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and came near forgetting that she was only a slice of cheese. It was nice, too, to have as good a match as Mr. Johnson paying you attentions and to see the other girls fiuttering the curtains at thelr windows to see you go by with him.
 Dry valley bought a buggy with yellow wheels and fine trotter in San Antonio Every day he drove out with Panchita. He was never seen to speak to her when they were walking or driving. The con sciousness of his clothes kept his mind busy; the knowledge that he could say nothing of interest kept him dumb; the feeling that Panchita was there kept nm
 He took her to parties and dances, and to church. He tried-oh, no man ever tried so hard to be young as Dry Vaney did. He could not dance; but he inVehteo a smile which he wore on these joyous occasions. a smile that, in him, was a great concession to mirth and gayety, as turning hand-springs would be in an other. He began to seek the company or the young men in the toWn-eVen or tile bows. They accepted him as a decided damper, for his attempts at sportiVehess were so forced that they might as well have essayed their games in cathedral Noitbar he nor any other could estimate what nrogress he had made with Pan- chita.
 The end came suddenly in one day, as often disappears the false aftergloW De- fore a November sky and wind.
 Dry Valley was to call for the girl one a fternoon at for walk. An afternoon walk in Santa Rosa was a feature or so- cial life that called for the pick of ones wardrobe. So Dry Valley began gor- geously to array himself; and so early that he finished early, and went over to the o'Brien cottage. As he neared the porch on the crooked walk from the gate he heard sounds of revelry within. He stopped and looked through the honey sucltle vines in the open door.
 Panchita was amusing her younger brothers and sisters. She wore mans clothes-no doubt those of the late MT O'Brien. On her head was the smallest brothers straw hat decorated with an ink-striped paper band. On her hands were Tapping yellow cloth gloves, rough ly cut out and sewn for the masquerade. The same material covered her shoes, giving them the semblance of tan leather. High collar and flowing necktie were not omitted.
 Panchita was an actress. Dry Valley saw his affectedly youthful gait his limp
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his aberration-the blue tennis suit shoes, hat, gloves and all, and threw them in a pile at Antonias feet
 Give them to your old man." said he ito hunt antelope in,"
 Just as the first star presided palely over the twilight Dry Valley got his big gest strawberry book and sat on the back steps to catch the last of the reading light He thought he saw the figure Of some one in his strawberry patch. He laid aside the book, got his whip and hurried forth to see.
 It was Papchita. She had slipped through the picket fence and was half way across the patch. She stopped when she saw him and looked at him without wavering
 A sudden rage-a humiliating flush of unreasoning wrath-came over Dry Val ley For this child he had made himself motley to the view. He had tried to bribe time to turn backward for himself: he had-been made a fool of. At last he had seen his folly. There was a gulf be- tween him and youth over which lie could not build d bridge even with yell low gloves to protect his hands. And the sight of his torment coming to poster him with her efn pranks-coming to plunder his strawberry vines like a mis- chievous school boy-roused all his anger. ''I told you to keep away from here,'
 
 home"
 Panchita moved slowly, toward him. Dry Valley cracked his whip.
 "Go back home" said Dry Valley, sav- agely, "and play theatrcals some more. You'd make a fine man. You've made a fine one of me-"
 She came a step nearer. silent, and with that strange, defiant, steady shine in her eyes that had always puzzled him. Now it stirred his wrath.
 His whiplash whistled through the air. He saw red streak suddenly come out through her white dress above her knee where 1t had struck
 Without flinehing and with the same unchanging dark glow in her eyes, Pan- chita came steadily toward him through the strawberry vines. Dry Valleys tren- bling hand released his whip handle. When within a yard of him, Panchita stretched out her arms.
 ''God, kidp' stammered Dry Valley, "do you mean?''-
 But the seasons are versatile; and it may have been springtime, after all. in- stead of Indian summer, that struck Dry Valley Johnson.
