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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16
Personal
and
Otherwise
Elk City Reduction Co.
Treasury Stock For
Sale.

The Board of Directors now
offers it's first allotment of treas
ury stock to the public at Is cts.
per share, par value one dollar.
The money received from the
sale of treasury stock will be
used for the completion of the
plant, and for the purchase of
such machinery as will be nee
essary.
1t is hoped that all those want
ing to further the interests of the
camp will subscribe literally to
this first issue of stock.
Make all checks payable to
G. Lei. BASKET,
Treasurer, Elk City, Idaho.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16
A Good Third.

"You admit that you are not first in
her affections, yet you seem cheerful"
"Oh, 1 can't expect to compete with
the pug dog and the rubber plant
Washington Herald.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16
Knows Just Enouqh.

"What do you know abolt the stock
market?" asked Poorly.
Just enough to keep out Of it,"
answered Richly.-Buffslo Express.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16
Buying Precious Stones.

In buying gems always beg, buy or
borrow a microscope and examine the
stone carefully through the telltale
lens. Flaws invisible to the naked eye
which depreciate or entirely destroy
the value of the gem will be easily
recognized.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16

The eyes believe themselves, the ears
other people,-German.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16
Cleaning and Repairing
Neatly Done.

Old papers for sale at Mining
News office, 10 cents a bundle.
You can get all the news for
So a year in the Mining News.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23

uan men; men who have tho boys
highest interests at heart. The pulpit
has not much creator power for
good than good teacher, the saloon
for evil than the corrupt or incom-
petent one. Think of the responsibility
of the instructor of a hundred bows
who so out into the world every year
bearing with them the imprint of his
life and teaching! 1t Is ihcalculable.
Solid Foundation.
We have heard said that impress
of good. Christian teacher in a com
munity can be noted on the generation
he taught years afterward. Give such
men and such schools your sons till
they are fifteen and they will lay the
foundation for n higher education, not
at the expense of the students morals,
but with strengthened character and
higher aspirations and noble purposes
in life.
But my allotted space is nov short.
1 am truly glad to have been accorded
this high privilege. But let us say
that 1t would be the hasest hypocrisy
ala not try to put in practice these
principles in this school which l rep
resent. and for the training of whose
students | am responsible. AS a result
OF our efforts our numbers have in
creased on an average of over 80 per
cent each year over the preceding
year, till now we have practically
reached our limit. though our news
paper and magazine advertising has
been limited. Our students return for
second year. and all enjoy the high
est reputation for good conduct and
gentlemanly behavior at home and
abroad. Our athletic teams are com
plimented for their fair play and their
manly and sportsmanlike conduct anu
our graduates for their high standing
in department and scholarship; also for
their high standing in inter-society de-
bate.
Our outlook for the coming year Is
very bright. and we feel safe in stat
ing that our applicants for the COM
ing year will far exceed our capacity.
All these indications of a prosperous
school we attribute to our excellent
military discipline, Inspiring honor.
manliness and courage. and to our
ever clean and sportsmanlike athletic
sports. and above all to the close and
personal contact with our carefully
selected teaching force and to their
faithful work for and in behalf of
those VINO have heen placed In their
care.
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Solid Foundation Laid for Higher
Training While Minds of Boys
a Are in Formative State.
ny II. II. MOORE, pRINCIp,,

Some time ago. I'm conversation win
distinguished professor and teacher
in one of our larger Southern un'ver-
slles, who successfully in earlier life
mad held similar positions in two
smaller institutions. he remarked.
Don't You know | remember now the
OLD boys in College y and COLLEGE r
better than | do my students with
whom have come IN contact I'm my
present position even in very recon,
years. Those fellows seem to have
made deeper impression upon me
somehow"
And though unexpressed M the time
the thought came to me Yes and Won
made greater and more lasting i'm
preston upon them and Your influence
ana example went much further To-
ward the building of their character
and, unconsciously TO YOU and YOUR
students perhaps, TO the moldinr and
shaping of their lives, than 1t can pos
sibiy do in your present position.
Now, in this thought keeping In
mind that ever true and immortal
epigrnm OF Sidney Standardization
Is not to inform the mind, but to form
1t--we nave an invinc'ble argument
Tor the small Christian, preparatory
school
We often hear it said that with the
system of free schools, the private
ecnooiS, me church schools and the
higher state schools and universities
there are too many schools nowadays:
hut in spite of this fact l am fully
convinced that the greatest need of
our present educational system is the
brst-class preparatory school, and the
greatest mistake of our people is the
failure TO demand such schools for
their sons and daughters.
IT'S true we have a system of free
schools throughout our country, nor
90 l mean TO disparage them in any
way or presume to say we could i'm
prove upon the work done by our
announcements of Public Instruction,
but these. important as they are, and
doing work which would otherwise
ne left undone, do not and cannot, with
their great numbers and diversified
classes be all that true preparatory
school should be-
Too Much for Show
Tis also true that we have num-
Der of preparatory schools so called
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
Weinberg
Female School

