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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
WAS JAMES @. BLAINE A DEM
AGOCUE2

Where is the McKinleyite who will
say that James G. Blaine was a small
American? Where is the McKinleyite
who will say that he was in favor of a
policy of scuttle and cowardice? Who
will say that Blaine would have given
away to Great Britain large slice of
United States territory in Alaska.
In his letter of acceptance, July is.
1884. Mr.. Blaine said:
Happily removed by our geographic
cal position from participation or in
terest in those questions OF dynasty or
boundary which so frequently disturb
the peace of Europe, we are left to
cultivate friendly relations with all
and are free from possible entangle-
ments in the quarrels of any.
While the great powers of Europe
are steadily enlarging their colonial
domination In Asia and Africa. It Is
the especial province of this country
to improve and expand its trade with
the nations of America. No field
promises so much. No field has been
cultivated so little. Our policy should
be an American policy In its broadcast
and most comprehensive sense-a pol
icy of peace, of friendship. OF CONNER
cial enlargement"
Does that spell imperialism? "a pol
icy of peace, of friendship. of CONNER.
cial enlargement" Not one, but all
three. Not commercial enlargement
by force and at the price of blood, but
commercial enlargement with peace
and friendship Not trade expansion
at the point of the bayonet and the
muzzle of the rife. but with peace and
friendship.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

snrine OF is99-it was, indeed. almost
I,,ro the ice in the Koyuluk broke,
ard then Mrs. Hewitt determined on
a step in which seemed to lie her
one forlorn hope OF salvation. Slowly
and laboriously she made for herself
a raft of the fallen trees and limbs
that abound in the Alaskan wilder
ness. binding them together with strips
cut from the hides Of the animals she
had killed for food. Then, knowing
the current could carry her but In one
direction. she launched her rude craft
on the bosom of the river and. still
with moose or caribou for her only
food. floated southwark.
That perhaps was such journey as
never before was undertaken-a lone
woman, on a rude raft. floating sea
ward through a weary frozen waste
to such waiting perils as she knew
not. When she began her voyage ice
was still in the river. and the float
ing fees again and again threatened
her raft with destruction Sometimes
The swift current would bear her
against trees fallen. but still clinging
to the earth by thelr roots, known as
"sweepers" in the northern wilds. and
more than once her journey nearly
ended in such place. Once her raft
struck a sand bar. she was thrown
into the water and saved her life only
by the supreme exertons born OF the
despair that comes to us when death
stares us in the face.
So she fioated down and ever down
until, after traversing some $50 miles
in twenty-six days, she reached the
waters of the mighty Yukon. On the
next day she was picked up. a skele-
ton that walked and talked, by the
crew of the steamer Hannah. Then.
having made a record of endurance
and heroism that has few parallels
she-fainted.
So ends the story, except for the
sad sequel that Mrs Hewitt's health
is said to be permanently wrecked.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

OF the people demands that so long as
1t remains It's folds shall provide for
white men and brown men alike a free
and Independent government and as
surance from outside aggression. AS a
nation OF freemen all equal under the
constitution we are stuitifying our
selves morally and politically We are
showing to the world that our prin-
ciples of government are as nothing in
comparison with grasping land, be-
cause 1t Is said by our legislators to be
fertile and rich.
THE baseness of this PHILOSOPHY
should bring its own punishment and
dishonor. The base greed for gain
which has led strong interests to OBJ
tain the promise of special privileges
In return for political support is ap-
parent In the whole business. The APP
peal to the cupidity of the dishonest
element in the country has been open
ly proclaimed by some of our legisla-
tors, notably by Senator Beveridge,
who advocates the conquest of the
Philippines because they abound in
gold and hemp"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
Our samoan Possessions.

