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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
SCRUBS AND DRIES WINDOWS.

The picture shows an improved
cleaner, which has just been patented
Hitherto brush mounted on a pole
with a rubber mop on separate han
die, were in common use for this pur
pose, and water has also been applet
to the brush through a hose attached
to the faucet. But the implement
shown below is complete in itself. hav-
ing the scrubber, mop and fountain OF
water all combined in one convenient
utensil. The apparatus consists of a
tube to contain the water. with an
elongated slot in one face, through
which wick or piece OF heavy cloth
is forced. The strips of rubber form
ing the mop are inserted between two
metal strips secured to the outside OF
the reservoir and the latter is provided
at one end with a screw cap, through
which the water is poured into the in
terror. To use the cleaner it is first
filled with water and tilted downward
until the wick is saturated, when the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
INV BURGLAR rRorEcrrox.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
yes, sir. I'm going to sell my watch
dog and buy goat"
What for?"
Because Just the other day a New
Jersey goat whipped the socks of q
big fighting mastiff"
Was it a fair stand-up ight,"
Not for the dog. He couldn't stand
up for a minute. That goat jumped for
him and damned bunch of banks and
growls down his neck before you could
say 'sickemi' When he butted the dog
in the plexus you could have heard the
hollow reverberation for half a mile.
And when the dog turned round to 60
to his corner the goat struck him Just
once on the exposed section and made
him turn three summersaults and a
eartwheel."
Don't you object to the odor Of such
a household pet?"
mo. I don't I want him so strong
that when burglars catch the effiuvium
they'll say Those people keep a goat
and we'd better mosey right alonsl' 4"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
LAUGHING GAS

Towson-1s your daughter finish
ed musician?" Yorkrode-"Not ret
but the neighbors are making threats"
Baltimore American
She-''were you ever troubled with
iyspepsia?'' He-"Yes, that's the way
it affects me"-Yonkers Statesman
mo. Maude. dear, the fellow who
doesn't pay his club dues is not nee
essariIy dude. "-Philadeiphia Record
Amateur-''what does it mean In
theatric circles when they say the
ghost walks?'" Veteran Actor-It
means that the rest of us don't have
to."-Detroit Free Press.
~Bingles liz lucky man; his time
goes right on whether ne is waking or
sleeping, sick or we'll" What Is Bin
glss' businessg" MATCHMAKER. Co
lumbus CO., State Journal
Thomas Tibbs is In receivers
hands" What broke him up7" Oh.
the tip system got started in bis once
and he had to pay extra for every hit
of work his clerks did."-Indianapo2is
Journal.
Mother-"what type is the younU
man that our daughter says you met
in New York when you went to brin1
her homer" Father-''well. 10 Judge
from his clothes, / should say he vas
poster type. Detroit Free Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16

Tears chung to the long lashss OF
Egypt's queen. to say nothing Of tho
headless slave who weltered in his
blood at the foot of her gorgeous d.
van
1t was plain that the daughter OF
the Pharaohs had received evil tidings.
In the streets the newsboys could be
heard hawking the Evening Monolith.
"All about the football gamel Cor
NTH Latin school, TO- Alexandria Poly
technic, 81" they were shouting
Now. wouldn't that scald you." fall
tered the queen. and burst into tears
Detroit Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16

COULDN'T STAND THE sPoEE
From the Detroit Free Press: Wh0
he returned from a trip TO his ca
home In the east il would have bean
disinterestsd guess that he had been
in railroad wreck or the fighting pnR-
ton of the army. He took every one
of the front steps with his right fooa
first, the other following He Critics
his teeth. made faces and Eroane0
when he happened TO slip.
MY gracious, John.- from his anx-
ious wife
Drop that, Mzlissy I haven't gu4
neuralgia. rheumatism or irmbaeo.
grip or sciatica Don't make a scene
and don't go telephoning for the doe
tor. OUCH" an he dropped heavily
into an easy chair. Now, now" whsn
she attempted to approach him ~Yoa
just sit down and listen and hare
some sense.
I've got what baseball men call
'cholIy hoss' Veterinary surgeonf
Thunder and lightning. Malissy. didn't
| ask you politely to keep still7 When
l got down there thought / was kid
again and wanted to tear around the
old farm just like used to. There's
no fool like an old fool. The boys wers
going rabbit hunting. / went right
with them and wasted my breath tell
ing how used TO slay the bunnies At
the end of the first mile was wheez-
ing like tug in distress. But wasn't
going to hoist any signals. and laid It
all to defective bronchial tubex. A
mile farther was blowing heavily and
gasping.
Il struck of into the wood myself.
telling the boys / knew an old rabbit
. hole and for them to keep their eyes
peeled 1 went to sleep in a snow
| bank,and was reused by something rum
ming by, got to my feet and fired both
barrels The first killed the dog and
a the second peppered the calf OF jim
mics leg. / hired farmer TO take "a
0 home in one-horse wagon and Just al
soon as was able to move about Lit.
a tie insisted that pressing business re
j CURED me in Detroit Where's that ar
Mica liniment2"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
JUST rAFFY THE WYE.

