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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
A Game of Tag.

N tame OF rag.
Little Jack Frost ran out one day
And called to the Brook to come and
play.
Lets play tag, and you must run,
And I'll be 1t, and won't we have fun?
Old Father Winter will think I'm LOST
Hooray!" cried little Jack Frost,
So the Brook ran Off with a merry shout
AND Jack at her heels in a jolly rout.
Down through the plowed fields, sunny
and bare,
Into the woods and the piny air,
Past mighty powders gray and mossed,
The Brook led little jack Frost.
Over the waterfall she sprang,
And the hills with her mocking laughter
rang,
Down came the leaves in a gorgeous
throng
To hide her away as she fed along.
Under the mill wheel her hair SIZE tossed
And laughed at little Jack Front.
But oh, and alas! how tired she crew.
Slower and slower her light feet new
Painting under the bridge she ran,
And into the wide marsh, still ana wan
She faltered a moment, tired and lost'
'"TagI" cried little Jack Frost.
Youths
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Arctic schoolboys.

A picturesque little Eskimo is one
of Uncle Sans most northern school
boys. His schoolhouse is at Port Bar
row, Alaska, and stands on the most
northern portion of land on the Ameri-
can continent.
The schoolhouse is built of huge
logs, having double walls. Many of
the children come from points forty to
100 miles away. This distance is COW
cred in dog sleds.
The teachers declare they had
more intelligent pupils than these of
the wild Eskimos of the north. At
the beginning of the school year only
a few could count ten in the blunder-
ing fashion and nine-tenths knew no
English whatsoever. At the close of
the first year they could count up to
1000 and write and read simple Eng
fish words.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
THUNDER MOUNTAIN, IDAHO,
A MINERAL TREASURE HOUSE.


fortunes OF Gold Are Being Found in the
Center of the state of Idaho.
Thunder Mountain, the new Idaho
gold field, is the most promising min
eral region in the United States. The
richness of this country was not known
until late in the fall of 1901, after heavy
snow had closed all by which
the region might be reached except
upon snowshoes. Notwithstanding this
fact, Colonel w. Fl. Dewey of Idaho,
and others who have had wide expert
ence in mining, have expended vast
sums in the purchase of undeveloped
claims. The surface indications are
marvelously rich. Three gold bearing
lodges, from 100 to 300 feet, run
through a mountain parallel to each
other. In the Dewey mine, this vast
deposit has values running from 81 to
$4,000 per ton, and the plates of the 10
stamp mill which runs on the ore have
to be cleaned of their accretions of
gold every six hours.
In a few weeks two miners last spring
cleaned up 81, 800 in placer gold, using
a small cotton hose to wash the gravel,
the water coming from a small reser-
voir on the mountain side. The min
eral zone covers a large section OF
hitherto unexplored country, and is
about IT'S miles from a railroad.
nN1Ara No. g. 49,
Thunder Mountain country, viz: via
Ketchum, Mackay, Boise and Weiser,
Idaho, and Bedrock, Montana, all on
the Oregon Short Line railway. A
great rush to this mecca for miners is
predicted, and ION to Thunder Noun
tain" will be s familiar as the old
watchword, pixies Peak or Bust" as
soon as the SHOWS disappear so that the
camp may be reached with supplies,
which will probably be between May
10 and June l.. A scarcity of provisions
at present keeps miners away, as flour
at $50 per sack is considered somewhat
of a luxury ven in this golden land.
Surrounding Thunder Mountain is a
large section of country adapted to
agriculture and stock raising.
d. y. Burley, general passenger
agent of the Oregon Short Line rail.
road, at Salt Lake City, sent an expert
to report upon hat country, and will.
cheerfully give any information re.
quired as to the routes and genera, con.
ditions in and around the great pSn ng
camp.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Nuts to c.aok.

Here is a list Of questions for the
wide-awake boy. Can you answer all
of them?
You can see any day a white horse,
but did you ever see a white colt?
How many different kinds Of trees
grow in your neighborhood, and what
are they good for?
Why does a horse eat grass back
ward and a COW forward?
Why does a hop vine wind one way
and a bean vine the other?
Where should a chimney be the larg-
er, at the top or bottom, and why?
Can you tell why a horse when teth-
cred with a rope always unravels it,
while a COW always twists it into a
kinky knot?
How old must a grape vine be before
it begins to bear?
Can you tell why leaves turn upside
down just before a rain?
What wood will bear the greatest
weight before breaking?-Credit Lost.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
FAIRY TALES FOR CHILDREN.
Publisher Refuses Stories of Dragoni
or Tragic Themes.

