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BANK INVESTIGATOR
e. p. MoxcY NEMESIS OF pIsHoA.
EST FiNANcIERs.
Finds Study Of Loans and Discounts
InfaiIIbIe Means Of Detecting
crookedness-Exami Books
Of Walsh and Mors'

Philadelphia.-The name of the man
who makes the torpedo that sinks a
battleship seldom goes down in his
tory with that Of the man in command
Of the ship that fred it. Yet the trade
Of the maker may be no less interest
ing than that of the man in gold braid
and brass buttons.
Charles j. Bonaparte, attorney gen
eral Of the United States, and William
b. Ridgely, comptroller of the cur
rency, Jointly gave the orders for the
construction of the evidential torpe-
does that wrecked the first-class
cruiser, the Charles w. Morse of New
York, and its sister ship, the John r.
Walsh of Chicago.
Edward p. Moxey made the tor
pedoes. He is precisely the sort of
man one would expect to find in
other business. One associates the &C.
cupation of clinching great criminals
with certain sternness, certain
gruffness, and, perhaps, certain rug
gedness Of physique. Mr.. Moxey pos
sesses none of these attributes. At
the age of so 1t seems to have be-
come plain to him that one might as
well laugh In the midst of the hardest
days work. So he laughs-with his
whole face and eyes. And the small
est man he ever sent to the peniten-
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X AqD07N7A WIN NE ozRDT- Child.
M QAN7XyC BY DEEREGGER.

make us feel the innocence and lovely grace OF
Mary's life: II he has shown us the quiet work
with which she is busy; the sweet order Of her
room which images the tranquility Of her SOUL
this also is we'll But the great thing Is that
he should perceive and show. simply as pos
sible, the charm of that perfect figure OF maiden
hood, no rude peasant girl. but one with royal
blood in her veins and heavenly thoughts In
her heart.
The Nativity.
2. The pictures Of the Nativity have great
er variety of Incidents and of modes of presen-
tation. The simplest are those which show
Mary and Joseph in the stable with the child
then come those in which the angels appear.
or the shepherds came to pay their alteration;
another conception represents the mother
alone with her babe adoring him or nursing
him. Pictures Of the presentation in the tenn
pie, and perhaps some Of the Madonna and
Child belong to the general theme OF the Ma
tivity because their central idea Is the advent
of Christ little babe.
Here the painters have found wide
field for imagination, and have used large
liberty in expressing the feelings with which
different persons drew near to the holy child.
Mary is almost always shown as wondrously
happy; sometimes as in Murillo's Alteration
Of the Shepherds" lifting the cloth that COW
the child and displaying him with gentle
pride.
8. With the Alteration of the Magi. new ele-
ment comes into the scene. These wise men
from the east, whether they were kings or
not, were the representatives Of the outside
world.
There are pictures which show the Magi on
their journey led by star, sometimes
shining in the form Of a babe in the sky; and
others which show them at the court of
Herod asking their way: and others which
show them being warned by an angel In a
dream not to go back to Jerusalem; and 9TH
ers which show them returning by sea to their
