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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-09-10

HUI, G. H.-Funiture $50, real es.
tate $25, improvements $l75. Total
$3.50.
Huntington, E. S.-Horse $25, wagon
$25, real estate SIS, improvements s25
Total $3.50.
Hooking, Alfred-Improvements 500.
Total 500.
HUI, p. H.-Furniture 5000, piano
$50, merchandise $1,000, solvent debts,
$1,000, lumber $500, wagons $3.50, horses
$50, real estate $5l2.50, improvements
$l722.50. Total 1915.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-09-10

Ivey, J. M.-Improvements 800. To-
tai 800.
Isaac, Maurice-Work horses $3.50,
saddle horses $50, milch cows $50, stock
cattle $3.50, wagons $50, implements $50,
real estate $500, improvements 500.
Total 1886.
ImObersteg, F.-Piano $50, real estate
$25, improvements $50. Total $l25.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-09-10

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE ATTEMPT TO RRIBE MAST.

A lawyer friend one day intimated to Mast
that, in appreciation of his great work party
of rich men wished TO send him abroad and give
hlm a chance to study art under the worlds
masters The friend was probably innocent
enough-an unconscious tool of the ring.
Mast said very little except that he appreciated
the offer and would be delighted to go but for
the fact that he had important business. just
then, in New-York. He fancied that he detect
cd the far. faint odor OF a mouse under the idea,
but he did not mention this TO his friend. on
the following Sunday officer of the Broadway
Bank. where the ring kept it's accounts. came
out to MorriStown to see hast He talked of u
number OF things. Then he said.
Il hear you have been made an offer to go
abroad for art study"
Yes" nodded Mast. but l can't go. 1 haven't
time
But they will pay you for your time, have
reason to believe you could get SlODo.OOO for the
trip"
Mast pondered a moment. then:
Don't you think l can get 5000 0O0?''
81 do i believe from what have heard In
the bank that you could get it. You have
great talent: but you need study and you need
rest. Besides this rinp business will get you into
trouble. They own all the judges and jurors
and can get you locked up for libel. My advice
is 10 take the money and get away
Mast looked out into the street and perhaps
wondered what 5000 600 would do for him. u
would pay the mortgage on the house in the city
II would give him years of study abroad 1t
would make him comfortable for life Present
Iy he said:
Don't you think could get 100000 to make
that trip?"
The bank official scarcely hesitatcd
You can. You can get SHtp~D in gold 20
drop this ring business and get out of the Coun-
try"
Mast laughed little. He had played the game
far enough
We'll. | don't think III do IT," he sail 81
made up my mind a long time ago TO put some OF
those fellows behind the bars and I'm going to
put them therer'
The banker rose rather quietly.
"Onlv be careful. Mr. Mast. that you do not
first put yourself in coffin ne smiled
It was not until two years later that he met
Mast. day. on Broadway
My God. N0stt' he said, you did IL. after
allr'-(AIbert Bigelow Paine. in Parsons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
TIBETAN MILITARY DISCIPLINE.

We hear too. of an abbot coming at one place
to SEE Colonel Younghusband in order TO apollo
gize for the conduct OF his monks in joining a
recent attack upon the British. They had no
business TO fight at all. he said. but they had
been cgged on to do from Lhasa. He had
adInoHShed them as a superior should he had
had them beatenl Not for long time has
there been anything more cOmicaI in the history
Of war and diplomacy. The monks Of a Tibetan
monastery are soldiers somewhat like the old
time Knights Templar. and. like them. no doubt
they prefer lighting to praying. There is only
the ahbOrs word for the second whipping which
his holy knights received. and Colonel Young
husband is too good OrientaliSt 70 believe
all he is told. But he SO pleased with the
abbot that he RENTED the fine Of grain i'm
posed upon his monastery and allowed the old
man TO go back happy TO his praying wheel
What Will next happen In such a country no
one foresee. There came news later from
the lonE-delayIng Chinese Amban that he was
on his way. he had been for six months. and
that the Dalai Lama, at last rising TO the
necessity of the occasion. had provided him with
a transport beittinS his rank Certainly. in
the end. the Dalai Lama, or those who act Tor
him. will go to any extreme to keep the eXpe-
dition away from Lhasa itself 1t is equally
certain that the expedition will reach the city
or has reached it.-tWorld's Work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
sTANLEY's QUALITIES AS LEADER

