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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
Look to the YarletIes.

Too little attention is paid by most
of our cultivators to the varieties of
grain or other things they grow. They
get hold of one or two varieties that
seem to satisfy them and look no fur
Their. Yet in the varieties there are
great differences of yields per acre.
The farmer should give more attention
to this matter. We might take as an
illustration the experience of the Kan
sas Agricultural College with Kafir
corn. For seven years they had grown
the red Kafir corn and liked it. 1t gave
a good crop each year. On the eighth,
ninth and tenth years they, however,
grew by the side of the red the black
hulled white. In 1896 the yield of red
was Al bushels to the acre, and of the
black-hulled white 4S bushels, and In.
1897 the yields were the same. In
1898 red yielded % bushels and the
black-hulled white 33 bushels. AS
result of these figures the college set
tied down to growing the black hulled
white. 1t was the wise thing to do.
But would they ever have done it il
they had not grown both varieties side
by side and discovered the advantage
of the one over the other? What is
true in this case is true of all farm
crops. We should grow only the most
productive varieties, and that can be
ascertained only by growing plats of
several varieties of kind. Thus, if
man is growing wheat, let him select
a number of varieties that have done
the best at our experiment stations
and grow them in plats for years. In
the meantime he can be growing the
one that he believes to be most pro-
ductive. The same applies to all other
crops.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
mixed Emotions.

To illustrate the feeling of Ireland
toward the predominant partner, an
actor who has lately been touring, tells
the story OF an old waiter in a Dub
lin hotel. when are you going to
get home rule in Ireland, John?" was
the question. See We here, sorr," said
the old man, "the only way Wen get
home rule for ould Ireland will be if
France-an Russia-an' Germany-an'
Australian maybe Italy-if they
would all join together to give those
blaygiards of English a rare good hid
ing. That's the only way wen get
home rule, anyway Then, as he
looked cautiously round, twinkle of
cunning and smile of courtesy we're
added to his expression. "And the
whole lot Of EN- showed together could
MT do it, he said. "Oh-it's the grand
navy we've got!"-The London
Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31


After a long winter many of us are
too impatient for spring to wait for the
swelling of the buds, the opening of
the early flowers, and the springing of
the grass. Several weeks lie between
the end of winter and the truly genial
spring days, and during this interval
we look for something to herald the
settled spring season. And the thing
which gives us that for which we are
unconsciously looking, more than all
other signs, is the arrival of the birds.
Almost any warm day in early March
we may hear a thin, clear "tsssss" in a
high piping key, and on looking up, see
from one to five black birds. about the
size of orioles, flying in a strange undu-
lating manner-some up and some
down, with the wings held close to
their sides during the drop in their
flight. They are cow-birds. The flock
may swirl into the top of a tree and sit
close together. If this happens within
eyeshot, stop and watch them for a
moment. One or two of the males are
almost certain to utter the ridiculous
song of the Species which, like that of
their relatives, the grackles. is accom-
plished by the most grotesque of ac-
TONS The bird spreads its wings to
their utmost, spreads and elevates the
tail, stretches its neck upward and
forward, and then, quivering and tot
tering, nearly falls forward off the
perch. The mellow flute notes of the
meadow-lark float to us from the mid
die of some large, open field, and are
among the most beautiful bits of bird
music we ever hear. They are not to
be represented by notes, and can only
be most inadequately described. There
is great variation in the sequence of
notes, but all are beautifully clear and
ringing, and have a decided tinge of
what would be sadness if it were not
SO sweet. The bird flies in very char
acteristic manner, never raising the
wings above the plane of the back.
and when seen below the horizon line
always shows the white feathers in the
tail. His saffron breast and black
breastmark seldom show on the living
DlruS, ana the mottled brown back is
wonderful safeguard against his many
overhead enemies. Along the banks of
some lake or stream, sitting idly on a
telegraph pole or wire, rising and set
Ting, elevating and depressing his
long, parted topknot, a patriarchal old
kingfsher may be seen silently await
ing the CLEAN of a sinner in the water
below. Or perhaps, you may first see
him flying like a big woodpecker.
screaming his chattering cry, high in
the air, or scaling perilously close to
the water under the fringing hemlock
branches that overhang the stream.
His large size, slate-blue back, loud
notes and characteristic flight make
him hard bird to mistake.-Louis
Agassiz Feurtes in Cornell Nature
Leahet.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

