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Water Valley progress., 1897-05-01

John Wesley was man of many
books and an ardent student. Our
great exampler, Christ Jesus, was
the master intellect of this earth.
When we come to the great SIM
plicity of Christ's teachings, and
do not observe the great intellec-
tuality, we are Obtuse indeed. Con-
sequently we have every good rea-
son to carry out fully the intents
and purposes of the League, and
to do this every department of
work must be thoroughly organ.
lied and systematically carried on.
Then will the League be in deed
and in truth. the training school
for developing Methodists thor
Oughly indoctrinated, and of
broad, scholarly culture and at.
t8inments, who will make the
Most of their God-given powers,
w rendering unto Him the very
best service spQsstDte. Thes Hp.
worth League which. c0nsists only
Of prayer-meeting, as is the case
at some places we know OF, is not
worthy of the name. We have
gifted authors who have given
especial attention to the prepara-
tion Of books for the young.
Choice material for Epworth
League libraries is now stored in
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23

There never was tm3 in the history of the world, when SD much money, en- ergy and genius was being put into the drilling and equipment of armies and the construction and manning of navies, as today. Every prominent nation on earth is doing It's utmost to be ahe d ot it's neighbors Tn the D secession of armies and navies. and ye, there is almost uni versal peace NJ great nations are at war. Why is 1t that the most enlight- ened nations on earth are spending mon ey in getting ready for war which would encircle the world with railroads and establish lines of steam ships on every ocean, and double trade and commerce the world over. Europe today, IS great magazine of war materials. The best youth of all ihd best countries are con- signed to military barracks and floating battle ships Truly the time long proph esed when "sWords wonld be beaten in- to blows shares, and spears into spinning hooks" is not upon ns. The notion rath- CT s "let us have peace if we have to fight for it it"-rucson Citizen.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23
"Sq0lns Wild Gats :"

It is d com non saving, and belief equally as general, that it is not only E. sential, but It is assumed as right, tn At young man should at some time in his life, "sow his will ca s :" This sowing of wild oats means, in painer words, that young m4n shonll have his "fiing," as it IS called: that is he must ''sae the world"
 Now, it has always seemed to me a great misfortune that the man who framed that sentence of sowing wild oats" did not die before he constructed it. From the way some people talk one would imagine that every man had in- stilled into him at his birth a certain amount of devlltry, which he must get rId of before he can become man of honor. For what is called Sowing wild oats" is nothing less than self deg radiation to any vonng man It does not make a man one particle more of man because he has passed through
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23
NO. 50.

siege of riotous living and indiscretion when he was nineteen, twenty, or twen ty-6ve; it makes him just as much less man. It dwarfs his views of life more than it broadens them. And he realizes this afterwards. He does not know one iota more of ''life," except a certain phase of it, which, if it had glitter for him in his youth, becomes a repellent remembrance to him when he is ma tured. The reputation and power that comes of right living and good oh ,racter are what the man from forty to seventy covets, and nothing bat the wells spent years of early lite can secure these. There is no such thing as an invesriga- ton period in a mans life; at one period it is as important for him to be honorable and true to the teachings of his mother as at aGother.-E lwari w. Box in Sue cessward
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23

doing humanity a good turn. 1 don't know by what course he could do more good or add more to the sum of the worlds comforts or pleasures. If he can't go to the field of operation himself, it's an honorable thing, I believe, for him to grubstake somebody else.
 can't quite see why clergyman, if he choose, should not be a wealth pro ducer Christian ethics are not against it. There is only about so much wealth in the world, anyway, and life now a. days is a scramble to get as much ot what does exist as possible. I should rank benefaction above benediction But on the miners wealth, as just said, there are no blood. no tears, no groans, sufferings. sorrows caused to others.
 A minister has Just as much right to mine gold or gru bstake somebody else as the man who listens to his sermons and helps to pay his salary. Il's fool ish notion that minister must apolo- gize for doing openly what he mmends others for doing [ have said that the miner who actually adds to the worlds wealth is public benefactor, and that his wealth is the cleanest in existence. Believing that, why should not 1 offer to grubsake Mir. Gaston?
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23
The Same Old Story, Briefly Told.