nun Mt Ruth naint-
ers have chosen the moment at which the
gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh were
presented to the child. Here there is room for
splendid color and dramatic contrast.
4. The Flight into Egypt is the contrasting
companion-piece to the Alteration OF the Magi.
The one brings the great world into the DWELL
ing of the Child Jesus; the other carries the
Child Jesus out into the great world.
story Of the Flight.
The pictures of this subject fall into two
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tiary would not be afraid to meet him
alone in a dark alley. For while he il
moderately tall, he is immoderately
thin; and his iron-gray whiskers and
hair show that his muscular powers
long since passed their zenith of devel-
Opment.
By appointment Mr.. Moxey is a ma
tional bank examiner, but he does moth
ing except investigate banks that have
failed under suspicious circumstances.
And catching banker who has robbed
his own bank is in some respects like
catching a burglar who has robbed 1t
each has only limited number of
ways of committing the crime. In the
case OF the burglar the policeman
on the beat looks first at the doors
and windows as being the most prob
able means Of gaining access to the
vault. And for like reason, Mr..
Moxey looks first at the loans and dis
counts.
IF the books and papers of a crook
ed banker have not been destroyed"
says Mr.. Moxey. they are bound to
show him up. They may be falsified.
and they may be cunningIy compli-
Gated and mixed up, but they can be
unraveled. 1t is all matter of time.
The record of crime is there-no man
can keep the affairs of a bank in his
head. All that is necessary is to find
the knots and unite them. Why. / in
vestigated bank little while ago
in which three little pencil dots-al-
most mperceptible-placed before GER
tain items. both In the debit and credit
accounts. gave me the key to the
whole affair. l discovered that items
thus marked were to be disregarded.
not added to the totals"
But the investigation of a crooked
bank seldom ends with the scrutiny
ing of the concerns records. The
crooked banker. SO Mr.. Moxey has OBJ
served, has a way of becoming DOM
inantly identified with many other In
terests. This is why he acquires
string of lbanks-to bring in the
money that he wants to use for some
thing else. In working up the case
against John r. Walsh of Chicago. Mr..
Moxey examined the books of Is cor
porations.
Strangely enough. this man whose
work has brought him so closely into
relationship with dishonest bankers.
seldom speaks to one of them.
Sometimes" said he. "a banker that
have caught will come to me and
confess everything; sometimes he will
declare only that he meant no wrong.
But more frequently they do not seek
me. and. Of course. do not seek them.
1 never spoke to John R. Walsh.
never spoke to Morse. But don't
need to speak with them to know what
kind Of men they are. Their books
tell"
Mr.. Moxey does not regard Morse as
a great criminal. except in the sense
that he committed his crimes on a big
scale. He says he showed no unusual
cleverness in what he did, and his de.
wees for covering up his crookedness
were the same old tricks that are usu-
ally employed.
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VIRGIN, MIAMI cEJLI5 IND eJT COIN
IR4Uy7ZpIS BY 3O1zLCET//