First clothing salesman-I do hate 10
have a man bring in his wife when he
wants a new suit. II is case Of salts
tying two, and the woman is ths harder
of the two.
Second ditto-That's because you
don't know your business never try
to convince the lady. just compli-
ment her upon the beauty and fine ssf
of her garments. Then l can shove
any old thing onto her husband and
she will smile sweetly all the while
Boston Transcript
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
The Happy Discovery
Made by a
Georgia Girl

boarders of the large hotels in a fash
ionable winter resort near them.
She took few of the best quilts and
trudging a distance of nearly Eve miles
offered them for sale to the ladies OF
the hotel. The prices they paid made
her open her eyes. and when they ask
ed if she had more she invited them,
with all the unconscious Independence
of a Georgia cracker, to call ON her
mother and take their pick OF the
others.
Her invitation was accepted that
same day, and before the week ended
they had not only sold all the old quilts
that they would part with, but had
taken orders to make others like them
to the amount of several hundred dol
lars. From this beginning they have
worked up a trade that pays them
snug sum each year, and which, the
| daughter declares now that she has SET
her farm to rights, she intends pushing
to an established and remunerative
/ business.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
About
Toothpicks

New York city consumes 100000, 900
wooden toothpicks annually. Nearly all
of these come from Japan, Portugal
and Maine. Five thousand cords of
wood are used for the industry in the
United States each year. and s5 per
cent of it comes from Maine. The tim
Der used is mostly white birch, with
some maple. and most of it comes from
franklin county. Outside of the Pine
Tree state, the industry is confined to
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New
York. When the lumbermen in their
winter camps find fine white birch
tree, its choice portions are laid aside
for toothpicks. The logs, after being
seasoned in the open air, are taken to
the factories, stripped Of their bark,
automatically cut into veneers about
as thick as toothpicks and as wide as
toothpicks are long. Another oper-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
A FORTUNE IN
OLD QUILTS

In Georgia a mother and daughter
have earned enough money by the
making of old fashioned quilts to pay
off the mortgage on their farm and re-
stock it with the best blooded animals
and the most approved implements.
The mother had received among her
wedding presents forty years ago near
ly half a hundred beautifully made
quilts. Only a small number had ever
been used, and when the rainy day
came these wedding presents were as
good as the day when they had first
been stored away in the various cedar
chests Of the garnet.
At a loss to know how they we're to
earn money for their daily bread the
mother at last thought Of the quilts,
Fancying that some of her country
neighbors might be willing to buy
them at reduced prices she took them
from their hiding places and suggested
it to her daughter Fortunately the
daughter had learned that such things
were in demand among the northern
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
CAVES WAR SUPPLIES.

1t has been averred that but for the
saltpeter furnished by the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky and by some smaller
limestone caverns, the United States
would have been unable successfully to
wage the war of 1872. Even during the
civil war these cave supplies of salt
peter were largely utilized for making
gunpowder. Recently the question OF
the origin of cave saltpeter has been
discussed anew in the Journal of
Geology, and w. H. Hess, dissenting
from the view that the saltpeter de-
posits are due to the formation OF
guano by bats, holds that they have
originated from the evaporation OF
water which, as it percolated through
the roof of the cavern, absorbed nj
trates from the soil.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
THE AERoscopE.

