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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
Lacked Experiences.

A story which dates back to the
last Bryn Mawr horse show is being
told of very popular young woman
She ia an excellent tennis player. and
can paddle canoe most gracefully;
but the Bryn Mawr horse show wa1
her. first attendance at an. exhibition
of thoroughbreds
Are you a good Judge Of horse
hesh?" inquired one OF her friends
from New York.
oh my dear. 1 don't know;
should say not I never tasted any
she said.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
Hoktoqraph INK.

Hektograph or copying pad ink IL
made az follows: Dissolve one part
methyl-violet in eight parts water. aud
add one part glycerine. Gently warm
the solution for an hour. and when
cool, add a quarter part alcohol. Or
take methylyiolet, one part, water
seven parts. glycerine, two parts
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
SALMAGUNDI

Constable Happier Of Carlin took
in the town today.
1t is reported that Mr.. and M rs.
Greenfield will arrive tomorrow.
iae Piano for ale. Inquire Of
MeElroy 10 Bare y
The power was off for a while
this afternoon and as result we
are short of reading matter.
Attention is called to the ad of
B. w. Archibald of Reno in this
issue. He has baby chicks for
sale.
Rev. w. D. Best of the Califor-
mia Children's Home Society called
this forenoon. He is soliciting
funds for the Home.
DR.. W. E. Taylor, the eyes
specialist, will leave Elko May 9TH.
Those wishing to consult him
should call on him prior to that
time.
For Sale a lot of fine posts and
several cords of good wood. Will
be delivered in O. antilles to suit.
Inquire of George M. Clayton
Elko Nevada.
All Rebekahs. Odd Fellows and
their families are invited to assist
Elko Lodge No. Is, 1. o. o. F., in
the celebration of the Ninety third
anniversary Of the founding of
Odd Fellowship on Friday, April
&c, 1912, at. 8 o'cluck at Odd
Fellows Hall.
The Parents & Teachers associa-
ton will sarve sandwiches, cheese,
olives, cake and Coffee at the gram
mer school on Friday, May 3rd.
from 3 until $50 p. m. The
price is % cents and the proceeds
are to be added to the play ground
fuAd.
Mrs. f. Wallace wishes to an
nounra 10 the public that she has
moved her Massasge Parlor to
Room 62 in the Commercial Hotel
where she will be pleased to see all
who need her services. En-
terance to Office on Idaho St.
Office open for business on and
kaf,er Wednesday. March 13.
The first day OF May is no i'm
pIovement over the last day of
April. In fact, yesterday was the
better Of the two. Earlv this
morning there was heavy wind
that brought light fall of snow.
The day has b2cn c:.ady nit ! a
raw, cold wind, an evidence that
winter still fingers with US.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
ButtermiIk as a Valuable Food.

The nutritive value Of milk, as com
pared with buttermilk ia not near 80
great as some appear to think. It. IL
about as 20 to 49, You get about as
many energy units out of pint and a
quarter of buttermilk as you 40 out of
one pint of sweet milk. Besides, the
bacteria of typhoid tend to die out In
buttermilk because of its acidity.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
Could GET L.

why don't you get ar automobile.
Uncle Jobn?"
Il haven't enough money, my dear"
You haven't? Why. thought ron
worked In bank!"-CominR Nation.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
A HOPELESS Failure

Your son is not a business man. IA
he, Mr.. lsaacstein?" asks Mr.. Mosa.
stein
Louie! Business manH In bust
ness he failed yet und into bankruptcy
Vent-undt even his bankruptcy vas a
failure too Life. g.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
In DIspraco,

Mother-Tommy. why don't you
play with Frank any more7 | thought
you were such good chums7
Tommy.-We was, but he's a molly.
coddle. He paid ter git inter thor bah
k1Rounds.-Suburban Life.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
What They Think Of Ua,

Silas-These here avyators is Ger.
tainly goin' frum bad to worse.
Hiram--How d. you make that out,
BIT
Silas-Wa-al. don't tn papers say
this flight Is frum Nu York t ChicaSof
Judge
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
The Reason.

Though actors are superstitious az
rule. they are not afraid OF being
In haunted houses"
They are not2"
mo; you can't scare an actor By
putting him any place where the ghost
walks"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
IMPROVING.

