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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Actions Speak louder Than Words,

The working people must not
forget that if in 1896 Mckinley
had been charged with intend
ing to Withhold the federal con-
stitution from any territory over
which the American flag floats
he would have denied it with
great positiveness.
If, in the campaign of 1896, it
had been charged that Mckinley,
if elected, would change the is
sues of war from humanity to
conquest, and squandered our
treasury and sacrificed our best
blood to impose forcible annexa-
ton on a friendly people strug-
Cling for independence and lib
erty in the Oriental seas, 10000
miles away, he would have deni-
ed it as an atrocious insult to his
sense of honor, and would have
refuted the charge with the cry
of criminal aggression.
If, in the campaign of 1896, it
had been charged that Mckinley,
if elected, would do violence to
the constitution and dissertation
to the memory of the martyred
Lincoln by hosting the Ameri-
can flag over the Moros under
the Sultan of the Sulu archipel-
ago as a protection to the institu-
lions of chattle slavery, accom-
panied by an agreement to pay
$40, 600 per year out of our nat
ional treasury in monthly slip
ends to aid in maintaining the
slave drivers and their concubin-
es in idleness and afluence, he
would have hurled the charge
back into the teeth of it's author
and branded it as a wicked libel
on the fair name of the republi
can party.
If, in the campaign of 1896, il
had been charged that Mckinley,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Barker Not a Citizen.

A sensation has been caused
by the discovery that Wharton
Barker, middle-of- the-road can
didate for president on the pop
ulist ticket, is Ineligible for the
office to which he aspires. 1t is
said that while experimenting
some improvements in Russia
some years ago, Mr.. Barker was
made Lord of ST. Vieceslas" by
the Car. Before accepting the
title he did not ask Congress to
grant him the privilege, and he
is therefore said to be Ineligible
because he forfeited his citizen
ship by accepting the honor
without permission of the United
States authorities.
If this proves true Mr.. Barker
must step down and out. Ignat.
ius Donnelly would succeed him
as candidate for president, and
some one else being chosen as
candidate for vice-president.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

We were handed the following
letter the other day. 1t is let
ter addressed by a partisan to a
politician whom he assisted into
Office, but who, on reaching his
high estate, forgot the poor man
on whose shoulders he had risen.
He wrote as follows
DEAR SUR:-You're a dam
fraud, and you know it. l don't
care rap for the Office or the
muny either, but you could hev
got it for me if you wasn't as
mean as mud. Ten dollars a
week amt eny moar to me than
$50 is to you, but objekt to bein'
maid an infurnil fool of. Soon
after you was elected by my hard
workin, a teller wanted to bet
me that you wouldn't be in office
moren a week before you maid a
ass of yourself. 1 bet him a COW
on tibet as thort you was worth
it then. After got Your Note
sayin' that you deklined TO ackt
in the matter driv the Cow over
to the Feller's an told him he
had won her.
That's orl got by howlin' my
self Hoarse for you on pole day,
an months befoar. You not only
hurt mans Pride but you injur
him in Bizness. l believe you
think YOU'LL get in agen. Idon't.
An what [ don't think is of moar
consequence then you imajin. l
believe you take pleshir in cuttin'
your best friends, but waite till
the clouds roll by an they'll cut
you-just behind the Ear, where
the butcher cut the pig. Yure
no man. An don't think yure
amount to much ither. Go to
hel. l lowers meself ritin to a
skunk, even tho i lected you.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

1t is very hard to stand idly by
and see our dear ones suffer while
awaiting the arrival of the doc
tor. An Albany IN. " dairy
man called at drug store there
for doctor to come and see his
child, then very sick with Group.
Not finding the doctor in, he left
word for him to come at once on
his return. He also bought a
bottle OF Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, which he hoped would
give some relief until the doctor
should arrive. In a few hours
he returned, saying the doctor
need not come, as the child was
much better. The druggist, Mr..
Otto Scholz, says the family has
since recommended Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy to their
neighbors and friends until he
has a constant demand for it from
that part ofSthss country. Fol-
sale by ]. P. Spalding. Sept.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
hence.

The Haley Times informed it's
readers last week that there was
not over 100 Silver Republicans
now in Idaho. Such talk is idle
and foolish in the extreme. Gus
ter county, the smallest county
in the State in population, has
more than the above number of
Silver Republicans. Just be-
cause the Times man has topped
to McHanna, that does not indi-
cate every one else in Idaho has
bowed down to the gold standard.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Republicans Deserving.

