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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-07-09
THE 10TH CENTURY SOCIAL CLUB

Meaara. William and Robert Hemphill. Jr.
returned home last week from College and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-07-09
ORDER OF THE BOARD.

ORDER OF The BOARD.
Tho Requirements Of the Law In Regard 70
Lsvytns an Additional Tax for School
Purposes Having Been Compiled With BY
the Proper Parties in School District
Hs. ~,
lr Is HEREBY ORDERED. THAT AN
election be held a. the usual voting place In
said District on Saturday. the 18th day OF
July. 1907. for the purpose OF determining
whether an additional levy OF three milla will
be made for school purposes; that tho trustees
Of the said District act ~ managers OF tho
election.
Managers OF election must report result OF
election within three days after the election.
J. 8. GILBERT.
Chairman.
J FRASER LYON,
X. +. GILLIAN,
Board OF Examiner.
July 2. 1902. u
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

scorch. In the picture is to be seen
an apparatus designed especially for
this work which may be put up in any
convenient place and can be left in
operation all night, If desired, thus
providing warm boots to put on in the
morning. The drier consists of an
inverted pan. with two tubes project
ing vertically from the upper side, and
provided with projecting fingers to
hold the boot high enough to prevent
shutting off the current of air circu-
lated from the flame below. It will be
noticed that arrangement is made for
adjusting the drier at different heights
from the lamp and with the aid Of this
and the variation of the flame the APP
paratus can be fixed to maintain a
small amount of heat throughout the
night. The inventor is Henry @. Mans
field of Chico, Cal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
IntelIIgence of Ants.

The conclusion of series of papers
on the American ants printed in the
American Naturalist by Prof w. M.
Wheeler is as follows: 1t is quite I'M
necessary to assume the existence of
anything beyond instinct and simple
intelligence in the ants which form
compound and mixed nests; there are
no evidences of ratiocination in ants.
This conclusion. however, even if it be
extended so as to exclude all animals
except man from participation in this
faculty, does not imply the admission
of a qualitative difference between the
human and the animal psyche.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Scientific Notes.

In Southern California an ingenious
inventor has constructed q huge com
bination of lenses and reflectors where
by the heat of the sun is made to run
machinery, pump water and do other
hard labor. In various parts of the
world inventors have built machines to
utilize the wave motions of the ocean.
The next thing, you will be saying,
someone will have harnessed cyclones
and made them do mans work. That
very thing has already been done. At
least, so an inventor claims. Accord
ing to this man, Prof B. B. Britts, his
machine is far superior to any other
means of using natural forces. The
secret of the construction of his con-
trivance is carefully guarded, but, as
sooD as the patents are thoroughly es-
tablished, he promises to give a pub
lie exhibition with the first stiff breeze
that comes along. One of the most re-
markable claims of the inventor is
that his apparatus is applicable to
locomotives, and that it will displace
electricity and compressed air in pro-
polling street cars. All sorts of loco
motion or navigation are possible, says
Prof Britts, and he promises to make
steam power thing of the past.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
MIX in Powder Form.

DR.. M. Ekenberg of Gothenberg has
made discovery which will be of inn
portance in dairy farming. He claims
to have invented an apparatus by
which milk can be brought into the
form of powder, like flour in appear
ance, but possessing all the qualities of
milk in concentrated form, moisture
excepted. 1t is said that this milk flour
is completely soluble in water and can
be used for all purposes for which COM
mon milk is employed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

Before dinner is served the bride
goes to the bath, accompanied by fe-
male relatives and friends. At night
as the procession of the bridegroom
approaches aims are distributed and
women and children look on from
neighboring roofs. Loud cries from
the women welcome the bridegroom
on his arrival, while the bride, careful
ly yelled, mounts the horse Awaiting
her at the door All the men who
have been feasted and entertained 1oin
in the procession, in which lanterns
are borne. The brides departure is
the signal for the discharge of fire.
works and great beating of the big
drum. The final ceremony is similar
to one observed by the Arabs and the
Copts, namely, the sacrifice of sheen
These are killed as the bride steps
over the threshold of her new home.
One wonders what the idea is underly
ing the sacrifices. Are they intended
as acts of Precipitation inherited from
an earlier age, when people thus en-
deavored Ito appease the anger of the
gods" or of the spirits of their ances-
tors? Or is it merely way of sealing
in blood an important act and cove
nant?-Woman's Home Companion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Bird Restaurants.