Good grades are much more reliable
breeders than are crosses and are to
be preferred. The native stock has the
yigor of constitution, which is always
necessary, and has no inherited pre-
potency to develop in any certain
direction. When mated with a pure
blood, the result is usually an animal
with the vigor of the native ancestor
ana the characteristics of the pure.
blood parent shown in its better form
and fattening qualities. Succeeding
crosses in the same direction strength.
en- this tendency toward Improvement,
The great objection to grading up"
in this way is the fact that. no matter
how fine specimens the animals may
be, they can never be sold as pure
floods, and an animal which is a grade
will never sell for breeding at as high
a price as will one which is of pure
blood and entitled to registration. The
man who intends to follow hog raising
DIS business, even if he does not keep
more than a dozen animals, will find
1t both profitable and economical to
buy a pair of pure-bloods, and then
make his entire drove pure-bloods as
soon as he can raise enough desirable
animals. By buying young boar and
SOW already in pig by boar not re-
lated to the one purchased, the boar
can be USED on the offspring of the
pure-blood SOW as well as upon the
grades or natives N the herd, and in
this way the pure-boods can be in
creased so rapidly that there will soon
be no need to keep the grades. The
hog raiser should certainly use pure
blood boar, and it win usually pay to
buy o new one each year, so that in
breeding may be avoided. blood
hogs are not necessarily expensive.
They pay best in the end, and so are
more profitable than either crosses or
grades. Good animals, though not the
best, OF any of the standard breeds can
be purchased for from So to $40 each
when weaned, while young sows in
pig can be bought for from $40 to $40.
OF course older animals which show
specially fine qualities will cost more,
and their better qualities will often
make them the more profitable in the
end. Breeders who have established
regulations as producers of exception
ally fine animals usually receive much
higher prices than those named above,
but often man who raises hogs for
production of pork only, and who does
not care for a reputation as a breeder,
will sell good breeding animals for lit
tie more than their pork Values. M.
Tracy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

with incandescent lamps. The inte-
rior horizontal dimensions of the cab
met are 91a by Az feet, with a height
of about feet. The bottom side walls
and the ceilings are lined with rec
tangular plate glass mirrors, between
which are narrow wooden strips with
porcelain sockets for the incandescent
lamps In the lower half of the cab
met there are 60 lamps, and in the up
per there are SO. The cabinet is care
fully insulated to prevent the radia-
ton of neat. The door of the cabinet
is in two parts, the lower one being
lined with mirrors on the inside and
the top one formed of clear glass. The
temperature varies from ITO to 40 de-
grees Fahrenheit, says the Western
Electrician. The electric light bath is
used for the treatment of nervous dis
eases, Brights disease and fatty de-
generation of the heart, There are on
ly two similar baths in tn country.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
THE NAMES OF SOUTH african TOWNS

is the original grant from the Mexl-
can government. made in 1868 to j.
r. Leese and others Of 100000 acres
Of land in Lower California for col
onizing purposes At the time the
grant was made Mexico was in state
of war and Leese's associates found it
difficult to induce colonists to go
there. A further contract was made
with the Mexican government by
which Leese paid 100000 fer the land
upon the condition that If he failed
to colonize because of the war the
government was to return $4,000 of
the amount. This amount has never
been paid. ]. r. Leese received a deed
from his father, assigning one-eighth
of the entire 100000 acres, and it is
this as well as the s50,OOOOoO for
which he is fighting He intends to
move at once through the state de-
partment in Washington for recogni-
ton of his claim.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

