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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-20
SPECTATORS IN
MINING STOCKS

A reaction is setting In. and the
country Is calling for mining stocks of
merit suited to the consideration of in
vestors. They are after the gilt edge
shares that promise to become dividend
payers. At the same time there Is q
wide demand for prospects that furnish
the incentive of good returns on a sman
investment. The men and women who
have been putting their money In In
dustrials find tina field congested with
a market circumscribed by the boun-
daries Of the country. The production
has come to that point where 1t has
equalled, IL not exceeded. the consump-
ton. Fear of the effects of a presiden-
tial campaign and the possibility of
tariff tinkering with a change of admin
istration fills the investor with dread
OF the consequences. Their timidity of
capital invariably crops out during a
presidential year. The sequel to the
situation Is that the man who seeks to
add to his capital is turning to the pro-
duction of gold, silver and copper.
Where there is good promise of making
a producing camp there is no dinicu1ty
in existing all the money that is re-
quired.
AS a reflex action of this demand we
have the principal cities of the country
following the example of the New YORK
stock Exchange. and offering the small
investor opportunities to share the good
things that emanate from the Nevada
mining camps. In Chicago next Monday
the Chicago Mining and Stock Exchange
will open its doors under a sound and
conservative management. The direc-
tors have been selected with a view to
securing a sound and stable institution.
| The greatest care has been exercised in
the selection of it's membership, and the
same %precaution will be used with re-
gard to the listing of securities with the
sole intent of establishing an exchange
that will prove a benefit to the mining
and Industrial interests, as well as Tor
the protection of the investing public.
In San Francisco the Stock Bond Ex-
change will furnish another outlet for
the energy of brokers by providing a
daily cali devoted exclusively to mining
stocks. is supplementary to the
present exchange.
The most significant step is in the ac-
ton Of the New York Clearing House,
which has under advisement the pro-
priety of accepting the better class OF
mining stocks as collateral for loans.
The New York banks and many of the
leading financial institutions of the mid
die west have fought shy of mining
stocks as collateral, and thus subjected
the holders to an unnecessary hardship.
Investors when they bought mining
stock had to reflect that in doing so they
tied their money up in the certificates,
and tbs no banks would advance a cent
on such security. regardless of what the
stock might yield as a dividend payer.
The removal of this handicap alone Will
serve to give a tremendous impetus to
mining shares, and with the listing OF
the big stocks on the New York Stock
Exchange the legitimate mining men
will find themselves on velvet. They
have had to speculate with the full face
value of the stock deposited in cash and
margin trading has been impossible
Cox Mining Journal.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-20

T. T. Cornforth. who own a group
of claims 40 miles northeast of Tono-
pah. at B~eIlehelen. was in Goldneld in
the early part Of the week.. Mr.. Corn
forth says he has three shafts in ore.
one Of them being down to a depth Of
100 feet. The ore runs as high as
81. 800 a ton and Is now being shipped
by way Of Tonopah. Eighteen miners
are employed on the claims which were
located last November.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-20
The Gold6eld News
It's An Investor Paper

Every shot hits the Buneye Every paper goes phnk hNth hands OF IN investor in
Nevada mines and stocks Nobody else would have use for The News for it is a aiming
paper exclusively It's 5000 circulation is worth 10000 circulation Of a paper Of general
character. Here's
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dyin' words. I've got half a mind, by
jocks! to just drop off without sayin'
nothin' at all. 1t would serve 'em
right
And then you would be sorry as long
as you lived said Elipn Hewitt "You
take my advice and don't do it that
way. 1t amt worth while when you
can get this book for four fifty cash,
including all the features 1 have men,
toned, besides nine thousand other
things every man, woman and child
should know. 1t is a book that appeals
alike to the living or the dying. Now,
take this Appendix of the Russian war
with colored views CT all the great bat
ties, and a life of President Roosevelt
brought right down TO date, comprising
story as interesting as novel, and
entirely true in every particular. See
this colored oleograpk of the blowing
up of Port Arthur" handed the book
up To Port Arthur He handed the book
at the CORY picture with interest
NO" said by Jocks" sadly. 81
guess not I won't live long enough to
readA it, He turned over the. pages
erd looked at the pictures with all the
interest of a child. You can't make
that price no less than four fifty, can
your" he asked.
