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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
up-To-DATE eRINps TONES,
Made with Ban hearings Now and with
Other Modern improvements.

Made with Ball Hearings Now and with
other Modern improvements.
of" said a dealer in such things,
anybody had told our grandfathers
hat the time would come when we
should have b~all-bearing ~grindstones
l suppose they would have thought he
was crazy; but we have them now and
they are not very costly, either. If the
g.indstone is one that is worked with
a treadle there are ball bearings on
the crank. where the treadle rod is
connected, as well as on the shaft on
which the grindstone turns. Really, Ii
is a pleasure to see hat homely old
tool, the grindstone, mounted on ball
bearings, and it is a positive delight to
see how easily such a grindstone turns.
But the ball bearings are not the only
modern improvement in grindstone
equipment. There are nowadays grind
stone frames and attachments that are
patented. The old, old way of turning
a grindstone was with a crank, or r
single treadle; but nowadays we have
single treadles, one for each foot, and
bhN AioHit thdt oupppl - lhG iIluololC
has upon one end Of it a seat like you
see on a moving machine or anything
Of that sort, this being by no means
a device for a lazy man, but a conven-
lent means Of enabling the man using
the grindstone to get at it to the best
advantage. If you, knowing the grind.
stone of ancient times, will picture to
yourself a man sitting in a comfort
able seat so placed ON the end of the
frame that he can get square at the
face of the stone, which he turns by
means Of two treadles, one under each
foot, the stone itself turning on bali
bearings throughout, a grindstone yet
distinctly modernized, you will get
some idea of the difference between the
old grindstone and the new.-Detroit
Free Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

knowing it. The only way to be sure
you have all the money is to pick the
gratings or the floor. l do that every
night as regularly as I eat my supper.
Now, I've figured it out that if I find
Sc in one year, it's very likely that
other conductors average somewhere
near that sum-, may be more, maybe
less. There are several thousand con
ductors in Greater New York, so that
it is safe to say that at least Sic, 900
or $50, 900 is annually dribbled on to
the floors of street cars by the passen-
gers. In this estimate l don't include
large sums, which are sometimes lost
in wallets and purses. A conductor is
expected to turn these in at the office
and about all of them do. But the
nickels and dimes and quarters are
legitimate pickings and we all have
u eyes peeled for them"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
The Light Cure.

Arc lights are now in use for the
cure of skin diseases, especially of lu-
pus. They have cured, it is said, S11
cases in 1852 in Denmark, and in Lon
don the applicants for treatment
number 100 a day. The rays destroy
certain bacilli, it is said, and stimulate
circulation as well as increase the nu-
tritive activity. 1t is even alleged that
cancer has been successfully treated.
The patient bathes in a flood of 4,0O0,-
candle-power light, lying on a cot in a
cabinet, his eyes protected by colored
glasses, and after this treatment he
arises, free from rheumatism, asthma,
consumption, ache, and many other
things. Such at least is the report.
Let us wait in some patience till we
hear the results of official trials and
Investigations, and hope that all which
has been said of the light cure in Dem
mark, France and England will come
true in general practice.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

A writer in the Saturday Evening
Evening Post relates his experience at
a dinner recently in company with Ar
lists Walden and Whistler, when Eng
land was the topic of conversation.
England" said Mr.. Whistler, rules
the world simply because the English
man takes what he wants"
We were rapidly losing ourselves in
a fog of politics and natural psychol-
ogy, when Mr.. Walden lifted part of
his red mustache and said: That's
right, all right"
1t was the first time he had spoken
that evening, so we stopped our argu-
ments and listened. Calmly and slow
ly he said:
81 was down at Cernay last sum
mer- with Faulkner-painting. You
know the little tavern there and the
old woman who keeps it. There was
an Englishman there who sat next to
me at table. Well, the landlady gave
us Strawberries one night for dinner.
For a dollar a day hat was pretty
good. The servant Girl passed the
strawberries round. When it came to
the En~glishman's turn to help himself
he emptied the whole dish of straw
berries into his plate. So 1 said to him:
"'Say, my friend, 1 like strawberries,
too
"'Not so much as l do replied my
Englishman calmly, and went on eat
ing"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
HE WAS suPERsT1r1oua

