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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
MONEY IN CONSERVATION


n Tho First National Conservation con-
gross of8the United States WILDE held,
under the auspices of sthe Washington
Conservation association, and in con-
nection with the Alaska lux on Pacific
exposition, Seattle. Wash. Aug. rs, ~,
the largest and most important gather.
ing of eminent men since the inaugura- =
ton OF the conservation movement. 1t
will be national In every respect and
the results of the congress, will prob
ably form the foundation for interna-
5tional resolutions. as the meeting Will
no doubt select delegates to represent!
the United States at the conservation
Sconference.Sto to be held at The Hague
during the coming autumn. where the.
B ritoblems of conserving the. natural
resources Of the entire Civilized world
Will be considered.
Conservation combines an educational
and financial campaign for preserving,
protecting and perpetual ting the income
producers of land and water. 1T In
cludes irrigation, water, forestry, min
Ing, farming, good roads and other
means for transports ton, pure food.
and public morals as some OF The def =
jects Will be handled at the First Ma
Etional Conservation congress by prac-;
tical men who und erstand the necessi-
ties of the present and the require
ments of the future.
The considera ton of conservation has
Fl PASSED the academic stage and reached
the plane of commercial activity where
it demands a practical solution.
How to$utilize the remaining natural
ffN
insure present and future industrial
prosperity without cndangerins anygof
the legitimate channels of trade, is an
important question This should come
before the people III a national cOnVen-5
ton, for an exchange of rnatured ideas.
and calls for imin,t late action.
The man with money desires to place
1t where am income may Tbe certain re-
gardless OF changing political condi-.
tons The investor must have the
assurance that the natural resources
of a. community will not be wasted in
the coming quarter of q century. before
he purchases 20-year Improvement
bonds of municipality .s
Practical conservation is a financial
question requiring a financial solution.
Waste has entered into the various
avenues of the life of the nation, state:
county and city-and penetrated the
UOitles, On LlleSnIlliipiIllIS OplS-tiie IIEo-
ducers of wealth. Extrayagance has
characterized the utilization of the
gifts OF nature in forest. stream and
field and the natural laws-app licable
everywhere indicate results. In the
payment of penalties. IT nature Is
robbed of her products without annual
remuneration, she becomes non-pro-.
dnctiva In few years, and all her
subjects in the Industrial and financial
world suffer.
The First National Conservation con-
gress will consist of men of national
reputation, drawn from the different
fields of thought and Industry More
than 10000 prominent individuals rep
resenting the nation, state, city and
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country Of activity, have been invited
to participate in that congress. Many
of9our leading men have Wri item letters
of acceptance a.rlo amounted tileirsin-
Etention of being present at every ses-5
Sion of the congress. Nine sessions ale
to be held, and the deliberations closed
with q. religious meeting in which al
I church dignitaries are to unite ant
work for practical conservation
Among those expected to deliver ad.
dresses at the congress are Hon r. A
Rallinger, secretary of the Interior: +
HI. Newell of the rec lamation service;
Clifford Pinchot, chairman Of the john
committee M on conSerVati ton between
states and nation II Booker y. Washing.
Ton of the Tuskegee Institute: Howard
elliott, president of the Northern Pa
.cific Railway company; James j. Hill Of
the Great Northern Railway company
the great railroad builder and western
pioneer in development-and numerous
others from various sections of the
United States.
About 70 colleges and universities
will be represented by their respective
presidents or delegates, and at least
four times as many commercal and
civic organizations. The governors Of
many states. and their conservation
commissions are expected to be present,
and many will deliver addresses 4
The magnitude and Importance of the
conserwaio ion movement is So great that
delegates are to be present from the:
Hawaiian islands and from Alaska ~.
Hon Fl. r. 55Freer, governor of Hawaii,
and Ralph T. Hosmer, chairman of8the9
conservation com mission,s will repre-
sent tho islands, i5s5;s 81
South Carolina and Texas are sending.
delegates across the continent to the
congress. Ks
There is something more than mere.
sentiment behind the movement that
aronses the people Of the nation to such
concerted action. 15verywllere the OBJ
ject lessons Of useless waste have I'M
pressed the financial student witiiat hs
fact that a check must be made in the
downward course to financial bank
rliptcy. It is the time for reforesting
the hills, rest locking the wa ters, and the
replenishing OF the soil elements, in
order that financial prosperity may con-
tinue thro,rgho the coming years.
JOEL SHOEMAKER,
Chairman, Washing ton Conservation
Commission.
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GaTHERED ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF THOUGHT


