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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-29
AVOIDING Danoor.

sA!ahs. I can not cook" said she,
And hcaved n doIeful sigh.
y ?ttfe care. my dear" said he,
JuSt so you do not try" .-..---.,...
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-29
A Mean Hint,

rs Julia's golden hair natural7"
'tIo much 30 that It takes an expert
70 know Il isn't her own"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
IRELAND'S WEALTH IN PEAT

south or west OF Ireland in the sum
mer get a Whit of the countryside in
their own drawing rooms in Dublin
during the winter by using turf In
stead Of coal in their fires. There are
quite a number of houses OF which this
is true, not only in Dublin, but even
In so-called Orange Belfast.
However, all this consumption OF
peat is a mere tritie compared with
the consumption OF coal. What is now
being discussed is the possibility OF
using peat as q substitute for coal.
Ireland would be tho Weather by
thousands of millions Of dollars II It's
peat bogs could be turned to account
on a sound commercial basis. The
area Of bog In Ireland Is nearly 1000.
900 acres, or about s per cent. of the
surface OF the country. The Bog OF
Allen stretches across the great cen.
trail plain, and In the west OF ireland
there are districts in which peat coy
ers from 20 to 80 per cent. OF the en-
tire surface.
Most OF this peat area IL at present
lying waste, Two or three companies
make peat moss litter in comparative.
ly small quantities. and in very re.
mote districts the turf is cut and used
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

Ipswich man, show distinctly primitive ana sohe-
what simian characteristics. The Implements
which they made are also OF a more Simple 'Sp'
than those found in the riyer-terrace graVeis'
which are nevertheless more ancient. Ihereiore'
If We are to judge of the type of man from the I'M
plements he made, the earlier river-drift man was
of a more advanced type than the later Mouste-
rian or Neanderthal man. The famous find at
Galley Hill of portions of a human skeleton IN
the very ancient 100-foot terrace Of the Thames
has proved this to be true; for here we have a
type of skull which is by no means degraded, and
associated with flint implements which show an
advanced civilization.
Thus the evidence Of the fints and the evidence
of the human bones are in entire agreement;
but the 100foot terrace Of the Thames at Upmin-
ster. in Essex, rests upon, and is therefore less
ancient than, the chalky boulder clay, and under
this boulder clay at Ipswich a modern type OF
man has been found! And yet not quite modern,
for the Ipswich mans tibia, or s%h!n.bone, Is differ
ent in every way from ours, and not only ours,
but from any which have hitherto been found or
described. This peculiar tibia, which, as PROBES
sor Keith says, represents a stage In evolution,
and will serve to distinguish the race to which
this man belonged, was no doubt associated with
his manner of walking, but at present it is i'm
possible to say exactly what this association was.
The finding Of a modern type of man below the
chalky boulder clay is, as has been suggested, at
first sight rather puzzling, but the dexterously
faxed implements which have been found in the
older middle-glacial gravels, and the still much
older detrttus bed below the red crag, make the
discovery much more easy to understand. The
outstanding fact about this discovery is that even
at such an immensely remote period as that pre-
cesing the deposition of the chalky boulder clay,
modern man was already evolved, and that to find
the primitive human type we shall have to carry
our investigations back into a still more dim and
distant past.
The Neanderthal man of the earlier Ice Age Is
the oldest known E%uropeon. OF this type Prof.
Arthur Keith in ancient Types of Man" says:
1--WE know now that the men who lived in
Europe during the earlier and greater part Of the
Glacial Period-one estimated to have extended
over a period Of from 0 $1,000 to 100000 years
were of the Neanderthal type. A comparl.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

