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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

The powerful influence exerted by
trivial circumstances receives new en-
phasis In the fact that the officials of
the United States treasury regard the
recent petition for the coinage of half
cents as fresh indication of business
prosperity. Since billion cents are
already in circulation, and since there
is q monthly coinage of four millions
more, the supply of small change is
certainly not scanty. There are two
sides to the question of adding the new
tempted to convince Darwin OF the
superiority of the American over the
English currency system. II cannot
agree with you," replied the evolution
list "To me money naturally divides
itself into pounds, shillings and
pence" While the American smiles he
still cherishes belief that the natural
subdivision of money stops at the cent!
BY the pneumatic hammer the mar
ble-carver can strike six thousand
hand, and thus can give his whole at
tention and skill to guiding the chlsel
Mechanical power is bringing to the
horse the emancipation which 1t has
brought to the artisan. And yet, as a
scientist recently said to sportsman
who feared that the horse will fall into
disuss, Automobiles will not displace
horses until typewriters dispIace pr
amos" In their proper field the no
blest of animals will never go out OF
fashion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

The politicians may as we'll proceed
to line up on the theory that 1t will
be Mckinley and Somebody at Phila-
delphia. and Bryan and Somebody at
Kansas City.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

John w. Gates sailed for Europe the
other day, which is reminder of how
times have changed. twenty-five
years ago he would have gone to
Canada.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

1t Is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we are made
to know how much dross there Is in
ear composition.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

run another engine. But 1 stand six
feet five inches, and was young in
those days. don't know exactly what
happened. and am sure some of the
coaches had new drivers next day.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07
MEN TO BRAVE DEATH.
THEY GO TO THE DEADLiEST
SPOT ON EARTH.

England Sends Them to Their Fate =
Experiment to BE FRIED In abe la
terest of Science Hope TO Escape
Death.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

With time and patience the mulberry
leaf becomes silk, which in turn be-
comes a woman.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

Some men can't find words for their
Mhoughts and some women can't find
thoughts for their words.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

One who spends money imprudenti,
Ia not apt to have money to spend pru.
IDENTIFY.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

Dangerous Butter Colors.-Reporta
from Montrose, S. D., say that child
OF Christopher Myers recently died
there from drinking butter color. The
bottle was left within reach. and the
child got hold of it and drank some.
A physician was called, but the child
expired in great agony. Some of the
cheaper butter eolors contain arsenic,
but are represented by the companies
that make them as heinz harmless.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

Take care of your health while yea
have 1t, not after 1t is gone.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

Our Cheese Exports.-Th United
States has been trying hard to get
some better hold of the European and
especially the English market for a
number of years. There was a time
when the cheesemakers of the United
States had big trade in England, but
it gradually disappeared with the ad-
vent in the United States of the process
of making filed cheese. For the past
four years the figures for our export
OF cheese to Great Britain are as fol-
lows: 1896, $4,000 cwt.; 1897, 631. 600
cwt.; 1898, 4S5,OOO cwt.; 1899, $4,000
cwt. 1t should be remarked that the
cheesemakers of this country made a
gain last year of 10000 cwt. exported
to Great Britain, while the Canadians
lost $4,000 cwt. in their export trade.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-07

A Suspicious Academia Chicago
manufacturer of oleomargarine shipped
a good deal of that product into New
York state. He was promptly prose-
cuted and fines aggregsting over ST.
100000 were placed on court records
against him. The evidence was con-
tanned in the bills of lading of a GER
tain large railroad. Now, the railroad
informs the attorney-gen of New
YORK that 1t thought that the cases
were settled and so destroyed all the
bills of lading. The state therefore IS
left without evidence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
whistle SIxty-Five Miles Long.

An odd incident occurred lately on
the Chicago & Northwestern railway
at Highland Park, ILL.,, reports the Mil
waukee Sentinel. As the engineer OF
the train which reaches Milwaukee at
II o'clock blew the whistle the valve
broke and he was unable to shut of
the steam from the noisemaker. From
Highland Park to Milwaukee, dis
lance of about 65 miles, there was not
a moment when the whistle was not
sounding full strength. 1t could be
heard for miles away as the train came
on in a long, continuous, shrill sound
and at every city and village people ran
to their doors to learn what was hap
pening. While the whistle was blowing
the fireman was straining every nerve
to keep the steam up to the running
point, and succeeded in bringing the
train into the station on time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
THE QUEENS PIPE.

