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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24

program. saying we were not fit ele-
ments for propaganda, and left us.
Each of us received 20 rubles in ad-
vance on his salary.
"Tamine was reignlng in Petrograt.
The first category working people of
bolshevik sympathies) received one
pound of oats daily. The second cate
CORY received One-half pound. The cit
liens grind the oats in coffee mills to
make flour for bread. For Christmas
the Petrograd inhabitants received two
potatoes for each person. A slice Of
bread is sold for 25 rubles. There was
no tobacco. People smoked cabbage
and nettle.
Wait for Bread Two Days.
"The situation at vologda was the
same as in Petrograd. 1t was famine,
and the population stood in line for
bread sometimes two days. There was
no private commerce. The shops were
empty"
On his way from Vologda toward
Archangel commissar tried to coax
Evlampieff into serving in the red
army, and on his refusal sent him back
to Vologda. A peasant hid him in a
load of hay and carried him to his I'M
cle's home in Torozk. In all the vii
lagos he passed through, he said, there
was famine. The peasants cut straw.
cook it and make bread. Eventually,
after a long journey on foot through
the snow, Evlampieff reached his
home.
When such prisoners reach the terri
tory of the provisional government Of
the north they are cared for as well as
possible. Many of them voluntarily
have Joined the white guard army be-
cause of their hatred of the bolshevikl
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24

up so as to find out what was under
meath. We were like people who used
to dig for hidden treasures"
YES" said Mr.. Fox Sparrow, "and
we were like chickens, hens and roost-
ers, for they dig and scratch the earth
to see what they can find.
at was such fun to look under the
leaves and to stop to talk over what
winter.
well. what are your plans now?"
I'm going to build nest" said
Mrs. Fox Sparrow, "of moss and soft
grass for a lining, and l shall put in
some nice feathers, too. so it will be
comfy when the five little greenish-
blue eggs which shall lay soon turn
into birdlings.
"The eggs will have nice little red
dish brown spots on them, which
shows that they are to have reddish
brown feathers later on. OF course
that doesn't follow with most birds,
reddish-brown birds there will be when
the reddish brown spots and the green
.sh-blue eggs turn into precious little
babies"
"Ah," said Mr.. Fox Sparrow, lets
get together some of our friends and
tell them about our little birdlings
which Will come as soon ms you lay the
eggs and then hatch them out"
And the other Mrs. Fox Sparrows
will be doing the same. Spring is a
busy time of the year. you know"
said Mrs Fox Sparrow.
ayes, they probably will he doing
the same" said Mr.. Fox Sparrow.
Lets call them ALL" said Mrs, Fox
Sparrow.
So Mr.. and Mrs. Fox sparrow
chirped and they called and soop their
friends same flying over.
Mrs. Fox Sparrow is thinking
about the eggs" said AIR. Fox Sparrow,
land talking of what wonderful little
birdlings we will soon have"
And every Mr.. Fox Sparrow said
that nil the Mrs. Fox Sparrows were
talking In the same way.
SO they all sang the most glorious
sone. for the fox sparrows have beau
tiful. clear and musical voices,
They sang n song about little bird
lings who would come to the nests
and of how they would teach them 10
fly and ent worms. And they sang SO
beautifully, for they all loved this
springtime song better than any otier
song in birdland.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Government Makes Elaborate Ar
engagements to Discourage
Private Plants.
TAXES, FINES and PRISON
Manufacture of Whisky in Commercial
Quantities Made Especially Diff
cult-Home Stills Are OFF,
cially Defined.

