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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
NOTORIOUS SOUTH
AMERICAN RIVER

One of the greatest rivers OF the
world, tn Orinoco, is also one of the
least known to Europeans. It's sister,
the Amazon, has often been described,
by Wallace and Bates, among others,
but Humboldt remains practically the
only real authority upon the great
stream, which, rising on the frontiers
>of Brazil, runs for 1000 miles through
venezuela, receiving in it's course such
immense tributaries as the Mela and
Apure, and discharging itself by a
hundred mouths into the South Allan
tic opposite the British island of TriDi-
dad, says the Caracas Herald.
The principal entrance and the only
one available for sailing vessels is
the Boca Grande, to the south, into
which flow, among other tributaries,
the Aratura and the Amacura, the
latter almost coinciding in its course
with the Schomburg boundary line
between British Guiana and Venezuela.
But most of the traffic of the Orinoco
passes through Trinidad, where pas
sengers and goods are transferred to
steamers almost fiat-bottomed, and
reach the Orinoco by the mouth known
as Macarao, the open sea being avoid
ed. 1t was by that route that the
writer started in the Apura, chartered
for the occasion, on a trip of 500 miles
up the great river, forming probably
the first, and certainly the largest, par
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
Old "Castor" Goes For Junk.

The announcement that the obsolete
wooden frigate, his Majesty's ship Cas-
tor, has been handed over to the ship
breakers at Sheerness, says the Lon
don Telegraph, recalls an exciting in
cident in the history of the old vessel.
After taking part in the Syrian cam
paign Of 1910, the Castor was subse-
quently employed on the northwest
coast Of Ireland. In 1S47 the frigate
was unfortunate enough to run into
and sink her Majesty's cruiser Dill
gence, while riding at anchor, drown
ing most of the crew. The Diligence
at the time was under the command Of
Sir John Reid, and the affair naturally
created sensation in naval circles.
The officer of the watch on board the
frigate was removed from the navy,
but was afterward reinstated, and ap-
pointed to the coastguard service The
service promptly dubbed the unlucky
frigate the Blind Castor. name
which stuck to her for the rest of her
career. For many years the Castor
had been employed at South Shields
as drill-ship for the Royal Naval Re-
serve.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
MOUNTAINS IN
CONSTANT MOTION

Mountains are not the stolid, i'm
movable things they are CREDITED with
being in the popular mind. Scientists
aver that a mountain in motion is
just as common as the existence of
mountains. They all move slightly,
and, to the unframed or unassisted
observation, imperceptibly, Of course,
but move they do, nevertheless.
Railroad constructors find from ac-
tual experience in maintaining tun-
nels, bridges and tracks in mountain
Gus regions that these huge bulks are
constantly in motion.
Drive a stake in the side of a noun
tain, take the location with the great
est care and return in six months!
The stake is not in the same place.
The whole side of the mountain has
moved. This experiment has often
been tried, and always with the re-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
Little Hitherto
Written about the
Great Orinoco
ty of tourists which had ever assembled

~ VI IOuTlSLS which 0aQ ever aSCcQucQ
it.
Six hours after leaving Port-of- Spain
the entrance of the Macarao was
reached and for fourteen hours we
navigated a deep channel, perhaps
half mile wide. Well-nigh impene-
trable forest and underground hide
ground which is for the most part
ooze, covered for half the year by
water. But the passerby sees none OF
the horrors of this great swamp. They
are concealed by magnificent trees
growing to the waters edge, whose
branches may sometimes be touched
from the steamer, when she is steered
close to the shore in order to avoid
the current. Sometimes that splendid
parasite, the matapalo, has wrapped
in it's deadly folds several trees, and,
these perishing,it stands alone showing
walls of green, and resembling large
ivy mantled tower. Upon this and
upon the tops of the tallest trees other
parasites fling masses Of blossom. A
flock Of f1amingoes makes brilliant
scarlet patch here and there; the sun
flashes from parrots of many sizes and
various hues; snow white cranes gaze
stolidly from the banks; macaws,
green and yellow, or deep crimson on
head and breast, fly heavily past; and
smaller birds, of every color of the
rainbow, scream or chatter and sing
among the trees.-New York Press.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
And Then the Bell Rang.

