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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
WOMEN SUICIDES.
Inherent Pride Causes Them to Dress Up
for tho Deed.

inherent Pride Cauyes Them to Dress Up
for tho Deed.
IF / should ever be called upon to
furnish indisputable proof of the in
herent pride of woman" said police
sergeant, Il would point at once to
her invariable rule of dressing UP in
her best clothes when she goes out to
commit suicide. In my experience on
the force | have had occasion to han
die a good many suicides and after
ward investigate their personal affairs,
and in every instance [ have found
that the poor unfortunates prepared
themselves for death by donning their
best bib and tucker. The majority
of the printed reports of suicides say
that the clothes of the dead woman
were good or well made or elegant
If the woman contemplating suicide
owns silk waist she wears it. Her
broadcloth skirt and silk petticoat nat
urally go with this garment and she
selects her best shoes. have
looked up the history of many of these
respectfully clad suicides and have
found that they owned but one gown
with which they could make a decent
appearance on the street, and that that
one good dress was chosen, without
exception, as the appropriate garb in
which to make the exit from this
worlds stage. 1t makes no difference
what manner of death is chosen, the
costume is carefully selected. Let a
woman sleep her life away under the
influence of drugs or burn her soul out
with acids or sink into the slime Of
the river, she clothes herself in her
most becoming garments and seeks
the end with apparent tranquility. Her
instinct of gentility and elegance in
clothes is with her to the last, and
even in the face of death she shrinks
from public appearance in unbeeom-
ing raiment"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
Current Topics
Commercial Feature of CHM

Commercial Feature OF China
The prediction of Jean de b och that
a regenerated China would revolution
lie international commercial condi-
lions by competing for the worlds
markets is much nearer the truth than
the notion that the oriental empire is
somehow to give all to other nations
and receive nothing in return. The
country Is not wilderness of natural
wealth which can be absorbed by the
outsider 1t has an enormous industrial
population as well as unequaled natur-
al resources, and because 1t has both
it presents peculiar problem.
We find our greatest trade with the
United Kingdom, whose people possess
a high degree of manufacturing skill,
but who dwell upon such a restricted
territory that they must get their food
and the raw materials for their work
elsewhere They took from $40 ,699.-
989 worth of our exports during the
ten months ending with April, and
sent us $119,9 $40 worth of their ex-
portsOf the tremendous bill which
they paid us no less than $34O, O0O,O
was for provisions, cotton and bread
stuffs.
During the same period China sent
us SIS 1903, 147 worth of exports and
took from us only s7,423, 34S worth Of
imports The figures look pitiably
small after those for the United King
dom, and though it is certain that they
Will be increased while China is in
transition. we have nothing that is
permanently necessary for the supply
of China. any more than we have the
power to exploit the country as if it
were a new and undeveloped land.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

Threatened men live long" some
times-when, for instance, they chance
10 be criminals whose counsel are anx-
ious to make record. Almost ten
years ago man in the state of Wash
fngton was convicted of murder In the
first degree and sentenced to be
hanged. That sentence has been thrice
reaffirmed but the man has not been
hanged yet. The state supreme court
and the United States Supreme court
have had the case before them, In the
form OF exceptions and objections, dur
ing these ten years, and the con-
demned mans attorney declares that
he has still many cards 10 play"
Such attempts to Cheat the gallows"
have the evil effect of arousing against
a convict sentiment which is not
easily TO be distinguished from vim
dictiveness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
A Busrness Education.

President Forgan of the First Ma
tional bank of Chicago, has added his
testimony to that OF other leading Cal
cagoans in regard to the shortcomings
of our public schools in teaching the
rudiments of practical business edu-
cation. In his address before the
graduating class of Lake Forest Uni
versity he outlined the educational
qualifications which he regards as
most helpful in attaining success in a
business career. They are few and
simple:
l. To be able to write a good legible
hand, to make good figures, and to
place them correctly-the units be-
low the units, the tens below the tens,
and so on.
2. To be able to add, subtract and
multiply rapidly and accurately.
3. To be able to express yourself
clearly, briefly and dramatically in a
letter and to spell the words correct
ly.
Elementary as these qualifications
are, Mr.. Forgan says the young men
who possess them are rare. Though
he has taken many youths into bust
ness, he says he can remember scarce
ly one who could be relied upon to do
the simple things just enumerated.
Many of them were graduates of high
schools, yet they could not always
write legibly, figure accurately, or spell
correctly. Perhaps they could write
a thesis on mythology, physiology or
biology, but they had not mastered
the first rudiments of the business in
which they hoped to make livelihood.
Mr. Forgan says there must be some
thing wrong with a school system
That produces these results, and his
belief is shared by nearly every sue
cessful business man who employs
young men and women.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
Politics in AustralIa.

