The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-06-27
ApD9tss sy THOMAS p. HAwlEy,
O.lIyered In Hamilton ON st. Johns
Day. june "a, 1870.


Fyerv GREAT event in eyer-reenrring Ma.
trre has its sign and mark; its glorious
Transformation: its seeming death; its
nov and bursting life. Nature will mol
ie.ye ms unmindful Of her mysteries, OF
nncarine for her promises; for each she
gives A sign, and for each demands a
recognition.
The earth marks the great eras in hel
annual existence by seasons and times
by the falling leaf and budding blossom
by change of fruit: by rain and drouth
by Wintry blast or Summer breeze.
So are there seasons and times in the
histories of men. creeds and nations,
and each has its peculiar Significance
and its appropriate rite.
Each new treasure. in its effect, nm
folds new leaflet in the treasurer
mind, and like tine expanding rosebnd.
each opening leaf gives it new oapaci-
~ to retain within its embrace another
dewdrop. until the mind becomes the
perfectly developed flower. and each
petal lustrous with gems of beauty.
The refined Greek celebrated at the re-
turning Olympiad his civilization aud
culture. and once in the revolving -four
years Olympus saw beueath her shade,
the grace and strength, the poetry and
science. the beauty and patriotism which
adorned and eonsecrated her solemn
games. and which, from them reflected.
have shone through mist Of time and
gloom of ignorance, illuminating the
name Of Greece. whose games were her
history, and giving to her games an i'm
port and a charm no less historic than
poetic. The sayages of the wilderness
commemorate in the same spirit at the
outskirts Of their forest opening. or upon
the grassy meadow where the Autumn
river runs lingering by, the season Of
harvest, and the gifts of corn. And so
Nature and savage. and cultivated man,
and all ereeds. religions, moral and be-
neyoleut societies. and all nationalities,
have ever followed an unerring instinct
in the celebration of the great epoehs Of
their history and existence. The State
has ITS days of patriotic jubilee; the
Church its seasons Of rejoicing. On
commemorative days, due homage is
paid TO all who, in every rank and in
every good work, have adorned the age
they illustrated. Thus, religion, art,
science. heroism, virtue, wherever their
yotaries have ennobled life by grand
achievements, have claimed the ready
homage of the world. They who have
died upon the bloody fields of battle for
the liberties Of their Country. where
thousands in the Joyous rush Of death
go down-they who in the fires OF mar
tyrdom have yielded up their lives
sacrifice 10 principle they who in toll
some solitude have worked ont the great
problems of science, and given language
and Interpretation 10 the mute voices OF
Nature - they who with strong hands
and pure ambitions have guided the
evolving desiinies of nations-they. who
as the apostles of diyinest charity. have
devoted life. substance. influence, all to
the amelioTation of human wrong or
suffering. are alike canonized in the
worlds great heart. and compel the hom-
age of the worlds wide sympathy.
We have to-day turned aside from the
tolls Of labor, the sharp competitions Of
trade and the struggles of professional
ambition. and from the mines Of wealth
and golden treasure. have come together
IN the character of Free Masons, to cele-
brate in becoming and appropriate
manner the birthday of nm eminent
Christian patron of our order. ST. John,
the Baptist to exchange our friendly
greetings aud renew our affections and
attachments to our beloved order, and
express our devotion to the principles of
friendship, love aud truth, and to the
sublime teachings OF faith, hope and
charity.
We are living In n country surrounded
by vast wildernesses and lofty mountain
ranges, and in n land that our own hands
have conquered from nature to civlliza-
ton. Within the short space of two
years, new towns of energy have been
built mp to accommodate the increased
wants of growing and prosperous com
munity. New roads of enterprise have
bfen opened through the mountain
piSses.- and over alkali aud saCebrush
plains; and stages are now running daily
thereon, conveying passengers to ana
from this land of silver. The miners,
like bees, are scattered over the dreary
mountain Sides and, with unceaslng toll,
impatient labor and positive energy aud
industry, are developing the mines,
searching for the bright threads OF pure
silver and the base ores OF great value;
while within the corporate limits of onr
young city. we see the fire of the furnaces
and hear the rattle of the mills that are
daily reducing silver bars and bullion
from the silver treasures of our aurlter-
GUS quartz.
By the indomitable enterprise OF men,
the genius of science, aided by stcam,
mechanical and labor power, we have
brought the precious essence of life, the
pure cold water. from the green glade
and grassy dell, from the deep valley
through which runs Illipah creek, where
The fountains murmur and the rills sing
nigh up over the mountain tops, where
the rich rock of the Hidden Treasure and
the Auroras glitters like gold in the sun;
where the storm-clouds of the pogonip
brood and the thunder storms clash-ten
thousand feet above the level of the sea.
Ere another year rolls around, 1--WE
hope) the iron track will be laid down,
and that the Pullman cars, with the
smoke and whistle of tie locomotive,
VIII convey us from the dreary and bleak
mountains of White Pine, through desert
valleys and over the snow-cappoi sum
mt OF the Sierras, to the fertile valleys
oil California-which, rejoicing in their
marriage to industry and skill, bear
iruitfully their yellow harvest; and where
Inc beautiful cottages aud pleasing home-
steads'are surrounded with luscious fruits
ana vineyards luxuriant with almost
tronlcal richness.
h;s we first behold st. John the Biptist in
ina, raiment of camels hair, with a
~.nern om, s grdle around his loins, going
Jnda rom the proud and opulent cities of
tho "a and taking his course throughout
hi III Iesert wilds, and soon thereafter we
i,u isa,uaa vast maltitudes of people-the
'~'ned and unlearned, the wise and sim