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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-02

Der OF germs. The fore milk with US
assumes a relatively high numerical
estimate, but that is proNlbly because
other conditions are more improved.
It probably makes but little difference
In the germ content of fore milk
whether the herd is kept in the ordi-
nary manner or special endeavors used
to keep 1t In the best form.
There is no question but that care
full handling of the milk will result
in a very great reduction in the num-
Der Of bacteria that find their way into
the same. This is evident not only
from archaeological tests made OF
milk drawn under the best and also
under ordinary conditions, but also
from the increase of the keeping quail
ity Of the product.
In the establishment OF sanitary or
certified dairies, where milk is handled
under most modern conditions, the in
crease in keeping quality is very
marked; such milk often remaining in
a sweet condition for several days, and
sometimes a week or more.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-02

America the water rams surround the
boats and cry, Penny. penny in the
water, please. Hurry up, please" and
few can resist their pleadings. Sc
over goes a penny and into the watei
all the water rats dive at once, and
soon up the lucky one with it in
his mouth. Then it is penny. please
again until the ship leaves port. Thes,
boys are mostly ishermen's sons.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
Hing Khana.

Khama is KING or the Bamangwato
tribe. His 10000 subjects are called
Bechanas, because they live in Bechu-
analand; but they resent this name
themselves, and do not acknowledge
it as tribal term. Khama is an old
man now-lean, hungry and as ugly
as can be; but he is a very good CID
man, and in his way has probably
done more real good to the cause Of
the natives in his part Of the country
than any other two dozen native
chiefs. He will not allow any intoxi-
eating liquor whatever to be sold any,
where within his dominions. He and
all his people are strict teetotallers,
and there is a heavy fine for making
tschuala, or Kaffir beer, a compare
lively harmless decoction OF fermented
mealie meal.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
STORlETTES

! One night, at the Garrick club. .
number Of the members were did,,
cussing the merits of 81 new Hamlet
who had appeared that evening. w.
S. Gilbert had taken no part in the
arguments, for or against. At last
one of the others ventured: swell,
| Gilbert, what do you think Of his
Hamlet?" "Oh," responded the witty
librettist, 81 think it was funny with
out being vulgar"
According to the testimony Of an
American correspondent in Porto
Rico, we still woefully Lack popular
ity among the natives there. This is
| his description of the manner in
which suit, to which an American
is party, is conducted in one OF the
insular courts there: Court-"You
are the plaintiff in this casc?' Liti-
gant--"Yes, your hunor?' Court
you are an American, ! presume"
Iitigant-"Yes, your homer" Court
"You lose"
"Macaulay improves, Macaulay inn
provost" Sydney Smith remarked
one day: 81 have observed in him of
late flashes of--silence." The "sonor-
GUS vivacity" Of this enormous talhcr
nettled Smith, who found it imp0S-
sihle often to voice his own wit and
wisdom. II wish I could write poetry
like YOU" he complained to friend:
II would write an 'lnferno,' and /
would put Macaulay among a NUM-
Der of disputunts and gag hin!" An
other contemporary described Ma
caulay as "slopping all over ON every
subject and standing in the slops.'
Among the clever epigran,s which
occur in Mrs. Craiyic's new society
drama, 1.-The Wisdom of the WISE"
which is now being performed in
London by George Alexander, are:
Mrs. Bistern has made so many ex-
periments that she has had no time
to gain experience" What n man
has done bores everybody, but what
ne is going to do is always delight
full" 81 hate man who can only
love those whom he esteems. lie al
ways runs away with his friends
wife" at is easy enough to be faith
Jul to some one you don't love--that,
IN my opinion, is true virtue" where
is Sarah now? In bed with ice on
her temples! She may be woman
for crisis, but we have to know it
for weeks afterward."
The late Henry Russell, the veterIa
English composer of Cheer, Boys,
Cheer" and of more than eight hnn-
dred other songs which were popular
in their day, had many amusing eo
periences when he sang his ballads Ola
various occasions. Once, after rem
dering "Woodman, Spare That Tree"
a gentleman rose in the gallery, and
asked, "Was the tree spnred?' On
being answered in the affirmative, he.
with sigh of heartfelt relief, en-
claimed: "Thank God for that!"
After singing the song of ''Ihe Dog
Carlo" who jumped off an Atlantic
finer and saved child's life, Rus.
sell was gravely waited upon by
couple of Yorkshire miners, who beg
ged him for a pup. One of Russell's
songs, of which the words were
tered conditions, is our national ar
changed in accordance with the al
them, columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean,"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
Humorous Census Returns.

