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The Parker Post
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28, 1910, at the postoffice at Parker,
Arizona, under the Act of March 3,
1879.
Colonel Goethals explains that n
requires about eighteen months
readjust the Panama Canal rates, and
he states that the canal will be open
for commerce within two years. He
is therefore urging upon congress
that prompt action be taken to fix
toll charges.
All campaign expenses, including
those of the primaries must be made
a matter of public record if the po
sition of the senate committee which
has taken up this subject, is enacted
into law. The senate bill goes much
farther than the bills of the hous
passed at the present and last se -
sions. The senate’s position is said
to be due to the feeling that ha;:
grown out of the Lorimer case.
Surely women are hard to please.
A New r Jersey judge the other day
fined a doting husband SIOO for kiss
ing his wife against her wishes. Said
d. h. was released on parole upon
signing an agreement that hereafter
his kisses should not exceed ten per
day. Most wives complain of too
few osculatory stunts on the part of
their husbands, and even base their
divorce proceedings on these grounds.
On the other hand some wives—oh.
what’s the use!
The prophets who predicted that
congress would adjourn on July first,
have now shoved their date forward
several weeks and the earliest guess
ers are selecting the early days oi
August for the probable adjournment
of congress. However, as no two peo
pie agree, and as the work of the ses
sion has not progressed to any state
where the fate of any great legisla
tion can be foretold, it will not b
surprising should congress remain in
session practically all summer.
Andrew Carnegie’s feelings are
very much injured by the result of
the hearings in which the steel trust
has been investigated. He is partic
ularly sore at Mr. Gates, and here i;
what the Sage of Skibo has had tc
say upon the subject to a newspaper
reporter: “I don’t want to put dirty
words in my mouth,” said Mr. Car
negie. “This man Gates is a bro
ken-down speculator. I have nothing
to do with him! I will say this. Mr.
Stanley, the chairman of the inves
tigating committee, wanted my tes
timony first. I told him that I wa;
sailing the next day with my family
and asked to be allowed to wait un
til autumn.* This was agreed. When
I return I will take the stand, though
I don’t know why they want me.
Merely for sensation, I presume; but
when I have finished thep üblci may
then judge for themselves whether 1
or this man Gates has told the truth.
FIRE AT CALZONA.
Fire destroyed the rooming house
owned by John Harger at Calzona
Monday night. The loss is said to
have been about $1,500, with insur
ance on the building and contents of
$950.
THE CALL OF GOLD.
(Continued from Page 1.)
ten nineteen-pound bars, packed in
sawdust. The weight of the twenty
kegs is nearly four thousand pounds,
and the cost of carrying them be
tween the United States and Europe
is about three thousand dollars. It
is seldom that men dare to entrust
more than fifty or sixty kegs to a
single steamship.
To see these common little kegs
rolled down the gangplank of aves
sel, no one would suspect that they
were being watched with such
breathless anxiety. Yet, if their safe
ty required it, warships would es
court them from port to port, and
armies would guard them with all
the panoply of war. It lias become
more than a metal, more than a com
modify, this gold. In an age like
ours, when business is supreme, it
is the emplom of authority. It is
stored ui> ownership, ll is a permit
to live without working and to enjoy
kingship and all aristocracies. Who
ever has gold is, to the extent of
that gold, one of the rulers of the
world.
Gold is power. The master nations
have chosen it to be the greatest
common measure of achievement.
That is the secret of the mystery.
It is at least the best answer we can
give to the riddle of the gold cry
and its magic appeal.
Yet it is not wholly the gold it
self that attracts men so irresisti-
bly. It is partly the glamour and ex-1
: citement of the search. It is the fas-
I cination of life at high pressure,
I when hope thrills men like the shock
iof an electric current. It is the ec
i stacy of finding a pot of gold at the
| foot of a rainbow, and making the
! fairy tales of childhood come true.
