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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

The Christian Endeavor society of the Grand avenue Baptist church will have an outing at Lighthouse Point satur- day afternoon. The members will meet at the church at p. m. and go down to the shore on the cars.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

On Saturday George I. sturges took a party down to the breakwater in his launch on a fishing trip. Those in the party were Rev. Charles c. Smith, Jchn w. Phillips, and John Male, They tcok fifty pounds of blackfish, MT.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

Miss Lizzie Oskins of Fairmount ave- n'ue gave a small musical at her home a few afternoons since, The program was made up mostly of selections of sacred music. Cake and cream were served by the hostess.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25
Funeral of c. Edward Trowbridge.

The funeral services of c. Edward Trowbridge were held yesterday after noon in Milford As the services were private only the relatives and few friends were present. Interment was in tho family plot at Milford cemetery.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25
Lack of confdanns.

Visitor--Do they treat you well herel Prisoner = Generally they does, only they hurts me feelin's by their lack of confidence. They won't let me have q latchk key.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

The regular semi-monthly supper of the Ladies Aid society of the Metho- dist church, Westville, will be held in the church parlors next Thursday eve- ming.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

It is expected that the navigation through the draw of the East Chapel street bridge will be much improved from the deepening of the channel on Saturday. The dredges, with the tug Vulcan, and a fleet of mud scows, is now above the bridge, deepening the channel at the wharf of the New Ha- ven Gas Light company.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

Burgess Harry Leigh of Fair Haven East has gone to his cottage at Cover nor's Island, Thlmble Island group. for the season.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

William F. Keegan and family have gone to their cottage at Cosy Beach for the summer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

The committee which is arranging the annual picnic for the Sunday school of the East Pearl street M. E. church promise most enjoyable affair. The exact date has not been decided, but the affair will take place either We'd nesday, July 1T or 24. It will take place at Double Beach. One of the features will be a game of baseball between the married men and the single men.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

stwges taking one fish which weighed seven pounds.
 g3 g!DC t3
 PriPPGGipqfl PPGEp q sherman IT Graves of the Strong school district leaves the last of next week for his former home near Augusta. Me.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25
EGmratanss.

MR. FREDERICK WELD .tli engage the services of limited number of good singers for corua choir. Voices tried at 1s9 Orange St.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

Frederick B. Adams, of Utica, N. r., a graduate of the Yale Law school, is in the city attending the Yale com mencement and is stopping at the home of his uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs, John w. Hill, of Wolcott street Mir. and Mrs. Hill will accompany their nephew to his home on Thursday and will remain for the remainder of the summer. MT. Adams is now practicing law in his home city.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

The local schools will close this noon and until Tuesday, September 10. The new class will number about 17O
 A very pleasant parlor meeting was held recently at the home of Mrs. James Bray of Quinniplac avenue During the afternoon the ladies gather ed flowers from the nearby fields and at o'clock a bountlful supper was served by the hostess. In the evening a devotional service was held which was of much interest.
 Alfred Bryant Seeley, son of Mir. and Mrs. Edward M. Seeley, of 147 Blatch- ley avenue, stood second in his class of 25O of the Yale Scientific school, in mechanical drawing. This is Mir. seel- ey's first year at Yale. His sister, Miss Ruth Seeley, was one of the seven hon. or pupils at Strong school this com mencement.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

On Friday evening the Quinnipiac Canoe club will give an informal dance at the Pequot house, Morris Cove. The committee consists of J. P. Anderson, Arthur Bradley Harold L. Mix, Ernest Chipp, Elijah Ball and F. Gernaine Crossley
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

On Thursday evening Rev. selah Brown will deliver lecture at the East Pearl Street M. E. church on "A Tour Around the World pr. Brown has been around the world nine times and knows what he is talking about. The lecture promises to be very interesting and profitable
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

MT. and Mrs. L. J. Bristol and the Misses Bristol, of Exchange street will go to the Plalnville camp ground late this month for a few days and will stay at the church house of the East Pearl Street M. E. church.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

MT. and Mrs. E. M. seeley. of Blatch- ley avenue, are entertaining over com mencement Mrs. Calvin Bryant, of Keene, N. H., and Mrs, William Beach of Torrington.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

