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vestment of s4.700, 100000, and pays
yearly net profits of $50 100000. In
Prussia the profits by 1905 had paid
every kreutzer of the cost and lett
the whole system net free asset OF
the state. Meantime there has been d
gigantic development OF inland navlgs-
tion on rivers and canals. These car
ried in 1882 1915 vessels Of 1868, 266
tons, and in 1907 26,235 of 5,9l4,020
tons. And they have cost much less
than we have paid for pork SO with
sea-born commerce. In 1881 Germany
had 1,lsl, 525 tons, and in 1910 $685.
307 tons.
And we, From 1889 to 1906 our Mis-
sissippi commerce decreased by 81 per
cent, while Germany's Rhine commerce
increased by 400 per cent. Moreover,
in 1915 fewer goods were shipped from
our second greatest port, Boston, in
American vessels, than in 1910. Our
average number of unemployed men *
II per cent, while Great Britain's is 8
per cent, and Germany's is per cent.
We lose 5000, 900 year in prevent
able fires, and we lose 100000 lives
yearly through preventable diseases.
The productiveness of our farms, 10 the
acre, is less than half as great as
Germsny's. Still, we are the greatest
mutual admiration society in the world,
and are fully convinced that we are the
people.
What we need to DO. the author urges
US in this uncommonly suggestive. in
structive and arousing little book, is 20
follow an adaptation Of the advice once
given TO a certain commonwealth, TO
L. I'LL 4 L ..ras
70 have less politics and more business
in our conduct of national affairs.
There was no hint Of politics in Ger
many's marvellous work OF prepare
ton. Ii was 100 per cent business.
But what percentage of politics is
there in our national works--in army,
and navy, in river and harbor improve
ments, in public buildings, and what
not?
The supreme beauty OF Industrial
preparedness is, of course. its vast
value in peace as well as in war. We
really don't know whether Mr.. Ford
or Mr.. Bryan would object to training
boys up to physical efficiency, because
they would thus be fitted TO be SOL
diers; or would oppose a great devel-
opment Of our industries. because we
But we are quite sure that the other
99,999,99S of our hundred million
would not do so. We wish, therefore.
that the whole hundred million. or all
of more than prmer-readng age.
could read and become imbued with
the spirit of this book. II can he held
in the fingers. or carried in the
pocket, or read through at a sitting
But IL epitomizes the whole philoso-
ply of that industrial preparedness
which gives a nation the highest efi-
cheney In all the arts of peace and in
the promotion Of the welfare of the
people, while at the same time 4, sup
plies the indispensable "sinows Of
war" in case the peace is broken:
Preparedness which means, IN Mr.
knoeppers own pregnant words, bet
torment in industry. and gain. men
tally, morally and physically. to our
people.
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IsILL-OUT-OF PRINT.BOOKs"

WRITE Me: can get you any book ever
published on any subject Tho most expert
book finder eItsnt. When In England call ana
zee mytoe.oe rsrs books. BAKERS GREAT
Book SHOP. John Bright ct. Birmingham.
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CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
Abraham Lincoln: The Statesman the Lawyer the
Nlan-Mrs Ceroulds Impressions of the
Hawaiian Islands

