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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
ATTRACTED BY STRONG LIGHT
myriads of Fish Helpless When Div
ing Bell Descended Into the
Depths of the Sea.

At Dover, England, there has been
constructed series of immense
breakNaters IN order to increase the
size of the harbor In the work big
diving bell WIS employed. When this
machine was descending on one oc-
casiOn the men seated around its
sides saw In the glare OF the electric
light a strange sight.
The water beneath them suddenly
became alive with thousands of sill
very fish, which darted hither and
thither in their efforts to escape the
unexpected captivity. Some succeeded
In diving under the edges of the bell
but ms 1t descended nearer and nearer
the bottom. the few inches Of water
remaining became thick with the fish.
When the bell rested on the bed Of
the sea the men captured nearly q
thousana Of the sprats. The FISH were
probably attracted by the electric
light that Is used in such bell.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
ckLL0W YOUTH IN DISCARD
Statement Made That he Has Little
Real Chance When Middle Age
Goes A-sYooing.

Miss Marceline Stokes is a social
worker of Chicago. Ne regret that
Miss Stokes does not give her own age
along with an academic discussion of
aifinities. observes the New York Tele-
graph. However. her views are inter-
esting. She informs US that this is
an epoch of the middle-aged beau
that young girls prefer as husbands
ihard-boiled old men TO half-baked
youths" The fiapper's heart beats
responsive to the male person OF forty
FIVE. 1T startles me- she exelaims.
and we are not surprised. \ great
many things startle the lady or the
gentleman who eontemplates mari-
mony merely as an Interesting study
We are faln to believe she is more
than half right. at that, and there are
reasons Young women Of a generation
or 60 agf'did NOT come in contact. with
the matnred unincumbered man of
forty-five. The girls were at home
doing homework. Now they go
abroad. they encounter the veterans in
business and elsewhere and naturally
they make comparisons. And when
comparisons are made the eallow
youth gets the worst of the analysis.
That is all there is to 1t.
The girls are wiser and more selec-
tive than their mothers or their grand
mothers were.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
MINCE PIE

A humorous weekly ENORMOUSLY inquiries
who started the superstition that hot
mince pie may be eaten rapidly at the end
of a heavy meal by middle-aged dyspep-
tic without harm, providing it was baked
by his mother.
This item in the American credo was
written with the building of the first mince
pie because the heart has always been
more or less concerned with the business of
proper digestion. That is, a man who feels
an attachment for food is apt to encounter
a reciprocal affection in his meals
To the ordinary standard commercial
mince pie no one writes sentimental verse
and for it no one is willing to go to war.
The pie must be built in the beginning by
one who feels an attachment for her task.
Like the garden truck of the Coast
Chinese who raises his plants with love
while those about him fail, the mince pie
aourishes only when the heart of the
maker is in the making. 1t must not be an
orphan makeshift of cracker crumbs green
tomatoes and kindred new-day filters. 1t
should be conceived, preferably, in the
fall, in rural regions at hog-killing time
1t must be rich in lean meat and white
suet and moistened with cider The cooked
mess should he stored in back she'd for
a time until its various juices have mingled
freely with ore another Finally is must
be sculpted into a pie by sympathetic
hands.
1t must be eaten on frosty morning.
But in no case must it be approached I'M
less the eaters heart is in the project
Preferably it should be consumed after a
series of hard chorse out Of doors, and it
should never be met by any but razor
edged appetite. If these directions are
followed mince pies will lie easily in the
old frame.
However, the inquirer is correct in ques-
tioning the qualifications of middle-aged
man already full of food Of poor digestion
Under no circumstances should he tangle
with a robust old-fashioned hot mince
pie, save after an acknowledgment that
he does so at his own risk
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
SEEK VALUABLE ART WORKS
Collectors Have Reason for Making
Systematic Search of Cottages in
North Of France

