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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
ISLAM HEvIVIN0.


sultan Finds That the Prophet Has
ITs.ooo,o0o Followers. n
It may come to many like reyela-
ton to find that the Turkish govern
ment, or perhaps 1t might be more cor
rect to say the Sultan, has been en-
gagged in collecting statistics showing
the Mussulman population in various
parts of the world. The result has just
been published, and In the dominions
under the personal rule of the Sultan
the Mussulmans are stated at 18,000,-
and territories in Asia, including Per-
900; while in the contiguous states
STA, Afghanistan, Beloochistan. India,
Russia, Turkestan and China. their
numbers are estimated at 100000
Africa, where the Mohammedan re-
ligion has made great strides in the
last half of the century, is credited
with SO, 100000 followers of the Pro-
phet, and $4,000, 900 are described an
inhabiting other countries and the is
land of the eastern seas. 1t does not
appear that the total of these figures,
176 SOC, 900, is exaggerated, as recent
estimates have placed the Mussulman
population of the world at close upon
200, 900 600 The Islamic world, how
ever, is divided religiously into two
sections, the vast majority being Sun
mis-, and the minority, principally in
Persia, being Shiahs, who hold more or
less aloof from the Sunnis, Of whom
the Sultan of Turkey is the nominal
head as Caliph of Islam. The Mussul-
| man population of India under the po-
litical rule of the British government
and in the native states may be set
down in round numbers as nearly co.
600, 000 By far the greater part OF
these are Sunnis. Connecting the two
important facts of the comparative
energy with which the sultan is push
ing on the construction OF the railway
through Palestine to Mecca and his
recent demonstrating of the Mussul-
man world, it is quite evident that he
is watching events and getting ready,
in his way, for eventualities- He de-
sires TO concentrate in his own hands
as far as it is possible, the power Of re-
sistance contained in the mass repre-
scented by 176,500,000 of Mussulmans
and by means of the railway to Mecca
he proposes to retain the permanent
control of the holy places of Islam OF
which his authority as Caliph is based
! Amid the uncertainties of the genera
political condition Of Europe he ma.
think he discerns an opportunity q
enable Islam to reassert itself, and j
preparing accordingly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Workingmen's Hard Lot In Siam.
Workingmen of Siam have an I'M
enviable time compared with the con-
dition of workers in similar lines in
other lands. The highest rate of wages
paid there for a days labor is: En-
gineers, rs cents; blacksmiths, rs
cents; mems tailors, so cents; cabinet
makers, carpenters and bricklayers, 80
to 40 cents; laborers, Is to 30 cents,
and farm hands, s12 to s1S season.
These rates are considered so high
that they are attracting thousands
from forests and smaller cities and
towns and from Hong Kong and Sing
apore to the capital of Siam. When
the prices paid for articles of food are
taken into consideration it is difficult
to see how these people live at all
Following is a sample OF the leading
articles of food: Turkeys, $3.50 to So
each; bacon, % to As cents per pound;
butter, 80 to As cents; lard. 20 to 81
cents; coffee. 2S to 32 cents; canned
goods, 20 to 80 cents can; ham, 20 to
As cents pound; mutton. rs cents;
sugar. S1a cents.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
THE FIRST BUILDING OF BEREA COLLEGE.
A Veteran Trades Unionist


One of the Oldest active trades
unionists In the country is Maj. Sam
L. Leffingwell of Indianapolis Typo
graphical Union No. l. He was born
in Chillicothe, o., in 1880. He was a
newspaper apprentice in 1874, soldier
in the Mexican war. 1918, and became
a member of Cincinnati Typographical
Union in 1850. For the next ten years
he shifted around the country working
at his trade Mr.. Lefingwell was major
of the Thirty-first Ohio, also of the
Eighty-seventh Ohio, and private Of
Company H, First Ohio Volunteer Cav
airy, in the civil war of 1865. He or
ganized the Trades Assembly, now
Central Union, Indianapolis. July,
1881; was its president five terms; del
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
STRONG
CHARACTER

