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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-09

happy natures profit of hundred fold, In
other cases fifty, twenty, ten fold; in still
others it is barely returned; in some it is
tirely lost, either by death, Sickness vice. idle
ness misfortune.
"Iife has a pecuniary value" continues
Dr.. Farr. "In its production and education
a certain amount of capital is sunk for
longer shorter time and th& capital, with its
interest, general rule, reappears III wages of
the laborer pay of the officer, income of the pro-
fessional man.
cat first it is all expenditure, ard certain
necessary expenditure goes to the end to keep
life in being when its economic results
negative.
y, HOW LIVES ARE VALUED
"The value of any class of lives is determined
by valuing first at birth, at any age the cost of
future maintenance, and then tee value of the fu-
ture earnings.
Proceeding thus, found the value of an ag-
ricultural laborer of Norfolk, England to be 1920
at the age of %. The child of the class IS,
by this method, worth only $25 at birth; $3.50 at
the age of 1856 at the age of TO- This increases
to 1860 at Is and $1170 at 90
decline in this instance begins at the age of
80, when his value is $1205 The decline continues
steadily, the value being 1850 at So years and only
SIS at 20, after which, the cost of maintenance ex
ceeding the earnings the value becomes negative.
st so the estimate of the cost of maintenance ex-
ceeds the earnings by $205.
These values may be compared with the
former cost of slaves in Rome, the United States
and the West Indies.
"The amount of capital sunk in the education
OF professional men Is not only greater, but is
probably at greater risk, and it has to remain
longer under investment before IL is returned.
Maximum value of such a man is attained
later in life, probably at 40 years In the highest
orders of the church, law and politics, where ex-
perience and great weight of character are requi-
site, life still increases in value at higher ages"
Commenting upon DR.. Fairs method, DR.. Holt
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TABLES OF SERVICE TO JURORS

