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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-08-29
TERMS.
Offer Good In
duCementS.

Out OF her store of undeveloped
resources, of unused lands and
wasted waters, the State of Ne
vada can offer to a large number
of new settlers as good an oppor-
tunity for independence as any
part OF the West, and this state
ment of facts has been made to
meet the inquiries of strangers
who may feel sufficient interest to
look into the advantages offered by
this new and undeveloped region.
Far from being exclusively a min
ing State, as it has been consider
ed by most of its neighbors, it has
many thousand square miles of
fine land, with at least a million
acres within reach of water for If
rigation, which amount can be
multiplied by ten when her facili-
ties for artificial storage are made
use of.
In almost every country in the
world the farmer was first and the
miner and stock man came later.
In New England aud New York.
in Ohio and Illinois, as in Canaan
of old, the tiller of the soil came
in and possessed the land. But in
Nevada, the miner, merchant and
millwright came first, the stock
man followed, and the farmer and
fruit growers are just beginning to
be felt. MOI that there has been
no cultivation at all, but in truth
there has been hardly more than
enough to show the capacity of the
country, and while broad acres
were in hay and grass, there were
small farms almost everywhere
producing samples of vegetables,
grains and fruit of the finest quail
ity. Every pound of produce was
sold to the mines, the stage lines
or in neighboring villages for
good, and often for fabulous prices.
The conditions were so favorable
for stock raising, with free feed on
the hills the year around, hat
those who understood farming at
all preferred to run cattle and
horses rather than raise grain or
vegetables. Then the need of hay
for Winter and for fattening beef
for market set them to work dig
cling bitches and retaining land
along the streams, which took all
their energies.
There is hardly a county in Ne
vada that does not 60 outside of
her borders to buy hams, bacon,
and -four, which produce could be
easily raised at home. For ex-
ample, in the year 1890, the min
ing town of Austin, with $500 in
habitants, and Reese River in the
valley below, irrigating thousands
OF acres of fine land, in sight Of
the town, merchants gave the fol-
lowing figures for the year 1889:
The Manhattan Store imported s.
800 pounds of ham, 1861 pounds
of bacon and 1900 pounds of lard,
Al the same time it bought in Cal
ifornia 152 dozen cans pie fruit.
blackberries, ~currants, etc.-most
OF which is grown in this county;
l32 dozen cans table fruit, 260
dozen cans of jams and jellies. s.
Crescenzo imported 8 tons of hams.
3 tons of bacon, and 2 tons of lard.
E. L.. Horton imported at least 8
tons of ham and bacon and l ton
of lard. G. w. Dickson, a large
butcher, sent East for $4,000
pounds of ham, at II cents a
pound; 5000 pounds of lard, at 10
cents a pound; 1880 pounds Of
salt pork, at 9 cents a pound; l.
800 pounds of fresh pork, at 10
cents a pound; 1880 pounds of
butter, at 25 cents a pound, and
4,SOO dozen eggs, at 30 cents a
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-08-29
NO AGENTS..

All mining companies operating In this and
adjoining districts. and all other parties hav-
Ing business dealings with this paper, will
please transact the same with US directly, as
M have NO agents IN San Francisco or other
places.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-08-29

the Southern Pacific road and
that at present he has no idea of
doing 50.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06
templating enacting tariff laws as a
measure of self-protection.

templating enacting tariff laws as
measure of self-protection.
Our giant corporations of the present
era are nothing butla pack of vampires.
1t only costs about two cents a gallon
to refine and ship petroleum oil to any
part of the United States, but the
Standard Oil Co. charges from fifteen
to twenty cents per gallon for it. This
enables the company to keep up
reputation as good dividend payer
Of course it has no scruples about
robbing the people. The people are
deaf and blind to such little indis-
cretions. The more they are scratched,
the more they like it. What is true of
the Standard Oil Co., is true of great
many other concerns. If the working
man has greater opportunities today
than he had few years ago, it is very
evident that this condition of things
has not become general. If is general
all over the Union, why are there so
many strikes taking place? They are
certainly not striking for the exercise
there is in it, PREFIX.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06
FIRST AID TO THE INJURED.
FIRST PAPER: PAINTING.

