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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-04
Tricks of the Trade.

y Buyers Of patent leather should look
out for skins in which holes have been
neatly covered with a piece of thin
paper which Is vanished over, the I'M
finished side being puttied up with
mixture Of glue and leather dust
Shoe Manufacturers Monthly.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-04
A SORE SUBJECT.

GLOW much did that capitol
cost?" inquired the sightseer in
Harrisburg.
"Sir," replied the guide, severely,
1--WE are here to improve our minds;
not to talk scandal"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-04
Genius.

AS diamond cuts diamond and one
hone smooths second, all parts Of
intellect are whetstones to each other.
and genius. which is but the result
OF their mutual sharpening, is char
acter too.-Alfred Tennyson.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-04
A Comparison.

In a certain store there is salesman
named Green. Small Clarence learned
his name and said. Say, Mr.. Green.
there's man living two doors from US
who has q name the same color as
yoursr
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-04
sTATEHoUsE SQUARE
:'sy%r

FRANKFORT, KY, Nov. The"
Statehouse square was practically; 2
deserted today, all of the officials
having gone henle to vote. Insurance
Commissioner. G.. W. Bell, who has
purchased home. in this county, u
the only official here. .a4...ssz.. . :
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-04
Nor 1.-THE Lonq Green"

Hicks-They say that the blind can
distinguish colors by the sense of
touch. Wicks-That's nothing. One
doesn't have to be blind to feel blue
Boston Transcript.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land Of
flee at Carson City, Nevada, Feb
ruary 4, 1908.
Notice is hereby given tina. REU-
BEN II. CONNER, Of McDermitt,
Nevada, has fled notice Of his inten-
ton to make final fvc-year proof in
support of his claim, viz: Homestead
Entry No. $50, made July Is, 1901,
for lots 3 and 4, Section 32, Township
4S n, Range, 3s E. NJ. ID. NJ, and
that said proof will be made before
the County Clerk at his Office at Win
nemucca, Nevada. on March rs, 1908.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
on, and cultivation of, the land, viz:
Thomas Mcconnell Of MeDermitt,
Nevada, John ID. Lowry of McDer-
mitt, Nevada, Wallis L. Wilkinson of
Winnemueca, Nevada, and John d.
Vargas of W~innemucca, Nevada.
LOUIS J.. COIN,
Register.
Date of first publication, February
6, 1905.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24

.
hans they are more numerous than IN
some other walks of life. 1t IS GER
tainly no occupation for ~molly-eod..
dies and weaklings. Young men OF
character need have no fear OF the
demoralizing effect of journalistic
work. If thev cannot go through the
experiences and temptations they are
bound to meet with in the course of
their work and keep themselves
straight they are not made out of the
right kind of stuff to make a success
in any occupation.
The mar who wrote that knew what
he was talking about. We can only
add to it our opinion that the young
man who can make a real succ IS n
the newspaper business can be success
ful in any line Of work which he may
undertake.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
TRADE AND FINANCE.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Trade reports are conflicting and in
dictate that the progress towards finan-
cial recovery vary greatly in the diff
ferent parts of the country, according
to the local conditions.
As a rule, wherever last years
crops have been gathered and sold and
paid for the collections are good. One
day last week there was such a squirt
of buyers into New York there was
a great show of optimism, but the
commercial agencies report that the
conditions are very spotted, depending
in each locality upon the industries
which are located there. All of this
is in reference to the goods that are
already manufactured and are in the
hands of the jobbers. At this time
manufacturers should begin to receive
orders from the jobbers for the fall
trade, and according to their amounts
will depend the activity in the manu-
featuring centers of all that class of
goods which pass into daily con-
sumption. SO large a proportion of our
population is now concentrated in
cities and in the manufacturing cen
ters that trade conditions depend large
ly upon the condition of the industries.
The farmers of the country are in a
condition to buy but their trade is
not sufficient to fully occupy the dis
tributing and manufacturing agencies
of the country. California and the
Pacific coast are not likely for the
next two years to be the most pros
porous mart of the United States. The
great number of idle men and locomo-
tives and the great reduction in bank
c~learings as compared with last year
at this time are conclusive evidence
that the country is doing less bust
ness than a year ago, which. of course,
means a large number of men out of
employment in every part of the coun-
try.
This condition releases many from
active employment ana it is beginning
to accumulate in the banks of the coun-
try and is finding its way to New
York. The first move, was of course
to retire the clearing house certificates
and national banks are retiring eur.
rency as fast as the law will allow and
are g~ettino back their bonds which
many Of them had to borrow at a stiff
rental. There is beginning. however
to be a surplus for investment in
which first-class municipal bonds have
the preference, the New York 4 Is
bonds selling as fast as they are of
fered and at a constantly increasing
premium. Stocks are not wanted an6
will not be until after the next quar-
terly statements show the net earpingl
under the present depression, without
n corresponding reduction in the cos
Of handling and ~transacting what bust
ess is done. There is a very interesting
situation presented whose outcome will
be watched very closely by inancier
and economists, The condition of la
Dor throughout the country is sucl
that it will bear no part of the los
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
NEWSPAPER TRAINING.

