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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

A RACE that in peculiar sense is not to the
swift is that is run, if the word may be
used in such connection, every year in the provln-
cial districts of Germany.
Early in May, during the celebration of festival
that to certain extent corresponds to the English
Nav day. an OK race is held. The entrance fee is
small; but the conditions peculiar Each
must be ridden by its owner and ridden bareback.
No whip, spur, yoke, harness, nor any means of
guiding the animal is allowed. The rider must de-
pend entirely upon his voice to accomplish the end
he has in view, and as the oxen do not race on a
track, but large open field the training of
the animals and the skill of the rider severely
tested. Speed is secondary consideration in this
race for the rider who induce his seed to 90
in straight line is to win. The start is made
at side of field mile square, the finish at the
opposite side
When the competitors lined up and the signal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

tory. mere must be amplitude of officers swords
Tor about sixty per cent of South American army
officer and band and forty per cent. is private.
The swords need give no trouble however, as they
a lower grade by product of the Connecticut
factories which turn out the ubiquitous machete.
They customarily shipped from New York under
the more or less appropriate designation of garden
tools" Then the second hand pot metal rifles are
resurrected from obscure and mysterious cellars, to
be cased and labeled and taken out of New York
hardware" bridge bolts" while the barrels
OF cheap ammunition (Which the heat and moisture
81 the tropics within the space of six short months
will render about deadly as Chinese hrecrackers)
duly despatched mixed paint and lard"
few cases of dynamite must also go South blandly
labeled Sunrise Soap" for the blowing up of an
official train and school house two. 1t is all
safe enough, when it is past Sandy Hook; for
under the genial glitter of gold the espionage of
southern frontier is as unstable as iCicle under
April sun. The rifles, of course, be sold and
Tesold, retired to EARTH and exhumed, and again
disposed of to some local brand of revolutlonlst;
that the arming of the Spanish American battal-
ions need not be costly it would seem. The
cable tolls and the band instruments much
serious problem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

OF his native valleys do with travel
broken horse.
But these rambling little guerrilla
armies can always claim certain
sprnkling of whites, of soldiers of
fortune supposed to be fighting for
the love of the fight. He makes TO-
mantle figure on paper, does this
soldier of fortune; but at close range
You usually find his spirit as unclean
as his body. For the fighting, whether
he loves it or not, is as inslorious and
underhand as contest between two
primordial jungle enemies; and the camp
vermin whether he opposes it or not,
is as persistent and omnipresent as the
spirit of revolution in tropical Repub-
lies. Indeed, he is much romanced
about and much misunderstood indi-
vidua1, this South American soldier of
fortune. He is more often than not
mere yeggman with yeaning for
travel, or an eX-hobo, or gambler, or
migratory jail bird, or alcoholic bad
man, with a buzzard's smell for easy
graft and a criminals sullen careless
ness in taking chances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
The Army Hats
ing COnceS SiOn.

PUT there is a limit to which he dare not and does
- not 60. He has learned that where the treasure
of this buslnesske and organization loving outsider
is there also is his heart. Whether he sits a
directors table in Boston London, Berlin or
New York, he has anchored his millions into
the soil, anywhere between Guatemala and Ecuador,
he and his Countrys gunboatS will brook no popiniay
Tevolutionists interference with those millions.
Revolutions may come and CO. but the banana
business must not be stopped 1t is a matter OF
coupons and dividends of dollars and cents-and
even the I4th-st. revolution maker knows how
questioned and arbitrary is the twentieth century
rule of dollars and cents. He may have linking
of the dlsquleting fact that the heads of the two
backing opposing political uprisihgs' meet day by
day on the trendllest and most equable terms iTn-
aginable
That is the way of the Gringoes! But before and
above all things he knows that their little
gage railroads crawling and twisting up through
the junges and the hills to the busy mountain mines
must not be moested. So he leaves them con-
temptuously alone; for he knows that particl1-
lar cork helmeted man on some particular quartz
dump is the of his Governments bond issue
and that he has its national debt his hip pocket,
and that if he chose the noisy beehive instead
of its stored up honey, he could put his heel down
and foreclose on his gilt braided puppets up in the
capital, and possess the whole misgoverned and
graft ridden country, from the Caribbean to the
Pacific.
hears firing party capturing the nearby padro and
the band stand, he merely tells his to close the
windows, and continues plaCidly to peruse his SIX
weeks old mall which has travelled to him his
ship, over his own railway, to his city of
imported engineers. 1t all resolves itself into a mat
king of the fourteenth century; the capitalist from
the quartz dump is the king of the twentieth One
happens to be obsolete in his method and ambition;
the other happens to be up to date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

