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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
woman RcvIvlNG LOST AR
Now Work Of Making Miniatures Il
colored Wax Is Being Restored
to the World.

Successful revival of lost art r,
fleets more credit on the artist tina
the mere improvising OF a new on.
for real art does not take kindly 1
novelty. BY the execution OF a 81 -,e
or charming miniatures done In col
ored wax. described and illustrate
In the Popular Mechanics Magazln,
an American artist. Miss Ethel Fral
ces Mundy, has made available to con
temporary conn0isseurs mode O
portralture that fourished In ancien
Greece and Rome, appeared sporad
ically up to the Eighteenth century h
England. France, Italy. Spain an
even America, and then disappeared
With few technical data TO guId.
her, and confusing variety Of meth
Oh evident among the old masters
the devofee engaged n chemist TO dc
wise wax that would not melt afte
Its application. and began a scare
for colors that we're permanent an,
without chemical interaction. A stee
scapula and set of improyisc,
orangewood tools composed the work
ing outfit. and metal plates coate,
with film OF wax became the "can
vas" On such a plate the outline o,
the subject, generally In profile. 4,
first traced with a sharp point. Thei
begins the real work OF building NJ
the miniature Image with particles o.
wax. into each NJ which has bee,
kneaded special color. The An
lshed portraits, besides the interes
OF their unusual technique. are re
markable for delieacy. n fidelity apf
warmth Of detail that would Dc
credit TO the better-known. and seem
ingly more flexible. mediums Of artis
tic expression.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
PARAGRAPHS
"A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN is RELISHED BY
THE BEST OF MEN"

You may also have noticed that this
day In time quite few square people
are broke fiat.
Carpenter says he Is coming back
to America this fall. He is probably
going to stick around until he finds
someone he can lick
TIT
There's one advantage in having a
cork leg-it offers one less place for
a mosquito to bite you.
t 1T
About the only time Winnemucca
fat man gets any applause Is when
his hat blows off and he has to chase
II down the street.
country for almost every benefactor
except the woman who first cooked
corn and beans together.
TT
Nothing hits the honeymoon a
harder jolt than for hubby to discover
her going around the house with hei
shoes unlaced
And every Winnemucca married
nan wonders once in his life what his
wife does with all the money he gives
her.
Life insurance is mighty good
thing, but what some fellows need is
more insurance against fire.
ftt
We're still Offering a medal to the
nan who will point out any business
in the U. s. outside of the mint that
can make money without advertising
tft
Another fayorite expires sion of many
Winnemucca women is, II guess III
ct these dishes stand till in the
morning."
About the only time that q certain
class of people have good word for
the newspaper is when they want to
get printed for nothing something
they know they ought to pay for.
1t occurs to busy man that an
eight-hour day must seem pretty long
to loafer, but 1t isn't.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
WE'RE ALL
MUCH ALIKE

The capitalist grouches at the
working man and the laborer grum-
bles at the capitalist. but they are
both much alike, as far as human
nature and its characteristic traits
are concerned. Each would do about
as the other is doing now If the tables
were reversed. Human nature knows
no caste. The common every day man
is just as full of the good and bad
traits of 1t as the capitalist is, and
vice versa. and given like opportuni-
ties would do pretty much the same
as the other fellow.
Take away from the rich today all
that they have. giving 1t to the poor
would not solve the problem at all,
for the reason that the same prob
lens would be In evidence again to-
morrow-the wealth would drift into
the hands Of few, and the social
istic calamity bowler would be lean
ing up against the same telegraph
pole grumbling and clamboring for
another division of property.
When it comes to the deficiencies
and weaknesses of human nature we
are all tarred with the same stick.
and those weaknesses must be here Of
a higher power. We may pass all the
laws we want to those with wealth
will continue to buy off the law
makers. officers courts and juries,
and IL we throw out one set of officials
and put " another the new ones
soon become tainted with the glitter
of gold because of the greed and sell
fishness inherent in their human ma
ture.
There are many fine theories, but
they do not work out in practice and
never will until much of the greed In
human nature 10 sradicatsd.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
NOT PURELY
PSYCHOLOGICAL

