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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20

avail. Finally, having read articles re-
garding cures that had been effected by
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People,
decided to try them. That was IN 1895.
| bought box and took the pills accord
ing to instructions.
-Four days later I had the happiest
hours had known for years. That night
went to sleep easily and slept soondly as
a child and awoke refreshed.
"After | had taken four boxes of the
pills, found that was cured and had also
increased d pounds in weight.
This greatly surprised my friends, who
thought my case was hopeless one. be-
gan my work again and have continued
ever since in excellent health.
Another valuable gain to me was, that
while was taking these pills had been
cured of the smoking habit, which had
formed when was boy and had chung
to me all these years. The craving for
tobacco left me and have never expo
rienced 1t since.
81 cannot say enough for these pills and
have recommended them 10 many"
To verify this statement Mr.. Harrington
made affidavit to its truthfulness before
Lincoln NJ. Coy, Notary Pub1ic.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
strike at the root Of disease by acting di-
rectly upon the impure blood. Their
power IS marvellous and many wonderful
cures have been made. Druggists consider
them potent remedy, and ali sell them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
COsTeRs' ENGLISH.
At Least Il Is Supposed TO Re English
put 1t Doesn't Look Like Ii.

At Least II Is Supposed to Re English,
Bat 1t Doesn't Look Like IT.
English costers have a language of
their own. There is nothing very re-
markable about it. its chief character
istic being a palpabls kind of back
spelling, says Tit-Bits.
In money matters a coster will speak
of halfpenny as a Hatch" while
gen is a shilling; but "teaich-guy'
is eight shil.ings. Coulter means a
sovereign, "net-gen" passes for half a
sovereign, half crown being given the
somewhat unpronounceable term,
.'fatchynork."
A curious method of expressing multi
pies is shown by "erth-ewif-gens,
meaning Is shillings. "a doogheno''
means "a good market" "dabheno,' .
bad one a regular trosseno" stands
for "a regular bad one"
Yes and mo" are represented by
''no' and SAY" Tumble to your bar
rikin" expresses understand YOU
"Flash it" signifies show it." Gross
chap" means a thief. "Showfuls" is an
equivalent for bad money.
do the tightner"-a very expressive
term, the derivation of w'-ch is not
difficult to understand-means ''go tc
dinner" '.Nommus" stands for "bs
Of and "tol" is a share"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20

Teacher of History-Willie, what was
the main thing which fastened the
Spanish-American war?
Willie-The destruction of the Maine,
mainly.
What happened then9"
"A battle on the main" .
The Spanish main?"
NO"
"The American Maine?"
NO; just outside Manila"
did the Americans fight well?"
with might and main"
What remained?"
Not much of Spain"
What caused the WARP
Spanish domain"
ION the main-land?"
''No; on the island of Cuba"
Very good, Willie; always remem
Der the Maine. boston Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20

No man Is better known and liked in
that rich tier Of Illinois counties, Of which
Peoria is the centre, than genial Chester S.
Harrington, Of Princeville, LII.
MIR. Harrington is veteran Of the late
war. Like many another brave soldier, ne
suffered not only during that service, bot
for years afterwards from diseases con-
tracted then.
For years his health was shattered; his
sufferings increased. He was enable to
gain relief, bot now he tells a story which
is Of profit to many;
served three years in the t24th Iii
nois, enlisting at Kewanee, ILL.," said he.
Il was in LIBBY Prison and suffered Ike
many another Northern soldier.
The strain Of army life did its work in
undermining my health, although the col
lapse did not come for sometime after.
For fifteen years suffered from general
debility and nervousness so badly that |
could not sleep. Indigestion resulted and
my misery increased.
MY eyes began to fail, and as my body
lost vitality my mind seemed to give way.
| could scarcely remember events that hap
pened bot few weeks before.
For two years was untitled for busi-
ness. was just able 10 creep around dur
ing part Of this time, and there were many
times when could not get up.
My brother Is a doctor, bot ali his
efforts to help me failed 10 give any relief.
! tried number OF remedies without
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
UsinE Hard Water.

