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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
ANIMALS ARE GOOD SWIMMERS
Polar Bear, Who Passes His Time in
Icy Waters, Is Regarded Best,
Though Not Swiftest.

Nearly all animals are better swim
mers thar man and take to the water
naturally. The ~rhinoeeros and hippo
potamus are wonderful swimmers and
divers. while the Indian elephant
crosses great rivers with heavy loads,
London Tit-Bits states.
The elk and the reindeer are first
class swimmers. The elk keeps his
head above water and crosses directly
from bank TO bank to avoid turning.
The reindeer. on the other hand, turns
aS often as he likes. keeping his head
only a little above the surface. But OF
all swimmers Of aIl climes the best.
though not the swiftest, is the polar
bear. who passes half his time In the
water swimming and diving. His
swimming power is nothing short OF
miraculous If Ii be remembered that
the water In the regions he f%requents
is invariably cold and that cold is nor
mally p~rohibitive to good swimming.
There are bears that can swim from
twenty-five to thirty miles without
great effort.
one of the swiftest swimming ami
mails Is the squirrel. A sportsman on
one occasion. having at hand a SOUR
rel born in captivity, which had never
seen water, wanted to see if it could
swim and took it with him in a row
boat TO the center of the lake. The
squirrel turned toward the bank, head
and paws above the water, back and
tail underneath it. and began to swim
so rapidly that it was with the great
est difficulty that the man recovered il
when it reached the shallow water
near the land.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
DAY OF NATIVITY UNKNOWN
World Has Only Tradition to Rely
Upon as to Date Of the Birth
of Christ.

The traditional 18th Of December as
the date of the birth of the Savior has
no historical authority beyond the
fourth century, when the Christmas
festival was introduced first In Rome
"a. ID 5000, on the basis of several Ro-
man festivals (the Saturnalia, Sigh
laria, %Juvenalia, Brumalia, or Dies
natalis Invicti Solis), which were held
in the latter part of December, in com
memoration of the golden age of lib
erty and equality, and In honor of the
sun, who in the winter solstice is, as IT
were, born anew. and begins his con-
quering march. The only indication of
the season of Christ's birth is the fact
that the shepherds were watching
their flOcks in the field at the time
duke IL ~, and this fact points to
any other season rather than winter,
and is, therefore, not favorable to the
traditional date. Besides. the ancient
tradition is of no account here, as 1t
varied down TO the fourth century.
Clement of Alexandria relates that
some regarded the 25th, PachOn Il. e.,
May 20), others the oath or 25th, Phar-
muthi april 10 or 20), as the day of
Nativity.
AS to modern research, the only
point on which divines generally agree
is that Christ was not born on Christ
mas day, while numerous learned au-
thorities put the birth on almost every
date of the year.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
BAN ON OLIVE OIL EXPORTS
Royal Order Calls Halt on Shipments
Except Essentials, From Spain
to United States.

Olive oil exports from Spain, of
which large quantities formerly were
shipped both directly and via France
and Italy to the United States and
other foreign markets, from Barcelona
and Seville, are prohibited by a recent
royal order, states commerce reports.
In southern Spain and in the region
of Catalonia, the olive oil industry has
been an important our of revenue
to the growers who export to foreign
refineries, whence the oil was often
shipped to the United States, as Of
really non-Spanish production. Re.
Gently the direct exports of the com
modify from Spain to the United States
have increased considerably with the
development of the American taste for
the oil produced in Spain.
There is no embargo on exports of
essential oils such as p~ennyroyal, rose
mary, sage, thyme and lavender, the
Spanish production of which is large
ly destined for foreign markets, and
shipment of which is made direct from
Spain to the United States, France.
and elsewhere. These oils are pro-
duced especially in the regions of Muir
cia and Malaga, where many medical
herbs are grown for domestic con-
sumption and export. AS compara-
lively little use is made in Spain of
several oils derived from the plants
mentioned and other ~oil-producing
herbs, the local market is limited; but
the industry may be developed indefi-
nitely in view of the favorable eli
matte conditions of those sections of
Spain where the plants flourish. In
1916 the declared exports of essential
oils from Malaga to the United States
were valued at S176,164; those from
Almeria, at $21 ,920; and those from
Barcelona, at $13,220.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
Evolution of the Lamn.

