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serene Simplicity.

Serene Simplicity.
With his grandchild on his knee
He sits. gazing of at space;
Backward 10 simplicity
He has wandered. In his face
There's the simple. childish look, lss
The old honesty, once more fs
That he long ago forsook,
That. ere knowledge came. he wore
Though his tie has worked askew,
He nor notices nor cares;
There is lack OF smartness. too,
In the raiment that he wears.
Here and there a gap appears
Where an unusued button shows
BY the right OF many years
He ignores 1t, II he knows.
In the faces OF the twain
There Is natures honesty;
One has left on being vain;
One has not yet learned TO be.
Close to earth and unconcerned
BY the things the world may think,
One 10 wander, one returned,
They are sitting at the brink.
Sweet the innocence that lies
In a baby's honest gaze,
bweet the candor In his eyes
Ere he learns Of worldly waysI
Sweet the simplsneRs OF man
After all the strife is past.
The return to nature when
Vanity departs at last.
q. E. Kiser In Chicago Record-Hereld
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We Are Doing You a Favor
n calling attention to Borden's Matted
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woodland" attracted a large audi
ence to the Opera House last night.
The performance was meritorious and
enjoyable throughout.
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While "Babes in Toyland." which
comes to the Opera House Monday,
February q, has not yet been seen in
this city, Victor Her'bert's music is
we'll known by those who keep in touch
with such matters. Among the best
numbers which Herbert has supplied
for this extravaganza arc Don't Cry,
Bo-Peep." Il Can't Do the Sum-"
"Rock-a-bye Baby" "Toyland" and
"He Won't Be Happy TIL He Gets It."
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February p. 2s and March at the Ly-
ceum. will mark the greatest theatrical
offering at popular prices seen here this
season. There has been demand from
theatre-goers for something away from
the average melodrama. Manager Hum
phries. working along these lines. has Sc
cured "The Rays a Hot Old Time Com
pany" to play an engagement at his the
atre for the days ABOVE mentioned.
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Theatrical Notes


The thrilling ambuscade and capture of
a desperate band of moonshiners will be
depicted with unerrlng fidelity In the new.
and superb program that Lyman II.
Howe will present at the Grand opera
House this afternoon and night. 1t is in
scenes as here enacted that have given
birth to the long and tragic feuds always
existing in Eastern Tennessee and Ken
lucky. This is not dime novel portrayal
Of moonshining, but one that speaks OF
childhood spent In the midst Of alarms,
of youth with the hand ever on the rifle
and finger steadily on the trigger when a
touch means murder, while the desperate
is blind 70 the awful consequences Of the
criminal impulse 10 kill, "the revenues"
1.-The Typewriter Girl" a new four-act
musical comedy drama by Adelaide Alex
ander, which comes to the Opera House
next Saturday afternoon and night, is
divided into four scenes and four acts.
The first act is laid on a farm in the vi
cinity Of Calais. Maine, and is said to be
as naturally and realistiely portrayed as
Way Down East" or any of the other
so-called rural plays that have met with
success during the past few years. Tho
second act is laid in Boston, where Jessie
the typewriter girl has returned in search
OF employment as typewriter and stem
ographer, and wildly portrays the many
pitfalls and snares laid for innocent young
girls by designing villains in the large
cities.
The intensely dramatic situations arc
lightened by flashes Of wit and gradually
leading up TO one OF the strongest cllm-
axes ever written and the curtain calls
are numerous at every performance.
Al. w. Martins mammoth revival Of
Uncle Toms Cabin" win be given at the
Lyceum on February 20. q and 22 Mr.
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Nothing in the way OF scenery and
sumptuous stage settings has ever been
seen IN this city to equal the magnifcence
of the setting Of the sensational melo-
drama, "The James Boys In Missouri"
which will be here shortly at the Lyceum.
The train robbery scene is a marvel OF
tho scenic art
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AL w. Martins mammoth revival Of
Uncle Toms Cabin" win be given al the
Lyceum on February 90 q and %. Mr..
Martin has taken great pains in staging
and producing the original version Of Mr..
Stoves beautiful story.
