Page 6 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. • * • 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. ------------ •------------ 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 NEW PLATINO FOR 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 Phone 724-R work for it with all your might dried apples, of which we soon1 J Applegater Byrnes Up Few Topics in Open Letter to the Editor Let OUR EXPERTS PAINT YOUR CAR Placer mining Is almost exactly like the dairy business, except that in a dairy the cream has to lx* Mut» 25c • Eve* XV • KlildkM !<»<■ skimmed off the top. while in a placer mine the gold has to la1 skimmed off the bottom Endi The scrap between Tom Blank and Johnnie Doe. Tuesday morning of lust week, might have turned out differently if Johnnie hudn't have led with his chin and hit Tom such a wallop on the fiat. 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