do not intend TO eulogize my old chief. for
eulogieS are seldom convincing. He had many
faults and some Of them were grave ones.
but they were, | think. chiefly the faults OF his
qualities. and without those faults he would not
probably have been possessed Of some OF the
great qualities which made him successful in
almost everything that he undertook Hts
faults were never of a mean petty kind. and
were easily forgiven when one saw the true
greatness and nobility OF his nature beyond
I hat untiTing energy and indomitable resolve TO
overcome all difficulties that apparently ruth
less determination TO sweep away all opposition
his seeming hardness and CallousncSs In work
ing to achieve what he had undertaken II ne
felt that the end was a good one. the Curiousy
hard ana unsympathetic attitude he had toward
failure of any kind. matter how hlaIuelcss
the failure might oe-all these and many others
are not qualities that are usually found IN gentle
and ami1ble natures. and they do not as a rule
attract sympathy and affection. But they saved
the whole expedition from humiliation many
time; they dragged us out OF difficulties which
would have overcome ordinary man; they
be only death before us. and they gained for him
the absolute trust and confidence OF all those
who followed him.
In the early part OF the expedition we-Stan-
lcy's four officers. Captain Stairs. Captain Mel
son. DIT Parke and rnyself-did not entirely
understand his character ard ut first the things
that he did seemed to Us sometimes 10 be hard
and unnecessary But the months went 10y
cur estimate OF his character changed for we
saw how absolutely right and necessary al that
he had done had been. and we realized that
sometimes IL was very necessary 10 do hard
things for the safety and preservation Of an ex-
petition like ours
Stanley has often been accused Of cruelty but
! can only say that during the three years we
four officers with him in Africa we never
once saw him do cruel Wanton thing ar
anything Of which our ConsCicnccs disapproved
ia J. MISUNDERSTANDING. in Scribner's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
TEMPERAMENTAL ACTORS.

The other day I heard man Of position In
thtatricals ETav"ly assert that the day OF the
teInpcrameutaI actor was gone. The public no
longer wanted emotion. but preferred lay figures
who could counterfeit the emotions with which
the playwright had imbued them in \ Citing but
quite meChan cal. manner.
UnCOnsCiously. perhaps, that man put his mn
ger on one of the most fatal mistakes which
sta &c managers are making on our stage to-dAy-
When temperament dies out and mechanism
steps in we may rs well star marOnettes in our
theatres at once. kill temperament and you
Kill the puhc's interest in the theatre. n
charming personality will carry n mariOnette
far but W thout temperament to back II up 1t
will leave the man or woman just on the wrong
side of permanent success | would not pay $40
n week for the services of an actor or an actress
who would guarantee to give exactly the same
performance for hundred nights. The
great point which always strive TO impress on
the actors I'm my companies Is to assert their
individuality in their performances. |
perfectly free to confess that some of the finest
bits Of bus ness have ever had in my plays
have been suggested by some chance gesture or
speech which OF my actors has made ut
rehearsaL-(David Belasco. In The Smart Set
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE PERILs OF IMMORTALITY.

There is no harder fate than 10 be immortal
ICED as fool TO have ones name-whiCh merits
nothing steTner than oblivion anded down to
generate ons as an example of Stiffness or stu
pidity. or presumption; To be enshrined pitiless-
ly I'm the amber of the "Dunciad" or in the
delicate satire of Mime dn Deffand: to be
laughed at forever because of Charles Lambs
impatient and inextingushahle raillery
When an Industrious young authoress named
Elizabeth Ogivy Benger-a model of painstak-
ing Observation-Disclosures Charles and Mary
Lamb to drink tea with her one cold December
night she little dreamed she was achieving a.
dcathles5 and unenviabie fame, and that when
her half dozen books should have Iapsed into
comfortable obScurity she herself should never
be fortunate enough to be forgotten.
Miss Benger did more than hazard. She DUR
sued the Immortals with malignant zeal She
brbed Mrs. Inchbald's servant maid into lend
ing her cap and apron and tea tray and so
equipped. penetrated into the inmost sanctuary
of that literary lady. who seems to have taken
the intrusion in good part. She was equally
adroit in seducing Mary Lamb-as the Serpent
seduced EVe-when Charles Lamb the ulti-
mate object of her designs Coming home to
dinner one day, hungry n hunter" he found
10 his dSrnay. the two women closeted together
and trusted he was in tine to prevent their ey-
changing VOWS of eternal friendship though not
as he discovered later-in time to save him
self from an engagement to drink tea with the
stranger CT had never her before and
could not tell who the devil II WAS that was SO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE EMPEROR OF suRAKARrA.

