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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-21

sorry confession for the alleged crop experts of the United
States open court that they had been deceived and
imposed by guess granger of the while trying
arrive at estimates production These experts
paid with the highest skill and perspcacy
reports issued under seal Of the with the
cleaned after the closest scrutiny
districts then weighed in the judgment Of the
gathered them for tabulaion The chosen by the
prepare these statistics which millions of
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-21

Our tire repairs are guaranteed
to outwear the tire.
Adv. N13-tf LUNDLEE BROS.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-21

should be OF value as a shipping
product, and will prove interesting to
the management of the Boss mine, as
in their new chlorination process 1t
is found necessary to ship salt in
carload lots from Los Angeles, and
the saving in transportation alone
would be an item of economy for
m.-Goodsprings Gazette.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-21
UNIVERSITY CLOSED


(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Nov. 20.-The Greek
government has ordered the Univer-
ity Of Athens closed owing to student
disturbances.
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would be brought for her use filled
her with forebodings
She was a coward about horses, but
stronger than her cowardice was her
pride and she started with the others,
her Heart in her throat and clutching
at the pommel whenever she thought
the action would pass unnouced her
escort was on newly broken colt thai
claimed all of his attention and whose
antics, at last. ms de every horse
the party FESTIVE. There was no sur
prise felt when lie bolted and started
stampede down the narrow country
road.
Nell was the only one incapable of
managing her horse. She tried. but
fright overcame her and the reins
dropped. AS they fell from her hand,
the horse SHE'D and she lay-a crum-
pltd little heap by the roadside
A year later. the scene was again
laid in the garden at Ellerslie. The
dahlias and chrysanthemu again
made patches of color and the moon
brought out clearly the youthful forms
wandering up and down the grass
grown walks. Under one of the trees
sat a boy and a girl and he dropped
over her hands the petals of the dahlia
he had pulled to pieces. They had
been very quiet and the thought of
that other night was in the minds of
both. Presently Warren spoke:
Nell, Nell, to think how near we
came to missing this"
She leaned a little toward him and
her voice was low as she answered:
81 do not think We would have miss
ed it, dear. I could have stood it no
longer. l hoped you would speak. If
not. love was more to me than pride
and I would have told you on that ride
to Annapolis
He laughed a little. And I? Well
I was waiting my opportunity when
your horse SHE'D. After that nothing
mattered."
He gave a quick glance backward.
No one was in sight and he leaned over
and touched her lips
Which goes to show that Uncle
Charles had keener insight into the
, ways of lovers than had been credited
| to him.-(Copyright. 1915, by the Nc
! C1ure NEWSPAPER Syndicatel
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his government asked, would not be
able to decide what his obligation to
the government really is. Senator Pen
rose of Pennsylvania recently showed
that the present congress has rolled
up a bill of over $4,000. 100000 against
the treasury. He explained that not
only appropriations, but also author
izations and commitments for the fu-
ture had to be taken into account.
He calculated the total appropriations
to be s1.710.4S2.722. Authorizations
for the future reached $633,644,97
thus giving a grand total of authorize
tions and appropriations of $2,S47,-
1859 for the present session Mean
while, word comes from Chicago that
a comparison of foodstuff prices today
with those of a year ago shows that
there has been an increase of rs per
cent in the cost of living.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News.l


