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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

CT his lost hopes ever darlening Iife's
vision plunges into whirlpool, of reck-
lessness and daring, finding in the dash
and excitement of the great game a
panacea for the gnawing thoughts. He
is the dusty forelooper of whom Kip
ling speaks. the gentleman rover, in
many instances his wearied soul is
ripped from Its body of clay by sing
ing Lee-Metford bullet and, sometimes
as he coughs up his life's blood his de-
lirious brain harks back to the days
when he dressed for dinner and as he
dies speaks of home and hunting and
happiness-au of which he had for
feited.
While he lives, however, he trusts to
circumstance and chance. One week
may see him the slothful love of a
Cingalese woman, chewing pan con-
tentedly outside a hut near Colombo
harbor and the next week he may be
bartering pearls. It all depends on the
circumstances and they are quick to
make the circumstances suit their
needs.
1t was mere circumstance that led
two strangers who found themselves
in Lucknow, India, to comment on the
victory of the Turks during the early
period of the Turko-Grecian war. To
the average white man in India the
news of the TurkisI victories meant an
interesting subject for discussion at
the regimental mess tables, where the
cries of war could be advanced and re-
futed; but these were not adopts at
military strategy. 1t was long, long
haul from Athens to tLucknow-but
short enough for these two TO make the
occasion the basis of as clever scheme
for smugglings rifles into the Hindu
Kush regions as ever bothered a dis
trict superintendent of police. They
discussed the opportunities in the gar
den OF hotel and then disappeared.
Now, beyond; the Hindu Kush noun
tains was a tribe of hillsmen, peace
fully cultivating fields, varying the mo-
notony Of their rural lives by an occa-
sional swoop on a village across the
border line for. cattle and women.
Thoughts Of a general uprising
against the English were far from
their minds. but they began to change
their opinions when fanatical Mullal
appeared IN their midst and began tc
exhort. The subject he chose was the
Turko- -Grecian war.
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thousand and one games with which
they are familiar.
Most Of them viii not play unless the
game Is worth the candle, but there are
few who will not hesitate to do lit
tie tudicious and quiet blackmailing. In
ways best known to themselves they
discover that some petty potentats IS
violating governmental regulations I'm
maintaining those charming oriental
customs, such as filing an obnoxious
prime minister with red pepper or slip
pering to death a fractiouS wife.
Whereupon, the petty potentate. fear
ing the law OF the English. alls their
them from talking.
An Irishman. a cashiered officer, hid
himself in a native village in the
Northwest provinces. but his dominant
spirit could not help but assert itself
and in short time he became the
headman, and a little while later
demfgod with the powers OF a god. He
seemed to be most exemplary kind OF
man. however, for despite the immense
fun he was having as deity, he warm
lv welcomed a Roman Catholic mis-
sfonary to his village, and, though 1t
cost him his job. used his influences in
having the natives converted TO his old
faith. He was irish enough 10 see the
huunor OF the situation and in his intox-
ieated moments told the tale on nim-
self. Another adventurer wormed his
wav into the condolences OF a small
ruler, and. being an energetic sort OF
man with vast number OF theories
succeeded in making the rajah rebuild
his city with modern sanitary systems,
brought about over countless reforms
there and did so much good work that
the English government wanted TO
confer favors on him. but when his
work began to attract too much at
tention he quietly dropped out OF sight.
He had hidden his shame and did not
intend to have the old affair brought
to light again. which would surely be
the case If too many people began In
quiring after him.
With them the game Is played for
its sake alone They can never regain
what they have lost and so what would
be the eternal use OF trying to live a
respectable life? Naturally they turn
their hands in society. but II their
games are crooked, one must at least
give them credit for playing well
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Kant by the hickering light OF ta1low
dip.
1t was only after almost all Of the
rifles had been distributed that the po-
lice officer discovered the plot. He was
riding near the burning CHAT and halt
ed his horse to watch the proceeding
The mourners were there, and a corpse.
specially kept for such an occasion, was
there. and he would have ridden away
in ignorance had not some young blood
lost his head. The latter could not
withstand the temptation of taking a
chance for paradise by killing a fer
inghee and, in the intoxfcatfon of the
thought. grabbed a rifle from one Of
the biers, flung 1t to his shoulder and
fired. The district superintendent got
away In safety, but 1t was too late. and
that night the hills cleaned with bea-
sons announcing the opening OF the
holy war. The strangers dropped out
Of sight. the war was ushered in with
a general cleaning up of police out
posts. spread to other tribes, and IL fin
ally took 10000 troops to quell the up
rising.
There was no cholera. The wood
cutters daughter did not die, unless
of a broken heart. and the whole affair
had been large bluff in the interests
OF the game.
Perhaps the greatest adventurer In
Martin. who originally went to that
land in the employ OF the famous East
India company. Little was known
about him, but from comparative pow
erty he, within few years. possessed
lakhs OF rupees and finally eliminated
his career by winning magnificent
palace as the result of a wager on a
cock fight His, it Is claimed. was an
honorable career-that is, he played the
game straight; but this does in no
wise detract from the reckless bril-
liancy with which he engineered his
deals. He played big-for all he was
worth When in the possession OF an
imr ense fortune, estimated in millions.
he heard a rajah at Lucknow boast
that he possessed the best fighting
cock In the world, Martin asked him
how much he wanted to bet and the
game was on. The rajah wagered his
gorgeous palace. built with the orfen-
tai lavishness. and Martin wagered his
entire fortune He did not hold back a
single centime. Every piece he had
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the government whose uniform he
wears.
Under these conditions the white ad-
venturer finds in India a land of prom
ise, rich pasture, gilded territory
where he may wax fat. So in India
he is found in numbers. The condi-
tions warrant the playing of their par
ticular game with all the finesse and
skill possible, where every detail must
be studied and where the profits are
worth the game. They bring to the
oriental love of detail and care. the
wider scope bred of occidentaIism and
recklessness and when these two are
combined thrones tremble, officials
pale and war drums beat furried alarms
through an excited countryside
Who are they? No one knows and
no one questions. They move between
Hongkong and Suez on the eternal
quest for loot as mysterious as the In
terror of harem, enigmas to the world
and to themselves. Their names are
varied, their occupations prolific and
their lips sealed. Somewhere in the
past is a history. which may be found
by delving into the supposed cupboard
where the family skeletons of an Eng
lish land owner are hidden, by prying
into the affairs of an Irish bankrupt or
by questioning the habitues of the bou-
levards. From all around the world
and back again do they gather and
when the gods are good disport them
selves at the cafes chantant of Port
Said. And India, though It welcomes
them not. allows them to come and go,
for in the orient humanity stands out
vivid, raw, naked, covered by only a
loin cloth, lacking the broadcloth frills
of an occidental civilization. What a
man was, or is, is immaterial In the
ever present knowledge that he will
soon be a corpse. Death hits too often
out there for one to be unusually fin-
niclky about life.
At home they are mercifully forgot
ten. His name is never mentioned at
the family breakfast table. he is black
balled, he is dropped. lie was and now
is not And somewhere in the south
ern seas the derelict with the memory
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By Harry Davids.

