The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

A comparatively new citizen in
this section of the moral vineyard,
apparently, says that he noted, in
the course of The Silver States
narration of the Stanley murder
trial, that reference was made to
one or two of the parties involved
in the court proceedings in which
they were termed dry farmers"
and he has an urge to know just
what type of person it takes to en-
ter into industrial activity as
"dry farmer" assuming that, since
the adoption of the eighteenth
amendment, all farmers are not
"dry farmers"
For the edification of all of its
readers, and for the particular en-
lightenment of the inquirer for
Truth unafraid, who is possibly a
late arrival from the effete, cul-
tured and aesthetic east, The Silver
State considers it special privilege
of which it gleefully avails it.
self, to enter into an as lucid, COM
prehensive and Illuminating descrip-
ton of a "dry farmer" as it is
qualified to portray in a black and
white sketch.
The "dry farmer" Percival, is
a biped, long on hair and legs and
yet, paradoxical though it may
sound, so OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES if
you should step on his foot you
would make his head ache. He is
built along the same peculiarly
Gothic architectural lines that you
may have noted as an outstanding
characteristic of the Arkansas razor
back, and while it is not always
necessary for him to make two
separate and distinct stands to
create shadow, he is, quite fire.
quently, so thin that he has ex-
IRENE difficulty at times in differen-
tiating relative to pains that in
flict him and often takes a dose of
patent nostrum guaranteed to cure
the backache, to learn, to his
chagrin that he was really troubled
with the bellyache.
This, in a large degree, explains
why the average "dry farmer" does
not give a tinker's dam how he
looks and much less does he care
whether his tout ensemble (said to
be French for duds and what's in
'em) is pleasing to your eyes or
not.
Intellectually, the "dry farmer"
stands at the headsof a class pecu-
liar unto himself. Occasionally,
you will run into one of them that
knows his a, b, abs, wherever and
whenever he meets up with them
and, with a piece of charcoal, can
go out and cover the sunny side of
the sheep camp with enough Gig
gers" to fill the inside to Ger flow
ing. Also, the average "dry farm
er" has a noddle filled to the apex
with a mass of transformation
covering all phases of the "nishytif,"
the "reffyrendhim," and the "RE-
call" ad yet he really knows more
about those strange creatures than
the average bootlegger does about
the ancestry of animals that he
purveys to credulous suckers who
delude themselves with the idea
that they are going to assuage a
dusty thirst by irrigating their in
terror with animal life in a liqui-
fed form.
A good many people live in fear
and trembling, fair part of their
lives, apprehensive that some in
discretion of earlier life will be-
come known, to their great shame
but the "dry farmer" gives no con-
Germ to thoughts of that nature,
as it is immaterial to him whether
the neighbors see the skeleton in his
family closet or not. The "dry
farmer" seldom has anything about
his person or premises to be
ashamed of and if he has he isn't
and any poor boob who tries to
rattle the "dry farmers" family |
skeleton and scare him into hyster-
cs, has entered into piece of work
from which there is not the most
remote possibility of him ever de-
irving any pay or comfort.
All in all, by and large, Percy,
he "dry farmer" is fast coming to
De recognized as the future back
bone of this particular section of |
Gods sagebrush footstool. That
part of the balance of US not en-
gagged in the lucrative and cher
shed art of commercially marketing
! decoction of I've, prussic acid and
,obacco juice to those who are not
content unless they are flirting
With the undertaken, may be termed
he spareribs-mere appendages, in
! minor way, but, after all, alb
olute dependents of the "dry farm
r."
Another thing, Percy, that com
nends the "dry farmer" to red
flooded men is his supreme loyalty
o his friends. In his lexicon there
S no such word as "double-cross."
lis ultra sense of loyalty to his
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