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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Besides the cars mentioned there is
a White House car on the presidents
train. This is virtually a travelling
executive office. The presidents clerks
occupy 1t and Secretary Cortelyou will
there keep up the correspondence of
the president with all the world by
mail and telegraph.
The presidents own car will be his
castle. Here he and Mrs. Mckinley
will live. They will have their private
staterooms, with brass beds and silken
hangings. They will have their din
ing room equipped with silver and cut
glass; there will be fresh flowers on
the table every day. They will have
their observation room from which
they can view the country through
which the train passes. Here the
president can be alone If he chooses
or he can entertain his friends. From
the rear of the train he can bow to
the crowds as the train moves slowly
through a village, or, reaching over
the railing, he can shake hands with
the enthusiasts who crowd around the
presidents car wherever he stops for
even a minute. Or he can make a
speech if he is moved to do so, and the
chances are that he will at many
places.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

The presidential excursion will not
come to an end until June IL, on which
date the president and his party of
guests will arriver home In Washing
ton after having traversed 81 states
and three territories. The train is,with
one exception, the finest that modern
mechanical ingenuity could devise
The exception is the special train in
which w. Seward Webb makes long
trips. Mr. Webb has what is admitted
to be The finest private car in the
world, and the train in which he trav-
els is always most deliberately equipped
In every way. Usually when the presi-
dent is about to take a long journey
the Pullman Company has some cars
just reaching completion which are in
tended for use on the Congressional
Limited, the famous Chicago Limited,
or some like trains, are made up into
train for the presidents use Such
was the case this time. The train has
all the modern comforts of limited
travel. There is a baggage car which
also contains a dynamo to furnish
electricity to the whole train, barber
shop and bath room. Then there Is
a dining car. This car is manned by
picked crew of the best walters of the
Pullman service. When the train is
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
THE PRECEDENT <5HAKINc,
II ANDS AMONG THE CROWD.

bounding over the sands of Arizona
the waiter in the dining car will ap-
pear at table clad in a snowy jacket
with a carnation in his button-hole.
This car is stocked with the very fin
est the market affords. To those who
travel with the president all these
things are free. The president does
not use this dining car, but has his
own private dining room ON the car
in which he lives.
After the dining car comes the car
devoted to the members of the cabinet
and their families. This is a very
fine state-room car and each cabinet
officer has his private room. The
newspaper correspondents on the pres
ident's train share the car of Secre-
tary Cortelyou. There are three news
paper representatives and three pho
tographers representing the great
weekly periodicals. There is q special
railroad representative to see that all
arrangements on the railroads are car
ried out, and there is a special repre-
sentative of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company to assist in the filing
of news dispatches. No individual
daily paper is allowed representatives
on the train because every paper in
the country would want to send cor
respondent If it could So the news
papers get their reports from the rep
resentatives of the press associations
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