Ancient villages of Normandy and
Brittany are being visited by art scouts
In the hope OF discovering the hiding
place of hundreds Of paintings known
to have been turned out by such mas
tiers as Mlllet and Poussln during their
summer vacations on the northern
coast The renewed interest In the
subject Is due to the finding OF TWEEN
ty Millet canyases In an attic In Rich
bourg. not far from the birthplace OF
the artist. All the paintings represent
members OF the Mlllet family, but are
especially valuable, as they give new
details as to the colors OF Breton and
Norman costumes and headgear, which
have been eagerly sought by the new
school of realists. The first estimate
as TO the value OF the paintings was
obtained by the city of Cherbourg.
which intends 10 provide special
room In the municipal museum as soon
as the pictures have been reyarnlshed
and cleaned. This estimate places the
value al more than 10000 francs One
noted French art expert says that the
matched ewes of ramshackIe cottages
of the north coast shelter today mil
lions of francs worth of paintings by
men whose names are famous the
world over.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

If the Democrats in the senate balk the
ship aid bill it will mean that the S3,00O,-
100000 which that party saddled onto the
people of this country to pay for mer-
chant marine finished too late to function
in war, and which is now costing S50,000,-
900 annually to function will have been
practically thrown away. If Great Britain,
Japan, and other maritime nations again
get control of our freight transportation
say so per cent of it-they will be carry
ing close to six billion dollars worth of
our goods, coming and going, and since
the average cost of transportation is reck-
|oned at per cent of the value of the
goods, on the average, that would mean
an annual cost to us of S4S0,000,00 This
does not take into consideration the OBJ
stacles which foreign trade competitors
who also carry our goods will interpose
to handicap our export expansion. Ship
aid is as necessary as tariff protection.
Without both we would have a one-legged
nation in the foreign trade. England has
known this for 800 years. 1t ought not to
take that long for us to learn it with
England's example before us.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Babylonian Civilization.

Ruins of a Babylonian city dating
back 1000 years before the Christian
era have been discovered at kolsa
Nyek, Asia Minor. The city was
named Burus; 1t seems to have been
one of the earliest homes of feminism,
II not, indeed, of woman's emaneipa-
ten. The ruins prove that the com
munity which lived there was partly
military and partly commercial. Cunei-
form Inscriptions give many odd de-
tails of the organization Of the city,
which was governed by a prince and
a project. assisted by princess and
a woman project. whose powers are
Sold to have been precisely equal TO
those OF their male colleagues Records
of a regular postal delivery service
have been found. the letters being
written on baked tiles of a circular
shape. References to an early form
Of the bank check system have been
discovered. bearer check being found
which contains instructions to the adj
dressee to pay to the person named in
1t stated sum.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
EGYPT UngEa BRITISH RULE
Population Of Nearly Thirteen Milton
Is DeeidseIy Cosmopolitan n
IL Character.

Egxpt is a country excee=liHg In
actual extern France and Germany.
It's AREA is some 424000 square miles.
but of this total more than = per
cent IS desert land supporting enly a
very scanty nomad population. The
important part Of the country, con
sisting Of the valley and delta Il the
Nile together with the western eases.
covers an area Of I2225 square miles
or a territory only q little larger than
Belgium. In addition. some ESQ
square miles comprise the surface Of
the Nile. marshes and lakes. while
canals, roads ard date pl: ntations
cover another 1900 square miles,
Egypt. therefore. i small country
with well-dedued natural boundaries
on three sides. namely. the Mediter
nnean on the north. the Arabian
desert ard the Red sea on the east,
and the Liiyan desert on the west.
To the south Egypt extends up 10
point % miles north OF Wadi halfa,
on the second cataract of tie Nile.
The present population Of Egypt IS
12.746, 765. as compared with 11.2>T-
$50 in 1907. with 9.T344o5 In 1897
and with 6,S31i31 In 1882. OF the
total population 10.366.ef6 are Egyp-
fans, 635.012 Bedouins. 61.l02 Nu-
hans. and 221.f30 foreigners made up
as follows: Turks. 81 20: Greeks.
81 .a73: Italians. 1896: British, 20
653: French and TuniSians. 14.5.1 ;
Austro-Hungarians. 7,To4; Russians,
2.410; Germans. 1.s47; ,other Euro
peans, 2,116; and Persians, 1.3s5.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

