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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16
THE CRY OF THE MOOSE

l CHANGED to meet the Big Bull
Moose:
Tell me-" l said, "your true
excuse
For boiling from your party
!, horde!" -
Fraud? Fraud" he snorted.
Fraud! Fraud! Fraud"
big Moose" said, the nation
waits
To learn your views on tariff rates
Are you for schedule KS repeal?:"
Fraud! Fraud!" he yelled.
Thou shalt not steal"
IF to the White house you should
Co." ,..
| urged. the voters want to know
Just what your policies would be-"
Thieves! Thieves! he cried.
"All thieves but me-
Tell me, begged, Tin terms
exact
Would you uphol the Sherman act
Or wipe it from the statue books?"
He shrieked: They swindled me!
They're crooks!"
Then tell me what your plan
would be
10 give US safer currency"
In vain my questioning | piled;
They're frauds! They're r. bbers"
still he cried.
Big Moose" | said. might
refer
To trust like Steel and Harvester?
Should they be favored or out
lawed?'
He answered ndught but Fraud!
Fraud! Fraui".
Would yru he willing to explain
Whence comes the cash for your
campaign
Some curious rumnrs ,are abroad"
But still he beloved, Fraud!
Fraud! Fraud"
Just as the dogs have barked Bow
wow
Since time began. AMI cats said
Miaouw"
As geese have Missed and crows
have cawed.
So now the Moose cries. Fraud!
Fraud! Fraud"
st Joseph Observer.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16
NEW RACE NEAR THE POLE
explorers Steffansson and Anderson
Find Men With Rel Boards in
Victoria Land.

Things OF a hitherto unknown RAGS
haze been received in dispatches from
Stefansson and Anderson. who are
conducting an expedition in the far
north
The strange race Was located in
Victoria Land. novth OF Cape Bexley.
One theory OF their origin Is that
hey may be descendants OF an an.
Client Icelandic colony from Green
land. or unusual interest Is the fact
that the natives bear names that can
be translated into English. suggesting
that survivors OF the Franklin expedi
ton may have lived among them.
They have some Scandinavian cha,
acteristics and are different from any
other American aborigines Two OF
them wore boards OF reddish color
and all had light eyebrows. Nothing
learned from them indicated that he
race as II exists today had ever set
white man.
The courier who FIRST went forward
TO parley with them almost lost his
life. when native attacked him with
\ knife. Friendly advances were final
ly successful. and by means OF he
sign language and the assistance Of
native guides communication was held
The race was an aboriginal one
called Akuli.akat.tag mi-ut II had
been believed that The territory was
uninhabited
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16
Professional Bomb 1hrow.r,-

The Chinese corps OF trained bomb
throwers reminds US that our own
regiment OF Grenadier guards takes
Its name from the grenades or small
bombs which In early days they
hurled at the enemy IN an assault
And this primitive duty Is also com.
memorated In flaming grenade EN-
broidered on the collars OF their
tunlcs.-London Chronicle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16
WILSON AND THE MACHINES

No American politician or states
man has made big popular sue
cess in the past dozen years who
has not fought with al his power
the machine and boss system.
The view point of the American
people has changed. There was a
time in which political machinery
and buses was taken inevitable and
as a matter or course.
Gradually it has heen dawning on
them that all this is a part of
Uncle SANS cost of living. The
%, tax payer has. to pay for govern
ment inefficiency. That in
efficiency is principally caused by
giving jobs to political friends and
supporters rather than to the
efficient applicant. Then comes the
alliance between the corporation
magnate seeking favo.s and the
boss seeking support, so common
and natural.
All this system of swapping and
trading and bartering votes for
support has become so ingrained in
our politics. that the great
majority of our public men weakly
yield, regarding il as inevitable,
and considering any effort to op-
pose it as numerical.
But no man has made great
popolar success in politics of recent
years who has not fought the
machine system. Cleveland fought
it, Hughes fought it, Taft's sreat-
est weakness is that he had not
fought it; and Wilson has stood
against machine politics with the
firmness Of adamant.
All the men named above have
carried elections against bitter OPP
position, because instead of asking
some boss or secret machine if they
could do this or that, thy acted as
the direct agents of the people,
took their orders from The people,
depended for their backing on the
people.
The downfall of President Taft
has not been due to any disbelief
in his honesty and sincerity. 1t is
the feeling that he was not born
for the stern warfare of today.
He is Too easy going, too good
natured to fight the relentless fgh,
against the entrenched forces al
Washington, backed by their CO.
horts Of feelers and with lavish
campaign funus at their command
AS governor of New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson mas hit the
machines and hit them hard. Il
is easy to yield 10 their proposals
Just a lowering of the standard o.
efficiency, and how cordially tn,
machines will fight your battle,
for you.
The power Of Gov. Wilson lies il
the belief of the people that W,
hould rather fight than yield hi
standards. that he will be directl!
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16
LAUGHED Out His Name.