Politics can be made expensive in
Australia as well as here. One man,
Sir Malcolm McEachern of Melbourne,
expended $250,O00 to secure a seat in
the commonwealth house of represen-
tatives. Another man, a laborer, from
an adjoining constituency, expended
only $3.50. A remarkable campaign
was waged by another candidate who
on the eve of election issued the fol-
lowing statement: Il have travelled
in the conduct of this contest more
than 10000 miles, large portion on
foot. have published and circulated,
chiefly by my own hands, or by those
of my family 100000 pages of liter
allure in book form l have published
10000 copies of speeches delivered in
the constituency, and $4,000 copies Of
four-page circulars. 1t is utterly inn
possible that this amount of work
and literature can fail to have it's
effect" The candidate who tramped,
printed and published on this colossal
scale found himself on the bottom of
the poll when the numbers were up.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

erless. Instead they ordered him TO
report to the hospital for treatment.
He respectfully declined to go. He
then appealed to the colonel and the
general in command, but in vain.
There was now but one chance left
him. He would appeal to the com
mander-in-chief of the armies-the
President Of the United States. He APP
pealed to Lincoln, but the President
also declared that he was unfit for SER
vice. He appointed him to a place in
the War Department. For many years
DR.. Rand practiced his profession in
Washington, but few years ago re-
tired.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

We make much better proerass %
the bedsideof the fever patient bv keen
ing before the eye, as the only obiact
worth striving for, the warding off
OF hamilton, than we should bv q ran
dom search after dishes that win do
the patient good guided by unclear
and ungrounded prejudice" saws prof
Carl Won Noorden in the international
Monthly. The condition of the diges-
tive organs may in special cases sc in
typhoid fever, lay us under certain
restrictions, but otherwise every vo
riety OF food must, in fever cases no
looked upon as useful and welcome 10
tnereDy we can reach the goal of tho
feVer dietetics, and prevent inanition
ana the initial loss of fat and proton-
lasm. With some fever patients wo op,
along better, and do them more go 1
with pea soup, sauerkraut and roast
pork than with the finest calves co.
Jelly and the tenderest breast of cbio,,
en-. The old dogmatists in dictate
whose footing was rather natural nni1
osophy than the facts of the pathoIna,,
OF metabolism, would have been bor
rified If they could have known WIZ
a vast variety of dishes we allow o''s
fever patients nowadays"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
Paris Has a Dog nsnt,at.

An animal dentist is one of the lat
est additions to the queer population
of Paris. This one attends strictly to
the teeth of pet dogs, filling them with
gold when they begin to show decay,
as the result Of an injudicious diet.
The teeth of some fashionable dogs
glitter like a jewelers. window. One
famous actress had a gem or two in
terspersed with the gold of her Sog's
teeth, merely for the sake of owning
them. Just how the pets like the proc
ess of filling is not known, but from
the yelps and banks that issue from
the dentists establishment it is prob
able that the operation is not more
soothing to canine than to human
nerves.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

Russia has decided that it wants tho
American bicycle. having tired of tha
more clumsy English and German ar
ticle. Such are the comforting reports
received by the managers Of the Amer
lean Bicycle company, which does
much of the exporting of American
machines. Russia finds more popular
use for the machine at a moderate
price than it has found heretofore, and
the many American-made machines
that travellers about Europe have seen
have convinced them of the superiority
OF our machines over those of Euro
pean make. So there is an unusual de-
mand this year, a fact which pleases
the American maker who finds the de-
mand here falling off as compared with
that which existed when all America
was bicycle mad.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
PortugaI,s popnlar Queen.

The Queen of Portugal is one of the
most popular Of reigning sovereigns;
so that anything like revolution in
Portugal is absolutely out Of the ques-
ton. The recent act of heroism
through which she saved a fisherman
from drowning will not diminish that
popularity. The fisherman was in a
boat which capsized, and was in very
bad way indeed, when her majesty,
who happened to be near, flung her
self into the water, swan to the res
cue and brought him safe to shore.
Anyone who has ever tried to swim
with his or her clothes on will realize
the pluck of the young queen, and as
it turned out that the fisherman's leg
was broken her act deserves all the
more wonder and admiration.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
Practical Reforma-
ton in the
Metropolis. xxx

his home. During the past five years
he has helped about 5000 youths III
one way or another and once or twie'
a year these report to him.
The success of Mr.. Wizards re-
markable work is proven by the fact
that out of the hundreds of boys who
have been placed in his charge only
10 have failed to realize his expecta-
lions. Had he not saved them from
the disgrace of an early prison life
IL is probable that the great majority
of them would now be well started on
a criminal career.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

In electing Henry P. Dawson to the
presidency of the Liberty National
bank in New York last week the
stockholders of that institution placed
In control of their property man
who is today the youngest bank presi-
dent in the metropolis. Mr.. DAWSON,
at the age of thirty-three. ranks not
only as president OF a national bank in
the financial center of the continent,
but also as the secretary of the New
York clearing house, the organization
Of the banking interests.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

