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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
MOST ACCEPTABLE JUST NOW
Three Recipes That Are Partlevsariy
ApPropriats at This Time OF

The, ,.Cresses.-Pepper grass or gar
den cress resembles In appearance and
flavor the better known water cross.
The wild cress growing in constantly
running meadow brooks u the tam
derest and the entire plant - eaten.
The pleasant. pungent flavor makes Il
an agreeable addition to the salad
plants and very attractive garniture
for meat and fish dishes. Be sure and
break on all the roots Do not use
knife. however.
sorrel and Spinach Soups.-This is
good summer soup. To quart
of sorreI add a handful OF spinach and
few lettuce leaves. Put them In a
saucepan with a large piece OF butter
and cook tender. Add two quarts of
boiling water, season to taste with salt
and pepper, and just before serving
add two well-beaten eggs and half q
cupful OF cream. This Ia an excellent
soup for an Invalid.
Boiled Spinach, French Method
Use half peck of spinach. Wash and
PICK over the leaves. carefully remoY-
Ing all the wilted ones and the roots.
When thoroughly washed put into
boiling water with pinch of soda
to keep the bright green color. and
cook tender. Then drain in q colander
and drench with cold water, as this
gives firmness and delicacys attained
In no other way. Shake free from
water, chop fine, and put into u sauce,
pan. Stir in Tablespoonful of butter,
salt and pepper to suit the taste. Add
two tablespoonfuls of good cream, and
stir until hot; then arrange on q heat.
Cd dish and rice the yolks OF hard
boiled eggs over the top. using the
vegetable press for the purpose.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
Flfty.slx vears q, the RAILROAD.

The death took place last week at
stranraer, England, OF Mr.. John
shankland, u retired ongine-driver.
He had record Of railroad service
that wac probably equaled by very
few, having been employed on the
Glasgow e Southwestern railroad for
5s years, during A years Of which
he was q driver It 10 also worthy OF
mention that Mr.. shankJand, who was
n native Of Ayrshire, was the driver
Of the nrst Pullman car train between
Carliale and Glasgow, when American
coaches were introduced by the Mid.
land and Glasgow q 9outhwestern
railroads in the early ,7oH. Mr. shank
land was seventy-sovep years Of age.
and during his whole career he was
only of work about Two months.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
chIeken q "a Monts Carlo.

Melt two tablespoons Of butter in an
earthen dish or casserole with one car.
rot, three onions sliced, two bay
leaves. salt, pepper and some thyme.
Add q young fat fowl, cut into joints
and let it get brown. Then add one
pint of consomme and cover. air tight.
Cook three-quarters OF an hour. II
must simmer all the time. II the fowl
is old It will take longer to cook It.
Add two tablespoons sherry. dozen
potato balls fried in butter, dozen
button mushrooms and some chopped
parsley. Let It cooas ten minutes moro
and serve in the sauce dish or the
charm OF Il will be lost.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
TO END river FLOOD
Dry Reservoirs WlI Prevent
Miami River Overflow.
Ohio Legislature Passes Enabling Log
lsiatlon and the Work OF Com
struetlen VIII Commence at
Very Early Date.

Columbus, o.-For protecting the
Miami valley in Ohio from future
floods such as that by which it was
devastated in the spring OF 1918, a
complete system of dry" reservoirs
has been planned. enabling legislation
has been passed by the Ohio legisla-
ture, and the work of actual construc-
tion only awaits the necessary court
hearings for determining relative ben.
efits and damages to individual prop
erty holders. The work, as planned,
is estimated to cost $12,oOO,000. Great
areas of farm land as well as eight
cities OF Ohio, having an aggregate
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24