In addition to those already
given out the following promi-
nent republicans have announced
this week that they will support
Bryan /:
DIR. H. q. Leonard, consul to
Clifton Falls, Canada. under
President Harrison, appeared at
indianapolis on Bryan day wear
ing Bryan badge. 81 am for
Bryan heart and SOUL" he said,
land shall do all in my power to
aid in his election. Mckinley
has been a failure.l'
Col. VIM. Mclean, first deputy
commissioner of pensions, under
Cleveland, a gold man who voted
for Mckinley, announces that he
will vote for Bryan this fall. I'm
perialism is given as his reason.
Mr.. Valentine, republican,
president of the Wells-Fargo Elk
press Co. will support Bryan.
Senator Wellington, republi-
can, will stump for Bryan this
year.
Elk Governor Boutell of Mass
achusetts, republican, will cam
paign for Bryan this fall.
! Ex-President Harrison, repub.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

You assume no risk when you
buy Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy. j. P.
Spalding will refund your money
if you are not satisfied after using
it. 1t is everywhere admitted to
be the most successful remedy in
use for bowel complaints and the
only one that never fails. 1t is
pleasant, safe and reliable. nov1
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

if elected, would employ the war
power of the government to en-.
force the mandates of martial
law in district in Idaho at
time when the civil courts were
in the unobstructed exercise of
their lawful authority, and where
the execution of civil process
was resisted, and that he would
enforce with the bayonets of the
federal soldiers permit system
depriving thousands of citizens
of their liberty, their labor and
their property without due pro-
cess of law, he would have pinn-
ed the placards of malicious
falsehood to the back of it's
author and denied the charge
with contumely and derision.
Why should not Mckinley
deny his tendency towards imp
erialism this year as Industrious
ly as he concealed his real inten-
tons from the public in 1896 !?
His only hope of reelection de-
ponds on his ability to deny sue
cessfully any sympathy for imp
erialism. But this year his pub.
lie record stares him in the face
and no denial he may make will
recommend his statements to the
confidence of the people. Why
then, I submit in questions to
the working people, should they
confide their liberties to him for
another four years or heed the
siren songs of his campaign man
ayers ? Why should join his
marching column in it's headlong
retreat from the well spring of
constitutional liberty to the royal
scepter of imperialism and plut-
ocracy Will the working
people fight for liberty and re-
fuse to vote for it ? Will they
show less virtue in the defense
of freedom under the glare of
domestic tranquility than they
do for bravery in the gloom of
DISSOLUTION and war ? Will they
be allured to slavery by the fac
ination of pomp and splendor in
campaign display, bought with
contributions from the minions
and benefciaries of Imperialism?
Will they be charmed by the
glow of exaggerated promises
until they blindly put their own
necks into the halter and their
limbs into the shackels to cring
and cover under the edicts of
military domination ? Not if
they understand the gravity of
the issue and the enormity of the
evil to be expunged.
| Working people are honest
though often deceived and after
twenty years labor in the field
of industrial freedom l leave the
issue of imperialism now con-
fronting them to their most seri-
Gus consideration and reflection
with the warning words of
Lincoln
"Those arguments that are
made, that the inferior races are
to be treated with as much allow
ance as they are capable of en-
Toying, that as much is to be
done for them as their conditions
will allow, are the arguments
that kings have made to enslave
people in all ages of the world. "
j. R. Sovereign, in Wallace
Tribune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Application for Pardon.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :

TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN -
Notice is hereby given that Albert Randle,
who was convicted OF the Crime Against Ma
ture at the October 1896, term OF the District
Court OF the Fourth Judicial District In Idaho,
held at Challis, in and for the County OF Custer,
Idaho, and who was sentenced to the Idaho
State Penitentiary for term Of 20 years, will
apply TO the Honorable Boald of Pardons, at
their regular meeting in October, 1900, for a
Pardon or Communication OF sentence.
ALBERT RANDLE.
First publication Aug. sist, 1900. VA
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

P. M. Bruner will stump Ida
no for McHanna this campaign.
Some one should start a new
political party in order that
Press" may join it two years
hence.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
NOTICE.
In the Probate Court of the County of Custer,