Few persons know that the United
States government derives an income
from some of the largest bathing es-
adjustments In America, IL not In the
world. The hot springs of Arkansas.
which have been resort for invalids
For many years. are owned by Uncle
Sam. and he extracts a payment of $50
a tub for the use of the medicated wa
ter AS there are 534 tubs, the spring
brings him an income from that
source OF $4,000 year. The various
hot springs. which are said to number
seyenty-three, issuing from the west
side and the base of Hot Springs noun
tain, and which are now obscured from
view, have been converged in many in
stances from several different issues
into one outlet by development work
done on the reservation under the SUI
pervision of the various superintend-
ents.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

The experiments are for the purpose
OF Improving and perfecting bombs
that are now made for the purpose of
exposing the position of an enemy at
night and to reveal the character OF
defenses to be attacked. These pro-
5ectiles explode on impact. liberating
flaming compound One compound,
consisting OF sulphur. saltpetre, and
hydrocarbon, is a blue light mixture,
The illumination lasts as long as the
saltpetre supplies oxygen to maintain
combustion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
SMALL COLLEGES BEST.
A Writer Says Large Institutions Pro-
Vide Less Variety.

A writer Says Large Institutions Pro-
vide Less Variety.
Why 1t is better, on some accounts,
to send boy to small college rather
than to a large one is set forth by
Herbert w. Horwill in the Atlantic.
He says: THE smallest college in
cludes men who have come from diff
ferent schools, who live in different
counties, who hold different religious
opinions, who are of different grades
in society, and who anticipate very
different careers in later life. 1t is in
the mingling of these diverse elements
that the social intercourse of college
operates most healthily. No
outside associates will contribute to
a mans education more of what is
fresh and unfamiliar than will meet
him daily on his own staircase. A
small college puts upon him the COM
pulsion of this broadening social in
tercourse. A large college, on the
other hand, from its very size pro-
vides less variety; it is impossible for
all the men to know one another, and
they assert themselves accordingly in
to cliques, along the lines of some
sectional interest. AS a social organ
ism, the small college is distinctly to
be preferred to its larger rival. The
personality of the teachers has a much
greater opportunity for wholesome in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

President John Henry Barrows of
Oberlin College. announces that John
ID. Rockefeller has offered Oberlin
100000 ON condition that the college
raise 100000 during the present year
AS $4,000 OF this is already pledged
there seems to be no doubt that the
college will claim the gift before Janu-
airy l. During the two years of the
presidency OF DR.. Barrows, the endow-
ment has been increased by 100000,
not counting the 100000 expected
from the sources just mentioned.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

oiuiu6 at lH6 IHeellnB, IOOk the JeIe-
gram, read it, and said:
THE war is already upon us. we
have to raise our quota of men to
fill this call. We must have them
Immediately. Who will be the first
man to enlist?"
Young Reed stepped forward on the
spur OF the moment and said, 81 will"
His name was put down in his own
handwriting on the muster roll and
the Twelfth New York volunteers had
their first soldier, while New York
state had the proud distinction of en-
listing the first volunteers for the civil
war. Batavia's quota of men was soon
raised and left for the front. Very
soon afterward Rand performed the
daring act which won him the first
medal of honor ever presented by
congress for most distinguished
GaIlantry on the Battlefield.
At Blackburn's Ford, Va, July 10,
less than three months after he had
enlisted his command was ordered to
retreat The order had been given on
account of the deadly fire of the enc
my's artillery. which was masked on
the hills of Bull Run. Infantry also
poured in a terrific fire. The rest of
his battalion of 500 men were swept
in disorder from the field, but Rand,
apparently not noticing the slaughter
all about him, held his ground with
an old Harper's Ferry musket that had
been changed from a fiintlock. The
N In oil
by shot and shell, yet the only injury
he received was from flying dirt and
stones. Across a deep ravine he saw
the command of Capt Barnum Oater
Gen. A. II. Barnum), who were on
their faces, not being able to rise to
their knees to load on account of the
deadly fire of the Confederates, but
turning on their backs for that pur-
pose. He made his way to them on
his knees. Joined the line and fought
with 1t to the end of the engagement.
Disqualified for Service.
At Gaines Mill. in the seven days
fighting before Richmond in 1862, a
musket ball crushed through Sergt
Rand's right shoulder, smashing It to
% JNh@s iAS icluhtu W rue III an am
bulance, saying, THAT wagon is need
ed for those who cannot walk" He
was taken to Savage Station. where
his right shoulder joint and six inches
of the shaft of the arm were removed
Portions of the shattered shoulder
bone and fragments of clothing were
taken out through the back, the bullet
having passed through one OF his
lungs While at home upon fur
Tough, following this terrible wound,
he was apprised of the fact that he
was the first man in the United States
to respond to Lincolns call for volun-
teers
Vain Efforts to Return.
AS soon as he was able to travel he
was discharged, with pension for to-
tai disability, and sent to his home in
Batavia N. Y. For many weary
months he suffered, his wounds refus-
ing to heal. Finally he became tired
OF waiting, and, while his wounds
still needed care, surrendered his pen
sion certificate, secured commission
and reported for duty with his new
regiment in the field. But the medi-
cal officers of the regiment refused to
pass him, as his sword arm was pow
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