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That's all I've got to do

it back to her. That's all I've got to do
with the matter
But, spoke up Collins, this woman has
ust lost her husband and hasn't any
money either. She's going through to Col
orado to get work. Can't you just say to
the next conductor that she had a ticket
and get him to take care OF her and pass
her on to the next division?'
"'Guess she'll have to get off at Lincoln
answered the conductor gruffly; our orders
are to carry no one without transporta ton
All railroad men have not yet learned that
using horse sense and being polite means
promotion.
THE poor woman began to cry, but my
friend Billie said: Don't cry, madam. you
shall go through all right. Just stay right
where you are
"The conductor started to move on. Now,
you Just hold on q minute, sir. said Col
Inns. When this train stops you be right
here--right here, / say-and go with me to
the superintendent In the depot If you
don't, you won't be wearing those brass
buttons much longer. It's your business,
sir. to look after passengers in a fix like
this and I'm going to make 1T my business
to see that you attend to yours
THE conductor was lots bigger than my
friend; but to a coward a mouse seems as
big as an elephant and brass buttons said:
All right, I'll be here; but it won't do no
good
LAS the conductor started down the aisle.
Ferguson turned to the woman and said:
You shall go through all right, madam;
how much money did you have?
Three dollars and slxty-tive cents she
answered-she knew what she had to a
penny-three dollars and siXty-five cents.
And I'll bet she knew where every nickel
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the cursory stone bruise and the feverish
hornet. existence was one continuous leave
with pay" He determines to spend his
vacation getting close to nature and learn
Ing the secrets of the hills.
Such, under the circumstances. is always
my resolve. and have, during the present
summer been carrying on observations In
an amateurish but not wholly unintelligent
manner. 1 think that during the last few
years the many very justly popular works
on natural history are incomplete In that
they entirely Ignore the lower. though
equally interesting, forms of animal life
To correct this. In measure, l have In
course of preparation a little work entitled
Some Straddle Bugs That I Have Been
Introduced TO-" which feel sure will meet
with intelligent appreciation.
I have also been giving considerable at
tention lately to the habits Of the common
'chigoe'' (sarcopsylla penetransl. or COM
not to be passed by lightly simply because
he cannot be seen Individually with the I'M
aided eye, for what he lacks In size he
makes up in activity. I would recommend
as a sort Of first lesson in natural history.
would do this for two reasons. viz: First.
because he. or rather they. are easily cap
tured and secondly. because first impress
sions are the most lasting, and feel con-
fldent In affirming that one who will get on
intimate terms with the playful little crea-
lures, or let them get intimate with him.
will find that for several days thereafter he
will have very little time to devote to the
humdrum affairs OF life.
In fact. they will not only absorb all OF
his attention but as much salt water and
pennyroyal as the various portions of his
superficial anatomy which they may have
selected for townsites viii conveniently
soak up. The "ugger'' is easily domest-
Gated and soon becomes very much attached
to it's master.
fxya-- at
and therefore the one which would rec
ommend to the earnest student. can be
found contiguous to or directly on the COM
mon "whortis'' or huckleberry busA- In
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house. for 1t is an incentive to early rising
and introduces him to a phase OF nature
which otherwise he would be compelled to
accept on mere hearsay. In fact. there is
perhaps nothing which makes one more
averse to playing the siuggard than to be
awakened two hours before sun-up by a
corncob. as before mentioned, firmly
wedged between the fourth and nth lumbar
vertebrae.
Sleep comes not again to the eyes nor
slumber to the eyelids. Then in the velvet
quiet that precedes the birth of another day.
Is the time for meditation. And after work
lag the kinks out of your back. caused by
the body endeavoring to conform itself to
the rugged contour of your couch, you seat
yourself on wrecked and ruined chair.
and. gazing with haggard eyes through the
dminutive window into the departing
night, pray for dawn or death.
After you have sat thus until 1t seems
that you have grown old in eternity. after
you have become cross-eyed from loss OF
sleep and skeptical of the efficacy of prayer.
suddenly the east Pushes with the first
blush Of day and the sweet chorus OF the
morning delights the awaiting ear.
The average normal man. when he hnds
himself bound for the country. Is nred with
some OF the enthusiasm Of his boyhood.
