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MINES AND MINING PROSPECTORS ARE ACTIVE
STOCKS SOARING
AFTER THE STRIKE
QOLDFIELD AGAIN EXCITED
OVER MINING SHARES
Residents of Famous Camp Said to Be
Annexing Fortunes — Develop.
menu in the Ramsey
Mining District
rfprclftl to The Herald.
QOLDFIELD. Jan. 12.— Now thnt
the labor difficulties In Goldflcld lire
settled development has been renewed
with vigor und everything goes to
show that within the next few weeks
the excitement will be more Intense
than It ha« ever been on the various
stock exchange*. Stocks have advanced
as high as CO per cent during the past
few days and at the present figure do
not represent their Intrinsic value.
During the pant year or no Investors
ln mining stocks, and especially Ne
vada securities, have been piling Up
profits hand over fist, which Is simply
a short-cut way of saying that at
many times it has been possible to
double one's capital at every new move
or with each successive Investment.
The old curso that once attached to
the hlt-or-mIBS mining Investment has
been vanquished. It Is now down and
out. Nevada has made good.
But as a mining region It hns been
thoroughly demonstrated that the
value and possibilities of various Ne
vada camps have not been over
estimated. They haven't arrived at
their crowning glory yet— they are
only In the process of getting there.
lt Is Isn't a little movement or a local
craze.
■ Million. Dollar Shipment
The Hayes-Monnette lease on the
Mohawk mine of Goldfleld, Nevada,
will make a shipment to the Selby
Smelting company of San Francisco of
fifty tons of ore, valued at $700,000. The
Francis Mohawk has shipped twenty
five tons valued at $250,000. This Is the
greatest shipment of gold ore ever re
covered In the history of mining: In this
country.
The Hayes-Monnette has opened up
another rich shoot of ore In an upraise
on the 270-foot level. Many men are
now crowded Into this chamber and
the vast tonnage of ore is now being
broken. This ore Is exceptionally high
grade ore, averaging fully $2000 to the
ton.
The Francis Mohawk has paid three
dividends, making a total of $227,000
This has broken all Goldfleltl records
when taken Into consideration that the
company was not floated until June
.9, 1906.
The management of the Jumbo Leas
lng and Development company, operat
ing a lease on the Cornlshman claim of
the Florence Goldfleld Mining company,
has - just completed the ere.ctlon of a
gallows frame which is thirty-six feet
ln height, towering eight feet higher
than those surrounding, and. aggressive
development Is now being prosecute
since the labor difficulties are settled.
lts shaft has. now attained a depth of
nearly 200 feet and the Intention is to
sink to the 400-foot level to cut throe
sulphite veins that trend through the
lease from the Jumbo mines to the
north.
Ramsey Mining Company
The end of the year and tho end of
the first six months of Ramsey's life
as a mining camp, finds a place on the
map to stay, boastfully declares the
Ramsey Reporter. ■;
When Ramsey was started and when
the great discoveries that have since
that day developed into huge mines
were made, there was the usual rush to
the district by followers of mining ex
citement. Some stayed. Moat went
away again and some of these re
turned. The experience of all mining
camps was that of Ramsey, a season
of feverish excitement and sensational
reports of nil kinds, a calm and then a
forceful silence of development and
earnest work on the part of those who
had become Interested in the district.
Today more men are working under
ground in the district than ever worked
on top or under ground there before.
Full shifts are being worked on half a
dozen mines. Half a dozen more com
panies will start soon with full shifts.
Each of these companies has either
a Huge dike of ore on top or a rich
ledge that crops with enough width to
justify extensive development. In no
place In the district where systematic
work can be done has the worker been
disappointed In finding ore. On some
claims ore has been found In such
abundance that tho owners have been
simply staggered by the stupendous
prospect before them.
Long Stretch of Quartz
From the point of discovery the now
famous Clark dike to the south end of
the district the huge cropping that first
disclosed the work of 'thQ. porphyretlc
quarts can be traced on the surface.
lt Is possible, it Is asserted, for a miner
to walk on this huge dike for over
two miles without stepping off the gold*
bearlng quartz at any point in his
journey. /
The other big lead, the Red Moun
tain system, is exposed for almost as
great a distance as the Clark dike.
lt runs from the Red Mountain No. i,
an extension south of the Rattler No.
