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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-08-04
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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-08-04
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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-08-04

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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-08-04

Best Results Alone Worth While.
When you SOW thhstledown you can't
expect to reap sugarcane When you
use paint improperly you can't expect
good results.
The sun., 1916-01-09

&aIking for one of two purposes
business or pleasure--the pleasure uf
the exercise and the enjoyment Of the
scenery, or the business Of losing as
many pounds and making as many
laps as possible It Is said that 40
many laps around the reservoir means
IA loss of so much weight, but accurate
statistics cannot be given concerning
this point, as accounts differ. Yet Il
is pretty certain that persisten.
course Of walking around the rese~-
yoir reduces the weight more satisfdc-
torily than any other exercise that is
deemed fashionable.
The pedestrians come out early IN
the morning. There are some VINO
make several laps before breakfast
Among the early birds is the busy
Wall Street man. who last year had
/ plenty of time to lessen his weight
and improve his figure, but Nhis year
Ia Obliged to sacrifice sleep II he Is TO
get his exercise and reach his ONCE
on time. The amount OF money rep
resented BY these early morning pc
| dest trians has been made the subject OF
a study by those statisticians who love
10 compute figures about everything,
and in truth they include substantial
men whose names stand high in the
financial world.
From 10 to 12 the leisure class,
sometimes called the idle ciass ny
those who know not now nara they
have To work in order to keep IN the'r
places in the social life OF to-day arc
to be seen exercising Thoroughly ana
,atiently. The smartcst OF New YORK
women take their morning promenade
around the reservoir and they cer-
toinIy deserve the adjective smart
FOR II may be questioned II anywhere
there could be found handsomer and
better turned out women.
The younger set are lacking to 9
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like "A combined loss Of 81 per cent. OF
the heat evolved by the electrical en-
ergy. Hence the necessity for plenty
of water power and an abundance OF
low priced current.
A great deal Of cunning has been
exercised by various inventors in pres
venting waste and in utilizing To the
utmost what might he termed the
residual heat Of the binding arc, and
among the most successful In this di.
rection has been undoubtedly the de-
yelopment OF the Pauling process
There are a number Of plants in Eu'
rope using this system and one here
in the United States. This is the fac
tory OF the Southern Electro-chem!ca
Company, located at Great Falls :. {.
and using the power furnished by th'
Catawba River. James Il. Duke @
that concern has said that the plan
can turn out four tons of nitric aci'
daily, but at best this is scarcely mor'
/ than drop in the bucket compare'
with the total requirements Of on
industrial and agricultural needs.
There are places in Europe where al
electric horse power can he obtained a
an annual cost OF anywhere from 81 I
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is the first link In brief chain OF
changes leading TO the production or
nitric acid.
But as the ardoe Of his alliance
cools, SO to speak. and the temper
ature lowers, the nitric oxide unites
readily with free oxygen and the re-
suit is a brown gas technically termed
nitrogen peroxide This disturbance
Of the union. effected through intense
heat, il half way ready for the corro-
sive climax. the actual transforms
ton into nitric acid. In brief the
nitrogen peroxide Is brought in con-
tact with an artificial rain and the
falling drops absorb the gas and be-
come in turn weak nitric acid. The
acid content is subsequently intensi-
fed by concentration Brought about
principally by the application Of heat
and the evaporation OF the excess
water.
The principal objection To the arc
process lies In the fact that only
per cent. OF the heat evolved by the
electric current passing through th'
furnace is utilized in achieving the
chemical combination of the molecul'
Of oxygen and molecule of nitrogen
In the total process there Is something
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great descents provided the motive
energy for hydro-electric plants.
Blrkeland and Eyde. Schoenherr and
Harry and Arthur Pauling have proba-
bly, done most In bringing the applica-
ton Of the electric arc to i's present
relative perfection. and this Is mans
substitute process for natures thun-
derbolts.
In a general way the purpose Of the
arc" process IL the transformation OF
free nitrogen into fiXed nitrogen In the
form of nitra;es. ammonia or nitric
acid. The immediate aim Of the arc
processes is TO produce nitric acid and
this Is accomplished in the following
manner: Air when brought In contact
with the electric arc IL effectually al
tered in its molecular construction.
Normally the molecule Of oxygen and
the neighboring molecules Of nitrogen
are merely associates. but the arc OF
the electric furnace brings about a
union and transformation. In the
presence OF the intense heat OF the arc
one molecule OF oxygen unites with one
moleculc OF nitrogen and the result is
two molecules OF nitric oxide which
take the form of a colorless gas. This
The sun., 1916-01-09

