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The JACKSONVILLE MINER
Miner Retries White
to See if Pale Paper
Pleases Subscribers
Friday, August 24, 1934
tirt*d, till we got hold of some contributors? They must lie hi
that had been quartered, strung bernating or out making a grub
on strings and dried in the sun by stake. R. Clay Chappell may have
the Mormon girls in Utah. They been hired to go east and give the
were sure fine Next in lint* ap- GOP elephant u fresh coat of
|H*ared dried blackberries and rasp paint We have enjoyed J. C. Rey
berries. of which w«* never seemed nolds' vivid sketch«» of th«' old
to get enough, laiter cam«* dried west and hope they will continue
|H*aches. then dried apricots which When the laiseball season is over,
surely were delicious, but very we hope Brother H h II will gather
rich and, in time, we became fed up som«> more |xH*try prose IllUi
up on them. We hailed evaporated Vernesluiiiglephotiis For a long
pears with delight when they fin time th«* American pcopli* have
ally were introduced. and ate great been in n muddle huddle, we
quantities of them for a while. In should hav«* said and things an*
time nearly all th«* dried fruits going to start moving pretty soon
were displaced by canned goods Smart editors will play a great
When I went to Canada dried figs part in moulding public opinion
had Just corn«* out and I was and shaping th«* destinies of na-
tickled stiff, as 1 was tremendous tions.
• • •
ly fond of figs in any shape. But
everywhere I went thost* Canad
The story of gobi, and of the
ians had figs three times a day. settling of the west, will never lie
stewed for supper, run over for fully told, and around old Jack
breakfast, and made Into pies for sonville. historic town of that his
i dinner I got so sick of figs that toric past, there still lingers n
| even today after 25 years I don’t glamour and romance. The Miner
■ want to look at a fig.
seems to have captured this spirit,
In writing these sketches of the and fused the present with the
west in early «lays. I trust 1 have past. Copies of The Miner radiate
said nothing to give offense to all over the coast und to distant
readers who hold a different belief parts of the country, being eagerly
from what I do. I only ask them read by friends and relative» far
to concede to me the same right removed from here.
to my personal beliefs that I do to
them. I was asked to write these
If that professor guy who is
little stories of frontier life and
they seem to have met with the going to give all the old people n
approval of the majority of the pension of $200 a month would
readers of Th«* Jacksonville Miner, just cut it down to $100. we would
as well as of editors in other »«ac not get all fatigued handling the
tions of the country, some of my money.
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stuff being copie«! by papers as far
Someone
has
been raising the
away as Texas.
I am simply retailing the events question about giving this country
of these early years as true to liack to the Indians We don't
facts as possible and some of them doubt there would be some jieople
are not so pleasant as might be willing, if they were given a first
desired by those who have no idea mortgage and eight per cent in
of what th«* real frontier actually terest.
consisted. Many old-timers read
It toon a long line of governors
my stuff, and if it didn’t ring true
to them, they would catch me up to get this state $50,000.000 ir.
debt, and it looks like it might
on it pdq.
There are plenty of old-timers take a lot of them to get it out.
who have seen more action along so while we have a lot of candi
the frontier than I have, but it dates, what say if we elect the
seems to be difficult to get them whole bunch and have it over with
to talk of it, let alone write of it.
Others whose stories would be full
of interest have no talent for writ-
ting. Many oth«*rs who have been
UVA I
Children 10«*
in the west much longer than my
self have lived their lives princi
pally in some certain section and
Saturday Only
have not cared to travel all over
the west like I have done. My yen
Bi t K JONES In
for traveling around has brought
me into every state in the great
west and those who like to read of
the real doings of early days will
PIRATE TREASURE”
doubtless find much of interest in
my humble descriptions of western
Sunday und Monday
life at that time. And for thus«*
whose sensibilities may possibly be
JOHN BARRYMORE In
shocked by the revelation of what
actually occurred in those days, I
kk
would suggest that the bookstores
are full of pleasing fiction which
might suit them a whole lot bet
ter. But I am not writing fiction,
so I have to tell it as I saw it.
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Tuesday and Wednesday
Some folks, who like legibil
ity in its most undefiled state,
have reported that every time
Applegate Prospector-Poet they
try to read the pink sheet
Recalls Iron Horseshoe they see red or. in less caustic
they believe white paper
Filings Were Pioneer words.
would make the Jacksonville
Cure for Rheumatism I clarion easier to read. So The
Miner this week is trying out a
By J. C. REYNOLDS
noble experiment, mid climbing
out of the red at one swell loop,
As I stated once before, the
prospector and his jassack and the er, fell swoop.