There is an empire on this planet which for
strange originality might ms well be situated
In Mars. IL is governed by two emperors At
the same time. and withal is not larger than the
state 81 Delaware. Eoth empcrors reside in the
Same city. each has his own Respondent court.
enormous revenues. armies. imperial ChlnCel-
Tors. government officers and courts of Justice
only one Of these cirpcTOrs is known to the
outside world and he only TO a slight extent.
The name and titles OF the leading one would
easily iii a column. his subjects one million in
number call him the Susuhunan and he him
self modcstIy signs himself Pakoe Bowono X
mail OF the Universe. the Tenth" In him his
people Vcnrratc not only their sovereign ruler.
but also their religious pputin. placed so high
above them that none dare approach him up
right or cover him with a glance. his state min
listers. and even his own brothers. crouch before
him with folded hands as IL in prayer and with
downcast eyes. Yet he IS 4 powerlcss puppct IN
the hands Of a small European nation. and may
not even receive or diepatCh letter without
previously submitting il to the Javun rcprcseu-
tativc of the Dutch. lie actually rules his
ptrc every square inch of IL. which he calls hi5
personal property: vet he may not walk or ride
outside the palace gates without the formers
permission. He keeps thousands of troops Il
rifles. AmaZoHs with ancient nnCos bows and
arrows yet he IS virtually prisoner In his own
palace. the grounds OF which cover nearly a
square mile. where there are hundreds OF build
ingS. the most sumptuouS halls. luxurious
chambers and storerooms and stables. with
many Thousands of attendants. Still he has no
kitchen and no cook. his meals being sent
to him daily from outside. He is absolute mas
ter over all his people, who depend for their
livelihood entirely upon him; yet he may not
trust any OF the men. and surrounds himself
entirely with women Thousands OF the latter
are at his beck and call: hundreds he calls his
more or less legitimate wives. who have borne
him many sons; yet he has no direct heir to the
throne. which Is of the oldest and most
eminent IN Asia
This curious parsonage is his ma iesty the EN-
peror of SurakaTta.-Cfhe Century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE TWO-SIDED SPEAKER.

Speaker Cannon is OF those gifted nd-
VidualS who can seem to storm through his ! fe
TOUghshod and never break cggShen. lie
talks GnCOuth. agricultural English. punctuated
with tobacco juice and explosive profanity. The
great American people tramples itself with
the desire to grasp him by the buttonhole
soon as his speech is over. His campaign clothes
never lit him, ana one Lee of his trousers is al
ways pulled up enough to show that he wears
white yarn socks Yet SCIndalous things are told
of Uncle Joe; they say in Washington. for in
stance. that mans dress coat hangs more
smoothly over the shoulders; that no mans pat
ent leather shoes gIistcn more splendidly or are
tied with more graceful silken bow. Go tell
one of the Speakers constituents that: the con
stitucnt will laugh. He will say.
Now. don't you go worryin' yourself about
Joe. He don't wear them fine things because he
lik"s 10. rs Just TO get somcthin other outer
the people he's mXtn with Jue's just plain
and straight you an | be. | feel this way
about Joe. He amt got much OF Il way of sayin'
things. an ne don't put thrills up and down
your back. But he's got sense An IL the Re
publican partys good enough for him. it's good
enough for me. -(Everybodys Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE TRUSTS POWER OVER PRICES

