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The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
HOW PERFUMES ARE MADE.

Glass sheets held by frames a few
feet apart are smeared rather thick
ly with lard. and between these sheets
the freshly picked blossoms are scat
tered, touching the frames, but not
being pressed by them. In one day
the oil of the flowers cxudes and the
lard absorbs the precious drops. If
the flowers are plentiful they may be
changed as often as every six hours
and in the case of jonquils, thirty
times; jasmines are usually changed
eighty times before the lard is sat
urated. When the lard has absorbed
as much of the oil as is possible from
the flowers, it is melted and dissolved
in purified alcohol made from grain
When this mixture is filtered. the
concentrated extract may be reds
solved in spirits, diluted or mixed with
other oils, according to the strength
or quality desired
Altar of roses and neroly, the base
of eau de cologne, are made by a diff
ferent method. The perfume may be
extracted by an ordinary process of
distillation if a very even heat is
maintained, but the usual method is
the brain-marie. A large kettle of
lard is immersed in a tub of water at
the boiling point until the grease
reaches a uniform temperature and is
entirely melted. Into this warm lard
the petals of orange blossoms or of
roses are thrown. The petals remain a
day or less in this bath, and then the
inodorous wilted flowers are removed
and fresh ones submerged until the
mixture attains the desired strength.
Then women beat the mixture into
a cream. After the pomadc il made,
the oil may be shipped in this state, or
distilled and sold in it's concentrated
form as altar of roses or neroly, or di-
luted to the strength of "perfume'
or eua de cologne
Twenty thousand pounds of rose
petals are required to make one pound
of altar of roses, valued at about
5000. A thousand pounds approximate
ly of the petals of the flower of the
bitter orange are necessary to make
a pound of neroly, valued at $50 on
an average.-James Rosamond White
in the World Today.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
WHY SOME CHILDREN WORK.

Mr. Wengierski is a probation oti-
Ger in the juvenile court of the city
of Chicago. At one time he was max
ing nightly tours through the down
town district talking to the children
and trying to induce them to go home.
He made a special of some fifty
cases, looking into the home circum-
stances of each child and gathering
notes on the reasons why the child
was at work. He was assisted by the
agents of a respectable and conscien-
tious charitable institution.
In only two instances out Of the
whole fifty, was the boys family in
actual need of the necessities of life.
In one instance the boys father was
the owner of his own house and lot
and was earning So per day. He also
had several hundred dollars in the
bank. In only a few instances did
the family, as a family make any con-
siderable gain for the purposes of
household expenses from the earnings
of the child.
Some fathers, it is true (notably
the one who owned his house and lott
used the child selfishly and cruelty
as a forked who required no wages
and whose total earnings could be APP
propriated as soon as he came home.
But these eases were exceptional.
One of the boys was working in or
der to get the money for the in
stallment payments on a violin, and
another was orking to get money to
pay for lessons on the violin of which
he was already the complete and en-
thusiastic owner.
One little girl was selling late edi-
tons in the saloons on Van Buren,
her white shoes she was to wear on
her first communion. Another little
girl needed shoes of the same color
for Easter. Still another was working
in order that after a while she might
have clothes just as good as the girl
who lived ext door.
In the last ten of Mr.. Weingierski's
cases the reason for earning money
on the street at night was the penny
arcades and the five cent theater. The
passion among children for these
amusements is intense. They will
some of them, until they have a nick
ell, expend it upon a moving picture
performance, and then start in again
and work until they have another
nickel to be spent for the same pur-
pose at another "theaterorium.'
The earnings of these children. ac.
cordinp IN tho iuvasf;oot;on of tba
Hull House committee, which is the
only authoritative investigation on rec.
ord, vary from 10 cents a day when
the children are five years old up to
80 cents a day when they are 10 years
of age This is the average.-William
Hard. in Everybody's.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
STEPHAN A. DOUGLAS.

