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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29

M RS. FRANK ANDERSON of
nH New York, who has followed
her explorer husband into the
densest of jungles, has re-
Gently returned from a most toilsome
trip into the interior of Colombia. Mr..
Anderson is geologist for the Standard
Oil company, and took four young as
sistants with him, besides his wife.
81 was the first white woman to pen
Mrs. Anderson. "As our little steam
er went up the Sinu the children ran
out from the mud and bamboo houses
calling. Mira! Mira! Americana I
used to feel that l was on exhibition
all the time, and it was very hard to
dress the part, for my clothes wilted
and the very hairpins rusted in my
hair 1t was SO hot and damp that We
had to take off all the buttons and
metal buckles for fear of rust spots,
and our shoes fairly widowed on our
feet.
But by far the most interesting
part of the trip was the voyage up the
Sinu on the little 75-foot steamer
There was only one camorote or state
room and only fifty feet of deck space
for the sixty passengers to swing their
hammocks. The captain gave me his
stateroom, since l was the only wom-
an on board; but with the others 1t
was first come, first served. The ham.
mocks were swung one above the 9TH
er like hunks. Some of the men slept
on deck and some on the table where
we ate! We had our own bedding, of
course, and got through the ITO miles
In comparative comfort.
1--WE found a beautiful house wait
Ing for us in Lorica, built in the old
Spanish mission style round wonder
full patio. Unlike most Of the houses,
It was two stories high. 1t belonged
to the principal family Of the province,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
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came back with skirts of bark and
leaves.
I'VE had the usual hammocks. bags
of food, water barrels, mosquito nets
and cook tent loaded on the burros,
and had taken along a special camp
tent for me in case we didn't find the
usual empty house; but we only had
to pitch it once in all the week we
were gone.
THE first night we camped in
little open space, and the cook soon
had fire going, with bacon and
yamas toasting over It, Every bit of
drinking water has to be brought
from safe place and then boiled.
But we didn't have to live on beans
and bacon. Even the woods Indians
raise fowls and cattle. There is not
wild game. You have to learn to eat
fresh-killed meat; but you have to
do that anywhere in that country. It
is too hot to keep anything even over
night. My khaki suit was soon
streaked with dust and the heat from
the horses, but as there was no one to
see it did not mind.
1--WE did have some shooting, for the
second day out a fifteen-foot boa con-
strictor crossed our path. One of the
men shot it at once and the natives
skinned 1t. The colors in its skin were
wonderful.
They were nothing, however, to the
colors of the flowers. The tall grass
and the trees made it too dark in most
places even to take pictures, but
wherever there was rift of sunlight
the flowers burst forth. There were
the wonderful pink accasia bushes and
a sort of bird of paradise flower with
one blue petal-the other yellow and
red. The royal poinsetta grew tall as
a maple with it's perfect blooms and
long pods--and there were beautiful
scarlet and yellow orchids. We found
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
LESSON FROM THE FLOWERS
GentIeness and Tolerance Are Taught
by Sweet Things of Garden
and Field.

What a freedom from cares and
perplexities one finds among the
flowers. They are never unkind; you
may be with them from morning till
night and not have one bitter mem
DRY or disagreeable thought TO take
with you to your pillow. A tiger lily
won't dig its claws into your breast.
the Gala lily will not prolong her
call indefinitely. The sweet williams
honeyed personality is honest and sim
cere; sweetness that will not under
fancied provocation turn into vinegary
revenge.
The snowdrops will not chill you
with cold words and looks. The dog
wood will not bark at you or dog
your footsteps. There is clump of
the beautiful variegated variety bend
ing over a quiet corner of the fish
pond, it's pretty leaves reflected in
the water. 1t has NJ canine faults, but
all the canine virtues, fidelity-no rum
ming away from the mistress to follow
strange masters.
Jack in the pulpit does not preach
too loudly or make awkward gestures,
taking your mind insensibly from the
heavenly message he is striving to de-
liver and which your soul desires to
grasp, the mind being willing but the
body weak.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
The Locust as Human Food.