Once Congressman Palmer of Penn
sylvania was retained to defend rail-
road company in. a suit for damages.
The plaintiff had been injured by a
passing train and claimed that the
crossing bell did not ring. The de-
Tense insisted that the bell had rung,
but that the injured man had not
heard it. ct is very common thing, y
argued Mr.. Palmer, "for a man to be-
come so accustomed to sound that
he does not hear it. For instance, how
many people know that the bell on
this courthouse rings the hours and
half-hours?"
"Preposterous!" exclaimed the
plaintiffs attorney. "The courthouse
bell never rings the half-hours."
"There you CO." answered Mr.. Palm
er, making an assertion which proves
my case. You have lived here twenty
years, and yet you never noticed the
bell ring every half-hour. It is now
three minutes OF 1880. If the bell
doesn't ring will drop my case right
here. If it rings think the jury can
settle the case without leaving the
box"
The attorneys agreed. Everybody
took out watches and waited patiently.
At precisely 1880 the great courthouse
bell sounded, Dong"
There" exclaimed Mr.. Palmer,
triumphantly, = told you So" And
a moment later he had the satisfaction
of hearing the jury decide against the
plaintiff.
They do say Mr.. Palmer had man
up in the tower who hit the bell a
resounding whack with sledge ham
mer, but this, Of course, Is mere ru-
NOR and ought not to be believed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
Sitting Still.

To the best comes the time when their
very good is evil spoken of. 1t takes good
ness to understand goodness. The pure in
heart see God, and only such can recognize
the life of God when manifested in the
saints. Few trials are more keen than the
misrepresentation of goodness. An evil
motive imputed to sanity deed is as the
sting. of serpent. The clouds of defama-
ton lower at some time over every sanity
heart. The life of the saint is hidden and
s cannot be understood, by the wording.
'exerts a remedial influence, and such rem
edy that it cannot exert the One to whom
the saints are dead will. He will bring out
our goodness as the light and our right
eousness as the noonday.-Episcopal Re-
corder
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27

Work is given to men not only, nor so
much, perhaps, because the world needs it..
Men make work, but work makes men.
An Office is not place for making money,
it is place for making men, A workshop
is not place for making machinery. for
fitting engines and turning cylinders; it is
place for making souls; for fitting in the
virtues TO ones life; for turning out hon
est, modest, whole-natured men. For
Providence cares less for winning causes
than that men, whether losing or winning,
should be great and true; cares nothing
that reforms should drag their cause from
year to year bewilderingly, but that men
and nations, in carrying them out, should
find there, education, discipline, unselfsh-
ness and growth In race.-Henry Drum
mond
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
SHOES coBBLED BY MACHINES.
Worn Footgear May he Repaired WhMe
You Walt.

xOu w att
Machines to do "cobbling." repair.
ing WORKOUT shoes, is the latest. The
process is described as follows by the
Providence Journal:
The outworn shoes come into the
shop with nothing of any value save
the tops. The dilapidated heels and
soles are taken off by one man, who i'll
turn hands the work on to another
special department. A thin strip of
leather called the welt is sewed around
the under part of the shoe with ma
chine called the "welt stitcher." The
welt is the foundation for the sole. and
to this thin border Of leather the heavy
tap will be firmly fastened at last. The
process occupies just eighteen seconds,
and when done in far rougher man.
ner by hand three-quarters of an hour
is required.
The bottom Of the shoes inside the
welt is now filed with cork and other
waterproof ingredients. Then the high
grade white oak leather sole is laid
on the bottom, but it is not yet time
to sew it on. A machine called the
''channeler'' swiftly cuts half-inch
cash around the lower edge of the sole
This process is rapidly followed by an
other machine, the channel opener"
which lays back the strip cut by the
''channeler."
Now everything is ready for the
"stitcher." The intricate mechanism
performs in few seconds the task that
costs the hand repairer hundreds Of
painful stitches, straining eyesight and
unlimited time. Furthermore the ma
chine uses a heavier thread, the
stitches are tighter and more uniform.
Every portion Of this machine is kept
hot to enable the waxed thread to pull
smoothly through the leather.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
Science Has Proved
That the Huge
masses Cravitote

suit Of showing that the mountain is
ever shifting, ever restless.
In quite number of mines located
on assure veins or between high tilt
ed strata, movements have been for
long time observed, and sometimes
of so pronounced a nature that the
snoring requires rebuilding. These
movements do not seem to be the re-
suit, as in coal mines, of a sinking
from excavation Of material, but &C
tual slipping movements of the noun
tain itself along certain lines.
The Smuggler Mountain at Aspen,
Colo, has mines in the deep workings
of which timbers two feet thick and
eight to ten feet long placed across
the slopes are swapping in two like
reeds, and having their ends broomed
up by the overwhelming pressure and
slipping movements of the walls.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
The Way to the Cross