1t is difficult TO wash our hands clean
with hard water, because the soda of
the soap combines with the sulphuric
acid of the hard water and the oil of the
soap with the lime, and floats in fakes.
on the top of water. Sulphate of lime
consists of sulphuric acid and lime.
1t is difficult to wash in salt water be-
cause it contains muriatic acid, and the
soda of soap combines with the muriatic
acid of the salt water and produces q
cloudiness.-Chicago Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
swIMMINa. OUT WAS EASY.
But the Sergeant Didn't Come Hack
Until Long After Drill.

BET the sergeant &OFsEC EaCA
Until Long After Drill.
During brigade encampment year
or two ago at Scarborough, says an
English paper, certain sergeant, in
conversation within the mess tent one
morning, loudly asserted that lie could
swim to particular big buoy mile
or more from the shore, and back. Be
ing challenged to prove his words" "
he was soon bravely breasting the North
sea.
Swimming strongly, he was observed
to reach the aforesaid buoy, scramble
thereon, wave his hands, ard then sit
down. AS he, however, continued TO
sit there without attempting to move,
and parade time approaching, his COM
rades reluctantly returned to camp,
greatly wondering why he tarried on
the buoy, to be reported "absent from
parade
Drill done, and the news of our
hero's exploit having spread throughout
the camp. a large crowd of officers and
men hurried to the beach. only to see
the aquatic absentee still ''as you We're
out at sea.
Now, convinced that something was
seriously amiss, rescue party was
quickly rowed to the spot. aud dis
covered that the Inflated swimmer was
not dead, but only stuck fast to the
buoy, which had been newly tarred! y
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TREE.
a Nan of Family Pride Who s1et with
n Surprise.


A Washington man who prides him
self upon his family connections is just
recovering from an attack Of nervous
prostratior, says the Star. This man
lately became possessed of the idea Of
constructing a family tree, feeling as
sured he could produce a growth that
would dwarf the giants Of the Califcr-
MIA forests into insignificance. He be-
gan on one branch of his family, and
soon struck Miles Standish, from whom
he ran various shoots ard offshoots,
with mary feeling of pride. With re-
newed interest he went to work on an
other branch of his growing tree, and
had gone back but four generations
when he was amazed to strike great
grandfather who had died from stran-
gulation brought on by a rope en-
cireling his throat, his death occurring
in the presence of a large gathering of
curious people, who had taken day off
during harvest time in order TO see the
hanging. BY this time the man of fam
lily pride had become intensely disgust
ed with genealogical Investigations. but
all that his friends knew Of his disap-
pointment was the fact that he re-
manned away from the busy haunts OF
his fellows for several weeks, and the
family physician gave out the informa
ton that he was the victim of severe
case Of nervous prostration.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
DOGS Foa TIE kLoNpIkE
Are Being Gathered I'm All the Large
Efffe~

Cities.
The KIondike VIII open up new
field of usefulness for the dog. In
Seattle an enterprise is on foot to es-
tablish dog nursery, where the ami
mails viii be trained for the Alaska
service and then sent there and sold
TO the miners. 1t is believed that the
dogs viii solve the vexed problem of
transportation, says the New. York
Journal.
Ex-aIayor Black and j. 3. Powles, of
Seattle, who are behind the enterprise,
are gathering dogs in Chicago, ST.
Paul and other cities. The first car
load of 200 picked animals has already
arrived in Seattle. They have been
gathered with view of doing packing
and sled drawing over the Alaska trails.
No spania.s or other sporting dogs
have been secured, but only the hard
footed, long-haired breeds, that will
weigh from 60 to 10 pounds each.
Our object" said Mr.. Powles, "in
bringing the dogs TO Seattle row is to
give them a good training. They will
be placed in charge of Oscar Jones
who has charge of the Seattle kennels
We expect to sell the dogs, and house
and train them from now until spring
| fitting harness TO them, breaking then
to drive, and in every way training
them so they can be used as soon a.
they reach the trails. We have brcught
them in thus early in the season IL
avoid risks of cold weather. We ex
pect to bring a carload from Philadel
phia soon, and in all will have four o.
FIVE carloads"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
DENTISTRY AT SEA.
And Something Also About the PFac~
ffce of Medicine AAoat.


