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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
Women Of the AntIpodes.

The female voter, the female barris.
ter, the female auctioneer and the
female shareholder have already ar.
rived at the Antipodes, and now the
lady juror and the lady magistrate
are promised. Asked whether he in.
tended to introduce a measure giving
women the right to act as Jurors, the
premier Of New South Wales replied:
Il see no reason why women should
not act as jurors"
"They would take long time to
come to decision" some member in
terjected.
THAT may be-" rejoined the pre-.
mier. II believe in women having the
same rights as men, and, so far an
l am concerned, l intend that the
women Of New South Wales shall
have them. London Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

tunes with gold and precious stones
should be revived, and 1t is with the
object of attracting popular attention
to the subject that the jacket shown
In the picture has been fashioned
Those who have seen it say it is the
costliest and most beautiful jacket
that has ever been made. Diamonds
and rare jewels are set in clusters
over 1t, and their beauty is intensified
by several rich gold ornaments. Some
OF these ornaments are wrought in
the Byzantine style and are extreme
ly artistic. The exact value of this
jacket has not been stated, but it is
said to be worth several thousand dol
lars. 1t is also said that it will soon
be seen on the stage, as it is designed
for a popular actress.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
Largest Chain in the World.

The largest chain in the world was
shipped a short time ago from the
Lebanon Chain Works, in Lebanon,
Pa, to the Eastern Shipbuilding Co.,
at New London, Conn.
The shipment represents one-half Of
the order, which is for $50 fathoms of
3 BIG inch diameter chain. Each link
measures approximately 1914 inches
in length, and about liz inches in
width and weighs about 100 pounds to
the foot, so that the total tonnage rep.
resented will equal about 215 TONS
New York American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
QUERY.

Twas man and a maid and little gray
cat.
A-sitting upon a wall;
And III tell you just what the three were
at
! know. though I didn't see all.
me man was scratching a puzzled head,
While the maid. with a troubled air.
was playing the catechist. blushing red /;
The cat was washing his hair.
Don't you know" said the maid. that
It's very wrong?"
Il don't see why" said the man.
Don't you know that we've not been
acquainted long?"
Well I'm getting on, fast as / can"
why be stubborn" the catechist asked,
in despair
The rest was the part that I missed;
But the man kissed one Of the two that
were there
Do you think twas the cat he kissed?
Truman Roberts Andrews, in Smart Set
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

of tissue paper By rubbing the inside
of the chimney with the silk covered
brush the ring is filled with electric.
ity, which passing through the wire
affects the strips of paper, causing
them to fly apart.
This experiment should be tried in
dry weather, as humidity is disadvan.
tageous to electrical experiments.
Broom, silk cloth, and lamp chimney
should be absolutely dry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
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one would imagine. they would stop,
or turn in some other direction, in
the hope of being able to continue
their journey to the west by an over
land route, but they boldly plunge
into the ocean and swim, ever west
ward, till they are drowned. This Is
fortunate characteristic for the Nor.
wegians, for if the rats did not kill
themselves the people would have
hard task to keep them under.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

derstand what the Chicagoan was say
ing. / made several thousand expert
ments with the photograph and Wis.
tied every monkey in America. Then
determined to experiment on the
gorilla and chimpanzee. There were
none available in captivity, so I went
to their native jungle, and ga April,
1898, set up my cage on the sruth
side of Lake Miami For four months
| waited and watched for gorillas, but
only saw twenty-five though it was In
the heart of the gorilla country. They
were shy and pacific, and would not
speak. During the four months we
were alone in the jungle differentiat-
ed and interpreted about ten of the
sounds which Moses, my chlmpanzee,
made" The professor said that in
a few months he would return to At
RIGA and work till his task was
achieved. He would not rest till he
could come on the platform leading a
chimpanzee by the hand, which would
give unmistakable proof of its speak.
ing ability.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
Butterflies and Birds.

