The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-10-01

Following is the musical pro-
gram for the school musicale and
festival to be held in Challis,
Tuesday eve, Oct. 8, at z o. clock
p. m.
Columbia, Gem Of The Ocean,
..-......-....-....-.By Choir
Instrumental: Secret Love-. fGayotte,
...-..--....By Prof. Bomar and wife
Song by Prof. John L. Stephens
Merry Swiss Home". .Duet.)
By Mrs. o. E. Penwell and Mrs. L. II. Johnston
Recitation THE oysterman" Holmes.)
....-...-....By Miss Nellie PenwelL. ...........
Instrumental "I Kissed You In Dream
..(Fantasia) by Prof, Bomar and wife,.
Song and Chorus Echo Dell-
BY Mrs. r. Morrison and Mrs. E. @. Dodge.
Instrumental :...........By Mrs. c. M Colvin
Song lone Starry Hours"
..........-.--....ByR r. ". Hull
Instrumental :.........By Miss Mamie RowIes
Song .. America" a."...................By Choir
Instrumental Home Sweet Home" with
variations 80. (Sousal
............By Prof Bomar and wife.
E. G. Headrick came out from
Custer last Saturday to do the
painting and decorating on Mrs.
TennelIs new lodging house,
which consists of IA rooms.
Winters, Parsons & Boomers
State wagon road outfit passed
through Challis Friday, en- route
for Salmon. They had been up
at the mouth of Yankee Fork
doing some needed work on the
road.
Custer county will probably
take care of her own murderers
hereafter. She reminds us of
the old lady who sent her kids
to school for the sole purpose of
getting the holy terrors out of
her sight; and when they rails ed
hell at school she placed all the
blame on the school teacher
HALEY Nea0s-M Miner.
If Sheriff Fenton is represent
ed as the teacher, of course the
teacher is to blame; he had no
government and allowed the
children to raise hell, and cons
quently his school broke up and
his scholars departed. Such a
teacher is not qualified to teach
any school.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll in a
recent speech at Elmwood, ILL.,,
paid the following tribute to our
public schools 1--WE spend
more money for schools per head
than any nation in the world.
And the common school is the
breath of life. Great Britain
spends S1.30 per head on the
common schools; France spends
80 cents; Austria, 80 cents; Ger
many, so cents; Italy, 25 cents,
and the United States over 50. so.
l tell you the school house is the
fortress of liberty. Every school
house is an arsenal, filed with
weapons and ammunition to de-
stroy the monsters of ignorance
and fear. AS l have said ten
thousand times, the school house
is my cathedral. The teacher is
my preacher. Eighty-seven per
cent. of all the people of the
United States, over 10 years of
age, can read and write. There
is no parallel for that in the his
tory of the wide world. Over
AZ, 900, 900 of educated citizens,
to whom are opened all the treas
ures OF literature. Forty two
millions of people, able to read
and write l say, there is no
parallel for this. The nations of
antiquity were as ignorant as
dirt when compared with this
great republic of ours. We ought
to be proud of it. We ought to
build more schools, and build
them better. Our teachers ought
to be paid more, and everything
ought to be taught in the public
schools that is worth knowing.
81 believe that the children of
the republic, no matter whether
their fathers are rich or poor,
ought to be allowed to drink at
She fountain of education, and it
does not cost more to teach
everything in the free schools
than it does to teach reading and
writing and ciphering.
"Have we kept up in other
ways ? The postoffice tells a
wonderful story. In Switzer-
land, going through the post
Office in each year, are letters,
ETC., in the proportion of 73 to
each inhabitant. In England
the number is 60; in Germany,
SO; in France, 80; in Austria. "a;
in Italy, 16, and in the United
States, our own home. 110. Think
of it. In Italy only 25 cents per
head for the support of the pub