The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-03-10
SETTINGS.
EY WILLARD PACKARD HATCH.
Was all this done by ac-

take heed. Was all this done by ac-
cidpnt?
Milton Detch, besides being a
I shrcwd man,, is 81 deservedly popular
one. When the first shipment of
/ Bullir,g ole went through the streets
Ut Goldfirld IT, an orchestral accom-
patimeut, 1t rave rise tn some rrmi-
n]iscenccs. well, Detch l. o H.
said one. al knew him when he had
Il cracker iwX inr a desk and | took
m-.is With hum out Of IA tin AN, and
this town weren't no bigger'n a set
tin hen, but he kept his wits about
him amt To k chances, and didn't try
to 90 the w',olr hog, and | guess he's
wuih something now that there's
some of us wouldn't be ashamed to
have, and I'm Id glad of it
Wrinkles" says Ella Wheeler Will
cox, ARE the trenches in which the
passions liz buried 1t might he
remarked that there are many of us
with wrinkles whose passions have
nine lives.
They are busily hunting for water
in the southern part of the state and
where ever in the Bullfr"g district
there i. plenty Of it found thee will
be the next sudden town. Many OBJ
ject tn having their drinking water
hauled for miles on the backs of
mules. Thet say it has ~ teniency
to make them obstinate. Some spoke
OF importing camels with Their we'll
known four compartments, but there
were others that could MOI stomach
the ilea.
Four times have l stood 10y the bed
of suicides and spoken with them be-
fore life finally became extinct. Once
the ca Use was disease. Oncr It was
disappointment in love. Once it was
financial lrss. And once it was fear
of social disgrace. From all that l
heard, and some of the stories would
wiring the heart, yet | would unlrtsi-
tatingly say that the average suicide
is a coward. The greater the heights
to which the mind Oi ma can attain
the greater the depths lie into which
it can descend. The man wl,o knows
no melancholy is only half II man,
yet the true spirit invariably reacts
to graater effort. 1t is only ignor-
ance of the future and fear in the
present that let's one sit by himself
and play with the chilly hand of
death.
Edward O. Wolcott has pulled
aside the curtain that separates time
and eternity and stepped out of II
sight. Many OF his most bitter M
mics while he was alive unite in his
praise now that he is dead. Now
that it does not matter t. him what
may be said, and yet all that can he
truthiully said OF him now could
have been said OF him then. And it
might have done some good.
Questions and definitions: What
constitutes Il Goldlleld laundry? A
tub, Il clotnes-line or u joshua, two
bits worth OF water, and II woman
with il mans hat upon her head.
How much cheaper Is 1t To buy new
clothes than to pay the laundry bill?
TwO-thirds, if the new staff is OF
khaki. What are the most typical
things about Goldfield? lhe smell
OF ii sage-brush fire. The conduct of
Kelly. The first bath-.ub, and the
man who invented a Lantern out of a
la~mp-chimney and Il candle.
This town is spreading "ver the
plain like water from Il broken reser-
voir. Lots are going up III price
Houses rent easily, and everyone is
complaining because he or she did
not get here sooner, yet the uppor-
t%unities are just rs plentiful now as
before, money is being made every
day by some one, and il good deal If
it at that. We aren't after any
worms, but there are numbers Of
mornings when it payst" be the early
bird.
We are IA long ways from the Med
iterranean but there seem 10 be num-
bers Of late that claim to have seen
Egypt.