tar. or. to speak more accurately, 81
cement and stone. and Central Park
offers 10 them sOlution Of the dlfii-
Guilty. 1t is easy to understand, there
fore, why the walk around the reser-
voir has achieved "A popularity not
foresecn by the original p!anh"r
thereof. hut In the day when Central
Park was planned there WAS not the
slme enthusiasm for out OF door me-
nor was there the same necessity Tor
keeping ones figure as exists to-day.
The walk, or, to use more fash
ionablc term, the morning promenade,
does not assume fashionable AIR uh-
iii well in December but from the mid
die of December until late In the spring
tho same set of people use 1t con-
scientiously. TO be sure, in the mid
die OF winter, fashionable society is
eXpected to go South or West for "A
time, but Il is not for any great length
of time and, after all, society now con-
tains So many individuals that the
morning promenade presents interest
Ing features all wintcp long.
Weather does not daunt those who
are working for an end The omis'
sion OF one days exercise may mear
the gain of perhaps "A pound. ana II
is also most fashionable tn defy In,
weather; 80 that 1t takes violent
storm indeed to prevent people from
golng out for their. daily turn
Tho pastime Of riding In the pari
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large extent. When they feel the need
of exercise skating and dancing prove
quite sufficient. Then too the de-
hutan,e must have a few hours sleep
in the morning in order To keep her
freshness and color. II il the de-
butante's mother and often her father
as well who get up at reasonable
hour and walk briskly around the
reservoir. the mother To keep her
color and figure, the father to keep
merely his figure. When one Of the
younger girls Is seen she is generally
accompanied by a suitor, 1t IL fad
for engaged couples to take this walk.
but they must be out early II the
young man il In business; II lie Is not
then 1t is between - and |, when the
older people have gone their way, that
the young couples appear.
This morning walk Is in fact one
u the institutions OF New York society
at the present moment. The eNtraor-
dinary and unprecedented growth or
the city as regards apartment life. es.
pecially on the East Side. has intro.
duced scores Of people TO the charms
of Central ILrk who formerly knew
it only from driving through 1t. The
amount Of wealth represented by the
people who live near the park implies
at once a class OF people who can
order their lives as they villa class
of people who are row accustomed IA
spend the greater part of their lives
out of doors, since open air life is
fashionable.
When they leave their countr!
houses to come to town they rcsen
the close confines OF brick and NOR
The sun., 1916-01-09

" HERE is no age limit in fash
lunahlc society. There Is 20
i Limit as 10 the size OF the FASH
iuu,tble income. There is
unit 20 the fashionable visiting list.
+" II is said, and there Is a very strict
unit as 10 the fashionable figure. To
u" really fashionable in this last re-
si"c' on" must bc slender.
TINS applies to men as well as to
women aud young men and maidens,
OH men dud children, and, incident
any, grHndmothers and maiden aunti
''" "n" aud all working hard to keep
"'h'n ID" prescribed limits. The
question uf weight is serious. To get
H' "' #u added pound Is a matter
"''n calling for the exercise of doc
"iS Nhiil rs well the individuals own
elfol'.
y, 'hs time of year, when society
u really back in town again-for the
"'"t end I'm the country does rot
count TOW here can be no regular
'oi ana there are unending tempta-
"''' u lh" way Of bOthersome DIM
h'Ih and -uppcrs. Therefore in many
raS"s srmcthing has to be done to
cohnt'Irt the effects Of city life
pahrIn- and skating help, but II the
H"'h .. 20 hc told, after the half CEN
''FE mark is passed the enthusiasm
over these two forms OF exercise
f"chen, NJ a bit, and the man oI
woman of 30 or more who keeps or
sahcnS or skating is an exception.
Walking is immensely popular WIFI
people If all ages, and Of all placer
.he path around the reservoir In Cen
ual Park Is prominently fashionable
ilth avenue from Thirty-fOurtf
street 10 the park is "a favorite prom
.hade In the morning from 10 to IL
Ne people seen there represent man!
.arled interests; but those who res0r
" lie path around the reservoir ar
The sun., 1916-01-09