would i be re-eIected 2 This is the kind
of question which IT does YOU good.
to ask ana answer with linspnrlnK
frankness. 1t iHS one Of the questions
(which make you search Wollr j eart.s
look into the secrets Of your lie, md
bring You face to face with what is
real perhaps most brutnlly real.
whatever gift YOU may py,sses ~ -
these have not been the only factofa
E in your advancement. They have
helped you much or 1T lie. as the Gu SO
may BET vet what YOU are and what
you have, you 0pHe y ny Ia rec ~ TO
the good willard tho good opinion OF
others They ha \, \, accepted s} ; you,
to resign, would they do the same
thing over again! Would your wife
choose you again? Ixamine yourself
closely and see whether you are still
the lover, striving to please. thinking
of all the little things that go to
make up a " ol1al,'s hapr'iln,ess. y YOU.
have MADE your wife dread and fear
YOU, so that she shudders Mt your
very touch, would she again select
you, If once the legal bond between
you could be- severed? Put, then, this
question sharply to yourself IN all the
relations of your life. 1t is grim
task, but nothing is better for you as
ton, and answer 1t with perfect
frankness: i'll resigned, X would 4 be
elected ?---M rnsey' Magazine.
IA Critic Woman has equipped,
or NNonian's herself for the work Of
Clothes. securing equal suffrage,
In fashions SO grotesquei
and eccentric that the monkeys in
densest Asia would, upon viewing
them, retire into their Jungle fastness-
es and hold their sides in unextin-
guishable laughter. 1t. would be in-5
steresting to know why woman has;
chosen just this psychological moment
for bursting into a hysteria of clothes
and why she should prefer to stand
before the world s low footlights pro-
claiming her complete fitness for
larger responsibilities with all the ap--55
pearance of a daughter of BE diam.
A few years ago, she rather adopted
styles Of q stern and practical mascu-
Unity, short skirt coat, shirt with stiff
collar. her brothers. necktfe, a severely
tailored hat and stout boots; but the
pendulum has swung to the other ex-s
IRENE OF the arc. AT the moment when
she is more unfettered in thought
than ever before. she chooses to be
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THE NEGRO QUESTION.

A GORE spondent writing from fDe
witt. iowa, suggests as q solution Of
the negro question that the blacks be
given an opportunity to establish them
selves in this country in the territory
described as follows:
| start, let us say n little east of New
Orleans, and so to a point north below
| VicksburS or Jackson. Miss; now cast
| a iittlt, below Montgomery, AL; Column
| bia Georgia, to a point In Macon or
| farther east; now turn south to Sedar
| King or further down Florida. and
| there will be a piece of territory 100
miles north and south and 300 miles east
| and west This piece of land IL good
| for farming and it will have Mobile for
a Capitol city. with a good hal.bor to the
west, and H'al,arrahasse, another town
| in Florida, to the cast
BY making this black belt the nc
groes in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee,
| and North and South Carolina would
novel into it, he thinks Acommittee of
! whites and blacks should be appointed.
he suggests. to value all property north
/ and south, and a fair exchange might
be made between the blacks moving
Einto and the whites moving out of the
4 new black district. He says:
The land IS good farming land with
i sufficient Wood and millions of acres of
government swamp lands. 1t could not
/ he expected to give the negro a 1860
acre homestead but Just so much that
/ he can make . liying-same as il he
1 WAS working for wages. Lots of fam
lilies make living off of three or fDnr
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As DOVES AND EAGLES.

