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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
Dairy Education in Belgium.

The small Belgian nation, which is
less numerous than the population of
London, offers many interesting fea-
lures from the dairy farmers point of
view, says the Farmer and Grazier of
Australia. Although the industrial
portion of the country is comparatively
SO large that the demand Tor dairy
products is greater than the home sup
ply, the system of cooperation has
been developed to such an extent that
the time is fast approaching when it is
anticipated Belgium will be an export
ing country, at any rate as regards
butter. The value of foreign cheese
imported into Belgium, however, still
exceeds 6120,000 annually, and for this
reason, greater attention is also be-
ing directed to the manufacture of
cheese than has hitherto been the
case.
In order to insure success more
quickly and surely the agricultural
education of the Belgian peasant is be-
ing rapidly extended in various ways,
and in this connection the Flemish
travelling dairy schools are found to
exercise a valuable influence on dairy
progress in the country. On account
Of the Importance which is given to
the subject of bacteriology, the very
great effect of the very small micro
organism of the dairy is continually
impressed ON the pupils in an inter-
esting manner by means of microscope
| cal slides and diagrams. Step by step
they are taught why, on account OF
these minute bodies, the utmost clean
Illness is necessary in the stable and
in the dairy; why milk is aerated and
cooled; why it is pasteurized and
sterilized.
The action of microbes is explained
as regards the Modification of the
cream in butter making, and in the
ripening of cheese; particular atten-
ton being also given to the manu-
facture of soft cheeses. If butter is
not good, the students are assured
that there Is some reason for it, either
in the dairy, which must then be dis
infected, or in the milk itself, and
which can most probably be remedied
and the product improved by means OF
heat and pure cultures.
An attempt is made, in short, to in
culcate the science of common thing
into the mind of the young Be gian
farmer a. the very outset of his career,
and he is taught. as the case may be,
to regard the heterogeneous of the
dairy, as friends or foes, which will
very materially affect the quality OF
his produce and his own reputation as
dairy farmer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
AS an Extra 1nduoement to Trade.

The Merchants Review tells this
story on drummer for an Ithaca gro
gerry house: The grocer recently sent
out an energetic young man to canvass
for new customers. He worked hard
for the interests of his employer, and
plso somewhat wearied the good house
wives whom he called upon. At one
house he used up his whole line OF
argument and gasped for more, as the
lady of the house still said she was
perfectly satisfied with her regular
grocer.
Then a happy thought struck him,
and he said: Mrs. Jones, 1 wouldn't
for the world say anything against
that grocer you patronize, but let me
ask you If you think that he cares any
thing for you except your money? DO
you think that he intends to plant roses
on your grave? Now, you just trade
with my firm, and 1 guarantee that
they will give you entire satisfaction"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
Some spanish titles for sale.

An agent in Paris is sending out a
circular marked confidential to rich
but untitled people in Europe offering
to sell them titles of Spanish nobility.
Some circulars have been received in
this country, but have met with few
or no responses. When an American
wants to buy title these days he is
mighty particular as to the quality
and buys it in the open market after
a careful examination of the goods
Not SO a European, who will take any
old title which he can buy and be
thankful. The enterprising Paris
broker offers the title of baron, Wis
count or count at prices ranging from
$500 to $1,000, and declares ranging
$500 to $1,000, and declares that the
letters patent comforting the title
chosen will be attested legally by the
Spanish government.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
FIELD FOR POOR MEN.
Anyone May Get Rich in the Mineral
Belt of the Southwest.