in the world has been illustrated by SO many
famous artists. II is easy to some of the
reasons which have made 1t favorite subject.
First there is the religious interest which
centers in the entrance OF the Divine Saviour
into the world Such an event, for all who be-
lieve in the Christian religion, must have
profound significance. 1t is the sunrise OF
faith, the beginning OF a spiritual world,
the laying of the cornerstone of the kingdom
of heaven on earth. Even If the artist himself
were not sure of this, did not altogether be-
leve 1t, he would know that other people be-
leved IT.: and by the imagination he could see
what a supreme Importance was given by the
faith of Christendom to the brief and simple
story of the birth at Bethlehem.
Second. there is the human interest which
clings to the ever beautiful relation Of mother
hood and childhood. The tenderest and most
unselfish love is that with which a true moth
looks upon her little child; the most perfect
innocence and trustful Joy are revealed In the
deep eyes of the baby who smiles into the face
of his mother bending over him. The paint
ings of the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary
have drawn Into themselves the best thoughts
of men concerning the gracious secret OF ma
ternity and the unstained bliss of infancy.
Fantastic Legends.
Third there Is the poetic and pictorial inter
est which grows out of the incidents Of the
story the strange contrast between the heaven
iy Significance of the birth of Christ and its
and shade Joy and sorrow, hope and fear. an
gelIc songs and earthly prosecutions. All these
varied elements. centsring about single figure.
afford a field of Illumination and illustration
such art loves.
My first advice. then. to those who wish
thoroughly to appreciate and enjoy these pic
lures would be to read and re-read the gospel
of st. Matthew from the eighteenth verse of
the first chapter to the end of the second chap
ter. and the first two chapters of st. Luke's
gospel Then it would be wise to read some
of the later legends which were woven In the
apocryphal books and in the medieval poems
and narratives about the birth and childhood
of Christ. Many of these legends are curious
and fantastic. evidently allegorical and symbol
CAL They have none of the simple directness
and quiet restraint of the Biblical history.
They are in effect. clear illustrations OF that
native trait of the human mind-famiiar to
every one who has tried to tell a true story
to a child-the craving for picturesque detail
How did 1t happen? Where did 1t happen?
Who was there? How did they look? What
did they do afterwards" These the ques-
lions that children ask when they hear story;
and these are the questions to which men have
given fanciful answers in the apocryphal and
medieval legends, such the protevangelium
of st. James. the gospel of St Thomas, the
gospel of the seudo-Matthew. The history of
the nativity of Mary the golden legend of Jaco-
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the painters and embodied in their pictures.
Suppose you have picture Of the Annuncia-
tion which represents Mary as passing through
garden when the angel came to her: that is
in accordance with the Protevangelium which
says that Mary was chosen by lot from among
the virgins of Nazareth to spin the royal
purple OF the Temple veil; one day, as
she was returning from the fountain with her
pitcher Of water. the angel met her and said:
Hail. thou who art full of grace!" and when
she went back to her spinning he came again
to her to complete his message. II the picture
represents Mary In the house. working at the
VEIL the artist has chosen to show the sec
ond appearance of the angel. The emblems
which the artists put into their pictures are
significant. The pot of lilies at Mary's side.
the lily-branch in the angels hand symbolic
purity The olive-bough borne by the dove
means peace.
Or here is picture OF the nativity which
shows the Child and his mother and Joseph in
a cave. This is according to the account of
Justin Martyr land quite in harmony with
the customs Of Palestine), that the stable of
the inn where Christ was born was a grotto
in the rocks. Here perhaps you see the OK
and the ass bowling their heads before the
child. This is told by the gospel OF the pseudo
Matthew in fulhllment Of the prophecy of
Isaiah: THE OK knoweth his owner and the
ass his masters crib" Here, again, is a daz-
cling supernatural light radiatlng from the
child, so that shepherds who have Just entered
must shade their eyes. Ihis detail Is given
in many legends.
How the story Develops.
The five chief points around which the paint
ings of the birth and childhood OF Christ nat
urally group themselves are ~ The Annun-
citation; (2) The Nativity: (3) The Alteration
of the Magi: (4) The Flight Into Egypt: (5)
The Home at Nazareth.
1. The Annunciation comes from the first
chapter of st. Luke. and with it are associated
two minor incidents. the visit Of Mary to her
cousin Elizabeth. and the birth of John the
Baptist. the forerunner of Christ. The painters
have delighted to show the virginia. beauty
and meekness of Mary; the Joy with which the
angel brought his message, and the awe and
wonder with which she received the new con-
ception of her the Son of the Highest,
the Saviour of his people. No picture of the
Annunciation is good in which this wonder and
this joy not expressed II in addition the
painter has chosen to put in many details to
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the excellent dinner which was al
ways provided for them. In that re-
spect she was an ideal hostess and
she knew also what was to be pro-
vided, for the menu was submitted
to her on the morning of each day.
The queens dinner at Windsor be-
gan at nine, at Balmoral at eight. An
hour after sitting down her majesty
would retire to an adjoining room for
coffee, taking with her one or two
selected guests. and the rest were al
lowed to carry on their dinner and
conversation to suit themselves.
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Father-So you think our daughter
has fallen in love with that young
man?
Mother-she is perfectly infatuated
with him.
Father-What do you propose to do?
MotherlThat feeling of undying
love which she has must be turned to
aversion. or she may elope with him
IN spite OF us. We must do 1t at
once.
Father-But how?
Mother-Ws must try to give her
the Impression that none Of the other
girls wants him.-New York Weeklv
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pected to say something interesting.

