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r CONSUMPTION.

Mrs. b. w. Evans. Clearwater. Kan /,
writes: My husband lay sick for three
months. The doctors said he had quick
consumption. We procured a bottle of
BILLIARDS. Horehound Syrup and it cured
him. That was six years ago and since
then We have always kept a hottie in
the house, We cDnnot do without II.
For coughs and colds 1t has no equal"
sc. soc and $1.oO.
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LESSONS OF MODERN BUILD
INGSTAUGHT BY DISASTER

on California street are unharmed; so
are the cast iron fences which used to
be in vogue; and everywhere about lie
tangled masses of wrought iron fire es-
eapes and other devices.
"One thing is certain: nsver again VIII
there be put up a building in the bus :
ness district without walls of its wn.
Wherever there was a party wall-that
is. where the front wall was ancAofed
into the wall of the building on eiti.er
side-there you will find complete col
lapse.
''While on this topic. / will mention a
remarkable fact. AS you walk Up Cali
fornia street to Mob iIill. with iLlns G.
both sides of the street. you will see
that the basalt blocks in the middle of
the street between the car tracks have
been Clipped by the heat so that YOU
might believe wager loads OF macadam
had been scattered along. And yet. when
you turn off into a hilly side street, like
Jones, next to the Flood mansion, wncre
the heat must have been terrific, scu
will see that the bitumen pavement upon
thar street is perfect, without a sign eff
disturbance. That bitumen is heated into
a paste when it is put on and grant IS
supposed to be proof against fire.
ION the whole. the class A buildings
that is. the buildings like the Haywards.
built of steel frames and sandstone fac
ing. with copper window casings-s 90
the fire best; then came build ngs like
the Fairmount, butt of stone and steel,
but with wooden castings. which readily
fell prey to the flames, and caused the
stone work around them TO chip and
drop out in chunks.
"As to the frame buildings. where they
were in line of the earthquake and not
fire. they came out free OF a scratch,
houses that still standard by TIE way
there are thousands of them-the dam
age consisted mostly of cracked walls
and broken bric-a-brac.
1.-THE fire Underwriters are greatly CON
cerned as to the character of the new
buildings to be erected. They advise that
sheet iron structures be put up as tenn
porary quarters, and after that. class A
buildings, such as the Haywards"
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PERSONAL MENTION.

w. II. Lippincott of Reno Is among
those who registered last night at The
Lafayette hotel.
John Nv. Burton of Salt Lac is a Wis
itor in Winnemucca today and Is resis
tered at the WinnSmucca hotel.
f. b. Calhoun of Dun Glen is in town
today and is staying at the Lafayette
hotel.
Mrs. j. P. Anderson OF Quin Rivtr
Crossing came to town today and is reg
istered at the Winnemucca hotel.
M. Reinhart is expected in Winnie
mucca tomorrow from Sacramento,
where he has been the pest fsw days on
business.
Rev. f. III. Smith went to Lovelock
yesterday and returned last evening on
the refugee train in order t. size up
the needs OF the sufferers.
Walter McGee left yesterday for San
Francisco, where he will join his fam
lily.
Harvy Tregaskis departed this morn
ing w.sh the Miller & Lux team foI
Quin River Crossing with a load of sup.
plies.
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only one. There were a dozen others,
with the circumstances changed but lit
tie. The wonder to me is nat they don't
fall beneath their burdens.
All parties having claims against the
re ief committee are hereby reques ed u
place the same in tn ~postoffice addressed
to me at the earliest possible moment
1t is desired that bills contracted be-
fore the committee was organized, IL
there are any such. b. presented at once.
f. II. SMITH.
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A WONDER.