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The frown, having done it's worst, died out
 The smile travelled on. The woman's name was Maggie Ryan.
 sullen eyed and defiant, she swept into the police court Her hair was awry ana her clothes were rumpled from a night spent at the police station. You see, they don't provide very good toilet requi- sites at the police station.
 little brown spaniel trotted at the womans heels.
 Maggie Ryan had slept or tried to sleep on the hard, bare confines of the matron's room Usually dogs-real, for sure dogs are not admitted to the station, but some thing in the womans wistful face caused the matron to let this little dog in. He curled up contentedly at the foot of the hard cot where the woman lay. And when she got up in the night and paced the room he walked at her side.
 In the morning the woman divided her rough breakfast with the spaniel. He was a hungry little dog.
 With reckless bravado and scorning the audience of curious loafers Maggie Ryan answered the judges questions. The dog stayed close Maggie had been arrested on the charge of being disorderly.
 'D and D."-drunk and disorderly.
 Her eyes were hard and cynical Her mouth was set in a severe, straight line. Traces of a one time beauty fingered Dabs of face powder showed too thick in some spots. The toilet facilities at the station. we have already explained, are not good
 The spaniel crouched close to the wom- ans skirts.
 ,T will give you until tonight to leave town" said the judge. The judge was kind-hearted. and he had looked often at the little spaniel. The woman made a mocking bow, taking in the spectators at court.
 She started toward the door From there she would probably Init the rails" -out of town, out somewhere anywhere -out of town.
 The little dog started, too. Briskly he sprang to her side.- once ne Jumped up and licked her hand.
 For the first time that day the woman's lip quivered. Her eyes sortened. Ihey were almost beautiful eyes-when there were tears in them.
 The woman's head dropped for an in-
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LNVERY trained logician knows that
 the ad hominum argument is no ar - gument at all. It does not pretend to decide, nor even to argue. any prin- ciple; and. in this direction, has no more force than has the schoolboy's taunt, 70 you are anotheri'
 Let us illustrate by paragraph taken from the history of the campaign of 1s4s. It is proper to state that the Barbour mentioned in the sketch was James Bar bour of Culpeper county, Virginia, brother of the late John s. Barbour, the United States senator so highly distin- guished as party leader during some of the most critical periods in the polit- ical history of Virginia.
 My Earliest recollection of James Bar bour dates from the presidential cam paign of 1S4S. He was then a young lawyer of some 24 years, and attended our courts in Orange. On one of these court days the distinguished statesman, Hon. William c. Rives, United States sen ator and minister to France, had been advertised to address the people on the is- sues of the campaign. MT. Rives was whig, and. of course, advocated the election of Gen. Zachary Taylor-"Old Rough and Ready" as he was affection
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"Yankee Doodle" was one of the finest of all tune!
 Now, here was a keen blade, skillfully thrust with decided and even brilliant effect, but the trained reasoner sees at glance that there was no relish of logic in 1t. What had Mr. Rives' political status twenty-five years before to do with the question. fought Zachary Taylor be elected to the presidency over Lewis Cass?
 It is indeed a very remarkable fact that a so-called argument" which Is one of the most effective weapons ever invented for cut-and-thrust debate, is, from pure ly logical point of view, absolutely worth less It is not held here that it has no legitimate place in debate, for it is some times highly important as an instrument to stop the mouths of gainsayers, who are making reckless charges.
 There is a story of a distinguished sol- dier against whose conduct some brazen, blatant, blundering critic had spoken his mind" if. indeed he had any. The gen. eral indignantly replied that his critic had got himself into the penitentiary In order to escape Federal bullets and was now posing as a critic of the military conduct of men who had charged with iPckett's division at Gettysburg. Now, if that did not stop the critics mouth, he had the
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T TO HEART TAKLS-By Edwin A. Nye

Your father has done fairly well in the world, but he expects you to do better And so do you expect you will do better. He las given you better chance than he had. You begin all most where he leaves off. Au the same, young man, if you do even as well as your sire and keep your soul clean you will have done pretty well.
 Don't fluch, boy.