population of about 100000, will be
protected by the system OF reservoirs.
The property valuation of the protect
ed district is estimated at $3.50, 600, 900.
Ths fundamental idea Of the dry
reservoir plan is to impound the ex-
cess waters of a flood and retard the
flow until the crest Of the high water
has passed. From careful surveys
and computations made by the engi-
neers 1t is found that about 55, ,000.-
100000 cubic feet OF water fell over
the Miami basin above Dayton during
the five-day SBorm Of March, 1913. A
system of six or seven dams has been
planned with a sufficient capacity to
hold back 10000, 900, 900 cubic feet.
These dams will be built of earth, will
be from 40 to TO- feet high, and viii
be placed across the valley from hill to
hill.in suitable locations. Reinforced
concrete tunnels. large enough to al.
low the normal flow of the river to
pass through, will be placed through
the bottom of each dam. These tun.
nels will be kept open at all times, and
when the water coming In from the
upstream side of the dam exceeds the
normal flow Of the river, the excess
will be held back BY the dam. When
the supply is reduced the reservoir
will empty automatically. To prevent
the destruction of the dams in, case OF
unprecedented floods, each will be pro-
yided with q spillway to relieve the
dam of some OF the surplus. The car.
rying capacity of the river channel is
estimated at S.0O0.000,0OO cubic feet
per day, SO that the system will AFFORD
ample protection during heavier
storm than last year. An expert has
estimated that approximately 10000
100000 cubic feet of water, OF enough
to have raised Lake Erie with It's TO-
000-square-mile area height Of 4 feet,
fell In Ohio and Indiana during this
storm. Popular Mechanics.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
Raked Edo Plant.

Peel tho egg plant, cut piece from
the top. take out the seeds. flli the
cavity with dressing as for ducks
replace tho top pieco and bake enc
hour, bastins with q spoonful OF butter.
In cupnil OF hot water. afterward
dredging with flour, Serve immedl.
ateIy
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24

One way OF serving stale bread b
TO cut It in one-fourth inch slices, rs-
move crusts aud cut each slice in
three finger shaped pieces. Toast ON
both sidee, arrange in a dripping pan,
sprinkle with grated cheese and bake
until the cheese II melted.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
saves IrolnlInu.

When taking washing off the iIne
fold the sheets. pillow cases and all
plain clothes and run through wrinsere
This saves ironing
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
Whsn Il VIII Como.

Not until every woman will be able
to get hat satisfactory to herself
at price satisfactory to her husband
will the millennium be 81 hand Phil
adelphis Ledger.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24
Good Heats HIns. !.

Don't forget that microbes arc apt
TO iurk about The laoutb OF the mix
bottle. II should be carefully wiped
on before the milk 10 poured out
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-24

Shallow men believe ia TACK, be-
iiaye III circumstances atronk nasfs
bslleTe IN cause and ese0t AKnh1ls
scn.
The Delta independent., 1914-02-20
THE GRAND MESA LUMBER co

been repeating itself with the same
elements found within the earth is
suggested by what we have tlready
learned from radio-activity.
Another thing is that the old idea
of the early alchemists in regard 20
the transmission of elements has been
well nigh proved by the use OF radium.
During the past few years many
well known natural substances have
been duplicated or built up in the
laboratory by the synthetic method
Of combining the elements known in
their composition. Every physician
knows that when he prescribes sali-
cylic acid, the articles used may have
been extracted from the wintergreen
in the old way, or it may have be N
made in the chemists laboratory D.
bringing tdoether the proper elements.
New medicines are made by taking
out one element and supplying an-
other Likewise, the worker with rd-
dium takes down the atom and sup
plies new parts.
Professor Cameron of the uniTers-
ity of Manitoba, after summing up
the recent Investigations and expert
ments of the leading scientists along
this line has this to say:
The Delta independent., 1914-02-20