tice of Medicine Ahoaf.
When a sailor on a deep-water ship
has a toothache he is likely to go to the
captain. The captain gives him some
thing out of the medicine chest to put
i'll his tooth, and if that doesn't cure it
perhaps he pulls it, says the New York
Sun. 1t is a common thing for sailors
to pull their own teeth. Their method
is to put string around tooth and
pull it; but dental forceps are carried
on deep-water ships; on some vessels
fair outfit of them. A ship captain
OF long experience said that in the
course of his life at sea he had pulled
200 teeth.
The ships medicine chest on large
vessels is like a closet or cupboard, with
a glass door, built in the ship. In this
chest the medicine bottles, gilt-labeled,
are arranged on shelves that rise one
above another in receding tiers; it is
practically well-appointed little drug
store. There is supplied with the medi-
/ cine chest a book explaining the uses
( of the medicines. The captain is like
/ ly to have some other book on medical
subjects which he has read and studied
and he is likely to have had good deal
of experience before attaining the rank
of master of a ship.
The sailors are generally healthy
men, but, when occasion requires, the
captain prescribes; he is the physician
Limbs broken at sea are of course SCI
there, and there might be circum
stances in which the captain would MOI
hesitate to perform a surgical opera
ton
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
"THEATER SICKNESS.
New Disease Discovered by "a French
Physician.


"Theater sickness" is the name of the
new disease recently discovered by the
eminent French physician, DIR. Morti-
cole, which is at present topic of a
good deal of discussion in scientific and
lay circles in Paris. The doctor declares
that "theater sickness" and sea sickness
resemble one another. take their vic
tins entirely unawares, and prey espe-
ciaiy on women The symptoms con-
sist of giddiness, loss of consciousness,
q deep faint, and in perverse cases the
malady causes death. 1t seizes victim
after he has gazed long at the stage, and
more commonly in tragedy than in
comedy, and, in brief, it constitutes a
species Of asphyxia. When men feel
''theater sickness" coming ON they be
come, according to DR.. Morticole, obliv-
ious to all considerations of locality and
put their heads between their knees,
while women feel an inclination to re-
cline with their feet at an acute angle
above their heads, so excessive is the
vertigo. Fortunately, cases of "theater
sickness" are as yet the exception
rather than the rule. A theater where
all the mems heads would be bowed
down between their knees, and where
all the women were to have their feet
| in the air, would furnish a strange mix
ture of the mournful and of the hilari
/ ouS
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
MATERIALS OF BIRDS NESTS
Strange Composition of Some odd
Specimens.

Strange Composition of Some Odd
Specimens.
The instinct of birds does not compel
them in building their nests to use only
familiar materials. The Literary Di-
gest translates from a French period
ical the following examples of birds
facility of adaptation:
A bird'snest was found in the suburbs
of Lille THAT was composed of white
wool and of strips of paper from tele-
graph office where the Morse system is
used, situated several miles away.
The bird must have made a consider
able number of trips. for the quantity
of paper was large, and it had made a
good choice of material, for everyone
knows that paper is bad conductor OF
heat; it holds heat well, and one does
not need to have travelled around the
world to have found out that on jour
ney a good-sized journal of stout paper
like the English newspapers, holds heat
as well as blanket.
Near Besancon another nest was
found, made wholly of watch springs
evidently taken from the factories il
the neighborhood. Here the selection
was less happy, for metals are good con
ductors of heat. Finally, near a spot
where large ST. Bernard dog is KEEP
was found a nest built of hair detached
from the dogs coat. In this case the
inspiration was evidently good.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
INDIAN ANTIPATHY TO FISH.
why Some Tribes VIII Not Use Them
rH Food.