To find the magic door, to say,
“Open seasame!” and to walk into
the treasure-cave and become its
j owner —this is the enthralling dream
that lures the gold-seekers into the
utmost parts of the earth.
Then, too, there is the semi-sav
age freedom of the camps. There is
the rough spirit of fair play and dem
ocracy. The special privileges, as
well as the comforts of cities, are
left behind, and life becomes a sim
ple contest in which every man wins
what he can get and hold fast. This,
to strong primitive natures, is an
inducement that outweighs all the
risks.
There are many who lose, of
course, as well as the few who gain.
But the search for gold is the game
in which the entrance fee is the low
est and the prizes are the highest. It
still opens the door of wealth to the
man whose only capital is his health
and energy.
Several years since, a man in Ida
ho was sentenced to be hanged for
murder. A lawyer became interest
ed in the case, believed him innocent,
and secured his pardon. On his re
lease the lawyer “grub-staked” him,
put him astride a burro, said “Good
luck, Jack,” and sent him out into
the desert. Jack was an experienced
minei, and he went to the search de
termined to prove himself worthy of
this confidence. A year later the law
yer received a sack of gold. Soon
other sacks followed; and today both
he and the man he befriended are in
dependently rich.
At about the same time that Jack
made his famous ride, there was a
young Californian who had , been
dreaming golden dreams. He, too,
oeiie. ed that he could find the pot
of gold at the foot of the rainbow,
and he set out. in search of it. One
evening, in the heart of the Nevada
desert, he came to a spring and
camped for the night. Noticing that
one of the burros was straying too
far f rom the camp, he walked after
it, and literally fell into one of the
: idlest gold mines of the west. That
is the story of Jim Butler, of Tono
pan.
‘ There is no law in gold mining
but the point of the pick,” said John
W. Mackay. Any man, in any place,
may find his fortune. Alaxander Mc-
Donald, the first millionaire of the
Yukon Valley, had blundered up and
down the gold fields of the north
west for half a lifetime without suc
cess. Then he was fooled into buy
ing a deserted claim that was be
lieved to be worthless, and in one
day dug up twenty thousand dollars
as the beginning of his fortune.
In Australia, the land of nuggets,
a discouraged prospector was tramp
ing behind a pedlar’s cart. A wheel of
the cart bumped heavily against si
boulder, and even the dull eye of the
tired miner caught the shine of gold
in the spot where the wheel had
struck. He stooped down to look
more carefully, and immediately
sprang up with a shout, of delirious
joy. He had become the owner of
nearly fifty thousand dollars.
The story of each “lucky strike,”
as it is told around the camp fire,
has almost invariably a setting that
is whimsical or romantic. There is
the old tale of Dan Hill, who wander
ed out of a California poor house in
18645, stubbed his toe against a coup
le of nuggets, sold them for twenty
six thousand dollars, squandered the
money in a few weeks of revelry, |
and then wandered back to the poor
house. There is the story of the
Granite Mountain mine, in Montana
—how it was such a sink-hole for
capital that the owners telegraphed
the superintendent to abandon it and
begin elsewhere —how he ignored the
order, dug deeper, and found mill
ions.
“Gold is Where You Find it.”
The largest of the California nug
gets was dug up by the merest
chance. Two roystering miners, so
it happened, were caught in a sudden
flood. One was swept off his feel
and drowned. The other reached a
place of safety and next, morning pro
eeeded to dig a shallow grave for his
dead comrade. Several inches below
the surface his pick struck against
what seemed to be an eiglity-pound
rock. He wearily shoveled around it
and pushed it out of liis way. Then,
with a shock that stunned him, lie
saw that it was a mass of virgin gold.
It was worth nearly twenty-three
thousand dollars, and he got ten
thousand more by putting it on ex
j hibition.
The greatest nugget ever known
I was found by a couple of penniless
j fellows named Byer and Halt man,
i who were living at the time on the
charity of their neighbors. They
1 were digging in New South Wales,
and getting nothing, when suddenly
they came upon a thick slab of gold
that was almost twice as heavy as
j themselves. They had begged their
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they were worth one hundred and
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It is this element of chance that
makes the gold cry so compelling.