Rose island, over which the Ameri-
can flag was raised by Commodore
Tilley on July 10, is one of the smaller
Islands of the Samoan group. lyiag TO
the eastward of the other important
islands. Commercially and strategy
cally 1t Is not of great importance. The
island of Tutuila. however. which has
become ours by right of cession of the
native chiefs, is the third in size Of the
Samoan archipelago, and besides nos
sesslng Pago-Pago harbor, which Is
important to use as naval station
1t has three towns, Leone. Massafan
and Fagaitau, each being of less than
4'OOO inhabitants. This island lies nert
10 upolu, in which is the harbor 81
Apia, and the capital of the islands
Inc soil of Tutuila is fertile and I'M
inhabitants are peaceful race. rs In
uustrlous as can be expected NJ +,
tropical population where the mean,
OF support are almost ready to hani
without labor. Some years ago an et-
Tort was made to raise quantities ~
cacao for export, and it has proyes
fairly successful.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
HEROINE OF ALASKA.
HOW MISS HEWITT BRAVED
THE STORMS.
Chicago Woman in Quest of Her Hus-
band Passed Through All the Horrors
OF Northern WInter-Lost Her Way
In Land OF Gold.

Some years ago DR.. C. w. Hewitt,
a well-known physician of Chicago,
decided to go to Alaska. He went, and
Mrs. Hewitt awaited his return. Time
dragged YEARLY with the little wom-
an. She sat by her lone fireside and
did a heap of thinking. and, as re-
suit of the thinking, she packed her
trunks and valises one day and started
westward and northward. She pro-
posed to be with her husband If all the
chilblain medicine in Alaska were re-
CURED to make her comfortable while
there.
From Dawson to Nome is long and
frozen way, but when Mrs. Hewitt
reached the former city she learned
that her husband was in the latter.
Here, however, she found DR.. Croth-
ers, formerly of Pittsburg, friend of
her husband, and arranged to go with
him and party down the Yukon on
the ice.
The party started and proceeded as
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
WAS CHARLES SUMNER A scuT.
TLER2


Charles Sumner was a great repub-
lican statesman. But he was not an
imperialist; he was not an advocate of
expansion at the price of blood. In a
speech on the acquisition of Alaska he
said:
But ] cannot disguise my anxiety
that every step in our predestined fu-
ture shall be by natural process. with
out war. and. may add, even without
purchase. There Is no territorial ag-
grandizement which is worth the
price OF blood"
Sumner was in favor of expansion
by natural process only. He was not
an advocate of expansion by purchase,
and was absolutely opposed to expan-
sion by force of arms. He was in ia
vor of the natural expansion that
places the constitution at once over
the new territory, and that makes the
new territory an integral part of the
United States of America.
Was Charles Sumner a scuttler?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
HEATS THE UPPER ROOMS

Fireplaces in house are both a con-
venience and luxury. and it is GER
tain they would be used more fire.
quently If any reliable means could be
provided whereby the upper chambers
OF the building could be heated with
out the necessity of using separate
stoves for the purpose. In the drawing
we show a fireplace designed by John
F. Beck. of Atlanta, Ga, which seems
capable of heating the rooms to a com
Portable temperature. 1t consists of a
metallic casing, which Is inserted in
place of the brick partition usually
placed between fireplaces set opposite
each other in the adjoining rooms
The lower portion of the drum is mar
row and any pattern of crate can be
attached to it. while the upper portion
flares out of the crate, leaving, how
ever. sufficient room for the passage Of
smoke through the chimney. Inside
the drum a series of plates are so ar
ranged that the air is caused to cjrcu-
late back and forth In a circuitous
route before entering the pipe at the
top OF the drum. The fresh air is CON
Quoted into the bottom OF the drum
through tube IBID under tho floor ana
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
Now Picture, of VIVA Game.

