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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-19
VALUE OF FORESTS PROVED
In Addition TO Conserving IA. mall,
They Are Of Other Aids to Is
Agriculture. II

While the rainfall Of any region IL
dependent on dynamic influences in
the atmosphere, and can be affected
only In q very slight degree, II at all,
by the eiteut Of that region covered
by forests, It has certainly been shown
that woods and forests conserve rain.
fall. The briefest consideration indi.
Gates the likelihood that this must be
so, because vegetation and the ground
covered with vegetation absorb water
and allow 1t to percolate slowly to the
lower levels. whereas on bare ground
the rainwater runs quickly away to
sea. But trees serve another purpose
in aid Of agriculture; because. AZ some
recent experiments show, thoy act as
windbreaks and shelters to growing
crops. The distance to which the pro-
.ective influence Of trees extends fl
estimated at twenty times their
height, though complete protection,
such an might be afforded to growing
wheat in gale, extends only to dis
lance eight times tho height Of the
trees. Partial protection IL about
twelve to fourteen times the height.
They also check evaporation Of rain
tall, their influence extending Ave
times their height to Windward and
eighteen times to leeward, and pre-
servo as much as 70 per cent Of mois-
ture ordinarily lost. Finally, their
Influence heats both air and soil, in
oreasing the diurnal range Of temper
ature By as much a. nine degrees
Fahrenheit
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-19
colo CIRCLE IS
!. An E1vE CAMP

While little news has been com.
ing out Of Gold Circle. in northern
Nevada. Of late. yet the camp !.
giving every evidence Of making
itself felt in the states production
in the Gear future in q way which
is likely to surprise q good many
people. says the Salt Lake Herald.
Republican. Below are q few
extracts from "A private letter
received in Salt Lake the past week
from a mining man whose manner
of :. handling the, camp is proof
positive that he knows, what he is
talking about. He says:
1.-THE Delvoir deal went through.
The first payment was made August
60 The Primeaux and Wilkerson
was also taken over by the same
parties from Oregon. A contract
has b. en- let to drift and run a
cross cut tunnel. Car and track
came in todsy. -, 49,,
..'Quite a few deals and number
of changes have taken place. here
lately. The Colorado randes was
sold for $75. 900 over 3. year ago.
The Eastern Star went for SIS. 900.
1t was sold again. the control
passing on a basis of 100000.
1.-THE Elko Prince strike was just
a year ago, and it now is said to
have 100000 blocked out. The
Rex has sent out 500. 900 in bullion
during the last twelve months.
The Esmeralda deal is off. 1t was
for 100000. The mill is complet-
ed aud will start dropping stamps
this month. 1t has 5000 tons of
ore on the dump blocked out which
will average 500 tor.
1.-THE Judge has $4,000 of ore
blocked out. This deal is un:
certain, although the promoter says
he thinks it will go through. The
Sleeping Beauty is working few
men. 1t is rumored that it may
start mill.
THE Geyman mill is being COM
pleted. 1t is expected to add a
cyanide plant and a sampler. The
Golden Chariot also has been
bonded. Several leases have been
let on the Ksish and one on the
Hillside and Midas. ..> re!
"The lease On the Missing Link
is down fifty feet. The men are
now drifting and have taken out
twenty-five tons of $40 ore. The
expect to have run made as soon
as the custom mill is built" 3"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-19
WHEN THEY WENT BACK HOME
Humorlst Records Some Surprises
That Attended the ooeasIon Of
Popular Celebration. "'o- -

During recent Old Home Week in
An. upstate village the. following
Observation-Disclosures" were
In attendaneS: g. r,.--.. ,a,, -.
John Wilson Clarke, who was al.
ways too lazy to do the chores came
up from New York In his big seven.
passenger car. On account Of press.
Ing. work he could stay but N few
hours. /: .-.-,r.. ... c,r-t n >,,.
Ex-Gov. Silby Kirkwood, who was
naturally thick-headed and hait-baked
In his youth. stopped over In his prt.
yate car to, see his old home, tirn -
DR.. Willis G. Dyer, ono Of tho best.
known surgeons in the country; called
the town fool when q boy, dropped In
and left enough money for : . town
library, e...-,.. -. Ia. .~o,.
Miss Caroline Jensen Atwood. too
stupid to learn, In tho old. rcd school.
house. now . popular authoreSs, and
playwright visited her relatives; 81.
stCharlie Druks, the eSpendthrift, shut
up his Wall street once long enough
to attend. ... c.e
One Of the most noticeable features
OF the whole celebration Waso the alb
sence OF the men and wowsn, who
gave much promise Of originality and
worth during their youth, -"
Lack Of memory in. their old age ac-
colntg for the fact that not one OF the
old fogies present ever said anything
but good Of anybody, including tho
successful boys present. Don. Cam
eroh Shaier In Judge. tE' -
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-19