Publisher Refuses Stories of Dragons
or Tragic Themes.
81 am a lover of fairy tales" said a
NOVELIST the other day. "and for a
long time l have had the desire to do a
volume of them. So I visited a pub
Usher recently and submitted to him
the plots of ten or eleven stories that
would make, 1 thought, a very charm
ing little book. He disagreed with
me.
"One story dwelt with dragons and
another with the Staying of an ogre.
According to the publisher they
wouldn't do for child readers; they
would scare the little one and would
cause them to believe in horrid mon
sters that don't exist. Another was a
sad story, and hat was impossible be-
u little children should W. be
made to cry. And so on down through
them all, until 1 couldn't see for the
life of me what subjects were left to
write about.
Consider the best fairy tales-Hans
Andersen's Tin Soldier Oscar Wilde's
Happy Prince or Jack. the Giant
Killer Little Red Riding Hood,
'Bluebeard,' Aladdin "Puss-in-Bo ots'
and so on, Don't they deal with death
and woe and slaughter and fear?
1T is all absurd for publishers to is
sue only namby-pamby stuff for chill
dren," said the novelist, according to
the Philadelphia Record, "and n re-
suit of their foolishness is that good
fairy tales are no longer written"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
HAS A BIG BUFFALO HERD.
Millionaire Half-Breed Keeps $50 of
Them and Won't Sell One.

M--,tonRtre Half-Breed Keeps $50 OF
Them and Won't Sell One.
Roaming in absolute freedom in the
beautiful Flathead valley, on the Flat
head Indian reservation, Montana, is
the largest herd of buffalo on the con-
tinent. The noble apimals have prac-
tically all the freedom that was theirs
in the days when they were monarchs
Of the plains. The herd is the prop
erty of a half-breed of mixed Indian
and Mexican blood named Pablo,
whose home is on the reservation, and
who is reported to be worth 81, $780,
900. He does not look it in his suit of
citizens clothes, broad-brimmed hat
and blanket, but he is as shrewd a
ranchman as is to be found on the
western plains and he has increased
his government allotment of cattle
and lands until he has amassed a vast
fortune. He has two houses, one on
the reservation and the other in the
dreary little shipping town of Selfish,
on the Northern Pacific railroad.
Pablo owns 10000 head of cattle
and takes a justifable pride in them,
but he especially glories in his herd
OF buffalo, which numbers 100. Pablo's
regard for his buffalo is intense. He
is not keeping them for profit, and
will not sell a single specimen. He
loves them because they are a part of
the old free life he loved and loves
still. He has a fellow feeling for
bison because, like his own race, they
have been driven from their old ranges.
so he has gathered together all that
he could get and has placed them on
the magnificent range at the outlet of
Flathead lake.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
what God Gives a Boy.

A body to keep clean and healthy,
as a dwelling for his mind and q
temple for his soul.
A pair of hands to use for himself
and others, but never against others
for himself.
A pair of feet to do errands of love
and kindness and charity and business
but not to loiter in places of mischief
or tempti don or sin.
A pair of lips to speak true, kind,
brave words.
A pair of ears to hear music Of bird,
tree and human voice, but not to give
heed to what the serpent says or to
what dishonors God Or his mother.
A pair of eyes to see the beautiful
the good AID the true-God's finger
print in flower and field and snowflake.
Young Crusader.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