Washington. Ambitious drinkers
who expected TO set up their own little
stills and maintain an individual oasis
against the national drought are to be
checked up, taxed and policed by the
internal revenue bureau of the treas
ury department.
The bureau sent notice to every col
iecfor of Internal revenue of the re-
qnirements for registering and paving
taxes on stills. The regulations are
rigid and apparently the only escape
Tor the individual defiant VIII be in
the home manufacture Of the disti.lery
as well as 'he spirits.
Then is given the following notice ::
Under federal laws and regulations
manufacturers of snlls are required
TO pay an annual special tax of $50
and in addition thereto $50 for each
still or worm for distilling made by
them. All persons. firms or corpora
tions thus manufacturing n still or
worm to he used in distllng are deem
ed manufacturers of SullS. This an
duction of distilled spii'Ls but does
not apply to small lak ,atory stills
Casually glass; for legl innate labora-
tory purposes or to II stills which
are not capable of ard intended for
the production Of d's,siled spirits. Or
dinarily laboratory .tills are small.
constructed of glz.s and not adapted
to the CONNIE r.d production of dis
TILED spirits.
How s.dIs Are Defined.
ANY stiIo or worms adapted to the
production of distilled spirits for COM
mercial or beverage purposes are pre-
sumed to be intended for such use and
In consequence the manufacture there
or involves the manufactures in special
tax liabilities as above. In order to
of stills and worms intended to be
used in the manufacture of essential
oils, vinegar and like products and in
publication of water (other than small
glass laboratory stills) the person for
whom such still is made will be re-
'lufiCu w SuDilllt " iilc toiltCtOT eve
tience under oath showing that the
still is not to be used for the produc-
tion O. spirits and setting forth spe-
officially the actual purposes for which
1t Is to be used
1.-THE manufacturer of any STILL boiler
or any vessel to be used for the pur-
pose of distilling must, before the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24

form 26 in duplicate. This applies to
all stills of whatever size or fer what
ever purpose intended, whether for
distillation of spirits or for pharm-
aceutical or other purposes except as
TO small glass laboratory stills Pen
forfeiture of the still or distilIing APP
paratus which is not so registered, to-
gether with all personal property in
the possession or custody or under con
troll of such offender and found in his
building or in any yard or Enclosure
connected with the building in which
the same may be set up
Tip for Home Distilers.
"a person who makes mash fit for
distillation is held to be n distiller
even though he does not vaporize or
condense the spirit. A mash fit for
distillation is fermented beer in
which alcohol is generated. Obviously
the making of such mash is not per-
missble in the home brewing of beer
or home production of spirits. since
ii renders the manufacturer liable as
an Illicit distiller. Penalty for Illicit
distillation is forfeiture of the distil-
lery and distlling apparatus and all
distilled spirits and raw materials for
the production of distilled spirits found
on the distillery premises. and fine
of not less than 5000 or more than So
600 and Imprisonment of not less than
six months or more than three years."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
DRAG ROADS AT PROPER TIME
Fully as Important as 1t Is That High
ways Should Be Done Right
Keep Ruts From FORMING.

prepared by the United States DEPART
ment of Agrieulture1
1t is fully as important that road
be dragged at the right time as 1t is
that the dragging be properly done.
Furthermore, the difficulties involved
in prescribing definite rules for deter
mining when dragging should be done
are equally as great as those already
encountered In attempting to define
how 1t should be done. Only very gen
eral statements concerning this fea-
ture of the work can properly be made
here, and much must be left to the eX-
perieneed judgment of those who de-
eide when the dragging of any particu-
lar road is to be started and when it
is 10 be stopped.
The rule frequently cited that all
earth roads should be dragged imme-
diately after every rain, is in many
cases entirely impracticable and is also
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
AaI3Oa
SOU I S
THE SCOUT BROTHERHOOD

Gen. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, head
of the boy scouts in Great Britain, is
endeavoring to show the brotherhood
of the scout movement by sending a
fund to scouts made homeless by the
war.
1t is for such scouts as those of the
Serbian nation, driven from their
homes and decimated in numbers by
the brutality of their invaders, and
the French scouts in the northeastern
provinces, also those Belgian boys who
have continued as scouts in the coun-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Allies Plan Larger Ration for
100000 Foes.
German Need of Fats Recognized In
Order by Military Com
mission.

