davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-11
Business Streets of New Orleans
Inundated by Torrential
OOWnpour-GaIe In
creaSeS Peril.
CONDITION BAD UPRlvER
Five and One Half Inches of Rain
in Ten Hours-Situation at
Baton Rouge Critical
Levees May Not Be Able
to Stand Extra Strain.

New Orleans. May 1O.--New Orleans
tonight withstood the severest rain
storm in her history. All Of the lower
half Of Louisiana was affected and
thousands Of the people who live behind
the already terribly strained levees that
hold back the Mississippi flood waters
were panicky.
The wind ranged from twenty-seven
miles an hour at New Orleans to forty
miles at Baton Rouge. and at many
points along the river 1t swept the
waves OF the swollen stream over the
levees.
At New Orleans FIVE and a half inches
of rain fell from noon until 10 o'clock
to night, and about four inches fell be-
between and 9 o'clock. The Missis-
sippi River here was banked up by the
high winds. and rose eight inches In
two hours, between and II o'clock to-
night. forcing the waters over the levees
at several points.
At 10 o'clock the river gauge at the
head of Canal street registered 21.9 feet.
or one tenth of A foot higher than me
maximum stage predicted BY the
Weather Bureau. At II o'clock the gauge
showed a drop Of one-tenth of foot for
the hour. but the rain continued 10 pour
down in torrents at intervals.
Dozens Of messages poured into the
office Of the United states army engi-
neers here telling of rumored breaks m
the levees above New Orleans. None or
them had been verified up 10 midnight
although little hope was expressed OF
saving the Ievee at Baton Rouge, and at
Morganza. SCOTS Landing. Donaldson
Vile and Plaquemine the situation was
declared to be critical.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Real Gentlemen.

you have some beefsteak. of
course :" queried a man who had
hurriedly entered a butchers shop.
yes, sir
And beefsteaks is good to take
the color out of a black eye?
"Te best thing in the world, sir.
Good, Save two pounds for
Riley"
(Which Riley?"
The Riley who lives in Jones
street. I'm going to black both his
optics. He'll probably call in half
an hour. Good evening""
Twenty minutes later the same
man came back with his coat in rags
his collar gone. his nose damaged
and both eyes puffed up.
Did you find Riley?" asked the
butcher,
Il did, sir, and he has kindly con-
scented to let me use the beefsteak.
Mr.. Riley is a gentleman, sir!'
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Street Car Gallantry.

Lafayette Young. lor a while SEN
ator from Iowa. is authority for the
following account of an incident on
a street car in Des Moines.
The ear was crowded, and mostly
by women who were bent on shop
ping. When all had been seated,
the three or four men who INDUCED
in the luxury of seats looked at one
another as though TO say, I'VE are
next to get up In fact. three
women got on at the next stop, and
a business man rose to offer his seat
to one of them, who was young and
very pretty.
you are a jewel" the latter said
smiling as she thanked him.
NO, madam, ! am a je~weler," he
said, I set jewels" And now he
is married to that lady.-Cos-
mopolitan Magazine.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
In Little Old New York.

N. y, fridy-the maddest man in
this hole sitty is a certain dock,
whose name / amt going to tell, and
IL don't make no d~ifrense anyway,
he would be just as mad no matter
what his name was
this here dock he has an offs up
in the times squair districk and he
has a slew of sporty friends. new
years mite he went out sellabratin
with a bunch of them
they were settin at a table in a
caffay about one a. IN. an the morn
ing, and evryboddy vas happy as d
old made at a church soshabel
a yang ladr vas porting sum wine
down the back of the docks neck
beCos she couldent tell it from his
face, and evryboddg was lafing at
a Teller witch was under the label
and was crying bitterly beros he
couldn't find the way out
just at this joyus moment a bell
hop come to the dock and ses he
Was wanted at the lone
there was a lady there watch had
hin invited to the party but dident
come. she said o dock. my husband is
very sick, wont you please come
rite away over TO the apartment
well the dock he dident want to
go worth a durn, but dooty called,
he must obey, so he sed goodby to
them of his friends witch could still
reckanize him. and he went
ever at the lady's apartment she
net him. and she seu her and her
husbend they dident come TO the
party becOs he went cut sellabratin
by hisself, and he just come home.
and he was in bed in bad shape. ina
wouldn't the dock please look at him
so the dock he went over to the
bed and he went to feel of the guys
pulse, and the guy hauled off and
slammed him one in the jaw that
like 10 lifted him out of his collier
the dock he took a minnit TO get
his breth. and then he come back.
and for about ten minits there vas
a grate old rassling and slugg5ng
match
finely the dock he got the guy by
the windpipe and held him with one
hand while he squirted a little hop
into him with the luther. and bimeby
he laid still
then the dock he SEES TO the dame.
wots The idea, hat aint no sick man
o. she ses. he come home stewed
and acted mean TO me, and j wanted
sumboddy TO give him 3 good wa1lop-
in, inc muteh obliged to you, dock
tor. ! CESS he viii be all rite now.
JOHNNY
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Lille Sister kneM.

