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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

enormous loss both upon the govern
ment and the western public. A 500
gold piece may be abraded to the point
of discounting its weight, and yet the
ordinary person will not be able to de-
tect it. AS for the silver dollar, it is
good at face value as long as it has
mark enough to distinguish it's coin
age, provided it has not been mutilated
willfully. Even the ashes of green
back or silver certificate may be re-
deemed at the face value of the note
under proper conditions of proof.
OF all bills used by the government
the 50 bill has been least popular. 1t
lends itself to trickery in at least
two ways not common to other bills.
1t has been estimated that if 1000 So
bills be presented in 1000 saloons as
they run, the customer will be Short
changed" in 700 cases, the bartender
accepting them as 81 bills. Again, the
50 bill should not be especially a ia
vorite with the government for the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

drawers is also Rockingham, the slit
being in the top.
With frugal nation like the French
the existence of the money box creates
no surprise. In the South it is met
with in great variety of shape, ami
mails and fruits being the popular
forms.
The Dutch, too, have their money
boxes, and one in possession of the
collector is rudely shaped in the form
Of pig, special attention being paid
to the curl of the tail. 1t measures
Is inches in length, and cut into the
material is the inscription, in old
Dutch: dat gil mil geven will; het is
goet, TX sta hier STILL" which, freely
rendered into English, implies, Here
| am; give whatever you please"
Crossing to Africa, we meet with
money boxes among the northern
tribes.
The largest of all is from Java made
in common brown native ware, without
decoration.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
Not oulte wind She Meant.

The pitfalls which the English lam
guage offers to the foreigner are many.
"A French woman who has undertaken
housekeeping in New York thought she
had good working knowledge of the
language, says Short Stories, but she
soon discovered her mistake.
One day this summer she called a
carpenter and planned with him to
have some work done about the house
in the way of putting up shelves, cas-
ing some doors and improving the
place in other small ways. She went
over the ground with him as carefully
as possible to get from him an esti-
mate of what the work would cost.
After it was done the bill submitted
was considerably in excess of the sum
first named. The woman endeavored
to demonstrate, but succeeded only in
putting her French thought into the
following English: "But you are more
dear to me than when we were first
engaged"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

On the occasion of the great live
stock show in Chicago it was remark
ed all over the city how cattlemen
from the west had flooded hotels, res
taurants, stores, and even saloons
with silver dollars. Such a landslide
of silver had not been experienced in
years, and banks especially remarked
the influx
The circumstance was illustrative of
something which may be termed fash
ions in money, as applied to the pro-
vincial sections Of the United States.
For current money in New York may
not be at all popular in San Francisco,
and the Chicago one-cent piece, which
does universal duty everywhere, finds
its occupation gone west of Omaha and
Kansas City and south of the Mis-
souri, river But the recognition or
non-recognition of the penny is some
thing wholly apart from the fashions
in money.
In the recent flooding of Chicago
with silver dollars it was recognized
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

to be the incoming Of western men
who did it. West of the Mississippi
river, on into the great areas of silver
and gold ores, the silver dollar is
almost universal, and as one goes on
toward the Pacific from the east line
of Colorado the gold pieces in S., $40,
and $40 denominations become more
in use. When California is reached a
man runs chance of hunger If he les
a pocketbook full of 500 bills, and as
for 81 and 81 bills, a Pacific coast goat
would not eat them.
There are many freakish circum-
stances connected with the country's
media of exchange. One of these
novel situations in western city
arose when the local gas company put
In meters of drop-a-quarter-in-t
slot pattern. Flats, apartment build
ings, small business concerns and the
poorer residences were equipped with
these meters, making it necessary to
drop a quarter inside to start a light.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
DID NOT INTERFERE.
scotchman Too shrewed to BE Caught
in Such simple Trap.

scotchman Too shrewed to BE Caught
In Such simple Trap.
An old Scotchman went to visit a
young couple, says the Pittsburg Press.
After two or three weeks had passed
the young folks began to get tired of
their visitor, but did not like to tell
him the state of their feelings toward
him, SO they arranged a little plan
between them as to how they would
get rid of him.
Tomorrow" said the husband,
when l come home for dinner, shall
quarrel about the soup and say it is
not good. In the midst of our quar-
rel we will appeal to our friend, and if
he takes your part will give him no
tice to leave the house, and If he
takes my part yoI do the same"
Next day at dinner as the quarrel
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
Rubbing 1t In on a Publisher.