! Following the Democratic admins.
tration in 1913 and the enactment OF
Democratic tariff law. there WAS .
period of decline in industry ie
largely to the fact that the United
States was increasing It's impo Is and
decreasing its exports, giving moe
employment to foreign and less en-
ployment to American labor Tlere
were long lines of unemployed getting
| free food from bread wagons and soup
carts. President Wilson's eyplaa4,ion
of the depression was that it was
psychological" There were $780,
900 men out of employment.
1t is said that there are five mil
lion men out of employment now, but
the Republicans make no claim that
1t is a purely psychological" condi-
ton. We admit that the present con-
dition is due to a number of very de-
finite causes, Chiefly reaction from
war conditions, but accumulated by
the waste and extravaganza, the de-
fiation policy adopted by the Dem
ocratic federal reserve board, the
scrambling of the railroads by the
McAdoo management, and the pa
ternalictic policies pursued by the
Democrats during all their eight
years of rule. The trouble was aug
mented by theoretical wanderings
instead of the application of horse
sense.
The present condition is not
purely psychological" and neither
was the depression that followed the
adoption of free trade policy in
1913. There was very real
cause for the depression that afflicted
the country during the first two years
of the Wilson administration-and re-
lief came only when the war fur
nished this country with unpreced-
ented prices, with no competition from
abroad. The Democratic admins
tration was~not required to do any
thing to get the nation out of its diff
ficulty then.
There is also real cause for pres
ent conditions. but apparently nothing
but hard work. sound legislation. and
wise economy on the part Of the ad
and the people will re-
store the country to prosperity.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
RESULTS
DUBIOUS

According to present plans Ameri-
can supplies for Russia will go ia
Riga and there be turned over to SOW
let agencies for distribution to the
needy. No American relief workers
are expected to go beyond the Rus
sian frontier The very government
responsible for the plight of the Rus
SLAMS through its confiscatory policies,
is now to be given charge Of handling
relief supplies. 1t seems that the
prospects Of the starving Russians
for substantial aid are still very pre-
carious.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
TOURISTS
FRUGAL

The European tourist season is said
to be the poorest in years, due to the
"frugality" of Americans, who refuse
to pay exhorbitant prices. Expendi-
lures by tourists which amounted to
about $5O.000,00O per year in Great
Britain alone. before the war, are said
to amount to only $5.000.000 this
season. And it is not only in Europe
that the American tourist Is practice
ing frugality. The thousands Of tin
can" tourists who carry their sam
ping outfits on the running board are
a continuous protest against wartime
prices at hotels.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23

HOW=
GREAT CHINESE ENGINEER
tanned TURBULENT RIVER.
The H0ang Is the largest river
of northern China. The Nile
possibly excepted. 1t has been
more intimately connected with
the economies of the world than
any other river.
According TO the Sinking. the
books of history edited by Con-
fueius, d most destructive flood
followed the bursting Of the
river about 200 b. G. The work
of restoring the revetments and
adjusting the channels to the
volume OF the water made the
name of the engineer, Tu-yu, fa-
nous fer all time. His engineer
ing skill has not been surpassed
or even equaled by his success
sors, and his method of river
control may be needed by en-
gineers OF today.
1t Is practically the method
adopted by the engineers of the
Mississippi River commission
namely, the adjustment of the
velocity of the current to the
maximum load of silt which the
water carries. The hydraulic en-
gineer of today accompiishes
this by impounding the excess
vi water during Hood seasons
and releasing IL during seasons
of drought; Ta-yu accomplished
the same result by the construc-
ton of additional channels.
In the lower part of the plain
nine additional channels were
constructed. Any number or all
OF them could he thrown open
to u Hood any number OF them
might he closed as necessity de-
manded. Thereby u uniform
volume of water and a constant
velocity Of the current was In
sured.
II was task of 13 years.
Thrice, according to the Shu-
king. Ta-yr passed his own door
without even Staying to caress
his child. His efforts succeeded,
and the name of Ta-yu will new
err pass to the unknown. In
cidentally. his father before
him had been the engineer In
charge and for failure to con-
troll wild food had been per.
mitted to become his own ex-
ecutioner-Jacques w. Redway
In Geology.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
ECHO FROM
SPRUCE FORESTS

