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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
NO. PSI
SHARPENING SENSE OF SMELL
English School Monitor Discovers
Way to Increase Sensltiveness
Of Olfactory Nerves.

Woman's sense of smell is we'll
known to be sharper than Is the
sense OF smell In man. broadly speak
ing. disrcgarGlng occasional varia-
uons in individuals. But mans in
Genuity has enabled him to offset this
defect In most simple manner.
In certain English boys school, a
man monitor has charge OF rooms
and dormitories, reporting upon sur.
reptitiously introduced wines, ales
an6 tobaccos. Cigarettes are tabooed
without chance OF apology. To dis.
cover these odors has been one OF
the prime duties OF the monitor. And
IN doing so he has chanced upon a
most effective scheme.
lie carries with him on his rounds
glass CT water. Entering q room
where suspected odors may be in
nasal evidence. he dips a finger in
the water and moistens his nostrils
freely. In n moment the odor OF stale
tobacco or of ales or wines strikes
his olfactories with hammer blow.
In explanation the monitor says that
as the sense OF taste is slight un-
less the substance be in solution,
either through water or by mastica-
ton. II occurred to him that his sense
or smell might be Quickened by q
watcred nose. He says that he can
discover I'm strong degree odors that,
without wetting tho nose, are imper-
ccptiblc.
What do you know about that?
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
SAVING A DOLLAR A WEEK
deposited In Savings Bank for
Twenty Years, II Will Have
Increased to $1,612.

1T is mighty hard" said an nm.
fortunate workingman some time ago
to the writer. TO save up n thousand
dollars by laying aside dollar or
TWO week and then To take It out
OF the savings bank and lose it TO a
getrich-quick swindlcr, as have lust
uohe. This poor fellow could work
anu save, but he had not had even a
kindergarten education In finance,
else his story would have been dir,
ierent- lie had never given Il thought
To interest. and so was absolutely ig-
norant OF growth through compound
= interest, and OF course had never
heard oil that wonderful process of
accumulation known MS progressive
compound interest"
One dollar deposited I'm Il savings
bank that pays four per cent will
amount OF $2.l9 in twenty years This
Is simple compound interest. Now
II you deposit one dollar every year
Tor twenty years, or $50 in all, the
sum To your credit will have grown
to $@O.9I. Any waGc-Carncr can put
Dy one dollar week. That money
deposited In savings bank for TWEEN
ty years will have Increased to
$l,6l2. a deposit OF five dollars a
week VIII have grown to $4,000, and
this at four per cent. will be $500 a
year There is no secret, no mystery
about this. 1t Is clear as the cloud.
less sun and the method is just as
clean and honeSt.-ChriStian Herald
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
One Man Complies Dictionary


Inc giving Of civil list pension 0f
ABOUT $500 year to Even MacDon.
aid, oi Hcrne Bay. Kcntish coast
resort OF England. has drawn atten.
ton to the fact that this man has So
cured this official recognition for his
work In compiling and printing Gao.
lie dictionary. It IL onc.man die.
uonary. Mr.. Macdonald has not only
personally compiled and verified cy.
cry word himself. noting local varla.
tons. but has drawn practically ev.
cry Illustration, SGT the type. cast and
made his n@n plates. printed. trimmed
and bound the pages. anc matted the
parts, as they were produced. To the
subscribers. Fourteen years have al.
ready been spent In the work, and IL
all goes we'll. the "FacIair GhafdIIne"
VIII be &omplcted by the end Of this
year IL will contain more than l.,
oOo.OOO wcrhs.-POpular Magazine
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
100000 5eggars in Gotham.

One hundred thousand bcggars. Of
whom 5000 are professionals. inrcst
New York city. tho worlds richest
rity. at present. according to Charles
Blatchly. superintendent of the
Joint Application Bureau of the Char
ity Organization society This means
that vagrancy II more widespread I'm
New York than ever before, present.
ing a situation that Is Yiewcd with
considerable apprehension james
Forbes. secretary Of the National As
s0ciation for the Prevention Of Men.
delaney. estimates that the 5000 pro.
fessionai beg8ars easily average s. n
day. The 10000 others probably
average 81 day. so that the metrop.
oils pays daily vagrancy toll ~
money alone Of close to s150.OOO
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
WESTERN PACIFIC TIME CARD