2 to the extension 'of the south end of
the Starlight and crops In three places
in huge cliffs of ore that assays mill
lng values on the surface. It is on this
lead that the Ramsay Bros, have
staked their claims and are Investing
their fortunes.
iln the eastern part of the district
are two vein systems that run almost
parallel with the Clark dike trend. On
the south end of one of these Is the
Uaravanta dike, probably the largest
body of iuiiiiiU.il gold ore on tho sur
face of the earth. The Garavanta
claims cover a huge knoll that Is
topped by a cliff -"" feet high and
nearly 2000 feet' long and every pound
of rock In this; cliff seems to carry free
gold. It Is a fact that this cliff prob
ably has been sampled more and
oftener than any other in the district
and not one man has been able to Hint
ii barren spot In It. The south end of
the • knoll disappears on Its slope un
der the nialulpi. On tho other end of
the knoll the big vein can be traced
to the northern limits of the district
and on this trend are located some
claims that will eventually make huge
mines. < .
True Comstock Extension
The erosion covers this lead 1 more
than it does the Clark dilfe. and tile
big trend disappears from tune to time,
to cyme out again on the saddles and
high places y between the Oaravanta
cropptnps and the north end. Experts
nay thin ; trend continues. and marks
th« ledge matter : and vein aystem of
Tallapoose. " Others declare, after uur-
COMBINATION MINE AND MILLS, GOLDFIELD
THIS WONDERFUL MINE HAB DECLARED EIGHTEEN CONBECUTIVE MONTHLY DIVIDENDS, AVER. 5
AGING $40,000 EACH MONTH. THE PROPERTY WAS PURCHASED BY CHICAGO CAPITALISTS THREE j
YEARS AGO FOR $75,000, $5003 DOWN, AND THE BALANCE WAS PAID BY THE MINE ITSELF. THE}
MILL IS NOTED AS THE MOST COMPLETE IN NEVADA
V 'I"I"i"fTTTT'fTTTTTTTVVTTTVTTTI
veytng Its direction, that this trend Is
the true Comstock Extension. It Is
Joined about half way Up Its length
toward the north by a parallel system
that nt the point of Junction makes a
cropping over 700 feet wide that car
ries gold Its entire width. At this
point silver Is found in greater quan
tities than in any other part of the
district and experts declare that this
system will prove more prolific in
point of quantity than any other vein
ln Nevada. It is so huge that all flows
and counter currents of country rock
have not disturbed it. Like a wall well
built, it has repelled the charges
against it by the forces of nature.
Wherever on those huge veins depth
has been attained, Increased values
have beeii found and the future of
Ramsey is assured by these four veins
alone. if none other were discovered.
As a matter of fact the district is full
of crosn-systems that run between and
up to the central or main dikes, and
good prospects have been found upon
all of these, some even better thin
upon the main dike.
Ramsey District Notes
Charlie Clark of Goldfield discovered
what Is known as the Ramsey Com
stock mine, a large .ledge standing fif
teen or twenty feet above ground and
literally filled with gold.
Adjoining tho Ramsey Comstock on
the south the Ramsey Mining company
has a largo body of ore and is open-
Ing up a mine as fast as labor and
money can do it.
About three-quarters of a mile still
further south Captain Davis of Day
ton has made a very rich discovery
and has a number of men at work on
what is known as the Davis group.
Immediately adjoining this group Is
.the Walkover, owned by the Nevada
Hills peopl/j of Falrview. They found
ore on the surface ranging from $00 to
$250 a ton.
Adjoining the Walkover is the East
Comstock Wonder Mining company's
property, controlled by the G. 9.
Clack Brokerage company, who have
discovered ore running as high as $600
per ton.
About two miles southeast from the
Bast CoiTistock Wonder Mining com
pany's property Ramsey and Fletcher
have both milling and shipping ore on
two groups adjoining each other, one
called the Dago and other the Red Top.
Two miles north Knickerbocker and
Reynolds are working on what they
call the Jack Pot, where they have a
number of streaks ranging from eight
to ten inches wide averaging over $200
per ton. The average of the same,
thirty-four feet wide, leaving out tho
rich streaks, runs $12.50 a ton, all free
milling.
About half a mile north from the
town of Ramsey In the neighborhood
of what was formerly known as the
town of Tremont, Captain Cox has a
shaft down about fifty feet and cross
cuts show a body of ore ranging from
$2 to $30 a ton. This ore is entirely dif
ferent from the ore in the other prop
erties, carrying about half gold and
half silver, while the other properties
show gold only.
