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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
Few Women Know Laws
Of Prenatal Influence.

Only few women of the most
progressive order today know, or,
knowing, believe in, the laws of
prenatal influence.
Not one poor woman of the I'M
educated classes in a thousand has
the least idea on this all-important
subject.
Yet butchers wife, who watched
the slaughter of animals before her
child was born, brought forth a
human monstrosity-a child crini-
nal-who possessed an Unsuitable
desire to destroy life.
The child OF woman whose hus-
band was a miser and who com
PEELED her to beg or steal pennies
from his pockets to satisfy her
hunger was born a thief, and went
through life a kleptomaniac.
Innumerable cases can be cited
of the immediate results of the
mental influence of the mother on
her unborn babe; and there is no
subject Of greater import for wom-
an to study than this.
The government would do we'll to
set aside a certain sum of money
to aid such Investigations for the
benefit of the science OF eugenics.
And this present moment is a
most appropriate one to begin these
Investigations.
Science is doing great deal in
its effort to conserve and prolong
life
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
World Needs a Better
Order of Things.

But it is not so much the con-
tinuance of the life of individuals
on earth which the world needs as
a better order of beings.
Every possible investigation into
heredity, prenatal influence, child
hoods environment and early as
sociations should be made, and the
information carefully classified and
presented to the world for consid-
Grafton.
The capital punishment of crtrni-
nails will never reduce crime. But
the proper education of men and
women on what fatherhood and
motherhood means will prevent the
birth OF criminals.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
An Investigation Of the
Causes Which
Lead Men and
Women Into
Crime
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
Bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright 19l2 by American journal Examiner.

Copyright, 19l2 by American Journal Examiner.
w Hoover was begotten by pure love,
w And came desired and welcomed into life,
Is of immaculate conception. He
Whose heart is full Of tenderness and truth
Who loves mankind more than he loves himself,
And can not find room in his heart for hate,
May be another Christ We all may be
The Saviours of the world, if we believe
In the Divinity which dwells in us
And worship it, and nail our grosser selves,
Our tempers greeds, and our unworthy aims
Upon the cross. Who giveth love to all,
Pays kindness for unkindn ess, smiles for frowns
And lends new courage to each fainting heart,
And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad,
He too is a Redeemer, Son of God.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15

which led to such accidents are in
vestigated, in order to avoid future
trouble.
If the causes which lead men and
women into crime can be traced
then there is a firmer foundation
for our reformers and philanthro-
pists to stand upon while they
seek to better the coming genera
lions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
The Result.

They never have a minutes
peace; they never have a particle
Of liberty; they can never do any
thing just as they like to do it.
because mamma is after them with
her eternal do" or don't"
She badgers them about the way
they sit, the way they speak. the
way they stand, the way they do
their hair, the clothes they have
got on, what they eat-everything
under the sun, until she stands TO
them for nothing else on earth but
a kill joy, and their one thought.
plan and determination from the
time that they are old enough to
think at all is to get away from
her. And they do it at the earliest
possible moment
OF course, dear madam. you who
read these lines win never admit
that you nag But examine your
self and see if you have fallen into
the habit OF telling your husband
and children over and over again
what they should do and shouldn't
do, and if YOU interfere in all their
plans. Naturally you don't call this
nagging but they do and if you
want TO keep them from hating you
STOP TT
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
Can Death by Disease Be Eliminated?
# Doctors Succeed Fidug Of
WW HaUe Been Mustered

In this picture
laboratory as
sistants are
shown inocu-
lating a rat with
cancer tissue.
Both of these
pictures are
taken and re-
produced, by
permission, from
the Cosmopoli-
tan Magazine
for August.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15