INTRIGUE and India are Synonymous.
Predominating above all other char
( acteristics Of the oriental is an IN
born love of appearing otherwise
than he really is. of giving bafiing i'm
pressions. Of playing the great game Of
matching wit against wit, brain against
brain. 1t originates in the harem,
where the whispering feminine voices
behind the purdah curtains plot the
eternal day. teaching the sucking in
fant to intrigue against the reigning
favorite of his father, firing him with
bitter hatred against his elder brother
AS a child the oriental learns that the
blood red dak flower accidentally
dropped from a grated window is a
message to a love beyond the walls.
and ne understands the answer in the
pleaoTng song pitched across the house
-ans 70 sosi.e silent, veiled figure. To
1,i-la it Is all part of the great game Of
nfe. So from infancy TO youth and to
manhood he lives In an eternal atmo-
sphere of intrigue and learns 10 mask
his face, TO lie fuently, to play the
game acCoIoiuS 10 MS WOIlh- ne IN
derstands, too, later in life. when he
learns that the hands that dropped the
dak flower have been severed at the
wrists and that the quick. silent stroke
has checked the pleading love song
across the housetops. There has been
8 mistake, some slip some carelessness.
and as love and war travel hand in hand
a mistake in loves game means the
knife thrust.
This art Of plotting is everywhere
in India. It is IN the council chamber
where the native member with an Ok
ford degree, launches into his smooth,
soft diplomatic speech of platitudinal
lies with his cultivated Me Lard" and
II IS found in the vaccinations of
Bundoo LaI. the village policeman. who
tntrigues with dacoit chief against
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n.Ade was plunged on this last deal.
and his bird won. Tt was claimed that
he placed poison on his birds head and
plumage so that the rajahs bird was
overcome early in the fight; but this
was probably native rumor and could
not be proved.
On his death Martin gave his palace
and whole fortune for the founding OF
an educational institute for while chill
dren In india 1t is probably the most
gorgeous school in the world and is
known as La Martiniere college. No
one knows the vast sums that were
spent on IT. The walls are marvels OF
fresco. the school library is in costly
marbles and every inch OF the immense
building IS replete with the handiwork
OF oriental skill and craftsmanship. A
few years later, the English govern
ment took the school under It's wing.
imported schoolmasters from Cam
bridge and Oxford and conducted the
institute on the same principles as those
OF Elton. Harrow and Rugby. It Is at
tended by sons OF officers and civil
servants. and It's graduates are filing
the most important positions IN India.
Martin was, however, an exceptional
character.
The others who have played for big
stakes and won have not possessed
such philanthropic tendencies, and. as a
rule, the winning OF a big game IS
followed by a wild dash into Calcutta
with colors flying. They blossom out
with tum-tums, dog carts and fast
horses. They live extravagantly. out
doing the very natives in their lavish
display, and. when the money has gone.
they drop out again to poach pearls or
beachcome or play any enc ee ths
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21