When a gold region is new, at least,
the skilled and the unskilled seem to
stand equal chances. Some tender
foot. to whom all the rocks look alike,
may snatch the prize from under tin 1
eyes of the experts.
Some miners were busy at work,
near Lotus, on the South Fork of the
American river, when a tenderfoot,
who came along asked where to dig.
It was considered a fine practical
joke to direct him to the summit of
a near-by ridge, alongside the new
graveyard. He went thankfully up
and a few hours later came down to
tell his benefactors how kind they
had been to a perfect stranger. They
went up to see what he had found
and there stood his gold pan, along
side the hole, half full of nuggets.
At that, time it was generally be
hoved among experts that gold could
not he found in high places, and con
sequently the miners could scarcely
believe their eyes.
“Gold is where you find it," say
the experienced miners. No one can
predict the direction whence the call
shall next, be heard. In Korea, in the
Himalayas, in the Philippines, there
are such vague rumors as usually
precede a gold rush. One thing alone
is certain, that wherever the new El
dorado yay be, there will be tens of
thousands who will spurn the com
forts of civilization and face all dan
gers to find gold.—H. N. Cosson, in
Los Angeles Mining Review.
IT WAS REALLY UNEXPECTED
Girl Had Given Lover Many Splendid
Chances for Proposing That She
Was Quite Surprised.
When he proposed marriage she
asked him for time to think it over.
“This is so unexpected,” she said. He
gave her the necessary time, and she
finally decided that he fulfilled all the
requirements of the situation.
Then they reached a point where
ihey could discuss matters calmly.
“Os course,” he said, jokingly, “it
wasn’t really unexpected at all.”
“Oh, yes, it was,” she replied.
“Absurd!” he exclaimed. “A girl
always says that. She knows what’s
coming, because she is naturally an
expert in such matters.”
“I thought 1 was, but you fooled
me,” she insisted.
“And it was a complete surprise?”
“It was.”
“I don’t understand It,” he com
mented.
"Well,” she explained, ingenuously,
“you had overlooked so many splen
did chances that I gave you for a pro
posal that 1 had begun to think noth
ing ever would give you nerve enough
to speak out; so it really was unex
, pected.”
“Oh!” he said, and that was all.
There didn’t seem to be anything else
to say.
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PARKER ARIZONA.
THAT AWFUL MOMENT.
Mame —When Edwin proposed he
was too excited to speak.
Kate —Then how did he do—-write
it out?
Mame —No. He just stood gasping
for breath and I knew what he meant.
Sangfroid.
(In the practical examination of
majors for promotion to lieutenant
colonel great importance is attached
to coolness of demeanor upon receipt
of information.)
Excited Staff Officer (reading urgent
message from headquarters)—Your
main attack has failed, your cavalry
has been annihilated, two batteries
have been captured and the enemy
have cut your communication.
“Fed up” and Weary Candidate —
Oh, they have, have they. Well, just
hold my map while I blow my nose. —
Punch.
Out of Date.
“You can sing ‘Larboard Watch,
Ahoy!’ can’t you?” said the old fash
ioned man. “That’s always been a
favorite of mine.”
“O, we don’t sing that any more,”
hastily explained the popular vocalist
who was entertaining the company.
“There Is no such word as ‘larboard’
now, you know. It has been changed
to ‘port,’ and that doesn’t fit the
music.”
Barring the Few Weaknesses.
Livery Stable Proprietor—l’m afraid
we shall have to cast him, Murphy.
He’s about worn out.
Murphy—l wad not be sayin’ that.
Barrin’ the wakeness he has in the
legs an’ that touch of cataract, forbye
a thrlflin’ suggestion of the staggers,
’tis a grand horse he’d be for the
funerals —if ’twere not for the color
of ’urn. —Bystander.
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