OF all the children of the air" that
gladden. June day, the monarch but
terfy is one of the most noticeable.
Its wings simmer like gold alleged
with copper as it pursues its lazy
flight in the sunshine. The male mon
arch is true dandy and carries on
each hind wing black sachet bag
containing a strong perfume. most
attractive to the other sex. The mon
arch is immune from bird enemies;
the callow birding that takes bite
from 1t wipes his beak in disgust
and forever after connects the moi.
some taste with orange wings. A too
hasty conclusion. of which the viceroy
kv.terfiy takes advantage, and, by dom
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

folds the player with handkerchief,
places him in front of the left-hand
end of the board, and, giving him a
piece OF chalk, tells him to draw on
the board a picture of a horse. This
the player does to the best of his abil-
ity' but no matter how careful he may
be, every line he draws will make the
other players shout with laughter;
and no one will laugh louder than the
player himself when the handkerchief
has been taken from his eyes and he
sees the funny picture he has made.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

thAe that war keepin' the commanuns
O God, and han-in the tesumonie o.
Jesus.
This Is something almost as auda-
cious as the attempt to make Shakes
peare out as Bacon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
Easy for Burglars.

When burglar wants to break into
a Peruvian house he takes a sponge
and a bucket of water and moistens
the walls, which are covered with only
a thin coating of mud, and easily dis.
solve upon this application of moist.
ure
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
Work of the Frost.

A frost problem is the cracking NJ
the earth in severe cold. and the way
in which rocks and clods are reduced
to powder by frost. Water, when Il
freezes, expands with Irresistible
force. Consequently anything contain.
ing water is rent asunder when that
water turns to ice. In this way rocks
are rapidly worn down. Chalk holds
more water than most other forms of
soil, and that is why the roads IN
chalky counties are usually in such a
shocking condition when a thaw saI.
lows frost.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
slna 70 Their oxan.

In France the oxen that work in the
fields are regularly sung to as an en-.
enlargement to exertion, and no peas.
ant has the slightest doubt that the
animals listen to him with pleasure.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
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dGg the monarch's uniform, escal "a
s'atheless, although any bird might
fnd it a beaksome morsel.--Country
/ Ife in America.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
Two Names,
Two Names.
3IA436
3O6

Hold these figures before looking
glass and you will see the names of
boy and girl. Or hold the page up
to the light and look at it through
the back page and you will get the
same effect.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

1t takes lifetime to learn to read
Gods book of Providence.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

Husbands are not made to order
but some wives seem to think they
are.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

Jacket Decorated With Gems.
There are goldsmiths who think the
ancient custom of ornamenting cos.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16

He dances well to whom fortune
pipes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
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PROGRESSIVE DELTA.
Her Gas Plant In operationiEand
Nearing Completion.

Delta Enterprise: With the turn
Ing on OF the gas by the city plant
last Wednesday evening Delta took .
step forward in her march to the
front ranks of the small towns OF
Iowa.
The gas was first lighted in feS
Of the street lamps Wednesday even
ing. Thursday 1t was turned into all
the street mains and as many of the
business houses as we're piped for ii
and allowed to burn until after the
stores closed. The light was salts
factory to all and seems likely to
meet the expectations of it's most
sanguine advocates. At IL O'Clock
last night, after all the street lights
except the one near Caywood q
Reeds livery barn we're extinguishd
IT, was possible tosstand at tho old
Vernon corner, more than a block
distant, and with no other light
read the Enterprise.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
TIMELY WARNING.

A dipsomaniac sent from Sac City
to the inebriate ward in the Mt. Pleas
ant hospital has written letter Of
warning to the young men OF that
place which others as well as those
directly addressed would do well to
heed. The writer had been in the
hospital two weeks when he felt call
ed upon to relate his experience for
the benefit of his former associates.
He admits that he has learned good
lesson and expresses the hope that
there will nobody ever come there
from Sac City to verify what he says.
He is quite sure that they would not
enjoy the experience. There were 30
in the ward at the time, representing
nearly all trades and professions, and
there was work for all of them. When
they go out for exercise, two hours In
the forenoon and two hours in the af-
ternoon, they march in double column
under guard. 1T is like being in a
pen." says the writer, so boys, bear
in mind what you have TO contend
with If you ever get here" No whis-
key or liquor OF any kind is allowed
the inmates under any circumstances.
The writer says:
One man died since came. He
could have been saved by giving
him whiskey, but that don't go
here. Youneedn't be expecting any
thing OF the kind on the start as
you viii not get 1t II you come
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
MAKING MONEY.