A CRATER by any other name would
still be thief.
Many a man who calls himself con-
sentative is but a coward.
Save up your pennies and your heirs
will blow in your dollars.
A child's first impression is usually
made by the maternal slipper.
The average man is usually polite
when he has something to sell.
Old bachelors are men who never
gave marriage a serious thought
ANY man who tries to dodge his
taxes has no business to banker after
fame.
After making a strenuous effort to
get out of a rut a man finds himself
in a hole.
A nearsighted man has a good ex-
cuse for not recognizing his creditors
when he happens to meet them.
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I came upon 1t yesterday at noon,
The old red school, how very small 1t
seemed,
A score of years ago, 1 had not dreamed
I'd ever want to go to school in June.
Slow wading the green tangle of the yard
Chat yard that used to show no blade OF
grass,
1 saw a shadowy crowd before me pass,
A merry lot with bare legs brown and
hard.
They pushed and jostled through the
black, old door,
The rusty hinges creaked-I heard the bell
And then the masters voice l knew so
we'll
How loud my steps across the dusty floor!
Dreaming again y The masters hand came
down
Upon my collar. What a hand he had,
Il never thought that clutch could make
glad,
who had scowled beneath his kindly
frownD
And there was Joe, a-carving out his name
Joe who is dead. yet here l saw him crook
His arm and cut his boyish way to fame !!
Outside the broken panes the bees hum
med low,
A long recess! CHow swift its passage
then
L brushed the cobwebs from a surunken
pen.
And crossed the clover fields alone and
slow
Florence Ripley Mastin in Leslie's.
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cape from the Arctic waters during the
brief three summer months.
1t takes these ice-masses six or eight
months to voyage over the two thou
sand miles separating Melville Bay. in
Banks. and the larger bergs. which
often ground along Labrador, are even
longer on the way
These foes, and the bergs which are
often amongst them, but which are in
creased later in the season by vastly
larger number of bergs that sail along
in solitary grandeur after having had
their progress retarded by grounding
on shoals or points of land as they
came southwark, dispense themselves
over the Grand Banks and become the
very worst sort of menace to ocean
shipping. 1t would be possible to oc-
cupy the whole of the space devoted to
this article in merely summarizing the
cases OF ocea steamers which during
the past fifty years have met disaster
thru collision with icebergs in the
waters off Newfoundland. All other
records in this regard, however. were
completely overshadowed by the APP
palling disaster to the Titanic. This
mighty master creation, the greatest
the world has ever seen, was elimi-
mated in the brief space of a few
hours, thru the mistaken idea of some
of those in authority on board, that
she was so staunchly built that she
could defy all agencies of nature and
race with impunity thru ice-laden seas.
AS the summer advances and the
sun becomes more powerful, the bergs
melt into smaller fragments or upset
and break into pieces on the shoal
ground of the Grand Banks, being
then swept into the Gulf Stream,
where they lie in the way of the
steamers plying east and west and
cause the shipping casualties so fire.
quent during these months. Still
mightier bergs. however, ground along
the coast of Newfoundland in the
spring and summer, and move south
ward in the fall.
| Admittedly the worst danger menac-
ing transatlantic travellers in modern
days, with steamers of such speed as
are plying on the Atlantic, is that OF
| SOAiiSiOi with on ASepehS III uoHse
fog. 1t is morally certain that the
mysterious disappearance of big
steamers like the Naronic and the
Huronian in more recent years, and
of many others ~eviously, is attribut-
able to this cause, for no other agency
is usually powerful enough to work the
ruin of a modern liner with her eel.
| lular bottom and Water-tight bulk.
heads.
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Presumably, the European demand
for American refined sugar Is as
healthy as it was a few months ago
1t was this demand, occasioned by the
great war. of course, and its interrer-
eace with the sugar industry across the
Atlantic, that was attributed as one OF
the reasons for the high price OF sugar
in this country not so long ago ana
when it retailed at over $500 sack
for a short time and hung around
81 so for a continued period, both De-
fore and after the $S-sack period ana
until recently. But sugar is now re-
failing hereabouts at $3.50 per SACK
And the probabilities also are, or may
he. that it was merely coincidence
that when sugar was selling at us
highest price this summer happened
to be the very time when the thirty
housewives were canning and preserV-
ing the small fruits and berries; ana
only another mere coincidence tnat
the $3.50 sack of sugar has arrived
lust about the time that the fruit
canning season is done with in many
households
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TAXES oNE-THIRD OF INCOME.

