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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-07-13

lie uuSb see ulIu, KNOW MIN.
Kill him, if need be So, cauti-
ously, at length, but often look
ing back to where he left his
heart, he approaches, after all
his fears, only the mirage-it is
only a vulture sitting stupidity on
a rock, tapping first one and
then the other wing. Gold lured
the man into the desert, the bird
followed the man and camped
near him every night. The man
had a partner after all. The man
is satisfied and rests. The bird
is hungry and waits. The man
hurries back to his treasure and
wonders to find it still there and
safe, forgetting that, under Gods
eye, it has rested there possibly
since the icy face of the glacier
covered the now burning sands.
The question of appropriation
now comes to him. Use and re-
alization, it is all his. He looks
again, touches it, climbs over it,
finally attacks it fiercely with his
feeble force. His efforts are
futile. Exhausted, he pauses to
think. His store of food, that
before was so magnifed, today
has shrunk to nothing. The
spring is almost dusty, only the
little moisture that accumulated
during the night is left. He
must go. Yes, go back to the
world for help, and this means a
division of his wealth. He starts
and travels on for awhile, looks
back longingly. An undulation
of the desert surface hides his
treasure from his eyes. Over.
come by anxiety, he turns again,
comes back. Still it is there,
smiles at his doubts and starts
again, and again returns. Sc
day by day, one, two, three, he
tries to drag himself away, only
to be pulled back. At last nature
gives away. He crawls into the
shadow of his wealth. Morning
comes again. The vulture flaps
his wings and comes to see the
man and finds him at home, ant
when he flaps his wings again he
is not hungry.
A train of three or four jadec
animals and two men are passing
and are attracted by q scanty
growth of stunted vegetation
have turned in hoping to find ;
drop of water. AS they approach
the spot sight at once dazzling
and gruesome meets their eyes
A gigantic boulder, almost ;
glittering mass of gold, and be
side it a human skeleton. The
arms seem to embrace it, ant
under one skeleton hand pro
tected by the rock, they found ;
paper with the scrawl, "Diet
rich, by Cid p
Does the story carry a moral
We think so. In this county
many are holding on to proper
ties that for want of means they
cannot make productive, and ye'
when offers are made for then
by others, who have the required
means, they resolutely persist il
the dog in the Manager policy
neither working or allowing 9th
ers to do so. They live poor ant
die rich in the imaginary wealth
of non-productive possessions
and very marked instance O.
this method of not mining occur
red here lately, and capital ha
been turned away through stub
bornness on the part of som,
16th-partner when the main loca
holders were willing to do some
thing to give the country start
The mining districts of Washing
ton county will no doubt be open
ed faster after some parties, VIII
are not interested in the country
have died rich.-Weiser Signal.
-
Our dear, editor Brother down
| the river iS pattinu en- anoiahl
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but Miss Broughton has worn the dignihed
little cap OF English middle age for sew
eral years she was the daughter Of a
clergyman in North Wales, and she wrote
her family into her confidence When tho
book was printed a copy was sent TO her
fiscated by her father When She meekly
asked for look at IL he Teprimanded her
for frivolity, and told her that after look
int IL over he had decided that IL was not
a proper book TO put into n young girls
hands," The authoress had TO confess that
she herself had written the book before she
could get sight or the printed result OF
her work
Walter Besant says that Mr.. GIasstone's
letter on secondhand book buyers is most
charming. He tells that he has bought
5000 volumes in his time; that he has not
made any serious collection. but that he has
some curious books. That was to be ex-
pected. L myself, in my humble way. have
acquired several curious volumes without
being a collector. buy what want-what
i must. This also. il appears, has been Mr..
Gladstones rule through life. Among his
