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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-03-02
LOOKING roz THE LEDGE

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is down 20 feet in -decomposed por-
phyry. The ledge is expected at any
moment.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-03-02

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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-03-02

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La Junta tribune., 1907-02-02
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On January Is. 1907. the secretary
of the Interior issued the following
order
By direction Of the President. ali
orders heretofore issued withdraw
ing public lands from entry under
the coal lard laws are hereby amend
ed 2s follows
Nothing IN airy withdrawal Of
lands from ccai entry heretofore
msse shall impair any right acquired
IA rood faith under the ec~l l.nd
lsss snd existent q the Aaee Il sd
gith1r1s1I-
La Junta tribune., 1907-02-02
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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Business Chances in Persia.

Persia buys chiefly cotton yarns,
thread and tissues, sugar, tea, woolen
tissues. fancy goods, petroleum. cloth
ing. iron and manufactures of furni.
ture and glassware. Were it not that
the new National Bank of Persia is
obliged, or forfeit its charter, imne.
diately to loan the Persian govern.
ment s3,333.00 at nine percent. the
bank concession would be a perfect
snap. 1t has priority over all offers
on the same terms in regard to the
mines, the pearl fishery in the Per
sian gulf, and construction of roads
and railways, and will have the right
to issue bank notes when the Imper.
ial Bank of Persia ceases to do so.
The London Times, however, says:
THE Imperial Bank of Persia pos.
.sesses the sole privilege of issuing
bank notes in Persia for so years tc
come" Foreigners are excluded from
participation in the new bank.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

to the eye. The snow swirled about
her. whitening the crown of her red
cap and cIung to her shoulders. Have
you ever seen snow crystals CLEAN,
break, dissolve in fair, soft storm
will pledge his soul that a particular
flake will never fade, never cease to
rest upon a certain flying strand over
a girlish temple? And he loses-his
heart and wager-in breath! If you
fail to understand these things, and
are furthermore unfamiliar with the
fact that the color in the cheeks of
girl who walks abroad in driving
snow storm marks the favor of heaven
itself, then l waste time, and you will
do well to rap at the door of another
inn.
I'D rather missed you" said; "and
really, l should have been over to
apologize If / hadn't been afraid"
Sister Theresa is rather fierce"
she declared. And we're not allowed
to receive gentlemen callers-it says
so in the catalogue"
so imagined. 1 trust Sister The
resa is improving.
Yes, thank you"
"And Miss Devereux-she is quite
well, hope"
She turned her head my way as
though to listen more carefully, and
her step slackened for moment;
then she hurried blithely forward.
"Oh, she's always well. believe"
"You know her. of course"
Rather! She teaches music.'
so Miss Devereux is the music
teacher, is she? Should you call her
a popriar teacher?"
The girls call her"-she seemed
moved to mirth by the recollection
Miss Pr:m and Prosy."
"Ugh!" l exclaimed sympathetically.
Tall and hungry looking, with long
talons that pound The keys with grim
delight. ! know the sort"
She's a sight!"-and my guide
laughed approvingly. But we have
to take her; she's part of the treat
ment"
You speak CT st. Agatha's as
though II were sanatorium"
"Oh, it's not so bad; there are
worse"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

The beads had been in my corduroy
coat since / found them. drew them
out and gave them to her.
Thank you; thank you very much.
"Of course they are yours. Miss
She thrust them into her pocket.
"Of course they're mine" she said
Indignantly, and turned to go.
"We1l waive proof of property and
that sort of thing. I'm sorry not to
establish a more neighborly feeling
with st. Agatha's. The stone wall
may seem formidable. but it's not OF
my building. | must open the gate
That wallis a trifie steep for climbing.
/ was amusing myself with the idea
that my identity was dark mystery
to her. / had read English novels in
which the young lord of the manor is
always mistaken for the game-keeper's
son by the pretty daughter of the
curate who has come home from school
TO be the bellies of the county. But my
lady of the red tam-o'shanter was not
creature of illusions.
ut serves a very good purpose-the
wall, mean-Mr Glenarm."
She was walking down the steps and
followed, pleased to hear my name
from her lips. am not man to suf-
fer lost school girl to cross my lands
unattended in snow storm; and the
piazza of boat house is not. | submit,
a pleasant loafing place on winter
day. She marched before me, her
hands in her pockets-I liked her par
ticularly that way-yith an easy swing
and light and certain step. Her re-
mark about the wall did not encourage
further conversation and fell back
upon the poets.
stone walls do not prison make.
Nor iron bars a cage"
| quoted.
Il have heard tlIat-beforel" she
said, half turned her face and laughed
as she fastened on.
Her brilliant cheeks were delight
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Sorrows Of a Humorlst

This thing of being humorist is
about the saddest thing | know"
sighed Simeon Ford. AN ordinary
person can have his moods and hui
mors as he pleases, but must always
be on the job. l am constantly being
invited out, not because I'm liked for
myself alone or because of my manly
beauty but because am expected to
entertain the assemblage. The rest
Oh the company may be as dull as
uishwater, but If do not shake up the
satnering with few jokes the hostess
glares at me and really feels resentful.
L may be sunk in the slough of
despond. but just as soon as / take
my seat all lean forward and eye mo
expectantly.
MY son. never get reputation for
being funny. 1t is the most mournfuJ
thing on earth"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Rather Embarrassing.