PAID $500,000 FOR MINES
Gigantic Deal for Valuable Mineral
Property Closed in Los
Angeles
During tho past week one of the
largest deals In mining property lately
negotiated In Los Angeles was closed,
the consideration being $500,000. The
property includes twenty-nine claims
owned by J. B. Osborno and the Drew
company of San Bernardino.
Tho property, which includes the
famous Tecopa and Gun Sight mines,
located In San Bernardino and Inyo
counties, Cal., was purchased by J. T.
Overbury, H. Q. McMahon and J. H.
Lester of Rhyollte and the Sloane com
pany of Philadelphia, composed of N. P.
Sloane, J, T. Sloane and J. A. Sloane.
The corporation Will be known as ;li'
Tecopa Consolidated Mining company,
and already $100,000 lius been placed In
the treasury to begin development
work.
Tho first step toward securing the
property wub made last May, and a*v
eral months ago Mr. Overbury and Mr.
Mt Mahon came to Los Angeles an 1
paid $f>u,ooo for an option on the prop
erty. The second $50,000 was paid Satur
day and the new company took over
a mortgage of $125,000 held against the
property by the Drew company. In
.si xiy days the transfer of papers will
be completed. Since the first Install
ment was paid the prospective pur
chasers have been keeping twenty men
at work on the property In order to hold
the contract. To further fulfill the ftjwi
.111 1 of the bonds 100 men will he put
on at once and a big concentrating plunt
and hoisting works will be erected.
Didn't Help Matters
Daughter (In tears) — But, papa, what
have you against Charles? 1 am aura
he would make a good husband.
lrate Papa— He's an idiot, and Is
only after your money..
Daughter— Oh, no, papa; 1 know, he
would marry me without a cent.
lrat« Papa— Would he? Then he is a
worse idiot than i thought,— Pale Male.
LOS ANUKI.KS HKKALU: MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14. 1907.
GOLD OUTPUT
IS MARVELOUS
COMMENTS BY THE DIRECTOR
OF THE MINT
Nevada and Alaska Expected to Double
Production of 1906 During the
Present Yea^.— Figures
Amazing
George K. Roberts, director of the
United States mint:
"Tho world's production of gold con
tinued in 1906 to show a large Increase.
Three years ago the output was $325,
0(10,000, two years ago $376,000,000, and
for 1906 it will be between $400,000,000
and $410,000,000. The largest addition,
In recent years, has been made by
South Africa, which, including all dis
tricts, is now producing about $12,
00,000 per month. In tho United
States, Nevada and Alaska have made
increases which will carry the output
of this country close to and perhaps
above $100,000,000. It will be the first
time the United States has ever reached
that great figure.
"Outside of this country and South
Africa, gains and losses will probably
about offset each other. The Transvaal
has passed its record of before the war,
and further expansion of the industry
is hampered by the scarcity of labor,
the present administration in England
being opposed to the importation of
more Chinese. However, at the rate of
production reached in the last three
months there will be a gain in 1907 of
$15,000,000. over the yield of 1906. It
will probably do better than that, say
$140,000,000 in the year.
Nevada Gold Production
"With the new railroads building and
present activity in exploration and de
velopment, Nevada Is certain to show
a very largo increase in 1907, perhaps
doubling the 1906 yield, which will be
around $10,000,000 or $12,000,000. Alaska
promises further gains in 1907, and
Mexico Is In shape to do better every
year for some time to come. It is ex
pected that the Klondike, which has
been on a declining scale for several
years, will hereafter do better, due to
the development dredging. Australia,
which is a large producer, has been
losing about $2,000,000 a year for three
years. The world's output in 1907 may
be expected to he between $430,000,000
and $440,000,000."
MINING MEN
VISIT CAMPS
Sale of 200,000 Shares of Jerome.
Verde Stock to One Party In
New York—Mi I Isite for
Mayflower
Word wi'.s received at the offices of
the General Securities company Satur
day to the effect that the New York
branch had sold shares of stock
in Jerome- Verde to one party and that
Ibis stOOk was welling strong in broken
lots. William Holly is at present at
Palm Beaob. Florida, and while there.
has sold a large block of stock to parties
sojourning at that winter rasort.
j. io. Meyer, president of tin- itandard
Minis oompany, left last night for
Oima, and from there win go to tho
mines for tha purpose of Inspecting the
late developments on the pro| erty and
to satisfy himself that the recent big
strike of hiKb grade oopper ore is bona
lclc .Mi. Meyer is very enthusiastic
over itandard minea ami predicts for
them a great future.
