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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29
HOW THREE CHICAGO BOYS
IMPROVED THEIR CONDITIONS

1t is good thing for young man
to know how to act while in the pres
ence of business men. One man, says
J. L. Graft, tells how three Chicago
boys gained materially by having the
correct ideas about such matters. All
of these young men are now well
along in a promising business life.
One of them is in the Office of a we'll
known traction manager. another is
in one of the best known banks in
Chicago and the third sits at the
cashiers desk of a Denver bank.
All of these men, when boys, be-
longed to the special delivery service
of the Chicago postoffice They were
boy carriers, and began at the lowest
round of the ladder. One of them
was accustomed to deliver letters to
traction man. One day the super
intendent of the special delivery got
a note from the traction man. He
said he had noticed the business-like
manner of the boy and his general
department, and he wanted a good
young man for his Office. The boy
got the place, and today he is well
along in a business in which he found
place by his own unconscious be-
havior while carrier boy.
A Chicago banker got a boy from
the same bureau. He had been at
tracted in the same way that the
traction man had been, and by sim
liar circumstance third boy got a
start in the banking business. Not
long ago a Denver bank asked Chi
cago banker to send him good cash
Ter, and this third boy was sent to
answer the call. He is now a promi-
nent official in one of the best finan-
cial institutions of the Centennial
state.
In neither case did the seeker for
help ask the head of the postoffice
bureau to pick out boy. In each
case the man who wanted a boy had
seen him and noticed his general get
up. In each of the three cases it was
the business-like air that the young
messenger carried along with him
that impressed the man who wanted
his help.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

He is going now to see one of the
significant results of the work done
in the Philippines under his especial
direction. He intends TO ne present
at the assembling of the first Filipino
parliament, and to see for himself
what has been the outcome of the
recent election. II is said that the
ffre-eaters have all been CHOSEN for
this parliament and that its sitting
will be none of the tame affairs of
GENERALIZATION type. AS the
leader of the Nacionalistas, Domin-
ador Gomez is expected to dominate
the parliament and to voice demand
for independence. Just what Secre
tary Taft has to encounter in this
Mr.. GomeZ-and the Spanish news
papers can be relied on to make it
as much an encounter as possible
may be CLEANED from Mr.. Gomez's
own estimate of his powers and i'm
portance. In the literature of the
campaign preceding the election he
appears as an ''inflexible patriot and
Filipinista to the death" he has
talent of highest order and vast Gull
ture;" magnificent eloquence, POM
pous, virile and overpowering;
daring valor (valor temerario) and
firmness without rival his deeds
surpass his words" heart of lion,
soul without fear" he is not
afraid of death and hopes to meet
| it," alive or dead he will always
| fight for emancipation and for the
| honor of the workingmen; The loves
| all the people better than himself,
and would sacrifice all for the liberty
| and independence of the Philippines
and the F'ilipinos. 70 zeal with all
this in one man may be all in the
days work for Mr.. Taft, but it will
be a pretty big days work.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29
CONSOLIDATED STOCK
EXCHANGE.

The opening of the new quarters
of the Consolidated Stock Exchange
in New York City recalls some very
interesting history concerning that
institution. 1t is interesting to min
ing people because of its record as
the earliest mining stock exchange
of the great eastern metropolis. At
a time when mining shares are claim
ing so large a part of the speculative
who have formerly, attended chiefly
to the trading in the old line securi-
ties of Wall Street are looking for
new openings in the principal indus
try of the west, it is important to
consider that, for more than thirty
years, there has existed in New York
an institution which was founded to
encourage the financing of new min
ing enterprises and the trading in
their shares.
The Record has before remarked
that the mining industry offered the
chief if not the sole remaining OPP
portunity for new merit in stock pro-
motion, seeing that huge mergers
have gone far toward monopolizing
other industries and determining new
ventures in those fields. While there
have been some very large mergers OF
mines foated in New York City in
recent years, consolidation has not
been the whole order of the day in
the province of mining. Moreover
there is not the opportunity for mon
opoly here that is the common mo.
tive for big combinations. Granting
however, that this is and will be the
tendency, the intensive search fol
new mineral deposits is such as tc
throw many new propositions into
the stock market, and these new pro
positions are just what the old-tim,
Wall Street trader is waiting for.
1t is comforting to consider tina
New York is ready with the ma
chinery for taking care of the specu
lative interest in mining stocks. It
curb market is now one of the mos
active centers in the metropolis, bu
it is only question of time whel
the more successful curb stocks vii
find their way into the regular list
of the organized exchanges. 1t re
mains for that particular portion o
the trading public to determine tn,
form and direction of the rapidl,
growing movement toward mimi.
securities.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29
COURTS AND GOVERNMENT.