The cures that stand to it's credit make
der. II cured L. r. Mulford. lecturer
for the Patrons of Husbandry. Waynes-
boro. Pa. of a Distressing case Of piles.
1t heals the worst Burns. Sores. Bolts.
Ulcers. Cuts. Wounds. Ch'iblains and
Salt Rheum. Only 25e
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CHOICE SEE

Choice, cleaned alfalfa seed is on sal
by j. Roy and Dwight Bradshaw at
their place of business, Paradise Vale =.
New. Samples of the same can be seq
at The Silver State office. or can be OBJ
tained from Messrs. J. Roy and DIV ght
Bradshaw on application. a25-1m
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EDWARD II. GRoesMAN & co.

will be represented here in a day or two
by a general saleslady in ladies' ga :
ments. comprising silk wraps. under
S sirts, ovsrskir s. waists. etc, &c. 5 e
is experienced and will give satisfaction.
Her headquarters vii be at f. c. Robins
e. Co. a26 ct
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SILVER STATE RELIEF
FUND INCREASING

The Silver State fund for the sufferers
of the terrible catastrophe that has over
taken the people of San Francisco and
~neighboring cities is grow ng rapidly.
The list:
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EXTRA VESTS-A new line of extra
F.. c. ROBINS & co. a2s-3o
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FC-. RENT neatly furnished bed
room. suitable for 2 men or married GU
Pile; board IL desired; rent reasonable.
Inquire at this office. a23-1w
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CLASSIFIED ADS.

FOR SALE dark bay stallion, weighs
1c0l pounds, o. the Norman bre a. Il my
ranch. JAMES BYRNEs. Paradise Val
ley, New. a24-2w
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PANTs-Men's and boys knee. go -
f. C. ROBINS & CO. and see them.
a2S-30.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Mass at 1880 a. m. Catechis n c,ass at
II 80 a. m.
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THE PREDIGESTED NOVEL.

eminent novelist possibly by way apology
II for his poverty has announced that the
have all been told and that contemporary fiction
Improbable rearangement OF the greasy, wethumbed
pans the game One reminded OF this obiter dctum
publication possibilities OF the desert island
agreeab exploited customary
that novel readers welcomed and indeed expected written
in the bond all the years from Defoe to Stevenson
The ingenious authors OF this sousrring Stuart
Edward te and Samuel Hopkins Adams both experienced hands
The Mystery To ccise that lacking originality would
be misunderstood wholly the purpose of the manufacturers whose
endeavor merely lead their patients by webeaten paths into
familiar country which they have and yet love for old
eake's sake.
The conductors Of this pleasant excursion have been thoughtful
enough the labor Of the reader by providing monthly
synopsis of previous chapters This device may like
ducng fiction to absry to its essence you please the
modern magazine editor insists 1t is OF bottled
novel for the accommodation OF people in hurry Here
e synopsis given number OF the American Magazine
- under a @ but eseFed BY the sAG2aS Ga a5e5ns ssss Steamship @
Bog Mate Tinamn is out aboa When She again appears She is
g o 10 e on eah occasion s9a5 SHAFT Of @ gn
which soooner disappears Completely The next morning the cruiser picks
with shstorihg laughing Francisco BY Professor
e6ears the professors angemens with Captain sover shady
% @ gn % as n6 81 1h bd Pnnife by ms ss5nn bd
% Sd bets @ n the foreeast an and makes the aequsnane the
Ian solomon sinister lndYidHa with hook Tor h2nd
- become @ ecd by the be That the prossso possesses t1e secret
Of the philosophers The voyage ends deserted volcanic island
where Sde and the ashore habtaton for the
professor and Darrow in valley base OF the volcano
This stimulating inviting Our old friends all there,
the tight mdshpm and the OF the captains
gig OF them may be little disguised but fooled
We know that sinister individual with hook for hand is
the sea life again
authors guarantee produce that creepy feeling In Captain
Selovr the o terror we welcome Wolf Larsen once more and
delighted is still able whip his weight
wild Such the bargain In the contemporary novel is
the expected that happens We don't pay good money be dis
appointed We know what we want and we get it
Throw mild favor OF Dumas, with notwithstanding
Cagoso dash Of the philosophers Mix equal parts
Deoe and and don't forget with fagot
assorted habreeds The only thing miss pirates We
should like pirates if IS asking too much for the
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on the verge of being overcome by
the difficulties, obstacles and hardships
that seemed SO mischieviously to ham
negllgences of our bodies; but we re-
membered the invaluable maxim,
Where there is a will there is d way,
and fought the struggles out bravcly
and succeeded in Witnessing the final
result of our blood and wealth.
Il therefore was determined not to
give it for any amount of money, and
wanted to leave it to my offsprings
as the family treasure and model doc
trines to them.
Meanwhile my work became
known to one of the best known
artists IN the country, who introduced
Mr.. to me, and the latter ex-
pressed his unbounded admiration OF
the work and earnestly desired to
purchase 1t, but | was firm in my orig
lnGl determination TO keep it to myself
anGs carried it tenaciously until long
after since. And | declined all his
considerations and offers, but his
sound reasoning to the effect that by
selling this it would have chances Of
being appreciated by art lovers and
that my labors would be richly re-
warded by its introduction to the pub
lie, whereas such attainment would be
out OF the question by conining it to
my own family, convinced me and
hnally | surrendered. it to Mr. -
for his good reasoning, not for the
money he paid for it.
Mr. -, who is one of the fore
most experts on art, approved my
work as the best metal work ever
produced by any japanese, and this
recommendation gives me the high
est honor and pleas"re any architect
or artist could reasonably wish
i hereby swear that this work was
done by my father and myself, who
were the direct descendants of the
family OF Koyano, sculptors and archi-
tects.'
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A STRUGGLE FOR MILLIONS.