 The world will try you out. It will strain every fiber that is in you. But you are made of 6@oo stuff. Hold to your mothers teachings and sharae the devil. Once the IoGd of life Is fairly strapped on your young shoulders you will carry the burden and scarcely feel it If only there is a willing and a cheerful mind
 All hail, you, on the threshold.
 It Is high time you were beg inning to pay the freight. And there are your back debts 10 father and mother. You will pay them, won't you. boy? Not in money. No. You can't pay those debts in money.
 How shall you pay those sacred debts?
 There is just one way-by being al- ways and everywhere a man!
 Herman Ziegler of New York City eel ebrated his thirty-ffth birthday one day recently by exercising his wife. He chased her, as was his frequent want, with the butcher knife.
 Albeit Mrs Ziegler seems to have en- tered into the spirit of the festivities, she dutifully capered around the table and over the chairs to make a holiday for MT Ziegler until she grew weary of the play Then she escaped and ran to the neigh bors
 The man of the house rested from his labors on the back porch, reciting the story of the domestic circus he had made and loudly telling what the programme would be when Mrs. Ziegler returned.
 In the phraseology of the street, that was where MT. Ziegler lost out.
 Mrs. Ziegler returned. She brought with her 12 other women. Note the fatal number-13. These merry wives seized Mr. Ziegler even while he gloated. They bound him to a chair and joined hands in a circle about him. The circus pro- gramme was to go on, but with a changed bill and new cast of characters.
 While the twelve made joyful noise
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torture to the distraught brain and ten der, sensitive soul! She was passing through her Gethsemane, poor child!
 Monday morning at dawn she went to a clump of bushes and swallowed car bolic acid A policeman found her writh- ing on the ground In the ambulance on the way to the hospital she gasped:
 "Theyn niver make fun av me again." Then she died.
 No. mo- lassie; they'll never make fun of you again. And if they only knew how they had bounded your poor little body into the grave most bitterly sorry would they be.
 You see, there's more than one way 10 kill a poor girl.
 and your lisping brogue, Kathleen, will not trouble you in the kinder land where you have gone They speak neither Eng fish nor dialects there. There is only one language in heaven-a language used too little on the earth.
 It is the language of tenderness and love.
 It behooves the scientist to sing low these days Heretofore he has been rather too dogmatic. If, for instance:
 Radium may be changed into helion then some of the well settled principles of science are knocked into smithereens. The discovery of radium itself was a hard blow.
 Truth Is a powerful wedge. It splits theory logs smack open. The prating of the sure enough who is certain of his conclusions is often made to sound like the puerlle prattling of child talking in the dark
 A learned professor-Haeckel-in his hook Riddle of the Universe" takes sey- eral kinds of kinks out of the boastful know-all.
 He says we don't know much.
 And comes mighty near proving it.
 He says we play at putting up big things-high buildings, great bridges. huge engines and such But he says we do not know even little bit about how to prevent murder, suicide. theft and pov- erty.
 He hits us hard there.
 We boast of our civilization and point to It's indices-railroads, machines, news transmitters, etc.
 Why Diogenes made fun of that sort of progress 2oo0 years ago. He got out his tub and rolled 1t through tho streets of Athens and said. That is all there is
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 NR RY VALLEY JOHNSON shook the bottle. You have to shake the A bottle before using, for sulphur will not dissolve. Then Dry Valley satur- ated a small sponge with the liquid and rubbed 1t carefully into the roots of his hair. Besides sulphur there was sugar of lead in it and tincture of nux vomica and bay rum. Dry Valley found the recipe in a Sunday newspaper. You must next be told why strong man came to fau victim to a Beauty Hint.
 Dry Valley had been a sheepman. His real name was Hector, but he had been rechristened after his range to distinguish him from "Elm Creek Johnson. who ran sheep further down the Frio
 Many years of living face to face with sheep on their own terms weared Dry Valley Johnson So he sold his ranch for s1s.00o and moved to Santa Rosa to live a life of gentlemanly ease. Being silent and melancholy person of S5-or perhaps SS-he soon became that curst and earth cumbering thing-an elderlyish bachelor with a hobby. Some one gave him his first strawberry to eat, and he was done for.