To believe that the Standard on combination.
any other similar aggregation. would lower
prices. except under the pressure OF the COM
petition they trying to kill. argues an
amazing gullibility- Human experience long ago
taught us that II allowed man group
OF men autOcratic powers in government or
church they used that power to Cypress and de-
fraud the public. For centuries the struggle OF
the nations has been TO obtain stable govern
ment with fair play To the masses. To obtain
this we have hedged kings and emperpT5
and presidents about with n thousand COnStitu-
tiOnal restrictions. 1t has not been possible for
us 10 allow even the Church. inspired by relS-
ious ideals. to have the fun power II has Ge-
manded in society. And yet have here III
the United States allowed men practically auto
cratic powers in commerce We have allowed
them special privileges in transportation. bound
in no great length OF time TO Kill their COM
petitors. though the spirit OF our laws and the
charters of the transportation lines forbade
these privileges. We have allowed them TO COM
bine I'm great interstate aggregatiOns for which
we have provided no form Of charter or of pub
hcity, although human experience long ago de-
cIded that men united in partnerships. COM
panieS OF corporations for business purposes
must have their powers defined and be subject
to reasonable inspection and publicity. As a
natural result of these extraordinary powers We
see, in the of the Standard Oil Company.
the price of necessity of life within the con-
troll of a group of nine men. as able. ener-
getic and ruthless in business operations as
any nine men the world has ever seen combined
They have exercised their power prices
with almost preternatural skill II has been
their most cruel weapon In sitting competition
means of reaping usuriouS dividends.
and. at the same time. a most persuasive argu-
ment in woodworking the pubEc--Qda M Tar
bell. in McClures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE OPPOSITION OF THIEVES

Roosevelts action I'm the postofice business
fas hOmely and practical meaning II means
that when thief steals from the American
government, If there is a law to punish him
the thief must prepare for trial. and If guilty
30 to Jail
man whom one class OF thieves hate all
thieves will fear that is why Roosevelt is re-
GaTded as an unsafe man in certain business
circles, where business methods and traditions
license acts which. scraped of the veneer Of
high finance, are mere stealing That also f.
why Senator'S seeing of their number
hauled into court for representing n "get-rich-
quick scheme, feel uneasy lest lobbying for TIN.
Standard Oil. or for the Railroad Trust or for
the Sugar Trust. or for the beef combine I'm the
senate may put them to the trouble and ex-
pefiSe or n lawsuit with the government And
hnally. that is why railroad officials who con
niVe with Congressman TO carry tons of frankpd
Congressional mail up and down their rail
roads during weighing time. to Increase the
bIIls against the government, get restless when
man so powerful as August w. Machen has a
Ienltentiary sentence In front Of him and thir-
teen untred indictments behind him The an
pearance of one honest man in Croup or
thleVeS produces the instant crystalliZa ton OF
the group. Therefore. the postoffice investiga-
tlon has organized against the President dis
honest forces in high circles and in low circles
-(WIllam Allen White in McCure's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
LOCOMOTIVE DEVELOPMENT.

Leaving out narrow gauge. switching and
other light engines. there were twenty-nin
American locomotives ut Chicago in 1899 having
an average weight of 12S,55S pounds Al the st.
Louis Expos ton there are twenty-nlne Amer
lean locomotives having average weight of
1922 pounds At Chicago the total weight of
the heaviest locomotive l93O 900 pounds.
This was criticised for excessive weight and the
general opinion was that it was the limit AZ ST.
Louis the average is greater than the heaviest at
Chicago. the heaviest being 3o12 pounds 0ight
weight engine and tender) This is noun
tain climber which Is vet exper ment The
next heaviest weighs 2S75S0 pounds and there
are six others weighing over 2O.NO pounds
each The total weight of the twenty-nine larg-
est locomotives shown at St. Louis Is afa3 425
pounds The heaviest engine AT Chicago was
exceptional weighing 26.OoO pounds more than
the next heaviest which In turn weighed 10000
pounds more than the next. Perhaps u would
be fairer TO omit the heaviest Mt st. Louis as
being entirely exceptional. a sporadic case We
would then have the average weight at ST LOUIS
OF lSSf76 pounds. against average of
12S.5,S In Chicago, increase OF about 46H
per cent. III the Malet compound Is included in
the comparison the increase has been over 80
per cent--(The World To-Day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
DESIGN" ONLY ONE PART OF YACHT
ING SUCCESS

