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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
The Sympathetic Chauffeur

"Confound you" snarled the in
jured party. | was standing with my
artificial limb in such a position that
the foot thereof projected beyond the
curbing, and you have run over said
synthetic hoof and broken it. ARR"
Why didn't you put your best
foot foremost 1ippantly answered
the taxicab driver.-kansas City Star
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
An Execution

Remember, my SON." said the
father, that politeness costs moth
ing"
oh, / don't know" returned the
hopeful. Did you eve try putting
of a telegram?"-Ladies Home
Journal.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
Admiration and Authority

Would you like to see your wife
go into politics and be a boss?"
Certainly" replied Meekton. I'D
really enjoy having Henrietta step in
and show some of these practical
politicians what a real boss is like"
Washington Star.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
An Important One

Thompson has made a discovery"
Indeed"
Eyes. He says that he has dis
covered that the more buttons there
are on a woman's coat the greater
the probability that II really fastens."
Detroit Times.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
Her Next Branch

Young Lady: How is 1t you don't
come to Sunday school. Kate?
Kate: Oh. please, Miss, I'm learn
ing French and music now, and
mother doesn't wish me to take up
religion till later.-Boston Tran
script.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
Height of Heels

I'm afraid these Louis XIV heels
are much too high for me. Perhaps
you have lower o~nes--say about
Louis X would do. I think london
Opinion.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
Conversation

Interesting conversation?
Not very. One of those nver
tons in which each takes credit for
phenomenal patience in an effort to
instruct the other. ?-Washington
Star.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16

Penitentiary Guard: Convict No.
All is not in his cell, sir
Warden: That's all right He's
still hunting for the ball he lost on
the links this afternoonl-Life.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
Changing Righteousness

Vestryman: Sometimes | feel that
Christianity is a failure.
Daughter: What's the matter.
dad? Oh. don't say the new curate
has lefti-Life.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16
Their First Quarrel

Mr.. Newed: Oh, well, you wanted
me, Emily, and ! wanted you. That's
about the way of II, my dear.
Mrs. Viewed: But you wanted me
first, Jack. you know you did.-Life.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-16

BOY of Mine

Boy of Mine
Will you look back some day across
the years,
Back to this little child, o boy of
mine,
Who nestIes closer, as with loving
sign,
! bend above him. quieting his fears.
OF nights great silence, then with
mingled tears
And smiling, lets his little arms
entwine
Tighter about my neck, and lays
his fine
Soft cheek close where my beating
heart he hears?
And looking backward, so you will
forgive
The sometimes hasty speech, the
word unwise;
All that was Ill will die, but love will
live
And glorify my face through age
and pains
TIL you come back with those dear
trusting eyes
And lay your face against my heart
again.
Mary Page Greenleaf.
Friendly Interest
Grad. This u~niyersit certainly
takes an interest in a fellow, doesn't
it?
Tad: How's that?
Grad: Well. ! read that they
would be very glad to hear of the
death of any of their alumni
Siren.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-25
y. Y. HAS SECOND LARGEST
PARALYSIS TOLL

New York, July 25.-Another de-
cided increase in the number of new
infantile paralysis cases reported
was followed today by a drastic
movement by government authOTi-
ties which may mean the barring Of
children under Is years of age from
leaving New York state.
Reports to the health department
up to 10 a. m. today accounted for
$50 new cases of the disease, against
SO reported yesterday. Only on one
day-JuIy II, when 1876 cases were
reported today's record been
exceeded. Thirty-eight deaths were
reported I as against 81 yesterday.
The total number Of cases since the
epidemic appeared is now 3,09S.
There have been 647 deaths.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-25
SILK STOCKING CLUB DEFENDS
KILLING OF YOUNG BOY