buy-Hannah More's Sacred Dramas
which the author gave him in the year ISIS
lit seems long time back; Hallarn's Con-
stitutional History given him by Arthur
Hallam no fewer than thirty amended
prayer books, and not one in a second edi-
toni So little does the critica3 world re-
gard amendments in the prayer book
Miss Lucy S. Furman, whose volume OF
''Storie~ IF Sanctified Town is attract
ing cons derable attention comes OF an old
South Carolina family. but was born and
reared in Henderson. Ky. Her father was
a physician, whose constant companion she
was in childhood and early youth on his
daily rounds. Driving about in the quies
street of the town and along the country
roads. says the Critic, Miss Furman had
ample time to ruminate over the sights she
saw in the houses that she entered with
her father, and to receive from him an edu-
cation that went 10 the roots OF human
life-as the observations OF country physi-
clans are apt to do. Miss Furman also
learned to love country life. and it was
but natural. therefore, that. when she grew
up, she should write about what she had
known so long and so WELL The incidents
of her volume of stories were mostly sug-
geSted to her by the very real religious ex-
perieiices of her friends at the Station"
For several years past, Miss Furman has
lived at Evansville, Ind
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich is the author of
Judith and Holofernes," which Miss Meth
ersole expects to produce in London next
spring.
Sidney Colvin is making steady progress
with the biography of Robert Louis Steven
son. though the work will probably not be
ready for publication inside of eighteen
months. Mr.. Colvin has wealth of ma
terials and his work promises to be singu-
larly interesting.
Jules Verne is at present busy in the exc
cution of a plan to publish a series of
stories bearing on different countries. I'm
like many authors. he thinks of the plot
last. letting it form i'm his mind as he reads
up geographical. historical and other books
of scientific nature on the part of the world
he is going TO treat.
Bjornsterne Bjornson. whose son mar
ried Ibsen's daughter. speaks thus of the
dramatist's' pessimism: "Ibsen is no Nor
wegian. His ancestors were Scotch. as
might be seen from his Calvanistic beliefs
is a lamentable fact for the Norw egians,
but pessimism has been brought into Nor
way by foreigner.
Bliss Carman, though a Canadian by birth
his native place being Fredericton, New
Brunswick-comes partially at least of
American stock, his mother belonging to
the Bliss family Of Concord Mass He
wick. at Hartford and in Edinburgh. and
has followed divers occupations. among
them schoolteaching, civil engineering and
editorial work. He traces the inspiration
for his poetical work principally in Brown
Ing, although he has been touched and
helped by Emerson. Arnold and Swnburne
Mr.. Carman Is about thirty-five years of
age.
In the preface to Barrie's when a Mans
Single" which appeared serially as it was
written. is a note by the author on his
methods. He says he was never one of those
who plan out their stories and adhere to
the design. adding: Il spend a great desl
of time indeed in looking for the best road
on the map, and mark il with red ink. but
at the first bypath off my characters so.
Come back. l cry. You are off the road
We prefer this way they reply I try
/ shout. and it is my book. and can do
what L like with you. so come back. But
they seldom come and il ends with my
plodding after them
The letter of Lander 10 Emerson. in re-
monstrance to some of the latter's judg-
mcnts ;n English Traits" and recently
published I'm Nicol and Wise's Literary An
ecdotes of the Nineteenth Century, con-
tains the following: when Hazlitt was in
Tuscany he often called on M. and once
asked If | had ever seen Words worth.
/ answered I'm the negative. ana expressed
a wish To know something o. his appear
ancc. Sir said Hazltt. have you ever
seen a horse? 'AsSurediy. Then, SIR YOU
have seen Wordsworth I.cander adds that
years later, he found equinity In the lower
part of his face: in the upper was much OF
the contemplative. and no little of the cal
culating.
| Rhoda Broughton lives In pleasant
homo In Oxford. Fifty-five Is hardly old.
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THE CRIMINAL IN THE OPEN.