The United States has written
constitution. Every state in the UNI
ion has a written constitution. Con-
gress can pass no law that is in con-
fict with the constitution, and the
legislature of no state can pass a law
that may be enforced that is contrary
to the constitution of the state. Diff
ferent men may have different views
as to what may be done under these
constitutions. Some may sincerely
believe that an act of congress is I'M
constitutional or an act of legis-
lature. The legislature of no state
may enact a law that is in conflict
with the constitution of the United
States.
When differences of opinion arise
as to what is and what is not consti-
tutional there must be some tribunal
to which is given authority to inter
pref the organic law and to decide
what Interpretation must be final. In
this country the authority to inter
pref is lodged with the courts. These
courts are the inferior courts and
those of last resort. If the validity
of a law is questioned the inferior
courts are asked to interpret, and if
either of the parties to a suit are dis
satisfied with the Interpretation he
may appeal to the higher rcourt
whatever it says is then accepted as
the law of the land. The contention
has then been finally settled.
Without a tribunal before which
such contentious may be settled the
country would continually be involv-
ed in unavoidable strife The Dpacp
of the nation and of the states would
be unsettled. If not the courtrs, then
to what sort of tribunal may the
people appeal for settlement? The
provision is a wise one, and it tends
to the preservation of good order and
peace in the land.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29
WOMAN TREES A
LINK WITH FORK
prOds The Animal With Long Tines
OF Pitchfork Until Men
Come to Her Rescue.

Mrs. J. b. Madison, wife of farm
er living five miles south of Cando.
\. D., kept a Canadian lynx freed for
an hour until a couple of neighbors
came along, and securing guns. killed
the animal.
|. The animal was discovered by Mrs.
Madison proving about the middle
of the afternoon. The woman was
alone in the house, but she determin-
ed that none of her poultry or other
domestic animals should be sacri-
feed to the appetite of the obnoxious
foreigner.
She slipped out to the barn and
secured ong-handled pitchfork.
With this for weapon she charged
the beast and started to shoe 1t
away. The animal stood until the
woman got close enough to prod it
with the fork. its hair and teeth
showing in rage. As soon as the
tines of the fork penetrated its hide,
however, the eat turned tail and
made for the grove of trees near the
house Mrs. Madison followed it
closely, prodding it with the fork
whenever it showed a disposition to
stop.
Finally the animal took refuge in
tree, and Mrs. Madison camped at
the foot until Noel Benjamin and Al
bert jerks appeared on the scene.
They were without weapons, but the
woman agreed to stand guard over
the lynx until they could get their
guns After the woman had mount
ed guard for an hour the men return
ed with rifles and killed the lynx.
The animal was of very large size
and apparently very fierce. There is
probably not a man in Towner coun-
ty who would have dared to tackle it
with a ptchfork. Mrs. Madison
however, made light of her feat and
expressed her determination that no
measly cat should carry off any of
her pullets."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29
UNIFORMS OF OUR SAILORS.

One of the most amusing of recent
developments in our naval service is
the demand of the enlisted men that
they should no longer be uniformed
as sailors, but as marines or soldiers.
They desire visored cap, coat in
stead of the traditional blouse with
wide collar and close-fitting trousers
instead of the characteristic bell-bot-
toned affairs which sailors have worn
from time immemorial In word,
our sailors would like to masquerade
in a garb of soldiers when they go
ashore and wear any old thing on
shipboard.
1t is difficult for people not in the
naval service to understand and APP
preciate this craving for some other
form of uniform but the picturesque
and handsome garb which character
ICES the sailor the world over 1t is
said that the men are so insistent for
a change in their clothing that they
attribute much of the discomfort and
much of the desertiOn in the navy to
this one matter of clothes. 1t is fur
Their reported that the navy depart
ment has appointed board of Off
GERS to look into the matter and con-
slider the ACCESSIBILITY of change in
the form of uniform. 1t is to be hoped
that this special board will have the
good sense to reject the notion that
sailors should be CARRIED as soldiers
and the form of uniform now in use
in every navy of the world should be
discarded in our service merely to
crafty the whims of lot of young
men recruited from the western
plains. If we should be guilty of
garbing our enlisted men of the navy
in soldiers or nondescript clothing
we would promptly become the laugh
ing stock of the world.-Republican
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

Here the naughty, disdainful beau
ty interrupted him.
you are wasting your time, Mr..
Spoonamore, she said.
"Then you don't care for me, Miss
Pinkie?"
Care for you? Not the least in
the world"
Don't yon think that in time
mo, you noodle! Not in thou
sand years"
Pm noodle, am II"
You are
81 see!" he gasped, reaching for
his hat. I'm in the soup!"-Chica-
go Tribune.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

The family were discussing the
prospective wedding of the only
daughter.
"Of course" said the bride-to-be
to her father, you will give me
away"
I'm afraid | have done it already,
my DEAR he replied. Il told George
only this morning that you had dis
position like your mothers. Chi
cago News.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

The scientist who discovered that
people think with their toes should
approach his subjects with more I'M
derstanding.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw denies any in
tention of returning to the stage.
Why should she, with the whole lime
light to herself now.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29
BIG DAYS WORK.