One of the members of congress re-
Gently figured out that the taxes he is
paying on his real estate, personal
property and securities. his income tax
to the government, the taxes he pays
to the federal authorities on his bonds
and securities. an additional tax on his
munitions stock, together with the
taxes paid to his state, county and
city, now aggregate a little over one
third Of his entire income. writes
Thomas It. Logan in Leslie's. Senator
Jones of Washington said recently that
good business methods had been aban-
doned by the federal government in
the framing of revenue legislation. In
the Democratic party caucus he said,
any suggestion which presented a
plausible chance for gathering in few
thousand dollars in to xes was accepted
and written into the revenue hill. Many
OF the provisions of that bill were so
complex and involved that an honest
and careful man. seeking TO pay what
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BED T 1ME TALES
THE NEW MEMBERS
BIZ CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

After that one big slide down the
bank nothing was hard.
Father Beaver swan around out
in the pond as though he liked MOTH
ing better than showing off his skill.
He swan under the water and he
pushed one. two, three logs before
him Mother Beaver turned sum
mersaults in the water and dived
and acted like a regular water baby
and Rushy and Little Brother
Beaver did all the pretty stunts their
parents had taught them. And when
they couldn't think of anything more
to do, they came dripping out of the
water up toward the Wiggleiskskens-
Such a reception as they did get,
too, All the beavers and raccoons
in that whole band crowded around
and told them what nice stunt they
had done and how well they had
done it and how wonderfully they
Father Beaver had been able to for
get that one awful minute of fright
before Bushy told him what to do, 1
think all the compliments would
nave turned his head But he
couldn't forget - and perhaps after
all il was just as well that he
couldn't. don't you think so?
When everybody was through talk
ing the great, big beaver got up and,
in his great. big, pompous voice. said.
'I nominate these four for members
in the honorable order of Wiggleisk-
kens."
And everybody except the new
comerso said. Aye. Aye" Just
that way
And so you are Wiggleiskens,"
announced the leader; and what
shall be- your family name"
For a wonder. no one had thought
of that. OF course the new members
could not have thought of it, because
they didn't know that when a family
was elected to the order of Wig
gleiskskens they had a family name
given them Policeman Billy had
forgotten to tell them And the old
iernbers had not thought of it be-
cause they had been so interested in
the affairs and fun of the evening.
The leader beaver. he looked at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
JAYMAWMER JOTS

A western Kansas editor is quoted
as saying that every time he sees a
striped waist he thinks of an old
fashioned awning. And both are worn
high from the ground.
The ladies took theri fancy work to
the county fair and sat in their cars
and crocheted and tatted reports the
Centralia journal, and it asks: Is that
a slam at the county fair?
News from eastern fashion centers
says that the women are buyins
'spreaders, notes the sartorial or
maybe it's the tonsorial, or possibly
the hirsutical expert on the Sabetha
is a bunch of white hair that is put
in with their own hair so that it
scatters around the head like natural
gray hair.
This is some fish story. as the Hia-
watha Kansas Democrat says Ollie
Riggs and Joe LaCross, of Cottonwood
ans, Chase county, caught a fifty
five pound catfish in the Cottonwood
river. The fish was four feet, two
inches long, and its head measured
ten inches across. But the Democrat
IS likely to get into an argument with
its suggestion that if this story be
true, 1t probably tells of the largest
fish ever taken from a Kansas stream
At the Peep-Hole, in the Olathe
Register: Bad air tires people more
imam haro work. '-Headline. And no.
air more than both of them .
The old-fashioned candidate who
once kissed the babies now is so hope
iessly modern that he won't even
serve as judge at a baby show. E.
A new hat never looks quite so good
as in the window of The clothing
store. . It's harder to be a good
winner than a good loser. The sue
cessful man without the swellhead is
rare, indeed. The way of the
alien is hard in Olathy. SHe's a
stranger here" said Lem Lump of a
neighbor. Hes lived here only six
years.
Musings of the Village Deacon, in
the Osborne County Farmer: Every
body breaches sermons twice. tells old
! stories and rides hobbies except You
and me. If the rest of the people were
/ like us this would be a fine old
world 8. The ark was saved all right
! and the records do not show that
Noah was much of a politician,
either. Women would live to a ripe
| old age and be always happy if it were
not for two things-paying back calls
they owe and g~tting their Christmas
presents early. The alphabet is di-
| vided into two parts-the letter or
and the other twenty-five letters II
all the campaign stories were true
there wouldn't be enough honest peo-
pie left to do guard duty at the pen
| itentiaries- There is always toe
| much bass when the congregation
sings
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Charles w. Fairbanks, the Repub-
lican presidential candidate, is tossing
some explosive shells of most damag-
ing proportions into the Democratic
Camp with his pointed references to
the waste or the extravaganza OF the
Democratic administration. The reck-
less abandon with which the Dem
ocraeic statesmen have tossed the ma
tion's funds about during the past
three years and half creates flnan-
cial record that has no equal in the
history of this country. Nor can the
Democratic party hide behind the Eu-
ropean war or even the extraordinary
appropriations for preparedness IN
one form or another, in any effort to
cover up the manner in which govern :
mental moneys have been SO lavlshly
passed around under it's rule.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
lFrom the Atchison Globel