Most of those who write about criminals
see them with sympathetic eyes when they
are behind prison bars. When thus seen
the criminal appears to be the victim of
heredity and circumstance. His inclinations
are in the right direction, but a weak will,
inherited from a long line of ancestors of
bad impulses and low will-power causes him
to commit crime. If he is not the victim
of a weak will, the circumstance of an en-
vironment of poverty and vice has prepared
him for the crimes which have sent him to
prison; every way he is a person entitled
to compassion rather than to that rigid
punishment which confinement at hard
labor in prison involves.
All of us have read much in this line.
and most of us have come to believe all
that is told us of heredty. But now comes
vigorous man, named Flynt. to the front.
in the current issue of the Forum to tell the
public about the criminal lin the OPEN"
Mr.. FIynt knows all about him. He has
been a tramp in order 10 obtain his in
formation concerning him. Instead of
being a person of weak will. he has a
superabundance of that quality. But for
his resolute insistence he would not at
tempt many crimes. He is not the victim
Of poverty. His environment may not be
the best, but the real criminal is not made
by poverty or hardship. He is usually
above want, and is a criminal because he
desires more. He wants all that abundant
means will bring him, and he has come to
the conclusion that the easiest and surest
way to obtain money is to resort to the
methods, of the criminal. Heredity has
pothingEto do with his being a criminal.
He is not one because he is vicious, but
mainly because, with liking for the ex-
elements of criminal life, it is the surest
way to get money. He weighs the chances
smetimes with elaboration. If success is
probable he commits the crime. If it is
not he waits until a better opportunity pre-
sents itself. Make it positively clear to
him that the commission of crime will land
him I'm the penitentiary and he will not be
a criminal.
Doubtless the clear and positive state
ments Of Mr.. Flynt will distress many
good people, but the chances are that he
is right, and that it may yet be necessary
to change the methods of the treatment of
criminals row in vogue so as to conform
TO the character OF the real criminal in
the open as presented by one who has
made him study when pursuing his voca-
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of damages claimed was sl3.5i0.0c0. For
each claim for damages taken into count
ten are settled without suit that the
aggregate of the claim business in Chicago
much be very large and q serious draft
upon the resources of corporations. One
thing which has encouraged suits for claims
is that large part of them are granted in
part by the courts. In the first six months
of 1890 three street-railway con panies lost
five verdicts. which cost s1OO50. During the
corresponding period of 1886 the same COM
panies lost twenty-eight verdicts, aggregat-
ing sl24012. The damage claim business has
become a regular industry. Not only are
there lawyers who attend to this business
exclusively, but men canvass for such
cases, and persons have been found who
are professional victims of street-raiiway
and railroad accidents. In Chicago the cam
vasseis of those who bring such suits are
so numerous and persistent that they make
life a burden to those who are injured.
They also furnish the witnesses necessary
to make a good case in court. Public SYM
pathy for the victims and prejudice
against railways have stimulated this sort
of robbery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

