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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1907)
WASTEFUL AMERICA. We Are, Ho it |M Charged* a Monl Prodigal Pro pie. Americans are the oppoHites of the Japanese iii (hut they uro probably the most wasteful anil extra vugtint people under the hiiii . James .1. Hill once voiced a ilei-laration to the effect that tlie greater part of America's progress had been gained by using up the atored capital of preceding ages something for which we lire Indebted to nature, not to our own energlea, Holl, mines, oil ami gas reservoirs, forests, fisheries —all have been drained and drained, with little or no thought that exliuus- tlon of either was calculable. We ent three tliucN iih much ns I h demanded by nature and more than la go««! foi ns, ami we throw away iinniinlly enough to feed the whole population of Japan. Into our rivers In the form of polluting Hewnge go fertilizers to the value of million«, hlch other peoples save and which we would be doubly benefited by Having. We could econo mize greatly if we cured to In the quantity of Iron and oilier metals we use: but, possessed with the infatua tion that they will never ‘‘run out,” we are as prodigal with them as with everything else, whereas file limit of the supply Is claimed to be easily cal culable. Hut It is In the waste of the forests that American Improvidence finds Its worst Illustration. The nation has been willing to see Its forests so devastat ed that the present annual ‘‘cut” and fire waste cannot be continued for twenty-five years longer without de stroying every patch of timber In America.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. SPORT IN AMERICA. Tbr Change Thnt Hun Come Since th«- W«r Uetweon the Stnlee. Before the civil war we Americans bail few outdoor pastimes. There was some fox bunting in the south, some shooting In tlie north. There was con siderable fishing. very little angling. Tennis mid golf were unknown to us. Croquet was decorously played. I »riv ing nud riding were restricted to the few who could afford the time and ex pense. One or two «Ticket elevens struggled for existence. There were no bicycles, no motors, of course, only an absurd velocipede or two. Extreme youth “flew kites," played marbles and wblp|»ed tops. Among their elders, however, there was a mincing, artitl clal attitude toward all outdoor sport which found Its fullest expression in a quadrille, at croquet or a sentimental sailing expedition under the calmest of skies. However, even then we liad yachts men naturally corollary of our superb commercial navy «nd we had good horses and were breeding better ones, mid we by Inheritance were a nation For sale—The north half of the north of men who handled a rifle properly. east quarter, the southeast quarter ol War came mid left us with Its Im the northeast quarter ami the northea«*t mense accumulation of good mid evil, quaiter of the southeast quarter of sec and It seemed then thnt out of sheer tion nineteen, south of range eleven, weariness of sadm-ns and trouble the east ol V\ illamelte meridian. Inquire , germ of tlie olii play spirit, so long dor al I his office. ti mant, awoke among uh to save us frort ourselves, -Collier's Weekly J. V. M'TIMMONDS Pnncturlmc TAXIDERMIST I'allacy, AND TANNER The barber applied the rich brown All work guarantee«! first-class dye with a fine tooth comb, combing it in every respect :: :: :: evenly into tlie grizzled locks of the KUOS AND HOHES A SI'K< IALTV old man. “lluir dye, sir,” be said. “Plain, un Phone HENLEY RANCH varnished hair dye Is the base of that absurd fallacy about people turning gray in a single night. “If you investigate those yarns you find that lnvurlaldy they concern per BOUGHT FOR CASH sons In prison. Orsini, pining In Jail, bad his hair go back on him. Marie i Antoinette, languishing In a cell, found the deep hue of her hair changing to an ugly gray, Raleigh, li iprisoned in the tower, developed grayish streaks KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. with Incredible speed. “Tlie secret of all that, my dear, 1» this: "These prisoners In order to conceal their gray hair dyed it, using a poor sort of dye, one of tlr»se sorts that have to be applied «»very day or two. In prison, naturally, they could not get Klamath Falls Brandi Office hold of this dye, ami hence their locks Exchange Liverv ! arn wlii'ened at a miraculous rate. When people said of them pityingly that their terror of sorrow hail turned their hair gray In a sln-.’le night they acquiesced themselves In the decep tion, fur is it not embarr isslng—I leave J. W. SIEMENS, Proprietor. It to you, sir, Is It not embarrassing— to explain to the world at large that one uses hair dye?”—St. Luu s Glob» Cleanliness and Good Work Democrat. Furs, Rubber and Copper Kelsey, Building Opposite Amsrican Ho e’ Don’t Forget A. HELMING & CO. WOOL 100 AND HI0E fflERCHONIS To Vote KLAMATH BARBER SHOP Guaranteed. Thr Tur«|liola<- Land. Sinai wus known as the "turquols- laud" In very ancient times, and Dr Flinders Petrie believes that it wa.- tlie flrst mining center In the world In his book on the subject Dr. Petri« tells of the various expeditions sent t Sinai by the Egyptian government. A the head of the party was the “com munder." or “bearer of the seal of tin god,” the pharaoh. The official stai, consisted of "masters of tin- house o metals." or assayers, scribes ami sec retaries, to make Inventories of th- output of the mines. Even more mod eru were the “devisers of metals," o prospectors. The working staff con slsted of miners nnd their assistants Tlie commissariat had cooks, breai bakers, water carriers and oven a <loc tor attached. Tlie mines could only b worki'd for a certain period, froi. January to May, which is exactly th best period for archaeological work In binai today. The miners lived in camps and the so called forts and camp« wore really miners' villages. Also Agent for LONDON ANL for LANCASHIRE FIRE INS. CO. Your J I RADE IVI A HR J» D esigns C opyrights A c . Anyone «ending a sketch and desrrlntlnn may uulckly ascertain <>»ir our opinion f free quickly rt whether an Invention invention 1« ta probably patentable. Bu.n’T tlon» strictly confidential. 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