The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-02-27

az -, 0nu months, died in
% 1nls CITY last Saturday night,
ne FEB. 24th, at II o'clock y. m
ms makes two children that
l1Iney have lost within a week,
The sympathy of the entire com.
munlty is with the bereaved par.
ent in their sad loss.
DR.. Talmage does not agree
with Rev. Mr.. Sheldon in the
assertion that the press is to
blame for the wickedness of the
earth. DR.. Talmage says: "Ex-
perlments in the cause of moral
lty are always good, but I believe
that Mr.. Sheldon will learn that
the modern good newspaper
Would not have to be materially
changed to bring it up to the
ideal. This is a world of action.
Things are being done every day;
things good and things bad. 1t
is a newspapers duty to give it's
readers the news of these hap
penings."
VIM. Fenniken was over from
Morse during the week. He
hopes to get up a rabbit hunting
match at his place between the
Challis and Salmon hunters in
the near future. The rabbits are
said to be very plenteous in that
locality.
Almost any day one can OBJ
serve a group of our small boys,
all the way from z to Is years of
age, couched behind a large sage
bush or in some back ally smok-
ing cigarettes, and some of these
boys are termed good" boys.
The boys in some instances are
enticed into this habit, which, if
followed up, will prove their
ruination, by boys old enough to
know better. If it is actually
necessary that boys of this age
should smoke, it is far better
that they should something else
than these deadly cigarettes. 1t
is a habit once formed hard to
break and one that they will
have cause to regret if followed
up. Parents, break your boys of
this habit.
The Silver Blade enters it's
protest because the Trustees of
Kootenai county do not enforce
the compulsory educational law.
1t says although Idaho has
a compulsory educational law,
there was not a case reported in
this county during the past year
of a board of trustees attempting
to enforce it, although fragrant
violations of its provisions are of
frequent occurance. Compulsion
is always distasteful, but il is
not always bad. While no one
likes to enforce it the justice of
its employment depends upon
circumstances. For the common
good. organized society compels
men to refrain from doing things
they otherwise would do, and to
do things which otherwise they
wonld not. Granting that there
are many cases where children
are prevented from attending
school, on account of inaccessab-
ility there are many who do not
take advantage of the opportun-
tiles offered them. 1t is at this
class that the law is aimed. No
parent has a right to wrong his
child. His rights end where
those of his offspring begin. The
law is intended to force parents
to do their duty. The parent
who. instead of equipping his
child for the struggles of life,
burdens him with the hardships
of illiteracy, is not fit to raise a
child. They have no more rlght
to cripple its intellect than they
have to cripple its body. 10 90
SO is an outrage and as society is
Injured as well as the helpless
victim, society has a right to
prevent the outrage. When COM
pulsion is unavoidable trustees
Should discharge their disagree
able duty earnestly and conscl-
entiously."
The Nourse Sanitarium and
Hospital, whose lad" " appears IN
this issue, is located at Haley,
and was opened to the public on
Dec. 1st, 1899. In fitting an ana
furnishing this institution neltn-
er M pains nor means have been
spared. Special appliances nave
been provided for the treatment
Of nose. throat and chest atfec,
lions; also for the treatment OF
chronic rheumatic and other JOINT
affections. The surgical depart,
ment is provided with a poweeriIiii II
,ra+uc RathS of all