was "a times the tax on real estate
in New York City. the congressman
showed that during the first three
months Of this year, when the crop
shortage made necessary large inn
portations of potatoes from Scot
land. Americans paid $ls,733 in
tariff taxes on potatoes every day.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-19
TARIFF CHAMBER
o.! IIf NIIkkIIkS1
=.

A recent New York dispatch
says: -
New Workers are flocking to a
big; free show these days in crowds
that are making all the theatrical
managers green with envy. The
new attraction is the Tariff Exhibit
or Tariff Chamber of Horrors
opened in a big store on Union
Square under the auspices of the
Democratic National Committee.
On the first day of the. exhibit
nearly 10000 persons crowded In
and since then steady throng has
filed in and out of the place.
1t has been a cosmopolitan
crowd. There are Jews and Italians
from the East Side, an army of
clerks and salaried men, and
women BY the score. Now and
then an automobile runs up and
some prosperous looking folks pile
out and mingle with the throng.
The center of attraction is the
model fat, fully equipped, with lis
kitchea, dinin9-room and bedroom.
Tbs &fowds linger about the flat
and study the different articles in
common use. each Of which is
labeled with its price and the
tariff tax which shows why the arti-
cles costs more than it should. On
ithe household articles the tariff
taxes range from 25 to 65 per
cent, and on the clothing display
ed-for the fat is inhabited by q
small family of wax dummies
from so to 80 per cent.
Z But the things that attract most
Jattention are baby carriage and
q crib, on which the tariff tax is 45
per cent. and some baby clothes,
on which the consumer gets stunR
with a tariff tax of 80 per cent.
The women are particularly struck
with these articles and express
great indignation at what they call
quitting a shameful tax on the
babies"
II don't know much about
politics." declared one woman, after
studying the model fiat for half
an hour" "but I'm going right
home to my husband, who is a re-
publican and tell him he must vote
for Wilson or IL babies and !
will 70 on strike"
Another article that attracts
much attention is a dotted swiss
dress The material male in New
England, costs $2.75 in the United
States and only S1.87 in England,
because Of the high tariff.
Congressman William c. Red6eld
the democratic tariff expert, made
a big hit at one Of the MONDAY
meetings at the Exhibit, with q
basket of potatoes. After pointing
out that the tariff tax on potatoes
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-19
Newspaper ana MaasRlns.

The daily newspaper 10 the quick
aring gun; but besides It's advantages
In tlmeliness and local and personal
Interest, II has crystalized into q ne.
oessity, while the magazine still re-
mains In the luxury eolumn.-yrank
A. Munsey.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
Disease Not Yet Under
Control.

Scientists have made strides in discovering
the origin and of various diseases during quarter of
century that the warning uttered by DR. Simon in his re-
address in London with something of a shock
The idea that the problems of infection almost solved said
DR. Fexner in his Huxley lecture Charng hospital Lon
don Some advance has been made science is m
making progress but Dr. Fexner clearly indicates that the v
have only scratched the surface greater PROGRESS
must be made before nfcve diseases said be under
control
The mavels Of scientific discoveries have blinded e
eye the ayman who in his ignorance believes because the Germ
of disease found and isolated that thereby disease itself is
fair toward being cured Dr. Fexer points
out that this far from the only are the vast
of nfecve diseases under but modern civic methods
crowdng human beings together without proper sanitary guards
making the danger serious.
The solution of the problem Fexner is through the
schools o. investigation Rockefeller and Car
negie foundations These laboratories vast sums at their dis
posal and with trained specialists work ON vital problems are
bringing to the world results of nestmab value And tb, in
time science will find the Of controlling the dread m Of
human flesh
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25

