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Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

Lead is not a mining camp in one sense
of the word, for it would DE difficult to
find in any eastern city Of the same popu-
lation, the same facilities. Its.public school
system is without an equal; its school
children have greater facilities. are more
comfortably housed and cared for than in
any city of the same population in the
east Its streets are paved; 1t is lighted
by electricity, connected by telegraph and
telephone lines with the outside world; has
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

corps of teachers. Every church In the
belt towns, lead. Terraville and Central
City, receive from the Homestake Mining
company 500 year as a gift, while Mrs
Hearst is interested in many charities In
the Hills, and has in other ways showed
her interest in its people. Several years
ago, at a great cost, the city put in a
sewage system and made other improve
ments looking to the perfect sanitation Of
the town, and today its death rate from
natural causes is smaller than that of any
city in the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

anime it properly. You, yourself, have been
long enough away from the United States
now and then to see what glorious coun-
try it is, and how small these pimples Of
corruption on our healthy body polite
really are. Indeed, don't think much of
the man who cannot see the greatness and
goodness of the United States, who is al
ways prating about the dishonesty and
corruption of our public service and who
has no confidence in the virtue of his fell
lows"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

To get the real picture Of my talk with
the vice president you must make the time
early morning. II is long before Uncle
Sans great army Of government clerks
has started to ONCE, and we are sitting
together in the study OF the Fairbanks
home in Washington. The vice president
has already breakfasted, and his sparkling
eyes show the effect OF healthy but not
over-sleep, 1t Is rather early for me, but
have come by appointment, and l open the
conversation by remark about the early
bird asking the vice president what he
thinks OF him. He replies:
Il believe In early rising. The men who
are doing the work OF the world are those
who get up early and work late That Is
~ths way our country was built We could
not have chopped Gown the forests and con
Quered the soil, we could not have built
these great cities and made ourselves the
richest nation OF the world otherwise. Our
forefathers were early risers. and Il "
largely from the work which they did In
the early morning that we are prodting to-
day IL was the same with our fathers
Both you and can remember our bOyhoOd
DAYS IN Ohio. and how the custom was 70
rise with the dawn l was brought up ON
"a farm. and my father cleared the land and
built the cabin in which We started life. /
remember we got up at daybreak and had
the chores done and were out IN the fields
hard az work long before the hour When
the city clerk Of today has finished his
breakfast"
nut Is not that stin the case in many
parts q the United states3"
'-Ds . oagtain sEtent yea" replies -
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
Birth of the HomertnI.e.


In November 1S77, the Homestalze Mining
company was Incorporated with a capital
Of 100000, divided into 100000 shares. At
this time 100000 was paid In to pay for the
property, and afterward two assessments
Of 81 each per share were levied upon the
capital stock, realizing $4,000. This money
was utilized TO build the first mill upon the
ground, an eighty-stamp plant, which cost.
including transportation, S14O 600. 1t was
completed in July 1873, being supplied with
ore from open cut on the Homestake
claim. At this time no attempt was made
TO treat the tailings from the mill. nor from
the mills erected later, and It was not until
the property had been working for several
years that this was done, and then it was
confined to running the tailings over Brus-
sells carpets and saving the concentrates,
which later were smelted, but at SO high a
cost that little profit was obtained from
them. Although when compared with pres
ent methods I'm use by the company its first
attempts at milling and gold saving were
crude, the property paid from the first time
its milling plant was cleaned up. and from
October, 1878. has continued paying divi-
bends ranging from 10 cents per share TO
30 cents per share, not missing a month
In round numbers, since October, 1878, the
mine has produced in the neighborhoOd Of
SS5,OO0,OOO in gold more than three-fourths
Of which has been paid out for labor, the
making Of improvements and the purchase
of water rights and additional ground, in
GLIDING adjoining corporations, paying dur
ing that time something in excess of ill.,
100000 in dividends.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
The Oldest Clergyman

Rev. John schaefYeF Of North Benton. o..
has just celebrated his 1Olst birthday. lie
il the oldest clergyman in Ohio and possibly
in the United States. He preached regu-
larry for sixty years and has lived ia hts
present home for ten years longer. He
reads newspapers without glasses ana hss.
hardly bean ~ q Gay IA HIS LA
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
Importance of Mine to city.