Knoxville Journal: "The corn husk-
ers are making money these days,
said prominent Marion county farm
er this morning. Instead of 2 cents,
as we are used to paying them, we are
forced to pay the men who peel the
husks off the yellow ears 3 cents per
bushel this fall, and board them and
give them their room rent and wash
ing besides.
"a husker of average ability can
make from SO to S. per day and his
living expenses at this rate. Hired
men that have been working year in
and year out are quitting their old
places on account of the fact that they
can make more by piece work than by
salary. On my farm find it neces-
sary to use two teams on every wagon
to get the corn out of the field, the
ground is so soft. My neighbors say
il is the same way. Corn is late now
on account Of the rains, which made
it impossible to go into the field at the
time we are generally accustomed.
Hands are as scarce as hen molars." !"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
ENTERPRIsINe WATERLOO.

The Waterloo Reporter tells an in
teresting story Of how that enterpris-
ing and prosperous Iowa community
has assured to itself six additional
manufacturing enterprises. For this
purpose $67,500 was raised through
the sale of lots in an addition to the
city not plated as yet. The plan fol-
lowed was not a new one but it appears
to have been exceptionally successful
there 1t is doubtful if the record
made in disposing Of lots has ever
been equalled in city of similar size
anywhere. Within five days lots have
been sold (or the sale guaranteed) to
the number of 225 tor the aggregate
sum of $67,500-an average of nearly
$4,000 a day. The sales of the first
two days reached nearly $45,000, but,
as was expected, the lots went more
slowly toward the latter end of the
sale. There still remain unsold afew
lots, but the committee making the
CANVASS decided to guarantee the sale
Of them on their own responsibility,
confident that there we're enough pub
nc spirited citizens whom they had
not seen to warrant them in taking
the risk.
The tract is which the lots
have been sold will be surveyed and
plated at once. It is 100-acre farm,
twenty-five acres of which will be set
apart for factory sites and the remain
ing seventy-five will be laid off in
blocks 300 feet square. Each block
will be divided into twelve lots which
will be assigned to subscribers by al
lotment at public drawing. The
main line of the Rock Island railroad
runs through the center of the tract
to be plated and the railroad officials
have promised to put in the necessary
sidings to supply ample shipping facili-
ties for the various plants which will
be located adjacent to their right of
way In addition to this the new route
of the Illinois Central will run through
this addition and will afford further IA
cilities for shipping in materials and
shipping out the manufactured goods.
The Chicago Great Western railroad
will likewise be in close communica-
ton with the new manufacturing
plants 20 be located there.
The six new factories secured are
the Waterloo Motor Works, the ]. d.
Hawes Threshing Machine Co., the ].
S. Kemp Manufacturing Co., the Rus
sell Self-Feeder Co., the Waterloo
Foundry Co., and the Swift Manufac-
turing Co. These enterprises are to
invest $5O0,OOO and give employment
10 more than 500 men,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
QUESADA SEES HAY.
state That Reciprocity Negotia-
tionS Are Progressing.