Civilization never rests. Soon or late
every individual under the sun has got to
know about it. Consider the Chinese,
many of whom are quite content with their
own civilization, much older than ours,
and great masses of whom have managed
to keep it inviolate due simply to the fact
that they live in inaccessible places.
Enter the airplane and the radio. Civil
lization laughs at the Chinese hermits and
says: Listen to mew And the mission
aries drop in by airplane and establish a
mission. The radio voice leaps mountains
and rumbleS around in places no stranger
has been hardy enough to penetrate. The
missionaries are invariably the pioneers
1t is tough on the Chinese, but modern
invention bends its chief efforts to ami
hilating space and creating communica-
ton. In the quest for world neighborli-
ness there soon won't be any frontiers of
civilization.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
GOOD IDEA FoR A.IY TOWN
Example Set b. sessrk Public
Library tight vel ta Copied by
otner Ce.nm1niaes-

Were you ever on the top Of ffkes
peak? Il is about 1880 feet up IN iiSa
air. and some people, in spite Of mo-
tors and cog railways, find the ascent
difficult. Tie piHteau on which the
Tibetans llve-it Is ten times as Dls
as In.Iand-is al of i as high or
higher tim Tikes peas. ard the noun
tains around Slope ~ 10 nearly
5000 feet. Kialing. in shila.. spoAe
Of il Us 7seing iihe swallows nest
Under the caves OF the roof Of the
world-"Kim threw his soul after his
eyes acres the deep blue gnIfs.s
II is still a mysterious land and
until a few years ago almost n IN
known enc. Tie Newark On. j. pub
lie library has just held an exhibit OF
all sort Of things Tibetan-things
brought together throegs the happy
conjunction OF a miss snlrg of un-
usual experiences and the museum
staff-and this exhibit Is supplement-
ed with pamphlets and pictures tend
ing 10 make Il more understandable
and interesting. This is a typical ex-
ample of the work of the Newark
library under It's unusual chief. John
Cotton Dana. says Leslie's. A few
years ago there was similar exhibit
of Colombian things-colombia being
another interesting and inaccessible
land.
Director Dana believes that a IL
brary should sell itself to business
men and not restrict IT. activities to
young lady readers Of fiction. chill
dren aud unoeeapied old gentlemen.
1t should be a real constructive force
in the everyday life of the eommu.
nifty, and not mere collection Of
books and a Longing place The New
ark library is pretty well known
among librarians about the country.
but the sort of work 1t does Is not
initiated as generally as 1t might
well be.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
UPHOLD ENFORCEMENT OF LAW

Announcement from the White House
that the President IS determined that the
prohibition laws shall be effectively en-
forced will be greeted with hearty APP
proval throughout the nation. The ma
tional prohibition amendment was adopted
after large proportion of the states had
individually gone dry" The question
had been debated for years, and if ever a
nation acted with deliberation this nation
so acted when it decided that it wanted
the liquor traffic destroyed. In declaring
that the law must be enforced, the presi-
dent is merely insisting that the will of the
people must be obeyed, the supremacy of
law upheld, and the dignity and sovereig-
MY of government maintained.
According to press dispatches, it was
asserted at the Department of Justice that
there has been corruption of law enforce
ment officials. Of this there can be little
doubt. The bootleggers are making mil
lions in profits, and any man who knows
human nature knows that here and there
dishonest officer will insist upon sharing
the unlawful gains. When offenders es-
cape by FORGETTING bail that is only a small
fraction of the profits they are known to
be making, and when fines are so small
that the criminal can readily pay with a
small percentage of his earnings and go
on with his illicit traffic, it needs no con-
elusive proof to convince the man of aver
age intelligence that there is collision be-
tween the crook and the officers sworn
to uphold and enforce the law
In his determination to enforce the pro-
hibition law, President Harding is acting
not only in accordance with his duty as
Chief Executive but in accordance with
his personal judgment As a member of
the senate, he voted to submit the prohibit
ton amendment and later voted for the
passage of the enforcement law, and for
its passage over the veto of President Will
son.
There are many who doubt the wisdom
of prohibition law as stringent as that
now on the statute books but there can be
no law-abiding citizen who opposes the en-
forcement of the law as it is written. Presi-
dent Harding should and will have the 10y
al support of all good citizens in his eff
fort to have the law obeyed or bring to
justice those who are making fortunes by
violations themselves or through collision
with those engaged in an outlawed traffic
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
ashoes At a Wedsinn.n