Henry M. Hyde was sent for few
months ago by a Chicago publisher
who wanted to get out a volume of
golf stories, says the New York Times.
He thought Mr.. Hyde was the man to
write to order, but he wished to make
certain before he committed himself.
Without signing contract, he per-
suaded Mr.. Hyde to write him couple
of stories and send them to his Office
by way of getting started. A week
later the stories came back with a note
which said: Don't write any more of
that rot. Nobody but fool would
print stories like these"
Mr.. Hyde sent one of the tales thus
rudely rejected to Harper's, and it was
printed month or two later in Har-
per's Bazaar. He then sent a marked
copy of the Bazaar to the Chicago pub
Usher, with a note which read: IRE
ferring to your last letter: Here's one
fool. More to come" A little later the
second of the stories was published in
the Smart Set. and again copy went
forward, labeled Fool No. g." After
a third story had been written, pub
lished, marked and forwarded, the pub
Usher in question sent an answer to
Mr.. Hyde by special delivery.
LET up" it said. Whats the use
OF rubbing it in. I'm sorry spoke"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
The Kaiser's Plans.
Rumor That Miss Roosevelt Is t % BE In
vited to Berlin.

RumOr That Miss Roosevelt Is to he In
vited to Berlin.
1t is stated in American circles in
London that when Miss Roosevelt
comes over to attend the coronation
of King Edward she will proceed to
Germany as the guest of Ambassador
White at Berlin. This will be done at
the suggestion of the Kaiser, who is
anxious to show impartial hospitality
to the Presidents daughter, whose
charming personality is so closely iden-
titled with the present Anglo-American
civilities, the launching of the En-
peror's new yacht and the visit Of
Prince Henry to the United States. 1t
Is certain that the daughter of the
President would be cordially welcomed
by the German people.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

arose about the soup, and in the heat
Of the argument, uncle" was appealed
to, but he coolly replied:
Eye see, ma freens, for a the time
intend tae be here-just a month or
two-I haze made up ma mind no tae
interfere wi yer hoose affairs"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
Austrian Archduchess Elizabeth "a

Austrian Archduchess Elizabeth re-
nounces her claim to the throne for
love, having read in Voltaire that the
former is composed of boards and vel
vet, while she surmises the latter is of
rarer composition. Its course ought
to run smooth for one who has given
up 50 much for it, but there is no as
surance that it will, the poets observa-
ton on that point having the general
confirmation of experience the world
over, in royal houses and out of them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
MerovingIan Cemetery.

At Briadels, near Saint-Affrique, in
the south of France, recent storm
laid bare an immense cemetery of the
Merovingian period. The tombs are
formed of slabs, arranged in many
ways, some with fiat tops on vertical
sides and others arranged like sheds.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

War is hell, peace is heaven. War
is frankly brutal. War never inspires
disgust. There is heavenly peace be-
tween us and the powers oversee
which are craving for our friendship.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
BANKS OF MANY LANDS.
Money Boxes Seem to Be an Institution
All Over the World.

All Over the World.
London Queen illustrates a collec-
ton of earthenware money boxes.
The illustration shows a group Of
eight, of which the earliest as to date
is also the most ingenious. This is
the head of a man in Fulham or Lam
beth ware, the mouth being adapted to
form the slit through which to drop
the coins. The Jolly Brewers head is
the well-known brown glazed Rock
ingham ware, and the slit is made in
the back Of the head. The chest of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Savage bravery of the Biddle type
would immortalize itself in Filipino
ambuscade. but men OF this criminally
intelligent stamp too seldom surrender
to the Establishments of the recruiting
sergeant.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

The retirement of the Hon. William
@. Whitney from business while still
successful in making money indicates,
we fear, that he does not intend to en-
dow any colleges.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

The press is served by jackals as
well as by lions and other respectable
animals. 1t is the jackals who are
shifting for scullion gossip around
Queen Wilhelmina's palace kitchen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Our mule is not the only emotional
inconsistency. Germany, although
united TO the Beers by ties of blood, is
busy filling orders for barbed wire to
unite Kitchener's blockhouses by ties
OF metal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Emperor William has kissed the
Prince of Wales, but Chamberlain and
Won Buelow have not trusted them
selves to get near enough to each
other for any such exercise.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Lord Sholto Douglas has bought a
saloon out in Spokane and proposes to
run 1t for while. The difference be-
tween titled person and an ordinary
mortal is merely in the length of the
toboggan slide. Down at the bottom
the level is the same.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

A recent advertisement for a "stage
baby" in Brooklyn brought responses
from 300 parents, and every father be-
lieved his child to be born to the stage.
Unfortunately the babies are not com
petent to express their opinion on the
question.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

When number Of multi-million-
aires gather at dinner nowadays the
natural inference is that they digest
great deal more than the viands ac-
tually eaten.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Kansas is buying corn and Kentucky
has forgotten all about the Juice of
that grain in the mad rush for oil.
Verify this is a topsy-turvy world.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