William II. Taft, as somebody has
said, does not write-he just goes.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

Robert FitZsimmons, eX-pugilist, is
to become a farmer Now we shall
see who will get knocked out.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

Pittsburg claims a population of
100000. City directors or record of
arrests?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-29

An assortment of white stocks,
long and medium tab finished,
with lace and insertion, good
quality and washable, values up
to G5c; to be sold this 0S.
week at only :. ......... AcN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
The observ'd of all observers.
 Hamlet.
New Double Eaqles

The new S20 gold pieces have ap- peared, and the bank men are pouring into them a fusillade of criticisms. They say the coins cannot be stacked owing to the high relief of the designs. They have the appearance of medals rather than of coins. The rim of the coin is high, giving each face a "dished" appearance. On one side is an eagle in flight, and on the other Liberty herself poses.
 The new coins have not yet been approved by Congress, and if Congress should accept the new Rooseveltian de- signs the officers of the mint in Phil adelphia say it will be necessary to have new dies cut in which the figures will be brought down to normal relief before the designs will be practicable.
 This change in the designs of our gold coins, eagles and double eagles, is put an example or kalSerism that this country is not enjoying. Such fussi- ness and constant meddling has be- come chronic in Germany, but this country still prefers to let we'll enough alone. The phrase, "In God We Trust" had been indorsed by time, and the prnct6apf an art clique to convince him it was frreyerent and ridiculous. The entire business is like the Presidents spell ing reform--a matter of meddling with things that presidents should leave to evolution, slow and uncertain though ii be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
YALE HAS A NEW SONG.
Brian Hooker, Who Wrote Mother of
 Men," Is Awarded $500.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 New Haven.-Yale's struggle of nearly 10 years to find a new Song as typical of the university spirit as is the "Old Mas sau" of Princeton or the Fair Harvard of that institution, has ended with the award of the $500 prize to Brian Hooker. Yale, 1902. Ills song, Mother of Men," has been accepted by the committee which consists of the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., Prof Edward B. Reed, Prof. Harry B. Jepson and W. l.. Carter. 1907.
 John o. Heald. 1873, about eight years ago offered $50 for a song which would Harvard" The attempts were unsatis- factory and the award was withheld Three years ago the award was increased to $500, through contributions made an onymously by two Yale alumni, and the committee of award chosen.
 The words of Mother Men" are:
 MOTHER OF MEN. Mother of Men, grown strong in giving Honor to them thy lights have fled Rich in the toll of thousands living,
 Proud of the deeds of thousands dead; We who have felt thy power, and know
 thee,
 We in whose work thy gifts avail High in our hearts enshrined enthrone
 thee
 Mother of men-Old Yale! Spirit of Youth, alive, unchanging, Heir to an ageless empire. ranging Over the future and the past Thee, whom our fathers loved before us, Thee whom our sons unborn shall hall, Praise ye today in sturdy chorus.
 Mother of men--Old Yale!
 Seth D. Bingham, 1897, wrote the music which has been adapted to the words of the two stanzas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
A STEEL WEDDING.
6essemer and Open Hearth Are Apt
 to Marry.

From the Iron Trade Review.
 For years the steel industry has cons fidently expected to see fu1fllment Of the prediction made long ago that The oRen-hearth process will go to the funeral of the Bessemer" Recent de- velopments indicate rather clearly that the function will be a wedding instead of funeral vastly more happy oc- currence
 The duplex process is rapidly gain ing In favor, and the details are being worked out in different ways by diff ferent metallurgists. It is more a mat ter of appliances and manipulation than process, as the metallurgical work Is laid out very clearly. The principle involved in the union is the same as that which contibured so largely to the happiness of the Sprat family, of nursery fame, since the Bessemer con- verter cannot devour phosphorous. while the open hearth furnace finds it tedious to remove carbon and sili- con.
 The duplex process however. ca$ried out in mechanical detail, involves fun damentally the, desiliconizing and par tially decarburizing of blast furnace metal in an acid-lined Bessemer vessel, and the subsequent removal of the prosphorous and otherwise bringing the metal to the proper analysis the basic lined open-hearth furnace.
 It does not follow that the plant, al- though composed of two distinct ele- ments, involves a greater capital outlay in proportion to tonnage output than does the more expensive of those ele- ments. when used singly. By giving the open hearth furnace only the greatest advantage the number of heats per day can be greatly increased The converter also. can operate on shorter cycles, and can be of greater capacity.
 The blast furnace has hitherto been distinctly the servant of the steel mill American practice developed the heavy outputs which made 1t famous years ago by establishing this subservience. The duplex process permits the use Of higher silicons than would content the open earth furnace when used alone, and will enable blast furnaces to op- crate to better advantage in this re- gard, while, still more important. 1t furnishes a means of eliminating mod crate quantities of phosphorus and re- moves the rapidly increasing burden of producing large tonnage of pig iron under the Bessemer limit in ph os- phorus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
Johnson of Minnesota