The United States Spruce Corpora.
ton has recently sold for 100000 a
high-class railroad built for emerg-
ency logging purposes during the
war at a cost of 81 100000. The loss
to the government is about 66 per
cent And the Spruce Division spent
SO much time building high class
road that it did not get work done
in time to haul any substantial
amount of spruce.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23

9 Every once in while there Is (
o a pretty girl who will admit 1t. (
. About the easiest thing to ne Z
Q elect in this world is a grave. 4
@ A boy prefers picnic to 4
. party. because there is more to {
9 eat 4
Many theories are right until
. 1t comes to putting them into 6
. practice. 9
y Open shop is worrying this g
9 country and open door worrying Z:
Q Japan. .
The trouble with that rainy g
@ day money is that 1t rains a week. g
@ A burglar is less dangerous =.
9 than pistol around the house. g
Q RussiO soldiers get six cents 9
Q a day, which "a cent too much. (:
@ Man wants but little here be- Z.
@ low. but who would ever guess It? Z.
q Busybodies and bees do a lot 9
. of singing. 9
@ . o o o q . o o o $500 o .
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23

That loyalty. burning bright snd
true to the last spark Of iife that IN.
railing welcome on which a man can
count more surely than On any humau
'ove--indeed. there 10 no secret b
mans love for a dog. however We may
wonder al the dogs love for the man
n. Utter In the Century Magazine
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23

Mother always cuts Peggy's hair
ana as she was about to clear the
clippings away the little girl stoppeo
Mother. you're not going to throw
my hair away, are your"
yes, my dear What's the GOOD a,
keeping itr' sou VI
why. can't you make II grow ~,
grandpa's Asa1s Hsb NJ n h.,. "a
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
A HORRIBLE
EXAMPLE

OF recent years there has spread
over the coutry a lot of wild ideas
and Utopian theories which are going
to play havoc unless checked. This is
largely due to the fact that In the
last twenty years more and more for
eigners have fiocked to our shores.
until now they are In a majority of
the population. In many of the large
Industrial sections. such as Pitts
burgh, one can walk around for hours
and hardly hear a word of English
spoken.
These foreigners, many of them,
brought to this country have ideas out
Of harmony with American modes of
largely imbued with the Quack theor-
les of Communism. Bolshevism and a
paternal government that Is to lead
its children along fower-bespangle
pathways, beside sweet ripping
waters, feed them bountifully, require
but little work of them and grant
their every wish. They got all these
fool notions into their ignorant heads
because of crack-brained agitators
who make soft living by stirring up
that kind of mush among those whose
intelligence is small enough to fall
for it.
Now the world is getting a great
lesson along these lines by the horri-
BILE example Russia has set. There
the paternal government idea was put
to test and the logical results are
now apparent to all. Most of the up
per classes and wealthy were put to
death and their possessions put late
the common treasury for the benefit
of ALL This was sufficient so that 1t
was not necessary to work for quite
a while. 80 nearly all factories closed
down, railroads were allowed to
crumble into wreck and ruin.
The government was to furnish ag-
ricultural implements, but with no
factories it could not, and so little
was planted. Religion and morals
were both junked; slothful living
brought on disease, and finally lack
of crops has brought starvation.
Look at the picture as it is today.
Never in history has the world wit
messed such horror. Millions of men,
women and children are desperately |
sweeping across eastern Europe,
driven on by the lash of starvation. |
Martial law has been declared at both |
Moscow and Petrograd as this army
of starving and famine stricken
wretches rush toward those cities, |
battling with sticks and stones and /
bare hands everything it meets. eat
ing every horse, COW or other animal |
and spreading plague and damnation
in Its wake.
That is the final result of Commu-
nism, of Bolshevism, of radical Soc
ialism, and of the idiotic ideas of a |
paternal government. Crush all such |
reptiles in this country before they |
grow any bigger.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23

