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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-03-17
CUSTOM MILL SOON IN.
Chafcy Leasers Then VIII Have Mar
kef for Their Low Grade.

"Chafey never looked more like a
winner. and the hest piece of news
can give you To demonstrate that
there is a greater era of happiness
and usefulness easily within sight Is
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-03-17
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
y. \. Try. TIME TABLE.
Effective January %, 1908.

Daily Except Sunday-Leaves East
Ely, North Bound, 1895 a. M; Daily
Except Sunday, leaves Cobre, South
Bound, 1880 p. m.
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an hour Oswald had passed beyond re-
call.
There was a long silence. The after
glow had faded from the valleys. had
died along the foothills and only the
highest peaks were shining. At last
said:
But, nurse. you wouldn't stop there
Tell me more. Tell me what oswald's
mother said Surely you wrote and
asked if she were his own mother2
..Yes-and she was not! She had
been married in Canada to a w1doWer
with a year old child; had removed 10
Missouri. where he was accepted as her
son, and she had never undecelved
him."
Then how did he know at the last?
1 cried. Where did he learn2 Where
had he been? Tell me. nurse. tell me
how you explain these things
Nurse Newman turned toward me.
moved her wicker rocker closer. ana
laid her quieting nurses hand on mine
Explain them"' she said Bless
your heart You didn't suppose was
going to try to explain them! All
know is. I've seen enough TO convince
me that Moses had the rights OF IT long
ago when he said: The secret things
belong unto the Lord
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The Strange Case Of the Dead Man Who Came Back

obeyed orders. l shall report you at
headquarters, and you will be cash
fered,'
And then Kettersen got down on his
marrow bones and begged and pleaded
But / was as inexorable as fate.
BY this time, what with losing Os-
waad, and the narrowing scene with
Kettersen, 1 was completely unhinged
and did what 1 hadn't done in years
broke down and had good cry on the
settee outside the ward.
After a while I went into Oswalds
compartment and began preparing him
for burial.
1 applied the customary fire test for
the dead, closed his eyes, bound his
hands, put on the usual grave clothes,
and fully equipped him for burial. Then
1 lifted nim to stretcher in front
of an open window.
At o'clock in the evening 1 went
into the compartment again to bring
away some medicine left there, when
/ heard whisper, i've been dead"
Turning 1 saw Oswalds great, black
eyes open and fixed on me.
For moment I was glued to the
floor. When I did stir 1t was to re-
move the paraphernalia of death quick
ly, for fear of what the shock of see
ing 1t might do to him. / tore away
the grave cloths and ran TO fetch
something to cut the thongs that bound
his hands.
But Oswald only smiled and whis-
pered between pauses: You needn't
hurry nurse. / saw you put these on.
/ saw this thing lying here, ready for
burial. tell you, I've been
dead! I've been out of the body ana
went where I wanted to go. All you
have to do when you are out OF the
body is to will to be somewhere, and
YOU are there. l went to Manila TO
see my brother Henry and i saw him.
He was drilling his company He had
been promoted from corporal TO cap
tain since, l had heard And,
nurse, you never need be afraid to die.
You go right on. It's just as natural
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In the EscuriaI library there is a
manuscript composed by order of Don
Alphonso the Wise, dated 1921, which
gives the rules for number of games,
especially chess and dice, but does not
contain aSword about cards
But, one naturally asks, If the earli-
est mention of. cards is 10 be found in
the register of royal treasurer of
France, where did cards come from
If they were not,a new thing to him?
To go back little it is we'll known
that there existed long before the date
of any mention of playing cards a
series of emblematic pictures called
naibis, which were used by gypsies
and others for the purpose of fortune
telling and sorcery. 1t is probably
these naibis that We're brought to
Europe by the Saracens and perhaps
they were supposed to be or Saracenic
origin.
Authorities seem to be pretty we'll
agreed that toward the end OF the
fourteenth century some inventive
genius probably a Venetian, selected
a number of the most attractive of
these naibis or pictures, and added to
them series of numeral cards, so as
to convert them into implements by
which the excitement of chance and
the interest of gaming might be added
TO the amusement afforded by the
ORIGINAL naibis.