himself for the pursuit Of his old time manner +
warfare. He will let a Boston company clear his
lungles and lay them out in banana farms, and build
up his mias1nal port towns and construct concrete
breakwaters and wharves his green watered coral
reefs, and tunnel railway lines up through his noun
tans to the choicer coffee plantations,-he viii
allow all this; for each new banana farm and each
wharf and each line brings fresh tribute his kngly
and indolent Golfers. He forbear when new
freighters steam to his coasts; for he juggle
his tariff laws till they a matter of much
gold to him and his brothers, and he can make
his quarantine legislation inquisitoral the
thumbscrew and the stake, and his taxation
invested interests as rapaClOus as his hunger for
subterranean brides before the surrender of a min
ing concession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
Marshaling the Soldiers

THE fourth and the strangest feature of the en-
tire affair is getting together the who to
these pot metal guns and shoot off these cheap
cartridges 1t is here where the true calorc colorng
shows up the picture. 1t is not the actual mar
The mystery. It's the psychology of the thing, the
lnCongruity Of the natives attitude, that is so
puzzllng to a Northerner. 1t is the paradox of
meek and calm loving, energy loathing, hardship
.,bhorrlng citizen being continually harrled and
driven into CeaseleSs tribal WarfareS that have
meaning for him. For it is matter of repeated
history that this recruiting is sometimes accom-
pllshed with the help of asso; and it
common sight to consignment of recruits
herded through the streets In chains and manaCes.
Before my attention a Nicaragua despatch,
originally sent to headquarters from a General
assembling volunteers for the army of Zelaya. Lit
orally translated the message read. Il sending
in to you hfty-sx volunteers. Please send back
the rope"
Another genial and wide spread habit at such
times is the arrest of all the unemployed in the
larger towns and cities. This is made to include,
of course, all able bodied men without friends and
influence all possible political opponents and all
prisoners released from recently captured jails.
hese accessions to the new army are promptly
placed behind bars, and kept there until the guns
and ammunition arrive and the FIRST step of the
campaign has been decided upon. The halfbreeds,
the poems, the laborers, whatever their faith, color
employment, nationality, seem mysterousy
resigned to this method of treatment. They seem
to accept it the New Yorker accepts his
crowded subway trains and his bridge crushes
1t IS, and has been, and must be; SO why fight
against it?
The little hafbreed peon, accordingly, buckles
his loose fitting leather belt, takes his pot metal
gun and his peaked service cap, and IN PLAIN blue
denim marches barefooted and meeklv behind his
respondent officer. The latter, it will be noted
always wears shoes, and sometimes a corset. He
IS untllnChlng and unembarrassed before the
of the outlander-he will clear away the crowd, in
fact so that full view of his glory may be shed upon
the passing stranger He is always patriot, and
an orator, and a politician; but before he would
bend to day of honest and actual work he and his
kind would suck his country dry as the vampires
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
Facing the Enemy

WHAT may be called the fifth a,
" in this paradoxiCal drama of revC
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
DEEPEST LAKE IN THE WORLD.

In the Cascade mountains, about
rs miles northeast of jacksonville,
Ore, the seeker for the curious will
find the Great Sunken lake, the
deepest in the world. 1t rivals the
famous valley of Sindbad the Sail
OF. 1t is said to average 1000 feet
down to the water on all it's sides.
The depth of the water is un-
known, and its surface is as smooth
and unruffied as mammoth sheet
of glass, it being SO far below the
mountain rim as to be unaffected by
the strongest winds. 1t is about Is
miles in length and about four and
a half wide.
For unknown ages the lake has
lain, silent and mysterious, in the
bosom of the great mountain range,
like a gigantic trench scooped out
by the hands of giant genius.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Don't Envy the Rich,