The city's existence is merged with that
Of the Homestake Mining company, and
so closely are its interests allied with those
of that company that anything which would
initiate against the successful operation of
the mines of that corporation would affect
equally the people of Lead. Many of the
residences owned by those working in the
mines have been built upon the company's
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
Copyright. 10

Copyright, 1906, by Frank G. Carpenter)
@7AsHINGTON, Dec 12.--(Special
Il" Correspondence of The Bee)-
Wv This is a talk about everyday
ISN{g9s. matters with an everyday man
S<@%S5 refer TO the vice president Of
the United States, Charles w. Fairbanks.
The vice president is a man of the people
and. like his good and great friend, the
late President Mckinley, he keeps his ear
close to the ground. He believes in the
people and in the plain everyday things
that the people love. He has faith in men
and things. He spells nation with a big N
and Christianity with a capital c. He is
not pyrotechnic in speech nor action, and
his conversation Is not filled with the Ere
works OF rhetoric nor the gaseous bombast
OF that of some OF our sO-called statesmen
Still, It Is interesting and the reason it Is
interesting. It seems 20 me- is largely be-
cause of its blunt plainness and rugged
simplicity.
II you want to know what the vice presi-
dent thinks on public questions you must
look at his speeches. He makes many OF
them and in some strikes out from the
shoulder. The talk give you today is not
OF that kind. 1t is a hit-and-miss chat
such as two friends might have when out
fishing and the bites are few, or like one
at q corner grocery at a country cross
roads, yourself seated on an empty up
turned nail keg and the vice president on
another.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

by, when wages in other districts, es-
pecially in Colorado and other silver pro-
ducing states, were cut, and the scale made
much lower than it is al the present time
in Lead. the company, while tt could easily
have done So refused to make a reduction
in wages, but kept on paying the same
scale, an average OF 1875 for every man
working for 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

surface, operated by steam and compressed
air. The cyanide plants of the company,
the largest In the world, are located in
Gayville and Lead, being connected with
the mills BY pipe lines which convey the
tailings to them for retreatment.
year ago the company began the com
struction of a slime treatment plant above
the city of Deadwood, and at the present
time It is about ready to begin operations,
the company having expended about 5000 900
upon it to date.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
one Hundred Years of America.


Nevertheless" said I. I'VE can hardly
claim to be very young as a nation. We
are more than 100 years Old"
Zone hundred years." said the vice presi-
dent. What Is 100 years in the life OF a
nation? ], myself, know men who are 90
years old. I know some who are doing
active work at go and I have met two
who have seen their fun century Of age
These men had lived almost as long as
our nation. II IS, In short, only three gen
erations Old Take your own years and
mine and add them together and they Will
reach almost back to the beginning OF our
government j know that our 100 years
have been live years. They have comprised
more progress along most lines than any
other 100 years since the world began, and
we should be glad to have been a part Of
them, but TO say that there is 70 be no
continuance OF that progress IN the future
IL absurd, Indeed, our prospects are far
greater now than ever"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

What do you think Of our country,
Mr.. Fairbanks" said /, 'as a field for
nation building?"
1T Is one OF the best ever created" ne
replied. "ouF nation Il strong to-day largely
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
oy of the Homestake Mine That Has Produced Millions of &C

rNN THE summer Of 1876 the Manuel
lE brother. prOspeotors discovered
ks2k the original Homestake mine on
IdgR00I the divide between Gold Run ana
Ns-=&S Bobtai creeks On the surface
the ore was very rich. and. for a time. the
Nanuols worked the ore which they took
from the openings made on the property
in an arastra, a primitive mill such al
was used centuries ago I'm Mexico. and By
the Spaniards In their American posses-
s.ous. They afterward worked some OF tho
orc in q small stamp mill which had been
erected on the present site Of Lead. By
both Of these methods the ore paid. al
though a close saving OF the gold In Il
could not be made. The richness of the
ore attracted considerable attention from
miners. especially from those who came
from the quartz districts OF California. a
number or capitalists from that state hav-
ing representatives in the Black Hills look
Ing up goodp Propositions, J. 3. Hagin be-
ing among the number. Reports Of the
richness Of the Homestake claims coming
t1 his attention he sent the late Senator
George H. Hearst to the Black Hills to
look into the proposition and make q re-
port upon it. The report made by Mr..
Hearst was satisfactory and he was in
structcd to secure the mine IL possible for
lIaggin and his associates This Mr.
Hearst did, securing the property for about
10000.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
"Have We Reached the Topr"