Colin c. H. Fyffe, silk-stOcking
lawyer, who divides his time between
notwithstanding work as attOr-
ney for the Illinois Manufacturers
assn and several big corporations
and who grabs off $4,000 a year on
the side, paid by the people, as at
toTney for the board of election COM
missiOners, has taken it upon him
self to defend the killing of 15-year-
old VIM. Ulrey by Nicholas NIGGA,
gardener of the Saddle and Cycle
club at Sheridan road and Foster av.
Fyffe and several others of his
type have been trying to make the
Saddle club a very exclusive affair.
They dread even the sight of cotton
stockinged people around the club
grounds. Just a week ago young
Ulrey and several other boys crossed
the grounds on their way home be-
cause they were in their bathing
suits and didn't want to go on Sher-
idan road.
They first asked MOga's permits
sion. But the gardener, a Greek,
didn't understand English. He mere
ly shrugged his shoulders. The boys
understood it as assent and crossed
the grounds. When they had gone
several feet NIGGA hurled a heavy
pair of scissors. They struck the u
rey boy in the back, causing two
deep wounds. LOckjaw developed
and he died in terrible agony yester-
day morning.
Fyffe then got busy and tried to
suppress the story With a fine ItaI-
ian hand developed by corporation
and political training, he managed to
smother the affair until yesterday
when NIGGA was arrested. Last Sun
day Fyffe made a denial of the story
given out by the boy companions of
Ulrey, announced that Uurey was
only slightly cut; that everything
was all right and that the directors
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-25

defend Mega. He admitted he had
been sent there by Fyffe and other
members of the Saddle and Cycle
club. He said the club felt that
Mega was justified in attacking the
boy. Fyffe and the others will make
every effort to have NIGGA freed. The
Greek, however, was held to the
grand jury on a charge of man
slaughter.
Young UIrey was the son of Frank
Ulrey, a salesman living at 1902 Ken
more av. He was a sophomore at the
Nicholas Sem high school and be-
IOnged to, the choir of St. SimOn's
church. The residents Of the neigh
bodhoOd are aroused at his killing
and have determined to fight the eX-
hibition of the brutal efforts of the
Saddle and Cycle club to prevent out
siders wandering across the vision of
the silk-stOCking members.
Fyffe, usually regarded as man
with a powerful pull, is the repre-
sentative of several big corporations
in the political game. He is identi-
fed with the Roger Sullivan faction,
and through Sullivan's influence
landed. the job as attorney for
the election board, and was also a
delegate to the st. Louis convention
by the grace of Roger Sullivan.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
Movies and School Children.
Rockville Leader. )

The New Britain school board is planning to put a ban on movies. The common council of that city will be asked to establish a board of censors to protect the young. Undoubtedly there are in many of our cities moV- ing picture houses where too many pictalresaof a salacious character are shown. The unrestricted doing of bandits burglars, horse thieves and a host of their kin for the benefit of film fiends ought to receive a check. There are movie fiends among school children, as New Britain has found out. It is claimed that a wave of ,truancy has been .. caused in tke schools of New Britain by bad pie lures. Not only that the moral fiber of the youth of the city is likely to
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22

Washington, D. C., May 22-Her revolutions may fail, disease may destroy her potato crop, and famine decimate her people, but one feature of Ireland remains constant-her vast peat bogs, which furnish a bulky but inexpensive fuel for the islands numerous poor The National Geo. graphic society, from it's Washington headuuarters, gave out the following peat bulletin today:
 Nearly one-seventh of the area
 of Ireland is bog land, unfit for cul-
 tivation, but this territory, nearly fOrty-five hundred square miles yields an almost inexhaustible supply of
 cheap fuel which for centuries has
 kept hundreds of thousands from
 desperate suffering during the pene-
 tratingly damp cold of winter.
 Peat harvesting is an important
 industry in the Irish lowlands, and
 one of the factors which comments it to the poor is that all the members of the family can contribuate to the work in proportion to their full physical strength. The men can
 wield the spade-like slane, carving the turf into bricks, while the chill dren carry the wet sod to places in the sun where it is left to dry for from four to six weeks. In the meantime the women are busy pack ing the dried product in big paniers slung over the backs of diminutive donkeys. These donkeys carry the peat to market, and sometimes, if there are more women than draft animals, the former will strap pan icrs across their own shoulders and aid in solving the problem of trans portation.
 ''In some of the bogs where the perccntagefof water is unusually high the 'haIvesters' knead the decayed vege4 ation with their hands and feet until it is of sufficient consistency to be lifted out and placed in the sun.
 Peat, which ,fs a composite of numerous aquatic plants and mosses oxidized in a moist atmosphere and compressed by water, after it has been thoroughly dried, burns much more quickly than coal. and it Is considerably cheaper, twelve large l size bricks selling for an English penny e cents.) In recent years nu- merous methods have been devised ] t6 improve this fuet of the bogs by shredding and then 'cobn pressing the l carbonized growth into briquets, ]! which burn very much like coals Mixed with crude molasses from 1 sugar mills it is also used as a for i age for cattle, while semi-successful i efforts have been made to convert the i vogetable flores into Ncheap grade , of naper. Several processes also have i bann devised to distill from peat a alcohol, a by-product Of i this manufacture being large quan- [ tities of ammonium sulphate, which 1 is valuable as fertilizer.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
Life'S Lubricant.
(New London Day. ]