TN a peculiar and piteous divorce
case now pending, the sole cause
that is alleged for the breaking
up of a bone is a womans nagging.
The husband, a wealthy and
prominent man, testified in court
that he had left his wife because
he could stand her incessant nag
Ging no longer.
The children. a nearly grown son
and daughter, entreated the court
to give them to their father be-
cause their mothers nagging made
life uncomfortable TO them.
Neither husband nor children
manifested the slightest affection
for the woman. She had killed their
love by naggng.
The woman is pretty and good.
She lived in a palace and had all
the luxuries that money could buy.
She had husband and children and
everything to make life happy,
and she has thrown away every
thing, lost everything, by her nag
ging.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15

trayed their ac1
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15

what would be the ultimate conse-
quences? The last of the major
diseases that shorten human life
and cause endless suffering would
have been conquered. This does
not mean that they would imme-
diately disappear, but there would
be good reason to hope that they
might all be eventually eliminated,
so that, after a time, death would
only occur either as a result of
accident or murder or of simple old
age. Men would live longer and
their lives would be relatively free
from suffering.
What It Would Mean.
But would they be content even
with that condition? Not in the
least. The next effort would be still
further to prolong life. Then the
question would be seriously debat-
ed-as it has indeed already been
debated - whether death itself
might not be banished. It is not
III LliG NATURE VI Ildll 10 De content,
and his Creator did not intend that
he should be content. His wonder
full powers were given to him in or
der that he might always seek to
better his condition. He was not
placed in the position of a Sisiphus,
doomed to pass all his time in
pushing a stone up hill only to see
it inevitably roll down again. He
DOES GAIN something every day
His progress is slow, but yet GER
tain. He was put into a world full
of enemies and given the means of
combating those enemies. Many
of them he has already conquered,
but many yet defy him. When he
has mastered all Of his diseases a
new field for the exercise of his
genius will open before him. If it
did not he would WISH TO DIE.
and might welcome back the dis
eases as friends, for there is no
happiness for human nature except
in marching forward and accom-
pishing something.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.

TN the August number of THE
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
there is an article on "The
Conquest OF Cancer" which is of
absorbing interest. for the simple
reason that 1t tells, In popular Ian
guage, the exact truth on subject
about which there has been so
much sensational exaggeration that
the public mind has been perturbed
without being informed upon it.
The sad truth is that, at the
present time, the only sure cure
for cancer is the surgeons knife
and that is sure In only certain
special cases But doctors have
learned to recognize cancer in its
earliest stages, when it often IS
DURABLE, and that is vast gain
in itself.
Moreover, experimental investi-
cations are now on foot which give
at least the hope that a specific
cure may be found for all forms of
cancer. Some of the lower animals
are the necessary victims Of such
experiments, and some people, who
apparently love dogs more than
they love men and women, make
a great outcry over that fact. Such
people. whose sentimentalism has
gone astray, may be disregarded
when the object in view is an al
most immeasurable blessing to hu-
manity. 1t would probably be I'M
possible to find anywhere men en-
dowed with a more sympathetic
nature, and greater desire to ban
ish suffering from the world, than
those very experimenters.
Terrible Figures.
Since, after all. selfishness is at
the bottom even of the soul of the
sentimentalist, some of the object
ers to animal experimentation as a
basis for improved medical science
may hesitate in their blind opposi-
tion when they are informed that
statistics show that one out of
every fifteen men, and one out of
every eight women who have
passed the age of So years is doom
ed to die of some form of cancer.
This is not to say that death bv
cancer is a mere lottery. 1t is not
as If fifteen men, or eight women.
shut up In a room, were required
to draw from an urn containing
either fourteen white balls and one
black ball, or seven white and one
black with the certainty that the
unfortunate who drew black must
die a terrible death The meaning
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
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By Dorothy Dix

he wants to Go, than to be forever
nagging him about it. 1t would be
an easier and a pleasanter death.
1t is also the nagging of her de-
voted mamma that makes many a
girl marry the first man that asks
her or tempts her to go from home
to work, and that causes many a
boy to leave home. The child that
said, when asked his name. that
he was called johnnie Don't" fair
ly expressed the position of many
unfortunate young people in their
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
Not Her Fault.