One of the strong characters of ante |
bellum days passed away recently in |
the person of John G. Fee, founder of |
Berea College in Kentucky. In early !
life he presumed that slavery was
wrong. Rather than abandon this con-
viction and recede from his early
formed purpose to aid in bringing
about the freedom of the blacks, he
forsook home, incurred parental Ill
will, struggled for years against the
enmity of his former friends and bent
his back to receive the lash which
only respect for his courage prevented
falling. Eventually he saw the hopes
of his early years fulfilled and lived
long enough to see old prejudices and
hatreds mellowed by the softening
touch of time and to enjoy the esteem
of those who once reviled him. His
early days were turbulent; his final
years were peaceful and if there was
aught of vanity in his composition he
could contemplate with pride the noble
monument to his youthful zeal and
fortitude which he himself erected
Berea College, in Madison county, KY.
Years ago it was rallying point for
racial prejudice; to-day it is regarded
throughout the South as one of its
most benefcent institutions, from
which there graduate annually 500
blacks and white mountaineers, who
go forth to lives of usefulness.
A Slave Holders Son.
Fee was born In Bracken county,
KY, September 8, 1916 His father
owned a dozen slaves, but the son,
after passing through Lane Theolog-
ical Seminary, became a pronounced
abolitionist His father disinherited
him and when he preached anti-slavery
| doctrines, the church authorities dis
missed him. With his young wife he
wandered hither and thither in Ken
lucky, preaching where he could get
hearers and taking shelter wherever it
could be found. His father, years be-
fore, had given him a tract of land.
This he now sold, not to use its pro-
ceeds for his material welfare, but to
purchase the freedom of a slave. In
1853 Cassius M. Clay, the lion-hearted
old Kentuckian, the vicissitudes OF
whose latter years have aroused nc
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Pennsylvania has the honor of dis
covering the first coal oil well. This
was in 1859, by Colonel Drake, in the
outskirts of Titusville. The state
number of years ago erected monu-
ment to the discoverer. The first well
was not great gusher. but as oil was
then selling for about s14 barrel
gushers were not necessary to produce
a fortune in a few weeks. The meth
DDS of production were as crude as the
oil, the old-fashioned well sweep being
used to bring the oil to the surface.
There was no casing then, as now. and
no shooting of wells in the up-to-date
way now employed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

tence of American authority to sup
press the hideous practices of the ma
tives. Two events, both especially sig
nifcant and both recent, emphasize the
truth of this statement.
These two events are the murder of
City Engineer Wilson and Second Lieu
tenant Brewer. the latter of the
Twenty-seventh Infantry. The circum-
stances of Brewers death are OF ma
ture almost too barbarous for belief;
while as to Wilson, the fact that he
was murdered within the outskirts of
Manila, almost in the very lines of one
of our military patrols, and that his
murder took place in broad daylight,
will show the difficulty of maintaining
anything like an efficient civil govern
ment In these vast islands.
may as well pass briefly over the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
THE TIDE is KING.
Business Suspended and Schools Closed
when Waves Rou In

