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Elko; Eldorado Of The West"-Home Wauled.' ELKO, NEVADA. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914, MALAYS NOT OF ONE RACE Common Error, But Travelers Know That It Haa No Foundation In Fact. * i ?? ?? . ? Take the Java Malay, be he Ja v? ^ese, Soundanese . or Madoureae. Watch him climb a cocoanut palm; In less than no time he 1b at the top ot the smooth trunk, fifty or sixty feet in height Notice him in the street, squatting ? his toes, like thoBe of a monkey, prominent ? on the edge of a step or pavement, note his sinuous movements! Is he not a man of nature all over? All the aboriginal inhabi tants of the Malay archipelago are Malays, but in Java alone you find the calm, quiet Soundanese of West Java, the true Javanese of Middle Java ? a much finer race ? and the treacherous Madourese of Madoura and East Java. It 1b therefore evident that to talk about "Malays" is really incorrect Anthropologically only 1b it really correct to term all these peoples Ma lays; one would not think of terming all white people Aryans. ' The term "Malay" merely refers to one of the great families of mankind. The Malay men folk, taking them as a whole, do not make as near so good an impres slon as their women. Contrary to what they really are, they look puny; they are also short, have shifty eyes, a broad nose, perhaps a mustache, sel dom a beard; they are lazy, untrust worthy, will harbor revenge for years, are usually ugly. Being Moslems, they all wear a head covering, made of col ^h-ed linen. The lower classes weai this carelessly, although the Malays o! higher standing are very careful in ar ranging it, which they do very ingeni ously. It looks incongruous to see a Malay with a "topee," or helmet, above his usual head covering; nevertheless, this is general. A pair of cotton pants, a shirt, and a girdle of printed cloth, called a "sarong," form the av erage Malay's garb, and he is Beldom without . his "kris," or dagger-like knife. ? T. P.'s" Weekly, London. WOULD BE OF GREAT VALUE . Idea^nr a Laboratory of Safety De- ' Hat Been Put Forward by Employers of Labor. Why not have a laboratory of safe ty devices is the question asked by many manufacturers who have been giving honest attention to the subject of preserving the health and physical well-being of their employes. With the many safety devices already offered, the average manufacturer is some what in the dark as to the appliances which best could befit his business. With this idea in view, it is pro posed that a staff of competent engl' neers be appointed whose sole duty it ^ shall be to test the numerous appli ances offered and decide whether they are fitted to the various industries they represent. Fire prevention naturally would prove one of the biggest subjects to be taken under consideration. Many inventions have to do with hose, doors, shutters, etc., and under present con ditions the only way for a factory owner to determine their vfclue is to put them to a test ? those tests oft times being made under conditions where a great loss in human life re sults. A Useful Dunce. During the Civil war, Oeneral Scdg wick had on his staff a very dull lieu* tenant, who seemed never to be able to do anything without making mis* takes. One day a friend aBked the general: "Why do you keep Jones on your staff? He seems a perfect dunce." "Do you know," replied General Sedgwick, "Jones is one of the most useful members of my staff? Before 1 issue an order, I always have Jones read it. If he can tell what it means, any sure there can be no chance ttiat Vfe?-e will misunderstand it," ? YORK'S Companion. Keate a Great Poet One of the highest of aijthoritlen declares the "Ode to a Nightingale" to be "one of the final masterpieces of 'human work in all time and for all ages." The same high authority re fers to the odes to "Autumn" and to the "Oreclan Urn" as being unequaled and unrivaled, the "triumphant ac complishment of the very utmost beauty possible to human words." In Keats' larger poems are passages that approach very near to poetic perfec tion. Keats died at twenty-six. And yet he lived long onough to have writ ten* some of the llnest things in litera ture. . * ? * - ^ -i ? - for Your Grinder. Glycerin !? a gocd lubricant for the ?seat or vegetables grinder, because It not leave an napleaaant odor if PPeagfct In contact with the meat. i LEADERS ARE MEN OF ACTION Having an Idea, They Have Impreeaed It' on Their Fellowe end the World Hae Moved. _______ / The nations are a series of short experiments. A nation may disin tegrate Inside of a century. It may flowor Inside of 30 years. It would be 'possible that a middle-western town like Cedar Rapids should tomorrow begin to put forth a group of heroes, who should overrun the earth with the charm and vigor of their ideas. A Budden quickening, mind catching flame from mind, and once again you would have the miracle of Plato's Athens, of Elizabeth's London. If now and again some man had not decided to stop drifting and take hold of things and reshape them, there would have been no discovery, no invention, no art. He might have said, as many like to say: "Why not let my big idea rest quietly? There is time enough in the long future Why be in a hurry? Why bo hot, lit tle man? There is quiet sleep in the churchyard for the men that have gone before, and soon I too will be there." But, prevailing, he said: "Now is the time, and the place Is here, to bring my idea to action.