According to correspondence issued
by the London foreign office, SO per
cent OF the slaves of Zanzibar and
Pemba prefer to remain slaves. Fewer
slaves applied for freedom in 1900 than
In 1899, because. the British commits
sioner AYERS, most of the slaves know
they are not likely to gain much pres
emit advantage, seeing that those who
were thrown on their own resources
have difficult time to make living.
The masters have been kinder since
the slave legislation was enacted, and
seek to make their services more at
tractive.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

A complete set of 10 James / sill
yer apostle spoons belonging to Lord
Dormer was sold in London recently
for $4,000. Only two other sets are
known, one in Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, the other in Goldsmith's
Hall in London. An Elizabethan
standing salt cellar weighing 2Oh
ounces, was sold for $4,000, pearly $3.50
an ounce.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

huence. Every member of the stair
may become directly acquainted with
each student in the college. The size
OF the institution not only allows
friendly intercourse between tutors
and undergraduates. but directly in
Vites 1t. Further, it is possible for the
undergraduates themselves to enioy all
tne social advantages of academic life
without splitting up into cliques or
creating artificial associations. The
college itself is the true fraternity"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

The pawnshop of Mexico is a recent
conner in the charitable field, but has
been extremely successful ever since
1t was opened. In 1899 the official re-
port showed that business to the ex-
tent of over 100000 was done by this
institution, which was patronized by
100000 people, or, rather, the amount
of money specified loaned on 100000
transactions
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

The fifth of an extraordinary series
of weddings has just been celebrated
dn Paradise Valley, near 0roville, Cal.
The first was that of John Weer,
Cornish widower with four good look
ing daughters. Some years ago he
welded Mrs. Malarin, French widow
with four sons. The boys and girls
have now been all mated and the five
couples live under the same roof.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

The tree planted at the Naval Train
ing Station In Newport an dedicated
TO the memory of Admiral Philip who
commanded the Texas at Santiago, will
typify the vitality and growth of the
heros fame. His record illustrated at
once the valor and humaneness that
characterize the model officer. He did
not fear fighting enemy, nor fail to
succor q dying foe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

Though dean of the Paris foonT.,
Protestant theology, the late Aueysta
sabatier constantly welded his n So ,'s
lie Temps in defense of freedom -, ~
thought. He lived sixty-two voor VI
his best works are on the sources ~ -
the life of Christ and a pbiloson Ses oi
religion. p"S OF
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27

The undergraduate body Of Roam
pike College, Salem, Va, includes four
Koreans-one of them son of the
emperor-and FIVE native Porto RI
cans. A Korean recently won the
prize for English defamation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
FIRST VOLUNTEER
DISTINCTION BELONGS TO DIR.
CHARLES r. RAND,
Who Enlisted at Batavia when Lincoln
Called for Troops Remarkable
War Reoord-ExceptionaI Honors-
Had An Iron Nerve.

In the National cemetery at Airing
ton there is a burial plot presented
by the United States government to
Or. Charles f. Rand of Washington,
ID. G. The plot Is not occupied There
is no reason to suppose that It will
be for many years. But when its
owner is laid there for his last rest,
the monument which marks his grave
will commemorate the distinguished
services of the first volunteer to enlist
in the civil war; In response to Lin
coins call for $4,000 men, who was
also wearer of the rare and highly
priced medal of honor, to be worn
only for notable gallantry in action.
DIR. Rand's medal of honor Is the first
that was ever struck off, and the deed
that won 1t was performed before the
decoration was In existence.
First to Enlist.
The opening chapter in one of the
most remarkable military careers ON
record in this country, was on April
10, 1861, when young Rand then an
1S-year-old clerk, attended meeting
in the old Eagle tavern, at Batavia,
N. Y. There had been heated dis
cussion over the probabilities of war,
in the middle of which man came
rushing in waving telegram over his
head
"The president has called for TO-
600 men to go forward and fight" he
shouted.
Henry /. Glowacki. who was pre-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-27
VIRGIL MARKHAM.

infant already shows his fathers love
of nature, and the author of The Man
With the Hoe" will buy farm at
Westerly, S. l., to develop his young
ster's fondness in this direction.