 Good cheer is a great lubricant. Ii oils all of life's machinery.
 "A merry heart goes all the day,
 Your sad tires in a mile-a."
 Good cheer is a great producer. II adds wonderfully to ones active abil- ity and increases mental and physical power. It makes hosts of friends and helps us to be interesting and agree able..
 Good cheer will attract more cus- toners, sell more goods, do moro business with less wear and tear than almost any other quality. -
 Optimism is the greatest business getter, biggest trader truest achiever in the world.
 Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what opti- mism has built up. -. In the business office, in society, in politics, in workshops, everywhere, the3 favorite is always the cheerful fellow with the bright smile and bright thoughts.
 Good-na tured, cheerful ones do not waste theft vital energies as rapidly as the grumblers or too sober, too sour ones do. They work and live with much less friction. Good cheer. is a simple habit. It is the best In all the list.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
For a Milford Seal.
(New Haven Register. ).

The architects of Milford's soop-to- he+completed municipal building
 have asked the chairman of the building committee for a copy of the town seal, to be stamped on the hardware of the building. To their
 great surprise, no doubt, surely to the consideration of many of the citizens,
 there is no such thing in existence
 It looks as if Milford would have to
 decide quickly on the design which
 if has lacked for two and three
 quarters centuries. The esteemed
 Citizen asks for suggestions.
 With due modesty, remembering
 that this is Mfiford's business, and that probably Milford can attend to if, may The Register offer this for what it is worth: A medallion con- taining within circle formed of the words, Town of Milford in the State of Connecticut, 1639" in the upper half a design of the old mill and in the lower a simple sketch of a river and the open sea into which it flows.
 If it be preferred, the encircIing in- scription may be in Latin, after the manner of New Havens seal, but there is reason to fear that the art of translating Latin will have become lost to even our supposedly educated people by the end of another genera ton. The old mill harks back to Milfords very early history in a fundamental way for as early as 1850 the income of the grain mill constituted a considerable portion of the salary of the Rev. John Warham. though he received 100 pounds beside. It stands, moreover for the industrial as we'll as the historical, and is i'm portant whether we consider Milford named from its mill and it's location. or from its early prototype in Eng- land. The river and the sea would typify Milfords beauty of situation. The whole is as comprehensive as Is New HaXefss design .of learning and commerce. VI a@ S9E @st
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
Clean Pictures.
(Waterbury Democrat.D }