DR.. Walter Clark of PHILADELPHIA
has recently made some interesting in
vestigations to find out how the old
time lighting conditions In his city
compare with those of today, says the
Popular Science Monthly. He has dis
covered that until as late as 1885, only
pickering sperm oil and candles were
In use. Not until the following decade
did the highly improved" kerosene
lamp appear. Gas did not come out
until the period between 1865 and 1878.
And then only the wealthy could use
it. 1t sold at $3.50 per thousand cubic
feet! The efficient Welsbaeh mantle
came out ten years later, revolutioniz-
ing artificial illumination. The pres
ent era began in 1895. when gas and
electricity came into general use-gas
selling at 81 per thousand cubic feet
and electricity at 10 cents per kilo-
watt hour. Since that time the gas
mantle and the electric filament have
seen vast improvements. so that today
the average family is obtaining about
eighteen times as much light as the
people of half a century ago.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
early intoxicating LIQUORS.

Pliny says: "The natives who in
habit the west of Europe have a liquid
with which they intoxieate themselves,
made from corn and water. The man.
ner of making this liquid differs. In
Gaul and Spain and other countries 1t
is called by different names, but its
nature and properties r everywhere
the same.
"The people of Spain In particular
brew this liquid so well that it will
keep a long time. So exquisite is the
cunning of mankind In gratifying their
vicious appetites hat they have thus
invented a method TO make water itself
produce ~intoxication."
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
Temperament of cameIs.

Bearing an innate grudge against all
restraint and all who restrain him, the
camel viii use the great strength of
his long legs to kick his keepers or the
dogs which guard him In the waste
places, but in the presence OF enc
mics, among wolves or other beasts
Of prey. he is a coward, forgets the
very use Of his legs and proves his
erratic temper by screaming and spit
ting In terror. No camel wants to be
loved, and no one familiar with camels
ever entertains the least affection for
them. They make savages of what
ever people breeds them. The mar who
owns and uses camels cannot live In
a city. he cannot travel the highways
through cultivated country, he cannot
have a permanent abiding place. He
is doomed to live In deserts and arid
grasslands, to follow the paths that
are lined with evergreen thorns. tama-
risks and bitter weeds. to drink the
saline water that his evil tempered
beasts prefer and to avoid the haunts
OF men and horses as the horseman
circles the deserts. says Rodney Gil
bert In Asia
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
Acquiring Happiness.

Happiness is something that is not
to be acquired In the way that we ac-
qulre other things. 1t is not some-
thing entirely separate from ourselves
and our work, as so many other things
are, but is woven into our daily living,
and If we are patient and look for 1t.
we shall find il hidden in many places,
and a part of many things that at
first we did not recognize as akin to
II, I'm any way. Look about you, and
see II you are not missing much Of
happiness that might be yours, II only
you would recognize 1t when 1t crosses
your pathway.-Exchange.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
Uses Of Potatoes In Sweden.

Uses made of Swedish potato crop,
officially estimated this year at S4.244,-
$40 bushels, will be interesting to peo-
pie of the United States. OF the en-
tire crop, 37.1 per cent is used for d.
rect human consumption; 1927 per cent
is fed to animals. and 6.5 per cent is
used in flour making. The loss In
storage is 11.9 per cen and 11.8 per
cent Is retained for seed.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
USE GLASS FOR FALSE HAIR
Material Also Converted Into Cotton
and Wool and Pressed Into
Sheets or Pads.

In Venice they are spinning glass for
commercial uses, converting 1t into
glass cotton and glass wool pressed
into sheets or pads, says the Popular
Science Monthly. Although the prin-
cipal use of the product at present is
for insulation, we have heard the word
of the Italian makers, that 1t serves
admirably for making artificial hair,
wigs, perukes, dolls hair, Santa Claus
boards and either hirsute adornments.
The processes of manufacture are
simple. Solid glass rods, made of pure
American soda that contains no adul-
iteration of lead or other metal, are
worked into fluff under a Bunsen
burner and blowpipe. A bicycle wheel,
minus the tire, winds up the threads.
If the threads are sufficiently fine they
curl and fluff out like wool.
The product is now marketed in
three forms-glass cotton, glass wool.
and In sheets about one-half inch thick
which resemble white felt pads. In the
last form mentioned 1t may be used to
make separators for accumulators Of
electricity.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18