AS field for poor men who desire
to wrest a fortune from the Ozark
hills, this part of the United States is
unequaled by any mineral region in
the world, writes a Forsythe (Mo.)
correspondent. While, of course, the
greatest returns will come to those
who engage in the business on an ex-
tensive scale and employ machinery
the fact remains that a man may get
rich here in few years with no CAPT
tai but his hands and his willingness
to work. One way in which this can
be done is as follows: Outside of the
Joplin district, where most of the
mines are now conducted on scien-
tific basis, nearly all the mining hith-
erto done hereabouts has been In a
slipshod, careless way. When bucket
of mineral was brought to the surface
only the biggest Jumps were picked
out, the rest being cast aside as too
small to bother with. The consequence
is that every tail heap in Missouri,
Kansas and Arkansas is full of Jumps
of lead and zinc, ranging in SIZE from
the size of pea to that of plum or
peach. Lead is worth $40 ton at the
mine, and zinc great deal more. Tho
right to work over these tail heaps
may be secured on a 10 per cent roy
atty, and on this basis any industrl-
GUS man can easily make from $40 to
$40 a day. His only equipment is a
garden rake and a spade He will have
to camp out and live on frugal fare
but he will grow hardy in health and
make money.
Those with little capital may take
leases on ground, either for a cash
rental or for a royalty, and open shafts
on their own account. 1t takes from
two to three men to operate shaft
one to do the digging and the Others
to hoist up the buckets of soil con-
tanning the mineral. In many in
stances lead and zinc deposits are
struck six feet from the surface; in
Others the digger has to go down fif-
teen or twenty feet, the richness Of
the find increasing with the depth OF
the hole. From one to three tons OF
metal day is not an uncommon yield
from the best of these shafts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
AN INGENIOUS SERVANT.
How a Brave Housemaid Caught q
Burglar.

A rather curious method of burglar
catching was resorted to by an ingeni-
GUS maid servant recently in this city.
AS the Electrical Review tells the
story, while in pursuit of her house.
hold duties the maid noticed a mans
foot inside the clothes closet. She did
not scream, neither did she jump at
the door, nor shut it with a bang; in
stead she took a broom and began to
sweep that corner of the room near
the closet. Her approach was gradu-
al, and the sweeping was done so natu-
rally that it would not have aroused
the most suspicious burglar. At last
the groom brushed the door gently but
hard enough to close it to the fraction
of an inch. With five or six mora
gentle sweeps that closet door was
shut and almost latched, which she at
length succeeded in doing by gently
pressing her arm against it.
AS the telephone in her house was so
near the closet that the burglar would
be able to hear her If she called for
assistance, she bethought herself OF
another plan. In the back yard some
telephone linemen were at the time
making repairs on a wire that runs to
another house in the block. She went
out and spoke to them. They promptly
tapped wire, attached a testing in
strument and called up one of the
downtown exchanges, which, in turn,
called up Police Headquarters. From
there the call was sent to the police
station nearest the house and two DO
licemen were sent around and got the
man.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
The Dairyman's Hogs.

Every dairyman, as / have said be-
fore, should study and know as much
about raising hogs as he does about
making butter and cheese, for feeding
his skim milk to poorly bred hogs is
a great loss to him. The old scrub
COW, the dash churn and the razor
back hog should be thing of the past.
Dairymen, discard the scrub hog You
can not afford to keep him when the
margin is so small as at present. He
is not the poor mans friend and Is the
rich mans enemy. He requires more
feed and makes less pork than a high
grade or pure-bred hog. Here again
consider the cost of production. If you
are hard to convince, buy a thorough
bred pig and place him with a lot of
common ones of equal age; give same
feed and care, and in short time the
weights will convince you, to say moth
ing of the superior symmetry of form
and finish which so please the buyers
eye and bring more money. We admit
that the razor-back hog, the scrub COW
and the dash churn served well and
long and still have many hackers who
stand by them, and will always be
standing there as immovable as Lots
wife.
What breed of hogs should the dairy
man raise to make the most money out
of them? / will say l do not con-
slider that there is much difference be-
tween the Berkshire and the Poland
China. The experiment stations have
at different times fed an equal num-
Der OF each breed, and the experiments
showed that there was practically nc
difference in the food requA ements for
a given gain.-Elias Gallup.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
CARNEGIE AT GOLF.
xas Broke Friendship Because the
Game Was Derided.

