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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
POWERFUL NEWSPAPERS IN JAPAN
Editors Rise to Important Position In
Flowery Empire.

rIONery Empire
When Marquis Ito formed his last
cabinet Mr. Hara, editor of the Osaka.
Mainichi, became minister of com.
munications and filled the important
post with great credit In Toxic we
have several papers of great political
power, which are edited by men of
the highest standing in society. Mr..
Shimada, editor of the Toxic Maini.
chi, is member of the house of rem.
resentatives, and known throughout
the empire as one of our best writer's
and thinkers He is one of the few
Japanese editors who have embraced
the Christian religion Mr.. Tokutomi
of the Kokumin, held a most import.
ant post for number of years in tbs
home office. Mr.. Asahina of tbs
Nichi Nichi. is our great Russian
scholar and in close touch with tbe
government. He is now TRAVELLING in
that country for the purpose of stlrdv.
ing the industrial situation.
Greatest of all Japanese editors
perhaps, was Mr.. Fukusawa who
died last year. He was the DR. Az.
mold of Japan, the great educator
No man has done more than he did
to advance civilization there. His
second son has succeeded him in tbe
direction of the Jill Shimpo. which
mas large circulation in financial
circles. The Japanese newsnaner
editor can say almost anything he
pleases in his columns to-day, taking
care, OF course, not to print libelons
matter. Ten years ago the govern.
ment censorship of the press was
abolished and few have been in tron.
BILE with the government since tba+
step was taken. Our people nIace
even more trust in newspaper state.
ments than do Americans, which is a
factor in the great power of the lana.
nese press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The world of entertainment is more
exacting than the world of everyday
life. We tolerate late trains, badly
built houses, indifferently cooked
food, imperfectly fitting garments but
let a public performer exhibit the
slightest crudeness in his art, let him
fall short, to the smallest extent no
ticeable, of displaying an easy com
mand over his work and accuracy in
executing 1t and we promptly extin-
guish him with ridicule. These re-
marks receive ample support from the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

love you,' and kissed him. then told
him how l was affianced to Willis, how
desperately he loved me, that we were
to be married in two weeks, but that
loved him, dear Jack. the best OF all.
1t was too late, though my fate was.
sealed. Perhaps we could forget our
little romance.
1.-THE following day | left. 1t was
hard to go away from him-the fare
we'll kiss fingered on our lips. He was
at the wedding. A four leaf clover pin
was his gift-good luck l wear it all
the time. How can l ever forget dear,
patient Jack, who loved in vain? Will
lis loves me devotedly, and my home
is happy, but love dear old Jack the
best of ALL"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
The Story in The Ink Bottle
Copyright, 1909 by Daily story Publishing Company

packed his grip and took premature
vacation. / missed him while he was
gone more than can tell Willie 3 at
away, Jack came back and we at 1ed'
The wedding of a friend. It 1dYTate
when we returned. Jack was silent as
the carriage rolled along, He ordered
g. CRATE fire in the library where we
read the papers together after dinner.
When through he watched the nre and
seemed to be studying me. He turned
abruptly and said:
Augusta this is certainly happy
irapromptu domestic scene
II replied, 4 think we get along
Nicely together
HE came and knelt by my side and
taking my hand in his said: Augusta,
! love you
Before he could say more big tIAcs
came to my eyes and l glanced at Inc
diamond ring. Jack saw it all and
sank into his chair. He watched the
fire die out, touched my hand with his
lips, said Goodnight and was gone.
The next day he was the same old
Jack, little stopped and sad We went
to the park together His sadness
deepened and 1 said to him, Jack, l
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
RUBIEs THAT ARE NOT GENUINE
"Reconstructed' Stones That Have Lit
tie Mons tarY Value.

"Recons tructed" Stones That Have Lit
tie Monetary Value.
Between two and three years ago
there appeared on the market what
is now known to the trade as a "re-
constructed" ruby. 1t is not an imi-
tation gem. 1t has all the chemical
and physical properties of the real
thing. 1t is as hard. 1t possesses the
same specific gravity and is as genu-
inely beautiful in color. Even the
cleverest of experts will admit, if he
be pressed, that he distinguishes it
rather by the absence of flaws than
by the presence of defects. A recon
structed ruby is apt to be too perfect.
Of course, as soon as these stones
began to be sold, people in the jew
elry trade began to try to find out
where they came from. They discov-
cred that a Frenchman had learned
how to fuse small rubies,or fragments
of rubies, in an electric furnace and
mold the resultant product into one
perfect whole.
In time the purchasing public got
to know this also and the price of the
quasi-artificial gems dropped by de-
grees from $500 carat to about $50.
Nevertheless, at this reduced price
the manufacturer" and his wife and
son are rapidly accommodating a huge
fortune, and their pile" will continue
to grow doubtless until either the pub
lie tires of his stones or some one
gets hold of the family secret.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
vacation

