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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

According to United States Consular
Agent Harris Palestine has shown I'M
mistakable signs of progress during
the past decade, much of which is to
be attributed to German enterprise.
German colonists, merchants and
horticulturists," says Mr.. Harris, ARE
awakening that part of the Levant
from a lethargy of a thousand years.
Three years ago a German bank was
established in Jerusalem, with a
branch in Yafa, which exchanged $15,-
600, 900 in 1901. The waters of the
Dead Sea, where no rudder has been
seen for centuries, are now being piled
by German motor boats. A direct line
of communication has thus been OPEN
ed up between Jerusalem and Kerak,
the ancient capital Of the land OF
Moab, which still commands the cara
van routes leading across the Arabian
desert. There is no doubt that Ger
man enterprise will also exploit the
phosphate fields situated on both sides
of the Jordan, when transportation
facilities shall have been sufficiently
developed to insure success to the
undertaking.
For many years Germany has been
looking to Asia Minor and other
tries adjacent to Palestine as suitable
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

anger and fled the country, only to
land in Sing Sing for a short term for
attempting to hold up and rob a
wealthy manufacturer in a small town
in eastern New York, in which act he
was detected and caught redhanded,
despite the vicious fight he put up
to prevent capture.
Dawson was treacherous and abso-
lutely untrustworthy, to or with any
body. He would rob the hand that fed
him or administered to his other wants
with just as much w%antonness as he
would his worst enemy.
During the last few years the in
irmities of age began to creep upon
him. He contracted rheumatism,
which kept him in a Virginia hospital
for a time. and from there he drifted
to Sparta, Wis, where lived a
man with whom he had trained in
various channels of crime. He had
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
When Bob Evans
Was Near Death

Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, al
tho,4sh be has seen plenty of sharp
fighting and has been often under fire,
once came nearer to losing his life on
board his own ship and when not en-
gagged with the enemy than during any
battle in which he ever had part. He
tells the story in "a Sailors Log" A
little before the destruction of Ger
vera's feet he had gone below to his
cabin with Commander Kimball of the
torpedo fleet, who had brought dis
patches. They were sitting at the
cabin table studying the situation,
when a startled voice exclaimed,
Look out, captain!"
l threw my head to one side, he
writes, to see what | was to look out
for, when there vas a tremendous
crash, and I was aware that l was hurt
and more or less dazed. My first inn
preston was that one of the Spanish
gunboats had sneaked up on us and
put a shell into my cabin. l had been
thinking all the afternoon what a fine
chance it would be for them that
night. But when l was really con
scious / saw that that was not the
trouble.
My cabin was full of men, all star
ing at me, their ayes fairly sticking
out of their heads. They thought I
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

A compilation of considerable inter-
est has just been brought out by DR..
R. N. Gust, LII. D., the well known
oriental scholar. 1t takes the form
of a complete list of the languages and
dialects spoken and written in the
British empire at the close of the min
teenth century.
The total number Of these is 204. of
which eighty-five are furnished by
Asia, ffty-eight by Africa and thirty
by Oceanic. Among the tongues in
Guided in this list are many which are
decidedly unfamiliar to the man in
the street" India, for example, fur
nishes Khowar (ChitraD, Kortha CAS-
SAM, and Lepeha (Tibet frontier);
then from the Celebes islands comes
Alfnor from the island of Zanzibar
Pokomo, from Sierra Leone Bullion,
and from the Niger territory Igbira.
The language spoken in the Hudson
bay district is called Kri, in New
Brunswick Malist and in British Gui-
ana Acawoio. In the Friendly islands,
says the London News, the inhabitants
wish n another a Merry Christmas
in Tonga, while at Port Moresby they
do so in Roro.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
A Remarkable Find.

