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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-04-14
The Groundhoo.

Nobody knows where the grounding
got its "rep" as a weather forecaster
but belief in its powers in this regard
seems to be very ancient.
1t is a kind of marmOt (therefore
related to the prairie dog) and makes
It's home in q burrow 90 or 80 feet
long, which descends obliQuely four or
five feet. and. then gradually rises to a
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-04-14
WELL ENDOWED BY NATURE
Mountain Goat Thoroughly Equipped
for Life In High Attitudes Amid
Snow and Rocks.

"The mountain goat is equally at
home on rock, ice, snow or meadow,
and it lives in bands Of two to twenty"
says DR.. William T. Hornaday, writing
Of "The Rocky Mountain Goat at
Home" in Boys Life. 'Its big black
hoofs have chisel edges for ice and a
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-04-14
Need for FIGURES.

A favorite Madison square argument
from the soapbox is to hold up hat
and yell:
Il paid So for this hat; tie man who
made it got "a cents. Tie employer
uot s27a What are you going to do
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-04-14
And the World Goes Around.

Plodding Pete-Dis here paper says
dat down in South America dere'S a
plant what arrests laziness.
Rambling Eddie-Yes, and up here
it's a copper with club what arrests
laziness.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-04-14

"Can't the lady find what she
wants?" asked the f1oorwalker.
II think she came In here to find
fault."-Louisville Courier~Journal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
A REVOLVING
SQUIRREL CAGE

Manufacturers and dealers put the
prices, of all commodities up, and
naturally enough, those who had to
buy them demanded a raise in the
price of what they had to sell-labor.
Then those who had to meet the rise
in the price of labor added it to the
price of their goods, w%hereupon the
laborer demanded still more, and then
all prices go up higher, ad libitum, ad
nauseum. Good Lord! This is all
only playing Playground, rosy! The
net result is about the same as it was
in the first place, and nobody is get
ing anywhere-and the government
and politicians take all the money in
sight, no matter who has it.
You may talk and boiler and preach
all you want, and the old fact comes
right back that water will seek its
level, and that's all there is to it.
The ultimate has always
paid all the freight. is doing so now
and always will do so. and when he
gets a raise of wages he simply tacks
on just that much more to the freight
This is just as certain as the law OF
gravity.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
POLITICAL
LEXICON

In the bright lexicon of the average
politician Loyalty the extent to
which n sticks by the machine, re-
CARELESS of everything else. God is
a word used occasionally to give a
dignifed appearance to something
which is to be put over on the
country. Patriotism means love of
party. A constituent is a man he
knows he a fool a part of the time.
Divine Providence is a name applied
to the system of graft, chicanery or
craftsmanship by which they hope to
win. Our Common Country means
that nebulous entity which consists of
the total number of votes which can
probably be controlled.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23

Four-line wantads published in three
issues, so cents.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
EFFICACY
OF PRAYER

California not only went dry as Il
the cup that both cheers and inebri.
ates, but seemingly also went dry
every other way, and so serious is the
lack of moisture hat San francisco
churches were praying for rain every
Sunday and between times. 1t is to
be hoped that the biblical adage about
the prayers of the wicked ~availing
naught does not apply to San Fran
cisco, for being without both wine
and water is enough to make anybody
spit cotton.
We have in mind two instances of
many years ago, of the efficacy of
prayer. One was when Kansas had
suffered from drouth and consequent
crop failures in the early days, and
a Catholic priest called people to-
gether for many miles around to pray
for rain. The people came in covered
wagons and otherwise, camped out
and put in three days praying, at the
end of which time rain came with
such suficiency that none of them
could get home for a week, as the
bridges over all the creeks were
washed away and much of the country
was flooded. A local paper, in writing
it up, suggested that in future when
the good father prayed for rain that
he put the soft pedal on and not over
do it, as it vas just as bad to drown
as to dry up and blow away.
Another early instance was when
the grasshoppers ate up Nebraska and
almost everything in it. They actually
piled up on the Union Pacific tracks
to the extent that it stopped the
trains. the same as if the tracks had
been creased. Not a spear of vege-
tation escaped, and so the governor
issued a proclamation, calling upon
everybody to pray for deliverance
from the pest. Accordingly every
body responded and prayed long and
loud and in many different languages
1t so happened, whether because OF
the prayers or not, that a high north
wind came up and every mothers son
of a grasshopper raised and went
with it south into Kansas, where they
alighted and proceeded to eat up that
state. Tom Osborne was governor OF
Kansas then, and telegraphed to the
governor of Nebraska that if he did
not quit praying his d grass
come up there and kill him.
Prayer is a great accomplished of
results, especially when it is accom-
panied by hard work, economy and
application of the golden rule.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
ANIMAL STATEMENT