OF only the whole financial world but likewise the millions
IL Of pocyhoders in the great New York life insurance
paies watching with the keenest interest the struggle
for control Of the Mutual Life At the of this
warfare lies the greed Of certain important groups of stock obbers
their and handling of the surplus
accumulated by the company This surplus which is merely the
Of the deferred dividends all belongs the policy holders
should be distributed hem but accordance with the system
invented by the late Henry Hyde of the Equitable has been
used finance the pecuaons of the stock obbers OF whom Henry
j. Rogers OF the Standard Oil P Morgan and E. H.
the best known representatives The plan of syndicate
operations under which the big life insurance companies provided
from the surplus the money needed for speculation OF which the
stock obbers and nan pocketed the profits fully explained
the testimony taken before the Armstrong committee New
York last year.
Financial power OF this magnitude readily surrendered
and therefore the Standard Oil group and others interested the
making desperate and INSCRIPTIONS battle
control
Rogers and William Rockefeller have declined
incoming board OF the Mutual but Rogers chairman
mating committee that put up the administration the list
bears on face evidence of trickery and bad faith
Of he candidates of afilia-
with the stocobbng groups and the four exceptions
without their
national Policy Holders League which making fight
spectators The purpose which representatives
poicyholder included in the ticket false
impression OF dealing OF four thirty
power effect anything of policy
holders they accordingly asked that their be
ticket 1t happens that
from the ticket after has been fled
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strange Cargo From the Amazon.