In the Probate Court of the County Of Custer,
State of Idaho.
In the Matter of the Estate
of
Sarah J. Dodge, Deceased
Notice is hereby given that Wednesday, the
bth day of September, A. D., 1900, at 10 O'Clock,
a. M, of said day at the Court room of said
Court at the Court house In Challis, Custer
county, State of Idaho, have been appointed as
the time and place for proving the will of said
Sarah j. Dodge deceased, and for hearing the
application OF Albert O. Bomar for the issuance
to him OF letters testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court,
GCn this 10th day of August A. D.,
c 1900.
J. G. FIrJNELL
Ex- Officio Clerk Of the
Probate Court.
Dated at Challis, idaho this 10th day of Aug
INST, 1900
First publication Aug. eist, 1900. wS
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
A. r. De Fluent. editor of IL

A. r. De Fluent, editor of the
Journal Doylestown, Ohio, suf-
Tered for q number of years from
Rheumatism in his right shoulder
aAAd side. He says my right
arm at times was entirely use
less. l tried Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, and was surprised to re-
ceive relief almost Immediately.
The Pain Balm has been a con-
slant companion of mine ever
since and it never fails" Sold by
j. 2. Spalding. sept.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

lican, will support Bryan. He is
opposed to the Porto Rico tariff.
Ex-Speaker Reed, republican,
cannot go Imperialism, and will
support Bryan.
Ex-Secretary Alger, republi-
can will support Bryan. He does
not love Teddy.
Carl Schurz, republican, the
great German leader and orator,
is campaigning for Bryan this
year. Germans are opposed to
militarism and Imperialism.
M. @. Collins, a banker and
lifelong republican of Peotone,
ILL.,, announces unqualified sup
port of Bryan this fall. He is
opposed to imperialism and mil
itarism.
James Alexander of Lockport,
ILL.,, another lifelong republican
and president of the Wills county
Farmers Institute, says that he
will support Bryan, that "Mc-
Kinley's policy is a dangerous
departure from republican insti-
tutions."
Former Governor Andrew J.
Felt, one of the leading republi-
cans of Kansas, announces that
he will support Bryan and the
democratic state ticket. He is
opposed to trusts.
Herman Mueller, prominent
German manufacturer of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, also quits the repub-
lican party. In an open letter to
Germans he says, "militarism
will soon create monarchy"
Paul G.. Schulz, of Cairo, Ill,
an old soldier and prominent
druggist, is out for Bryan. He
is afraid of militarism.
M. G. Church, of Parkersburg.
w. Va, one of the founders of
the republican party and for
four years editor of the Republi-
can State Journal, has issued an
open letter against Mckinley,
trusts and imperialism.
John Finerty, ex-Congressman
and leader of the Irish-Ameri-
cans, announces himself for
Bryan and says no self-respect-
ing Irishman can support the
foreign policy of Mckinley.
Alexander Elias, a prominent
republican and traveller says that
Bryan will be elected from what
he can learn on his trips through
different states and announces
his intention of supporting him.
Former District Judge J. A.
Barnett, of Caldwell, Kansas, has
left the republican party on &C
count of it's non-American prin,
ciples.
Ex-Mayor McKisson, of Cleve.
land, Jones of Toledo, Ohio, will
support Bryan.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Nye,
who has heretofore been g
staunch republican, will stump
Indiana for Bryan.
, Robert Roosevelt, cousin OF
Teddy, will support Bryan this
fall.
Rev. Father O'Brien of Toledo
Ohio, prominent Catholic priesr
J who was firm supporter of Nc
Kinley in 1896, has issued &
! statement condemning the lat
ter's policy in the Philippines.
Tom. Watson, the populisT
nominee for vice-president foul
years ago, will support Bryan
this fall.
Henry Watterson, Senator
German, and thousands of others
have joined the Bryan column
The above list only includes the
most prominent men that have
come out for Bryan during the
past week. BY the way they
are focking to him it now looks
as though democracy would
make a great sweep this fall.
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TIE Found the Lost Violin