George Shiras III. has just returned
from long trip to Marquette, Mich.
where he succeeded in taking a number
of fiashlight photographs of wild game.
similar to those pictures exhibited by
the United States government at the
Paris exposition. This year he divided
his time between wild game and wild
birds. with excellent results. Hon.
George Shiras, Jr., associate judge of
the supreme court OF the United States.
was with his son, and helped in the
sport with the camera, taking a num-
Der of excellent pictures himself. Mr..
Shiras' pictures at Paris, according to
reports at Washington, have attracted
the attention of many prominent for
eigners and visitors in the exposition.
They are hung in the Forestry build
ing, surrounded by native woods and
forestry exhibits of this continent.
The new pictures obtained by Mr.. Shir-
as during the past nine weeks In the
Michigan woods and along the shores
of Lake Superior compare favorably
with, and in some instances outclass.
those OF earlier date. Among the II
good ones which Mr.. Shiras has pre-
served are pictures of deer in groups
owls. wild ducks in the act of rising
from the waters, and other wild birds
Mr.. shiras has taken up this new line
OF bird photography with considerable
pleasure. and will try to obtain a pic
ture OF an American eagle in it's ma
i've haunts.-Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

To whatever extent the failure of
the Paris exhibition to attract any
large number of visitors from this side
Of the channel may be attributed to
the brutalities of the Anglophobe
press. there seems to be little doubt
(writes a correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle) that some of the
French watering places have suffered
considerably from the anti-British
feeling. The people of Dieppe. for in
stance, are complaining bitterly OF the
results of their season. In spite of the
counter-attraction In Paris, French
visitors are plentiful as ever, but judy
ing from estimates of we'll informed
tradesmen and hotel keepers, 1t APP
pears that the number of English Wis.,
itors has been only about thirty per
cent of the average OF the past five
years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

Rejane, the actress. is trying to
protect her name against the agrees
sion of a dressmaking establishment
hat calls itself Mime. Rejane." She
kas written to the newspapers and
may take the matter into the courts.
The question of proprietorship will be
puzzling one, for though none of the
dressmaking partners has name at
all like Rejane. the actress herself
also assumed the name, as she was le-
gally Gabrielle Reju before she be-
came Nine Porei.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

The total number OF deserters from
the French army is, since Jan. /, far
more considerable than in former
years. 1t amounts to nearly 1000. The
colonial and foreign leglons stand first
on the list, combined with escapes
from military penitentiaries. In tho
regular army assertions are most fire.
quent in the light Algerian infantry
and sharpshooters. The artillery regi-
ments come next. The report to the
French ministry of war hints that in
many instances foreign agents have
clandestinsly melted the deserters,
and that some of these may be found
among the troops of Lord Roberts in
South Africa.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

According to the eighty-fourth an.
nual report OF the American Bible So
ciety, just issued, for 1s99-19O0, the to-
tai issues for the year at home and
sbroad amounted to 1,406,S01 copies;
f these S32,497 were distributed out
aide of the United States More than
one-half of the issues were manufac-
tured at the Bible house, New York.
and of the rest large part was
printed in China, Japan, Syria and
Turkey.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

Hay-fever patients in Germany are
increasing in numbers, and the doc
tors are advising their afflicted patients
to try the island of Helgoland as a
refuge from their tormenting mall
ady. There are islands on our coast
where similar immunity, or at least
important relief. is secured. Even
there land-breeze may work mis-
chief with the sufferers; but in gem
eral the comfort is decided and the
change for the better often remarkable
The sources of human happiness are
varied. For large class, at certain
seasons. bliss would consist In be-
ing twelve miles from a sneeze.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

1t Is estimated by conservative Re-
publican leaders that Col. Roosevelt's
strenuous tour of the far west has
cost Mckinley the states OF the two
Dakotas. Wyoming and Utah, even
had there been chance for him In
the four commonwealth. Besides
this, the self-laudatory hero of San
Juan has increased Bryan's majority
in all other western states. McKinley's
hopes have therefore found a tomb in
Roosevelt's cavernous mouth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

A Paris correspondent says that
Maisons-Laffitte has been the scene of
terrible tragedy. which has caused
intense excitement in the nelghbor-
hood. M, Muret, an old man of nearly
20. some time ago took girl of Is,
named Georgette Brunei, into his
service. In fit of jealousy NJ Muret
took a pickaxe and, after having bat
sered out her brains. hanged himself
over the body of his victim.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

