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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18
Tho civil eervico ,loaoo -,

The civil service dodge, other
wise known as the permanent
Census Bureau bill, will make
Mr.. Roosevelt get down on eth
er the spoilsmens or the civil
service reformers side of the
fence.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

to republican candidates for Con-
gress-and the River and Harbor
bill has been reported to the
House.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

No wonder Colombia put in a
demand for a part of the price of
the Panama canal. $4,000, 900
is more than the whole 6x9
country is worth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

A Geneva IN. ~ grocery clerk has
inherited s1,5oO,ooo. No Geneva wom-
an can hope now to be admitted to the
best circles, says the Chicago Times
Herald, unless she is able to boast that
he used to weigh out sugar for her.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

To be up to date don't say that
man was buncoed or goldbrick-
ed, but that he was Panama
lobbied.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

Some of the enterprising news
paper men are robbing Miss
Stone of good money by cable
ing the story of her captivity
ahead of her arrival.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

The republicans,of the House
have concluded the $ task of
assigning the spending of $780,
100000 of the peoples money
where it will do the most good
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-18

Since 1796, when the Boston dis
pensary was founded, it has treated
1,544,833 patients.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
Americans Abroad.

The mere fact of an American citizen
taking trip abroad or residing there
for short period does not deprive a
native born citizen of this country Of
his citizenship, nor does he lose the
right to the protection of this svern-
ment by so doing. If he abandons his
residence here, he loses his right to
vote just as if he moved to another
state, but acquires it again by return
ing to this country. Nearly all the ma
tons on the globe claim the right of
authority over native born citizens of
their own countries even after those
citizens have acquired citizenship else
where-that is, If native Russian
comes here and is naturalized, then re-
turns to Russia for visit, the Russian
government might compel him to do
army service despite his American citi
zenship. This principle was embodied
in the famous expression "once an Eng
Hshman, always an Englishman," so
much quoted during the war Of 1872
Detroit Free Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
A Ruskin Thought.

To be content in utter darkness and
ignorance is indeed unmanly, and there
fore we think that to love and find
knowledge must be always right. Yet
wherever pride has any share in the
work even knowledge and light may be
III pursued. knowledge Is good, and
light is good, yet man persisted in seek
Ing knowledge, and the moths perish
in seeking light, and If we who are
crushed before the moth will not accept
such mystery as is needful to US we
shall perish in like manner. None but
the proud will mourn over this, for we
may always know more If we choose
by working on, but the pleasure is, 1
think, to humble people, in knowing
that the journey is endless, the treasure
haustible.-Ruskin.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
Novelties In Gifts

Many pretty novelties in gifts are on
exhibition in the jewelers. shops in
preparation for the fall trade, says the
New York Evening Journal. Silver
and cut glass articles are shown in the
greatest variety. An odd piece is a
macaroni server. 1t looks like an ice
cream carver, except that the edges
are sawlike. An olive spoon is shown
with handle foot long and the bowl
perforated and gold lined. An attrac-
tive gift is silver bread or toast fork
having three wide prongs. The handle
Is either plain or deliberately chased.
Crystal liqueur glasses are shown with
tiny holders of silver and gold filigree.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07

The following little scene at an in
quest upon the body of murdered
man is reported by correspondent of
the Anglo Russian from Astrakhan:
The coroner debating to his clerk: "On
the table was found bottle No;
stop for a moment. We must ascertain
Its contents" The coroner, tasting the
liquid, dictates: "The bottle contained
English gin. Perhaps not; I am not
sure; taste it yourself" The clerk,
having done SO, replies, 81 think it is
simply strong vodka The coroner,
tossing off another glass: mo, really.
1t tastes like gin" The clerk, tasting
the liquor again, 81 still think 1t is only
vodka
The bottle having gradually become
empty, the coroner proceeded to dictate
in decisive tone: Write: An empty
bottle was found on the table, and all
measures taken to ascertain what it
contained were of no use"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07