The principal reason for assuming
that cards originated in Italy ana not
in France is that the names OF the
cards themselves and the names of the
earliest known games played with them
are all Italian and that these Italian
terms were c4rried all over Europe. If
they were of French origin the nomen-
clature migh be expected to be French.
There is abundant evidence that the
cards which eventually found their
way all over Europe were made In
Venice. AS each country got to making
its own cards the emblems of the suits
We're changed to please the national
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vices. to carry before the lord, -our
king. for his amusement, 56 soils OF
Paris"
This is the foundation upon which is
hased the popular notion that playing
cards were invented for the amuse-
ment of crazy French king. Critics
have pointed out that the amount paid
is simply for the hand painting and
decoration of the cards. There is Moth
ing in the entry that gives ground for
supposing that the cards themselves
were new.
There are on exhibition today at the
national library in Paris what are sup
posed to be II of these very cards that
were painted for Charles vi, and this
has strengthened the impression that
they are the original model from which
all playing cards have been copied
Unfortunately for the fame of this
exhibit, it has been proved that the
cards shown in Paris are really very
fine Venetian tarok cards, and are part
of an edition made at least as late as
1926.
During the 20 years that follow this
date of the royal treasurer's, 1892, lit
erature is full of references to playing
cards. almost every author that men
tions games or gambling paraphernalia
particularizes one or more games of
cards. But before that date no allu-
sion has been found TO game that
could be construed as card game.
although there are several writers who
might reasonably be expected to mem
ton cards if they we're acquainted with
them. -,
Hugo Won Tymberg, who wrote in
the second hall of the thirteenth and
the beginning of the fourteenth CEN
tury. Petrarch. who wrote in the first
half of the fourteenth century; Chau-
Ger, who wrote in the second half of
the fourteenth century, make no men
ton of cards although in the writings
OF all of then there are references to
gambling gahes and implements.
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ing to his mother every other day ana
was straining every nerve to save that
young mans life. 1 believe l never
worked over a patient quite as
worked over young oswald.
But nothing 1 could do was any use.
Day by day 1 saw him wasting away
until one morning Doctor Boon. the sur
geon in charge. called me outside the
door of the ward and said: You might
as well make UP your mind, nurse, to
give Oswald up You viii probably
lose him today or tomorrow"
But / wouldn't give him up. l went
back into the ward and wrapped him
in blankets. and carrying him in my
arms, laid him on a bamboo settee out
side, where he could watch the ship
ping and get the sea breeze.
And in a few minutes he perceptibly
frightened 1 was sitting by him when
there came a peremptory call for me
at the supply station.
l left him in charge of a "trusty" a
blond Norwegian giant named Ketter-
sen, with strict orders that on no ac-
count was Oswald to have anything to
eat The two were close friends, so
much so that they were known on the
island as David and Jonathan.
I went to the supply station for half
an hour. When 1 returned Oswald
was beyond help. Kettersen had over
heard Doctor Boon telling me that his
friend had but few hours to live and,
hearing his pitiful appeals for food,
had feigned not to see him, when he
managed to crawl a Few feet on his
hands and knees to. the kitchen win
dow. where platter OF pork and beans
had been left. He had devoured every
scrap. and in half an hour had swollen
to twice his normal size.
1 got Oswald back into the ward.
and worked over him for an hour to
no purpose.
At half past ] he died.
And then sent for Kettersen.
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200 MILLIONS TO FEED IN 1850
1850

mature despite warm sun and not, dry
winds. The water stored in the ground
responds to such demands upon the
plant, and especially in the case of
wheat ideal ripening conditions pre-
vail, moisture and food at the roots
and a ripening, forcing sun overhead.
SO that is dry farming, otherwise
called scientific farming Opening
the ground to the rains, blanketing
the moisture in by nonconducting
blanket of rnulched earth. giving the
plant food in the earth ample time to
be digested and rendered soluble and
then, with the earth soft and open,
to drink in a second rainfall, the
process is complete. You put in the
seeds and the earth and sun do the
rest.