ID b p. L L ~ ID .
8 More than $500 years ago "a Hebrew
prophet, looking into the far future,
and speaking of the diffusion of INTEL
5ligence. asks; WHO are they that ny.
as cloud, and as the doves to their
Mindows?' isaiah 6O;s1 The same
prophet says that those who wait upon
the Lord shall mount up with wings
as eagles" (Chapter i0:31.y
Until recently these prophetic ut
teHinces appeared CO mere figures of
speech, beautiful and expressive, hut
without any possible literal applica-
ton. Today human intelligence, human
inventive genius. has given an en-
tirely new Significance to the words OF
the seer. The time is AT hand when
human beings mount up with wings
as eagles" when they fly las dnvas 10
their wlndows.'' The ancient prophecy
is about to receive Il literal fulflment
Only the other day the dispatches
announced the successful crossing 81
the English Channel by NJ. Bleriot In
an aeroplane. 10 those VINO witnessc,
this flight it must have conveyed ~
Impressive lesson. 1t must have beer
With feeling of awe that the inhabi
5tal,ts Of the little English seaport say
this visitor from a foreign countr,
come out of the mists. over the waves
through the air. and alight like a Dir,
Z among them. They must have rehecte
on this miracle and seen in it the be
ginning OF. Il new chapter iii the world,
history.
1t Is Wonderful how the good oil
book. which some have declared OF
solste, proves itself st,ead Of the tim
rs in every age IT was writtnn dnrir
series Of centuries BY authors rel
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
TiIE NEW RELIGION.

1Nf, have not vet seen the iull teNeo
az president Eliot's discourse on tne
religion of the future, some aspects -
which we commented on week. ago,
y but tie notices Of the press ana y
the minister's continue to convey adal-
t,onal8 inforna don as 10 this noted edu-
rato,,s ideas OF what the new religion
Will be. -.
one critic points out that MI Eliot
really denies the divinity OF ehr's'''
when he says that There VIII pc ny
detfication of remarkable human pc
iness Il, this religion that Is 70 come ONE
IL Nv that sentence Mr. Eliot really
means that the Savior was only q re re
,,1afkable human being. then ne ieH
means to deny all that makes most
psople believe in christianity as a Dir
.vine revelation to mankind u on the
Other hand, he refers only to the can
6s onisation Of the early Fathers OF tne
e7hurch or ID the worship of Mary
then he states merely the present ~.
tituse OF the Protestant churches on y
3 this Issue. Taking the former as per
Il hans the more Y probable meaning or
q Mr. E1iet's remarks, 4 I Is clear that tii ''s3
Learned professor has, by his reactlotl
\ against some of the absurdities OF ING
81 r,ipra ut formulne sof religious belief IN 4
y the Christian world, gone to the eN-'s
IRENE OF Voltaire. who likewise ner
lieycd + Iii the revelation of.sss9iod as
found lin nature. g.. S5
n he re-
&li--tan will not be based upon author
Z ity seems strangely inconsistent VIII
another statement, made IN the saine@
address. that 1t will be based on the
st,yn commandments OF loving God ana ailc
4onas neigh Dor.
But commandments imply authorlts.a
whose commandments If not those OF I
{ Jehovah, does the learned man n have N
mind? Many non-G Christ ian WRITER'S Hsss 4
( have worshiped God in nature ana and
have found in certain deductions from
Che observed fact of the reign OF law 4
in the world of matter some basis 10y q
observing justice toward others pue,i
these teachings are by no means clear
ar definite yet when IL person speaks
r of "a coillinallu+l ~ y w. = 80
gnag e certainl " savofs more o. Wy W.
rect rho'l3i shalt not A q Nloses Y. ~
the Thou q s'hilst tl,ai, y uos'
Snrly supposed viosatioits ~ ..ie
* disscrniple commands 49, .H'
J. DE found IN the laws 81 tlatute .',
III any such comma ia = -
found clearly EXPRESSED ~ .f'e' NV : -
IL A u
the flatnra @Moritl, .i.es ".
an authorlts 70 ~ o'es ~
as much = Inc one tl.aNs seems
3tiona bio to- ~ Is, silol =.
the Professor would mercy NJ supse1'u.s
one authority Tor anot1cr tie Nuul.'
not abolish but Y l1'e ''s.suto5
and source OF $reil slon aiia a y
from Sod OF 2 y "
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cIl1NA's GREAT WALL.