1t Is hard to be laughed out OF ones
surname. That Is what happened to an
tnofensive gentleman. Charles SANS
bury Pickwick. Esq. who after the pub
pication OF Dickens famous novel felt
constrained 10 advertise IL the Times
Informing the world that owing to its
having been brought into ridicule and
made byw0rd By the novelist he IN
tended to abandon his name forever.
This was the more hasd in his case
because he proudly traced his name
10 a kuightly origiR--from "PiqueA-
Sdts"-'spur fast"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16

loyal to their interest. and will
fight their battles for them. News
Miner.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16

The daily Newspaper 10 the quick
hring gun; but besides It's advantages
In timeliness and local and personal
interest, It has crystalized into q ne
eessitJ, while the magazine still re-
mains In the luxury column.--Frans
A. Nunsey.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-16
For the typhoid Fly,

Agencies to kill the typhoid ay-
used in the home should be non.
poisonous. or not dangerous TO chill.
dren or adults. The following are
uon-poisouous tal being the cheaper
and easier to make: (O A seven per
cent solution OF bichromate Of DO,
tasstum made up with water and
'wsetened with sugar. Place In shall.
low dishes where needed. To- A two
Ger cent. solution OF cobalt chloride
made p2 as In educational Maya
zine
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

hood as boatmen, towpath walkers and
assistants; while today there are only
3S boats in service on this, one Of the
few canals In this state still used for
freight purposes.
Although Capt. Reppert was not
then employed as canal boatman. he
easily remembers when, In 1849. the
first steam barge called Experiment"
came all the way from Wilmington.
Del. through the, Delaware river. and
thence piled through the waters of the
Schuylkill to the coal regions, carry
ing on the return trip lis tons Of coal.
He remembers when the first large
steam barge. known in 1852 ~ the
Daniel P. Shenfelder, was built at
Reading and carried coal down the
Schuylkill into the Union canal, and
finally found its course all the way to
Albany, N. Y. This boat had ca
pacity Of 1852 tons. 49,.
He also recalls the packet boats
that carried passengers from Reading
to Philadelphia and return. They left
Reading at o'clock every morning
and arrived in Philadelphia at 6
o'clock in the evening. There was a
relay of horses every 10 or IL miles.
The boats were known as the Planet
and the Swan. A year later, in 1S47,
other packet boats were put in serv-
ice. carrying both freight and pas
sengers.
When Capt. Reppert started his life
as tow-path trotter, the smaller canal
boats were still In use-boats 10 feet
wide, 40 feet long and carrying from
25 to 80 tons.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Skull 10000 Year. Old.

At the time of finding the fossil Mr..
Woolley considered 1t nothing more
than a stone of unusual form and
structure, and took it home to his
children, who have called it their In
dian doll baby. The features in the
fossil are very distinct. the mouth be-
ing especially large In proportion to
the other features.
DR.. Curlette said in discussing the
fossil:
This fossil was found in stream,
and the action of the water upon it un-
doubtedly accounts for the reduced
size, and to some extent the deface-
ment of the features.
an studying the fossil remains OF
this human skull wondered whether
the person upon whose shoulders once
rested this head was not killed by q
blow of war club in the hands Of
some warlike enemy ages ago. for
noticed upon the side of the head an
indentation as though a blow had been
struck there which broke the skull"
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Thunder. Sound Carries Far

y 1t is rather rarely the case that the
flashes in a distant thunderstorm are
SO spaced that one can tell certainly
to which flash a particular peal of
thunder belongs; hence the dinhculty
Of testing the above figures. Such an
opportunity was. however. recently
presented to a well-known German
meteorological. DR.. R. Hennig. while
he was visiting summer resort on
the Baltic. From his bed one night
he observed flashes of lightning far
out at sea at intervals of seven min
utes The thunder was faint. but dis
tinctly audible. On counting sec
onds" he found that from so to 80
seconds and upwards elapsed between
lightning and thunder. The maximum
interval was 96 seconds.
Commenting on this observation a
German meteorological journal states
that in northern Germany intervals
Of from so to IS seconds between
lightning and thunder have frequently
been recorded. On the coast, with
the abnormal distribution of atmos-
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

