The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-02-11

There Is no occasion for 1t out |
side of the printing Office where
it is useful if the paper is late.
1t also comes in handy in proof |
reading, and is indispensable
when the ink works bad and the
press begins to buck. 1t is
known to remove that tired feel
ing of an editor when he looks
over the paper after it is print
ed. Outside of a printing Office
it is a foolish habit.
At 90, when man is young,
he thinks he knows it all; he
likes to wag his active tongue
and exercise his gall; he struts
around in noble rage: the world
is all his own; he laughs to scorn
the world of age and lists to self
alone. He wears a window in
his eye to see his whiskers grow;
he thinks the ladies pine and die
because they love him so. At
40, as you may suppose, he's
knuckled down to biz; It's not till
60 that he knows how big a
chump he is.
Over in DeLamar the ladies
have adopted the following rules
to govern their Leap Year Ball ::
[. Any lady caught carrying
a flask in her pistol pocket shall
have its contents Immediately
appropriated.
II. No lady will be permitted
to smoke cigarettes in the pres
ence of the gentlemen.
LII. No lady shall leave her
partner until she has escorted
him to a seat, without being fined
10 cents.
/ ". No gentleman will be per-
mitted to cross the hall without
an escort, under the penalty of
: fine of 10 cents.
V. Gentlemen will be expect
ed to exercise becoming modesty
: in their department and not to
: so far forget themselves as to
ask lady to dance with them,
or to leave their seats without an
5 escort.
VI. No gentleman will be per-
I mitted to chew gum in the pres
ence of his escort.
The Moscow Star says lone
: of the problems the board OF
county commissioners has had to
wrestle with at this session is
what constitutes a widow in the
S eyes of the law. The Idaho stat
S utes provide for a widows ex
V emption of certain amount Of
d property from taxation, to the
, extent of a thousand dollars, we
believe. There seems to be two
|, kinds of widows in the socia
IS world-one whose husband is
/ dead, and the other whose hus
T band is divorced-but the Law
e only recognizes one, and that is
the one whose husband is dead
v and it is to this class the exemp
? ton applies. "A divorced wife il
;s the eyes of the law is not ;
- - widow but a single woman with
y. only the rights and privileges
= that belong to her class, among
!, which is certainly not the privil
a ege of widows exemption from
: property tax. In one or tw,
cases the board allowed rebate
of taxes assessed against divorc
ol es upon the ground that the.
OF were widows. They were fo
n trivial amounts, but when Mrs
e. G. M. Leitch came in with a
of application to rebate her take
xt for the past four years amount
Ds ing to over $3.50, they began t
to investigate the question as t
h. whom the law is intended to az
lg ply to-"
~ ~ In the middle of the road, g
. the west end of the Weiser rive
bridge in Middle valley, on Sur
% day, January 10Th, John AIDE
''n and Miss Bertha Pickett we1
united in the bonds of matrimon
ed by Rev. e. N. Elton, of Salul
nd ria. The wedding was to hay
es been solemnized in Salem scho'
hi house at the close of the reguls
1T. church service. Some sixt
os- friends had gathered at tt
ew school house to participate
Sc. the services and to witness I'll
ms marriage ceremony. The brio
sl1. and groom failed to put in an a
Mt pearance. 1t was not their faul
ow Together with some forty frien'
nd from the west side of the VALE
ept they had started for the scho
ry house, but on reaching the brids
a found their way effectually bloc
dr.. ed. An ice gorge had torn son
rer forty feet off the west end of tt
ter bridge slick and clean. Eve
les love couldn't lump the chaSr