One OF the strangest cargoes a vessel
could possibly have was unloaded at the
London docks toward the close. of
March. 1t consisted of several sacks
hlled with dried flies, consigned to a
large firm cf grain merchants.
These flies, originating in Brazil, have
been purchased for use In the manufac-
ture of food for chickens, cage birds
and the like They were caught on the
river Amazon by Brazilians, who travel
up the river in fiat -bottomed boats and
who are provided with gauze nets with
which they capture these insects in mil
lions, as flies hover in dense clouds over
many of the swampy reaches of the
Amazon
The flies thus caught are killed, dried
In the sun, and then placed in sacks.
Upon arrival in London they are mixed
with millet and other grain and are
sold as chicken food. etc. Some time
ago the Brazilian Government, fearing
that the fish in the Amazon would be
starved. forbade the expectation of flies;
hence the price of this strange COM
modify, which used to be Cd per pound,
has now risen to IS cd per pound. and
often a little more.-Scientific Ameri-
can.
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Arthur BourchieT has brought out a
new play at the Garrick, doubtless
with the idea of keeping it on through
the autumn if 1t goes well with end
of the season audiences. The actor
manager has in this case become
actor manager playwright. having
made his own adaptation from the
play which AnatOle France-one of
the most brilliant of living French
men-built out of a grim short story
he wrote lately, called "Crainque-
billie" Bourchier has transferred the
scene from a Paris slum district to a
London slum district and has entirely
Engiished the characters. The ffk
of the play will be significant, for The
plot is of the slightest, there is no
love story and in fact no woman in
the play except as regards minor char
acters. put in for the sake of incident
and local color. Practically the whole
interest centers round a half-witted
old costermongeT, who has barely
managed TO keep body and soul to-
gether by selling vegetables in the
street from a cart Through sheer
amiable stupidity ne innocently Of
fends policeman and is arrested In
the second act we find him in a police
court before an irascible petty JUS
tice, who takes no trouble to plumb
the depths of the old mans stupidity
and sentences him to a short inn
prisonment for creating a street dis
turbance. In the third act the helpless
victim of miscarried law is back
again in his mean street" His stock
in trade has been stolen, his barrow
is lost, his feeble self-respect is gone
and his old friends have turned
against him because he is a jailbird.
He is as pathetic figure as one could
we'll find. He tries in vain to insult
a policeman in order that he may be
taken back to Jail and at last, starving
and utterly broken, he totters off to
the river TO put an end to his misery.
In the English version his barrow is
restored to him at the last moment
through the efforts of a kindly news
boy and the play enIs with a ray of
hope for the old man. A finer per-
formance than that of Bourchier as
the decrepit and dirty costermonger
could scarcely be found. 1t is a really
wonderful blending of humor, pathos
and bitter satire of careless justice.
But there is none of the strong PLAY
of emotion, and conflict of will, and
thrill and excitement required by the
average audience
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Menace Of the Gold DTedgeT
By Franklin Hichborr1.

N HE gold dredger kings of the
Sacramento Valley have their
clutch upon the Natoma vine
yard, and propose to turn that mag
nifcent property into pile OF barren
cobblestones for the gold that can be
got from it. The proposal has
shocked the Sacramento Valley, where
opposition to gold dredging had be-
gun to lag from familiarity But that
the Natoma is to be sacrificed has
again called forth protest. The Sac
ramento Union wants to know what
comes of the dredgcr kings claims
that only worthless land is operated,
and the question is being echoed from
one end of the valley to the other.
But the sacrifice of the Natoma.
said to be the second largest vineyard
in the world, and certainly ranking
among the finest, was to be expected,
for the soil OF the vineyard is rich
in fecks of gold.
Until the invention of the dredger
this gold could not be recovered at
profit, but the machines invention
made possible the reaping of tremen-
dous gain, not only from the soil OF
the Natoma, but from tens of thou
sands of acres OF the most fertile
lands of the Sacramento Valley. IN
checked, the dredger kings will even
tually exploit this vineyard, even
though they do not do it now, as
they will thousands of other acres as
valuable
The gold dredger does not work in
the beds of streams as its name indi-
Gates. 1t is an engine that operates
practically on dry land. Its tremen-
dously powerful scoops gather up the
soil clear down to bedrock, every inch
of which is carefully winnowed until
the last feck of gold is extracted. The
total cost of operation runs from g
to 8 cents per Cubic yard, varying
in the different localities Land that
yields 10 cents in gold to the cubic
yard can be worked at large profit
to the acre. When one considers the
number of cubic yards that lie in
an acre of land between surface and
bedrock, the truth of this is apparent.
But when the dredger passes over
the land, the once fertile acres are
left piles of hideous cobbles, for the
soil in the dredger's operations Sits
to the bottom and the boulders are
left on top. At Fair Oaks, at Folsom.
at Oroville, wherever the dredgers
have operated, acre after acre of these
barren gray stones are to be seen
acres once covered with orange
groves, vineyards, pastures and
farms.
Ono OF the dredgers covers about
an acre month. Ten acres of this
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"FNc-StOTv Tower" Of Bronze
in Metropolitan Museum.