A sharp pillow indicates a bright
plowman- tut. .I.. adj
Too often optimism means simply
Ignorance. el.f r. ~.
Sometimes the wish is father than
the thought t3.ia
Hlyou've made good first you won't
need to boast afterward.
A man is scared a hundred times
for every dine he, is hurt.
Some people look on the bright
side of nothing but q hand mirror.
Don't set out to be. nubbin 30
small that nobody will shuck you.
Whether or not COW Is an asset
or liability depends upon the COW.
A boy on the farm is worth two in
the city-especially at chore-time.
The trouble with the farmer Is that
he has learned 80 much that isn't SO.
"A woman purrs at being termed a
kitten. but scratches when called a
cat.
There Is all the difference in the
world between a sport and a sports
man.
The best advertisement OF farm
Is thriftily kept farm buildings and
fences.
Always think twice before you
speak once. and then be sure you talk
to yourself.
Not less expenditure. but larger re-
Suits" should be the watchword OF
our schools. $50
The sooner we base our taxation
on land values the sooner will unjust
taxation cease. a5s+i
Lots of people. don't seem to know
the difference between resignation
and contentmefft. t"1i-.
Where the public is gullible the
CRATER and the money he Is after are
soon connected. ''
Doubtless it was alfalfa Nebuchad-
nezzar, lived on during that seven
years he ate grass.
Those who hang around the coun-
try store the longest usually give their
COWS the poorest care.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
RECALLS BUSY. CANAL DAYS
Quaint Phases Of an Old Canal Boat
mans Many Unique Experiences
Up the SchuylkIll Valley.

Auburn. Pa.-Boating on the Schuyl-
kill canal continued this winter for a.
longer period than some of the very
Oldest canal boatmen can remember.
At least this is what Capt. Henry Rep
pert, retired boatman, says, and he
ought to know, for he served 40 years
as a boatman, and cultivated some Pc
culiar traits. He recalls incidents
that occurred on the Schuylkill canal
when there were 1000 boats plying be-
tween Port Clinton and Philadelphia,
and when 5000 men earned a liveli-
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
while Authorities Differ, II Is Agreed
That Reverberat.ons Garry gro
Many Miles, oH sIt hi

How far may thunder b heard7
One encyclopedia, says in its article
ON lightnins:. THE distance away Of
the fash can be estimated by the
time between nash and the beginning
of the thunder, every s seconds being
equivalent to mile: 30 seconds or
10 miles Is the-srsatest- obsssved In
tervai at which thunder. has been
heard. other reference books say IS
miles; and this is the prevailing popu-
lar opinion. 1t nearly agrees with,
and is probably founded upon, the
statement in Arago's well-known work
on thunder and lightning--the highest
authority of its time-that De l1sle
once counted n seconds between the
lightning and the thunder, This. says
Arago, is the greatest interval record
ed IN the annals OF mete0rology. and
IL - seconds greater than in any 9th
er case with which he was acauaint,
I'd.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