Rev. Father Kennedy, pastor of St. Francis church, is enjoying a vacation at sharon Springs, N. Y.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
The Promotion Of the Admiral And Other Sea Comedies

] Captain Rayner was melancholy
man, and seemed very soft to those
whom luck had ever sent to sea With
American ship-masters. He had sailed
thlCe voyages in the Pandora and
had read the burial service every pas
sage. Once he had read 1t to the de.
vouring sea as a grave, when FIVE men
had gone at once from the focsle
head; but he never spoke of the ship
and her ways, even if he always came
ON deck with the air of man no ey-
poets bad news. Thou 4 he never
knew it. his look at last got upon the
mems nerves. But their nerve was
shaken from the first: superstition
had hold of them. They called MIN
Jonah
ITS o. black look out with such
skipper" said some, and though the
evil history of the Pandora ran far
back beyond Rayner's time, they at
tributed her present ill1uck to him.
The mind of the seamen is a limited
mind He is a child, creature of
arrested development. The infinite
sameness of the sea, its duh and at
times appalling lack OF interest, do
not move him to growth. The ro-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

lands. stood due north for Cape Cor
rieutas with the wind almost on the
port BEAM That night Joe Went
down into the lazaret with an auger.
and bored three holes in her weather
side.
Good stuff and sound" he said. as
he sweated over his task. She
might ave floated for hever.'
When he drew out his anger he
found that the sea raced rast the hole
and sometimes tipped W" er into it.
"On a level keel she'll have EN-
about two foot under" he said He
plugged that hole and bored two 9th
ers When he had plugged these, he
went on deck again. There was not
a soul awake on her but Geordie and
the man at the wheel She was going
now very sweetly and making ten
knots; they were running into fair
weather But she lay over far enough
to make it easy for Joe to go over
the side, while Geordle Stacked him
down from pin in the rail.
ITS done, said Joe, as he came
on board. She'll kill no more"
1t seemed to him that he was doing
a good deed, for the Pandora was
cruel
And a week later, tn Ell they had
sighted no land, the or of the
water had changed cautiously, and
looked a little reddish. When they
drew some on board it was evidently
not so salt as the sea, and they knew
they were in the food of the mighty
Plate The airs We're now light and
westerly; they hauled their wind and
stood for the northwest. But still the
man on the lookout on the main
royal yard saw no land. In the after
noon they sighted the smoke of
steamer heading about west by south
on their starbpard beam. They laid
their main-topsail TO the mast and
hoisted the Jack, union dawn
That night they We're at anchor off
Monte Video and in the morning they
told their story to the British Consul
But one and all refused at any price
and al all costs To go on board of the
Pandora again Joe spoke for all of
them.
Well go TO eaol sooner, sir" he
said. as he stepped in front of his
mates twidd ng his cap nervously.
though We wishes to say so respec.
fully. sir. She's a man killer, and it's
better a sight to be in the jug, or on
the beach, than to be drownded She's
killed nay own mate and more than
i'm And so far back as hany of US
ever card of 'er, she's been at the
same job II you please. sir, we'd
rather go TO gaol"
They slept that night ashore. but
not in gaol, and next day the owners
cabled from England for a new crew
to be shipped in her at any price. But
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
APPROVE NEW r zNcH LAW.
Youth of the Country Emancipated
by Measure.

The youth of France says a Paris
paper, "applauds the French law
makers because of the bill which was
recently passed wiping out a veneer.
able clause in the Code Napoleon"
The new law provides that "a mar.
riage contract may be entered into be.
tween man and woman, each being
q years old. without the consent OF
the parents of either This" says the
French writer, is Il long step toward
the equality Of man with woman. The
woman, according to the old law, was
fully competent To mike a marriage
agreement at q but the man, al.
though of age in all other respects at
that time OF his life, was compelled to
walt -four years II at q his parents
refused To consent to his marriage
Children love their parents Just as
much as they ever did says the
writer, "but the abrogation of the law
shows that the day of blind submissive.
ness Is over ana that the word sub.
iect' applied in the family or the state
has a bad and musty taste"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
LONG INDED BORES
FEW SToRY-TELLERS KNOW
WHEN TO QUIT.
General Forgetfulness of the Fact
That "5revity Is the Soul of Wit"
Widow Bedott a Good
Example.

