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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-09
LIVE IN THE PRESENT

The following piece of good
advice is from the Mirror, a paper
published by the inmates of the
Minnesota state prison:
Cease harping on the days
that are gone, AMI live in the
present and for the days that arc to
come. We are all aware of the
JOY, the romance of by gone days,
but what good are they to US now?
A little less wandering down the
dim lanes Of the past, and q little
more courage in facing the bright
vistas of the future will go a long
way toward bringing us happ mess.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-09
MANUAL TRA|NIkG IN
ELK0 SCHOOLS

Two years ago las: September
Manual Training in Nevada schools
had its beginning il the school
at Montello where the teacher,
recently from Buff ale, N. v, con-
structed a rude WORK bench of
some old boards sand planka lying
about the school yard and began
giving lessons in benc!. work in the
back part of the school house after
school hours and or SATURDAYS.
This work was exceedingly popular
at once among the scholars who
entered into it with hearty zeal.
The boys and girls both in friendly
rivalry each trying t. Guido the
other. This work continued until
he Christmas holidays when the
teacher was transferred to Elko to
teach Manual Trsining in the
public school at that place.
The following year Elko County
High School added this branch of
instruction to its course Of study.
Several other schools in the state
did the same and now in Il little
more than two years TOUR COUNTIES
of the state point with pride to the
Manual Training Departments of
their schools. New school houses
that are being con structed are
being provided with special room
for teaching this subject l.; is up
for discussion at every teachers
Institute. Nevada air is full of it.
What is Manual Training?
What is its purpose? What does
it accomplish? The answers to
these and kindred questions is
uncertain and unsatisfactory in
the minds of many Of its advo-
Gates. 1t is comparatively a new
subject and much is still to be
learned regarding it. However
in some of our eastern cities it has
been taught in the elementary
schools for the past twenty years.
If we are wise we will profit by
their experience rather than to
fall into similar mistakes that all
must make in being the first to try
new things.
The purpose YVES originally in.
dustrial or vocational rather than
cultural in the minds Of it's first
advocates as is shown by the fact
that as early as 1929 "the work
ing men and women" # New York
city met and adopt I'd a set of
resolutions in which they advo-
Gated q change IN the educs ton al
system of the nation which Should
secure to every child which is born
to the republic, an enlightened,
practical, and systematic course of
instruction Including the knoNl-
edge of at LEAST ONE TRADE
OR USEFUL OCCUPATION"
This original purpose, however,
was early lost sight OF by those
who introduced Manual training
into our elementary schools later
on and it was added to the course
OF study "as an element of cultured
and general efficiency"
Superintendent Emerson of
Buffalo. N. Y. says Cultural
education has been defined IS that
which aims, primarily, at the
cultivation of the interests and
appropriations that are intellectual
and aesthetic in character, but
which has no direct relation to
vocation. 1t is general as dis
tinguished from special trsinir q.
Industrial or vocatiora al education
10 understood to mean that train
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-09
j. c. Harris
Sheriff of Elko County.

G. Gold. the tailor, can be
found at the Remnants Company's
store, until his former place Of
bushes is rebuilt. He is prepared
to do all work in his lire, just as
reasonable as he did before he was
burned out. Give him q show.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-09
InstIne.Ive eooo Manners,

We sometimes meet an original gen.
tlemau. who, II manpors had not OF.
listed. would have inve ted them.-Em.
erson.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-09

