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Show ii e first discoverer. It Is said to be e original monument erected on is continent to commemorate the achievement of. Columbus.. . It la unfortunate that there la no cetitemppraneous painting or llkeneas at Columbus extant For thia reason i artist who have attempted to repro-ffic-e hla lineaments In marble have rated - on November 9, 1862. although the fbundkUon had been laid as fat oeen at a great disadvantage. Ai of fact matter thq Thaccepted bade a XJ46. inscription it bearer 1st. To Chrfeteuher . Columbua. lbfl lk8BeM ot me admiral la after tbq Fatherland.' S;tn,:' which country manner of being an idealistic All are familiar With the failed th Gecoeee during hit lifeface from which time, has bea more generous to his atrong, dyaa look out under many J shaft memqrjir sod-he- r fktsed to' record the greatnea ofbUVcr&a4 BroT, (Jeep line from Ike nose to the comers pt the mouth deed. r V sifp characteristic of tie popular erWpt ih 'noblest'.monument yet erected. to the meinoiflVol Columbus pclrj?5.k ofThVColumbus! Who wfiuld discoverer depicted Is tbajwfclchta',' elona. It .Taognb, vkh n gray hgarST Yet It is more VaT In tius clijrf u g Ferdinand on and his consort, Ua, received inn probable tint tg wore, me Admiral on thL, urn from hla fheq ha planted ttl tanne? St first voyagA It U t appropriata Spain on the shore of the New situation. - Much was taken In 4World. ' the selection of the' dealga .of the the few descriptlona of the personBarcelona monument, and the result al appearance of the admiral which have from those who knew him Is artlstio in every sense of the fell tell us be was n man of sturdy word. In the new world nearly every dature, rather above th average country has testified in recognition kelght, of a very ruddy complexion, flth freckles and red hair when he of the deed of Columbus by the ere-tioof some character of monument. fat young. The latter soon turned From the magnificent effigy which fhlte,. which was also the color of grace the center ot Columbus clrcl its beard."- - Beards were the fashion In Hew York to the simple! shaft lls day In Spain, and It Is easy to COLUMBUS :IN VST - - C- - V WILBVR D.MESIMT KRISTOPHER COLUM- BIA wa a Latin-- , whether he be considered ae a native of Italy, where undoubtedly .h spent hla early boyhood, or serving under Portugal, where hla m a t u r t it manboqg f , year hla tor t the parable triumph he secured for the home o t TuJ final adoption, ipajn. 'trel Latin America, too)1 varies which jtls y 216; jilt a t&ct ihat tended, tor no knowledge of th existence of the vast continent to the north of the Caribbean sea nd the West India Islands. He had been to England, and at one time in despair bad applied to the court of England to help him in his great ambition,, but . his experience ind hla fame were Latin. Perhaps on this account the name more of Columbus is Incorporated prominently in the nomenclature of Latin America than In that of Anglo-SaxoAmerica. The Republic of Colombia bears witness to tbs' honor with which he was held from tbs bein the of independence ginnings e western world. Today the insignificant little port la, Panama, Colon, at the northern entrance to the canal, indicates another atttempt to perpetuate the natnp of Columbus In a geographical way. Other countries have districts or rivers, public parks and theaters, with the name of Coion, and tt would teem to be in Spanish, as its equivalent, Colombo, in Portuguese, a' mark of affection as well as of honor for the discoverer of America. The United States has given hla name to the District of Columbia as soon as the founders of this Republic could consider designations apart from those inherited from provincial days. At the country grew. In area, towns were named Columbus, and the designation of the federal district, which was to be the seat of government, shows that the discoverer was not forgotten, on the continent that once might have been his. Perhaps, however, the greatest compliment to the memory of Columbus is that implied In the poetical appellation Columbia," the allegorical name --given to the United States. There can be no denying the tact that the recognition of the great achievement of the admiral has been tardy. It is well known, however, that often the delayed judgment of history alone' awtrds to treat men the honor they deserved. We are all so familiar with the story bt Columbus, as It has been handed down to U r theflaof fre-p&r- te Itt ltli '1ARY - -- ton-teptlo- n. clepu-ahave- a ar; '"'A I ,a t . clean shaven In effigy. So It is with the new Columbus statue unveiled In Washington on June I. This marks th first great jnemorial which th United States .government has erected to Christopher Columbus. There hat long been a feeling that this country bas not bad a really worthy monument to the