Freed from the cares OF everyday life. he
recalls tbs bygone days. when. IN spite OF
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
CE-EP-ON-THE-


MOUNTAINS, August 81, 1905
In this favored locality one may without
over-exertion cause Pastor Wagners Sim
pie Life to read like the confession of q
roue or the account of a ball game, with the
score standing 0 to 0 at the beginning OF the
twentieth inning.
Yet who does not ever and anon II not
oftener. long to flee the glamor of conven-
tional society; to become for brief space
near neighbor to the man with the hoe:
brother to the mild-eyed. damp-nosed cow
and all-around good thing to the gentle
highwayman who runs the summer board
ing-house. 1t Is natural instinct of man
to move whenever his place of residence
becomes too hot for him. So at the advent
OF summer. when the asphalt pavements
approach the fluid state. all they that dwell
In cities who can muster the price flee to
seashore and mountain.
This Is particularly the case during the
month OF August, or "dog-days," so-called,
which season. therefore, may not inappro-
priately be referred to as flee time" It
Is the call Of the wild statements cons
tanned in summer resort prospect, as sea-
son after season ones better judgment wob-
bles and falls before the onslaught Of the
vari-colored railroad pamphlet.
Man Is also a gregarfous animal, crea-
ture of environment, and accepts with
equanimity q six-by-eight boudoir in the
gable OF farmhouse. where humpback
roof requires him to stand in the Roadway
allowed by the single dormer window when
ever he desires to change his shirt.
Yet Is he not of those who go a-summer-
ing7 And are not the hearts OF his wife and
daughters made glad by seeing in the social
column notice of their departure for the
seaSonf
1t has been conclusiyely proved by patient
Investigation that every rose must have its
thorn, and the summer boarder. II he be q
philosopher, will gladly put up with the
occasional ambitious corncob that works Its
way to the top of the mattress In the bed
allotted to him at the country boarding
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The helping hand is often held out by
the man on the road. Away from home
he is dependent upon the good will of
others; he frequently has done for him
act of kindness; he is ever ready to do for
others a deed OF friendship or charity.
Road life trains the heart to gentleness.
I. carries with 1t 30 many opportunities
to help the needy. Seldom day passes
that the travelling salesman does not
loosen his purse strings for some one in
want-no. not that; he carries his money
IN his vest pocket Doing one kind act
brings the doer such rich return that
lie docs a second generous deed and soon
ho has the habit. The liberality of the
travelling man does not consist wholly of
counting the favor of his merchant friends
he is free with them, but mainly be-
cause It Is his nature: 1t is for those from
whom he never expects any return that
lie does the most.
a friend of mine once told this story:
1T was on the train travelling into Lin
coin. Nebraska. many years ago. 1t was
near midnight 1t was. believe, my first
trip on the road. Just in front of me. in
n double seat. sat a poor woman with
three young children. AS the brakeman
called. Lincoln. the next station. Ten
minutes for lunchr noticed the woman
feeling IN her pockets and looking all
around She searched on the seats and
on the floor A companion. Billie Collins,
who sat beside me. leaned over and asked.
Madam have you lost somethingT
Half crying. she replied. 1 can't find
my purse-I want to get a cup of coffee;
it's got my ticket and money In 1t. and
I'm going through to Denver
We'll help you look for It, said Billie
We searched under the seats and up
and down the aisle. but could not hnd
the pocket book. The train was drawing
near Lincoln. The poor woman began to
cry
It's all the money I've got. too, she
said pitifully I've just lost my husband
and I'm going out to my sisters in Colo
RADIO She says l can get work out there.
j know 1 had the ticket. The man took II
AZ Ottumwa and gave II back to me Ana
had enough money to buy me ticket
up to Central City where my sister Is. They
won't put me OF. will they2 / know l had
the ticket. II only get to Denver. II De
all right i guess my sister can send me
money to come 10 her. I've got enough
in my basket for us to eat until she does.
/ can do without coffee. They won't put
me of wi-ll-T
The woman couldn't finish the sentence.
zone OF the boys-Ferguson was his
name-who sat across the aisle beside
wealthy-looking old man. came over. Don't
YOU worry a bit. madam. said he. You'u
get through all right. I'll see the conduct
or" The old mana stakeholder In big
bank. l afterward learned-merely twirled
his thumbs.
