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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
THE PEsSIMIST.

1t does look bright and sunny,
But it's pretty sure to rain.
The man is making money,
Still, he'll lose it, that is plain.
Appearances are hollow,
He declares in mournful tones.
Disasters sure to follow;
He can feel 1t in his bones.
The children, heaven bless 'em!
They are looking mighty well.
There is nothing to distress 'em.
But you cannot always tell.
This fever I've been dreading,
They will get it, and he groans,
Towards us it is spreading,
l can feel it in my bones"
That couple newly welded
Have been happy since last June,
But troubles that way headed;
They will have it pretty soon.
The fellows always signing;
Doleful prophesies he means,
Can't stop him, no use trying,
He can feel it in his bones.
Chicago News.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

the doctrine that when peoples
hearts were sinful they needed regu-
lating. Taking out his watch and
holding it up, he said: Now, here
is my watch. Suppose it doesn't
keep good time-now goes too fast
and now too slow-what shall | dc
with it,"
"Sell it, promptly responded a
boy.-London Opinion.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
a VOICE NOT STILL NOR SMALL.

'tAh." said old Sollemas, when a
true man has done mean action,
sooner or later he will find himself
disturbed bysa still, small voice.
''Jusso," agreed Merridog; land
well know it. Only yesterday l was
hard enough to refuses poor woman
a request for small sum OF money,
and"
Yes. yes! You passed sleepless
night?"
Not half! All night long the
tones of her voice were ringing in
my ears"
THE softness of your heart was a
credit to- you," exclaimed Sollemas,
with emotion. "Who was the poor
woman, may ask?"
my wife, answered Merridog
with a groan.- Philadelphia In.
quirer.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

Rings Dyspepsia Tablets do the
work. Stomach trouble, dyspepsia,
indigestion. bloating, etc., yield
quickly. Two days treatment free.
Ask your druggist for a free trial.
Sold by Tonopah Drug Co.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

Journals. cash books and dodgers
just the thing the merchant needs
best that can be made. For sale al
the Bonanza ONCE.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

The Bonanza is now prepared to
do binding. ruling and blank book
work of every description in its
complete and up t. date bindery.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

We make a speciality of repairing
complicated watches. Blakeslee, the
jeweler.
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DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
The distribution of prizes took
place yesterday. Harry Crockett, who
was the first Elk to reach the first
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
STATE FAIR

$4,000 In Purses and Premiums
NEVADA STATE AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION
RACKNG-RACINGs
Al Reno from Sept. 16 to FL inclusive.
Fine Stock. Mineral, Agricultural
and horticultural Exhibits.
SPLENDID RACING PROGRAM
Automobile Races, Bicycle Raees and
Other Events
SlA DAYS OF ENTERTAINMENT
special Rates on Railroads
Hon. Lem Allen. President
Hon. Frank Folsom, Supt
for particulars address w. ID. Phil
lips Asst. Sec, Reno.
ss S 4; s' 49, $;: :!
CALL AT
CARLSON'S LUMBER YARD
Lower Main Street,
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ONE WAY,

ONE WAY.
Al reverend gentleman was adj
dressing Sunday school class not
long ago and was trying to enforce
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WAS GREAT DAY
FOR TONOPAH

Continued from Page one.)
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cucumber said to be 95 per What splend
iation which to build trust.-Deseret News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Fools and Wise Men.

Some one said that fools, women
and children need be protected The
author of the phrase seemed to not
take into consideration that it is some.
times hard to distinguish between the
fool and the wise man. He is wise
indeed who does not nibble at the
bats on the hooks held out to catch
him. How many people, time and time
again, find themselves caught on some
contract deal, And that some sleek
agent has sold them lot of inferior
groceries for twice the amount that
they could buy the same quantity of
goods from a local dealer, and get a
far better quality? Be careful when
dealing with strangers. Remember
the biggest frauds present the most
plausible appearance. Don't sign any
KIND OF contract or order without
the most careful Investigation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Know No Old Ace.