"HRVe We Reached the TOpS"
but, Mr.. Vice President" said I. "our
days Of development are rapidly nearing
their close. Our forests are almost all
cleared, our roads are made and our cities
built. Are we not now reaching the top
yea, beginning to go down on the other
side?"
mo" was the emphatic reply. I'VE have
merely blocked out our work and shall con-
tinue 70 grow for centuries TO come. The
United states is in its infancy. and this IL
so from Boston TO San Francisco, The east
will some day be intensively farmed and
each acre VIII produce many times what II
does now. AS for the west. It has vast
areas which are untouched, which will
some day blossom like the rose. We ar6 al
ready reclaiming our deserts by means OF
irrigation. We are growing new crops on
the dry lands, and by better knowledge Of
agriculture are making two blades Of grass
and two stalks Of corn grow where one has
grown before This is especially so with
the corn crop, which brings US 10 more
money than any other. The yield is now
1000 $4,000 or 3,OOOOOOOOO bushels per year,
but our agricultural department has dis
covered that by the use OF the proper seed
alone, without increasing the acreage OF
cost OF cultivation, It can be doubled. thus
adding hundreds Of millions Of dollars to
our national income"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
Chat with Charles Fairbanks Country and It's People

effectively. One reason for this is that our
fathers began their life fight in the woods
without machinery or supplies of any kind.
They had to make everything for them
selves and to invent ways and means to
accomplish their ends. Their children
were brought up to think, plan and invent,
and the result is that we have a nation
of thinkers and inventors. Even our
statesmen have dabbled in inventions.
Thomas Jefferson made many, and you
may today find models of patents applied
for by Abraham Lincoln in the National
museum at Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

vice president, but the custom Of getting
up early is fast passing away. We have
still early risers, but they are chiefly on
the farms. Many of them are boys who are
fitting themselves to be the rulers Of the
country for the future"
YOuny America in 1906.
But, Mr.. Vice President, do you not
think the young Americans OF today less
strong than those of a general lion ago?
Have not our conditions so changed that
luxury is sapping their strength? Are they
not becoming effemlnate, habby and wealS?''
'No," was the reply. '"The young Ameri-
can is as strong today as ever, and he will
continue strong as long as we have a great
country to develop and great prizes to win.
You must not judge our young men by the
diettants youth of the cities. You must
go out into the country Tor the real AmeTi-
cans and real Americanism. You will find
our national spirit strongest after you have
crossed the Alleghenies and entered the
great states OF the Mississippi basin and
beyond. The young men there are as
manly as anywhere in the world. There
are also strong young men In the east and
there are some even in the cities You
must look for the best however, outside
the clubs and the golf grounds. This cOun-
try Is all right and its people are all right
Indeed, they were never stronger nor bet
ter than now"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

Looking Backward.
"And yst," continues the vice president
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13
ENGLISH SPORT.
II AI,punds In Graft That Would Not
he Tolerated Here.

II Apounds In Graft That Would Not
He Tolerated Here.
If there is any man on this earth.
white or black, who insists that his
expenses in competitive sport must be
no drain on himself, that man is the
Britisher. And he is quite right. An
amateur should be neither In nor out n
dollar. 1t is entirely proper that his
club. his college, his association or such
collection of bodies as he represents
should pay his legitimate expenses
when he is sent to compete for that
college or club or association or union.
England goes much farther and gives
much more latitude in the matter OF
expenses than we do In cricket, for
example, "amateurri players in England
whose services are desired for the
county championship series are liter
ally found during the entire season
No graft of this kind could exist in
America without raising such storm
as would blow the whole thing TO
kingdom come. Nor would we toler-
ate the conditions that obtain in Eng
lish track athletics and amateur" FOOT
ball. both of which are stepped In COW
ert professionalism And as for junk
etInp-why, that comes near to being
the Englfshman's alter ego-it Is part
of the English game. You might as
well deprive him OF his dearest pos
session-his prejudice, for Instincts
deprive him of his tunket. Let the
stewards figure up how many good
American dollars have gone to satisfy
this national predilection through the
medium of .cricketers, golfers and 9th
er English athletes that have visited
us.-Caspar Whitney In Outing Maya
zine
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13
BuLLIoT's BET.