tant. l found posthouses from eighty
to $50 miles apart ON the road, which
was merely a narrow track marked for
much of the way by blazed trees.
Midway between Yakutsk and Yer
koyanSk we crossed the Verkoyansk
range over the steepest mountain pass
in the world, nearly a perpendicular
wall Of ice 300 feet high near the sum-
NIT of mountain 1000 feet high. We
crossed with great difficulty in howl
ing gale and with the temperature 40
degrees below zero. All In our party
We're badly frozen. We found the
posthouses filthy beyond description,
and the only food we could obtain was
putrid fish. We were obliged to live
on the stores we had bought for use
when we should reach the arctic
coast.
After twelve days travel we reached
Verkoyansk, q mere hamlet Of twenty
miserable huts, situated in the middle
Of a bowling wilderness. We found
fifteen exiles there, living in pitiable
condition, but better OFF than Others
whom shall describe later on. We
left Verkoyansk on sledges pulled by
reindeer for Srednikolymsk, 1900 miles
away.
The road lay through an unduIating
wooded country. The posthnuses We're
200 miles apart and were very filthy
and occupied by natives and cattle
The places were literally swarming
with vermin. 1t was a terribly desc
late country. Every fifty miles we
found uninhabited lodges, most Of them
rootiess and filled with snow.
The cold was intense, varying from
60 to IS degrees below zero. Occasion
ally we had to founder through snow
drifts twenty feet deep. Many Of our
reindeer died of exhaustion. During
the latter part of January we crossed
over numberless frozen lakes, and it
was bad, slippery travelling. Finally
we reached Srednilolymsk, the most
remote Russian settlement in Siberia.
we had been twenty-one days getting
there from Verkoyansk.
Srednikolymsk is the mass desolate
and God forsaken spot on earth. 1t
consists of twenty or thirty dilapidat-
ed huts on the banks of Il Kolyma
river, 300 miles from it's mouth on the
Arctic ocean. A famine was raging
In the place when we got there. There
We're very few dogs and but little food,
and we We're still 1880 miles from Be-
ring strait
We managed to get five dog sleds
and to procure some black bread and
frozen fish. We had nothing else to
eat, for our original stock of provisions
was very nearly finished. Here we
heard for the first time that we would
have to traverse a quite uninhabited
part of the coast for 500 miles before
we could reach Tehuktchi, village of
natives who had migrated eastward.
But l resolved to push on. found
thirteen eXiles in this place in terri
BILE condition-ill clad, half starved and
with sentences of from eight to thirty
years still to serve. The poor crea-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
De W|NDT'S HARDSHIPS.
Explorers Story of Overland
Trip From Paris to America.
HORRORS OF SIBERIA DESCRIBED.

Threatened by Starvation, In Danger
From Alaskan Indians Who At
tempted Their Lives, and Suffering
From Intense Cold, the Explorer
and His Party Trnversed Thou
sands of Miles In Sledges.
Harry de Windt, leader of the first
expedition to make the overland trip
from Paris to the United States by
way of Russia, Siberia and Alaska, re-
Gently arrived in Seattle on his way to
New York. He sent to the New York
World the following dispatch, giving
the first details of his thrilling and
dangerous journey. He says:
l have experienced nothing but diff
culties from the time l and my COM
panions left the Siberian railway early
in January. We travelled from Irkutsk
to Yakutsk in horse seighs, distance
OF 1000 miles, mostly over the frozen
river Lena. The road was unsafe, owing
to the robbers who infested the region.
They murdered the driver of the mail
sleigh and stole the mail only week
before we passed.
Yakutsk l found to be wooden city
OF mean appearance, with population
of 1000 people, made up of officials,
merchants, eXiles and Yakutes. va
kutsk province, of which 1t is the chief
city, has an area six times the size of
France. We reached Yakutsk after
travelling three weeks from Irkutsk
and on the way had narrow escape
on the Lena from the breaking of the
ice over which we We're travelling.
We had to remain some time in
Yakutsk owing TO the difficulty of pro-
curing reindeer, which We're very
scarce. The governor urged me to
abandon the trip, but resolved to
push on to Verkoyansk, 800 miles dis
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07