empire builders of Great Britain of
recent times.
Only two Of that group of great men
which have given their names to deco
rate the map OF South Africa, however,
are alive today. The one is Cecil
Rhodes, of Rhodesia, and the other is
the Earl OF Kimberley who at the
time of the discovery of the famous
diamond mines which have been
named after him was the colonial sec
rotary of Great Britain.
Sir John Charles Molento. who gave
his name to the African coal mining
district called Molento, was born in
London early in the century, and went
out to the Cape in 1881 There he
took part in the relief of Blockdrift
during the Kafir war of 1916 and was
a member of the first Cape government
eight years later. He afterwards serv-
ed as colonial secretary and as pre-
mier, receiving his title four years be-
fore his death, which took place in
1886.
Colenso gets It's name from Bishop
Colenso, one OF the most interesting
ecclesiastical figures Of the nineteenth
century. As theologian his origin
ality OF thought caused him to be look
cd upon with disfavor by many of his
church brethren in England As a
mathematician, however, his researches
were both profound and valuable, and
as a publicist he was usually to be
found on the side of the conservative
thinkers. Many years of devoted labor
as bishop Of Natal caused even his en-
emies to respect his name, and he quite
deserved such recognition as he re-
ceived at the hands OF the atlas max
ers.
Frere is named after Sir Bartle
Frere, who once formed a spoke in the
political wheel of Gladstone, though,
unlike his leader, he was little in
clined twenty years ago to grant indie
pendence to the Transyaalers. For
some times he was high commissioner
in South Africa.
1t was Sir Harry Smith who gave his
name to The town Of Harrismith, while
his wife, Lady Smith, has a fair chance
Of one form Of Immortality because of
the fact that the military head
quarters Of Natal has been
named after her Lady Smith
was Spanish lady who took
refuge in the British lines at the siege
of Badaios and there she met the Eng
lish officer who later became her hus-
band and so indirectly caused her to be
put upon the atlas.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

A little girl in Dublin has thought
of bright plan for doing good. She
has suggested that every child in the
United Kingdom by the name of Doro-
thy, which is her own pretty name, Of
course, shall contribute one shilling to-
ward the establishment of a child's
bed in certain hospital. This sug
gestion has already met with enthu-
slasm by many children, and the
Dorothy fund" will probably be more
than enough for the purpose intended.
The proposal of this little girl has
awakened interest in other children al
SO, and Mary and Marjorie collec-
lions have also been started, with in
dications of future success. This is a
good thought and worthy of attention.
and the little girl who first proposed
1t has doubtless started plan that
will be far reaching in its results.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
Flow Certain Places Became Known as
They Are Now Called.

many o fthe names on the map of
South Africa are written in blood, as
all the world in general and the Brit
ish empire in particular very well
know. Now that the world is getting
so well filled up men and women do
not easily give their names to new
towns and countries. and heroes and
celebrities nowadays have to be con-
tent, as a rule, to godfather avenues
and streets. But during the South Az
rican war there have been certain
names that have occurred again and
again-such names as Kimberley.
Frere, Colenso, Ladysmith, Molento
Harrismith-which are serving to
commemorate the fame OF different
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

Long ago, when the first child was
small, juvenile books were few in the
home, but child's paper was sub
scribed for and its pages read to the
little ones long before they could read
themselves. Its weekly coming was
looked forward to with a pleasure
equal to that with which new book
in daintiest binding is welcomed now
and we believe that the taste now
evinced by the grown up children OF
this family dates from the days when
their mother interpreted the mysteri-
GUS printed pages to their childish
minds. When these children could
read a monthly paper and an occasion
al book provided their much-prized
reading material, we believe that the
very scarcity Of such matter made it
more highly appreciated. Now their
collection Of books is larger, but the
younger ones are encouraged to read
by the interest the older ones display,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

NofA"tf"fefE
Merry little urchins, full Of fun and
noise,
Not care or trouble. Happy little
boys!
Through my open window, summer
breezes straying,
Brings the shouts OF school boys with
their marbles playing.
Watch the little fellow; hear him
gaily jest,
He is very lucky, winning from the
rest.
I hear a girls voice saying: TON,
you must not play
And keep the marbles that you win.
What will mamma say?"
"Oh," replies young Tommy, with a
happy smile.
As he adds more marbles to his grow
ing pile,
"Nobody's a-cheatin', we're all a-play-
in fair.
And I'm almost certain mamma would
care.
So the game continues. Tommy still
is winning.
And he never questions whether he is
SHINING.
Tommy's luck is changing, and the
happy smile
Leaves his face as quickly as rAe mar
bles leave his pile.
Now the game is ended, and he counts
the cost:
Crockeries, bibs and agates, all, Oh, all
are lost!
"Give me back my marbles" Tommy
wildly weeps.
Mamma says it's wicked When you
play for keeps"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
Youthful Diplomacy.