And in the semiarid areas are ZOO
900 of acres subject to such au-
tomato irrigation and fertilization
and illustrative of the superior value
of the same as wheat growing areas.
Note the accompanying print. which
shows the superiority in gluten of
dry farmed land and irrigated land
grown wheat Experiments are being
made with winter durum wheats that
may yield so to SO bushels to the acre.
and durum wheat being the richest in
gluten of all the wheats and the rich
est in natural sugar. when made into
bread produces not only the most nu
tritious loaf of bread, but the richest
and sweetest as well.
Secretary Wilson with prophetic
finger has pointed to the desert and
in so many words has said that from
the sands of the desert is to come the
bread to feed generations unborn.
And to meet the objection to crop
ping land only once in two years and
to overcome the fact that half the
farm must lie idle, mauufacturing
plant food and storing up water the
Mondell act enables a dry land farmer
to take up 320 acres of government
semiarid land above the ditch and
thus is put on a par with the farmer
of humid lands who can and does crop
his 160 acres
parched desert lands are to become
one great emerald oasis, to grow our
food and fruits and feed and harbor
the millions of the earth. for man
must now turn to the great southwest
to grow his crops on free government
land. All else is gone.
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jacks, and was discovered in the Co.'S
of a book Of sermons by Vineentii.
which formerly belonged to the taths-
dral of Peterborough The bod, Was
printed in France in old Gothc in ne
fifteenth century, and the cards are
undoubtedly OF that date
; Historians agree that tBe best evi-
dence as to the age of plating cards is
negative. That is to say, II no mention
Of cards is found in pSces in which
they naturally would ye spoken of it
may safely be assumechhat the writer's
did not know of theh.
The earliest direcf mention Of cards
discovered so far u in the History of
the City of Wterbo." The author
quotes Coveluzlb. who wrote about
the end Of tie fifteenth century as
follows: In the year 1879 was
brought into viterbo the game of cards
which comes from the country of the
Saracens ahd is with them called
naib."
It is worthy of remark that Covel-
uzzo die not write at the date he men,
tions, gut a century later, in 1880, and
it is quite possible that he may have
been mistaken in attributing the cards
to SFracenic origin or may have sim
ply been quoting a popular tradition.
The Saracens were familiar with
naf3is. the predecessors of cards. but
they die not invent the game of cards,
OF which naibis were only part.
The earliest date about which there
can be no dispute at which playing
writer as a matter of personal ex-
pefience is that discovered in the reg
lister Of the court treasurer of France
IN fhe reign of Charles VI The entry
is Hinder the date of February 1. 1892
ash follows: Given to Jacquemin
Grlngonneur, painter, for three packs
Of 0laying cards, In gold and various
colars and ornamented with several de-
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Food Must Come From Self-Irrigatng Desert

viii put so much gluten into growing
wheat as the desert land soil cultivated
by dry farming methods.
The millions of the east admit that
because of their richness in gluten the
dry farmed wheats are the most valu-
able for bread. Secretary Wilson saws
the dry lands of the west are to give
bread to the east, which means that
our desert lands are to be the gran
aries whence the grains are to come.
maybe, TO feed the whole country. for
while our wheat grown today-s5O.-
100000 bushels. eon humid lands-aver-
ages but IS busheI yield per acre
the sagebrush lands titled under dry
farming methods have yielded 20. 40.
SO and even more bushels of wheat
per acre
Let US briefly see what dry farm
ing means. Late in the seventies the
drought burned up every settlers crop
In certain sections of Dakota. It
created an exodus of disheartened
farmers, as every man who could move
out moved to more humid lands. A
farmer named Campbell. so poor that
all he could do was to stay put"
where he was, being up against it
good and hard. commenced expert
menting along lines of conserving the
rainfall. how to catch. it all, and then
keep it in the ground beyond the
drawing influence of the sun. He took
a few acres of his farm to experiment
with, plowed il and narrowed it, Just
before the rains. and further than
narrowing it and keeping dry mulch
over the surface and destroying there
by the moisture drawing weeds (every
dry pound of which requires 500
pounds of moisture to grow it). he
allowed it TO remain idle all through
the summer until the next rains. He
knew that cultivated, narrowed soil.
with its dry mulch on top. meant a
moist undersoil. he tried to double
up his irrigating supply from the
clouds The mulch kept soft and dry.
