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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16

in the mining, some of which may also
be stopped. Indeed, all the coal taken
out measures only one-half Of what
might be mined Fully so percent is
lost by improper handling or is left in
the mines, and this loss amounts to
about s1,00O,000 for every working day
of the year. 1t is enough to build a
structure as large and fine as our
library of congress in every one of our
cities Of more than 100000 inhabitants.
The library cost s7,000,0 600. We could
put up 40 such buildings each year out
of the waste coal left in the mines. In
two years we could more than pay for
the Panama canal, and in less than a
decade could lay aside capital equal
to that of the United States steel trust
and half a dozen of our big railroad
systems.
The gross waste in the extraction
and treatment of our minerals in 1907
was more than $500, 000, 900, and of the
400, 900, 900 tons of coal which we an
nua1ly take out Of the earth we leave
another 400, 100000 in such a condi-
ton that it can never be mined.
The worst of this is that it is dead
loss. A bad wheat or corn crop can
be replaced in the year following. 1t
takes thousands of years to grow coal,
and that which we now have is like a
great savings bank of bottled-up pow
er to be used in the future. Every
check we cash reduces the amount OF
the deposit and there is none coming
II.
more and more coal. We now consume
five tons per head. and waste more
than three The proportion of increase
is rapid. and should it continue our
coal will be all gone within a few
centuries.
1t is even worse with gas and pc
troleum. The loss IN natural gas is
more than billion cubic feet every
day. 1t equals 143, 600 barrels Of petro-
leum, or enough to light every city we
nf LOT i0r
Its heat value is about the same as a
million bushels OF coal, and this loss
goes on day after day, year in and
year out There is one well in Ken
poured forth for 20 years. throwing
out into the air fuel which at present
prices would be worth three million
dollars. The loss from petroleum in
leakage and waste is also enormous.
Briquets From the Slack.
DR.. Holmes tells me that the day
will some time come when we will
turn our coal dust and slack into bril-
quets, or coal bricks, which will fur
power than the coal itself. Such bril-
DUETS have been made and used on
the southern railroads showing a
greater efficiency than the same grade
of lump coal from which they were
made. The cost of manufacturing at
present, however, is about 81 per ton,
and they cannot compete with the
lump coal from the mines.
It is different in the Ignite fields Of
the west where the briqueted coal
has a far greater heating value than
the coal itself, and where 1t can be
pressed up for shipment.
There are briqueting plants at the
anthracite mines which are working
over the waste at an exceedingly great
profit. They are washing the culm
grains and pressing them into bricks,
and they are even dragging the coal
grains and slack out of the Susque-
hanna river and putting them on the
market Ninety-six thousand tons of
such coal were taken from the water
last year, and altogether about four
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16

get to quarreling over combs or honey
left exposed when they have nothing
to do. From little carelessness in
this respect. and nothing else, whole
apiaries have been so demoraIized that
people Were stung when passing along
the street several rods distant.
Young Bees at Work.
The first day after the young bee
gnaws It's way out of the cell it does
little but crawl around; but about the
greedily into the cells of unsealed hon
ey, and so on for week or more Aft
er about the first day 1t will also be-
gin to look after the wants Of the
in furnishing the milky food for them.
While doing so a large amount of pol
len is used, and 1t is supposed that this
laryal food is pollen and honey, par
TALLY digested by these young nurses.
Bees of this age, or a little older,
supply royal jelly for the queen cells
which is the same, probably, as the
food given very small larvae. Just
before they are sealed up. larvae to
produce worker bees and drones are
fed on coarser, less perfectly digest
ed mixture of honey and nollen.
Young bees have white. downy look
until they are a full week old, and
continue peculiar young aspect until
they are quite two weeks old. At
about this latter age they are gen.
orally active comb builders of the hive
When week or 10 days old they take
their first flight out of doors We
know no prettier sight in the apiary
than host of young Italians taking
a playspell in the open air in front Of
their hive. Their antics and gambols
remind one Of lot Of young lambs at
play.
1t is also very interesting to see
these little chaps bringing their first
load of pollen from the fields. If there
are plenty of other bees in the hive
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16