cuse. France and England united in a
naval demonstration. England knew
that her act would be distasteful to
the United States, with which country
she had for two years been at the
point of war. Seeing that it did not
provoke us to hostility, England with
drew from the conspiracy. The French
troops overthrow Mexico's weak gov.
eminent. A Mexican faction invited
Macmillan to assume a crown that it
had no right to offer.
When the civil war permitted, the
United States came to Mexico's rescue.
France was warned to withdraw her
troops. Sheridan was sent with an
army to the Rio Grande. The Mexican
patriots were supplied with arms. The
French army retired. The deluded
Macmillan remained to be captured
tried, and executed by the people he
had attempted to subjugate.
That the Emperor Francis Joseph
should cherish against the Mexicans
resentment for his brothers death was
quite natural, and yet unreasonable.
For, while Mexicans held the rifles
that ended Maximilian's life, Louis
Napoleon loaded them and the United
States pulled the triggers.
The Mexicans, though they had suf-
fered the greater injury, were ready to
forgive and forget, but the Austrian
court long persisted in it's rancor. Per-
haps the aged Francis Joseph has
learned from his many sorrows the
Christian duty of forgiveness. He re-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Wreckers are at present employed
upon the A. t. Stewart palace, at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-fourth street, New
York. The material of which the mag
nificent dwelling was composed is be-
ing carted away to all parts of Man
haitian island. Much of it will be used
in the construction of smaller build
ings.
The marble of which the exterior
walls were built is being sold to stone
cutters. Great pieces of the finest
Carrara marble, beautifully polished.
which lined the dining-room and the
ballroom, as well as those used in the
wainscoting of the corridors, are to be
transformed into shafts, headstones,
tombs, urns, broken columns and pill
lars to mark the resting places of the
dead.
The humiliation of this beautiful
pile Is suggestive of the fate that has
overtaken nearly all of the great mer-
chants achievements. The princely
fortune that he left is scattered. His
great store on Tenth street was long
ago eclipsed by others a mile farther
up town. His working women's hotel
has been converted to other uses.
Aside from the identity of his name
with one or two benevolences, there
Will be nothing left in a few years to
remind the city of which A. t. Stew
art was for years the greatest merchant
that he ever lived.
He did not build as wisely as some
Of the rich men of later day. Com
mercialism entered into nearly all of
his undertakings, and with the removal
Of his personality the monuments he
created ceased to have life. OF all his
investments. only those which were
made to benefit others have any vital
ity today. These, unfortunately. are
neither numerous nor conspicuous In
city and country which in our time
abound in great philanthropies.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
Alfalfa in the West and East.

Alfalfa Is plant primarily adapted
to the lands of drouth and sunshine.
and up to a very recent date it has
been regarded as entirely unsuited to
any lands east of the Mississippi river
and north of the Ohio. The trials
with 1t in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Illinois and Indiana were in the
main against it, and the stations as
well as the leading farmers of the
states named, have advised that 1t be
left alone. But in the states of Ohio,
New York and even in New Jersey,
alfalfa has been recently grown in
some localities with marked success.
This has revived the investigations
relative to its usefulness in these
states usually abundantly supplied
with moisture.
Doubtless 1t will be found that there
are in all of our states counties or
parts of counties far more subject to
drouth than are other counties. II
naturally follows that such localities
have an excessive amount of sunshine
and are hence adapted to the develop
ment of the alfalfa plant. Some OF
the best farmers in the east have
found the plant adapted to their local
tiles and have commenced to grow II
for the supplying of the protein need .
in their feeding rationsy We havss
ticed that during the last teIs,t
there are certain parts of II (
more subject to drouth the
other parts of the state.
could be established in su
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Tn Victoria, in Australia, the agri-
cultural societies have taken up the
matter of horse improvement, and, In
a recent convention, proposed some
rather severe measures. The Aus
tralasian, commenting on the action
uf the convention, says:
"The report recommends a tax on
stations, but beyond the registration
of the animals there appears to be lit
tie or no encouragement to horse
breeding. The penalty for using an
unregistered stallion-a fine not ex-
ceeding $50 for the first offense and
confiscation for second offense-is
sufficiently heavy to extinguish all, or
nearly all. the worthless sires in the
country. But as this drafting OF the
culls Is not to be accompanied by any
encouragement in the way of cheaper
ing the services of the registered stall
lions it is not likely to encourage
horse breeding TO any appreeiable ex-
tent. The absence of the cheap sires
will have the effect of considerably
lessening the number Of mares bred
from, as the owners viii hcs> Ga2sider
the weeds worth paying the service
fee of a good stallion. Getting rid of
all the worthless stations will doubt
less prove a great advantage, but
something more is wanted to improve
the general horse stock of the country
The plan adopted by the governments
of European nations is an excellent
one. Stations of the highest class are
purchased, and these are sold to stud
owners at a considerable reduction in
price on the condition that they serve
certain number of approved mares
at a very moderate fee. The owners
of mares that If bred to a good stallion
are. capable of producing useful stock
do not usually send their mares to
weedy stations from choice, but for
financial reasons. If the price of good
sires were brought within their reach
the majority would gladly use high
class sires. No scheme that does not
provide for cheapening the services Of
registered stations to approved mares
of good horses in Victoria. Merely to
tax and register those stations that
are proved to be of value for raising
good stock will no more encourage
the owners of such horses than it will
encourage those who cannot afford to
pay high price for the service of
those registered stations"
We publish the above for the reason
that we have the identical problem to
deal with in this country. Further
more, if Australia gets to breeding a
high type of horse the horse raisers
OF the United States will find strong
competitor. We have been shipping
horses to South Africa. How MANY
would have gone there had there been
an available supply in Australia? We
too, need to weed out the worthless
Sires.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