A superstitious baggagemaster on the
Pennsy will give SLIP for the privilege
of kicking the fireman of his crew all
over a 10-acre lot. 1t seems hat the
baggageman has reveled in tokens,
"omens'' and presentiments' for SO
many years that he "sees things
when he is dead cold sober and hears
things" no other person ever heard
says the Philadelphia Record. His
wife went to Wilmington the other day
and he had a token" that some dire
accident had befallen her.
He heard her cry for help; he heard
her prayers and even heard her very
last gaSp. He was right there at her
finish. He spent SLIP in telegraph
tolls only to find out that she was well
and happy and that she was a bit hazy
as to his sanity. A day later he
learned that the walls he had heard
were clever limitations of his wife's
voice thrown from the engine Of his
train by the stoke-, who is a ventrilo-
quist.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
JOHNNY ON

The bullfrog is large, green, and
warty. He can jump several times his
own length. His voice is loud, but not
pleasing. The bull-frog is shy and
difident. He builds his nest in damp.
swampy places where it is difficult to
track him. At the slightest alarm he
utters a low, p~laintive note and i'm
mediately seeks refuge in the water.
He is a good diver, and can swim like
a fish, except that he does not wiggle,
but kicks. There was a frog once that
bowed himself full of air until he
busted like a paper sack. This shows
the folly of vanity and self-conceit. o,
my friends, let us endeavor not to act
in that manner, but to be good and
truthful. Let us remember that life is
short, and that we must always be I'D
and doing. Some people like bullfrogs
to eat, but I would rather have pie.
JOHNNY.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
A COKE.

A strange state of mind evidently
prevailed in Pekin during the Boxer
outrage outside the walls. outrages
which were m~omentarily expected to
be repeated within the city limits.
Everybody was preparing for a catas-
trophe, and nobody could be sure why.
1t all seemed like a huge practical
joke which could not be taken serious
ly, and yet it was serious, and every
pody knew it was. There was appar-
emit peace, with a certainty of coming
trouble. The foreigners were gath
cred in places of safety, and the com
pounds they had left remained unmo-
Tested.
n incident curiously shows the
combined lightness and frenzy of the
public mind. On a certain evening a
boy about 16 walked down a street,
marking a door here and there with
a circle of white chalk, before which
he bowed solemnly.
Presently all the people came to their
doors in a great state of excitement
and began to discuss the proceeding
n to debate as to what it might
mean. The marked houses might be-
long to the friends or foes of the Box
ers, the saved or lost.
Suddenly a man went up to the boy,
seized him by the pigtail and asked
him what he meant. The bystanders
were amazed at a courage which dared
Interfere with an emissary of the
Boxers, and the boy himself tried to
swagger a little and brazen it out.
What were you doing that for?" in
CURED the man. Tell, or 1 take you
to the police station"
Then the boy fell on his knees and
owned that he was only doing it for a
Joke to brighten the people. His sue
cess exceeded his nopes.-Youth's Com
nanion
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
HIs RLuFF DID nor woRK.


Stories of yankee shrewdness nave
always been widely circulated, but
when one gets ahead of a yankee there
is very little said about it, especially
on the part of the man from the North.
Several days ago a hotelkeeper at a
small station on one of the roads run
ming out of Memphis put the laugh on
a drummer from the North in a very
good way, and the travelling man was
compelled to beat a kasty retreat. The
drummer arrived at the hotel about
s o'clock in the evening, and fearing
that he would not be able to get any
supper he asked the landlord what he
could get to eat.
my friend" said the hotelkeeper,
II can give you anything from a
picked elephant to a broiled canary
birds tongue for supper tonight"
The drummer looked at the man,
and, thinking that he was testing, de-
cided to call his bluff.
"AIl right, my friend" said the
drummer; "Ill take some picked ele-
plant"
VERY WELL" said the host, "In go
and get it."
He was gone about five minutes
and when he returned said:
"All right, sir; supper will be ready
in a moment. You'll have to take a
whole one, as we don't carve them
after dark"
The drummer decided that he was
not very hungry and took some cheese
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Scimitar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
o N LOST IN CARS.
A New York Conductor Picks Up se.O7
In "A Year.

n new AOrk OOuuuctOE Up VOW
in "a Year.
"Have you n idea how much
money is lost in the street cars of this
town." asked a Metropolitan Street
Railway conductor of a reporter the
other day, after he had picked up a
dime and slowed it in an inside pocket.
well, there's a lot of it, and no n
knows it better than we conductors.
Hunting for coins on the bottom of my
car is one of my regular gratis, and
any other conductor who has been in
the business long enough to get his
eyes open is on the same lay" says
the New York Sun.
Last year I made up my mind to
put away every cent l found in my
car in an old iron bank I had at home,
for the benefit of my youngster. /
kept slowing the coins away, and at
the end of the year 1 had $6.O7. OF
course that's not a barrel of money,
but it's a right nice pickup for a con-
ductor. The biggest find 1 made that
year was a fifty cent piece. From that
the coin ran all the way down to q
cent. In the winter time the pickings
are especially good, for then every one
has on gloves, and coins slip from the
fingers to the floor without the owners
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
THEIR SECOND MEETING.