The women of Kenosha, Wis, have
formed cub, in which nearly every
villager has Joined, for having bird
restaurants in their front or back gar
dens. Each member of the club has
agreed to erect tall pole with a
shelf on top large enough to hold a
saucer of water and tray of food,
which will contain seeds, lettuce, cut
tlebone and any other dainties birds
crave. Once the bird restaurants be-
come popular with Kenosha's birds,
the women believe, the feathered ones
will impart the glad tidings to their
neighbors in other suburbs, and Ke-
nosha in a little while will have
monopoly of songsters. Some of the
women will go even further than to
establish bird eating houses. Moss
and other nesting material will be
placed in the trees, where it will be
of easy access and the women reason
that, with all this BODYBUILDING ma
terial at hand, the birds will look no
further for cozy spot in which to
settle and begin housekeeping.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
AN ILLUSTRATED SERMON.
Preachers Son Takes His Fathers Adj
monitIon Literally.

Preachers Son Takes His Fathers Ad-
monitIon Literally.
Il do not know what to make OF that
boy of mine" said well known min
lister of the gospel. Il have tried to
bring him up in the way he should
go, but he is always coming back at
me in way that destroys the Value
of the lessons that try to teach him.
The other day his mother informed
me that he had been throwing stones
at one of the neighbours little boys,
and l called him into my study to
question him about it. My son.
said sadly, what is this l hear about
your misconduct Why, papa, said
he, t haven't been doing anything that
| ought not to- Your mother reports
that you have been throwing stones
at the little Jones boy. And SO
did, he shouted defiantly DO you
think that is the proper thing for
little Christian boy to d.? Why,
papa he answered, you said yourself
that little boy could preach sermons
more powerful than those delivered
from the pulpit-sermons that would
sink deep into the heart and remain
there forever, and that I should be
constantly on the outlook for chance
to teach such lessons to my little
friends. I remember saying some
thing like that / answered gravely,
but throwing stones can cardly be
classed as a sermon. Why, papa he
flashed, I've heard you say time and
time again that there were sermons in
stones, and if there were ever kid
that needed a sermon that Jones boy
does' Detroit Free Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06


In one of the suburban settlements
along the line of Connecticut avenue
extended live two young girls about
10 years old One of the pair is the
most unrestrained tomboy in the Dis
trict of Columbia The other is as
prlm and precise as the proverbial
New England school teacher. Their.
differing opinions on various subjects
occasion most vigorous discussions
now and then, but the quietus put on
the structures of the over-neat little
girl while the two were walking down
to the car line one afternoon this week
caps the climax. They were Just in
sight of the little house where all the
young matrons of the village were
waiting in handsome gowns and fine
headgear to go into town. An empty
nay wagon rumbled along the drive.
In an instant the hoyden, regardless
Oh new walking suit of Oxford gray.
had slipped up behind and thrown her
self across the long pole that stuck
out behind. Just for goodness sake,
don't do that! Everybody will see YOU.
DO, please, come over here on the
sidewalk" The young tomboy caught
tirmer hold on the running gear.
gave her hands push that sat her
astride of the pole and then called
back well, I guess you needn't be
stuck up and putin on airs Just be-
cause you've got powder on your face"
Washington Star.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

Two of New York city's most IA
nous landmarks are about to bs
crowded out by skyscrapers. The old
Tabernacle church at Thirty-fourth
street and Broadway is to give wav IN
hotel that will eclipse the Waldorf
Astoria, and the National CITY Bank
proposes to erect the handsomest
structure of it's type in the world ON
the old custom house site. A 20-storv
hotel, to cost $4,000, 900, will he buiit
on the site of the Broadway Taber-
nacle. The last religious services IN
the famous old landmark will he held
about May next. Wreckers will then
quickly demolish the massive stone
edifice and a towering modern struc-
ture will arise simultaneously with
the other great improvements in that
district. The hotel will have on the
lower floors bank, trust company
and safe deposit vault. The hotel a.
self will be the most advanced TYNE
of modern structure yet attempted
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
A strange Talent.