There is lesson in this little
story from real life that every wom-
an who is at the head of a family
should pause and consider For
this lady with the serpent's tongue
is not the only nagger. There are
others, and if more husbands do
not get up and desert their wives,
against their mothers. 1t is be
cause of the marvellous fortitude
and power Of endurance that some
people have.
1t isn't the naggers fault. She
does the very best she can to break
up her home, and make life bur
den to those unfortunates whom d
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
SHORT COURSE FOR
Miners opens SOON
School Of Mines at University Offers
Advantages.

Every mining man, miner,
mill man, smelter man or pros
pector in the northwest will be
interested in the announcement
of the winter short course for
miners and prospectors at the
school of mines of the University
of Idaho, which opens January 5
next at Moscow.
This is the third term of the
short course at the Idaho School
of mines, and promises to be if
anything more successful than
the two which preceded it. There
are no entrance requirements,
except that a man is supposed to
know something of arithmetic.
There is no age limit. The stu
dents ages have run from 21 to
f66 years and every man. who has
taken the course has found that
it has improved his earning ca
pacity.
The instruction in the school
/ is under corps of experienced
and practical mining men.
The courses offered are ele-
mentary surveying, assaying,
minerology, mining geology,
chemistry, mihing machinery,
gold milling, placer mining, che
cyanide process, concentration
and smelling of. ores, and mine
bookkeeping.
This doesn't mean that the
prospector has to study mine
bookkeeping, or the placer miner
I to makea study of concentration
and the smelling of ores. The
student who comes to take the
short course knows the problem:
he is up against and knows whaf
he wants: he selects the sub
jects he wants to take up anC
the course is adjusted to hell
him solve his problems, get wha
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
Idah0'S Grain Yield
2S,OO0,OO0 Bushels

Unofficial estimates on the
grain production Of the entire
state for the year 1912 place the
yield at 28,O00,000 bushels, of
which amount approximately IT,
100000 bushels are produced in
the south and southeastern parts
of the state and the balance of
11,OOO, ,O00 bushels in the seven
northern counties.
The estimate given out for
grain yield in the six counties of
the north follow:
Nez Perce-Wheat $50, 1000
bushels; oats 240,OOO bushels;
barley $50, 900 bushels.
Latah Wheat 1,750, 900 bush
els; oats 100000 bushels; barley
125, 900 bushels.
Idaho-Wheat 100000 BUSH
els; oats 100000 bushels; barley
1000, 900 bushels.
Clearwater Wheat 200, 900
bushels; oats 100000 bushels;
barley 125, 900 bushels.
Lewis-Wheat 1000, 900 bush
els; oats 100000 bushels; barley
100000 bushels.
Kootenai-Wheat 200. 600 bush
els; oats 10000 bushels; barley
100000 bushels.
The southern and southeastern
parts of the state total in wheat
production 8,5OO,OO0 bushels;
oats 1880, 900 bushels, and bar
ley 100000 bushels, according
to the commissioners preliminary
estimate.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
Orogrande Notes
Special to the Mining News
November 25.

Fred Colgrove is doing Frank
Sockolick's share of the assess
ment work on the International
group.
Jack Hinton and Jack O'Leary
are doing the assessment on the
Stratton group on Quartz creek,
which is owned by Spokane
parties.
Jimmy Larkin came up from
Elk on Thursdays stage, on his
way to the Hump, where he will
work at the Jumbo mine.
Jim Reaves and Dave Stickner
came out from the Hump Thurs
day, and left for Grangeville
Saturday morning by way of
Golden, accompanied by Levi
Colgrove.
Bob Puelz and Garrett Byrnes
finished the assessment on the
Big Turk and came up Thursday.
Jimmy Larsen came over Sat-
urday from Golden where he has
been the past month doing as
sessment. He paid a visit to the
Black Pine and Knob Hill Sat
urday afternoon and continued
on his way to Elk Sunday morn.
ing.
James H. Colgrove received
the sad news yesterday, of the
death of his father, Levi Col
grove, Sr., at Park City, Mont.
at the age of 76.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28