 Dry Valley bought four-room cottage
  culture. Behind the cottage was garden of which he made a strawberry patch In his old gray woolen shirt, his brown duck ing trousers and high-heeled boots, he sprawled all day on a canvas cot under a live oak tree at his back door studying the history of the seductive, scarlet berry.
 The school teacher, Miss Dewitt, spoke of him as "a fine, presentable man, for all his middle age" But the focus of Dry Valleys eye embraced no women. They were merely beings who flew skirts as signal for him to lift awkwardly his heavy, round crowned, broad-brimmed felt Stetson whenever he met them, and then hurry past to get back to his beloved ber- ries.
 And all this recitative by the chorus is only to bring us to the point where you may be told why Dry Valley shook up the insoluble sulphur in the bottle. So long drawn and inconsequential thing is his tory-the anamorphous shadow of mile- stone reaching down the road between us and the setting sun.
 When his strawberries were beginning to ripen Dry Valley bought the heaviest buggy whip in the Santa Rosa store. He
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~ Ncn upon time so the ,,,st0S, story \ goes, man had a vicious O thought in his heart, and 1t showed in his face. His face was dark with hatred and low desire.
 Other men looked on the forbidding face and passed on. Some there were who answered to the frown and passed it on to others. And the way was weary and dark for some that day.
 On the same day a little child, waking from a pleasant dream, looked up into its mothers face and smiled On the mothers face came an answering smile.
 The smile on the mothers face was or the kind that would not come off.
 And when she said goodby to the father of the child on the morning of that day the smile passed on to the fathers race. And the man wore the smile to his work. Like a lighted candle inside vase it frightened the face of the man.
 On the same day in the heart of a man lay a desperate deed. He saw the fathers shining face. The man wav- cred 'twixt the good and evil thought and was saved from his desperation. An other. W. sary of the struggle and on the verge of failing, looked at the illumined face, and hope grewa again in his soul.
 A child crying in the streets looked up through it's tears to the radiant face of the man and ceased to weep.
 A young girl, friendless and torn by a pitiful strife between degradation and starvation looked on the face of the strong man with the smiling face and somehow found in her inmost soul the strength to resist temptation and despair.
 And each of these-the desperate man, the weary soul. the crying child, the de. spairing girl-knew somehow the power of that smile.
 Others, more prosperous, less tempted, gay the fathers smile and passed 1t on, and on that day men and women and children were saved from sadness anu from the snare of the tempter.
 So the story rvns.
 And 1t Is told 4hat on that day the little child who in the morning smiled into the mothers face met pain and sorrow, and the smile was replaced with many tears. And the light on the mothers face faded into fear. And the father had many cares that day.
 nut the smile travelled on.
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Peony One Hundred Years Old.

From the Kennebec Journal.
 Mrs. A. s. Parker of Rivermend farm, Auburn, has a peony in her flew CT bed which is over hun dred years old. The plant was set out in Dur ham when that town was first settled hy her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Flick cit. Fifty years ago it was divided and part of it brought to Auburn and set out at Mrs. Parkers home. It is now very thrifty and mas recently had IA beautiful dark red blossoms on 1t, some of them as large as . plate.
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to your boasted progress simply making the wheels go round.
 Haeckel says we don't know much about a man. We don't know where he got either his mind or his body. We don't know very much about how he can best use either body or mind.
 We don't know very much about the proper relation of men to government Our political economy stops short of the problem of distribution.
 Haeckel says we know scarcely any thing about the prevention of crime. Sin and suffering are problems as serious as in David's time.
 He tells us 1t is the fault of our edu- cational system that we do not know more He says our education skips the really important things
 Maybe.
 Anyway, we don't know much.
 So you are 21?
 And you stand up clear-eyed to look the world In the face-a man.
 Did you ever think, son, how much 1t cost to make a man of you? It cost lot of money, but that isn't all.
 You have cost father a lot of hard knocks and short dinners and gray streaks in his hair. And your mother boy. you will never know. You have cost her anxious days and nights, and wrinkles in the dear face, and heart aches.