THAT is the lowest said Eliph'
Hewitt, promptly. But he added,
IF you don't think you will die right
off you could take it on the monthly
payment plan. one lollar a month";
II can't-rIsk it" SAID by Jocks Il
feel l won't live long enough to make
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EEIFH HEWITT orIjlEp
NJ TIE. VJ.lHo Nhh~

Eliph' Hewitt, turning to that page.
What could comfort the dying man
better than that could? No man should
die without them five hundred noble
thoughts, containing as they do all the
grand and great things that nave been
written, from Homer to Mister Dooiey.
How many men have died without hav-
ing a favoritc poem picked out for his
family to have a verse of it cut on his
tombstone! And here in this one vol
ume is plenty to select from, so that
each and every man can pick out the
kind he likes best, whether wit, humor,
pathos, sentiment, religious, political or
oratorical. All that is necessary for
man that is pressed for time, like YOU
are, is to take a pencil and mark any
one he wants to have treasured up as
his favorite A nice way to do is to
expire with mis- hand in the book right
at the favorite poem. 1t gives the min
iSter a-goed start for his seffnen Have
you thought any about your dying
words %
"Hey?" asked by Jocks" leaning
forward.
Dying words" said Eiiph' Hewitt.
TOO many neglects that until it is too
late, and then ,they don't have any.
Every man should have a good saying
or two 10 use as dying words. All the
great men do it. There's good coliecs
ton to choose from in this hook. Page
TAG. Lives of All the Worlds Great
Men. from Adam to Roosevelt. with the
Dying Words of Them That is Dead, >,
gives all of them, with new ones added
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BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

words if she won't. A man can't die
quiet and peaceful in this house witt
out havin' his daughter rile him all
I'D and get his mind into a state where
il amt fit to die. 1 want that hook on
the dollar a month plan," he said to
Fliph' Hewitt. zone dollar down and
81 a month. That won't be but four
months from now, and if Mary is goin'
to act that way 1 amt goin' to die. I'm
gcin' to hang around an be z care on
her hands"
you can easily pat in four months
full reading this book, said Eliph'
Hewitt.
/. so I figured" said by Jocks" and
since I've got TO pay for it myself 7
amt gOin' to drop off until I get my
moneys worth out of it. I'm a sick
man, am, but I don't have to die It'll
| want to, I guess. But if you happen
to be around here in four months drop
in to my funeral. It's gOin' to be good.
] made all the arrangements myself"
I'm be glad TO-" said Eliph' Hew-
lit, politely, eff it comes off, but I
guess it won't. / don't wonder you feel
ike dying now when you haven't had
copy of this book to instruct, cheer
and Smuse you, put once you get the
copy you have bought it will be differ
ent. A man can't take no satisfaction
in dying when he feels he has got to
leave his copy OF Jarby's Encyclopedia
Ct knowledge and Compendium of Lit
CTatuIe, Science and Art, behind him.
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as fast as they die and say them. 1t
saves lot of worry to be able to pick
out q st of dying words that have been
tried and found satisfactory. 1t is
worth the price of the book for that
alOne?"
Il amt long for this world" said
by Jocks" mournfully.
81 can see that" remarked Eliph
Hewitt, cheerfully. Il can see that
you are pretty near dead now and liable
to go any minute, and that's why you
ought to get a copy of this book just
As soon as / will let you have it. After
you are dead it's too late to study up
what your dying words are going to be.
Too many people put it off right along,
and then when it comes time to say a
few appropriate last words they can't
think of anything, and everybody
stands around waiting for them to say
chem words that shall be treasured up
and repeated, and the man in the bed
gets all clustered and worried and ends
up by saying something foolish. 1t
amt the right way to treat folks. A
man that amt a specialist In dying
words shouldn't take the risk of speak
ing externporaneous that way. He
ought to get a good book that has a lot
of the worlds best dying words and
study them up and get familiar with
them while he has time And this book
has them ell"
ssWen. don't know" said BY
Jocks weakly The way folks treat
me when 1 have one of my dyin' spells
they don't deserve to have me say no
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the second payment He Looked at a
few more pictures and his eyes bright
ened. Mary" he called, and when she
did not answer he called again and
again. until he heard her coming up
the stairs.
Mary" he said, dclefully. I'm a
dyin' man. and as such 1 have to be
humored, and I've got my mind set on
you humor me four dollars and fifty
cents worth, Mary?"
mo, l won't" she replied sharply.