man who is primarily responsible for the exist; ence ot the nation. Th feeling took concrete shape' when, in 1906, Representative Jamef a. Gouiden of jspw yrk introduced, n bill appropriating th luffi of f iOo,- 00 to b used for a Columbus mem rial. CJjffiess passed the bill and It "jra algnea'ln 1907 by President - - m Roosevelt. ; " '; The design r fountain, shaft and statue r; Th fountain is- 70 flrei fid and 65 feet from front to rear. Th balustrade which half encircles It beari th effigy of a heroic Uon at either extremity The salient feature of tb memorial Is a splendid stone shaft surmounted by n globe Before thin shaft, which rises in the center of the fountain circle Is n status of Columbua The glob which surmounts the shaft indicates the contribution the discovery , of Columbua was to tbs This , glob science of geography. is supported by four massive eagles semi-circula- one-tim- - We do not need to borrow Our trouble from tomorrow; We'll find enough to worry ea before we're through today; We waste our time In fretting O'er what'a to come, forgetting The goodness and the gladneaa that are rich along the way. We do not need to ponder On what we left back yotider Back yonder on the blotted page tella of yesterday; We should recall the gladness, And not bring up the sadness. But let the gloom go to the dark and let the sunshine stay. 1 This csstlng up of trouble Will only make It double-W- ill only wilt the flowers that are sweet along the road. This thing of being tearful Instead of waxing cheerful Because of what has gone, will only add unto our load. Bo. what's the use to borrow Our trouble from tomorrow. Of clutch the sorrows that w were ours on yesterday? Today will have lta fretting. But let us go, forgetting. And Joy will overtake1 ua while we walk along the way, y ItVyorked.'-- ' 1 Ah." mused the absent-minde- d man, here is a string tied around my Unger. How, what could my wife have wanted that to remind me of? Let me see." He thought for some time, but cquld not deride what it might have been, so he said: go home &nd ask her what It was. At the door be was met by his wife, und be immediately asked her. , Why, my dear," she smiled. I tied tbat string round your finger to remind you' to come home Dont you. lemember? . V i vote. s What They Play. ' The little lambs are gamboling on the green, observed the poetical person." And what gambling game are they playing?" inquired the Individual with the ready ba.ha. Craps! tittered the poetical pel son, thereby astonishing those who had imagined him to be one above 7such things. . n Ready Author. Th 13001 you understand, my darling?" hs asks in reply. "The heroines of my novels always marry the heroes. How would I feel if I saw you gravitating to the arms of another?" jBot Him Anyway, "You remenlber Jlggsop?" asks our t friend. - , "Remember him?" w query. "Yes. You remember how timid he was about airships? Wouldnt go up in one because he was afraid th thing would drop?".;- " Yes. but Well, hed better have gone up. An aero pianist fell on him this morning" I blrecttpns. . To launch the German schooner Of beer or wine or preset, You need not break tQe bottle-j- ust twist upon th faucet. " ' Mans Way. The tnan who drops into the ruck And make a sorry mess ot life. It hes unmarried blames his luck. And if hes married blames his wife! The foreign visible supply of coppei England. France and afloat as of date September 2, was 45,666 tons, a decrease ot 435 tons, as compared W last year. Ore shipments from ths camp pt Tonopsh last week amounted to a t tal of 10.000 tons of an estimated valuation of $250,000, accordtn - to - the lU , ' Tonopah Miner, Th present prlcl Of bar silver ts London is around It per ounce. Average price of silver during six months has, as a rule, been 10 pef cent to 20 per cent higher than In rethe Boston News cent years, fv Bureau. For som tlm It has bees reported tbat the Iron Blossom company a mill for treating its low grado ores, and that probably Colorado will make use of this mlO to handle Its large tonnage of or; which runs from $4 to $5. Goldfield Consolidated directors last week declared the regular SO cents a share quarterly dividend. The amount to be distributed Is $1,067,729, and brings the total dividends paid to data by this company up to $28,240, 789, This has been done within about seven d ottMtfsavr. - . ivzw' jzzexr us, that there is no need here to recount the- - many injustices ' which he suffered at th hands of his contemporaries. The salient . fact'--, that he wac shorn of his honors and returned laden with chains, proves conclusive ly the cruel contempt witb which tb fearless navigator was treated in his own day. Time rectifies many and It has done so In th case of the discoverer of America The wonder of his achievement Is universally recognised and th worlds, both old and new, have testified