The first successful posts> system
established In any Of the American
colonies was thnt Of william Penn.
who In 1883. appointed Henry wa'dy
:" Tekonay 10 keep a posf and sup
ply passengers with horses from phi.
ade'phia to Newcastle o. The Falls Of
he DeiawarAs
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
EAGLE NETTING DATES

Regular meetings Of Winnemucca
Asrie No. 4S7. Fraternal Order Of
eagles. are held on the fourth Mon
DAY evening Of each month In Win
neva hall Visiting Eagles are cor
daily invited to attend all sessions.
A. A. WENDELL, w. p.
c. B. SMITH. Secy Adv
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-08-23
PLEDGES WILL
BE FULFILLED

When the Republican party goes.
into the campaign Of 1922 it will chal-
lenge the Democrats to publish in
parallel columns the Republican
pledges and Republican accomplish
snsats.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-08
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS

but that is better than to have to
step down after a genuine failure
Men and women have the same an
cestors, the trifling father may have
sturdy sons and slackers in the
daughters. The great executive may
have sons who couldn't run a milk
route, and daughters qualified for his
successor.
Commence your new job with the
determination to sweep under the
mat as well as around the front door.
Let the yard of calico be thirty-six
inches; be honest also to your en-
We get out of our work exactly
what we put in 1t. Let your mind
be on the pleasant side and you will
succeed. Look about you and see
the people who have drifted from one
thing to another. Did their( work
ever appeal to them? If it had there
would be a place at the top for each
one. Easy roads to self-support
never yet made a shining success of
any girl or boy. Just work enough
to hold the job, the "eye servant"
sort never created master mechan-
ic, and I want the young people who
read these pages to learn to labor
for the ultimate good; to learn to
think along lines of helpfulness ana
real ability. Then with Carlyle we
found his work; let him ask no other
blessedness. He has work, life
purpose; he has found it and will
follow it," If you are simply filing
in, waiting for the great work, do
this temporary work with all thy
might, then when the great time
comes you will be trained for it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-08
Watching the Parade
RY HOLM PILGRIM

When I went out on the porch with tue
morning paper saw the flapper sitting uhI
der the shade of the neighbors vine:
didn't get real good look at her-lt lsl I
advisable to use binoculars on the younset.
ones of the gentler sex when the poss VI "a
this camp is anywhere near-but sne seen apI
q K. She was slender and active ana
alert liked to listen to tn etap-tap-top
of her little high heels on the porch floor
7 have q theory that as long as man can
eniov a non-musical sound like that there
is still hope. .
Then I looked again at the flapper.
And. by Hickory Moses, it was Grandma.
It lust shows how deadening and damnlns
and deIeterious can be the unalloyeu III
Thence of the home For twenty years
I'll swear it's twenty years-granuma mas
been the pack horse and wood-anu-Wa,teL
slave in the house next door. 1t was her
house mind you, and most OF the money
that went to keep it up was hef mQhey
But the young folks let her stay on s sneie
as a favor. I've heard grandma ASK Lor
little money. little of her own money.
"Gee. - that fat, white-eyed, yelloW-hVer
cd son of hers would say, that's LOT OF
money Mom!' ,,,,,
Anyhow. she went travelling. She went
away from here a little old woman IN oiacK
and resignation and she game back hap
per in q permanent wave ana gray SIN
stockings l had anyways thought OF her
as an old woman. For twenty years I've
thought of her that way. Now I've got her
figured as mighty pretty woman VINO is
Just a little past middle-age and who might
marry again If she felt like it.
She says the trouble was that she had
stayed at home too much. She says one
loses his perspective when one keeps the eye
tended on the ping silk cover Of the parlor
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-08
UNPOPULAR SKUNK
REALLY VALUABLE