A new time card will go into
effect tomorrow on the Western
Pacific by which the trains will
arrive and depart as follows:
West bound: No. | arrives at
ii 80 p. m. departs at 1901 a. m.
West bound: No. 8 arrives at
9:25 a. m and departs at 9:35 am.
East bound: No. 2 arrives at
8:l5 a. m. and departs at 1925
q. m.
East bound: No. arrives at
1872 p. m. and departs at Typ
p. m.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
HIS ESCAPE WAS EXPENSIVE
H'obe'Trotter HaskIn Keeps Store.
Keeper Good Natured While
Chinese Mob Waits.

frederick J. Haskin, gIobe-trotter.
man OF the world and humorist, on
one occasion struck Shanghai when
the feeling among the natives was
strohS against Americans. The peo-
pie OF the Celestial empire were boy.
cotting American goods and stoning
Americans whenever they could get
away with Il.
llhakin was warned not to take any
risk
These people won't bother me-"
ne remarked airily. If any OF them
tries to hurt me. I'll hand him a swift
wallOp under the chin"
Ten minutes after he left his hotel
he was hotfoot:ng it down the street
while gang of Chinese used him as
target. and peltIng him with any.
I! ing they could lay hands on. Final.
~. ont OF breath. and looking like a
cyclone 'ictlm. he ducked into a store.
The mob waited for him with admir-
able patience. At the end OF eyery
iitecn minutes the traveller would
ask the owner OF the store:
Are they still there?"
They were there
Then. Just to keep his savior in
good humor. ilaskin would make a
purchase lie started out on a $40
oVercoat. but the mob waited so long
that no dropped I'm his expenditures
until the articles he bought were
worth only dollar or two apiece.
u" was imprisoned for half a day
end the price OF his escape was near.
Iy $2OO.-Twicc-a-Month Popular.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
Lightning Rod investigation.

There has always been more or less
controversy as To the efficiency of the
lightning rod, but this matetr Is likely
To bc settled nj no distant time be.
yond all question of doubt. The au-
thoritics of the University of Illinois
have undertaken to do this and have
been at work on the problem for some
time. Last summer some valuable
experiments were conducted but the
results were not entirely satisfactory
for tie lack Of suitable apparatus.
During the coming summer the work
VIII be continued on a very elaborate
basis The use Of an open field has
been secured for the entire season
and the Investigation will be contin-
ued during the entire season in which
thunder storms may be reasonably
expected In this field twelve 40foOt
poles have been erected. Six OF
these are equipped with devices for
registering the effect OF lightning
strokes at or near the poles There
Is series Of spark gaps with induc-
ton. resistance and capacity figures,
80 that the lightning may jump across
the gaps or pass arO"nd thIsdIgh
Rhunt circuits Any action due to
lightning will be recorded on u NOV.
Ing strip Of paper driven by clock
work 30 that the exact time Of tho
electrical discharge can be told from
the record. Three Of the poles knye
been equipped with sharp needle
points and three with brass balls.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
DOGS EYE GRATED ON MANS
American ocuIlst Restores Lost Sight
by Performing Wonderful op-
Grafton.

That person totally blind from
oDhthalmia, even from birth, can be
made to SEQ by having portion OF q
dogs eye grated on his own was the
startling communication made by Doc.
tor BOrsCh, an American oculist Mt
present In Paris, In paper read be
iorc tho meeting of the French Oph.
thalmin society n few days ago.
Doctor lsorsch explained that as n
result OF blindness from ophthalmia,
as also from somo other cnuses. the
cornca, which Is the transparent mem.
Drane In front OF tho eye, becomes
Opaque and In such Il case the only
chance OF restoring sight Is to replace
the defective cornea by healthy one.
TO perform this feat, DR.. Borsch
first operates on n dog and lays back
from It's eye tho conJunctivoa or skin
of the cycball surrounding the cornea
IIo removes u portion of tho latter
and places II aside I'm blood serum.
flo then performs the same operation
on the patients eye. removing part OF
'ho front OF the eye Of the samo size
ms the cOrnca. taken from the animal.
Tho dogs cornca IL now placed in
position on tho human eye and So
cured with stitches Of tho finest pos
slhlc silk. tho surrounding skin, which
had been laid back, being brought into
place over tho edge Of tho cOrnoa and
also sewn.
The new graft unites with the eye
In fcw days, aided by temporary
glass cover to keep II In shape and
injections OF serum to stimulate vital.
fly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
u Waa mInucIun Chcnnn

