fifteen feet from the
ground. The native laborers cut the
stalk part way up its height, the
weight of the fruit causes the stalk to
slowly bend over until the bunch of
bananas just nicely reaches the
ground, then the bunch is cut off with
the eyer-ready machete and carried to
the river or railroad for shipment. The
plant at the same time is cut close to
the ground. The banana Is very pro-
life producer of itself and at every
cleaning of the land it Is necessary
to cut down many of the young plants,
or suckers as they are termed, I'm
order that they may not become over
crowded UP to a certain limit; the
fewer suckers on a given area the larg-
or the fruit they will produce.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29

Here's jolly trick you can play
with dominoes, boys and girls.
Place twelve of them in u circle (see
picturel and tell one of the players
that you can point out any domino he
thinks of.
This is the way to do it, Tell him
you will count around the circle. touch
ing various domlnoes, each touch
counting one. He must count your
touches. and when the number of spots
on the domino which he has thought
of equals 20 he must say stop The
domino last touched Is sure TO be the
one he had in mind
Here is an example: Suppose he Sc
lects the double-two. You begin touch
ing various domlnoes with your finger,
silently counting l. 2. 3, 1. 8. 6. I, as
you go. When you come TO 49, be
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
Consistent.

Il WAS cleaning our silver on Sunday
when Mrs. Straitlace called on her
way from church. Fortunately though.
she didn't find It out"
she's very strict about the Sabbath.
isn't she?"
Yes. She apologized for calling up.
on me on that day. but she thought she
ought to tell me that scandalous story
about Mrs. Gidday.' - Philadelphia
Press-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-29
The Little Princesses.

The Gar of Russia has four little
daughters who may some day be sorry
they are not boys. That is strange, IN
deed, isn't it, The reason is because
the Russians are anxious that there
should be prince as heir to the
throne. So these poor little girls are
not loved as dearly as they might be
by their own people. The Russians are
sorry for them, but think they cannot
love them because they are not boys