T. -, AZ, III
"a. 'on '.. ''nSe ,no '"-
,asers hau hourheu WIN oiu feter. az
his beautiful daughter. Lolita, was laid
to her eternal rest, The old man had
not been himself since and On aean,x
had nj, loo. ,fy,o,o,, h,,, .ha. Mi,
''' A.i" uN ~
no" LIE Hah nos cared. ior the sake OF
his self-controi. to gather up her small
possessions and carefully Law them in
TIM or,;,. 81. ohrt o.. ,,.h;oh 10,
lno"Her had oeen cohsigned SO many
years ago. 1t was bitterly hard task,
but he felt that he must do it.
As one by one the tiny shoes and
dainty ribbons. all the belongings of a
-,
youns girl "hefe Kissed ana put away
Peter felt his eyes full OF tears. and his
heart breaking. An, here was the vio-
lin, 'Lotta's gour'-a poetic yiIlager
had c,traa it-.nd bar f,ther.s derigh.
:, -.
az" sue n@u H'sde IL sang o'y' laugh
at her will. How often had the age
stained walls Of Peters humble home
r,,np to ia nus;c--emse, solAnp cad
=, -,
ou"'iihe o'ei WIN Jo9' ueep WILL p''
sion, as Lotta would nave IT,
Peter reycrsutiy unrrapped the silken
fold, a,,,,t ;, ,na IS 10 a,d 81, HI, =,
nsnsr fa,i mt, h,e 49, On :. u.ara
tbesa ,ro,5s ' IN Iatt,.s writing
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-01

tracts. Washington, particularly. owing to
his personal knowledge of our western (vIr-
ginia) lands, was fortunate in his seiec-
tons.
Mr.. Jefferson acquired the bridge tract
in 1774. OF the bridge Itself, he wrote that
i. was worth trip across the ocean to see;
but for long time its inaccessbility
caused it to be seldom visited. even by our
own people. The construction of the old
James River and Kanawha Canal put it
near a highway Of travel Later railroad
lines came within a few miles OF 1t, and
now thousands visit it annually
Since JcffeTson's time the bridge has had
many owners. At one period it belonged
to the Hartman family. Col. Henry Clay
Parsons bought it about 1851. and formed
a stock company to run" It. His resi-
dence there led up to his death at the
hands of Conductor Goodman. at Clifton
Forge, en- June %. 1894. To what extent
he or his family held stock in the bridge
company at that time we are not Informed,
but the amount held is supposed to have
been considerable
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-01
curio.. sort. Of Plants.
(From Longman's Review

Il
Not few plants are as truly carnivor-
Gus as tiger. catching their prey. convert
| ing their structure for the time being into
| stomach. and digesting tho nutritious
parts Just as we do our dinner Our boys
and mountains are studded with the at
tractive little sundew (Drosera rotundifo-
liza and longifolial. From q Loose rosette
of bxttledore shaped leaves rises the .pani-
Gle of somewhat inconspicuoua flowers. The
leaves are thickly sprlnkled with bright
red tentacles, each crowned with tiny
drop OF sticky muciIage, which glitters in
the sun and gives to tho plant its name
But woe to the fly that is attracted by its
! beauty. Once let him light uron 1t, and
there is no escape; the mucila&o holds him
fast. There Is a story somewhere Of an
Engfishman who won a large sum at a
gambling house in Paris. Unwilling to walk
the streets at night with so large a sum
about him, he was persuaded to engage a
| room in a lodging house next door.
Fortunately for him.. he was too excited
to sleep. for in the still hours he suddenly
became aware that the tester of the bed
on which he was lying was slowly aid
silently descending to smother him The
feeling of the fly On the Sundev must be
somewhat similar to his. Equally slowly
and silently the tentacles which cover The
leaf fold themselves around him. and when
they expand again there Ia nothicg left of
the fly but the wings and the skin. the rest
having been assimlated by the leaf.
Another carnivorous plant Is the bladder
wort (Utricularia). 1t Is an aquatic plant.
wholly submerged. with the exception OF
the blossom and profugely furnished with
small bladderlike appendsses about the eize
Of snipe shot. The bladders arc open, and
the opening Is fringed with hairs pointing
inward like the wires OF rat trap. Tie
small animal organisms. whose number and
variety in a single drop of water when e1-
amined under the microscopes astouish ore,
can enter. but they cannot leave L.. There
and then they turn into vegetable.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-01
LOVE LETTERS TO ORDER.
The Curious Occupation OF Certain
Persons in Mexico.