The value Of good newspaper train
ing to men who afterwards engage in
other occupations has had many illus
trations. The public. generally, has
had, however, little opportunity to OBJ
serve them. The fact remains, though,
that many of the nations most sue
cessful men gained in newspaper of
fees the knowledge of human nature
which has enabled them, after leav-
ing the newspaper business, to attain
~altitudinous heights in the employment
to which they have been attracted.
1t was announced from New York
the other day that Frank f. Vanderlip,
now the president of the National City
bank, would shortly be promoted to
the presidency. Mr.. Vanderlip was for
a number of wears in the newspaper
business. He left it to become private
secretary to Lyman Gage when Mr..
Gage was appointed Secretary of the
Treasury. George E. Roberts, who re
Gently assumed the presidency of a big
Chicago bank is another old time news
paper man Malcolm Mcdonald, the
young banker who is at the head of the
movement to feed the unemployed in
Chicago, had a newspaper training
covering several years.
Newspaper men have been success
full in other lines besides banking
They have gone to the front as dip
lomats, lawyers, in politics and in
many walks. of life. And most of then
remember with gratitude their news
paper training, and most of them are
willing to attribute to that service
the success to which they have at
tanned. Such a one is Mr.. Roberts to
whom reference has been made. Not
long since he said:
81 obtained my training in newspap
err work. This is the best sort of train
ing for any kind 0. work, to my mind
Newspaper work gives a man more
adaptability makes him a good judg,
of men and gives him the power o.
thinking and acting quickly and &C
curately at a moments notice, at hi
own incentive. There is no bette
training sehoJl OF earth than a news
paper Office for a yong man.
Commenting on the subject general
ly, the Editor and Publisher says:
"Much has beer said about tn,
temptations Of newspaper life. Per
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24

but that capital will have to bear it
by paying the full and high wages that
have been paid during the period of
prosperity, and in addition being taxed
to employ on some public work those
who have hro~ thrown out of employ
ment, also at full wages In all for
mer depressions the wages have come
down as has also the cost of materials
and living, and that has encouraged
capitalists to inv and 50 confidence
returns and the coutry commences to
climb towards renewed prosperity. The
question is whether this renewal of
progress and prosperity can be accom-
plished without the reduction of wages
and the cost of livino which mainly
depends upon the price of living.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
Forty Years of Tax Paying
and a Crumbling Court House

holdt county have eaten up another
large slice of this revenue, but by far
the vast majority of it has been PAID
ont in officers salaries and in interest
both in money borrowed by the county
and on money the count. owed and
was unable to pay.
But the past is gone and cannot De
reca,1eds Mistakes were made then
as they are being made now, and with
no reflection upon the men VINO ruied
Humboldt county in all the weary
x,oars of the past. there is genuine
pathos in its history. Ono cannot LOOK
mon the crumbling walls of the court
house. held together by iron bars, ana
know that this building. on when a
debt still hangs, represents the ehlef
evidence of the paving into the
county treasury. the taxation OF forty
years of a struggling people, and not
feel a wave of sadness pass over him.
If he g%lories in government as repre-
Sent1ng SUCCESSFUL moehoN
t;op in uniting the individual to the
support of the common good, he ear
not view the dismal failure Of that
ideal in Humboldt county and not ex-
perience the sadness which springs
from disappointment.
The most dispiriting feature OF has
observations in this respect comes TO
him when he learns that those of the
present refuse to be guided by the
mistakes of those of the past.
These are the years of plenty IN
Humboldt county. These are times
when the county should make some
Roadway against all that was lost IN
the past, those lean years of poverty,
when the sum total of the revenues dld
not equal the sum total of the expen-
ditures.
The experience of the court house
should stand as a monument OF the
distster that often follows the issuing
of bonds for the construction of public
works The court house was to cost
$52, 200, originally. 1t has already
cost over three times that amount, and
there is yet $2,500.00 of interest
bearing principal unpaid. 1t may soon
be paid, for which let us hope for
it's haste, ere the aged and monumental
ruins which it represents fall down.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
UNEMPLOYED MAY
BE GIVEN MEALS
City of Reno May Work wen on the
Streets and Give Them
Meals.
Sacramento Bee.