A woman's love won, and a woman's heart
 broken; Iris the same sad old story that is so often
 told; In moment of anger, cruel word spoken, And lifes blossom is blighted, ere the bud can
 unfold. The storm clouds that hang like pail over
 heaven, Are not darker than the life whose lovelight
 has fled; When too late to forgive, or to be forgiven, And memory refuses to bury it's dead. The moonlight fell softly on two proud angry
 faces. Their farewell was brief. so bitterly unkind
 and cold He has gone to the Klondike, to work in the
 placers, And she's married an old man for the sake of
 his gold. F. E.. s.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23
Management of Mines.

There is class of people investing in mines, who, from a somewhat limited acquaintance with the present condition of the industry, imagine that the man agement of a mine is an occuDation which any one, without former expert ence in the business of mining is Ca pable of making success. They seem to think that mine is synonomous term with a mine of wealth. That because mining is great wealth producing industry their mine is 6guratively flowing spring from which dividends are to pour out, under the inexperienced supervision of poor relative who has failed in other lines of business. Investors with this idea are more com non in Eng land than in the United States. They are not resi- dents of the district, or, possibly, the country in which the mine is located, and naturally desire to be represented in the financial management of the concern by friend or representative in whom IIIOy PldCO PIIClb u AhIo 10 eOOO motive, if their representative in charge has sense enough to know his own weak ness, and hires a consulting mining en glneer to periodically direct his actions and give the necessary technical advice, or employs an experienced manager who knows the mining and metalurgy of the ore the property produces, both of which ways are an extra expense on the mine. The feature of incompetency in mine management has been the most prolific cause of failure of British or foreign cap ital to earn dividends and make success of the operation of all kinds of mines, not only in the United States but in oth- CT countries. Some capitalists do not seem to understand the fact that the suc- cessful operation ot a mining concern Tn these times requires a long business training in mining, over and above the necessary qualified ton of ordinary con- mercial tact Tn trade and in the manage ment of workmen.
 The use of large plants in the operation of low grade ores has cheapened the mining and metallurgy of almost all minerals, and made experienced man agement necessary. The bonanza mine which is rich enough, so to speak, as to run itselt, is not seeking a purchaser when it IS found, for the owners know too we'll how scarce they are, and will not sell; they prefer to work on a small scale, and increase the enterprise from the profits of mining. At the present time, the class of properties requiring the investment of more capital are of the class which need the most experienced management.
 One of the chief reasons for competent supervision is that each mine has min eral conditions and local difficulties pc. culiar to itself; in fact, the environment is part of the mine. If these conditions and difficulties were a constant factor in operating mine, the problem would be of easy solution, but they are constantly changing, which necessitates a different line of action. This is the great stum- bling block or pit fall of inexperience in mining. and in it lies the contrast with the operation of manufacturing indus |
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23

of the presidency by Dr. Eliphalet N. Potter. President Potter has been at the head of two great colleges for nearly twenty-five years, and brings to the work exceptional talent as an organizer and man of broad culture and common sense ideas. He IS already at Irvington engaged in organizing his staff of pro- fessors The work of the university has been grouped under fifteen heads, cov- erng the various branches of knowledge Each of these will be in charge of pro- lessor. As soon as the task of selection 8 60 plete, the students will be assigned their work and the largest Freshman class in the history of the university of the world will begin its studies.
 The extraordinary dimensions of the class thus formed has opened the eyes uf the public to the importance of the gap in educational facilities which the Cos mopolitan has undertaken to fill Know ing that the appropriation made by the Cosmopolitan is limited one and that the entries are far hnvOnd the most san. guine expectations, embarrassing the work by their proportions, many pro- fessors and other prominent men have already made the off.r of advice and assistance without paw
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23

nature or quality, and the article made changes only in pattern or design. In the want of appreciation of this fact by capitalists, many errors have been made in placing a poor relation or inexper- fenced person ln charge of a mining en- terprise.-The Mining and MetallurgicaI Journal
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23
She Miners Wealth.