X l5.l a y ~ y3f ~ =, H.
Reference is made elsewhere on this
page to China's great wall. 1t Is.
claimed that this wonderful structure
was reared In ten years, and that it
was finished EOS years before our era.
,I'wenty-one centuries have Ind scar car
4cely any. effect upon it. 1t is as en-
during as The pyramids Equipped
with modern artillery and manned
With soldiers armed and drilled in the
modern manner, it would be as impreg-l
rable as the day it was flushed.
The projecting masses of stone and
brick which form It's huge buttresses
are alone estimated to contain more
material than all the dwelling houses
in Great Britain. Careful calculation,
long ago demonstrated that the Chinese
wall contains more material than Is
sufficient to cover the entire gscircuin-l
ference Of the carthSon two of its cir
cles with two walls each six feet high
and two feet thick. tits nearly fifteen
hundred miles long, and Is carried over
the highest mountains, the deepest vail.
leys, across wide rivers and over all.
manner of obstacles. 1t Is q greater
wonder than any of the so-called
Seven Wonders of the World. z II
surpasses not only by its immensely.
but by the ingenuity of its engineering
devices and it's marvellous stability eve
rY other effort Of human labor.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

A Washington dispatch describing tho
presentation of the report of thu con-.
ference committee on. the tariff bill to
tho House by Chairman Payne, says:
S"trhere was a general scramble at the
Capitol for copies of the bill as finally
agreed upon" The tariff bill has been.
prolific Of scran,bles from the day of
its drafting to the day of Its compile
ton ~
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

lex Americana and the angel child"
are onspieuously absent from the dues-
tioning and arguments in the Thaw
proceedings this time.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

A white man can be black hearted
and a black man white souled. Odd,
isn't it?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Latham and Wright to race at Seat
tie il aeroplanes. For Latham, judg-
Ing by his past experience. it would
simply be race suicide.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

II is useless to tell a man not to put
all his eggs in one basket; he can't get
the eggs to put in.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Policemen who are up to snuff do
not use nose pinchers with which to
pinch pickpoclSets.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

The tariff conferees heard the voice
or the master and promptly came tc
time.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Senators and representatives have
learned that a wiful man inauns lla his
wilful way as well as a wlful woman.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

To two morning contemporaries that
are In an unseemly quarrel over the
looks OF men, we would suggest that
pretty is as pretty does.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

The automobiles go SO fast that retri-
button never overtakes the reckless
chauffeur.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

How much will free hides increase the
cost Of shoes to the ultimate consum-
err?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

"A boy learning to chew tobacco al
ways bites off more than he can chew
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

y The motor cycle IS the wheel to which
the boy. is ambitious to put his shoul-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

"A blind man may have sound views.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Pulliam is dead but baseball lives.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

An old mans real darling is the cir
Gus. f
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Spain being in the throes OF reyolu-
ton, will the throne be overthrown?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

All who eat late Strawberries bite the
dust. i.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Mr.. Taft always did have q winning
smile.
Distance does not lend encbantments
Ito the llypnotist
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

The President did not say Burn this
letter" although it was hot stuff
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He who. kicks and runs away, may.
live to Kick another day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

K Better to be thrown into the shade
than to the sidewalk
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

The original end seat hog was made
from a rib OF pork.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Envy is the cause of half OF the dis
likes of people for people.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

No one ever saw. a hobo using a hoe.
and no one ever will.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

Don't5judge others by yourself. Call
in Il jury to help you,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-10-28
RoxRuRY
cry

Mrs.sJ. w. Howe and Miss Mertie vis-
tied relatives in West Brookfeld Satur-
day.
Miss Jessie Stanton and Miss Francis
Hanlon were Ia Burlington Friday to at
tend the teachers convention.
Harry Richardson OF Norhfeld Falls
visited Mr.. and Mrs. n. A. e. Richard-
son, his parents, from Saturday till Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. F. johnson and son,
Harold, OF Barre were guests at n. d.
Rice's and B. F. Boyd's from Friday till
Monday.
Mrs. W. e. Squire and Master Lloyd
were guests at M. II. Richardson's from
Wednesday till Saturday. They also Wis
tied other friends during their stay here.
The trains Saturday and Monday
brought large number Of huntsmen, be-
sides men and women who came to town
by teams and afoot and are boarding or
camping. The woods have suddenly be-
come thiekIy inhabited. Clarence Booth
Of Randolph has captured d deer on Cram
Hill; Alfred Flint is reported to have shot
one, also Glenn Erskine. These are all
that have been reported In this vicinity
up to this writing, Monday night.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-10-28
EAST eRooKFIELp