To open the gates of Paradise two must
turn the key.-E. S. O'Connor.
Do not despise the lowly: the under jaw
does all the work.-Cp-to-Date
The average woman's idea of economy Is
never to throw away sour milk.-New York
Press.
An egotist is a man who believes exactly
opposite to what you do.-Florida Times
Union.
The less dignity a man has the more he
asserts it. Same way with Senate.-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
We shall be more apt TO know each 9TH
er there" if we do not forget each other
here.-Rams Horn.
Next TO the pleasure of admlring the
woman we love is that of seeing her adj
mired by others.-Balzac.
To be stupid when inclined and dull when
you wish Is a boon that only goes with high
friendship.-The Philistine.
Observation-Disclosures and neglect occasion
more mischief in this word than even mall
ice and wickednesa.-- the.
1t is curious that one should take the
trouble TO file a bill: nlng a bill does not
reduce ii in size.-9oston Transcript.
one of the surprises OF the season Is the
discovery that Mark Hanna IS not the
whole State of OhiO.-DetrOit Tribune.
Only those whom the gods love die
young. The others live 10 a ripe old age
and hold all the ofticos.-Detroit Tribune
A man can make a resolution TO bee strict
~ t-Gthiu and stand some show OF keeping
II .-..s as he meets no woman.-Atchison
Globe.
The old-fashioned woman who took her
troubles 10 the Lord in prayer has been sue
editor of woman's magazine--Atehison
Globe.
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American people toward the British ma
tility which the policy of the British Min
istry provoked in this country little
more than year ago regarding Venezuela.
He was gratified 10 lind a much more
friendly feeling consequent upon the final
agreement of the Ministry TO yield TO the
desire of this government to have the mat
ter submitted to arbitration. In this re-
gard Mr.. Smith has fairly judged the sem
timent OF this country. We were very in
dignant with the policy which the British
Ministry announced in regard to Venezuela,
but the fact that it has yielded to our prop
osition to arbitrate the dispute has quite
reyolutionized public sentiment in this
country. Doubtless the ratification of the
pending general arbitration treaty will have
a potent influence in overco,r ing existing
jeaiousies.
The member of Parliament complains
that our school histories relating TO the
period covered by the revolution and to
the close of the war of 1872 put America al
ways in the right and Great Britain always
in the wrong What Mr.. Smith says in his
subsequent remarks regarding the policy Of
Great Britain during that period admits
that during that period the British govern
ment was in the wrong, when he declares
that England to-day repudiates the policy
of the eighteenth century as much as do
the people of the United States.
To the attitude of the controlling infiu-
ence in Great Britain during the war for
Ind
Throughout the North the policy of the
British government at that time created
feeling of deep hostility. Even such men as
Charles Sumner declared that the friendly
attitude of Great Britain toward the South
prolonged the war two years. His plan
for the adjustment of the claims of the
United States upon Great Britain for dam
ages sustained during the war included the
expenditures of this government during the
| last two years of the war. So Mr.. Smith
must see that Great Britain has furnished
the causes of irritation in her policy to-
ward this country. Her final settlement of
the Alabama claims was the beginning of a
real change in the attitude of the govern
ment of Great Britain toward the United
States. The concessions which the present
Ministry has made in difference TO cur
wishes in regard TO the Venezuela boun-
Diary dispute have further satisfied our
people that Great Britain desires to main-
tain the most friendly relations with us,
| and it is evident in the decided change OF
sentiment during the past few months that
the intelligent people OF the United States
| fully reciprocate. In short, when the
American people are satisfied that the ira
| ditional aggressive policy of Great Britain
will no longer extend to this continent, they
| will be on as good terms with that nation
| as they are and will strive to be with every
| other.
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1t is hione I'm other countries. Com
mercia1 alcohol can be purchased by
the carload to-day at founteen cents
a gallon. but before the buyer can
use 1t In the most useful manufacture.
he must pay an internal revenue tax on it
of s2.06 gallon. A bushel of corn viii
make three gallons Of alcohol, SO that the
tax on a bushel of corn is Ss1s. Senator
Platt's committee for investigating the sub
ject declares that with untaxed alcohol We
should at once open a market for thirty
million bushels of corn. The only objection
TO free alcohol for manufactures is that
such a provision will make it easy to COM
nit frauds upon the revenue. Other gov
ernments are able to prevent such frauds
without much difficulty. There is no reason
why it may not be done in this country
ard thus relieve thousands of manufac-
turers from the burdensome tax on what
is raw material.
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THE PRAISE AND COMPLAINT OF A
BRITISH STATESMAN.

