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Show Hearst ana O.tttlutrtat. San Francisco Examiner. Senator Cushman Davis of Minnesota, Minneso-ta, tells rather a good story of the late Senator Hearst: ' We were in a committee." said Davis, "investigating tho 1'aeilie railroads. rail-roads. There were Dawes of Maine, Hoar of Massachusetts, Stanford ami Hearst. The parly stopped at Salt Lake and made a tour of Ileatst's mines, tho Daily aud Ontario. While we were in the mine Hoar winked at me and turned to Hearst said, 'Senator, can you tell us how the silver and gold got into the quartz?' Hearst saw it was an attempt to guv him a little and replied, 'We ain't got time now. Senator Sen-ator Hoar, to tell you all about geology.' That night when we were nil hi a drawing room car talking, my wife asked Hearst if he would tells them about the way the metal got into the rock. He said he would try and explain ex-plain and started in ou the formation of the earth's cru-t from the carboniferous carboni-ferous era, he told the story of nature down to tho end of tertiary period in a way that would have made it clear to a child and put Hoar to blush. 'Where did yon learn so much geology?' l,u asked in surprise. Learned ii from the rock and cut the leaves of my book with a pickax,' was Llcaist's answer." |