A gentleman staying in a hotel in
Dublin recently was startled by some
thing falling from the chimney on to
the fire. 1t proved to be a pocket
book, the contents of which afforded
certain evidence that they had been in
the chimney nearly a quarter Of a CEN
fury. The book contained some Wis
iting cards bearing the name of a
Capt. Lambert, a shilling's worth of
penny stamps, a receipt for $50 dated
1879, a small calendar for the same
and a ticket for a circular rail-
way tour with the same date. The
memory of the hotel does not go back
far enough to explain the mystery, but
there is little doubt that the pocket
book SO strangely recovered affords a
clew to a crime which may have baf-
fed the police twenty-three years ago.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
PAINTINGS SOLD BY MEASURE.
Disposed of London at from so Cents
TO @I.2B Per Inoh.

Disposed OF London at from so Cents
TO @1.2B Per Inch.
Is the American spirit of CONNER
cialism invading even the English
market for artistic wares? A poets
recent advertisement in the London
Daily News, seeking a speculative pub
Usher for a translucent, attractive,
and apothegmatic lyric" had already
aroused some comment, and now they
appear to be selling the paintings o.
the leading contemporary artists by
the square inch. The announcement
Of a sale at Christie's says that a
painting by the late t. S. Cooper. en-
titled sheep Shearing," and measur-
ing 4S by 70 inches, was sold for $40
%guineas, while another representing
"Six Cows on the Bank of a River
and measuring 29 by A inches. paint
ed in 1877, brought 800 guineas.
This is interesting. 1t seems to in
dicate that good painting Is worth
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

He was a very youthful looking man
and he wore a natty opera hat and a
lengthy raglan which caused him to be
the cynosure Of all eyes in the Arch
street trolley car. 1t was probably the
first time he had ever worn a dress
suit, and as he walked into the car his
painful embarrassment was notice
able. Many smiles fitted across the
passengers features, and the young
fellow noticed each one and blushed
deeply.
But more trouble was in store. At
Seventeenth street two red-faced SER
want girls boarded the car. They
crowded into a seat and began to talk
volubly.
"Yis," said one, eth misthress give
me a ould wrapper an She"
She paused here as her wandering
gaze rested on the conspicuous young
man in the corner.
Say, Ellen" she said, loudly, and
with a giggle, "how would you like
that for a feller?"
The young man left the car hurried
ly before it had reached the street
where he wished to alight.-Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
submarine Camera.

One of the most interesting of new
inventions is a camera for taking pho
tographs in the depths of the sea. Ii
consists, more correctly speaking, Of
two cameras, which are so arranged
as to be focused upon a common
point. Each is inclosed in a large
steel bulb to protect 1t against the
pressure of the water.
In the middle of the apparatus is a
glass fronted chamber, which contains
a powerful electric light. When the
light is turned on it shines through
the glass and eliminates the water
for a considerable distance.
Thus the object to be photographed
is brightly lighted up, and it only re-
mains to expose the plates, which is
accomplished by the help of electric
wires that run up through rubber
tubes to the surface of the water
above.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
DAMASCUS AND FIFTY CENTURIES.
Certainly the Most Ancient Center of
Trade In the World.

Certainly the Most Ancient Center of
Trade In the World.
The most ancient center of trade in
the world. and one which still retains
its mercantile current, is Damascus.
Che caravan comes and goes as it did
1000 years ago; there the sheik, tho
ass and the water wheel, the mer-
chants of the Euphrates and of the
Mediterranean still occupy with the
multitude of their wares. From Da-
mascus comes the damson, blue plum,
and the delicious apricot of Portugal;
amascu damask, the beautiful fab
ric OF cotton and silk, with vines and
flowers raised upon a smooth, bright
ground; the damask rose, introduced
into England in the time of Henry
VII; the Damascus blade so famous
he world over for its keen edge and
wonderful elasticity, the secret of
whose manufacture was lost when
Tamerlane carried off the arts into
Persia; and that beautiful art of wood
and steel with silver and gold-a kind
OF mosaic engraving and sculpture
united-called damasceening, with
which boxes, bureaus, swords and
guns are ornamented. Damascus re-
mains what it was before the days of
Abraham center of trade and trav-
ell, an island of verdure in the desert,
a presidential capital through more
than thirty centuries. 1t was near Da-
mascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the
light of heaven above the light of the
sun; and the street which he called
straight, in which 1t is said he prayed,
still runs through the city. The city
which Mohammed surveyed from a
n%eighboring height and was afraid to
enter because it was given to men to
have but n Paradise, and for his
part, he was resolved not to have his
in this world.-Reform Advocate.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Dawson,s western shaok.

