White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

dollar of him Tor my boy ana =
swiped another dollar to see if he
would call me down, hut he didn't
have the nerve
The first story nearly always
wins. Mr.. Hughes listened but
knew before it had started that I
didn't know that the colonel was no,
proprietor and that it was not the
colonel but Clarence who tried the
experiment to see if I would call him
down.
Now. what do you know about
this?
Tom Bath came into u office
mine and the mayor's-and asked A!
If he knew where Pine street was.
The mayor admitted hat he had
never heard Of it.
Well" said the county and az
oficio city treasurer, tom Bath
lives there"
Then he went on to relieve his
anatomy of a burden to the effect
that there was a mas of rock there
in the road that was hard on auto
tires and wanted the mayor to move
it away.
"All right said AL, I'll move il
then"
Hold on said 1. Now, Tom,
I'm surprised at YOU" I went on.
Don't you know that there are
some fellows here in the tire repair
business? Are you trying to boy
colt them and get the city to help
you put it over?"
Eyes, that's right answered
Tom, $50 there are. But they make
me pay. have to pay for m tire
repairs just the same if my boy
is in that business"
Yes, you ought to be glad to do
it. What's the little dab that you
have to pay amount to? See the
others that it brings into camp. In
stead of asking that these few little
pebbles be moved off you ought to
ask to have 'em scattered over al.
the streets and make everybody
loosen up"
That's the way it goes When a
man gets into politics and stays with
it so long he loses all his business
sense. All the sense he has left is
looking out for the welfare of the
dear people and forgetting to say,
"Where do l really get off at any
how?"
Much as l have tried since l can't
make him see it my way yet.
In the old days of Belmont, that
is after Tonopah came on the map
and had not yet grabbed the county
seat, Doc Hammond, the famed sur
geon of Delamar and Tonopah, was
summoned to the first named burg
as a witness in a Chinese murder
case. 1t was a nice little fifty mile
drive by team from Tonopah, bleak
and crisp, and since the case was not
ready TO go on for a few days the
doctor had to pass the time, so he
conceived the Napoleonic stroke Of
putting on a flyer in the form of a
faro game. He had $500 on him and
Bob Gilbert, for wears county treas
Hurer and then part owner of a small!
saloon at Belmont. raked up an
other $500. They put 'er on and
oPCuct. RuoH, d1V WOulu nave cle3n-
ed uD the earth had rot the cow
%punchers, dubs and pirheads around
Belmont been too many for them
The latter gentry managed tn ring liz
a sandpapered deck, so Doc and Boil
dropped the thousand bucks. But
at that Doc had plenty on his mine
and did not have his anticipated
trouble in willing the time in dull
old Belmont.
Silver Tip Vauderveer saws. AS
they say in Texas, nobody makes
weather predictions but a damn
fool and a stranger"
Herman Wise says the definition
of a blotter is something you are
looking for while the inks drying.
That may be in some places, Her
man, but in Philadelphia they don't
use blotters. They wait for the ink
to dry.
Frank La Vuiso says: Tn the
guy that broke the crap game at
Monte Carlo. B. BROOKS.
Avoid Impatience.
lmpatience turns an ague into a