regarded as the only one not to speak
irreverently-th which men could
be politically saved. So men OF all par
ties and Of all political creeds nave
strven in some way to identify them
selves with him. ana their policies with
his principles. Generally the strongest
efforts to those ends have been made
by those who in fact resemble HIM
least. Thus the tvo foremost claim
ants of the mantle Of Elijah have
been Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson-two men about as unlike LIN
coin. and certainly as unlike each
other. as it would be easy to conceive.
Mr. Roosevelt cherishes, indeed, many
of Lincoln's principles, but there is a
striking contrast IN personality De
tween the calm, restrained, contem-
plative Lincoln and the hot, impulSlve,
intuitive Roosevelt. AS for Mr. vii
son, American public life has produced
no other prominent man quite as unlike
Lincoln. in both personality and prin-
ciples. When we contrast the warm
human sympathy of the one with the
frieidity of the other, consistency with
fckleness, transparent frankness with
secretiveness. directness with tortuous-
ness, democratic simplicity with
psuedo-aristocratic eXclusi7eness, II rs
easy to understand how completely
Mr.. Wilson has failed even TO appre-
ciate, much more TO approximate, the
spirit of Lincoln.
If thus Ameri ans-for there are
many others besides Mr.. Wilson-fall
to divine Lincoln, IL would be unrea-
sonable 10 expect foreigners invariably
to do so. II may naturally be as dim
cult for some Engishmen 10 conceive
a self-teught backwoodsman becoming
a great statesman as for some Amerl-
cans to conceive an hereditary peer be-
ing a man Of character and parts. We
dwell too much upon some foreigners
lampooning and abuse Of Lincoln IN the
first part of his administration. IN SNUG
forgetfulness of the fact that the worst
of their attacks, detestable as they
were, fell far short of the savage
brutalities of our own press and plat
form. We do not refer to the anlmos-
ity of the South. II was one OF the
foremost and most cultivated journals
Of New York City that depicted HIM as
a drunken barroom loafer, and 1t was
a prominent New England political
leader who declared that the lustre OF
Lincoln's fame was like that of dead
mackerel by moonlight which the more
il shines the more 1t stinks." We re-
member too much. too, the malignant
England of Gladstone and Beresford
Hope, TO the exclusion of the benignant
England of Forster and Argyll and
Bright, of Tennyson and Darwin and
tom" Hughes We remember the Ala
bama and we forget the Trent.
Peculiar interest invests, therefore,
a great English history of Lincoln; for
Lord Charnwood's mastery work IS
not a mere biography, but history Of
Lincoln and of his era in American
political life. 1t is gratifying to find
in it scarcely trace of ancient en-
nifty or Misrepresentation. Born on al
most the very day Of Lincoln's second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-30

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Hy Lord Chsfn.o,na
1SWalers az me Ninete-nth Centur series.
s.lfrf ty Basil Winiam.l. WIN porITh' "''
MAJ $50 NJ v.'l iie HenD Holt & 60.
.ppAVAN LINCOLN Tie lawyer statesman Ky
frir II Richards Illustrated. sVo, pp H. Nv
Vouchto. Nifin Company
HOW WI ELECTED LINCOLN: Personal ~, hsoohs e,
fiors ~ Lincoln and Mon - hls llh' 90
no a- Harp a Bros.
PERSONAL EECoIIECTlONs OF ABhAHAN
TJNtnIN Fy HcHy 4 Rankin WIN a. iouo
.--.t.. b. rH.erh Forf Newton. lNusrsfen wv
rp ,g le o. r rutnsm's Sons
OF making many books about AerS,
lam Lincoln there is no end. We shan
rot. however. add with the Preacher
hat much study of them is WEAKNESS
Of the flesh. because there IS per
ennial vitality Of interest IN the theme,
Of "the First American which would
invest with a certain charm even com
nonplace essay upon him; and not one
of the volumes before us at TINS time
j. commonplace.
The last few years have witnessed
remarkable development OF what we
may call a Lincoln cult IN American
politics. His name seems TO have been
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Two NeW Books
for Young People
The Golden
Apple
A KiItartan Play for Children
Lady Gregory

Author of "Seven Short Plays
"Our Irish Theatre" etc.
s.. Eight Full-page Illustrations in
Color. 1925.
The King of Ireland's son, in
search of the Golden Apple Of
Healing. comes to the Witch's
Garden, the Giants House, the
Wood of Wonders, and finally
arrives in the King of Ireland's
room. Lady Gregory's delightful
Irish touch is everywhere APP
parent.
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a College
Girl
Mrs. G. de Horn Valley

Author of AN Unknown Lover"
Lady Cassandra,' what Man
Wills" etc.
10. Illustrated. SLIPS.
The sweet and forceful story Of
the life of Darsie Garrett from
the time she is fifteen until she
blossoms out, full-fedgcd gradu
ate of Newman College.
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I'm THE ISLANDS"
A Book of Exotic Charm and
Beauty.