Game Was Derided.
1t is probable that Harry Vardon,
the golf champion, will have for
midable competitor for the honors of
the links next season, for it is an
nounced that Andrew Carnegie will
spend the coming summer in this
country. and devote his spare time to
playing golf, of which he is passion
ately fond. He proposes building a
summer home in the Westchester hills
so as to be near the st. Andrews Golf
club, says the Chicago Chronicle. Car
negie Is an enthusiast on the subject
of golf and is a vigorous foe Of what
ever might tend toward the creation of
a semi-professional class in the game.
1t was because of golf that Carnegie
once had his only serious misunder-
standing with Charles M. Schwab, who
was at that time superintendent and Is
now president of the Carnegie steel
company.
Although Schwab had known Car
negie intimately for a number of years,
he was not aware of the Scotchman's
fondness for his national game. Golf
was then just being introduced in this
country, and was regarded by the I'M
initiated as foolish and objectless
sort of game. Schwab held this opin-
ion. Carnegie had his office in the
Pittsburg works, and Schwab was a
frequent visitor to the holy of holes,
as the Scotchman's sanctum was re-
garded. On the occasion of one of
these visits he found Carnegie engag-
ed in reading lengthy article on
golf. The shrewd old man looked up
when Schwab entered, and without
waiting to hear what the latter wanted,
asked: Charles, what do you think of
this game golf?" Schwab can be pro-
fame at times. This was one of the oc-
casions in which he INDUCED in pro-
| family. He stated in forceful but in
elegant language an unfattering opin-
ion of the game and still more I'M
Hattering opinion of those who played
it. Carnegie heard him through and
then in tone as chilly as an Arctic
! gale, remarked: Charles, golf is my
favorite recreation. 1t is noble game
Good morning" Schwab was bowed
out of the Office and it was over a
week before he was again admitted to
the presence of the old ironmaker.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
A Sad Denouement.

The ex-Empress Eugene Is de-
scribed in her home in Farnborougb.
Surrey, as sad, white-haired woman.
bent with rheumatism and spending
most of her time in prayer. She is too
inf1rm now TO sit in the sanctuary of
the big white church near the mauso-
leum she had built and under which
are two large sarcophagl in red gran
lite, laden with wreaths of immor-
telles, each wreath bearing a card on
which a royal autograph is seen. She
has endowed and entirely supports the
monastery. Three black-robe Benedic-
tine monks pray constantly for the
souls of Napoleon and the prince i'm
perial. The anniversary of the death
of the young prince imperial is a dav
OF broken-hearted sorrow to the em-
press, who, indeed, mourns her double
loss every hour Of her sad life. Her
face is the saddest one can nossihlv
imagine. Always, even in the zenith
of her power, charitable disnossd
woman, she is now benefactress to
the poor within her range.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

A bulletin of the Delaware Agricul-
tural College says: Poultry are quite
susceptible to diseases of the brain.
Commonly symptoms of brain disor-
der are due to indigestion or intesti-
nal worms. The removal of these
causes may lead to recovery; other
wise no remedy can be applied.
Vertigo, due to congestion of the
brain with blood. shows itself in an
unsteady staggering gait, the bird
walking backward. sideways or turn
ing in a circle. Sometimes this gid
diness is followed by epleptiform at
tacks. AS treatment. apply ice to the
head until thoroughly cooled. Then
open the bowels with purgative, Al
EPSON salts 80 grains. or calomel ond
and half grains. Keep the bird in
quiet, shady place. II this method
is not successful, administer bromide
of potassium in one to five grain dose
three times day. II the trouble is
due to intestinal worms, treat the fowl
for worms.
Epilepsy, commonly known as fits
is occasionally seen in fowls. Birds
attacked may fall and may lie on
either the back or the abdomen, the
eyes opening and closing. After a tim
the attack subsidies. Unless due t.
intestinal worms no reliable treatment
is known.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

General Sanger's appointment Of
nfty-eight Cuban women as census
enumerators caused some astonish-
ment and much doubt as to their abil-
lily to do the work efficiently. The re-
suit more than justified the generals
action. Those of them who worked In
the still disturbed rural districts were
exposed to dangerous risks and much
discomfort, but their patience, tact and
determination overcame all OBJ
stacles. and their returns, in the words
OF the general, were marked by great
elearness, exactness and cleanliness. .
1T was splendid" he observed. ito
see the enthusiasm of these women.
and note the fine way In which they
went about their duties, businesslike
as men. accomplishing of the hard
ships they endured. capable and re-
sourceful."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
A MONSTER ENGINE.
LARGEST in THE WORLD HAS
JUST BEEN MADE.
Intended to Generate the Current for
Electrict Light and Power of a
New York Suburb-Thirty-fi Feet
High.
(Pittsburg Lottery


