Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-02-13

The gentleman exists to help; he
has no other vocation.-T. T. Munger.
We cannot teach truth to another.
ilea.
No matter about yesterdays short
comings; today is yours.-Annie II
Ryder.
Health Is the greatest gift; con.
tentedness the best riches.-Dham-
mapaha. "
Truth is structure reared on the
battlefield Of eontending forces.-Dr.
| Winchell.
The mind ought sometimes to be
diverted. that 1t may return the bet
ter to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Ihere are more opportunities than
there are young men to take advan.
tage OF them.-James J. Hill.
quickly make up other peoples
minds fer theme. Lorimer.
In the hour OF adversely be not
without hope, for crystal rain falls
from the black clouds.-Nizalni
Truth. like cork. will be uppermost
al one time or another. though kept
down In the water.-Isaac Taylor.
Leisure for men of business, and
| business Tor men of leisure, would
| cure many complaints.-Mrs Thrale.
Keep the heart afar from sorrow,
| and be not anxious about the trou.
bic which is not yet to come.-Ffr.
Quasi.
IL is great service to create an
honest smile as we meet one another
In this heavy-laden world.-Rev r.
Young.
AS concerns the quality OF what is
TO be read. there IL a single rule:
read much; but not many works.-
w.
Foodmakers' Tricks. .,
They Adulterate barley meal with
oatmeal and oats with chan. They
put metallic silver In candles and Klu
ooSe In jellies and preserves. For.
eiEn cream" cheeses are made OF
American skinned milk. Artifcialiy
colored alcohol-Rlcohol Is a food
conveys It's wicked nourishment In
bottles labeled "choice Canadian vh,s.
ky" The household havorinR extracts
are tinted with coal tar dyes. ESs
custard powders appear dried with.
out eggs. Twopound cans OF tomatoes
weigh one and half pounds. and
| brands OF condensed milk are found
20 per cent short OF their labeled cor
tents. In "spring water" are microbeA
OF disease. Nut shells and fruit pita
are fed into the pepper grinder.
Strychnine is put In gin, lead chro.
mate In coffee and atropine in castor
oil. These things still 70 on, as the
pure food officials In WashinKton
testify. UnderweishinE, misbrandirR
and adulterating are ancient customs
Of the foodmakerB known OF yore. Rut
there Ia an observable difference be.
tween the olden and the modern
methods Of dealing with the evils. In
federal, state and municipal oflcea 1.
lodged the definite evidence upon ape.
cific cases, and there iB q record NJ
convictions. The old tricks are yaried
with new "dodges" of the law. But
the subterfuges arc no longer porma.
Asnt shelters.-New York Times
Re.maklng OF Our Bodies.
From the fact that every few years
we get a perfectly new body through.
out from the continual dying OF old
body cells and new cells taking their
places. thus constantly giving our.
selves an entirely new living mantle
OF flesh, II not now Identity, that
which seems surest and most secure
to our faculties really waves and
fuctuates with treacherous changes,
and we ourselves slide away from our.
selves and are none the wiser. While
the spirit or inner man stays unchang.
cd In the midst OF all this hourly shift
and change like lighthouse In n
whirling change Of sands and waters,
the mind alone OF all the man has the
power Of being constant. Strange we
cannot make n sing thing vet
we ourselves are ~ n form
Of reconstruction and T. ~ aoc.
ond and all The time
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