Are you reading Arthur Guy En-
pey's great war story. "Over the Top
now being published in this paper?
Every chapter is practically a COM
plete story and right now it is get
ting into the most interesting part of
the story. You'll be sorry you've
missed any of IT.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Line

Leaves Winnemucca land opposit
oints) daily. except Sunday. at z p
A., for McDermitt National and wa
tatiOns.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
Wanted OFFICERS to Learn Dancing.

That the great Lord Nelson urged
his midshipmen to learn dancing has
been discovered through the publica-
ton of a letter written by the hero
of Trafalgar to the earl of Cork. Cap
tain Nelson as he then was wrote: ut
1t necessary that your son should be
made complete in his navigation, and
If the peace continues, French is abso-
lutely necessary. Dancing is an &C
complishment that probably a sea Of
icer may require. You will see almost
the necessity of It., when employed in
foreign countries; indeed. the honor of
the nation is so often entrusted to sea
officers that there is no accomplish
ment which will not shine with pc
culiar luster in them"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
Paradise and Willow Point lime

Leaves Winnemucca Cand opposii
oints) daily. except Sunday. al 7
L.. for Paradise. Willow Point ar
Yay stations. 25 lbs. baggage ALLOW
n: &c Id. for excess.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-18
WESTERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
E-AAl-
AUTOMOBILE STAGE LINES

office and Garage, Sixth and Melai
key SITS. Winnemucca. Phone 46
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17

Because OF its tonic and laxative effect, LAxA.
TIVE BROMO QUININEi Is better than ordi uarv
Quinine and does not cause nervousness no.
ringing in head Remember tt full name end
OAK COR the signature Of +. W. GROVE. llc
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
Blaine Baby, Still in Incubator,
Rides in State to Mothers Home

CHICAGO.-It would require the
gifted pen of Charles Dickens. Victor
Hugo or Alexander Dumas to faith
fully describe the unique and inter
esting sight witnessed in Chicago on
a recent day when Baby Blaine, heir
ess, got her first glimpse of the world
outside the hospital room where she
was born four weeks ago.
The baby's father, the late EN-
mons Blaine, jr., died October 9, last
of pneumonia. 1t was just a year
ago in Portsmouth, N. H., that the
young Harvard engineer was mar
ried to Eleanor Gooding at a cere-
mony performed by her father, the
Rev. Alfred Gooding.
The little girl babe who started on
a tenderly arranged journey from the
Henrotin Memorial Hospital, under
the warm winter sun, and the gaze
of a crowd of curious spectators, is
the Observation-Disclosures of James G..
Blaine and Cyrus Mccormick, and the
granddaughter of Mrs. Emmons
Blaine, of Chicago.
Elaborate Preparations.
1t was to the Blaine home that the
baby was removed with her mother.
And never in the history of Chicago
were more elaborate precautions
taken to shelter and protect an in
FAINT For it must be known that this
is an incubator baby, a baby that
must live in a regulated temperature,
held under glass, watched day and
night to guard the sacred flame of
life.
Everything stopped at the hospital
for three quarters of an hour until
this precious charge was delivered
safely to the waiting ambulance. No
one was allowed in or out of the
place. A canopy had been stretched
from the front door to the ambu-
lance. Six men held it in place.
"a lot of fuss over a baby" said
one curious bystander.
mot bit, lady," said one of the
canvas bearers. "I'm for it. I'm
getting SIS a day for this"
Four Days Preparation.
The driver of the ambulance said
he had been driving around the city
for four days, testing the tempera-
ture of the interior. Hot water heat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17