Among the scientific toys at the Par
is exposition was an instrument named
the Horoscope" 1t consisted OF a
wooden paddle about six feet and a
half long and three inches wide, whit
ened with chalk, and turning about
its middle at the rate of 1900 turns a
minute. When in motion the paddle
resembled a thin, circular screen
through which objects could be seen.
At distance of nearly four feet behind
the whirling paddle and parallel to its
plane OF rotation was fixed a black
screen. The apparatus being placed in
dark chamber, a brilliant photo
graphic image Of some object was
projected upon the moving paddle. and
Immediately the image seemed to stan
forth with all the solid'ty of real
object. The perspective was supplied
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16

constructing an apparatus which will
easily give him the mastery over the
full amount of heat that he genes-
ates. With his invention. which, brief
ly, consists of an arrangement of mfr
rors to reflect the suns rays upon a fc-
cusing spot, DR.. Calver could burn
down a rocky mountain and reduce Il
to level plain without as much ss
lighting a match Russian iron, OF the
kind so unburnable that it extinguisA-
es the fire in the fiercest furnaces.
melts under the heat at his contOa
as a wax match is melted by fhe
flame Tough silver coins or stout
glass tumblers become in a moment
running liquid in the heat of the TO
cused rays; while with his apparatus
he will perforate a soaking-wet plank
of wood with a dozen holes in as many
seconds
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
DISPOSING OF DEAD.
THE CLAIMS OF CREMATION AS
A HEALTH MEASURE.
at the Present Time About 1000 Bodies
Are Annually Cxsmated I'm the U.ited
statss-ReIIgious and Other obiAspsons
to Cremation. a

The question OF disposing OF the
bodies OF the dead by cremation is an
interesting one, and 1t is not surpris-
ing that insurance societies and re-
ligious associations are giving it their
attention, says the San Francisco Bull
letin. 1t will probably startle the aver
age reader to learn that at the present
time about 1000 bodies are annuity
cremated in the principal cities of the
United States, and according to data
recently published for the years 1876
1898 there were cremated during this
period 1856 bodies in the various cities
OF this country. While there were but
100 cremations during the year 1888,
ten years later, that is during 1898, the
number had reached 1853. Since then
then there has been a further increase,
but the complete returns for the past
year are not yet available. This in
crease has probably been contributed
to by San Francisco in quite as large
a percentage as any of the other large
cities, for inquiries at the health Of
fee here brought the reply that every
year finds cremation in excess Of the
previous year Tie insurance compan-
les object to this process of disposine
Of the dead on the ground that incin
Grafton serves as an incentive to crime
particularly that of poisoning, in view
of the increased opportunities OF des
troying the evidence Of guilt. The re
ligious element, however, object
wholly upon the ground that the Scrip
lures require the body to be buried il
the ground The objection submitte'
by the insurance companies presents ;
, new phase of the question. 1t is cas-,
, to conceive how the insurance frau
may be encouraged in his conspirac
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
Interesting Statistics
Concerning the Little
Pieces of Wood.

ton cuts these veneers into finished
toothpicks at the rate of a thousand a
minute. AS the manufacture is so rapid
the factories run only few weeks to
prepare the supply for a year. The
best toothpicks come from Portugal,
where they are whitfield by hand from
orangewood splints by girls, who re-
ceive 10 cents a day for their labor.
These toothpicks are remarkably
smooth and do not splinter. They are
found in first-class restaurants and in
the houses of men who are particular
about such conveniences. Japan comes
next to Portugal in the number OF
toothpicks exported to the United
States. They are cut by hand from
reeds and are sold in close competition
with the American product, notwith-
standing a duty of IS per cent owing
to the cheap labor of Japan.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE

The Russian inventor, Popoff, has
successfully applied telephone re-
ceiver in transmitting Geographic mes
sages without wires. BY means OF
radio-conductors, variations of resist
ance of short duration are produced,
and these can be directly observed in
a telephone. Last winter a Russian
cruiser, ashore on an island in the Gull
of Finland, was able to communicate
Geographically, without wires. with an
island twenty-nine miles distant
where the ice-breaking steamer Err
max was stationed, and by the same
means the lives of twenty-seven Rus
sian fishermen, carried of by an ice
foe in sight of the stranded cruiser
were saved.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16