hour in the park. l remember once
writing on one of his business cards,
'Then why do l love your" 1t was
only the title of a song, but how happy
it made him. He loved me, too.
''The sadness mingles with the sun
shine. l wore a diamond ring on my
engagement finger and received letters
that mystified dear Jack. He loved me
and could not bring himself to believe
that | was engaged to another He
never said a word about it, but his
eyes were eloquent How they reflect
ed his great, big, generous heart. One
day Willis came and l had to cancel
my engagements with Jack. Can |
ever forget how sad ne looked when he
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

climax of the onllaw show, however,
is pretty little speech in broken
English: Ladies and gentlemen,
will now perform a trick on the wire
wh.ch has never been attempted by
any other lady in the world" The
zen are standing on their pedestals,
the ends of the wire in their teeth as
usual, leaning over the supports in
front of them so as to allow the bicy-
ele's length of wire to lie on the
ground. She places the bicycles
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Highness ordered a boat to be
brought, and assisted in bringing it
wiIh her own hands, offering a reward
to the rescuers. The excitement was
increased when a man who had gone
to the help of the submerged skaters
himself disappeared After a few
minutes work three of the men were
rescued alive, but the fourth had al.
ready succumbod The Princess was
heartily cheGSe6 for her part in the
rescue.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
PrIncess as Llfe savsr.

An exciting scene recently took
place on the ice at Potsdam, in which
Princess Frederick Leopold, sister of
the Empress, took leading part, says
the Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Mail. Seeing three young men
go on a piece of ice which has been
roped off the Princess was about to
warn them of their danger when they
suddenly disappeared. Her Royal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
career of Gustave onllaw, leader of the
Grant OnlIaru Trio

career OF GustaVe OnllaW, leader of the
Great Onllaw Trio.
Gustave had reached the tender age
Of eight when he stealthily quilted
his fathers house in Vienna and at
tached himself to a travelling Italian
Circus. This step he bitterly regretted
for the next eight dreadful years,
while he travelled with the show
through Poland, Russia, the Caucasus
and Siberia. During all that period
ne never knew what a bed was. His
master gave him sack and told him
IL he wanted anything softer than the
grNnnd to sleep on to go and steal
straw. This he used to do regardless
OF the cuffs and kicks he received
when caught.
Five shows day they sometimes
gave, and young Onllaw would per-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
His Dollars rvnrth

Here's a dollar fer YER Manor -.
year" said the new subscriber
Yes" replied the editor.
AN want that new SEWN, mo.
chine you throw in as prem,rr, Iai'''
"Of course"
"An' a free chance at that bicvo,o
you're offerin'." 'o' '''e
Exactly"
AN eff you kin let the gold nrep,i.
UNI watch come my way. mabba 1,1
git you another subscriber" .
yes. Anything else you wapt9.
mornin'!" UoOu
And after he departed the edi+o.
signed fnank heaven, he didn't asl,
Atlanta Constitution.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

President Loubet at the fresh ce-
menting of the ties between France
and Russia said regarding the czar's
army: This imposing force menaces
no one" How about the taxpayer?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The wild story to the effect that the
Texan oil wells suddenly ceased to
flow at the very moment the Marti-
nique catastrophe began suggests that
it would have been a great blessing If
the spoutlng Texan promoters could
have had their supply of gas turned
off at the same time
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Until New Jerseys anti-mosuuito
campaign fund is raised to more than
the $1,000 limit there will be no dan
ger of wire screens and fly nettings
losing their places in the homes and
hearts of the people of the state.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The latest quotation for seat In
the New York Stock Exchange is
$4,000; yet some may purchase at
that price who wouldn't buy a seat In
a church at thousandth part Of the
sum.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The throne room at Madrid cost al
most as much as modern battleship,
but it would have been much better
for Spain to have used the money in
strengthening her navy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The astute college professors are
beginning to tell us just how the vol
canoes act and why they act. The
college professors are great hind
sighters.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Carnegie finds it easy to get money
and hard to spend it. Those whose ex-
perience comedies with his will have
to stand up If they expect to be count
ed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Most of the delegates to the bankers
convention at Kansas City were near.
sighted, but not enough so to cause
them to overlook anything.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

II the formation of the kodak trust
reduces the number of snapshot
iends 1t will be hailed as public
blessing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Scientists whose after thought is
better than their foresight are now
predicting another eruption of Mt Pc.
lee.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Fish will do singular things" says
a local contemporary. But nobody
ever heard OF fish's lying about the
size of the man that caught it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Commencement day is at hand, and
we shall soon have a large and varied
stock of ready-made solutions of press
ing problems to draw on.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Rudyard Kipling has returned To
England, the muddied OATS being toe
busy getting ready for the coronation
to think of him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