Then the inevitable decline begins. His
nomic valuation at so is $27,13S.24 at 60 is 49,,
1874, and at 20 is only $296S.
1t is not likely that the labors of Drs. Farr and
Holt viii ever be of in determining the value
of flesh and blood an actual market, but it is an
interesting fact that scientists have reached a
seemingly satisfactory basis OF computation after
so many years OF cropping In darkness
Such tables, however, viii probably prove of
considerable service 20 jurors who may be called
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says the present value OF the net yearly earnings
of person for prospective working life is the
of their net earnings when discounted at tie
rate of interest used in the computation, COM
pounded for each of the series of years before they
will be realized.
In the table for the laboring classes of Amer
lea which he has prepared, DR.. Holt makes an
average of 513 persons, each supposed to earn the
minimum wage in his daily work
Upon 3.5 per cent. basis, the infant is worth
$119.54 the child of 5, $1245.16; of TO- $2601.62.
At 90 the young man is worth $545175, and
reaches his greatest value, $54SS.03, at %.
When he has reached 40 this valuation has de.
creased to $471032; al so it is $3742.71; at 60,
$216390, and at 20 his value is only $1713.
From then his worth Is below zero; he IS
charge rather than asset At Is years he is
drag upon society to the extent of $54644, and at
so to the extent of $S72.74.
DR.. Farr determines the present value of per-
in professions average income of S140O
year. by applying per cent. calculation.
At 25 the economic value of such person is
S25S9S94 at 80 it is $277 02 at 40 it reaches its
highest point 500 344.6S.
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When one buys a ground rent other pro-
ducing investment he arrives at estimate of It's
present worth by capitalzing, at certain per
cent, the annual revenue expected.
Working upon a similar principle, Dr. Holt,
adapting the methods of Dr. II. Magnus, of Bres-
lau Germany and DR.. William Farr, of England,
has evolved a series of valuations upon human life
at different periods between and so years.
Capitalizing the average OF earning capacity
at rate of 3.5 per cent. DR.. Holt has worked out
tables showing the present worth of laboring man
and of a professional man.
At the age of 25 years the economic value of
the average American working man is $54SS03-
This is the highest point he reaches In the economic
scale. The professional man is worth most at 40
$29,344.6S.
1t is estimated that the infant of the laboring
class is worth $119.54 at birth. The economic
value of infants, however, is based upon calcula
ton of It's probable future, and its chances of life
computed after the methods followed by life insur-
companies.
For number of years the child of any class is
only charge upon his parents. They must main
tain, feed, clothe and educate him. All these ex-
penses In the nature of investments of capital
upon which returns begin TO come In later
After a time the expenditure in behalf of the
individual ceases, and he begins earning money
himself His earning capacity, on the average, in
creases to a certain period, when after remaining
MINUS SIGN FOR OLD AGE
Old age not only reduces the earning capacity,
as a rule, 10 the minimum, but In a vast number of
cases that capacity disappears entirely and the
person again becomes charge. In this case the
minus sign must be used before figures represent
ing his worth
All men. of course, not equal in economic
worth, because some develop a greater earning ca
pacity than others
Like capital invested in the SOIL in the vint-
age or IN commercial ventures" says DIR. Farr "the
capital invested in tie life of man returns, In
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upon to determine the value of life or in deciding
the loss of earning capacity through accident
Every person, in order to be self-supporting.
must possess, first the necessary functional ability
He must have, Also technical abilit or knowledge.
in order that he may successfully couple his pow
ers to his occupation, and he must have competing
ability, the ability to apply his other possess
sions to advantage.
These three possessions functional. technical
and competing ability-are regarded sas necessary
IN the formula by which mans economic value is
worked out. Impairment of any one impairs tho
whole
a person, for instance, might suffer disfgure-
ment of the face, which In itself would not In any
way impair his ability. to work. andsyet might pre-
Tor which he was best fitted.
Just electricity has been analysed, man, as q
producing force in the world, has been. analysed.
THE UNITS OF HUMAN PowE4:
The unit of eleetromotive force is volt; cur
rent is measured by amperes and resistance by
ohms.
Multiplying these elements together, one OBJ
tains composite quantity called watts, indicating
the amount of electricity.
When one groups the systems and organs of
the body IN accordance with their functions four
general units for the entire body are obtained
The first includes the Osseous, articular and
muscular systems-the bones, JOINTS and muscles
consisting of the heart lungs and accessory organs
Digestive organs, kidneys ard theirsnear rela-
tives, compose the third group, while the brain and
nervous system make up the fourth
All these factors are not of equal value, but
when one is reduced to negative value its group
is impaired and the bad effects may extend to the
entire body.
BY placing valuation upon each unit and
tracing the effect of its impairment through The
other units anG groups, scientists, by cold mathe-
NAUTICAL formulate arrive at what they regard as
just assessment of damages in the case of any ac-
cident
This formula was applied first in the of
young whose eyes and right hand were
badly and permanently inquired by an electric shock
while at work IN a Maine mill
He brought suit for damaGes and the jury,
without having the scientific tables to guido
them, awarded him 1921 damages.
CONTINUED ON INSIDE PAGE3
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
COST OF LIVING IS HIGHER.
While Most Food Products Have Be-
come Cheaper Meats and Butter
Have Advanced.

New YCrk.-The cost of living is now
the highest that it nus Leen in the 80
years during which the Dun Mercantile
agency has kept g record. According to
these statistics the average Of commod-
ity prices proportiene1 to consumption
is S104,204, as compared with $101 ,9c9 a
year ago.
Aside from general advance In
meats, NEST food products became
cheaper, but the general level of prices
is higher than on March /, 1895, despite
the fact that foodstufs have declined
' about six per cent.
Quotations for live stock and Iro-
visions have net shown the customary
disposition to follow the course Of the
grain markets, practically every item
in the list recording mere or less ad-
vance, mess pork rising $125 per bar
rel during February and $f.75 since tie
opening of the year
IN fact, the upward ten leacy In meats
has been IN progress, with scarcely any
interruption, since early last autumn.
A moderate decrease occurred in prices
Of dairy AID garden PRODUCTS, tie prin-
cipal differences being lower quotations
for milk. c~gs. nay ard cheese, while
butter rose another cent, and vege-
tables We're also slightly higher.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
DoNKEYs FOR CHILDREN.
They Cost Too Much to Be Common
in This Country.

