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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
SPORT IN WESTERN CANADA.
wnua the Farmers Grain Is kipenin9
and His stock Growing Fat He MAY
xs.v. PLAINLY OF Shooting.

xvsu. ,ha Farmers Grain Is kipenlnG
nd HI. stock Growing Fat He MAY
Have Plenty of shooting.
There is probably no country on tne
American Continent where the lie Oh
the farmer carries with 1t that assur-
ance of comfort and success as does
Western Canada. Nor is there to be
found anywhere else such a pleasant
combination. Game abounds every
where and nowhere does 1t anord such
nerfect amusement A noted sports
man writing of the fayorite pastime
saws: "There is one particular spot
where | saw a man drop seventy mall
lards one morning and bring them all
to bag, too. for they dropped in open
water or ON fiat prairie. At the right
season of the year you can see black
lines and triangles cut sharply out
against the sky all round you, moving
very swiftly, and you begin to wonder
whether you have enough cartridges
to hold out You can hear the pralr.e
chicken growing like barn-door fowls,
and n little to the northeast is bit
of marshy ground, cattle-poached and
dappled with cleaning pools, where
the snipe are nearly rs thick as mos
auitoes. A thin column of blue smoke
curling up in the distance shows you
where few wandering Indians nave
pitched their camp, but there Is no
other indication of civilization in
sight. Still, the neighborhood Is we'll
settled. and a short drive will bring
you to a farmhouse, where you can
buy the finest butter and the freshest
eggs for uncivilized prices.
A very short railway journey will
bring you to a country full of deer and
the lordly wapiti, the king of the deer
tribe the world over and down on the
fiat, boggy land by the lake shores the
moose will stand knee deep in water
on the summer evenings ready to lie
down when the flies get bothering.
All day you breathe the wild free air
of the prairie, and at night you are
lulled to sleep by the surge and ripple
and splash Of the waves on the beach,
broken now and then by the wierd
banshee-cry OF strange waterfowl"
Particulars regarding settlement of the
lands of Western Canada can be had
from any agent of the Canadian gov
eminent, whose advertisement appears
elsewhere in your columns.
OLD READER.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
sYMpArHY MIsUNDERsroon.

From the Boston Advertiser | was
walking in the direction of a certain
hospital the other morning when l no.
ticed little girl some five or six years
old toddling along at my heels. When
ever | stopped, she stopped and wait
ed for me until l started on again.
well, Bess," l queried. She looked
coyly down at pair of ragged shoes.
What do you want? A cent?" l
ventured.
She shook her head II wants to
foller yer to der hospital"
"All right. Come along" answer
ed. But what are you afraid off"
I'm a-scared to go alone. So fol-
lers some one"
Scared of what?"
Der Salvation Armory." she an
swered.
"Dey ketches yer and brings yer in
ter der armory house, an den dey says,
Yer my chile, an so I'm scared"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
SCOTCH WIT.

From Spare Moments A drunken
Irishman was once lodged in the cell
of a Scotch country police station,
when he made a tremendous noise by
kicking the cell door with his heavy
hob-nailed boots.
The constable who had charge Of the
police station, going to the cell door,
opened it little and said
Man, We MIGHT pit aft yer butts, an
I'll gle them bit rub, SO that yell be
respectable when we come up afore the
bailie the morn"
The prisoner, fattered at the re-
quest, at once complied, and saw his
mistake only when the constable shut
the door upon him, saying coolly
Eye can kick ava, moo. my man, as
lang as we like"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

J. T. Sloan of Toledo, O., recently
received a letter from friend at
Chatham, Ont, which said that owing
to the Ice jam in the st. Clair river,
the Thames, branch of the st. Clair,
was about four feet lower than the
average, and as result three gum
boats that apparently had been sunk
in the war of 1872 were discovered.
Many cannon balls and old muskets
have been taken out and several can
non were also found. 1t is uncertain
as yet whether the boats belonged to
the Americans or the British. It is
expected. however, as soon as the can
non are raised. some mark will be
found which will show their identity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

SANDER by photograph is the latest
invention of malice. In a suburb OF
Berlin sewing machine dealer had a
sQuabble with one Of his agents. so
unable to think of another way of in
juring him, he conceived the idea of
slandering and defaming him in public
by means of photograph. He con-
hded to one of these Instruments a
declaration that he had denounced his
enemy for forgery and embezzlement
and placed 1t in conspicuous place
In the bedroom of the local inn. Soon
afterwards guests entered the chamber
and put their pence in the slot, where
upon they were shocked at the serious
charges against one of their acouaint-
ances. A SANDER action followed Tha
photograph was brought into court nc
a witness; but the instrument seemed
to have got hint of the base purnosa
to which 1t had been applied for II re-
fused to repeat the calumniesl There
were, however, sufficient number NJ
witnesses to prove that the remarks
had been made by the instrument on
the day in question, so the court found
for the plaintiff; and the defendant
whose conduct was characterized nv
the magistrate as malignant" was
fined fifty shillingsl
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
RETRIBUTIoN ON THE SPOT.

