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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-11
Conclusion.

SOhCiuSiOH.
The known influences of forests on the
climate and water supply NAV then be
condensed in a few paragraphs.
F1rst-They reduce the temperature of
the air to a moderate extent and nde
the climate more equable.
S~econd-They increase the relative hu-
Nudity of the air and reduce evaporation.
~Third-They tend to increase the precipi-
tatiOn of moisture.
FOurth-They help to sregulate the wa
ter supply, produce a more sustained
feeding of springs, tend to reduce violent
floods n render the flow of water in
streams and rivers more constant.
Fffth-They assist in preventing land
slides and snow Slides. and the sitting
up of rivers and low lands
Sixth-They reduce the velocity of the
air currents, protect adjoining fields
against cold or dry winds. and afford
shelter to cattle, game and useful birds.
S~eventh-They assist in the production
of oxygen and ozone.
EiShth-They improve the healthfuIness
of a country and increase it's artistic
beauty.
Subject for Study.
Agriculture and stock raising must in
the end be the main dependence of the
people in the Rocky mountain region. as
il is elsewhere, and possessing an arid
climate and a very limited supply of wa
ter in streams. We cannot go to too great
pains and expense to determine the fac
us "HHCi soNeih the rainfall ana water
supply. 1t seems to me, therefore. that
the ~irrigating and livestock interests and
the state authorities should emand of the
government that money be appropriate
to carry on the necessary observations
and experiments.
The interests of the two great indus
tries seem at present to be inimical but
since the prosperity of the whole com
munitV is affected, the government which
controls 10 per cent of the sources of wa
ter supply of the west should take no ac-
ton injurious to either until they are in
possession of the most convincing evil
dence of the final benefit of the action.
TO the community and nation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-11
Influence of Forests on Rainfall.

The widely prevailing opinion that for
ests draw the rainfall has perhaps some
slight basis of fact. but generally speak
ing, the phrase should be reversed. The
rainfall makes the forests. The question
is such an extremely important one in
the economies of any country that nu-
merous attempts have been made TO de-
termtne by accurate observations and
measurements the actual effect of for
ests on the rainfall. but there are so many
more powerful agencies governing tho
rainfall that the scientists place little
dependency on the data collected. even
though they point strongly to d beneficial
effect of the forests.
Observations In Germany show that the
rainfall in the forests is from l to AZ ner
cent mo.e than n the open, and AVERAGES
Is per cent, the effect being inconsideTa-
bic at low attitudes, but ~pronounce6 In
the higher regions. The effect also an
pears to he greater from August to Ian
uary than in the other half of the wear.
That this increase is due entirely TO
the forests is. however. doubted by many
foresters. and in proof of their conten-
ton, they point 10 the fact that the rain
fall in those portions of the United States.
which were once fOrested. has not been
appreciably decreased by cutting off the
forests. They also submit for COMPARE
son the contradictory evidence of the eff
feet of large bodies of water on the rain
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
KEEP THE HAIR ALWAYS DRY.
Moisture Frequently Found to Be
Cause of Early Badness.

eff you don't want to be bald.
headed before your time" said n hair
dresser, keep your hair dry. If it gets
wet accidentally be sure to dry it.
Take your hair down at least once in
the middle of the day and let it get
dry. 1t is moist from pe~rSpiration,
moist from the atmosphere, moist
from being confined under a heavy hat.
1t should be dried. 1t will rest the
roots besides.
MANY women ruin their hair with
the curling iron. Yet the curling iron
is all right if it is not too hot and ii
you keep it moving. The professional
hairdresser p~erpetually turns the iron
so that it does not rust the hair. Rust
is the term applied to that peculiar
reddish condition of the hair when it
has been curled too often with the hot
iron.
I'm advising my patrons how tc
wash the hair l say this: Take some
moderately hot water and spray the
hair once a week. Use no soap. Then
dry it thoroughly. Hair takes three
hours to dry.
ITO wash the hair with soap take a
warm, pleasant morning when the sun
is shining. Have the room very hot
and treat the hair to it's soapy bath
using water at a moderate tempera
ture. Don't dash cold water on after
a shampoo, as the sudden change
breaks the hairs"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
LOST TEMPER WAS COSTLY.
Poet Banker Threw Away and Bought
Back His Own Property.

Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet
banker, had a high temper and vas
exceedingly sensitive. One day, exas-
perated by the Grass stupidity of a
servant, he threw a book at his head.
The boy ducked and the book sailed
out of the window. After it hurried
the mental, but he was too late; a
passerby had Picked it up and walked
off with it. Stedman began to wonder
what book he had thrown away, and
to his horror discovered that it was
a quaint and are little volume for
which he had paid $50. His chagrin
was intense, as the work was almost
unique and the prospects of replacing
1t were remote.
Some time afterward, when brows.
ing in a secondhand book shop, our
%splenetic poet banker perceived to his
great delight a copy of the very book
he had lost. He asked the price. Its
very rare" replied the dealer, but az
you are an old customer I'll let you
have it for $40: nobody else could
have it for less than $50" Stedman
gladly paid the $40, got home with his
treasure as soon as possible, and sat
down to gloat owe 1t. A card dropped
out of the leaves. 1t was his own.
Further examination showed that he
had bought back his property. II
cured him of casting books at serl
ants heads.-New York Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
Merit VS.. Prizes.

Premium schemes and prize Offer
ings held out as bait to the people to
get them to use certain brands of
goods should be very carefully consid-
cred. The most common plan is the
certificate deal, by which is promised
some article represented to be worth
the total amount paid for goods, If
only a certain number be saved. Com
mon business sense assures that when
such a proposition is made the goods
must be of an inferior quality, or that
there is a catch somewhere. Goods of
merit do not have to carry a prize in
order that they be in demand. People
are quick to buy goods of merit, par
ticularly in the staple line, If they
know of them. OF the standard brands
Of foodstuffs, of cigars, of thread, O;
different other things, bow many are
giving prizes? This Is not the case
with numerous classes of goods that
sre sold with a premium attachment.
Most of them are Of inferior quality
and the price paid for them more than
covers the cost of the premium given.
1t is the old glimmer of getting some
thing for nothing, and the women who
want trading stamps, or a prize with
their purchases, pay pretty dearly for
their whistles"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
HOME NEWSPAPERS.
They Bring Many Benefits to this
Town and 70 Their Patrons.

If the average merchant would calm
that a be brought around by the
home paper, the editor would receive
a more liberal advertising patronage.
The country-town paper fills a pc
culiar field. There is no substitute
for it. 1t is the purveyor of local
news, the criterion of the degree of
prosperity of the town. Week after
week the editor talks to a thousand
or more people of the community. He
is the molder of public opinion, and
his paper is not alone his own mouth
piece, but the %megaphone of the
whole surrounding country. People
read daily papers that are published
in the large cities for the large amount
of current general news; the local
! paper is read for the little doings in
the locahf field. Rarely does the sub
Scription list represent dollars enough
to pay running expenses. The paper
must have advertising to be a success.
Let it be announced a single time that
there will be al auction sale of John
Jones live stock, agricultural nipple
ments and other wares, and see how
many will be at the auction. This
proves its value Is an advertising me-
dunn. Note the most successful
storekeeper in any town, and you will
find he is the most liberal patron of
the home paper.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
DRESS TRIMMINGS OF BRAlDs
BY Fashions Decree, These Will Orna
ment Spring Costumes.

1t is comforting to learn that braids,
so universally practical as we'll as or
namental as trimmings, are to con-
tinue smart, and that binding braids,
comparatively new, will be much used
this coming spring for tailored cos
tunes.
These binding braids now come in
novelty patterns, and where last sea
son they were plain or in the diamond
weaves, this coming seasons offerings
come in colored, in striped and other
effects. The cords or stripes are so
arranged as to come in the center OF
the braids. This insures the edge APP
smooth as possible, while the center is
rendered more ornamental by the
raised cords or the smooth satin strap
pings.
Another desirable feature of the new
braids is the fact that they have the
double pull edges, making it possible
to adjust them to every curve and
point at a garments edge.
The soutache and radium braids will
be features of the coming spring and
the following autumn as we'll. Radiums
are being manufactured extensively in
Berlin, and as for soutache, it viii re-
tain if not exceed its present fash
ionable vogue.
A strong point in favor of soutache
is that it is no more expensive and
difficult to apply, as compared with
other braids, being generally braided
or embroidered directly on the gown
or wrap, and that it can never become
common, as do too many other at
tractive decorations.
Filet lace and embroideries will con
tinue to be as much worn during the
next few months as ever:- and many
new and handsome patterns are being
imported for the spring season.
In many of them the net is black,
with the embroidery or fine braiding
done in colors.
In the silk embroideries on filet
grounds there are many bands, some
with serrated and many with straight
edges, and fine silk braid, as well as
silk floss, is used in the embroidery.
The Chinese and Japanese and other
Oriental bands, in hand and also in
machine made stripes and bands, are
being imported, and so are the bands
woven to initiate the Oriental EN-
broideries.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06