modern leSiee VI ue-
velopment in the Neanderthal type tower 1000
CO.; indeed, 1880 &C. is usually accepted as an
average for modern man. The earliest trace OF
the Neanderthal type of man yet found was dis
covered in the valley of the Neckar, some siR
miles above Heidelberg. Only q lower
jaw was found The Heidelberg man had
a massive Jaw. One can be absolutely
certain that the head form Of the Heidelberg man
was of the Neanderthal shape. In the
manner of head txation Neanderthal man retains
a distinct trace of the anthropoid form. Z.
The earliest trace of the skeleton of man yet
found In Europe must be assigned to a period
which carries us back many hundred thousands
Of years. Yet even at that early date we
find man already evolved, british perhaps In ap
pearance, savage, no doubt, in his nature-yet
large-brained, erect in posture, and in every sense
OF the biologist-a man"
OF the type known as Pithecanthropus erectus,
called the missing link" DR.. w. J. Sollas in
Ancient Hunters says:
DIR. Eugene Dubois, who had left Holland for
Java with the avowed intention Of finding the
missing link discovered in September, 1891, a
molar tooth the wisdom tooth of Pithecan-
thropus e%rectus; later the cranial vault, or
the skullcap, was found. The thigh bone
Of the left leg was found lying fifty feet away
from the spot where the first tooth was obtained,
but still on the same horizon, and finally, in Octo-
Der 1892, another molar tooth. A de-
~scription Of the remains of Pithecanthropus has
been published by DR.. Dubois. All are
agreed that they indicate an animal bearing a
close resemblance to men and apes. Some re-
gard Pithecanthropus as an ape with certain
human characters; others as a man with evident
simian characters; others as q connecting
link midway between man and the higher apes.
The suggestion has even been made that the re-
mains are those of a unacceptable idiot.
That which distinguishes man from all the beasts
Of the fold is the power and complexlty Of his
mind. Thus the chief interest in the
Trinil fossil attaches to the s~kull-cap, or BRAIN
pan this is certainly more simian than
human. The animal has been fttingIy
designated Pithecanthropus erectus-the ape
man who walked erect"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
NIpsIc, Of Civil War Fame, Out.
lives Her Usefulness Even as a
Naval Prison Vessel.

Seattle--The old war vessel Nip.
sic, for many years the prison ship
Of the Puget Sound navy yard. has
been condemned as unsanitary and
will be sold at auction and broken
up. She will be succeeded as a prison
vessel by the cruiser Philadelphia,
built In 1883.
The Nipslc has a historic record.
The side-wheeler was built In 1863 and
was in the South Atlantic blockade
squadron during the Civil war. In
July. 1882, the Nipsic, in company
with the Lancaster, Q~uinnebaug and
Gaiena, was present at the lombard.
ment of Alexandria, Egypt. by the
British feet.
The old timers career was nearly
ended during the two days hurricane
at Apia, Samoa. in March, 1889. The
war craft was driven ashore and seven
of her men lost In the tempest. A
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
Country Has Abundant Supply in
Its Boys.
Attention 10 Turned TO II az Result Of
Coal strike-May Result In De.
velopment Of Resources
Now Little Used.

Dublin,-The coal strike in Great
Britain has sent up the price of coal
to such an extent in Ireland that the
idea of turning to peat fuel as a sub
stitute for coal is being seriously con
sidered. A considerable quantity OF
turf is consumed In Dublin at present,
not indeed as an alternative to coal,
but as an auxiliary to 1t. The poor
use It instead Of frewood to light their
fires in the morning, and 1t ts also
used chiefly by bacon curers. who
find that turf smoked bacon has an
agreeable favor. A new aesthetic
taste also accounts for the consump-
ton of a further small quantity.
Many Dublin people who nave been
caught by the glamor OF the Irish Ian.
guage movement and have spent holi-
days in Irish speaking districts in the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

Il took her to kill her" the pris-
oner, Nikolai Ratkewitseh, told the
court. The evidence. says Reuter-,
showed that the accused %stranglod
the girl in his room at an hotel, and
afterwards inflicted thirty-ive knife
wounds on her body. He wrote in his
diary an analysis Of his feelings be.
fore and after the crime, and he
pinned to the wall an account of his
terrible deed, signed "Vadim, the
Vampire" in which he asserted that
he was the author OF a similar muir.
der at another hotel a year ago.
Inquiries, however, proved that some
time back, when Ratkewitsch had
hung n rope round his neck and was
about to commit suicide, a pagser-by--
a man Of criminal instincts--saved
him, formed a close friendship with
him. and lnculcated him with his own
horrible Ideas about numbering wo-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

