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himself as the associate and counselor of the potent master of the prosperity apparatus. It is his duty to paint the gladsome smile of content on the face of distress and to scatter the perfume of expectation in the swamps of despair. It is his duty to prove to an eager and credulous people that thistles are roses fit for nosegays.But this forgetfulness of liis position and of his duty as an officer in the household of the magician of prosperity is not Secretary Gage’s worst offense. He has the audacityto tell what he re.illv thinks and•the folly to insist that something cannot come out of nothing. He actually declares that before busi-mness can revive it is necessary for the Republican party to accomplish something, thus denying that there is power in the election of McKinley and the triumph of the Republican party to revive industry and commerce as the sun in Spring awakens nature from her sleep. Heshows himself incapable of thatlofty optimism which, with childlike faith and enthusiasm, extols the potency of the Republican rabbit’s foot. He is an infidel and a calamity howler.There is still another aspect of Secretary Gage’s offense which rentiers it positively brutal. His inconsiderate admission that prosperity has not arrived knocks the props from under the rabbit’s foot prophets who are trying desperately to holster up the gorgeous but flimsy structure of misrepresentation which they erected to catch unwary vo ters. One can imagine the nauseating disgust excited by the Secretary’s remarks in the breasts of the press agents of flat prosperity. It is bad enough to be exposed and taunted by unbelievers, hut to he held up to sneers and jeers in the very temple of the faithful—that is gall and wormwood.—St. Louis Republic.A llwe for I In .J. G. Thompson, the well knownsurveyor, and thrifty rancher, atMono Lake, has been making some interesting experiments. Last year he obtained two dozen gull-eggs from one of the islands in the lake and placed them under hens to hatch, fifteen young gulls, or gullet ts being the result. They are the homeliest things that ever wore feathers—all legs, bills and squawk. They matured and became very tame, feeding with the other fowls and showing no inclination to fiy away. From careful observation of the habits of these migratory birds, thousands of which \isit the lake every year, he had come to the conclusion that as messengers they might prove equal or superior to carrier pigeons, and resolved to demonstrate it. His first experiment was made some weeks ago, when two birds were set free about sixty miles south of Mono La«ce. In a little more than an hour they were back at tne ranch, feeding as usual. , The success of the first venture was so marked that he made arrangements for further tests. Two birds were sent to San Francisco and another pair to Independence, in Inyo county, to be freed at a certain time. It is about 175 miles in an air line from Mono Lake to the Bay, and about 90 miles to Independence, from which latter place the birds returned in less than two hours. The pair turned loose in San Francisco arrived at the ranch in four and one-half hours from the time they were liberated, showing a greater speed than (hat of homing pigeons. The gull is a strong and swift flyer. When he has a pressing engagement he thinks nothing of shoving 50 or 60 miles an hour behind him,and for a long distance he is the toughest kind of a stayer. Mr. Thompson is considerably elatedover the result of his experiments, which he will continue, believing that the gull as a messenger bird is far superior to the pigeon.—BodicMiner-Index.
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Silver City Lyon County Times
Silver City, Nevada, US
Sat, Jun 12, 1897
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