Many humorous features were de-
veloped in the taking of the census OF
1900. One question was indicated by
the remark length Of residence"
which was expected to show how long
the people living in various localities
at the time Of the census had been
there. When the reports came In it
was found that many Of these queries
were answered in figures in this way:
2ox40, Is 30, etc. The enumerators
had gone around with foot rule and
had measured the length Of the resi-.
dences of the people they counted.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25

tinue to suffer en-, dropping into the
grave one by one.
Peruna cures catarrh In all stages
and VARIETIES whether acute or chronic,
and is therefore the most effective
remedy ever devised for removing all
the deran gements which follows Ia
grippe.
Samuel NJ. York writes from Union
GROVE, Ala. the following letter:
Dear Sir-"Last week was taken
with la grippe and catarrhal deafness.
I wrote you for advice and followed
your directions. After taking two bot
ties of Peruna I found myself we'll OF
La grippe, and my hearing was fully re-
stored. My health is better than 1t
has been in five years.
"My wife improved In health very
much after taking Peruna.
M. York.
Miss Caroline J. Kahl, Otisco, Ind,
writes as follows:
"Three years I he'd Ia grippe and
pulmonary trouble. was very sick.
/ had L7en1or rhGges Of the lungs nearly
every day for q year and three bottles
0fycur Peruna cured me. The Gocfor
said had consumption. lam now In
better health than have been for
many years.
Il highly recommend Peruna to all
my neighbors and friends. Peruna is
my favorite medicine. shall always
have Peruna in the house. Miss Caro-
line J. Kahl
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use Of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving a full statement Of your case
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
LITERARY NOTES.

In Outing for January Charles 6.
D. Roberts contributes one of his in
comparable nature sketches, 1.-THE
Moonlight Trails" Guy Wetmore
Carryl tells of, and Hy S. Watson H.
Recreative Life.'' Horace Kephart
gives practical advice on "Ritles for
Big Came"
"Theres Only One Moo York." and
the hero of the first of a series OF
sketches of ''Some Americans
Abroad" which appears in the Jan
uary Century, makes frequent refer
cnce to that fact. Charles Battell
Loomis met his homesick fellow
countryman abroad last summer and
submits his case for the commisera-
ton of all good Americans.
In the January Atlantic r. B. John
son gives an admirable summary OF
the years results in his Letter from
England. He touches on the Boer
war and it's consequences, the deaths
of the year. The great productions,
literary, scientific and artistic, are
gra r!:cally summed up and the flu
ture of the coming year suggested.
Mrs. Hill, one of the three famous
editors of the Domestic Department
of the Ladies' Home Journal, will
contribute to that MAGAZINE during
the coming year series of Illus
trated lessons in marketing, showing
to woman's eye in photographs
what has hitherto only been explain
ed in type. Several pictorial pages
will show just the thing to DO at
market-in fact reduce market-goins
to q simple science, shorn of vcxa-
tons.
An attractive and characteristic
feature of The Worlds Work for
January is an article by Henry Har-
rison Lewis, describing "A Days
Work on Snow Plough" as it is TO
be witnessed on the mountain divi-
sion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
How man and the machine combine
to do successful battle with the great
storms which yearly sweep the Rock
les is set forth in graphic fashion.
The February number of McClure's
Magazine contains a graphic narra-
tive of fernando de Soto and his dis
covery of the Mississippi, by Cyrus
Townsend Brady, whose powers in
picturesque and adequate historical
writing have won him SO much es-
tcem from the reading public. The
article is fully illustrated.
In the February number of The
Delineator is an article of great in
tcrest, written by Laura B. Starr, as
the result Of a journey across the
ocean with Madame Gadski, the
opera singer. Madame Gadski's de-
scription of the difficulties and
thorns that beset the way of those
who aspire to operate honors, will
be very interesting to all women and
most men.
The Hon. Hugh L. Lusk writes in
the January Review of Reviews ON
"rhe Australian Commonwealth
It's People, Resources and Outlook"
giving good outline of the situation
in the new federation at the moment
of launching. -
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25

