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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-21
tx WHITE COUNTY NEVADA SEPTEMBER .
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-lead
steady $3.50 q 4.37 "a. Cop
per steady Standard spot $3.50
"a 1855. October $3.50 @
1918. Silver 81 IL.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Fortune Telling and the Law.

The authorities of Fall River, Mass,
are making matters decidedly uncom-
Portable for local fortune tellers, one
of whom has just been arrested upon
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretences. 1t appears that the
parents of girl who had disappeared
from hCme consulted a card reader,
who professed to be able to "tell the
past and future" in order to ascertain
her whereabouts. AS result Of the
occult science of the gifted seeress, and
the valuable advice impaired by her,
the parents of the missing girl were
led to make trip to Montreal, which
proved quite expensive from financial
point of view. but proved to be a wild
goose chase. ThereupOn the police de-
cided to do a little investigating on
their own account One of the in
spectUrs made visit to the reader
of the past and the future. He rep
resented himself as a prosperous mer-
chant who was very DESTROYS of ascer
tanning the location of a missing rela-
tive. He not only found out where he
was; but, incidentally, was favored
with a story of his own life, which
was interesting if not strictly histori-
cal. All of this valuable information.
was i,nr,artnd tn him for tho modest
sum of so cents. 1t seems cruel that
one who labors at her exacting pro-
should be obliged to tear herself away
from her clamoring clients, and ap-
pear in court; but. alas! the law is
/ no respecter of persons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Sunflower Philosophy.

One suggestion in thousand is ac-
copied.
What pity people do not work as
mucn as they hope!
How a nice old-fashioned woman does
love to see children eat!
Occasionally we meet a woman these
days who seems conscious of wearing too
much hair. But, when woman thinks
it is possible she mas on too much, she
has on a terrible lot.
The girls seem to be careless again;
nine out of ten dresses you see on the
street gape in the back. The girls should
have that opening in front, so they could
see it when 1t is open, and pin it together.
When you hear that man has erected
an enormous building in big town.
you are apt to think: How UGH
money men make ina big town." But
did you ever look up the mortgages on
these big buildings?
Give the devil his due. The fly may
carry all sorts of germs on his feet. but
did you ever see how he tries to get them
off? No other living thing wipes it's feet
as much as the fly. The boy who is
taught to swat the fly doesn't wi his
feet as often in 10 years as the fly will
wipe his in five minutes.-Atchison (Kan)
Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Every body's business is nobody's bust.
ness except the busybody's.
It's the uncertainty of women that
makes men go daffy about them.
One good turn deserves another engage
ment on the vaudeville circuit.
Sooner or later a man who travels on
his cheek will have a worn look. :,
Publicity is an alarm clock that fire..
ouently awakens mans conscience.
Many woman marries the wrong man
because the right one neglected to ask
her.
How we enjoy seeing man get the
worst of it when he tries to get the best
of others!
You can estimate the value Of your
reputation by trying to induce pawn
broker to advance you something on it
After girl gets to be about so old she
gives up the idea of a career and puts In
twenty-four hours a day seeking hus'
band.-Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Cape Jessamines.

The Cape Jessamine buds which the
Journal recently received from the
Houston Post has fully persuaded the
members of our staff that an atmos-
phere laden with such sweet perfumes
must indeed be a good one in which
to live. Several of the ladies at the
Maine capital, with whom we divided
this treasure, have testified that these
beautiful blossoms "filled the whole
house with their fragrance" We are
not surprised to learn that Cape Jes-
samines are great peacemakers for
we cannot see how it would be posi-
BILE for domestic discord to develop in
an atmosphere dominated by their
subtle odors. 1t is interesting to learn
that this flower. justly famed for its
beauty and fragrance. grows in great
profusion in South Texas, and we very
much regret the rigors of our North
ern climate prevent it from being
grown in Maine. With the delicate and
pervading odors of these blossoms
round about US we can readily appreci-
ate something of 1.-THE sweetness OF
the summer breezes that sweep ovel
Houston"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
A SUMMER IN EUROPE.
,x-First Gimp ses Of Switzerland.

the banquet hal! and the terrified
servants. Traces of this great
emperor and his noble works are
found all over this placid city Of
Zurich, situated so peacefully on its
transparent lake.
On to Lucerne we went, where high
up on a hill side in the Hotel Belle
Reic, we were really surrounded for the
first time by those lofty Alpine Peaks
such as the Rigi and Mount Pilatus,
but the next morning those submits
which had held up their heads so
proudly had hidden themselves be-
hind a veil Of clouds. While waiting
for the temperance of their
majesties, we strolled down to the
village to see that emblem of the
Swiss pride and valour, the Lion of
Lucerne.
After dinner we took the tram-car
out to Neuhausen, where we obtained
seats high up on the hill overlooking
that immense volume of water, so en-
ergetic in it's haste to leap over those
rocks and become once more placid
river flowing silently on. Although 1t
was late, the sun had hardly set and
the pale moon was just visible. A
searchlight thrown now here. now
there, enabled us to see more distinct
" the castle on the island, the rocks
midway in the falls. and the canopy
on the very top of those lodges. Then
different cclored lights were burned,
now on the island, now on the main
land, and again right in the falls them
selves. While we were still fascinated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