Very early in his career Stephan A.
Douglas became known throughout the
whole country as "The Little Giant. -
The sobriquet was a fit one. Physi-
cally he was short and slight-a lit
tie man. Mentally, he was big from
his boyhood. His head was large and
correspondingly brainy. He was a
giant in intellect
Douglas was daringly ambitious.
His goal was the presidency of the
United States. AS a school boy in
Vermont and Western New York the
familiar paradoxical fact that "any
American boy can become president, =
seemed to have taken possession of
him. He settled in a new state, IL
%linois, to grow up with the county
and also grow into leadership.
Though he failed for the presidency,
he was in the whitest heat Of the
presidential limelight for many years
Perhaps no man in American his
tory rose to national estimation as rap
idly as Douglas. He almost won a
nomination for congress at the age
of twenty-five. Only three years lat
err he was a member of the supreme
court of Illinois, ~resigning the Office
at the age of thirty to enter congress.
In the lower house Douglas became
at once a national figure. Entering the
senate a few years later. his fame
widened and deepened with each sue
ceeding year. Douglas was a far more
prominent man in 1852 than was
Franklin Pearce, who defeated him
for the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation and was elected. Douglas was
still under forty. Four years later
the engrossing slavery problem had
so divided his party that he again
failed to win the nomination. In 1860
he was nominated by the northern
section of the Democracy.
1t was his %espousal of the doctrine
of "squatter sovereignty which con
tended that every territory should be
permitted to vote for itself on the
question of slavery. that cost Doug
las the presidency.
Douglas died at the early age of
forty-eight, a few months after the
Inauguration of his greatest opponent.
Abraham Lincoln. 1t is to his every
lasting credit that he unheld Lincoln
in the effort to preserve the republic.
This fact may be taken as the moral
measure of the man. His last words
to his political adherents were:
"There can be no neutrals in this
war
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
REPORT.

Following is the report OF the loca'
,f6ce of the United States weather OIL
eeau Of the department Of agriculture
for Winnemucca fo- the "a hours emo
ing at 5 D. m, January %, l9oe;
Maximum temperature 43.
Minimum temperature u.
Mean temperature 80.
Normal temperature ~.
Prevailing direction of the wind Ne
Forecast for Winnemucca, Nevada'
and vicinity for the twenty-four hours
ending at 5 p. m, January "a, lyos,
issued from San Francisco, CAL: Far
j. C. HAYDEN,
Officer in Charge
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
A CURE FOE MISERY

81 have found a cure for the misery
malaria poison produces" says r. M.
James, of Louellen, 8. C. "It's called
Electric Bitters, and comes in so cent
bottles. 1t breaks up a case Of chills
or bilious attack in almost no time; and
it puts yellow jaundice clean out Of
commission This great tonic med
icine and blood purifier gives quick re-
lief in all stomach, liver and kidney
complaints and the misery Of lame
back. Sold under guarantee at the
Eagle Drug & Jewelry company's store.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
ACKsON

Though his baptismal name was
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, the great
Southern general will always be
known in history as Stonewall Jack
son. In fact, this sobriquet bestowed
upon the Confederate general through
General Bees remark at the first bat
tie of Bull Run, or Manassas, "there
stands Jackson like a stone wall,' be-
came so intimately identified with
.Jackson's name even before his un
timely death in the very midst of
the war that it came to be printed
without quotation marks.
Stonewall Jackson always stood like
a stone wall for what he believed to
be right. A native Virginian, he be
lieved that Virginia and the south had
the best of reasons for seeding from
the Union. Jackson believed hat Sc
cession under the circumstance at
tending the struggle was ordained of
God. To him the Confederate cause
was always a sacred cause, and to him
the wal was religious war. He was a
modern crusader. Not only his head
and heart but his very soul was in the
fight.
Jackson opened every battle with a
prayer. Daily, nightly and morning
he prayed in his tent, and every nan
under his command, no matter how
irreligious, felt the spiritual unfit 81
his prayers.
But Jackson fought as well as he
prayed. He was a military genius
Historians north and south, American
and European, have characterized him
as one of the very ablest generals on
either side of the conflict. But for
his death, when the war still had two
years to run, Stonewall Jackson may
have come out of the Civil War as
the foremost military genius or the
war.
General Lees estimate of his chief
lieutenant in the earlier Virginia cam.
paigns expresses his measure of the
man. When Lee learned that Jack
sons left arm had been amputated
after being wounded by his own men
through the pathetic error at Chan.
cellorsville, a wound which resulted
fatally a little later, the commander
exclaimed:
General Jackson has lost his left
arm; / have lost my right arm"
--
LADIES' KID GLOVES - blacks
tans and browns, at r. G. Robins &
Co "a
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30