"Bliggins likes to hear himsoif
talk"
lis that all you have against him ?"
Gould anything be worse7"
Certainly. Bliggins used to like 10
hear himself sing"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
A Fat Cure.

Don't you find wood choppina
rather hard, old chCp?
1T wouldn't be so bad If my scr.
want didn't Sit down close to me with
q cigar in his mouth. and grin like a
house on fire."-Fliegende BIaetter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01

Foundation Of Permanent Fame.
No true and permanent fame can be
founded. except in labors that pro-
mote the happiness of mankind
Charles Sumner.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
Fortified.

How is It that the man you have
IN your show can go on such terrible
sprees7 Isn't he afraid?"
mo. ma'am He's snake charm.
sr."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
One For Dana

Say. papa" queried the little maid,
IF we have thermometers,
How does II come about that We
Do not have therpopetersT
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01
College Girl SUGGESTION.

Popularity Is like some of the 9th.
er good things of life. the one who
seeks II seldom finds 1t. However. a
hint is that It follows respect. Col
lege study is more deceptive than
school work. The. first few months
often seem easy That is why many
girls join the social whirl When the
midyears come they pay the penalty.
unless temporary. artificial. fitting
examining" comes to their aid.
Therefore. at the very beginning do
the necessary work each day.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-05-01

sheep-RaIslng Countries.
Australia and the Argentina ba.
tween them pasture one-third Of al,
the sheep in the world
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
Americas Gift to the World.

Arawak, the most widely disseminated In
dian stock in South America.
From America maize was first introduced
into Spain. Thence il spread throughout
Europe and into Asia and Africa. II
reached India and Burmah early, and il
grows there now everywhere among thG
hills and is the favorite crop of the people.
The Portuguese reached Java in 1896 and
China in 1916, taking maize with them.
To-day its geographical distribution Is
worldwide and as q food crop has few
equals among the cereals. The Indians
thrived on it, and 50 long as they continue
its use they show much Of their pristine
sturdiness, and when it is denied them they
suffer in physique and morale.
Maize has also played an important part
in the social life of America With the
aborigines It was an important element in
their general nature worship. The Aztecs
consecrated goddess to it, and the Mayas,
the PeruYians and others observed the
npening Of the grain with both solemnity
and sladness. Even in burial rites corn
was not omitted. In many instances it
was inferred with the body to serve as
food on the journey into the unknown
world, and the tombs Of all countries, from
Ohio in North America to Peru in South
America, contain evidences Of the custom
Of putting maize in the burial place witl
the body.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21