The curious species of insect life,
known as the locust, which, according
to it's family traditions, visits and pays
its respects to the outside world once
in 13 or II years, has furnished much
food for discussion among scientists,
students and farmers, In addition to
these there are others who anticipate
with pleasure the advent of the locust
for whatever might be said about the
strange creature, in spite of IL de-
structive ability and Its appetite for
choice foliage, 1t has one good quail
ity which was probably discovsssd by
no less person than John ~ Bsp-
tist when he decided that spesAnens
which he found In the desert were
good to eat
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29

who owned the electric light, butter
and Ice plants.
Life In Lorlca.
From my windows l could see the
women washing In the river, carrying
their bundles of clothes down to a con-
venient stone and padding them with
boards, then spreading them on bushes
to dry. Everything we needed In the
household was brought to the door
by natives. Live chickens and tur-
keys, yuccas, mangoes, the yellow
fruit that tastes rather like sweet
plum, cocoanuts and lucas are all
poled down the river in canoes. Then
there is cocoanut flour bread rolled out
into thin sheets like Jewish matzos.
liked to go down to the wharf on
market days, though the native ladies
never do. Even the cloth for their
dresses Is brought to the house In
bolts by the servants.
"As matter of fact, they wear only
q jacket and skirt, 1t Is so very hot,
less than nine degrees from the equa-
tor. Children, even of the better class,
20 entirely without clothing up to five
and six. And there are so many Of
them! Fifteen is not a particularly
large family, and met one charming
woman who had twenty-five. Grand
parents, father and mother, the mar
ried sons and daughters and all the
children live together in the same fam
lies with all their children in absolute
harmony. They keep great many
servants, of course, for wages are very
low, and treat them almost like men,
bers of the family.
THE lower classes are mixture of
Indian, Chinese and negro, but the
aristocrats are almost pure Spanish.
They are charmingly friendly-much
more 80 than the Mexican women
and l became very fond Of some Of
them. They never could understand
why wanted to go out into the jun
gle, but they were too polite to say so!
They were very pretty in their white
jackets that looked almost like our
middies and the dainty little shoes, Of
which they are so proud. Even the
native women who go barefoot have
small, slender feet and the most beau
tiful long hair. It Is almost always
prettily dressed in spite of the fact
that they carry everything on their
heads. l have seen woman with
two five-gallon oil tins filled with wa
ter on her head, but she only walked
little straighter than usual.
Going Into the Jungle.
II never shall forget the start on
my own first trip into the jungle.
wore divided skirt, in which the ma
tives were much interested. They
were more dressed than usual them
selves. and all the Indians we met re-
tired as soon as they saw me, and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
Tiny German States.

Some of the German states are of
lilliputian size, as is evidenced by the
fact that 1t is quite possible to visit
eleven of them, including two king
doms, two duchies and three princi
palities. in an easy walk of four and
a half hours.
A good walker, starting from Stein.
bach, in Bavaria, will arrive in half
an hour at Lichtentanne. which is sit.
uated in Saxe-Meiningen. Thence the
road proceeds in one and halt hours
to Rauschengesees (Reuss, elder
branch, after which in few minutes
Gleima. in Observation-Disclosures, is
reached.
Half an hours walk brings the pc
destrian to Altengesees (Reuss, young.
er branch). An hour farther on lies
Drognitz, on Prussian soil. and the
last stage is another hours stroll,
finishing up at Saalthal, Saxe-Alten.
burg.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29

"HIS is being written in China,
where, at the moment of writ
ing, there is much talk of dis
covering and following the
will of the people on the question of
monarchy or republic. Those who
best know China can only smile. There
is something amusing in the idea of
discovering the will of China's mil
lions of peasants on a subject of ma
tional moment, says writer in the
Dundee Courier.
The patient Chinese husbandman
knows nothing and cares less whether
he is ruled by a president or an en-
peror. His opinion On any matter of
national Importance will not be dis
covered within the next 100 years. He
has to discover it himself before 9TH
ers can do so. At present it does not
exist His one idea of good govern
ment is to be left alone in peace with
out being too greatly robbed by Off
Gals. II his crops are good he leaves
politics, whether local or national, to
those who are interested In them. For
his part, he has less than no interest.
The Chinese peasant is man al
most entirely without ambition. He
has two ruling passions of life, and
these are SO closely allied that they
may be described as one, The acqui-
sition Of wealth is out of the question
for him. To him a Mexican dollar
which is worth about l shilling 9
pence is vast sum, and twenty Of
them constitute fortune. II he earns
the equivalent of two pence a day he
Is doing famously, but you cannot
save much off two pence day. Since
he cannot amass wealth, therefore, he
sets himself to amass family, II one
may SO phrase it. The strongest am
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
Surely Prize ScarecroW.