Coblcnz.-The average uniform ra-
lion for the 100000 inhabitants of
the occupied areas of Germany VIII
be $50 grabs Il day for each person,
according to the decision of the inter-
allied military commission for food
supply for the civilian population on
the left bank of the Rhine.
In weight this is an increase of 50
grams a day over that provided by the
German war regulations, but esti-
mated in calories it means an increase
of 2,400 calories a day from the HOO
allowed by the Germans. a The in
crease in calorles was based on re-
ports made by food experts that the
Germans needed more fats.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
GIVE FOOD INCREASE

The decision to allot each inhab-
liant $50 grams daily means that the
commission agrees to supply the food
not supplied by the Germans. The
food will be paid for by the German
government. 1t will be distributed
through cards issued by the Germans
mt prices sanctioned by the commits
sion.
The food IS to come from the sup
plies accumulated by the interalied
relief organization and the army sup
ply depots in the occupied zones will
get 10 per cent of the total allotted
by the interallied organization for
Germany.
The population of the American
area of occupation is $4,000 and is
ID per cent of the occupied zones. The
distribution of food will begin as soon
as It can be brought from Rotterdam.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24

Drag on a North Carolina Road.
very misleading because of the cOndi-
lions which 1t fails to contemplate. 1t
Is true that there are many road sur
faces composed of earth or earthly ma
terial which do not become very muddy
under traffic, even during long rainy
seasons, and since such surfaces usu-
ally tend to harden very ,-apidly as
soon as the weather clearsup, it may
be desirable to drag roads of this kind
Immediately after rain. Such roads,
however would not ordinarily need to
be dragged after every rain, because
of the strong tendency that they nat
urally possess of holding their shape.
On the other hand, many varieties Of
clay and soil tend to become very
muddy under only light traffic after
very moderate rains, and, 1t is evident
that roads constructed of such ma
terials could not always be success
fully dragged Immediately after rain.
Sometimes, in fact, 1t may be neces-
sary to wait until several consecutive
clear days have elapsed after long
rainy spell before the road is sufficient
ly dried out to keep ruts from forming
almost as rapidly as they can be flied
by dragging.
Well-constructed sand-clay tOpsoil
roads should not often become muddy
after they are once well compacted.
They may become seriously rutted,
however, under heavy traffic, during
rainy weather. and are almost sure to
need dragging several times each year.
Such roads should ordinarily be drag
ged as soon after a rain as prac-
ticable as otherwise the surface soon
becomes dry and hard, so that 1t is
necessary to do considerably more
dragging in order to fill the ruts. Fur
therinore, the material which the drag
moves will not compact readily unless
1t contains q considerable amount of
moisture.
Gravel roads can be effectively main
tanned with a road drag only when the
gravel composing the surface is fine
grained and contains a considerable
quantity of clay earth. Gravel road
surfaces in which this condition pre-
VANS hot hiiNluSheiy ,tt poN'J o"e VI
shape during wet weather, and may
sometimes require considerably more
attention than well-constructed sand
clay topsoil roads. The time for drag
ging gravel roads is unquestionably
while they are wet. In fact, the best
results are sometimes obtained by do
ing the dragging after the road has be-
come thoroughly soaked aud while it
is still raining.
In general, it may be said that the
best time to drag any type of road is
when the material composing the sur
face confirms sufficient moisture to
compact readily after it has been
moved by the drag and is not suffi-
GENTLY wet for the traffic following the
drag to produce mud.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
BOY SCOUT DoiNGs.

A group of scouts In Marquette,
Mich. helped an aged woman get
Strengthened out after II fire in her
house. cut new frewood and hunted
up her lost cat.
Education of the public In the sub.
Ject of kindness to dumb animals has
been begun by scouts of Marion, Ind.
Speeches by scouts have attracted
much attention. As result OF
scout campaign to remove stray dogs
from the streets. the city council Is to
Pot through an ordinance.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Chanue in Road Sentiment.

When we consider the fact that such
large proportion of our population
are owners OF automobiles it is not
difficult to understand the change in
sentiment in regard to road building
that has recently developed
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Prisoners Struggling Back Find
FatherIand Greatly Changed
Since War.
MAKE BREAD OUT OF STRAW
Returning Soldiers Tell Tales of Pitt
full Suffering From Hunger in
Villages Through Which
They Passed.