(Waterbury Democrat)
 The president of one of the oldest and largest motion picture companies, says the current Woman's Home Companion, addressed an inquiry to the eighteen thousand theater own CTS of the United States. Tn effect he asked them, What do you want mo to give you-clean pictures or smutty ones And then he had the sur prise Of his life. He expected at 1 least ninety-five per cent. to declare for the clean ones. They didn't, At least half wanted the pictures to be suggestive. Those exhibitors who said this explained that they them selves preferred clean films but found their patrons more willing to pay money for unclean pictures than for clean ones. The magazine editor be- lieves that this does not prove that a majority want the smutty pictures, but the minority which does is, as often happens, an active minorit1. which asks for what it wants, while the majority has never made it cleer to the film manufacturers that it is a majority. This is a hopeful vieW and is rather likely to be the true onGs But the situation. raises a Que3- tioil. Why should people prefer rnutty pictures? Probably the an swer is that they have a morbid curiosity about facts of life which have never been made plain to thcn in decent and well balanced man ner. They think they may get sorne of this curiosity gratified. The way to eliminate that sort of thing is by sane teaching in the early years. That uncleanly- minded people are really in the minority is evident from the fact that books and plays which feed unwholesome appetites seldom live. They may have nom entary vogue, and be forgotten or they may a soft of stealthy and underground sale efsa mum Der of years. But the best -sel ers'' which keeT fr' 3 !, being good sellers for any length of time are wholesome in tone. It will undoubtedly be so with the pictures
 People may go a few times to see indecent. pictures Then they have had enOHgh. The rage for the sug- go.tiVc will Fo short1ived. The great N0(T "f +ho DroD'o want clean anu nN'sri~ 7ia~ food far tbnir minds ae well a1 their hodie$ The exhibitors who think otherwise will awake sor4e fne~ morning4sto find they are mis- taken The long and steady tradesis built upon a love of clean romance.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22

To accomplish the defense plans outlined in the new Army Bill some thing more than Congressional be- it-enacted is necessary. There must be popular response to the demand for military training and every one of forty-eight states must meet the situa- tion. In a republic of republics like this, an ideal army of defense should consist in the main of splendid ag- gregation of state armies, to be unit ed and used by the Federal Govern- ment, in case of need for a common purpose. Some of the states have met this need already, but in most of them there is neither public nor private in terest in the matter. The question today is whether the enterprise now in view, looking toward joint action by states and nation, is workable.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
That Moment.

(Miriam Teichner, on New York
 Globe.) There's a Wonder-pregnan moment
 happens every little while: It has mysteries within it, mountain
 high and mile on mile, It Is filled with strange susperses,
 and 1t makes your pulses thrill, For it's packed with weird surprises
 that are just about to spill. It is topped with rainbow turrets, and
 a swarm with charming folks; It is full of "just. perhapses" IS a
 wheel is full of spokes, It is cloudy with surmises, 1t is misty
 with "suppose"; It is all a-swirl and foggy with Good
 gracious! No-one-knows." It is musical with "maybes,' and
 Jingle with t'I hope'; It is saucily prophetic of the best
 toward which we grope, It's a-lilt with teasing laughter it's
 promise-and a threat, And 1t may mean lips a-smiling. or
 just eyelids teary-Wet. It may mean "come to dinner" co,
 my heart, but how you throbD Or ride in some ones auto, a pro-
 posal or a job It's the moment-ah, what rapture,
 what quick castles in the air When the telephone is ringing and
 you haven't learned who's
 there.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22

be wrecked. No one will have any sympathy on a sweeping condemna- tion of motion pictures. The right kind are not only educational and instructive, but real benefit to both young and old. Films of aQ Harmful
 character tending to the ,Jral in jury of those who view them should
 be tabooed. And, furthermore, nov ing picture theater proprietors and managers should strictly live up to the state law and not permit any children under 14 years of age to at tend picture shows without being ac- companied by parents or guardians. This law is being repeatedly violated. in some cases wantonly violated Greater care should be exercised, or moving picture theater propHAetors and managers should be made an ex- ample of. " '
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
RAILROAD SAVINGS.

IS less than a fortnight since the le of. the United States learned of remarkable record of American pads in the way of establishing y for passengers. The fiscal year was set down as the most marvel spne of all times in this regard. 8 comes another insight into the & progress being made by our rail-
 f. According to the report made ale American Railroad Association
 E savings in the payments for
 s and damage in freight transpor- #l has been effected, which is Der way of saying that reckless l IS fast being abolished.
 Ere than one hundred of the great Pad systems in the United States Hnted detailed accounts of their hditures along these lines and a @g all around of some eight mil Nof dollars has been> H snoWn that slightly more than p0,o00 was paid out for loss and Nge in 1915, whereas the year pre- E s32,OO0,000 was expended for @Rme purpose. Shippers as we'll B railroads have cause for jubila- pver this great saving, as 1t be- Ns better service for~the men who 1%heir goods over the rails.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22