Some Porto Ricans. who have lived
In Baltimore more than year, have
sought to become voters, on the
ground that they are citizens of tho
United States. The general counsel
of the board of supervisors of cleo
tons. to whom the question was sub
mitted, has delivered an exhaustive
opinion. holding that they are Ameri-
can citizens and must be permitted to
register and exercise the franchise
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

The need of educational and mission
work in Cuba is emphasized by the re-
suits of the recent census. According
to that census only 2S per cent OF the
Inhabitants can read and write, while
OF the children of school age only
about So per cent of the inhabitants
living In marital relations are unmar-
ried.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

Prof Kolthoff. who returned from
Greenland recently with a pair of musk
oxen, one OF the objects of his travels,
believes that these interesting animals
can be acclimated in north Sweden In
the matter OF food he says they are as
easily pleased as the American goat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

When cats wash their faces it's
sign of bad weather When women use
washes for their compilations it's
sign that the beauty OF the day Is
gone.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

1t has developed that the New York
ice trust is wholly controlled by Re-
publican politicians. This explains
why Governor Roosevelt has refraIned
from shooting the New York ice trust
in the back.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

Postmaster Sullivan of Cripple
Creek. who made the so-called Victor
mob to order. is now calmly awaiting
his reward. Investigation shows that
he inst'gated feigned attack upon
Governor Roosevelt for the purpose
Of exciting partisan sentiment. The
Republican party appears to be In
hard lines for argument this year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

For several years past store In
Cornish. Me-, has been burglarized
regularly in the spring and fall. COM
plete outfit of clothing. shoes and hat
being taken ON each occasion. The
semi-annual visitation has just taken
plaza. with the usual result
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

The panic scare and starvation cry
will not win this year. Workingmen
have sounded the depths of the full
dinner pail ard tested the breadth OF
trust prosperity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

MANY mans vices have at first been
nothing worse than good qualities run
wild.-Hare. '4
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

Photographs are seldom true to ma
ture. No one ever saw a small boy
as clean as he appears in a picture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

This is the season of the year when
you can get what you don't want real
1y cheap.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
LAUGHLIN SPEAKS
PROFESSOR POLITICAL ECON
OMY AGAINST M'KINLEY.

SAs~ess University Man Tells His Glasses
us VIII Not Vote for Republicans
1nk xear-Hs Opposed 10 To HI ia
Isps. .
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
INDIANA'S CONSUMPTION OF
SOAP

OOaF.
Indiana Is distinguished for her CIV
ilization and refinement. and meas
ured by schools, churches and the con-
sumption of soap. she is in the van of
progress. The estimate is. taking ho-
tells, laundries. factories and homes,
that the annual consumption of soap in
Indiana will reach 100000 600 pounds
or an average of forty pounds per cap
tia of the entire population of the
state. Before the soap trust began
plundering the people of Indiana this
l0O,O0O,O00 pounds of soap would have
cost, at three cents pound, $4,000 900,
but the trust advanced the price to
Az cents pound, making the cost
$4,25O,O00 a year, an increase of ST.
100000. or so cents per capita for ev-
cry man, woman and child in the state.
And while robbing Indiana of 81 $780,
600 annually the trust pockets from
the whole country by its looting and
free-voting policy not less than $40,-
100000.
1t is estimated that the laundries
uAu ehO hCulSo VI 1Huldud consume an
nually 20,800,000 pounds of starch.
Prior to the advance forced upon con-
sumers, starch was purchased at two
cents per pound. the cost of the In
diana consumption amounting to s416,-
$50. The trust advanced prices to 8 1-3
cents pound, making the cost to the
people $72S,S90, the advance amount
ing to clean steal of $312.S1O a year.
Assuming that Indiana has a popu-
lation of 80.00000O the starch trust
would secure by it's piracies 1881, 12O,
an amount equal to its capital stock.
The two trusts are fliching money
from every home in Indiana and from
every hotel and boarding house, and
from every laundry, and they are able.
by their operations. to rob the people
OF Indiana annually to the extent of
$1,562,S10, and make the whole country
pay them spoliation tribute of $40
99S,120, equal to their entire capital
stock of $S5.OOO,OOO. with an overalus
of $14,9S1 ,120.
This, tribute is taken by cesss4ess
petty larcenies. but in the aggregate
swelling to grand larceny of as
founding proportions.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

iiol-AlR DRUM FOR FIREPLAcEs
extending TO one of the basement n,,n
thronr AS the air is heated 1t rises
onos the pipe to the chambers
vdus,ns the fresh air to enter and pro
rn u,ns NOT only sufficient heat for the
, rpper rooms, but also perfect yenti.
fire2lace. "'' SMOKE OF me
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01
SOAP AND STARCH rRusrs.