So. and it is in favored places like
those that the arc process for tho di-
rect production of nitric acid can be
employed profitably upon commercial
scale. None of the hydro-electric plants
In this country can furnish energy At
ANYTHING like so modest "A yearly rate
and in sufficient quantity.
Brig. Gen. William Crozier. L. s. A..
recently urged the establishment OF
Just such plants here and realizing our
dependence upon sodium nitrate mas
asked Congress in the meantime to
authorize the ordnance bureau OF the
army to accumulate a reserve supply
Of 81 900 900 pounds. At the present
time this store amounts to something
like 40, 900. 900 pounds. This does not
take into consideration the needs OF
the navy and would be in no sense
commensurate with the requirements
of our army In case OF actual confict.
| If al! OF our guns were brought into
action at one time our present store OF
powder would last just about four
hours! \ single big gun on any OF
| our battleshps uses In round terms
100 pounds Of nitrogen within the ex-
ploslve shell and for the propulsive
charge of that proJectilc' In an hour $
engagement "a dreadnoVght would burn
up in this fashion a matter of ten tons
OF nitrogen or sixty tons of powder
averaging a nitrogen content OF ap-
proyimately II per cent. What, then
would a reserve of 6j.000.000 pounds
g. 500 short tons--of nitrate Of soda dc
in the way Of providing us with the
propulsive and explosive thews OF con-
fictc
Artillery has played a far bigger
part in the European war than has
ever been the case I'm any other con
f,ict. Explosives have found manifold
uses in other directions through thu
employment OF bombs spd hand gre
nades and the extensive recourse Il
blasting charges for the purpose o
undermining trenches or countermin
ing the subterranean menace OF tn
foe. In every form OF these powder
and explosives nitrogen has been al
indispensable ingredient. II has bee'
estimated that the German forces ar
using explosives representing an ex
penditure of something like 100000
daily based upon the present contrac
u prices prevailing here in the Unite
l. States for similar explosives. But Gel
y many Is not drawing upon Sout
d America for her saltpetre. She
getting most of it from the air.
VI When war broke out Germany ha
- a store Of $50. .OOO. 900 OF Chilean n
ie trate imported primarily for the pul
'e pose OF fertiliz!ng her fields-fertili;
10 ing them to measure commonly n
~ done here. But II soon became al
p parent that this reserve must be uti
" ICED for the making Of munitions ar
u that still more would have to be pr
re vided Tor that purpose. az well as 4
- the revitalizing OF the soil. So &c
al many had recourse to the air.
:" Back in the '90s gold and silver mi,
Nv ing acquired new impetus throu.
oi the introduction OF the cyanide proces
u, which facilitated the chemical extra
III ton Of the precious metals from lo
re grade ores. Much OF that cyanide W
tu made in Germany and was the produ
VI uf barium carbide as a raw materi
But barium was not cheap; there car
an "A time when there was n slump
AT mining. and IL was necessary To Il
10 a less expensive substitute for bariu
The sun., 1916-01-09
T y all the history OF civilizations
there Is no darker mystery than
i that of the lost cities of Central

lIlpTt - no lily
i that of the lost cities of Central
America. Their ruins remain
temples and courtyards, palaces,
strange carved monuments patterned
with human heads. And over all the
jungle.
The people of hundred cities are
gone. No one knows when they went
nor why nor where. All that can be
| made out is that the civilization arose
suddenly. perhaps not many centuries
before the year l000 OF our era, -four
islcd for only few hundred years and
then Went under.
! 1t has been maintained that the old
state was literally washed away by the
/ rain. that a series Of Wet years sent
the troplc vegetation rolling in on
the cultivated fields Lacking iron
: Weapons men fought in vain against
/ the plants,
li, all this as II may. civilization
! ,it,lc inferior To that Of Europe Of the
same date persisted before Columhus's
,imc and left only It's stones to show
it had ever been.
An extraordinary thing about tho
carved affairs and shafts which lie
scattered through the jungle is that
here and there. along with ScrpCutS
and human faces and hieroglyphs yet
unread. there are occasionally the
heads q. elephants.
ono of the CopHn monuments in par
tlcular bears a striking picture. The
creatures trunk is tWined around some
sort of luw herb as II 20 pull 1t foi
food. The tusks are conyentionalizct
into a spiral. y mans head appears
ahou, where It should he If the MAJ
himself were seated astride the neck
and further behind is another human
. figure as if carried ON the back. Al
= ~ short, carved IN stone, ~ a G"n'
deaf the sort of picture that one see
, nowadays IN natural history primer q
circus hill.
:. Clearly. then, these mysterluu
:, people knew the elephant
i'ut there are no elephants N Amer
:ca. And there have not been an
s.ucN tn" great lee Age, when th
=, maminu,n ruam.d what are noW IN
~, pra,rirs and even straN"d as tar s"nt
as M">.,' Esther, therefore, theS
= Ccr:ral Americans had passed dow
for some jO,oo0 years tn" tradition {
the mammutl or cls" they had ha
some mach more recent contact Wit
- the eastern continent. where cl'
J. phants are Stlll common,
ID So tho matter rested until IatcI
=, TEcn G.. E,,.ut Smith of tho l'n,v''
% SHY of Manchester, England, took
u up,
!" un.A, his predecessors, Prof SmIt
I ~
l., the sculptor AZ turin had carved II
~ elephants mead. lie asked in add!io
lust what kind of elephant II Was
IN Nuw there are elephants and eli
~ plants. Most of them. III" AFRICA
= species, for example. have enornio'
w. tusks and great ears, But the circ'
n. elephant, which In the Indian specie
has ears hardly larger than ci{c'
The sun., 1916-01-09