pected to say something interesting.
Dull parties were. therefore. the
rule. as even the cleverest man feels
himself handicapped II he knows he
is expected to say something clever
or interesting. The queen herself al
ways had next to her the most i'm
portant man or woman of the party.
and gave them full rein in converse
ton.
The others. unless they were far
away at the end Of the table, were
by . tacit understanding expected to
do nothing but devote themselves to
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QUEEN VICTORIA's DINNERS
many people an exceedingly dreadful

many people an exceedingly dreadful
ordeal.
The queen did not like people who
drank more than one or two glasses
OF wine, says the London correspond
emit of Town and Country. She alb
was only impressed with people who
knew how to keep silent and who
spoke only when spoken to and then
when they did speak they were ex-
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Assuming the Burden.

Nov, don't want to talk insu
today" snapped the freight agen
II cont blame you a Bit" sal
insurance agent, suavely; 'if
simply stop. look and listen, |
every bit Of the talking"
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puIIer Than Those Of King Edward,
But Well Served.

The royal dinner party every even
ing 10 a far more entertaining insti-
tuition under the present king than
Il was under Victoria. who insisted
on all the forms being carried out
without reservation or evasion. A
dinner under her eye was to . great
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"Do you give laughing gas tc
men? ?" she asked.
mo; simply tell them all the
sip l know while I'm working,
find they don't mind the pain at
he answered.-Detroit Free Pre-.
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Little Boy-Papa. when the pr
er talked about wicked peopl
didn't look at the congregation
looked up in the air. Why was
Papa-He was probably lookil
the choir.-New York Weekly.
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Tommy" said the teacher
small pupil'w had got the shor
of fistic encounter, don't you
1t is wrong to fight?"
Il didn't till got licked" wa
significant reply.-Chicago News
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bus de voragine. the poems
of Konrad of Fussesbrunn,
Walther at Rheinau. Abbess
kroswitha. and the tradi-
tions given by Justin Mar
tyr, st. Jerome, st. Bernard
and many other writer's.
Much Of this Legendary
and symbolist material was
taken I'm uutta patvoly hy
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King Edwards arrangements are
different. His dinner parties are no
different from the dinner parties OF
any other country gentleman. You
may talk and you may smoke and you
may be silent to suit yourself 20 long
as you are persona grAta, and the
dinner itself in NO way lacks the dig
nifty and excellence of those which 10
many people dreaded in the old days.
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Doeeeibed.
A meddler II . man who usually
wants to give you good advics that
you haven't asked for.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-23
TWELVE INCH GUNS
ARE. SHORT LIVED

"Under present conditions of fir
ING the t2-inch ~uns of the United
States, forts can last but go rounds. -
This is the declaration made by Brig
adler General Crozier, chief of ordi-
nance. This would mean that the life
Of a 12-inch CUR in actual service
would not exceed an hour and a half,
as it is capable of firing at the rate of
forty-five rounds per hour. Many OF
these guns are mounted to protect the
s~eacoast cities, and it is estimated that
an attempt to run by the fortified
lions guarding the entrance of a har-
bor. the period that would elapse from
The time the leading vessels of the
fleet came within range until the last
vessel had gotten out of range would
he about two hours. 1t is, therefore,
evident that a new 12-inch gun would
rot last through such an engagement.
General Crozier says that by lower
ing the velocity of the l2-inch projec-
file to $3.50 feet a second the life of
the gun would be increased to 200
rounds, but at the distance of 10000
yards the projectile would under ordi-
nary conditions of velocity would
penetrate about ten and a half inches
of armor plate. To meet this condi-
ton. the ordinance department of the
United States navy has designed a
14-inch gun which would fire a pro
iectile weighing 1860 pounds and
would give a muzzle velocity of 2100
feet a second. The chargeof uowder
required to produce this velocity is
about $50 pounds, as against 800
pounds for the 12-inch gun.
With lower velocity and a smaller
powder charge the 14-inch gun may be
shorter than the 12-inch gun, ITS
weight less. muzzle energy Is per
cent greater, life. before impairment
of accuracy 240 rounds, or six and
one half hours of continuous firing.
Because of its lighter weight the cost
of the gun will be less than that Of
the Pinch gun and it will cost $40
less to fire it. The cost of the IA
inch armor piercing shot, however. will
be about 800 more than that Of the
12-ineh shot. so hat the total cost
Of a single shot viii be about $50
greater. Taking into consideration the
rapid deterioration of the f2-inch gun
and adding the cost Of refining it to
the cost of ammunition. it appears
that the cost for each round, incfud-
ing this deterioration, for the l4-inch
gun is only about 6S per cent of that
for the 12-inch gun.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-23
MOTIVE POWER
FROM THE SUNS HEAT