The noise MADE ny the burglar 1.-THE
Ferguson pantry, slight as it was, dis
turbed the light sleeper in the bedroom
not far away and the midnight marau-
der was surprised a moment later to
find himself covered with big revolv-
er in the hands of a determined look
ing man In long white robe.
Il hain't done nothin' but eat few
cold victuals, mister" stammered the
burglar.
Il see," sternly replied George Fer
guson. ''You have been eating the re-
mains Of a strawberry shortcake my
wife made for my dinner last night.
Do you know what I'm going to do
with your"
Turn me over to the police, l
s'pose," gasped the helpless thief.
Worse than that" said Ferguson,
with a ferocious grin. Pm going to
make you eat a quart of health food.
It's new kind my wife heard of and
fixed up for us yesterday, and it's
pretty dry eating, but you'll eat every
particle of 1t or I'll bore six holes
through you. There 1t is, in that big
bowl Turn yourself loose on it,"
With grim determination the indig-
nant householder stood over him till
1t was finished, after which he picked
up the luckless scoundrel, who had
fallen exhausted to the floor, and
threw him out of the open pantry
window
1t may kill him." soliloquized Mr..
Ferguson somewhat remorsefully as he
crawled back into bed without disturb
ing tife rest of the family, "but man
who breaks into another mans house
takes his life in his hand anyway
Chicago Tribune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
A oLEAR CASE AGAINST THE poY.

Il had a funny dream last night"
said the young man to his father,
whose income was $4,000 an hour.
at seemed that you had decided not
to build libraries or universities that
would serve to perpetuate your mem
DRY, but instead, had made up your
mind to withdraw from business-to
Just pull out with your $620,000,0 900,
and let somebody else have the same
kind of chance that you had when
you started, and the richest man In the
country was worth only about $500, 900.
Then, after throwing off all these
cares you got to filing your pockets
with money and going around hunting
for people who really needed lift, and
every little while 1t seemed that you
would run across somebody who was
Just about to be compelled to give up
the struggle. and you'd give him
enough to set him on his feet, or, at
least to make him comfortable in his
last hours, and then you'd stand back
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
MANS SPHERE IN !IATURE.
Evolution Theorists Declare He Has At
tained 1t by Slow Degrees.

Evolution Theorists Declare He Has At
tained 1t by Slow Degrees.
Since Huxley's pioneer work in 1863
a host of investigators have carried
forward the study of structural resem-
blances connecting the genus man with
lower genera and orders, says Profess
sor w. ]. MCGEE in his address as re-
firing president of the Anthropologi-
cal society of Washington. Today the
physical similarities are among the
commonplace of knowledge, what
soever the background of philosophical
opinion concerning cause and Sc
quence. During the last decade or two
the investigators themselves, with
scarce an exception, have gone one
step farther and now include sequence
of development from lower to higher
forms as among the commonplaces of
opinion, whatsoever the background of
metaphysical notion as to the cause.
There the strictly biologic aspect of the
question as to mans place in nature
may safely be considered to rest. The
chief advances in anthropology have
related to what men do and what men
think, and the progress has been such
as to indicate with fairly satisfactory
clearness the natural history of human
thinking, as we'll as that OF human do
ing. AS is shown by the latest re-
searches, the mental workings of the
human are analogous with those of the
lower animals, while the range from
the instinct and budding reason of
higher animals to the thinking of the
lowest man would seem far less than
that separating the beast-fearing saw
age from the scientist and statesman.
In short, the evident tendency of the
science Of anthropology is, according tc
Professor MCGEE, toward the establish
ment of mental as well as a physical
evolution of man from prototype of
lower rank in the animal kingdom
Chicago Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
WHY THE ENGLIsuMAN DIDNr.