'I guess you'd BETTER ne said. 1T
don't do to vex a dyin' man, Mary: it
makes him worse. I can feel myself
worse already. by jocks. If you keep
on opposin' me this way I won't last
It'll SHUTDOWN. You don't want to have
a funeral on your hands tomorrow,
right in fruit-cannin' time. do YOU, all
on account of four fifty?''
She turned to the door.
You get that book off your mind,
pa" she said, land 1 guess you'll last
a while yet" And she we1t out.
by Jocks glared after her for a
minute and then he slid his feet to the
floor and walked to the closet in the
corner of the room. He took down his
trousers from the hook and plunged his
hand into a pocket. When he drew it
forth it held a dollar bill, which he
banded to the little book agent Then
he slipped the trousers over his feet
and proceeded to dress angriIy.
'All right, by jocks," he exclaimed.
L guess l can pay for my own dyin'
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day he. too. may sell out to q thrust, an
Admiral Farragut climbs down firm his
pedestal an is seen runnin' FIR tn river.
But it didn't happen that way at all.
TIL country Wint to bed unusually ear
ly on that fatal night. No wan thought
iv calm up tn newspaper Office an
askin' if there was amy news from tn
Peace conf renee. I looked to see some
thing comm out on tn ticker, but tn
ticker was full iv shameful account
iv fight between two fellows named
Burke an Sullivan. I don't care f'r
these things. They disgust me- thin
barbrous exhibitions, but 1 do think
that if Sullivan had kept his man off
with his left an not thried to mix it he
might've-but what am I talkin' about.
I'm sorry tn destruction iv war has
been rayceived with no more enthusy
asm thin rapport iv tn fish commits
sion in Aryzony But so it is, An dye
know, I've begun to have a SUSPICION
that War may be more poplar thin
some iv us thinks. It's been goin' on FIR
d SOOu IIidAlily years I1CSdAl ICAlS 1IiS
there was a peace conference in Rome
so NANNY years ago that it must've
been befure my time, an Joolyas Cay
Ear STINT his regards to it be a man he'd
captured in Blum. I'm not FIR war;
I'm again it. But what am 1 gOin' to
do with tn young fellows? If there was
wan man undher sixty at tn Peace Con-
ference I'd have a little something down
on Universal Peace. War amt FIR tn
old. Their business is set back prac-
tisin' checkers, sage advice an usury.
But to lad wars a picnic. If he
didn't feel that way there wudden't be
amy wars.
I'VE can't convince tn kind iv young
fellow that We get FIR sojers that it s a
perilous occupation. He knows it amt,
compared with tn kind he's used to.
Larkin' his tn figures, an he can prove
to We that amy man brakin' on a first
class American railroad listed on tn
New York Stock Exchange has about
five times as good a chance to be kilt
as tn most INTREPID sojer. How many
old railroad men dye see around? An
how nanny vethrans iv tn Grand Ar
my iv tn Raypublic? know It's wrong
FIR a conscript in tn industhreel army.
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thimsflveS to call upon their respective
nations to beat their soords into plow-
shares, which Andrew Carnaygie
agreed to float on tn market as soon
as money got little aisier. At tE'end
iv- tn meetin' tn Fr-rinch representative
crept around behind Andrew an ga
rotted him with tn Legend iv Honor
stow an annywan. 1t admits Andrew
to a society that includes Packin- the
well-known dhressmaker; two reaper
manufacturers firm Chicago. a cilly-
bratedf English pickle maker, an
Jacques, tn best barber in all Paris
But it was an honor well armed. TIL
total cost iv tn entertainment, includin
bus fare, new umbrellys, restOrin' lost
eyeglasses, grool in tn rooms, ct &C.
thry, was wan hundred an fifty thou
sand dollars, an that, me frind on a
newspaper tells me, is about tn equi-
valent Nv twinty cents an agate line
next to pure readin' matther. Very raj
sonable.