I'VE are now bound in any event TO
accept the idea that the atom is very
complex body, built of smaller units
Of some kind and whatever the out
some of the experiments is unbiased
observer can doubt that sooner o.
later the secret of atom-change will
be discovered, while in all probability
we shall ourselves be able to cause
changes both in the nature of synthe-
sis and decompositions OF the cheml-
cal elements"
have only touched the surface OF
this subject with a few bare state
ments. The more intensely interest
ing part is the experiments and illus
trations showing proof OF what l have
said. How the rays are actually count
ed and their behavior demonstrated
How the scientist approaches his sub
ject. formulating lines OF reasoning
and laws for that purpose.
Certain it is that the discovery and
study of radium has changed our ideas
OF some OF the supposedly well estao-
lished sciences, including chemistry.
physics and geology. and may add
also. of our grasp upon the future ex-
istence after death.
The Delta independent., 1914-02-20

nant ulcer with radium that had re-
quarter of a century.
1t is possible that it may break out
again. Medical men would say that
the time is yet too short to pronounce
so serious a lesion permanently
cured. But it still remains healed and
have great hopes that it will con
tinue so.
] have photographs taken befo e
and after treatment which l can show
you
Outside of the field of medicine,
not so very much practical use of
radium has so far been made except
along the line of scientific investiga-
ton and research. Here the utiliza-
ton has been very great indeed. The
advent of radium into the scientific
world is as if quiet old-fashioned
neighborhood were suddenly set agog
by the moving in of a new and dis
tinguished looking family.
Now who are they, where do they
come from and what do they expect
to do here? What about their connec-
tion and education?
The analogy is not so bad because
the advent of radium brings with 1t
the whole family, parents and child
ren and probably few cousins, and
no group since the dawn of history
has caused so much inquisitive inves-
tigation within the circle to which il
belongs.
l said before that radium was the
result, or rather came in course OF a
series of disintegrations Where
these changes begin and where they
end has not yet been definitely asce--
tanned.
1t has been suggested by good al
thority that our common lead is the
final result of the windup of all these
physical changes-the dead entity af-
ter all the vital energy was spent, and
in the spending many different sub
stances appear TO occupy the stage OF
action. The fashions that this new
family has brought along are going TO
be prominently observed in the sciea-
tific world to the modifying OF retire
ment of many old customs.
A new life in the field Of scientific
has suddenly sprung up
occupying the best minds OF this age,
and the results already are sublime
to contemplate.
One is that this old earth. instead
of being on the cooling down side of
its existence, as we were taught, is
really on the warming up phase, all
due to the radium in the rocks. and
that sooner or later it will actually
melt with fervent heat when the ele-
ments will readjust themselves and
the cooling off begin. That during
untold millions of years this cycle has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11
GOOD LOOKING MEN

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Physical perfection is really han dicap in the race of life for the req pect to get through solely on that line They do not hustle like the less favored ones and it does not take a prophet to tell in these days what happens to those who fail to hustle.
 We see fair examples of Greek or other kinds of gods holding down poor paying jobs while weazened up little codgers signal to the conductors of special trains to break their schedules In order to let them pigeon-toe along station platform for exercise.
 If the good looking person would take his blessing less seriously he would
 be far better off. But instead of working he cultivates an important stride and depends on his relatives to provide for him while he looks around for some sort of setting in business life which will show him off to good advantage. The girl who gets one of them in the matri- monial lottery frequently thinks she is getting a sturdy oak when she has only drawn a milk weed.
 Looks have nothing whatever to do with the business game Just let a newspaper, for example, get the pic- mixed and the reading public will shud- der at the appearance of the humani- tarian while seeing kindliness shine from the eyes of the one who Is to be hung Friday.
 If the Lord endowed a man with an imposing exterior he should strive earn estly to forget it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11
Record Breaking Prosperity Soon

