The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-25

1t pays in law as in anything else,
for ex-President Harrison received
a single fee of 100000 for Just two
hours in consultation with his
clients upon point of law; $50, 900
an hour. Nearly as much as a News
writer gets in a whole year.
1t pays to know; and Ben Harri-
SON S clients knew that he knew.
The pioneers of Ely, who selected
this particular spot to build their
homes, when they had to haul by
wagon for over a hundred and fifty
miles every necessity of life except
wood, water, pure air and sunshine,
have demonstrated that they knew
they would reap a reward for their
struggle, endurance and long suf-
fering, and today there is not one
Ely pioneer alive but has an abund-
ance, and lives In comfortable
home. moved from cabin to bun
galow'
When the Guggenheims, the heads
of the American Smelling and Rein
ing company, decided to spend mill
lions of their dollars in mines and
shelters in this great Ely district
they knew that they would receive
millions in return, and the wise hun
dreds of men who invested thier last
dollar IN Ely, knew that they knew
Afew days ago, O'Leary was feel
ing the effects of drink of Three
Star Hennesy,' and was going
around the block, stopping frequent
ly to write something in a note
book. and when he stopped in front
of Pat O'Tool's cabin, near Hayes
Park, Mrs. O'Tool asked him what he
was doing, and O'Leary said; II am
writing down the names of all the
men in the block that | can lick.
"So?" says Mrs. O'Tool. and is
Pats name on that list"
'Sure," says O'Leary
In the evening when Pat came
home from work, his wife informed
him that his name was on the list
of the men in the block that O'Leary
could lick. and Pat was nader than
IA base burner hornet and would
not eat until he hunted up OLeary
and asked him if it was true that his
name was on that list.
Sure" says O'Leary.
Why. you dirty. loafn spalpeen,
We, says Pat. rolling up his sleeves
and suiting action to his words, Il
kin tie me righi hand behind me
back and with the little finger of me
left / kin gouge yer eyes outin their
sockets. ! kin tear yer wildcat
brains out of yer sulphide copper
head. An. an" starting at O'Leary
as if to begin operations. O'Leary
said: Hold hold, | say. Pat. are
We sure ye can do all that?'
Aye. that | am, says Pat
Thin" says O'Leary, 'I'll just
strike yer name from the listE'
1t pays to know,
O'Tool knew that he could do it,
and it paid O'Leary to know that he
knew.
In looking backward, We can all
see and realize our many mistakes
in life, where, through ignorance
and undergraduates we failed to
see and know when dame fortune"
smilingly stopped in front of our own
door while entering our name on her
calling list, and by our stubbornness
and fiat refusal to recognize her
presence, her pleasant call, we were
relegated to the class that know
not, and know not that they know
not Hence, if we today belong to
the class that know, yet know not
that they know let us at least try
to take advice from those that
know, and know that they know
Again we say Ito all classes, to
all nationalities of men, in every
walk and condition in life). Seek
We the truth, and the truth shall
make you free and enable you To
exultantly exclaim: 1t pays to know,