rs Food.
At a recent meeting in Baltimore by
the American Folklore society, DIR.
Washington Matthews, of Washington,
D. c., read a paper on "Icthyophobia,"
which he described as an antipathy TO
fish. This aversion is especially strong
in the Navajo. Apache and other Indian
tribes of the far southwest. who will
not eat fish nor have anything to do
with articles made in the shape of fish.
This taboo" with the Navajos extends
to all things connected with water. \
probable reason why no more children
Of these tribes are sent east to be edu-
Gated, DR.. Matthews thought, was a
fear that they might be required to
overcome this cherished taboo super
stition, which is as firmly rooted as
any religion. says the Baltimore Sun
A legend to account for this fish
taboo was given. There was a time
when food was scarce and the mountain
Indians had 4 big pow-wow with the
river Indians. The result was that the
river Indians agreed to kill no deer, but
live entirely on fish, and the mountain
Indians agreed to cat no fish, but live
entirely upon deer. This made food
plenty for both.
In the discussion of the paper it was
stated that the Zuna Indians will not
eat fish because savage tribes in desert
lands regard water as sacred because
of its scarcity, and this reverence ex-
tends TO animal life in water. Several
members thought, perhaps, this idea
conveyed the true reason for the fish
| otnhnn .
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
Bssrna rex. Name.

Few people know how Bismarck and
his ancestors got their name. Bismarck
is the name of one of those ancient cas-
ties a short distance from Stendal. ON
the road from Cologne to Berlin, in the
center of the old Marquisate of Bran
denburg. The castle had this name be-
cause it defended the "Marca," or the
line where the River B;ese formed a
boundary in former times. or mark Of
defense against intruders. Hence the
name of Bismarck \. Y. Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20

The price of game in France is alleged
to depend principally upon the state of
the moon. When the moon is dark and
poachers cannot see to set their SHARES
at night game is scarce. When the
moon is fun there is plenty of light and
the poschers SET cts Of game.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
A SUFFERING
Soldier.

THIS seteran fought for his country; suffered nm
told Aaydstzbs, and returned z0ikh heaLh shattered
Many a bya0e soldier has tie same history. Today
This one reiofces in nezO,0uud strength and tells his
experience 10 benefit others.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20
CUSTER COUNTY

Terms of Diet Court for 1898.
Nh. HOME.
January 2s April rs, ........ October "a.
SHosHoNE.
March T......,......,........... November II.
ALBION
March g.. September Il.
CHALLIs.
May so,.,...................... October 3.
HALEY.
C. o. SrocKsLAGEa, Judge
SOCIETIES.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-20

Chinese Coal for California.
Coal mined in China is being import
cd 10 California,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-24
GREAT PASSENGER INCREASE.
Mr.. Murdoch, of the Mexican Central
Gives Interesting Information.

Assistant General Passenger Agent
w. d. Murdoch, of the Mexican Cen
tral, is always welcome visitor to Ell
Pa o. for is road is vitality in crested
in building up the commercial inter
es,s of this city as against any other
border commu aity. The Cen trial is ever
ready to throw business this way, ard
it is not too much to say tina. the COM
pany is uniformly successful.
The traffic, bO b in passenger and
freight. has enormously increased in
the last three years so that the man
agement is Justly graf fed, and is rea-
sonably hoDeful of still further in
cresse. In the passenger business
alore, the increase in 1895 over all
previous records was 1886, OCO: in 1896,
it was $4,000. and 10 1897 the increase
was $3.50, 900 So far III this curr ent
wear the average increase per month
has been from $4,000 to $40 600 over
previous monthly records for the same
time of year. Then the tourist travel
this season has proven 100 per cent
better than for any previous season,
and the tourist bus ne-s has only really
Just b. gun over the Mexican Central
Mr.. Murdoch says the Central's new
engines are giviog satisfaction and the
addition OF the forty new machines
from the Brooks works has put the
Ttdu III ubC Shd pc ~ w ouShSSoo, 90
far as motive power is conc 'rned. The
monster freight engine, 204, cut of
which was in the HERALD at the time
of its passage through this city. is
doing excellent work down on the
mountain division, while on level
it's traction power is limited only by
the strength of the couplings Of the
cars behind it. The company has also
received several hundred new box cars
the road bed has been carefully over
hauled, and the company is prepared
to meet now most any kind of demand
upon it.
Mr. Murdoch says the growth of the
railway system in Mexico has
developed a corresponding tendency,
on the pat of the citizens of that coun-
try to travel, so that the road is not
dependent on throu h or tourist travel
from foreign countries. Mexican cif1-
zens have come to Learn that it is more
satisfactory to have personal inter-
views with their correspondents or
persons with whom they have TO do
business. than to transact business
merely by mail. So they travel and
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-24