The National Mines Company. a
corporation organized and existing
under and by virtue Of the laws OF the
State of Wyoming and doing business
in Humboldt County. Nevada, in COM
pliance with the laws of the State OF
Nevada makes the following state
ment of its business for the year 1919:
Received during year--~-$3.272.17
Disbursed during year.. 3,317.45
In witness whereof the National
Mines Company has casued this state
ment to be made this 9Th day OF
March, 1920.
NATIONAL MINES COMPANY.
BY L. G. CAMPBELL.
m11-2w Vice-President.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
IDEAS TERSELY PUT

@ Philosophy teaches US to bar 4
Q up under other peoples troubles. 4
Q Love is blind but can see into 4
9 a pocket-book. 4
q Life, rations and skirts are 4
Q all shorter than they used to be. 4
@ Well admit the straight looks 4
Q better in front than behind. 4
@ You can't do better than stick 4
2 by the Golden Rule. 4
q The new airships fly faster. 4
q but they land harder. 4
" The devil works hard to get
" some people he is welcome to. 4
" There is no such thing as a
T" good trust or good rotten egg.
@ One looses more time looking
Q for graft than the graft amounts
@ to.
I" Not SO many motor cars are 4
Q being wrapped around poles at 4
Q 2 Am.
o No 30-cent woman should wear (
o a $50 hat
4
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23

it is by strict government supervision
and regulation.
Regulation and supervision has
remedied many of the old evils. but
ownership and operation turns out to
be just one more great big socialistic
pipe dream.
The banana peel we slipped up on
was the idea we got in our heads that
by some hocus-pocus the politicians
could be made over into honest and
efficient business men. 1t can't be
done, any more than you a scrub
the spots off a leopard.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
vERD|-TRUCKEER ROAD
INSTEAD Of GRADE

A vigorous plea for the substitution
of the Truckee river route for the
Dog Valley road by the California
highway commission in the construc-
ion of an improved road from
1ruckee to the Nevada state line is
made in resolutions passed Tuesday
by the Reno Chamber of Commerce,
according to the Sacramento Union.
The greater number of people to
be served; the fact that the river
route would be open a greater por-
ton of the year; that it passes
through a more beautiful country and
that it would present fewer engineer
ing difficulties are points urged In
behalf of the road. Copies of the
resolution have been forwarded to
the chamber of comerce of Truckee,
Auburn and Sacramento and the Cali
fornia highway commission
A delegation of four from Reno will
attend the meeting OF joint highway
interests in Sacramento. Although
the primary purpose OF the parley,
which is to be presided over by c. e.
Virden, president of the Sacramento
chamber of commerce, is to further
discuss ways and means of obtaining
as a redemption of CALIFORNIA; pledge
of $3.50, 900 to aid construction of the
statewide Nevada unit of the pro-
posed transcontinental highway along
the Overland Trail, the Reno delega-
ton will emphasize the Importance of
a road from Verdi to Truckee along
the river.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23

FOR SALE-Thirty head thorough
bred Hereford and 20 head of
thoroughbred Durham bulls. Lo-
Gated twenty-five miles from Reno.
Write for particulars to A S.
Nichols Company, S~ierraville. Sier-
ra county, Cal. mZ0-tfx
DO YOU WANT good silver proper
ties in Nevada. I have property In
Silverton and Arrowhead which
you can have on easy terms, II you
will agree to get in and develop
same in miner-like fashion. Address
Pc. Box 1854, Tonopah m2O-tfq
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP


1t is about time we were all look
ing this government ownership
chimera right square in the eye ant
quit kidding ours Ives. Government
ownership is a beautiful theory, ant
it ought to work out in practice, blu
it doesn't. 1t never has, it does mo-
now, and it never will until human
nature is differens than it is now, ant
people get honest enough to handle
and expend public money with the
same efficiency and economy as they
do their own. This, they never nave
done yet, are not doing now, and the
chances of their ever doing it are
mighty slim.
Government ought to be business
but it is MOTT is politics. Govern
ment ought to be run by business
men, but it is MOTT is run by poll
~ticians, and all politicians spend all
the money they can tax out of the
people and holler for more.
We have an excellent example OF
all this in the government operation
of the railroads, the net results being
about a billion dollar deficit. The
railroad magnates and companies
were bad enough, Lord knows, but
the government has been worse. The
railroads robbed us of hundreds OF
millions and the government manipu-
lation of them robbed us of billions
Millions are preferable to billions
Between two evils choose the lesser.
That the railroad owner con
spired to run the bill up into hun
dreds of millions more than it should
be, we all know and believe-but
where was the railroad administra-
tion department of the government
ness? 1t either did not care or stood
in with it, whichever angle one wishes
to take. 1t has been either asleep al
the switch or dishonest, and in either
event the result to the people is the
same.
There are 200, 900 more railroad of
ficials today than there is any earthly
use for-all eating up money from
the taxpayers.
1t makes no difference whether it be
national government, state govern
ment, county or city, it always costs
double to do anything by government
than to do it by individual, and it does
not make a particle of difference what
party is in power-when it comes to
burning up the public money all poll
ticians are tarred with the same stick.
The railroads have robbed us of
millions, and now that they are back
to ownership by individuals they will
probably rob us of millions more, but
if we take them over and run them
by government it will cost us billions
instead of millions. and there you are.
You pay your money and you take
your choice.
We believe in government owner
ship and operation of railroads, tele-
graphs, express, cables and every
other great national public u~tility-in
theory. But the way it pans out in
practice is altogether another thing
And this being true, as has been
amply demonstrated, probably the
nearest to justice and efficiency the
general public can hope to get out of
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
ANIMAL

OF the Silverhelds Mining Company,
Limited, for the year 1919.
Location of mines, Gold Run and
Kennedy Mining Districts, Humboldt
County, Nevada, and Battle Mountain
Mining District, Lander County. Ne
vada.
DEBIT
Received from all sources.-..s30,00 4.90
CREDIT
Mine expenses paid in 1919 10.754.9o
]. A. LANGWITH. Agent.
Address: winnemucca, Nevada.
Mar1Sw2
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23

The time has arrived when a teach
err in our public schools ought to be
able to buy a liberty bond or new
dress without having to go without
food SO much that her ribs might saw
gaps in her shirtwaist.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
WANTS. FOR SALE, ETC.

For "Ad" Service-The Silver State
The circulation of The Silver State
covers Humboldt 20. like a blanket
The Largest Circulation in Humboldt
FOR SALE-460-acre ranch, 100 head
of cattle, rs horses; good stock
range; water right. For particulars
write Box sc, Austin, New. F12m1c
FOR SALE-Drug business; cheap
and good terms; a snap for a drug
gist to make good. Address H-44
Silver State. m16-t3
MANTED-Position on ranch by
man and wife; mar good ranch
hand, wife good cook; have child
eight years old; state salary and
how many to cook for; at present on
one of the biggest stock ranches in
Nevada. j. J. Kennedy, Beowawe,
Nevada. m20-tfq.
FOR SALE-Compressor, new niger
sell-Rand, 10xS; immediate de-
livery. Address p. o. Box $50, To-
nopah m13-1S43
FOR SALE-One-half interest in 3
claims end-lining the Piper mine
at Lincoln; ore on Piper dump as
says $50; | will sell half interest
for $500 or will trade for automo-
bile. Address Box 931, Tonopah,
Nevada. m20-tfq
WANTED-Silver or silver-lead mine
with some development and a past
production. which can be operated
profitably if financed and equipped.
Address Pc. Box 494, Santa Monica,
Calf. m23-tfx
Four-line wantads published in three
issues, so cents.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23
PARAGRAPHS
"A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN Is RELISHED BY
THE BEST OF MEN,