The grocery man on the corner re-
lates that couple of days ago a little
girl entered his emporium and timidly
laying down dime asked for 10 cents
worth of candy.
It's for papa" she said. 81 want to
'sprise him when he comes home"
The grocery man proceeded to dig
out some Of his stock, when the little
girl interposed.
Don't give me that kind. Give me
caramels, just love caramels."
But l thought these were for papa"
the grocery man remarked.
know, explained the little girl,
but when | give them to papa he'll
Just kiss me and say that cause I'm
such a generous little girl he'll give
them all back to me. So you'd better
give me caramels. Memphis Scimi-
tar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
give the HOG Comfort.

, 1t pays to make the hog as comfort
able as possible. Do not think be-
cause he has thick hide-because he
belongs to the order pachydermata-
that therefore he will endure all kinds
of weather and all kinds of treatment
as to his comfort and still return a
profit for his keeping Some IF us
have come to regard the hog as a col
lector of all refuse and an endurer Of
all hardships. No matter how much
I've there is in the dishwater, it is good
enough for the hog. One would think
that the hog had found a use for soap,
the way it is sometimes fed to him.
The dirty sty under the stable is not
the place for a respectable hog. There
is no reason to be surprised if hogs
treated as some treat them take dis
ease and die. Give the hog good feed
and clean abiding place. He will
repay the cost with good interest.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

A wild man was captured in the hills
near Plum Fork, KY, few days ago.
He had been seen a number Of times
by different persons, but all efforts to
capture him had proved fruitless until
Mr. Louis Brown, farmer, set two Of
his strongest wolf traps at a cave
where the man had been sleeping. He
wsa caught in both traps by the nose
and right hand When Mr. Brown
found him he was trying to loose the
trap from his nose, but when ne saw
MIR. Brown he set up a most dismal
howl and attempted to rum He was
released and confined in a stable be-
longing to Mr.. William Rice. For
several days he would not speak, but
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

he was finally induced to talk. He
said his name was Levi Brewer and
that he was raised near Warfeld on
the Big Sandy. He appears frightened
when strangers approach, but quiets
down when he finds they do not intend
to hurt him. His nails on his hands
and feet are like the talons of an
eagle, and he is completely covered
with hair lie told the writer that he
had supported himself by fishing and
catching game with his hands.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

of Boston, Mass, died a year later he
was penniless. Stevenson purchased
real estate on borrowed money and full
ly 10 pages of the index books of the
Suffolk county registry of deeds are
taken up with mortgages in his name
between 1885 and 1895. In this way he
managed to build up large fortune
on paper. Not until after his death.
when lawyers began to stralghten out
his affairs. did his friends get an ink
ling of the true state Of affairs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

Ii you can spell every wcrd correctly
IN the following rhymes-all legitim-
ate expressions-you may consider
yourself qualified to enter a spelling
bee:
Stand IN, we spoilers, now and SPELL
Spell phenakistoscope and knell;
Or take some simple work as chilly,
Or gauger or the garden lily,
To spell such words as syllogism,
And lafchrymose and synchronism,
And Pentateuch and saccharine,
Apocrypha and celadine,
Jepnine and homeopathy.
Paralysis and chloroform,
Rhinoceros and pachyderm,
Metempsychosis, gherlcins, basque,
Is certainly no easy task.
Kaleidoscope and Tennessee,
Kamchatka and erysipelas,
And etiquette and sassafras,
Infallible and ptyalism,
Allopathy and rheumatism,
And cataclysm and beleaguer,
Twelfth, eighteenth, rendezvous, in
triguer,
And hosts of other words all found
On English and on classic ground,
Thus, Behring Straits and Michaelmas,
Thermopylae, jalap, Havana,
Cinquefoil and ipecacuanha
And Rappahannock, Shenandoah,
And Schuylkill and a thousand more,
Are words some prime good spoilers
miss
In dictionary land like this
Nor need one think himself scloyle.
If some of these his efforts foil.
Nor deem himself undone forever.
To miss the name of either river.
The Dneiper, Seine or Guadalquivlr.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