A gigantic compound engine. the
completed at an East Pittsburg estab-
lishment 1t is to be shipped this week
to Bay Ridge, N. Y, for the Kings
County Electric Light and Power
company's plant there. These mon
ster engines, one of which has been
erected temporarily, are of the verti-
cal cross compound condensing type,
especially designed for driving alter
mating current generators, mounted di-
rectly on the shaft of the engine. The
engines have a nominal capacity of A.
600 horse power and will carry sue
cessfully overloads of 1000 horse pow
er. The principal dimensions of the
engines are as follows:
Height from floor line to top of
cylinders, about 35 feet; length along
the shaft, 98 feet inches; width, 70
feet; diameter of high pressure cylind-
er, Sc inches; stroke, 60 inches; num-
Der of revolutions per minute, 70;
steam pressure, 10 pounds. The d.
ameter of the shaft in the center is
SO inches; diameter of shaft at bear
ings, "a inches; length Of each bearing,
60 inches; total weight of the shaft
without crank-cheeks or fy-wheel
centers, about $4,000 pounds. The
shaft is of hydraulic forged upon
hearth steel, having hole its entire
length 16 inches in diameter. The
fly wheel is very massive, having 100
tons in the rim; diameter of wheel, 2S
feet; velocity of rim, $500 feet per
minute, or practically one and one
quarter miles.
Each engine comprises two vertical
cylinders erected side by side on mas
sive frames, bolted to ponderous bed
plates. In each engine there is room
left between the two cylinders for a
Westinghouse generator, which will
furnish current for light and power
The revolving part of this generator
is mounted directly upon the steel
shaft of the engine, and is firmly
bolte6 to very heavy fly wheel.
/ The new facilities at the works in
the way of powerful machinery have
much to impress a visitor, particular
| ly the immense new straightaway anC
boring mills, the largest in the world
The equipment of the shops to turI
out huge masses in machinery is, O.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

keep his breeding fowls separate from
the fowls that are laying eggs soH
market The hens that are supplying
eggs for general sale should not be
permitted to run with the males. That
will give sterile eggs that will keep
far better than fertile ones. This is
of value to the reputation of the eggs
which will then have the quality of
long keepers.
A writer says that hens do not lay
well on one kind of food. no matter
what their other conditions are This
is without doubt true. Most animals
like variety of food, and it is econo-
my to give 1t to them. The food Of
fowls is naturally varied. In their wild
state they have an almost endless va
riety Of animal and vegetable food
Take insects, for instance. There Is
doubtless as much difference in the
taste of different insects as there is to
us in the taste of pork, beef, mutton
and fish. The insects themselves thus
give fowls great variety. Then there
Is great difference In the taste of diff
ferent weed seeds, just as there is a
difference to us in the taste of rice,
wheat and oats. The fowls having all
kinds of weed seeds upon which to
feed, are supplied with variety in
that line. Then come the grasses and
other green foods in endless variety,
all of which are eaten by birds. Thus
we see that the fowl is very omniver-
GUS. We can only expect the best re-
suits when we follow the hint that ma
ture has given. 1t is therefore rea-
sonable to suppose that the hen will
do her best only when given a wide
| variety of foods.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
BY balloon Over Desert.

Mr.. Leo Dex thinks he has solved
the problem of crossing the desert Of
Sahara. He has chosen as his mode
Of travel balloon. The airship will
have long trail rope on the ground,
thus obviating the use of ballast. The
rope will have an electric wire run
ming through 1t, so that II the natives
Of the desert get hostile and try to
seize the rope shock of electricity
can be sent down to it from the car
of the balloon. The route proposed
is from Tunis to the Niger river.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
A NOTEWORTHY CHAPEL
Monument to Grief over Paris Charity
Bazaar.