In Bloomington, Ind, there is a 16-
year-old-boy who carries in his mind
a permanent calendar for at least the
last half century, although by many
me is considered mentally deficient.
To everybody in Bloomington and
around the quarries he is known as
the weasel" When asked his real
name he gives any of half a dozen
which he has at his tongues end for
the purpose of satisfying the curiosity
of the questioner. So far as known,
the boy has never attended school, and
knows, nothing about the system by
which past and future dates are cal
culated. When asked on what day of
the week a date 20 years back came on
the weasel answers the question cor
rectly within the space of one minute,
and often in much less time. He
gathers UP many nickels and pennies
by telling commercial travellers at the
hotels on what day Of the week they
were born. The day of the month on
which one was born is given the boy
and he Immediately supplie3 the day
of the week. To the questioner this
is in many cases known 80 that it is
at once known that the boy has given
a correct answer. Every ruse has been
made use of to muddle him in his cal
culations, but in each case he gets the
better of the undertaking.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Bloody Oysters.

Reports in the Richmond CVa) pa
pers from correspondents along the
Potomac river are to the effect that
oyster houses are closing down on ac-
count of what is called bloody" oys-
ters. This same disease caused good
deal of trouble along the Rappahan.
mock some few years ago, says the
Richmond Dispatch, but since that
time the bloody oyster has been an
unknown quantity in this section. This
trouble virtually ruins the sale of oys-
ters, and its appearance is unac-
counted for. At the time our oysters
were suffering from the disease they
were sent to be analysed, and it was
found that the discoloration was not
at all injurious to the oyster, nor did
it make the mollusks unfit for eating
purposes. But while it was acknowl-
edged and known that such oysters
were good for eating, but few felt in
clined to eat them in that shape, and
thus the sale was ruined.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Did the shark Eat a Cow ?

In the stomach of shark recently
caught at Lukovo were found, among
other things, it Is said, pair of trous-
ers, COW bell and shoe. Probably
any one who should hold that these
exhibits are prima facie that this
shark at least swallowed man would
receive the rejoinder from our expert
aquarium friends, who assert that
there is no such thing as man eating
shark, that. they prove just as much
that the aforesaid shark would, could
or did swallow COW, for certainly, we
can hear them argue, it is as reason
able to claim that this fish did not
swallow the COW bell without swallow
ing COW, as that in swallowing a
pair of trousers and an old shoe it
necessarily must have swallowed a
man or two, too.-Fishing Gazette.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

Senator Proctor is practically the
owner of the entire town of Proctor
VI The quarries are among the larg-
est in the world Nearly 1000 men are
employed, and they live on the. system
pursued in some mining communities.
Inc senator rents them their houses
or sometimes sells them small pieces
of land and erects dwellings for them.
The only store in the place is an enor-
nous general store, owned and oper-
ated by Proctor, where absolutely ev-
erything can be purchased. Here the
men do practically all their trading
Proctor pays them we'll for their work
and then they give him back about
30 per cent of their wages for rent
groceries, clothing, heat, light, etc If
Prortcc sc desired, he could make M
enormous amount of money from the
men, for he could dictate prices on all
the necessities of life. He does moi do
this, however, but sells them goods
cheaper than they can get them any
where else.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

The story is related of. an Irish
man who, after embarking in business
on his own hook, experienced consid-
cradle difficulty in paying his bills.
AS the first of the month drew near he
realized that it would be necessary to
put all collectors off until after the
18th of the month, so he made this
sign and hung it in front of the door:
rNo bills paid before the 18TH" When
the collectors arrived the sign stared
them in the face, and they went away
making note of the date to call. On
the 18th Pat was just as short Of
money as before, so he sat down to
think it over, and his native wit did
not desert him. On the back of the
sign he painted the following: mo
bills paid after the 18TH" 1t is chron-
icled that Pat assured all collectors
that they had been extremely care
less not to come before the date indi-
Gated on the sign, thus gaining enough
time to tide over his difficulties. The
sign was reversed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