Perhaps there is no more characteristic
sight in Mexico than the so-calied evan
gelists" vino ply their trade in the Plazueia
dc Belef1 and the PiaZuela of Santo Do
mingo. Those who operate in the former
spot make specially OF writing letters to
the inmates of the prison for their Hitter
ate relatives on the outside: but the
.evangciistas," who may be seen eny day
in the Pia2uela OF Santo Domingo, do
general business. They write love letters,
matchmaking letters. and all sorts OF let
ters for thosc who DO not know how to
write. at rate Of three. six, nine, or mora
cents. according to the length Of the mis-
sivc. They also undertake without extra
charge to writo ths address the enve}-
ope and to attach the required stamp but
for tho latter they make an extra charge
of 1 cent. It Is hardly necessary to state
that only very ignorant people. who are to-
tally unacGuainted even with tho simple
formalities OF mailing letter. IN addition
to not knowing now to write. lave recourse
to the evangc,istas for stamps.
One of the Santo Domingo eyangelistas
is new in prison mcditatins over the fact
that to defraud the Government even out
OF 5 cents may be very serious matter
in the eyes of the law. The name of the
eyangelsta is ]. P. Vasquez. His services
were engaged by Mrs. a. Ines Hernandez
to write !etter TO her husband, who Is
absent from the city. After he had writ
ten the letter Vasquez asked Mrs. Her
nandsz il she wanted a stamp. On her
asserting ne attached scent stamp and
collected 6 cents in addition to his regular
charge for writing the letter.
With the addressed and stamped envel
ope Mrs. Hernandez went to the branch
postoffice in the exiaduana building and
not knowing in which box to drop it asked
the postal inspector, Manuel Espinosa who
happsQed TO be in the po3tofficc, for IN
formation on the subject Mr. Espincsa
took ths letter TO read the address and
was about to return il to~Mrs. Hernandez
when he noticed that the color of tie
stamp was extremely dim. BY still closer
scrutiny he discovered that the stamp had
been already Cancelled and tie faintness OF
color vas due to 4 chemical treatment that
had been applied for the purpose Of effac-
ing the ink OF the seal.
The inspector asked the Hernandez wo-
man from whom she had bought the
stamp and size led him to the stand OF the
evangelism from whom she had made the
purchase. The evangelista at first denied
having sold the stamp 10 the woman. but
rs two other women who had been pres
ent testified that they had seen him sell
the stamp, he was taken to the police
station and from there to Beiem. His
offence is much more serious one than
appears on the surface.
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more thiuly clad than was wise. and with
his white hair strangely disordered above
his fine dark eyes. stepped into Marci's
little shop and requested leave to exam
Inc his newest lot OF viollns. Tho amiable
Italian was only to glad to have the ssgnor
look over all the viOlins that came In.
and this was Gottfried's one dissipation
He soon became absorbed in it, and Marci
hung on his words of approval or criti-
cisnn. meaning to save some phrases to
repeat to prospective customers.
This one,'' he would say, ''is very
beautifully modeled-notice the neck.
but not so old as 1t is dated. And this
as he drew the bow over the strings,
"a noble instrument, and OF beautiful
tone. Genuine. too, rare thing. All.
The tone was Enthusiastically one OF rap
ture.
Gottfried had taken up an exquisite lit
tie VIOLIN and was almost caressing 1t in
his excitement. His eyes glistened. and
his breath came fast. II have found IT..
hc gasped, and tried 1t with his bow.
weird and most beautiful melody vibrated
from the dusty strings. and Gottfried play
ed. unconscious OF everything. Now low
and wonderfully sweet, now piercinsiy
high and tense with passion. now dreamy
and full Of love, the language OF the mans
heart sung wildly out In the voice OF the
violin
Gottfried bent yet lower over it. while
1t mournful response flied tho dark little
shop. and Marci silenced his loquzcious
wife before she could interrupt the won
derful playing. Tho listeners stood as IL
fascinated. while the music swelled louder
and louder with the violinist's grief. Sud-
denly Gottfried stopped playing; he look
ed up. and sort of glory made his wrin-
killed. facS beautiful. "Lottai Lottai" he
cried. in wonder, and stretched out ons
trembling hand. Then he fell forward on
the noor-dead. with the marvellous smile
on his face The violin lay beside him.
broken into hundred pieces-Lon Angeles
Times.