HAWAIIAN IMPRESSIONS. Ry Katharine Fuller
ton Gerould. illustrated from Photographs $40.
no NV ISL. Charles Scrihner's sons.
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Danaris
By
Lucas Malet

Author Of "Sir Richard
CaImady," The Far
Horizon" etc.
4 romance of the East
passionate, mysterious, fas-
chatting of the strange
fate of the daughter of
not oycr-scrupulous English
Indian autocrat. The first
novel by this distinguished
author in several years.
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Waterneads
BY
Archibald Marshall

Author OF T. y I q m
Manor" The Old Or
der Changefh," etc.
Extraordinary ch arm
moves along like beau
tiful voices with orchestral
accompaniment. | have
read all his novels, and have
never finished one without
wishing that we could follow
his people farther. If
there are any readers who
do not like Mr.. Marshall's
novels. I am sorry for them"
Professor William Lyon
Phelps of Yale University in
The Dial" $50 net
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
Publicity In Mining Nothing Gained
By Secrecy--Public To Be Considered
lMining and sclentlfic Pressl

version of the figures in the case. In
short, we believe that secrecy does not
protect; on the contrary, 1t renders
mining company particularly yulner-
able to injury from such sources.
Next, we are informed that the small
company, working it's own mine in its
own way, has no stock to sell and no
share quotations to boost. That Is
well. We recognize that the kind of
mining done by such proprietaries, on
the Mother Lode and elsewhere, rep
resents clean operation; 1t aims to
extract gold to the profit of the pro-
prietors and not to victimize the pub
lie by selling shares at an inflated
price. So far, so good. But the state
of California, the city of San Francis
co, and the county in which the min
ing is being done are each and all en-
titled to be considered In the matter
and as good citizens, these modest OPP
the advantage of the state, county
and city that honorable and success
full work of this kind should be made
known, so that our domestic mining
industry may receive public support.
Gold mining Is business that Is not
hurt by competition. We can not see
how disclosure of facts creditable
to all concerned Is going to do any
harm to anybody. We do not insist
that the mines be listed on the local
stock exchange, but we venture to
point out that holding in private
ly owned property is not liquid as
set If any member of small syndi-
cate or private company owning a
mining enterprise that courts seclu-
sion, should wish to sell his interest,
as is frequently the case in any bust
ness, he has no market outside the
member of his group, because nobody
knows anything about the mine out
side that group. A property Is en-
HANGED In value by becoming a liquid
asset We hope to be pardoned for
discussing the matter frankly Far
be 1t from us to teach our grand
mother the pneumatic extraction of
the albuminous contents of an egg
However, we hope our friends on the
Mother Lode will consider the matter
seriously. great deal of new and
promising work Is being done along
the foot hills of Amador, Calaveras
and Tuolumne counties at the present
time. Old mines are being reopened,
many of the deepest mines are doing
handsomely, and there is every rea-
son, 1t seems to us, why the world at
large should be informed concerning
the excellent work in progress
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
Office of the Lucky Calumet Copper
Mining Company. Liiaited. Wallace.
Idaho June 20 1915

Office of the Lucky Calumet Copper
Mining Company. Lifuited. Wallace,
Idaho, June 20, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that at
meeting of the directors, held on the
Goth day of June, 1916 an assessment
of five (5) mills per share was levied
upon the capital stock of the corpor-
alton, payable on or before the goth
day of July, 1916, to Otto A. OLSON,
secretary treasurer, at the office of
the company, Wallace, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the goth day
of July, 1916, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment is made in full,
together with rs cents, cost of adver-
Using for each certificate advertised,
will be sold on the 21st day of August,
1916, at 800 p. m. at the Office Of the
company Wallace, Idaho, to pay the
delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with the costs of advertising
and expenses of the SALE
OTTO A. OLSON,
Secretary Treasurer of the Lucky
Calumet Copper Mining Company,
Limited, Wallace, Idaho.
Je22-Jy2O-5t
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
SALE OF TOWN LOTS.
Government to Hold Sale at Desnet,
Idaho, on August II.