1t d SdO AAtAAS ~ soy Jul
dye know tn popylace didn't seem to
take this here epoch-makin'' evint with
much enthusyasm. Whin tn conference
broke up ye'd expect to see tn sthreets
lined with people waitin' FIR tn hayroes
to emerge. / thought hundreds iv po-
lismen wud be required to keep back tn
dense crowd iv peace lovers that wud
pack tn sidewalks. Women an chill
dhren bring their lunches, an perch on
tn front stoops iv tn houses. TIL win
dows are filled with bright an eager
faces. Suddenly a band composed iv
two hundred harps an as nanny flutes
sthrikes up a stirrin' lullaby, an tn
gallant defenders iv our hearths come
down through. line iv cheerin' human
ity. Who's that marchin' ahead with
tn steady measured trot iv a seasoned
peace lover, that splendid figure near
five feet high. with a face bronzed be
thousands iv compliments? 1t can't be;
yet it is It's Andrew. It's Andrew,
girls, hoorayi An as tn hayro that has
siIenced a millyon batthries toddles by
with his head bowed, tn polismen blow
him kisses, thousands iv white flags are
waved, tn heart iv many a young men
beats faster at tn thought that some
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MAGAZINE SECTION.
Mr.. DooLEY DISCUSSES WAR

well. SIR" said Mr.. Doooley. fits
wonderful what that man Andrew
Carnaygie can do
What's he been up TO iv late?" asked
AIR. Hennessy.
He's been abolishin' war;" said Mr..
DooIey BE all accounts there'll be no
more war. Peace hangs over tn wur-
ruld. Tiddy Rosenfelt has turned his
Colts forty-four into a flute an plays
on it undher tn moon. TIL Impror Will
rum is larnin tn game iv crokay.
They're goin' to disband tn armies iv-
rywhere an sind tn sojers back to
wurruk at tn arts iv Peace
AN Andrew did it all. A good man,
great little man, finest advertisement
iv oats, Caledonya's favrite son an a
product that Pittsburg ought to be glad
she turned out. He done it all, tn fine
little man. He got grudge agin War
as pursoot, He pitchered in his mind
thousands iv young men THROWN down
tn useful pick an shovel an takin' up
TIL more asily carrid rifle an exchang-
in tn horrible blue overalls an red
flannel shirt FIR tn degradin' khaki an
yellow boots an SLOUGH hat with sabres
crossed on it. an goin' off on a thrain
without payin amy fare. an tn
thought filled him with horror.
WAR certainly is hell. as Gin'ral
Sherman said with smile. What cud
We imagine more dreadful thin young
man that has had his life consecrated
to horrible toll chasin' off to tn igno-
Munyon's pursoot iv arms. Today he is
sarvin' tn country well be pushin' a
small thruckIoad iv soft coal up an in
cline that Barnum ought to have in his
circus FIR tn loop tn loop lady, or in
jyln' quite afthernoon in July blow
in glass, or thrippin' lightly firm car to
car on a fast freight an sometimes get
tin undher tn viaduct an sometimes
hurtin' it with his head If he on'y
knew it, he's a man we ought to be
proud iv. He's a man we ar-re proud
iV. He's a man Andrew Carnaygie
wud be glad TO be up to an grasp him
be tn hand an say TO hum: Thank We.
me good fellow; go back to wurruk
now
But somebody comes along an blows
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THE LITTLE GLASS DUCK.
A Form of Lung Tester Likely to
Prove Surprising to Uninitiated.


step up, ladies and gentlemen; steu
right up and try the new lung tester,
expander and invigorator, and see how
much you can blow. You simply place
the little birds tail between the lips
like this, taking care not to bite too
hard on it, for it is thin and fragile and
you might bite it off, and then you blow
and see how far you can blow the
streams of water from the little birds
beak."
The lung tester that the street faker
was thus exhibiting, and upon whose
merits he was thus expatiating, was a
little blown glass duck, with a body
about as big as an almond and with
its tail drawn out into little slender
glass tube, through which you blew.
the whole being some three or four
inches III length
The faker would fill one of the little
ducks from a bowl OF water on the
stand upon which he carried his stock.
and then put the tube to his lips and
blow out that tiny stream from the
beak at the other end. and then he
would fill one of the little ducks and
hand it to the man or boy standing
nearest and say:
Now you try. See how far you can
blow it."
And every now and then somebody
would try it He would place the
ducks tail in his mouth and blow, to
find as he blew a tiny stream of water
shooting suddenly back into his face;
and then the blower would laugh. OF
everybody around him would, anyway
1t seems that in this particular form
of lung tester there is a little hole IN
the top of the head as well as an open
fa- in III IN 10 ffasr
merits of the tester and showing how
it works the faker casually holds it in
such way that one of his fingers closes
the hole in the top of the head, and SC
in his demonstrations the water is ali
blown from the beak
They cost but a nickel apiece, the
glass duck lung testers, and people buy
them, apparently with a view to play
ing on others not in it the little joke
that they had seen the cheerful faker
play on those who had accepted his
kind invitation.