Manager Ellis, head of a local
motor ear-tire agency halls from
Richmond, Ind, which is in the heart
of the Quaker belt of H~oosierdOm.
His father was a Quaker minister
says the Louisville Times, whose
duty it often became tn preach the
sermon at Quaker marriage cere-
monies in Richmond, 1T being The
custom for the contracting parties
to marry themselves the minister
garnishing the ceremony with a little
sermon.
On one occasion the father was to
deliver the ermon at n Quaker wed
ding. and at the dinner table that
day the took occasion to inquire
what his subject would be. Before
the father could answer up spoke
the little sister.
Il can tell thee, brother, what it
ought to be-" she said. Father,
forgive them. they know not what
they do
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
New Years Resolution FaiIed.

a man cant make a better New
Years resolution than in season and
out Of season, 10 mind his own bust
ness"
The speaker, says the Washington
Star. ives Representative Henry Of
Texas. With his grim smile he re
sumed
A Texan. at a hotel. got acquaint-
ed with a millionaire. One night in
the hotel lobby. as the two men
pulled their cigars. the Texan said
- make IL a rule to mind my
" business. sir.
And a very good rule il is, 100.
said the millionaire plaeidly.
Yes. sir the Texan Went on.
back in '93 / made a New Years
resolution 10 mind my own business.
and. by heck. I've stuck to it ever
since.
Good, said the millionaire. as
he reclined in his leather armchair
and smoked with half-closed eyes.
Good
But. sir. said the Texan. there
are times when a man must speak
out. and / want To tell you. sir. that
you are making a terrible mistake In
employing as private secretary the
younE fellow you do. He's not
worthy of a position of such trust.
The fact Is. I've seen him drunk in
fashionable theatres and restaurants
at least o dozen times. He JOY rides
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
ConIpntmTnT.

] take il as | 90 along
That life must have its gloom,
That now and then the sound of
sOng
Must fade from every room,
That every heart must know its woe.
Each door deaths sable sign.
Care falls to every one. and SO
] strive to bear with mine.
Misfortune is a part of life;
No one who journeys here
Can dodge the bitterness of strife
Or pass without a tear;
Love paves the way for us to mourn,
Our pleasures breed regret,
One day a sparkling JOY IS born,
The next-our eyes are wet.
Each life is tinctnred with the pain
OF sorrow and or care.
And now and then come clouds and
rain.
Comes pours of deep despair,
And yet the sunshine bursts anew.
And those who weep shall smile,
For joy is always breaking through
In just a little while.
Detroit Free Press.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14

read a letter from Jacob NJ. Dicker-
son of Tennessee, formerly secretary
of war.
Mr.. Dickinson had found a mule
story applicable to the efforts of the
Democrats to put the president lin
a hole" on the Sherwood Pension
bill. Here is the story:
"A well was left open and an old
mule named Pete fell into it. They
tried to get him out with a block
and tackle. but his head would
strike on one side and his rear on
the other. The we'll was so dark
they could not see how to shoot
him IN as much as he was a good
and faithful mule, they determined
to entomb him and all hands gather
ed to shovel dirt.
They shoveled, and when they
thought the hole was about filled
un, out came Pete walking on top
of the dirt with a most reassuring
smile.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
John G. sareent,s Suggestion.