Serious results followed the taking
of the first census in Japan years ago.
Observing with approval the work of
western countries, the authorities
thought it advisable to take statistics
of population and for that purpose sent
out to all householders notices enjoin-
ing them to furnish them with full par
ticulars of their families, age, sex. etc.
This step was misconstrued in one OF
the villages, where suspicion was ex-
pressed that Japan was about to be
sold or at least some of the people
were to be sold to foreigners who were
desirious of ascertaining the number
of males, ETC., before closing the bar
gain in order to find out what price
to pay according to the quantity of
blood that would be forthcoming. 1t
was a Japanese belief the foreigners
squeezed the blood from all who came
into their power. Excited and enraged
mobs soon collected and attacked the
village offices, and 1t was some time
before order could be restored.-Argo-
naut.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
How TO Keep Roses fresh.

Proper care of cut flowers will double
their lease of life. Even dollhouse
roses, usually the shortest lived of bios
SONS, can be made to retain their
beauty and fragrance for two weeks if
one will take the trouble to boil the
stems. To do this set q pan of hot WA
ter on the stove and when the water
begins to boil place the stems of the
flowers in the water to the depth Of
one inch. Hold the flowers carefully to
prevent their touching the sides or bot
tom of the pan. Allow them to boil tif-
teen or twenty minutes. Remove the
flowers and clip off the portions of thu
stems that were i'll the water. They
are then ready to be arranged in the
vase or bowl. Many persons have poor
success in keeping cut flowers because
they do not put fresh water into. flower
vases every day. The stems Of the
flowers should be clipped every day to
enable them to take up more water.
Never leave cut flowers in warm
room overnight Set them in cool
place.-Kansas Industrialist.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
Beauty of ths Zebra.

The zebra is perhaps of all quadru-
peds the best made and most beauti-
fully clad by the hand of nature. To
the figure and graces of the horse it
adds the elegance of the stag. and the
black and white bands with which its
body is ornamented are arranged with
such wonderful symmetry that we
might almost be disposed to imagine
that rule and compass had been en-
ployed in their formation. These al
ternate bands are narrow, parallel and
exactly separated. They extend not
only over the body, but the head, thigh
and legs and even over the ears and
tail. They follow so exactly the con-
tour of the different forms that they
exhibit the entire figure in the most
advantageous point of view. In the
female these bands are alternately
black and white. In the male they
are black and yellow, but always OF
a lively and brilliant tint They also
rest upon fl ground csshort, fine and
copious hairs, whose lusser considera'
bly, augments the general beauty of the
ors.-Exchange.-
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
No Free Assays Made
BY Geological Survey

Attention is called by the
United States Geological Survey
at Washington to the fact that
it, does not make analyses or
assays Of ores or metals for
private parties. Many specimens
and samples are received by the
survey, accompanied by requests
for such treatment, with which
it is impossible to comply. The
force of chemists employed in
the survey is small, and their
time is fully occupied by their
regular official duties. The geo.
logical survey has no facilities at
all for making gold and silver
assays. The most that can be
done is for the survey geologist
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28

to give an off-hand opinion based
on a simple examination Of the
specimen. If an assay is desired,
the proper course is to employ a
private assayer or to send the
specimen to one of the govern
ment assay Offices, where a
regular charge is made for such
work. When specimens are sent
to the survey for examination,
applicants should be particular
to state whether they wish them
returned, as otherwise they will
be destroyed. Government assay
offices are located at Carson,
New, Seattle, Wash, Boise,
Idaho, Helena. Mont, Salt Lake
City, Utah, and Charlotte, N. c.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28

he wants and increase his earn
ings.
The course has been devised
particularly to help the man who
works, either for himself or
others, and the man who will
work while attending the school
after completing these courses
should know how to make a fire
assay for gold, silver or lead;
to figure the distance and direc-
tion TO run a drift in order to
reach a shaft; to determine a
mineral by using a blow-pipe;
to figure the requirements for a
new mine pump, hoist or air
compressor without being de-
pendent upon the manufacturers
estimate, to estimate the size of
fiume, and the grade necessary
to carry a given quantity of
water, and he will know the
basic principles underlying min
ing geology, gold milling and
cyaniding and the concentration
of ores.
There is no charge for tuition.
The only cost is board and room
in Moscow, from $6 to So per
week.
The university has issued a
bulletin describing the courses
and giving all the necessary in
formation. 1t is yours for the
asking. Simply write to the
Mining department, University
of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, and
tell them that you are interested
in the short course for miners
and prospectors. The depart
ment will send you the book.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
A Simple Gold Test.