Dignity and don't care won't mix
Most of the rumors aren't anything
else.
A thrifty man is one who wants to
make a profit on his hobby.
In taking your time, you are also
apt to be taking that of someone else.
There are lot of big league scouts
that aren't engaged in the baseball
business
The long shot wins more frequently
in magazine fiction than on a real
race track.
The horrible example may do 9TH
ers some good. but he isn't much of a
help to himself
man who can't sleep after four
a. m. isn't entitled to much credit
for getting up early.
A good deal of a mans conceit is
based on the encouragement he gets
from his fool friends.
You may have observed that it is
the liquor interests which find the
most fault with prohibition
There are church members who
seem to think there ought to be some
sort of super-heaven for their benefit.
No man loves his wife enough to
want to go shopping with her; when
a man shops he wants to buy some
thing
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

If everybody practiced what he
preached there might be even more
confusion in the world, as no two
preach the same thing.
X X y
Most of the poor people would like
ly jump at the chance to suffer the
annoyances that are said to go hand
in hand with riches.
X X X
Even the most sedate and peaceful
of camels will do considerable fuss
ing and kicking when the last
straw is placed on its back
* X X
1t may take all kinds of people to
make a world, but a few of the pc
culiar varieties on this earth proba bly,
wouldn't be missed much.
* X X
If the folk who are bent on keep
ing busy could annex and utilize the
time that others waste. how much
happier they would be and how much
larger their accomplishments
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How did you find that out?" asked
Mr.. Merton.
by her singing. She is always sing
ing at her work"
Mr.. Merton slapped viciously at the
back of his neck.
That's no sign" he said. "A mos
quito does that
The grammar school principal went
from room to room explaining what
to do in case of fire. The pupils
listened with respectful attention un-
til he came to his final instructions,
then smiles and giggles disturbed the
principals serenity
Above all things he said, IF
your clothing catches fire remain
COOL
But are you sure that 1 shall re-
cover" the patient asked anxiously.
II heard that sometimes you have
given a wrong diagnosis and treated
patient for pneumonia who after
ward died of typhoid fever"
you have been scandalously mis-
informed" said the doctor indignant
ly IF 1 treat man for pneumonia
he dies of pneumonia"
when 1 grow up to be a man..
said the boy who lived in a flat, II
want everybody to be sorry when l
die"
That is a very laudable ambition
replied his father. THE only advice
1 can give you is: Don't be a janitor."
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Smith isn't a German name; that is,
il isn't when it is spelled that way.
But it happens to be the name of
detective who insists that no less than
80, 900 automobiles have been stolen in
the United States during the last yeaH
and shipped II Europe for use by the
Ente Z Allies. And here's where said
Smiths pardon will have to be asked.
A second reading of the news item to
the above effect discloses the fact that
Detective Smith says that that many
automobiles stolen in the United States
in the past year have been unwittingiy
purchased by agents OF the Allies and
shipped to the front. But for some
reason or other even that qualification
doesn't make the story ring like it was
true. Still. Detective Smith, whose
habitat is St, Paul, Mimi, may know
what he is talking about.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS

(Summer apples are delicious and
cheap, but will not keep. They can
be used in many delicious recipes.)
New Way to Bake Apples-Two
cups sugar, one cup water and three
cents worth of little red cinnamon
candies. Cook until it is like syrup.
Have apples pared and halved. Place
in syrup and bake until tender. Re
move to platter and pour remaining
syrup over top. Delicious with meat
course: very good as well as good
looking.
Transparent Apples With Whipped
cut in circular pieces three-quarters
inch thick. remove seeds and core;
carefully spread on dishes to dry
slightly. Make syrup of l IL
pounds loaf sugar and half pint
water; boil until rather thick Now
lay in half the apples and simmer
fifteen minutes. Take out and spread
on platters to cool while the rest
cooks. In fifteen minutes take these
out and spread. returning the first
break the slices by rapid boiling.
Cook until done and clear, remove
all carefully in deep glass dish. Add
to the syrup the grated rind of two
fresh oranges, pick out pulp and SIM
mer a little While and pour over
apples Crate the rlnds OF an orange
and express the juice; add this, with
one small cup of white sugar, TO one
pint of rich cream; whip stiff and
pile on apples. An elegant and beau
tiful dessert.
Apple Pudding-Put two layers of
quartered apples in a pudding dish.
sprinkle thickly with graduated sugar d,
add a few raisins and a teaspoon of
butter pour over this a batter made
of small teacup sugar, three-fourths
cup milk, one-fourth cup butter, two
teaspoons baking powder, flour
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enough to form a batter as thick as
for layer cake; little salt. Steam or
bake until the apples ART cooked.
Serve hot with cream and sugar
Apple Fritters-Beat two eggs un-
til light with half pint new milk, add
teaspoon of salt. two cups sifted flour
and pint of peeled and sliced apples.
time in boiling fat; take up with
skinner as soon as done. Dredge
with powdered sugar and serve i'm
mediately.
Apple Cream Pie-Line deep pie
plate with a rich crust. Cut very fine
enough apples to fill same. Mix with
apples: One cup sugar, one-half cup
flour and one-half teaspoon CHINA
mon. Fill pie plate and pour-,.in
Dot with butter and bake. ---
dish. Put in a layer of dry bread
crumbs, then layer of apples quar-
tered, and SO on until your dish is
, filled. Sprinkle sugar between each
layer. When pan is filled. add sugar,
nutmeb and butter. Serve hot with
cream.
Apple Sauce Cake-One and one
half cups apple sauce. one cup sugar.
two cups flour, one cup seeded rails
ms, one-half cup butter Cor a little
less of other shortening), one table
spoon hot water. two teaspoons soda,
one teaspoon each of cinnamon and
cloves. Cream butter and sugar, add
sauce. dissolve soda in hot water
then add flour and spices sifted in,
raisins last. The sauce should be
previously sweetened as for table
use. This is an elegant cake and will
keep without drying up.
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Yes, what shall it be-" asked all
the Wiggleiskskens.
Just then Bushy, who ought to have
been paying close attention. but who
wasn't noticed his tail. That slide
down the bank had rubbed off a lot
of his fur-a lot,
Quickly he looked at his brothers
and his fathers and his mothers
tails and they all had fur rubbed off
too-a lott Dear mel" he exclaimed
right out in meeting. our tails are
shorter than they were"
Then Short-tafl Beavers you shall
be called, said the leader beaver
quickly; ''Short-tail Beavers you are
from this day
And that is the story of how the
Short-tail Beaver family Joined the
ranks of the Wiggleiskskens at the
side of Pinkley pooL-(Copyright-
Clara Ingram sJudson.l
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record-breaking

Another record-breaking bank
showing is expected in Kansas on the
calls that have been sent out by ooth
the national and the state banking de-
nartments for reports on the financial
s;+ration with the banks on September
IL. And there will probably De much
pointing with pride in divers Kansas
onarters to that boon companion, Mr.
Per Capita Wealth, but who is also
and rightly looked upon as pretty
much of a joker by not a few OF the
rnultitudes.