Robinson g customers come out lool:
ing as fine as a fiddle after getting a
bath, haircut and shave at his place.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
Interesting Astronomical Observations

and S. S. Albrecht,, also of the Lick
Observatory, and Director c. G.. Abbot
assisted by Alexander Moore, of the
Smithsonian Institution.
They reached Tahiti December 9TH,
and three days later left for Flint is
land on the United States warship
Annapolis, commanded by Governor
lC. B. T. Moore. Flint island is two
miles long and three-auarters of a mile
wide and has no native population. 1t
is a British possession and there is an
English manager and twenty or thirty
men engaged in the manufacture of
copra. 1t is covered with c%ocoanut
trees. The greatest elevation of the
island is twenty-three feet.
The erection of buildings, which
were constructed of woven cocoanut
trees over frames. and the erection
and adjustment of the instruments
kept the members of the expedition
busy until the time of the eclipse, on
January 3rd. That day broke fairly
clear but ten minutes before the total
phase was due the sky became sud
denly clouded, and when the time
keeper signaled five minutes before
totality, a heavy rain was falling.
The rain, however, did nor last long
and the last drops fell just three sec
onds after totally began. Some of the
instruments had been already uncov-
cred and began their observations IN
mediately. The others required about
ten seconds to uncover, but thereafter
all the instruments were in operation
and the programme of observations
was carried out completely and with
out a hitch. Every one of the twenty
instruments and the twenty observers
did the work assigned
Eclipse Not Dark.
The moons shadow during the cell
sc was about 100 miles wide. The
eclipse in comparison with others
which had been observed, was not a
dark one. Newspapers could easily be
read during totality. This was due to
the fact that the sky at some dis
lance from the sunlight had many
clouds which received the direct rays
and reflected them within the eclipsed
area. The duration of totality was
three minutes and ffty-two seconds.
Despite the tropical heat and the
frequent showers the members of the
expedition lived in complete comfort
on the island and are in the best of
health.
The expense of the expedition, as
in several other cases, was borne by
William Fl. Croker.
The station which Director Moore of
the Smithsonian Institution erected
was for scientific reasons located on
the beach, about a quarter of a mile
away from that of Director Abbott,
and it happened that there the rains
were less heavy and clearned 4 few
seconds earlier. Director Abbott's III
struments were devoted to a heat sur
veyof theinner corona, and he was
able to carry out his observations TO
his complete satisfaction. Abbot says
A private English astronomer, f..
X. Mclean, assisted by three astro-
omers from Sydney and two from
Auckland, had a station beside that
of the lick observers. Their photo
graphs and instruments were also
packed Immediately after the eclipse.
As their plates were to be developed
later, the American scientists do not
know to what extent they were sue
cessful San Francisco Chronicle.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bringing with them a series of pho
tographs which they believe will be
of the utmost Importance in solving
certain definite problems relating to
the composition and structure of the
outer parts of the sun, especially the
corona, which are observable only at
the times of an eclipse. the members
of the party sent out by the Lick
Observatory and the Smithsonian In
stitute returned from Flint island,
400 miles northwest of Tahiti, on the
steamship Mariposa yesterday.
The photographs, when developed
after the eclipse, showed that all the
instruments had been in perfect adj
justment, but because of the DANCE
rous reef on the island and the pro
liability of storms they were packed
and sealed in tin as soon as dry. and
no attempt has yet beer made to show
conclusions from the photographs.
Those taken by the Lick observers
will be opened at Mount Hamilton and
will then be subject to measurements
and study. Those taken by the as
tronomers from the Smithsonian In
stitute will be similarly treated at
Washington.
The Work Accomplished
Director w. w. Hamilton of the
Lick observatory, and who had
charge of the expedition, told y%ester-
day of the photographs which had
been taken. A photograph of the co
roma, witha camear forty feet in ia
cal length, shows the inner e~oronal
structures on a large scale, and pho
tographs with smaller cameras, shows
the forms and streamers of the out
ed corona.
A very complete and perfect series
of the photographs were made, and
with four Instruments so arranged
that all the effects of the polarization
of the c%oronal light will be brought
out. These bear with special force on
the nature and source of the light of
the corona, or the luminous halo which
is seen surrounding the sun during a
total eclipse. Three spectroscopes
give splendid photographs of the co
roma spectrum. These also will be of
the greatest value in studying the
character of the coronal light.
A large Photographic spectroscope
recorded the changing spectrum of the
sun s higher atmosphere as the strata
of greater and greater depth were
gradually uncovered by the moon at
the end of the totally of the eclipse.
This photograph is, in effect, a record
of the chemical constituents of the
successive stratas of the solar atmos-
phere.
The large cameras of twelve-foot
focal length engaged in a search for
undiscovered PLANETS revolving around
the sun in orbits much smaller than
that of the planet Mercury. These did
their work perfectly, but a downpour
of rain at the commencement of the
eclipse wet the plates and damaged
them to some extent. 1t rs hoped
however, that the careful and long ex-
animation to which the plates will be
subjected will show the plates to be
slight, and new discoveries may re-
suit.
The Two Expeditions.
The expedition was composed of Di-
rector w. w. Campbell of the Lick OBJ
servatory, University of California ao-
companied by Mrs. Campbell, and AS
tronomers C d. Pearce, r. G. Aitken,
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS.