Corporations are not the only things
over-subscribed. Many a nan takes
too much stock in himself.
TT
No speaker ought to talk MORT
an hour without giving the audience
some indication as to what he is talk
ing about.
A seat on the New York stock ex
change sold for s1O0,0 900. And the
men in the Exchange don't sit down
much either.
Seems as though in the hammering
at the rich and uplifting the poor a
lot of us plain average people get
overlooked.
Some of us follow the straight and
narrow path because it is right to
do so, and then, again, some of us
have cold feet.
BY the time organized capital ano
organized labor get through fighting
each other the rest of us will wear
an old barrel instead of pants.
The "capitalistic class" is the dis
reputable, contemplate, damnable
class that all the rest Of us are break
ing our necks trying to get into.
TT
Those who skip the editorial de-
partment of a newspaper generally
do so for one II of two
occupation or under education.
TT
A number of college graduates are
now finding out that it is dificult
to make enough the first few months
after graduating to buy a red touring
car.
kissing" remarked a prominent
Oklahoma doctor, "is a national
crime" 1t might be added that this
doctor is a pican-headed ass, though
not national.
ftt
A st. Louis men has just married
a girl weighing 600 pounds, and nc
doubt thinks her worth her weight
in gold, or gasoline, or any other
precious product.
TIT
AS soon as the Russian peasant
acquires a farm of his own he will
quit Bolshevism and become a con-
servative instead of a radical. Nc
home-owners ever throw bombs.
TIT
Mary Pickford may have been just
a little bit sentimental when she same
to Douglas county to secure her di-
vorce. Douglas is the given name of
Fairbanks, and you have all read
what the papers have had to say
about these two screen stars.
-GGardnerville Record Courier.
ftf
A comic page tells of auto bandits
robbing a Wall street messenger in
broad daylight of half a dozen eggs
and of another instance where a
special train was rushed from Hen
vile to New York with a whole dozen
All of which would be funny If i
were not for the tragic fact that Mr.
Consumer is actually coughing VI
about a nickel apiece for hen fruit on
an average the country over. Maybe
the chicks have joined the I.W.W's.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-23

Four-line wantads published in three
issues. so cents.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
SUPREME COURT HEARS CASE OF
KNOXVILLE RIOT VICTIM.
Maurice Mays. Condemned to Death,
Bases Appeal on Error.


Pittsburg. Pa. Oct. 2S.-Two cases
on the heels of the Knox county dock
et were heard by supreme court
They arose from incidents which
caused and which followed upon the
riot in Knoxville a year ago The
first was that OF Maurice Mays. Col
ored.l charged with the murder OF
Mrs. BERTHE Lindsay on the morning
of August 20. 1919. which act
caused a mob to be formed to lynch
him and which was followed by
riot hfter Mays had been taken TO the
Hamilton county pail for safe keep
ing. The other case was that of
Martin Mays, white, charged with
eighteen others who were convicted
With breaking into the Jail during
the riot of August and September,
1919. after the criminal attack upon
Mrs. Lindsay which resulted in her
For the first time of the present
session of supreme court the room in
the federal building in which the
sessions are being held, was full of
spectators, about half of whom were
Coloted citizens of the city intereste-
ed fn the outcome of the case. No
demonstrations of feeling occurred on
the part of either white or colored
citizens.
General r. l.. Gates represented
Nays while State Attorney General
Thompson and $. G. Hiskell repre-
SenIeO lnt Sldlt.
General Gates based his address on
two assignments in error. He claim
ed that the jury instead OF the court
should have filed the punishment of
Mays when he was tried in a lower
court and that the motion for a new
trial should not have been overruled
by the judge OF the lower court. A
point OF law was brought up which
causdd several minutes Of discussion
on the part of General Gates and of
Genetal Thompson. General Gates
maintained that mitigated circum-
stances which were shown in the
proof should have interviewed to give
Nays prison sentence intead of
life sentence at the hands of the low
er court.
General Thompson said he con-
strued the law to yuean that when a
man was found to be guilty of MUIR
der in first degree, as Mays was
found to be by the lower court, that
the punishment is electrocution and
may be filed by either the judge or
the jhry. 1t was upon this conten
ton that the case of Mays had been
allowed trial in supreme court and
the decision of the court will estab-
lish a. precedent for future cases.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
STATE DEPARTMENT HOLDS UP
SALARIES OF HAYTI OFFICIALS
WITHOUT EXCUSE.

washington. Oct 2s.-J. Darau.
Haytian Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
who has been in this city for two
weeks supplaint to the State Depart
of the officials of Hayti, which have
been held up since June. announced
that he was informed by the off,
Gals of that department that no SAL
aries would be paid until the officials
of the island adopted an attitude less
antagonistic to the American author
tiles.
BY arbitrary action the State De-
partment has refused to pay the SAL
aries of President, state councillors
recounting the humiliation, killing
and exploiting of the property of the
natives, declared that the action in
Withholding the salaries of the OFF,
Gals of the Haytian government was
without parallel in the history of
civilization
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
ORDERS HERD NEGROES INTO
COTTON FIELD.

