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VOL. XX. BtAWTHOllXE, ESMERALDA COUNTY, NEVADA, JULY 18, 1902. NO. JO.
J. G. BOOKER & CO.
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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.
Outraging Memorial Dav.
The veterans and those who appreciate
what they did from 1801 t»» -re
iudigmiut over the way Memorial da>
has eoiue to he regarded l»y a large el»*
ment of the Americnu people, lnsiea'
i»t being looked ui>ou as an occasion f°r
inlying respect to the departed American
soldier who has served honorably m the
field it is turned iuto a holiday to ho
passed frivolously and without the slight
est regard for the .sacred nature of an
ituniversary dedicated to high aims and
lofty patriotism. Each succeeding anni
versary is more and more a joyous occa
sion and less and less an object lesson
»f gratitude to those who so nobly serv
ed the nation in the hour of trial.
When first instituted there was no
thought of levity in connection with its
I'hservanee. The parade moved through
streets to the strains of the funeral
march, the beating of the mutlled drum,
the shrouding of the flag with crape, the
soldiers with arms reversed. The re
spectful attention of the multitude cor
responded to the somber processional.
In the cemeteries crowds assembled for
the exercises and to see the floral trib
utes on the mounds of the heroes who
had answered the final roll call. In the
churches congregations listened to ad
dresses in keeping with the solemnity of
the day.
That was a generation ago. A great
change has come over those who have
come upon the stage of action since. The
present generation does not appreciate
the sacrifices the soldiers made in the
long-drawn-out war of the 't»Os. such as
their forbears well knew, or they would
never allow the day lo degenerate into
a season of merrymaking, with contests
an laud and water by day, and dunces
by night, upsetting completely the mean
wig of the anniversary. The desecration
Lias come to such a pass that unless a
change conics over the public mind it
will be necessary to abolish Memorial
day.
The flowers can be strewn just as well
without ceremonial and interruption to
business and have **<11101 honor and equal
meaning for our sleeping heroes as if a
day were set apart for this distinction.
In this way the mockery and heartless
ness which now discredit Memorial day
will cease to disgrace it before the world.
—Utica (Jlobe.
Boers* Great Military Feat.
Worn down by the attrition of num
bers, and threatened by the winter of the
Southern hemisphere, the; Boers have
signed conditions of peace. The latest
active operations were notable successes
for them. They practically destroyed
two or three large British detachments
with artillery not long ago, and in the
last battle of the war captured the Brit
ish commander and the most of his force.
Nevertheless, they yield to the general
situation upon receiving terms that re
spect their position as soldiers and rec
ognize their claim to relief as sufferers
from the waste and ruin of war. They
abandon their claim to independence, but
that, as far as the Transvaal republic
was concerned, was never conceded by
England. The little Orange Free State
went into the struggle on the basis of
sympathy, and is wiped out from the list
of miniature nations. Dreams of a
Dutch federal union in the south of Af
rica are ended. That part of the Dark
Continent will be under the British flag
and dominated by the English-speaking
race.
In spite of this result, which was easy
to see from the outset, in view of the
enormous disparity between the combat
ants, the Boers have added a new chap
ter to military science. For nearly three
years they taxed the army resources of
the British empire to the utmost and
subjected it to a long series of humilia
tions. Up to the last this process was
kept up. The Boers, though but a hand
ful, have been mighty men with their
rifles and go hack to the vocations of
peace with tin* admiration of the world
for their tenacity and skill as fighters.
<>n tin* other hand, the British military
system lias proved unsatisfactory and
"ill undergo thorough reorganization as
a result of the remarkable series of de
feats and dUuppointi ..us that consti
tuted the British experience in the eon
tiiet just « losed. The English people fer
vently hope they will never have another
such victory. Sr. Louis tJlohe Democrat.
One Cent letter Postage.