when the assurance has gone forth
that a certain person when dead win
be cremated. meTcenary wife may
destroy her husband for the insurance
on his life, and vice versa, for almost
as many women are insured in this
age as men. Had the insurance fend,
Holmes, who was executed few years
ago, been able to dispose Of his victims
by cremation, IT ia doubtful IL the law
would ever have encompasssd him-
Numerous other instances might be re-
called where cremation would have
saved the murderer from prosecution
and conviction. So that the argument
of the life insurance companies 10 one
that appeals to the highest interests
Of society. to the domestic life of the
ration.
In the argument Of the religfonists,
however, there is less worthy of con-
troversy. 1t is largely matter OF
sentiment whether body be burned
or inferred in a hole In the ground.
The mere fact that the Scriptures con
tain no record of incineration is n
fiimsy excuse for opposing the prac-
tice. AS well hold that because the
body of Christ was laid In a tomb the
remains of his apostles and OF the gen
erations following should likewise
have been entombed. Indeed 1t may
be suggested here that had the remains
of the Savior been committed 70
earth, as other bodies have been, the
world would have fewer doubters thar
it has. The Scriptures record earth
burials for the reason that intelligent
cremation was not known at the time
What matters about the body whethel
il lie in the earth food for worms, o.
be reduced to ashes by incineration
The bottled ashes should surely fur
nish as much solace to mourning
: friends as the meaningless mound Il
the city cemetery The argument !
all on the side of cremation. The pull
J lie health demands it, and even the IL
: surance companies may be insure
! against loss by advocating in ever
city where the practice is permitted
4 thorough examination Of the body. S
= that the cause of death may be asce
| tanned before it has been placed in th
= crematory.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
SUMS POWER.
IL Is the Greatest Heat That Has Been
Produced.

Ie Is the Greatest Heat mat hAs H~eN
Produced.
The problem of tapping the giant
strength of the sun, of controlling
some portion of the power and heat
SO freely given to man, has been
passed from the ancients to the mod
ems through the hands of the great
est men of learning OF all times with
out any adequate solution until the
dawn of the twentieth century The
Grecian Archimedes, the Edison OF his
day, was perhaps the first to handle
the question, and to set it travelling
down the centuries; Ericsson, the
American, and Mouchout, the French
man, were among the last to seek the
solution. and both succeeded in max
ing the sun operate small motors,
Nothing more was done, says Pear
sons Magazine, until DR.. William Cal
yer of Washington invented the PAN
heliomotor, and can now control
greater degree of heat than man ever
operated before. The fiercest degre'
of heat that any one has hitherto beer
able 10 make is the 5000 degree tina
has been registered in the electric arc
p~. Calver is able to generate 24OO'
degrees of heat. OF this he is abb
to control 10000 degrees with absolute
safety, while he is at present at worl
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16

INSECT AND WEED DESTROYER.
is made for adjusting the size of the
mouth through which the fiery
draught is emitted and also for revolv-
ing the fan by hand when the machine
is standing still. as when burning a
stump. When utilized for destroying
weeds or burning stubble the hood is
adjusted close to the ground and the
machine propelled at a rapid rate,
when the gearing puts the fan in mo-
ton and drives a fierce heat through
the opening in front, which cuts a
swath of ashes through the field. BY
providing for the substitution of fer
tilizer-spreading apparatus or seeder
in place OF the firebox, the machines
utility can be greatly increased, and
1t will be found valuable addition to
the stock of farm machinery.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
NEW FARMING InrpLEnrENr.

A citizen of Wellington, Ark, has
designed the apparatus shown in the
picture for use in destroying insects
and noxious weeds and also for burn
ing stumps of trees. 1t contains fire
mouth through which thel fiery
box, which burns either coal or wood,
with rotary fan to create intense heat
by forcing the draught. The furnace
is mounted on a two-wheeled carriage,
which makes it easy to transport it
from place to place. and arrangement
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
socialist. Oppose an italian Bm.

The socialist deputies have been
most anxious to impress on the peo-
pie of Italy that they are not respon-
sible for the murder Of King Humbert.
yet at a recent meeting they decided
to oppose bill which the government
intends to submit to parliament on
the lines of the French law against
anarchists, because they consider that
the proposed enactment restricts the
personal liberty of their fellow-eid-
gems of the anarchical persuasion
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
KITES AND rELEpHoNEs IN WAR

KITES AND TELEPHONES IN WAR
In the Monthly Weather Review foI
October is given an account of recent
experiments at Chicago intended u
demonstrate the usefulness of kites IL
effecting telephone communication be-
tween besieged town and its friends
beyond the enemy's lines. The sug.
gested plan is to send up from tht
town a very large box kite carrying a
telephone fastened at the end Of a wire
running through pulley. When tbs
kite has attained the desired position
a. besieged are supposed to Stacker
the wire and drop the telephone to tn
ground. while the kite remains In tn
air. There are manifestly many prac
teal details not provided for in tn
scheme as thus outlined, but 1t is a
least an interesting suggestion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
THE SMALLEST WILD CATTLE.