Mrs. Naybor-Yes, Mrs. Swellman
has been robbed of her jewels, and
Mrs Meanley is the guilty
Mrs. Sububs-Gracious. You don t
mean to say that she stole
Mrs. Naylor-What else is it but
stealing? She offered the cook p,.oJ
a week and the maid $500, and now
she has them.-Philadelphia Press.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30

LADIES' KID GLOVES = blacks
tans and browns, at r. G. Robins &
Co. IS.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
MEAT OF THE NUT.

"Your honor" said the lawyer, "I
ask the dismassal of my client, on
the ground that the warrant fails to
state that he hit Bill Jones with ma
licious INTENT
"This court replied the country
justice, CANT a graduate of none of
your technical schools. / don't care
what he hit Bill with. The pint is,
did he hit hint Perceed.'
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
The Two Expeditions.

The Two Expeditions.
The expedition was composed of Di-
rector w. w. Campbell of the Lick OBJ
servatory, University of California ao-
companied by Mrs. Campbell, and As
tronomers c d. Pearce, r. G.. Aitken,
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
DIDN'T OWN 1T.

81 have come all the way out
here,' said the tenderfoot, "to see
your beautiful sunset
Somebody's been stringing you,
stranger replied Arizona AL, cit
amt mine. Chicago Record Herald.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
AFTER KICKING M

"Pop."
"What, my song"
"What is a fiance?'
"a fance, my son, is a young man
who has been accepted by the young
lady's father, and who has no kick
coming. '-Yonkers Statesman.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30

WANTED-Furnished house of five or
more rooms; near railroad preferred
No children; references given; state
rent. MRS. J G.. GORDON, Win
nemucca.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30

Small office, furnished, for rent
Sunitable for doctor, lawyer. survey
or, real estate man, insurance man
etc. Inquire Silver State Office.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-30
NEW STOCK OF H1GH-cuT SHOES

received. See them. An ele.
CANT line. Also some low-cuts. All
light uppers, and good heavy soles for
winter. Ask for your cash coupons.
F. C. ROBINS & co.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-17
LONDON RENTALS
RUN TO MILLIONS
Lands and Houses Have In
creased in Value.