There are many who assume that be
cause the successive reductions in the
rate of letter postage in past years have
all been followed by a vast increase in
the quantity of letters sent through the
mails a repetition of the experiment
would certainly be followed by a trimi
lar result. But they overlook the fact
that the principal part of the increase
was not due to an expansion of tin* let
ter writing habit, but to the stimulus
which the reduction gave to the practice
of business men sending out price lists
and other printed matter iu unsealed en
velopes. The statistics of the Posiollice
Department do not distinguish this sort
of mail from the closed. No one can tell
what proportion it forms of lirst-class
matter, but that it Is very large is well
known. That it was immensely increas
ed when the law made it possible to send
an unsealed letter or circular for one
cent is also a matter of general knowl
edge, but it is not so well understood
tlint it was this particular reduction
which so greatly enlarged the volume of
first-class matter.
If a reduction is made to one cent for
sealed letters, uml there is no further
lowering of the rate of unsealed lirst
class matter, there will be no very great
expansion of the use of the mails in con
sequence of the change. It is reasonably
certain that the movement, if success
ful, would result iu a serious diminution
of the revenue, ami the deficit would I e
still further Increased. Doubtless, in
course of time, the volume of mail at
one cent for a closed letter will bring
the receipts lip to their present propor
tions. but the general growth of bust
ness, rather than the inducement held
out by the cheaper rate, would contrib
ute to that result.—Sun Francisco Ohroa
i ic!e.
Indians Must Work.
The whole country is deeply interested
iu a recent order of the government re
lating to the Indians on the Rosebud res
ervation in South Dakota. Over 1,000
able-bodied male Indians there, who have
passed the age of 18 years, have had
their rations cut off in order to test the
capacity of the redskins to earn a living
for themselves, and it is now a case ol'
work or starve, a situation which many
people insist should have been reached
long ago. The order is following up the
suggestions of President Roosevelt, the
commissioner of Indian affairs, many
members of the House and Senate, and
scores of other prominents who have
given the matter their close attention and
I study. It is believed that the Indians
can be taught to become self-supporting
and thus advance more speedily toward
j civilization than when they are encour
aged to live in idleness by the govern
ment furnishing them rations.
Iu deciding upon whom the experiment
should first be tried it was determined to
I take the Brule Sioux on the Rosebud res
ervation, ns they are the fiercest and
| most unruly of ull, ami If the experiment
I works all right with them, ii will surely
be satisfactory with tin* other tribes. If
the Brule Sioux accept the new policy
without going on the warpath, it will
then be tried ou the 1,800 Indians at the
Pine Bidge agency, ami upon other tribes
as rapidly as tile work can be taken up.
|— Des Moines Register.
Has Staggered Humanity.
England has nothing to be proud of in
the war which has ended. It cost her
the lives of 28,000 men, the disability,
from disease or wounds, of 30.000 sol
diers, and $t, 100,000,000 iu money, to
subdue 50,000 farmers. Kruger’s proph
im*v that “the price of victory would stag
ger humanity” has come true a hundred
limes during the two years and seven
months ei* si rile. All the world knew
that the liners would tight, but such a
li^iit as has been made was not expected.
History lias lew instances of such resist
mice by *o small a body when opposed
by a multitude. The Uarthagenians held
It'gious at bay for years, but they were
in a walled city; tlie Spartans had their
Thermopylae. Tin* Truusvaalers have
repeated the acts of both, and have done
so time ami again. Stormberg, Magers
fontcin and Colenso will live in memory
as monuments to men lighting for lib
erty.
Perhaps tin* last act In this drama tes
tifies more than anv to the true great
ness of the men in tin- veldt, To save
their friends and neighbors in (’ape Col
ony from punishment they accepted
harsher terms in the peace protocol than
would have fallen to their lot had they
not insisted upon amnesty being general
throughout South Africa.—Cincinnati
1*0*4.
Hanging Women.
As long as the punishment of death
is fixed as the penalty for willful and de
liberate murder where Is the reason for a
distinction of persons on account of sex
if guilt is proved? If it would he horri
fying to hang a woman for murder it is
also horrifying for a woman to be guilty
of murder. Only the deepest depravity
inspires murder in a woman’s heart. ^
woman seldom or never commits murder
in the heat of pnsslou under cruel prov
ocation. Almost universally iu murder
by women erotic inspiration is the im
pulse and the cuuniug of deliberation U
the method.
