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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14

babyless mothers aplenty In this mys
FERROUS old universe. No real mother
ever wishes that the men folks had to
give birth TO even one tiniest mite OF
Il babykin. Mothers through all time,
have gone down in their agony to very
death and taken from his hands
barely breathing new life to nourish
and cherish. And have the fathers
stood by Indifferent No; they have
looked on In love and reverence, and
loving the mother and loving the babe,
And Is that all? MOI these same faith.
ers have gone out into hard world
and fought and fought that this moth
err and babe might be sheltered and
shielded from all that is hard and dis
agreeable. This is what every true
father to-day Is doing. A mere man
who has n family and supports it In
this day and time does a great stunt.
Ii he never saves cent, but just
scratches along and meets his bills and
helps his wife to make men and wom-
en- of his children that man Is a sue
cess. And baby in the family comes
to comfort him and make him forget
his rasped nerves. his broken aspira-
tions, his disappointment in men and
events when he goes back to his home
tired out with making living. Real
y, now, it's too bad about these Po-
litical Studyists.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
NOTES FOR THE CoWKEEPER.

Wheat bran is better for the pro-
duction of milk than corn meal.
The COW, as well as any other farm
stock, will pay better profit if treat
ed kindly. @
A COW is profitable just as long as
she gives a profitable return for the
food she consumes.
The best cream raising can only be
secured by keeping the milk sweet as
long as possible.
To very considerable extent the
matter of notable performances is
wholly an individual function.
A combination of bran, oil meal and
corn meal makes one of the best ra-
tions for dairy cows in winter.
Loss of flesh and shrinkage of milk
follows neglect, and starvation follows
rations of improper food.
Garget most often sets in after caly
ing, and this is nearly always due to
failure to get the udder dry.
The best foods to make blood are
the best for milk production. and the
COW to make milk needs good blood.
That can best and cheapest be
made by generous, comfortable treat
ment. comfortable quarters, pure air,
pure water and wholesome, nutritious
food. -Kimball's Dairy Farmer
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
CONVEYED a Warming.

The Rev. DR.. Snow, finding himself
downtown at the noon hour, dropped
into restaurant for luncheon. He
hung his overcoat against the wall.
sat down and ordered his meal, Which
he ate leisurely. When he had finished
and turned to look for his overcoat, it
was gone.
He reported his loss to the cashier.
who was sorry, but could do nothing,
as the restaurant was mot RESPONSE
BILE for hats, overcoats or umbrellas"
"Oh, l am not holding you response
ble," said the doctor, as he paid his
bill. 81 shall get the coat again."
what makes you think SOP asked
the cashier.
"In one of the pockets" he replied,
"was letter with my name and adj
dress on the envelope, and in another
pocket was printed sermon on Flu
ture Punishment Good day.
His confidence was not misplaced.
The overcoat was brought to his house
the next day by messenger boy, who
said a stranger had sent it and that
there was no message.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14

,,,ol,o, Ie.s and less growth. and each
vear requires less severe cutting anu
old treos submitted to the treatment
accorded to young ones soon lose
their vitality, become weakened ana
are subject to any disease which may
he about. In California we have
learned by experience, and very many
theories advocated In the earlier stage
NJ onr existence as an orchard state
have been abandoned as untenabie.
This is largely true IN The matter OF
nrunipc. I'm the old time very many
Thought that in our wonderful climate
there could be no limit to the trees
vitality, and vigorous pruning was adj
vocated. As we learn more, this
method of treatment has been aban-
doned and very many go to the other
extreme and advocate little il any
pruning. At any rate, we do not
prune as we did in the earlier days of
fruit growing here.
1t is impossible to give any set rules
for pruning, if it we're we might hope
for the Chinaman to follow them, but
Judgment must be used at every turn.
The kind of tree is to be considered
for the same rules will not apply to
all. The peach, for instance, requires
very vigorous pruning at almost every
stage of its existence, the prune very
much less, while the olive, the walnut
and the fig require very little cutting.
So with every class of fruit requires
different treatment. and the different
varieties of the same class, even, re-
euire different treatment. 1t is here
more than in any other work i'll the
orchard that brains are required, and
the primer who is not possessed of
that commodity can do more damage
in one season than can be recovered
from in ten. In the choice between
overpruning and underprnning we
should incline to the latter, for there
is some chance for tree that has not
been butchered, but little for one that
has been ruined. John Isaac, in Pa
cifc Tree and Vine.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
MANAGEMENT OF HEIFERS.

