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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
The Mesmerlzed Hat

Provide yourself with an old hat
and an ordinary black pin bent in the
shape of the letter c. Put the hat on
table, crown upward, and secrete
the pin in your right hand. You will
borrow the hat from somebody in the
audience. On receiving it, take 1t in
your left hand, and while walking To
the table place the right hand inside
and quickly push the point of the min
UP through the crown and stand the
hat on the table. You make a few
passes over the hat as if you were
mesmerizing it. Lay your left hand
fiat on the hat. Slip your second fin.
ger in the hook and slowly lift the hat
from the table. After this bring the
hat to the table, remove the hand. and
in returning the hat you can easily
withdraw the pin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
The Old swimmino Hole.

The Old Swimming Hole.
We have bathed in the warm, clear wa
tiers where the Indian healed ms
pain;
We have plunged in glee to the wsye-
tossed sea and have dived In the
salty main;
But memory ever takes us back, with
longing in our soul.
To jump once more as In the days OF
yore In our boyhood's swimming
holei
Twas just below the high trestle, and
as the trains PASSED near
We waved wild hands from the warm
shore sands and gave them lusty
cheer.
Happy young rascals were we then, play
ing a thoughtless role;
For never a care could reach us there
at the dear old swimming hole
The big boys dived from the trestle.
some ten feet high or more,
While the young ones dropped, feet
first, or hoped from the old spring
board on shore;
And o, the thrill of that moment when
our first high dive was made
From the trestle's hight, in the envious
sight of the others who were
afraid
How well we had noted the danger-the
spot where the barbed wire lay
The glass-strewn place, and the jagged
face of the rock where the big
crabs stay!
Over there is the sunken log; and here's
where the blood-sucker lies;
On the other bank, where the weeds
grow rank, were the snakes and
singing flies.
But o, we would love these dangers
could we only meet them today!
If we could cheer when the trains passed
near and shout in the boyhood way!
In spite of the great green ocean there's
a longing in our soul
To dive once more as in the days of
yore in the dear old swimming-hole!
Colorado Springs Gazette.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
The Chase of rracv.


The posse came down like the wolf on
the fold,
with rifles and pistols and shotguns I'M
told
And the roll Of their musketry ratified
around
Like the roll of the SURF on the shores
of the Sound.
Like police on the street when the town
is serene,
That death-dealing posse at sunset was
seen;
Like police on the street at general
fight.
That posse at dawn had departed from
sight
For the convict came forth from the
brush with his gun,
And the posse decided it safer to run.
And there rode a Sheriff direct to the
rear
With bullet uncomfortably close to his
ear.
And there went Deputy back into
town.
with a sturdy dlstaste for reward or re.
nown
And the sound OF his painting was heard
through the glade,
Like an engine ascending a five per cent
grade,
And the convict departed. unmarked and
alone.
His movements unquestloned, his doings
unknown.
The bloodhounds are plaintively loud in
their wall,
For they never get half of chance at
the trail
And the convict continues at pleasure
to roam,
While the posse sings softly: There's
no place like home"
Portland oregonian.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
Prisoner Asks for Death Sentence.

Convicted by jury in the Norfolk
county court, Va. of numbering his
wife, William Treadwell will not sane.
ton the application of his counsel for
a new trial. He declares that he pur.
chased the pistol with which he kill.
ed his wife with the intention of kill.
ing himself as well. He desires that
no new trial be requested and that
sentence upon him be executed as
soon as possible. The man appears
to have no desire to live. The case is
one of the strangest ever tried in a
Virginia court. After shooting his
wife the man turned the pistol upon
himself and was weeks recovering
from the wound.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
Hypnotlzed FIsh.

M. ]. King. retired farmer of Char
don. Ohio, is firm in the belief that
fish reason, and can also be hyno-
tiled. Five years ago Mr.. King built
a pond near his home and stocked il
with mountain trout from govern
ment hatchery. The fish thrived and
developed remarkable growth. There
are over 1000 trout in the pond now.
some of them weighing two and half
pounds.
Mr.. King exercises a wonderful in
fiuence over some of the fish. He can
reach down and take some out of the
water. pat others on the back, while
hundreds of them will eat out of his
hand.
One large trout he claims to be able
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
Doll From Martinique.