An American tourist had been boast.
ing again in the village inn, says Lon.
don Tit-Bits.
Talking of scarecrows," he said,
with a drawl. why. my father once
put one up. and it frightened the
crows SO much that not one entered
the field again for a year."
He looked triumphantly around his
audience. Surely that had settled
those country pumpkins.
But he was to meet his match.
That's nothing" retorted one farm
er. "A neighbor O. mine once put a
scarecrow into his potato patch and 1t
terrified the birds SO much that one
rascal of crow who had stolen some
potatoes came next day and put them
back"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29

preClal0 tnelr prOHCleuCy. But Lney
have to hide their diminished heads in
front of a Chinese-even a Chinese
youngster.
Man Without Sympathy.
One characteristic of the Chinese
peasant Is his indifference to pain He
may be badly smashed up, yet he will
cling to life with a tenacity that pulls
him through where a European would
go under. I saw man the other day
who fell thirty feet down the hold of
a ship. One side of his face was ter
ribly battered. Two of his ribs were
broken and one arm was badly dam
aged. A European would have been
carried instantly to hospital. His one
anxiety was to be allowed to return to
work and his description Of those who
would not allow him to do so lacked
nothing in point and directness and
was sufficiently comprehensive to in
clude their ancestors, existing rela-
tions and heirs forever. He simply
could not understand what all the
bother was about.
From this Indifference to pain,
again, springs want of sympathy
with another sufferer. A man may die
on the roadside without the slightest
notice being taken of him. Let his
relatives take care of him. If he is
dying, why trouble with him? 1t is
the business of the authorities to cart
away the corpse. Why should anyone
worry over him? For the matter of
that, of course, II the case is one of
plague, say In Hongkong (where the
laboring class is only little better
than the peasant class in China), a
dying man will be taken into the
street and left there. II that cannot
be managed the body will later be
slipped out quietly and left some dis
lance away. If it is kept in the house
the authorities will come round with
brushes and pals and disinfectants
and other foolish things, and clean the
house and fumigate 1t, and generally
annoy the inmates. The idea Of an.
noying living people because of man
who is dead is ridiculous!
He has one strong saving grace,
however. II he has not come too much
in contact with foreigners, and so be.
come contaminated, he is an honest
business man. Order rice or tea from
one OF the more important peasant
farmers and get sample. and he will
send rice or tea exactly to sample.
Therein he differs from the Japanese,
who has no sense of honor In business,
and Is seven kinds Of q rogue,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29

/ some very rare specimens. While the
men were looking for oil l looked for
orchids. Sometimes would have to
be contented with an armful Of scarlet
HIBISCUS, but usually found what !
was looking for.
IT know something about geology,
of course, and there were many inter
esting formations. Suddenly the heavy
silence would be broken by the cry Of
the machete man as he saw light
ahead, and we would come out on an
open space with perhaps half dozen
mud volcanoes in active operation.
The men got off to examine every
strange or promising formation, OF
course l often went with the party
after that first trip during the months
We stayed in Lorica.
Up the Rio de Orc.
Later we went up the Rio de Orc
in the launch as far as the country OF
the savages east of Bogota. They
have never been disturbed since the
Spaniards drove them into their noun
tain Businesses and they shoot at In
truders on sight with poisoned arrows.
We saw some Of them like dark pieces
Of bronze among the trees, but did not
go too near.
"The savages may have been afraid
of the putting of the launch, for they
did not trouble us.
1.-THE woods Indians greeted us with
the greatest interest, however. AS
soon as we made our camp they would
manage something In the way OF
clothes and then appeal with fruit
and fowls TO sell. They were wonder
fully skillful and In few hours they
had cut down and made tree trunk
canoe when we came out on the banks
of Rio Sardinata. 1t was followed
out, Clipped off and a canvas shelter
arranged for me almost before we had
finished our arrangements to send
back our horses. The Indians with
their long poles took US down not only
the Rio Sardinata but the San Miguel.
On the Rio Buzio, tributary of the
Catatumbo, we saw natives killing
alligators along the banks. There ID
no swimming in these streams, for
they are full Of alligators and sharks.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
BuRYlNo A PLAGUE WcTiN