No matter how we'll heifer is
backed up by the milking qualities of
ancestors, much of her success as a
dairy COW depends on getting her
rightly started. Accordingly, though
kept in thrifty condition. she should
not be encouraged to fatten while
growing, lest when growth be attained
all her surplus food goes to fat, says
Epitomist. 1t is advisable to have
her freshen as soon as she is two years
old, if not little before, and, gener-
ally speaking, the calf removed the
moment it is born-if possible so she
will not see it, least of all touch it.
Given, then, two quarts of sweetened
and sailed oatmeal, or linseed Cruel,
including drinking water with the
chill taken off, she should four hours
later be MIXED and the calf fed,
That the milking may be nothing
new to her, her udder and teats
should have been previously handled,
and even some milk drawn every
night and morning if the udder hap
pens to be too full for few days be-
fore the calf is dropped. During this
critical period she might be fed a
moderate grain ration twice a day,
composed of bran and corn meal, but
ii so her udder should be closely
watched, to see if it becomes hard
and hot; In that case it should be
bathed in warm water and rubbed
with a camphorated preparation and
the grain ration, of course, stopped.
Assuming, however, that she freshens
in every respect without mishap, in a
week or two her food should be stead
lily but lightly increased, with the
milking done by the same person at
regular hours. The object should be
to make her maintain a good flow for
a long time or until she calves again,
if possible, and if she seems capable
of enduring this treatment, she should
be literally fed While the practice
of continuous milking from year to
year is. not to be advocated, since, as
a rule, COWS do better work and pro-
duce stronger progeny when given a
chance to build up for a month or six
weeks before parturition, it is policy
to establish in the heifer, if one can,
the habit of long milking which will
go with her through life,
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
FAULTS IN PRUNING.


1t is related that a fancier of fine
chinaware on one occasion sent a spe-
cimen cup to China with orders for a
set of ware like it. 1t so happened
that the specimen cup sent was crack
ed and when the set was received by
the purchaser every piece was cracked
exactly like the sample This story
has often been told to illustrate the
peculiar powers of imitation possessed
by the Chinese, which are greater
than their Judgment. In looking
through many of the orchards of the
State which have been entrusted for
years past to the care of Chinese and
Japanese, we have often been impress
cd with their wonderful powers of
imitation and great lack of judgment
in their work. Years ago, it is evil
dent, they have been instructed in
cutting back young trees, and not
withstanding increased age, size and
different conditions, they have gone
on year after year pruning in the
same old style until the trees have
been utterly ruined. Trees have been
pruned back year after year to the
same place until they have formed
great knots at the ends of the small
limbs out of which there is bristly
growth of twigs standing out like
"quills upon the fretful porcupine. ="
There is no branch of work of the
orchardist which requires more care
and the exercise of more judgment
than that of pruning, and DO branch
which we should be less willing to en-
trust in the hands of a Chinaman who
has learned nothing for the past TWEEN
ty years. Young trees require very
different treatment from the same
trees when they acquire age. In their
early life growth is vigorous and re-
dundant, and severe pruning is not
only allowable but necessary. 1t is
during this period that the tree is be-
ing formed for its future life, and its
success or failure depends largely up
on its treatment during the growing
period of its life. At this period fruit
should be the secondary considera-
tion, the whole object being to so
train the tree that it will have
strength, and that strength properly
distributed, to carry the future bur-
den of fruit which is expected from
it, Now, we are pruning for wood
and not fruit. AS the tree grows old
or, however, different policy pre-
walls and the great object is to so
prune the tree that it will not yield a
good crop, and now attention has to
be paid to the fruit bearing wood.
AS the tree grows older, too, it
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
OlD.FASHlONED COOKING.
Food Was Prepared in a Much Sim.
pier way-secmed Better.