in many monuments to the respect and honor in which they hold Columbua. The custom of preparing effigies in stone, so that the names and achievements of a nations heroes may be passed on to posterior, finds It origin In piost ancient time. It la but natural that this custom should havs been followed in the case of Colum-buToday we find statues frected to the discoverer In Italy, Spain and France, and ia nearly all . of the countries of the new world, - At Genoa, which city claims the honor of being the birthplace of Columbua, there has been erected a very magnificent statue, which overlooks the bay. It was completed and dedi- s, -- s. ' ; years., , Owing to heavy rainstorms washing out, some of the roads, the shipments of ore from the little Utah mine In' western Tooele for August amounted to only on carload. Indications now are tbat September will witness th marketing of at least three times this amount grad .. Development of large low mining districts In Utah, providing ftbem with adequate and satisfactory power at a low price, and furnishing of power so cheap as to permit pumping water to higher irrigation levels, ts the object of the reorganized Tellur-id- e Power Company. The high price of sine sulphide ore In th Joplin camp during the past week was $60, the base per ton of 60 per cent zinc having ranged from '$53 to $57. Zlns silicate sold on a base of $30 to $31 per ton of 40 per. cent cinq. The average price, all grades, of sine wa$51.04 per ton. Is reported from Wlnnemucc , It that Dr. L. G. Wheeler has succeeded in placing his block of stock, which finances his valuable lease on famous Charleston Hill, next to the great Na tional and Mammoth mines, and that he is la a fair way ot opening up a new bonanza in this bonanza camp. The American Smelting A Refining company reports foi the six months ended Jnne $0, 1912, gross Income o( $7,587,943, ; of' which i $1,422,069 represented, .earning from, mining prop-ertles; deductions for taxes, expenses and depreciation And amortization air proprlatlona, $1,718,789, and , net income $5,868,958. Active work hue been on now for about two weeks at th Verda Mining A Milling company's property, situated near the mouth of Big Cottonwool Th face is now in about 285 feet, and has a vertical depth of probably 350 feet. Two gold veins have been cat through tbo progress of this work, and a third is the objective point The army of coat miners throughout th world numbers more than 3,000,000 men. and each year between 6,000 and 7,000 meet death through , accident The death rat among these men to 1910 was 2.11 in every 4,000 employed. In the United States alone la the same year 2,834 men were killed In the coal mines, or 8.91 In every 1,000 employed, ' The assistant ' attorney-genera- l ot Utah, in reply to a question, says: I am of the opinion that it coal or hydro-carbonines ar underground mines er workings, It Is unlawful lot any msn to work In such places for mors than eight hoars per day, and it is immaterial as to whether the miners have an expressed or implied con. CZXCVZ&CSf ftz&'ZjVorav"', tract to do so," s which marks the spot of the sup- believe that sailor wort them for with outstretched wings. Upon It, World wide Is ' a movement , for in high relief, are cut the topographposed - first landing on Watllnga pretectlon, safety among the several milisland, we find a great number of Th representations which we tee ical features of the new world; At greater wqpk in the mines, sugstatues erected In honor of the dis- today of Columbus can nearly all be either side of th shaft there appear lion men who Dr.' by Joseph A. Holmes, the gested coverer. Even the English have done traced back to an engraving called figures portraying the sculptor's conUnited States bureau of the director honor to the navigator at Nassau In the Paulas Jovlus cut, which was ception of representative types of tha which will be Inaugurated of mines, made Islands and at Trinidad; from a painting that has been new and old world. The figure of an the Bahama station of and ihe people of Santo Domingo lost. American Indian, energetic In pose, at the Pittsburg experiment Even the lost painting was not an one band reaching over bis shoulder tho bureau, September 13, when gov have also raised splendid monuments; while in Cuba,' where. In the original likeness, for it was painted and grasping an arrow from a quiver, eminent officials from the leading " convene to die- of tho earth nations cathedral at Havana, the bones1 of on what th lawyers would call represents th new world, while th before cuss the great problem them, Columbus were so long Interred, hearsay evidence." But as It was statue of a patriarchal Caucasian of At a meeting of the special committhere are a great many representa- executed some time la t th early heroic proportions and thoughtful tee of Utah metal mine