7 Is not an exaEgeration to say that
nothing has contributed more to the de-
yelopment of the American people thar
"Indian corn" Without il the native peo-
pies of America could hardly have devel
oped beyond the savage state, and the ex'
plorers from Europe would certainly have
been unable to effect a permanent settle
ment upon the American Continent
Maize was the only health sustaining
food the Indians could supply to the early
New Englanders; it sustained the adyen-
turers who traversed the valleys of the
James, of the St Johns and of the Missis-
sippi it provided the Spaniards with nour'
ishment during the reckless march from
Vera Cruz to the plateau Of Mexico, and
this same maize was found BY Pizarro's
small army of conquerors when they sub
jugated the innumerable hosts Of the Tncas
Of Peru.
Yet up to the time Of the landing Of Co
lumbus in America maize was absolutely
unknown to the Inhabitants of the Old
World. The few kernels Of the new food
brought to Queen Isabella BY Columbus
were classed as grain
Indian corn IS really maize; in English
speaking countries outside Of the United
States it is called maize, and in all Span
ish countries "maise' is the word em.
ployed. Maize is altogether an American
word, coming directly from the priminvs
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leaped the high fence surrounding its
habitation and vent back to its lettuce
in comfort. The hounds were helpless
before the fence of course. as Mr.. Collier
intended that they should be. But
there's more Of. thrill in it than drag
hunting" he used to say. "and It carries
a lot of style beside" However. he was
caught up short by the law and presented
his stag to geological park.
In the same relation drag hunting
the sport, If you remember. WHICH, ae-
cording to another hoary fiction. was not
a sport at all 1t is not. il you insist that
sport must be sanguinary. But drag
hunting is no sport for the timid. and
whoever disbelieves should crank up his
automobile and go out on Long Island
some day this spring and see one.
A drag hunt ordinarily is laid over the
stiffest kind of country, with the fencing
something to make the heart quaver and
the pace "too good to inquire" None but
the 'best men" indulge in it at all The
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and with No. heads. The girl who has
just been down will have plenty of COM
pany to-day.
In. that imperishable classic dealing
with the life and adventures of Mr.. Jor-
rocks there is related the coincident of
an English hunting field.
One horseman addresses another as
they ride side by side with the hounds
running to a breast high scent and the
country flying past them like so much
moving picture film
Lord Scattercash fell under his horse
at a bullinch a while back"
WAS he killed?'
Il don't know-the pace was too rat
ting to inquire"
Be it explained. however, that the men
who rode on when the girl was thrown
through a fence were not deficient in
chivalry. They were quite well aware
not only that the young person could take
care of herself, but that she would have
resented their misbehavior in rendering
their help more than she resented the
misbehavior of her hunter.
Assume now that the hunt has led its
riders over from six to ten fields and that
Mons. Reynard has distanced the pack
and sunk his trail in brook. The pace
has killed of the inexpert and the faint
hearted, and only the best men" are up
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rule drops out at the first check. The
whole hunt lasts only twenty-six min
utes, and six of these minutes are spent
at check at the end of the first ten min
utes.
The automobile has made it possible
for this sport to be enjoyed vicariously BY
those who love their comfort and value
their necks, for most drag hunts are now
run in fields just inside broad highways,
so that a gallery" of many motor cars
may attend from start to finish.
But let us return to our original hunt.
ing field, for the hounds are away again
Tom, the groom; Dick, the farmer. and
the woman who hopes to see a fox and
her daughter are "up front" and the rest
of US trailing. The pace Is milder now,
for fox, hounds and horses are weary.
Suddenly the woman who wants to see
a fox pitches on her horses neck and re-
covers as he refuses fence. One Of rs,
very calamity now, pulls up and lowers
rail for her and We all crow hop
through.
The three red coats, Tom, Dick and the
young girl, are two fields in advance now,
Suddenly, for they are up wind from US
comes the rapturous ''HaloO-OO-Oo" that
tells US the hounds have broken from
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Riders Leaving for the Essex Hunt
Photo bv Pictorial News Co.

They are sight to stir the emotions Of
the most lethargic, about Of a size QeveD
and that rather small. with white and
black and tan bodies. sharp, intelligent
faces and tails" as our young woman OBJ
serves, very active.
Tom, the groom, whispers to her again.
Say 'sterns,' miss. Fox'ounds 'asn't
tails the same as dey isn't dogs"
Meantime there has been the blast of a
horn and the hounds have deployed into
nearby wood with their noses to the
ground. Everybody keeps away. The
whips have dismounted, and a groom
holds the horse of each. The pads Of the
hounds patter lightly in the carpet of
dead leaves in the little wood, and Tom
remsrks:-
They'll jump i'm in about a min
ute, miss. Keep your pony's cad in your
lap, for you can't never tell, ma'am, 'ow
the Oldest 'orsen be'sve when it's gone
away Ear that music now? Thatn
be Maud or Friday, both o them wicked
'untin' 'ounds. Amt that 'eavenly mel
odyY
Il hope well get view to-day" says
the elder woman. "It is four years now
since I've actually seen a fox and I'm
beginning to forget what one looks like" ="
That's the devil of fox hunting in this
country" replies a man. This is the
first time you've hunted this part of the
country, you say"-they have never been
introduced "wel, don't set your hopes
too high. Two foxes in twelve years is
our proud record. but who knows but to-
day may add third"
As he pockets his flask he INDUCES in
dissertations. on the superiority after all
of country so tinbered and thick with
underbrush that there is practically never
kill After all" he says, who wants
to kin fox anyway? The riding is all
anybody wants"
Let us pause here to ponder what he has
said. 1t is true that in America a fox
killed by fox hunters is rare fox indeed.
Even in Virginia. where the sport Is pur-
sued more enthusiastically perhaps, than
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in any other part of the world, dead fox
is the exceptional fox. Our country has
not yet been moulded to the parklike
smoothness of England and most fox
hunters will weep when il has.
As it is now the country aGords haz-
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
. Taking Fence. Monmouth County Hunt "a
Exhilarating Sport Of Fox Hunt
ing as Now Practised in America
Is Rapidly Becoming "Poor
Mans" Sport-We Are a Ma
ton Of Natural Riders