If you readers prefer your
lure of the gold, or other valuable
metals he found, was the primary
newspaper on white, tell us. If
cause of the great west being set you miss the distinguishing
tled as quickly as it was. But I crimson cast mid believe the
traditional tint should contin
venture to say that the three most
important items in the settling of
ue, tell us. No. this is no hooey
this vast domain, were Colt's six-1 to cover up a sudden shortage
of pink paper, or an economy
shooters, hay-wire and profanity
Hay-wire was used for every pur- I move, but merely a return to
habitual newspaper practice of
post* imaginable. Men even used
it to tie their shoes with when I recognizing that the greatest
contrast is obtained by printing
they could get nothing else. Even
a good black on a good white
if a person was filthy with money,
See if you can note any differ
he would often be in places where
he couldn’t buy as common an ar ence or improvement in reading
ticle as a pair of socks. And as to j quality.
If you can, drop us a card
profanity, it was the only language i
understood by horses, mules, bur- : and white it'll be from now on.
ros or cattle. With a played-out | L.----------------------------------------------- /
herd of cattle, or a burro train mid. by the natural law of ave
nearly dead on their feet from fa-. rages. it will come to you in time.
tigue, or a team of mules stuck in , As the French say, “everything
a mud-hole, nothing would put comes to him who waits.”
some pep into them and wake ’em
Speaking of socks reminds me
up as a cracking volley of cuss
words. Nothing so eas«?d men's that almost everybody learned to
pent-up feelings as a good round wear “California socks" sooner or
oath. When danger or tribulation later. These California socks con
threatened, they did not resort to sisted of a souple of squares cut
prayer. They swore. I was in the or torn from a flour sack. 12 or
west a good many years before I 14 inches square By setting the
heard any praying done, except by foot in the middle of one of them,
Indians and Mexicans praying for it could be folded in such a way
rain, which, by the way. they sel that it answered the purpose fine.
It took some practice though to
dom got.
The snake god of the Hopi In do such a good job on each one
dians sometimes bestowed rain in that it would remain in place
through the day without wrink
answer to their supplications, but ling.
A few attempts generally
I never knew of the Mexicans get
ting any. The Hopi medicine men would result in a perfect fit.
As to underwear, we usually did
were cute enough to wait until
they were sure that rain was about without. Not because we didn't
due. Then they would pull off the have the price, but for the reason
big snake dance and sometimes it that we cquldn't get them for love
would start raining before the or money. Brown overalls made of
dance was over. Westerners didn't ducking and blanket-lined were
waste any cf their valuable time much in vogue and helped to miti
in praying. Not in those days any gate the absence of underwear.
way They were far too practical When we got soaked in a rain
for anything like that. They fig storm or became drenched to the
ured that not more than one skin in crossing a river, we simply
prayer in a thousand was ever let our clothes dry on us. which
answered and they could get a ■.vas supposed to prevent rheuma
better break bucking the roulette tism. There seemed to be only one
wheels, where tb«*re were only kind of rheumatism those days
about 33 chances against them that anyone knew anything about
winning. I have often heard them and when one got it, right away
say that if there were anything in he took a file and filed an old
praying, nobody would need to be horseshoe into shavings.
hungry or hard up. One would only
Then three times a day he would
have to’ pray to get anything he swallow a heaping teaspoonful of
wanted. The west's slogan at that the filings before meals and pres
time was “root, little hog. or die.” ently the rheumatism would leave
And anyone who was too lazy to him. The uric acid in the stomach
root passed out of the picture was supposed to absorb the iron
sooner or later.
filings immediately. I had no rheu
Probably a good half of the men matism myself, so did not try this
one met in the west those days remedy, but I have seen it done
were confirmed infidels. Whether some hundreds of times. For tooth
there are any of that belief living ache. the sufferer would take some To the Editor:
today, I could not say. All I know carbolic acid (provided he could
We just fished some dead yel-
is that for over 30 years, in all the ^et it), put a few drops on some low jackets out of the mulligan,
knocking around that I have done, cotton batting tom from a quilt, put out some more ant paste and
I have not happened to meet one and place it on the tooth. Gen swept the dust off the kitchen ta
of them. That old stuff is “out" erally some was spilled on the ble. and in between this and other
anyway. Nobody these days is so Turns during the process, resulting things, were tempted to sharpen
densely ignorant that they imagine in painful blisters.
up the old pencil, and submit a
any business, large or small, can
In later years 1 suffered consid little copy.