operators In The years of the sixteenth, century the mien, typifies the old wortd. tions of this historic figure. , Salt Lake last week the vote of the statu which Is now placed Ut . the features may be taken as fairly corOn ths macs at th hear of th shaft is placed a medallion repre- metal operators of the state was canpresidents palace, Havana, Is an ar- rect. In this cut Columbus Is drawn senting Ferdinand tistic piece of work, but th .most and Isabella of vassed, and th vote was overwhelmwithout a beard, thus he Is always Spain. striking effigy of all in Cuba is ingly in favor of the formation of an The comsculpture depicting Columindependent organization. bus in chains. It is to be regretted mittee, as a result, npoa thorough dethat this beautiful work is only a liberation decided to call the mining clay model. . The representation Is men of the state together on Saturthat of Columbus in his old age. He day evening, September 14, at which Is -- seated ona collof rope on the tbe report and recbmmendatkm will deck of the ship which is carrying Waa Stolen Shortly After the Well over the household on the day it was be made that an independent associaKnown Poem of Samuel Wood, stolen. It seemed a lf on of the tion be formed., , him to Spain.- - He reclines against a worth Became Famous. family were missing. In this age of While testing over a wide scope ot capstan, his fettered . hands .held souvenir Collection,- - who knows but its Urge domain in Humboldt county, before him.- - The artist ha caught Hot far from Boston Is located the that some day the real ' old d a striking expression of resignation Nevada, the Comet PUcer company well which Inspired th familiar lines bucket tbat hung in the wen" has run 430 cubic yards of dirt through combined with, melancholy, The work "Old may turn up in a museum! or serve ts a masterplece bf sentiment and ex- of Samuel Woodwerth to ,th Is sluicing system, and from this it ' the time as a water tank in the show .window has a net extraction of $450.50, or Bucket." Oaken place ' Every pression. Another historical group ' is that ts visited many new traditions . are of some enterprising advertiser? little better than $1 saved to the yard. which was presented by Empress Eu- told concerning the famous bid buck- There is no other water bucket in the After having spent some time in the genie of Franc to the Republic of et, about which people have been world so enshrined in homely, genu- east rounding out matters concerning romance one. as this ine Having these many years. Even the Colombia. It now stands at Cristo- singing drunk deep of the sparkling waters, golden goblets of royalty, and tb her Gold Bug Placer Mining company bal, the Canal Zone. and other interests. Miss Llnnie faThroughout Latin America the ven- between whistled snatches of the It treasured chalices of the Crusaders the girt mine operator, is again never bow awakened have miliar disconcerting the universal refrain, eration for Columbus is universal, and we find his memory honored In cities was- - to have th charnr broken by and popular interest attained by the back In Utah. Miss Kilgrow has some Old old oaken bucket that hung in the valuable placer property In Lrand that the original of Mexico, Colombia, Perti Chile and learning Oakpn Bucket" was stolen shortly well," until U was stolen and tarried fouaty, Utah. other states. n poem became away In the senlth of its fame. AfThe Horn Silver, of Utah,, during It Is curious to not that it was after his ' fairs at Washington, Joe - Mitchell August, shipped fifty carloads of lead also a Latin, a - Frenchman, who famous. silver ore and'sU cars of tine. Th erected the . first .monument in the The youngest daughter of Samuel Chappie, In National Msgaxlna . United States in honor of the achieve- WDodwortb, the author, died recently leaking system at the mine has been Riches have wings, especially if nearly discontinued, ment of Columbua In Baltimore In Berkeley, CaL, and eh often used with only fire there stHl standi a monument erect- to tell about th real old oaken buck- those who hay them lack common leasers now working. The company which came sense. ed over a century ago In honor of et, and of th sadnes it present Is employing jlO men. iTinsf ' "Why la It, my dear, asks the wife of the popular author; that you always make your heroines llssoma blondes, while. I am a .plump bru- . nette? ' ' On the Other Hand. The weary candidate reaches bomej late In the evening and throws himself into a chair. "It is' trying!" he "Every me to man Fve met today promise him a job." The weary citizen reaches home and drops into i chair. It's getting to be exasperating, he grumbles. "Every man Ive met today wants me to promise him my ' MINES AND MINING ... ...... Vall-mitjan- Original Old Oaken Bucket moss-covere- Kll-$ro- Pan-Americ- W well-know- . V. :Y V a? - ) |