Brazilian cocoanut palms live from
900 to 700 years, and the Arabs assert
that the date palm frequently reaches
the age of 200 to 300 years, says the
Dundee Advertiser. Wallan's oak near
Paisley, Scotland, is known to be over
700 years old, and there are eight OIL
i've trees on the Mount of Olives near
Jerusalem which are known to have
been fourishing in 1899. The yews
at Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, were
old trees when in 1892 the abbey was
built, and a redwood In Mariposa
Grove, California, is q manifold CEN
tenarian. Baobab trees of, Africa have
been computed to be over 5000 years
old, and the deciduous cypress of
Chapultepec is considered to be of a.
still greater age. Humboldt said that
the Dracena Draco at Orotava, on
Teneriffe, was one of the Oldest tnhab-
itants of the earth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
IL There Not Danoer7

Is it poor policy for the farmers and
the laborers of the land to help build
up less than dozen large stores stu
ated in great cities to do business of
thousands of dollars in country towns.
One Chicago concern does a business
through the mails of $60,00O,00O a
year. Twenty thousand dollars in
business ia about the average for the
country town store. Here we have
an example of one concern doing the
business of 5000 small stores. Is there
no. danger that should these great con.
Germs through their immense business
drive the local dealers out of trade
that they would become like other
great combines, oppressogs of the peo-
pie?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27

Benares, India.-This is holy Hindu
ground. Even If such an outcast as
a European should quit earth on this
most favored spot, he might hope to
be born again as Hindu. This is the
best place in the world to die, accord
ing to the belief of 2O7, 146,0O0 Hindus.
That is why thousands of persons are
yearly brought here for that express
purpose, and wealthy rajahs build
palaces along the river bank in which
to spend their dying days. The SIM
pie fact of dwelling in this sacred
city imparts sanctity to one. More
than Mecca is to the Mohammedan,
Behares is to the Hindu.
Obviously, this is the place to study
Hinduism. Obviously, also, Hinduism
here is not the Hinduism of the Chi
cago parliament of religions-or Of
Boston "parlor meetings." All the
washing that is done in Mother
Ganges" can scarcely make Hinduism
clean enough to be presentable in
good Anglo-Saxon society.
Holiness and Dirt.
The "holiest" Hindu is the dirtiest.
He has his face and body completely
smeared with ashes, whereas the or.
binary Hindu has only his arms and
breast and forehead 50. marked: This
holy man hair hangs in matted ropes.
uncombed, unwashed and ash-flled.
Although his sanctity Is 50 great that
he is worshipped-I saw the act, more
than once-he is not obliged to bother
about the common moralities which
go along with the western faiths.
One of the hottest, as we'll as one
Of the brainiest, was reclining on a
couch OF sharpened nails "a torture
which probably looked more horrible
than it felt. for this man underwent
it with no sign of discomfort) when
! interviewed him, through an inter.
prefer. ! asked him about the holy
woman" at his side, comely even
through her ashes, on account of
whom this celebrated "fakeer" is con-
sidered outcast by certain of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Need Of Good Schools.

Intelligence is the distinguishing
mark between the savage and civil
lied man. Education is one of the
greatest of Gods blessings, and ig-
norance curse. In America there ex-
lists no valid reason why every man,
woman and child ; of normal brain
should not have an education. There
is no phase of life where knowledge is
not necessary. In the most progress
sive communities is where the superior
schools are found. Help along your
town and help along education in gen.
eral. BY atfording your children a
chance for a good education, you of.
fer them riches that cannot be meas
ured by dollars. Because education is
capital that cannot be- destroyed; it is
ready cash in hand, assets that one
cannot be robbed Of only by an act of
Providence.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
BUILD UP LOCAL ENTERPRISES.
Individual Effort a Factor in the Prog
ress Of Cities and Towns.