been jointed here, but replaced by {
knot Of elastic, which gives a life.
like springy motion, without requir.
ing to be manipulated with string.
A pretty Dutch scene could be re.
constructed by taking a similar sub
ject as Fig. II. The Mill Zig. lid
could be fastened to the side OF the
stage, as shown in diagram to repre-
sent the middle distance. The sails,
II fastened on according to diagram,
have only to be touched To be set in
motion. Subjects similar to Fig. l.,
representing the fairy tale of the Prin-
cess of the Geese. will suggest them
selves readily to those who are fond
of telling fairy tales to children.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
Driven Out by Pure Food Law,

During the past half dozen years
there has been a constant cry for pure
food, and this clamor has caused near
ly all the states, and the national gov
eminent as well, to enact pure food
laws. If there has been need for re-
form 1t has been in lettering the
classes of foods which are intended
to feed the millions as well as keep
them in good health, and improving
the conditions under which they are
prepared.
Such frauds had grown up in food
stuffs that it was imperative that
stringent measures be taken to pro-
tect the lives and the health of the
people. Unprincipled persons engaged
in manufacturing of baking powders,
fiavoring extracts, the selling of spices
and coffees and teas, and their prod
ucts were the vilest combinations of
drugs and other materials. These
goods were disposed of to dishonest
grocers, but the chief way of selling
them was through travelling agents,
anu uiloSt ny Hldii' Not IHdHy HlOutHS
ago the pure food department of a
western state secured a shipment of
more than a dozen different articles
of food from a concern that sold it's
products direct to the consumer.
Analysis of all the articles proved
each and every one adulterated. Bak-
ing powder was composed of cheap
-four, starch, tartaric acid and alum;
what was labeled pure spices" con
sisted of ground bark and a highly
concentrated f~lavoring substance. So
it was with all the goods. Since the
pure food laws have been in effect,
many of these concerns have quit
business.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
For Little Folks.

The combination of white hosiery
with black slippers is much seen.
Little girls wear both leather and
beaded kid slippers. Only very wee
tots under five wear stockings and Slip
pers in pale pink or blue.
Wash fabrics lead everything else
for making little party frocks, and
more embroidery than lace is seen.
When lace is employed at all it is
as insertion to set off strips of hand
run tucks or hand embroidery. The
sheer materials, like batiste, Persian
lawn, handkerchief linen, fine Swiss
and French dimity, are much used.
Pique is too heavy for little girls, and
with china silk is quite eclipsed by
materials which tub and take just
a suggestion of starch.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
PLEASURES or FARM LIFE.
Science and Invention RevoIutionize
Methods in Agricultural Districts.