THE conductor came where we were and
said: Yes she had a ticket when she got
on my division. I punched 1t and handed
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Started a Fire
But Didn't Know It

~ HERE Is q man who has just come
back to Washington from summer
vacation in Europe, who has good
Il story concealed about him. But he
is not telling 1t. His wife is, though,
and the moral, If there Is one, simply
points to the virtue of walking the straight
and narrow way when you are In coun-
try where you don't know the language.
The occurrence was in old Toledo. They
had been knocking about over Spain ana
having a good time. enjoying the scenery
and taking 90 per cent off the stories
told by the couriers, after the system ad-
yised by Mark Twain. When they got 70
Toledo and had seen the famous arms rae
tories and nearly all the other things that
the town had to show, they took trip over
one Of the old monasteries. The Washing
ton man was enjoying himself thoroughly
and lit a cigarette on one of the nigh pal
conles tossing the wax match out IN the
narrow street.
They continued to inspect the architec-
ture and the scenery and some OF the oid
manuscripts, when they became aware Oh
q considerable gathering In the street be-
low apparently come to do them honor.
There were several priests AZ the mead or
the delegation, barefooted friArs, very pic
turesoue but decidedly dirty; muleteerTs.
water carriers and sprinkling OF ciga.
rette girls and the miscellaneous rabbie that
SO easily gathers in Spanish town.
X
The leaders of the crowd shouted up to
them, and the Washington man. who does
not understand a word of Spanish. took on
his hat. bowed profoundly and thanked
them for their polite attention. The mob
below became more enthusiastic than ever
and the Washington man thought that what
they evidently wanted was speech. SO
he moved to the edge of the balcony again
and addressed them In pure United States,
making the text of his discourse the virtues
the crowd, especially to the priests. to try
1t just for curiosity and see what wonders
II would work on their persons.
This performance kept UP for several
minutes, when a pun Of smoke curled up
over the edge of the balcony and changed
the current of the Washington mans
thoughts. They looked then down into the
street and found that the slow-burnin4
wax match that had been thrown down had
set fire to an awning over a lower window
and there was q ir-sized confagration In
progress. 1t was this that had drawn the
crowd, and all the Washington mans elo-
quence on the subject Of soap and water
had been q dead loss.
The fire was finally extingulshed. but 1t
had smoked UP the front OF the building
q whole lot and 1t cost the gentleman with
a penchant for cigarettes about $50 to
square himself with the management. He
Is not telling the story but as has been said,
his wife Ia, and 1t has thus gotten a wide
circulation among an audience OF apprecia-
tive friends.
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no Nav Of lexa,ly preventing hls marrlage,

no way Of legally preventing his marriage,
and In these circumstances Count Zendov-
sky senior. resolved to resort to forcible
measures. With the aid OF detectives he
was -, kept rn,ormeo tSa ,ne and
arranged that the blow should fall sud
denly and dramatically at the last moment.
On the eve Of the wedding Count Sigis-
when he was waylaid in d quiet street and
quickly gagged before he could shout for
help. He was then bound tightly and
pitched into q closed carriage. which had
followed close behind his assailants. This
carriage was driven out to a small country
railway station, where Count Sigismund
WAS removed from the carriage on a
stretcher. to which he was closely bound.
AZ he was still gagged and covered with
rugs 1t was thought that he was a patient
suffering from a severe illness and no one
interfered with the movements of his kid
napers. who had reserved a compartment
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in the outgoing express train for the trans
portation of a sick friend. In this way
Count Sigismund was conveyed to the
northeast of Hungary and removed In the
same way from the railway train to the an
cestral castle of his family situated In the
Carpathians
During the whole of the Journey from
Budapest to this remote spot near Debre-
teczescy, which lasted twelve hours, he
remained gagged and strapped to the
stretcher, so that on arrival he was more
dead than alive and quite unable to resist
his captors. On arrival at the castle he
was imprisoned in a chamber at the very
top of one of the round towers which adorn
the building. Here he was 120 feet above
the ground, so there was no apparent out
let in that direction. The round chamber
was well lighted by five windows. all of
which were guarded by thick iron bars
firmly tmbedded in the masonry of the
walls. The only access to the chamber was
by means of a narrow circular staircase
not wide enough for two persons to stand
abreast.
