knocker vs . booster
The Gold Mill News
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ITH Col. Ed. Cooper’s broadside, published in The News
this week, the knocker-booster controversy which has been
for some time is, in diplomatic language, deelared a
closed
incident.
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It is rather difficult to say just who is a knocker and who a
Sttkw option $ 1 .5 0 Per Annum, in Advance booster. Every man is sometimes one and sometimes the other.
And quite properly so. If conditions exist which should be
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knocked down and out to make r xim for new and better condi­
tions then it is time for every good citizen to be a knocker and
W*«» Impoaed on Colonel A ito r?
Oaiooel Jobu Jacob Aator of New knock hard.
Then when it comes time to boost for something
' ofk believes he has a •'bear-«log.”
better, this same good citizen, having helped destroy undesirable
H e b a t made a perfectly serious stale
went to that effort aud has thereby conditions, should become an ardent booster for a new and bet­
Stlrr <1 up the scientists of the world ter order of things.
Instead of laughing Colonel Astor out
The knocker and booster are both necessary for the ad
court they are apparently Impress
vancement
of the community. However, he who sets out to be
■ed by his millions and argue seriously
nothing
but
a knocker or nothing but a booster makes a mistake
pc W at a bear-dog is a physical Impoaal
b Sty. O f course the colonel Is a good There is a temperate middle ground which is a more comforta­
f flow and nil that, but somebody has ble position.
teen nature faking him. Hundreds of
A fter all, sincerity is the main thing, whether a man is knock­
uneks have already been written to
• show that there cannot be crossbreed ing or boosting. Tell the truth and hide nothing.
This is only
tag le t ween animals of different faml
common honesty, and brings the best results. The honest
Ilea, at least those as widely separated
knocker and the honest booster work side by side for the better­
aa the te a r and the dog. Dr. W illiam
T . Hornaday Is willing to raise the ment of the community.
colonel a ante anil says:
Col. Cooper and his worthy opponent, “W. W. T ” have
“Some one cught to go the colonel
pretty thoroughly threshed out the knocker-booster busines.s in
•one better and offer a *10,000 prise for
Each has called the other a
a reindeer-horse. I t wonld be both the last few issues of The News.
They are both boosters, Col. Cooper choosing to
artistic and useful, especially around knocker.
Christmas."
boost by calling attention to certain disagreeable conditions in
Something should be done for our
Gold
Hill, and “W. W. T.” considering an antidote necessary,
millionaires. Their capacity for child
calls attention to certain very agreeable conditions existing in
like belief is pathetic.
Gold Hill. Both are sincere and both are right. Both desire
Early in the session the legislature
the
advancement of Gold Hill, and both are contributing to that
will be asked to request the United
8tates government to aend the cruiser advancement, though their methods differ diametrically.
Boston to Portland for use as a train
If either of these worthy knights of the quill desire to dis­
tag ship for the Oregon naval militia. cuss any subject under the sun other than each other, their con­
It is believed the legislature w ill pass
tributions will be welcomed by The News. But the knocker-
a bill establishing the m ilitia In offl
ciai com or mi ty with the regulations booster controversy is closed.
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of the United States navy, the object
being te secure a training ship for use
k» Orason men.
W ith an emergency clause on the
end of it. a bill was introduced In the
tenate by McCullock, of Baker, asking
for an appropriation of »20,000, to be
used Jointly with a similar appropria­
tion from the State of Idaho In the
construction of a bridge across Snake
River from some point near Robi­
nette, Oregon, on the Northwestern
railroad, or some point near Brownlee,
“ How to start a mining boom” is the heading of an editorial
article in the Medford Sun, whose editor explains that he has
“devoted over fifteen years of his life to the cause of mining
and has followed it in its various forms.” In fact, the peripa­
tetic publisher of the Sun has a choice chapter of rip-roaring
dime novel stuff, which he puts in the form of a newspaper in­
terview with himself when he goes to Portland, and which tor-
ridly tells of his several heooic encounters with the horrid high-i
graders down at Tonopah or Goldfield, or some of the other I
places down there where at present he is only a maladorous!
memory.
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The 8iu«law national forest has
been closed to homesteaders who seek
to take up land under the forest home­
stead act. The secretary of agrlcul
ture has sent word to Acting Super­
visor Fit ton of the reserve, that he
has Issued an order forbidding the
listing of further applications for pre- ^ y W
•en tat Ion.
OUR BIG AALE
W a s prevented from being the great
m oney-saving ev en t it m ight have
been for many b y the sto rm y w eath ­
er. Many others, h o w ev er, to o k ad­
van tage o f the bargains offered. This
store is alive to the needs o f its pa­
trons th e year around, and even if
y o u couldn’t attend the big sale, re­
member w e have bargains the y ea r
around
LANCE & COMPANY
PRUNING SEA5ON
IS NOW ON
Captains o f In d u stry o f
F uture M u st Be M ade.