"a little party of rs the other night
at one of the clubs endured an inllic'
ton In the shape of story teller
who did not know when TO quit" said
a member of one of the prominent
New York clubs If he had been able
TO make a serial of his narrative,
with the thrilling points at the chap
ter ends and given il in broken doses,
one or two chapters at time. his
story might not have been SO hard TO
endure. but the trouble was that
he had to tell ii all and all about il.
and as he was a man whom no one
would care TO offend his listeners
We're outwardly placid and inwardly
profane.
Memory for detail is an excellent
thing to have II you are in business
involving "a great many small mat
ters, and indeed, most callines are of
this character but the man az woman
whose memory is SO tenacious that
1t brings up by association a host of
particulars clustered round an event.
and insists on telling them all. is one
of the worst nuisances known to SO
clety. In Flush Times in MISSISSIPPI
pi,' an old book of southern river sto-
ries. there is a character endowed
with such "a memory and his aequaint-
ances sometimes inflicted him on a
newcomer by inducing him 10 tell the
earthquake story The principal fea-
ture of this narrative was the fact
that nobody had ever heard the end Of
1t. for there We're so many little sto-
ries hanging IL il that had 10 be told
first. and the narrator wandered out
of the main road into so many dey-
Gus paths and by ways thai something
always happened to break off the
story before the denouement was
reached While the yarn was
progressing the company would slip
out one by one and leave the stranger
to his fate
The Widow Bedott Is frst-cla
example of one of the particular
memories at its bost, or. rather, worst,
for she could not tell how the late
lamented said We are all poor crit
ters' without also telling about
thousand other things that occurred
to her while Jogging along toward the
end Of her journey.
Most OF us have Widow Bedotts in
our own Acquaintance some of MS
have heard stories Hike the earth.
quake story but nobody ever listened
long to a Widow Bedott or the teller
0f Il lao u
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
USE ELECTRIC POTATO PEELaR.
Bread Made at West Point Without
Touch of a Hand.

The first thing which attracts ones
attention is the electric potato peeler
"a tuhike machine with revolving
knives
bushel OF potatoes is thrown Ia
at time, a button is pressed and In
the space of five minutes the tubers
fall into another tub neatly peeled.
As four or five barrels Of potatoes are
used every day the labor saving OF
the apparatus will be readily under
stood
One hundred and fifteen loayes Of
bread are baked every . hours, and
nearly 100 rolls. with occasionally so
spice cakes. Pies are used once
week and 70 are baked
There is an electric bread-mixing
machine. with tunnels through which
the -four. water and yeast may flow
according 10 the wish of the baker.
The loayes are also cut and rolled by
machinery the whole baking being
done without hand touching tho
bread until il comes from the oven
and Is placed on the cooling racks.
IN electric dough diyider IS used
for cutting rolls. The dough Is
thrown ON an iron plate, and cutter
drops, separating II into pieces Of the
size required for each roll These
are quickly transferred to pan and
are set ia rise
The eyes used in cooking are beat
en- by eleetricity and the silver used
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

Apropos of Mr.. Carnegies latest
gift, an editor, taking ont his note
book, said the other day.
q can tell you of gift of $3.50 that
Mr. Carnegie once refused to give. Let
me read you the letter asking for this
gift.
With laugh he read
Dear Mr.. Carnegie-Understan
that you are blessed at present with
an unusual surplus Of income, and
knowing well your generous spirit
and desire to do good to those who
will help themselves, ! want to ask
you to make nae contribution of
$3.50
When | was young man my mo-
ther gave me a hymnbook, which |
faithfully used It is now. thanks 10
my efforts, worn out and / think II
should be replaced and you are the
man to do this
'Appreciatine 10 the fun the gener.
Gus deeds that have made your name
illustrious in this and other countries,
and believing that IN making me this
donation you viii be carrying on the
spirit of your work, | am, yours faith.
fully. Mark Twain
"P S-Don't send the hymnbook
send the $3.50 IN T."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