With the American Forces in North
Russia.-Russian soldiers returning
from Germany to their homes in north
ern Russia find their fatherland vastly
changed since they went to war. Scores
of these soldiers are passing through
the bolshevik lines and making their
way to the American and other allied
outpOsts.
They tell tales of pitiful suffering
from hunger in the villages through
which they passed. One of them, +.
Evlampieff of Archangel, thus de-
scribes his experiences:
Famine Reigns at Petrograd.
AT Petrograd we were sent to bar
racks, where n bolshevik officer start
ed to read us the soviet program The
prisoners protested. Give us first
something to eat, and then read us
your program they cried Then the
conmissar gave up trying to read the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Russian Famine
Is Widespread
0-O-o-o-o-o-oo--O-o-o-o-c
Can Use Growing
Trees for Radio

Washington. - Before the
American Physical society, hold
ing its annual spring meeting
ut the United States bureau of
standards, Maj. Gen. George o.
Squier, chief signal officer of the
army, announced discovery
which in Importance and mag
nitude will startle the world.
1t is the discovery that grow
ing trees can he used as natural
antennae for the radio telephone
and telegraph in both sending
and receiving messages. BY
means of metallic contact
simply spike driven into tree
it is possible to obtain and
transmit dispatches from and to
all corners of the earth.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
SCOUT FOR NAVAL ACADEMY.

Congressman Scott Ferris of Law
ton, Okla. recently announced that he
would appoint TO the United States
Naval academy. Annapolis, Md, any
scout whom the troops of Lawton
nominated.
Lively halloting resulted In the cleo
ton of Scout Clement Mitchell.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Bio Savina in Hauling.

If our main highways were improved
with permanent surface. we would
certainly save s or Q cents per ton
mile in hauling the immense interstate
commerce that each year originates
from agriculture, mine and forest
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24
Quite ENOUGH.

Hoboken, n. John Kelly. seven
ty told the judge his wife had him
arrested 100 times. That's enough"
said the judge, Diminishing the wife's
charge
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24

Originator of the Boy Scout Movement,
Who Will Visit This Country.
try of their adoption or with their own
army, since being rendered homeless
by the Huns.
This common action for a common
cause will form new tie throughout
the scout brotherhood, one of whose
laws is. "A scout Is a brother to every
other scout"
The Belgian scouts in the released
territory secretly maintained their Or
ganization under the German rule, and
have given their services as messen-
gers, guides, and interpreters to the
staff of the British army of occupation
with the friendliest feelings for their
dellverers and their brother scouts in
Great Britain.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-24

The number of women employed by
creased 20 per cent during the war.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-21
Home of Pump inventor.

Magdeburg was the home city of
Otto Won Guericke. inventor of the air
pump, one of the few original inven-
tions that can be credited to Germany
despite the German fostered impress
sion to the contrary. Students Of phys
les will recall principle of physics
proved by what is often called the
"Magdeburg experiment" Won Guer-
icke is said to have demonstrated his
discovery Of the possibilities of the
vacuum to Ferdinand III by clamping
together two parts Of copper sphere.
from which the air was then exhaust
ed and hitching Is horses TO each hem
isphere. The story that the horses
could not pull the henispheres apart
may be an exaggeration, but the prin
ciple Is sound,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-21
COCA-COLA WILL
BE USED TO
CHRlSTEN ENGINE
Program viii Feature Exercises
at Fire Hall on We'd
nesday.
tFrom Nashville Tennessean.1