In springtime, when the little leaves
Unfold upon the trees.
And open to the gentle rain
And to the soft. warm breeze,
Entranced, they listen to the songs
OF little birds that sing,
And cry aloud for very Joy:
How beautiful is spring."
In summer when the trees are clothed
In cool and shady green,
The pretty, clust'ring little leaves
In beauty full are seen.
With wondrous grace the branches
spread
Beneath the sunny sky:
How beautiful the earth appears"
The little green leaves cry!
In autumn, when the earth is clothed
In rich and mellow shades,
And all the foliage from green
To golden yellow fades,
The little leaves begin to fall,
And whisper as they pass:
"Good-by, dear trees; good-by to ALL"
And fiutter to the grass.
In winter, when the snow fast falls,
And all the trees are bare,
The little leaves upon the ground
Lie snug and coy there.
Goodnight" they whisper to the
wind,
Here safely shall we keep,
Until new life, with spring, returns
And then they fall asleep!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
A WISCONSIN PAPER ON WESTERN
CANADA.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, One of the
Favored Districts.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, One of the
Favored Districts.
The following clipped from the cor
respondence columns of the Eau Claire
wisconsin, Leader is but one of many
letters of a similar character that
might be published concerning West
ern Canada, the land of No. 1 hard
wheat and the best cattle on the con-
tinent. 1t is a simple matter to reach
the lands spoken of, the Canadian Gov
eminent having agencies established
at st. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota;
Grafton, North Dakota; WATERFOWL,
South Dakota; Omaha, Nebraska;
Kansas City, Missouri; Des Moines,
Iowa; Wausau and Milwaukee, Wis
consin; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis,
Indiana; Sault Ste. Marie and Detroit,
Michigan; Toledo and Columbus, Ohio,
and by writing to or calling upon n
OF these agents at these points full in
formation can be secured. This is a
great opportunity to secure a home
free of cost or If you desire to purchase
lands they can be bought now at prices
much lower than will exist in a few
months. But read what the corre-
spondent referred to has to say of one
particular district.
ITO the Editor of the Leader-The
rush of the land seekers will be to the
prairie provinces OF the Dominion of
Canada. The allurements of a soil that
UfoIHo Al kwxoAa1. - rrA0o4 49, A. -
are too great to be resisted and an
immense migration from this country
may be confidently predicted. People
here laughed at first at the idea of
any one leaving the United States for
Canada, but the Dominion authorities
knew they had a good thing and they
stuck to 1t. Their officials evidently
knew the value of printers ink. They
spared no expense in letting the people
of this country know that these lands
were there and that they were exactly
as represented. They did more. They
sent out specimens of the crops raised
and samples of the grain. We have
had them here at four consecutive
street fairs, presided over by one of
their ablest immigration officers. This
gentleman spared no pains. He ex-
planned the value of the lands and the
richness of the soil from morning to
night to all Corners.
All this told in the long run. Sew
eral went up from here to spy out the
land and like Caleb. the son Of Je-
punneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun,
brought back a good report, and now
some ten families will leave here in a
few weeks for Saskatoon to settle upon
farms there, and others are preparing
to follow. OF course many will appear
shocked at the idea of any one leaving
the stars and stripes for the Union
Jack, but patriotism is but a nomen-
clature after all, and our experience
has been that in nine hundred and
n~inety-nine cases out of a thousand a
man is the most patriotic where he can
make the most money and do the
most harm to those whom he hates"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Must Be One She Can Look Up 10.

49,
Ella Ewing, the giantess, has set at
rest the rumor of her impending mar
riage to a Montana man or any one
else so far as she knows at present.
She told a friend in La Grange in a
letter recently that there isn't any
thing in the story. She and ner faith
er are to start shortly for the Pacific
coast, where Miss Ewing is to be on
exhibition this summer. 1t may be
said for Ella that if she remains sin
gle it is from choice and not from ne
cessity. Her mail contains an average
of at least three proposals a week. it
is said. She is understood to insist,
however, that she will only marry the
right kind of a man. one she can
really look up to, and in view of her
eight and one-half feet of stature it
"a be readily realized that such may
not be easy to ind.-Kansas City Jour
nal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Mhnt,s Your Name 2

When a boy, the great French au-
thor Alphonse Daudet was very poor,
but he was allowed to attend, without
paying any fees, a school in which
the majority of the pupils were the
son of rich men. His appearance at
the school, dressed in a blouse, which
only the very poor wore, was the oc-
casion of many taunts and jeers from
his school fellows, and even the mas
ter never called him by his name, but
addressed him as Whats your name,
says the American Boy. But the boy
never needed the i'll will nor the
sneers; he determined that he would
make something of himself, saying,
IF / am to take any position in this
school l must work twice as hard as
the Others" BY steadfast persistency
and courageous determination he did
succeed, and when his name had be-
come famous he wrote a story in mem
ry of those days of hardship and pow
erty, and called it Little What's-His-
Name
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
A Tunnel.