be run without a head to it. Neith erably from toothache myself
There is only one thing I don’t
er could this universe function when out in the wilderness away like about The Miner: There is
without the aid of a Supreme In from any dentist. When a tooth not enough of it. If we could in
telligence. For the benefit of those got to cutting up too bad. I would duce our Applegate editor to oc
who discourse so wisely concern tie a fine wire, or a very stout casionally take a long journey ala
ing infidels, agnostics and atheists cord, tight around the offending Robert Ruhl, we would put the
and expose their ignorance by put member, attack a rope with a pink sheet on the map. Those were
ting them all in the same class, heavy boulder to it, and if it was right smart jokes Miss Pool
allow me to state there is a world an upper tooth, throw the boulder picked up in the webfoot metropo
of difference between them, as away as hard as I could. Some lis and we laughed a heap. Being
anyone familiar with the subject thing had to give and it always able to see, and take a joke, is
knows.
was the tooth. Once in Idaho when what makes America grate—on
It is true that churches sprang the snow was three feet deep and other nations.
up here and there throughout the the nearest dentist was across the
When our neighbors over across
west as early as during the first range. 25 miles distant, two of my the Atlantic refused to pay their
part of the eighties and without lower teeth began hurting and war debts we just laughed and
a doubt there was much praying caused me to do some serious that made 'em madder than ever.
done by the members of those va- thinking. Finally I bethought me of I have a suspicion The Miner was
rious denominations, but the men a large iron pulley which I at ably represented at the writers’
who settled the country, rid it of tached with hay-wire to a stout convention, and those ‘'arrived
outlaws, subdued the Indian tribes, branch on a convenient tree, ran authors” didn’t put anything over
established outposts along the my rope through that, and when on our editor.
frontiers and faced fearlessly every I threw the boulder away the teeth
What has become of all our old
danger the new land could produce, came out in fine fashion, one by
were not praying men. They had one. A fellow can do lots of things
confidence in their own ability to that way, if compelled to.
survive without help from any
For a long time after I had
source. And history will bear me reached the west the only fruit we
out in this assertion.
had was dried currants, and they
Around the campfires of an eve must have been raised in a very
ning I have often heard this sub sandy country as they were about
ject discussed. It was a favorite half sand. After getting as much
sayin gof my boss that praying of the sand out of them as possible
was just a lazy man’s attempt to we would stew them or, for a
get something for nothing. And change, toss a handful into the
never, even in the face of the most dough when we were making
deadly peril to himself or his bread, which was not a bad idea
herds, have I ever known him to at all. But talk about sand in the
do anything but swear that we craw, we all had plenty sand in
would get through all right in ohr craws when we ate currants.
spite of hell and high water.
Almost all our baking was done in
Many times have I heard the re dutch ovens and a lot of other
mark passed that "people had been cooking as well. Nothing is nicer
praying, ‘Give us thiB day our than beans or venison cooked in a
daily bread,’ for 1900 years, but dutch oven under proper condi
that up to date no bread had been tions. It is quite a trick to make
When we paint your car, the
received from that source, so what i fire on the prairie out of bunch
work is done with thought to
was the use?” For myself, I had grass and sage brush in a high
the permanence of the job.
been religiously raised and used wind and cook a meal when your
Our Duco, lacquer and enam
to pray for what I wanted.
coals are being whipped in every
el jobs last for years without
But, in the course of time, real 'irection. But I have done it many
losing any of their luster or
izing that it wasn’t getting me and many a time. I began to think
color. Surfaces are carefully
anything and that I was simply r was the champion fire builder of
prepared, the finest paints
one of the little hogs who must the west at one time, by reason of
are used and natural, long
root or die, I discontinued the ■«cquiring the knack of making a
drying is allowed. Prices are
practice. I have nothing against fire anywhere, out of anything at
lower than ever!
any person who 1 b either prayerful all. But of course there were hun
or profane, unless they overdo the dreds just as good as I was. Many
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matter to a point which becomes a tasty meal have I eaten on the
obnoxious to others. Either of the orairie when the only plates we
BRIGHT PARTS
two, in my opinion, is simply an had to lay our bread and meat on
expression, a blowing off of steam were clean flat buffalo chips. And
as one might put it, which relieves many a family in early days on
pent-up feelings in the system, the prairie had no fuel at all ex
Though I can assure you that if cept these same chips.
you desire anything particularly,
After dried currants, the next
the quickest way to get it is to fruit we had, as I remember, was 32 8. Bartlett
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work for it with all your might dried apples, of which we soon1
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Placer mining Is almost exactly
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skimmed off the top. while in a
placer mine the gold has to la1
skimmed off the bottom
Endi
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Solomon once made the remark
we mean crayon JOHN BYRNE
that "gobi Is where you find it,”
The prospectors of this section but old Doc MacDougnl, who
h i\Ing used up all the patches has mined all his life mid is con
they could get hold of. in repairing sequently a couple of notches wiser
their rags, are now Inying plans than Solomon In thut respect, says
for organizing a nudist colony "gold also Is In n lot of places
Charcoal is plentiful in this vi where you don't find It.”
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