a MAN with democracy in his
~ bones is sure to show it in
his business as well as in his
politics.
Golden Rule" Jones, who was
mayor of Toledo for several terms
as we'll as being a manufacturer
OF excellent oil pumps-made a
great stir in his day, just because
he had some faint inkling of the
truth that good business and real
democracy are Commensurate
terms. Jones was interesting be-
cause he was forever seeking new
ways Of applying democracy to his
business, and was continually dis
covering that his politics were i'm
proved in the process.
Jones has left a lingering mem
DRY of his pioneering exploits in
these untrodden ways. 1t was a
great thing to discover, even in
vague outline the prodigious and
transforming truth that the princi-
pies Of sound business are identi-
cal with those of sound politics.
However, it is the compelling
task of living men to fill in the
outline-and to realize, in detail
and in extenso the busSnesslike
character of good politics.
Now, business is in its essential
nature an organization of the peo-
pie to wrest the necessaries. COM
forts and elegances of life from the
bosom of the earth. Such an or
ganization, under modern condi-
tons of high tool power and the
division of labor, is bound TO be
very strong-even when it is imper-
feet in its human adjustments and
unfair in its apportionment of re-
wards. 1t is strong with the
strength Of elemental forces-as
strong as chemistry and physics
and as the primal hunger and need
of man.
1t is not TO be wondered at, there
fore. that the business organization
in the United States has, in recent
times, shown itself to be stronger
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
This Means You
BY MORTON BIRGE.

no your Christmas shopping
Friend,
With the joy that you intend
Shall go with the gifts you send.
Also-do it early
Don't put off your shopping trips
Till the final moment nips
Making haste and making slips
Do your shopping early.
Do it while there's time to spare.
Do it easy here and there,
Buying thoughtfully, with care.
Do your shopping early.
Do not De frantic pest.
Go in when the goings best.
Give the clerks a chance to rest. =
DO your shopping early.
Heaven has special place
For the people. full OF grace,
Who, 10 benefit the race.
Do their shopping early.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25

mensely proud of the man who ac-
complished that stupendous task.
1t is true, as has been said a
thousand times and from as MANY
quarters, that Wellington was very
lucky. If it had not rained on the
night Of the seventeenth of June.
1915; If it had not been for the
straying away OF Grouchy; if it had
not been for the timely arrival Of
Observation-Disclosures would not
have figured to any great extent in
history-would not have had that
wonderful London funeral.
However, as another has well
said, This man had the good for
tune to meet with good fortune
where the greatest man in the world
was unfortunate" Luck was on his
side, and he Won
What vexes me most" contin-
ues Heine. lis the reflection that
Arthur Wellington will be as i'm
mortal as Napoleon Bonaparte
Wellington and Napoleon! 1t is a
wonderful phenomenon that the HUI
man mind can at the same time
think of both these names"
Very fine sarcasm, but the simple
fact remains that Arthur yelling
ton was the means Of putting Ma
poleon out Of business thereby Civ
ing Europe the blessings of peace,
and for doing that he deserved
every bit Of the honor that came to
b.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
Democracy and Business
BY CHARLES FERGUSON.

than the political organization-the
government. 1t is no wonder that
those who have power-legitimate
or otherwise-to control the organ
ization of business have OVermas-
tered the political Representatives
of the people and have reduced
them to a kind of vassalage. 1t was
hardly to be expected that the cast
ing of votes in pox once year
would overbalance the force OF
financial surpation-which works
perennially day and night ana
which holds in it's hands the cup
board, wardrobe and rooftree OF
every household.
The secret of the power Of busl-
ness is the hold that it maintains
upon the physical realities Of liIa'
And the secret of the weakness o.
politics is it's pitiful lack OF an!
such hold.
If, therefore, the political organ
ization of society is ever going 70
dictate terms to the business or
ganization, politics must mend I's
ways 1t must get down to ouS''
ness. The indispensable need Oh
the times is a political organiza-
tion. that shall have an eartN'
hold.
An effective democratic party
capable of working out a recuhC@'
tion or characterization OF DUST
ness-would be a party with an u
ganization in local communities d.
permanent as a public schoo. anu
perhaps centering in the scIloo'
house. 1t should make a man S u5
mocracy in his business ana "''
days work the test of his demoela-
cy in politics. 1t should offer pom"
cal promotion to every man in pro.
portion to his private promotloH 80
the public welfare in his dallN '"0'-
OF head and hand.
There can hardly be quest'o.
that when a political machine sl'1'
become businesslike in such q la a.,
ion it will put every extant POM
cal machine out of business
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
Working Great Changes.