Taking it by great groups, our ex- ports in the nine months of this fiscal year have increased as follows: To Europe, fifty-three per cent; to North America, forty-seven per cent; to South America, 100 per cent; to Asia, 106 per cent. and to Africa, sixty per cent. The total of all cx- ports in that time increased 1ifty-five per cent, whereas the total of inn ports increased only twenty-four per cent. That is to say, we sold to the world three-quarters of a billion dol ars' worth of goods more than we bought from the world which was the same as to save or to put aside three quarters of a billion agaist ill times. Never did this country save money in that way before, that is by build- ing up such a credit abroad, and the rate of it is unparalleled in the eXperi- ence of any country.-New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22

S3Oo,000 which could be ruthlessly scattered around his own state. It Public plunder should forthwith go out of style. Every Senator in the national Congress should stand up pork barrel" Senator Tillman has crushed in the top of this pernicious institution.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
Ireland's Vast Peat D0gs
 Supply People Cheap Fuel

'"The peat bogs of Ireland have been so consistently emphasized in all economic discussions of the Irish people as well as in the literature of the country that the average in dividual has come to think of this island as having a virtual bogesmon- opoly, but as a matter of fact there are eighteen times as many square miles of such land in the United States and Canada as there are in Ireland, while Continental Europe's bogs aggregate an area as extensive as that of the French republic. Not all bogs produce fuel peat, however,
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22

Chicago threatens to hold pre- paredness parade that will outdo the one given in New York city. Rivalry between great cities in this matter cannot be carried too far.-ROchester Democrat and Chronicle.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-22
RTOR PULLMAN KICKS
 I'VE OUT OF THE BARREL,

FH o0A UT HE BAfLREI 2his day and generation when the . barreP' is supreme, when men @the1r hopes upon the amount of | they can conjure from the ex- Fer of the United States, a man Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Senator South Carolina, holds a peculiar n in the world of politics. The 8r is irrevocably and inerrabIv Sainst stealing money from the ' Treasury. He will have none
 Speaking on the River and
 bill which appropriates some P,000, and which would cast DO within his own state should 8l become a law, the venerable a-statesman on Saturday. deliv- Himself in this fashion:-
 so not want my share of the
 g in this bill. And while South
 la has items in if Tsamounting to D0 I shall vote againt it and Mhat it will not become a law. 5Pd the money so much for more
 ant things that is criminal, ; Smind, to discuss tHfs. bill at all. Sof it! Forty Asllon dollars to ated and taxes tselbe heavily inr R That forty millions would Two battle cruisers. No one E how many submarines it would hnd I can only guess how many 8s and other things okthat sort 8ld buy with it.'
 ais the Senator from South Car Averse to spending money, if it Anded in the proper fashion. He Afor stealing money from the A bin, or allowing any of the
 Frs" to wallomin the wealth of Stion, but .,when it comes to
 American Ane eollars where they @ the most good, where they Ad to the" defense of American kRnd firesides} the Senator knows
 lmony. He is'in favor of appro- x every cent that is needed to N the nation with sufficient bat
 sers and submarines:
 M one essential and all import Mpenditure confronting us, the H which we should bend all the # energies, is an adequate navy. N I mean a navy second to none England's, both in number of End in armament. I want us to
 Ne very best types of ships and Aent possible to obtain.
 @ as. many ships nor as power
 avy as that of Great Britain,
 lalling it fne individual units, M posSiple surpassing it in every
 or modern warfare. This will W noredstpf millions of dollars; @@ @@ matter what it costs. we ought
 9ws must have it-and we
 2 sset aSsat soseaaa,ll....t' .ar., ~ a,
 for ifE takes time 3s I5a f5s ss <
 and battle cfasssfTs
 or Tllllnlasa Fl has taken .asspa+ # ath f1 51s Fellow isgisAfors < lose no 5srlae in folloWin | years tiaere Aha been hosuch
 zalzen by any statesman of any
 Congress. Men have been E "steals bgt only when the x barrel rolling . against x nd for someone else. Here is
 e of a Senator who refuses to
 a bill even when there-4s at $ thereto the significant sum of