- I insist on being heard. Mere is the plan We will not postpone it till next century. We will try It now." It is our bus'.ness to make our ideas prevail. We are not to go si lent, nor to retire from activity, be lieving that our nation is lor/g-lived, and that our thought has an eternity in which to come to pass. We must speak up. We must strike early and strike hard. The time is short. It is right to wish to get something done in our own lifetime. ? Harper's Weekly. REFLECTS LIFE OF SECTION Homeapun Language Well Described as Having Race-Old Distillation of Wisdom. The life of every section Is reflected In Its speech. Why should It not be taught pride In the very archaism's it possesses? We have a storehouse on which we can never afford to turn the key. Take a lower Mississippi sen tence that Clemens might have cop ied: "There's been a fray on the river ? I don't know how the fraction began, but Dai; and Bill feathered into the Joneses with their rifles." Aglncourt bowmen would have under stood "feathered Into." In the tongue of the Appalachians storm is tempest, gay Is gamesome, strong 1b sur-vigorous, the air is the element, agriculture Is tilth and hus bandry, medicine Is physick. The peo pie speak in metaphor as readily as the Tudors. One can hear In the Great Smokies, as In Marlowe, of cowards whose blood Is snow-broth and heroes bold as brass. To become ashamed of speech with a colloquial flavor Is to become ashamed of the very spcech that is primitive thews and muscles. The homespun language has a past; in It beats the heart of democratic feeling, and Its sayings and phrases have a race-old distillation of wisdom. ? New York Post. Whistler Did Not Car*. i One day the late James McNeill Whistler, the famous artist, went into a London hat shop. He stood there bareheaded, as the clerk had taken bis hat to another part of the shop to match It. As he leaned idly against the counter, a man rushed up to him, took off his hat, thrust it Into Whist ler's face, and exclaimed In anger: "Look here, I want you to understand that I know something about hats, and I Insist that this hat doesn't fit me!" Whistler looked at the man with in terest; then he siglled politely. "Please put the hat on," he said, and the angry man did so. Whistler looked him over critically from bend to foot; then In his peculiar, drawling manner, he said: . "Quite right, quite right, sir, It does not fit. Neither does your coat; and furthermore, your waistcoat is too large, and your trousers are a horrible color." After Whistler went out. It took the proprietor halt an hour to convince the man that it was not one of the clerks who had insultec him.? Youth's Companion. vr?o?ote and Decay. It is estimated by the Canadian au thorities that every year some 800,000 telegraph and telephone poles have to be replaced becauee of thetr decay. It Is estimated that creosote treat ment would save upward jd- 240,000 poles per year. If the world owes every man a liv ing, the millionaire* must be pre ferred creditors. ? Chicago New>/ TECHNICALITY ONCE OF USE Undoubtedly 8erv*d Good Purpose Whan Criminal Laws Ware 80 . Unreasonably 8ever?. Tou remember the trial scene In "The Merchant of Venice." The "qual ity of mercy" has failed. The learned Daniel of judgment has refused the plea to "wreBt once the law to your authority." Shylock la whetting his knife for the pound of fleBh. And then ? "Tarry* a little, there Is something else. The bond doth give thee here jio Jot of blood" ? a technicality. All through the English law of the period I am discussing, English criminal law* yers, with the connivance of humane English Judges, were playing the part 1 of Portia, Inventing ingenious excuses by which humanity might triumph . over barbarism.* Here is a man In dicted for Bteallng a sheep ? penalty, ? death. The proof was that he stole a ewe, but the statute used the word "ewe" as well as "sheep," and the prisoner escaped. He had not stolen a Bheep. In 1827, an indictment pead that the Jurors "on their oath," instead of "on their oaths," charged a man with a crime and for this reason the indict* ment was found defective and on thii technicality the prisoner waa dis charged. That these technicalities were In 1 their own time undesirable substitutes for the law reform must be admitted. But they had a reason for existence, due to the barbarous condition of the j. criminal law. ? World'a Work. OYSTER NOT GOOD FOR ALL Many Stomachs to Which It la Not a Welcome Visitor, According to Physician. It is. popularly supposed that the oyster digests himself in the human stomach owing to the great size of the liver, which is crushed as mastica tion begins and 1b thought to digest the mollusk itself. As the oyster, moreover, contains some ten per cent of extremely assimilation protein, to gether with phosphorlzed fata and glycogen, it has always been freely ad ministered to convalescents, while dyspeptic bona vivants have nevei hesitated to eat it abundantly. Doctor Pron expresses the opinion that the oyster may be allowed, therefore, to those dyspeptics whose gastric functions are deficient, in anorexia, gastric atony, ulcer and in cipient cancer, and to convalescents from acute disease, as it is likely to improve the appetite and to excite the stomach to increased motor and chem ical activity. But to the large number of dyspep tics whose stomachs are hyperacid or hypersensitive Doctor Pron would forbid the oyster as well as all othet stimulating foods. In many of these dyspeptics the gastric secretion is al ready sufficient, and It la unnecessary and unwise to increase It. What Came Up. An Englishman was driving around County Tlpperary one warm day, when he came across & farmer setting pota toes. Thinking to have a joke with him, he began: "Well, Pat, what are you planting?" "Praties, sir," said Pat. "Do you think potatoes will come up?" asked the Englishman. "Of course," said Pat "Why, I set onions last year In out garden, and carrots came up," aald the Englishman. "Oh," said Pat "I let an acr?" oi turnips last year In that field ovei there, and do you know what came up?" "No," replied the Englishman. "Mike Murphy'a old black donkey, and ate them all," answered Pat. Mean Insinuation. She was a plump widow with two charming daughters. She had been a "relic" lust a year, and was beginning to wear her "weeds" lightly. All the name when the new curate called upon her she sighed: "Ah, I feel the loss of my poof, deai husband very much. I never have any appetite for anything now." The curate waa all sympathy, and In the endeavor to oheer her by pointing out what a comfort to her her daugh ters must be, replied: "I can quite understand that, but you are solaced in--" "S-l-r-r!" interrupted the indignant lady, "allow me to inform you that 1 am not laced in at all." Burled In Snow for Wseke. Reno, Nev. ? Caught In a blletard, R. D. Hawley, an eastern banker, and three companions in a tent were bur* led under 12 of snow for a week. When the storm waa over they dag themselves out Keeps the T axpay ers Posted on State and i County Affairs Subscribe y and get the News