When the rainy season came again, the
earth drank up every drop. In prac-
tice the farmer now had two years Of
rain in his ground, the mulch havins
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fancy until there is nothing left today
of the original Faith. Charity. Justice
and Fortitude which were represented
on the first italian packs.
At this distance of time it is impos-
sible to discover the exact rules for
the first games played with cards, but
the general principles were the germ
of all modern games in which trick
taking is the object. The first games
were known as tarocchi, which term
survives in the east side tarokspiel- 1t
is also known that the picture cards
were always superior to the spots and
were called ''trionfi,'' or triumphs.s from
which comes trumps; that the players
were obliged to follow suit. and that
cards of higher rank won those of
lesser rank
AS games developed and variations
were invented instead of the picture
cards being the trumps one suit was
made superior to others and changes
were repeatedly made in the number
of cards the pack contained.
There is no record of any game ear
iier than the tarocchi of Venice, which
was played with rs cards. in the pack.
% of which were picture cards. or
tarots, and Sc spot cards. The Floren-
tines increased the picture cards to Al
and invented the game of minchiate,
played with 81 cards. but the pack was
found so clumsy to handle that the
tendency from that time on was toward
reduction. In Bologna they cut the pack
down to 81 cards, 22 pictures and 10
spots. calling the game tarocchino. The
Venetians followed suit and cut their
pack to 40 cards. calling the new game
tranD0la In dc ara inf
ed and sold in Vienna today. tarok hav-
ing become an Austrian game.
Later the pack got down to IL pic
ture cards and 40 spots. SO in all. Then
1t was further reduced TO 80 for piquet,
the smallest pack of all being the Per-
sian pack of 20 cards with which poker
was first played in this country.
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as living, only you are freed from the
body. And. OH so pleasant,
so pleasant to feel hight and free, as
when you are flying in dreams. free TO
go where you will and to see and hear
everything. - The first one L
met was my real mother. She came to
me and I knew her in an instant by
the look in her. eyes. I had always
thought the one you've been writing to
was my real mother. but now I know
she is not. She never had that look in
her eyesl And / saw you.
nurse, on the settee outside, crying,
and I knew you were crying some for
me because I was dead; but most Of it
l knew was for Kettersen because you
would have to report him and destroy
his prospects. . He just couldn't
refuse me. he's that soft hearted. is
Kettersen But knew very well if I
stayed dead it would go hard with him
and 1 had TO come back and fix things
right for KettersenY'
Oswald's breath was now so nearly
spent, the words came one by one:
i've - I've - come - back - to -
get = your = promise = not to re-
port - Kettersen."
And l gave the promise.
These were his last words. Within
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enough in the ground to enable the
planting to battle with the rays of the
sun and the hot winds And on to
maturity it went, those few acres pro-
ducing results phenomenal. in fact, un-
approached in the history of agriculture
in Dakota.
The news spread far and wide. and
from great distances farmers came and
Inspected campbe pReAe nal crop.
AThe farmers who ei aQme and FOL
kQyfed Campbell's 4 tfna in cue e@urse
nott only got full, - afopsi but
they sa over .i'tif Hol9ings
into b elanlffc afs "a spfns srgpoSition
an6 II, o~peleo eepen "a Sought
al al raiIsoaas wau iadeeed him
IS .e Il are .4e instruct .he ralsrs far
and Wlae. and the railroads even went
Sd eaf as 10 install him upon demon
gt,n sian ssfm to better elucidate his
ec6fsotnic methods.
A'pnlyiug this SYSTEM to the sage
brush 7csert land we see results pro-
ahfsd aat were not thought of when
Campbell simply desired water conser-
stion. The soil of the desert is three
aud half times richer than humid
lands ais to nitrogen, the most important
element next to moisture in the ground.