None of US can tell for what God is edu-
eating us. We fret and murmur at the
narrow sound and daily task of ordinary
life, not. realizing that it is only thus that
we can be prepared for the high and holy
before we can ascend. We must take the
way of the. cross submissively and patient
ly If we would tread the way of light. We
must endure the polishing If we would be
shafts in the CULVER of Emmanuel. Gods
will comes to thee and me in daily circum-
stances, in little things usually as in great;
meet them bravely; be at your best al
very least; dignity the smallest summons
BY the greatness of your response.-F. B.
Meyer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
MoNoCLE DlsToRTs THE FACE.
Expert Opinion on the Increasing Use
of window Panes."

Manufacturers of eyeglasses state
that the wearing of monocles has
again become a fad" among the fol-
lowers of fashion, and the optical
trade papers are discussing the ques-
ton from a practical point of view.
The editor of the Dioptric and Oph-
thalmometric Review, under the head
ing of Straight Talks" writes: ITO
the provincial and sensible optician it
seems a difficult task to realize to
what an extent the wearing of mon
ocles is in evidence in London, for,
apart from it's anisorefractive quail
ties. it has a disastrous effect in dis
torting the muscles of the face.
Wearing monocles,'' continues the
editor, 'is a habit; it may be like
others, an acquired taste; or it may
have grown on one, like drink. /
even know one or two opticians who
wear them; they are thoroughly
ashamed Of them, but they cannot
help it.
.At the best of times it is difficult
task to make an eyeglass stick in ones
ocular, as it is not everyone who is
gifted with the superfiuous adipose
tissue necessary to keep the lens in its
place. I have heard it recommended
to beginners that it is well to open
the mouth, or rather to drop ones
chin inside ones collar, put the lens
in position, and then let your chin re-
sumo its natural position"
From the above remarks 1t will
easily be seen that the editor of the
optical trade organ does not favor the
window pane affected by Algy in
Piccadilly. 1t is improbable that
monocles will ever be popular with
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27

line across Siberia Not for many a
generation would private capital have
embarked upon so colossal an UNI
dertaking in so vast a region, so thinly
settled and in the face of obstacles so
stupendous. Unless the population of
Siberia increases enormously, the
railroad through northern Asia must
inevitably be operated for an indefinite
period at heavy annual loss. But
its possible value to the huge Russian
empire for military purposes may, per-
haps, be incalculable in later years.
Where could the proposed trans
Alaskan trunk line secure passengers
and freight enough for its cars and
it steamships to pay even the most
modest profit?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
A World Beautiful.

Don't crowd your world with hate. an
ger, envy, regrets, fears, disorder, discord
and inharmony. Every second brighten
your world with love and Joy and peace
and hope. Every minute expand your
world by unfolding yourself. Every hour
open your eyes wider to the grand and
beautiful sights in your world; open your
ears to the delightful and inspiring strains
of divine music which comes Of love. broth
erhood, tenderness, kindness, gentleness,
cheerfulness and contentment. Then
from hour to hour, day by day, year by
year your world viii become more beauti-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27

In several Belgian towns dogt are be-
ing made use of by the police.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27

business men who have to really work
for their living.-London Express.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24
A California Op-
p0rtunity.

The coming ten days rational gather
ing of the Knights of Pythias at San
Francisco in August next demands the
prompt atlep tion of the enterprising peo.
Pile of every mining section of California
in its presentation Of a splendid oppor
tunity to draw the attention of thou.
sands of people of money, standing and
influence to the mineral and other at
fractions If their localities as places of
residence, soiourn or investment.
This gathering is expected to be the
largest ever held on the Pacific Coast, it
being now estimated that more than So
000 strangers will attend. The order has
10000 members, mainly in the United
States, and its membership represents
very high average of personal character
and prosperity. These thousands of
strangers will exhibit keen interest in
California as Il State outside of San
Francisco, aud great many will be in
terested in knowing what chances their
energies and capital might find in a land
of which they bave heard so much and
to which the attention of the world is 50
widely turning. 1t is not necessary to
make Kindergarten demonstration Ct
the principles of advertising to enforce
the truth hat county exhibits in San
Francisco at that time might constitute
a California mining exposition of 10
mean order that would return fabulous
interest on the investment, partly Of
money but chiefly of enterprise. The
Grand Chancellor of the order in Cali
fornia is energetically trying to organize
such exhibits for the occasion through
general and local committees, and with
$4,000 members of the order in the State
and with the public spirit that now ami
mates the mining industry, California
minerals ought to play star part III the
gathering. Pacific Coast Miner.
Nevada should also get in with a dis
play of ores.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
TO Edwin Gifforei:.-