\ young married woman IN Cherry
V"!o asked the polite Ral"amnn n ho
he'd good cheese we have some
lovely cheese" was the smiling ans.
"cr. You should not say lovely
cheese" she corrected why not7
II is." hc declared 1Iccnusc"-with
boarding school dignIiy-"lovely
should be used TO qualify only some.
thing that rs alive" "WclI," he said,
"I1l stick 10 lovely. -Cherryvals
Han) Journal
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
Nomcn Should JuIuc

Six men In Hartford. Conn. formed
the jury I" dccics whether lady'q
dress III property or not. Naturally.
tn" women say that no man IS com
pcicnt 10 judge Of such things. anG
thai IN" jury should have been com.
posed Of six women. TInt. according
TO Mrs. Caroline f.. COrhin, tho men
were doing their "G0h given" duty and
the jury room ~ =" place Tor women
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
Punlshed for YawnInn

when Henry Brown OF BrOCkton.
Mass.' awoke the other day he yawned.
tried to close his mouth and could not
lie had fractured his jaw with his
mouth wide open he walked more than
mile TO pbysicians Office and had
me fracture reduced As he Sas
leaving the Office his Jaws unlocked
again Finally be was placed under
ether and the jaw permanently fixed
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
WARMING

All hunting, shooting and fish,
ing in what was formerly knowr
as the Dcwar field is strictly for.
biden. Trespasscrs will he
punished according to law.
GrisWold & Henderson
ElkO, Nevada, August %. 1911
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-26
Ambiguous.

When bob" lEurdcttc vas address.
Ing the graduating class of a large
eastern college for women. he BEGAN
his remarks with the usual salutation,
Young ladies Of 81" Then In a hor.
rihed aside he added. That's an awful
age for girl"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-02-16
StcCiOn recrcatlVa
COLoRINE,s

Anuella maflana don Bias, ell boblca
rio de un pueblo de Aragon, estaba
contentisimo. Habia llegado su po
der I'M especffsco sin rival Ell gran
-confortador, regenerador de la huma
nidad por dentro y por fuera- Segnn
1 prospecto que envolvla La caja en-
uue iba ell especlfco, hastabale un
bizco tomar dos pastillas eonfortadoras
nara poder mirar derecho- Los gfbosos
Sc enardecian usando aqnelhas; los Il
.scos Sc robusteclan; los deshauclados
yolvian 4 la vida con mas brloS que
munca hasta huho decreplto mona
genafio cue la quinta pastilla lie bro
faron los dientes y pidio una nlnera, y
no Sc la dieron (Segufan muchas flr
mas
Todo este ocurr1a Ell los Estados Unl
dos. por supuesto Ell especifico era
yanqui del tode.
Con pulse tr6muIo abri6 Ia caJa don
Bias Rodeandole el resuello estaban
la boticaria, los boticarios hlJos, dos
chicos desgrenados, de cl1lco cuatro
amos. la criada ell perro. Todos los
ale la casa
-Aoui esta la mitad de la base de
auestra fortuna-pronunclo emoclona-
a]o don Blas-La otra mltad negara
pronto de Chicago Ell forma de otro es
pec{fco
Lastima cue no sepamos el idioma In
giles
Y Sc quito el gorro y Sc santiguo
IA yer! A yer !-diJeron todos.
i uau !-ladr0 Ell perro, como 81 tam
bien qrisiera manifestar su curiosldad.
Els gorda -dijo Ia boticaria.
Y no NAL parecida ,-agrego la do
anestica.
i Damelal lDamela gritaron los
Hhicos
i Guau! iGuau .-argullo ell perro,
uue tenia bastante confianza con sus due
mos
(Continuara.)
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-02-16
cLAsxE De LARoETs

Costurs, tapiceria, encsjss. tOrdadss
n cro, kiografis, sedas, etc.
hp este scrediiado planisl de snss-
ANA ss instruye las alurnss en- q
'obisrno interior de una casa y % -
sassha toda slase de ofeios dcmsstssN
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-02-16

Dbujo, pin,urs, taquixrasIs. rnsss1
oiIls y sonfecci6n de flores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
BowsER's TENDNR HEART.
1t Beats for Two Tramps. but Only for
an Hour or So.