Working Great Changes.
In the course of time, however,
these things lived their day and
died their death, and then we had
the sweetest smelling combination
that was ever gathered in one par
ticuIar barrel-aber ntcht!
Pure water does not decompose.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
Wellington's Funeral

TT HE public funeral of the Duke
of Wellington, which took
place in London sixty years
ago, was, as regards pomp and
pageantry, the most remarkable
farewell that nation ever gave to
q "favorite son.
II is probably true that no hero
in all the tide of time was ever re
warded" as Wellington was by the
people of England. Gold was show
cred upon him without stint or
measure; honors were thrust upon
him until he could scarcely count
them. and when he died, at the age
Of eighty three, every hair of his
white head was almost sa-
cred in the eyes Of his adoring
countrymeu.
Nor is it at an difficult TO find
the explanation of EngIand's pride
in and devotion to her Iron Duke"
1t was no small thing to have
been the conqueror OF Napoleon.
The mighty man who had made all
Europe tremble for twenty years,
who had played with its kings as
little boys play with puppets, who
had scattered the armies OF the ma
tons as the whirlwind scatters the
dried leaves and dust, and who in
the midst Of it all had seemed to he
irresistible and unconquerable-to
have brought such man to his
knees, torn the crown from his
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY

brow and sent him, stripped of his
power to die on a lone rock in the
distant seas was piece OF work
that was well calculated to attract
attention and elicit applause.
Any nation would have been i'm
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25

oeen at least one such period of
excessive severity, and it is this
period which is usually meant by
THE glacial age. It's existence,
too, can be accounted for by as
tronomy for it is known that there
are other variations in the move
ment and position of the earth in
its orbit around the sun, which,
at long and somewhat irregular in
tervals, produce a period of Elk"
treme cold in our hemisphere, when
perhaps a half of it is permanently
buried by ice.
1t may be added that. at the
present time, the Southern Hemi-
sphere has q long, cold winteE and
a short, hot summer, which may
possibly account for the greater
prevalence of ice in the far south
ern seas, but the effect Of these
changes is less pronounced in that
part of the world because, as you
will see by CHANGING at a map Of
the world, the southern is emphat-
ically an oceanic instead of a land
hemisphere, and the ocean is
known to exercise great effect
in equalizing temperatures. Con-
sequently, it is probable the south
ern lands have never suffered as
severely as those of the north from
periodic invasions Of ice.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25

THREE- FIFTHS Of the surface
of the earth is covered with
water The world seems very
much better adapted to raising fish
than men. although man in his eX'
istence passes through an aqueous
stage. and to degree he never
gets out of it.
His body is made up Of seventy
nine per cent water. Water is the
great source of transmission and
transportation. The circulation of
the fluids in the body feeds the
tissues. The circulation of water
means weather, climate and all veg
etahle and animal life. The flow of
one thing into another is what con-
stitutes all life, and the CHIEF agent
in this eternal flow is water.
Water in the System.
Reduce the quantity Of water in
mans body below seventy per
cent and the man dies. Increase it
over etghty-two per cent and the
man has dropsy, eiephantiasis,
Bright's disease, diabetes or some
of those other cheerful things that
the surgeons have recently invent
ed and presented to US.
4 gentleman from Kentucky, we
remember. once said, Water is
great stuff for bathing in"
Water. we are told, is made up Of
one part hydrogen and two parts
oxygen. But water is very seldom
found pure. If we could get water
exactly as it is condensed from the
atmosphere in the skies, and then
liberate it by natures short circuit
scheme. otherwise known as the
thunderbolt, we would have pure
water. But on the descent OF wa
ter from the skies it takes up many
Impurities from the air. SO we get
the rain water, which we used to
CdlCu III d bdllGI a. Tic NNAtiSA -
the house, with the help Of board
under the caves. When we saw
shower coming we ran for that par
ticular board. And we all remember
how, if that barrel of rain water
was not emptied every little while.
it became full of fifty-seven million
varieties of pollywogs, bugs, and
microbes.
Working Great Changes.
In the course of time, however,
these things lived their day and
died their death, and then we had
the sweetest smelling combination
that was ever gathered in one par
+io,,Io,, no ,.reI--ahpr Tirbtf
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25
Just Water
Bv EBERT HUBBARD
Copyright 1912, by international 1~ews Service