Food Was Prepared in a Much Sim
pier way-seemed Better.
zone of the sadder things of the age
in which we live, from my way of
looking at the situation; is the disap-
pearance of the old-tlme method Of
cooking things" said man from the
country in the New Orleans Times
Democrat, land whenever the winter
season rolls around with its hog and
hominy memories l kinder sigh back
to the yesterdays when l knew a diff
ferent way Of fixing many things that
are now served to me in the new style.
Did you ever see a biscuit cooked in
one of these old-fashion ovens that
you put in the fireplace, with its large
lid, on the top Of which you put the
red-hot Goals, that would give color to
the bread when 1t has been thoroughly
cooked? Why, have seen these dainty
bits of bread tower up until they We're
at least six inches high and the tooth
of humankind never fell into sweet
er morsel. They are the ne plus ultra
Of the epicurean art. Bakers and cooks
and the fancy caterers of the modern
school are failures In comparison with
the old cooks who brought this bit Of
food into the world.
But the biscuit is not the only thing.
Have you roasted fresh country spare
ribs before the old fireplace, hanging
them on wire from the mantel and
allowing them to swing and simmer
until the sweetness thereof seemed
to penetrate every nook and corner of
the house? Or maybe you would just
prop them up with sticks In a large
pan and turn them now and then so
they would brown on both sides. No
matter how you roasted them in the
oldtime way, they We're sweet, luscious,
ravishing in flavor. What we get now
cooked in other ways and by other
hands are but poor shoddy limitations
of the spareribs we used to know.
And roasting potatoes in the old
fireplace, burying them in the ashes
near the 'dog-irons,' chucking them up
close to the backlog, putting a few hot
here and there on tine heap-did you
ever cook potatoes in this way? If
you have not you simply know nothing
about cooking. and besides you don't
know how potato tastes, for this is
the only way to preserve the genuine
potato flavor. But was speaking of
the old methods in Il general way. 1t
would take too much Of my time to
tell you all the advantages Of the sys-
TEN of that other time when many
of us were vet mere sprouts Of human
| ity. At all events there was not so
much c9mnlaint of indigestion In those
| days as hear now, and it was in
my opinion due to a very large extent
TO the way food was prepared
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
QUEER SIoRlH

In 1880 the South had but 20.500
miles of railway. In 1900 there were
over flfty-four thousand miles, repre-
senting a new influx of capital TO the
amount of $500. 0oo,o 900.
They cut an old.time pine down In
sangervillc, Me, recently. The tree
was lat feet tall, six feet through ut
the base, and ran up sixty feet before
there was limb. 1t will be used for
q mast.
Although the sea covers three
fourths of the earths surface, it does
not provide in the same proportion for
mans wants. Only about three per
cent of the people in the world gain
their living directly from the sea.
Icebergs in the Arctic regions are
neither so large nor so numerous as
those seen in the Antarctic seas, but
they are usually loftier and more beau
tiful. with spires and domes. When
the sun shines on them they look like
a fairy city.
Large numbers of sea robins have
been taken in Nantucket fish trap,
and until recently were thrown away,
as the fishermen were unaware of the
prices the homely creatures brought in
city markets. Eight dollars a barrel
Is usual figure for them.
Probably the Oldest musician in the
world is Manuel Garcia, now aged SO
years. He has given up teaching and
lives in villa in northwest London.
His memory is still excellent, his wit
sparkling. and he is proud of having
recently learned how to play bridge"
A grandfather's clock was brought
to watchmaker's shop in Peterstown,
N. Y, few weeks ago for repairs, the
first that have been made upon 1t since
some trif1ing ones in ITS, which were
due to the raid of the Indians under
Brant and the tory Butler at Cherry
Valley, in November of that year. The
clock was brought from England to
this country in 1740.
III. c. Robinson, who has spent two
years in scientific investigation in the
Malay peninsula, recently exhibited to
the geological section of re British
Association a specimen of a fish
known as the mud hopper" which by
means of strong fins under its body
Is able to move about on land for dis
tances of at least twenty yards from
Its watery nests in the swamps.
Tulare lake, in California, once nav
lgable by steamers, is now perfectly
dry. A man on foot can cross it safely
at any point, and in some places the
ground is hard enough for team to
drive over. The cause of thi, condition
Is the draining of Kern and King riv-
ers Of their water by irrigation canals.
The farmers are using all the available
supplies and keep the streams dry.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14