10000 men in the fields and retlncrico alone,
and whose annual payroll amounts to mil
lions of dollars.
The spring pole rig used along Oil creek
has given place to modern machinery, op-
Grated by carefully trained men. The OK
trains that hauled oil i'll barrels over roads
unworthy OF the name have been succeed
cd by thousands of miles OF steel pipe line,
great trains OF oil tanks and the modern
oil carrying ships, whose capacity i'll some
cases is over $4,000 barrels.
Everything that coal has done Tor the
east, crude oil i, doing for California, and
since its general use, less than ten years
ago, ways and means have been devised
to use crude oil i'll California;. the same
as coal is used i'll other parts OF the United
States, and the public at large have shown
their appreciation OF its value by the adOp-
ton OF crude oil wherever fuel is needed.
AS a result OF this 4 stream OF gold is dis
lributed i'll California to holders Of Cali
iornia Oil Company stocks, which amounts
to many millions OF dollars per year.
W. w. Orchult, one OF the most proml-
nen1 consulting engineers and gcOlogIsts in
this country, in Il recent report on a Cali
iOrnia Oil Company, had the following to
say about California oil lands:
"Ihcrc is no place in the world where
the oil measures are 50 ample and thor
uughly saturated as in California. This
makes California oil wells big producers
and long-lived." He then goes on and
recites incidents where even on large acre
ages, such as l2O acres, the production
today has been as high as 10000 barrels
Per acre, and the land still producing
Heavily.
The investor with sufficient Judgment
to see these great possibilities, and the
optimism, which generates nerve to back
this judgment, will be literally swept to
fortune on this great flood of oil which
flows through the proven fields OF Cali
lornia. TIL optimism and courage of
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21
NOW