In ordinary cases the patient would
regain consciousness without inter-
ference, but little treatment will be
beneficial.
Place the person in reclining
position, loosen the clothing around
the neck and waist, gently bathe the
temples and forehead with cool water.
If this is not sufficient, force a tea
spoonful of brandy or whisky between
the lips. Give the hands and arms a
brisk rubbing to restore the circulation.
This treatment is much more sensible
than the water cure and the person
feels more comfortable when it is over.
Be sure to prevent people from crowd
ing around and thus preventing a
current of pure air from reaching the
patient.
Should you notice person fall sud-
denly, lose consciousness and present
the following symptoms, it is probably
a case of apoplexy, and requires
different treatment:
Symptoms: The face is flushed;
the eyes injected; the lips are blue; the
breathing is stertorous and commissions
are frequently present.
Apoplexy is serious disease and
you can do but little. Place the person
in a reclining position, slightly elevate
the head and shoulders, place an ice
bag upon the head and secure a
physician as soon as possible.
The treatment mentioned for Syncope
will also suffice for persons stunned by
coming in violent contact with hard
substances. AS bruises and contusions
are frequently the result of PERSONS
falling to the pavement in swoon, we
will consider them here. There is but
little difference between a bruise and q
confusion, generally in confusion the
skin is not broken.
The blush green color which a con-
fusion presents is caused by the tiny
blood vessels called capilaries becoming
gorged with blood which coagulates,
but is in time absorbed into the circu-
lation, the skin regaining its normal
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06
Finklespiel's Correspondence.

\ JON uf my old college chumps
" vot alretty yet has bin in her
Y BRINE uf life, has rittening me
uf i'd would be broper und
roomantick uf she alretty yet kitnab-
bing Won uf her luffers und marriaged
him. Veil, all vos I haf got to sed
amt my old college chump vos got
more prains vos der afferage females
don't got. Uf more females would
kitnabbing der luffers pefore it amt
yet two late, vot blessing i'd would
bin. Py all means, let us haf
a chanje uf kitnabbings. Der Bat
Crow shandalings vos .nuddings yet put
a humpugs, NIT two many peoples
claiming der honor uf noing how id
vos did. Vot der bublic kravings is id,
Something's uf old age vot can bin
dramatizeing for der stage, vich is a
good tings for der heroine, because i'd
gife her CHANGING to reductioning her
age midoud hating to deny id; saint i'd
SOP"
L haf some rekolekshunings uf q
married vomens vot dit id kitnabbings
anudder vomens huspand vot vos rite
away gwick dramatizeing for der stage
und giffen der name uf "courtings in
to der court" vich vos money makers
und der bestes societing skandalings
ever yet. Since 1 receeveded my old
college chumps rittenings on dis gwest-
shun abouit kitnabbings uf huspsnd,
L haf put dwenty-von pugs in his ear
about my wife und kits vot 1 am
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06
Building a Character.

"HIS life is given for character
building. Both body and
soul are built up as the flowers
and trees are buiIt-atom by
atom; each tiny speck of matter falling
in steady gradation to its place in SYM
metrical proportion to forms of per-
fected beauty, if in accordance with
healthful law, or warped to images of
misshapen ugliness if the growth is
bent in wrong direction.
Given the right material, laid down
in right position, and each added in
the line of ever increasing beauty and
strength, the structure will be good.
But just as careless mason might
lay brick after brick, each a little
beyond the true line to left or right, or
set broken piece here, discolored
fragment there, giving roughened cor
ners and projections where only
smooth, clean-shaped wall should be, so
a young man who selects vile associates,
unhealthful indulgences of food and
drink, while starving the mind by
neglect to provide the mental and
moral nourishment required, will build
twall of character whose ungainly
proportions and defective material
must alike lack beauty and strength,
and in the end crumble away into the
pauperism of decay.
Every glass of poisonous liquor
drank, every oath and foul expression
that drops from the lips, each impure
thought given bodyment in the plastic
mind will be brick laid away from
the true line of upright character; each
hour robbed from needed sleep, every
gluttonous indulgence, will lay down
q crooked, disease-breeding atom in
the body that is sure to lead to prema-
ture death. A. r. s..
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06
T HAS been stated, and rightly so,
that "a little knowledge is