II Hayti had the business instinct
she would build fence around some
OF her revolutions and charge admis.
sion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

II the car cannot find ways and
means to feed the starving peasants of
Russia, he may expect trouble and lots
of 1t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

New Jersey is to carry on organized
war against the mosquito this season.
New Englanders in the infected dis
tricts will continue to slap and bear it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The prune crop was never better.
Thus is another discouraging feature
added to the case of the man who Is
up against the provision proposition.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Unfortunately the aeronaut who fails
cannot even have the satisfaction OF
driving a hard compromise with his
creditors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

In view of the fact that his rent hes
been increased, Russell Sage finds it
impossible to go on making lavish
gifts to charity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Many a man who thought yesterday
that all was lost has more hopeful
view Of life this morning. The world
will be normal by tomorrow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

King Alfonso need not think the cor.
onation the most trying ordeal of his
life. Some uay he win have to ask
an eligible princess to marry him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Now that baggage smashers have
formed union trunk manufacturers
can again look forward to a future Of
prosperous trade.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The man who succeeded in selling
mat pistol to Mrs. Hetty Green was no
SLOUGH of a financier, either.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

1t doesn't take an energetic volcano
long to put all the existing geogra-
phies and aliases out of date.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The scarcity of policemen in London
indicates that the Irish question has
reached an acute stage.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Japan proposes to expand her navy.
Hah for universal peace!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

IL would seem that the real airship
genius is the airship genius who hires
ascensionists.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

remember that the thing to do IL
not weather is to keep cool.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Alfonso will now be obliged to spend
the rest of his days looking for an.
archists.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

between the meat trust and the coal
strlke no man need die disgraced.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

When Spaniard sings, he is either
mad or has no money.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
By Edmund Gosse.

stage requirements. The poet is him.
self an actor-he played with applause
the dignified and pleasing role of the
Ghost in "Hamlet"-and he has all that
acquaintance with the necessities and
impoSsibilities of stage movement
which greater poets than he have ut
terly failed for the want Of. He has
also, it would seem, placed himself
more unreservedly than the writer's of
the old tradition were willing to do in
the hands of the actor manager. In
particular, to refuse to acknowledge
the part of Mr.. Beerbohm Tree in this
revival Of poetic drama would be to
commit an act of fragrant injustice.
Mr.. Tree believed in the possibility OF
bringing poetry out across the foot
lights when the chasm between verse
and the people seemed to be at it's wild
est. His productions of Shakespeare,
tinctured as they all have been with
something too flambuoyant and re-
dundant for an austere taste, curiously
indicative-as we look back upon them
of the brocaded and embroidered side
of his own genius as a manager,
brough him into close relations with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

sense; he works before our eyes the
psychological phenomena of mystery,
and eXcites our curiosity with regard
to those invisible principles" on which
the author of La Princesse Maleine'
delights to insist. In this species of
drama, with it's incessant suggestion
Of the unseen, the unknown, there is
something childlike. 1t takes us back
to the infancy of feeling, to the May
time of the world. 1t does not pretend
and would not desire to obtain gross
successes in the popular theaters of
large world centers.
The dramatic poetry of Mr.. Stephen
Phillips, on the other hand, does make
that pretension, and it is difficult not
to believe that the performances of
Herod in 1901 and of Ulysses and Paolo
and Francesca in 1902 will take an in
teresting place in the history of theat-
rical literature. For it is important to
notice that Mr.. Phillips does not sepa-
rate himself, as M. Maeterlinck and
Mr.. Yeats do, from the common obser-
vations of mankind. In his plays we
discover no effort to deaf>with any but
the superficial aspects of life and pas
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

plays Paola and Francesca is recruit
ed from the same source, and it is
charming to see with what gravity,
with what reverence for the text, they
pronounce Mr.. Phillips romantic blank
verse, as if their object were to give
as much of its beauty as possible, and
not as little, which was the earlier ira
ditional plan. Our actors and man
ayers, in fact, have at last accepted
poetic drama as a possible treasure to
boast of, not as a thing to be apologize
ed for and to be hidden as much as
possible out of sight.
Mr.. Stephen Phillips, then, would
seem to have succeeded in producing
one Of those revivals Of poetic drama
which occur in our history three or
four times in every century. Whether
he will do more than this, whether he
will inaugurate a new epoch Of dramatic
literature remains to be experienced.
We have seen that the difficulty is not
so much to get poem.acted, amid the
plaudits of a clique, as to persuade the
general public to like it and to continue
to support it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

fraction of a building, filed with 9TH
ers of their kind. Their rooms are so
contracted only small and uncomforta-
able pieces of furniture will fit in them
and the sun and the light, the heritage
of man, that the sheep herder on the
hills and the beggar tramping from
town to town have from their waking
to their sleeping hour, is denied him.
He sleeps and eats, and lives in dun
obscurity, with, perhaps, little sun
light slanting in round an angle for a
begrudged hour or two.
When it comes to the restfulness that
is supposed to be part of home, that
is as rare as light and air. He hears
the noise of his neighbours rising up
and of his lying down, the thuds of, his
neighbours boys boots as they throw
them across the room at night, the see
saw of the rocking chair in which his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
By Geraldine Bonner.