Until about 1853 it used to be charged
and lighted once year. All the to-
bacco that INSCRIPTIONS folk attempt
ed to bring into the kingdom with
out the formality of paying duty
thereon and which was pounced upon
by her majesty's alert customs Off
Gals was dumped into that furnace
and burnt offering made of it. The
customs people of to-day say "all"
with perfect gravity, and they shook
their heads severely when 1 frivolous
ly limited that some brands OCCASION
ally might have been saved from the
burning for the private delectation OF
their predecessors in office.
There used to be some absurd old
formality that had to be gene through
with when the tobacco was burned
just what, nobody now can tell-but
the whole business was done away with
long ago, and the captured smoking
miXtures"-which last year amounted
to 6,115 pounds-are put to better use
Lunatics and bugs get the benefit of
them. The first are in the government
asylums for the criminal insane, the
latter have their local habitations
among the plants in the Royal Botani-
cal and the Kew gardens. Neither the
lunatics nor the bugs get cigars these
are sold at public auction in Mincing
lane-but the best OF the captured
smoking tobacco is served out to the
inmates of the three great British in
situations mentioned.
The greater part of all this tobacco,
practically the whole of it, in fact,
comes from Holland and Germany,
and is brought by the lowest class of
common sailors, who try to run" the
tobacco, either for their own enjoy
ment on land, as a gift to their friends,
or to sell to small dealers, and it is
almost invariably of the poorest quail
ity. The sailors methods of hiding the
tobacco are frequently original and
crafty, but the customs "rummagers,"
as they are called, have proved them
selves even more astute, bringing the
carefully secreted stores to light with
10 much ease that the army of petty
smugglers is gradually becoming dis
couraged. Of course, every one of the
detected men is Drought up" and
fined, and, while ten years ago the
yearly bag of seafaring men with I'M
righteous procliyities used to be near
Iy 1890, it has now shrunk to 1900.
Although 100000 worth of tobacco is
captured for "the queens pipe" the
government doesn't make much, if
anything, out of the transaction, for il
has to keep perfect army of officials,
boatmen, etc, to attend to the Job of
detection, 5000 of them in all. Every
ship that comes into England, no mat
ter from what port she halls, or who is
aboard of her, is searchedlfo smuggled
tobacco and spirits, and the majority
Of the culprits are run to earth at
Hull, Southampton, Folkestone, Graves
end and the other ports of merchant
men from the continent. Ships from
America rarely offend in this direction.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
For DowerIess Maidens.

The bequest with a medieval flavor
about it is that given by the marquis
of Butte to the township of Cardiff,
Wales, for the benefit of deserving but
1owerless maidens. The interest on
6 1000 is annually awarded to some
girl of the working classes on her mar
riage. The candidate has to be nomi-
mated by member of the corporation,
and has also to prove her right to the
dover by means of good conduct. APP
plications have to be sent in by March
81, but up to ten days ago not solitary
candidate had presented her creden-
tials. Last year domestic servant
was the fortunate recipient of the
money. The question is now asked:
"Can the war, and the consequent
dearth of eligible males, have anything
to do with the lack of even a solitary
spplicant?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14