We have shown that you should be an
optimist, at least as far as California oil
is concerned. Now, you being an optimist,
we will tell about one of the companies
that will soon stand, if not at the head.
at least very near the head OF the California
Oil Producing Companies, and that is the
California National Crude Oil Company.
This Company has purchased thousands OF
acres Of land in the Coalinga Oil District,
which is recognized as the largest producing
oil district in California. 1t is selling stock
for the development of the same. The par
value of this stock is one dollar, and the
present purchase price is 40 cents. 1t Is
only a question of a short time until the
stock will be selling at par. We advise
the early purchase at 40 cents. Remember
this stock goes to 50 cents on the 18th OF
May and not a share can be bought for
less after that date. Now, don't hesitate.
Buy now. and do so quick.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21
The OPtimist Versus
The Pessimist

The optimist lives under a clear sky, the
pessimist lives i'll a Jog. The pcssimist Is
confused; he hardly knows where to go.
what to do or how to act; the optimist /,
in tune with the harmonics OF nature and
disccrns distinctly the onward path that
lies before him. The pessimist hesitatca,
and loses both time and opportunity; the
optimist makes the best use OF everything
now; and builds himself up, steadily and
surely. until all adversely is overcome ana
the object in view realized. The pcseimIst
curbs his energies and concentrates his
whole attention upon failure; the optimist
gives all his thought and power to the at
tainment of success, and arousca his iacul-
ties and forces to the highest point OF eff
! ci.ncy. The pessimist waits Tor better,
times, and expects to keep on waiting; the
optimist goes to work with the best that
is at hand now. and proceeds to create bet
ter times.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21

the pioneer oil men of California have made
them millionaires. They learned the truth
of that great saying: "One good invest
ment is worth a lifetime Of labor What
optimism and oil have done for others they
will do for you, for really only the surface
of the possibilities OF California oil have
been scraped. There are today numerous
new companies just starting to develop
their land, in which stock can be bought
at extremely low figures. Within two years
we will undoubtedly find the stock OF the
great majority OF these companies listed on
the sock exchanges, and paying the same
kind of generous dividends that so many OF
the other companies are now paying alter
perhaps only two years of operation.
All this is possibly interesting reading,
and we trust that truths given here will
sink deeply into the hearts of our read
ers, and that they will start on the COM
paratively easy road to making money by
having the optimism and courage to make
investment in some good California oil
stock"
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21

The optlmist is an inspiration to every
body; the pce,imist is a wet blanket. The
pessimi~t pOurs cold water on the fires OF
his OWL ability; the optimist adds fuel to
those fires. The pessiInist links his mind
to everything that is losing ground; the
optimiet lives, think, and work, with
everything that is determined to press on.
The pco,imist places Il dampcr on every
thing; the optimi>t gives lie, fire and go
to everything. The pcs,imist rcpcle every
thing; the uptimiet attracts Everything.
The pc~simist fights the wrong: the Opt
mist works to increase the power OF the
right. The optimiet is a building force:
the pee~imist is always an obstacle in the
way OF progress. The pcssimi>t lives in
Il dark, ,oggy, unproductivc world, the OPP
tiIniet lives III the mental sunshine that
makes all things grow.
DO You realize how true all this is:
Don't You appreciate that the "ptilnist Is
the successful man: The optimi>t is the
man who invests for he believes some good
will conc from such an investment, and
as every real fortune that ever was made
resulted from investment, il is optimism
that makes success.
The pcssimist i, the man who looks with
suspicion upon all investment opportuni-
ties, and while he is hemning and having
and failing to act, an optimist grasps the
opportunity, makes his investment, and gets
his start iii lie.
1t required 4 generous supply OF optimism
Tor men to go ahead and develop what i,
today the greatest wealth producer i'll the
world-Caliiornia Oil IandS-but their OPP
timism has been repaid.
Allen G.. Nichols, editor OF the oil In
dustry," gives a few pertinent facts i'll 4
recent issue of one of the leading daily pa
pcrs, and he writes regarding this wonder
iul Oil Industry:
"Only a half century old the oil indus
try in the United State, has already export
ed more than s., 1000, 10000 BOO worth OF the
refined material. In other words, in fifty
years The total amount received for re
fined oil exported has been greater than the
value Of the entire production OF gold i'll
the United States since Columbus discover
cd America. Since 1900. the year i'll which
sixty small casks were sent to France as
an experimental shipment, the amount eX-
ported has been greater in value than the
production of gold i'll the entire world for
the same period. Within the memory OF
living man the infant has grown into 4
giant industry that gives employment t'
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21