1T HAS been stated, and rightly so,
that "a little knowledge is a
dangerous thing" But compare
little knowledge rightly used
with the results achieved by no
knowledge whatever, and the adage
loses much of its meaning. In this
series of articles 1 will endeavor to set
forth nothing but practical rules, which
if followed will be of aid to the
physician, instead of hindering him, as
is too often the case.
Where can you find piece of me-
chanism more delicate in construction
or more simple in action than the
human body? Yet if injured, people
will endeavor to repair it as though
they were fixing boiler. If you
possessed very fine watch movement
and you should break some delicate
part of it, would you take hammer
and cold chisel and endeavor to
repair it yourself? Certainly not.
But if person is injured, there are
many who rush forward and eagerly
insist on doing things which are equally
absurd. Nature takes care of her own
1t is not the medicine the physician
prescribes which heals the wound. It
simply assists nature and makes the
work easier for her. She will try until
exhausted to repair the damage and all
we can do is to aid her in her efforts.
"Syncope," meaning fainting or
swooning, is commonly met with.
How many have not noticed the ex-
citement in crowd, upon seeing some
one turn suddenly pale and lose all
sense of surrounding objects? Then
some one rushes with glass of water
sometimes paiD and dashes the
contents in the helpless victims face.
OF course it has the desired effect, but
you have saturated the persons
clothing with water, and you will
admit that is most uncomfortable.
Syncope is caused by temporary sus-
pension Of respiration and circulation,
which is produced by excessive heat, q
: sudden nervous shock, or loss of blood.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06

color. Frequently bathing the injured
part in water as hot as can be borne
will be found sufficient to relieve the
pain and reduce swelling.
In our next article we will discuss
the methods employed to treat other
minor injuries at a moments notice.
CLINIC.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06

in its employ must resort to force
before being granted just share of
the monies their Drawn produces.
When man like Mr.. Schwab is paid
the fabulous sum Of one million dollars
year salary, either the public or the
laboring men are filched. Perhaps
when the writer in last weeks MIRROR
called attention to the fact that wages
were higher today than they were a
few years ago, he had in mind such
men as Mr.. Schwab and few of the
presidents connected with the recent
consolidated railroads. He r.ust be
laboring under the impression that
because we in here are experiencing a
continual boom of prosperity, the
world at large is likewise SO happily
blessed.
Since the advent of great corporations
that have ushered in the doctrine of
individualism, there has been remark
able growth in the ranks of the
unemployed. Individualism holds out
no beacon-light of hope to either the
people or the men whom they employ.
They are neither phllanthropists nor
uncrowned humanitarians. Their
grand scheme of economics in the
commercial world is only for the
purpose of making sacrifices at their
own affairs of selfish greed. If they
were imbued with the unselfish spirit
that characterized such men as Shakes
peare, Milton, Dante, Michael Angelo,
Raphael, Washington, Franklin, Henry,
Adams, Lincoln or Jonn Brown, they
would individually deserve being
hailed as modern benefactors. If they
were following the ideals of such
honored men-not the ideal of pelf-
there would be no more strikes, no
more starvation among the poor, as
wages would be double the amount
they now are and food would be vastly
cheaper; there would be no more
prisons. because opportunities for en-
ployment would be greater, and no
more laborers would be blacklisted
because they demanded sufficient wages
to keep them alive.
The present system of individualism
is not only menace to the masses, but
the lust for gold and unlimited power
will bring about crisis never before
paralleled in American history. Deep
but audible protests can be heard from
Europe. Why do they protest? Is it
because our goods are of an inferior
grade? No, it is because every ship
load of machinery sent from {. this
country to England, Germany or
France means just that much less
employment for the manufacturing
concerns Of those countries. It is like
robbing Peter to help Paul. That sort
Of wonderful prosperity can never
endure. No wonder all Europe is con-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06
Anent General Pros
perity.