The real virtue of riches is that
they add to the picturesqueness of
life. Millionaires and even semi-mil-
lionaires do great deal toward bright
ening the landscape, and we ought not
only to suffer them to live, but to be
grateful to them. Who would will
ingly miss the gay pageant down
Fifth avenue on a spring afternoon,
and reduce the beautiful city with it's
glad decoration of well dressed peo-
pie to the gray level of the willing
poor? No; the world is best consti
tuted just as it is, with all the varie
ties of the people, and all the varying
scales of being and of dressing. Only
let the man not yet doomed to being
millionaire realize that, like the pur
pie COW, it is better to see than be one.
And joy, after all, is really and truly
not to be bought with money, nor to
be found in any distant corner of the
earth, but is, in very deed, as the sages
have known in all ages, the kingdom
of heaven within.-Harper's Magazine.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
cockrell In III Health.

Francis Marion Cockrell. formerly
United States senator from Missouri
and now q member of the Interstate
commerce commission, is In a some
what precarinus condition, not having
recovered as rapidly from his partial
breakdown of month ago. He is
compelled to remain closely in his
Washington residence and at the re-
cent election, for the first time In 80
years, was unable to ct his vote.
For more than 80 years he probably
has been the hardest worker in pub
lie life. Several years ago his ply.
sicians warned him to perform less
labor, but he disregarded this admo-
milton, and even now his family has
hard time to- keep h n from over.
working himself. He has not gone
to the offlces of the interstate com.
merce comm iSsion for month, but
insists upon doing sain amount
of oficial work at his residence every
day, including Sunday.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
HELD TO HIS BARGAIN
Dentists Bluff Called by Young Farm
Hand In Remarkable Exhibition
Of Grit and Nerve.

A. I'll. Smith, the general manager
of the New York Central railroad
said of fnancier the other day:
at is no wonder the man has
succeeded. For the sake of money
he would do anything. There is a
story they tell about his youth.
"They say that when he was a
burly young farm hand in Pennsyl-
yania a back tooth fell to aching
and he tramped in to Wyalusing to
have it out.
"The dentist pushed him back in
the operating chair, stuck cork
between his jaws to keep them open
and examined the sore tooth care
fully. Then, frowning, shaking his
head, he selected his biggest and
most substantial pair of forceps.
"1s this going to hurt, doctor?'
said the farm hand, looking anx-
iously at the tremendous forceps.
"The dentist answered with a
smile:
"'Well, if it don't we won't
charge you anything
"And he rolled up his sleeve,
hooked the fOrceps on to the tooth,
put his foot against the arm of the
chair for a brace, and-ah, it was
horrible.
"But all through the horrible or
deal the young farm hand neither
howled nor groaned nor grunted.
Like an image he sat. Indeed, a
kind of smile fickered from time to
time over his face.
when the tooth was at last out
the dentist said, compassionately:
at didn't hurt so very much,
did it?'
"Hurt? Why, it didn't hurt at
ALL said the farm hand.
"And he took leave without pay
ing, holding the dentist to his bar
gain"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Father Took Sons Whipping.

The boy had misbehaved, as he
often did, and his father called him to
account.
Son." said the father, 81 hate to
lick you but some one must get a
whipping for what you've done"
The boy whimpered little.
Suppose" said the father, that
take the whipping for you!"
The boy laughed at the idea. but the
father took down dog whip, called a
friend who was visiting at the house,
explained the situation to him and
then requested the visitor to use the
whip on him.
The father wore a long-tailed coat
and the visitor hit the tails of that
coat in great style.
At the first crack of that whip the
boy was wild-eyed At the second he
was clawing, biting and kicking the
man with the whip
Don't whip my papa! Don't whip
himi" he cried Whip me! oh,
whip mel"
That was a year ago. Since then
that boy has never done anything seri-
ously wrong.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
"SunburstrN."

The late Michael Davitt coined a
new word, "sunburstry." His speeches
were always couched in terse and
practical language. and he had an in.
tense dislike and an unconcealed con.
tempt for that grandiloquent species
of Irish oratory which consisted of
long sentences full OF rolling and re
verberating adjectives This style of
speaking he called "sunburstry." from
an allegorical picture to be found in
many Hibernian homes, showing Erin
emerging into freedom and prosperity
with the sun bursting from the clouds
behind her.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Gotten Long Known.

