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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02
NEWLANDS IRRIGATION PLAN

An entirely new scheme for the pro
mo, ION of the national irrigation Of
lards has been gotten up by Repre-
ser alive Newlands of Nevada, and |
incorporated into bill which was in !
tro,iuced in the House by him on the
26,h. 1t supplements his former bill |
for reservoirs on the Humboldt river,
and provides that money received by
the National government from the
sale of public domain in the arid land
Sta IS be turned over to the irrigation
funri and expended by the Govern
inert in irrigation work on the lands
fror, which the money is derived.
This bill, the irrigation folk say.
has an excellent chance OF passage at
this session of Congress. Some mem
bers of the National Irrigation Con-
gress. Who have been opposed to leg
isla, ion this winter, fearing such
would be incomplete, have come to
the support of this bill. 1t is q meae-
ure of special interest to California
just now. when there is a proposition
before the legislature there for State
irrig alton in cooperation with ma
tional government work. Irrigation.
lists there contend that an sppropria-
ton by the State of California for IL
rigation would hurt the chances tor
national irrigation work. Mr.. New
lands himself thus describes his bill.
in a statement:
lit provides that all moneys receiv-
ed from the sale and disposal Of pun
lie lands in the arid and semi-arid re-
gion, excepting those set aside for ag-
ricultural and mining colleges, shall
form special funds for reclamation
works. The Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to make plans for stor-
age works and to withdraw from en-
try lands which it is proposed to irri-
Iigate from them. and he is also
authorized to enter into contracts for
the construction of such storage
works out of the arid land reclama.
ton fluids. Upon the completion of
such irrigation project the total cost
thereof is to be ascertained and divid-
ed pro rata per ecre on the lands to be
irrigated, and such amount shall be
charged against such lands as cost
water rights. The lands are to be
subject to homestead entry, each en-
try to be limited to eighty acres. and
the water right is to be paid for in an.
nual payments extending over ten
years. All moneys received from the
sale of water rights will 60 into the
reclamation fund. In all construc-
ton work eight hours a day shall
constitute days work and none but
citizen labor shall be EN- ployed.
The purpose of this bill is 10 meet
objection urged against the general
scheme of reclamation, which is thai
it taxes the East for the purpose o
West.rn impros ement. Under thi.
scheme sales Of land in the West con
stitute the fund for reclamation. Las
year the sales of public lands in TIT
arid and semi arid regions ag regatee
four million dollars. This bill hal
the approval of the National 1rriga
tica Association and it is confident,
expected that it will prove an auto
matte method of reclamation for pub
lie land.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02
NOTICE
United States Land Office,
Carson City, Nevada,
December q. 1900.

Carson City, Nevada,
December q, 1900.
To WHoA IT May CoHoBRN:
Notice is hereby given that the Central
Pacific Railroad Co., has filed in this
Office a list Of lands situated In the town.
ship described below, and has applied
for patent for said lands; that the list IL
open to the public for inspection and a
copy thereof by descriptive subdivisions
has been posted in q convenient place in
this Office, for the inspection of all per-
sons interested and to the public gener-
ally.
The following is the land described,
to-wit:
North and East.
Mt Diablo Meridian.
Nevada.
TIP. l6, Range Twenty.
n. w. / Sec. 25.
Within the next sixty days following
the date Of this notice, protests or con-
tests against the claim of the company to
any tract or subdivision within any sec
ton or part of section. described in the
list, on the ground that the same is more
valuable for mineral than agricultural
report to the General Land Office at
Washington ID. G.
Q. II. GALLUP
| Register.
I .. H. HALL,
/ Receiver
! Dale of frst insertion Jan & 1901
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02
Official Count Of State Funds.