IHE MIRROR makes the
| broad assertion that there now is a
greater demand for labor than there
has been for decade, that wages are
higher, and all products considerably
cheaper than heretofore. While the
good conditions, which he so eloquent
ly tells us about, may possibly rule in
some favored localities, we cannot
concede that they are very prevalent.
If we are to judge the workman's
happy and self-satisfied condition by
the numerous strikes that have recurred
during the past year, the preponderant
mass of evidence proves that they are
not as we'll paid or as contented with
their lot as our optimistic friend says
they are. Such statement does very
well as a campaign fallacy, but it
hardly answers the purpose for an
accurate account of the doings in the
domain of labor. The workingmen's
outlook today is. somewhat brighter
than heretofore, but it is far from being
brilliant one. Their improved con-
ditions have not been the result of any
magnanimous action upon the part of
those employing large numbers of
workers. On the contrary, the i'm
provement is due to the prompt action
of the working classes themselves.
The recent strike in the anthracite
coal regions brought to public attention
the hard conditions which the laboring
men of that locality were contending
against that presented, not
a picture of cheerful firesides, of we'll
paid workers and cheap food, but a
panorama of wretchedness, so closely
akin to slavery that it shocked the
whole world. Today, perhaps, a ray of
sunshine has been allowed to percolate
into their lives. Fair wages now
prevail where formerly extortion and
tyranny were dominant. 1t is also
passing strange that during every
united effort made by labor organiZa-
tions to better the wage schedule and
to amend other discrepancies, the
officials seem to find little difficulty in
getting competent or incompetent men
to take the place of the strikers.
Where do they come from? Is it
possible that they leave behind them
good paying positions to risk their
lives in assuming an odious one out of
pure sympathy for the officials of the
concern? When laboring man takes
such stand against his fellow worker,
it is either because he has been bought
by gold, or else there is vast army of
unemployed men who are driven to
desperation by the flaps of their stomach
injuring their spinal column.
AS another illustration in this con-
nection, note the miraculous harmony
that prevails between the machinists
and their employers. The newly Or
ganized steel combine is fully COM
petent to pay its employees just wages.
It controls the entire market; it can
outbid foreign competitors; and, not
withstanding the fact that it has econo-
mized all along the line by discharging
men and closing down small concerns,
it has raised the price of steel rails
two dollars per ton. Everybody knows
how strongly intrenched this billion
dollar concern is at home; how success
fully it controls the markets of the
world, but still the skilled machinists
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-06-06

alretty yet engagement two; und to be
shure to haf more lokits putted on my
door. Ven he says, ivy is i'd yet for ?"
1 say neffer minding Irish, huff nos no
lokingshmits, I haf alretty yet bin
kitnabbings vich I would nod yet
ekspeermentings yet some more. 1
dink he will dit id. / haf receeveded a
letter uf yung greetshur, vot says
she is an orfaning und midoud trends
und relayshunses to brovide for her,
und seeks to pecoming a princess or
gween. Here i'd is vot she says:
Minnesoabpupples.
Now.
Dear Finkie:-
Vot hat 1 did;d because w id is
amt i'd Wy you don't rittening me some
more? l am maddest ad you because
you rittening to all of dem red headed
girls vot hate. o yes you didid i'd, so
don't lyings by me about id. Neffer
mindings Finkie. Dear, all vot I
askings is a brince or kings, und if
you didid indrotucening me to one,
then L will always pc your luffing
sisters. Don't you sendings my foto-
CRAFTS or told I vos an orfanings, if you
did, I will bull your eyeses ouid uf
your dutch head. Don't you daring to
addembting it. l mean pizness now
Finkie.
Luffipgly Gweenie.
P. S. Iforgifing you Finkie. Blease
rittening me some more yet, amt it?
The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
English Ideas of Lynchlng.

At a recent dinner in London the
conversation turned on the subject of
lynchings in the United States, 1t was
the general opinion that a rope was
the chief end Of man in America. FL
nally the hostess turned to an Amer
lean. who had taken no part in the
conversation, and said:
you, sir, must have often seen these
affairs
Yes" he replied, we take a kind
of municipal pride in seeing which
city can show the greatest number of
lynchings yearly
"Oh, do tell us about a lynching you
have seen yourself" broke in half a
dozen voices at once.
THE night before / sailed for Eng
land" said the American, 81 was Civ
ing a dinner to a party Of intimate
friends when a colored waiter spilled
plate of soup over the gown of a lady
at an adjoining table. The gown was
utterly ruined, and the gentlemen Of
her party at once seized the waiter,
tied a rope around his neck and, at
signal from the injured lady, swung
him into the air"
Horrible" said the hostess, with
a shudder. And did you actually see
this YOURSELF"
"Wen, no." said the American apollo
getically. Just at that time | was
downstairs killing the chef for putting
mustard in the blancmange.'
The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
Kind tieartedness