One Of our Maine authors has said
in his book entitled "All Among the
Loggers," 1.-THE world has heard
great Zeal about the famous Black
Forest of Germany, and yet the Wild
erness of Maine covers an area more
than seven times as large" 1t hardly
seemed possible to US as we plunged
into that dark woodland, and rode for
hours that we had forests much more
extensive in our own State. Wouid
that ours might be preserved as well
as are those Of Germany! There, no
tongue of fame causes such havoc as
in our country and there. the wood
mans axe must pause before those
stately trees, which rise up In such
ma jesty, thanks to the art OF forestry
which has accomplished so much In
Germany.
What a pleasure it was to ride all
one morning through that beautiful
mountainous region, now climbing up
and up almost to the highest peakes,
now dashing through a tunnel, now
into quiet sleepy little hamlets, again
passing some solitary chalet or fol-
lowing some river, which leaped so
gaily down over the precipices.
The houses were peculiar to that re-
Sion. They had long sloping roofs, the
back of which touched the ground for
they were all built on the mountain
side. There were two stories. The
family lived in the lower one. and the
cattle were able to enter the upper
story directly from the rear of the
house. There also the hay was kept.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

The $1O,000,000 or so which the
Dreadnought as the fastest type of
battleship now costs would in Admiral
Nelson's day have sufficed for the
building Of a whole fleet of men-of-
war. For then 100-gun ship-which
was the first -rater of the period-cost
$338,OO0 and second-raters NINETY
eight-gun and ninety-gun ships) $685.
900, while 100000 was sufficient for the
construction of twenty eight-gun
boat. These sums included building,
coppering, masts and rigging, but ex-
cluded ornaments. Writing off $4,000
900 of the 100000 which a Dread
nought costs as the bill for guns, it
still remains that fifteen vessels Of the
type of Nelson's Victory cost no more
than one Dreadnought.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Tn. Condition Of tho Treasury.

/ ITO NOUOtttOV W ABV ssS0~~' -
It is gratifying to know that the re-
turn of prosperity has made such an
increase in the national revenues that
the deficit that was estimated for the
year will be considerably less than
was anticipated. 1t is thought that
the deficit which was estimated for
the fiscal year which will close the
Goth of the present month-$112,O0O,-
O00-will not much, if any, exceed
500, 900, 900. This is of course on the
wrong side Of the ledger but it is
gratifying to note that with the rapid
improvement Of business conditions
throughout the country this situation
will be so changed in the next fiscal
year that unless there shall be a
material reduction of the revenues as
result of the new tariff bill, the
government will be able to meet its
current expenditures and show sub
stantial surplus at the close of tho
fiscal year.
Fortunately, the treasury is able to
meet the deficit of the last year, mas
much as it has an available cash
balance of $11S,979,764 which will be
quite largely in excess of any possible
damands upon it, Some $62,774,000 of
the governments large balance is de-
nj Ver11n N mi
the country, and is subject to check.
Undoubtedly, this distribution Of
treasury funds has been of great adj
vantage to the business interests Of
the country by placing large amount
of cash in banks in close touch with
the commercial and industrial life of
the nation, and the government Will
hesitate to withdraw these funds if
the needs of the treasury can be met
without doing so. 1t is to be hoped
that whatever changes may be made
in the new tariff law it will not be left
less a revenue producer than the pre-
sent DingIey law. 1t is gratifying TO
see growing disposition in the
United States Senate to take into con-
sideration the need of a revenue pro-
ducing tariff as well as the mainte-
nance Of the board principle of protec
ton to American labor and American
industry.
The Journal has always believed
that tariff bill should, first of all,
afford adequate protection to the pro-
ducts of American farms and Ameri-
can factories and that it should be at
the same time capable Of producing
all the revenue essential to the pro-
per maintenance of government.
With the improving conditions of
business and a proper regard for the
needs of the treasury in the framing
of the new tariff bill, there is every
reason to believe that the next fiscal
year in the history of the United
States treasury will be a prosperous
one and will close with a very hand
some surplus to be applied to the wip-
ing out of the deficit occasioned by the
financial depression Of 1907 and a por-
ton of 1908.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
i, S..V'l