Lots vii be sold to the highest bid
ders at public cutlery, at not less than
their appraised value. There is no
Limitation as to the number of lots any
one person may buy and no proof of
citizenship or other qualifications will
be required of the purchaser.
Bids may be made in person or by
agent, but not by mail or at any other
time or place.
Payments will be required as fol-
lews: No lot will be disposed of for
less than $40 and any lot sold for $40
must be paid for on the day 1t is sold;
the minimum of $40 and at least 20 per
centum of the bid price of each lot
sold for more than $40 must be paid
on the date of sale and the remainder,
If the price bid is $50 or less, within
one year from the date of sale; if the
price bid be over $50 and less than
800, rs per centum of the cost may be
divided into two equal payments due,
respectively, one and two years from
the date of sale; if the price bid be
800 or more the rs per centum remain
ing unpaid may be divided into three
equal payments due, respectively, one,
two and three years from the date of
sale.
JOHN McPHAUL, Superintendent.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
RocKEFELLER's RICHES.
May Be q 6iIIion--valus Subject to a
Change in Few Days.
(Wall Street Journall

(Wall Street JournaD
II the authorities of Cleveland, Ohio,
have evidence which would be admis-
sible in court as competent showing
that John d. Rockefeller has accumu-
lated a fortune of billion dollars or
more, leaders in our financial district
will be compelled to revise some of
their estimates of Mr.. Rockefeller's
wealth. Seven or eight years ago, a
report was widely published setting
forth that Mr. Rockefeller had then
accumulated more than a billion. Rus
sell Sage used to say that a billion of
dollars is great deal of money.
1t is believed by those who should
know that nothing short of discovery
of gold mine of extraordinary rich
ness and the exclusive ownership of 1t
would enable anyone to accumulate in
40 years as much as billion dollars.
The estimate commonly made in the
financial district a few years ago of
Mr.. Rockefellers wealth was that it
was not in excess of $600,000,000. That
estimate was based upon an assumed
market value of some of the securit
les of which he was then in posses
sion. Not all Of Mr. Rockefellers in
vestments have been fortunate. 1t Is
understood that he had been obliged
to charge off to profit and loss good
many. 1t is admitted that his yearly
income exceeds that of any other Am
erican of wealth. and probably by
good many million dollars. But it Is
also thought that Mr.. Rockefeller
would be unable to obtain from those
whom he has employed to manage his
private affairs any estimate which
would be more than approximately
correct of the actual value of his es-
tate. That value might change in a
few days by the action of the securi-
ties market
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17