When Miss Swagger met Mr.. Saph-
eddie at the seaside she thought he was
a millionaire and he permitted her to
think so, although he was a humble
clerk in a hotel at Skwedunk. On her
return home, some weeks after his de-
parture, it so happened that she stop
ped over night at the Skwedunk hotel.
Her meeting with Mr.. Saphedde was
embarrassing to him until she said.
20, you didn't tell me you were a hotel
proprietor"
NO" he said, airily, 1T own several
hotels over the country, but I didn't
think they were hardly worth men
tioning. Ohio State Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS TALE.

An individual of somewhat shabby
exterior, but whose every movement
betrayed the fact that he had once
been able to pay for a 50-cent dinner,
was walking along the highway at
night with his shoes in his hand and
the moonlight whispering through his
hair when an object suddenly sDrang
out of the bushes and cried at him:
"Avaunt-that is stop in your
tracks! Your money or your life!"
The object was a young and tender
man and there was grace in the way
he swung a cudgel around his head.
Gust repeat that first word again,
will your" asked the traveller, as he
leaned up against a h%uckleberry bush.
"Avaunt! Blood! S'death!"
81 thought it had the old familiar
sound. Romeo, how art thou?"
Busted all to smash. And how
fares it with thee?"
"Stone broke. 1 was the leading man
in the Great Hot Wave Comedy Com
pany."
"And l was the heavy in Sea of Ice
Dramatic Strollers. It's our third bust
this summer
Same here. Dost fare to New York
to try AGAIN."
"'Tis so. Nothing can discourage
true talent"
"Then let us fare together and if.
perchance, we come across the Juvenile
of our company, who had two plunks
when l saw him last, we will cry halt
and despoil him to our betterment."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
HUMIDITY.
How Scientists Manage to Take Dimen-
sions of the Doughty General.

How Scientists Manage to Fake Dimen-
sions of the Doughty General.
To most minds scientific instruments
are so fearfully and wonderfully CON
structed that no attempt is ever made
to pry into the manner of their per-
forming their functions, the results
obtained being accepted as a matter of
course. Yet many such instruments,
while apparently most complicated,
are really based on very simple prin-
ciples. OF these the thermometer and
the barometer are, of course, now gem
orally understood, although this was
not always true. Another meteoro-
logical instrument, however, which is
much used, but which is more or less
mysterious to the public, is that by
which the amount of moisture in the
air Is determined. While delicately
constructed and balanced by means of
fine springs, the chief reliance is plac-
ed in a few horse hairs, which are ex-
ceedingly responsive to the influence
of dampness. When the air becomes
moist they relax, and a pivoted bar,
one end of which forms an indicator,
is drawn along a scale, which shows
just to what extent the air is saturated
with water. When the air is dry the
horse hairs become tense and the in
dieator is returned to it's appropriate
place on the scale. 1t is in this way
that track is kept of General Humid
ity, whose damp forces so effectually
conspire to keep humanity in misery
during warm weather.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
LEARNING THE BUSINESS.

Strong-"I was sorry to hear that
you had lost your job. What are you
doing now?"
Weeks-"Taking lessons in wood
carving"
Strong-"Have you a position in
view after learning the art?"
Weeks-'Yes. My wife is going To
open a boarding house."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
Cotton Trade Over the border.

Last year Mexico, Central America
and South America bought cotton
goods from the United States valued at
$3.605, 600. In the same year Great
Britain sold to these countries similar
goods to the value of $3S, 0OO, 1000.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
SLOW.

"You are not looking WELL" said the
hardware clerk to his friend. the
plumber.
mo. I've been very SICK replied
the pipe-hitter, "but I'm nending
slowly"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
christian G-overnosses in rurl,ev.

Foreigners residing in Constantine
pie are much excited over the Sultan's
recent edict forbiddlng Turkish fami-
lies hereafter to engage Christian gov
ernesses. The Turkish journals at
tempt a weak apology by attacking the
moral character of the governesses.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

Lucky is the man who makes more
money than his wife can spend.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
THE TIME TO LAUGH.
SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND
SELECTED.