Washington, Nov 26.--Minister
Quesada, OF Cuba, was one of the
early callers upon the president
Tuesday. He informed the president
that he had received q cablegram
from the Cuban government at Ha-
vana informing him that the reci-
procity treaty negotiations were pro-
ceeding satisfactorily. Minister Que
sada previously called at the state
department and presented copy Of
his cablegram to Secretary Hay.
Washington, Nov. 26.-The cabinet
meeting Tuesday was devoted almost
I,exclusively to the consideration OF
the status Of the reciprocity treaty
with Cuba and the canal treaty with
Colombia The bitches that have
occurred in the negotiations were
discussed as were also the prospects
of settlement.
Secretary Hay, while presenting the
subject of the canal negotiations to
the cabinet, was not able to report that
any progress had been made during
the past week. In fact it appears that
the negotiations have come to a dead
stop, and while no such thing as an ul-
timatum has passed tire precise situa-
tion may be described in the statements
that The Colombian minister here
Concha, has distinctly informed the
state department that he cannot, in
behalf of his government, accept the
last proposition Of the United States
as basis of canal treaty. The state
department has already let it be
known that it has come to the end of
its concessions, so that the chances OF
a renewal of the negotiations in the
near future are not very bright.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
soBRIETY DEMANDED.

Indianapolis News: In this day so
spriety has come pretty nearly to mean
total abstinence. AS cold business
proposition, great corporations and
private firms are enforcing practical
abstinence. They demand such con
dition of their employees that practi.
cally any drink at all becomes too
much drink. Science mas come from
another direction to support the same
end. The old idea of the efficacy OF
moderate drinking finds no support in
modern medical science. "a man is as
old as his arteries" is saying well
known in medicine. When the arteries
take on the ossified character the end
is at hand. Now, modern science says
that frequent indulgence in alcohol
tends to produce arterial ossifcations.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
1t is estimated that the

1t is estimated that the advance
in wages this year to employees of the
railways in the United States will ag.
gregate fifty million doliars. That of
the Pennsylvania system alone will
amount to eight milliogs. The Bur
lington Hawlleye has heen trying to
think what year T. was ilwing the last
democratic administre ton and the
Y iIson-Gornsan tariff that there was
a similar advance in wages. Some
how, the exact year bas slipped our
memory. Perhaps some of our esteem.
ed contemporaries can furnish the de-
sired information.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27

son OF Iowa or Congressman Littlefield
OF Maine. He said that the Maine
statesman had habit of getting on
lae democratic side of questions, prob
ably to attract attention, while Hen
derson was always ready TO pull off
his coat for the policies of the admin
istration.
But strange as it may seem, Speak
er Henderson was posed in the news
paper correspondence as the man who
was thwarting the administration.
How such false notion was given
currency, says Major Lacey, is more
than he has been able to account for.
Speaker Henderson was deliberately
misrepresented before the country and
these Misrepresentation were used in
his own district, especially in places
ike Waterloo where mouldering post
office fight had left sore spots to
harass the speaker at home. Having
been elected to the highest office in
the nation, for foreign born citizen,
Col. Henderson naturally expected
some exemption from the petty annoy
ances of partisan politics and as ma
turally showed some displeasure when
he did not find such exemption. This
led him to write letter that only add
ed to the barking and the yelping at
his heels. On top of that came de-
mands for money to overcome this OPP
position. 1t was then that even a
speaker of the national house had to
give up and retire.
Major Lacey's vindication of the rec
ord made by the Iowa speaker is time
ly. The more the inside facts leak
out the more is the regret that Col,
Henderson acted so hastily in the
matter.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27

Kansas City Journal: 1t must
have been a bitter moment for that
actress touring the Kerosene circuit in
Kansas to find that she had been bill
ed by the local press as "Calomel" in
stead Of Camille" And typographi-
cal error in the Florence News has
caused the editor no end of trouble, if
we may believe the earnest explana-
tion which he makes of it. In writing
of groom in recent wedding he en-
dowed that gentleman with stealing"
instead of sterling" qualities.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27

The value of the Daily Herald as
newspaper was again forcibly illus.
trated Saturday evening. 1t contain
ed full particulars Of the train robbery
near Davenport, the death of Krup,
the famous gun maker, and the class
fight at Iowa City, the three items that
were displayed under ten-story head
lines in the Sunday Chicago Tribune,
which reached 0skaloosa sixteen
hours after the Herald had been de
livered to its subscribers. If you want
the news while it is news you must
read the Herald.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27