London.--A grim document has
G Issued from the local govern.
ment board. 1t recorded the deaths
In 1910 In England and Wales OF III
persons from starvation or "accelerat.
ed by prfvation," and It furnished de-
tails of each case. The saddest thing
In connection with these tragedies is
disclosed by the following sentences:
In 80 out OF the Ill cases no appli.
cation had been made for poor relief
or application was only made when
deceased was In a dying condition.
Most Of the poor victims would die
rather than beg"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

material, When the bones were reached 1t was
found that they were in such a friahle state as to
necessltate the strata In which they lay being
aug up in large Jumps; and as 1t was of the
greatest importance to have them at once placed
IN the hands of experts, they were forwarded the
same evening to the Royal College Of Surgeons,
London, where they we're most carefully and
sKiifully examined by Prof. Arthur Keith, the con-
serVator of the college. During the next week the
strata each side Of the place where the skeleton
was found were examined and reported on by Mr..
w. Whitaker, FRS, DR.. j. e.. Mari, FRS, and
MT George Slater, FIGS. The chalky boulder
gay, under which the bones were lying, covers an
immense area in East Anglia, and Is a landmark
III Fleistocene geology. 1t owes its origin to the
0esheet associated with the last episode Of the
great Ice Age, and its antiquity may be gagged
IRON the fact that since its deposition most Of
our present river valleys have been formed. Be-
oe the chalky boulder clay was laid down there
was apparently a sandy land-surface to the north
VI Ipswich, and on this land-surface lived the man
whose remains have been found. The flint imple-
ments he and his associates made, which we're,
no doubt, lying on the land-surface before the ad-
,ance OF the ice, have been found in some album
sauce IN the boulder clay, and at the junction Of
= cay with the glacial sand, and, therefore, at
sN"ctiy the same horizon as the bones themselves
s.uFed' THESE implements, and those from the
uhueflying middleglacial gravel, though very
aAlluiiy made. are of pre-Palaeolithic forms, and
Lere IS no doubt that in pre-boulder clay times
- Fue Palaeolithic stage of culture had not been
reached.
it the man who lived in Britain in the inter.
stacial period before the boulder clay was laid
soNn' and who is, therefore, of a vast and I'M
nno"h antiquity, was to all intents and purposes
tl3uefn man. He stood about s feet 10 inches in
ao.snt; his head was perhaps a trife smaller and
no.,er than present-day examples, but there was
"V,nlug brutal or simian in his appearance.
NOW the Neanderthal men whose remains have
~ W frequently found in caves and rock shelters
H. T. Il south OF France and elsewhere, and who
ny IN these districts in mid-Palaeolithic times,
A1 are therefore, much less ancient than the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
SUPPORT TOWN
AnchoVy Found in Large Quanti-
ties in Holland.
Fact Is Not Widely known-supposl.
ton That Mediterranean Sea Has
Monopoly Of Industry Is Err.
roneous.

