Show AN APOSTROPHE Electric power for pumping the Coin stock and holstlnir ore has been Introduced Intro-duced Into Virginia City Net The power Is brought from the Truckee River Riv-er some thirty or more miles away Of course the city celebrated the event there was 0 banquet and finally some speeches The banquet must have been I fine and of ample volume for Slate u Controller Sam Davis I I Controler the old time wag I was there and made a speech and I Sams speeches are regulated In great measure by his stomach Other men I put their whole souls Into speeches but Sams speeches in speeclet pathos reveal exactly the slate of his stomach A full stomach means a great speech and the quality of the speech la the gauge oC the quality of the banquet ban-quet That Is he makes hash Irish stew and beer speeches he makes half shell I turkey trufllcs and champagne I speeches just rts his stomach telephones up what the occasion will Justify Some of Sams envious neighbors say that Judging by the speech Sam must have been hit by a lie wire but that is pure meanness as any one will see by reading the speech As an apostrophe I 1 I to electricity i may be termed 0 light nlngatrlkcr I was as follows depth It soai and OXttI to every Its height Rounds every tlPth otcntg alant arms through 01 L I Ilmla Ilc 9IIC I Born from OthtnK It leaps into cxfet OIC with the odarcd strength exLt a giant LilOusnfld dies hies mid Is born again Ivll n I tho15nnt JIN nnd dlng a thousand deaths In tho space oC a Inglo Itliilattng CCOl of time a nt o lmC i I I plants the Irsl blush upon tho check 1 Of Inwnl with brush ° C BOW upon tho i glowln canvas of the west It I tells the I Story oC tile d tels j dyIng day At Its mere whim nut Calrlce IL causes a thousand pillars crnusCK nf light to M11 from the sullen sens that ses sur lrgo nhout thu Polo and on Its sblmmer i 1 log mi11 woavcs the opalescent UIIH I tilos of Lho aliora to hang ucalnut tho Imnf ufalntl I I dun dll backEround of tho Arctic night I I Arctc Il strides llw swift coursers of the j storm which circle round tho crest of old I Mpiint Davidson Startles nature from lur crrsleop brnll thc glittering fetters o rCnlho frost aild lifts the shroud of jjnow from on the 1 hln landscape It wooefc the len der mould and bids the ijlrthof bud mild blossom doworn tlio I 11owQI wlUvulufUmo ziitd cloths the land lh voniiircTc tljo i spHn Beneath Us touch a beetling crag that I took claG I Omnipotence a thousand yours to build crumblcH Into dust and becomes tho plaything of tho Jdlo winds It lays Its hands upon a populous city with Its teOm lug roatlewj multitudes and where yesterday yester-day stood the glittering spins the shining shin-ing tower and frowning battlements ton to-n the cold gray occzn rolls In undisputed undis-puted might It brings from every corner of the world tho doings of tho day tho talcs of love nnd death of flrts no Hood of strife nnd pcatllenco aru under SOOO miles of shivering shiver-Ing sea whlspcrs the babble of two hem lsphcres It llghtn tho lonely garret where wen frlcd workers toll to r their bread It Vhcdn Its rays oer occnoa where feet oC ifcaatcrB tread the Julia ofrevelry It glares In haunts where Jeweled fin gems lift tho cup of pleasure to the mouth er In < I of sin and speeding on la Journey lights tho dim cathedral IBO where surpllccrt prlentR proclaim tho teachings of thft Mua terand goldenthroated choirs lift their hoaannnu to the King of Kings U rides upon the wings of war whpro bravo men die and while It treads between 1 1 I be-tween contending hosts exalt the kingly l contenLln I crests and help an empire plant the HUB I of conquest I turns the wheels of maco where poor men toll uaslsts the husbandman husband-man to plough to plant and reap his whispering grain I I wan the blasters ally at thn dawn of time and whon the voice of God cried from tIle depths of space Let there bo light lh It tJths the pulse of Ill along J creations t velnH bimtlzcd eirth cold Jjrow with floods of lire und stood the upoiuor of tile cradled world Today the hnnd of science tethers tho 1 turbtlcnt waters of the Tnickef md lift a force from out hue trout pools and r whirling I eddies to turn the wheels I of Industry In-dustry on the Comstock Infuse the old let o with now life and force It to pour Us I bounties unco more Into tho lap ot tho crrnnd old battleborn commonwealth of Nevada |