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this desert country. Persons occupying 
houses or tents without water pipes 
usually pay one dollar a barrel. for 
water. ' 
The whole area represented on this 
sheet is one of the most forbidding des- 
erts in the United States. The valleys 
are practically sand beds, the moun- 
tains bare masses of rock. The only 
vegetaton in the valleys is scattered, 
low cactus, with here and there a 
greasewood or creosote bush about 
knee-high. The mountains are abso- 
lutely devoid of grass or trees. 
The mineral wealth, principally gold, 
ecnstitutes the whole value of the 
country; but this is sufficient to have 
built up during the last few years the 
flourishing mining camps of Randsburg 
and Johannesburg, with an aggregate 
population of about 1,200. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
E. O. Wooton professor of biology o£ 
the N. M. College of Agriculture, paid 
us a pleasant call recently. 
A. S. Hitchcock, in charge of the 
grass investigations of the U. S. Dept. 
of Agriculture, spent a few hours in 
San Diego on a hurried visit to the 
Coasi. 


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MARYETTE FOSTER EDDY. 
Born at Volney, N. Y., April 28, 1829. 
Died at Los Angeles, California, Au- 
gust 17, 1903. 
Wife of Cortes C. Eddy and mother of 
Samuel Willman Eddy, Mrs. Ollve L. 
Orcutt and Mrs. Clara E. Hamilton, 
husband and daughters surviving, and 
known to a large circle of friends at 
Mexico, N. Y., Norwalk, Ohio, and in 
Los Angeles, where her years of useful- 
ness have largely been spent. 
Below are given the words of Rev. 
Charles M. Fisher to her friends: 
My Christian Friends:—It is to me a 
sad privilege to be permitted to speak 
a few words as a tribute of love and re- 
spect on this occasion. It was my priv- 
ilege to know the beloved friend who 
has gone from us as a pastor and to 
' know her as a pastor comes to know 
those who gather week by week in the 
fellowship of the prayer meeting. 
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Among those who thus gather she was 
ever faithful and her influence as a 
prayer meeting member of the church 
was strong and beautiful and helpful. 
At such a time as this there are two 
aspects under which what we call 
“death” is wont to present itself. To 
the natural thought and feeling death 
means loss and: failure and defeat. We 
struggle and toil in our earthly service 
and when it seems as if the time of re- 
ward should come to us then in its 
siead comes this strange and ever per- 
plexing event of death. The pathway 
seems to nature, to run into clouds and 
darkness and were we compelied to 
judge things purely from the natural 
standpoint there would be no other 
interpretation tnan this, that life, so 
precious to us ali and so filled with 
precious treasures of iove and friend- 
ship, reaches at last the terminus of 
utter futility. We might reasonably 
ask uhe question, ‘Is life worth living?” 
But today there is in my mind and 
heart a very different thought as I 
stand in the presence of all that was 
mortal of our beloved friend. Not the 
note of defeat, but of triumph rings in 
my soul today as I recall this beautiful 
life to memory. We who have known 
her realize well that she would be the 
last to wish that words simply of eulo- 
gy shouid be spoken today, and yet her 
life as we recall its graces is ours as a 
precious heritage of memory today and. 
it is right that for our instruction and 
for our help along the path of Chris- 
tian service we should speak to one an- 
other of what in her life so beautifully 
portrayed the character of her Lord 
and Master—the Lord and Master 
whom we all desire to follow. And I 
shall speak my personal impressions in 
the confidence that they also will tell 
in part the story of her influence upon 
you as you met her from time to time. 
I was impressed with the sweetness 
of her abiding faith in Christ. One was 
always better for being in her presence 
for a little while. There wag ever 
strength and encouragement for weak 
faith in talking with her of the things 
of.God. Her consciousness of God was 
so marked and manifest in her every 
word and deed that one could not but 
feel the inflow of new faith and joy in 
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