The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-20
BRYAN ANST|LLFAVOR.
ITE OF UNTERR|F|ED
Especial to the Silver state.)

! uHiultItSIiHS anu uSelesS DTdHcH VI
study. But the fact is that archae-
ology is one of the most interesting,
one or the most intensely fascinating
studies one could think of. An arch
aeologist will take a few bits of pot
! terry, some stone or bronze articles
from the bed of lake or burial
place, perhaps a few scraps of printing
on a wall or a monument or some
sketches drawn on the walls of
dwelling or roughly chiseled in a cav
ern or perchance on a lofty rock mark
ing a desert water hole, and he will
construct for you the story of van
ished race. Give him little more to
work with and he will construct the
romance of the rise and downfall of a
nation, he will tell you of ipvasions
and of invaders repulsed; of famines
and big hunts and of plenteous har
vests of dynasties crumbled and of
victorious wars against hereditary enc
mics.
What the students of nations, races
and civilizations which have flourished
and then faded from existence leav-
ing no literature, no recorded history,
no open book in which their exploits
were recorded, have succeeded in
| learning about such peoples, seems
more like wizardry than like the plod-
ding work of the scientist who is usu-
ally looked on as a man devoid of inn
agination, and merely plodder in the
| dryer dust realms of the un-
movable
The American continent is full of
traces of vanished races. 1t is the
study of these forgotten peoples that
occupies the attention of the School of
American Archaeology, in which Pres
ident D. G.. Collier, of the Panama Cal
ifornia International exposition, is so
deeply interested that he has induced
the directors of it to order the next
meeting, beginning September l, to be
held in San Diego. These meetings
will be public and the discussions and
lectures will be of a popular character
and will treat of excavations and dis
coveries in Mexico and Central Amer
lea, and also in Creme, in Africa.
This meeting will give the public a
small taste of what will be in store
when the great exposition of 1915 is
held in San Diego. There will be an
anthropological and archaeological ex-
hibit or combination of exhibits at the
i.exposition that will be of greater in
terest than anything in that line ever
before seen in one place. Moreover.
the exhibits, and what lectures may be
arranged for. will be designed to in
terest and instruct the public, and
will not be merely of scientific in
terest.
The Democratic Feast.
Washington on January sth enjoyed
listening to some of the very best
| Democratic speeches that it was possi-
BILE to secure. At least, that portion
of Washington which had been unable
to obtain tickets to the Jefferson day
banquet, which was attended by all
the big men of the party, including
William Jennings Bryan, and probably
all of the candidates for the presi-
dency on the Democratic tick, except
Harmon.
The speakers who addressed the
banqueters were all men of national
reputation, and they did not disap-
point their audience. The crowd was
generous with its applause, but it was
noted that the Harmon adherents
seemed to be fewer than those who ap-
proved of the other candidates, for in
stance Wilson and Clark. Bryan, it
was noted, had the crowd with him,
although he was certainly turned down
on the Guffev incident; but when he
arose, late and at the end of the pro-
gram, and spoke for an hour, and hour
and a half, two hours, and then the
crowd besought him to speak still
more, it was pretty good evidence that
he was making an unusually interest
ing speech and that the audience was
greatly enjoying it. When Mr.. Bryan
said that he would support the nomi-
nee of the convention. the crowd ap-
plauded as though it had been an
doubt whether he would do so or not.
Date Culture.
The government is looking for a
shipment of date suckers from Algeria,
where agents of the department of ag-
riculture have been busy selecting the
finest varieties of dates for importa-
tion into the United States. Already
the bureau of plant and seed introduc-
tion has made such headway with date
culture in the southwest that ranchers
there are raising dates which are de-
clared to be superior to the imported,
partly because of the great care to
secure only the best varieties and part
/ ly because of the favorable natural
conditions.
| w men Ine OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES inter
national exposition is held in San
Diego in 1915, there will be growing
grove of these dates for people to see,
and they will then be able to know
just how the date grows, what the
fruit looks like and how it must be
handled to make it merchantable.
Ice in Washington.
The cold snap which came along
about the 9th brought snow and later
sleet to the capital. 1t was rather
trying to most people, for the Wash
ingtonians have a happy way of wait
in~ for the sun to clean the sidewalks
On the morning of the 9th, there was
not a sidewalk in the business quarter
of Washington cleaned of the snow
and ice, although some benevolent
storekeepers and householders put ashes
and clnkers on the sidewalks. Many
parconS wara ha1lv hurt nv falls in