hunting interferes with his business he
lays aside his business-to return to il
from the hunting field a business man
refreshed.
As we come out of the house from break
fast a groom leads up our horses. Our
host has been out to see them while they
were breakfasting and knows to a pint
just how much they have eaten and about
how ready" they are. The groom who
has led them out mounts one after the
rest of us are up and we all sally forth.
our host and his servant riding together.
A half mile down the road the son of a
small farmer of the neighborhood joins
US at the end of lane and falls in beside
our host and his man.
Here the fiction of fox hunting as a
sport undemocratic perishes like the hc-
ton of the spoiled crops.
Still riding that half bred whale -
observes the young farmer, taking a COM
prehensive survey Of the animal our host
is riding. Il can't see them. It would be
different if you were fat man, but you're
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Poor Mans" Sport.

1t was impressed on the unprivileged
above all other considerations that fox
hunting was in the first and last place
utterly undemocratic and ruinously ex-
pensive always.
There are now score of well organ
lied hunts and scores more Of less well
organized ones in half the States Of the
Union.
Like the turkey trot," everybody's s
doing it. Let us assume ourselves as
getting out of bed betimes in the house
of any friend at any place thirty miles
or so from any large American city with
a view of attending the nearest meet;
The time Of year is autumn, when
there are no crops showing above ground
The fiction that the fox hunter is the
natural enemy of the growing crop per
ishes right here. Usually he is an
owner Of farm land himself. More than
frequently he is personally farmer. he
is also, about eight times out Of ten, a
business man in the nearby city, but Whsn
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hounds run to a scent so strong, Incl
dentially, as TO unfit them for fox hunt
ing ever after, and travel like the wind.
Only the pick Of the huntsmen and
women and the pick of the horses are up
at the finish. About half the field as a
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he whispers in her ear confdendally: -
Say 'ounds, miss. Dogs is dogs, but fox
'ounds is 'ounds first and last"
The "'ounds," trotting down the road,
followed by the n. F. H. and the whips,
come on. --
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scent to view and our pulses and ouI
horses pulses leap at the sound.
To the unaccustomed ear the amusie- Of
foxhounds on the scent suggests the tor
ment Of souls in a place accounted the
diametrical opposite of heaven. As the
time .honored phrase has it. the melody
bafHes description. One who does nei
know lmagines each and every hound be-
ing deprived of its hound life by slow
torture. for their wailing is Of the most
beartrending variety imaginable, the very
Iapotheosis of mournful and tragic lamen,
alton.
There is a fash of red coats as the
master and whips spring to their saddles
and another fash of white and black and
tan as the hounds, with their bodies close
to the earth, swarm across the road and
into the next field.
Gone away" cry twenty voices. Ever
the girl on the old pony has her hands
full now. Every horse in the company
is scrambling for the first fence. ten riders
clear 1t at bound, twenty more get away
after refusal or two, and one youns
woman crashes TO the ground as her
heavily built hunter shores through a panel
of fence, taking the solid rails with him
like matchwood. Singularly, no one goes
to the fallen girls assistance. She picks
herself up, limps after her sluggish horse,
which already is cropping the grass aheld
beyond, and she is observed to be weeping
bitterly as she comes leading him back.
The tears, however, are the tears net Of
pain, but of vexation-
Best Men" at the Check.
my fault" she cries. II shouldn't have
brought him out after hunting him only
yesterday. He gives the sweetest ride in
the world when he's hunted twice week
but one day more than that and he's the
sulkiest thing alive.
Pause here and consider yourself peer
ing into the grave of another hoary hc'
ton expressed some time back as that in
which fox hunting was considered meet
sport for those with narrow shoulder:
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ards for fox hunting that more than
make up for the deficiency in slaughter,
and it is of quality to bring out all the
courage and resourcefulness that sports
man has.
Yet a decade ago the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was
invoked in the cases of half the American
hunt clubs then in existence. Legisla'
tors who had never seen hunt passed
solemn statutes forbidding the pursuit
of fox on horseback, and the hunt clubs
affected either disbanded or turned wholly
to drag hunting. The late Peter F. Col
lier was one victim of the humane cru
sade.
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a human slate pencil. Why don't you stick
to the clean breds?"
The speaker is himself astride a strap
ping thoroughbred with shoulders like a
toboggsn slide and a pair of quarters that
look as though they could catapult the
rest of the horse over a church steeple If
necessary. His colt is rising four and
looks "a little bit above himself and then
some. A chicken crosses the road and
the colt delights his owner with an ex-
hibition of fancy dancing that would pitch
less of a horseman into the next field.
"a little short of work." announced the
young centaur,. but me for the clean
breds every time. He may run over
hounds when we get away, but he'll never
lie down under tree and 90 to sleep.
Why don't you ride one yourself, as I
asked alreadyT'
Yoick-ks Away!
Our host owns the young farmers
fathers farm, but he replies quite humbly.
I'm a married man, Dick, and I like
a little Of the cold strain under me. The
fences in this part Of the world look
higher than they used to, and sometimes
l like to sneak around one"
81 hold with Dick" chimes in the
groom, "fOr long day and a ard day
there's naught like the clear racing blood.
i always likes to see a gentleman mounted
proper, and the over the left son of cart
'orse is out o. is company in the uniting
field"
A turn in the road and before US cross
roads with perhaps forty riders, third of
them women, gathered picturesquely.
Suddenly the ears of every horse in the
company go up alertly and Farmer Dicks
chestnut colt rears like a kangaroo and
then whirls Ike dervish.
A young woman who has come with Us
to look on only, and who rides safe and
sleepy old pony, cries out in delight
"oh, there come the dossp
Tom, the groom, drops back beside her
1t is his once to take her bride rein if
by any chance the venerable pony should
remember his youth. but as he sidIes close
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
The Drag Hunt" /"