State of Nevada ~.
County of ormsby.
Reinhold Sadler,
Eugene Howell and William Woodburn,
being duly sworn, severally say that
they are members of the Board of Ex-
aminers of the State of Nevada; that on
the sd day Of January, 1901. they
latter having ascertained from the books
of the State Controller the amount of
money which should be in the Treasury
made an official examination and count
OF the money in the State Treasury of
Nevada, and founn the same correct az
follows:
Coin S23l 1869
Paid Coin Vouchers not
returned to Controller l0i,767.a5
$335,9l 81
State School Fund Securities
! Irredeemable Nevada State School
! Bonds $3S0.OO0.00
| Nevada State Bonds 2426OOOO
! United States Bonds $4,000
/ Total ST. 1884
Reinhold Sadler,
Eugene How>U,
| William WOOdburn
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 23d day of January, A. d. 1901.
SEAL J. DoANE, Notary
Public. Ormshv County. Nevada.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02

Cigarette smoking to excess is a
ground for divorce in Wisconsin. At
Oshkosh Saturday Judge Burnell
granted Mrs. Beatrice Tracey an alb
solute decree on the grounds that her
husband was an inveterate cigarette
smoker.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02
Wool Growers. Attention!

\ meeting OF the Wool Growers As
ISOLATION of Nevada will be held at
Reno, New, Saturday. Feb. Q, 1901, at
p. M. in Judge Cheney's Office. AS
business of much Importance will come
before this meeting, a large attendance
of members OF the above association is
much desired, bv order OF,
D. c. Wheeler, President,
p. L. Flanagan. Secretary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02

Mrs. Nation seems to be raising
more trouble in Kansas than good
It was Lem Allen who remarked she
raising inflammation.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02

There's a tiger loose in town. "A
snap shot, may be seen and full par
ticulsrs learned by calling at Sam
COINS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02
Furnished Rooms.

Nicely furnished rooms 10 suite or
single for Housekeeping. Enquire Of
Mrs. J. L. Cary, on Musser street East
of the Capitol Second house below
the railroad
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-02

NOTICE
At the regular meeting of the State
Board of Examiners held June It'll, 1893
the following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED. That the Board of Exam
liners shall meet on the third day of every
month, for the purpose of allowing
claims against the State, and all claims
not in the Office of the Secretary of State
on or before the third day in each month
shall not be considered or allowed by the
Loard until the next meeting which will
be on the third Tuesday of each month
REINHOLD SADLRR
EUGENE HOW'LL
W. D. JONES
Board Of Examiners.
Attest:
ARTHUR MORRIS.
Clerk
Carson City, Nevada. June 7, 1893.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Our Monkey
kinship

A series Of careful experiments with
monkeys has recently been conducted
by Professor Edward l.. Thorndike to
ascertain the power and process by
which these animals acquire knowl-
edge. He has reached the conclusion
that there is no warrant for the pop
ular idea that monkeys and other ami
mails learn from human example and
by the processes followed by man. But,
the eXperimenter says, the fact that
monkeys do not possess the human
types of ideas must not be taken as
evidence that they are no nearer rela-
tives to us mentally than are the other
lower animals. On the contrary. they
occupy an intermediate position in
every main psychological feature be-
tween mammals in general and the hui
man species. The essentials in an in
ventory of an animals mental capaci-
ties are its sense powers, the kinds Of
movements 1t can make and their deli
cacy, complexity and number, its in
stincts or the sum of those tendencies
to feel and act which it has apart from
experience or learning and it's method
OF learning or of modifying its be-
havior to suit the multitudinous cir
cumstances of life. In each of these
respects the monkeys show kinship
with man. In their motor equipment
monkeys possess first of all the muscu-
Var combinations necessary to sustain
an upright position and consequently
the use of the forelimbs. The move
ments of these forelimbs are more in
number and suited to more complex
and varied tasks than are those of
lower animals. The attractiveness of
the monkey cage in geological gar
den is largely due to the similarity Of
the monkeys movements and our own.
The monkey not only has body like
a mans, but he also uses 1t like man.
Our native tendencies are so metamor-
phosed by the education of a civilized
environment that in adult age they
seldom appear in recognizable form.
But If we take human beings at from
6 months to 3 years of age or later we
find plenty of traits that appear in the
monkeys. In fact, the human instinct
which Is perhaps of prime Importance
in human mentality, the instinct which
perhaps is the real cause of many Of
our most boasted powers, has its clear
prototype and homoogue in the monk
ey. l refer to the instructive enjoy
ment of physical and mental activity
in general, to the tendency to act and
feel as much as possible, regardless
of any Interior practical considera-
tons, which we sometimes call de-
structiveness or conStructiveness and
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Getting Telegraph Pictures.