DR.. R. Lydekker says that Celebes
has the distinction of being the home
of the smallest representative Of the
wild cattle, not only of this but of any
period in the worlds history. 1t is
called the "anoa," and is not much, il
any, larger that a well grown South
down sheep. Its height at the shoulder
is three feet and three inches. 1t has
many of the characteristics OF the
large Indian buffalo, and there are rea-
sons for thinking that it may be q
primitive type of buffalo.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16


From the Kansas City Star: The
sun sank low. across the level of the
swamp. as saw Aunt Ellen turn in at
the gate and trudae up the avenue.
As she shufied curtsy and dropped
down on the topmost step, in response
to my invitation. perceived that
something out of the ordinary had
banished the usually expansive grin
from the broad yellow face under the
gray-hued turban- 1t was gravity tt
self waited.
TITS pow'ful hot, Miss Jennie. Seems
lax dab hain't BRET ob air a-stirrin'.
Honey. how's 20 paws rheumatiz?"
Not any better. Aunt Ellen Now
that the doctors have failed you had
better prescribe. Jane tells me that
you have charms that win cure any
thing"
Deed, chile. / hain't set up fob no
doetah: but de good Lawd. he know
dab hain't muffin lak de ile OBJ a pole
cat foh dat namin' rheumatic. what yo
paw got"
"Polecat," l gasped.
'sYa-asm. Jes cotch him. en- roas
him wifi da ha-ar on. When de IA
gins ter drip, fotch out some raid fan
mel, en- grease 1t wifi de drippin's; Ell
it win cure him up in no time"
This staggering prescription being
beyond my power to I'LL temporized
Aunt Ellen. you know all about it
suppose you coax the colonel into let
ting you try it,"
Miss Jenny, honey, Gawd knows
hain't fitten ter do nuttin' Use both
cred long oh dat trinn', no-count mig
gar what call hisself 'Mistah Jones'
come up ter see eff yo' cod'n hep N
! outen It."
Certainly. Aunt Ellen. what can
do for your"
Miss Jennie. mex me some OBJ de-
cream pies, en- cake, en- femme hab
cup1 OBJ dem ole hens
Us that all? OF course. When I
you want them?''
dis heah's Friday; en- Sunday a
de 'pinted day. Gawd hep dat 70
niggah."
Aunt Ellen. want to know VIII
all this means. Is it a wedding?"
'Lawd, no. Miss Jennie. Yo' knoy
: Use ben marh'ud this long time"
Sunday excursion?" I hazarded-
d 'Scursion? HUH Hawses
8 chains cud'n' hol dis niggah. Wat y
4 talkin' bout, Miss Jennie7"
e We'll, is it basket meeting2"
: Moan Dey hain't no trubble I
/, me. Use wukker in de vinya-ad.
e dey pintedly 'joices my soul"
II Then what under the shining hea
e ems is going to happen?"
| began to grow excited as Aunt Z
It len grew more and more mysterious.
a She shifted ground uneasily. MI
s Jennie. Gawd knows 1 been go
d oman ter dat upstartin' sarpint OBJ
N yaller niggah what call hisse'f I
i man; en- heah ha done 'cided ter harT
70 up my feelin's in dis unnatural VIZ
a Dat niggah's fust wife, Lily Jane, b
ie daid mon five years, en- heah he jes
et orderin' de preachin' of de fur
e Ya-asm- AT de Temple of SolomG
re mex Sunday. I'm tellin' de Cav
truf; en- mon dat, he gwine mex !
- cook de dinnah. Moan. faint no we
din, nor Sunday 'scursion, en- faint
4 basket meetin'; it's my husbands Il
II wife's fun1-"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-04-16
REsrRyEs OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

1t is reported that the department of
agriculture will set aside as forest re-
serves the island of Romblon. north OF
Panay, and the island Of Pauitaui in
the Jolo group. United States army
officers report that these are perhaps
the richest islands in the world fol
rubber trees. In Zanzibar a new kind
OF gutta-percha is said to have beer
found. 1t is produced by tree bear
ing a peach-shaped fruit which attain!
the size of a small melon.