Robert Mcintyre, a Methodist minis. ter of Chicago, has stirred some of his brethren because he grubstaked miner for the KIondike. The Chicago Tribune interviewed MT. Mcintyre on the subject. He says:
 ConscIentious scruples against such an undertaking? No scruples entered my mind then, nor have they since. It was purely and simply matter of principle. The Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments don't come into the matter, and the ology needn't.
 The fact is, admire miners wealth. It's clean. There are no blood or tears on it. It is acquired away from the schening and the cut-throat competition that characterize ordinary business ven. lures, where the success of one man so often means the disaster and downfall of some other man, or perhaps number of body has been wronged The miner who digs a fortune out of the ground has the satisfaction that he hasn't robbed soul, even though he become hundred times a millionaire.
 Then, too, there is another factor to take into consideration. The man who makes fortune on the Board of Trade, or on the Stock Exchange, or in building up gigantic business house, adds noth- ing to the worlds store of available wealth. The world, in other words, is no richer because he is richer. He IS rich, rather, because some one else is poorer. The miner, on the other hand whether he digs out 100$ or I00,0OO$, adds that much to the worlds wealth, and, with the added wealth, he contrib. utes just that much to the possible amount of the worlds comforts and pleasures.
 As look at the matter, there are few producers of wealth. The many live on the few. The only man compar able with the miner is the farmer He gets what he has direct from nature, but he pro- duces perishable wealth. While he meets a want, his contribution to the worlds wealth therefore is not permanent one like the miners.
 The gold miner is today the king wealth producer of the country, and honor him above all others. It is no dls- honor, It needs no apology, to emulate his example or assist him in his efforts There's the whole question in nutshell.
 It isn't a church matter The fact is God put the gold in the valley of the Yukon for His children. Any man, con- sistent with such regulations as are nec- essary for fair play and the protection of individual interests, has an undeniable right to go there and dig and delve all he chooses. If he pulls out 100,0OO$ he simply makes draft, not on somebody's There is no more wrong in that, there fore, than there would be in a man sow- ing wheat or planting corn and trusting to nature to yield twenty, fifty or hun dred fold. It's private matter between man and his Maker. There's scriptural authority enough for man to plant and reap a harvest of grain, and I don't see why there isn't authority enough for man to dig and delve and reap harvest of gold dust and nuggets.
 AS look at the matter, therefore, the minister who doffs broadcloth and dons a miners garb and faces the perils of the wilderness, and gets draft cashed on Natures treasury for a few hundred thousand dollars or million or two, is
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23

have been young and now am old, said one of the charming middle aged women of the period, in the hearing of a Boston Transcript writer, "and have reached that period of life. when 1 can look back aud see results and note how seldom those who are born with silver have the silver fork when they are grown up. When I look back and remem Der who were the jeun 9ese doree of my youth-the men whose lives and position above all others seemed particularly en- viabe and desirabe-and then look about me and see how few of those days have attained an honorable and useful middle age, feel that can preach a sermon to my boys and their friends with object lessons that ought to make it very impressive. Some are poor, h4v- ing spent health and subst 1nce, like the prodigaI, in riotous living Even those who have apparently not suffered in purse or health are set of discontented, blase, weary workings, who go oyer the same treadmill of fashionable existence year by year without pleasure or profit
 Another thing l have noticed from my vantage ground of a lifelong experI ence is that, if only IS purely worldly maxim. honesty is certainly the best pol
 Icy. Many brilliant man 1 have seen who has destroyed his prospects by the crooked ways in which he sought 10 bet ter himself financially, politically, and even socially, whereas if he had walked honorably before all men he would have gained the worlds good opinion, and in many instances the very things he GOV eted And finally, there are tho young married couples of my youth. In nine cases out of ten, those of my friends who married poor yonng men, and who gave up the lnxuries ot thelr homes to prove veritable heIpmeets to the men of their choice, are now almost without excep- tion, prosperous, and in many cases wealthy, while those men and girls who have married for money are as rule, greatly in want of it. Be good and ou will be happy is the maxim, and cer- tainly it seems true from materialistic as well as from religious point of view"
 On the 8th day of October more than 10000 students were on the rolls as members of the first Freshman class of the Cosmopolitan University. The con
 fusion into which the plans regarding the Cosmopoitan's educational work were thrown by the retirement of Presi. dent Andrews in order to meet the urg- ent wishes of his friends at Brown Chi. versitv. has been met hy the acceptance
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-23
NOtIce.