DIR. Runge says that insanity from
love is rare That may be true, but
no love is worth much in which in
sanity is not violently present in the
first stages.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Princess Henry is moving heaven
and earth for permission to come
along. The royal lady has heard of
witch called 1.-THE American Girl"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

That young college student who has
been stealing for excitement will find
that excitement is sadly lacking in
prison, If he gets there,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Rudyard Kipling is the guest of Cecil
Rhodes in South Africa. If the world
gets out of plumb now it will be easy
to tell why.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

There are S546 millionaires in the
United States and less than $50 of
them are known outside of their own
counties.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

President Roosevelt always shakes
hands with the engineer of his train.
That is better insurance than a pilot
engine ahead of 1t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

San Francisco's fiddler mayor Il
playing nothing but marches for the
people who held the jols before he got
in,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Isaiah and Kipling both used club
to crack heads and let in light. They
knew the heads would mend again
over the light.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
ri. M. SWEET. Publisher.

Perhaps Hobsons weak eyes explain
his indiscriminate kissing exploits.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Some bean-fed, cultivated Boston
Yank may be counted on to jar the
prince by calling him Hank"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

If a town can't get visit from
Prince Henry, then the next best thing
is for it to be able to say that it asked
him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

A Philadelphia woman died at the
age of 10S, but that was regarded as
young for Philadelphia.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Indiana is far enough from the Brit
ish boundary to make the discovery OF
gold reasonably safe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Those Bulgarian brigands seem to
have all the necessary qualifications
for becoming captains of industry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

Most Of the girls would take more in
terest in Prince Henry If he didn't
have wife and three children.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

reason that it is raised" more often
than any other bill.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29

4, The British have lost all confidence
in Kruger. 1t is no secret that the loss
is mutual.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-29
Kaiser Wants News.
Prince Henry Ordered to Make Fun Re-
port of His Travels.

port OF HIS IraveIs.
Emperor William has ordered that
a brief report of the visit of Prince
Henry be cabled to him daily from the
United States. He has also ordered
Prince Henry to write detailed re-
port of his experiences and observa-
lions during the trip. Prince Henry
will begin the report during his voyage
and will deliver it to the emperor Oh
his return.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10
HOW PERKINS SAW THE KING.
California Senator Tells of His Meet.
ing with Oscar of Sweden.

7OW FEhNINS SAW ING NING.
California Senator Tells of His Meet.
ing with Oscar of Sweden.
Senator Perkins Of California, who,
to quote his own words, Is sailor by
profession. a merchant by necessit.
and politician by accident, has had in
his life more adventures than fall with
in the experience of an ordinary man.
Perhaps this is because Senator Per
kins followed the sea for so many
years. One of Mr.. Perkins most inter-
esting adventures was his meeting
with King Oscar Of Sweden and Nor
way.
Il WAS quite boy then" said the
Senator, telling the story recently. 81
had sailed in the good ship Luna from
New Orleans to Sweden with cargo
of cotton, and while the ship was in
port thought | would like to see the
royal palace in Stockholm. One Sunday
afternoon, in company with sailor
named Harry Branscombe, an English
man, we went up to the palace. Boy
like, We wanted to get into the grounds
and so we crawled through waste
pipe, which ran through the walls
around the palace park. AS soon as we
got inside however, we We're arrested
by the gendarmes, and as we did not
know word of Swedish we were in Il
sad plight.
"Presently," continued the Senator,
"a party of distinguished people came
along and seemed interested in our
trouble. One person in the party spoke
English. He asked us what we We're
doing in the Kings park. told him
that | was an American boy, who want
ed to see the king and how the king
lived.
"'But, don't you know he said, that
you might be put into prison for tres
passng:'
"'Oh, l said, 4 don't want to hurt
the king; l only want to see him.
~ am King Oscar was his reply.
land then" added Senator Perkins, ~
learned that l was really in the pres
ence of the monarch"
What happened to you then?" ask
ed his listener.
THE king" he replied. "sent soldier
with us to show us the palace. and We
had a splendid time. But that wasn't
the sequel to the story. Thirty years
later, when was governor Of CalifOr-
MIA, l went off OH little cruise on Il
yacht, and who should be a sailor on
the yacht but Harry Rranscombe. He
knew me and knew him. although we
had not seen each other for thirty
years. took him up to San Francisco
and gave him place on one Of my
ships. '-Washington Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10
SAD FATE OF HINDU GIRLS.
The Natives Rid Themselves of Too
Many Daughters.