l. an institution as old a. the PARK
itself, and the different Relays of husi-
ness men who ride form one OF the
features of New York life. But this
morning promenade, Will" cumpara-
lively new, is no less i"lture and
one that is bound to continue.
incidentally, dogs are extremely
fashionable, and fashionable dogs
have To- lie exercised IN order that they
may keep their fashiunahl" figures,
which makes another reason on eN-
Cuse, If reason or excuse We're Ic"uch
for tn" daily exercise that has proved
50 potent a factor IN the reduction at
weight.
The sun., 1916-01-09
HISTORY AS TOLD
BY AN ELEPHANT

fan and tusks only just large enough
To make one row of billiard balls.
First of all, then, Prof smith argues
that the Copan figure is nor an Ameri-
can mammonth nor the woolly ele-
phant of Siberia nor the African sort
nor any other kind except the lndian.
Shape of head, size of ear. hang Of
trunk. all proyc ,he old carving ~ he
o,,r familiar peanut eating friend.
| Moreover sine. a man rides his neck
and another his back. he is "A tame cle-
phant not n Wild one.
So,. tho oo,,mon ar cir,us .lcphant
a,,,,uyh cor,irad pn,y in his wild
.,,,o a. ,,a neirbh,,hond ar India
n,,,,rr,d ais, ma, so very long Ago IN
cb,r, I'm fac, y,rjnus old chin, ~
nnt,.rs of IN. time nf the Middle Ages
used 10 decorate their wares with hg-
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Plant of the Southern Electro
Chemical Company at Nitralee.
S. c., where free nitragen from
the air is fixed in form OF nitric
acid.

square mile of land-an invisible coll
umn. amounting To about 2V,oOV.ooo
tons is equivalent to what the world
would require in the next fifty years
at the present rate of consumption.
OF this enormous reserve. n minute
fraction is In the active service OF the
vegetable and animal Kingdoms. In
the soil I'm the form Of nitrate. II Is a
chief factor OF plant food. With the
plants It passes into the bodies Of
animals. whence it returns to the
soil"
While this might seem to dispose OF
any cause for apprehension. still 1t
has taken the electro chemist long
while to discover effective substitutes
for the sky's lightning and the clouds
rain-nature's way OF carrying the
free nitrogen down TO the earth and
thence to hungering vegetation In
1896 eXpcrimenters a. Geneva found
that the electric arc was one OF the
best ways to promote the hxation OF
| atmospheric nitrogen. But this was
not Immediately productive Of pract!-
! cal results. With the beginning OF the
present century, again quoting Or.
| Norton. the time seemed ripe for the
application on an industrial scale OF
the combined result of experiments
and theory in the oxidation OF at
mospheric nitrogen"
The first manufacturing plant OF
this character was erected on Amer
lean soil. thanks to the enterprise OF
e. :. Bradley and Il. Lovejoy. TheiI
factory at Niagara Falls was not 9
CONNIE rcial success. FOR the works
were closed after a short period OF ac
tivity In 1904. Nevertheless these pio
! neers served to guide European inven
tors to the rapid perfection of more
successful apparatus. In justice Il
them i, may properly i've said that NJ
small measure OF better results abroa,
hinged upon the availability Of plent,
of cheap water power. Especially wa
this the case in the development of tn,
art on the mountainous slopes Of Nor
way. where tumbling waters with thei
The sun., 1916-01-09