Business Suspended and Schools Closed
When Waves Roll In.
On Holland island, in Chesapeake
bay, is the queerest town in the Unit
ed States. The ocean tides regulate
the whole life of the place. At low
tide the town is full of activity. Bust
ness, society functions, and schools
are then carried on. But when the
flood tide sets in all people and chill
dren scamper for their homes, regard
less Of the time of day or night. The
cause of this peculiar arrangement is
the fact that the town is gradually
sinking under the waters of the bay.
Holland island, which used to be a
body of land rising high above the
water, has sunk rapidly in the past
few years. Its principal streets are
flooded at high tide. Only the houses
on the high central ridge of the island
are above water. When the high
tide occurs. at or O'Clock in the
morning, the affairs of this town go on
much the same as in any other town.
By or o'clock the water has receded
from the streets and the merchants
open their stores. At 9 o'clock the
children go to school, and the women
go shopping. All are happy in the
thought that they can stay away from
home till late in the afternoon, when
the returning high tide is due. Bua
when the high tide occurs at midday
all this is changed. The children must
get up and go to school before light
in the morning Men haste down town
to their stores at and o'clock in
the morning, anxious to do part of a
days business before the tide comes in.
Before noon they must close then
shops and go home till evening, wheK
they can open up again at low tide
In spite of these inconvenience, 60t
people live on Holland island. They
are mostly oystermen and their fami,
lies. Much labor and money have been
expended by the property owners to
combat the terrible action of the swift,
running tides, but now all seems doom
ed to destruction. This island is par
ticularly we'll situated for the hes
possible action of the tides. AS tn,
tide advances it cuts away on the west
then travels up Holland straits ant
eats away on the south and east
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Question Puzzles international Experts
New York immigration officials are
puzzled by new question of citizen
ship. 1t concerns the first baby ever
born at the Ellis island station, which
first saw light one morning recently.
The mother is a pretty Norwegian
woman, and was being held for de-
portation she arrived on British
ship, from a Belgian port, and the
baby was born on American soil.
Where to file the birth certificate ia
perplexing even to the experts in in
ternational law. A collection was
taken up for the little stranger, and
it is probable the mother will be sent
to friends in Wisconsin, instead OF
being shipped to Antwerp.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
Learning the Prices.

THE ways of the female shopper are
beyond the ordinary salesman's ken, +"
said a disguised optician, who is in
business in the shopping district of the
city. "A woman came in here the
other day and asked the prices of all
kinds and styles of spectacles and eye
glasses known to those in the trade.
Finally, after a half hours Quizzing.
she rustled out with the remarki
Thank you. expect to receive pair
of glasses for a birthday present, and
just wanted to know about the prices
OF them
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
FOOL UNCLE SAM.

Tricks Used by smugglers Carry Them
Through Tight Places.
The day of the picturesque SNUG
aler is over, says the Baltimore Amerl-
can. No longer does his swift craft
steal into the harbor of some seaside
village in the dead OF night and his
hrawny men pull for the beach to I'M
load boxes and barrels of rare SUN
and hide them on shore until such
time as they may be distributed WIN
ont fear of the revenue officer. But
that does not mean that smuggling Is
a lost art, by any means, for, In spite
of the army of men that Uncle Sam
employs to guard his sources OF reve-
nue and see that no dutiable articles
are brought in until he gets share
of the profit on them, hundreds OF
thousands of dollars worth OF goods
mass in without detection every year.
II is estimated, indeed, that more than
81 900 900 worth of diamonds are SNUG
gled in every year, not to mention
other precious stones. 1t is a regular
business, and the professional SNUG
gler is nearly as numerous, though not
nearly so picturesque, as of old. Not
only are the professional smusglers
engaged in the business, but many good
and worthy church members stand
shiyering with fear while their bag
gage is being examined, lest some ar
Iticles that they well know is dutiable
and have tried to hide In trunk OIL
about their own persons may bs
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

lege was obtained. Negroes we're adj
mitted. Nevertheless the college four
ished and there was no friction be-
tween white and black students. To-day
Berea has property which. with an en-
dowment of 100000. makes the assets
of the college fully 100000. Fourteen
teachers are employed and their ex-
periences with the children of the Ken
lucky mountains are most interesting.
Most OF the pupils who are not black
belong to the families of mountaineers
whose dialect and customs are the
bases of many entertaining tales and
the polishing of whose roughness re-
quires no small amount Of patience.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