NOu ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
that there has been expended,
in labor and improvements upon the
iollowicg mining claims, all situated
in the Battle Mountain Mining Dis
trict, County of Lander, State OF Ne
vada, for the purpose OF holding the
said premises under the provisions OF
Section 1924 of the Revised Statutes
OF the United States and of Section
ZIG of the Compiled Laws of the State
of Nevada, for the year ending Decem-
ber 81, 1901, sums, as follows, to-wit
Upon the Grand Prize Lode the sum of One
Hundred Dollars
Upon the North Extension ofGraud Prize Lode
the sum of One Hundred Dollars.
Upon the South Extension of Grand Prize
Lode the sum of One Hundred Dollars.
Upon the West Grand Prize Lode the sum of
One Hundred Dollars.
Upon the North Extension of West Grand
Prize Lode the sam OF One Hunnred Dollars.
That the total amount SO expended
was and is $500, and that the expen-
diture thereof was necessary to hold
said premises as aforesaid.
That of this sum of $500 rs neces-
sarily expended as aforesaid, your
proportional share is $l6667 and that
said sum was expended by me to hold
said mining premises as aforesaid, rs
more fully and at large appears by GER
tificate of proof of labor on said claims
filed in the Office of the County Re
eorder OF said County on March Goth,
1902, which is hereby referred to and
made a part hereof.
And you are further notified that if
within ninety days from the service
upon you Of this notice by publication,
you refuse or fail to contribute your
proportion of said expenditure as CO.
owner in said mining claims, your in
terest in said claims will become the
property of the subscriber by virtue of
said statutes.
F. E. CHAGNoN.
Dated March 9th, 1902.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24

John T. McWilliams, Good Springs.
Frank A. Keith, DeLamar.
Frank P. Swindler, Los Angeles, Cal.
Walter G. Gayhart, Austin.
Vim. N. McGill, Ely.
John r. Cook, Phoebe
Frederick Davis, Elko.
Vim. Ii. Linney, DeLamar.
Elmer A. Vail, Salt Lake Utah.
Thomas II Hammond. Republic, Wash.
Chas. P. Brooks, Salt Lake, Utah.
r. II. Browne, Salt Lake, Utah.
Thomas J. Jones, Berlin.
A. II. Talamantes, Salt Lake, Utah.
VIM. II. Blackburn, Salt Lake, Utah.
|. c. Macfarlane, st. George, Utah.
JAS. B. Pope, San Bernadino, Cal.
Thos, l.. Henderson, Searchhght.
Harry X. Wheeler, Los Angeles, Cal.
The following are Contract Deputies.
not holding appointment as Mineral Dep
uties:
Richard H. Cook, Genoa.
Stewart T. Morse, Reno.
Frank III. Criss, Reno.
Henry Thurtell, Reno.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24

A young woman clerk at the court
house was asked to report for the We'll
lington (Kan.) Mail wedding that was
to take place in the Office of the probate
judge. Here is her journalistic achiev-
ment-otherwise not even the names be.
ing given:
1.-THE bride was sixteen years old, wore
a short dress and Elack kid shoes, black
dress, red cholSer, blue velvet hat with
plumes arranged to give wing effect
crown fiat and a white rosette IN front.
The groom was tall, gawky and light
Completed, wore blue necktle, striped
trousers, dark blue barred sack coat
standing collar, black shoes laced upside
down with strings trailing"
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24
A Necessary Re-
form.