The subject of a tunnel connecting
ireland and Scotland has been brought
before the British government, and
the project will be pushed if the re-
quisite financial support can be OBJ
tanned. The estimated cost is $50, 00O,-
900. The route Professionally selected
is from Strauraer in Scotland to Bel
fast in Ireland. The total distance is
sly miles, of which 34h miles would
be tunnel and 25 miles of the tunnel
would be under the sea, along a line
where the maximum depth is 4SO feet.
Electric motors would be used to drive
the trains at an average speed of six
ty to seventy miles per hour.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Riddles from Russia.

See how many of these you can
guess without looking at the answers:
| am blind, but show others the way;
deaf and dumb, but know how to
count. A milestone.
People pray for me and long for my
company, but directly l appear they
hide themselves. Rain.
l have four legs and feathers, but
am neither beast nor bird. Feather
bed.
There are four brothers under one
hat. Legs of a table.
A pack of wolves ran by; one was
shot, how many remained? One.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

"Antiseptic slates" are the thing
that the careful, gerln-fearing mother
buys for her children nowadays. They
are made Of some lightweight ma
terial, papier-mache, perhaps, and
there is no temptation to spit on this
slate OF ven use a sponge on it, A
piece of cotton flannel is all that is
necessary for an eraser.-New York
Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Remarkable Kleptomaniac.

The French have produced the most
remarkable kleptomaniac ON record
This is an old woman whose passion
for smoking has impelled her to pilfer
pipes from Partisan shops with such
industry that no fewer than 1000 were
found in her lodgings. All were
m~eerschaums and thirty-nine were
well colored.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
EARLIEsr RUSSIAN MrLLEr.

VIII you be short of hay9 If so, plant a
plenty of this prodigally prolific millet.
8 to 8 Tons of Rich Hay Per Acre.
Price 80 lbs. $1.90; 100 lbs. SO. Low freights.
John A. Salzer Seed Co, La Crosse, Wis. w
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
Cite. of Eaual Formulation

The two cities Of Manchester in Eng
land and Boston in the United States
are almost exactly equal in population.
while Birmingham and Baltimore are
also very nearly alike.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Henry T.. Crocker, the San Francisco
capitalist. has 100 rare stamps that are
valued at $4,000. His rarest stamp is
the 2O-cent label Issued in 1916 by the
St. Louis post office, before there were
any regular United States stamps.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

Horatio Mckay, the transatlantic
captain who recently retired from ac-
tive duty on the Lucania, has crossed
he ocean $50 times and travelled alto
gether by sea a distance of 1850. 900
miles.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17
FOR JUNIOR
Stories for fbe PeruSoI Of Boys ana
Girls Of the household.