A Pennsylvania inventor believes he
has solved the problem of converting
the heat of the sun into motive power,
in both a practical and economical
way, through the medium of a heat
BOX constructed on the same princi
pie as the hot bed used By the florists
and truck gardeners.
A box 60 feet long and Is feet in
width constructed of wood is placed
on the ground. In it are laid coils
Of iron pipe painted black. The box
IS covered with two layers of ordinary
hot house glass with a one inch air
space between them. The rays of the
sun penetrate through the glass cover
ing and the heat is absorbed by liquid
ether in the pipes and generates the
power which drives the engine. The
inventor asserts that in tropical coun-
tries water can take the place of the
ether used in this instance. The ex-
haust passes into a condenser after ac-
complishing its purpose and is then re-
turned in its fluid state back to the
hot bed.
The only great drawback is that the
sun shines only about eight hours a
day and that some days are cloudy.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-23
THOUGHT RIGHT
BUT WROTE WRONG
How a Simple Error in Figures Lost
Sandy Bowers at Bet
on the Ocean.

"reminiscences of the late Sandy
Bowers, who amassed a fortune in the
early DAYS of Nevada, built the ia
nous Bowers mansion, now long since
gone to decay, and who died penniless
aud in obscurity, ~contiue TO be relat-
ed by those who knew him in the time
Of his prosperity.
Justice Frank Bell tells a story ty-
pical of the mans shrewdness and
at the same time shows the total lack
of r~udimentary endueaton.
After amassing his fortune, Bowers
concluded to visit Europe, and accom-
panied by his wife, boarded one of the
liners to see the Continent. While
on the way over the usual custom of
forming a pool and betting on the
ships run for each day prevailed, and
Sandy's sporting instincts caused him
TO subscribe to the pool daily, but
without success. Finally he interview
ed the engineer blow decks. The ship
had made $40 miles the day before.
and Sandy slipped the man several
shining twenties and asked him for
his opinion as to the run of the ship
for the next day. The engineer said
they would probably run under the
mark of the former day. say 80 miles.
md accordingly Sandy marked up 30s
miles as his guess.
The next day the rnu was $40 miles
and as Sandy appeared before the pur.
ser and asked for the amount Of the
pool he was astonished to have it re.
fused
"Didn't / guess within two miles
of the mark?' asked Sandy. The
purser inspected the board and found
the number 300s chalked up as
Sandy's guess.
fsThat is three thousand and eight
miles" said the purser, "and you are
away off,
swell" said Sandy. ''there are
three hundred, pointing to the 800,
F'and there is eight pointing to the
last figure "and if that don't make
three hundred and eight, / don t know
anythingi'
It was some time before he could
be convinced that he had written his
sure-thing guess down wrong.
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HOW,S THIS2

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. F. J
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
r.. Cheney for the last Is years, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & Mar
vim. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the body. Sold
by all druggists. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75e. per bottle.
Take Halls family pills for consti
patton.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-23

The inventor, therefore, proposes to
use solar power for liquefying air
which can be shipped and used fol-
power.
Plans are being made to construct
solar plants in the tropics, where
humidity is rare and the sunlight IS
abundant, to compress infinite quaint
ties Of atmosphere and ship 1T IN
bulk.
LIQUID air has been used in En-
gland to run automobiles. The cost
IS about $1.20 per gallon in bulk. BY
he aid of a solar plant the inventor
believes that he can manufacture II
quid air so sheaply that it ear be sold
FOR a few cents q gallon.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-23

or n5ao range of patterns to geher with the sashed prices, nahe
The strongest combination of business winners "a we com' s s
W. orc beoinning the New Year right and it goes without "ines
mentor that YOU also have the opportunity by taxing 'Va""so "
the above generous reductions.
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OUR BIG CUT In The
FOLLOWING:

MEMS BOX OVERCOATS, MEMS
CRAvENETTE ovERCoATS, MEMS
ULSTERs, MEMS WOODEN UN-
DERWEAR, BLANKETS ALL WOOL,
BLANKETS MIXED COTTON AND
WOOL, BLANKETS, COTTON, FOR
BED SHEETS, in fact many things
viii be reduced in prices. Come and
see us and get your cash coupons.
f. G. ROBINS & co.
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Old papers, % cents per hundred.
At this office.
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THE FASHION LIVERY
FEED AND SALE STABLE

Regular Express and Job Wagons Are
Run in Connection With the Stable and
All Orders VIII Receive Prompt and
Careful Attention.