Old-fashioned life on the farm Is
fast disappearing. Things have quick
ened some and science has wrought
changes for the better. Drudgery has
been ~obliterated through improved
machinery and there is no reason why
the farmer of to-day should not lead a
life of comparative gentle ease. In
stead of following the pillow he rides
the pillow. The sowing of the crops
and all this cultivation is done by ma
chinery. 1t Is no uncommon thing to
find the farm house equipped with all
modern conveniences known to the
city folks, gas or electric lights, hot
novation. The telephone and the
rural delivery bring the farm close to
the town, and no longer need the
average farmer be behind the times as
to passing events. He has sufficient
leisure at his home fireside to acquire
a greater fund of information from the
daily papers and other good literature
which he receives than has the busy
merchant or professional man who re-
sides in the city.
This closer communion with the
world at large has revolutionized farm
life and has robbed it of many unde,
sirable phases. No longer does the
farmer feel abashed when among
townspeople on account of his lack of
informatiOn; rather ne is proud of the
fact that he is quite as up-to-date and
well Informed as any intelligent citi-
zen, it matters not where he may re-
side. This feeling on the part Of the
farmer has changed his attitude
towards the home town. He has come
to a realization that the distance be-
tween the farm and the town has been
annihilated and that his work on the
farm is an important thing in the
maintenance of the nearby town. He
is interested in good roads, he is in
terested in all local improvements.
These are matters of Importance to
him just as well as things directly re-
lating to his farm. The farmer is be-
ginning to realize. wen more than the
merchant, the relationship of the agri.
cultural district to the home town.
1t is now up to the residents of the
villages and the small cities to study
into conditions and to place the proper
estimate upon the Importance of the
farmers work in town maintenance.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
Towns and Their Growth.

Say, did you eve think that a town
or city is only what the people make
it? There are dozens Of towns, hun
dreds of them, yes, thousands, that
have been killed off and made
grazing places just because the people
of the place who had in their hands
the direction of it's destiny We're not
of the right spirit. There are exam
pies all around of how a few penurious
mentalities killed off every prospect
of advancement, and prevented some
town becoming a city Of more than
ordinary Importance. 1t is the people
that make a town or build up a city.
Enterprise is what wins. Talk about
one-man towns! Dozens of them can
be named-Anaconda, a city of 5000,
in Montana, was built up by the work
of one man-Marcus DAILY; Jerome,
Ariz., is the work of w. A. Clark, a
multimillionaire who has the richest
copper mine in the world there; Pull
man, H., was built up by George Pull
man, and thousands of other towns
and cities have found their existence
and development through a few enter
prising mortals. Read the census sta
tistics of the United States for the
past ten years; note the advancement,
and then think! Stand up for your
town. A half dozen men with
brains and the will to work can do
nor for a town than a dozen skin
fints who hoard their money and sap
the life out of the poor farmers and
business men who become their debt
ors. Merchants, business men, get
together. pull together, and for the
good Of your town! Tell the world
of the advantages that it offers. Start
enterprises that will employ people.
Work to keep the dollars made at
home. Pick out the ones who send
away for their supplies and persuade
them to patronize home stores. Don't
be niggardly. Work with a will. Get
together and make your town q
good n
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
New Flannel Waist.

The winter has developed a taste
for simple flannel blouses. Two-thirds
of the morning and school garments
shown in the shops are in thin, striped
flannel or sparsely patterned delaines,
which fabrics have a smooth. firm, al
most hard surface that takes the
tailor finish exceptionally well. Also,
though light in weight, these fabrics
are warm and durable. They are
printed or over in all the prevailing
shades, mauve, leaf green, violet and
blues. The figure or stripe appears in
color upon a cream, tan, ecru or mole
ground and, in fancy. waists, the
color is further accentuated by the
addition of buttons, pipings, stitched
bands and braids.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
Pendants Here AGAIN.

Numbers of pendants have come
into use for dress ornament, and
especially for neckwear. Those for
the evening, that is, the most accessible
forms-are little basket forms, jeweled
and set in silver or gold. Many heavy
pendants are seen in Roman designs,
on which the head of some goddess is
worked out in repousse, or in cameo,
or the center is set with a big, heavy
stone. the amethyst being much ia
vored this year. Old and oxidized sill
yer settings are especially fashionable
in such pendants. The chains on which
the latter are hung are all very light.
The nearer they are to a thread the
more fashionable.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06

seriously and have a stock company of
lasting, ~clean-edged shadows should
cut them in zinc, as decorators do
their stencils. II they are to move
they must be jointed as in Fig. ",
which shows how a Gibson girl can be
made to trail and sway rhythmically
across the stage after the manner of
her kind. The limbs are cut off, and q
piece of cardboard being added, they
are replaced with wire and manipulate
ed by means Of cotton or string. kept
In place by little wire hoops, thus pre-
venting the string projecting, and be-
coming visible to the audience. The
cardboard clowns sold in toyshops
which dance and ~gesticulate when a
string is pulled would be of great help
in understanding the mechanism Of
our little shadow figures.
The arrows pointing to the forearm
Of Fig. w. indicate that the arm has
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
CURED HER CHILDREN.
Girls Suffered with Itching Eczema
Baby Had a Tender Skin, Too
Relied or Cuticura Remedies.