An interesting relic of the Inflated
town of Saint Pierre-to-wit, an old
fashioned Martinique doll-has been
installed at the Musee Pedagogique,
where there are dolls representing
many French reigns and nearly all the
French colonies. The doll from Mar
tiniuue left the island few days be-
fore the great eruption. This play
thing is a survival of the time when
black slaves wore certain stuffs in
troduced into Martinique by the Nor
mans, who originally coloniZed 1t. AS
did the planters wives of former times
and as do the negresses of the pres
ent day, she wears a red and yellow
handkerchief tied round her head,
with the ends rising up above her
forehead, and a gown of coarse eta
mine or canvas cloth, so called be-
cause it preceded the hair sieve as a
strainer, and a cambria apron of stuff
that in the early days of the last cen
fury the children of the Saint Pierre
Orphanage used to weave. The gown
and apron are much longer than the
rudimentary legs. The head is large.
and the body stuffed with bran. The
doll was found with other toys in a
press after the decease Of very old
lady, who received it, when nearly
grown up, as a relic of her grand
mothers childhood. The fashion in
which it is dressed prevailed from the
time the island was first colonized by
Normans, in the plantations, almost to
the present day.-London News Paris
telegram.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
Lads Capture Bio Eaala.


Douglass Dunn and his brother,
small boys of Merchantsville, N. j.,
went to the Delaware for a stroll yes.
terday, and while walking along the
bank saw a huge bird struggling in
the current. Douglass stripped and
swan for the bird. When he reached
1t he was amazed to find it bigger
than he had supposed and full of fight.
He bravely attacked it, however, and
managed to tug it ashore AS soon as
they were out of the water the bird
renewed the battle with fresh vigor
and gave the lad fierce fight, but as
the bird had one wing broken the boy
succeeded in mastering 1t before his
brother came up. They tied its legs
and head and luggod their prize home,
where they learned that it was a gray
eagle. 1t measured nearly five feet
from tip to tip. 1t had been shot and
crippled by gunner.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23

! An English scientist noticing the
mysterious way in which sounds some.
times are lost in space recently under.
took an interesting experiment in a
balloon. He found that while still
within talking distance of earth all
sound of the human voice was
quenched in the mere indistinguisha-
BILE hum of the human hive. Equally
lost was the striking of clocks and
ringing of bells, but dogs bark rang
out clearly. So. also, the below of a
cow far out in some field, would pene-
trate above the babel of a busy town.
while the screeching of railway whis-
ties pierced the sky up to three miles
and, gathered in from vast areas, oft
en- reached an intensity positively
painful. The strangest of all acoustic
phenomena is the unaccountable ST.
ience which sometimes ensues when
sound is to be expected. In many
cases 1t has been proved that, speak
ing literally. the lost sounds issuing
from a point on a seacoast we're not
extinguished. for they were heard
distinctly farther out at sea. Heavy
salutes unheard by people within
twenty or thirty miles have been
plainly audible at much greater dis
lance, and this apparently not in a di-
rection favored by the wind. The
scientist who conducted the balloon
experiment offers the theory that con.
ditions of the aerial currents rather
than the direction of the wind are re-
sponsible for these phenomena.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
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to hypnotic. When he takes IL from
the water, after series of strokes on
its sides with the hand, the fish ap.
pears to be dead, not a movement OF
its gills being visible.
Another trout will, before being fed,
at a wave of the hand make a circuit
of the pool, jumping clear out of the
water at intervals of five or six feet,
and sometimes turning a somersault
in its career.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
stranae MeetIna Of Relatives.

Charles Gardner. who was kidnapped
10 years ago at the age of IL from his
home near Quincy, Ill.,, by two tramps,
met his father at Wichita, Kan, a few
days ago by accident. Recently Gard.
ner's parents moved to Andover, Kan.
Father and son met at the postofice,
and recognized each other. Young
Gardner says that the tramps took
him to Fort Worth, Tex, where he
was compelled to beg, and he finally
ESCAPED.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
Rooster Mothers chlcks.