Sacramento Bee.
RENO, February 21.-Yesterday a
city official stated to the correspondent
of the Bee that he will at the next
meeting of the city council suggest
that the city provide some NEAR of
giving employment to the unemploy'
ed of this city. He stated that he
would suggest that the city counsel
provide q soup kitchen and that the
city engineer be instructed to give
all of the unemployed men work on the
streets for a certain length of time
each day and pay them with checks
emitting them TO a meal at the soup
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24

In the criticism which this paper
will make on the conditions in Hum
boldt county, there will be no attempt
to heap abuse on any official or indl-
vidual. The campaign is to be one
of education, a%cquainting the people
with conditions which need correcting
not a campaign of villifcation. So
great is the reed that the people of this
county should know just what is going
on at the county seat and so important
the duty involved upon us to bring
that information to the public, that
it overshadows anything in our mind
but a plain and frank discussion Of
facts as they actually exist.
Forty years of tax-paying in Hum
boldt county would form the subject
for a story of amazing revelations
Forty years during which the good
people of this county have poured
their money continually into the treas
urer's office; forty years annual as
sessment rolls; forty annual notices of
taxes due; forty annual payment Of
taxes; it is vast in its Significance,
and it describes a sun of morey IN
excess of two millions and a bali of
dollars. 1t has been paid in, paiu out,
and the end is not yet.
Dront;aaII. v oil IF fhsu frtoratftc Gin,
of money has been spent ip maintain
ing the county government of Humboldt
county. Today there exists but few
material improvements, but few build
ings to in.icate the investment of a
part of the revenue derived from forty
years of taxation.
The crumbling walls of a court house
that is not yet paid for is the mute
evidence of the investment of a por-
ton of this great fund. A clustering
of time-worn shacks where the county s
INDECENT sick are taken care of
and a 2 by 4 building called 1.-The
Pest House, up the river, tells of
where other small portions have been
spent. These are about all Humboldt
county has today to show for forty
years of taxation and license revenue.
A large amount of money has been
spent on roads and streets. Bridges
and other improvements scattered
throughout the broad confines of Hum
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
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Kitchen.

kitchen.
He believes that this would Be
cheaper than the present plan being
accorded by the city police. This
plan is to arrest ths unemployed as
vags and %eontine them in the city
Jail where they arc fed at the expense
of the city at the rate of as cents
a day.
If you want anything in the musical
line write to the Eilers Music Co. al
Reno Best grade of pianos and other
instruments in the market.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
WEATHER REPORT.

Following is the report Of the .0 e.,
aasee If the United States weatnel u.
osare Of the department Of agriculture
zoe w;nnemucca fo- the "a hours emu
'a ( n. M. January 90, lsos'
n" Maximum temperature 43.
Minimum temperature ~
Mean temperature 80;
Normal temperature ~. NE
prevailing direction of the w,nd nn
Forecast for Winnemucca, Ne h"nr.
and vicinity for the twenty-fou n ,ooa
ending at 5 p. m, January ~ l p
;ssnad from San Francisco, Cal; ran
'o"'s j. C. HAYDEN,
Officer in Charge
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
NEW STOCK OF HIGH-CUT SHOES

Just received. See them. AN ei9
CANT line. Also some low-cuts. Al
Iight uppers, and good heavy soles Tor
winter. Ask for your cash coupons.
i. C. ROBINS & co.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24

WANTED-Furnished house oi 49,
more rooms; near railroad preierieu
No children; references gwen s.a.'
rent. MRS. J. G. GORDON, WIN
nemucca.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-19
Sore Neck and Shoulders.

A little care right now in properly
soft will save whole lot of trouble
after awhile, and it will save the
poor beasts a great deal of needless
suffering. The spring seeding sea-
son is the hardest time on the horses
shoulders and neck, because the flesh
is soft and easily bruised, and the
dust seems to irritate now more than
any other time during the year. BY
carefully hardening the team to their
work, their shoulders will soon be-
come firm, and pads will not be neces-
sary. In fact, collar pads are a nui-
sance. They are hot and soon be-
come gummed up with dirt and sweat.
and will cause irritation easily. Use
close-fitting, well-made leather COL
lar. one that fits the horses shoul-
der. Break in a new collar on a
horse as you would break in new
pair of shoes, and then after that
particular collar has become set to
the animals shoulder, never use it
on any other horse. The changing
about of collars and harness is not a
good thing. Fit bride. collar and
tugs to suit each horse, and you
will find that the team will work
much more willingly. and without
any worry. Even the best fitting COL
lars need daily attention. Keep the
collar clean. Scraping the collar
with a penknife is not a good thing,
because it destroys the smooth sur
face and is apt to leave ridges. One
other thing. We use riding cultiva-
tors and other machines or imple-
ments with tongues. These are all
hard on the neck of the team, unless
the collar fits so snug that it cannot
slip up and down with every move
ment of the tongue. Then be sure
10 set the harness so that the draft
comes direct against the shoulder,
and not too low or too high-Epito-
mist.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-19
Beet Sugar VS.. Cane.