He purchased Shakespeare finely
bound
A forty-volume set
He searched for Dickens, Balzac's
tales
The best that he could get;
And Hugo, Huxley, Darwin, too,
And twenty score beside,
They lined his book-shelves, while he
read
Proud Poll. the Pirates Bride"
or music he had Mozart's works,
Beethoven's symphonies,
A gilt piano, too, with real
Hand-whittled ivory keys.
Herr Wagner's bust adorned the room,
And fancies rare would rise,
Until you heard him carol forth:
"She Made Them Goo-Goo Eyes"
Ills dining room was richly built;
The cut glass weighed ton.
Twelve forks reposed at every plate
He never used but one.
And sometimes he would NOT use that,
A knife was good enough
When eating pie-this tells the tale
OF self-made Mr. Bluff.
baltimore American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
a rhousand Mnllon sun..

At the Glasgow meeting of the Brit
ish Association Lord Kelvin interested
q large audience with his calculations
of the probable total amount of grav-
itational matter in the visible uni
verse. He showed that If, $4,000, 900
years ago. 1000. 900 masses, each
equal to our sun, had been distributed
through a sphere about $4,000, 900 ,0OO,-
100000 miles In radius. they would now
have acquired velocities about equal to
those known to be possessed by the
stars visible to US. Therefore It is
probable that the total amount of gray
rational matter Ia the visible uni
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
A Handy Plow-seraper.

A combination snow pillow and road
scraper may be largely constructed
from material to be found on nearly
every farm, the services of the black
smith being needed only to place the
strips of sheet iron over the points of
the runners. Fig. in the cut shows
the skeleton of the combination tool:
Fig. 2, how the point is ironed after the
two pieces are joined; Fig. 8, the for
nation of the cross braces. and Fig. A,
the tool complete. Little explanation
is needed of the illustration, but care
should be used that the material select
ed is tough, yet light, that the tool will
not be cumbersome to handle. If de-
sired, the runners or shoes may be
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Cheap Reproductlons Of Maps.

The Surveyor-Gener of India in a
late report gives an account of new
process for the reproduction Of field
maps, ETC., by obtaining an image in
transfer ink upon a zinc plate directly
from black and white original draw
ing. The process is cheaper than pho
to-zincography or TYPOGRAPHY and oc-
cupies less time. Thin zinc plates are
coated with sensitizing solution made
up of fish glue Il Oh gelatine $50
grains) bichromate of ammonium (45
grains) water az oz). The subject for
reproduction is placed face upward
with the zinc plate above in close con-
tact and the subsequent operations
comprise exposure to sunlight for a
minute or so, the development of
negative image, mixing of the plate and
development of a positive image.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Rapid rnvelopo onansr.

The ordinary envelope opener must
be inserted under the edge of the flap
with great care, lest the contents of
the envelope be damaged in ripping the
Hap, and If man is in hurry he gen.
orally tears the letter open with his
hand instead of bothering with the
cutter. Perhaps the ingenious device
here pictured will recommend itself to
the busy man as a handy complement
to his desk outfit. The inventor is
Harry Fl. Bowerman of Loreley, Md,
and he claims that his arrangement
Will clip the end of an envelope in
stantly without dsnger to the contents
AS will be seen by glance at the cut,
rotary cutting blade is pivoted under
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

meath the V-shaped trough which car
ries the envelope. All that is neces-
sary to put the cutter in operation is
to strike the envelope a smart blow to
slide the contents to one side, insert
the Opposite end in the trough and
press the wire bale attached to the two
gear wheels. AS these wheels are
geared to the small wheels at either
end of the revolving cutter the latter
is rotated by the depression of the
bale. causing the spiral blade to clip
the edge from the envelope projecting
through the slot In the trough. A
spring raises the bale as soon as the
finger is lifted, and the cutter is then
ready for the next envelope.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Bathes in Icy water.