A Hallcwell, Me-, rooster is mother
ing a flock of little chickens. Incl
dental to this story comes the news
OF tragedy of previous occurrence,
when the mother hen met death be.
meath the wheels of an electric car.
The head of the flock cares for the
little chickens with apparently a full
realization of the duties incumbent
upon him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
CLAIM THAT BRIDE
WAS HYPNOTIZED.

T~1HE possibility OF the use OF
hypnotism in conducting a
kSf courtship; this mysterious
Isssssl power welded by a shrewd
man to win beautiful bride;
the subsequent guidance of the wife
by a continued practice of this magic
influence, form the basis of a most
romantic story that ia claimed to have
just been enacted in real life.
Such is the theory held by the
friends of Miss Maud Shonfeldt Of
Omaha, who recently married Philip
Doremus Watkins. formerly of Boston.
OF, its possibility the reader must him
self judge. The story as 1t comes
from the West. is as follows:
A Pullman coach attached to train
bound westward from Omaha fur
rished the first scene of this strange
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23

In the rattle of money one hears the
rustic of silk, the clatter of silver
service containing rich viands and
many other delightful melodies.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
Miniature Rorer

Who can bore hole through a pin
by blowing at it? 1t is impossible,
everybody will declare; to do it you
need a sharp instrument or a boring
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23

grown-up people as well as with vor,r
folks. All you have to do is to paint
two eyes. and underneath them noe
on the knuckles of your index ana
third hnger' as shown in the lower
part OF the illustration. The tbumh
pressed against the index finger and
moved up and down will represent )
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23

m o n y h e
seated him
self beside
the young
woman and
with melli-
huous voice
strove to al
| ay h e r
fears. He
t h e n led
her to dis
c 10 e her
identity. her
d estimation,
her fortune,
gradually on
W lON6 lOp-
les. So skill
ed was he,
and so COM
plete is
m a s t e ry,
that within
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
The Singing Doll.

The experiment shown in the illus.
tration is bound to find favor with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
To Reduce War Revenue Taxes.

Washington, Jan. 29.-The Republican
members of the ways and means COM
mittee held a private conference, to-
night and decided to frame bill for
the reduction of war revenue taxes be-
fore proceeding further with the sub
ject of Cuban reciprocity. Chairman
Payne at once called a meeting of the
full committee for IL o'clock tomorrow
morning, when work on the war reve-
nue. reduction bill will be begun.
No draft of bill has been prepared
by the Republican members, but it is
pretty fully understood that the ma jOr
itys is prepared to favor a measure
effecting very large reductions, amount
ing practically to a repeal of all the war
taxes. and aggregating about $6S,000,
600. The restriction Of recent hearings
to beer and tea led to the belief that
reductions might be confined to these
Two articles. but the sentiment of the
majority now appears to favor much
larger reduction.
At the conference today, it was the
prevailing view that since Cuba had
Deen the cause for the mourning of the
war revenue taxes, the burden should
be removed from this country before
there is consideration of the extent of
relief to be granted to Cuba. The ques-
ton of what percentage of reduction in
ltarif rates could be made for Cuba was
not considered at the meeting, tonight,
owing to the determination to leave
this until after the war revenue reduc-
tons have been accomplished.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York, Jan. 29.-There was a revul-
sion of speculative sentiment i'm the stock
market, today, and the movement to sell
gathered force up to the close, which was
active and weak. Generally speaking,
Yesterdays gains were wiped out. The
movement had no other obvious cause
than the desire TO take profits on the
part of the professional traders, who had
bought yesterday or earlier. 1t took only
about half an hour of trading after the
opening to demonstrate that the slightly
increased demand attracted by yeSter-
days sharp advances was being so fully
fed by profit taking sales as to repress
any tendency to advance beyond small
fractions. The contingent of bear traders
always watchful. was quick to take adj
vantage of this situation and to offer
from the sellers. The character of the
whole market thereupon relapsed into
the rut of dullness and professionalism.
The speculation felt acutely the lack OF
the stimulating effect of the recent
strength in Amalgamated Copper. That
stock continued easily the leader of the
market in point of activity and made an
initial advance of a fraction. When 1T
seemed to be yielding the sympathetic
effect upon the rest of the market was
immediate. The reason for its reaction
was not disclosed. The stock lost rs on
the day.. closing within shade Of the
pointment over the failure to advance the
refined sugar and lost TX on the day. The
large volume of trading in these two
specialties gave them large influence on
the market Money continued to grow
easier The heavy balances at the Clear
ing House of some of the individual
banks gave rise 10 the supposition that
large syndicate transactions are going oil
in the financial world. of which the pub
lie is not informed. The bond market
became irregular in sympathy with the
weakness of stocks. Total sales, par
value. $33OOoo0. United States IS regis
tered advanced u per cent on the last
call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
THE scHLEY. APPEAL
To the President from Courts Verdict
Is Made Public.