Mrs. Emily Reed has returned home
from Randolph.
George Adams OF New Haven has been
visiting his sister, Mrs. A. ID. Reed.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Bigelow were in
the east part OF the county last week.
Mrs. W. II. Medcalt was in Randolph
Sunday to see Der son, E. L. Marshall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Brown OF Lowell,
Mass, are visiting ct V. B. Carpenters.
Fred Edwards and friend of North
Ferrisburg are visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. Everett Lane and daughter, Ger
trude, are in Randolph and Barnard for a
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. @. Harrington and
Mrs. J. II. sprague have returned from a
visit in Boston.
Services we're resumed at the church
last Sunday, Pastor Strong occupying the
pulpit after a three weeks vacation.
There was no school last Thursday and
Friday. the teacher, Miss Bower, attend
ing the teachers convention in Burling-
ton.
The Ladies' society win hold a Hallow-
cen sociable Saturday evening, Oct. 80.
Harvest supper will be served. A liter
airy program, assisted by Mrs. Oliver
Dickinson OF Williamstown, will be Civ
en-. All come.
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sRAINTREE

Discount on all goods at the Thomas
store.
Richard Jacobs has gone to PittsfeId to
work.
E. Dickerman has shut down his mill
for the present.
Thad Markham of Roxbury was at the
Inn over Sunday.
Walter Archer shot doe Monday on
his way home from Granville.
Lewis Bates has returned from Mont
pelier and Roxbury and is stopping at the
Inn.
Mrs. wiIired Raymond and daughter,
Gladys, returned home from Roxbury
Saturday.
Mrs. Jerome French and Miss Olive
Gushea we're in Randolph "Wednesday Of
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everal Farr of Granville
we're at his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Farr, Saturday.
Charles GiIhouse OF New York city is
boarding at the Inn for few days, the
guest OF Walter Archer.
Mrs. Lewis Durham and children OF
White River Junction are visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Durham.
Those having registered at the Inn re-
Gently are:-walter WEIGH, Bethel, P. c.
Brown, Warren, Jack Gasselyn, Montpel-
Ter. Frank Hatch, Carroll Wadleigh,
Charles Hutchinson, Randolph, A. 8.
Chamberlin, St. Adams, Or. Scott, Mrs.
Paul Wagner, Randolph, NJ. r. Ransom,
Jamaica, n. L. Sargent, White River
Junction, Robert Murphy, Barre, Charles
Gilmore, New York city, Fred Wagner,
Bakersfield, Theo Wagner and Mr..
Campbell, st. Alhans, Lucius Webb,
Granville, Thad Markham, Roxbury,
John Dubois, Randolph.
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EAST RANpoLPH

Kerosene oil, Toe. gal, for week be-
ginning Oct. 20. A good time to stock
up. sprague sprague-
H. r. Sprague went to Boston last week
on business.
Mrs. Leon Blanchard Of Boston visited
friends in town last week.
Miss Dolly Bennett has gone to Boston,
where she will visit several weeks,
Mrs. Marosa Smith returned from her
visit in Ludlow, Mass, last Friday.
Miss Beth Heath attended the state
teachers convention at Burlington last
week.
RoIla TiIton Of Williamstown has
moved into the tenement over the meat
market.
Mrs. George Rogers and Mrs. Sawyer
OF Norwich visited at George Brigham's
and Gilbert BlaisdelI's last week.
Mrs. A. q. Osgcod and daughter, Miss
Elsie of Randolph, visited at the home Of
her father, DR.. George Davenport, part
OF last week.
@. M. Sprague, who has spent the sum
Iner with his cousin, Mrs. w. Morrill,, re-
turned to bis home in Grundy Center,
L., this week.