"The Silver Peak mines will not pass
into the hands of the Lane syndicate,
for the time being at least. The deal
has fallen through, for the reason that
the New York owners would not enter
tam proposition based upon time pay
ments. They want cash and it will take
large amount of it to swing this prop
erty, which can be recommended as one
Of the most promising of its kind IN the
west to. day. 1t seems strange that these
valuable mines should have lain idle SO
long, but the owners are wealthy and in
a position to dictate terms to intending
purchasers"
The above, from the columns of an ex-
change, does not state the case in its en-
tirety. 1t is true that one reason the
mines have lain idle SO long is that the
Blairs, who own the property, are wealthy
and so can afford to dictate terms, but
another reason is that it does not cost
the Blair estate one cent to let the prop
erty lie idle. The only remedy for this
is tax on patented mines, which will
force an incubus like the Blair estate to
open this great Silver Peak property to
development or to pay something for the
privilege of keeping the mine idle.
The owners of unworked. patented
mining claims are dead weight around
the neck of Nevada. They are the Old
Man of the Sea that is breaking the back
of this young Sinbad Of the States. They
are the lock on the wheels OF state pro-
gress. ball and chain around the ankle
state development. Ard SO they will re-
main until something is done to cut
loose their tentacies from their grip on
the throat OF Nevada. Let the next leg
islature provide for tax on unworked
patented mines and people like the
Blars will either have to ''shoot or give
up the gun"
What an era OF progress such pros
pect would unfold! There are many,
many rich claims in the same fix as those
at Silver Peak, the opening OF which
would mean the annual addition OF mill.
ions Of dollars to the output OF the State.
Under such conditions Nevada should be-
come one of the foremost mining states
OF the Union. Va. Chronicle.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24

LOYALREBEKAII LODGE NO. Is. |. o. o. F.
meets IN Lemaire's Hall the first and third
Friday evenings Uf each month at 80 o clock.
Mrs. Luella Weaver, N. q.
f. Il. Woolcock. Sec'y
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24
u. S. Mineral Dep
utieS.

The following is list of the United
States Mineral Surveyors for Nevada:
Thomas p Mack, Dayton, Nevada.
Leon III. Taylor, Carson City.
Dennis Scully, Austin.
William Ii. Coleman, Carson.
John G. Booker, Hawthorne.
ii. B. Maxson, Reno.
Thomas X. Stewart, Reno.
Henry Fitzhugh, Salt Lake, Utah.
l.. f. j. Wrinkle, Reno.
G. w. Irish, Gold Creek.
A. d. Campton, Ely.
George Ernst, Elko.
John Pardy, Eureka.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24

The question has been asked, "In
what way are Chamber'ain's Stomach
& Liver Tablets superior to pills?"
Our answer is: They are easier and
more pleasant to take, more mild and
gentle in effect and more reliable as
they can always be depended upon.
Then they cleanse and invigorate the
stomach and leave the bowels in nat
ural condition, while pills are more
harsh in effect and their use is often
followed by constipation. For sale by
all druggists and dealers in medicine
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24
The
Salt Lake City
Stop-Oyer.

There is but one ranscontinental line
of railway passing directly through
quaint and picturesque Salt Lake City
and that is the Rio Grande System
Scenic Line of the World. Stop-over
privilege is given at Salt Lake City,
beautiful Glenwood, Colorado Springs
or Denver on all classes of tickets. The
Rio Grande system operates through
Sleeping and Dining Cars to Denver,
Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago or ST.
Louis. Personally conducted excur-
sions. Literature or rates apply to Geo.
w. Heintz, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Salt Lake City.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24

....zsx... BATTLE MOUNTAIN LODGE
sAs,F E%x NO. ~. |. O. O. f.. meets in Le-
". <1yrsSr maire's Hall the first and third
"Wednesday evenings of @ eh month
at 80 o'clock.
Il. G. Langford, y. q.
&. y. Ramsdcll. Sccy.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24

WANTED-Several persons OF char.
acter and good reputation in each
State Zone in this county required) to
represent and advertise an old estab-
lished wealthy business house of solid
financial standing. Salary $500
weekly with expenses additional, ali
payable in cash each Wednesday di
rect from head offices. Horse and
carriage furnished, when necessary.
References enclose self-addressed
stamped envelope. Manager, 3l6 Cax-
ton Building. Chicago.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-04-24
- SOCIETIES.

q Stated communications of Battle
~ Mountain Lodge, No. u, Z. 4 A. NJ.
" |Fare held in Lemaire's Hall tho second
~ Tuesday evening OF each month at
80 o'clock.
Thos. Nelson, w. NJ.
A. ID. Lemaire, Secy.