Land Of Few Hotels.
Except on the coast there are no
Inns OF hotels In Morocco.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Nov, in the center Of this ancient crater wncn
must have been larger than any volcano OF Whlcn
have knowledge at the present day, was the
blow hole or vent. Over this blow hole the
Spaniards who conquered Mexico set up the city
of Guadaaiara little thinking that they were Sc
lecting veritable death trap for their settle
ment. Slowly through the eighteen or twenty
centuries since it last active this central
melting pot Of the old volcano has been forming
a new and equally powerful mass of molten ma
terial which sooner or later will blow Guadala"
lara off the face of the earth.
can earthquake, landslides cloudbursts or
other elemental disturbances filled the opening OF
this ancient crater with a cap 300 feet in thick
ness This cap much thicker than that which
any other volcano has had to blow off, is the only
thing that has saved Guadalajara. from destruc-
ton years ago. How long 1t will protect the city
now is question man answer and prove
the answer. 1t may be years; to my mind 1t Is
a matter of months; in any event, believe that
the only way to save the capital is to move it
bodily and move it while there Is time to do sc"
Aside from it's scientific interest, and from the
unique situation of city built a volcano,
there remains the very practical problem which
confronts Guadalajara-the job Of moving city
of $50 900 souls to new location. So far Juana-
catlan is the most likely candidate for the honor
of being the capital of Jasco but there
number of other towns out of range of the buried
crater all Of which will be considered before the
All sorts of wild propositions to tap the crater
and draw off the menacing fires have been made
to the authorities of Guadalajara, but the of
science say there is no way to curb the demon
of fire Gagged by nature below and that the city
must be removed it will be destroyed. One
man proposed to turn the waters of the Santiago
river into a huge tunnel driven to the heart of
the crater but the earthquake specialists quickly
informed the city officials that this merely would
cause immediate and more terrible explosion
than if the crater left to itself.
Another man offered to tunnel into the crater
from a point five miles outside the city, and on
the slightly lower western side, and let the
contents of the crater flow out. He was disap-
pointed when informed that his tunnel would
have to be about 500 feet in diameter and that
the heat would be so great a hundred feet from
the inner end of the tunnel that human beings
could not endure It,
Thus it appears that unless a surgeon for
earthquakes appears and that very shortly
Guadalajara will have to pick up her houses and
move to a location. The result to real estate
owners and men who have bought built some
of the fine blocks which mark the main streets
of the Jalisco capital will be financial ruin
Some of these men profess to doubt the word
of the scientists and to believe that the city Is
safe. They will throw their influence and their
votes against moving the city unless they can be
convinced that there is a very real personal dan
ger for themselves and their families.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

The young man of the house really
was making good in a way that de-
lighted his parents and brought him
much f1attery from friends and neigh
bors, but old Nanny, the family SER
want. remained unimpressed. One day
when he had done particularly bril-.
liant piece of surgical work and de-
l1vered an especially profound adj.
dress before a great convention. he
said to Nanny: I'm not a baby
any longer, and I think you better call
me Mr.. Charles hereafter" The old
darby snorted her Indignation.
"Who-me?" she asked. ct amt
never is gwine call You Mister! You
amt no Mister any more'n Use a.
Miss! You couldn't wiggle yo' fin
gers so pert a-cuttin' out folkses' in
sides eff I hadn't a-kep' 'em timber
wild smackin, an you couldn't hear
de patients heart a-beatin' eff it.
want for me forever washin' yo' ears
SO clean! You amt nothin' but a.
measly little boy to yo' ole Mammy!"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
"Horny-Headed Romanrv.

How prominent Missouri farmer
was scratched" by the tillers of the
soil in his race for governor of Mis-
souri,, shortly after the war, is told
by one who was there and knew how
it all happened.
''This man." said the narrator the
other day, "was one of the most prom
inent farmers and cattle raisers in
the state. I shall not use his name
He was running on the 'greenback'
ticket. Some place he had heard the
humble agrculturists referred to as.
'horny-handed yeomanry'
"This phrase was just to his liking,
and he thought it would please the
farmers to be referred to as horny.
handed yeomanry.' And it might
have done SO had he not somewhat
twisted the appellotion in his attempt.
to use it,
There are no grander set of men
in this great state of ours he said
at his first big meeting of farmers
than you horny-headed Iomanry.'"
But that was too much for the farm.
ers. The candidate was scatched." -
Kansas City Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
SCHOOL FIFTY YEARS AGO
Reminiscent Writer Tells Of the FASH
Ionable Girls Academy OF
/, Period of the Past.