betrayed him. He jun ped from the
Poop to the main-deck, and bach
again. He wanted to be mate aud
second mate and skipper too. And as
the fresh canvas took hold of her she
slapped at the rising sea. dived into
II, and as the wind beloved almost as
keen as ever, the man at the wheel
lost his nerve, gave her too much
helm, snatched at her, gave her too
much again, and almost preached her
to. And then the mate was again on
the main-deck
Some one heard him say 20 Cod"
as the Atlantic fell On Lard; but no
one ever heard him say anything
again.
The water filled her from rail to
rail- She shuddered, and then lifted
slowly, and as she ran once more be-
fore the wind and rolled, she poured
out the sea on either side. The main
deck ports were burst outward the
gear f1oated in ineXtricable tangles, a
four-hundred- gallon tank, dashed I'M
der the poop ladders. broke from its
iashings and took charge of the deck.
In the black darkness and the immi.
nent danger men cried out. Some
cried to their mates and were an
sYered, some were not answered.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
RAISES CHICKS KITCHEN.
Philadelphia Man Has New and Pay.
ing Industry.

Realizing the demand for early
chickens and knowing that they com
mand good prices West Philadelphia
dentist, who is much interested In
poultry raising, is trying the novel ex
pertinent of raising chickens in his
kitchen. He expects to have from 80
10 40 broilers by the first Of June, and
If they weigh more than two pounds
each by that time there will be a good
market for them at 80 cents per pound
The doctor, profting by his experience
Of last winter decided to try a new
game this year FIe set several hens
near the furnace in the cellar in Janu-
airy. and one hatehed out IS chicks
As soon as Matched the chickens We're
taken to the kitchen and placed in
specially constructed cage. He says
they need all the room they can have.
About the middle of March the chick
ems can go outside AS the doctor has
not lost a single chicken, he Is led to
believe that he has found way to
raise early chickens, and says he ex-
poets to set every hen he has in the
cellar next winter He also intends
10 enter the duck and goose business
on small scale. A grocer who sells
to the best trade has promised to buy
every fowl The doctor raises and pay
the highest Philadelphia Rec
ord.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
Must Have Been Sanitary.

Both the medical officer and the
surveyor of the Tarvin (Chesterl rural
district council have condemned a cot
tage at Caldecott Green. near Farm
don, England. fof demolition as in
sanitary But the tenant an old man
appeared before the council and told
a remarkable story in stay Of eSecu.
ton He stated thar he was 70 years
old, and lived in the cottage with his
wife and three children For 90 years
there had not been case OF illness in
his family His father and mother
lived in the cottage before him; his
father died al the age OF Sc and the
mother at 50 He did not think that
there could be much wrong with the
cottage ia the lace Of these facts. In
reply to the clerk the old fellow said
that personally he had never had a
doctor. and the emily time a medical
man had been in his cottage was when
his little son had scalded his leg
Under the exceptional circumstances
the council decided to adjourn the
matter for further inquiries to be
made,
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

#1f star by night On the third day
Cams se staggered rs he walked.
I Lh old man can't come on deck
soon I4l have to cave in he thought
lie sdoak his list at the ship. Il wish
ii never seen her Shes man,
flIlcr
That night when the starboard
watch was called at twelve the wind
td, od suddenly, and the Pandora
raa8lal ia the wallow Of tle sea like
a ulI-bullalo in a bog. She shipped
seas over both rails; the racing waves
atcln came and slapped their crests
III tHo nan at the wheel: she scooped
up the sea forward every stagger she
made she had been running under
,ha raefed foresail and the fore and
rnain topsails close. reefed. Now they
shook tho reefs out. Gamgee was
alert and alive. but his nerves haH
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
Deterioration of the Mastlff.