I is the exhaustion of this nitrogen in
the soil of the wheat lands that is re-
ducing our wheat harvest to only IS
bushels per acre.
When you plow the desert land be-
fore the rains harrow 1t and keep 1T
well mulched and weed free all through
the hot summer, the land lying idle un-
der the sun, fertilization of the soil
is going on equivalent to a plant food
mandatory working over time.
When the soil is opened up to water.
moisture and air tthe dry mulch per-
mitting oxygen to enter the SOLD and
it is allowed. to remain fallow under
the sun during the summer season. a
nitrihcation of the soil goes on that
is simply invaluable to plant life. The
food necessary for the growth is di-
gested in the ground and rendered
soluble by bacteriazation just as food
is digested and rendered soluble in
the stomach. so ii can be readily
seen that upon soil thus automatically
fertilized and by two rainfalls amply
irrigated that plants can grow and
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Are You a Palindromist?

with the reply, cable was I ere saw
Elba."
One oft quoted palindrome is. 'Lewd
did I live & evil I did dwell" You see
the integrity of this one depends on the
use of the character "&" instead or the
word, but something akin to poetic IL
cense is the privilege of him who
aspires to be palindromist. and vart-
Gus artifices are resorted to in the con-
struction-
In medieval times writing palm
dromes was all the rage IT became
fad and has been called one OF the
''peurile pastimes'' of the middle ages.
when it's devotees
Spun out riddles and weaved fifty
OF logogriphs and curious palm
dromes."
Perhaps we are approaching a rem
aissance. We are not altogether averse
to ''peurile pastimes" in this age. Try
palindromes when solitaire ceases to
charm or picture puzzles pail. You
will find them difficult enough to keep
you occupied. especially in English
PalindrOme means running back
ward" and of words of three letters
that conform to this definition we have
only about 25. Most of them may be
readily brought to mind-eye. nun,
tat. ere, pop, eve, etc. There are also
such proper names as Hannah, Ada.
Asa. Bob and Otto. OF longer words
here are some excellent ones-cfvtc.
level, sees, peep, noon. sexes. solos.
deifed. repaper. reviver; but when you
begin TO construct sentences out OF
these words your Waterloo awaits you.
In Latin the game is easier. Some
on the list are Sub dura a rudfus,"
Roma tibf subito motibus ibit amor"
and that one attributed to an English
woman who, because OF some scandal.
was banished from the court Of Queen
Eliza beth. She chose a motto which
was at once a palindrome and a de-
tense. "Ablata at alba" (retired. but
pure).
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By Elizabeth B. Thompson

T was at Overlook in the Santa Cruz
mountains that met her. She was
my neighbor at breakfast the first
morning. she was middle aged,
powerfully built, with superabund-
ance OF virile strength, at first glance
repellent in q woman. But on her broad
genial face was a whimsical expression
OF tolerance that attracted me; as if
she were saying 10 herself, I could
tell these people things they never
dreamed OF. If I had mind"
That evening at dinner l learned
from her that she was Nurse Newman,
trained in Lane hospital. and of long
and diversified experience. found her
blunt and practical. and with strong
good sense.
Our acquaintance progressed rapidly
when dinner was over and in the wick
er rockers we were watching a superb
sunset from the high porch. she was
telling me unique bits of her history;
and by the time all things were SHIN
mering in the afterglow. I had gone so
far as TO ask, What is the most ex-
traordinary experience you ever had
sn your career as nurse?'
II was at Yerba Buena. 10 years back
(she said). but I've not forgotten de-
tail Of It. II is branded on me.
Smallpox was prevalent and 1 had
been sent for as head nurse in the de-
tention hospital at the naval station.
The smallpox cases were unusually
light that year. but few cases OF
malignant typhoid cropped out, not easy
20 handle.
Among the typhoid patients was a
handsome young sailor boy by the
name OF Oswald. He was barely 2l
and how he did want to nvei Every
day he would plead with me not to let
him die.
He talked a good deal about his
mother in Missouri, and begged me to
write TO her There was something sc
appealing about him you couldn't turn
him off. The first 1 knew I was writ