Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-30

cinders are endangering all the wood
en- bridges on the Rio Grande system.
Only the heavy traffic in coal, Ium.
ber and machinery going into Silver
ton will be disturbed. The Durango
yards are crowded now with loaded
cars for the northeast and south, and
| II is probable that the loading Of coal
and lumber will be deferred for q few
days.
| G. n. Wood. one OF the prosperous
| farmers of the Cedar Hill section was
In the city during the day on business.
| o.
When the mining industry of Amer
lea has grown to such magnitude that
class mining journals may be estaL-
llshed in any hay or cotton district.
| from 500 to more than 1000 miles
from any mineral producing section Of
the world, 1t would seem that II nad
grown big enough to merit a place in
the presidents cabinet. Mining Jour
nails. however. which avail the oppor
tunity to take advantage presented In
populous centers to bring the adver.
tiser and the mining sections In touch
appear to devote more attention to the
advertising columns Of their journals
than to the practical business and sci
ence of mining. America is swimming
in sea of mining journalism and pub.
lIcations are growing rich at tne ex.
pense of the mining industry and the
factories and manufacturers who
would naturally have touch with min
ing And ont of the great number Of
these journals only a few are doing
the mining industry any good In the
matter of bringing intelligent capital
to safe and sane mining opportunities.
The small mining camp paper, honest
ly conducted too often splotched and
blotched with bad printing, does "a
better service for Its district than all
the so.called class journals which find
money enough to pay for modern
printing, The mining camp paper to.
day is one of Colorado's strongest fac.
tors for industrial Advancement
Yesterday evening the Baptist
church was again filed to hear Pro
fessor Watson's ffth lecture. He spoke
of the deserts of Palestine. His audi
ence listened to him with rapt atten
} tion for the space of over an hour. He
said In part;
The grazing lands of Palestine
called in the Bible deserts, are full OF
dangers. They are abounding in Wild
beasts. The robbing and numbering
Arab is also there. This makes thf
desert place of danger for the shep
herd VINO has to take his sheep there
to feed. At times the shepherd loses
! his life in the defence of his dock
Jesus said that he was the good shep
herd and laid down his life for the
sheep. The shepherd still carried 9
sling, and a club and stafr. The
rod and STAFF of the Twenty.thirf
> psalm should have been rendered By
Club and staff" With the club ht
defended the sheep. and with the staf
he pointed the way and administered
gentle cnastisement. Thus Davit
, said. THY club and thy stan the,
. comfort me- The Lord was his goot
T. shepherd, and, being brave and mighty
l the Lord would keep him In undis
= thrbed possession in the pastures ant
= by the water streams. The shepherd
T trains his sneep and they know his
voice and obey him. strange alb
+ solutely fails with them when he gives
the same commands. Jesus said, M!
: sheep know my voice. and they follow
me. They know not the voice oi
strangers. A stranger will they no,
follow"
The deserts of Palestine were often
mistaken to mean great wastes oi
sand. This has led to the tnought
that Abraham, stated In the book oil
Genesis to have pastured his flock and
dug wells in Beersheba, could not DOS
sibly have done so. The book of Kings
T says that the Beersheba was a desert
with the common conception tnat a
desert Is a waste of sand, such con.
clusion would be reached Both the
original Hebrew word, and the word
in use among the natives means a
stretch OF land not under cultivation.
The deserts were the grazing lands.
St' MaTh = sDspel wi. 5l-oSD speaks
= OF Christ in the desert and feeding
] the multitude. He is there stated to
have made the people sit down on the
green grass. This makes 1t possible
for Abraham to have pastured MS
ilocks and dug wells in the desert.
The lecturer interested his hearers
with description of the irrigation
that proceeded in Palestine They ir-
rieate there with enclosed channels.
Stone slabs. well cemented form the
whole thing. Water is obtained from
storage in the wet season. The water
storage is termed aphek, and 1t must
be Interesting to note that the Bible
said that the Philistines in their war
with Saul encamped at Aphek, the
word being expressed as proper
noun rather than translated to the
word reservoir The irrigatink chan.
nels are called aphekah and this word
is found in the Hebrew of the Old les.
lament. In the Forty.secopd Psalm
1t is given as water brooks, when We
read, "AS the hind criptb 10, tha ,,...