A we'll known eastern financier, who
for some time was the president of a
large trust company, recently re-
signed, giving as his reason that a
man, according to his belief, can do
better working for himself, and that
no man can really earn a salary equal
to what he can make in business for
himself One of the conservative
financial papers in commenting upon
the move of the fnancier here referred
to says that in these days, when all
kinds of business are being converged
into stock companies, the number of
trades in which man may engage in
business for himself have become so
few that for a great bulk of men, even
those having the mental equipment
which in other years would have been
sufficient to make them their own
masters, there is now no other opening
than that of service for some corpora
ton. For the bulk Of the people, out
side of those in agricultural pursuits,
it is service for the corporation or no
work at all. This truth is becoming
more evident day by day. Even the
farmers are feeling the grasp of COR
porate methods. 1t is true that mil.
lions must have the products of his
lands and his hands, but the corpora
lions are the mediums he must work
through, and from him they exact
their fittings. It is to the interest of
the farmer as we'll as the laborer in
every walk and sphere to prevent as
far as possible further encroachment
of organized capital, and this can be
done by as far as possible keeping the
dollars that you earn in circulation in
the community where earned and thus
prevent the further concentration of
money and Of business in the great
cities.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Example Of Modern Enqineerinu.

Example Of Modern Engineering.
A remarkable example of the scru-
'pulous exactness with which modern
engineering work is accomplished is
found in the new piece of the Suevic,
which has been placed to within one
sixteenth Of an inch of. the position it
must occupy to allow OF the two parts
Of the vessel to be joined. When the
tubes of London, working from either
end, were about to be united it was
found that they were only an inch or
two out of line. The ordnance survey
of England, when the various sections
were brought together showed a dis
crepancy of less than five inches. and
the construction of the Forth bridge,
the greatest feat Of all, was more re.
markable still. When the king came
to drive the last bolt the hole through
the various plates was so near that
the heat from a flaming paper was suf-
f1cient to expand the metal and allow
OF the rod being thrust through.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Favors Soon Forgotten.

Not many years ago the majority
OF farmers in newly settled sections
were dependent upon the business
men and the merchants of the towns
to carry them through between crops.
There are farmers who can look back
a few years ago and see where they
were favored when in want of supplies
and had not the money to pay for the
same. Prosperity changes many, and
this may be the cause why those who
q dozen years ago were so anxious to
see the country develop, now send
much Of their money to outside places
for goods needed, instead of keeping
their dollars at home to further en-
rich their community; and how soon
are favors forgotten. The merchants
who assisted in making success DOS
sible for many by quite a few are
passed by. Is this Christian graft
>ude? +.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27

Strlcter sort or new HlnduS. He as
sured me that the woman merely lived
with him to take care Of his house:
and that he is not married to her.
India is full of stories of the immor-
alities of these holy men," who, as
they march in procession stark naked
through the streets, are truer to type
than when on their visits over seas
they sit, picturesquely clad, the
adored center of groups of American
women faddists.
One More DisilIusionment.
At Benares discovered a grievance
against the stories l used to hear and
read. when a youngster in Sunday
school, about these "fakeers," and the
other Hindu pilgrims to the Gauges
cleansing flood. 1 saw thousands of
the latter in single day. 1t used to
be represented that these men and
women were all so smitten with
sense of their sins, so burdened with
their consciousness of unholiness, that
they performed all their exacting vows
in order to secure spiritual release
But missionaries on the spot tell me
that the Hindu is as lacking in
sense of sin as found the Japanese
and the Chinese to be. They know
little or nothing about what the Anglo
Saxon experiences as a consciousness
Of personal sin. What these people
are trying to expiate is the dread bur-
den of life itself, and to secure, by
the favor of the innumerable gods in
their pantheon, mitigation of life's
ills in the next birth, in the long order
of reincarnations.
Every Hindu's dread is that he may
at death be transmigrated into lower
caste man, or even into a woman, or
into an ass, a snake, a toad, or some
other lOathsOme creature His hope
is that he may be reborn into a
higher caste. possibly a Brahman:
and eventually, in the dreary process
sion of ages, into Nirvana; which,
while mystically explained in various
ways, amounts really to the extinc-
ton of personal identity. Some of
the holy men even expect to proceed
from this present life into Nirvana.
Wash Day on the Ganqes.
Therefore all these washings. Early
in the morning the people of this old
city-Benares far antedates the Chris.
tian era-and the pilgrims from all
parts of the empire, come down by
thousands to the western bank of the
Ganges In order to battle. From in
fants to decrepit old men they dip
into the water and mutter their pray
ers, with an earnestness and sincerity
which cannot be doubted. The great
CHATS, or steps down into the water,
are thronged with devotees. Many
carry away the water, for household
use, or to be borne laboriously back
home to the pilgrims native village.
Only the western bank of the Ganges
Is eff1cacious, to die on the eastern
bank is to be reborn an ass. So the
western bank is lined with temples,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Drink Water.