AN Iowa farmer is the inventor of
new game called improved ping
pong. It's to be played on the farm
in the fall of the year. The player
gets up at o'clock in the morning,
milks the COWS, feeds the hogs and
horses, eats breakfast, then bitches a
team to wagon about the size of a
box car and then starts for the corn
field. Here is where the ping pong
comes. You crap big ear of corn in
the left hand and with the right hand
and contraption of some kind you
yank the shucks off the corn and
throw the ear at the big wagon. When
the ear of corn strikes the throw
board it goes ping" and it then hits
the bottom of the wagon and sounds
pong" making a very interesting
game at about 21a cents per bushel
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
A Man FROM IOWA
Makes the Design for Worlds
Fair at St. Louis.
BY scripps-McRae.

ny oCIippS-MCflde.
St Louis, Nov. 26.-The contest for
a design for the emblem to be adopted
as the official emblem of the Louisiana
purchase exposition was decided to-
day. The winner is Charles A. Hollo-
way Clinton, Iowa, well known in
art circles of the country. The sue
cessful design contains five figures.
The one in the center is woman rep
resenting the territory of Louisiana.
By her side stands Columbia placing
around her the American flag. The
garments of France have fallen from
her and lie at her feet The colors of
the French flag and the fleur delis are
plainly recognizable in them. In the
background is a boat containing two
figures Progress and Rectitude In
front of Columbia and alongside of
Louisiana sits a female figure repre-
senting France holding in her lap the
treaty of the Louisiana territory.
Draped over her arm is the tri-colors
of France. She holds in one hand the
sword of municipality.
The border contains four large fig
ures typifying agriculture, commerce.
art and science. Above are two small
ngures of genius and progress, crown
ing art and science with a laurel
wreath. In the lower corners are two
shields bordered with the colors of
France and the United States.
The color scheme comprises four
colors--red, white, blue and yellow,
representing the United States and
France and Spain.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27

The decline in the waters of Great
Salt Lake, Utah, which has been in
progress for the last sixteen or seven
teen years, has become a matter OF
concern to local property owners and
of much interest to scientists. In the
fifteen years ending with 1900 the lake
had fallen 9.9 feet, decline more seri-
GUS than at first realized, as the lake
is very shallow, averaging less than
20 feet, and as the eastern and west
ern shores slope so gradually that a
fall of foot in the level exposes
many square miles of bottom.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-11-27
here. It is live Or die, but no

Whiskey.
Each inmate of the inebriate ward
is provided with 10x12 sill three feet
long, with handle attachment, cover
ed with blanket. 1t weighs about so
pounds and he is expected to push this
around the room for half an hour be-
fore breakfast. "Oh, its funl" he said
ironically. Further interesting par
ticulars are thus detailed:
After breakfast the same old
thing over again, then go out for
walk. When we come in the first
thing we hear is get rubber"
We have 500 dishes to wash and
wipe every day. o, it's snap!
Some of the men get no medicine.
got mine five or six times day. It's
sure cure if you keep your head
when you get out. There is one good
thing about this place: you can save
your money, but the income is small.
had two cents when came here and
| have it yet. They furnish us one
stamp week, read all our mail that
we send out, but not what comes in.
If it don't suit them it goes into the
waste basket.
The letter ends with the following
timely and earnest advice:
I wish to say to the Sac City
boys, beware of Mount Pleasant
hospital, as it is a sure cure even
if you don't take any medicine.
would not come back here again
for all the booze in the state. You
can see how sick am of it and
have been here only three weeks,
but l may have forty-eight more
to stay. would rather go to Ana
mosa for one year than this place
for six months. You may believe
me or not, but it is fact. 1t is easy
to get in but very hard to get out
| am the only representative from
Sac county so far and if you will
take my advice / will not only be
the first but the last one.
There are candidates for the inebri-
ate ward at Mt. Pleasant in every COM
munity in the state, and tits well that
they should know in advance just what
it is that awaits them. Judging from
the reports sent out from there the ex-
perience is not of kind to be longed
for with vehement desire.