4 q ISIS FRANCES M. ANDERSON,
r n Corresponding Secretary Of the
uH Higher Educational League,
kM writes from the Astoria, wash
IL IL fo11
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25

u z ISIS FRANCES M. ANDERSON,
n n Corresponding Secretary Of the
Vf Higher Educational League,
XVII writes from the"Astoria," wash
"a ington, D. c., the following:
"About two zzorfis ago was taken
very Ill with ks grippe and was obliged
TO go to bed. Ito0k three bottles of
\ Peruna with very beneficial results,
and was able 10 leave my bed in a
week and regaiued my usual strength
very soon. -.
~ have nothing but praise for Peru
"a, 9nd recommend 1t to those SINH
,Any afflicted whenever can -
Frances NJ. Anderson.
La grippe is, strictly speaking, cpl
emtc catarrh-that is to say, a variety
acute catarrh which is so contagi-
BUS and runs course more or less
aednite. the same as scarlet fever,
Whooping cough, etc.
During the acute stages of Ia grippe
II Is not very fatal disease, but the
gcondition in which 1t leaves the sys-
Item has caused the death Of a count
e less number.
Indeed nearly every person who has
had la grippe within the last three
years finds himself more or less de-
ranged by the pernicious effects of this
disease. The majority of those who
have escaped death End life scarcely
worth living.
II this vast multitude of people could
only know with what certainty and
promptness Pes,:na would relieve them
OF all the bad effects which la grippe
has brought upon them, what an untold
amount OF suffering would be averted!
58 Thousands have already heard how
quickly this remedy will cure in these
cases and have been saved; but tens Of
tHnilSA nGS hnra n hand md n-1a.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
CHAPTER II.

And you're going to take me to
England for Christmas, to your own
home. Gervis?"
. ITO our home, my wife. You must
learn to say ours not yours Glad
dy."
A newly made husband and wife
sat-hand-in-hand in the handsome
palace car of train speed ing over
the Canadian Pacific railway. Out
side was the white world Of new-fall-
en- snow, while in the car, with its
mirrors, it's inlaid furniture, it's flow
ers and fruit, its silken hangings, and
its scented warmth, the atmosphere
was like midsummer.
They had been married but few
weeks, these needless, happy lovers,
and the honeymoon had not as yet
waned. For the young pair the course
Of true love had flowed with a smooth
ness altogether unprecedented.
There had been the first meeting,
when the good looking, tail young
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
HIGHEST Chimney In World.

Antwerp has the highest chimney
in the world. 1t belongs to the Silver
Works company and is 40 feet high.
The interior diameter is Is feet at the
base and II feet at the top.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
Artificial Nutmegs Ana'yzed.

A German chemist has analyzed the
artificial nutmegs that are made in
Belgium in large quantities. They in
clude various vegetables and 20 Fer
cent of mineral substances.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25

A fish is in the swim because he
keeps his mouth shut.
The best Is the cheapest, Carriers Ink 10 the
BEST yet 1t costs no more than the poorest
If you are hungry do not worry,
but seek something to eat.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25

