The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-04-02

Children" said the minister
to the Sabbath School class,
you ought to avoid even the
appearance of evil. Do you,
yourself, think the girls who
dance are right p They must
be-" said golden-haired Bessie
Brown; II know the girls who
don't dance are almost always
left"
A bill to levy tax upon bach
elors has Teen introduced in the
Illinois legislature. 1t declares
to be bachelors ''all male per-
sons of the age of 80 years and
over. being of sound mind and
limb, who are single and never
have been married" Every
bachelor residing in this state
for period of six months or
over is to pay an annual tax of
$25. The proceeds of the tax
are to be devoted to the erection
and maintenance of an "old
MAIDS nome.
A. NJ. Colwell, whom every
body knows in Challis, is becom-
.ng quite a noted and daring
officials of the law. 1t appears
he has faced the dangerous
loaded six shooter, and with the
courage that would do credit to
Gen. Custer in his bold feats, ar
rested his prisoner. Read what
the Salmon City Recorder
says:
"On Sunday morning Deputy
Sheriff Colwell, of Yellow jack
ct, arrived with George Ryan.
who was brought in on a charge
of resisting the officers. They
tried to arrest him on some com
plant, we did not learn what,
when he pulled a revolver and
shot at them. Mr.. Colwell was
a better marksman and rendered
Ryan's gun useless by hitting
the cylinder. A piece of the
bullet grazed Ryan's wrist but
he was not hurt much. He is
now in jail"
The Interior, the organ of the
Presbyterian church of the west,
published in Chicago, appeared
last week with the partially nude
picture of a prominent burles-
que actress covering almost the
entire first page. The clergy
and their elders rose up in their
wrath, and the editor. Rev. DR..
Gray, has been compelled to take
to the woods. He explained that
a man came along and told him
! the figure was a classic and rep
resented the biblical personifica-
ton of Hope" He thought
Hope" was very beautiful and
chaste in her nudity, but did not
know she was going to play th5
next week at one of the Chicago
theatres. The editor liked the
picture so well that that he gave
his readers the benefit of her un
draped beauties. That was al
unfair way of getting advertised
but it proved what poet o.
somebody else long ago said
That when the devil wanted t.
catch a preacher he always bait
ed his hook with a woman
Boise Democrat.
We are in receipt of the plat
form of the American Bimetallit
Party. and also petition asking
US to circulate it in order to ge
signatures for this new party
The platform and principles o
this party meets our ideas. bu
we can see no use of forming ;
new party on this issue, wheI
we already have a silver party
that cast over 1900. .O00votes las
) fall. To keep forming new par
! ties only retards progress. TIL,
Populist party with a few wil'
plauks erased from its Nationa
platform, is good enough for us
: Following is the platform ant
D petition of the new party sent Il
us. 1t only has one issue:
The money question is now in
disputably the dominant Issue il
? the United States, and viii re
/ main so until settled and settleC
: rightly. Other questions. how
: ever important, must wait TO
this, which, to a greater or les
exten, involves all others.
The issue is between the gol,
standard, gold bonds and banl
|, currency, on the one side, an,
the bimetallic standard, no bond
and government currency, ol
5 the other.
/ First.-On this issue we de
5 clare ourselves to be unalterabl,
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