The Indianapolis Sentinel in com
menting upon the co-opGl Ntion of the
soap and starch trusts In Indiana,
says:
The soap trust commands a capital
OF S25,000,000, and the starch trust
about half that amount-the two trusts
having capital of about $4,000, 900.
These two trusts. to a certain extent,
supply the same class of consumers
though the soap trust does vastly the
largest business. In the homes OF the
people they operate together, and by
advancing prices reap rich harvests.
Soap is said to be pre-eminently an
article of civilization because cleanll-
ness is the fundamental basis of all
physical refinement. and 1t has been
proposed to estimate the progress OF
civilization by the consumption OF
soap. the formula being to divide the
total quantity of soap consumed in
given time by the total population con-
Stunning 1t. the quotient expressing the
civilization of the community. And
this formula is offered by a modern
scientist of distinction and gives to
soap an Importance and dignity of spe-
cial significance Hence, 1t may be
affirmed that he manufacturers OF
soap may be classed among the worlds
greatest philanthropists and benefac-
tors.
To make soap cheap 1t appears IL
essential to civilization and refine.
ment: to make it dear is to obstruct
the march of progress. civilization and
refinement and promote ignorance,
hlthiness and barbarism. and that is
just what the soap trust is engaged in
doing.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-15
Artificial Stone.

Quarrymen and stone dressers will
probably be gradually crowded out Of
their occupation by the use Of artificial
stone. In the manufacture of this stone
the sand Is heated and the cement add
ed to the amount Of II per cent OF the
mixture. The steel molds are filed
with the dry material and moved into
an immense cylinder, which is closed
and bolted. Boiling water is then
turned in under pressure sufficient to
force 1t all through the sand In the
molds. The cement slacks, but the
steel molds do not permit any expan-
sion to occur, and the stone is formed
and dried under an immense pressure.
The result is a very hard stone, which
can be supplied In shapes desired and
much cheaper than the natural stone
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-15

A childless home is cheerless home.
The maternal instinct exists III every
woman, and when it is ungratified she
is deprived of much Of the happiness of
life. 1t often happens that childless-
ness is due to some cause which can be
removed, and often is removed by the
use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
The vigor and vitality which this rene
dy imparts to the delicate wOmanly or
gans, puts them in a condition of norm
al health, the lack of which is often the
sole obstruction to maternity. Every
woman should read DR.. PierCes Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser, book con
tanning 1908 pages and 700 illustrations
1t is sent entirely free on receipt of
stamps to pay expense of mailing only
Send 21one-cent stamps for the paper
volume or 81 stamps for cloth covered
Address Dr. r. V Pierce, 663 Main St.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-15
Some Startling Figures.

Charles 7. Harrison, United States
special agent on road work, said re-
Gently:
AS a result of 10000 inquiries sent
out by our office in 1895, figures have
been compiled that are startling in
their conclusions. The most conserva-
tive estimates based upon these figures
show that the total of the farm and for
est products hauled over the country
roads amounts to over 30O,000,OOO tons
and that the average cost of transport
ing it is So n ton. or total annual cost
for transportation Of nearly $950,OOo,-
600. This enormous charge is paid
principally by the farmers Of the coun-
try annually, and Of this amount the
figures obtained from other coun-
tries where good roads are the rule in
stead of the exception show that fully
two thirds of this amount, or about
$500, 900, 900, is due to the poor roads.
In other words, the farmers are paying
about S6OO,OO0,000 mud tax each year,
enough to cover this country with good
roads and maintain them.