A sayant has just published in Brus-
sells treatise on shaking hands. which
practice he pronounces to be extreme
~ dangerous. When two men clasp
hands they exchange thousands of mi
crobes, according to the Brussels gen
neman's discoveries. there being an av-
srage of about $4,000 germs of various
kinds upon every square half inch of
the manly palm. 1t must not be sup
posed, however. that every hand is as
bad as that. The Brussels savant ad-
mits that maiden fair whose hands
are soft and white may not have more
than 10000 or $4,000 microbes scat
tered over both of her palms. Hence
we may conclude that holding her
hands Is attended with but small risk
to the holder. But she, on her part
should be very careful. The Brussels
savant says doctors, surgeons, nurses,
hair dressers, BARRIERS, butchers, sau-
sage-makers, tripe merchants, tanners
and leather dressers have very mi
croby hands. Therefore 1t is always
best for lady to make sure, before
permitting gentleman to take her
hands in his and hold them fondly
there that he isn't a surgeon or Il
sausage-maker or purveyor Of tripe.
To be absolutely on the safe side she
should never allow any men save those
who are metal workers to hold her
hands. Metal workers, it has been
found, have few microbes in their
palms, since metal sets up an oxida-
ton which acts as an antiseptic. The
results of the Brussels savant's inves-
ugation are exceedingly interesting
and serve as further proof that hand
shaking is even as risky as it is fool
ish. Let us give up the habit and so
cease to cause thousands of microbes
daily to be stricken with nostalgia.
Humane considerations alone should
be sufficient to make men relinquish
this senseless practice.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
COLD AND INSECTS.
The Lowest of Low Temperatures
Does Not Kill Nor Injurc Them.

LOGS 4NoI MIL ANOT AHJuTC lHHhls
The severest cold has no terrors
for insect life. 1t has been shown by ex-
periments that insects may be artificial
Iy or naturally frozen, subjected, indeed,
to very low temperatures, without kill
ing or even injuring them. Eggs,
larvae, and pupae, the stages in which
most insects pass the winter, are per-
fectly immune to cold. =
1t is a common idea that cocoons
Of insects serve as protection against
cold, but this is entirely erroneous.
They, like the summer webs of web
worms, are protection against birds
and insect parasites, but not against
cold. The cocoOns of summer broods
are as stout and thick as those of the
generations that pass the winter.
Moths, butterflies. and other insects
build stouter and more compact cocoons
in tropical and torrid countries than
they do in those climates where they
are besieged by winter. There are
many insects, allied to the builders Of
cocoons, that make no such covering,
the pupa or the chrysalis being left ell
tirely exposed. And so little heat is
maintained by the pupae of insects
that no matter how thick the cocoons
they are always too slight to repel
freezing cold.
Certain degrees of frigldity seem to
have vastly different effects on differ
ent species Of insects. Gnats and
midges dance in the winter sunshine;
butterflies, Vanessa, Grapta, and some
times Colias, skim over the snow;
wasps and bees wind their way through
the leafless woods; ground-beetles run
quickly over the cold earth; crickets
peep from beneath stones and rotting
logs; while other species, the vast ma
jority, in fact, are locked in the lethar-
gy of Information. One of the
commonest evidences of this hiberna-
ton is to be seen when firewood is
carried into the house and placed near
the warm stove. 1t takes only Il short
time to bring out a swarm of ants that
were sleeping in beetle-borings, their
common retreat.-St. Nicholas.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
ARGENTINE FOSSIL BEDS.
Remains of Extinct Animate Are Ere.
quentIy Found in South America.