If there are cases where a woman mur
ders her husband to get him out of the
way ho that she may inherit his property
she always has a male accomplice ex
pecting to share iu the gains of guilt.
Such murders are always atrocious, with
surrounding circumstances of peculiar
wickedness in the inception and the com
mission of the crime. These facts, if
they appear in any ease, have a tendency
to divest the mind of sensibilities regard
ing women which are inspired by their
innocence and worth iu the generalgrela
tions of life.
In recent years women have been ex
ecuted for capital crimes both in this
country and in England. There have
been several such eases within the last
two decades. An enemy to society, a
dangerous conspirator against human
life, a slow, crafty, merciless, secret, un
appeasable criminal in malignant homi
cidal practices is equally guilty whether
a man or a woman. What reason is
there for grading penalties according to
sex instead of according to the degree
of guilt?—Chicago Chronicle.
Abuse of the Injunction.
A judge issues an injunction forbid
ding you to do such and such a thing.
You may have a perfect right under the
constitution of the United States to do
that which he forbids. Ilis injunction
may be unjust and illegal, but neither
this illegality nor the authority of the
constitution will save you if you disobey
the injunction. The judge himself, the
offended one, has then absolute power to
punish you. He can fine you or put you
In jail ut his pleasure. You have no*
possible appeal. In any ordinary trans
action the citizen who is supposed to ha ve
committed an offense is entitled to trial
by jury and to appeal his ease. Hut if
you offend an injunction judge, he him
self is the jury, he is the judge, he fixes
the penalty. This is law. but it Is stupid
law, worthy of a Turkish pasha, not of
a civilized country. No man in the Unit
ed States should have power to punish
another for a crime committed against
himself. The judge who sentences a
man to jail on his own authority because
his judicial dignity is offended practically
applies lynch law, and if lynch law' is
abominable, the bench should be the first
to abolish It.—New York Journal.
AN INDIANA SCARECROW.
In designing the light-throwing up
pnratus shown in the accompanying
cut, nil Indiana man seeks to provide
tin inexpensive animated scarecrow,
adapted to be operated by the wind, to
RtVOLVIKU MIRRORS THROW LIGHT.
Hash beams of sunlight or lamplight
over a field to frighten away any bird
or animal bent on depredation. The
device can be mounted on a post at any
convenient place and serves to frighten
hawks, crows and other birds In the
daytime und owls and other rodents at
night.
Il consists of a tlxed frame of any de
sired shape, open on two sides for the
free passage of the wind, wltlr a lamp
In each end of the frame for night use1
and a central revolving wheel which
carries a number of mirrors to reflect
the light across the Held it is desired
to protect. The linages on the blades
are shaped to catch the wind on one!
side only, and even a slight air current
will set the wheel in motion.
Any ordinary lamps or lanterns may
lie used, those shown being partially
protected by metallic hoods, which also
serve ns reflectors, with openings only
on the sides toward the mirrors. When
tills scarecrow is In use at night It
throws streams of light round and
round the Held. whilO in the daytime
sudden Hashes of light from Hie sun
serve the same purpose.
St. I.uela's Sulphur -Mountain.
The island of St. Imeia, not far from
Martinique, lias u volcano, until lately
supposed to lie extinct, that is known
ur Hie Sulphur Mountain. It has an ole
ration of 1.000 feet above sea level,
while the crater covers about four acres
of surface. The sides of tills volcano
are barren of trees and herbs, and cov
ered by thick deposits of sulphur.
Formerly it belonged to France, and
lands XIV. built, at great expense, an
Immense sanitarium around the boiling
springs on Its northern slope, the ruins
of which ore still standing. It was at
the time believed that the waters had
certain curative and medicinal quali
ties, hut afterward this was found to
lie untrue, nnd the sanitarium remained
untcnnuted. and a monument to mts
lilaced and mistaken Judgment.
Whut She Would Hay.