His Blum Did Not work-A Chinese
Joke-MIan Who Took All the Berries
The Point of View-A Midsummer
Nights Tale.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
PICTURE WRITING.
PUZZLES LEFT BY THE oBLIGING
RED MEN.

on Grave Head Memorials the Figures
Are Placed Upside Down to Denote
Death and Return to Earth-work of
Primitive Artists.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

The Buddhist priests Of both China
and Japan have a musical instrument
called mokougy, or wooden fish, a kind
Of drum. 1t is used by the priests when
reciting their prayers, n tap being
given to every syllable.
Vanity Fair Closed.
London is now given over to the
three C's-cats, curates and c%aretakers.
Vanity Fair.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-08
), y,-r,,T ,,rvTINc OF THE sToCKHoLD-

~ :. =. =. f.sts Improvement Company for the
Elect,o, ,s 5d inspectors OF election for the en-
s.ir :. - 80 80 ofher may properly come
be,,e. a.e nil be held i2o Liberty 81. Bor-
olsh % Msrbsttsa on tuesday, October - is2 at IL
~ A. CALVIN ToMKINS. President.
WILLIAM p. RAE. Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-08
fiuaurial.

New YoRK LuE BUILDING, NEW YORK
New-York tribune., 1902-10-08

The charges include interest Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham income bonds hitherto
charged annually.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-08
REAL ESTATE NOTES.

The board Of directors of the United States Real
ty and Construction Company met yesterday and
formally organized The officers will be follows:
Bradish Johnson. president: Albert Flake Robert
f. Bowling and S. P. Mcconnell. vice-presidents;
r. G. Babbage. secretary and COUNSEL Byram f.
Fellows treasurer Morris B. Mead assistant treas
urer; II. &. Black, chairman OF the board James
Stillman Charles NJ; Sehwab. Albert Flake. K3oert
=. Downing, Fl. G. Black, Hugh j. Grant and Henry
Morgenthau, executive committee.
captain James K. Price took title yesterday from
Mary L Barlow, TO the northeast corner or Mon
roe-ave. and Belmont-st This is plot lO0xlO feet.
on which there is two and one-han story frame
house
Among the transfers yesterday was one from
George 5 Prince. treasurer of the New-York cen
tral Railroad who died yesterday, TO the Newly ork
and Harlem Railroad. The transfer was that
OF three vacant lots fronting in Fifth-ave.. and
East Eighty -hfth-st. They were on the northeast
corner The dimensions Of the entire plot were:
North 25x lOOx north 772x east 50x south 1907
10 the street. The lots in the of the car
barns which the New-York and Harlem Railroad
company recently transferred 70 the metropolitan
Street Railway Company. Mr.. Prince evidently
held them for the railroad company.
Charles L. Duross has leased the following prt-
Eate houses: No. 31 West Eghteenth-st. Tor
Charles ?. Ebbets; No. 267 West Twenty -third-st.
for j. Guertins for three years No s62 lexing ton
ave. for Mrs, Morrison to Miss Cottren No. 24S
West Flfteenth-st-, for Thomas Smith, and NO OF
West Stxteenth-st.. for George Perrott.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-08
AUCTION SALES YESTERDAY.
Auction sales were held yesterday at No. Il
Broadway as follows:

Auction sales held yesterday at No. Ill
Broadway follows:
BY Vincent Ryan: $50 " il4th-st las II OF
Broadway. IS 9xOO story dwg h; foreclosure sale
Mary Lewis Carrie ) kelneOy ct al A q Brown.
atty Hedges ref, action /. due on Judgt S-o,Sli
SA53 55 S53l 81 the Pantin for ST.
100. SO W ll4th-s 1853 II Of Broadway. Is Ok
lu"1l dwg h; foreclosure sale parties ac
$685. 81. the plaintiff S27 75O. 54s 11ih-st.
ls:5 Il % Broadway Is Sxl0Ol story dwg h. fore
closure sale parties action g. due jldg costs,
taxes same p.aRtin for SZ7. T5O 546 l14th
81 2uL3 IL OF Broadway 1xl0O II; story dwg h:
foreclosure sale sloane Carrie Kennedy ct al
G Brown. Silber. ref due judgt, S23 SIS;
costs $3.50 5S taxes etc. sssi so 10 the plaintiff FOR
By Bryan I. Kennedy: 9ls East 1I5th-st = 1874 Z,
Il 3t-aye. 1Sxl051l. S-story dwg h: foreclosure
sale. "A Turner agt SJphia Weiss et al l. Rolls
atty II NsssenaI, ref. due tuIst. Sl0 1871.
costs x4lL51 taxes etc SlOI2: TO the plaintiff for SO
By Philip 4 snyth: 30 West 1aIst-st. s. s9I-s II
q Ith-ave. l6 szl0O II; story ds n foreclosure
sale. Catherine Andrews u Ftnelie et al. II
Judge. atty. McEviiy ref; due ildgt Sl4s5O s.
Sit0oO
IS Peter Meyer q Co: 4iO West 140th-st. s. l541O
u n 81 Nichoas-ave. 1880 Il. 3-stOry dwg h:
foreclosure sale. HeIdelshsimer 7 Charlton al.
~ Mayer. atty Z Piunktt ref due judgt, St3,
for $4,000
By Goldsteker. soS East e1st ST. n = 70 # OF
2t-aye @tzlO0s59; story q h: foreclosure sale. l.
BlIghardt - + schnuSg et al. Hummel atty: J
taxes er- $3.50 prior mort. $1,000. adjourned to Oc-
New-York tribune., 1902-10-08
TRADE IN CHICAGO.
IRy rELEakAra TO rHE rRIRuNE.l ]


Chicago Oct. The statistical wheat news WAS
exceedingly bearish. and the near futures declined
moderately. The May closed where II did Monday
The market left on unchanged 10 &C under the
DAY previous. December opened az 6s&c, sold be
tween 6s5se and 6sl4c and closed al eslsc sellers
Oetober closed at 6sc. and the May al 7o5sc sell
ers. Duluth reported 250eO0 bushels sold for ship
msnt; New-YoIk jusC at the close put its export
ss1s az 30 loads. Minneapolis reported the cash
demand good with wheat going 20 store. There
was an increase in the worlds visible Of se60ooo
bushels compared with l750O00 bushels increase
last year The Northwestern cars were Lee
egainst so a year ago: primary receipts. l77l.c0
against l.l77 oOO bushels There was an increase in
the contract stock OF 6ss.0oO bushels. The total
PUBLIC and private stock, s32 600 bushels Increased
eh0o bushels The Northwestern country elevator
STOCKS were reported 77llc0o bushels against $751;
w bushels year ago and 4.5oo.ooO bushels two
years ago. Every statistical announcement seemed
D@erlsh English cables. however were up a frae-
uon' Paris weak Clearances were $4,000
bushels At times New-York and Northwestern
markets were relatively stronger than this. The
speculative trade was quiet, and sentiment here Is
'e'her hrm on the May. Low grade wheat Is sick
ths better grades strong. There is still lurking
ear OF December manipulation.
me bad weather in the corn belt has been sue
ceeoeo by perfect conditions. Corn to-day closed
unchanged 10 Ise lower. the May steady, the octo-
oer weak. December opened at 4SAsc. sold between
aho ssse and closed at sSlzc; october closed al
W nay sac For several days there has been a
f6 fgssae aeet of December on the market against May
srsnS src Some December long evidently Is changing
bushes ssrsnoer nm 70 May. shipping sales were $1,000
-Ae inspection was 80 cars "wednesday .
els 49, ~ cars. The contract stock, $4,000 BUSH
p5,assSe tesseo 200 bushels The total public ana
hushels SUCK 2l15.0eo bushels, decreased @SoVVV
tors s1Sl Sanies were up fraction. The big opera
others Seen 10 be long on December-Patten ana
enceS ~ ~ npathized with the and were innu-
higher = ne ne improved weather. They closed -oc
cenhe- ss, &C lower. October closed at Sltsc, De-
with for~-- -. May S3sc. Receipts we're l6l cars.
ig csrs as standard Wednesdays estimate Is
Easfe-n ,elppers reported some increase IN the
The Sfo.e ssstests. without, however, any buying;
lg Oa 49, ~ standard, 2S7. 900 bushels increased
ssT a. tsass The total pubic and private stock,
Tbs .ueahels, increased PSI 900 bushels.
10 a, A4on list closed slightly lower pork lisc
lower ~ lero PIC 10 lec on and ribs sizc 10 l0c
gran rns-ls ls VAS sympathy with the easier coarse
There Sae.Aets Hogs here were lOc 10 l5c lower.
s. "a ss increased receipts 5000 West, against
hss hes,' sear. The speculative feature this week
count "otto"ahs op OF the May porn us