Bankers wager en- 81. SVSfthtn'1
Day Ra1n Legend.
There were few frenzIed fuanciers In
England at the beginning Of the eight
zenith century IL the banker Bulllot, OF
whom the following story Is told, can
he taken as an example,: The feast OF
st. SwithIn, July IS, 1T25, was par
ticularly wet and stormy day.
Trusting implicitly In the old super
stItion. which says that II 1t rains on
ST. SwIthin's day 1t win rain for forty
days thereafter, BuIliot opened pool
for every one who was willing to bet
against him. The AFFAIR attained 50
much notoriety that the wager was re-
duced to writing. :,
"If dating from st. SwithIn's day"
reads the memorandum, lit rains more
or little during forty days successiVeiy
BuIliot will be considered to nave
gained. but II it cease to rain for only
one day during that time Bulllot mas
lost"
For two weeks Il contained to show
er every day. and so confident did the
banker become that he accepted as
stakes not only money, but gold head
ed canes, Jewels. snuHboxes and even
clothes. When his cash gave out ne
ofHer6d notes aud bills of exchange.
Another week passed, and Buhlots
star was still In the ascendant
But when the twenty-second DAY
sank into the west bright and cloud
less the unfortunate banker was ruined.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13

William Stir. beadIe at Durrisdeer,
I'm Nithsdale, Scotland. was a man of
about six feet two inches in height.
with broad, heavy shoulders. There
had been u succession Of ministers dur
5nE mis- Official career. says writer in
Blackwood's Magazine, among them
rthe Rev. u. Morrison, who was sub
ssequently translated to the Iron
church, Edinburgh. a minister of de-
eldedly larger build that his predecesE-
OrE. One OF the farmers In the parish
said to the beadle one day;
-"Wul, you have served under good
many ministers. Which of them all
did you like best:"
''9BSrrlson's clo'es fitted me best!'
VIII replied CURLY.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13

Prolonged forty wInlss' during the
day are severely condemned by many
doctors on the ground that they AFFECT
ones regular sleep. Scientists have
found that In the ordinary course in
the human being there Is the greatest
vitality between 10 a. m. and p, m.
and the least between2 o'clock and
O'Clock In the morning. Long sleeps
during the day interfere with this Or
der of nature, sometimes causing head
ache. The nap of forty winks. but
only forty, proves refreshing to many
because It is too short to have any In
furious eonsequences.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13

The extreme callousuess of tho old
English gamblers, or gentlemen, as
they were then called. Is illustrated by
the following account which Horace
Waipolo, the celebrated letter writer,
gives of a curious occurrence at
whites coRee house In London. In
one of his epIHtles to Sir Horace Mann,
under date OF Sept i, 1T60, he says:
''They have put into the papers good
story, made at whites. A man dropped
down dead at the door and was carried
In. The club Immediately made bets
whether he was dead or not. and when
they were going 70 bleed him the wa
EorarS for his death intarposed and
said It would ahect the fairness OF the
bet, and they stopped their efforts"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13
POWER OF PERFUMES.