saved up a little money, and settled
down to a quiet life for a time, for the
only reason that he was unable to
commit any more deeds of villiany.
His acquaintance sheltered him, and
he remained with the family, under
the plain name of John ]. Smith, until
his death last week, when, by his re-
quest, his remains were shipped back
to Tuscarawas county, and buried near
the place where his boyhood days were
spent. This was the only indication
of sentiment the man was. ever known
to develop, and this came only with
the approach of death, for which he
evinced not the slightest fear, nor did
he manifest the slightest repentance.
He died as he had lived, one of the
wickedest men of earth since the days
of Nero.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Famous Captain Tells
of His Marrow Escape
from Fatal Accident.

was killed, and,I suppose they wanted
to see the last of the "old man" l
was soon aware that one of the doc
tors was feeling and twisting my
right arm, and that my right Shout
der was in pretty bad shape. Through
it all 1 was sorry for Kimball, who,
| thought, was surely killed, and l
was greatly relieved when l heard his
voice, which sounded a mile away.
The men were running in a steel haw-
ser, and it had picked up the steel bat
tie hatch, weighing something over
400 pounds, which was lying on deck,
ready to be put on the cabin hatch
when needed. The line had carried it
along until it came directly over the
hatch under which I was sitting, when
it slipped off, came down edge first,
and caught me on the shoulder in
stead of the head.
The man who called to me to look
out held on to it in his effort to stop
it, and came down with it.
My shoulder was badly mashed and
dislocated, but the excellent medical
men Don wiped the blood off, reduc-
ed the dislocation, bandaged my arm
to my side, and turned me in.
III my head had been four inches
further forward 1 should never have
had the pleasure OF writing this book.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

between thirty cents and SIPS per
square inch in London; while, esti-
mated as live stock, the six COWS in
the latter picture appear to have been
valued at fifty g~uineas each, despite
their advanced age, which precludes
the possibility of their being useful
for other purposes than landscape or
unconstitutional this is perhaps
minimizing the value of the riparian
rights along the river. What a wealth
of conjecture these facts suggest!
Think of the prices that some of the
enormous Munkacsy v would
bring II SOLD on this basis, and of the
possible value OF Rosa Bonheur's
The Horse Fair"-with stations at
Tattersall prices! Let the artist re-
member to stretch his canvas wide
enough, or, II he be an animal-painter.
to put in a sufficient number Of mar
ketable beasts, and there will speedily
be an end of the cry of the underpay-
ment of artistic endeavor.-Harper's
Weekly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
The British worker.

This is an age of d~isillusion. 1t is
not long since the British workman
was considered to be without his peer
throughout the world. If he were a
NAVY, he could eat more beef, drink
more beer than anyone else on the
face of the earth; as a mechanic he
was the hardest working and the most
skilled; in agriculture he was unap-
preached. He could lay more bricks.
pillow a straighter furrow, win more
coal, carry heavier loads than could
any of the less gifted inhabitants Of all
foreign countries put together. But Of
late there has been a reaction froIa
these roseate Notwithstanding.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

and saw perched on its top a wild COB
bier whose FURNISHED feathers shone
in the sun 1t stood calmly with head
erect enjoying the air and the placid
river beneath.
Stribling laid the pipe down care
fully, walked into his bedroom, picked
up his rife of "A calibre, and went
back to the gallery. He knew that
he would be forced to go a half-mile
downstream to the nearest ford, cross,
come back upstream, go back down
stream, and come back upstream in or
der to retrieve, but did not purpose
to be insulted.
He shoots well. He leaned firmly
against the end post of the gallery,
got the tip of the front sight on the
base of the birds black beard which
hung from the ~gobbler's breast, held
1t there for a moment, smiled as it
occurred to him that the thing was
too easy and pressed the trigger firm
ly and steadily.
There was the usual sharp crack,
which sounded doubly loud in the still
ness of morning, but the turkey was
unmoved. 1t evinced no curiosity.
Stribling tried it again, a little more
carefully and with less confidence;
same result. He said: II may be get
ting old and wrinkled in my face, but
I'll bet the farm and all it costs me
that l can make you move" Same
result.
That was all the cartridges he had.
He walked to the bank of the river
and yelled at the bird. 1t looked down
at him and sailed away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