- Improvement in business since de- pression reached bottom several weeks ago has been gradual, but it has been nevertheless marked. Every week witnesses more activity in the busi- ness world than the week before. Barometers of business such as the interest rate on money, the grain mar ket, the coal market and the iron market are all favorable to business recovery and better times.
 The iron market is very active now, and it will continue active for sofne- time to come. The price is not much more than sufficient to cover the cost of production, but the fact that con- sumers are eager to buy on large scale is of the highest encouragement. Prices are sure to advance.
 The banks are loaded up with money, so to speak, and in the fi- nancial centers there is naturally tendency to reduce the rate of inter- est. Money is easy in New York at a rate that would have seemed ridicu- lously low few months ago.
 Among capitalists confidence has been restored and unless all signs fail there will be large investment in new business projects early in 1915. From now until the end of the year business promises to be brisk, and be- fore next spring this country is sched- uled for a boom unparalleled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11
Visitors and the Weather

While the weather this week has not been so bright as it was during the last week of October, when the Ameri- can Iron and Steel institute met in Birmingham, the Electrical Supply Jobbers might have encountered dis agreeable winds and rain, sleet or snow had they held their convention in the north or west.
 Birmingham is noted for its long weeks of Indian summer, extending often up to Christmas Day, but the electrical men happened here at a time when the weather bureau was unable to forecast the typical sunny south" temperature. However, the business men of Birmingham have been eager to make the visitors feel at home. The spirit of hospitality has prevailed and the electrical jobbers have expressed themselves greatly de- lighted with Birmingham and it's peo- pie.
 Such gatherings as we have had here during the past three days are worth much to this city. A few of the electrical men who had been here before had not seen Birmingham since it was a small town. Many have seen it this week for the first time. Not withstanding the fact that every elec- trical jobber knew Birmingham by reputation, not until they had been shown over the industrial district on this occasion had they realized what prodigious work of development had been accomplished here in the very recent past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11

Lodz, which was recently evacuated by the Russians and taken by the Germans, is in Russian Poland and is the capital of a district in the government of Tiotr- kow. It is f6 miles southwest of War saw is an important manufacturing cen ter and the terminus of a branch line of the Warsaw and Vienna railway. The town is quite modern in appearance and had untilrecently fiourishing cotton, wool en and other manufactures. It produces silk goods and has dyeworks, breweries, machine shops and other industries The population. which was 5000 in 1872, had increased to 5oo,ooo in 1910. of which about 30 per cent are Roman Catholic Poles, 8 per cent are German Protestants and 27 per cent are Jews.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11
THE POOR HIGHRROws

From the Kansas C1ty Stdr.
 We are. a good natured people, and the only thing we fear is priggishness. You must laugh and not critise or you are a highbrow. You must under no circum- stances confess that blatancy and cheap ness lacerate your soul, for the virtue or Broadway is to be good Indian.-Walter Idppmann in the New Republic.
 The highbrow undoubtedly is on the de- fensive these days. It Is with a certain sense of shame that people confess to tho reading of a serious book. In extensive portions of society you are expected to be crazy over ragtime, and to regard Wagner as a bore.
 If you find play like Help Wanted' particularly vulgar. you must keep si- lence or else suffer the reproach suggested by MT. Lippmann of not being "'a good Indian"-a reproach which everybody knows is simply crushing.
 It 10 permissible to gossip about tho neighbors, but not about the latest achive- ment of Edison or Alexis Carrel. If you
 mention Bergson you are hopeless. You can't help wondering how Socrates or Plato or Alexander the Great or Caesar or Shakespeare or Franklin or Jefferson or Goethe or Macaulay or Darwin or Emerson would have fared in modern so- ciety. Wouldn't they have been set down at once as highbrows of the highest sort and snubbed yight and left1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11
WAR ECHOES