This Is an Ideal Home School for Girls,
Located In the Mountains of Virginia.
and affording the benefits OF healthful
and delightful climate. 1t is endorsed by
prominent educators and patrons In nil sec
tons, as 1t affords Christian home training,
thorough instruction. careful attention to tho
needr OF the individual pupil, and the ad-
vanthges Of literally conducted and WE'LL
managed educational institution upon very
reasonable terms For catalogue OF Stat sos
tion address
j. NJ. WALES, or
MISS CONSTANCE WALES,
SCHUYLER, Nelson County, Va,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
Shenandoah
Collegiate Institute

AND SCHOOL or MUSIC.
G;o;edu as college preparatory. Broad
and orchestra Piano tuning. Certificate admits
to University OF Virginia and other colleges
Terms: $50 to $500. including board and tuition
Address 5; c. l.. Virginia. Dayton, BOX 500 (shen-
andoah Valley
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versities are doing a noble work. and
they are raising their course Of study
and UNFOLDING such a standard that
many students who formerly swarmed
TO these institutions are now. humane
~ we might say, thrown back TO the
preparatory school.
we must meet the responsibility
We must recognize the fact that the
teachers make the school; that the
competent teacher must study the
character of each individual pupil; tina t
along with thorough instruction i'm
what is in books we must do what is
INFINITELY more important-instiu into
"them the paramount lessons of the
conduct of life" and the princinles
of honor courage and manliness
should the universities be small?
Not necessarily, for they have to do
with men. They need to he CEN
tralized for the better equipment and
greater advantages, and believe
there s stimulus and incentive -.
large colleges that is not gotten from
the smaller.
Then why small preparatory schools?
And by small I mean from dfty to a
hundred or hundred and nifty students.
Because they are prepare tory-prcpar
ing Tor these larger schools ard often
times for that larger schoo! life.
II Is in these schools that one learns
how to study as we'll as acquires
habits OF study. In these students.
MINDS are developing; they are get
ing Inspirations TO lofty ambitions
Their characters are forming-in short.
Ia this formative period, they are de-
velop'nS physically. mentally and
morally or becoming seasoned for the
more arduous work of the college or
business life
Ihey should be small that each and
every student may come intimately and
closely into contact with the teachers.
mat as In the case OF the professor
with whom we started they may
know their instructors and the teach
ers may know them thoroughly and
become personally interested in them.
teacher needs to study his students
10 start their minds to working in The
right way
Then. again, the preparatory school
should be small, as boys should enter
at as early age as possible Much time
is wasted IN trying to start again
badly started students or overcome
careless habits. We are almost wlllin.
to insure good students. regardless OF
the boy, If given al an early age and
kept with us. The personal attention
that these young students need can.
not be given in a large school
Then. these schools. whether church
private or State schools. should he
Christian-run and managed by Chris.
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but. alas! how true 1t is that the chief
interest OF many of these is to get
the students and their money and give
nothing In return but mere show. the
object of whose curriculum is display.
and the chief part of whose school is
the catalogue. but from whom true
instruction is as far distant as the
practice of gentleness from the train
ing of the profess onal pugilist.
The colleges, state schools and uni
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23

State Normal
and Industrial
School for
Women
Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
First Session Opens Sept. rs. 1911.
First Session Opens Sept. rs. 1911.

Some Of the distinguishing features
OF this, the newest Of our State institu-
tions are:
1. The grounds consist of so acres
on historic Maryc's Heights, over
looking the city, and only eight city
blocks from the principal residential
street.
2. Its buildings are large, handsome,
commodious. convenient and sanitary.
8. 1t prepares Virginia girls for Vir-
GINA schools, Virginia homes and Vir-
ginia life
4; 1t fits for the highest fields Of
usefulness and service in preparing
teachers for successful careers.
S. 1t offers courses leading to the
Diploma, the Professional Certificate,
the Rural Arts Diploma, the Manual
Arts Diploma, the Household Arts
Diploma, the Professional Elementary
Certificate.
6. An ample faculty of trained
experts.
I. No tuition is charged students
who will teach in the public schools of
Virginia. Tuition for others is $1,000
Tor the session Board and other liv
ing expenses Sl35oO for the session.
s. Graduates issued Virginia Teach
ers Certificates, good anywhere in the
State.
9. Special arrangements to aid a
limited number OF students not finan-
cially able to defray their expenses.
Catalogue now ready.
E. II. RUSSELL, President,
Fredericksburg, Va.
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Virginia
Military Institute
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES.