ice-coated stream, is thrust the rat
like head. to peer intently into the
depths of the black pool beneath.
Through one of these openings the
long. slender. brown body slips. to turn
and twist with lightning-like rapidity
in the icy current. Emerging from
the chilling water. It's wet coat glisten-
ing. its eyes flashing triumphantly.
the agile little animal has its Jaws
fastened across the body Of luckless
trout Beneath the shelter OF fallen
pine. the prize is placed and closely
guarded by the suspicious mink. AIT
er many little patrols about the near
vicinity, made for the purpose Of dis
covering any hidden foe. II such there
be, the crafty hunter has partaken OF
his well-earned meal. Some telltale
evidences left behind on the trampled
snow proclaim all this. and then the
tracks lead on down the stream. ,, &
At some distance from the brook
bed, farther back in the forest, winds
the clear-cut, well-dehned tracks OF the
red fox The footprints are distinguish
able from those OF the lynx even at
FIRST glance. The imprints themselves
are narrower. and placed more nearly
In a straight line; while the stride.
from the track to track. is half again
as long as in the wider lynx trail. The
drag of the bushy tall IL duly recorded.
as the sharply outlined footprints lead
up to and over the brow Of hill.
From the clean. sharp tracks left on
the snow. one can readily imagine tho
sly. red fellow daintily placing those
tireless black feet. The trail leads
into an old wood road along which
the fox has trotted. At one place. evil
IDENTIFY frightened by something he has
Jumped far to one side. then gone on
at a mad gallop. Down to the edge
of an Recovered. snow-coated pond.
the tracks lead. Evidently recovered
from his unexplainable panic. he steals
stealthily to the cover of the bushes
that fringe the frozen lake. His trail
proceeds to the outskirts OF a frozen
marsh, along which 1t follows. About
several muskrat houses his wayward
footprints circle: at one particular
dome.shaped habitation the impatient
fox has scraped away the snow and
seemingly endeavored to scratch
through the impentrable. frozen mass
composing the roof. Having probably
caused the terrified inmates to aban-
don the grass-lined living chamber.
and to plunge into the black. chilling
water beneath the ice. he has turned
and made his way leisurely across the
swamp to hemlock grove. Cautious
ly he has worked his way under the
dropping branches. his keen nose
searching for some promising scent.
He has alarmed torpid grouse. as re-
corded by the disturbed area Of snow.
showing the bomb-like flight of the
startled bird at the near approach OF
the silent stalker.
/ At one place he has Jumped for =
mouse. and. Judged by the imprints.
has miscalculated the distance and
missed his quarry. Two or three play
full bounds mark the ascent of his trail
to higher ground. where. reaching
more open country 1t leads of to the
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

The story Of brothers sacrifice
was related in q compensation case at
Stockport (Eng) recently. The hair
of a 15-year-old girl. named Edith
Stuart. was caught in some machinery
at the factory where she was en-
ployed. and she was completely
scalped. A brother offered to allow
skin from his leg to be grated ON hia
sisters head. Sixteen pieces of skin
from the brothers leg were grated
on the head of the girl. but she did
not recover. In the ALLEGATION of the
compensation. E10 was awarded to
the brother. who was in hospital for
several weeks.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Common Sense Farming.

We have no business to go in debt
for ordinary farm supplies. We ought
to grow our own supplies, keep out OF
debt, and get all that we are obliged
to buy at the lowest prices for cash.
Such a course means common sense,
farming, all other kinds being non
sense farming.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Farmers Store Coins Money.

Opening for business on August IT.
1911, and declaring a dividend Of 20
per cent at a meeting Just held, the
Farmers Cooperative store Of Tabor.
Iowa, shows a remarkable growth and
successful business. The capital stock
is $4,000, all paid up. The company
first opened grocery store, then add
ed a meat market. Soon It will open
a lumber yard.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Keep the Cotton Money.

1t is the money that we can put in
the bank that we ought to be inter
ested in. A cotton crop makes big
income. but the big outgo for feed and
food usually more than balances the
big income. Living at home will
keep the cotton money at home that
now leaves us to make other sections
of this country exceedingly wealthy.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