81 had the most dreadful time at
dinner last evening"" said the pretty
girl in the empire princess gown. Il
dined with some western people | do
not know very well, and as the door
of the buffers pantry swung open
caught sight of a large, delicious look
ing chocolate cake, which was evil
IDENTIFY to form part of the dessert.
The hostess caught me looking So I
confessed with my usual lovely frank
ness: I saw your dessert and ! am so
pleased, for 1t is just what 1 best
like OF course she beamed, but
when the dessert was brought on it
was mince pie. l have never before
encountered 1t at a New York din
ner, and it is the only thing In the
world that positively cannot eat; yet
/ had declared that had deep fond
ness for the dessert. / thought I
should faint. Explanations would be
too tiresome and possibly embarrass-
ing. l summoned all my nerve and
ate-no, gulped the pie, miserable at
every bite. The worst was that when
had finished my hostess insisted /
should have another piece, and ] es-
capped with the utmost difficulty
N. Y. Sun.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

soon he was taken in as a member of
the firm. Age and hard knocks and
brushes with the business world de-
veloped in him marked business acu-
men. He forged to the front as a
financier and a public-spirited citizen.
AS years passed he prospered. Early
and late he was ever looking after his
vast business interests. There were
times that he longed to be again in
the small home town. Often in his
youth he dreamed Of some day being
chairman of the village board. Only
once since parting from the old home
had he returned, and then to find the
town Just the same only little more
delapidated, and in the weed-over-
grown kirkyard the neglected graves
of his good parents
Strenuous business life and assid-
ious attention to the accumulation of
capital without vacation, caused him
to suffer from what the doctors pro-
nounced neurasthenia, and advised
total rest from mental effort. The man
had labored too diligently in amass-
ing money. Residence in a quiet place
was recommended and retirement from
all commercial worries. The Great
Merchant sold his vast interests to
combine, and after careful thought,
concluded that he would seek rest and
a renewal of health in the town where
he at one time attended the little red
schoolhouse, and where In childish i'm
agination he would be powerful and
famous by becoming chairman of the
H.
from the city, purchased the old home
stead where he was reared and picked
potatoes, and also built a residence
and became Great Factor in the
town. Time had made few changes in
the landscape. Buildings and streets
were the same, only showing the raw
ages of decay. The old stores were in
possession of the descendants of the
owners who conducted them when he
was a boy. They were not doing the
business that they should. One great
innovation was the town had rail-
road. All about was suggestive of
peace. 1t was an ideal place for a
man who desired to pass his declining
days in contemplation of the here
after. There, life was much like unto
death. There was fresh air in abund-
ance All of nature lavishly spent its
beauty over the country and the town,
and even the weeds on the streets
we're allowed to spring up, bloom and
reach maturity without interruption
By the scythe or the sicle.
Within year the Retired Business
Man had regained much Of his old
time spirit and health. Habits Of &C.
tiyity and love of business impelled
hisn to once again seek work that
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

the Storepeeker. caused Farmers te
bring in tons of butter and hundreds
of thousands of eggs, and chickeni
and other produce. The transforma
tion was quick from Dead Town ts
a Lively Small City. A high school
was established, new churches built
and some of the pious people vert
shocked to see an opera house erect
ed. The Panhandle & Skedunk rail
road, which for years had been run
ming 20 miles from the town sc
changed its route as to have 1t on the
main line. SO the place had two rail
roads. Enterprising men who wanted
to locate In Live Town turned theii
eyes toward the place. Soon there
was smoke from a half dozen big fac
tories, and in five years after the Pub
lic-spirited Citizen had started hii
store his old home town has increased
its population 1000 per cent. 1t wa,
no longer printed in little type on the
maps. but In capital letters.
MORAL-Do not underestimate the
possibilities Of your community, OF
fail to develop them. No city wal
ever made great by its people buyins
goods elsewhere.
d. M CARR.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