The manufacture Of cotton in India
There are illusions 10 it connected
with India in the Billie. In old Sans
crit records mention is made Of it's
being used in India nearly 5000 years
ago. AT the time of Alexander's in
vasion of India the dress of the Hin
docs was describe1 as consisting large.
ly of caleos, ns.rN white or having
figures. Among Elie imports into Eu-
rope during the, fTst century, enum-
Grated from lodIa are described as of
superior quality.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Murderous Act of Partisan.

A few days ago carpenter named
Letourneur was walking along the St.
Martin canal, in Paris, when he
seized boy of ~ and threw him
into the water. AS it happened the
boy could swim. but when he reached
the bank, the brutal carpenter kicked
him back into the water. Some bur-
gees ran up In time to same the boy,
and after thrashing the would-be MUIR
derer handed him over to the police.
Letourneur's defense is that he
wanted to earn reward for saving
the boy from drowning.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Have Fun with CONGRESSMAN

Largely because of his name and
his unfailing, good nature considerable
fun has been had by the newspapers
with James M. Griggs of Georgia.
chairman of the Democratic congress
sional campaign committee. Some
newspapers have dubbed him Grim
Jiggs," though he is generally regard
ed as an able member of the house.
He served his people on the district
bench several years before coming
to congress and is lawyer of first
elias ability.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Penalty for Thinking.

In the town of Bethel, VT, there
lives a ch-Canadian named Peter
Burrell. who is quite character and
the source of considerable mirth to
the townspeople. He had occasion
the other day to chastise one of his
small boys, and after giving him a
thorough whipping noticed that the
boy was sullen and ugly. Looking
at him. he said: Now, whad yer
tink? I know whad yer tink-yer
thinks damn, and ticks yer for dat,
too"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Authors Elattered rhsmselxes.

Balzac, perhaps the greatest of
novelists, was conceited and passion
ately ambitious; he quite realized that
he himself was equal to the most dis
tinguished author of his own or any
age. Hume, in Introducing his essay
on Miracles" asserts that he has dis
covered an argument which will be
useful against superstition, as long
as the world endures."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Not Too Exactinn

Lord Alverstone, now lord chief Jus.
tice of England. once sang in the choir
of the parish church. Kensington Lon
don, and one day lady asked the
Verger to point him out. The verger
ala not know him, and exclaimed:
We'll, ma'am, that's the vicar, them's
the curates, and I'm the verger; but
as to the choil-well, as bong as they
does their dooty, we d.@n't inquire into
their hantecedents."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Many DELAYS at Altar.

When bridal party arrived recent
ly at an English church it was found
that the clergyman had forgotten the
appointment and he had to be sent
for. 1t was then discovered that the
bridegroom had failed to bring the
ring. When this was obtained the
certificate of the publication Of the
banns was found to have been left
behind. Eventually, however, every
thing was ready and the ceremony
proceeded.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Architect Knew Il All.

When 1t was question Of con-
structing the cupola for the cathedral
at Florence, Brunelleschi, the famous
architect, plainly told the council,
assembled to consider the claims of
the various competitors, that ne waA
the only one who knew anything
about 1t, and that they had therefore
better give him the commission at
once.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Apple Slump.

Pare. core and quarter dozen tart,
juicy apples, pour over them clpful
of hot water ans place in a saucepan
on the back of this range. Let them
stand five or ten minutes, then add
two cups molasses. Cook ten minutes,
cover with paste made from heap
ing pint Of sifted -four, teaspoonful
of sugar and two of baking powder,
with enough sweet milk to make a
soft dough. Spread this over the ap-
pies, cover the kettle closely and cook
.25 minutes without uncovering. Serve
with lemon or foamy sauce.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
His Name Was on Envelope.

man had a telephone put in his
house. and as he was expecting let
ter from friend he called up the
post Office and asked the clerk in
charge If there was a letter there for
him. The clerk asked him what his
name was. He said: Never mind
what my name is; If there is a letter
velope."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20