"Br-r-r-rring! Br-r-rr-ring! Br-r-r-
desk phone of the city manager, and
in another moment it is known at bio
graph headquarters that n fierce fire
and a series of explosions have devas-
tatcd n downtown business block, and
that the loss of life is estimated at 300.
The camera operator and his assist
ants receive word; there is scamper
for fire badges, and two minutes later
the biograph outfit, which takes 200O
pictures a minute, is handed into the
emergency wagon, which has been
waiting all day for just such call.
The city manager arrives on the
scene to arrange with fire chiefs and
police sergeants for favorable posi-
lnn for the picture-taking apparatus.
The camera is set up on its tripod, the
iilm-boxes attached, the lens focused,
and the operator begins turning the
crank. Three minutes, five minutes
the shutter snaps and every movement
of the exciting scene is faithfully re-
corded. The film, which may be from
100 to 300 feet in length, Is then car
ried to the biograph factory. where it
is developed in its entirety on reels
that carry it through developing solu-
tons. dried by powerfans, and pos
tive" is printed from it by electric
light. The process takes from two to
eour hours.
That night the catastrophe Of the af
almost as real to the theatregoer as
the actual occurrence was to those
who witnessed it.-Everybody's Mag
aZinc.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
WISE WORDS.

A triumph never comes without a
try.
I.ifc's road rests lightly upon him
whose goal is duty.
A hagglng woman is nearly as
OdiOuS as q mean man.
Into wisdom's webs wise men their
waiting moments weave.
1t is better to be called proud than
TO me named a sycophant.
Health is a touchy possession; dis
obey one Of its commands and off it
goes.
Keeping ones grievances to ones
self Is an excellent proof of mental
cquipoise.
A sense of justice gone wrong be-
comes dangerous. 1t shows itself in
malice, revenge and evil-speaking.
In the love of a brave and faithful
man there is always a strain Of mater
nal tenderness; he gives out again
those beams of protecting fondness
which We're shed Oh him as he lay ON
LIS mothers knee.
Every hard duty that you would
rather not do, that it will cost you
pain, or struggle, or sore effort to do,
has blessing to it. Not to do it is to
miss that blessing. Every heart load
that you are called to lift hides in it.
self some strange secrets of strength.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
where the True Raven IL Found.

In Greenland is found the true
raven, In the temperate clImes of
North America the common crow
passes for the raven. but the true
species in the United States almost mo-
where else than in the Rocky Noun
tains, This northern raven of Green
land has strange iriendlinoss for the
gyrIalcon, in fact the only nests OF the
raven found We're within Il few rods
OF the nest of the gyrlalcon, and no
gyrIalcon nest was found without its
nearby partner, lne raven. Lieutenant
Peary and the natives say that this Is
the case almost without exception,
why they do this, 1t Is hard TO say, I'M.
les the supply of discarded bones from
the gyrIalCon's nests Is the attraction
to the ravens. The raven becomes
tame ana enters the village and true
to the traditions of its family is ever
searching for plumber, and ii gives
the natives much trouble when drying
meat. When ON the wing the ravens
usually are found in pairs, their favor
tie haunts being the ijurds and small
islands near the coast. They are easily
attracted by initiating the call of our
common crow or their own notes, the
natives being expert in the latter
During the long winter the raven is
the only bird found in North Green
land
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24

A pathetic incident in connection
with biograph sketch occurred in
Detroit, Mich. recently. A view made
ut the occupation of Pekin was being
flashed across the screen. 1t presented
detachment of TIE Fourteenth Uni.
ted States Infantry entering the gates
of the Chinese capital. AS the last file
of soldiers seemed literally stepping
out of the frame on to the stage there
arose scream from woman who SAT
in front.
"My God" she cried Historically
there is my dead brother Allen march
ing with the soldiers"
The figure had been recognized by
others in the audience as that of AL
len McCaskill, who had mystcriously
disappeared some years before. Sub
Scquently Mrs. Booth, the sister. wrote
to the War Department and learned
that it really was her brother whose
presentmcnt she so strangely had been
confronted with.-Everybody's Maya.
zine
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
BIG LIZARD WAKES UP.