The fashionable girls school OF
fifty wears ago was most interest
ing place apparently. Looking back
ward to those busy, shining hours,
writes Julia G. r. Dorr, IN Harper
Bazaar. my first thought is, how we all
studied! How eager we were! WHAT
keen delight we took in construlng'
an intricate sentence or in solving a.
hard problem." There were about
fifty scholars. or possibly seventy-five;
and among them was group OF elghc
or ten bright young fellows VINO were
fitting for college; preparing to enter
as sophomores the coming aut'lmn-
What an ambitious lot we were, TO
be sure! | was the only girl in the
advanced Latin" and had the honor
OF seat on one end of long, mar
row recitation bench, little with
drawn, as was proper, from those
stars of the first magnitude.
The problem of coeducation had not
come up then. If girl wanted to
study with her brother and his
friends, she did it-and that was all
there was of it. How we sought for
the derivation of words. How we
revealed in the classical dictionary,
brought by one of us and thrown into
the common stock, passing from hand
to hand, from desk to desk! The
first word of greeting in the morning
was a question about the coming les
son; the latest word at night was a
reminder of the last one.
How many teachers did we have?
Just one. | doubt very much if he
was a marvel of learning, though l
thought he was then. He was just
out of college himself, and he had had
no wide experience of books or men.
But he had the rare gift of being able
to stimulate and inspire his scholars,
and kindle every latent spark of en-
thusiasm in their natures. Enthus-
iasm is better word than ambition
in this connection. Study was joyful
labor, done for the pure love of it.
1t was it's own end; not simply a
means to some other end.
The village academy of that day
taught concentration if it taught moth
ing else. Study and recitation went
on in the same room and at the same
time. We had but few iron-clad rules.
Whispering Unfortunately was, of
course, not allowable, but if there
was real occasion for speaking we
spoke, and no one was the worse for
it. We had never heard the EXPIRES
sion good form" 1t was not in
vogue then. But if it had been, we
would have said with one voice that
it was not good form to disturb othe
erS
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

California scientists are endeavor-
ing to find out whether the sun Is
growing cold. This Is the time of
year when people who desire to make
such discovery are most likely to
be successful
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

A Chicago man, struck by lightning.
was cured of his rheumatism for "a
hours. The method may be all right,
but the difficulty of making 1t prac.
teal comes In securing your bolts on
schedule.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

New Zealand has introduced let.
ter meter by which mail is registered
and paid for without the use OF
stamps. Must be rather inconveni.
ent for each individual to have to lug
q letter meter around.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Lots of Americans are FOOLS" says
the Charleston Is c. News and Cour-
Ter This may be true, but the for
eigner who says 1t is going to get in
to trouble.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
PATERNAL- WiSDO

Son, are you really determined to get mar
ried?"
Yes, father
And you feel that you support WIFE?
ooh yes"
We'll, just remember that the dictionary says
to support also means to endure"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Why would 1t not be good idea
for some one TO seek to develop the
commercial utility of the aeroplane
rather than to display it's circus pos
sibilities?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Now 1t is explained why the small
boy and the tramp are so healthy. A
Boston physician says that soap is
carrier of diseases.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
A PROFESSIONAL TRICK.

The Young Lawyer-How do you expect to
prove that your client is mentally irresponsible?
The Old Lawyer-Easy enough. His wife has
preserved all his old love letters and I'm going to
read em to the jury.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Harvard surgeons have installed q
device that records heartbeats at hun
dreds of miles. Pooh. The ordinary
love letter has been doing that for
aeons.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

People who insist on dancing the
grizzly bear" even when there is
danger OF being shot for doing so may
be said to have enthusiasm that Is
worthy of a better cause
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

1t is a sad world. You escape a
scorching automobile by the skin of
your teeth, only to run into a candi-
date.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

The dear little boys in the kinder
gartens may be shy on some branches
of useless knowledge, but they are
learning to sew nicely.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Despite all predictions of an early
hard winter, it can be regarded as
certain that navigation up Salt river
will remain open until after Novem-
Der S.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

1t is hardly reasonable to suppose
that all the police In New York are
bad, but the bad ones are most in
the limelight just now.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Once more the last of the pas
Benger pigeons has died That bird
will accomplish that feat once too
often some day.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

This 10 grand year for fruits, but
certain well-known gentlemen with
cravings for Office will remember 1t
because of it's sour grapes.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Toadstools caused the death of thir
teen persons In Paris during the last
season. Another proof Of the unluck.
mess of the number thirteen.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Not only does it hurt an oyster to
be eaten alive, as Doc Wiley says. but
1t cannot talk back
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
A Waukegan lady who has tried on