A monument to grief, one OF ths
most noteworthy in the modern world
has been consecrated in Paris IL is
in the chapel of the Rue Jean Goujon,
built over the site OF the Charlly Da-
Ear. where SO many women lost their
lives bv fire. A young artist named
Guilbert has made himself Famous IN
a work In which every detail speaks
the threefold message OF mourning
resurrection and glory. The exterior
is in the Italian style, surmounted by
a golden dome bearing aloft a golden
statute of the Virgin of the Hesurrec-
ton. The entrance is guarded Dy
statutes of Faith and Charity. A low
door conducts to the tombs, and ABOVE
is the sanctuary, an exquisite jewel
box. The light falls from above upon
a colonnade. in the Louis XIV. style,
of marble pillars, surmounted py CAPT
tails and with sculptured bases. Inc
place is dominated by a gigantic stat
ue of the Virgin of Pity, above whom
two seraphim bear the inscription'
do Not Mourn as They Without
Hope" Between the columns the
twelve stations of the cross, concealed
by bronze doors, are dedicated 10 the
victims who persisted when the pazar
was burned. Before one of these sta
lions is a costly monument to the
Duchess d'Alencon.
The guardians of the memorial VIII
be a body of women, who, dressed IN
Grape, remain always clustered ana
spend their lives in prayers for tns
dead
This mausoleum has had the chance
to escape by a hair's-breadth situa-
ton of embarrassment, not to say Oh
disgrace. Immediately after the tre
/ $160, 900 more was subscribed for it,and
| 100000 more was wanted. Count
Boni de Castellane, husband OF Anna
Gould, came forward with magnlt-
icent gesture and offered the needed
amount outright. By great good for
tune he preferred that this money
should serve the living, so he built
with it new charity bazaar. But the
courts have decided that the new ba-
Ear, opened and dedicated last year,
has still to be paid for, and may per-
haps have to be sold to stop hole in
Count Boni de Castellanes fading for
tune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

Five hundred men sleep, eat and
keep warm beneath roofs OF nothing
else but paper at Netley. says London
Answers. There are forty-five of these
long, narrow buildings. constructed en-
tirely OF paper, which shines white in
the sun. Each building holds ten in
valided soldiers. '.Hutments" is the
technical name OF these erections, and
nothing warmer or dryer could pos
sibly be built. The whole town was
built in less than month. To keep
the convalescents warm, each building
is provided with a stove, and, in spite
OF the apparently inflammable nature
of the material the huts are built Of,
all danger OF fire has been obviated by
treating the roofs with a patent fire.
resisting chemical.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

John Philpoot Curran, one of the
wittiest lawyers who ever faced a
court, was once arguing a case before
Lord Clare, the Irish lord chancellor.
Glare cherished cordial dislike for
Curran and in order to show his con-
tempt for that person affected to pay
no attention to the argument and de-
voted himself to fondling mastlff
which he had brought with him to
court. Presently he stopped down os-
tentatiously to pat the dog. Instantly
Curran stopped speaking. The lord
chancellor looked up and said: Go
on, Mr.. Curran." II beg your lord
ships pardon" replied Curran; 81
thought you were engaged in consul
tation."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

The new president of a transconti-
nental railway who, 1t is said, draws
salary of fifty-flve thousand dollars a
year, began his education in railroad
Ing twenty-seven years ago, at salary
of forty dollars month. Let young
men just starting in life observe that
he did not stop at forty dollars, and
that they need not. For those who
hope to repeat or exceed his success,
let us suggest a consideration of that
part of his history which mentions a
period OF twenty-seven years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23
Beet Sugar Production.

Although France has almost trebled
her production of beet sugar in the
last thirty years, she has fallen from
the first place in 1870 to the fourth
place in 1900, and today there is a diff
ference of 120 per cent between her
and Germany. In France 255,000 hec-
tares (630,105 acres) are devoted to
the cultivation of the beet, against
$4,000 hectares Q,O55,117 acres) in
Germany.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-23

Bribing a trolley car conductor "a
the newest method Of clipping when an.
irate parent is trying to catch the ear
and put an end to the proceedings Re-
Gently on Long Island two lovers were
On the car and papa came chasing
alter II at top speed. He was gaining
rapidly; the car was slowing down;
tne young mans fears were rising.
With an inspiration worthy of the mo-
ment the young man fshed a bill out
OF his pocket, pressed into the con-
ouctor's hand, and he of the punch,
VINO comprehended the situation in an
instant, pulled the bell cord and away
shot the car. The young mans father
in-iaw arrived in time to see the mar
son give the young people his Mess.
ing. p'es'