We approached the gate. Her in
difference to the storm delighted me
Here, l thought in my admiration, is a
real product of the Western owrld.
felt that we had made strides toward
such a comradeship as 1t is proper
should exist between a school girl in
her teens and a male neighbor of 27.
/ was-going back 10 English fiction
the young squire walking home with
the curate's pretty young daughter
and conversing with fine condescen-
sion.
I'VE girls all wish we could come
over and help hunt the lost treasure.
1t must be simply splendid to live in
a house where there's a mystery-se
cret passages and chests of doubloons
and all that sort of thing, My! Squire
Glenarm, | suppose you spend all
your nights exploring secret pass
ages?"
This free expression of opinion
startled me, though she seemed who'll
ly innocent of impertinence.
who says there's any secret about
the house?" | demanded.
"Oh, Ferguson, the gardener, and all
the girls."
'I fear Ferguson is drawing on his
Imagination"
well. all the people in the village
think so. I've heard the candy shop
woman speak of it often"
shed better attend to her taffy,"
| retorted.
"Oh, you mustn't be sensitive about
it! All us girls think 1t ever SO ro-
mantle. and we call you sometimes
the lord of the realm. and when we
see you walking through the darkling
wood at evenfall we say. My lord is
brooding upon the treasure chests"
This, delivered In the stilted tone
of one who was half quoting and half
improvising, was irresistibly funny,
and l laughed with good will.
Il hope you've forgiven me-" 1
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

would keep his mind occupied. He
loved the old town He saw that It
needed new life. He figured out that
borhood. Each farmer surely spent
$50 month somewhere for supplies.
This meant a total of $40 900 a month:
$500 900 year. Then the few hun
dred people in the town would add
other thousands to the volume of busi
ness. Why not build a great store and
supply the wants of the people? He
would spend some money and build
up the town. He bought half block
on which three of the stores stood.
He erected large brick building, and
soon he had installed in it great stocks
of goods. Other merchants in the
town shook their heads. The Public
Spirited Man was certainly crazy.
Farmers when they came to town
looked up the big building with won
der. The Weekly Mirror had to send
away for type to set up the page ad-
vertisement for the new store. and to
get a new press for the printing of cir
culars and posters.
Oue uOulu dlleT lue opening Vi tuo
store the graveyard quietness Of the
town had passed away. Streets were
lined with the teams and the wagons
of the farmers. A new elevator for
grain had been started. The railroad
placed new switch in the yard to ac-
commodate the increased business.
The son Of the old town blacksmith
reopened the old shop clo5ed for years
because OF no trade. New life was
rapidly being injected into the place.
There was an election. lot Of
newcomers selected the Public Spir
tied Citizen for chairman of the town
board. He was elected. In six months
the streets were paved, an electric
lighting plant was in operation, along
with water works. The Great Store
keeper had way of doing things. and
he did them. News of the activity OF
the town reached nearby villages, and
the people came to see the Big Store
and to buy goods. A cold storage
plant in connection with a new com
mission house operated by friends OF
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
MEANT TO SUCCEED
RISE OF TWO MEN FROM SMALL
BEGINNINGS.
Natural Hustlers and Workers Were
Marshall o. Roberts and Leland
Stanford-Smart Trick Work
ed by the Former.

1t was Marshal o. Roberts who
originated the idea of giving his store
an air of prosperity by filling his coun-
ters with the appearance of goods,
says a writer in Spare Moments, when
he could not afford the actual stock.
In 1885 young Roberts had managed
to scrape together a few hundred dol
lars, the result of many years close
saving, though he was only 81 at the
time. He had decided to try his hand
at the hardware and shipping supply
business.
The first thing was to find suitable
building in a suitable location. But
the two requirements could not be
found together, so he was finally COM
PEELED to take a large building, in
which his small stock seemed COM
pletely lost.
After arranging his shelves in every
possible way to make them appear to
good advantage, he gave up in disgust.
They look like so many samples"
he complained, and, it is said, immedi-
ately went out and ordered load of
bricks sen. to the store.
These he took one by one and neatly
wrapped, tying sample of nail or a
screw or rivet to the end that would
be visible. The bricks were about the
size of many of his boxes, and when
the shelves were filled with them his
store appeared to be exceedingly well
stocked. Naturally customers were
drawn to the firm that kept the
largest stock.
Leland Stanford's first earnings were
the result of digging horseradish,
washing it, and carrying it to the near
est town. He received, as his share
of the enterprise, 20 cents. He was
then six years old. In his eighth year
he worked hard gathering chestnuts,
which he sold for S25.
During the successive years he toll
ed on the farm in the summer and at
tended school in the winter all the
time dreaming of college education
and later of becoming lawyer. When
he was IS there was no money in sight
for the carrying out of his cherished
plans and the outlook, to say the least.
was not encouraging Consequently
he hailed with delight his fathers of
fer to allow him the profits from clear
ing tract of woodland recently pur-
chased. He was to have all he could
make selling cordwood.
He went at it with zest, hiring other
woodchoppers to help him, and before
a year of the hardest kind of toll had
ended he had chopped and shipped
more than 1000 cords of wood and
had in tho hank 60 6O0 Ha did NOT
lose sight of his purpose, but used the
money to finish his common school
education and then at law school.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
HOME TRADE FABLE
HOW THE TRANSFORMATION OF
A TOWN WAS EFFECTED.
4 STORY WITH A MORAL
One Public Spirited Citizen Who
Realized the Big Possibilities and
Cultivated the Field to Ad-
vantage.