The little donkey cart, as it trudled
along the white beach, attracted much
attention. Under their red silk para
soils the ladies in white looked at the
small, gray donkey AID smiled. The
gentlemen, raising their eyes from
their novels, ratted the small and
dainty animal as it passed.
THAT donkey cost a hundred" said
veterinary surgeon. 1T is a very
fine specimen. What l want to know
is, why arc not cheap donkeys bred
here in America, the same as abroad ?
Then every child, at an expense of S.
or $10 might have donkey no big.
ger than a Newfoundland dog to ride
and drive.
London is fun of donkeys. The
costers use them. Every tiny buck
ster cart is drawn by a tiny gray
donkey" the animals are bred in Ire
land and in Wales, and it is possible
. buy little ones for 81, SIS and 81,
and SO on up to 500 or more for the
fancy grades.
THE donkey is docile, intelligent,
Industrious, moral He never runs
away. He never loses his temper. He
is an ideal pet for children, and, if he
were bred here, he would be within
the reach of nearly ALL
Think how nice it would be if you
could Go here what you can do in
England give child rice little
donkey that only costs So"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
WAS WITH JACKSON IN 1915
Last Survivor Of Battle Of New Orleans
ASKS q Pension of the Gov
err<n s-1t.

Los Angeles, C2l.-Daniel Turner, a
qual ter-b,ood Cherokee Indian, VINO
AYERS that he is 100 years of age and
the last survivor of the battle of New
Orleans il 1915, WIS examined in
this city for d pension. He admits
that his services il the battle against
the English were not OF any great mo-
ment He says that his father was
enc Of Gen. Jackson's soldiers, and
that he, then boy of tonder years,
entered the RANKS during the PROCESS
Of the battle and found his father,
who severely chastised him for his
foolhardiness, but allowed him to tie
his rife at the English
During the civil war Turner was in
IN artillery regiment that never got
into the fighting, being stationed IN
California and Alaska during the war
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
The Reporter es a Soldier

An item in Kansas City paper tell.
Of the death Of reporter in Wichita
through injuries contracted in the per.
focmance of his reportorial duties. The
reporter was sent out at a late hour
of the night to cover" a suicide and
fell over pile of bricks in a dark al.
ley, injuring himself internally and
dying from the effects of the fall a
few days later. This man died at his
post of duty as truly as the fireman OK
policeman VINO loses his life in any
great catastrophe that brings his
duties into play. And the death of this
young man ought to impress upon the
newspaper-reading world the sacrifice
and often the heroism that the news
gatherers on the daily papers are
capable of. The reporter is a soldier
who never disobeys a call to duty even
though it be to face death in battle
or enter burning building or a nigh.
run on a locomotive or to enter a den
Of thieves in order to give his paper
and its readers the news. Denver
News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
LOST ARTS AND DEVICES.
Many Nave Been Aben6 oned Because
New knowledge surrlaIts
Them.