For eight crops--corn. wheat, oats.
barley. rye. buckwheat, potatoes and
hay-eovered by the reports to the de-
partment of agriculture. the farmers
of the United States received almost
$2oo,OOo.o0O more in 1900 than they OBJ
tanned for the same products in 1899.
buokwheat and barley were the only
crops in the list which showed de-
crease In value. and the advances, In
corn and hay especially, made this de-
nett seem slight. We quote the statis-
ties naaini, as a matter of record. The
contented smile on the American farm
er's face is proof enough OF itself that
he is doing very well indeed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
MEXICO and Ausfria.

The Mexican republic and the Aus
trian empire, after thirty-hve years of
real though passive hostility, are about
to resume friendly relations. The
tragedy of which the unfortunate
Macmillan was the central figure
nears its final scene. Most of its great
actors have passed from the stage. The
survivors are about to admit that JUS
tice was done and to bury their long
quarrel in oblivion.
The attempt to set up a European
empire in Mexico originated in Louis
Napoleon's desire to distract his peo-
pies attention from his own corrupt
government. Mexico's failure to pay
certain bonds was the immediate ex-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

The poet records that he shot an
arrow into the air. but could not see
where 1t fell to earth. Long afterward
he found 1t in the heart of an oak. 1t
lis for protection against reckless use
OF firearms, possibly in the hands of
iother needless poets, that the Adiron
dack guides have recently appealed to
the legislature. The modern small
bore rife sends bullets far beyond the
necessary hunting range, and fire.
quently kills persons whom the gun
ner cannot see. A true aim, steady
arm. a uare hit are In all the walks
Of life itntly commended. But what
about the so-called spent" bullet, with
It's lingering power to wound? Must
not society as well as law hold the
sportsman responsible?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Gently caused to be dedicated at
Queretaro, with ceremonies in which.
the Mexican people Joined with sym
pathy, but without regret, chapel to
his brothers memory. Now he is
about to welcome the envoy of the peo-
pie his brother sought to wrong. At
last he recognizes the fact that the
safety of the people is the supreme
law, to which personal griefs must
yield. Even the house of Hapsburg
at last admits that the only divine
right is the peoples will.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
,De benefit TO the whole state would

the benefit to the whole state Wouiu
be great.
Alfalfa is not, like red clover
plant that will endure for two or threo
years only. 1t is a perennial, ANU
once established, can be depended Oh
to grow for a considerable NUMBER
of years, depending on the seasons
and the way it Is cut and otherwise
handled. In fact In the dryer portions
of South America there are said 10
be fields of alfalfa that have been
growing continuously for the last zoo
years. But we are not generally able
to get in this climate fields that Will
stand for all time. There are added
elements here antagonistic to such
state of affairs. Alfalfa being very
deem rooter may be grown on land
barren to other plants. II there De
partly barren strip Of dry soil with
good water table ten feet below the
surface the long roots OF the aifalfa are
often able to sustain its development
when all ordinary forage plants die
out for lack of moisture.
The best SOIL LOT Ine piah1 10 :" 0NHuJ
loan underlaid at some depth by moist
gravel. Saturated land of any kind
is not suitable to it even though 1t is
a plant that requires good deal OF
water. The soil that has a hard-pan
down a foot or so is not suitable to
it's growth If the hard-pan be i'm
pervious to roots. A limy soil is suit
able to its growth, and where the land
is deficient in lime that article should
be supplied. The plant, being a heavy
feeder, will not thrive on land tnat Is
deficient in plant food. II artihclal
manures of any kind are to be used
they should consist principally OF pot
ash and PHOSPHORUS. To give the
plant a good start, heterogeneous ma
nures are sometimes very serviceable.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