President Charles 11. Gates, Captain
John N. White, superintendent of the
Mayflower consolidated mines, with a
party of interested eapltalLstH will leave
for the desert next Saturday morning
for an Inspection of Mayflower property
and to decide upon the location of the
mill site. The officers will lay out the
trend of the pipe line from the vlllago
of Dull-. While no special effort is
being made. Mayflower stock Is selling
steadily and the prospects for the sue
cess of this; venture are considered more
than good. ■ > ■ . ■'
President Plowman of Standard
mines No. a reports good sales in (Stand
ard? stock and is now making arrange*
meats to switch the main shaft to the
500-foot level. This done, it is believed
that Standard No, 2 will produce as
good ore as any western mine and that
means much Indeed. The values in San
Bernardino county mines are Increasing
daily. It is considered the copper field
of California.
Cost of Water
OREENWATER, Jan. 13.— Water for
use In Furnace Is brought from Furnace
creek, eighteen miles. It sells for $7.50
per barrel of fifty gallons. The water
company Is owned by A. D. Bishop, who
has just received ten head of fine draft
horses Irom Fresno.
MOHAWK JOHNNIE
GREAT IN GOLD
STRONG LOS ANGELES COM-
PANY IN THE FIELD
Direct Results of Building of Las
Vegas & Tonopah and Tonopah &
Tidewater Railroads — Found
Fine Ore
The Johnnie mining district in Nye
county, Nevada, once called the Mont
gomery district, is holding its own in
the era of development that is placing
the Sage Brush state at the head of the
gold producing commonwealths of the
Union. The district is pretty well oc
cupied by experienced mining operators
who are spending capital liberally in
the opening up of highly promising
properties, and with very satisfactory
results. The district is both highly and
widely mineralized, which accounts for
the general success that has attended
its exploitation.
Gold, silver and copper are the pre
dominant minerals, tho gold bearing
ore being chiefly of the freo milling
kind, and running into handsome values
as a rule. The location of tho district
is about in the middle of the great min
eral belt or lode that runs from North
western Nevada southerly into Califor
nia, and then on to Mexico, and made
world famous as a phenomenally rich
mineral formation by the output of
such camps as Tonopnh, Goldfleld,
Manhattan and Bullfrog, and in the
opinion of many mining experts it will,
if properly developed, give as good an
account of Itself as any. The construc
tion of the Las Vegas & Tonopah and
the Tonnpah & Tidewater railroads will
wonderfully facilitate operations in the
territory, as both lines run close to it.
Mohawk-Johnnies Entrance
The activity which has for some time
characterized the district has received
great impetus through the entrance of
the Mohawk-Johnnie Mining company,
a corporation representing L,os Angeles
and eastern capital, and under the
management of strong, representative
business men who intend that their en
terprise shall be placed on a dividend
paying baala as early as possible. The
company owns by straight out purchase
.six fine claims situated to the south of
the. Johnnie Consolidated mine and on
the same ledge as that noted property.
Development work Is being rushed.
The Johnnie Consolidated mine in
dexes the possibilities of tile district.
It has already produced a quarter of a
million dollars, while ore worth four
times that amount is blocked out. The
development of this properly also
shows that the district's ore bodies go
deep, tor the main shaft is 700 feet
down and In ore.
Tunnel and Shaft
The development work under way on
the property includes
a tunnel and a shaft. The latter is
down about forty feet in excellent ore.
The assays of ore from this property
have been highly gratifying to tha
company's management, some of the
rock going nearly $SOU per ton, princi
pally In gold.
At the head of Ihe Mohawk-Johnnie
Mining company, as president. Is Wil
liiiiu (i. Stewart, a capitalist lately re
moved to Los Angeles from Chicago:
in Horace Booth, another wealthy
Chlcagoan, is vice president; X H.
Clarke, a well known reul estate opera
tor,i ' s secretary and treasurer; John L
Pullman, a luce manufacturer of New
York, and H. C. Chapin, a bank official
i.r Lot Angeles, aro also on the direc
torate.
OBRIEN.KAUFMANN JOKE
A tuny joke appearing In a San Fran
cisco newspaper of last week pertained
to a match between Kaufmann and Jack
old leu. Billy Delaney, matchmaker
for everybody in general, was reported
ait having flung a challenge to O'Brien.