from Nashville Tennessean1
Ann Dallas Dudley, the new fire en-
CINE at the Waverly-Belmont fire hall,
will be christened on Wednesday aft
Groom at o'clock with appropriate
exercises. Mrs. Guilford Dudley, for
whom the engine gets its name, is one
Of the states pioneer suffrage workers
and it Is due to her untirlng work that
partial suffrage was given the women
Of Tennessee. Mrs. Miles Williams, q
resident Of the twenty-frst ward, Is
chairman of arrangements, and also a
pioneer suffraglst, and little Judith
Winston Folk, the 6-year-old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Reau Folk, also
pioneer suffragist and the youngest
member of the Nashville organization,
has been chosen sponsor. Miss Folk
has selected as her maids the following
young girls. daughters Of prominent
suffrage leaders: Travania Dudley,
Lenore Kenny, Kate Barksdale, Harriet
Ingram Mary Sue Cantrell, Jane Davis
and Elizabeth Smith.
At the christening not champagne
but bottle Of coca-cola will be broken
and the maids will shower the engine
with yellow flowers. Speeches will be
made by Mayor William Gupton. Com
missioner Tompkins and Chief A. A.
Rosetta. Mrs. Dudley, a member of the
national suffrage organization, and
Mrs. Reau Folk. chairman Of the city
organization, will be honor guests Of
the occasion.-Adv.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-21

Roman church states restored to the
pope. Spain was declared the right
full property of the Bourbons. A Ger
manic confederation, with Austria at
it's head, which embraced all Ger
many except West and East Prussia
and the duchy of Posen, was formed
England had Ceylon, part of Guiana,
Heligoland, Cape Colony, Malta, Maui
ritius, ETC., confirmed to her and was
given a protectorate over the Ionian
islands off Greece.
The Congress Is Dissolved.
Having thus settled the affairs of
Europe, the congress dissolved. well
pleased with it's work. The peace of
Europe had been settled as every 9TH
er peace had been, on the basis of
what the continental powers were
able to seize for their own aggrandize-
lnent and left, as Whitbread had pre-
dicted, the seeds of "bloody and re-
vengeful wars"
Napoleon said afterwards at St.
Helena of the British part in it: $50
silly a treaty was never signed be-
fore; they gave up everything and got
nothing"
1t was the exhaustion of Europe by
nearly twenty years Of war and the
Intense longing Of people for peace
that enabled the arrangements of the
congress Of Vienna to be carried out
without violent uprising on the part of
the bartered nationalities.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-21

After the "Reign of the Hundred
Days" and the crushing defeat OF
Napoleon at Waterloo, the congress
Of Vienna reassembled, meeting in
lime when the smoke Of Waterloo
had scarcely cleared away. The dele
gates~came again to the council table
with an appetite for plumber, whetted
by the exciting events of the recess.
They looked upon their former work
and found it good, but capable OF be-
ing improved. The idea that the
Italians, who were handed over to a
German rule; Poles, who were handed
over to Prussian and Russian rule, or
the Norwegians, who were transferred
to the rule of Sweden, should have
any voice in the matter seems not to
have weighed with the map-makers.
Large armies were still kept under
arms In France and Italy. Murat, the
sergeant of marines whom Napoleon
had made marshal of France and
king of Naples, had deserted the en-
peror when things went against him
In 1914. hoping thus to keep his throne
of Naples and the two Sicilies. But
Murat knew that the congress of
Vienna was seeking some excuse to
DUST him and dispose of his kingdom !;
that they would, by hook or crook,
find such an excuse, and SO. when
Napoleon broke out from Elba. he de-
clared for the emperor. Whereupon
an allied army promptly drove him
out of Naples. Now the congress gave
Murat's kingdom to that line of the
Bourbons which had formerly reigned
there, whose misrule had been q scan
dal to Europe.
The congress spent very agree
allie summer and fall in completing
heir work. When 1t was concluded
Austria had not only northern italy
but Dalmatia on the eastern shore Of
The Adriatic confirmed to her, Prussia,
which had proved the most greedy
.and-grabber of all the nations, had
not only half Of Saxony, and slice
,f Poland, but the extensive Rhine
provinces and Swedish Pomerania.
oardinia was restored to the status
If Il kingdom and Genoa on the MAIN
and was added to 1t. The territory
II Switzerland was enlarged and the