The Way Various scentS Act On the
nerves and Drain
NearIy all perfumes have nntiseptic
qualities and are valual5ie in keeping
away infection.
The perfumes which are the most
agreeable to the sense are not always
the most helpful to the nerves. Am
Oergris for Instance. is positively Of
fensive to many, yet it IS said to pos
sess a wonderful power OF clearing the
brain and driving awny the blues. On
the other hand, altar of roses. with the
suggestion of glowing sums and gOr-
Eeous eastern colOrs. predispOses to
tears.
A faint odor OF musk acts as tonic,
for which the best antidote Is the odOr
OF sandulwood. The fragrance of cit
ron is as soothing to nervous folk as
the sound of faroH music
The scent of orange flowers is so de-
pressing to the action Of the heart that
It is not Safe for any one with disease
of that organ to inhAle it for any
length OF time. Reviving perfumes
come from herbaceOus plants largely.
from the odors OF mlgnonette. rose
mary and lavender. and sOothe the
nerves.
The perfumes OF lilies. jasmine and
acacia are pleasant aud soothing to a
healthy sense. though delicate nerves
cannot enjoy them even In their garden
freshness Brought closer in clusters
of blossom. their odor is narcotic and
depressing. so that persons grow faint
ut the smell of them and may be put
Into heavy sIumber. Ms IL drugSed by
their Odor.-I-ondon Express.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13
swHEr an1opY FIouR.
al year "a BLOOD.

The year 1908 will long be re-
membered in the home of F. N.
Jacket, of Alliance, KY as a year of
blood; which flowed so copiously
from Mr.. Jackets lungs that death
seemed very near. He writes: "Se-
we're bleeding from the lungs and a
frightful cough had brought me at
deaths door when I began taking
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, with the astonishing re-
suit that after taking four bottles I
was completely restored and as time
has proven permanently cured."
Guaranteed for sore lungs, coughs
and colds at F. g. BANDS drug
store. Price SOC and $1.0o. Trial
bottle free.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13
A nnod Rcn11.

During the Apache war In Arizona
in 1865 a Aarlcopa Indian rode a hun
dred miles between sun and sun to
warn a party Of well to do emiRrants
that the ApacheS had planned to am
bnscade them at n certain pass. The
Young Indian volunteered to guide the
wagons by another route, and when he
had done this he mounted, his horse
.see here" said the leader OF the
train to the young NIaricopa, you have
done us a good service. What IL your
my priceg" repeated the OStOniahsd
Indian.
@That Is what asked"
II have no price. Had gain been my
object / would have Joined the Apachel
and met you in the pass" And SO say
ing the brave wheeled his horse and
rode proudly away.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13
ODD PRESERVES.
peach Leather of the south and wild
Rose Jam Of Europe.


peach Leather of the south and Wild
Rose Jam Of Europe.
Perhaps the oldest OF all jams (sOme
of which is imported into this country
is made from a red pulp obtained from
the seed vessels Of the common wild
rose OF Europe. 1t Is brick red In color
and, as might be Imagined, is in favor
entirely unlike any other known kind
of preserve.
In parts OF the south what Is known
as peach leather Is made from peach
Juice which is put into bright pans and
dried in the sun. In the. dry state II
looks n good deal Ike leather and Is
eaten without further preparation, keep
ing for an indefinite time.
There Is commonly manufactured In
Turkey a similar product from grapes.
the Juice being evuporated to the con-
sistency of molusses. Some dour Is
mixed with 1t, and the stun is spread
In thin sheets upon muslin, being then
exposed to sunshine for couple of
days
In the same oriental country walnuts
are commonly strung upon Irvine and
after Goa ting them with mixture OF
grapeN molasses and sugar are dried.
Travellers bound on long Journeys fire.
duently carry these strings OF NUTS.
which afrord much nOurishment In con-
centratsd shape.
In California delicious strip Is
made from orange Juice. which OF
course is quite rich In sugar. And In
virginia watermelon strip, which n
said to be particularly delicious, is not
unknown as a local prOduct.-Philadei-
phIa Press.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-13

The minister Of certain church was
greatly exercised by the -droWSy habits
Of his people. Taking them 70 task on
this score on Sunday Afternoon, he re-
marked: "I see a great many Of you
overcome with sleep. do not wonder
Mt 1t. for the weather Is oppressive,
your work Is hard and many Of you
shaYe come a long way, Therefore,
Seadded, 81 am not surprised to see
many of you asleep, but what surprises
me il toSaee many sleeping VINO have
ma s1ch comfortable sleep here In
the moThiiig. . etssyrsoIi's Weekly