Mr.. Bowser was within few steps
of his gate, as he came from the Of
fee the other evening, when two
tramps who had applied at his base
ment door and been turned away,
passed him. AS they did so one of
them said:
"Jim, it's the river for u.s."
Sure" was the reply of the other.
1.-THE whole world is agin u.s.
'And we might as well de-
Mr.. Bowser carried their lonesome
words with him through the gate, up
the steps and into the hall.
''Well, your dinner waits for you,"
said Mrs. Bowser.
"Humph! Were you downstairs
before 1 came in +"
Eyes. Two old tramps were impu-
dent to the cook, and ] went down to
tell them to take a walk or ia have
the police after them. One of them
called me Molly dear I wish you
had been here"
Mr.. Bowser said no more until they
were seated at the dinner table. Then
he assumed his most solemn look and
said:
MRS. Bowser, I want a long talk
with you this evening"
VERY well, but what about?"
tsHave you any idea how fast crime
is increasing in this country?"
81 have seen no statistics"
''Well, can give them to you. The
increase per year is 10 per cent, and
our criminologists stand appalled, when
they try to figure where it will end
st. can't see why folks can't behave
themselves"
at can tell you why they can't 1t
is because such folks as you drive
them to desperation You send men
away from the door every day who
can't be lawabiding and suffer with
hunger at the same time"
'I do nothing of the kind" said Mrs.
Bowser, with a good deal of spirit. eff
you refer to those two tramps who
were just here, let me tell you that
they wanted money instead of food"
'sAnd you refused them even a
nickel apiece, and for the want of it
they must make their beds in the snow
tonight
But when gave q tramp 10 cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

privileges Of the loans are extended
to any girl who needs help in complet-
ing course of study in any school
which is preparing her to be self-sup-
porting, or for that matter in the fiIl-
1shing of a general education, SO long
as the fund lasts.
The work that the club designates
as "civics" includes a humber of
branches OF work. The particular
reason for specializing in this line. was
the call for help IN stamping out
tuberculosis. Mrs. Goddard and her
assistants are conducting an educa-
tIonal campaign, and in addition to
this, they prepare the people of the
various towns for the lectures that are
given by speakers who travel about
from place to place over the state, with
their speeches, illustrations and litera-
ture. Just before such a lecture is to
be given in town, the club women
visit the ministers of the community
and ask them to give an address before
their congregations on the subject of
tuberculosis, and in other ways. they
arouse the interest of the neighbor-
hood in the fight on the disease In
addition to this Cleanup dav has
been appointed in various towns over
the state, when litter, rubbish and dirt
is gathered up and destroyed. The
school children have been enlisted in
signify their office as cleaners. Mrs.
Goddard says: ST have never seen
such clean streets, yards and door
ways. and such tidy villages and
towns, as are to be found in Kansas,
from one end of the state to the 9TH
er, since the Inauguration of this novel
way of civic housekeeping" The chill
dren are enthusiastic about their part
in it, and thus, while they are doing
the work of making a clean city and
removing the evidences of sIovenly
habits as well as clearing out the
lurking places of disease germs and
fly and mosquito breeding places, they
are also learning lessons of civic
pride, careful habits. hygienic princi-
pies and public spirited unse1fishness
The clubs are also taking an interest
in the matter of social hygiene. This
work consists in the preparation of a
series of pamphlets to be distributed
for study to the club women This
literature aims to teach the mothers
their children in matters pertaining to
the origin of life and kindred subjects
that present day students of social
problems are united in thinking should
be taught to children and young peo-
pie. These booklets are graded ac-
cording to the age and needs of the
children for whose benefit they are
studied. It is hoped that in time this
movement will reach out beyond the
club women to stratum of society
that needs 1t perhaps even more, or
that mothers of all classes will be
drawn into an interest in club life
through this intimate personal touch
on their home life and the characters
Of their children
The next meeting of the state feder-
alton will be held in Independence,
Kansas, some time in the spring, at a
date decided upon by those who en-
terrain the visiting clubs. An election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
TIE Important
Problem

confronting anyone IN need Of a Iaxa,
tive is not a question Of single &C.
ton only. but of permanently bene.
fetal effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in a healthful way, with
the assistance of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir Of SIENNA, whenever It is re.
CURED. as it cleanses the system
gently yet promptly. without irritation
and win therefore always have the
preference of all who wish the best Of
family laxatives.
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly beneficial, and because it has
given Satisfaction to the millions of
weIlinformed families who have used
It for many years past.
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