Pretty Angelina Swizzleblossom had
fallen from her wheel and sprained her
wrist, and Augustus Bloomengarden,
her manly escort, was kneeling by her
side endeavoring to bind handker-
chief about the disabled member.
Rubber neck, rubber neck" yelled a
nearby newsboy to a passing wheel
man, who turned to look back at the
pathetic scene. "But her neck isn't
hurt don't you know" replied the as
tonished Augustus, and the newsboy
went and pounded his head against a
lamp post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

Mrs. Susan Sanders of the Cherokee
nation. Cherokee by blood, is a
leader of her people. She lately made
two trips to Washington to get a bin
passed by congress ito prevent in
truders, citizens by marriage and re-
SENATORS form sharing in the lands
and annunities of the Cherokee ma
ton" She drew up the bill and the
letter to the committee on Indian af-
fairs accompanying 1t. Mrs. Sanders
is familiar with all the laws and
treaties governing the Cherokees.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

In order to encourage and stimulate
the cotton industry a London firm is
making arrangements with its New
Orleans house to send an expedition
of experts to West Africa. in order
to teach the natives how to plant and
grow cotton. The idea is to send two
experts from the southern states to
each of the principal West African
colonies, viz, Lagos, Sierra Leone,
Bathurst and Cape Coast Castle, and it
is antic'pating that this viii be the
means of creating a new and impor-
tant industry in that part Of the world.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
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and smile and seem to enjoy yourself
seeing the joy you had given to others.
Sometimes you would fairly yell with
delight at the good things you had
done, and one of these outbursts SEEM
ed so real that it actually woke me
up"
Great heavens!" the troubled mag
nate exclaimed that wasn't dream.
Your mother had an uncle that went
insane. I've always been afraid 1t
might crop out again, and now my
worst fears are realized. Here elpl
Help!"-Record Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

1t is touching tale, as well as an
amusing one, that Josephine Daskam
tells with considerable vivacity in the
opening pages of ST. Nicholas for June.
1.-THE Prodigal Imp is boy who runs
away from home because he has moth
ing more exciting than kittens to
keep; and the frontispiece, picturing
his return, will strike responsive
chord in every mothers heart, as we'll
as in many children's.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

Almost every day insurance genius
evolves a new kind of personal or real
estate security. The latest is against
being buried alive. A New York man
is agitating the new policy He re-
Gently said, at an underwriters meet
ing: Insurance against being buried
alive would certainly be hugely profit
able. 1t is surprising how many peo-
pie have dread that suspended ami
nation may be mistaken for DEATH |
know woman who has actually made
her husband promise that if he sur
wives her he will stick a hatpin
through her heart before she is buried,
to make sure that no spark of life re-
mains. In certain parts of Europe
they have what are known as mortu-
airy houses. where the dead are taken
and subjected to various tests to make
sure that death is absolutely certain.
believe there is bill providing for a
somewhat similar course now before
the Massachusetts, legislature. If such
mortuary building is established,
multitudes of people would gladly pay,
say, 800 to be insured in a company
that would guarantee to make the
necessary tests before burial or Gre
nation"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO
We MI.sourI PACING RalIway.

Via Missouri Pacific Railway.
The Missouri Pacific Railway is now
operating double daily service from st.
Louis and Kansas City to points in
Colorado. Utah and the Pacific coast.
Trains leave ST. Louis 9 a. m. and
1910 p. m, KANSAS City p. m. and 10
a. m, carrying through sleeping cars
between ST. Louis and San Francisco
without change. Excursion tickets
now on sale. For further information
address Company's agents.
H. C. TOWNSEND,
G. P. & T. Agent, st. Louis. Mo.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
He WAS A MARTYR.
CHARLES GOODYEAR GAVE HIS
LIFE TO SCIENCE.
The Genius Who Discovered tho Pro-
cess of vuicsnizing Rubber-Never
Knew Many Days THAT Were Free
from Want.