Washington, Jan. 29.-The navy de-
partment has made public Admiral
Schley's appeal. delivered to the Presl-
dent about a week ago. The depart
ment's comment will be published IN
a day or two.
Admiral Schley appeals to the Presi-
dent as the Chief Executive and COM
mander-in-chief of the army and navy
vested with power to regulate and d.
rect the acts of several executive OH
GERS thereof" and he asks that the
President review the findings of the
court. He asks this on three grounds
in each case basing his appeal on the
findings of Admiral Dewey, as opposed
to the ma jority report.
These three grounds are set out com
pendiously in the petition which HIS
about eight printed pages of PAM
phlet and is signed by Admiral Schley
and by Messrs. Rayner, Parker and
league of his counsel. Attached to the
petition are three exhibits, "A, b
and &C." each made up of copious ex-
tracts from the testimony taken by the
court of inquiry and intended to con-
firm the statements of facts made in
| the petition itself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
CARELESS PRACTICE.
Thousands OF Dollars Sent With Ord
nary Postage Through Mails.

Washington. Jan. Systematically
careless practices In the transmission
OF large amounts Of currency by mail
To- Cuba are complained Of in report
received. today. by Postmaster General
Payne from Director General Fornes OF
the Cuban postal service. The regis
tered mail is being regularly and large
ly used for the transmission Of money
between the United States and Cuba.
Mr.. Fornes saws that with liberal use
OF strong paper. Irvine and sealing wax
IL Is possible to so wrap these packages
that they cannot break open and sub
ject officials to unwarranted stress OF
temptation" Mr.. Fornes reports:
Yesterday, there was received in
Havana in transit to Cienfuegos from
the National Bank of Commerce of New
York City. a package bearing S744 in
postage and weighing % pounds and
which may have contained $4,000 in
currency. Through openings in the
package protruded bills of large de-
nominations. in plain sight of a dozen
clerks. The railway mali clerks prob
ably learned of the contents from the
Havana clerks and. tonight. the pack
age may be lying, outside the safe in the
Cienfuegos post office by reason of the
size of the parcel.
s"Only last week the attention of a
local bank was called to the Insecure
manner In which three packages from
New York, each containing $4,000 in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
New York Produce Market.

New York. Jan. g.
FLOUR-Receipts. 15.461 bbls.: exports.
l., bal bbIs: sales, 500 pkgs.; steadier and
a shade higher or some grades with
wheat. Winter patents, 375M4.1O; Mimi.
ratents 3.S5n4 Is.
WHEAT-Receipts. rs. $50 bush. exports,
l3975 bush: sales. 2.3l5.O00 bush. futures.
900 bush. spot; spot firmer: No. red,
IS o b afloat No. red. 9OH elevator:
No l northern Duluth, S6A No. l hard
Manitoba. $50 afioat.
CORN-Receipts. 5000 BUSH; exports,
Il 80 bush. sales. $4,000 bush. futures
spot firmer; No. 2, 67a elevator and 6sA
1 o b afloat
OATS-Receipt.;. 02,0O0: exports. 6733
spot very strong: No. 9, 47kT4s: No. 3,
AZ: No. white, 1917; No. white, 4Slz
track mixed western, 1913; track white,
iSu55
BEEF-Steady.
CUT MEATS-Dull.
LARD-Firmcr; western steamed, go;
refined. firm: continent, 9.S5; s. A., 1865;
compound SnSh.
BTTTER-Firm; creamcries. 1925; fac
tory. 13ml1: June creamery, 15M2l; imita-
ton creamery. lim1siz.
Steady.
RESIN-Stecdy.
TURPENTINE-Bare steady, 4f5aM45.
RICEE-Quiet
| MOLASSES-Stcady.
SUGAR-Raw. firm: centrifugal 96 test,
: Ills; molasses sugar. 15-16; fair REIN
ing. 3-l6: refined, firm.
Il
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
To the Honorable Board of Railroad