But in nature things are never
found pure. Even virtue, We are
told. is usually bit off color. Hon
esty is a matter of geography. Nor
atty takes a tumble when you get
the figures high enough. And we
are all on the creased chute for the
he'll box If the Reverend Doctor
F'orthley is correct in his diagnosis
The precious metals are never
found pure. To separate the good
from the bad, the useful from the
dangerous-this is the task of mod
ern science.
BY the use of electricity in smelt-
ing, mountains of refuse are now
giving up their treasure of GOLD,
silver and copper, where before the
stuff was regarded as an incubus.
The Stag from iron sInelters is be.
ing utilized for Portland cement.
The great packing houses make
their money from the by products
and the Standard Oil Company is
touching us fifteen cents a gallon
for an article which, ten years ago,
was a y-product and went a-beg-
ging at two cents a gallon.
The miracles Of science are work
ing great changes. Among them
all nothing is more wonderful than
the elimination of water from rub
Der by vacuum process.
Always Going Somewhere.
Heat and water are the great dis
integrators. Oxygen is never at
rest. oxygen is at once the source
of life and the cause Of death
The scientists tell US that death
itself is form Of life, and that
things are destroyed in order that
new life may evolve. This is inter
esting to the theorists, but it gives
a chill to the dealers in rubber and
the manufacturers who prepare
this very useful product for the
use of the people.
Water and heat disintegrate, de-
stroy and dissipate. Oxygen etern-
ally eats the heart out of every
thing, even an iron bar. Oxygen is
restless tireless, Unsuitable, hungry,
It utilizes water as a means Of
transportation. Water Is always
going somewhere-or coming back.
And if you think it is standing still
1t is because you do not see that il
is being aborbed into the atmos-
phere.
All vegetable matter contains
big percentage of water This wa
ter is the disintegrating element
that sends the vegetable fiber back
into Natures melting pot
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-25

your active life
How many readers make any of those hours and
feel each day that they have been well spent?
Instead Of being wasted those hours should your
best Never mind you cngng strap compa
MES licensed to exploit you Never mind you tired and
weary when the day is ended The brain often thinks
ter than the fresh one And recently descended from the
monkey who had to think while hanging head down, ought
have trouble thinking he hangs from his saphead up
Try this experiment: Make up your mind devote your
hours of travel to thinking The like muscles
definite and wepnned exercise 1t be- methodca
regular There limit its possible
glad spend all your travelling a gymnasium
wheels Make of your homeward mental gymnasium Each
night morning take line Of thought and follow
it its end-or far your you to OBJ
to study to reflect Don't look your passengers
calves look at each other the way the slaughter
Look, a human being a other human beings There
they sit stand hang Some chatter others scow
fume complain brag grin express strange
tions that here.
They all ghosts Carlyle tells you imprisoned FOR
time in coverings of flesh and packed ghosts
passing the earth their quick journey the grave ought
to stir you.
The pictures that flash by your help you
think
The train rmbes the switches, and II the dusk
swinging lantern tells you is at work. guiding YOU
safely when your work is done Can't you take
that human representing the Power that swings our tiny
in space lighting journey the constela-
ton Hercules?
black steeple outlined against the darbue
evening That finger of stone by to point ever
lastngly toward Infinite Power 1t points upward In
twelve boursas the earth slowly trnsit will be pointing
"downward But there is upward the car
pentry Of the universe In the twenour hours
around with the EARTH that seepe points all the corners
space and constantly points toward Wisdom aud
Justice III every
This resome? All right then Wen stop. But whether
We tire or interest you, remember:
AS thinks, he grows. Think study use all be
hours that separate croupy cradle from your gloomy
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