In the cage OF TINS BEAST, ~ VAC
command of the prince, . 1urko-
man stepped, armed with a short
stick as big round as his wrist. With
this stick he struck the tigers nose
as he made for him, and then, Wit
palms out and eyes fixed, he wake
slowly up to the shrinking beast an
stroked his face and flank.
"The tiger snarled and took the
mans hand in his open mouth. ]
held my breath and looked for the
bleeding stump to fall away. But
keeping that hand perfectly still,
with the other he tickled the tigers
jowl and scratched his ear, till with
q yawn and a pleased snarl the big
cat rolled over on his back 10 have
his belly scratched.
''The man then sank to hiS 3aees,
always keeping his hands in lanotion
over the glossy fur, and with his
foot drew toward him . collar At
tached to a chain. This he aeaPped
round the bsast's neck and, rbing to
his feet, laid hold Of the ohsin and
dragged the tiger out.
"This was only the second time
that the care had been entered. As
soon as the tiger was outside ne es-
pied the watching party and started
for them, but came up short on the
collar. II he had chosen to use MS
weight and strength no four Of them
could have held his tether, but a. II
was, the Turkoman found ktle diff
6culty with him, and held him.
snarling, while a camerN was
snapped Century Magasi1e.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Rar,d Tranafnrnnatlnn-

The teacher was telling her schol-
ars the NEUROLOGICAL story about the
man who was turned into a swan.
First" she said, wings began to ap-
pear and then feathers and finally his
neck grew longer and longer. Now,
who can tell me what he became"
"A rubberneck!" was the startling
reply.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
New White House Furniture.

Mrs. Roosevelt has adopted the new
fad for white and delicate tinted
wicker furniture and now the Green
room is looking it's very prettiest and
most informal in some dainty green
wicker with cushions of the same
color, the hangings to correspond and
vines and flowers everywhere in evil
dence. White enameled furniture is
much in evidence on the second floor
of the house, and in fact plays a big
part in all of the fine Washington
drawing-rOoms.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Whisky Not Scotch. NationzV Drink.


'One of the grossest misconceptions
from which Scotland suffers" says q
writer, lis that her national drink is
and always has been, whisky. But
this is just as nntrue-neither more
nor less--as that the national garb
of Scotland is the kilt. Whisky, like
the kilt, is a purely Celtic or high
land product, and up to the middle
of the eighteenth century it was just
as unfamiliar in the lowlands as the
clan tartans. 1t was only after the As
that the Highlanders began to settle
in the lowlands and bring their whis-
ky with them, but before that the
national drink of the Iowlanders had
been ale. Tam o Shanter and Souter
Johnny got 'roarin' fou'-not on whis-
ky, but on strong beer
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Speaker Cannon a Runner.

Speaker Cannon, who Is nearly II
years old, ran half block for a
street car. He caught it and, climb
ing aboard, was met by Senator Car.
ter of Montana.
That's pretty good for an old
lan." Senator Carter said.
"Oh, I'm good for a run any day.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Gompers," said
the speaker.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Get an Air caat,e.

"Arter ALL" said Uncle Josh this
morning, air castles is dunn good
property t hev. Y don't need NO
servants in 'em. an y don't hev E
pay no taxes on EN-, an they're 20
ALFRED cheap ennybody kin hev one.
,b'jinks!"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
A Wonder2

Il always read your poems by tho
fireside." wro e the Young Person to
the Bard.
Il wonder" he unused, If she really
likes them. or II she does that SO that
she can chuck 'em In the fire as soon.
as she's looked EN- Cleveland
Leader.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Paurers Fled from Work,

Finding that stone-breaking and
oakum-picking were not profitable
enor"h, the authorities of Horsham,
england. decided to put able bodied
paupers to work at grinding corn in
a mill. Next day not pauper was
left In the almshouse.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
Enr Posterltv,a Sal.

Weary, why don't yer ever do NO
work ?"
I'm t'inkin' o. my descendants,
Raggsy."
"Wot dyer mean?"
Fur be 1T from me to do any act
that'll keep 'em from boastin' that the
founder of their family wuz a gent OF
leisure"