The custom Of throwing one or more
old shoes after the bride or groom
either when they go to church TO be
married or Wien they start on their
wedding journey Is SO old the memory
OF man stretches not back to its be
ginning. Some think 1t represents an
assault and is a lingering trace OF
the custom among savage nations Of
carrying away the bride. by violence /:
others think that II is a relic Of the
ancient law Of exchange or purchase,
and that 1t formerly implied the sur
render by tie parents Of all dominion
or authority over their daughter. II
has reference TO a Jewish custom
mentioned In the Bible Thus In Deu-
teroEomy we read that when the broth.
er OF dead man refused to marry his
widow she asserted her independence
If him by 'loos.ng his shoe" II was
also the custom Of the middle ages
to place the husbands shoe on the
head Of the nuptlal couch In token Of
his domination.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Poultry Ha,ehed by Thousands.

The largest duck farm and the lar
gest Incubator In the world are claimed
TO be In Australia. The incubator has
capacity of IL. 40 ducks eggs or IA
ESQ hens eggs. The machine Is. In
fact, dollhouse. IL stands In open
ground and is constructed OF ordinary
pine boards. with corrugated Iron roof.
The egg trays each hold 100 ducks or
i6O hens eggs. and there are four OF
these trays, end TO end In IL tiers, one
above the other. on each side OF the
room, making a total Of IS. Moisture
Is supplied In pans beneath the bottom
tier OF trays. The heat Is supplied By
means Of steam pipes from a large
boiler. The Incubator Is said TO be
working well, and bringing out big
percentage OF birds.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

The most peaceful place on earth
at present is said to be the township
of Le-Tartre- Guadran In the Depart
ment seine-et-0ise. NOT far from Paris.
Never large. the war has reduced its
population 10 an even ten souls. only
four of whom are eligible 10 Office.
But each French commune under 800
inhabitants must have ten aldermen.
lie Tartre-Gaudran elects her first four
without dissenting vote and then in
yites six outsiders to help steer her
canoe of state. The annual budget is
1900 francs. The present clerk says.
I'll ny rlen faire." His predecessor
claims that in one decade he recorded
three births and two deaths. but no
marriages. Yet to have this commune
dissolved or annexed would cost I'M
mense sums and make ten persons I'M
happy for ever after
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
SAYING 1T IN SLANG

Another college professor has just taken
a wicked crack at slang. Dr. William
Allan Nelson, president of Smith College,
tells the world that the use of the unau-
thorized word and phrase, of which Ameri-
cans are so found, is the bunk
But there are those who think that
slang is the insects eyebrows. 1t is as
silly, they. hold, to confine our speech
within the limits of Johnsonian English as
it would be to insist that Modern dances
conform to the rules of the Spanish fan
dango.
Yet the fandango and the English Ian
guage were imported here at approx
mately the same time. Usage is stronger
than dictionaries and purists All the
world now goes to the movies" There
was word that fit. 1t was adopted.
That's all there is to it.
Language would die without growth.
And new words almost always are classed
as slang, unless they are combinations of
Greek syllables such as the chemists coin.
Most of our slang isn't new It's the new
slang that gives word an additional
shade of meaning. There is a difference
between slang and poor English We
should not fall into the mistakes of the use
of words. But slang-why prof, slang is
to the village sheik what powder puff is
to the fapper
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Reasonable statsment.

The creator of strange new beauty
has a right 10 demand so much tat
tentlon) from anybody who under
takes TO pronounce Judgment. Is IL
too much to aski don't imagine. for
example, that my own fair for strange
new beauty is special aud exiraordl.
nary. thing that could not be cult
yated by any lover of old familiar
beauty who honestly desires 10 Guilt
vate 1t. For beauty is ageless. eternal
and one, recognizable under all DIFF
ferences Of form.-Baltimor Amer.
can.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
improvement on Banjo.