energy. Professor Fernald, one of the
, chief engineers of the bureau. COM
housewife, who took d whole barrel of
flour and out of it got only one bis
cult. We are now consuming between
800, 10000 and 500, 600, 900 tons of coal
every year, and our annual coal bill
amounts to something like $500, 000,-
600. One-third Of this goes to produce
power and it is of this that 80 per-
cent or more is lost.
The Age OF the Gas Engine.
In order to cut down this waste Uncle
Sam has been testing out various Goals
and making experiments TO get more
heating station at P,ttsburg, with all
kinds of apparatus for testing the coal,
and he has been making special work
of what are known as the gas producer
and gas engine, which show that we
can get two or three times as much
as we are now doing. The gas producer,
which was tested by the government
at the St Louis exposition, is now so
well known that it is IN use all over the
country, and it is dong much to drive
out the steam boiler. 1t has aided In
the development Of the gas engine, and
today fOur-cycle, twin tandem, dou-
ble-acting engines of 1000 or 5000
horse power can be found in all upto-
date steel plants, and there are some
installations where the engines contain
several units each rated at $500 horse
power.
In the production of gas the coal is
put into what looks like a mighty steel
boiler stood upon end 1t is great
furnace or cylinder of steel. The coal
is put in at the top, which is then
closed and a forced draft soon con-
verts it into gas. There is no smoke
combustion is perfect, and the gas
passes out through pipe into a gas
engine in which it produces the power.
In this process the saving is is great
that a 500 horse power gas engine
will save $4,000 a year in its coal bills
over the same power steam engine, and
the saving on 5000 horse power gas
engine would amount to something like
$4,000 a year. Indeed, the saving is so
great that many OF our factories are
discarding the steam plants and intro
ducing the gas producer. 1t is now
used in the subways of New York and
at hundreds of other stations over the
country.
VIII Turn Ignite to Money.
These improvements in the use of
coal will turn our Ignite into money,
and will add billions Of dollars TO our
national wealth. The Ignite coal is
too poor for profitable use in connec-
ton with steam, but by means Of the
gas producer it will develop as much
power as the Pennsylvania and West
Virginia bituminous coal when used
under a steam boiler. Now we have
150,000.000 acres of Ignite. In North
Dakota alone we have five times as
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16
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/ know womans sufferin1s
have found the cure
! VIII mail. free of any charge my home frest.
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woznan's ailments want to tell an women about
this cure-you, my reader, for yourself your daughter
your mother. or sister. want to tell YOU how
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What we women know from experience we know
better than any doctor l-now that my home treat
Inent IS safe and sure for Leucorrhoea OF
Whttish discharges, liberation, Displacement or
Failing OF the Womb, Profuse, Scanty or PaiufuI
Periods, Uterine or Ovarian Tumors or Orovths :
also pains In the head, back and bowels bearing
down feelings, nervousness, creeping feeling up
the spine, melancholy, desire to cry, hot flashes
WEAKNESS, kidney and bladder troubles Nhers
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want to send you complete ten days treat.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16
Copyright 1911, by Frank G. carpenter.)

~- WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. II
Nf Have just weighed one of my
wv leyelashes. 1t was a little red
hair, half an inch long, and it
tipped the beam al one one hundred
thousands of an ounce The scales
were among those of the laboratory of
the bureau of mines, some Of which are
30 fine that a pencil mark, on a sheet
of white paper, will make their bal
ances wobble Their disks are gold
plated, and the weights are bits of
platinum and platinum wire.
These are among the testing arrange
ments which Uncle Sam is now using to
discover the heat and power values OF
our coal supplies He has all sorts Of
instruments which determine the
amount of moisture and ash in each ton
of fuel, and just how much work 1t viii
de.
1t used to be that coal was bought
upon the reputation of the mine from
which It came. The price was so much
per ton, and the manufacturer or do
mestic consumer thought nothing of
the ashes and moisture Today the
country is fast coming to estimate the
coal by heat units and this is the ba-
sis upon which all government pur-
chases are made. We are now spending
something like $4,000, 900 a year for
the fuel used by the army and navy
and the various government depart
ments, and il is through such tests that
we are saving at least 100000 over the
cost OF the same coal in the past.
The great factories and foundrieS
are beginning to buy their coal the
same way, and the bureau of mines
will eventually be able to show every
man just where he can get his fuel
the cheapest, and what price he should
pay for the kinds needed for his spe-
.cial plant 1t will also give such in
formation that every man who buys
coal for his home will know just what
TO buy, and how TO burn IL to get the
best and most economical heat 1t
will tell you how your coal can be
used TO produce the most power, and
how our fuel supplies, fully one-half
OF which are now going to waste, may
be saved
1esks which Equal Million Dollars
a Day.
How would you like to have one Of
Uncle Sans tax collectors appear at
your bedside every morning all the
year through and force you to pay
him SO? That is the leak which the
United States annually loses from the
waste in its coal, to say nothing Of the
losses in the mining of iron, copper, sill
yer and gold, and other metals of va
ri0us kinds These figures are given me
by DR.. Joseph A. Holmes, the d.
rector of the bureau of mines, who
knows more about our fuel resources
than any other man in the country.
He says that fully half the coal is left
in the mines, and that of the amount
gotten out in the production of steam
we lose from go to IS percent of its
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16


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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16
Our Friends, the Bees
By A. L. ROOT and E. R. ROOT.

Approximately 500, 900 persons keep
bees in the United States and the an
nual output of honey and beeswax is
estimated as worth s22.000,000. One
in this country is that American in
genuity has invented many devices
which simplify the work and enable
the owner at all times readily to as
certain the health of his bee colony.
The following article is from The A B
c and X Y q of Bee Culture" by A. l.
Root and +. r. Root reprinted in the
National Geographic Magazine. The
Root family of Medina, Ohio are prac-
teal apiarists, who have been study
ing and keeping bees for 40 years, and
who have originated many of the
methods and apparatus that are used
Of the world. Their book, which may
be justly called "a cyclopedia of every
thing pertaining to the care of the
honey bee" contains the results of
their long experience and of the OBJ
servations Of tens of thousands Of cor
respondents.
We confess we do not like the term
anger" when applied to bees and it
almost makes us angry when we hear
people speak of their being mad" as
IL they were always in a towering rage
and delight to inflict severe pain on
everything and everybody coming near
them Bees are, on the contrary the
pleaSantest, most sociable, genial, and
good-natured little fellows one meets
in all animated creation, when one un-
derStandS them
We as yet know comparatively very
little of bees. and the more we learn
the easier we find it to be to get along
without any clashing in regard to who
shall be master
There is nothing in the world that
VIII induce bees to sting with such
wicked recklessness as to have them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16
THE ENORMOUS WASTE WHICH BUREAU
OF MINES DESIGNS TO PREVENT

Coal Mining Leaks Which Cost Us Million Dollars a
Day-The Gas Producer Which May Make Northwest
Hum Like Beehive Tu rms Ignite Into Money.
How Gas Plants Will Run the Railroads Mil
lions in SmokeAWhat Chicago Loses Some
Briquet Experiments The Naval Fuel of
the Future How the Government Buys
It's Coal on Heat Tests and Thereby
Saves $1,000 Year
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16

Waste your time
and money on
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and defective op-
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in the end Gull
inmates in death.
when you can be
easily cured OF
all ailments by
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

on wage -carners the necessity for group
thrift.
II will hardly he contcuded that the
principal OF thrift prescrihcs that man
should work under self destructive con-
ditious AS truth, one of the foremost
objects in the working and saving prac-
tiCed by a Wagc-eamcr l. To. hold him
self above grade OF work rate of
pay which should result in aging him
before his time. or I'm iniurinG his health.
or I'm cndaugerug him through accident.
or merely result In finally sending him
10 the poor house. To refuse such work
or paw Is ono Of the factors in n wisely
conducted plan Of thrift. even though re
tusal should entail A spel OF idleness.
In Il trade union tho members es
group pursue such Il psn, AS lndivid-
uals they found tho usual church,
taught scheme OF thrift incomplete. II
broke down in modern economic condl-
tinns Some man or men could sener-
ally be found TO accept work or pay a.
offered Irrespective OF tho hurttul et-
feet on the working class In tho long run,
The precise point at which individual
thrift failed was in the market place Tor
labor. which, especially MS TO unskilled
labor was rs rule ovorstockeo. But
when Tho group of sellers of labor iu the
markctplacc agreed upon the rates and
conditions, that all should prescribe, and
to strengthen their demands held back
their labor together, the principle OF
thrift was amplincd. rcapplicd. and adapt
ed To modern conditions. self help
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