and thigh. His father snatched him up
supposing the bones in his limb to be
badly mashed but upon examination
was happy to find that no bones were
broken at all. The injured member
was black and blue and considerably
swollen bnt we saw him an hour or
two after the accident sitting on the
counter of the store at Oakfeld
munching cookies and seemed none
the worse for his narrow escape.
Sam E. Harm, operator and lineman
for the Professor F. P. Hooker tele-
phone system at Extra, and H. r.
Smith drove down to Oakfeld last
Tuesday afternoon where Z" Perk /"
busled himself visiting with his many
old time friends while Sam prepared
to put a telephone in the l. P. Hal
lock store building. Soon Sam had
the wires tapped and all ready to
place the phone in some convenient
place in the store and after moments
thought John w. Cannon, the gentle
manly clerk at this establishment, de-
cided that at the desk near the groce-
ny department, on the north side of
the building, would be the most con-
venient place for it and they began
clearing away to place the instrument
in an upright position when they
were agreeably surprised to behold
the holes already bored, the very ones
Dan Zentmyer, the Extra miller, had
used for the same purpose when he
kept store there. Yes, sir, after more
than forty years of peaceful slumber
Oakfield was awakened, for the first
time, last Tuesday afternoon by being
able to " hello' to the outside world.
John w. Cannon is the gentleman in
charge of the Oakfield 'phone and
when you want to "ring him up"
the call is one long one short and a
long ring.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
New Use For uorscslsins.

One Of the novelties is an automobile
ing coat for men and women made of
horseskin, says the New York Even
ing Journal. Sable and long hair furs
are not suitable, for they catch the
dust. The skins of colts, either in
white or brown, have come in great
favor, the white trimmed with dark
er fur, and automobiles do not dis
dain piebalds. They all require lining.
Helmet shaped headdresses of the
same skin often accompany these
coats.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
Oakfield and Brayton
Directory of Baptist Church.

Sunday services:-
Preaching 10 45a.m. Sunday School 1900 m.
Preaching 7:OOp. m. Junior Society 8 coop. m.
B. P. U. meeting Friday evening, 80 p. m
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, 80 p. m.
Covenant meeting Wednesday evening preced-
Ing first Sunday in each month.
You are cordially invited to attend these SER
vices and worship with u.s..
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
Egyptian Cotton Plant Disease.

Egypt is suffering from new
plague which has come in the form Of
a small, mushroomlike cryptogamous
fungus and is infesting the cotton
plant, says the London Telegraph. AS
IS per cent in value Of Egyptian ex-
ports consist of cotton and cotton
seed this fresh trouble is a matter Of
some moment. Damp and chill, it
seems, favor the destroying agent,
which is of rusty color, and as usual
Is most disastrous on poor soils.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
Lambert.s Oaks.

From Lambert's Oaks, formerly an
Inn, in the parish Of Woodmansterne,
England, the famous Oaks stakes ac-
quires its name. The house was built
by society called the Hunters club"
under lease from the Lambert family.
1t afterward became the residence of
the unfortunate General Burgoyne,
from whom it passed to the eleventh
Earl of Derby, whose grandson, the
twelfth earl, greatly improved it.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
Coral Is the Fad,

Coral is the fad, and nothing in the
way Of summer ornaments is consid-
cred more fashionable. Long strings
of coral that knot just below the waist
line are worn about the neck. OF
course in the real coral these cost
great price, but one can purchase
string of beads that have the real look
to them for nominally small price.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-08-07
A GIFT From Dom Paul.

Free copies Of Mr.. Kruger's book on
the war in South Africa are to be sent
to the rulers, statesmen and elected
representatives Of all the civilized
countries of the world.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
Letter TO 4. o. McEachern OF Will
ntingtOn.

Dear Sir: There are several ways of
cheating in milk. An oid-fashioned way
Is to water it. Nobody WetCls it now.
a better way is to take out the cream-
rich milk with the cream taken out il
as good as poor milk with its cream
all in.
Bue we needn't so into PARTICULARS.
You don't rob your m TX and your
customers.
Paint is as easy as milk t. cheat with
Good paint is as rare as good milk; for
human nature is much Tie same in
milkmen and paint men
You are just and true with your milk:
so are we with I'll paint. Hevoe Lead
and Zinc is twce as eord as mixed
paints. There's twice IS much butter
in It.
Mr.. J. T. Ladd, Cheraw. s. c., writes:
When Mr.. Evans painted his house
with Devoe Lead and ZIrc. Re figured
on the basis Of our claim that a gallon
will cover 500 square fe"t. Two coats.
He had enough left to paint three large
rooms. and was so pleased that he has
used Devoe Lead and Z.nc on two other
houses. Yours ruty.
F. w. DEEOE & CO,
New York.
P. S.-M. w. Divine a Co, sell our
paint,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
SOUTHERN INCREASES WAGES
Engineers Vow Receiving ~staada-s
Pay and Conductors stand Coed
Show for same Scale.