over 400 applications are on file at
the navy department for the one va
cancy which recently occurred among
the navy chaplains. 1t is considered
rather remarkable by the navy depart
ment officials that sucn a large num-
Der Of ministers applied for the va
cancy, If it is true. as recently alleged
by a navy chaplain in a letter written
to the secretary, that it is impossible
for a chaplain in the navy to main
tain This self-respect" upon the small
salary given him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
SOME PEoULIARITIEs OF WRITERS
Many Cannot Do Good Work Unless Their
Fads Are HUNDRED.

Many Cannot Do Good Work Unless Their
Fads Are HUNDRED.
Il have often smiled" said the edi-
tor, "at the p~eculiar!ties displayed by
the different people while writing
their stories. Everyone has his or her
particular idiosyncrasy. Brown can
not write a decent line unless he chews
at the end of an unlighted cigar,
Jones is unhappy and FESTIVE unless
he puffs at a Turkish cigarette, while
Robinson must always have his pet
brier pipe. One man l know is very
'dopy' unless he has had his drink. If
he gets that inside of him he can write
like a master of prose.
Another fellow is most particular
about the arrangement of the things
upon the desk. If even only one object
is awry he is unhappy and cannot
go on until he has put them in order.
Still another feels at home only when
he sits in front of a mlxed-up mass Of
paper, pens and letters. One woman
writer 1 have noticed cannot get out
her stuff unless she eats candy at the
same time. With a box of bonbons by
her side she can rattle off quires of
copy with ease.
I'VE are all creatures of habit" con-
cluded the editor, according to the
Philadelphia Record, ''and once in the
bonds of one it is hard to shake loose
shackles."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

territories in which to develop Ger
man markets. The Bagdad railroad,
which will lead through Anatolia, in
tersecting the headwaters Of the Tigris
and E%uphrates, to the shores of the
Persian gulf, is an enterprise of vast
Importance, not only to Germany, as
the promoter. and the Turkish en-
pire, but to the world at large. 1t is
the greatest commercial and civilizing
factor that could be introduced into
this region and will tap the rich terri
tories which composed ancient Meso-
potamia. Apart from new n Of
commerce, a land will be opened up to
students and tourists which, owing to
expense and unsafe methods of travel,
has thus far been practically inacces-
sible.
"The commerce of Palestine to-day
is not unimportant. The products of
the country are wheat, barley, or
anges, oil, wine, nuts, figs, apples.
peaches, pears. pomegranates apricots
citrons almonds, cucumbers. lettuce,
onions. wild %artichokes and aspara-
gus, truffies, tobacco. sesame and silk,
while potatoes and other European
and American vegetables are being
introduced by German and French
colonists."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
spesa on Eleotrlo Road..

The German Society for the Study
Of Electric Railways has lately exper-
imented upon speed, and in some of It's.
trials 100 to los miles an hour was at
tanned. The air resistance was found
to be equivalent to the force of wind
with a velocity of twelve feet a second.
This is a velocity which has only once
been reached by German storms, name
ly, in the hurricane of February, 1894.
The experimenters are confident that
speed much excseding 100 miles an
hour can be maintained on electric
RAILWAYS.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
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The wild turkey, called by Choctaws
and Cherokees in differing tongues
the wit of the woods" is supposed
by old hunters to have intelligence
above that of other birds. In general
1t has. Yet sometimes 1t mods like
Homer, and sometimes 1t displays the
Indifferent recklessness of a cross be-
tween D~'Artagnan and dear old Ouida's
hero, BERTHE Cecil.
@. s.. Stribling lives near the lower
part Of the San Antonio river, q few
miles above its debouchment into the
Gulf of Mexico. Wild turkeys are
plentiful in the region, and he kills
a good many of them.
In winter 1t is never more than
three miles from his house to a roost.
When he wants turkey meat he sad
dies his pony before daylight, rides to
within a quarter-mile of the roost, dis
mounts, walks stealthily to the bur-
dened trees, waits till he can see a
round, black form between him and
the sky, knocks n over and goes
home.
Mr.. Stribling does not pretend to be
a sportsman in the finer sense of the
term; in fact, he raises cotton as a
means of keeping in debt, but he likes
turkey, especially when 1t is self-fia-
vored with nuts and wild pepper.
The river III by his home and is
thirty yards wide. Directly across
lrom his front yard grows a solitary
cypress that is probably $50 feet high.
One forenoon, while sitting on his
front gallery and enjoying a cob-pipe
he had been bl%ackening for five years,
Stribling glanced toward the cypress
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