Cribblns, for the Quaker, replied that
O'Brien was willing. Wonder what
'O'Brien ha» to aay for himself?
TALK IN CHICAGO
ABOUT GOLDFIELD
FORECAST OF STILL GREATER
MINING ACTIVITY
Capital Diverted from Wall Street to
the Rich Gold Fields of
Nevada and Cali
fornia
Fred P, Mey( r and C 11. Keld< 1 of
tin- Meyer-Kcldol company, st... k
brokers and Ooldfleld mine operators,
stated in -in Interview hi the Auditori
um Annei hotel, Chicago, that tha
present situation all over the country
disclosed the unmistakable Forecast of
an Impending period <>r wonderful
activity in mining matters In Nevada,
They declare that no such set of favor
able, conditions n* now prevail through-
OUI the mining world hns ever hereto*
fore existed In the hiatory or mine de
velopment, These gentlemen assert
that the Infallible signs, as disclosed
by the dally market conditions in this
country and also In Europe, Indicate
clearly that the tide or public favor
•■nn no longer be held In dick, when
.'iskr-.i what the particular conditions
are which at Ihla time favor this mar
let activity In tho weptem mining se
curities Mr. Meyer In parl s.-iid:
"During the put two years the In
vesting public has to some extent been
familiarised with the truth about Wall
street slocks through the writings of
Lawson, Ida Tarbell and others. In
consequence investment funds have in
pome measure been withdrawn from
the Wall street channel and a part of
this money has found its way into Ne
vnda mining ventures.
"With an abundant and constantly
increasing supply of funds available
for prospecting and development pur
poses Nevada has had during the past
two years a fine opportunity to demon
strate the merit of her splendid mineral
resources. Her mining record testifies
as to how well she lias improved this
opportunity.
Astonishing Achievements
"The most astonishing achievement
seems to me to be that up to this date
there Is practically no person who has
dealt in Nevada mining stocks at a
loss, but on the contrary the record
has bpen one of universal profit. It is,
indeed, asserted, and I believe truth
fully so, that In these two years Ne
vada has produced one hundred men
now rated as millionaires. These undis
puted facts effectually nullify the wail
of warning which now emanates from
greedy Wall street, alarmed as it is
to the last degree by the steady drain
age, for western and mining invest
ments of funds which have heretofore
been flowing in an uninterrupted
stream into New York city. These
profitable investments of fundn in west
ern mining stocks have so stimulated
the production of gold In Nevada as to
Place that state third on the list of
Kold producers in the United States
last year, and If the present ratio of
Increase continues she will rank No
1 In 1907." .
The banks and mining companies on
the Nevada gold belt hold thirty mil
lions of money in their vaults while
they are also credited with thirty mil
lions in New York and a like sum in
the California metropolis.
"Nevada has within the past 150 days
developed a mine at Goldfleld which
holds the world's record of production
for the same period of operation. The
sum produced to date exceeds eleven
millions of bullion. Two carloads of ore
from this famous mine, valued at two
million dollars, are now held by the
Ooldfleld banks, in whose banking
houses tho sacks of 'high grade' are be
ing stacked like wheat in a granary
This remarkable specimen ore is soon
to be. shipped through the east and
displayed to the incredulous as ocular
proof of the vast wealth of the desert
Proof of Confidence
"The strangest evidence of the con
fidence of the Goldfleld mine operators
in the permanency of their camp is fur
nished by the records of the recent
real estate transactions in Goldfleld,
where every desirable available busi
ness lot has been picked up at a price
ranging from ten thousand dollars to
thirty thousand dollars per lot. From
a local contractor and builder I learn
that he has contracts for more than
five hundred thousand lollars' worth of
business houses, all of stone nnd mod
ern construction, to be erected on
these lots as soon as material Is avail
able, and he assures me that these
improvements are being undertaken
by men who are in a position to know
accurately about the real merits of the
mines, because In all cases they are
directly Interested In and associated
with the active mining operations of
the camp.
"The above facts are fully supported
by the records of such mines as the
Silver Pick, Red Top, Mohawk. Jumbo,
Atlanta, C. O, D., Gold Bar, Blue null
and its nearest neighbors, the Gold
fleld Bank property. In which an ex
tensive body of valuable ore has just
been encountered.
"These and many other conditions
combine to show thnt a period of sub
stantial prosperity is at hand for all
legitimate mining enterprises In Ne
vada tn general and at Ooldfleld in
particular."