Notice is hereby given that neither the Ora Plata or Mariposa mines, nor the owner thereof, will he responsible for any debts contracted by the lessees thereon in working said mines.
 J w. GERRITT. Klngman, Marrh 3, 1897.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-13
JERKED UNDER THE WATER.

thought he'd try his hand, or rather
his snout, on a run of fresh tyhees, or
chinooks. These are the boss salmon,
and the nice, yellow, sayory chaps you
get in the cans they ship from out there.
When he is feeling good. and that is
pretty much all the time, you might as
well take fall out of your sawmill as
fool with a tyhee. he doesn't think a
thing of weighing so pounds, and he
travels in professions so big that along
in June, when he is going up the
streams to the spawning beds, you can
almost walk across stream on the
backs.
"That hog of mine got it into his
head that he was cut out for better
things than yanking weak and tired dog
salmon out of water, and that tyhee
were about his size. / saw him making
his way one day very leisurely to u
stream that ran toward the sound just
back of my mill, and thought it was
little queer, for there wasn't much III
his foraging line in that direction. I
was busy, though, and paid no attention
W bliC ihdllti. ~ ihlluut VI wv ldlCl L
heard the hog give loud squeal of dis
tress, and, looking in that direction
saw him in the water struggling to get
away from something that had hold of
him. l ran to give him some help and
got there just in time to see the razor
back jerked head first under the water
and disappear beneath the surface like
a stone. A dead tyhee, maybe 90
pounder, lay half on the shore and half
in the water. Marks on it showed that
the hog must have captured it. But
tyhees weren't invalid dog salmon, and
a couple of the captured fisb's travelling
companions, in my opinion, had rushed
to it's assistance. Aid was too late and
vengeance took its place. The aveDging
tyhees had just reached out and taken
Mr.. Razor-Back by the neck, and, in
spite of his resistance, had lugged him
in and drowned him. He hoated down
half an hour or so later and was little
tine worst looking pig have ever seen.
If he had been butchered, scalded.
scraped, and half dressed he couldn't
have looked more torn up. He was the
only razor-back l ever knew or beard
of that tried to fish for tyhees. was
sorry to lose him, for 1 was counting on
making q good deal of money on him,
backing him in his line against all
corners, but his ambition was fatal to all
my hopes"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-13
FORT SAM HOUSTON NEWS.

Capt. Woods is officer of the day and
Lieut.. Fiske Is officer of the guard.
Mr.. w. ]. Sohl was a pleasant Wis
itor to the band quarters yesterday af-
ternoOD.
The Christian Endeavor society held
a meeting in its hall over the post ex-
change yesterday afternoon at 3
O'Clock.
Musician Morris, of the band, favor
ed several friends with some choice
vocal and instrumental selections on
the piano in Schwartz's hall yesterday
afternoon.
Private BowersoX, of the band, was
down about the Missions horseback
riding yesterday afternoon and Incl
dentally manipulating Morris camera.
Sergeant Campbell, of troop f, Fifth
cavalry. was tried by garrison court
martial for drunkenness and reduced
TO the rank of private, having been
found guilty.
Sergeant Paulus, of the band, was
forty-six years of age yesterday and
SCiSpihtcu ti' tNcht ". tdhlllS his gun
and knapsack and strolling out after
the festive quail and rabbit.
The soldier members of the San An
tonic football team, headed by Musician
Schneider, of B company, returned to
the post yesterday evening from Gal
weston and Houston, arriving just af-
ter retreat.
Quartermaster Sergeant Emmett
Waller. First Sergeant Sloan, of troop
ID, Privates Haas and Hickman, of the
band and private Minson, took advan-
tage of the excursion rates to Mexico
yesterday and went out to Laredo, re-
surning this morning at 4 o'clock.
A party consisting of Col. Hall, adju-
tant general of the department: Capt.
Foster, canteen officer; First Lieut.. W.
Lassiter, of the battery and Second
Lieut.. VIM. +. Grote, Eighteenth in
fantry, will leave this afternoon over
the Arkansas Pass for Corpus Christi
on a ten-day hunting and fishing eX-
cursion. They will take Private Ben
der, of the battery, and Private O'Con-
nor, of the infantry, along as chefs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-13
PROTECT THE CHILDREN.