A new banjo is specially designed
to meet the requirement of dance or
chestras. stage performances ana play
Ing in large halls. The banjo, de-
scribed in Popular Mechanics Maya
zine, has a wooden sounding board
set Just back of the head. A horn.
opening from the space between the
head and sounding board, passes
through the frame Of the instrument
and throws the entire volume of sound
forward into the hall. A second board
covers the back of the instrument.
This not only Increases the volume of
sound but. by variations in construc-
tion. the quality of tone can be con-
trolled to suit special purposes.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Best Radiator Paint.

Large radiators irr- rooms of the
home do not present a very attractive
appearance unless they are properly
decorated. For this purpose paint
should be used which will harnonize
with the wall colorings. and one of
the best paints obtainable for this pur-
pose is the ordinary sanitary, fiat wall
paint that is used upon walls. II has
been found that these paints dry with
IA fat surface having high heat trans
mission factor. For heating efficiency
as well as for decoration. these paints
are therefore to be recommended.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

Some opponents of the ship. subsidy idea
have said it is unfair because it taxes the
many for the few That is not true when
we look at it carefully for we must remem-
Der thhat it taxes all of us so that every
boy may benefit through the extension of
our foreign trade and providing ships to
help our navy in case of war. Representa-
tive James w. Hustled of New York has
said this very thing and added that it is
one of the fundamental principles which
have brought about the present greatness
of the United States.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

Frank 5. Stone of Westboro, Mass.
says the Boston Globe. has worn the
same oyercoat for 50 winters, and he
says ii is good for ten more. For BIT
ter cold he has heavier coat which
has been in sen2ice for only 20 years
stone says styles travel in circle
returning on the average every fiye
years. his 35-year-old coat having been
IN the height OF fashion seven times.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

thumb. Al the other end II is fiat
tened and bent into a hook shape to
receive the tack. The tack. held by
the hook in the desired position for
driving. receives bang or two with
the hammer; then the hook Is de-
tached, and one or two additional
whacks complete the operation.
II is. of course. the starting OF the
tack that imperils the fingers. The
hook holds the tack closely and firmly
for driving, but has sufficient resil-
fence to enable 1t to be readily disen-
gaged.-aIilwaukee Sentinel.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Cows Get New Lease Of liz.

Aged cows frisk like young helfers
fter dose of serum extracted from
Inc glands Of sows. according to u
report issued by the Pennsylvania
state bureau Of animal Industry. All
The animals were grandmothers. bat
after treatment, II is stated. they re-
gained their powers OF giving milk
and oil the attributes of youth. Eleven
COWS were treated In all with equally
satisfactory results
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Made Audlence [ annh

Dir. Massey, the premier OF New
Zealand, made speech few weeks
ago In London, In which he unwilling
~ set his audience in roar Of laugh.
ter. though some Englshmen couldn't
see the Joke. Mr.. Massey began: New
Zealand is going to become the dairy
farm OF the empire. She has tremep.
dOus water power"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
HOLDS THE TACK IN PLACE
Simple, Cheap Device VIII Gave
Fingers and Possibly Cause
Diminutlon Of Profanity.

A boon to householders, and espe-
eially TO women, is a tack-hoider
evolved by the genius of Albert j.
uauswama of Butte. Mont. 1t saves
fingers. The device Is So simple and
cheap, being made from single blank
NJ steel wire, and 1t may be packed
with every box of tacks sold for do
nestle use.
The piece OF wire Is formed at one
end into a loop. which serves as
handle. to he held between finger and
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

A heart balm seeker in Massachusetts
was awarded a. dollar after pulling a
repertoire of breakdowns in court. 1t is
becoming advisable lately to save one
good faint for the verdict.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

There are 95 million acres OF
land that can be reclaimed. Thew
are swamp, periodically swamp or
oVer-howed lands and tidal marsh.
rapid strides are being made in re-
claiming, and, according to the
United States Road Bureau. more
than 81 million acres were re-
claimed up to 1920.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12

1t may be merely coincidence, but as
soon as the girls fell into the habit of
shooting perfect lovers the movies turned
to medieval drama in which the hero
wears a cast iron undershirt.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
Uneasy Conscience

How much did you make during the
war;"
Ten dollars day."
sDId you earn itY
Boss. III be frank with you. Some.
times my conscience hurt me SO the
only way could get any relief was
70 stand In the street and cheer the
ntg until | was hoarse. "-BIrmingl,am
Age Herald.