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Kitchener to win the war. That is the judgment of the professional soldier given task and estimating its dimensions.
 The war will end when the responsible civil rulers of the countries engaged in 1t determine upon it's conclusion. if it is not ended sooner by the people of the warning countries.
 Back of the civil rulers and back of the professional soldiers are the people, who are paying the toll of blood and treasure. and there is limit to their blind devo- tion and their endurance.
 To speak of either side winning is to ut- ter a ghastly absurdity. However the treaty of peace may be written, no gain of territory nor award of cash indemnity can compensate any of the belligerent coun- tries for what the war will have cost it.
 New York Times: One of yesterday s dispatches from London announced on the authority of a Daily Mail correspondent in northern France that in a fight be-
 tween Zeppelin and three British aero
 planes the big aerial battleship proved such clumsy maneuverer that she could
 not bring either her offensive or de.
 fensive armament into effective action
 against her more active assailants. The
 result of the engagement was given with
 regrettable brevity--'bullets from the
 aeroplanes found the balloons envelope which crumpled up.''
 That may mean either that the Zeppe.
 lin was destroyed and brought down, ol merely that it was defeated and driver away.
 The uncertainty is irritating, for of al the wars unsettled problems. none is mort interesting, though many are more i'm portant, than the relative efficiency of { dirigible as compared with one or severa aeroplanes. A single encounter such a the one described would so far toward an swering that question, and if one has oc cured 1t is indeed a pity that we canno promptly have all the details. Their ab sence throws doubt on this story, sine every war correspondent knows witt what eagerness both the professional am the amateur war critics are waiting t know whether or not the enormous claim as to the powers of Zeppelins were justi | fled.
 Those claims have evidently caused m end of nervous apprehension in England and. mysterious as is the logic of mili 1 tary censors. 1t hardly seems conceivable l that they would have suppressed or GU down a piece of news as likely as thi one to calm the national fears-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11

Montgomery Journal. Earth to me is heaven" says Carnegie What part of it does he occupy? Belgium?
 Selma Times: It is said that over $1.- oOo,oOo was given to the heather last year by the people of this country for the pur- pose of lifting them out of savagery. This years developments go to show that sav- agery has many advantages over civiliza- ton.
 Troy Messenger There are numerous newspapers in the state clamoring for the abolition of the office of state jail in
 spector. at present held by pr. Oates
 Judging from the reports from this office pr. Oates has been on the job more thar any man in the state employ. We rather think he has accomplished great deal of
 good He is certainly man who is moi afraid to say what he thinks Montgomery Times: Boston's marriage clerk who refused a license to a man of 35 who wanted to marry a woman of 90
 clearly indicated that he didn't believe
 it was a case of true elove-Birminghan Age Herald.
 A new and novel reason for refusing a marriage license. Wise clerk to be able to say what Is really case of true love. Athens Alabama Courier: Senator cleo Oscar Underwood left Birmingham las Friday for Washington to prepare for lns opening of the short congressional tern which opened Monday last. He is clos | ing up a wonderful career in the lowel house of Congress, where he went 2 years ago, a young man with little legis | lative experience, but with a determina ton to follow the dictates of an homes conviction and make faithful effort tt | represent his people, and grew until h,
 is now the most distinguished leader O | the House that it has known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-11
Imagination in War

Additional details of the English naval victory in the south Atlantic received yesterday indicate that it was more sweeping than at first supposed. The Nurnberg, which at first was re- ported to have escaped, was sunk in action, while the Dresden is reported as cornered in the Straits of Magellan.
 Imagination in all walks of life is a valuable asset, but nowhere is it of more importance than in war. The disposition of the British forces made to bring about this battle indicate a keen imagination. In other words the admiralty "outguessed" the German commander.
 With powerful Japanese and Brit ish fleet searching for him in the Pacific, Won Spec evidently con. cluded that it would be best te abandon those waters and TUT for the Atlantic, where the ships under him might scatter and stand much greater chance of reaching home in safety.
 But in this the British anticipated him and sent Admiral Sturdee to wal off the coast of South America wher, there was no chance of the German. slipping through. In attempting tt do this Won Spec ran into their arml and was annihilated.
 In other fields the actions arr progressing favorably with the allies The Servians have evidently received reinforcements, as they have inflicted a severe repulse on the Austrians The French and British in Belgium and France are making slow bu steady progress. Little has beel heard of the Russians, but indica tions are that the great battle of Lod is not yet decided.