Pror. Sugarman, who gained noto-
riety three years ago by taking a daily
swim in the Mohawk river during the
winter season, and who revived the
practice in 1899 and 1900, says the
New York Sun, intends to keep up his
unique pastime during the present
winter The professor, who is residing
at Fort Plain this season. took his
first plunge of the winter on Satur-
day, and repeated the performance on
Sunday. The colder the day the more
amusement Prof. Sugarman derives
from the swim. Yesterday the mer-
curry lowered around the zero mark,
but he didn't mind little thing like
that He went to the Mohawk river.
half mile from his home, with a
pair of tights under his arm, chopped
the ice fIom the bank for consider
able distance, and then disrobing.
plunged into the icy water. Going far
out in the river he disappeared be-
meath the surface. He reappeared and
repeated the act several times before
coming from the water. while the
several witnesses in their winter cloth
ing shivered in the cold. Prof. Sugar
man generally takes his icy plunge in
the late afternoon, and never expert
ences any ill-effects. He enjoys the
best of health, and declares that after
person becomes accustomed to
swim in the icy waters of the Mohawk
he would taboo all other forms of
bathing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Luminous Mushrooms.

Mr.. MacAlpine has printed a re-
search on luminous mushrooms, OF
which he enumerates twenty-one diff
ferent species. Eleven of these belong
to the genus Pleurotus and Ave OF them
are found only in Australia. The lu-
minosity is not due to the presence OF
phosphorescent bacteria, but is due to
a process Of combustion, which de-
ponds on the presence of oxygen and
on high temperature. 1t is not af-
fected by humidity. 1t is probably use
full in attracting insects that dissent
nate the spores.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
Artlacial Ice.

The principles upon which the manu-
facture of ice is based is that gas
when compressed, gathers heat enor-
mously, and if robbed of this heat and
allowed TO escape at a future time, it
seeks to regain it's heat by withdraw
ing heat from its surroundings. Am
monia gas is generally preferred to
others, because it can be liquefied
with comparatively little pressure.
On removing the water from common
ammonia by distillation, anhydrous
ammonia is obtained. This is com
pressed by a combined steam pump
and a compressor, and the resulting
liquefaction induces heat, Which is
economical by circulating water about
the vessel or pipe containing the lique-
fed ammonia. Thus the ammonia is
cooled and the heat largely transferred
to the water, which is then
pumped back to the boiler that sup
plies the steam pump. The liquid am
monia Ia then carried in a pipe to ex-
pansion coils that afford plenty Of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

Some .Florentine experts in snailol-
ogy, finding time hanging heavy on
their hands, conceived the idea of ac-
curately calculating the travelling
speed of snails, and, with this end in
view, it was decided to make a series
of more or less elaborate experiments.
Half dozen of the mollusks were per-
mitted to crawl between two points 10
feet apart. Exact time was kept from
start to finish, and thus the average
pace" was ascertained. The expert
mentors reduced their figures into
tables of feet, and thus found that 1t
would take snail exactly ID days to
travel mile.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
DO Planets Influence sun SPOTS.

Do Planets Influence Sun spots3
Mr.. Birkeland has continued his call
culations to determine whether the
periodic changes in the area of the
spotted regions of the suns surface are
in any degree due to gravitational dis
turbances produced by either of the
planets Mercury, Venus or Jupiter. His
latest calculations cover the period
1926, and his conclusions is that we
must seek for other causes than plan
etary influence to explain the sun spot
period and that in future it is idle, to
look for the cause of this period out
side of the solar sphere itself.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06
explorers In Good Health.

The british Antarctic exploration
ship. Discovery, arrived at Littleton,
New Zealand. November 29. All on
board were well and in good spirits.
The pack ice was encountered in lati-
tude 63.5 and longitude 14.1 east. but
pressure of time prevented a thorough
investigation of the ice. Interesting
collections had been made. however,
during the voyage.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-06

There is more reciprocal self-respect
and moral dignity in six average
rougs- aEd-ready business men than is
exhibited in the diplomacy of half a
dozen leading embassies. When the
latter are not cringing for favors or
canting about international friend
chip" they are usually reaching for
the pistol pocket.