ORMoNp BEACH. Fla, Jan, N.--Thc
Ormond Hotel opened for uacheon to-
day, and u. J. Trud"au, manager, and
y u. Wright. assistant manager wcr"
present to extend u cordial gr"etlug tn
the many former pdlrupS VINO arrived.
Tn. hotel encourage will be much the
earne as last year
John -. Rockefeller, has res rived srv-
eral suites of rooms for himself and his
friends. and has set his arrival for
early in February
Among other former patrons from
New York city booked to return am
Mr. and Mrs. Su,phen. Mr.. and Mrs
e. +. Snyder, Mr., and Mrs Nelson
AIR. and Mrs. H. G. Irons. J. T. Dettmer
Z, ]. Farrell. Mr.. and MN. Elias John
son, Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Cooke,
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t.IIDI\G a nations battlements I
- ont of air. it's battlements Of
n domestic economy. OF CONNER
- ,tu enterprise and of national
,-,orce may sound bit fantastic and
=, there is nothing in violation of
~, about 1t. The prime essential to
his measure Of preparedness Is
Iar,v Of nitrogen. Nature has made
,s,s element part of the air and man
~ ,he mast has depended upon Nature
,ake il out of the air and apply 1t
h,s uses. Now man is finding
.o,ps TO assist and improve upon the
aa. nr,rcSses of Nature. That Is
,he miracle explained.
ror generations the world went on
ting its daily loaf and little needing
~. mart that nitrogen played In that
,,ss Of life. The grain fields widened
,sair areas and the soil yielded up Its
',ro,eth that there might he All album
80 of cereals. Crude fcrtiliZing
"a uell enough for many decades be-
,,pse new territory maintained an av-
age OF production. But a day or
,.,,kcning came when farmlands
,ausd Of their fruitfulness unless heav-
,y manured and the husbandman cast
,hout him for some more effective
,or,Yzer. Then it was that the chem
:, discovered the part played by nj
,,,gep In the process OF revitalizing x
,he oyerworked soil and later the TIL
~ ,urned to Peru for it's deposits of
.gano.
BEFORE this source Of supply was exc
,aus,ed by hungering nations happily
.hs sodium nitrate beds of Chile were
,ound. There seemed to be the source
y an unfailing supply for centuries
y, come, but forty-odd years of cease
~ drain have made heavy inroads
mon those beds: and competent In
res,ieators have established with rea.
,onable conclusiveness that the last
y This Chilean saltpetre at the present
ate Of export will be withdrawn from
,hs barren slopes OF the Andean foot
brls by the close of the present cen
.nry! That may seem a long time of
"A nople now living. but it is a wo
hlly brief span in the march OF hu
nan progress.
SIR William Crooks has sounded ;
Earning that the world must MAKE
g fields more productive II 1t is &
ave its accustomed allowance OF dali!
,resd. In 1898 this scientist sat
hat the chemist and engineer shout
ave to bestir themselves II the pro
uectiye millions of America and Eu
ore we're 10 be properly nourished
He was inspired to announce this D.
eason Of his studies of the land avail
able for the profitable cultivation @
,ereals. At that time he estimate
hat there were 5I6,0O0.0OO brea
,aters and this hungering army wa
Increasing at the rate OF 100000
annually.
He figured that each human bein
consumed 40 bushels OF wheat in IN
ourse Of a year and that the averaa .
,ied per acre then under cultivatio
vas le.s bushels. His data shove
hea comfortable surplusage. b'
shat OF the years to come? Eightee
sears ago the acreage devoted
,ereals was 167.o00,0o and this Bri
sh scientist declared that only 10o
10000 acres more remained availab
,o- such crops in the future. By 10
1e figured that the bread eating pop,
atom would number $4,000, 900, al
1. the rate Of 1913 bushels per IN
area wheat fields of 2g2 100000 Won
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-12-27
CHRISTIAN LEAGUE
RENDERS PROGRAM
Delightful Social at the Home
On South Maple Avenue.

Members Of the Young Women's
Christian League held delightful So
cial at their home on South Maple
avenue, Tuesday night, and num-
Der of ladies were present to enjoy
the festivities. There was an inter
esting program during the evening
including music and games, and lat
cr refreshments were served.
This organization row has a mem.
bershiD OF about $50 ladies' and girls.
and is probably the largest single
association in the city except The
church CONGREGATIONS. It is rapids
putting into practice the objects for
which il was formed, and is already
accomplishing much in the way of
~eligious. social and domestic activ-
ity