The attention Of all who interested in educa.
ton is ,espee,iuy called to the special advan.
tute. Among these advantages
l. Its Distinctive Military System Tbi,
has secured Tor 1t the name OF the West Point OF
the South. II tends 70 muscular development
food. sleep and exercise 1t creates habits o.:
promptitude. order discipline and subordination
IL fosters SELF reliance and force oil personal char
aetcr BY removing all cNtrancous distinctions. nd
casting each youth, whatever his antecedent cir.
eumstantes. on his own individual responsibility
II is equal, uniform and wholesomely restraining
without risor.
II. Its Distinctive Academic Curriculum.
This embraces the study OF English, H.tory
French or Spanish. German or Latin mathematics
physics. geology. mechanics. surveying. chemistry
drawing.
III. Its Technicai Scientific Courses. Pro.
vision is made Tor the members OF the second class
OF analytical and applied chemistry and OF cleo
trieal engineering. These courses are of one and
a halt years duration. and are illustrated BY con-
tinuons held and laboratory Practise. The de-
Partment OF engineering is thoroughly equipped
with instruments and models; and the chemical.
physical and meteorological laborator have ali
appliances tor thorough practical instruction.
~. Its Distinctive System OF Instruction.
namely. dividing o: classes into sections whereby
cures share OF the personal attention OF tho in
structor. The success OF the educational work OF
the school turns largely on this method.
"; Its Economy; The expenses are: Pay cadet.
$500 year: Virginia cadets tuii ion free S325 a
year; State cadets. $l65 year
his estimate includes tuition. board fuel and
nights washing. room rent. medical attendance
OF the most careful character clothing books
stationery and all necessary expenses. and falls
below that OF any institution OF like grade in this
country. This estimate is ereiasire Of outfit
and muet be understood az Gte,age for the en-.
tire term. ;he first year berg Of necessity the mos.
eostiy
For further information and catalogue apply tc
the Superintendent.
GEN. E. w NICHOLS,
Iexinotn., n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-26
A Libel on Temperance.