brought to light. Sad to say, not many
peoples consciences are tender when
it comes to trying to rob Uncle Sam.
Moreover, many regard 1t as an ex-
citing sort of game and derive much
pleasure from a contemplation of their
own cleverness in eluding the revenue
officers. Diamond smuggling is per-
haps the most profitable part Of the
business. Most of the gems come from
Canada over regular route from
Montreal to New York. Canada adj
mits them free of duty, so that there
is no trouble in getting them to Mon
treal, but then comes the problem of
conveying them across the border.
Not only does the government have a
custom house wherever a railroad
crosses from one country to another,
but there are a number of secret serv-
ice agents who keep watch on the
dealers agents and are continually
travelling about to intercept the mes
senger who carries the gems-for they
must of necessity be carried by hand
as IL would be too dangerous to send
them by mail or express. The duty on
the uncut gems is but 10 per cent. II
was made low, so that there might
not be too much temptation to evads
| the payment OF 1t. But, nevertheless
there are many sharp men and women
who make good profit out OF the
business, and it is not often that they
are caught.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
Ha bits Of the DingO

and they have attained so high de-
gree of organization that each pack
has its own territory over which 1t
hunts, trespass upon another's terri
tory being punishable by death. They
are the worst ravagers of the sheep
folds known today, instances being
cited where a pack of these animals
have decimated one flock to une ex-
tent of 1900 in less than three months.
The dingo is very tenacious of life
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

was exhumed it was found that hiS
hands had been bound to his sides and
his feet tied together. In this awful
position, with deaths torture aggra-
waited by the sight of the food, he
was left to starve.
The facts surrounding the death OF
Lieutenant Brewer were learned
through the confession of one of the
men arrested for the murder of En-
gineer Wilson-and who, with his
seven companions, confessed to hav.
ing killed and robbed Mr.. Wilson, and
incidently confessed the murder oil
Lieutenant Brewer The confession
duplicates several other persons and
the date fixed for the execution d
these men has been postponed in the
hope that the others may be appre
hended.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Perhaps the largest kitchen in the
world is that in the Bon Marche, Paris
Its kitchen staff consists of 60 cooks
and 100 kitchen boys. 1t provides food
for 1000 employees of the house. 1t
has so frying pans, each of which holds
800 outlets at time. 1t has a coffee
machine that makes $50 quarts of
coffee daily; the smallest kettle holds
rs quarts. For the one item of ONE
lets on the daily bill of fare 1880 eggs
are used, the omelets being served only
at breakfast
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

pies. The dingo, or warragal, as it is
called by the natives, is native OF
Australia and is found in great num-
bers in the wild portions of the con-
tinent. and is a pest of no ordinary
character to colonists engaged In the
sheep-raising business. 1t was thought
to be an aboriginal inhabitant OF Aus
tralia, but is now alleged to be an i'm
portation from some source at present
uncertain.
Large packs of these wild dogs raw
age the localities In which they live,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
cHAPPED HANDS.
wash Them Thoroughly and Rinse Them
I'm Running Water.


Discomforts arising from chapped
hands can be almost entirely avoided,
says the Providence Journal. All that
is needed is that the hands should be
thoroughly rinsed in running water
after they have been washed with
soap. The hands, indeed, should never
be washed in still water This prac-
tice, so common as to be almost uni
versal, is chiefly responsible for the
roughening of the hands. and for pro-
ducing the uncomfortable so-called
"chapped'' condition of these useful
members, a condition directly result
ant from the alkali remaining in the
water from the soap. To prevent this
the hand washing should be accom-
pIished under running faucet, which
is also like the rain or shower bath,
much more wholesome, as well as
more tidy, than any other plan Some
radicals in this matter believe it would
be a service to mankind if plumbers
could be induced to omit the plugs
from wash bowls. procedure not
likely to oe accomplished at the pres
ent stage of popular education. In the
contemplation of water, the human
mind seems to revert at once to still
water, trait we have probably in
herited from our savage ancestors, who
had no opportunity of applying water
save from ponds, rivers and lakes.
.doney expended in pure soap, it should
be added, is well laid out. The purest
soap to be had is none too good and
care should be taken to secure it, but
whatever soap is used see that the
hands are thoroughly rinsed and after
ward dried
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Dingos are considered by animal
merchants the hardest to capture
among wild animals. Their sagacity
is such that they often defeat the in
tsllectual powers of their human foes
Chicago park authorities are more
than pleased to know they have the
only specimens of the kind in America
and that the pair presented by w. H.
Young have been good enough to have
the stork visit them with four pup
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
Presidential Possibilities.