Rubber has done a good deal for
civilization, and civilization has done a
good deal for rubber, says writer in
Ainslee's Magazine; but both are in
debted to Charles Goodyear, hero and
martyr.
A Connect cut Yankee.
Goodyear was a Connecticut Yankee,
born at Naugatuck, Dec. 20. 1900.
Those now living who remember him
in the flesh knew him as frail little
man with soulful eyes and a sympa-
thetic nature. Goodyear after de-
voting the energies of his life to ex-
periments discovered vulcanization, a
process which neutralizes the adhesive
ness of rubber, while hardening it, so
that heat does not dissolve 1t or cold
impair It's elasticity. The chemists
had sought the great secret In vain.
Triumph was reserved for a man who
was always In debt and sometimes In
prison. and occasionally reduced to the
most pitiful shifts to keep the wolf
from the door Goodyear was origi
nally a hardware dealer in a small
way, but he got interested in rubber
when 1t began to make a stir in the
world with the first importation Of
shoes from Brazil. They were soon
being made In New England, but the
business tumbled to ruin when the rub
Der decomposed In hot weather and
gave out an offensive odor. Goodyear,
although without money or credit, set
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
washln z toms False Teeth.

The Baltimore Dental College, the
Oldest dental college in the world, has
in it's possession one of the most in
teresting relics of George Washington.
This relic is set of artificial teeth,
made by DR.. Greenwood, dentist, who
was also an officer in the Continental
army. The teeth were worn for some
time by Gen. Washington. DR.. Green
wood afterward made the general
second set, which he wore until his
death, which was buried with him.
The first set was afterward presented
to the dental college by DR.. Green
wood. AS much as $4,000 has been Of
fered for this set of teeth, but the fac
ulty of the college refused the offer.
The teeth were exhibited at the
Worlds Fair in 1898 and attracted
much attention. Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

no - 'ue opinion of an astute CORES.
F,r., OF Meclure's Magazine Josiah
rlynes articles have done MOI g..
MUG Improvement of municipal govern
ner +' una IN has been done by any or
direction sn's In that
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24
AT CHICAGO.

First Attendant: Well. that's the
most discouraging thing I've heard yet.
Second Attendant: What's that!
First Attendant: Here's a man from
Jersey City who says he'd rather be
home.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

ho visitors to Salt Lake will And mo
bes oIes place to combine pleasure ana
neaien THAN at the Sanitarium Ra,hsN
que OF the finest bathing reserts in sha
country. Whether for wasbing an 80
s sne aust OF travel or simply to snend =
pieasant hour, you will and What no',
l msne IN either the private baths or he
large swimming pools Ga as,s OF .ns
night and within five minnten uay ana
where. VIII tell you
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

cesstu o queen 1.",,, Of Roumania is a sue
ous ",t h, lecturer as learned as IN.
form IN Out -, she only goes en- the pl.t-
f sners the young ladies' Of ,h psi bsss
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

OAA<AtNA4I4o OOOO
to work to rehabilitate it's reputation.
In chasing what seemed to his friends
a will-o'-the-wi Goodyear was often
in the pawnshops. He once left his
umbrella with Cornelius Vanderbilt for
some ferry tickets, and at another time
sold his children's schoolbooks for SIS,
which he needed in his experiments.
To harden his gum Goodyear mixed
magnesla with it and turned out some
shoes beautiful to look upon, but, as
usual. they decomposed. He thought
he had hit upon the secret with nitric
acid took out patent and embarked
in the business of making shoes and
toys. Bad times swept away his
profits before he learned that he had
made another failure and there were
more visits TO the pawnbroker.
Failure After Failure.
About this time Goodyear met Nath-
aniel Hayward, who was fussing with
rubber in factory at Woburn, where
he was regarded as a harmless crank.
To Hayward 1t was revealed in a
dream that rubber could be hardened
by mixing sulphur with it and expos
ing the compound to the sun. He
took out patent on it, Goodyear.
being struck with the idea, bought the
patent. The two men leased a build
ing and went In for making life pre-
servers. But the secret had not been
discovered, although Hayward was on
the right scent-ln hot weather 1t
seemed a wrong one to purchasers of
life preservers. Goodyear was not dis
mayed. After more experiments he
took a contract to make so rubber mail
bags for the government. The bags
were a credit to his skill, but in July
the handles dropped of and the sub
stance melted
Triumph an Accident.
The wolf was again at the door and
Goodyear had to divide time In the use
of the kitchen oven with his wife.
He was always baking the compound
of sulphur and rubber. One night
while gesticulating on his favorlte
theme with piece OF sulphurated gum
1T came In contact with the red-hot
stove. Instes Of melting. as usual,
the stuff charred Ike leather. Was a
very high heat needed to kerden rub
BERT The enthusiast trembled with
anticipation. But there was the cold
lit was winter night Would the
mass lose its fiexibility in the freezing
air? Goodyear nailed 1t against the
house. The next morning the COM
pound was as elastic as ever He had
discovered vulcanization. The secret
was that rubber. with slight admix-
ture of sulphur hardened and lost its
adhesiveness. but not It's fexibility
when subjected to temperature of $50
to 270 degrees.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

saws thar ad IN the British South African 49,.
his men While ~. lStu Fruit was Siessin1 y
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

congress has appropriated 5000 900
,or the preservation Of our forsst
ianus, The salaries of those to he sm-
ployed are fixed at 50 per dav n e
expenses. u travelling
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