No man is so obstinate as to refuse
to give an automobile the right OF
waV
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09

patriotic and unpretentious station of
American citizenship. And when he
shall retire in the distinguished emf
nence of that exalted station, well may
he say to the carpers and critics whose
lips have been sullied with defamation
and with falsehood, as Diogenes of old
once said; Only stand little out of my
sunshine. For 1t is sunshine that en-
velopes every citizen, gladness that
glows in every henri ant. at every fire
side; light that shines upon the larg-
est figures of prosperity ever written
in the history of man.
Many are there who by the accident
of war, have Won renown, and many,
too, whose names are written high by
the tickle wand of Fortune, and some
there are have been and doubtless al
ways will be, who court and win the
smiles of fame by pointing out wha,
might have been and critcising that
which is, and each turn is honored by
his fellow men according to his just de-
serts. But the gratest of them all is he
Who binds and guides the soreos of .he
world to noble ends, who in the soft,
clear light Of wlsdom's counsel
solves the controversies and avoids the
dangers that might wreck contending
powers. and by thus solving, leads to
truth and peace, where, all men come at
last to prosper and to praise. In some
way the blessings of mankind-a sort
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rest upon the
head of President Mckinley. Happy in
deed the people who are filled with graf
itude and not resentment And hap
piest of the happy are the Hawkeyes."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09

mfliar terms from early childhood with-
out the smallest III resulting. A great
point iss made OF languages. and no
Dutch girl OF the upper or middle class
es is considered educated who can not
speak English, French and German
more or less fiuently.
| Probably owing to the system of edu-
cation in force, the women folk are in
clined to grow up somewhat indepen-
dent; we are told that the prejudice
against women working for livelihood
has almost Disappeared. and even rich
women sometimes choose profession.
They include doctors, dentists. many of
them first-rate, photographers and gar
deners. About 1000 girls hold posts as
assistant chemists. some 5000 are nurs-
es, trained in the White Cross homes,
and on a par with the very beet of their
profession. A0woman is curator of the
natural history museum in HARLEM,
and another holds the same post at
Utrecht, while third is head dispenser
at hospital in Amsterdam. The rail-
way post and telegraph offices are
largely served by female clerks. who al
together outnumber the male.
Girls in Holland have great deal OF
liberty They pay calls, shop and 90 to
parties at the houses of friends without
a chaperone. walk and travel alone, cy-
Gle and have tennis and wheeling clubs
in company With young men. They en-
joy their fun and freedom, and are in no
hurry to find husbands. Marriages are
not arranged. and the parents consent
is only asked after a proposal 10 made
and accented.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09
A SUGGESTION.

We would respectfully suggest to the
Capital, Register and News the intro
duction of the affidavit system. Here
after when they have salacious news
item, or interview not taken from a
contemporary, why not attach an affi-
dayit of the editor, assuring it's readers
of genuineness. 1t would save subse-
quapt signed statements and confess
sions. An affidavit in the following
form might be kept ready for use and
if not just the thing any lawyer car
draw up form:
State of Iowa, Polk county, SIS.
1, Late Young Cor r. Clarkson, o,
j. j. Hamilton) being sworn, state thai
am the editor of this paper, that the
statements above made are true Cor the
interview above given actually TOOK
place in the presence of - --).
Signed, LATE Young, Cor j. j. Hamil.
ton or Clarkson).
Subscribed and sworn to by LATE
Young Cor j. j. Hamilton or R. Clark.
SOM this - day of 49, 49,.
JOHN DOE,
Notary Public
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09
glarslatupn Fridap agus 1901

OF 900 barrels day. But estimating
the twenty wells at the rate of only
$4,000 barrels each, the work to be done
in finding market for the present out
put of the field is readily seen. The
market, too, cannot be found in Texas
nor in the south, for the wants of these
can easily be supplied by a few of the
wells. The Guffey company has bought
three Oil steamers, has ordered three
others built and is said to be in the
market for more. The Kirby company
has plans for fleet of tank steamers.
and 1T Is said that one of the big steam
ers here will also put in line of
steamers between Port Arthur and
Germany but all of these are in the
future Even If there be a total Of
fifty steamers put in the trade within
the next year, four wells could keep
them filed, for the average trip would
be ten days. and there would be only
five vessels to be filed every day.
Every effort is being made to get the
storage tanks ready in the field, and
the railroads are hurrying the work of
putting in their storage tanks at other
points: but it will be two months before
any considerable portion of the output
can be cared for in this manner. The
problem of laying pipe lines to New
to-,
worked out, tho it is rumored that the
Guffey company has secured nearly all
of the right of-way between Beaumont
and New Orleans, and will begin work
as soon as permission can be secured
from the Louisiana authorities to es-
tablish storage plants near the city
and lay piping thru the city for the dis
trtbution of the oil. The cost Of piping
the oil is comparatively small, and by
this means it can be laid down at New
Orleans much cheaper than it could be
sent there by rail or water.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
there is so much oil at Beaumont that
the owners do not know what to do
with it. The price has ranged about 80
cents per barrel ever since there was
any sort of demand. and it will proba-
bly, stay in that neighborhood until
some of the smaller companies get fa-
cilities for marketing their oil and find
that they have to shade prices bit.
But so long as the present conditions
exist and the oil is thrown from the
ground by nature, there is profit in
the oil at 10 cents barrel, if 1T can
be disposed of at that price to the limit
of the wells. A single days flow of the
twenty wells at that price would
amount to 100000, the contract price
for boring twenty wells. while the land
on which they stand (allowing one-six-
tenth acre to the welD. would cost
only s15o.oOO.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09
THE STRIKE WEAKNESS.