Once upon time there was a Man,
who In his youth was reared upon
farm located near Small Town of
Great Promise. Two weeks in each
year when he was not saving wood,
feeding the stock or picking potatoes,
he was allowed to attend the little red
sshoolhouse in the town. BY hard la
Dor during the day, and persistently
reading a few old books which we're
heirlooms in his family, and each week
absorbing the intelligence contained
In the Weekly Mirror. he. by the time
he could mark down his age at 18
years. had accumulated sufficient
knowledge to run away from home.
He wandered to large city and there
his great muscular power assisted to
gain for himself position as Chief
Scrubber in large store. He had not
acquired the cigarette habit, and his
faithfulness to his scrubbing brush.
and his unwillingness to know all
about his employers business, soon at
tracted the attention of the Old Man,
and at the end of year he was pro-
NOTED to Head Rustler in the shipping
department at the large salary of eight
dollars week.
His disregard for scooting when the
closing time came, and his total lack
of swelled head SO pleased the Old
Man that from time to time the ambi-
tious youth was advanced until at the
end of six years he was drawing the
biggest salary paid by the house, and
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30

kicked the gate to knock off the snow,
and took the key from my pocket.
But l haven't, Mr.. Glenarm. Your
assumption is, to say the least, un-
warranted-I got that from a book!"
1T isn't fair for you to know my
name and for me not to know yours"
| said leadingly.
You are Mr.. John Glanarm-the
gardener told me-and | am Just
Olivia. They don't allow me to be
called Miss yet. I'm very young,
sirl"
You've only told me half"-and
Kept my hand on the closed gate
The snow still fell steadily and the
short afternoon was nearing its close.
| did not like to lose her-the life,
the youth, the mirth for which she
stood. Lights already cleaned in the
school buildings straight before us,
and the sight of them smote me with
loneliness.
OLIVIA Gladys Armstrong" she
said, laughing. brushed past me
through the gate and ran lightly over
the snow toward St Agatha's.
(To BE CONTINUED
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Two Ideas of the Home

During discussion of ''the home
at the Women's club convention al
Carthage, one woman declared that a
home cannot be ideal without the
right kind of father. Another dele.
gate replied: at is my opinion you
can make home without man, sut
you can't make one without a WON.
an. / am great lover Of the men,
and want to go on record as support.
ing them. but anyway, you can't make
a home without a woman."-Kansas
City Star.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Civilization in AbyssInIa.

A sawmill is already at work a
Ads Ababa, Abyssinia, and Greek ar.
tisans are engaged in quarrying and
stone hewing. Machinery in connec
ton with house building generally Is
likely to be in demand as soon as the
means of transport are simplifed. The
government is already building in Eu
ropcan style and stone houses may be
seen. some even of three stories In
height in the capital
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Worlds Submarine Cables.

The total length of submarine
cables in the world is about $50, ,OOQ
kiloms-279, 1922 miles. of which 60 per
cent. are British. ten per cent Ameri.
can, a little more than nine per cent.
French, and about seven per cent
German. A great advance in this do.
main has been made during the last
few years by Germany, whose efforts
tend to constitute an independent sys.
tem.-Memorial Diplomatique.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Practical.

What did she say when she heard
ne was dead In love with her?"
she wanted to know II he carried
any life Insurance"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
Dreams Go by contrarIes.

What do you suppose is every Lon
doner's day dream?"
Il don't know. unless II is to be
come knight mayor."-Baltimors
American.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-30
A Fowl Question.
''PopP'

"PopT
Yes, my ron."
do Mother Carey's chickens COM
out Of the ships hatchesf"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27

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 t5e Pearl Buttons A to 20 line in ? and 4 hole F t-2e a dozen.
 t5c Bul1et Pearl Buttons 70 to 16 line self shank t0c dozen.
 t2 1-2c Fish By shank Pearl Buttons 70 to J6 line 10e a dozen. f0c Collar Buttons of one piece genuine ivory 4c a dozen.
 5c Curling Irons 3c each.
 Finishing Bfaids, four extra specials, 5c va1ues 3c-f0c values 5c-t2 I-2c va1ues t0e-25e val ues 15e a piece.
 Tracing wheels worth 7e at Be Neuss Bros. Blue Steel English Hat Pins on fancy cards worth 10c at 4e a card.
 DArning Needles 70 of the best quaiity on a card ali sizes worth 5c at 3e a card.
 Genuine Horn Hair Pins in shefL black and amber, 6 differ ent styles and 4 sizes, 3-6-12 and 18 pins to a box, choice 25c a box.