NAGLE BUENA VISTA
MINING AND MILLING CO.
Another mining company was organ
ized in l<»h Ajigelaa Saturday with a
capitalisation of $1,500,000.
The directors are C. J. l.incke, Harry
T. ijuiiin and J. J. Crego, formerly
newspaper men; A. (». Park, attorney
and capitalist; John T. Nagle, graduate
of a mining school with thirty years'
experience as a mine manager, once
foreman of Belcher mine, a veteran
Comstocker, latei owning, the famous
Minnie Mealy, Heliize'B BUttS copper
mine. The company has three known
gold veins, the assays showing all the
way from $titi to $SUOU per ton on sui
f.i.c and in proapeel holes. The com
pany has nine claims und a fraction, or
abOUt IM BOreS. The properly Id located
nt camp Thurman, sixteen mllei south'
eust Of iSarohlight, and adjoins the
original rich Thurmau strike, which is
now the Uoyd'Searchllght company.
MANAGERS AND CAPTAINS MEET
AA A meeting ot the Amateur Baseball
league managers and captains will be
held tit 800 Smith San Pedro street to
night, at which all those concerned are
requested to be present,
Homeless children received and
placed In house* for adoption. Apply
Rev. O. V. Rice. Superintendent Chil
dren's Home society. 33* Bradbury
building. Los Angeles.
TOO MANY BURDENS CARRIED
Rev. J. 8. Thomson Says Individuals
Take on Themselves More Than
They Can Carry
!>v. ,T. S. Thomson, pastor of the
lndependent Church of Christ, preached
a sermon on "Our Burdens" yesterday.
He said, in part:
"A man's burden may bo doubt, or
failure, or opposition, or debt, or rtlii
ease, or weakness, or disappointment,
or lonellnen, Every one has a burden
of tome kind. ,
"Christ In hl« gosprl teaches us that
I Is wrong to worry about food OT
clothing, or houses. We need not worry
about tho pnd of the world, the Immor
tality of the soul, the laws of the uni
verse, tin- season* or the destiny of the
human race, We may think and specu
late abo'it these things, but It Is folly to
worry about them. They are God's nf
fnlrß, not ours, We must trust him
with theße mutters. There are private
burdens and there are public burden^
also. There are also self-linposed bur
dene,
"individual! take upon themselves
more burdens than they can carry, an 1
the burdens crush them to death. Im
perialism is b self-imposed burden or
peal nations, like France, Germany,
Russia and Qreal Britain; and now
Japan and the United States are sue
etsful In the Imperialistic race, Im •
perlallsm is burdensome, It demands
large navies, big armies, heavy < ;| * is
ana an Increase of pensions. And yet.,
i the whole earth is to be under one
government lome iimo, is not Imperial
lam working to fulfill tho grand dream
of the unity or tin- human race? Jesus
Christ haa proclaimed that ho can make
our burdens lighter and our yolkea
easier,
"If wn liollov,. and follow him nnr
worries will pass away. We are ba
coming a very nerVOUS race, becnuse we
refuse to accept Christ as the healer of
our bodies and souls on his own terms.
There are burdens which God places
upon our shoulders, and we ought to
carry them. Some day these burdens
Will be found to be our treasures for
heaven.
"Christ shows us how to bear these
necessary burdens With comfort. Ask
him, try his ndvlce. Test his way. You
have his divine word for It. He Invites
your tent.
PRECEDENT AND
PROGRESS, TOPIC
Rev. C. C. Pierce Tells of Those Who
Are Ever Learning and Are
Never Able to Come
to Truth
"Precedent and Progress" was the
topic yesterday morning of Rev. C. C.
Pierce, pastor of the Memorial Baptist
church. He said in part:
"Nothing Is more in evidence to him
who even casually observes the facts
and phenomena of life than that while
there are those who are forever seek
ing to help this world along there are
others, and sometimes a' majority,
seeking to hold it back. While there are
those who with unvarying eagerness
seek to learn the great lessons of life,
which are constantly being taught,
there are many more who are 'forever
learning and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.' There are
those who are forever standing on the
mountain tops, welcoming the advent
of the dawn, nnd heralding anything
that gives the hope of progress, while
there are others, and sometimes it
seems a majority, who linger still in the
valley, where the shadows of the past
are still dense, and with faces turned
toward the days that are forever gone,
bow down In abject servility to prece
dent.