Joseph f. Wfdener, being con-
graduated in New York on the ex-
cellenee OF his fathers pictures.
smiled and said.
yes, may father has been a dis
Greet collector. He is not like the
New York millionaire whom Sar-
geant visited.
Sargent was taken by this mil
~iionaire through a huge gallery of
dubious Rembrandts. Titians. Rap
haels and Murilos.
Nj. Sargent, the millionaire
said, gazing pompously at the long
lines OF vast. dingy ~canvases, I have
decided TO leave my pictures to some
institution. What institution would
you suggest?'
7 suggest, said Mr.. Sargent. IN
Institution for the blind
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
No Harm For Him,

No Harp For Him.
This tendency of modern days TO
label as a lie
The tales of Cinderella and the
blackbirds in the pie,
And thus to rob the childish mind
of many a delight
Gets a romantic fellows goat and
makes him want to fight,
Come tell us, Mr.. So-and-So, who
gave the right to you
To tell a child that rain is just an
atmospheric brew;
That flowers in the garden simply
happen to be there
Because some seeds were planted
where they got the sun
and air;
That birds pour Il their souls in
song because 1t is their way,
And that one has to use a pump to
make an organ play?
Why tell your child the pretty doll
she nightly puts to bed
Is stuffed out with excelsior, and
that its Titan red
Tresses are of dyestuffs that are
poison to the touch?
Suppose that bonehead talk will
help the baby muenY
You've got to pass away some day,
and at the pearly gates
Confront the good st. Peter, who
will tell you of your fate.
"A seat in heaven" he will ask, Ito
which you would go through?
There is no heaven, So-and-So; al
least there's none for YOU.
THE place you might have had Is
gone, the records say, be-
cause
You told your little baby that
there was no Santa Claus
New York Herald.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Had a Grenf System.

Wilbur C. Phillips. the child well
fare worker. according to the Detroit
Free Press, tells a story to show how
systematized work will usually bring
the disired end.
A peddler climbed to the sixth
floor of an apartment house in an at
tempt to sell his wares. The first
man he met he insisted should buy
some of his goods. Finally he made
himself such a nuisance that the un-
feeling tenant of the apartment pick
stairs.
A man standing on the fifth floor,
hearing the racket, glanced up and
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
LEGAL NOTICES
No. 22sI.
Nsoice of Application for Permission
10 Appropriate the Public Waters
col thr State of Nevada

&a1n is hereby given that on the
1sth Day Of December. 1911. In ae-
ordan with Section 25. CHAPTER
NM al The Statutes of 1909. one
James Donfre of Aarum, County Of
White Pine. Stale of Nevada. made ap-
phcition to The State Engineer of Ne
ada far permission te appropriate tie
public waters of the State of Nevada.
such appropriation is TO be made from
Summd1 Wei. Al points from corner
post ON Gtah-Aevada State Line.
markell as follows: ON the North by
fNo notches On the south by four
n~tehes, on the east 'U.GC... and
The west N the summit Well bears
= IA meg. e min 20 sec. w. 5S.Sg6
ieet ~ means Of pumps and troughs
ANA = cubic feet per second is To be
conveyed to points al the well, as
above described. by means of troughs
anal there used for watering sheep.
Water not L" be returned to stream
w NJ. KEARNEY.
State Engineer.
dFfrs1 publication January II. 1929
1last publication February 4. 1922
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
The Doctors Daughter.