an column. A senatorship was az
stake, and he succeeded in carrying
the legislature against the democrats,
resulting in the election of Anthony
Higgins to Eli Saulsbury's seat in the
upper house.
AS reward powerful movement
was set on foot to have Mr.. Barker
appointed secretary of the treasury by
President Harrison. This honor might
have been paid him had it not been
known even then that his financial
views, which caused his bolt in 1896,
were not in accordance with repub-
lican doctrine.
Since 1868 he has been a member of
the banking house founded by Abra-
ham Barker, having entered it when
aged about 30.
In 1887 Mr.. Barker became widely
known as the American hacker of
Count Mitkiewicz, who claimed to
have secured concession from Ii
Hung Chang for the establishment in
China of a bank with $20OOO,OO0 capt.
tai, half to be held by Americans and
the other half by Chinese capitalists.
Mr.. Barker is the founder of the
Investment of Philadelphia and the
Finance company of the same city,
with combined capital OF $4,000, 900.
AS a side issue he established the
American in 1880, and ever since has
given that weekly his personal atten-
fiOn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Jones-"I hear he got all the negro
vote" Johnston-'Yes, instead of
running for Office he cakewalked."-
Kansas City Independent.
When a man is a chronic sufferer
from Indigestion he ought never to
eat any part of a doughnut but the
hole in the middle of it.-Somerville
Journal.
81 understand that he was under
cloud because he stole an umbrella"
"Ges; and he stole the umbrella be-
cause he was under a d."-Harv-
ard Lampoon.
Il can't imagine a woman marry
ing a prize-fighter." TOO brutal?"
81 should say. Why, he would never
give her a chance to talk!"-Philadel-
phia north American.
Wunder-'Do you and your wife
ever have an argument?" Hen Peck
"Oh, no. When she gets through talk
ing l have forgotten what we were
discussing. "-Baltimo American.
"This," said the sergeant of marines
who was showing her over the battle
ship; "this is the quarterback"
"Oh!" she exclaimed, feeling for her
purse, 81 thought it was all free. =
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Greene-'So Sometimes, don't you
know, begin to think that Thomas
married me for my money" Mrs.
Gray-"Oh, well, you know there is
always a reason for every marriage"
Boston Transcript.
Unspeakable terror was written
upon every lineament of the murdered
woman's face. "Ha! A clew!" ex-
claimed the yellow reporters, as with
one voice. Writing experts were sum-
moned at once. These unhesitating-
ly declared that the terror had been
written by one John Smith, Esq. an
obscure lawyer, and he was accord
ingly electrocuted.-Detr Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
ESCORTS FOR GIRLS.
A Company Has Been Formed in Chi
caGO for the Purpose of Pro-
viding Them.

Some South side girls have started
an association to furnish escorts for
women. Incorporation papers have
been drawn up and filed, says the
Chronicle.
As to the name of the company the
young ladies are very sensitive, and
one would hardly dare hazard a
guess. The young ladies range in age
from II years to %, and the purpose
of their company is to supply an es-
cort at any time of day and as late
at night as responsibility will per-
nit.
The method to be employed is a
safe and practical one.
The first meeting was held in the
office Of the well-known pa of one
of the young misses on Jackson boule-
ward and Dearborn street last week.
One member consented to say: eve
are going to have an office in a prom
inent building in the neighborhood of
State and Washington streets, where
the elevators run all night, and will
employ boys who are from 16 to 20
years of age. They will be uniformed
in a dark-blue cloth sack coat. The
trousers will be tight-ftting and have
a stripe of white down the side seams
The coat will be single breasted with
a front like that of fatigue coat of
an army officer. The cap will be soft
blue, with a visor running well around
like those the navy officers wear.
eve will subscribe enough money
to pay the expenses for three months.
We will engage only good, bright
boys who have parents they have to
help support. We will start with ten
that we have already engaged. The
boys will be in charge of a wom-
an. There will be two women en-
ployed as overseers. One will be on
duty from seven a. m. until five p. m,
the other from five p. m. until mid
night.
THE women have been stenograph-
ers and have been in similar bust
ness before. The escorts will be for
the use of the members only. We have
IS members, and each member must
pay into the treasury of the company
for an escort at the rate of 25 cents
an hour and the car fare. and that
ought to put it on a paying basis.
There will be call boxes from our
houses TO the office"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
THE QUEENS PIPE"
Queer Old Oven Where Confscated
Tobacco Was Burned.
Yields Twenty Thousand Dollars Per
Year to the British Government
"Details About n Furnace
with History.