whose skeleton limbs could hardly
support bis little body, lay in the hut,
dying with the fever that accompanies
starvation in IFS last stages. Out on
the hill, urder the blue sky, lay the
father, barely able to crawl on hands
and knees and drive away the vultures
thai now circled low or sat near him
in solemn expectancy.
But time came when he could no
longer drive them away. The stick
slipped from his nerveless skeleton fin
gers. and at last he made no effort to
regain it. Al d he vultures rejoiced.
Dat by the door of the hut lay the
eldest daughter, dead in the warm hot
sunlight. From the dark Interior tot
tered a boy, mere rack of skin and
bones, with his little feet aud legs
swollen by the dreaded "beriberi''-
the sign that death is near. AS be
staggered out upon the hill, his eyes
half taking in the scene of death before
bin, the vultures Topped their huge
wings aud crowded nearer-to wait.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-24

A family of seven driven into Hav-
ana by order of Weyler, ''the butcher, "
to starve; kept there by Weyler's
policy is still pursued by the present
Captain General B'anco.
On the hills overlooking the ocean,
where they look far out over the sea
toward thu land of freedom, Juan San
chez. Cuban. his wife and five children,
two of them grown. built a little hut.
1t was tatcbed with palm leaves: its.in-
terrier was bare of furniture. When
they were driven from their little
farm at the point of Spanish bayonets
they hurriedly sn tched up a few small
cooking utensils-that was all.
Week after week dragged along.
Weeks lenGtbene into months. Starva-
tiou 5 a'ed them in the face. Juan San
CHI q looked out daily to the Orthward.
hoping see the stars and stripes
floating on thu horizon or the black
smoke from the tunnels of American
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-24

| transact business face to face. Then,
there is money in the local religious
| excursions, such as pilgrimages to
| shrines which are coming to be q
star feature in passenger traffic. The
| fares are low. and such travel is SO
largely in bulk as it were, and the
com pauy is we'll able to give the pill
grims com Portable mode of travel
Then, there is a ste sdy aud gratifying
increase in the American travel, as
so many American busiuess men
are coming into the country to look
for commercial investments. Contrary
to the expectation of some, however,
Americans are not so much interested
in cotton cultivation as in other lines.
The Mexicaps themselves are making
marked improved in cotton culture,
and as they come more and more in
contact with the methods of other peo-
piles. they take advantage of the eX
tended experience. In the course of
conversation, Mr.. Murdoch said the
Protestant denominations were secur
ing quiet a foo hold in the repu bic,
and as far as he had noticed the Bapti It's
seemed to be making notable head
way particularly in the section of
which Ler6O was the center. He
thought, however, the mission boards
made mistake in referring among
sion work. The Mexicans consider
themselves fully as good as the good
people who come down there to evan
gellze them. and it is just as well for
the propagsndists to call their local
Institutions churches rather than mis-
siOns.
There seems to be q great future
for the republic. and S northern ex
cursiOn companies are cogpiziug-
this. they are arranging part rail and
part water excursions for tourists, and
doing m ore than ever to send Amer
leans through the republic. The
question of coal is causing some ap
prehension down south, particularly
as coal costs $40 per ton in the City of
Mexico. AT present, coal is brought
by water from Phi ladelpbia and land
ed at Tampico. But Mr.. Murd0ck
expressed a strong b ,pe that the
White Oaks road would OPEN the
Sslado coal feds at the earliest pos
sihle date so that the coal could be
shipped directly into Mexico. H.
thought the White o ks people would
do very large business in that line.
And then with the cOmplel ion through
to Liberal, Kans there would be
opened a new and most important
through. connection with Chicago and
northern points. His road was plan
ming to inaugurate through daisy
service between Chicago and the City
of Mexico via Ell Paso, ard hoped
this would materialize at an early
dsy-
Mr.. Murdoch returns south we'll
pleased with the outlook.