The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-09
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

| WClO OOuSuU III bIllS valley Ids u
week from our stockmen by the
Wood Live Stock company. The
price paid was good.
The young ladies of Challis
met last Thursday evening at
the home of Miss Pearl Nc
Gowan, and organized a society
of some kind-known as the TIE
Deum Society. Nearly all of the
young ladies of this city have
become members of the Society.
They adopted constitution and
bylaws. Although we have
been unable to see a copy of
their preamble, constitution and
bylaws, consequently do not
know what the objects of the
organization are, for it was
organized behind closed doors,
and even reporters were exclud-
ed, but one of the members of
the society informed us that the
gentlemen could not become
members of this Society at any
price; nor was the society com
posed of old maids, for the young
and fair were it's members. The
only way the young men can
even attend one of their meet
ings is by an invitation from one
of the members of the society,
and they after being admitted to
the society of the fair sex, must
go way back in some corner and
sit down and keep silent. The
new officers of the Society are as
follows
President-Miss Pearl Nc
Gowan.
Vice. President-Mrs. John H.
Thomas.
Secretary-Miss Mabel Jose.
Treasurer-Miss Della Nor
rison.
at-Arms-Miss Media
@. Trusler.
New officers are elected each
month. The meetings of the
Society are to be held on We'd
nesday night of each week. The
next regular meeting will be held
at the home of Miss Myrtle and
Della Morrison.
What has become of the Mac
kay Telegraph ? We have no;
seen copy of it for month.
1t now seems almost certain
that George l.. Shoup will be
Idaho's next U. S. Senator, and
those best informed claim that
he will be elected on the first
ballot.
This end of Custer county re-
ceived no mail last Thursday, on
account of snow blockade some
place on the railroad, but instead
received mail on Friday.
There is no disgrace in belong
ing to a minority, politically OF
otherwise, than there is in being
youthful and inexperienced
both can be rectifed. An idea is
like a seed-it starts small, drags
together by sheer force the ele.
ments that it needs for growth,
and its life prevails over the dead
and Indifferent matter into which
it fell. Every idea that this
world has had, worth having,
has started unnoticed, and the
devotees of every good idea
whether in the past it has swung
a majority, or whether in the
future it is to swing a majority
: must expect, in forcing along
their idea, to be, in the times Of
its truest growth, very much il
a minority. A right idea is not
even bound to grow rapidly, any
more than tough enduring oaE
can hope to rival the easily-de
, caying bamboo shooting upward
. at the rate of a foot day under
! tropic influence, The enduring
things of this world grow slow
ly. The human creature, intend
ed to mould and shape this worlC
} to his mind or to his will, takes
nearly thirty years to reach hi'
maturity, while several genera
; tions of some of the lower ami
! mails will have thrived and pass
! ed away in that time.
The very best thing in th'
world for a young man, someon,
has said, is for him to associate
himself with a minority cause
1t makes him self-forgetting
throwing in literally and withou
hope of reward the best of him
self for the sake of the cause b.
loves. A minority cause make
a man work, and hope. and strug
gle. 1t makes him go agains
the stream instead of fioatin,
easily with it. To use homel,
illustration-it is a live fish tha