A Waukegan lady who has tried one
reports that old bachelors do not
make good husbands, because they
are too firmly "set" in their ways.
This only proves the correctness of
the theory that the lady who expects
to have a satisfactory husband must
.atch him and train him early.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

The New York milkman who Of
fered to accept kisses in pay for his
wares must have been dispensing the
milk of human kindness.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

which surrounds the
city on all sides is the
wall of this ancient
crater. On the north
and east, you know,
the plateau of Mexico
slopes downward to
these ranges; on the
west and south the an
cient volcano wall
slopes away 5000 feet
wnw ard through
some 70 or 80 miles to
the Pacific ocean. This
was an ideal location
for a volcano, and pre-
cisely similar to the To-
cation of Colima, still
active, and Orizaba,
which, while still smok-
ing, has not been ac-
tive for 400 years.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

After all. 1t is only fair to attempt
to make man of a monkey, since
30 many monkeys have been made Of
men
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

There appears to have been a bump
er crop Of fuzzy hats
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

If 1t were not for politics lot of
young lawyers would find existence
dreary.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Some plutocrat should offer prize
for the encouragement of longevity
among aviators.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

What has become Of the old fash
Toned joint debate between leading
candidate?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Women's dresses. we are told, are
to be tighter. Gracious heaven! Can
such thing be possible?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
CClz2HLA GARH

ECAUSE the crater Of boiling
seethihg volcano is directly Deneath
this city of 10000 souls, in all prop
ability Guadalajara, which Is the
state capital of Jalisco, will be NOV
ed to a point some distance from
what scientists say is to be one Oh
the most active volcanoes on the en-
tire American continent. Inc SUI
terranean volcano has caused o4o
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Artificial rubber is said by an ex-
cert to be a failure-not able to
stretch point-so to speak.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

fined to an area not more than loo
miles in diameter. Neither Collma
nor any other volcano in Mexico was
in eruption. We had to look closer
to Guadalajara for the cause. we
made a trip through the surrounding
country and discovered that the city
lies in the center Of what was once
volcano.
1.-THE walls of this ancient crater
are fully Is miles on all sides from
the city. From the character of the
stone composing these walls, their
evidences Of fire and the condition OF
the lava fragments which litter the
bowl of the crater, should say 1t was
last active from 1900 to 1000 years
ago.
sHNb1 mountain
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

After while perhaps Americans
Will learn to utilize their housetops
as well as their sleeping porches.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

1t is possible to be perfect dare
devil in an aeroplane, but what is the
use?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Even If abstaining from gossip win
not remove superfuous hairs it will
leave sweeter taste in the mouth
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

The country is safe in spite of the
dire predictions of certain politicians.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

Sunday sport still continues to ex-
act toll In human lives.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

1t is wonder that nobody though
of clean money long ago.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-30
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
A DAY OF WEAKNESS.
Declines in Prices Range from Frao-
 tiens to Three Points.

New York, Dec. 2e.-Contrary to technical observation, the stock market yesterday exhibited weakness. Declines at the close were exhibited very gen orally in the list and ranged from frac- tions to three points. The usual fac4 tors which act for and against price movements exhibited no special change from other days during the week, and except that there was no particular reason for an advance no specific cause for the reverse was shown. About the most important question of the hour Is What will be done to the stock ex- changer" The air is filled with incor- poration talk, a legal curtailment of the privilege of short selling and other things which people advocate as they always do when considering questions about which they have only an ab- stract knowledge.
 Another influence in the market is the trend of call money. The renewal rate on Friday of 12 per cent. indi- cates the disposition of the banking interests toward any expansion of speculation. Twelve per cent. money does not exist except in a few insti- tutions where stock market loans are a feature. The attitude of the finan- cial interests, however, Is important, as 1t shows that any attempt at this time to bring on a vigorous bull move ment would not meet with favor. There is yet too much uncertainty abroad to warrant overconf1dence The atmosphere all things considered is not sufficiently clear to allow full play of optimism. although the reasonable outlook Is that in time the present clouds will disappear.