Not as much az we used to, but oc.
ca5icnally, even yet. one hears Of some
wonder accomplished by the ancienti
which c2n.ot be done Eow, says the
Scientific american.
Not so many years ago it was quits
commonly asserted that modern work
men could not quarry or, having quar-
ried, could not handle stones as large
as the moncliths of Egypt, and tne
writer has heard public speaker c1
note assert that it would be lmpos5i-
BILE to handle with modern implements
such large stones as were used in the
pyramids, or to join them as perfectly
as they are joined there, yet. when &C
casion arose, larger stones than any OF
these were quarried in Maine, and
some of the. larger monoliths them
selves were transported, not only tt
the sea, but across it, and erected in
EnGland France and America, and
there are individuals to-day who might
if they chose, cause the erection in
this country of the largest pyramids
or build new ones ten times larger
and more durable. Pyramids are moi
being generally built nowadays, be.
cause they are not in line with the
trend of modern ambition, that's all
1t is very doubtful ii Damascus
blade" would stand half as severe
usage as a modern band saw blade, OF
even as much as the spring of 40
cent clock: while the Crnamentation Of
those wonderful blades, SO far as the
mechanical execution is concerned, car
he excelled by apprentices and anna.
teurS of to-day.
Of the lost art" of hardening cop
rer little is heard Of late years
though one occasionally hears a
wiseling from the wilds wish that he
knew how to do it as we'll as the an
clients, and, while it is perhaps re.
grettable that he doesn't, his ignor.
ance is his own fault.
Many arts and devices have been
abandoned because new knowledge
has made them useless, and time
spent in rediscoveIi ing them would be
worse than wasted. The modern
youth had much better spend his time
studying the art &C his contemporaries
than that which is "lost"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

ment. nevertheless IN my judgment
the whole question of marriage and
divorce should be relegated to the
authority OF the national congress.
AT present the wide differences in
the laws OF the different states on
this subject result in scandals and
abuses; and surely there is nothing
50 vitally essential to the welfare of
the nation, nothing around which the
nation should so bend itself to throw
every safeguard, as the home life of
the average citizen. The change
would be good from every stand
point. In particular it would be
good because it would confer on the
congress the power at once to deal
radically and efficiently with polyga-
my; and this should be done whether
or not marriage ana divorce are
dealt with. 1t is neither safe nor
proper to leave the question of poly
gamy to be dealt with by the several
states. Power to deal with it should
b conferred on the national govern
mcnt.
When home ties are loosened.
when men and women cease to re-
g trd worthy family life. with all its
duties performed, and all it's respon-
sibllites lived up to, as TIE life best
worth living; then evil days for the
common wealth are at hand. There
are regions in our land, and classes
OF our population. where the birth
rate has sunk below the death rate.
Surely it should need no demonstra-
ton to show that wilful sterilitv is.
f ON the standpoint of the human
race, the one sin for which the pen
atty is national death, race death: a
sin for which there is no atonment: a
sin which is the more dreadful exact
ly in proportion as the men and wo-
men guilty thereof are in other re
spects, in character, and bodily and
mental powers those whom for the
sake Of the state it would be We
to sec the fathers and mothers OF
many healthy children, we'll brought
up in homes made happy by THEN
presence. No man, no woman, car
shrink the primary duties of life
whether for love of ease and pleasure
or for any other cause, and retain
bis or her Snlf-rnSnect
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
HORSES STAMPEDE At SEA.
MiilionDoilar Herd Raises a Ruction
Coming from Europe.

II any vessel ever arrived at Hobo
ken with a more remarkable series of
adventures than those accredited to the
St Andrew, after that sober plodder
of the Phoenix line had reached her
Hoboken pier, residents of Hoboken
want to know. And suth of the ma
rine reporters as come from Missouri
want to be shown.
The st. Andrew brought to port an
important shipment of horses con
signed to western stock farms. There
is no doubt as to that. The horses
were there, many of them AMI many
too, heard Of tie value of the ship
ment-$1 900, 900 in all, was it? Amid
the thunder of waves this herd was
stamDeded, and a reckless, daring
cowboy crew rored and fans the ter
rified Percner0ns and broIght them
back to their stalls This, runs TIE
account, came about on the night of
August 3. 1t was a terrifying struS.
gle, and when the casualties were
counted it was found that one deck
hand had sprained wrist.
ii was just before this fcarSome eX-
perience that there was enacted on
shipboard the most amazing feat that
has ever taken place since the days
of Munchauscn. This is verbatim
account:
"One of the officers of the ST. An
drew, on a wager, climbed to the hind
truck of the mainmast on July 80
and lowered the iron ball $50 feet to
the deck. and then hoisted it again,
set it in place and climbed down to
the deck"
1t would puzzle sailormen to tell
wat a hind truck of main mast"
is but there must be something of the
kind And there must also be sea SER
penis, for it was related on type
writer that on August 3 Capt. Spiel
and Third Officer Cummings were on
the bridge of the ST Andrew when
they sighted one and saw about Is or
Is feet Of its head.
Neither the captain nor his third
officer was on board when an iuves-
tigator called, but another officer vol
unteered the Information that spar
buoys, when they go a1rift, do some
times look queer
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
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! County Correspondence. !
P. N. s. Notes