A mammoth black walnut tree on
the farm of %. P. Gaus In williams
county. Ohio, has just been sold for
$4,000. Several lumber dealers have
examined chips from this tree. and all
have declared 1t to be the finest speci-
men of that kind of wood they ever
saw. The tree was eight feet in d.
ameter, forty feet above the stump, and
extended seventy-three feet from tho
butt to the first limb
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

! Andrew Carnegie's last speech to his
workmen at Homestead contained
passage well worth remembering. La
Dor, capital and business ability" he
said, ARE the three legs of three
legged stool. Neither is first, neither is
second, neither is third. There is no
precedence, all being equally neces-
sary." All efforts to make the stool
stand on one leg or on two have been
failures, but when 1t rests upon all
three 1t is hard to upset
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Bavaria has resumed relations with
Greece for the first time since the
Athenians drove out the late King
lotto. AS one result Prof. Furtwangler,
director Of the Munich Glyptothek.
will go to Aegina next summer to ex-
cavate the site where the Aeginetan
statues of the Munich museum were
found. in the hope of discovering evil
dence that may decide what is the
relative position of the groups to each
other.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

In expectation of an heir, the King
and Queen ofNItaly have had brought
to Rome the t0rtoiseshell and gold
cradle which was Used for King Victor
Emmanuel when a baby There is
"a very curious family cradle" in the
possession of the Errolls. 1t has a
carved wooden serpent at one end and
a dove at the other; the idea being
that the child who uses the cradle will
possess the wisdom of the serpent and
the harmlessness of the dove!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Thirty-eight inventors have taken
out hundred or more each OF United
States patents since the beginning of
the year 1872. Mr.. Edison leads all
with 742 patents, Prof. Elihu Thorn
son is credited with 444. and Mr.. West
inghouse and Sir Hiram s. Maxim both
occupy high places ON this modern
roll Of honor. Should our government
set out to decorate" the men who con-
tributed most to national wealth and
progress during the nineteenth CEN
tury, the list OF inventors would yield
names as deserving as any to be found
In the record of statesmen or soldiers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Some remarkable relics of the early
civilization in Egypt have recently
been unearthed and deposited in the
British Museum. Among them is a
beautiful impression of royal seal
which represents the king wrestling
with hippopotamus and spearing a
crocodile. That must have been the
kings busy day.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

KETcHUM, BLAINE COUNTY. IDAHO. !
March 18th 1901
IDAHO

The Minnesota senate has passed,
with amendments, Senator Chilton's
bill prohibiting the marriage of in
sane, epileptic and idiotic persons, and
requiring medical certificate of ~
applicants for marriage licenses. At
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

That the art of cooking ranks high in
the estimation of British army officials
lis shown by the recent grant of $4,000
TO the widow Of the late STAFF Sergt-
Maj. Thompson, in recognition of the
valuable services rendered by her hus-
band who was for many years the
chief instructor of the army school of
cooking at Aldershot.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

In June next.
Ruth, the second
daughter of Sena-
tor Mason, will
graduate from the
Washington Col
lege OF Law at
Washington, d. c.,
as a full-fiedged
attorney and coun-
selor. She is not
decided whether
she will hang out a
shingle and wait
for a practice or
content herself
with the satisfac-
ton that If she
wanted to practice
she could. 1t has
been suggested
that she might en-
ter the offices of
h Q T father and
brother, but 1t is
thought more than
likely that she will
give herself up to
musical studies
connected with the
piano and violin.
Miss Mason is a
graduate of a Chi
cago high school.
In her four years.
course there she
held 80 per cent
average, which en-
titled her to Be
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Mrs. Margaret Deland, the novelist
has begun a series of flower sales at
her Boston home for the benefit of the
poor of that city.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