the women of the City Federation are
always interested in the work of the
state organization, Mrs. Goddard's
presence here has led to a good deal
of special interest in the state work
among club women of Topeka, whose
club activities have been chiefly local
All federated clubs, through the City
Federation, are members of the state
organization. and should, certainly
have an interest in the work of the
greater society which embraces so
many departments of effort.
The organization had its origin in
a society for the study of social science
in 1851. In 1900 the society became
a member of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs. The officers are
elected at the annual meeting on al
ternate years, making the term of SER
vice two years instead of one, as for
merly. The reasons are obvious. 1t
is easyW to understand that some time
must be consumed by the officers in
learning the methods of management
and In getting acquainted with the
neId OF labor, and then more time
must be consumed in preparing plans
and getting those plans into operation;
SO mat one year would scarcely be
long enough to consummate an effort
begun in any important field, consid-
erlng the length of time it requires to
get that work started.
The State Federation is given an
outline of work by the general fedora
tlon' designating the committees to be
appointed, and in a general way di-
recting the departments to be estab-
l1shed. Thus they have departments
or art household economies, civics,
forestry, civil service reform, 1egisla-
lure, health, etc. The state is then
permitted to specialize in any branch
1t seems most to need The present
administration has chosen to place the
emphasis Of its endeavor on the mat
ter OF the scholarship fund and the
department of civics.
Mrs. Matte Britt Hale, the vice
president of the federation. has been
placed in charge of the scholarship
fund, and the amount of it has, under
her management, increased from 5000
TO 1880. The sum is raised by con-
trlbutions from Individual clubs, each
OF which is supposed to remit the pro-
ceeds OF an entertainment given by
the club. The disbursem erlt of the
fund is for the benefit of girls who
have made a start in college and have
found themselves unable to complete
the course without help It is not the
purpose of the federation to give a
complete education to any one girl as
that would necessarily place SO close
limit on the number that could be
assisted, and would also burden the
girl so helped with too large a debt,
and would be likely to prove more dis
couraging than helpful. After the girl
has finished school she returns the
money without interest) to the fed
GRAFTON, paying in a stated sum each
month. She is not required to give
security for the loan. but this has
never meant a loss to the clubs as
every cent so borrowed has been re-
turned according to agreement. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

Yes, after one of them had called
me his Molly, dear not two minutes
before! Mr.. Bowser, you really ought
to hunt those men up and beg their
pardons and tell them what a selfish
creature I am, and what a tender
heart you have got!"
THAT is my intention. Mrs Bowser,
and has been ever since entered the
house. I am not driving men to des-
peration. Neither am I refusing JUS
tice to a tramp because he has fallen
low in the world. 1t is my duty to lift
him up and make a man of hin-a
law-abiding citizen instead of a des-
perate man"
Mrs. Bowser said no more, but made
up her mind to have the broomstick
ready for the next tramp that rang the
basement bell. She might pass him
out bread and butter, but if he men
toned money-whacki They had fin
ished dinner and gone upstairs when
Mr.. Bowser walked down to the hall
rack and put on his overcoat and hat
and turned to say:
Think over these things while am
gone and square them with your con-
science, if you can. Ten per cent in.
crease in crime every year, and where
is it to end! In ten years more we
shall be known as nation of GRIM
inals''
Tell them you are going to leave
money with me hereafter"
MT. BOWSeT walked up TO the corner.
He had taken a pretty close look at
the two tramps, and now he recognize
ed one of them leaning against the
fence. He slowly approached him and
asked:
MY good man, didn't you and your
friend call at house half block
down about an hour ago?"
''And what If we did ?" was the re-
ply.
your"
1--WE didn't get no cash. but is it
any of your business? ?"
at was my wife who turned you
away She is a. woman with q heart
of stone. If 1 had been there my
"Oh, I know you, old mani" said
the tramp, as he backed away a bit.
SIT wasn't over month ago that my
pard rang your door bell of an even
ing and asked for dime. You came
to the door yourself and without say
ing a word you ran him down the
steps and threw him over the fence
and famed his back for a week. Don't
try to give me no song and dance"
but you have no money tonight"
s'That's none of your businessr'
sBut / sympathize with you and
want to save YOU"
From what?'