ers had been placed inside.
All the floors and walls near the
place where the baby was to be car
ried had been scrubbed until they
shone. Carpets and rugs covered
steps and sidewalk.
There was just one little space-a
few inches-where the canvas tapped
to one side near the ambulance. Here
the crowd that numbered $50, watch
ing the affair, caught a feeting
glimpse of the little face.
Doctors and nurses, with the moth
err and few friends, formed the pro-
cession. The baby's portable home
was carried in a specially constructed
basket, prettily decorated.
Even the Air Is Filtered.
The ambulance doors closed and
the machine started without the
slightest jar. Not a breath of air
except that speciality warmed and
purified reached the infants soft nest.
An entire floor in the hospital had
been rented by the family for the
event four weeks ago. All the walls
were repainted and the floors pre-
pared, special furniture installed, and
the whole place transformed into a
home. There was danger at first that
the baby's life could not be saved,
but the physicians expect now that
she will grow into normal babyhood
soon
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
TURKEY DINNER is EATEN
A HALF MILE UP in The AIR
Nnie Guests Enjoyed First Aerial
Banquet in History-Future of
Air Mail Service.

ELIZABETH, N. 1.-THE first ae-
rial banquet in history was held on
an airplane $500 feet above the new
flying field of the United States air
mail service, marking the Inaugural
ton of the field as the terminus of
the aerial mail service between New
York, Philadelphia and Washington.
A few minutes after the mail plane
in charge of Pilot Max Miller left the
field big machine rose, and during
a flight of 20 miles above the grounds
turkey dinner was served to nine
persons.
Among the guests were Capt. Ben
jamin B. Lipsner, superintendent of
the air mail service, and Allen R.
Hawley, Augustus Post and other of
ficials of the Aero Club of America.
Speaking of the proposed nationwide
extension of the mail service, Cap
tain Lipsner said:
"We will have machines which will
carry a ton and half of mail and
the days of freight and parcel post
by airplane are coming"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17

growing out of the clash over an alb
stract principle like that of saying
What the revenue bill shall raise in
1920-21.
An Important Difference.
Ii special session of congress
should be forced by a deadlock over
the postal zone system, due to op-
poslte stands on the subject by the
house and senate, the emergency
would be created not by partisan OBJ
structive tactics, but by a purely
parliamentary cleavage over a legis-
latlye business question.
On the other hand, if the extra ses-
sion should be forced by refusal of
the republicans to agree to limit
I92O-2l revenues in the 1918 bill it
would be necessary for the minority
party to conduct a filibuster as mat
ters look now, because it is probable
that the administration could hold the
majority in both houses with it on
this question if it came to vote.
One cannot help thinking of this
possible analysis of the difference be-
tween the two propositions: Does
only the republican party in congress
desire an extra session, or does con-
gress as a body desire it?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
HOW TO FIGHT
SPANISH INFLUENZA
By DIR. L. W. BOWERS.

Avoid crowds, coughs and towards,
but fear neither germs nor Germans
Keep the system in good order, take
plenty of exercise in the fresh air and
practice cleanliness. Remember a clean
mouth, clean skin, and clean bowels
are protecting armour against disease.
To keep the liver and bowels regular
and to carry away the poisons within,
it is best to take a vegetable pill every
other day, made up of May-apple, aloes,
ialap, and sugar coated, to be had at
most drug stores, known as DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. If there is a sudden
onset of what appears like a hard cold,
one should go to bed, wrap warm, take
a hot mustard foot-bath and drink copi-
ously of hot lemonade. If pain develops
in head or back, ask the druggist for
Anuric (anti-uric) tablets. These will
flush the bladder and kidneys and carry
off poisonous germs. To control the
pains and aches take one AnuTic tablet
every two hours, with frequent drinks of
lemonade. The pneumonia appears in
a most treacherous way, when. the infu.
enza victim is apparently recovering and
anxious to leave his bed. In recovering
from a bad attack of influenza or pneu.
monia the system should be built up
with a good herbal tonic, such as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, made
without alcohol from the roots and barks
of American forest trees, or his Irontic
(iron tonic tablets, which can be OBJ
tanned at most drug stores, or send l0c.
to DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo,
N. Y, for trial package.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
SAY POISON GAS OF BATTLES
THE SOURCE OF INFLUENZA