The Japanese know what is good
for them when they insist on their
women drinking quantities of water
each day. We would hear fewer COM
plants of utter fatigue. and needless
assistance from beauty hints IL our
women, one and all, would follow the
example Of their almond-eyed sts.
tiers.
No day should pass without at least
a quart of pure water being drunk
better yet two quarts. It is wiser.
however, to begin with the smaller
quantity or you may feel yourself
water-logged, and depart from tho
good habit altogether.
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ing even u lOOh upon or TO smell.
Yet tottering old women, strong men.
and blooming youth ducked in this
place. l was impressed by a touch
of human sentiment here; a man and
woman went into the pool tied to-
gether, thus hoping to insure that
when they should be born again they
would once more become man and
wife
Religion that Is Not gift to Print"
The endeavor to give fair repre-
sentation of the conditions in India
amidst which missionaries work. and
against which they must strive, is him
dered by the simple fact that were
to write plainly what l saw as the
prominent feature of Hindu Worship
in Benares this paper would not be
permitted transmission through the
mails. The commonest object of wor-
ship may not even be limited at: while.
so far from writing a description of
the sculptures ON the walls of one
temple, they may not even be recalled
without disgust 1t is a distinct
ascent to contemplate the sacred
monkeys that fill one temple-more
than 200 of them scampering about
the trees and the courts-or the
sacred COWS and bulls that abound
throughout the city. When a wealthy
Brahman dies, bull is turned loose
in the city to wander through the mar.
row streets and to pillage, undisturbed
from the baZaars. The molten calf
which the backslidden Israelites wor.
shipped is also here, to be purchased
as a household god.
The Quarrel in the Temple.
At the famous Cow Temple" 1 saw
and heard row that would have at.
tracted a mob anywhere in Christen.
dom. A woman worshipper wanted to
60 into the inner shrine, but the
priest contended that she had not
paid enough money. She shrilly in
sisted that she had, and tried to force
her way past the priest. The latter
thereupon struck her resounding
blow In the face, but even this could
not deter the intending worshipper,
and when l left, after watching the
muss for ten minutes, the noise of the
wrangle still filled the temple; al
though the other worshippers seemed
to mind it as little as did the we'll
led COWS that filled the temple court
Being on the Safe Side.
Within the compass of one brief
article it is impossible to give more
than mere glimpses of the religious
life of this sacred city and its myriad
pilgrims. bent on making the 45-mile
round of holy places. The objects of
veneration are innumerable. Here are
dainty pair of feet, carved in high
reltef-not impressed into the white
marble-which are worshipped as the
footprints of Vishnu. Nearby are
Suffice stones, marking the sites where
widows inundated themselves upon
their husbands funeral pyres. I'm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
FACTORS IN TOWN PROGRESS.
Some Comment Affording Thoughtful
Folk Food for Reflection.