If it were a favorite pastime with
the American newspaper reader to
plod through the weighty reports of
the various branches of the British
government he might one day be as
tonished and panied by alighting on
this off-hand entry: Queens pipe,
$4,000"
Probably his first sensation would
be twofold, a mingling of regret at
learning that her majesty was the vic
tim of the tobacco habit, and of SUR
prise that no attempt is made at
hushing up the sad matter, instead of
blazoning it forth as if it were
source of national pride.
But his surprise over these two
points would be small thing beside
that which he would feel upon real
izing the extent of the sum apparent
ly exhausted in gratifying the queens
unfortunate appetite-$20, 900 a year.
If he looked again, to make sure, his
bewilderment would only be increased
by the discovery that this large sum
was set down, not as an expense, but
as a revenue.
AS a matter of fact, says the Gin
cinnati Commercial, it is revenue,
and that item of $4,000 doesn't mean
that the queen of England is either so
luxurious or so energetic a smoker as
the mention of this sum in connection
with her pipe" would seem to indi-
cate.
Her majesty's admirers may be of
good cheer-her pipe" has been out
for 40 years, although it can be seen
yet by the curious. Few people do see
it, however, and, beyond those who
work around it, few even know where
it is.
The queens pipe is a mysterious
old square furnace down in the under
ground recesses of the customs build.
ing in Billingsgate, on the Thames,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
CHARLES W. F. DICK.
National Committee Is, of Course,
an Ohio Man.

Maj. Charles W. f. Dick, of Akron, o.,
secretary of the republican national
committee, has long been a factor in
Ohio politics, and has had much ex-
perience in campaign management. He
was born in 1857. He passed through
the public schools and began his bust
ness career as clerk in mercantile es-
adjustment in his native city. Suisse
quently he became teller of the Citi-
zens' Savings and Loan association, and
was interested in vGrious business en-
terprises. He has been an active re-
publican since reaching his majority,
and he was elected auditor of Summit
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14

county in 1856. He was reelected three
years later. He was for years a mem
Der of the republican county commit
tee and as chairman three times con-
Quoted successful campaigns. He was
prominent in the republican national
convention of 1892, to which he was
delegate. AS chairman of the repub-
lican state executive committee he
showed fine ability and was given much
of the credit of rolling up the great ma
jorities given Maj. Mckinley when rum
ming for governor. Maj. Dick has been
frequently proposed for a candidate
for governor, but has declined to make
the run. He won new honors as the
right hand man of Mark Hanna at Chi
cago during the last campaign. Presi-
dent Mckinley offered him the posi-
tons of fourth assistant postmaster
general and of treasurer of the United
States, but he refused both positions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
NAMED FOR PRESIDENT.
nancier, Nominated by the Mid
dle-of-the-ROad POpuIists.

Wharton Barker was a republican
until the spring of 1896. He was
pioneer Garfield man in 1880 and was
fully as enthusiastic for Benjamin
Harrison IN the national convention
four years later. He continued in
fealty to the Indianian in 1888, but op-
posed his denomination at Minneapo-
lis. In the campaign of 1883 he de-
voted practically his entire time, as
well as large amount of money, to
swinging Delaware into the republic
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
In the Lake Country

sofa and Michigan. there are hundreds OF
the most charming Summer Resorts await
ing the arrival of thousands of tourists
from the South and East.
Among the list of near by places are Fox
Lake, Delavan, Lauderdale, Waukesha,
Oconomowoc, Palmyra, The Dells at Xii.
bourn, Elkhart and Madison, while a little
further of are Minocqua, Star Lake, From.
tenac, White Bear, Minnetonka and Mar.
quette on Lake Superior
For pamphlet of Summer Homes for
l9OO,n or for copy of our handsomely illus
trated Summer book, entitled I'm The Lake
Country, apply to nearest ticket agent or
address with four cents in postage, Geo Fl.
Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Old
Colony Building, Chicago, Ill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
Birds Are Great Mimics.

The song of the marsh wren bears
the resemblance to the gurgle of rip
ping water. The red-headed wood
pecker reproduces the noise of the
wood toad. In South America one bird
initiates exactly the crackle of the
limbs of the forest in which it lives.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14

A Reading (Pa.) man who was obliged
to pay $500 damages in breach of
promise suit has married the young
woman, This is one way of getting
even,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
(1RAlN-O
O THE FOOD DRINK. 49,
THE FOOD DRINK.