London. May 16.-The total rental of
London land and house is f50,0O0,O0O
a year 2O.OOOO0O of this is the rental
value of the site-consisting largely of
Thames-side marshland. In addi-
ton to rental value there are the rates
to be considered. amounting to f14,-
100000 apart from water. So that
the cost of living in London is f64, O0O,-
600. The saleable value of the prop
erty at the present day would be more
than f75OOOo.00o Thirty-five years
ago it would have been less than half
this amount, So that London increas-
es in value at the rate of f12.OOO,OOO a
year. In the city of London alone the
rateable value in 1901 was t760 per
acre per annum. Today it is about
$4,000 per acre per annum.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-17
POSTAGE STAMP
IS WORTH $4,000
Is Postmaster's Provisional
Issued in the Year 1847.

New York, May 16.-An unusual
United States postage stamp has just
found its way into the collection of
George H. Worthington of Cleveland,
at price which, while the exact fig
.ures have not been made public, is
acknowledged to be about $4,000. The
stamp is a pOstmaster's provisional,
issued in Alexandria, Va, in 1S47, and
is printed on blue paper. Three or
four copies of the same stamp printed
on buff paper were previously known,
but this specimen is the only one on
blue which has been discovered.
The stamp was on an old letter in
the possession of Mrs. NJ. Fawcett, an
old resident of Alexandria and has
been preserved on account of family
associations.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-17
LIKES THE BABY
People Wouldn't Give 1t Up at
RevoIver's Point.
A ROMANTIC STORY.

Marydel, Del. May 16.-Married for
years, but never blessed with children,
although they longed for them, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Ritchey found four
days-old baby in basket at their front
door on March IS They gladly took
in the waif and under their loving care
the infant thrived and was loved by its
foster parents.
This week a stranger called at the
house and informed the Ritcheys that
the babe had been left there last month
by mistake and its mother would be
down on the evening train and he de-
manded its surrender to him. His
carriage was in waiting.
Not on your life" said Ritchey and
then both he and his wife were Cow
cred" with a revolver. Jumping di-
rectly in front of the weapon, the hus-
band told his wife to take the baby to
a neighbor's and when the man turned
his weapon toward the fleeing pair,
Ritchey plunged into him and the two
fought like mad. The stranger man
aged to break loose and ran to the
neighbor's making a similar demand,
but outside a bolted door. Then he
gave it up.
The Caroline court being in session,
the matter was presented to the grand
jury and indictments were found, but
the man had disappeared. The baby
is carefully guarded at the Ritcheys,
who will lay positive claim to the in
FAINT through the foster-child law.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-17
SHOT MERRY WIDOW
Hunter Aims at Hat DeCora-
tions and Nearly Kills
Woman.
100 SHOT IN HER BODY.

New York, May 1G.-A hunter in the
EdenwaId woods in the northern part
OF The Bronx, yesterday aimed at some
birds in Mrs. Mary Sassens merry
widow, but missed it and sent load
of shot into the wOmans breast.
Mrs. Sassen, who lives at No. D.
South Eighth avenue, Mount Vernon,
entered the woods early in the after
noon to pick flowers. She wore a
rather squat. brown hat, trimmed with
two brown birds and some foliage. In
the woods, which are not thickly
grown, the hat looked for all the world
like a big nest of birds.
The woman was bending over and
placing flowers in a basket, when a
loud shot rang out. BirdshOt ratified
through the underbrush and d large lot
of it struck Mrs. Sassen full in the
breast She fell screaming and heard
some one run through the woods.
In great pain the woman made her
way to the Wakefield police station.
AS she emerged from the woods she
saw man disappearing toward Mount
Vernon, carrying shotgun. She was
sent to the Mount Vernon hospital
where it was said her injuries were
not serious.
More than 100 lcaden pellets were ex-
tracted. None of them penetrated
deeper than the skin. The police judge
from this that the hunter must have
been quite a distance away when he
fired at the stuffed birds. Hunters
have been shooting robins in the Eden
valid woods for weeks past
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-17
CEMENT VS.. STEEL.

Paris, May 16.-Cement may take
the place of steel plates as armor on
French battleships in the near future,
as exhaustive experiments have shown
that a certain cement Of French in
vention, the formula of which is kept
secret, shows a remarka BILE resistance
TO shells fired from the heaviest naval
guns. 1t Is stated, however that the
weight of the cement armor on a yes
sci would be much less than the steel
plates now in use.