According to the edict of President
Shaffer the steel strike is to be extended
tomorrow to all the workmen in the
Amalgamated Association, and there is
not much doubt but that it will be gem
orally obeyed by the loyal unionists.
great steel corporation is re-opening
mills closed by the first strike by the
employment of on-union workmen.
Without doubt this fact is viewed with
dfsmay by the strikers and if it con-
tinues only the unlawful acts of union
lists can interfere with full resumption
the strikers.
A Msrshalltown man who is perfectly
familiar with the situation It Pittsburg
declares that the Importance and
strength of the strike have been 1nagnl-
fled and facts have been distorted, and
that it's inherent weakness will be de-
yeloped as time passes. He says the
mill owners are determined not to yield
the control Of their business wholly to
the union leaders; that they know from
a careful study of unionism here and in
England that the complete control of
factories by workmen means deter
ioration of the manufactured output or
its increased cost to such an extent that
mill owners are not able to compete
with other nations. The ultimate effect,
where unionism dictates terms, is the
injury of the workingman by loss of
business.
1t would seem that intelligent work
ingmen should see this and avoid the
perils that come from the attempt TO
exercise the autocratic power which
they condemn in others. The disastrous
termination of two recent strikes af-
fords study that might be profitable
considered by the strikers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09
TEXAS SURPLUS OIL.

AS result of the development of the
great oil field in Southern Texas, the
owners Of the gushers have SO much
oil that they do not know what to do
with it. The market for it is broad
ening slowly, being hampered by lack
of transportation. lack of storage facil-
tiles and the lack of confidence in
the permanence of the Beaumont field.
To overcome the last named reason.
the heavy producers are now offering
to enter into contract for terms of one
and two years, with heavy bond, to
carry out their contracts. The second
problem is being overcome to some ex-
tent by the railroads and the first is
yet to be solved. A writer at Beau
mont says, "As matters are now, the
daily shipments from Beaumont do not
amount to the capacity of the smallest
of the twenty gushers. Probably thir-
ty thousand barrels day are shipped
by rail and water, while the gushers
have a capacity ranging from fifty
thousand to seventy thousand day,
depending on the size OF their pipes
With the twenty gushers going to their
full capacity, the flow would probably
not equal the product of the twenty
wells turned loose at one time. tho four
OF the wells have been turned on a,
one time without any noticeable dimin-
luton Of the pressure, and the last well,
brought in have just as much power
70 spout as did the famous Lucas gey-
Y eer, which ran for ten days at the rate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09
Business Opportunities for All.

Locations In Iowa, Illinois, Minneso-
ia and Missouri on the Chicago. Great
Western railway; the very best agri-
cultural section of the United States,
where farmers are prosperous and
business men successful. We have a
demand for competent men. with the
necessary capital. for all branches of
business. Some special opportunities
for creamery men and millera Good To-
cations for general merchandise, hard
ware. harness, hotels. banks and stock
buyers. Correspondence solicited. Write
for maps and Maple Leaflets. w. j.
Reed, Industrial agent, 604 Endicott
Bldg, ST. Paul, MINI.