bition Of his life-perhaps passion
would be a more accurate TERMS
to get married and to rear a large
family, preferably of boys. Second
only to that is his desire, having
reared his family, to have the men,
bers of 1t married as well. And be-
cause marriage is the beginning and
ant the matter Is taken with quite
tremendous seriousness. He marries
young. Rather, he Is married young,
for the contracting parties are not the
two most Immediately concerned, but
their parents.
The contract is drawn up long be-
fore the young people are of a mar
riageable age, and past it the young
people cannot go IL they wish. But
they seldom wish. The young man is
content with the choice made by his
mother. One girl is as good as anoth-
er to him, so always she can rear a
family. What women think in China
matters nothing to any one; among
the peasant class, that is to say. Yet
for all his passion to get married, the
young man seldom dreams of provid-
ing home for his bride. He is con-
tent to take her to his fathers house,
and to rear his children there. The
time will come, of course, when the
little home will become too small, but
it serves him for a very long time
first.
Everyone Worker.
From this custom of two or three
generations living together springs the
fact that everyone, from the young
est to the oldest, does some kind of
work to help. A little tot of three may
be seen gathering bits of stick; the
tottering old grandmother is generally
found trying to weave or spin. Chi
nese youngsters appear to have no real
childhood. They do not laugh as do
our children, or as do the children,
say. of our Japanese allies. In point
of fact, one has to visit Japan to find
children who appear to make the most
of life. They laugh all day and every
day, and they never seem to find any
thing worth crying over Yet 1t must
not be supposed that, because the
Chinese child works at an age when
our children can do little more than
toddle life for them is one of gloom.
In their own way. they are perfectly
happy while they are working, and
one doubts whether they would be
anything like SO contented II they
we're set to play as we know play. The
same holds Of the wife Of the peasant.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
Harvard's New Degree.

Anticipation aroused by Harvard's
announcement of a new degree, that
of Phi. D. in business economics, are
already being rapidly dissipated. In.
stead Of being sign of proficiency in
standing Wall street upon its head,
the new degree turns out to be meant
for teachers rather than practition.
ers of business. The academic trail,
as usual, is ever 1t all. There are
ominous remarks about the free use of
books in French and German, and
something about being well ground.
ed" in European and American his.
tory. The fields" listed for the gen.
eral examination of the candidate for
the new doctorate are more to the
point, although economic theory is
required for everybody instead of for
those only who do not intend to go
into business, and there is nothing in
the description of the courses in mar
keting, foreign trade, Industrial man.
agement and labor problems, and
money and banking, about laboratory
work. It is but too evident that our
most advanced universities still look
upon their business courses as they
have long looked upon their law
courses-as convenient means of i'm.
parting knowledge merely. If Har'
ward wants to make a hit, let her in.
duce some millionaire to put up
stock exchange in the Yard. which
may do for thousands what her med
ical school and her courses in play
writing are doing for comparative
handful.-New York Post.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
Disaster at Once.

She was an old lady. 1t was her
first holiday excursion, and she en-
tered the compartment Of railway
carriage with much trepidation, ana
sat down rather gingerly In one OF the
corner seats. Just as the train was
getting into motion the engine gave
shrill scream, or whistle.
Thereupon up jumped the old LADY,
and, with a startled ejaculation, ex'
claimed:
There they are moo, over pig ~
the very START"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29
Can change Umbrella Cover.

A recent invention provides an um.
brella frame or skeleton and any suit
able number of interchangeable COW
ers therefor, whereby new cover may
be substituted for an old, worn or
damaged one, or q cover of one color
or figure may be substituted for an
other, according to the costume of a
woman carrying the same,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-29

n N RS. FRANK ANDERSON of
nH New York, who has followed
her explorer husband into the
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BARGAINS ~ NuECEs COUNTY
BARN LANDS.

'AitNNiNN IN NJ Ntic COT MY
fAiiM LANDS
t.ucrr tract neat Corpus christi an
in cultivation. an ideal place for suh.
urban home. Price ii85ooe
10 acres. extra rood land i-g mite
from citF limits. ail On cultivation.
harsain al t2tooeo
2o-hore truck farm miles nom
Corpus CHRISTI nii la cultivation, good
farm house with other Substantial i'm
nrnvemcnts price s. 800 90. worth
- 900 %
40 ncrcn extra fine black land an iu
caiivaiinn. 2 miles from nonstuwn Do.
Gated on main putuc road ans rails
ruad bess buy In Nuecea county a.
100 acres choice hleck land. Z miles
fram Violet ftaiiroad statlonl Is
acres in cultivation new room house
barn well and windmill special price
ies 90 yer acre worth 100 100. good
terms
iHs acres unlmpruved fine black hand
mites from Knhatown miles from
Nialei eiltier rona improved farms
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.31 acres unimprnNed black land
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