Our entertainment went off nicely
The pdpils showed they had taken in
terest in their work and that even
boys and girls Of our village schools
can prepare to entertain the people
in very few days where they give
their tention to it and have some
one who understands his business,
to train them.
So far we have been well pleased
with the reports from those who
were pr sent as to their opinion of its
success.
We appreciate very much the good
behavior and kind treatment by the
audience.
We, the pupils, and our teacher,
Prof. Sutton, all take it as S )eci "a
vor to us, that the order was so good
and we appreciate it.
We would especially thank Mr.. Co
| lie Dunnam for his assistance in the
entertainment and Miss May Belle
Sutton for the music furnished. Her
music added much to the entertain
ment, and its success was largely
due to her part taken. Miss May
Belle should give good training and
close application to her music.
Well, Christmas is here and we
are all having good time, however
our school took only Christmas Day
off, but is going on with the work.
This seems to be the wish of our PEG
pie.
Mr.. Editor, we want to express
our thanks for the kindness you have
shown us by opening youc columns
to our notes and our monthly grades.
We wish you merry Christmas end
a Happy New Year. May 1907 be
the most successful year of your life
and may our people wake up to the
value of the HERALD in our homes
and every home begin the New Yeal
by subscribing for the HERALD where
it is not now being taken.
CORRESPONDENT.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
DEER AND TEou-r ON LnIE.
Stories of Remarkable Catches Made
In inertia Woods.

To kill deer aad catch q trout at
The same time out-Nimrods Nimrod
and out-IZaahs Walton A fisherman
has just done the trick on the Arrow
lakes. The deer weighed 200 pounds
and the trout ten. The fisherman was
trolling for trout when several deer
swan past his boat One was an old
buck and the man managed to catch
hold Of him as he was going by.
Having no gun, he tried to kill the
animal with a clasp knife, says the
Toronto Globe. The buck objected so
strenuonsly that he got away, swim
ming off with the fishing line upon
his horns. The fisherman bailed out
his boat and started in pursuit. After
two hours rowing he caught up with
the deer, and with oars and knife sue
ceeded in Staying it. While the chase
was proceeding a big trout got on to
the hook AMI after the deer was safely
landed the fish was secured. 1t is
quite common occurrence to see
deer swimming in the lakes of British
Columbia, but to capture one and
trout at the same time is infrequent.
Conductor Mckay, of the Nakusp
and SLOGAN branch of the Canadian
Pacific railway, previously held hon
ors in Kooeenay for securing wild
animal in unique fashion. He, while
on moving train near Nakusp, shot
and killed q big bear, but the fisher
man has put him in the shade. Even
the captain of the Okanagan lake
steamer, who secured an eagle BY
shooting it from the pilot house, has
had his fame cclipsed; while Neil
Getthing, who tried to lasso deer
from the derk of the old steamer w
II inter on SLOGAN lake, anil failed by
a horns breadth, is quite outdistanced
The only man who can come near
to the fsherman's record Is w. Hall,
of South Vancouver, who a few days
ago killed an old bear and three cubs
who were eating his strawberries In
big patch Just outside the city linz
its; but he had no fish with which to
ado-a the tale he told the reporters.