"Among those who are forever learn
ing and never coming to a knowledge
of the truth are a great many very
good people in our churches. Some sup
pose they know it all now and that
there is nothing more to be learned.
Some suppose that our ancestors, en
dowed with divine wisdom above us,
were commissioned to dole out to the
human race all the wisdom It would
ever need, and that he who oversteps
the Ideas and teachings of the past Is
a heretic. There are some, many In all
our churches, who seem to have lost
the very ability of learning anything.
They rend no books of the present
hour in a world quivering with life;
they repeat their little theories and
suppose they have all there is.
"Some are afraid to learn. They have
heard old fogies repeat so often the
platitude that there is a conflict be
tween science and religion that they
suppose of course it Is true. Some have
fallen into a comatose condition in their
religious life and never make a single
step of advancement.
"Of course, the true attitude of a
Christian in this world is that of an
open-hearted learner. He should say
with Paul: 'Not as though I had al
ready attained, either were already
perfect, but I follow after, that I may
apprehend that for which I was already
apprehended of Christ.' This involves
the attitude of lifo which welcomes all
that Is new in the hope that something
better than tltat of tho past be dis
covered. This involves the generous
and tolerant attitude which considers
and weighs all things, so that that
which Is good may be selected. This
Involves the scientific attitude, which
will enable one to investigate and learn
from actual contact with things, and
which will lead to experiment in spilit
ual as well as In material things.
"Then, too, all about us we see those
who, beholding the power of true re
ligion in the Individual life and in hu
man history, walk blindly through the
world, admitting none of the clnlms of
religion into the soul. Such are the
most blinded of all and furnish the
most conspicuous and numerous exam
ple of those with all opportunity of
knowing the very best things of life,
seem ever to learn and never come to a
'knowledge of the truth.' "
DR. JOHN WILLIS BAER
TELLS OF HOME MISSIONS
Special (o Tho Herald,
PASADENA. Jan. 13.— A large audi
ence assembled this morning In the
iMisi Presbyterian church to listen to
Dr. John Willis liaer, president of Oc
cidental collage, deliver fin address on
"Home Missions." Having formerly
been general secretary of home mis
sions of the national church Dr. Haer
was In a most excellent position to talk
Intelligently of the needs of this par
ticular branch of the work In which lie
is still givutly interested.
ln spite of the fact that the address
was not extensively announced word
that the president of Occidental col
lege was to speak in Pasadena had
gone thoroughly over the city and
there were many In the big auditorium
from other denominations anxious to
hear the young man from the east who
is expected to do such great things
for the Los Angeles-Pasadena Presby
terian college.
Everything you want you will And In
the cl:»Hi»teU p&ge-a modem encyclo
pedia. On* cent a word.
7
TOLSTOY SUBJECT
OF BABA BHARATI
PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO THE
RUSSIAN SAGE
Says Author of "Resurrection " Knowi
the Truths of Hindoo Vedas and
Has Found Them Out
Himself
'-''" rolstoy, the rttiHsinn saga, was
" "'■' ' ' ■■■' '■' ' ourse by Baba Bha
111 ias< nlghi ai Krishna templt in
parl he nald:
the f.ni 1 1, ,H count Leo Tol
•toy was a great Rnislan writer, I hnj
no ipei in.- Information about his life
Mis wTltin»i and dolnga while I was
in India. Tha fact Is, i renounced tim
world and my home sixteen years ago
"'"I became a roving aacstli . and »■>
i ciiii not know much <>r the man and
manners m the nreatern world, having
■tudli >i little or nothing or It during
Hi" twelve yaari of my asceticism.
H'M.r, i knew nothing particularly of
Tolstoy until I came to New York n
little ov»r four rears ago and opened
my class for teaching religion ami phil
osophy. Now and then some nf my
students would bring mo a copy of a
newspaper containing some article em
bodying Tolstoy's views or lifo and on
current western topics. They would
bring them to ma, finding; my views
and opinions so very similar to his.
And When I read them myself I used
to be Struck by their wonderful simi
larity, put what struck me more forci
bly was the clearness of his expressions
and the wonderfully keen penetration
which he betrayed in dlsousalng the
social and domestic problems of west
ern life. Me seemed to me to be a very
much Illuminated man, and when I
heard from my friends a few details
about his life, the simple life that ho
livjed though possessed of riches, I was
confirmed in the further opinion about
him that he is a real sago who lives
his faith.