f~eiters, stretched Dawson upo the
floor, and then proceeded to stamp
upon him with his heavy boots. Daw-
sons career would likely have ended
then and there, Rad It not been for the
intercession Of Dawson's wife and her
sister. For several weeks Dawson was
laid up for repairs, and when he
emerged from his hiding place he was
promptly arrested, tried for stealing
the horse OF a farmer near Aurora
Ind, sent o Jeffersouyille peuitentiary
and w.faEas a couple more years for
the aut,ss tiles.
Then he disappeared for a time. He
was growing older, uglier, more vim
dictive, and was. In fact, without q
friend upon earth. He never married.
although he is known to have lived
with a squaw in Indian Territory for
a time, and 1t is said that when he
tired Of her he killed her in a ft of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

A Yale professor says Joseph was
the first one who vas ever hazed. The
professor thinks it was a lucky thing
for Joseph, Perhaps 1t was, but, I'M
fortunately, everyone who is hazed
can't get as good and even as Joseph
did.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

A cable dispatch says that Venezue-
Ian revoIptionists have Just won an
important victory. Unfortunately,
however, the correspondent neglected
to report which revolution these revo-
lutionists belong to.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Chicago commission men have dis
covered Wisconsin chickens with gold
In their gizzards. The proof of an am
bition on the part OF chickens to lay
golden eggs is highly commendable.
They should not be discouraged.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

II Is announced that the new presi-
dent OF the NationalC ongresso of Moth
ers has children of her own. II is
safe to say, therefore. that she has
neighbors who don't believe she knows
the least thing about the business.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

The Washington Times is response
BILE for the statement that limburger
cheese makes drunkards. And there
is considerable %limburger cheese to
strengthen this statement.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Andrew Carnegie is finding friends
throughout Christendom. Mexico
wants only $4,000, 900 for libraries.
That's what comes of a mans wanting
to die poor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Full many a gem of purest ray Sc
rene the dark, ~unfathomed caves OF
ocean bear, because no giant sort of
dredge machine has yet been dipped by
Pierpont Morgan there.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

An Iowa has sued a dead
man for breach OF promise of mar
riage and recovered $4,000 damages.
The poor fellow is left with only a
small balance of $50 to start house
keeping in his present location.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

British farmers want reasonable
freight rates. The railroads are will
ing to give rates to them, but insist on
determining themselves waat is rea-
sonable.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

II Prince Eugene is really willing to
give up his right OF succession to the
throne Of Sweden in order to marry
an American girl, and IL Gene really
loves her az she no doubt deserves.
Gene is almost good enough for AM
erican citizenship.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Duke Karl Theodor, in Bavaria, the
oculist prince, recently performed his
four thousandth operation for cataract
at his clinic in Munich. His wife acted
as his assistant.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

A Missouri man has decided to stock
his farm with 400 goats this spring.
Hereafter the Missouri butter is likely
to cut an enlarged figure.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Mr.. Mary e. wilkins will find it
quite trying to live up to the standard
OF some of the husbands in his wife's
books.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

A Kansas philosopher nnounces
that living is a nightmare" He
should try the brand they have at
some other blind pig.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

The peanuts which Texas is sending
to the Boston markets this season are
said to have a pronounced flavor of
petroleum.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Wireless telephones are about to
materialize. Eventually the entire
business Of the country will be done
by means of air signals or ozone
waves.