The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-29
Happy New Year !

Wise Osborne departed for
Boise one day last week.
Miss Winnie Burton and Miss
Annie Malm, of Custer, are
spending the Holidays in Challis.
Mrs. Walter Baxter departed
last week for Baltimore, Md, for
surgical treatment. Mr.. Baxter
accompanied her as far as Poca-
tello.
George MCGOWAN is being rec
commended as County Commits
sioner from this district, to fill
the place that Chris. Morler was
to have filed had he remained
with US. We know of no better
man for this responsible position
than Mr.. MCGOWAN.
| Mr. MCGOWAN S new rock meat
market is completed, and is an
ornament to our town. The large
glass and ornamental front
makes the building have a neat
appearance. Messrs. Lane &
Buster have already opened a
first-class shop in the building,
and we bespeak for the boys a
liberal patronage.
The maddest editor in the
State, says an exchange, resides
in a neighboring city. One eve
ming last week he attended a
social given at a private resi-
dence, and during the evening
the ladies inaugurated a hug
ging bee, the proceeds to go to
the church. Prices were graded
according to the person to be
hugged. For instance, for hug
ging a young inexperienced girl
you had to give up 10 cents;
married women brought Is cents
and widows a quarter. Old maids
came in a bunch for 3 cents.
Well our friend was blindfolded,
and giving up Is cents said he
would take a married woman.
After he had hugged Is cents
worth the bandage wfs removed
from his eyes, and 10 and be-
hold, he had been hugging his
own wife Then he wanted his
15 cents back.
At a recent meeting of the
Baltimore Women's College the
question as to the best way to
put a check on bachelorhood was
very freely discussed by the
maidens of mature age, and,
. finally, it was decided that to
discourage single blessedness
and encourage matrimony, tax
should be imposed on bachelors,
whereupon the following resolu-
: ton was adopted
THAT all bachelors 80 years
of age shall be subject to a tax
: that such tax shall be 3 per cent
of the annual income of every
bachelor from 80 to 35 years old
10 per cent. of the income Of
every bachelor from 35 to 4(
: years old, and Is per cent. of the
| income of every bachelor from
40 to 45 years old, and so on in
an increasing ratio.
: The members of the Baltimore
Women's College are apparently
l unmindful of the fact that there
5 are hundreds of thousands o.
2 men in this country who do mo-
l enter the married state because
: they are not able to support {
family, consequently, they are
4 bachelors from necessity, anC
!, have no income to be taxed
d Then there are other men, Whose
!. name is legion, that prefer bach
d elorhood for the simple reason
e that the manner in which girl:
l are raised these days units then
d for household duties, and no
g more than one in a dozen cal
tell the difference between
4 muffin-iron and a proposition Il
: geometry. We feel sorry for tn,
I ove-hungry sisters of the Balti
: more Women's College, but unit
: the girls of the present day ceas
), to regard as utterly plebian wha
O their grand-mothers were please
to consider accomplishments, an'
\ learn how to shine in the sewin
4 room, kitchen and pantry, a
. we'll as in the parlor and ba
. room, we are quite sure that th
crop of bachelors will show ;
yearly increase and despair wi
, be piled upon woe in spinstel
s dom. We believe that it woul
i be better for society and for th
n country, if there were fewe
,e bachelors. but the evil which th
Women S College seeks to remed
by taxation will continue
y flourish and spread with tn
e vigor of a jimson weed in q CO.
n. non until there is q return [