Mr.. Collier was at that time at the
head Of the Monmouth County Hunt, in
New Jersey, and kept among other cat
tie an Irish stag. which dwelt inside tie
four walls of high board enclosure and
lived luxuriously in the matter Of food
and exercise. Its exercise was had two
days a week, when it was hunted. On
these occasions it was given a mile start
before the buckhounds were lOosed on its
trail Every time 1t was sent away the
stag ran for ten miles or 50. took .
roundabout route home and ultimately
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steamship. Two of them were
listening sympathetically while
a third was telling about a son.
Hell never amount TO anything, but
it isn't his fault entirely. 1 SEM him to
the wrong school, to begin with. When
he was twelve he learned to smoke cigar
cites. Now he is going in as he says,
for fox hunting, and I've giver up hope
altogether"
Three week. ago a'party of young Eng
lshmen were in a steamship smoking
room on their way home after a winter
spent in California and Virginia. One
of them, Lord Herbert, was holding forth
to an American friend.
We hadn't an idea tlat we'd get any
sort of hunting or polo in the States, but
was amazed. 1 never saw better polo
than that played all over California, and
am coming back to Virginia some time
to hunt there again. One chap played
against in a polo match in California was
marvellous. Yet he's poor in a way, owns,
only two ponies, and didn't take up the
game until two years ago. couldn't
understand at all until 1 compIimented
him on his form, and then he explained
that he'd been riding all sorts of horses
all his life. You have an army of natural
riders in your country. We have no such
class at home, unfortunately"
An army of natural riders. A full and
complete explanation of why the ancient
and e1hilarating sport of fox hunting
the spirit of war without its guilt and
but five and twenty per GENT of its dan
GER" to quote the immortal Mr.. Jor-
rocks-has found a firm place in Ameri-
can country life and is gathering recruits
By the hour.
Twenty years ago in this country
when the national prejudice against cigar
cites was perferTid-fox hunting had a
fixed place in the card index of popular
imagination. One heard it discussed
with scorn as an alleged sport INDUCED
in by young men who rode to dogs" not
because they liked it but because they
felt they were being exclusive. They
were pictured as having narrow shout
ders and wearing No. hats. 1t was IN
derstood, of course, that irate farmers
shot pepper and salt after them as their
chargers trampled down crops and that
they took joy in the slaughter of an in
telligent animal that had never harmed
any of them, provided always that they
pursue fox at all Mostly IN the early
hunting" one was informed, they chased
an snise seed bag, a performances which
to the national mind 50 trsvested fox
hunting as to rob even that execrated
pastime of its last excuse. In the funny
papers they were pictured invariably as
falling of their horses and running away
from the for