The Hague, Holland.-The coat OF
arms OF Enkhuizeu. one Of the dead
cities of the Zuyder zee, bears three
silver fishes, which, II is explained.
are a%nchovies; far Enkhuizeu owed
a great part OF its prosperity to the
anchoyy fisheries.
II is generally supposed that the
anchovy Is caught exclusively In the
Mediterranean sea. so II as a
surprise to most people to heal that
It is so largely caught off the coasts
OF Holland. Dutch fishermen have
been familiar for ages with the fact
that the anchovy comes up In great
shoals at certain times Of the year
and enters the Zuyder zee to spawn.
There have, however. been consider.
able lapses Of time when no a~nchuvies
at all appeared, and when It was
feared that the DuSh fisher folk bad
lost their means OF earning n liyeli.
hood, then, suddenly. without any ap.
parent reason, the shoals OF fish again
became regular visitors. These last
few years the anchoyy has been par,
ticularly plentiful. Many a 2uyder zee
fisherman has made his living for the
whole year during the anchovy sea.
son, which lasts from six TO eight
weeks, and as much as l,OOU forins
t$4OO) worth have been known 10 be
taken In a single day.
Formerly the method OF caDtprinr n
shoal OF anchovy consisted in stretch.
Ing an enormous net with small mesh.
es between two boats. This net
touched the sea bottom. Then the
boats hoisted sail and the more wind
mere was the better pleased were the
IlShermen' They sailed on for a while
ana then when the net was lifted IT
contained thousands of silvery fishes.
Later on they preferred to fish with
stationary nets, because more fish
cou'a De caught in that way. Each
fisherman places his own nets in a
certain part Of the sea, and after a
"hlIe comes TO see whether they have
been filled with fish.
aHcnoVy brings plenty Of work
Tor many another category of fersons
IMAM the regular fishermen. For the
Isn nave to be cleaned, sailed and
packed into casks. The cleaning is
oone almost exclusively by women and
children, the sailing occupies the
'saiter' and the making of the MANY
casks employs a little army OF coon.
ers' Then the packing is also done
by experienced hands in such n way
that the anchovy can be kept for many
years without spelling.
The herring fishers also often 90.
cure millions of anchoyy near the
coasts of Holland. For as soon as
they perceive a shoal coming their
way they will fix anchovy netting into
their herring nets, and so often Sc.
cure almost miraculous hauIs.
The anchovy is a small fish. the full
grown specimen being only fifteen cen.
timeters $50 inches) long. The back
OF this fish is blush and the under
parts are white, glistenlng like silver
in the sunshine.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

Al fuel by the farmers. With the ex.
coDtion Of the more or less artificial
use Of turf already referred to. these
are the only uses to which peat is ap-
piled In Ireland.
The methods OF preparing peat for
fuel are very primitive and would
have to be changed completely to
make peat fuel a real competitor with,
coal. An attempt was made some
years ago TO make turf %briquettes, but
the scheme. though 1t promised well,
did not turn out as successfully as
was expected and the company, like
the turf Itself, crumbled to pieces. The
moisture was squeezed out Of the peat
by compression and the briquettes
when fresh seemed TO be just the
thing that was wanted, but whatever
defect there vas In the preparation OF
them they we're not able to stand the
knocking about they got In the rail-
road wagons and canal boats.
The problem OF making peat
briquettes that can travel by train
without falling to pieces has, however.
since been solved in Sweden and in
other countries and this fact has given
encouragement to lrishmen to take
the matter up again. The coal strike
has brought the question within the
range OF practical things as nothing
else could have done.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

It, or you may leave 1t. 1t does not
force itself rudely where 1t is not
wanted. 1t is reverent to all tempers
to all points of view. But it Is willful
the very wind in the comings and
goings Of its influence, an uncaptur-
able fugitive, visiting our hearts at
vagrant, sweet moments; since even
before the greatest works Of art we
often stand without being able quite
to lose ourselves! That restful oblivion
comes, VIC never quite know when
and 1t is gonel But when 1t comes. it
is a spirit lowering with cool wings
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
CALL LONG HATPIN A CRIME
Nav Orleans Ordinance Forblds Tsose
Which P%rotrude More Than One
Inch From the Grown.

New Decentralization any wo'
man in New Orleans who wears a hat
pin protruding more than one inch
from the crown of her hat will be sub
ieet to arrest, according to an ordi.
nance which passed the city council
last night. The new law is the result
n, a war waged on the
lengthy hat pins by the members of
thn Era Cluh.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

Pittsfeld, Mass-Mrs. Mary Muir.
phy. a rag cutter in the Rising Paper
mill, at Housatonic, was cutting up
old hosiery for paper stock when, in
a silk stocking, she felt a small roll,
which proved to be $50 in $40 bills.
Some wearer Of the silk hose had
made the stocking a purse and forgot
all about the money when the hose
was discarded.
Mrs, Murphy is a widow and the
end IA to her a big blessing.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
Wake re Miles Asleep.