ence Of opinion between employers ano
employees the group Of workers, organ ,
lied for any purpose whatever Snoulu
pass over 10 trade unlonism. Hence
the individual employees. disunlted and
forbidden any form OF group conference
can exercise no freedom In their labor
with just demands 30 matter what may
be their grievances. and can have no
place in solving the perplexing and un-
nvEdabe ppTeems Tifh wniG p1ar Hmona
the aXioms OF the trade unIonists that
have passed into common acceptance
we have these: -unionists never
help TO raise their snopmates pay.
never have an effective voice In fixing
wage scale. never check grinding
employer. never abolish shop tyrannies
reau for their trade never support
working class newspaper. never by a
single joint ondcavor help to break the
servilc bonds OF the feudal system prac-
ticaIIy enforced by dctatorial employ
crs. In none OF the statutory measures
for protecting the wage workers-ren,
women and children-haYe non union
lists had n nand; they created no pub
l!c opinion in their favor and they have
no influence in enforcing them. Printed
from time TO Time In the labor press
are the following claims deserving per
mancnt form on the placards hung In
our union meeting places. But for the
trade unions there would be no eight
hour law: no state arhitra ton boards
spcctors; no widespread discussion OF
workiuR- class political reform; no leg
islutors listening TO militant labor; no
laws on the statute books recognizing
labcr's interests as labor secs them. no
OF the labortnG masses in
their industrial rights. Trade unionists
arc protectors TO the nclplcss non union
lists"
Here then. arc two pictures OF what
fSf rl1 nf
America. dependent upon the ono factor
OF urioniSm or non -unionism. Therefore
let the churchman prepare himself. once
and Tor all TO examine whether these
pictures are faithful. Are they true or
untrue? II he unds them true, or even
for the major part true let him como out
on the union side. To those who dwell (
on the trade unions faults. |
ne should he able to show its undeniable, |
achievements. To those who
argue the benovolcnce of the good old !
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
Pictures by Albert Levering

Cry softly and Father would
Paint vivid Word-Picture of a
wretch standing on the Gallows
with Black Cap over his Head.
Then Edgar would crawl to the
Hay-AIow aud brood over his
Moral lnfirmities and try in a
groplng way to figure out his Re
lation TO Things in General.
But. when Rufus appeared all
dripping with Gore, his Seconds
would cool him out and rub him
with Witch Hazel and pin Medals
on him and indicate TO him on a
Chart the exact latitude and long
itude of the Solar PIexus.
His Parents made the Grave
Mistake Of backing him to the
Limit. They pumped HIM full Of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

ing information that never since
the Morning Stars pulled their
hrst HarE-onieS had there bound
cd into the Arena another such
Prodigy Of Intellectual BriIliancy
and Physical Valor.
Consequently when Rufus hit
the Fresh Air, with the McGuffy
under the Arm, he wore his Chest
about foot in front of him.
He acknowledged with Slight
Nod the Salutation from some
Member of the Town Board.
Edgar, staggering under a Ton
of Restrictive Advice. would spot
Rufus at Distance and sneak
INTO an Alley. because he didn t
wish to get Blood all over his
Clean Waist.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