TEW YORK, Aug. lie. H.
M Hartman has lent to the
- Metropolitan Museum of Art a
model of the "Five-Story Tower" or
Pagoda of Todaiji, at Nara, the an
cient capital OF Japan This remark
able piece of work is made of bronze,
silver and gold; it is four feet six
inches in height and weighs about $50
pounds
The following translation of a
statement written by Masami Koyano,
the artist, who finished the work be-
gun by his father, Kijo Koyano, is re-
produced here because of its account
of the making of the model and for
its naive expression of point of view
not often found among English
speaking artists and workmen:
The metal sculpture work has been
our family trade from far distant am
cestors down to my generation.
Most people of present days seem
to thing nothing but antique work
can be good, appreciable work but
TO my mind such seems to be gross
prejudice against the new There is
mo reason why the work of the pres
ent time cannot be equally good and
appreciable art, so long as the archi-
tects or artists of present days devote
themselves to the course of work and
exercise all the energies and genius
with which the old workmanship was
done
Unfortunately, however, the archi-
tect or artist of present days, being
inclined more for the earnings than
for the sake of art, do not devote
themselves to the ideal spirit and true
course of art, and therefore they often
neglect the spirit of chastity to the
trade, thus failing to give us the ex-
traordinary products that were not
uncommon in older days.
he failure of present artists was a
good stimulus to me. At the TWEEN
tieth year of my age l began my am
bilious attempt to leave an immortal
work worthy of the family.
Finally, after long, frequent strug-
giles and bitter experience, | set my
heart on the construction of the Five
Story Tower after that of Todaiji.
and at the sixtieth year of my age
isolated myself by removing to a soli-
tary country place in the midst of d
wild forest in the spring of the twen-
ty-second year of Meiji 1880 era.
'Not only |, but all the members of
the family as we'll, devoted themselves
to the construction of the pagoda, de-
clining all intercourses with the out
side world
We often had forgotten daily
meals, neglected due rest, necessary
sleep, kept all the necessary chastity
to the ways Of true architects and
finally overcame all difficulties and
hardships that confronted us from
time to time
AT last the work was finished in
the autumn of the thirty-first year of
Meiji (ISoS) era, and the two images
of Buddha and the strands had been
completed two years later.
Hundreds of times we were almost
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land will support a family OF hve-
Thus each month for every ten dredg-
ers in operation land that would tor
all time support family is lost to
the State California's best wealth IS
not the gold that can be Extracted
from her soil. but lies in the power
of the soil to permanently support
the race. For the immediate nickel,
then, the gold dredgers are sacrihc-
ing the lasting prosperity of the State
The report on gold dredging issued
by the State MineralOgist in 1905
states that the agricultural land.
about Folsom available for dredging
purposes is not more than $500 acres,
the value OF which for agriculture IS
placed at SIOo an acre. or S25oOoo-
But from this land. and $500 other
acres of the district, set down as
worthless for agriculture-although
that has been disputed-the report
states that at least $4,000, 900 in gold
will be extracted. But suppose the'
whole 5000 acres of the district were
worth $1,000 an acre for agricultural
purposes, which is the maximum price
paid for the finest land in the State,
the value of the whole tract for agri-
culture would be only $4,000, 900. As
against the SAC, 100000 in gold to be
gotten from it, how long would the
dredger kings hesitate 70 offer the
farmer $1,000 an acre. How long
would the farmer hesitate about SELF
ing? Even at that price, the gains to
the dredger king would be S3o,ooo,-
600.
1t is not surprising. then, that the
Natoma vineyard. rich in 1ecks of
gold to the exploiter, richer to the
State and the people in its lasting
value as agricultural land, should be
demanded. But, turned over to the
dredger, the vineyard will be lost for
all time TO the State and the race
that gains its living from the soil. Held
for agricultural purposes, for all time
to come it will continue to add to the
wealth, the prosperity and the happi-
ness of the State and its people. And
what is true of the Natoma vineyard
is true of tens of thousands OF acres
of the most fertile land of California.
which, saved from the lust of the mad
hunter for gold, will one day support
an empire. Given over to the dredg-
er, the land will be turned into heaps
of gray, barren coobles, unprodurS
tive, hideous, a monument for all tlmSR
to the shortsightedness and stupidity
of the generation that permitted it.
At the last session OF the Legisla-
ture an act intending to stay the
course of the gold dredger was intro
duced The proposed law was a good
one, but it never reached third read
ing. Why not? Ask the dredger
kings.