------~, -rn connection with the French
Meet. have been so satisfactory that ii
mas been decided to provide the whole
Mediterranean squadron with wireless
apparatus, which will be subjected to
decisive tests during the coming cruise
of the squadron.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri gifer
ess, who is feet inches In heiseil-
recently built house for herself Hth
new home has doors 10 feet high, q in
tngs 10 feet high and is equipped WI,
chairs, tables. beds and everythingA
r,rrparffaw ~-sxYTpToca fa1nU-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
FARM AND GARDEN
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AORICULTURISTS.

sopne Up-to-Dste Hints About Cuitiva-
ton OF the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture. yitioulturs and Eloricui
ture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING FROM
TIE REAR PLATFORM.

Wherever the presidents train stops
for more than day the party leave
the cars and go to some hotel.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30
Trouble OF Kansas Hay erowa,..

There has been SO much dissatis-
faction among Kansas farmers over
the methods practiced by the Kansas
City Hay Dealers association through
whom most of the hay that goes 10
that city is marketed that an investi-
cation has been ordered. 1t is claimed
that the secretary of the association
who Is empowered to furnish to the
press quotations on hay, has sys-
tematically sent out quotations so
cents to s1.oO below the true market
prices, thus making 1t possible for hay
dealers who members of the assoc
citation to defraud the farmers by nav
ing them according to the quotations
sent out my the secretary. The system
OF hay inspection inaugurated by the
association and upon which II depends
for revenue is also severely criticised
as being incompetent, unfair and az
no real value either to simmer or
grower. The Kansas City hay receipts
Tor 1900 were 1910 tons and IL ths
charges unada coo - ~b
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-30

utied her to b teacher without&Na Ifo r,vst h,
examination SS-sssAi ~ ysTh,
The young lady is interested In ath- h much ,
'stcs, player IL tsnnis n<--ALS.sIA
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-01-30
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

] A Cullun--Por Sale
? 8 Steford-2trayed or Stolen.
T = Scafe-Only For Linited Time
Wansed--2o0o Cords Wood-Shingles.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-01-30
Col j. Il. Wilson.

The work Of the legislature is no, enti,sly
that which is ex hibited iu open session. II
is in the committee rooms that the real think
ing is done The best legislators are pot
always the ones who make the 6nest speeches.
The man who 10 able 10 get at the neat Of 9
bill az it 10 presented to the committee is q
legislator.
The house this year is fortunate in having
as chairmen of iss most important committees
gentlemen Of character, intelligence aud ex-
periencs.
The chairman of the ways aad means con-
mlstee Is Col. j. Harvey Wilson of Sumter,
who, wheo the Stats was 10 tBrmoil. was
ever regarded as cool headed, fearless and
honest man, yielding rot to prejudice. Col
Wilson is native OF the Salem section of
Sumter county. he was prepared for college
tuss 6ourished at Winnsbero he afterwards
attended O2lstborps college in Georgia, but
before graduation left to join the Sumter
Grays, one Of the 6uest companies to voluo-
teer for Confederate SERVES. After year Q
servics with this company, Col Wilson took
part in all the priocipal battles OF Virgins
| as member of Gordon's battery of Light
Artillery, serving ga!laBtly until the surren-
der at Appomato1.
He then returned to Sumter and engaged
10 farming, which pursuit be still fo;lowe.
| In 1880 be WAS elected to The legislature, but
did not offer for reelection. 10 1894 hs was
again elected, and has been reelected in
all succeeding elections. In 1894 be was
made member of the ways ssd means COM
mittee, and this session. became chairman of
| that committee. This is the committee which
frames all bills looking to the appropriation
of tho States money, spd the recommends
! tion of the committee, backed oy the efforts
of the chairman, are Usually adopted.-Tbc
State