In the case of oXidized gold
ores, pulverize the sample in
place in porcelain lined vessel
or tea cup, cover with iodine and
allow it to stand from two to
three hours. Then dip into it a
piece of white filter paper, dry
and burn it, and if it gives a
purple color, gold is present, and
the deeper the purple the richer
the ore. For other ores with
this test, such as pyrites, the ore
must be roasted. Where lime is
present the ore must be roasted
twice, the second time adding
carbonate of ammonia. After
roasting, test as with oxidized
ores.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
ENGINEERS GOT
GOOD INCREASE
Arbitration Award Handed Down on
Eastern Railways.

An award that is considered a
partial victory for the 10000
locomotive engineers in their
controversy, begun last January
with the flfty-two railways op-
Grating in the territory east Of
Chicago and north Norfolk and
Cincinnati, has been announced
by the board of arbitration which
investigated the question at
issue.
The award which dates back
to May l last, and will stand for
one year, settles the most i'm
portant labor dispute submitted
to arbitration since the anthra-
cite coal strike in 1902.
The board points out that a
railroad strike for the great cen
ters of the United States can be
no louger considered as a matter
which primarily affects the rail
road operators and employers.
While it does affect them seri-
ously. the public is far more
deeply interested, but has ne
voice in the controversy.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
Great Gold Reserve in Siberia

The Russian Empire, including
Siberia, was fifth in rank in the
world as a producer of gold in
1911, according to the United
States Geological Survey. TIE
output is stated as $24, S65, ,000,
which is, however, a decrease of
more than $40, 600, O,090' compared
with the figures for 1910. This
decrease is due mainly to the
shortage of water in 1911 in the
placer workings in Siberia. The
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
The Major is Shelving a
Large Body Of High GCade

The development work now
being done on the Major group
of claims, situated a mile and a
half northeast of town, is show
ing a good body of ore. In sink
ing the shaft the vein is widen
ing and the ore is of a high grade
and is very free. The ore is
now better than three feet wide.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
Believe N. P. Preparing
For MiSSOuIa Cutoff

Lewiston Tribune: During the
past few days persistent rumors
have become current in all the
towns along the Clearwater that
the Northern Pacific is now en-
gagged in defnate preliminary
plans for inaugurating work on
the Missoula-Kooskia cutoff IN
the spring. 1t is said the en-
gineering department OF the
road has been allotted the nee
essary preliminary work and
that recently that department
has made a critical inspection of
the Clearwater branch extend
ing from Lewiston to Kooskia so
that any work done on this sec
tion shall be completely in har-
mony with main line construc-
ton. AS a result, the plans for
repairing the bridge at Kamiah
with wood construction have
been abandoned and this struc-
ture will be replaced with steel
one. The type of the new
bridge to be installed at Spalding
to replace the wooden one will
be a stronger one than originally
planned, and recent activity on
the part of the Northern Pacific
to have the upper Clearwater
condemned as navigable stream
to enable the bridges to be con-
structed without draws, is said
to be due to the main line pro-
gram. The rumors are further
based upon the fact that some
time ago the Northern Pacific
provided for the cancellation OF
all tenant leases on company
grounds at Kamiah and Kooskia,
this order, it is said, being issued
by President Elliott shortly after
his visit to this section, when he
was accompanied by representa-
tives of New York financiers In
terested in prospective new WORK
in the northwest. 1t is further
said that the Northern Pacific il
at this time making preliminary
arrangements for extensive til
contracts in the Clearwater sec
ton.
The definite form Of the ru
mors following President Elliott
statements of a few weeks ag'
that the cutoff would be bull
when the finances Of the com
pany would permit has led TIL
Clearwater towns to believe tha
the long delayed work is to +
early undertaken.