Dear Friends Here is something
about a Florida city; the houses in
ST. Augustine are built of coquinl
There is an island called Anastasia,
which has a lighthouse on it. 1t is
called Ponce de Icons barber pole. il
is striped red and white. They call it
that because a Spaniard by that name
hunted there for a fountain that the
Indians told him about They said
there was a magic fountain, and that
if any man would drink out of il he
would become well and strong forever.
In the middle Of the city there is a
building called the old stone market,
where they used to sell slaves. There
are three principal hotels. One Of
them is named the Ponce de Leon. 1t
has S75 rooms in it. The next is the
Cordova, and the next is the Alcazar.
They are each built around a court.
There are beautiful palm trees by tho
hotels. There are flowers and trop-
ical fruits there also. There is a man
in st. Augustine who has lot of tame
birds. He has taught a crane to
dance Sometimes if he feels in the
humor for it he will dance for COM
pany.
Josephine Holloway Is years ODD.
kirkland School, Chicago"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

"You should try to be a little more
gentle Reginald said the mother of
an obstreperous six-year-old. THE
Bible tells us that the meek shall in
herit the earth, you know" "And
what good would. it do me?" snorted
the injured spirit, wrathfully. You'd
make me put it in the bank or send it
to the heather, or divy it up with sis
ter Sue, or lay it away to use on sun
days"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

One day the teacher told little Mary
that when she was reading and saw
two "o's" or two "e's" or two "Fs" to-
gether' or any two letters, she should
call them double 0, double g. dosble :
and the like Mary has a very good
memory, so the next day when she saw
tne llne up up, high flies the bird"
sne read 1t, Double up flies the bird"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
The Hnner Roc.

Awake, little mortals.
No harvest for those
Who waste their best hours
In slothful repose
come our, come out, to the morning
All bright things belong
ana listen while, and listen while
10 the honey bees song;
Merrily singing, busily winging,
INDUSTRY ever its own reward bringing.
Barry Cornwall.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

by some member reading aloud, and by
being made the possessor of some
much discussed book. But the whole
ma<ter summed up is that If we wish
10 make the greatest possible use of
literature in the work of education. we
must begin where most good things do
begin-away back in childhood at
home.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

1t does not look as if there would
be much room for the Boer farmers
with their herds and floclls that some
of the South African correspondents
think will want to come to America.
One railroad company, whose head
quarters are in Omaha, reports land
sales to cattle companies aggregating
207,5SS acres. All these sales were
made in January and represent tracts
in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Ne
braska.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
ELECTRIC LIGHT BATH.
insulated Cabinet Prevents Radiation of
Heat.

In one of the hospitals in Chicago
there is an interesting electric light
bath, which is essentially a large
wooden box,the walls and top Of which
are lined with mirrors and studded
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

Had Fortune OF s1,5oo.OoO on paper.
Assessed for almost 81 100000 in real
estate in 1897, the announcement is
now made that when James Stevenson
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ton, set the men to work filing the
boxes with sand They were then piled
on top of one another, like bricks, and
the entire camp was inclosed within
good high wall Of this unique for..n-
cation. The accompanying picture,
from photograph, gives a good idea
of what Orange river camp looked like
when taus boxed in.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31

Steel ties have been successfully used
on the Mexican Southern Railway for
the last eight years
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-31
claims a BIC sIlee Of Land.

A paper Of International Importance
has been received from London from
Mr.. ]. r. Leese OF Monterey, Cal. 1t