LakevleW, OreS Miss Nellie Porter,
twenty years old. arose from her bed
and while still asleep walked ten
miles. and was found at 8 O'Clock in
the morning, when she fell exhausted
upon the porch Of the Glidden resi-,
dence in New Pine Creek, fifteen miles
south Of here.
She did not know how she had
reached the Glidden home. The last
she remembered vas going to bed at
the home of the family for whom she
worked, three miles away. Her tracks
were followed through tho fields,
woods, over rocks and through creeks
which she had forded.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
Junk Shops to Have Craft

week later she was floated and headed
for Honolulu for repairs. The passage
I the Hawaiian port was made with
Jury rudder, deformed screw and with
all the outside keel gone and the hull
leaking badly. The Nipsic is built of
wood and contains much valuable oak
n walnut as Well as copper and
brass trimmings.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

The writing on the paper is quite
legible, although in places it is faded
somewhat and the old style writing
also has a tendency to make the writ
ing hard to read, but as a whole the
document is in a fine state of preser-
walton for one of its age. The docu-
ment was dated October is, 1906
Portland Press.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
VADIM THE VAMPIRES DIARY
Russian Who Calmly Searched In
Street for a Girl to KIN Stays
One In Hotel.

st. Petersburg.-How a young man
who called himself "Vadim, the Yam.
pre-" wrote out an account of the
crime he intended to commit and then
calmly walked into the street In
search of a girl victim was told at a
remarkable murder trial which has
Just concluded here.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

an ieIioW with age and beginning to
"n apart where 1t had been folded
Afly los years ago, a real estate
slef was recorded at Cumberland
Rnl! registry recently by A. H.
ay OF Freeport, who found the
~ meht after a long search among
mi. papers in his possession. 1t is
NJ hkely that never before in the
s,ssfy or the county has LOG years
tn sea' as In this case, between the
M mat a deed was passed and the
"ue that it was recorded.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

son Of the caIvaria Of
the Neanderthal skull
with the correspond
ing part Of the Galley
Hill man will bring
out It's peculiar fea-
lures. Both are very
long skulls, the Ne"
anderthal being 203
nm, the Galley Hill
some 2 nm. more
. The great size
of the s~upra-orbital
torus gives the fore
head Of the n
thai man a receding
appearance. ,
It is a striking fact
that the brain had
reached, as regards
size, more than a
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

blessing us, from least to greatest, ac-
cording to u powers; a spirit death
less and varied as human life itself
John Galesworthy in the Atlantic.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

A mar rises in his own estimation
when he settles down, and in the est.
nation Of his creditors when he set
tlea nm
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

Nearly every college graduate starts
out to set the world on fire, but it
seldom causes the insurance people
to sit up and take notice.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

men. The teacher committed a muir
der and escaped, and the pupil com
mitted another and was arrested.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
Simply Waiting.

"Dibbs is a confirmed pessimist."
Are you sure of that"
Quite sure. He says he expects to hear any
day the booming of the first gun in a South Pole
controversy"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17
Art.

Art is the great and universal re-
freshment. For art is never dogmatic;
holds no brief for itself. you may take
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17

couth Germany. Belgium and France, England
WAS occupied by a race of men which in build OF
body and form of brain were of the modern type.
About a mile north of Ipswich, England, is sit
mated a brick field which is famous to biologists
for the very ancient quaternary and tertiary de-
nosits which have been exposed by the excava-
tiors of the London clay for brickmaking. These
denosits. which are given in the descending order,
are:
Chalky boulder clay,
Middle-glacial sand and gravel,
Decalcitied red crag,
London clay,
Woolwich and Reading beds,
Thanet sand.
For some six years past |. Reid Moir, of Fps
vicb, has been collecting flint implements from
the beds above the London clay, and, realizing
the Importance of finding human bones in any
of these deposits, had carefully instructed the
workmen to communicate Immediately with him
should such relics turn up.
A few months ago ne was notified that one of
the workmen, while removing some of the decalci-
fed boulder clay to get at the underlying glacial
sand. had found a portion of a human skull, and
on going down to the pit discovered that this
indeed was the case. As two bones could be seen
projecting from the vertical face of the section at
a depth of about 4 feet from the surface, MI. NOR,
accompanied by three friends interested in
archaeology and geology, went down on the fol-
lowing afternoon to the pit and superintendent the
digging out of the remainder of the skeleton.
As a most careful examination of the hard clay
above the remains showed that no digging had
ever taken place on this spot before, 1t was recog-
nized that the find was an important one, and
every care was taken in removing the everything