Reads "The Resurrection"
"Once I cam-! across a novel written
by Tolstoy, 'The Resurrection,' and I
read it. It was a poor translation, but
it showed the genius of the mind which
wrtoe it. A master mind peeped
through every page of it. I wanted to
read more of his works, but had little
chance in tills strenuous western life
to think of procuring them and less
time to read them. The other day,
having read and appreciated my arti
cle on 'The White Peril,' he wrote me
a kind letter expressive of his appre
ciation, and sent me a number of his
books as a generous Rift. I have had
as yet little time to read these books,
but have glanced through a few of
them. These glances gave me, how
ever, very clear glimpses into that mas
ter mind. One little pamphlet that in
terested me most wag the autobiogra
phy of his mental development, In
which I found the chief facts about his
life which I have been very anxious
to know. The book is entitled 'How I
Came to Believe.' It is a wonderful
book— the history of Tolstoy's belief in
God. Dressed in the simplicity of
language, expressions and sentiments
which are the general characteristics
of an illuminated mind, the book is a
marvel of sincerity, clear reasoning and
most instructive revelation of human
life and Its inner springs.
-From this book I gathered the facts
that Tolstoy, in his boyhood, was in
itiated into the creed of the Greek
church; that at the age of 16 he
gave up that creed, influenced by athe
istic opinions of some of his school
mates; that thence forward he drifted
into deeper stages of atheism and a
purely sensuous life; that not until
after. a few years of his married life
was he disturbed out of that atheistic
complacency by the question that arose
within him as to what was the meaning
of life; that this question grew more
and more persistent for a solution day
by day, and, finding no answer either
from materialistic science or his learned
contemporaries and friends he often
thought of committing suicide; that
besides studying all schools of western
philosophy, he studied Mohammedan
ism and Buddhism to find that solut
ion; and that, being disappointed in
every direction, he thought that sui
cide was the only exit from a life which
seemed to him without a meaning and
which some of the best philosophers,
ancient and modern, call an evil.
Finds Solution
"At this stage of his desperate pes
simism he actually stumbled upon the
most satisfactory solution— not from
the sciences or the philosophies or his
learned contemporaries or from any
religion, but by studying the lives of
the poor and laboring classes. What
struck him most in their simple and
yet hard life was their faith in what
they knew, in what they had been
taught to believe in. He found that
these poor laboring people had found
a meaning in life which people of his
own class, well-to-do and educated
like hlmßelf, did not know. He found
that this, their knowledge of life's,
meaning, consisted and expressed It
self in their belief In God who treated
them as they deserved. Ho found out
further that faith was superior to rea
son in so much as it made life brighter,
full of comparative) contentment, and,
above all, furnished it with the essen
tials of more or less harmonious char
actor.
"This lead Tolstoy to go back to his
ancestral religion, Christianity, and ex
amine its principles. Studying Christ
by what he taught and how he lived,
he found the full solution of his ques
tion—life's problem. Palth in God,
who Is love, was Christ's central teach
ing, the teaching that he lived — the
lesson to demonstrate which for all
mankind he suffered himself to be
crucified, so that the whole world would
see that his love for God and limn
never left him under the severest tor
tures.
"And Tolstoy adopted Christ's teach
ing, faith In God. Not the faith that
the modern church Inculcates, but faith
ln the God that dwells In every human
being, the God Whose voice directs the
steps and molds the life of every one
who hears him. And he only can hear
him and be guided by him who lives the
life that Christ lived— a life of love,
faith and goodwill and unselfishness.
"Hero Is the man, the one man In
the west, known all over the world,
who has found out the truth of the
Hindoo Vedas all by himself, by per
sistently demanding of Ufa Its object,
mission and meaning. Tolstoy searched
in Buddhism for his solution, and he
was disappointed. Hut Buddhism is
not Hlndoolsm. If be had studied ttw
Vedas, the Brahman religion, he would
have found the meaning of life long
before ha did. lie would have then
found that the Upanlshads, the philo
sophical part of the Veda, is the religion
that Jesus of Nazareth taught and
lived and gave to the western world.
Hut whether he received from tin Ve
das or the Bible, he has got hold Of
the basic principle of all life and re
ligion, and has absorbed its essence
so much that its radiance has filled his
mmdm mind and being and Is visible In his
actions. LaW Tolstoy l* the greatest
living sage and thinker of the age la'
the whole west."