She was a Doctors child. and he
Embraced the opportunity
From all diseases to make her free,
With absolute immunity.
And first said he, las ] indorse
Prevention of diphtheria,
This a%nti-toxin from a horse
VIII kill some bacteria.
Against consumption, you'll allow.
No means should be neglected,
And so this serum from a COW
Would better be injected.
Another bovine brings a charm,
And / indose it fully,
And SO this vaccine in the arm
VIII make the child feel bully
And once again | pierce the skin,
Lest other evils threaten us,
And pump another serum in
To save the child from %tetanus.
"Of snake-bite serum, just a touch;
We gel. ii through a rabbit
Which we have bitten up so much
1t really likes the habit.
"A meningitis toxin. too.
Should be inoeulated
A guinea-pig We strain 1t through
70 get IL circulated.
"Some recent serums of my own
I'm rather sure will answer;
/ make them for all troubles known,
From freckels up 20 cancer"
Alas alas for all his pains.
The end was scarce DESTROYS;
She soon had nothing in her veins
But various kinds of virus.
Part snake. part sheep. part COW,
part goat,
Her laugh was half a winny.
Dear mel" cried he. she's partly
shoat,
And badly mixed with guinea.
A girl that bleats and chews her
eud
VIII never make a woman;
I'd better get some good clean blood
And make her partly human
Life.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Wished lie Hnlln'i.

\ young man went out driving
with a young woman on a beautiful
lmooniit evening, and the surround
ings and his sentiment got the better
Of his judgment. says the Alchisnn
Globe.
He claspeed the girl in has arms
and murmured: will you marry
me-" The young lady jumped at The
offer. The young man didn't say
anything more at all. The young
woman finally said: why don't you
say something?"
There's been 100 much said IL
ready" he replied.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14

took in the situation. When the
peddler came crashing down to the
fifth floor this man picked him up
and threw him down the next stairs.
A man standing on the fourth
floor helped the peddler on by
throwing him down the mex fight.
This continued until the poor ped
dler finally landed On the first floor
with a crash.
Gee! but they go. some system up
there" he said ruetully, as he picked
himself up and walked painfully out
into the street.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Notice 81 Applies for Permission TO
appropriate fhe Public Waters of
the state of Nexada.

Notice IL hereby given that on the
sth day 'uf December. 1871. in accor-
dance wuh Section rs, pier XXI
OF the Statutes OF 1909, one Harry Bews
OF S~chel1sourne, County of White Pine
sffd STATE Of Nevada. made application
fO the State Engineer OF Nevada for
permission To appropriate the public
waters or abe State of Nevada. Such
appropriation is 10 be made from
Grass Valley Spring AT points from a
peak which bears y. Al deg.
oS min. W. a0.610 feet, from cor. TIPS.
20 and u n. X. 50 and 20 T., NJ. u. b
d N. spring bears :. 81 deg. So min.
w. 1890 feet on unsurveyed land. bv
means of reservoir, and 0.3 cubic feet
per second is 80 be conveyed to points
Immediately below said springs by
means OF natural channel to said res
erVoir and there used for stock water
Ing purposes. Water not To be re-
la stream.
w. NJ. KEARNEY.
State Engineer.
CHRIST Publication December II. 1919
olAst Publication January II. 1872
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Fool Questions.

81 thought that in the fifteen
years Of my practice of medicine .
said a physician, Il had answered
almost every possible fool question:;
but a new one was sprung on me re-
Gently. A young man came in with
an infiamed eye. for which / pres
cribed medicine TO be dropped into
the eye three times a day"
He left the Office, but returned
in a few minutes. poked his head in
the doorway. and asked, Shall |
drop this in the eye before meals or
after2'"-Everybody's Magazine.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Good Reading for Sunday

IN your motor a in the small hours
with all sorts of bad company. He's
been seen plunging heavily at several
gambling houses. By lingo, sir, |
wouldn't trust him with a 10-cent
piece. | guess you hired him out of
char1ty-to reform him and all
that, en-
We'll, yes. / suppose | did,
muttered the millionaire, and, very
red in the face, he added. You see.
he's my SON.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
A Silly Game.

A city cousin had been staying at
the farm for two weeks resting up
for the winters round of pleasure.
one evening after supper, she sug-
gested 10 her country cousin that
they get up a bridge party some
evening.
My sakes, Arabella.' was the
Mortified reply. They amt no
bridge nearer than four miles, and
that ones awful rickety. This time
of the year you'd all have pneu-
monia. For crazy new-fangled
ideas. give me you city folks.'-
Philadelphia Times.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
A Substantial Name.