EDWARD F. MARVIN. conductor OF
IL the Sons of Temperance. said in the
course Of an eloquent address in Bridge
port:
THE new year will soon be with US.
and the great harvest Of new year tenn
perance pledges will begin. These tenn
perance pledges are joy to man. The
drinking man who swears off becomes.
thanks to his improved health, 80 per
cent younger and 80 per cent happier.
It's lie to talk as Teddy Beer did.
Teddy Beer, you know, swore OF one
New Year. and month or SO later he
rose in a temperance meeting to give his
experience.
Gents he began, L never thought I'd
be able to say that for thirty days not a
drop of spirituous liquor has passed my
lips. Gents, would you believe II, I've
saved enough this last month to buy
myself a lovely oak coffin with silver
plated trimmin's.'
Then. preparing to sit down. he added.
as a kind of afterthought:
And. by jingo. IL I'm teetotaler for
auc'he- month IN be needin' It.. =
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d Coehorn mortar and the deadlieSt fire
of musketry ever witnessed by any OF
US there present. We stopped the breach,
but lost in killed and wounded nearly
one hundred men by the explosion and
the subsequent fusllade.
This was rea ly the last stirring Incl
dent of the siege. On the I'd of July we
explode one of our mines somewhat pre-
maturely, and we had ready for cX-
plosion eleven others, containing from
100 to 10 pounds of powder, and extend
ing at a depth of six to nine feet for a
distance of from eighteen to twenty feet
in front of our works. The fuses were
set and everything was prmed and ready
for the approach of the federal sapperS,
but the Sd of July the flag of truce
stopped all operations on both sides, and
the efficiency of our preparations was
not put to the test.
The federal engineers had similar
preparations made for our destruction
at several points. Their men had grad
ually closed up to our lines SO that at
more, the thickness of our parapet was
grenades was all that was possible at
such close quarters. AS the FederalS
had the hand grenades and We had none.
theirs as failed to explode, or by catching
them as they came over the parapet and
hurting them back.
The causes that led to the capitulat
are well known. We had been from the
beg ming short Of ammunition, and con-
tinued so throughout in spite OF the dar-
ing exploits Of Lamar Fontan ne, Capt.
E. j. Sanders and Courier Walker who
1oated down the RIVER on logs and
brought, respectively, 1900, D,vuO and
3OO,UUO caps. We were short of provis
ions, so that our men had been on quar-
ter rations for days before the close of
the siege; had eaten mule meat and
rats, and young shoots of cane, with the
relish of epicures ming the finest
delicacies of the table. We were so short
handed that no man within the lines had
ever been off duty more than sma part
of each day: and in response to inquiries
of the lieutenant general commanding,
every general officer and colonel had re-
ported his men as physically eXha listed
and unfit for any duty but simply stand
ing in the trenches and firing. Our lines
were bad y battered, many of our guns
were dismounted, and the Federal forces
were within less than a minute of our
defenses, SO that a single dash could
have precipitated them upon us in over
whelming numbers
All OF these facts were brought out in
the council Of war on the night of the I'd
Of July. After that Gen. Pemberton said
he had lost all hopes of being relieved;
he had considered every poss BILE an of
relieving ourselves, and to his mind there
were but two alternatives-either to sur
render while We still had ammunition
enough left to give us the right to de-
rN"r = a'-~o, - ~ 81 IN ',- 'ca--
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likes to record The Federals engaged US
ear y in the morning of May II, from a
copse Of woods on our left j was stand
ing on the railroad bridge at the time,
and soon saw signs of unsteadinesS in our
men. and reporting the fact to Gen. Penn
berton, received orders to prepare to de-
stroy the bridges. Fence rails and loose
cotton saturated with turpentine were
piled on the railroad bridge. and barrel
Of spirits of turpentine placed on the
steamer Dot. which was swung across the
river and used as a bridge
About o'clock our troops on the left
(Vaughn's brigade) broke from their
breastworks and came pell-mell toward
selves unsupported. followed the exam.
pie, and soon the whole force was cross
ing the river by the bridges and by swim,
ming, holly pursued by the Federals.
was on the Dot at the time. Waiting
until all the Confederates in sight were
across the river l touched a match to
the barrel Of turpent me- and wiz. the aid
of one Of my lieptenants tipped 1t over.
The railroad bridge was likewise fired,
and all immediate danger of pursuit pre-
vented.
After the stampede at the bridge or
ders were issued for the army to fall
back to Vicksburg. Mai Gen. Stevenson
being paced n command of the retreat
ing forces. Gen. Pemberton rode on him.
self to Bovina, small railroad station
about two and half miles from the Big
Black river. l was the only stan officer
with him. He was very much depressed
by the events Of the last two days, and
for Some time after mounting his horse
rode in silence. He finally said:
II
Just thirty years ago I began my mill
tary career by receiving my appointment
to a cadetship at the United States Mill
tary Academy, and today-the same date
that career is ended in disaster and
disgrace
1 strove to encourage him. urging tina,
things were not so bad as they seemed to
be; that we still had two excellent divs
ions (Smith's and Forney's) which had no,
been engaged and were. therefore, fresh
and not demoralized: that they could oc
cupy our Ines at Vicksburg, covering es
pecially the approaches from the pos.tior
now occupied by the Federal forces. which
they would natural y follow: that the res
Of the troops could be put, at first. n tn,
less exposed parts Of the line. or in re
serve. until they had steadfed themselves
that Ficksburg was strong and could no
be carried by assault. and that Mr.. Davis
burg at al! hazard adding that ~ be
sieged he would be rel eved.' To all o
which Gen. Pemberton replied that m.
youth and hopes were the parents OF m!
Judgment he himself not believe ou
troops would withstand the first shock O
an attack.
We finally reached Bovina. where tn
general ha ted. and at my earnest In
stance wrote an order directing me to re
turn to Vicksburg In all possible haste
to put the place III n good state OF de
Tense This order directed all officers, o
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left seven men there. only one of whom
was ever seen Il. ain. he. negro, was
blown into the federal lines. but not
seriously hurt.
The next thing for us TO do was TO
stop the breach in our rctrenChment.
This we first tried 10 accomplish by heaN-
ing dirt into the breach with shDNels
from the two sides, but the earth was
swept away 10y the storm OF missiles
faster than il could be paced in y ST.
ton. We then tried sdndbags. but they,
too. were torn TO shredS and scattered.
Finally ! sent for some tent flies and
wagon covers. and with these srea rolls
of earth were prepared under cover and
pushed into place. until at last we had
something betW cen US and the deadly
hail of shot and she and mimic balls.
Playing into that narrow breach for
nearly six hours We're two ninc-inch
Dahlsren guns, a battery of large Par
rottS, one or more batteries of field guns,
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the pick and shovel were the weapons OF
defense until the next morning.
BY this time the Federal commander
was evidently convinced that Nickshurg
had to be taken by regular siege OF era
tons. BY the 4th of June the Federa's
had advanced their para les to within
100 yards of our line. From them they
commenced several double saps against
our most salient works. In each of csc
the engineer in charge was o.: de-ed to
place laundering barrels and load sIels
with short-time fuses. as preparations for
meeting assaults
BY the Sth o. June. in spite of all cf-
forts to prevent them. the enemy's sap
rollers had approached within sixty feet
of two of our works. \ private sold. er
suggested a novel eXpedient by which We
succeeded in destroying the rollers. He
took a piece OF port-fire, stuffed it with
cotton saturated with turpentine and
fired it from an old-fashioned iarge-bore
muSket into the roller, and thus set it