The Natives Rid Themselves of Too
Many Daughters.
A Capuchin monk engaged in mis-
sionary work in Nepaul, writing of
Hindu family life, remarks that it is
very difficult for parents to make adj
vantageous matches for their daugh
tiers. The Hindus therefore find means
OF Kidding themselves Of too many
daughters by numbering them. 1t is a
well-known fact that Hindus Of high
birth, says the Pail Mall Gazette-those
who are called Rajputs-caused their
daughters to be put to death after their
birth by men specially engaged to do
so. This criminal custom had become
so universal that in 1910 in the seventy
three villages Of the Allahabad district
there were only three girls under T.
years of age, and three years later in
the town Of Agra there was not one to
be found under that age. All had been
put to death.
The English government have very
naturally passed very severe laws
against this abominable crime, but to
evade them the Hindus allow their
girls to live until the age of -, after
which they do away with them by adj
minstering poison in small doses. Ori-
entails are past masters in the art OF
poisoning, and after some minute in
quiries it transpires that in many dis
trcts twenty-five out of every 100 girls
have been got rid of in this manner.
Those girls who have been spared they
marry very early, generally between
II and Is years, and that not according
to their own choice, but by the will Of
their parents, which Is decisive. An In
dian family of good rank could not
keep an unmarried daughter. 1t would
not only lie public shame but also IL
crime against religion. TO procure hus
bands for those who have not already
found them. there are number of
Brahmins, old and decrepit. called
Kuhn Brahmns, who go about with
the one object of going through the
cermony of the "seven steps" with as
many young girls rs they can upon re
ceipt of large sum Of money, but af
terward to leave the country and per
haps never to see them again.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10

your lives be sacrificed when word O..
advice at the first approach of weak.
ness. may fill your future years with
healthy joy. Address letter to Mrs.
pinlsham's Laboratory, Lynn Mass,
and you will not be disappointed.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was
not able to do my housework. l suf-
fered terribly at time Of menstruation.
Several doctors told me they could do
nothing for me. Thanks to the Pink
ham advice and medicine I am now
we'll. and can do the work for eight in
the family.
~ would recommend Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound to all
mcthers with large families Mrs.
CARRIE BELLEvILLE, Ludington, Mich
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10
A Saint Upon Earth.

"Pa," said Willie, "what does it
mean to say a man is 'one of natures
noblemen'
"'One of natures noblemen,' my
son." replied the old gentleman, with
q significant look at his better half, sis
a man who smiles when he gets some
ridiculous, cheap gift for Christmas,
and excIaims: 'How nice! Just what
| wanted!' "-Catholic Standard and
Times,
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10
Becoming Amcricanized.

A Western girl who atterled a re-
ception given by the wife OF Minister
WI at the Chinese legation in WASH
ington, writes to friend, saving:
"The house is very much like an Amer
lean home and the Wus are becoming
more like us every year. Formerly the
minister received and his wife was
poked back in corner. Now she re-
ceives and he wanders about looking
lonesome, allie samee like Mclean man
when his wife gives party"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10
ANOTHER REMARKABLE CASE
Which the Doctors Failed to Cure o
Understand.

"uicu we DOCTORS Fa1le0 to Cure
Understand.
medical man, as rule, dislikes to
acknowledge the value of proprietary
medicine. In fact, professional ETH
quette debars him from doing so.
There are many eminent physicians,
those most avanced in thier profes.
sions, who give full credit to the great
curative properties of Vogeler's Cura-
tive Compound from the fact that it is
manufactured by an old and reliable
company, propretors of st. Jacobs Oil,
from the formula of brother physi-
clan, who today stands in the front
ranks OF the most eminent medical
men, and on account of its intrinsic
merit it is largely prescribed by the
medical profession.
Mrs. Nettleton graphically relates the
particulars of her own case, which will
doubtless be OF interest to many of our
lady readers:
81 had been an intense sufferer for
many years from dyspepsia, liver and
kidney troubles. when pamphlet was
placed in my hands, and, although at
tidt tIiuc Ilau Deeu DeUTluO6n IOr
more than six months, determined,
after reading some of the cases similar
to mine, which had been completely
cured by Vogeler's Curative Compound,
to try some, especilly as my d.ctors
failed to even benefit me, and l had
given up all hope of ever being we'll
again. The very first dose of Is drops
relieved me. 1t was not long before l
was able to get up and about; three
months from taking the first dose was
enjoying better health than had been
for II years. should not have been
alive today had it not been for Vogel-
er's Curative Compound"
Mrs. Nettleton said: 81 have recon.
mended Vogeler's Curative Compound
for indigestion and eczema, and in
every case it has proved cure, beyond
doubt. Mr.. Swinbank, our chemist,
has sent me the names of no end of peo-
pie who have been cured by Vogeler's
Curative Compound. BY the way, the
proprietors have so much confidence in
this great London physicians discov-
cry, that they will send sample free
to any person sending name and adj
dress, naming this paper" St. Jacobs
Oil Co., POS Clay St., Baltimore, Md.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-10
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