on a strain, spurred on by the demon
of emulation. The man is overworked
in his effort to make money for the
never ending needs of the household.
The woman is overWorked in her effort
to keep up with women who have more
than she. Their life is a ceaseless striv-
ing for things just out of their grasp.
Where the peace, where the pleasure,
where the profit comes in, it would be
hard to say. Possibly the man finds
some in the excitement Of business.
The woman certainly finds little
The best years Of her life are sweep
+ ing by in an ignoble struggle to grasp
possessions that are worthless. She
is expending the full force of her
strength, health and youth in an en-
deaYor to have, not what pleases her,
but what her neighbors have. Per-
sonally, she probably does not much
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

and Penates upon. Here he tries to
build a home, a domicile which is
enough room for each person to have a
small section Of the house for himself;
where the air is good, not the thick,
ozoneless vapor that has been breathed
and rebreathed again by countless
thousands; where drawing closer to
nature, the spirit and body, exhausted
by the struggle to exist, repair the
wasted tissue in an atmosphere of
tranquility and silence.
The turning toward this simpler life
is curiously slow, considering how i'm
possible, how torturingly unlivable ex-
istence in cities is becoming for the
average, middle-class family. A home,
in the sense of a house apart in it's
own piece of ground, is as impossible
for them as champagne and canvas
back duck. They must crowd into a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
The Revival Of Poetic Drama,

TT IS probably safe to say that since
the days of Shirley, that is, since
the experience of men who might
have known Shakespeare, the
present is the first occasion upon which
two dramatic poems, of real and high
literary merit, by the same author,
have enjoyed runs of success at the
same time upon the London stage.
Even although Mr.. Stephen Phillips
should prove to be one of those swal-
lows who do not make a summer and
although poetic drama should once
more sink into desuetude, the vogue of
his beautiful / avs will remain a cheer
ing landmark in the history of our
literature. 1t will encourage us to go
on hoping, even though such a triumph
should not occur again for another two
hundred and fifty years. But it is i'm
possible in the flush of his very inter-
estlng experiments to take a view rel
auvely so gloomy as this. We prefer
to believe, and we are justified in hop
Ing, that the perennial yearning for
beauty and harmony and mystery.
which is embodied in the heart even of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

think of, and ought to be reserved for
great needs.
The strain that falls upon women
who live this life of emulation in cit
les is almost terrible. They have not the
stimulus of business that the man has.
There is no excitement to keep their
nerves keyed for the effort. They
have to strive and scrimp and maneu-
yer for things that are absolutely I'M
necessary, and that, if they only would
use a little sense they would realize
were not worth a moments worry.
What a waste of fine years, of energy,
of youth, of health! One might give all
these without regrets, almost willingly,
for a great cause. But not for relative
value between a sideboard from Cedar
Rapids and kitchen table with var
nished legs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

neighbours eldest girl is rocking in the
parlor as she entertains her young
man, the yapping of the baby that his
neighbor's wife is trying to lull to
sleep in the back bedroom. He can
not choose but follow the musical edu-
cation of the little girl across the hall,
or the vocal progress made by the
young lady on the floor below The
tapping Of the typewriter comes up the
we'll on warm nights, and the melan-
choly protests of pet animals, immured
in these dreary prisons, and differing
from their owners, in that they still
have enough spirit to life their voices
in lamentatfon, swell the chorus.
If the domestic atmosphere were per-
fectly tranquil, even this unaired, over
crowded circumseribed and noisy tene-
ment might offer some Of the charms
of home. But the whole family lives
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
By Prof. John 5rowbndge.

each other in the darkness, and the
mistake would cost millions Of dollars.
With fine spider or caterpillar
thread in the telescope, a line can be
extended seven or eight miles to meet
another line, with an error Of only
few inches to the right or left.
The astronomer determines by means
of such lines the time Of the passage
of a star across a certain region of the
sky denoted by a meridian. The star
does not move; the movement of the
earth carries the spider-line across the
star. 1t is by means of the times of
crossing that we can determine the
rate of movement of the earth and give
important aid to the sailors.
The electrician, too, is greatly In