 Sure. it has been expensive to grow you. But
 If you are what we think you are, vou are worth all you cost us, and more.
 Be sure of this: Father doesn't say much but Hello, son" but deep down in his tough, stanch heart he thinks vou are the finest ever. And the little mother simply cannot keep her love and pride for you out of her eyes. Sonny. if you were to do anything low or mean 1t would just about kill your mother.
 You are man now.
 Some time you must step in your father's shoes. Don't call him "old man" He doesn't like to know you call him that; but. just the same. he is not as young as he used to be. You sec he has becn working pretty hard for ai years to help you up. And vour mother begins already to lean on you.
 Doesn't that sober you--21?
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-24

fret TO take place since the
ment some months ago that no more
would occur this year. 1t is stated ma
the layoff was caused by the fact 1hat
the monthly appropriation has all been
exhausted. The 300 men VINO nav
been laid off drew an average OF %
per day each, making a total Of aoont
40 700 for the three days. 1t is ex
nected that this reduction in the rnr-
ming expenses of of the shops VIII BRING
the total expenses within the monthly
appropriation allowed by the compa"y
the maintenance of the shops. The
round house is working full force ana
no lay-offs were made on the road me
shop men are the only ones affected by
the order.-Gazette, "a.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-24

several local candidates occupied seats
on the stage, the speakers remarks
came as a bomb. They were wholly
unexpected and were not concurred n
by the other speakers.
As a result Mr.. Fitch will not be
again heard during the present cam
paign, under the auspices of the Re
publican state central committee.
The Republican party has ever been
on the side of law and order, and while
it believes that the law is defective in
many respects and should be amended
at the coming session of the leglsla-
ture, it considers the present measure
better than no law at all, and will not
favor its repeal, even though it is gen
orally recognized as of Democratic
origin.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-24
REPUBLICAN COUN.
TY PLATFORM

The Republican party of Humboldt
county, in convention assembled, EN-
dorses the Republican national plat
form adopted at Chicago, and endorses
the candidacy of William II. Taft and
james s. Sherman for president ami
vice president of the United States.
We point with pride at the excellent
administration of President Roosevelt
and we feel assured that his firm
purposes will be continued by the cleo
ton of Mr.. Taft. We endorse AMI
reaffirm the platform adopted by the
state convention of the Republican,
party at Goldfeld. and we pledge our
candidates to the unqualified support
of all the principles enunciated, ant
the actions recommended therein.
We commend the acts of United
States Senator George s. Nixon in the
senate of the United States.
We heartily endorse the candidacy
of Hon. p. L. Flanagan, of Washo'
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-24

For many years Sam Gompers and
his crowd of labor agitators have been
believing themselves hoars over the
trusts and railroads. In the present
campaign there is presented a very
forcible illustration of the old Bible
story of 'sthe lion lying down with
the lamb
/ Bryan, Gompers, Hartman, Rookie
Teller, ct all, all riding in the same
band wagon! 1t must, indeed, present
a very inspiring sight to the bona ide
workingman. Come to think of it,
there is another brave kniwht of the
pick and shovel riding with them-our
own Sir Francis Newlands.
4 But all indications point to the fact
that they will not get far. The gen
nine American workingman is an in
dividual Of too much intelligence to BE-
easily humbugged, and Mr.. Gompers
chimerical dream of a position in Mr..
Bryan's cabinet will have a rude
awakening on the morning Of Novem-
Der 4.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-24
THE RALLY

At the Nixon opera house, next
Tuesday evening, will occur the second
great Republican rally OF the campaign.
The principal speakers of the occasion
will be Senator George s. Nixon and
Judge w. A. Massey, who will devote
their remarks to national and state
issues. 1t is expected that Senator
Nixon, after touching on the Aldrich-
Vreelands currency law and other mat
tiers of national Importance, will take
up the state police law, and explain
the attitude of the Republican party
on this most important measure.
After the speaking has peel con-
cluded, an entertainment will be pro-
vided for all who may care to partici-
pate.