The gingham shirted boy had made
a break to pass the ticket seller at the
circus entrance, but that gentleman
had caught him and rudely thrust him
back
Poor little DEVIL" said a seedy
looking man i'm the crowd. IF / mad
the money, I'd buy him a ticket my
self"
The crowd looked sympathetic, but
said nothing, while the boy sobbed as
If his heart would dissolve.
"I've only got a nickel, little feller,'
went on the seedy looking one, "and
that won't do you any good. Say he
continued, turning suddenly to the
crowd, Tets do one good act in our
lives. Let's buy him a ticket"
It looked for a minute as If collec-
tion was to be started, but a benevo-
lent looking old gentleman nipped it in
the bud by slipping a half dollar into
the hand Of the boy, who promptly dis.
appeared into the tent.
"I thank you a thousand times for
that kind act. sir" said the seedy look
ing man,
"You seem to take quite an interest
in the little fellow" remarked the be-
nevolent one.
well" / should think ! ought to-"
answered the seedy looking man proud
ly. That's the only son | got!"
The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
TRAMPS WITH BANK ACCOUNTS
Queer Way Of Finding Out Per-
sons in Need.

In Persia there are many legends
of a certain ruler who used to wander
about the city at night dressed as
beggar to find out the real conditions
under which people lived, At the pres
ent day many wealthy philanthropists
adopt the same method. They disguise
themselves in ragged clothes and look
for deserving cases in all the worst
slums of our great cities says an eX-
change.
A wealthy Manchester (Eng) man
who has made over 100000 in the
cotton trade, has given away $5OO,OOO
in the last twenty years, though ms
name has never appeared in any sub
scription list. Every few months ne
disappears from home, dressed in rag
ged clothes, so that he may be taken
for some broken-down tramp, and IN
this disguise he visits the poorer
parts of the city When he finds a
really deserving case, he sends a mes
senger with food or money but he
never allows his name to be disclosed.
Another wealthy man who adopted
the same tactics in London has spent
over 5000 600 in the last few years IN
relieving real cases Of distress. lie
dresses in the rough clothes OF a
Thames hargee, and in that rigout has
visited every part Of the East End.
once he fell in with a gang Of men
who wanted him to join them in a
little scheme for robbing a riverside
warehouse, which they assured him
would yield a profit Of $50 quid a
man" Another time he was arrested
as a suspicious character and had to
explain matters to a magistrate,
The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16

arm then, and they came along will
lingly and politely enough, those re-
cruits. / was always sorry for the
young recruits and helped them, for
felt like a veteran after awhile,
Some raw young fellows OF the
Twenty-tirst got into trouble and were
tied up with their arms above their
heads. The poor fellows, | know, we're
fresh and | pitied them. | took big
carving knife and set them free. The
officers raised a big row and all the
cavalry gathered about me ready for a
fight if they insisted on doing any
thing about 1t.
"Ah, that was a real war. I'm proud
Of what | did, and there's nothing I
love better than the old soldiers.
wept the other day when | read that
General Fitz John Porter was dead.
He was a grand man, for all they used
to say of him. / wanted to get over
to Jersey to his funeral, but | could
not do so. | am too old and too rheu'
matte to get about much now.
Eyes, it's lonely here now and have
a hard time getting on, for | can't
work. ! made my own living for 10
years. but these last four years my
health has seemed to fail and | am
not the same. But I'll get along some
how. Mr.. Bourke Cochran tried to get
me a pension. but It didn't go through.
It is hung up there in Washington
now. The ladies of the G. A. r. came
around TO see me before I moved here
and we're very kind"
Mother Ferguson smiled bravely. In
spite of her age, her ills and her poy-
erty she still determined to go on the
annual G.. A. R. excursion,
81 want to see the boys once more"
she said. at may be the last time.
I'm very old"