GreenvilIe, S. c., Oct. 2S.-As a
warming to Negroes to go to work,
White Caps, several hundred strong,
with horses and riders clad in Ku
Klux Khan garb, have been riding
into several cities of the State and as
result the cotton fields have be-
come thick with cotton piclSers and
the housewives have all the help
they desire in the way of cooks and
washwomen.
The first arrests in South Carolina
as a result OF the action of might
riders" in warning cotton gins to
close until the price of cotton adj
vances were made to-day at Johnson
City. Jake and Ben Burton were taxi
en- into custody charged with posting
warnings on cotton gins at that
place.
Reports received here from Gray
Court, Laurenz county. said that a
cotton gin there had been posted
with the warning: Don't turn a
wheel or we will burn"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
COUNTY JUDGE WOULD NOT BEAR
REGISTRATION CASES.
(Rv A NJ Pr

Columbia. S. C.. oct 2S.2The appeal
of thirty-two Negro women from the
decision of the Richland county board
of registration was dismissed when
brought before Judge Marcellus s.
Whaley of the Richland County Court
On the ground his court was without
Jurisdiction in the matter.
This case. which has attracted con-
siderable attention. grew out of the
attempt of large number Of Negro
women to enter their names on the
registration books.
They held that when they applied
to register the board required them
to read not the constitution. but sec
tions of the civil and criminal code OF
South Carolina. They were asked to
explain the sections read. When they
declined to do so the board refused to
allow them to register.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
GOLDEN TONIC,
1.-The Wonder

/ was sick for several years,
spent hundreds of dollars, but
failed to get relief. l am now
well and would not do without
GOLDEN TONIC for one thou
sand dollars. Will give name
to any interested parties.
Ask your druggist for GOLD
EN- TONIC if he hasn't it in
stock order from
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
FOWLER's III
10 DROPS

is a true kidney remedy. II exFzfs
the poison from the system and rem
ders the kidneys strong and healthy.
You will like 1t when you try II ana
tell others to get It, 1t is sold D.
Dallas at Mintz, Hooper's, MeMakin.
Elm Street Pharmacy, Buckingham's.
Smiths Pharmacy, H d. Rice and
Son, Williamson's. Skillern's and other
leading Dallas drug stores, at one
dollar per bottle II you live out
side Of Dallas, send us post Office
money order and Fowler's 10 Drous
will be sent you Immediately. Stop
experimenting. Get this great hid
ney. stomach and rheumatic remedy.
for you will be glad YOU did. We
need about one thousand more agenfs
to introduce Fowler's 10 Drops All
over Texas.
FOWLER CHEMICAL COMPANY.
Box $50. Dallas, Texas.
1O-z-t1
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-30
NEGRO ON TRIAL FOR Staying
AGED COUPLE.
Accused of Numbering Man and wife
in HOIdup.

New York, N. Y, Oct 2S.--John Pc
dro Bulge, Negro, was placed on trial
for his life yesterday before Supreme
Court Justice Asphalt in Brooklyn,
accused of the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Johnson. 852 East
Twenty-ninth street, Flatbush
It is charged that Bulge on July
4 broke into the johnson home for
the purpose of robbery. Johnson, who
was SO years old. heard noises down
stairs and, arising from bed, picked
up an old rifle and Investigated. The
intruder tore the rifle from his hands
and dubbed him with II. His wife,
SIS years old, went to his assistance
and was beaten. She died a few hours
afterward, Her husband died on July
III.
Bulge appeared in court nattily
dressed. 1t is charged that he had
worked in coal yard near the John
son home and had been heard to say
that he needed money badly so that
he could furnish bail for his sweet
heart, who had been arrested Mrs.
Johnson's description of her assail-
liant is declared to fit Bulgo.a