right. the tracks showing he has bro
ken into hurried trot for parts un-
known.
On the crest of . neighboring hard
wood ridge Is the trail Of a noble
Whitehall buck. Differing from tho
trail Of the doe, by the larger tracks,
more rounded toes. greater length OF
stride between prints and drag on tho
snow before and after each particular
footprint, the tracks are sufficiently
interesting to follow. From the trail
1t may be gathered that the animal
has walked leisurely along up-wind,
browsing on laurel. birch twigs and
smaller bushes. He has carefully
walked log to cross brook. and
stood drinking of the clear, cold wa
ter. Occasionally he has stopped to
listen and look back on his trail for
the detection Of any harmful follower.
He has nothing to fear from the front.
for his sensitive muzzle would detect
the warning faint on the breeze, long
before the enemy itself hove in sight
In several places he has paved the
snow clear for considerable spaces.
evidently in search of some winter
delicacy beneath the glimmering crys-
tails.
Another buck track still larger than
the first. which 1t Joins. promises in
teresting developments further along.
For some distance 1t follows its rival
at walk. then impotence is shown
In the recorded tracks left by the trot-
ting animal. This second buck one
would Judge to be the bigger animal,
from its larger tracks. although this
need not essentially follow. At any
rate he is evidently in a great hurry
to overtake and challenge his prede-
cessor. Judging from his tracks, which
show he has broken into a graceful
canter.
Farther on the snow records the pre-
liminaries OF battle gone through by
both bucks at sight of each other,
Each has paved and stamped the
snow in circle of considerable area.
Both have broken small bushes and
rubbed the bark from saplings with
their antlers.
At last they closed with rush:
both. from the evidence recorded ap-
parently having been carried to their
knees by the force of the impact. Ris-
ing. they pushed. retreated and
charged. until the snow was entirely
cleared from the arena. Several times
one or the other has been thrown
heavily to earth; the imprints left by
their bodies being plainly visible Bits
Of hide, long coarse hairs and alarm
Ing blotches of red. prove the fierce
ness Of the battle for supremacy.
AS is inevitably the case. the weak
at last gave way: his blood-stained
trail leading of in a series Of great
bounds down the hillside. For some
distance the second trail accompanied
1t, but finally branched of into dense
bit Of forest, the victor evidently seek
Ing the shelter and solitude for recu-
peration from his own wounds and
bruises.
AS twilight comes stealing over the
whitened landscape. obliterating dis
lance and closing in. in a gradually
contracting circle. many other inter-
esting tracks and trails are found,
but the winter days are short and the
fading light beneath the trees drives
one out in the open fields. across them
into the road-and home.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

pheric density. much greater intervals
are sometimes observed. At Norden,
in East Friesland. on several occa-
sions there has been noted intervals
as great as 140 seconds. At ordinary
temperatures OF the air this would
correspond to a distance Of about 20
miles. In one case an observer be-
lieved the interval to have been 80
seconds, representing a distance of
about 65 miles.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Diversity or Starve.

Diversity and get Independent of
the boil weevil and the credit system.
Grow all cotton and remain slave
and the boil weevil will likely cause
starvation to stare US In the face.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
SKULL USED FOR PLAYTHINe
Physician Finds Youngsters Playing
With a Fossil Supposed to Be Ten
Thousand Years Old.

Monticello, N Y.-While making a
professional call at the home of VIII
liam Woolley here the other day DR..
James F. Curlette found the Woolley
children playing with the fossil Of
human skull which had become petri-
fed. Mr.. Woolley said the fossil had
come from Great Neck, Long Island,
and was picked up by him in a stream
which flows through his farm there.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
To Ban c.mp.lon cIaar.

Chicago.-Miss Lucy Page CASTOR.
head of the Anti-Cigarette league. has
appealed to the health committee of
the council to make 1t misdemeanor
for political candidates to pass the
campaign cigar.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
A Filler, All Right.

Inquirer Cat south station)-whers
does this train go?
Brakeman-Thist train goes to New
York in ten minutes.
Inquirer-Gee whiz! That's going
somel
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

Jane-Helen il already out with tho
statement that she il the frst engased
GIRL Of the year.
Mary-But thought she and Jack
had It all n1ed up three months ago.
Jsns-No. she's got him to wait
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Dream Came True.

Rockford. Ill.-Glenn Stockman
dreamed that his stepfather. Sol
Hayes, shot and killed himself Next
day he received q message that In
formed him his dream had come true.
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01
Just ~ Easy,

Il would rather be happy than Be
rich," he declared.
"Oh, yes. SO would l." she replied.
but one might as well try to be hap
py without being rich a. to be an an
Eel without having to die"
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

FF0nu8HIPV FTuVU0100.
Il am speaking frankly because am
q true friend"
well" replied the patient man;
go ahead, unless It occurs to you to
restrain your opinions for the sam>
reasons"
The Springfield herald., 1912-03-01

inermost secrets of the
wild neighboYs about him.
let him a go forth Into
woods and fields after the
first snowstorm has Gov
cred the earth with an
Immaculate mantle OF
glistening whittier ess.'
There he will ind re-
corded a true and e1haus-
tive account of outdoor
happenings of the past