in watching the green, red and blue
lights disappear and then reappear,
rockets shot up from every concelva-
BILE spot, with such rapidly that the
place seemed one mass OF Jettlns
flames, and on all this the moon pla-
cidly smiled.
m that stormy time of the French
Revolution when the good but weak
king Louis XVI, and his beautiful but
xperienced queen, Marie Antoinette
were deserted by their one time flat
terers, the Swiss guards alone stood
firm. When the Infatuated mob wished
to tear down all doors and murder
their queen and king, Sergeant Blaser
proudly said in reply to the demand
that their arms be put down, we
are Swiss, and the Swiss never sur
render their arms but with their lives"
But, alas, when they left the palace
after they had so faithfully performed
their duty, the mad populaee rushed
upon them in thousands. All resist
ance was useless, yet those brave Swiss
stood their ground and were massa-
cred Out of the seven hundred and
twenty-five officers, but few escaped.
To them the marvel has been carved,
the far-famed Lion of Lucerne."
A little apart from the heart of the
city, there stands a placid pool of wa
ter whose background was once solid
wall of rock In eighteen hundred and
tWenty-one, however, wounded hon
with q broken spear, representing nap
less but noble courage was carved af-
ter model by that celebrated sculp-
tor Thorwaldsen. 1t bears this inscrip-
ton "Helvetiorum fiGei &C virtuti,' and
commentaries today the noble brav-
cry of those guards. How clever of
the present Swiss generation to- have
those attractive shops of marvellous
linen so near this spot which no
one fails to visit Few indeed of the
feminine portion of the tourists can
resist that display of hand worked ma
terials, and if they do succeed In
turning their heads in another direc-
ton, they are sorry for it when they
return to America.
1t was in this mountain-girt region
that William Tell dcfied the tyranny
of the governor Gessler. The latter in
his arrogance had placed hat upon
pole in the marlletplace with orders
that all should bow to it, Scoring this
tyranny Tell refused to do as, he was
hidden Incensed with his conduct.
Gessler caused him to shoot that mem
orable apple off from his sons head.
Because he succeeded and because he
had reserved on arrow for Gessler's
wicked heart in case he had killed his
child, Gessler had Tell bound ready for
prison. On this very lake of Lucerne.
such a storm came up that they loos-
encd Tells bonds since he was the
only man who could rescue them. Car
ing little for their safety. he steered
straight for the spot now called Tellen-
platte, and dashirg the boat against
the rock leapt ashore. Fastening on
to a spot from whence he could take
aim at Gessler as he passed, he waited
and a! last had his revenge by killing
the heartless tyrant. Thus run some
of the legends of this valley.
MABEL FRANCES KNIGHT.
[I.etter No. X "The Old Wooden Bridge
of I.ucerne."1
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J,lr;l
TURNING the Other Check.
HpI1StOp Post

UHouston Post)
Judging from some Of the commeh''
on Senator Bailey's swatting the CUT
respondent, there are some people WI,
think gentleman, when 1nsuncu'
should invite the man who affron.
him to dinner or give him a Dox ~
cigars. ..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Small BY Comparison.

II see you are cultivating garden"
yes" answered Mr.. Crosslots.
81 suppose you derive both pleasure
and profit from it,
mot exactly But it leaves me more
contented 1t makes the cost of vege-
tables in the market seem small by COM
parison."- Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

brewers, in national convention at At
lantic City. have determined to drive
out the dives and disreputable saloons
This will lie good deal like Satan re-
buking sin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Amid all the laws that cumber our
statute books we recall none that COM
Hue hat.
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May Explain Something To Bryan

Detroit Free Press,) y
If Senator Borah Is correct III w
proposition that the lease Of parry :
power depends upon its adherence y
it's declared principles, he should nav y.
no difficulty in accounting LOT ""
collapse of the Democratic party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Andrew Lang says that American
humor lacks suhtlety. There are some
brands, however. SO exceedingly subtle
that they can only be seen with mi
CrOScope.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

The statement was made, at the ma
tlonal negro conference in New York
city, that 1884 men. women and chill
dren had been lynched in the United
States in the past twenty-five years.
The record is not one that speaks we'll
for our Wanted civilization.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Gauainq the Appetite.


(New York Herald)
An eminent Englishman mas JUS.
written a book How Much Shoup
an Average Person Eat" I'm! ID
carte or table d'hote? And tnei
again, Who's ordering?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
The Latest.

Sandy Pikes-"Yes, mum, I used to be
de star wire walker in de days of Bar
mum. Couldn't you loan me a quarter to
join me show in de next town."
Housewife uspiciously)-"Where is
your wire?''
Sandy Pikes-"Don't carry 1t any more.
mum. I'm a wireless walker now."-Cni-
cago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Nothino Wonderful About That
brooklyn Eagle.

(BrO0k1yn EagIe.J !,
Prof. Miller, Of Dayton, thinks !"
can photograph sound. OF course. e.
cellent pictures have been mace =. |.
Bryan. Tillman and Senator -.
Davis in the act of delivers
speeches.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
But Tough on the Kids.