Comes Out OF II Two Months sleep ana
Make Things Lively.
The reptile house at the Zoo, usu'
ally the quictest and sleepiest place
in the gardens, where the huge ana
condas ana la2y-limbed batrachians
s,umbpr away their days in IN atmos
phrre of unruilled lethargy, was re-
Gently thrown into Il state of violent
excitement.
The cause Of the trouble was an at
tack upon his keeper by the Egyptian
monitor, the largest lizard in the
world. The reptile is five feet long
ana colored a dingy brown. His coat
is rough and scaly and his claws and
teeth give him n fierce appearance. He
last March in Il half-lrozen condition
and until few days ago remained In
Il scmi-c0matose state.
The keepers had begun to despair
Of arousing him from his prolonged
lcthargy until the eXpcdcnt occurred
to them of procuring a mate for the
sleeping monster. a female was ac-
COrdingIy brought from Africa last
week and placed in the cage with him.
Next morning the keeper was aston.
ishcd to find the rocky floor OF the den
all torn up and the dirt beneath heaped
in great piles against the sides Of the
cage. The two lizards We're sleeping
innocCnty side by side in the corner
and the keeper did not disturb them.
The same activity went on every night
for n week, and it soon became plain
that the monitor was building house
for himself and his new wife.
Th house Las just been completed,
and when the keeper visited the cage
the other morning the female monitor
was tucked away snugly out OF sight
inside it. Her husband was curled up
over the entrance to the cave, guard
ing it.
Keeper Hess thought nothing Of the
matter until he entered the cage to
feed the monitor, and then began q
fight, which ended in the keeper being
driven through the doorway and mar
rowly escaping with whole skin
Tie food which Hess took into the
cage was thrown in all directions and
the reptile remained in violent state
all ay.--philadclphia Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Lightning rs Chimneysweep.

Employees of the Vineland Flint
Glass plant are marveling at weird
phenomenon. The furnace was out
of blast and workmen had been set to
work to clean the SCOT from the high
smokestack. They were sitting about
complaining of the job on account of
the hot weather, when Il storm broke
upon them, an electric bolt entered
the furnace door, went down into the
bowels of the furnace and then up the
high stack and out.
When the men entered the furnace
to see how much damage had been
done they discovered, much to their
amazemcnt and delight, that the
lightning, which did no damage what
ever, had completely cleaned the inside
of the stack and left the SCOT in u pile
at the bottom. -Phiadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Henrl His Own VIII Renl

Not many men can boast of having
been present at the reading of their
own will, yet such is the experience
of a wealthy Swiss named Gehrig. Re
Gently the newspapers of the Canton
of Glarus announced that he had been
drowned while boating in the Lake of
Como, but that his body had not yet
been found. His family We're pros
trated with grief and at once went in
to mourning. A week later, while the
will was being read before a gather
ing of his relations. the door opened
and in walked the drowned man.
Thinking that they ueheld a ghost
those present fled in all directions,
and such was their terror that it was
some time ere NJ. Gehrig was able to
explain that his absence was to be ac-
counted fC by important business af.
fairs
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Many Facts Sustain
the DarWinion
Theory

curiosity. Even the casual observer,
IL he has any psychological insight,
will be struck by the general, aimless,
intrinsically valuable Ito the animals
feelings) physical activities or monk
ey compared with the specialized,
definitely aroused, unitarian activities
Of dog or cat. Watch the latter and
response to obvious sense presenta-
tons, does them with practical conse-
quences of food, sex indulgence, prep
aration for adult battles, etc. II moth
ing that appeals to his special organ
ization comes up he does nothing.
Watch a monkey and you cannot emu
merate the thing he does, cannot dis
cover the stimuli to which he reacts,
cannot conceive the raison d'etre OF his
pursuits. Everything appeals to him.
He likes to be active for the sake OF
activity. The observer who has prop
er opportunities and takes proper
pains will find this intrinsic interest to
hold true of mental activity as well.
Finally, In their method of learning,
although monkeys do not reach the
human stage of a rich life of ideas. yet
they carry the animal method Of learn
ing by the selection of impulses and as
ISOLATION of them with the different
sense impressions, to point beyond
that reached by any other of the lower
animals. In this, too, they resemble
man, for he differs from the lower an
imals not only In the possession Of
new sort Of intelligence. but also in
the tremendous extension Of that sort
Of which he has in common with them.
A fish learns slow few simple habits.
Many learns quickly any infinitude OF
habits that may be highly complex.
Dogs and cats learn more than the fish,
while monkeys learn more than they.
In the number of things he learns, the
complex habits he can form, the va
riety of lines along which he can learn
them and in their permanence when
once formed the monkey justifies his
inclusion with man in separate men
tai genus.-Chicago Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Your Tongue