Political gossips in Washington are
already beginning to consider Repub-
lican presidential possibilities for 1894,
Senator Fairbanks of Indiana and Vice
President Elect Roosevelt are the two
men most frequently mentioned, the
Indiana man having a slight lead.
Four years from now Mr.. Fairbanks
will be In his SD year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
Buried Alive by Filipinos.

exhibition of atrocity the like of which
would be hard to duplicate anywhere
but In the Orient. Lieutenant Brewer
and a private of the regiment were on
their way to Manila bearing a report
to headquarters there. Brewers escort
was shot. Brewer himself was carried
away and put to death by starvation
having, in fact, been buried to his
neck with dish of food near his face
but beyond his reach. When his body
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
WAS REV. FEE,
WHO DIED
RECENTLY

small amount of pity for him, invited
Fee to preach in Madison county,
where he gave him farm. Here he
founded a school-the original Berea
College. 1t was only a small frame
structure. but humble as 1t was, II
proved fertile ground for the seeds
which Fee sowed. It's work began In
1855, and Fee had the assistance of sew
eral teachers from Oberlin College
After time prominent families sent
their sons and daughters there. II
was closed during the war.
At the close OF the war the schoo
was reopened and charter as a col
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Whatever the general impression as
to the pacihcation Of the Philippine
islands may be. such of us as are forced
to witness a part of life here are by
no means impressed with the prospect
of an early settlement of affairs, writes
William Brown to the New York Tri-
bune. Every day brings to light fresh
cases of barbarity and every one of
these cases demonstrates the impo-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

circumstances surrounding the death
OF Mr.. Wilson. 1t happened only few
e<ys ago when he was on his way to
the water works with a bagful of
money (about $1,000 to pay the en-
ployes. He never reached the water
works, and when a search was insti-
tuted his badly disfgured body was
found where the murderers had
thrown 1t beside the road
It was announced by the authorities
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

and like the opossum feigns death
when it finds escape cut off. 1t is a
crafty animal, rivaling the cunning of
the fox in its ready wit and intelh-
gence. Only one of this breed of ami
mails was ever known to be domesti-
Gated. consequently it will be the aim
of Animal-Keeper McCurren to tame
the little animals that were born at the
ZOO the other day. His success in
breaking the zebra has encouraged Nc
Curren in his attempts to train and
domesticate wild animals.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28
Linton to Baild sailors. Home.

Sir Thomas Upton, with that fore
thought which when transmitted inso
coin has made knighthood possible
ity, is about to build a sailors home
and hotel for the accommodation OF
officers of the fleet at Waterfall. The
merchant prince already furnishes the
vessels stationed there with supplies
to the value Of over e20o tss7S) pan
week.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Maj. DAM L. ALAr AAN0 w LILA
egate, Pittsburg, 1881, present Ameri-
can Federation, drafted original plat
form of that body: again delegate
American Federation of Labor, 1882,
Cleveland, and presided at that ses-
sion; organized Indiana State Fedora
ton OF Labor. 1888; was its president
two years: organized Alpha Assembly
1,712, at indianapolis, 1882, then Dis
trict Assembly, with "a locals; also
locals at Lebanon, Lafayette, Maneie,
Fort Wayne. Rushville, Richmond,
Ind, and at Dayton, o.; and now, as a
hand typesetter, in his fist year. Is
working at the case in a book concern
at Indianapolis.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

Envy and jealousy make women do q
lot OF hitherto unheard of things.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-28

that Mr.. Wilson had been offered, but
had declined, military escort when
he started to pay the men. While this
may seem to have been recklessness
on his part, 1t nevertheless is discour-
aging to find SO little respect for law
SO near Manila.
Lieutenant Brewers death was an