Remains of Extinct Animate Are Free
quently Found in South America.
Professor William B. Scott, Phi, D.,
Of Princeton university lectured at the
Art gallery the other evening before
the department Of geology, Brooklyn
Institute, on "1'he Great Argentine
Fossil Beds of South America" Pro
fessor Scott visited these beds in con-
nection with the various expeditions
sent out by Princeton, making his last
trip last season, SO that the information
that he brought was the latest. In
addition to the discovery Of fossil re-
mains the expedition discovered that
the southern Andes are of much later
geological date than has heretofore
been subposed-the Pliocene; that
Patagonia presents the appearance
of Il prehistoric Pompeii in that 1t is
covered with volcanic ash in the same
way.
The beds are wonderfully rich in
fossils, Before the bridge was erected
between the American continents ami.
NAL life in South America was much
like that of Australia, but when Central
America was formed the northern ami
mails migrated and some Of the mi
grants existed much longer in their
new home than in the north. Such was
the saber toothed tiger, of which ex-
tinct horror there are four perfect spec
linens Tor nearly so), in the world, one
in Manhattan.
A strange thing about many of these
strange looking skeletons was the fact
that their tusks were formed Of the
incisors instead of the canine teeth.
In many cases the latter are extremely
small. 1t requires great care to get
the fossils out of the surrounding bed
and generally the material immediate.
~ investing the object Is very hard,
being composed of volcanic ash and
GO per cent of carbonate of lime, prob
ably the deposit of rainwater. An
other striking observation was that
fossils found in Santa Cruz beds are
small, while those found in the Pam.
pean are large.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14

What sort of women are those who
spend hours and hours at meetings of
the Political Study Club, and kindred
bodies, discussing race suicide? Don't
you honestly think that an alienist
could get in some fine work at one of
their meetings? A Mrs. Judge is quo
ted as saying, ''If the men had to give
birth to every other child in the fam
lily there would never be more than
one in household, and only that pro-
viding that they began first" True"
exclaimed several political students in
chorus, and there was great applause.
"And that's what ought to be-" came
voice from the front row. Surely
no mother took part in such utterances
or approved of them. What woman
who has experienced the feel Of baby
fingers on her cheek or down her neck
can remember the suffering that
brought the dear little one here; much
less regret it? You know some women
never become mothers, no matter how
big brood they may have. Again,
fortunately for the race. there are
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-14
FALLING OFF IN 500 TRAFFIC.
Business Passing Through the Great
Canal Shovel Less Inst Year.


The decrease in the shipments at the
500 canal, the connecting link between
Lakes Superior and Huron. in 1903
will be Il surprise to the country. The
general tendency of things there has
been upward for many years, with
some short Interruptions. The total
traffic through the American and Brit
ish canals at that point. the great part
of which was through the American
water way. was 34.6I4,437 tons, a
shrinkage of 1,2SG,7C9 tons from 1902.
While the decline has been small,
of the closing of the water way by ice
that the record OF 1902 would be eX-
ceeded The 500, however, is by far
the busiest spot of water in the world,
notwithstanding this decline in 1903.
The tonnage passing through it has.
for few years past. averaged almost
three times that of the Suez canal
The vast gains which have been made
in the shipments of the 500 water way
have furnished effective arguments for
canal construction in this country. The
general assumption at the beginning of
1903 was that the traffic for the season
would reach 100000 tons
The falling off has been in passed.
gers as well as In freight. In freight
the largest decline was in building
stone, and there We're shrinkages also
i'll wheat. -four. iron ore, lumber and
copper, all OF which ordinarily figure
pretty largely in the canals traffic.
In hard and soft coal there was gain,
but this was not large enough to Offset
the losses from other sources.
Probably the business expansion
which is in view throughout the coun-
try will have tendency to send UP
the shipments of that water way in
1904 to a higher point than in 1902.
1t still remains true that the water
ways, artificial and natural, are only
at the beginning Of their usefulness
When the projected deep water com
between Lake Michigan
and the Gulf Of Mexico, by way of
and st. Louis, is completed a
new impetus will be given to ship.
ments around the strait between SUI |
periOr and Huron and new direction
will be given to much of this traffic
in reaching the sea.-St Louis Globe.
Democrat.