samuel Smith, member of the British
House of Commons. has made sAmerica
Revisited the subject of a pamphlet which
contains several points of interest. He Wis
tied this country years ago, and during the
campaign of last fall he was here again.
He was not in this country to criticise in
hostile spirit, but as a friend. He plainly
declares that Great Britain has not much
reason 10 be satisfied with the election of
Mckinley, since his party is pledged to
protection, but where the dominant issues
were honor against dishonor. honesty
against dishonesty" he asks who would wish
the result to be other than ii was Mr.
Smith was struck with the marked ability
with which the sound-money press carried
on the controversy. and "one could but
feel" he adds, what a splendid education
self-government is to a people" The two
things which the visitor regards as dam
gers Is the great increase of foreign ele-
ment during the past thirty years and the
growth of trusts. For tho first he finds a
challenges his admiration 1T is clear"
he says. that the future of the United
States, as prosperous and unified nation.
depends very much upon maintaining a
common-school system of education and of
a common language taught to the mass of
the people"
The Englishman devoted several pages
of his pamphlet to the quite general i'll
feeling which peryades the mass OF the
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SCIENTIFIC.

a very durable hard rubber, German
experimenter claims. is made by adding
powdered aluminium to the material before
ii is vulcanzed.
Moths may be kept from furs and wool
ems. United States Entomoiogist l.. o.
Howard concludes. by cold storage during
the summer at 40 to Y degrees Fahr-
The eleventh award of the Bressa prize
of the Turin Academy of Sciences. having
a value of nearly $1,000. will be for the most
important scientific achievement OF the
years 1888. Persons of any nationality
may compete their printed work TO be sent
in before the close OF 1898.
Two diphtheritic diseases of fowls are
mentioned by NJ. Gallez In report TO the
Belgian Academy of Medicine. One is called
fowl CHAMBERS, or morve, and Is a con-
tagious catarrh, very fatal to hens. that
may give diphtheria to human beings. The
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ties but in view of what has been accom-
plished it is easy TO see why he has had
the votes of the people Notwithstanding the
opposition of the politicians He appears
to have the interests Of the public at heart.
and is not self-seeking at the expense Of
the people good many eccentricties
will be overlooked in a public officer who
really seeks to serve the public, and Pin
gree's record is enough to account for
Pingree in two offices at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

In answer to certain unkind criticisms
Rev Lyman Abbott explains, in the Out
look, that his object in writing his SER
mons on evolution was mot to convince
orthodox believers that evolution is true
but to convince believers in evolution that
they need not give up their Christian
faith because they have become evolution
ists.' This simple statement takes the
force from his opponents arguments al
once, their assumption being that he was
going about seeking what orthodox relig.
ious beliefs he might destroy with his
pernicious doctrine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

The theory that thought is force which
passes from the brain in waves Just as
light or sound is transmitted is not new.
but until lately it was ridiculed by scient-
lists. Now they treat the idea with re-
spect and even lay claim to it as original
with themselves. In recent lecture be-
fore tho British Society for Psychical Re-
search Professor William Crookes set forth
this theory and said: at is quite con-
ceivable that intense thought concentrated
by one person upon another with whom he
Is in sympathy should produce a telepa-
thic chain along which the brain waves
could go straight to their goal without loss
of energy due to distance" The Psycbical
Research Society is investigating telepa-
thic and other occult phenomena merely to
prove their actual existence and not their
cause. When scientists once accept them
as fact and undertake a study of their
principles and laws these will probably be
found to be as simple as those governing
any of the commonplace happenings Of life
and the occult will cease to be occult.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

In the advice given to the theological stu
dents at>Yale Rev. John Watson Gan Mac
Laren) said: mo minister should criticise
a minister in public. Ministers might very
well copy the etiquette of the medical pro-
fesston, which is distinguished by the re-
spect its members show to each other
Evidently the Rev. Watson has only met
doctors in public. They are civil enough,
truly, when the others are present, but how
they do roast each other i'm priyatef
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

Al recent meeting of gentlemen's club
in New York comment on current topics
drifted into a discussion about the proper
use of wealth. One speaker had something
to say about the modern expensive way of
living. He knew man, he said, who had
lived well for the last five years on cents
day. He did not give the mans name nor
specify his diet, and the next speaker said
he didn't know who the person was and
didn't want to. He knew a man, he said,
who used to object to paying 10 cents for
a cup of coffee. but used to go out of his
way to get cup Of barley because he
could buy it for cents, and made the rest
of his luncheon out of east wind or some
thing. That man was dead now, from stom-
ach trouble, he said and his nephew was
putting his hoardings into circulation all
right enough. That is what a good many
nephews or sons do who come into pos
session of wealth accumulated in that way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

An article i'm the North American Review
for February gives some remarkable sta
tistics regarding the growth of claims for
personal injury in cities against corpora
tons. The statistics are for Chicago. city
which seems proud to lead. The writer
states that the suits for damages brought
in Cook county during the first six months
of 1880 numbered SAC and the damages Of
claims aggregated 81. ia. so. The number OF
claims brought during the corresponding
period OF 1896 was sos and the total amount