People have become so accustomed
to the term cane sugar" that they
do not realize that within the last
few years the bulk of the world s
sugar supply has drifted from cane to
beet. In 1853 the worli's sugar sup
ply was 1,1S4,000 long tons, of which
$4,000 tons were accredited to the
sugar beet. or about twenty-one per
cent. In 1905 practically two-thirds
of the worlds sugar was derived from
the sugar beet.
The growth of the industry in the
United States has been second only
to its growth in the sugar world. AS
an American industry it is less than
forty years old, for it was in 1869
that the first plant to manufacture
beet sugar successfully in CONNER
cial way was erected in California.
For the first twenty years the indus
try grew but slowly, so that in 1890
there were but three factories. Be-
fore the close of 1901, however, the
number had increased to thirty Tin
crease of 900 per cent. in ten years
while in 1906 the number of factories
in operation in the United States was
sixty-one, an increase of over 100 per
cent. in the past six years.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-19
Getting Alfalfa Started.

An Illinois farmer writes: Il have
not been very successful in getting
q stand of alfalfa. I am anxious to
get small field started and would
like to have some suggestions how
to so at it"
If stand OF alfalfa is the thing
you are after. and do not care much
for grain crop from the land this
year, you should give this land a
thin dressing of barnyard manure.
then pillow it under. and harrow it
frequently, up to say the middle of
May. Then roll and harrow it. Then
SOW twenty pounds of frst-class al
falfa seed with two or three peeks
of barley per acre. If you are near
field where alfalfa is growing, scat
ter a few loads of this soil over your
own field. Then cut your barley off
for hay and remove it from the field
as soon as possible. Don't give it up.
Il. c. B., in the Indiana Farmer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-19
Very important to Know.

Dr. w. II. Dalrymple. of the Louis
lana experiment station, calls our at
tention to differences between cane
molasses and beet molasses for stock
feeding which are important. but not
generally understood Feet molasses
contains large quantities of residual
salts, which produce various derange-
ments of the animals system il fed
freely or long. on the other hand.
cane molasses does not contain these
elements in sufficient quantities to in
jure the animals health. In fact, its
effect is quite the reverse. as rule.
Cane molasses can be fed far in eX-
cess of what any of our readers is
likely to feed without the slightest
danger. Dr.. Dalrymple reports that
as high as thirty pounds a day have
been fed to horses without i'll effect,
and that on forty-seven plantations
from which he has heard the average
is about ten pounds day per horse.
As the feeding of molasses is extend
ing it will be we'll for feeders to keep
in mind this important difference be-
tween the beet and the cane product.
National Stockman.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-19
The Spreadcr.

Corn ground is one of the best
places for the manure. A top dress
ing of only five or six loads to the
acre will show good results. A thin
coat over large area will bring
greater returns than a heavy coat
over small area. The fact that the
spreader can spread a load over a
much larger sp- ce and much more
evenly than can be done by hand is
4 strong argument for its use. No
other tool on the farm gives us more
satisfaction. We also like to give
hin places in the meadow a light
coat of manure in the spring. We
keep all the manure on the farm
under cover. What is not hauled out
this spring will be used this fall to
top dress the meadows and wheat
ground.-Epitomist
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-19
Rabies.

The mad dog" season begins with
the warm weather, to continue as
long as heat, dust, noise and neglect
strain the nerves of dogs and men,
A homeless cur, kicked by a cruel or
thoughtless boy, runs barking
through the street A child is bitten,
and the panic-stricken bystanders
assure it that hydrophobia will de-
yelop. If their victim is sufficiently
impressionable its death follows, and
another mad dog scare" is well I'M
der way.
Just at present Staten Island is in
dulging in one of these unreasonable
and dangerous frights. with the aid
and assistance of certain health au-
thorities. The alarm of the people is
not to be wondered at, but the fact
remains that physicians disagree as
to the existence of the disease rabies,
while men acquainted with dogs are
almost unanimous in declaring that
no such thing as the mad dog" of
popular Imagination ever existed.
Mr.. Freer, of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, asserts
that in fourteen years the agents of
the society have been bitten not less
than 5000 times, and that not once
have the symptoms of rabies fol-
lowed.
Wounds caused by animals are not
more dangerous than wounds result
ing from falls or blows. They should
be cleaned promptly and thoroughly,
cauterized or rendered ascptic in
some other way and kept clean while
healing. If these precautions were
always taken, and people would stop
talking about rabies. the mad dog
season" would soon cease to occupy
an important space in the calendar
New York Sun.