Mrs. S. P. Mitchell the oldest resi-
dent OF Fayette, Mo. now in her Tooth
year, has never ridden on a railway.
When the first train passed through
Fayette, she went down to look at IL.
She vowed that she would never ride
In one OF them wagons" for anything
In the world, and sne has kept her
word.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
announces very low excursion rates.
Tickets are sold from all Utah common
points on June l1th and 18th and are
good for return until September 9th.
Rates as follows:
Denver and return. 600 m
omana, 81 Joseph, Kansas City
Gnu nu return .'............ $500
g. Oi.y ana return. ...... 32.0O
o. pli BUS ana return. -. .... $3.50
St: Paul or Minneapolis and re-
ch;aa - -. ............ 1878
Eo, Gnu return. ........ -. 80
ror additional information apply to
nearest ticket agent or to
b. +. NEVlNS, n M cT1SuINo
1oo W. w. agI t. p. A.
Salt Lake, Utah.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-24

Conrad III. Emperor OF Germany,
had six fingers on his right hand.
The Washington times., 1901-10-05
RY.
schedule correeted 70 June l. l9Ol.

Schedule corrected to June l, 1901
Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station
8:OI 4. m. Daily Local for Harrisonburg, War
renton. Charlotte. and way stations
If.I5 a IN Daily. u. s Fast Mail Sleeping
cars to New Orleans, Columbia, Savannah, and
Jacksonville uniting at Salisbury with sleeper fof
Asheville, Chattanooga, and Memphis, and al
DaEville with sleeper for Birmingham and as
Charlotte, with sleeper fer Augusta Solid train
Washington to New Orleans. Dining service
1I:s7 a. m. Daily. Local for Warrenton and
Charlottesville
4:el D. m. Week Days. Local for Front Royal
Strasburg. and HarrisonbuFg-
4.3O p. m. Daily. Local for Warrenton and
Charlottesville
$50 p. m Daily. Washington and Chattanooga
Limited Via Lynchburgl- Sleeping cars T. Roam
oke. Knoxville. Chattanooga. Memphis. and Ses
Orleans. Through coach TO Memphis Dining
service
955 D. m Daily. n Y. & Fla Express Sleep
lag cars to Augusta with connections for AikeA
ard Charleston and to savannah. jacksonville.
and Port Tampa Through coaches to Jackson
yii;e and Atlanta Uniting at Danvie with Pull
man slcepers from Richmond and Norfolk for
Charlotte Tourist sleeper Washington to San
francisco Mondays, Wednesdays, and FrldayS
Dining Car Service.
lO:45 D. H. Daily. Washington and Southwest.
ern Limited the only exclusively Pullman train
between Washington and the South. Sleeping
cars 20 Ashviile Knoxville, Chattanooga, and
Nashville and to Atlanta, Macon. Birmingham.
Memphis Montgomery. Mobile. and New Orleans
Club car Washington to Atlanta. Dining car
service
The Washington times., 1901-10-05
AND Ohio RY.

TRAINS LEAVE PENNSYLVANIA STATION
500 2 M DAILY-Cincinnau and ST Loua
Special-SohG train for Cincinnati Pullman
Sieepers 10 Cincinnati Lexington. Louisville, In
dianapolis and St. Louis without change. OBJ
saryation Parlor Car Washington 10 Virginia Hot
Snrings except Sunday Dining car. Parior Cars
lilo p. NJ DAILY-F F. " Limited Solid
,r,ip for Cincinnati pullman Secpers % Cincin-
nati Lexington and Louisville. without change:
Commandment sleeper to firgiDia Hot Springs
Tucsaays and Saturdays Dining car. Sleepcrs
Cincinnati to Chicago and st. Louis.
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
Offices, SIS PeTHsylvania Avenue; UUJ 18th Street.
near F. and at the station Telephone call.
Main IfiI for Pennsylvania Railroad Cab Service
H. W FULLER.
Telephone Main 1866. Gen. Passenger agent.