Governor Oswald West w ill be ten
dered a banquet soon by ths members
of the class of applicants that were
admitted to practice law In Oregon
with him by examination before the
supreme court of this state In June,
tain
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f
future to be obtained ? Many business men are asking this
question, and it has forced them to adopt some method
TO MAKE CERTAIN THE SECURING OF MEN
TO BECOME THE FUTURE MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS
A N D OFFICERS OF THE BIG BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.
The man at the head of a big business must be able to RECOG­
NIZE THE NEEDS OF THE PUBLIC AN D ATTEND TO
THE NEEDS OF HIS INSTITUTIO N AT THE SAME TIME.
I f such a man cannot be found he must be made. The success of the
modern day business institutions depends on whether we can get men
o ftru st, ability and broad education on general lines TO T A K E
THE REIGNS OF THEIR MANAGEMENT.
The task of training the youth is a task that belongs to the public
schools and cannot be undertaken by the corporations. But the task of
giving the special training that fits men for office can and is being un­
dertaken by many corporations.
Theology and the Leeeh.
There is a waterfall near Coonoor
In India, which some writer christened
Leech falls.
I t abounded In leech­
es, which had a habit of attaching
themselves to the skirts of ladles who
passed across the marshy ground. “ I
remember on one occasion," gays an
English official, "when I had taken
some of my friends to see It, that one
Impulsive lady, looking round at the
beautiful spot, exclaimed. I s this
heaven, or*—after a short pause, dur
W E CANNO T A N Y LONGER DEPEND ON MEN RISING FROM
tag which she became suddenly aware T H E MASSES. T H A T IS TOO SLOW ANO UN C ER TA IN . W E M UST
that a laeeh had attacked h e r- -or the
HA VE MEN OF BROAD T R A IN IN G AND HIG H ER EDUCATION, AND
other place?* ”
W E M U ST LOOK TO T H E COLLEGES TO GET T H E M .
IN SECU R­
Hard te Pleaee.
ING T H E R IG H T TYPE OF MEN THOSE G RADUATED FROM T H E
Early in the season a man applied COLLEGES SHO ULD BE G IVEN T H E PREFERENCE.
THEN THEY
at a farmhouse for board, but the
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farm er alawly shook his heed. “I'd
be glad to keep you." he aald, "but AN O P P O R TU N ITY TO STU D Y T H E COURSE O U T L IN E D BY T H E
cky people are too hard to please. ”
BUSINESS IN S T IT U T IO N BY W H IC H T H E Y ARE EMPLOYED.
“I am not at ail exacting;" the ap­
plicant replied. “You will And no dlf-
S m itj in pleasing me.'*
what the last man who came
•long r e ie oald. but It wasn't so. Fact
> •o ti.lng pleased him. First he com-
ghtoft a beat Sleeping In a bed with
f l x bln-1 tnsn, and when we gave him
• bod to himself In a room with four
o f th>- children be was still dlsaatis-
•Tbea he didn't like to use the towel
WO a h uaed, und he wanted a wash
hack) !n his room. Nothing suited him
r ta ll.
I don’t know whether you
w w lil be so bard to please or not.”
“ Well,” the city man said, “perhaps
rd better not chance It.”
T h e F in is h e d P a r t
A reporter wnq once sent around to
Stake Kotor Inquiries concerning a new
piny that David Belaaco was engaged
In wrl lug,
"Yes," raid David, “I am w r it in g a
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W hat do yoo want to know
ah .it ItT"
Anything you can tall ms w ill be
ii er,-¡lug," was the reply.
"W ell." was Belasco’s response, “It
f’’ ’ e !' '<■ >ur nets and three tater-
mh..i<>’
mid I ’ve Just finished the in­
terim --: i ; . ’
and m y stock o f
A T H E A R N . Sen F ra n c is c o B u t ln t M M a n .
are the captains and generals and lieutenants of the
A ir Currents Will Act
as Fuel In the
Future.
P r u n in g ' S h e a r s
both for tree o r short, w ork, is first-class.
The prices are right
BLASTING POWDER
I have th e magazine and it is full o f pow der for
m iners and stump m en. I keep a
ton at a time o n hand
D. H. MILLER
* V Sv- H A R V E Y W . W IL E Y . C h ie f C hem ist o f th e U n ite d S tate».
LN will freeze to death on the equator mil­
lions of years hence. The earth is slowly
cooling and the people of the distant future
must freeze for a million years at least, though
humanity will uot suffer from lack of food or fool.
In the frigid days that are yet to come the winds
will servo as fuel.
From my knowledge of the laws of electricity
and from practical experiments already being made, I prophesy that
the currents of air which have been agents of destruction to man will
vet be harnessed for his benefit. In the future the air will furnish
heat, fuel and power, and companies will be formed for utilizing it.
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