Commissioners:
The Lewiston. Winthrop & Augusta
Street Railway respectfully represents
! that it desires to extend its road to and
| into the City of Hallowell and 1t hereby
makes application therefor to your Hon
orable Board as by statute in such cases
made and provided.
The place in which such extension is to
be constructed and maintained is the
City of Hallowell. The length of such
extension is two thousand two hundred
this corporation, as shown by the records
| Of your office, is more than sufficient to
cover such additional mileage. The
courses. distances and boundaries of
such extension are as follows:
| Commencing at station 136+6S on the
boundary line between Augusta and Hal
lowell, thence by curve to the left Of
fourteen hundred and twenty-five Q425)
feet radius two hundred and thirty (230)
| feet to station lac t9S; thence South fiIty-
three (53o W. degrees West nine hundred
| and eighty-five feet to station 1901 SO:
thence by curve to the right OF six
| t4o0) feet to station 15itS3; thence West
two hundred and ten (2lo) feet to station
156+93; thence by curve to the right of
six hundred 600 feet radius three hun
l60t.'3 on the boundary line between
Hallowell and Manchester.
| The foregoing Is the centre line. a
| The boundaries thereof are as follows:
From station 1873 +6s to station $50
twenty-five feet on each side of said
centre line and from station 160 to station
| 16o+l3 five feet on each side of said line.
| Your petitioner herewith files map o.
| said proposed route on an appropriate
| scale with the written approval of the
proposed route and location as to streets.
roads and ways In SAID Hallowell by the
municipal officers of said Hallowell, win
a report and estimate by a skilful engi-
neer.
| Wherefor your petitioner prays that
after due notice and hearing you will APP
prove such location in said Halloweli.
subject to the provisions Of section min.
Of chapter two hundred sixty-eight Of the
| Laws of one thousand eight hundred and
Ininety-three and determine whether pub
| lie convenience requires the construction
of such road in said HaloweIl.
' Your petitioner fuItner represents that
| II desires to forthwith begin the construc-
| tion of its road in the cities of Augusta
| and Hallowell and the towns OF Man.
chester and Winthrop.
That the courses. distances and bound
| aries of the location of its railroad in
said cities and towns are as follows:
LOCATION IN AUGUSTA.
Commencing in the city Of Augusta.
at . spike numbered and driven In the
| center OF Western Avenue and on the
westerly Inc of State Street;
l Therc " g. dc srees 30 minutes w. and
by tn ,n.er of western Avenue one
thous;.:. / and eighty uosD) feet to station
10:
Their = ~ a curve to the right of four
| hundred (itOD feet radius eighty-five (S5)
Ifeet to station 1e+S5:
| Thence by a curve to the left Of Four
Hundred (40o) feet radius eighty-five ISL
feet to station II+10. said station beng
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
CUBA AND SUGAR.
DR.. Wiley Says Planters Are Really
Fighting European interests.

Washington, an. 29.-Dr. II. j. Wiley,
chief of the bureau of chemistry. de-
partment of Agriculture, was before
the ways and means committee. today
in connection with the Cuban recipro-
city question. His statement covered
the scientific phases of the production
of sugar. DR.. Wiley's emphatic decla-
ration that Cuba's appeal to the United
States was misplaced and would not
afford relief, attracted much attention
DIR. Wiley said:
THE cause of the trouble the Cuban
planters are fighting is not in the tariff
duties of the United States, but is the
over production of sugar due to boun-
ties granted by Europe. Their cause
/ should be pleaded in the parliaments
of Europe, not in that of America"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-30
IN THE HOUSE.

Washington. Jan. 29.-The House ad-
iourned, today. after having been In
session 2s minutes Hopkins. Ill. re-
,orted the permanent census hill and
gave notice that he would call IL uI'
tomorrow. A request that the oleomar-
garine bill might b. made special order
for next Monday was objected to on
the Democratic side.