The final effort of those who dislike MT. Bryan consists in a rally to Gov. John J. Johnson of Minnesota. But while they are rallying around Cover nor Johnson he himself is actively supporting MT. Bryan, whom he thinks should become the democratic nom- inee.
 sons rugged honesty and shrewd com mon sense. He has twice been elected governor by immense pluralities in a republican state. He is a promising man, and many there are who would like to see him bedome MT. Bryan's running mate.
 But whether he goes on the ticket of next year or becomes a supporter of the ticket in the democratic ranks, he will become each year greater political possibility, and it is not at all improbable that he may become MT. Bryans successor in 1912. He is con- fessedly of presidential size, and his entire history makes him acceptable to the average American voter. His private life and his political record run alike in his favor, and whoever omits him from the list of political factors of great possibilities is making mistake. He is to be reckoned here after as leader in the broad field of national poltics-a democrat among democrats. But the attempt to use him to pull down MT. Bryan will mis- carry, for he is as true to the Nebras- kan as the needle is to the pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
Pig Iron CurtaiIment

On December 1 there were in this country 226 coke and anthracite stacks in operation as against 397 one month before The production of pig iron in November was 1,S2S,125 tons as against 2,33e,972 tons in October, a falling off of 5OS,S47 Ntons, or some thing over 20 per cent.
 In Alabama on October there were 31 stacks in blast; on December there were but 20. This districts production in November was 118,190 tons as against a production in Octo- Der of 146,354 tons. Here, too, is I loss of about 20 per cent This dis trict keeps step with the east and central west in the effort to hold production down to the demand for pig iron. Nine furnaces were blown out in this district in November, and 78 in the entire country. Only one furnace was blown in, an anthracite stack in the Schuylkill valley.
 -Four years ago a severe slump oc- cured in the iron trade and the fur mace companies then attempted to prevent any accumulation of iron, but in no month of 1903 or 1904 did they blow out 7S stacks. They did, how ever, put A out of the business in a single month The curtailment this year has been drastic, and the indica- tions are that still lower rate of production will be established by New Years day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
Cotton Farmers Prosperous

The cotton farmers of Alabama will not lack for Christmas cash. They have been holding their product for higher prices, but they will market so much of it this week as may be needtd to raise money for holiday comforts and holiday pleasure. This money will quickly find it's way to the shopping centers and Birmingham will get it's share.
 But after the Christmas season is gone the farmers will have much of their cotton still on hand. At present prices they would make good profit, but the man who produces the staple by the sweat of his brow is no longer influenced by bear reports. He feels instinctively that the total crop is not as large as the government estimated, or rather guessed, when it gave out its report last week. He is sure that the Alabama crop will fall below 1,2O0,- 900 bales and at that rate he cannot see how the total will reach quite 1,0O0,O0O bales.
 That is the way he.feels about it; but even were the crop as much as the government indicates-11 ,600,000 bales-all of it will be needed, and farmers are wise in holding whN longer. The farmers are in excellent shape, for what they lost in yield this year will be made up in price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-16
OPERA THAT WE LOVED.
,m the Boston Courier.

From the Boston Courier.
 During the last quarter of century opera companies without number have come and gone, but it may well be doubt ed whether any organization of musi- cians has ever equaled the old Bostonians in their steady hold on the favor of the American public. Thousands of middle aged Americans think now with regret of evenings with Karl. Barnabee, Mac donald Adelaide Phillpps. Geraldine Ul- mar, Myron Whitney, Hutch Clarke, Eugene .Cowles. Marie Stone and Jessie Bartlett Davis-maybe because they were nearly all of our blood, and we under stood their sentiment, their comedy. their manner, their spirit. It was not a golden age of opera There was not voice of the first flight. unless we award that honor to whitneys. There was nothing to evoke hysterical worship, or affecta-, tion of that accomplishment It was only .the halcyon day of opera enjoyment
 Campanini and Del Puente are nearly forgotten We indfferently recall Ger ster, Hauk: even Nilsson. But the quaint methods of Barnabee. the pleasant bari tone of Macdonald, the bright style of Bartlett Davis-these remain a memory thousands of middle-aged Americans by all the Carusos and Melbas who may come across the seas to sing the operas the Bostonians had the good sense not to attempt Will there ever be another company of opera singing Americans to give us the same unaffected enjoyment?