ment and play it properly, are provo
catiye of great merriment.
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Winters told him that he had no more
that it was all gone.
The soldier hooted at the idea, re-
marking: "An right, I'll remember you
for it." About II o'clock Winters be-
came noisy in his quarters and the ser
geant of the guard and file of men
arrested him and marched him to the
guardhouse. Winters used abusive
language to the sergeant, which arous-
ed his passion to a great extent, but at
this time took but little notice of the
occurrence. About, Is minutes after be-
ing confined Winters requested to be
allowed to go to the bastion, which was
granted the sergeant ordering the SOL
der not to permit him to go to his
room.
A FATAL SHOOTING.
Winters eluded the vigilance of the
sentinel and returned to his quarters,
when a sergeant, in charge of the
guard, with a file Of men, rearrested
him. In passing the soldier the SER
geant gave him instructions that if
Winters attempted to run by his guard
to shoot him. Winters was entrusted
to file of men, some going before and
some after him. He was placed ahead
of the guard, and, in descending the
bastion, unconscious of his impending
| doom, in his drunken condition he ran
| out of the doorway into the limits of
| the fort, when the soldier, who had left
his post by many yards raised his gun
as Winters passed him and shot him
down, from the effects Of which he died
| in the course of 80 minutes.
The soldier never challenged. neither
did he cry Halt" but deliberately car
ried out the orders received from the
sergeant The whole garrison was
aroused by the report of the gun,
coupled with the agonizing cries from
the wounded man, who, In his dying
moments, requested them to kill him
to relieve him of his sufferings A
consultation was then held by the SER
geant and the soldier, he having been
relieved from his post to arrange the
tale that was to be told relative to the
shooting. | could not hear much OF
that which passed, but 1 distinctly
heard a man who in very short time
thereafter was made corporal state
that each must tell the same tale.
While the sergeant had gone for the
officer of the day Winters piteou:
means, mixed with shrieks and heart
rending cries, resounded Throughout
the fort. Life was fast ebbing out ant
by the time the officer of the day arriv
ed nothing could be heard but hi
smothered groans. A stretcher wal
procured and the dying man conveyed
to the hospital, and in brief space o
so minutes his spirit had passed from
earth to eternity.
When the news of the affair reaches
headquarters the loud, ringing voice o
a commander was heard crying out
That's the way we do things in Cali
fornia."
(ro he Continued To-mnrrow)
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DICKENS CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Reading by Roscoe w. Reeves on Thurs
day Evening, December IS.
The philanthropic Carnegie once said
that he 'wishd for the benefit Of hui
mainly that a law could be enacted to
compel every adult person to read Dick
ems Christmas Carol once a year, and
preferably at Christmas
Now whether or not an enforced read
ing of that beautiful and fanciful story
would result in the accomplishment Of
the great good Mr.. Carnegie expected,
it is doubtless true that the voluntary
universal reading of that immortal pro-
duction would tend. more than any
other human agency ito make the
whole world kim
Now perhaps even better than read
ing oneself is to hear it read by a tai
ented elocutionist: and this treat is in
store for those who will go to the First
M. f. church on Thursday evening, De-
cember Is, at o'clock, when Roscoe w
| Reeves, the character impersonator
will present Dickens wonderful Christ
| mas story.
Admission is free, but an offering will
be received for the benefit of the Christ
| mas fund of the City Mission.
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BLISS PERRY ON LITERARY FASH
IONS.

Interesting Lecture in College Street
Hall by the Editor of the Atlantic
Monthly.
1t is always best when you are going
to hear O. lecture on any subject TO hear
one who knows all about it, if you can.
And Bliss Perry fills this card to per-
lection, He is the Son Of a college
professor, has been a member of The
faculty Of Princeton himself, is writ
er Of no mean repute in his own right,
and a student who loves books and au-
thors and all about them. An hour S
talk by him on literary fashion sets
many pleasant memories of other days
and old time books astir in ones head.
The talk of Monday evening was ramb-
ling and chatty and so enjoyable. The
fashions of the day III books and writ
ers were by him illustrated and scam
ned and compared. The conclusion at
which he arrived was threefold, viz:
That the study of literary fashions in
creased ones sense of proportion, pro-
duced in us a fine degree of humon and
proved to us the real value of hard
and honest work.
Mr.. Perry's next lecture will be In the
same hall Wednesday, January e. sub
ject, "HawthOrne."
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YESTERDAYS STOCK MARKET.

Features of Prince & Whitely's Letter.
New York, Dec. 16.-The early morn
ing news was not in any sense condu-
Give to awaken confidence in values Of
securities, be it for investment or for
speculative ventures. In fact discard
ing the lethargic state Of the London
market, the impression seemed to pre-
vail that through the Venezuela en-
broglio demagogues might incense,
through congress-, the people of this
country into a state of mind whereby
the average holder of home securities
might suffer and therefore many hold
ers threw overheard their recently ac-
quired investments. AS precautionary
measures these may prove good tactics,
but we cannot imagine that any serious
complications can arise between the
great and intelligent races of the hour
and were it not that the monetary sit
uation was so uncertain and we did not
owe so much to Europe on expanded
credit we should say that after the de-
cline which began early in September,
and in some cases has amounted to over
| 20 per cent, would wit hthe favorable
commercial conditions and large earn
ings of the railroads at home give rea-
son enough to invite attention of pur-
chases of the better class of stocks.
There is really nothing except the
| Venezuela question which is seriously
| threatening the market, and If that is
serious enough to the average operator
then leave alone the monetary condi-
ton there is not much apparent cheer in
the market.
Total sales $4,000 shares.
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