New York Evening SUM- ~,
1t is most gratifying to hnd. =.
Count Boni de Castellane Is 70 SUI.
intend the education of his chh..
The French law Is most carefui sD'
the rights of fathers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Many of the things that are regarded
among the necessaries of life would
have been regarded as luxuries by the
men and women Of fifty years ago
Herein lies one of the reasons for the
increased cost of living.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Spot Him as a Fraud.

milwaukee Sentinel)
A sort of hoosier freak has been dis
covered in Chicago. He is an Indiana
man who claims never to have written
a word of fiction.
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Pity the Husband.

New York .Telegram)
A Chicago woman earned II LOT INV
missionary cause by shaving her nus.
band for a month. The HUSBAND
either has an iron skin or else needs
guardian. -..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

With The retirement of General Ar
thur Macarthur the rank of Lieuten-
ant General created for General Grant
during the Civil War will cease to exist
in the United States Army
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Pedestrian Weston has passed SO
completely out of the limelight that no
one seems to know in just what partic-
ular part Of the country he is now
wearing out shoes
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A Misnomer.

A Misnomer.
Its curious" moralized Uncle Allen
Sparks, that they call this new system
of running the city the commission plan.
AS I understand the plan, nobody can
manage to get a commission on any
thing."-Chicago Tribune.
Fully Qualified.
The Editor-Look here! You've en-
gagged married woman to run our
Home and Mother department.
The Sub.-Yes, but she's only been mar
ried three months and she lives at a ho-
tel She'll be all right, I think.-Cleve-
land Leader.
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An Advancement.

A show girl whose front name was Sadie
Wed a copper named Michael O'Gradie !;
Never more" murmured she,
I'm the chorus I'll be
For now / am Mikes leading ladie."
Chicago News.
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Not Looking For Him.
Houston Post.)

Bourke Cochran mourns because y
can't find any Democratic party. -.
Democratic party wouldn't h.Vu.
very much If 1t should fail to nhd -
Bourke Cochran.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Never closed-the open season for kis-
sing.
A barking dog never bites-while he is
barking.
When respect departs love packs its
grip and takes vacation.
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Two Teeth and One Leg.

(Kansas City JOurnal)
A New York dentist received wv
900 for pulling two teeth and one leg'
The hardest pull, of course, was on
the leg, although it was not mentionec
in the bill.
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Willing To Grub stake Him.

louisville Courier-JournaL,
Owing to the increased cost OF IL
the Kaiser finds his civil list IN
quate. If he will "abdulcate I
British Treasury will be slsu
pension him generously.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Seashore or mountain? That's the
question Baltimore American.
You can get both in Maine-also the
most beautiful inland lakes to be found
in America
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Ed Amt, What He Used 70 =

milwaukee Sentinel
Bernard Shaw accuses King ~
Of suppressing his latest play. -
be- But it used to be far cly
Edward to Anthony Comstock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

About the worst difficulty in aerial
navigation at the present time APP
pears to be that of making good land
inpS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Why berate the tobacco trust? Has
it not given us coupons that, in the
course of the years, were good for a
ack.knife?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

The demand for a radical reform
in legal procedure grows louder and
more irsistent among lawyers as well
as laymen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

James ]. Hill is quoted as being in
favor Of having only as many laws as
we can enforce. The adoption of such
policy would take lot of padding out
Of the statute books.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

1t is still time to pass city ordnance
substituting willow whistles for Fourth
of July torpedoes and firecrackers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Some of the places the Roosevelt par
ty is alleged to have visited in Africa
cannot be found on the map; but then
such a trif1ing thing as a map carries
no weight with afakir of hunting tales.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Cuba is said, and with good reason,
to fear Intervention. There are grow
ing indications that it cannot be long
deferred.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

The silence that now envelopes the
erstwhile lordly Castro is becoming
almost thick enough to cut with a
knife
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

Having made worlds record Count
Zeppelin can confidently count on hay
ing a five cent cigar named for him.
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The Trouble in the Balkans.

whats all this continual trouble
among the Balkan States?"
Its this way. Some of them Balkan
Kings is making garden"
Making garden?'
Eyes; and other of them Balkan kings
insists on keeping chickens. kansas
City Journal. IAN
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Curious.

When the Wright airship's ready to
Rise up and dip and skim and drift,
We'd like to see how much of Taft
The big new-fangled thing can lift.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

A home for habitual drunkards is to
be established in Maine.-Schenectady
Union.
When? Where?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

When everyone owns balloon of his
own the fences at the baseball parks
will be back numbers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

So far as can be ascertained EXPIRES
fdent Roosevelt has not as yet secured
a zubelinkus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07

After all there is no one so lonesome
in these progressive times as simon
pure bourbon Democrat.