They were seated on the sofa in the
parlor. Ills false, curling mustache
was very near to the painted roses on
her cheeks, lie was doubtful, after
all, whether, notwithstanding the In
numerable vows of undying devotion
that had passed between them, he real
ly loved her with the 22-cnrat, 10-ton
power that lie ought to, if lie was to re
gard her as his future wife, and he
wondered how hi' could break the news
gently. So in a very low voice he said:
“What would you say, darling. If 1
should tell you that you can never be
mine':”
"1 should say. pet,” she answered,
“that I've got a nice bundle of your
letters that would help to make It ex
pensive for you." Loudon Answers.
Minnesota Miners.
About 40 per cent of the men employ
ed lu the Minnesota mines arc Flu
landers, another to per cent Hunga
rians, about 8 tier cent ltulians, and
the rest are divided among Americans,
Hermans, French, Scotch, Welsh and
Cornish.
MARK TWAIN AilV1 N
REMARKABLE HONORS AT SI. LOUIS
Captain Samuel l.nnghorne Clemens,
who has been accorded almost imperial
honors at SI. lands, where lie was well
known in newspaper and typographical
circles in the days of Ills early fame, is
not a native of Si. I ids, as many sup
pose. lie was bom , is:tr» at Florida,
Mu., and educated in the common
schools of Pike County, lie became a
typesetter, but afterward adopted the
profession of a river pilot. The scene
of "Tom Sawyer," one of Captain
Clemens’ best known books, is laid at
Hannibal, Mo. everybody know s that
he took the suggestion for bis Horn no
plume from the nomenclature of chan
nel sounding on the Mississippi Itlver
A PRriTY 1 RICK.
This trick requires a little dexterity
nnd practice You must provide your
self with the corner of un old handker
chief or a piece of linen that looks like
it. Then borrow a handkerchief and
say (lint you will burn It In a candle
tlame, but return It uninjured. It Is
as well not to make tills statement In
Pl.nt'OItMIXll THE TRICK.
advance. Having obtained tbe hund
kereliief crumple it up In a ball in the
ball of your hand, leaving three corners
hanging out. In tbe same band you
bold Hie bit of linen, which appears to
be tlie fourth corner. This you light in
the candle tin me, and when it is nearly
consumed withdraw it, extinguish it
with your lingers, slyly drop it behind
you or into your pocket, and return the
whole and imburueil handkerchief to
its owner. But, above ail tilings, make
sure that the rag is extinguished before
you pocket it or drop it.
LORD SALISBURY CANONIZED.
When a Yonriic Alan He t’aseil as Model
for Christian Saint,
The world does not generally know
it, but Lord Salisbury lias already been
canonized. Some forty years ago a
reredos was being erected in All Souls,
Oxford, and the sculptor conceived the
Idea that there should be a row of
niches, each of which should contain
tbe figure of some typical Christian
saint. Like many another artist the
sculptor thought the best plan was to
go to tlic living model for bis saints.
Lord Salisbury, then Lord Hubert
Cecil, had Just been chosen as a fel
low of All Souls, and Ihe sculptor
thought that he could not tim 1 a hot
ter model for his idea of the Christian
warrior. And so Lord Salisbury may
be seen lu tbe reredos not as we know
him to-day. but as be was forty years
ago. when lie was lu the flower anil
bloom of Ids manhood. A very strik
ing figure, too, with bis cloak, bis
sword, bis splendid pose, be makes.
The late Lord Lawrence, says tbe
Is)inlon M. A. 1’., stood for the chief
figure in tbe picture of Kunnymetle,
where tbe barons extorted tbe Magna
Cliarta from King John, and Mr. Dil
lon was chosen by Mr. Holiday for tbe
central figure in a mosaic on a passage
I in tbe New Testament.
Left in the Dark.
A little girl about 1! years old was
out playing when suddenly it became
very cloudy. Slit* run into the house
ami starilcd her mamma by saying:
“I’m not going to stay outdoors any
more.”
"Why?” asked her mother.
"Because Coil Mowed the sun out."
—Little Chronicle.
lateral. ’' 1 '
"Did you ever take n trip abroad?":
"Yes; when 1 was In-Berlin 1 slipped
on a banana skin uiul nearly broke my
neck.”- Philadelphia Bulletin