The monotony OF form in the Aus
tralian landscape is matched by its
monOtony Of vegetation; hardly any
other tree than the eucalyptus, with
lis dusty green foliage, is to be seen,
and although it boasts some 800 va
rieties, there is little to diferentiate
them for the ordinary observer. One
of the strange contradictions OF ma
ture for which Australia is famous is
seen in the eucalyptus, or gum, as
it is more generally known. 1t does
not shed its leaves, but its bark, and
although densely foliaged, casts no
shade--its leaves being set with their
edges, instead OF their sides, against
the sun, so that the light falls
through them as through cobweb. In
clearing land these trees are ring
parked" being thus left to die and
fall by their own decay. ~ felled and
destroyed by fire; nor can the mag
inatiOn create more CHASTITY and
deSOlate prospect than is produced by
the constant sight Of square mile af-
ter square mile of this bleached and
ghostly timber.
Is necessary, however. in preparing
the soil for cultivation. or even for
the purpose of grazing sheep there
on since little or no grass will grow
beneath its branches. Once cleared,
however, the land demonstrates great
NJ tn1i I'll tnv fnr i,pi ,ro
ton purposes were everywhere avail
able the great interior plains of Aus
tralia would soon rival in fertility the
finest districts of southern Califor
mia
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Land Out Of Sea.

Holland proposes to close the Zuy-
der Zee by dixie running from the
north Holland coast to the island Of
Wiering and thence to the Tristan
coast, and to drain parts OF the closed
sea. The initial plan involves the re-
covery in eighteen years of 114.9O1h
acres Of fertile land. The railway dis
lance between the provinces OF North
Holland and Friesland will be short
ened by thirty-one miles. The indem-
nifty to be paid to the Zuyder Zee fish,
ermen is estimated at 81 ,SO9 900. The
total cost is estimated at $3S,190. 900.
The entire plan will take from thirty
to thirtyflve years to complete, and
some 100000 acres will be reclaimed,
valued at $4,000 900.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24

eruptions follow. Ordinary remedies that
only move the bowels tend only to further
weaken IN already debilitated body. There
Is one medicine, new one, discovered by
the well known physician and surgeon, DR..
David Kennedy, and called Calcura Solvent.
This remedy cures because it is the great
Internal cleanser. II is not a mere physic.
1t strengthens as we'll as cleanses the liver,
blood, stomach, bowels, kidneys and blad-
der. What soap and water do for the outer
man Calcura Solvent does for the delicate
mechanism Within only it works mildly, in
harmony with the complicated and delicate
organism it has TO deal with. You can get
small sample bottle of the marvellous new
medicine by writing to the discoverer, DIR.
David Kennedy, Kennedy Row, Kingston,
N. Y, and mentioning this paper, Calcura
Solvent is carefully made under the per-
soual supervision Of DR.. Kennedy; there
fore, it Is perfectly safe and scientifically
correct, II your druggist is out OF it send
81 to DR.. Kennedy and receive large bot
tie by express, charges prepaid
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-08-24
Making a
GlObe...

First, the model is covered with a
thick layer of pasteboard in moist
state. When it is dry, a sharp knife is
passed around it so as to separate the
pasteboard coat into two hemisphere
ical shells, which are then taken off
the model and united at the cut edges
with glue. The hollow sphere thus
formed Is the skeleton of the globe
that Is to be.
The next thing is to cover it with a
coating of white enamel, about one
eighth of an inch in thickness. When
this is done the ball is turned into a
perfect roundness by a machine. The
iron rod running through the center
Of the original model. and projecting
at both ends through the surface, has
left holes in the new globe, which
serve for the north and south poles,
and through these metal axis is run
to represent the axis of the earth.
Then the surface Is marked off with