Count Sgismund was well treated. well
fed and supplied with an abundance Of all
the luxuries in life. but he was informed
that his father intended to keep him pris-
oner until he fulfilled certain conditions.
He was told that his father would not be
content with promise not to marry Miss
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Billie and Ferguson took the conductor to
the superintendent's Office. They sent me
to the lunch counter. I got back first with
a cup of coffee for the mother and bag
for the children. But pretty soon in bolted
Rillie and Ferguson. Billie handed the
woman a pass to Denver. and Ferguson
dumped the eighteen dollars into her lap
"'Oh. that's too much' I'll take just
three dollars and give me your name so
that can send that back said the woman,
happier than any one l ever saw.
But We all rushed away quickly, Billie
saving: oh, never mind our names.
madam. Buy something for the children;
goodbye, Gcd bless you'll!
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OF II came from! A cruel old world this 10
some people. for while!
The train had whistled for Lincoln: FER
suson took of MS hat. dropped In dollar.
and passed II over to Billie and me. Then
he went down the aisle. saying to the boys.
Poor woman, husband just died. left three
children going to hunt work In Coioraoo.
lost purse with ticket and all the money
she had He came back with nearly
enough silver In his hat to break out the
crown-eighteen dollars!
"'will you chip In. Coionely said Fergu-
son to the old man who had been his trav-
cling companion.
Mo answered the old skinfiint. ! think
the railroad company ought to look after
cases of this kind. Ahemi Ahemf
well said Ferguson, snatching the va
lise out of his seat-I never saw madder
fellow-'we've enough without yours. even
II you are worth more than all or us.
You're so stingy / won't even let my grip
sit near YOU
When the train stopped at Lincoln.
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far as his sons marriage was concerned.
Finding that it was impossible to eXpel
her, he approached the peasant and offered
him heavy bride to eject her from her
lodgings The peasant. seeing an oppor-
tunity Of doing good business. reported the
fathers offer to the son. and the two
counts outbid one another successfully for
a time until Count Sigsmund found that
he could not outbid his father. and Miss
Manson was elected from her lodgings. The
old count exerted his influence throughout
the whole neighborhood to prevent Mss
Manson from finding accommodation and
ultimately she was obliged to beat a re-
treat End went to Budapest to await deyei-
opments
This dispute eliminated in bitter hatred
between father and son, and open war was
declared between, them. Count Sigsnund
left his home and proceeded to Budapest
with the declared object of making the nee
essary arrangements for his marriage.
Count Zendovsky, senior, cut Off his allow
ance. so that Count Sigismund was reduced
to absolute perjury. His position and ex
pectations, however, enabled him to borrow
almost any amount of money from the
usurers at Budapest. for the Zendovsky
tates are all entailed and must one day pass
to the eldest son. irrespective of the faith
er'S likes and diSlikeS.
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A Cinch.
Philadelphia Press,

From the Philadelphia Press.
'IIe certainly has good disposition. The
last time / saw him he was looking for
work and he didn't seem the least bit I'M
happy"
mo, that's when he's kappiest. because
when he's looking for work he hasn't any
to do
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could not be traced and Miss Manson was
powerless to exact retribution.
Using the Information obtained from her
letters the detectives proceeded to those
places In Austria and Germany where Miss
Manson had formerly been governess, while
others crossed the Atlantic to investigate
her antecedents in New York. Their COM
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btned efforts resulted in the discovery of
nothing more discreditable than that Miss
Manson was the child OF parents in a low
class Of society. The fact did not suffice to
bring about her expulsion from Hungary,
but 1t was amply sufficient to strengthen
Count Zendovsky, ST.. in his conviction that
she was an entirely impossible person as
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~ HERE is a man who has just come
back to Washington from summer
vacation in Europe, who has a good
Il story concealed about him. But he
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AS Count Sigismund was OF age there was
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-06-01

Total in all Funds 49,. Sl9.072 93 si9,072 80
We hereby certify the foregoing to be the
true and correct statement of the finances of
White Pine County, Nevada, for the quarter
ending March 81, 1905
j. $ DIcKERSON
County Auditor.
j +. MILES,
County Treasurer