For making big money. there is nothing
in the investment world today that will
bear comparison for a moment with the
opportunities afforded by California oil
stocks.
Dozens and scores of these stocks are
selling today for many times the prices
at which they were originally placed on
the market.
In the advances of the past year many
Of them have yielded profits of several hun
dred per cent to investors.
In production and earnings the oil wells
have distanced the gold mines.
Thousands Of people enjoying a compe-
tence today owe their good fortune to mod
crate investments in California oil.
BY still other thousands the successes of
the past will be duplicated during the pres
ent year.
Now. don't be a pessimist and say that
this is impossible. Facts are facts. and if
you only take the trouble to look into same.
you will find that this is true.
The writer came across a beautiful arti-
Gle some time ago entitled The Optimist
VS.. the Pessimist.' Read it. 1t won't hurt
you.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-21

THOSE stockholders who'h have purchased stock and those wo are dt to purchase at 4c per she are
Il about to realize Is per cent on their investment aheay, as the stock goes to 50 cents this coming week.
And SEm t the first advance eer TGeT no doubt in our minds htW you Twill see this stock soaring way
up in dollars s@n adw when yud d. we know you will wish that you had larger block w would advise all
VIII Cm pNSby do so to purchase before the end of the week. and take advantage fde me
Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-08
PUBLICITY.

In the formation of the new state Of Arizona the importance of publicity should not be overlooked. Bad gov ernment win not continue long if provision is made for a wide pub,ica- tion of the acts of public officials. in- cluding frequent itemized statements of every payment by the public treas ury This will not be a matter for the constitution. but by law to be enacted by the legislature. But there is one form of publicity which we be lieye should be made mandatory by the constitution and that is the mat ter of directing that all expenditures of money in any election ca-lpaign should be made public through the public press before the election is held. for all money expended. includ- ing the sources from which it came.  ten days before the election and a complete statement of every charac- ter of expense. within thirty days after election.
 We believe it would be advisable to have a law which would prohibit any party committee or candidate from soliciting or. accepting for campagn purposes ary money from any indi- vidua, not resident of the state
 We declare ourselves in favor of this constitutional provision at the risk of having some republican call ing it g freak"
Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-08
T. R. JUMPS IN
 INDIANA FIGHT

Continued from page 1) Sheffield.
 From Montana. Senator Thomas H. Carter.
 Roosevelt appeared well pleased over the days work of talking poll tics. To interviewers, however, he would say little concerning the con ferences. except that he promised to make one speech for Beveridge Those who sought to interpret the day as a general insurgent rally, looking toward shaping Booseve,rs future attitude, were left in the dark. An indication that this was not the case was the presence of Carter. steadily opposed to insurgency.
 Beveridge spent only few hours at Sagamore. the press of other wis itors and a dinner engagement in New York necessitated his early re- turn and gave him less time than he wished in which to discuss the political situation In Indiana.
 T have no doubt Roosevelt will give out anything he wishes to be come public about the interview, q said Beveridge. q have had many talks with Roosevelt the last few days. but never in my experience have ! had one more satisfactory than the one today"