Such Is Theory Advanced by Promi-
nent Physicians of Chicago-Ep-
idemic Started in War Area.
CHICAGO.-In paper recently
read before the Chicago Medical So
ciety and being circulated by medical
journals DR.. Albert J. Craft, of
Chicago, expressed the opinion that
the influenza which has swept over
the world is caused by poison gas in
the air and is not spread by the vic
TINS coughing and sneezing as most
physicians contend, but due to what
he calls "irritated atmosphere.
DR., Craft points out that the pres
ent epidemic started on the gas poi
soned battlefelds of Europe.
II advance the theory that the con-
dition termed influenza is in reality a
non-bacteria, nOn-contagious disease,
caused by inhalation of small
amounts of depressing, highly irritat-
ing, high density gas, present in the
atmosphere especially at night and
when the air is surcharged with mois-
ture, more particularly near the sur
face of the EARTH" he said.
He said the spread of the disease
to every part of the world was too
wide and rapid for body or personal
contact and too erratic for germ
transmission.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17

wages or lengthen working hours,
have given rise to widespread appre-
hension as to the condition that will
confront the south in preparing to
embrace the great new opportunities
awaiting its development in the new
era.
For this reason the recent prompt
action by soldiers and citizens of New
York in suppressing the agitation at
tempted by violent so-called "labor
leaders" Haunting the red flag of an
archy has excited the hope that early
expression of public sentiment will
forestall such attempts in this Sec
ton of the country, where rela-
lions between employer and employee
have always been amicable and
friendly.
1t is safe to say that the red flag
waver will get small sympathy in the
south, where the firm establishment
of peace and good order has always
been secure. Should these opponents
of blood and terror come into the
south it is understood that they will
attempt to exploit the negro. Ad-
vance information to this effect is
already now in the hands of the au-
thorities of more than one southern
state, and the proper steps will be
taken at the right time to meet any
situation they may attempt to precip-
itate.
1t is further safe to say that south
ern soldiers returning from the serv-
ice will be equally as prompt and de-
termined to put down anarchy as
were the soldiers and sailors of New
York city. After enduring the stencil
and tumult and high explosives and
poison gas of the frontline trenches
for $50 month the soldier has little
patience with agitation attempting to
exploit well-paid workers who have
been drawing from IS to $12 in peace
and safety at home while the sol
der fought to safeguard the workers
liberty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
ATLANTA WOULD
ROUND UP ITS TIGERS
is PLANNING BUSY CRUSADE.
LIQUOR GETTING TOO,PLEN-
TIFUL IN CAPITAL CITY.

ATLANTA.-That there will be a
hot time in the rendezvous of all
blind tigers and pistol toters of this
city soon is the indication, judging
from news that has just come from
the solicitors officer.
Every now and then Atlanta gets
the idea taht too much booze is float
ing around in the city and that too
many pistols are being fourished with
disastrous effects in the city and al
most Immediately afterwards there
comes a crusade to put an end to
both evils. As a general thing the re-
suit is temporary slackening in both
crimes, after which the perpetrators
gradually get busy again.
At the present time it would I'M
doubtedly give the tigers of Atlanta
an opportunity to increase the price
of their wares, especially in view of
the fact that Christmas is coming on
and every holiday is considered good
grounds for charging just a little bit
more than on ordinary occasions.
1t is pointed out by the authorities
here that the homicide rate in Atlanta
is now the second highest from a
percentage standpoint in the country
and that the time has come to put a
stop to it.
Whisky is now selling in Atlanta
at SO and 81 a quart, retail, with
the prospects of an early raise, and
with the certainty of an increase ev-
cry time man wants a drink and
the tiger knows he does not know
where else to go to get it. So even
crime has become expensive.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
SUPPRESS RED FLAG
PURPOSE OF MOVE
THE PROPOSED EXPLOITING OF
NEGROES WILL BE PROMPT
LY FRUSTRATED IN SOUTH.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Leaders here in
the movement for the industrial ex-
pansion of the south in the new era
coming after the war are discussing
with interest and concern the labor
situation that will soon come to pass
with the returning of thousands of
men from the army and the navy
and from short-lived war industries
that suspended operations when the
armistice was signed.
The recent utterances of American
leaders, declaring they would refuse
to surrender any of 'the new rights
and new advantages gained by labor
IN the war" and would resist to the
uttermost" any attempt to shorten