When the Engineering Congress was
In session in San Francisco, last year,
a usually we'll informed engineer made
the remark that he supposed mining
along the Mother Lode was dead, as
he had heard nothing about 1t re-
Gently. We assured him that the re-
glon to which he referred so casually
was in a state of remarkable pros
perity and that to ii largely CalifOr
MIA owed her first place among the
states of the union as a producer OF
gold. The articles that have appeared
since then in this paper will have told
that engineer, in New York, good
deal concerning one OF the principal
gold mining regions of North America.
But how came ii that he should have
labored under such a misapprehen-
sion? The answer Is that the mining
companies operating on the Mother
Lode consist for the larger part Of
private companies and small syndi-
Gates, most of which desire no pub
LEFTY, while some even endeavor to
escape 1t. Is this wise? We have
discussed the mattT with several of
the principal operators, men OF wide
experience and high character, and
from them have elected the reasons
why they are content to work their
mines without attracting public not
ice. What applies to them and their
operations will apply to others else
where to whom publicity Is repug
nant In the first place, they argue
that any advertisement of their pro-
fits tends to invite the attack of the
labor agitator and even the less ar
cause show of large production and
successful results gives ground for
demand that wages be raised and so
forth, In the same category we may
place the idea that statement OF
production and profit gives the tax
collector an excuse for raising his i'm
post To this we would reply that
mystery always exaggerates, that a
mine operated secretly is the sport of
fanciful stories, that the actual pro-
fit made by mine is nearly always
less than that reported in the adjoin-
ing community. for example, in the
hotels and saloons of adjacent towns.
II the assessor wants to get at the
facts, he is empowered by law to OBJ
tain them; and II the labor agitator
is anxWus to ascertain how much
money mining company is making,
he can do so by inquiring among the
men working on the mine, obtaining
from them usually a highly -colored
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
WAGES OF BUTTE MINERS
REDUCED N AUGUST
AVERAGE PRICE OF COPPER Be.
LOW 25c-cUT OF 25c
PER DAY.

Owing to the fact that copper set
Element prices for the month of July
averaged less than 25c, wages Of the
10000 miners in the Butte district
were reduced from $3.50 to $4.25 per
day, says the Butte Miner of last
Monday. The reduction is in confor-
nifty with the promise made by the
employing companies April n when
in granting a voluntary increase of
25c per day the promise was made
that the increase should apply so
long as copper remains at Csc pound
or more" The mines paying yester-
day paid on the basis of the new scale
of $425.
The official figures for the average
price of copper for the month of July
as shown by the Engineering and Min
ing Journal disclosed an average I'M
der 25c a pound for the metal.
How Average Is Obtained.
AS basis Tor an average the udlly
quotations for period of two weeks
are taken and the average for the
first two weeks in July, on which the
present wage scale is based, was be-
tween 20 and "a cents.
In figuring the weekly average, Sun
days and holidays are omitted. The
following are the official figures for
the shifts worked in the first two
weeks of the month:
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office of the Iron Spar Copper Mining
Company, Wallace, Idaho, June IA,
1916
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the directors, held on the
9Th day Of June, 1916, an assessment
of three 90 mills per share was levied
upon the outstanding capital stock Of
the corporation payable on or before
the 18th day of July, 1916, to A. l..
Honeker, treasurer, at the office of the
company Wallace, Idaho, Up. o. Box
No. 1922
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 18th day
of July, 1916, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment is made before,
will be sold at the office of the COM
pany, 703 Cedar street, Wallace, Idaho,
on the 18th day of August, 1916, at Z: 80
p. m. of said day to pay the delinquent
assessment thereon, together with the
costs of advertising and expenses Of
sale.
G. w. DOUGHERTY,
Secretary Iron Spar Copper Mining
Company, Wallace. idaho.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17

infantry, now on the border. and an
other stalwart son serving at Pekin,
China, as a member of the United
States marine corps.
IF New York, Chicago and Phila-
delphia could be induced to give their
sons In the same proportion" writes
w. d. Miller, editor of the Saco Inde-
pendent to the marine corps officials,
wed have some real preparedness"
But in the meantime Saco wants to
cast considerable shadow from its
new place in the sun.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-17
Employees In cluded.

The reduction in wages is not con-
fined to the miners alone, but includes
all employees of the mining companies
drawing salaries of $500 per month or
less. The employees in this classifica-
ton we're granted an increase of 10
per cent and the reductions makes
their compensation the same as pre-
vailed before the last voluntary raise.
In many other districts muckers and
miners are graded the latter drawing
more than the former but the wage
scale in Butte is still in excess of
that in force in most other mining
camps.
Employees of the Anaconda Copper
Mining comrany's reduction plants at
Anaconda and Great Falls are also
affected by the reduction.