Some years ago my three little
girls had a very bad form of eczema.
Itching eruptions formed on the backs
of their heads which were simply COW
cred. I tried almost everything, but
failed. Then my mother recommended
the Cuticura Remedies. l washed my
children's heads with Cuticura Soap
and then applied the wonderful oint-
ment, Cuticura. l did this four or five
times and l can say that they have
been entirely cured. l have another
baby who is so plump that the folds of
skin On his neck were broken and even
bled. ! used Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura Ointment and the next morning
the trouble had disappeared. Nine.
Napoleon Duceppe, Al Duluth St,
Montreal, Que, May 81, 1907"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
OUR COUNTRY BOYS
CHANCES THAT THEY SOME
TIMES OVERLOOK.
BRAINS FOR THE BIG CITIES
Opportunities for the Rural-Born Youth
to Gain Success by Making
His Star. in His Home
Town,

There is no use in complaining be-
cause you perhaps were born on a
farm and fortune destined that you
must get your initi.l business expert
ence in the f~our-corners' grocery
store, or some other business estab-
lishment in the home town. The aver
age country boy has a kind of banker
ing for city life, and for a chance to
climb to the front. Some, however,
never stop to think that if they are
built of the proper material they will
drift there without realizing the
change. Yes, the country town is
the kindergarten of success. and if
you don't make a winning there you
might as well make up your mind to
go back to the pillow.
Business men, much like poets, are
born, not made, and If one has no
the talents requisite for success in
mercantile life, he will have a hard
road to success. Business principles
are the same the world over, and the
little country store affords the gaining
of knowledge that is necessary to the
winner. The most successful mer-
chants in the world gained their start
in the country store. The greatest
statesmen found their ambitions while
following the pillow. Then the country
boy should not be sorry that he is not
in the big city. The one with brains
and ability in these days will win
out. The country is the fertile field
for the growing of brains for city
use. Therein is held in reserve the
energy that goes to move the world of
business. Study into the lives of the
great men of to-day, and you will
find three-fourths of the most sue
cessful mes the product of the farm
and the country town. Then, if you
full, and if you use honest endeavor in
time you will find that instead of you
seeking the city, the city will be seek
Ing you. Merit always finds its re-
ward.
What you learn, learn well. Be
thorough in everything you do. Better
be a good grocery clerk than a poor
lawyer. Better be a good pillow boy
than a poor clerk. Brains backed up
by industry and honesty of purpose
are essential to success. Hours spent
in study of whatever business you may
enter are hours we'll spent. You can
never learn too much, if you only
learn rightly. Ambition is one OF
the things that assists in working
wonders. Have an aim in life, and
let that aim be your Hottest ideal.
Once you decide upon a worthy accom-
plishment never rest until you sue
coed. The small country store or bust
ness place gives splendid opportunity
to study. 1t has advantages that the
city store never affords. There are
spare moments that can be profitably
utilized. Make the best of them,
and remember that a well-stored mind
is great capital in business, and the
talent that enables you to make the
best of what you know is an important
factor. Study, improve every min
ute; don't grumble; keep at work,
and your chance will come.
D. M. CARR.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
Woman's Chief Weapon.

Woman, having no other means at
her disposal for vanquishing and at.
taching men to her chariot-wheels.
has for many long centuries had to re.
ly entirely on coquetry. 1t is not as
tonishing, therefore, that this weapon
is deeply ingrained in the feminine
soul-has become, in fact, an instinct
at once conscious and involuntary
and that it now constitutes one of
woman's most fundamental character.
istics.-The Grand Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-06
Never Disappoints

MANY extensively advertised rene.
dies are failures when put to the test.
Hunts Lightning Oil is an exception.
Confidence in it is never misplaced
disappointment never follows its use.
1t is surely the grandest emergency
remedy now obtainable. For cuts.
burns, sprains, aches and pains, !
know no equal"
GEORGE E. PADDOCK,
Doniphan, Mo.