Mr. Papamiehalopolis is here from
Greece to study our Institutions. He
vii doubtless he surprised to know
how many of 0nr Cabinet officers in
recent years have had names of one
syllable length: Knox, Root. Hay.
Shaw Gage, Srraus. Long. Griggs.
Wright and Taft.-Los Angeles Her
aid.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Pointed Paragraph.

Practical joktrs are anything nut
joymakers.
Judge not your neighbor nntil you
stand in his shoes.
Broken heads: loosened Stats"
partly football. partly .'fra1s.'
Some people new learn anything
because they begin by thinking they
know it all.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Angle Food Cake.

A little more rest and a little less
hurry,
A little more calm and a little less
worry,
A volume of smiles and an ocean of
love.
A face as serene as the blue skies
above:
A life full of trust and no longing
or signing.
Ne space and no room left fer
sorrow or crying.
The results sure to come without
having To bake,
And you'll find il far sweeter than
sweetest OF cake.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
The Same Position.

Smith had just made the discovery
that he had moved next door to a
friend.
Hello, old man." said the frien6 3.
who are you working for now?"
Same people, was the reply, "a
wife and five children--Town and
Country.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
MiScOnStrued.

ShopT9an. THE fresh behring's
are very nice this morning, nm"
Lady. "Er-hayc they roses?"
Shopman. We'll, nm, all fish is
dearer at this seasoni"-Punch.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Not AIways Loaded.

Gableigh. They say language is
the vehicle of thought, you know"
Keene. Yes. but a lot of times
it travels empty."-Boston Trans
cript.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Shell Game.

Old Hen. Now, don't that beat
all. l haven't been off this nest ten
minutes and now there isn't one egg
left in it. That's just the way; a
body never can find a thing where
she lays it"-Smart Set.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Pete and Taft.

II is not often that one can COM
Are the president of the United
States to a mule and receive the
presidents approval for doing it.
But such is the case, avs the New
York Herald, when the president
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
He Qualified.

Silas. How We happen ter elect
Hi Higgins ez fire chief"
Hank. Natural qualifications.
Why, he kin break more windows in
less time than any volunteer in this
country Chicago News.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Add One.

"A guy told me / had a case of
exaggerated ego. What did he
mean"
Exaggerated ego is a pulled up
|, so to speak. What did you do"
Gave him another."-Boston
Transcript.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Theatrical Treat,

They say his new play is charm
ingly gloomy"
Yes, it's the most delightfully."-
hopeless thing | ever saw-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Riper. There.

Are You going chestnut hunting
lahis fall?"
Don't have to. ! go to all the new
musical comedies baltimore AM
errican.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
lsual May.

Mark 4 married my wife a month
after she accepted me-"
Parks. That's nothing. | mar
ried mine three days after she re-
fused me."-Boston Transcript.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
He Knew.

Il wish to buy a gift for my hus-
band"
"Yes'm said the polite floorwalk-
ed. "The 10-cent counter is owe
yonder by the window"
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Easily Calculated.

Il smoked two dollars worth of
cigars yesterday"
"Of your OWN"
Yes"
Forty cigars, Think of it."
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
Emil House.

What plan,' said an actor
10 another, shall | adopt To fill the
house at my benefit"
Invite yonr creditors was the
reply Life.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
PUBLIC LAND AND MINING
CASES.

If you are interested in any contest
or any matter before the Interior De
partment, write to Clark & Wright.
registered land lawyers, o + Street
N. w. Opposite Gen'l Land Oficel.
Washington. d. c. Free information
about contests and where to obta.
scrip, locatable-upon public lanes.
without residence or cultivation
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14

Il know what Lucrezia Borgia
would do if she lived today"
WHAT"
Shed go around wearing poison
ed hatpins. Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
$3.50 Mines and Companies
Fully Revised

The new edition of the Copper Hanc
book is a dozen books in one GOVERN
all phases of the copper industry of IL
entire world. 1t is used as the
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14
No 2e7s.

tFfrs1 publication January Il. 1929
nast publication February T. 1927
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-14

containing nearly one and a half mil
lion words, or about twice as much
matter as the Bible. There are 20
charters. and the book covers the