Coffee Injuries growing
children, even when it is
weakened. Grain-O gives
them brighter eyes, firmer
flesh, quicker intelligence
and happier dispositions.
They can drink all they
want of Grain-O-the
more the better-and it
tastes like coffee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14

The Golden Rule In Texas.
When men learn to do unto others as they
would have others do unto them, horse trad
ing will have become one of the lost arts
Galveston News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14
The
PfzH1kk1aE1p
Remedies

For disorders of the
feminine organs have
gained their great s'enOws
and enormous sale be-
cause of the permanent
good they have done and
are doing for the women
of this country
IF aN aslissg or suffer-
Ing women could be made
TO understand how alb
s0IufeIy true are the
statements about L yskxa e.
Pinkhan's Vegetable
Compound, their suffer-
is1gS would end.
Mrs. PissJtksas7s c0unseES
women free of charge.
Her address Is Lynn,
Mass. The advice she
gives Is practical and
honest You can write
freely TO herr she is a wo-
man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-14

ALI grocers 15c. and 25c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-18

The engineer misunderstood the signals
and there was frightful railroad coils
ion, with terrible loss OF life. The whole
country was appalled, by that accident
There is doubtless a far greater loss OF
lie occurring every day, in various Sec
tons Of the country, for which the only
excuse is" the doctor didn't under,
stand the symptoms" These cases are
not tic subjects OF special inahest or the
country would be nghast at the sacrifice
Of life to ignorance.
It has been the experience OF Or. R. ".
Pierce and his staff Of assistant physi.
ciaus,1 that ninety eight out Of every
hundred persons submitting TO their
treatment can be cured. People given
up by the local physicians, weak, ema-
ciatel, with stubborn coughs and bleed
ing lungs have been absolutely cured by
the use OF DR.. Picrcc's Golden Medical
Discovery. Es
Sick people are invited to consult DR..
Pierce by letter free. All letters are
held as strictly private md treated as sa-
crcdlv confidential Answers are mailed
in plain envelopes without any printing
on them.
Lat spring was taken with severe pains In
my chest, and was so weak could hardly walk
nGou, The house" says MIS-, C. r. Kerr, Of Fort
Dodge, Webster Co., Iowa. IL tried several
physicians and they told me I had consumption.
heard Of D. Tiercc'a Golden Medical Di,cov.
cry and toug.I would Try some oft BEFORE
lad taken tht first bottle Was very much bet.
ter; took five bottles Of Il aud have not YET had
any return Of The trouble"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-18
SECOND DIVISION.
Observation-Disclosures II. Lancaster.
Chief OF Stafr-G. II. Medlck.


Marshall. C. Moftat.
Chief of Staff-Charlcs \. Hancher.
Aides: ts
C. W. Franzheim. DR.. James Howell.
DIR. John Storer. DR.. E.W. Alexander
a. G. Hubbard. Charles Paxton,
Arch. Q. Moffat. DIR. w. P. Mcgrail,
Harry Tinker, L. l.. Stone.
The uniform for marshals and aides
will be dark clothes. dark soft hats,
lcggings or boots and sash OF color des :.
ignated for coch division. yellow or bun
for the chief marshal's staff. red for the
first division. white for the second, and
blue for the third. Marshals will wear
sash from right shoulder to left side.
aides will wear sash around the waist,
knottcd at left side. The parade will
form as follows: Chief marshal and
aides on Chapline. south OF Sixteenth,
first division on Fifteenth, right on
ChaplIne: second division, on Four
tccnth. right on Chnpllnc: third dlvIs-
ion on Chaplinc. right on Fourteenth.
The route will be as follows: From
ChaplIne down Fourteenth to Market
on Market to Seventh, on Seventh to
Main. on Main to Twelfth, on Twelfth
to Market. on Market to Twentieth
on Twentieth to Chapllne. on ChaplIne
to Thirty-third, on Thlrty-thIrd TO
Eoft. on Eoff to Thlrty-nln,h. on Thirty
ninth to Jacob. on Jacob to Thirty.
third, on Thirty third to Eon, on Borr
to Twenty-third, on Twenty-thlrd to
Chaplinc. on Chnpllne to Twenty.scc.
Onu on TWenty-Sprnnd IN M,,,,a,
on Market to Fourteenth. dlsband.