In an article entitled "Dogdoms
-Four Hundred, by r. F. Mayhem in
Everybody the writer deplore3 the
mastiff'3 less of prestige:
Some breeds there are he writes,
that have been driven into obscur.
ity by the unbridled craving OF breed
ors for particular properties. Mos
lamentable of these is the case o.
the mastff who, 10 or 20 years as9
was the king of the heavy brigade
Size and massive heads became the
alpha and omega Of the breeders In.
crease in size resulted in numbering.
overfed apathetics, and could not get
out Of their own way and only b.
an effort could support their catfish
carcasses on sprawling legs and splay
feet. And in the intensity of desire
to produce massive heads the hithey
end Of the wretched animal was for.
gotten, and paralyzcd or semipar
alyzed headquarters were the result.
Hence the downfall Of the mastiff an
in a measure. of the ST. Bernard
Their former position in the dog
world is now occupied by the Grea.
Dane, deerhound and the Russian WIZ
hound
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

They found the Pandora made heavy
weather still, when she was brought
to the wind and she only lay to de-
Gently when she was stripped to the
goose winged maintopsail TIE men
went into their wet and devastated
den in gloomy silence.
'Ere's bloomin' pretty general
average said Joe, as he found his
chest which was also his chum's,
STAYED IN by the impact of an iron
bound one which had fetched away
from its lashings. But no one growled,
and no one answered him The young
second "greaser' had been liked by
them. They sat and smoked in gloomy
silence, and only half of the watch
below turned into the driest hunks.
They thought that the Pandora had
begun, and though she lay to easily
enough, few slept They were afraid
of their ship; she was unlncky, &C.
cursed, an evil personality About her
was the odor of death.
Case was a good boy" they said,
and would have been a fine officer
by-and-by. Well our turn next"
Every time the Pandora bowed a
wave the hawse-holes still spurted;
the foc'sle deck ran wet and glim-
mered darlly in the feeble light from
the sinking lanterns swinging on both
port and starboard sides The air
was saturated with moisture, rank
sweat ran down the beams, dripping
blankets swayed from the edges of
umoccupied hunks. the men were
damp. subdued, unhappy Now. as
the ship lay To. the wind no longer
swept into the foe'sle under the flap
ping screen by the windlass, but still
oddies Of swift cold air shook 1t, and
the men shivered under their oilskins.
that they wore now for warmth.
y wish I'd never seed her" said
Jack Marcbmont. and Joe did not an
sW his mate. Not ten words were
spoken till the wheel and lookout
were relieved at four O'Clock. Both
We're idle Jobs for the night was still
as dark as death. and the wheel with
n grummet over its spokes looked
after itself
fOh. it's all solid comfort this is"
said Jack. Il wonder whose wet
clothes will he for sale next?"
They buried the second mate in the
grey waste of sea before they put the
Pandora before the moderating gale.
The mate read the burial service, for
Captain Rayner STAYED below. The
steward told the men in a whisper
that he was i'll.
He's all broke up," he said 81
seed him erwin like child And no
wonder: this is wicked shin.
wish I'd left her in Melbourne"
And some of the men frowned.
They did not like to hear him call
the Pandora wicked For the ship
was in its way. alive. it was DOS.
sessed They wished to propitiate 1t;
superstition had them by the throat.
But they we're easier when the body
was commi d to the deep. And the
mate assumed more cheerful air
when he had carried the PRAYER Book
into his berth and came on deck
again They put the shin before the
wind and loosed the foresail. But
though the wind had taken off the
sea was very heavy. and fhe Pandora
WafIoVad rfG-ouslv. She took in seas
over both rails. Thrice thai day she
filed the m8in-deck and but for the
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

no price could induce men to go in
her. And on the third night she sank
at her moorings in f zen fathoms OF
water, and carried hsr shipkeeper to
the bottom.
81 told you she'd Kill another man
yet said Geordie.
But Joe shook his head.
81 done what was right. And after
all e was ony a Spaniard, as | said"
(THE END
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17
A nReuuIar PlckIe.U

Margie heard a neighbor speak Of
some one who was in trouble as being
Gin pickle Shortly after her small
brother was planning some mischief
and she exclaimed: oh, you mustn't
do that, Harry, or you will get in
cucumber"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-17

my lone" said joe And do it
will. If we gets offer safe she shant
kill no more. When we're out Of her
and none of US will stay, as you
i-now-shell lie at anchor waitn
cor I new crowd. and I'll come out 10
h,.c in a boat and sink the murderin
old 'ooker right there
"There'll be a ship-keaper on her."
said Geordie.
LAS like as not ell on'y be a
Spaniard," replied Joe simply. and
even if not"
Even il not, one more was but one.
The next day the weather moder-
ated, and the Pandora, being then, as
they reckoned, well clear of the Falll'