It is the duty of every merchant to
give support to his home paper.
When he pays the editor dollars for
judiciOus advertising he is helping him
self, helps the editor get out a better
paper, and helps the community in
general.
Public schools are one of the great
props of national government. The
more prosperous is a community the
higher will be the educational facili.
ties. Good schools are help to any
town and bring into it the most de
sirable classes, who seek to educate
their children. He who assists If
building up the business Of a town
also assists in lettering the schools,
-
Commercial clubs have been potent
factors in the advancement of many
towns. To the farmer the commercial
clubs are as important as to the man
of business. There is no reason why
the farmers of the community should
not cooperate with the business men
in every undertaking that has for it's
object the benefit of the home town.
The young man starting in life
should have certain object in view.
The seeking of vocation is an impor-
tant thing. Too many seek lines Of
work that they are not naturally quail
fed for. The greatest success is made
by the men who follow that business
or profession for which they have
natural inclination and talent.
Thousands of people are still on
earth who can remember the dismal
failure of the Ruskin cooperative COL
ony in the south, the falling to pieces
Of the Belamy community in Califor-
MIA, the disintegration of the "Agricul-
tural Wheel" and the hundreds of
thousands of dollars lost day-dream-
er in Missouri and Kansas in efforts
to demonstrate the practical work of
theoretical cooperation. Still people
will bite at bats thrown out by the
alleged cooperative commercial con-
Germs, who have headquarters in large
cities and do business through the
mails.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Blind Man Is Bird Lover.

John T. Timmons, a blind man Of
Cadiz, O., has achieved reputation
as naturalist which is not entirely
local. A close student of nature, he
is able to distinguish through sound
many things missed by those with
sight. Recently he made a flock of
martins comfortable and happy by
building for them with his own hands
a kind of bird apartment house, which
has been erected in his yard. 1t is
a building with II rooms, the cen
trail portion containing three floors Of
four rooms. The house is a remark
able piece of architecture, and the
birds seem as proud of it as Mr.. TIN
mons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27

CHATS, and palaces, IN various stages
Of disrepair. There is merit in erect
ing one of these structures, but no
merit in maintaining one after another
man has built it. One huge brown
stone palace especially, wonder of
workmanship, has sat down" in dis
orderly ruin on the bank.
II ever modern science takes hold
Of India, the popularity of Benares
is gone, for this worship Of the Ganges
is thing to give believer in germs
the shudders. People battle and drink
the water, right from the spot where
sewage is seeping through the CHATS.
They are not troubled by the proxim-
ity of bathers in all stages of disease.
The fact that corpses are soaking in
the stream just above them does not
disturb the worshippers particle.
The practice Of burning the dead at
Benares is famous. After the body,
wrapped in a thin covering, has lain
for time in the Gauges, rough
funeral pyre, three or four feet high,
is built of logs and sticks bought for
the purpose, and it is consumed with
more or less thoroughness. The parish
dogs thrive by the fact that the job
is not always we'll done; saw one
cur gnawing a burnt fragment of a
human body.
l came to Benares prepared to find
much to admire in Hinduism; but
somehow l cannot get past the dirt
and hlthiness Of 1t ALL There, for
another example, is one we'll, the most
sacred bit Of water in India. This Is
a pool, the size of the swimming tank
in an ordinary gymnasium, without
inlet or outlet, filled from the Ganges,
and cleaned out only once a year. To
battle in it one must pay a high fee,
as we'll as buy the flowers, milk, con-
dictionary, sandalwood and other
votive offerings that are poured into
the pool by the bathers. AS result
of all these accumulations, the con-
tents, instead of being merely dirty
water, are viscous mass, nauseat-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Take Care Of the Ewes.

Watch your children's eyes. At the
first sign of trouble take the child to
a competent oculist. Don't buy a pair
of glasses that you think will fit. Have
the child's eyes examined properly.
You would not grudge the money
spent to make your child more at
tractively clothed, so do not stop twice
to think about the money spent In pro
serving the most precious Of Gods
gifts, eyesight. .z..ss. ): (. s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-12-27
Abuse Of Credit.

1t is the abuse of the credit system
that frequently causes trade to drift
from the home town to some distant
concern. Merchants extend credits to
their customers, and when the bill
reaches = large figure, the customer
avoids the store Of his benefactor, aed
when goods are needed sends the cash
to some distant place. This is unfair.
yet it is too often the case.