prayer or an address on the platform OF
one Of the unions represented IN the
General Federation Of Germany would bo
OF unusual significance. 1t would mean
either that the clergyman himself was
Vcnturiug beyond tho sphere OF his duties
as recognized by his church. or that The
church WAS bent ON taking r. step in
advance of tho position IL has custom
arily occupied that In" union was
acquiring III" American spirit % tolerance
TO all religions or Indifference 10 religious
controversies. What is said Of Germany
is TO an extent the case in France, Italy.
Austria and. indeed, most continental
countries.
TO the European visitor, church dole
gates sitting on our trade union c"nNen-
ton platforms each having his oppor-
tunItv Ia turn to make an address I" the
delegates. is a matter not easily under
stood \ Frcnchman, An investigator
representing Il prominent sociological
society OF Paris, ON seeing one OF our
trade union conventions opened with
PRAYER. turned 10 an American companion
beside him and exclaimed 81 had 40 ldea
ylIat American wUTklnGmcn wcr" so deep
" reIicious"" He had caught the notion
from what hD saw win hlS own eyes,
and which therefore must be q tact
siucc our convention WIS initiated ~lth
II religious ceremony ouT members were
united and determined Ia show lh"m-
selves To the world rs defenders ul rclS
ious faith. An Illustration here of the
noint that nm observer. io sec facts a
ihcy arc. must i've equipped with Il tlnowl-
cdg,, CT other facts relating 10 those
which lo witnesses, No matter what
their faith peopl" in America accept ihC
opening prayer as one OF inc lraditloral
features Of tho programme" lor punilr
gatherings I'm" prg:er may b. made bN
a minister a priest. or Il rabbi. ana while
II Is an evidence OF general respect for
alI religions. II does not signify = de -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
He Became as Pugnacious as u s. Grant.

Landscape, it takes moro than
ordinary Doctoring to Cure him.
He left College thoroughly con-
vinced that the World was his
Oyster and that he had an Opener
in every Pocket
He began grabbing Public Ser
vice Utilities by Strong-Arm
methods, whcreupon lot Of Up
liftcrs became excited and wanted
some one else to head him off.
He put things Across because
when he tucked the Ball under
and began to dig for the Goal Of
his Immediate Ambition, all the
Friends of Public Veal were
scared Blue and retired behind
inc ropes.
Edgar took his Degree out into
the Cold World and began to
make apologetic Inquiries regard
ing Humble Employment which
would involve no Responsibilities.
He became an Office Lawyer Of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

the dull gray Variety with spe-
cial Aptitude for drawing up
Leases and examining Abstracts.
He could not face a Jury or
fight a Case because the fond Par
ents had put the Sign on him and
robbed him of all his Gimp.
But Nice Fellow9
You know ~.
Anyone who had Book to sell,
or a Petition to be signed, or a
Note that needed indorsing came
dashing right into Edgar's Office
and hailed him as the Champion
Patsy.
Not one Of these ever ventured
into the Lair Of the Street Rail
way Gar, for he knew that Rufus
might jump over the Mahogany
Table and bite him in the Arm.
Even Edgar, when he made
Business Call on Boyhood Friend
and loving Classmate, was per-
mitted to wait in the Outer Room,
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as a Successful Business Man and
as self-assurcd as a Chautauuua
Lecturer.
Everyone disliked him intense
ly. But just the same they
stepped off into the Mud and gave
him the entire double width of
Cement Sidewalk.
Edgar, on the other hand. was
one Of the most popular Door
Mats that ever had Welcome"
marked up and down his Spinal
Column.
All those who scratched
Matches on him and used him as
q. Combination Hall-Tree and
Hitching Post used to remark
that he didn't have an Enemy in
the World.
They had corralled his Goat. SO
he had to play the Part himself,
IT had been dinged into him
that True Politcness means to
wait until everyone else has been
Served and then murmur few
Thanks for the Leavings.
Besides, his Parents had con
vinced him that if he went Fish
ing he wouldn t get Nibblc, and
if he climbed a Tree he would fall
and break his Leg. and if he tried
to manipulate more than Two
Dollars at one time he would 60
Blink.
Therefore. when both were in
College, Rufus acted as plunging
Half-Back. with Blue Smoke com
ing from his Nostrils and achieved
the undying Distinction of being
singled out by Walter Camp.
Edgar sat up on the Blcachers
with $500 other Mere Students
and lent a quavcring Tenor TO a
Song about Alma Mater,
Even the Undergrads could
not take the Tuck out of Rufus.
He was fresher than Green
Paint and his Work was Raw, but
he was so Resilient that no one
could pin him to the Mat and keep
him there
When a Boy has been told SIT
times Day for many Years that
he is the Principal Feature Of the