The skunk probably suffers more ig-
nominy than any other of the fur-bear-
ing animals. More jokes are sprung
about the skunk than about any other
animal. Yet the skunk is no joke;
his tactics may cause merriment, but
his pelt is a very serious object in
deed.
If the skunk were worthless, he
would be Stunned and insulted at ev-
cry step; but now he is in the center
of attention.; trappers 500 him de-
Voutly and burn incense at his altar.
The skunk is today hero, because
he represents real cash to the thou
sands who trap him from coast to
coast and from gulf to border. Man
has learned to swallow his pride, bend
his knee to the lowly skunk, study
his habits, how to trap him, how to
make his pelt worth most money.
The best part of it is that the
skunk is not hard to trap. is not
clever with his wits. and often ap-
proaches tameness. In thickly set
tied districts, he often dens under
Otherwise his dens are in the hillside
slopes and occasionally in wood
chuck hole. His food is birds, in
sects, eggs, grubs, and poultry. Trap
ping season begins November / and
lasts until about March IS. Skunk
commence TO SneQ Lnelr IuF dpou'
the middle of March; don't trap them
after this date.
If you can find a skunk den, set
your trap at the entrance without
bait; set it just inside the entrance
and make the jaws lengthwise of the
hole so that the animals will step be-
tween the jaws and not over them.
Get a reliable smoker and you can
smoke several out of the den at one
time and easily club, shoot or trap
them.
If you can find a we'll defined skunk
trail leading away from the den, set
several traps in the trail and bait
them. Other good places to make
sets are in holes in sandy ground,
under trees or stumps, with two
spreading roots, in natural or arti-
fetal enclosures. The right traps to
use for skunk are Nos. ! and 1 IL.
Food bats are good, and there are
several scents and mixtures the trap
per can make himself which will
prove effective. A reliable, concen-
trated manufactured skunk bait,
which is powerful, easy to carry and
use, will help to increase your catch
greatly. There are several such re-
liable bats on the market.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-08
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND THE MODERN HOUSEW
RAISING OF FALL PIGS
PAYS PROFIT TO FARMER

they have been living solely on their
dams milk, for which no perfect
substitute has been found. After
about three weeks the young pigs
begin to develop an appetite for
the sow's milk, and they should be
given some additional food. The
pigs will eat from the sow's trough.
but it is better that a pen or creep"
be arranged adjoining that of the
sow, allowing the pigs to have ac-
shelled corn alone is fed for a cou-
pie of weeks and afterwards shorts
or wheat middlings.
Excellent feeds for pigs of this
age are dairy by-products, such as
skim milk or bUtternfilk. These,
together with mill feeds, as mid
dlings, shorts, and even cheap
grade of flour, or with ground oats
from which the hulls have been re-
moved, give excellent satisfaction.
Pigs should be castrated while
they are young, preferably when six
to eight weeks old, and before wean-
ing. Detailed information on this
subject is given in Farmers Bull
letin $50, which may be had on APP
plication to the division of publ
cations, department of agriculture.
Breeders differ widely as to the
age for weaving. The majority wean
at from 6 to 10 weeks, and some
allow the pigs to run with the SOW
up to twelve weeks. If skim milk
is not obtainable it is best to let
them nurse up. to 10 weeks. The
weaving should be brought about
directly by taking the pigs away
from the SOW. "7Tapering off" is
not a good practice.
Feed for Newly Weaned Pigs
Skim milk and corn or skim milk
and shorts, fed in the proportion
of to 1, make an excellent ration
for weanlings. If skim milk is not
available a mixture of five parts
corn meal, four parts middlings, and
one part tankage, fed as thin slQp
is very good.
Good succulent pasture is always
beneficial to pigs when weather per-
mits. Rye is much used for fall
hog pasture in the north, rye and
crimson clover farther south, while
COW peas and soy beans are used
in the southern states. Soon after
weaving it is best to separate those
animals which are to be kept for
breeding purposes from the fattening
stock, as the development for best
results with each class requires a
different management.