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frame. Niver mind returnin' it. / have
another. AS far as war is concerned,
agree with We entirely. know to TIL
full its horrors FIR have siventy-eight
uniforms, an all Nv. thin tight. / hate
tn pomp an ceremony iv a belt. FIR
me peace an suspenders. / wish 1 cud
sind sojer to ye're festive meetin'.
But they are all busy putin down re-
bellyons iv me loyal subjicks in vary
Gus parts iv. tn wurruld. Howiver, 1
have silicted as me representative well
known oculist, whose name escapes me
f'r tn prisint'
An Teddy Rosenfelt wrote: I am SO
sorry can't attind ye're conference,
but I'm goin' out to see tn target prac-
tice. 1 know we'll til horrors iv war.
AS 1, marched up San Juan HilI-but
why go into details? 1 will on'yl say
that amy man in Wall Sthreet will tell
we that tn late war with Spain did
more to injure this country thin amy
thing that has happened since 1 don't
know whin. I will be riprisinted at tn
conference be me old frind Doctor Eliot
iv Harvard, left tackle in tn team iv
fifty-three.'
9TH diilygates gathered firm far an
near. Andrew paid their fares. An
dhrew met thin at tn boat an give
thin spendin' money. 1t was Andrew
that took tfim in throlley cars out to
see tn stuffed animals an tn bones iv
pre- historic .naonsthers in tn museums.
His idea is to make Peace thruly at
thractiye an gay, an FIR tn meetin'
he put up this allurin' program:
Chairman-A. Carnaygie
Openin' Invocation .......... Andrew
Speech iy Welcome TN Chairman
Song Observation-Disclosures. A. Carnaygie
Bag Pipe Solo, TIL Palms ..........
.......-............ b.. TIL Chairman
Presentation iv medals to Andhrey Car
Maggie be tn Chairman
Response ................ A Carnaygie
Incidental music, electhric lights, rail-
road fares, scenery, costumes, food
an drink, be Andrew Carnaygie
III not thry to tell ye what was done
at tn meetin'. Ye've read about it in
tn pa-apers TIL dillygates pledged
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an tells tn hayro iv' tn hose cart that
she will go home alone with her grief,
thank We, an tn fire fighter goes back
to tn milne house an fairly throws
away game of dominoes with TIL pipe
man.
4" 'Tis this thrajedy that Andrew has
broken up. An he's right. Ye look on.
this here young fellow as hayro. An
dhrew an me look on him as a deserter.
That's what he is, too. He's left his
proud position in tn industhreeI army
He's abandoned his post. He's quit
Andrew. He amt to blame. I'll say
this FIR Andrew, he blames nobody
tn best they can, poor things. He wud-
dent fight a sojer. He wud cross tn
sthreet rather thin have controversy
with wan iv thin excellent but ill-in-
formed men. 1t is not tn soier but tn
thing itsilf he hates. War; An awful
thing. Why not, If two nations quarrel
give wan iv thin an option on tn
other? That'd fix it. Anything We
can't do with an option amt worth
doin'. So he wrote letter to all tn
other crowned heads in tn wurruld an
asked thin to sind dillygates to peace
conference.
''Impror Willum replied: Dear An.
dhrew, is it thrue that We have so
much money? If so, am glad TO hear
firm We. Me wan dhream in tn wur-
ruld is peace. I sind We as a riprisinta-
tive iv our high-born nation to help
along our dhream Frawlein Lulu
Schmiz, who has charge iv me wife's,
tn impress iv Germany, who may Gawd
defind in her title as I will with this
sthrong right arm Nv mine an tn blood
Nv tn German people, her collection iv
pressed flowers in an album
9Th Prisidint iv France FIR tn mo-
ment wrote: Sheer Andrew, embrace
ye have selected FIR ye'er conference
an excellent man, dear little fellow,
Moosoo Fineserb, author iv that sol
cheerful essay: THE Cat; His Food
TIL King iv England wrote: Dear An
dy, p'raps We will recall me as havin'
wanst passed a night in we're house I
niver knew what become iv me tooth
brush till 1 heerd tn other day that We
had it hung in ye're parlor insa goold