Worms rob children of the life-giv-
ing properties of their food. retard
their growth and weakea t1eir consti-
buttons for life. Most mothers know
the symptoms of worms. Children
are pale, restless and peevish, appe-
tite is tickle and sleep is disturbed.
Thousands of mothers have found
Whites Cream Vermifuge a prompt,
safe and absolutely certain remedy.
II kills worms and gives the child
strength and vitality. You can't af-
ford TO take chances with worthless
limitations; remember the name. Price,
25 cents. Sold by e. Reuss and G.
Schasse. 3
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-13
SKAT PLAYING.

The results of the tournament of the
San Antonio Skat club tourney held
yesterday at Muth's pavilion were as
follows:
First prize, for the largest number of
points (494; Charles Wenk.
Second prize, for the second largest
number of points (4I0); VIM. Muth.
Third prize. for a spade solo, without
five matadors; S. Rabe.
Fourth prize, for a diamond solo with
ten matadors; S. Rabe.
Fifth prize, for the largest number of
games won; Oscar Basse.
Sixth prize, for the least number of
points; III. Clemens.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-13
GREAT ON DOG SALMON.
Story Of Razor-Baclz That Was
Very Fond of Fishing.
Nothing Proved TOO Dig or strong
for Mr.. POrlSer Until he Tried 10
Land n Tyhee, with Most
Disastrous Results.

"I read in the New York Sun the other
day." said George Marion Grams, late
ly of Puget sound, about hog down
south somewhere that had been detect
ed in the act of catching fish in a stream.
The item was from another newspaper,
aud the writer of it acted as if this
fish-catching by pig was an unheard-
of piece of work for pig to be engaged
in; but fish-catching pigs are as COM
mon along the Puget sound waters as
kngfshers are on an eastern trout
stream. Why, had an old razor-back
hog when / was out there that I'll bet
could go out any day ik any of the
streams that tumble into Puget sound
and catch more 15-pound salmon in 20
minutes than the best fisherman on the
whole Jersey coast can kill bluefish in
whole day! / owned quite number
of sawmills on the sound, and although
there were a good many crack razor
back fish catchers there, stood ready
any time to back mine with my last
mill against any other one, bar none,
that could be brought on. That hog as
q hShSi mon was SIMPLY d "OhuSi, anu
he never caught anything but salmon.
Theywere salmon thatprobably you and
1 wouldn't care to eat, for they were
trifle weak and slightly under the
weather-maybe the hook-bill, but
more than likely the dog salmon. And
hogs are not the only four-footed fish
ers for those out there, either. Not by
big sight. have seen, within dis
lance of less than mile along one Of
those Puget sound streams, half dozen
bears, a family or two of wildcats, a
whole colony of raccoons, not few
wolves, besides a dozen or more razor
back hogs, to say nothing of a score or
so of eagles, all engaged in the sport
of fishing for dog salmon.
''But speaking of that particular
razor-back salmon catcher of mine, he
got so expert at landing dog salmon
and hook-bills and humpies and similar
kinds that he got the big head, and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-13
MORTUARY.

The infant son of Henry Setter and
wife. No. PIT Utica street and yester-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Ella Leavell, aged Sc years, died
yesterday at 1112 Avenue ID from con-
sumption. Deceased leaves husband
and two children.
James Il. Coleman, aged 20 years,
from Goshen, Ind, died yesterday in
South Heights. from consumption.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
y. S. Graham, No. 2417 Main avenue,
died yesterday afternoon.