The zone design" classes, which have proved
one of the popoular successes Of modern racing
have met with criticism on the
ground that they are bar to progress in the
development of new ideas; but any possible evil
in this direction is more than offset by the good
they have done in the destruction of a popular
fallacy which has existed from the earliest days
of yacht racing. Not only the layuen but the
great body of practical yaehtsmen. Corinthian
and professional together. have for years paid
homage to the model as the one vital if not
the only, factor of speed. The evils that havs
followed in the wake OF this belief are many
and far reaching in their effects The designer
is often most UnjuStly blamed for results due
entirely to causes far outside his power; on the
other hand. the good work of a skilful skipper
has failed to win recognition through the entire
credit being given to the boat. Worst of all
in it's deterrent effect on real progress is the
false and misleading verdict of the public
which. by aScribing all results to the merits or
deficiencies OF the model. blinds itself to the
many other vital factors which bring success in
match sailing
The zone design classes have proved an oh
Ject lesson that none could gainsay: here are a
dozen or twenty yachts built by the same work.
men from single last. just shoe is made;
ana. IN spite or another cherished superstit on
that il is impossible TO build two boats exactly
alike. nearly Identical as any product OF
modern duplicating processes The sails are all
OF the same dimensions and material made by
the same wOrkmen and spars blocks and fit
tings are identical throughout the fleet The
actual test OF continuous racing. day after day
for weeks. as In the famous 30NfOOt class az
Newport, shows great a difference between
the various individuals OF this Inonotype feet
us is ordinarily found In the case OF the same
number OF boats by different designers. Ger
tain boats head the fleet persstentIy others "a
regularly bring up the rear and between them
are a number which win few prizes, but are
seldom among the last in.
II Is plain that the designer OF such a fleet IS
no more TO be blamed for the failure OF some
boats than to be praised for the success of
others. and that the amazing difference is due
To causes wholly apart from the rnoleI-(A
Cary Smith, in SCribnerS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
Extracts,

~
Hated as White was by the old nobility as
p4Tvenu; by the reactiOnarieS, against whose
projects he set himself reSoutey as interfering
with his hopes of Industrial development; by
the Pan Savists, who generally believed in free
trade, and found in him no sympathy with thelr
hopes of classification of everything by the
Church because of his utter indifference to re-
lgion. and by the war party because, knowing
the result of the Turkish war. he set hmSelt
against the financial strain which war Wouid
Cause-Ee still went boldly forward, secure In
the approval of the Car The first blow to
count against White seems to have grown out of
of his creations Among his many
schemes for development of n merCan-
tile marine. and at the head of the commission
for this OF the grand dukes of the inn
rowings which have increased the direct debt of
the government at least S6O0.O00.000 since he
took charge, not to mention huge contingent
liabilities. it impossible to grant very
large subsidy for this purpose; and the grand
duke, probably at reactonary instigation. APP
peared at Minister Whites Office and asked that
the subsidy be doubled at least Minister WHITE.
even by the report OF his enemies. never
truckles 10 rank, and he refused any increase.
The request was renewed I'm the form OF de-
mand. and thereupon WHITE rendered his res
ignation TO the Car. with the remark that he
could 80 attempt to manage the finances II
corning allowances The grand duke
snubbed and Minister WHITE restored 10 power:
but weak spot had been found in his harness.
and n coalition enSued between the rcactionaTies
and the party of aggression. headed by Aexicf
and BeZobraZOf. which resulted in few months
more in Whites retirement to n sineCure.-(N. T.
Bacon. in Booklovers' Magazine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

At a recent meeting of the International Arbi-
tratIOn Conference at Lake MohOnk consider
able emphasis was put upon the fact that the
railroad is often the most effective of peace
makers. inasmuCh as il develops the social and
commercial conditions and brings into closer
touch neighbOring countries that have hereto
fore been at enmity- 1t oftentimes materially
aids in diSSOlving those barriers and prejudiCeS
apart and to convince them that all the worlds
akin This is especially true among the South
and Central American countries and when the
railroad becomes more of 4 factor there than
il is at present there will be fewer revolutions
and a far greater spirit of fraternity and fell
loWShip.