Knoxville. Tenn. December 9.-Au
Engineers OF IN. Southern Railway sys-
,em rave been granted an III .reasc Of
wages. TIE increase is from the pay
Th.ch the engineers have rr.n rrce.H--
NJ a whar is known as &Lnftrd pay.
Snur and o1e-ha.f cents pr mile FOX
.r'iRht engineers and ,h-rs cents Tor
passenger engineer. and pay FOR OYER
time when laid out, etc. fh- increase
Eili amount To at least tea per Cer...
but the cyst feafU.re = hat Ia stand
ard scale is more satisfactory ID the
men. 1t gas Necessary 10 seni 4 CON-
nittee ct one man from each % the
divisions Of the road u Washington
before he matter was s.t.leI
The conductors Of 1Ie system stand
an excellent chance Of getting hitter
money for their serTiecs. \ commit
-ee IS now at Washington for the pur-
Jose IF comforting VI n General Man
iger Ackert. The ~couIG"t3rs also H1ht
h standard wage schedule and all
probably ret IL.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Many Paper Presented nuI Annun
Address of the Preside

New Orleans. December 9.-Thc
American Public Health Association
began its thritieth annual convention
today in Tulane Han. being called TO
order by the president. DR.. Henry D.
Holton. OF Battleboro, Vermont. Dele.
gates were present from nea-,v every
state in the union. and from Clrada.
Mexico. Cuba and Chilli. Among them
are Surgeon General Wyman and Dr..
John Guiteras. the yellow fever ex-
pert.
During the morning session. papers
were read by Marshall Leighton. Unit
ed States photographer. Washington
Rudolph Herring. New York: DR.. L. r.
Lachapelle. Montreal; Manuel Ig=lsia.
Vera Cruz, Mex; DR.. D. A. ChapID,
Providence. r. l.; DR.. Olin II. Lan6rith.
Buffalo, y. Y; DR.. Byron Stanton, en-
c%innati: DR.. George a. Soper. New
York. and D.. E. Salmon, Washington.
D. c.
a resolution by DR.. 5. H. Durgan. OF
Boston. was adopted. asking that con-
gress take some action to show its APP
probation of the great scientific and
sanitary work done by the late DR..
Walter Reid.
A resolution by DR.. John w. Ross,
L.. 5. N. was adopted, requesting con
gress to take such action as will place
sanitary officers in charge of the build
ing of the isthmian canal. so that the
health of those engaged in its construc-
ton might be better guarded.
At the night session. DR.. Holton de
livered his annual address. He said
the most wonderful progress has been
made along sanitary lines, much of il
the result of the work Of his associa-
ton. DR.. Holton urged the association
to take measures that would lead 10
an increased effort TO induce all states
and countries on this continent to es-
tablish a bureau Of vital statistics. The
association was felicitated upon the
establishment Of a public health ser
vice by recent action of congress-; and
DR.. HOlton suggested that this service
could find an extensive action for its
labors on the isthmus, when the work
of construction of the Panama canal
is under way.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
REGRET IN MEXICO.
N"uczurIn's Action Reflects Ds-
credit On all Lntin-imcriea.

Mexico City. Decemb-- 10 FL Impair
cial. organ Of the liberal Iarty and in
many cases speaking UI.ptfir E,.iy for the
administration, ~deploTe.s the conduct Of
Venezuela IN not having made her
credit good with Germany and Great
Britain. thus provoking armed interven-
ton. Fl impartial 5sys J., can never
sufficiently icplOre that SIaC'sh Amer
lean countries should give reasons for
tCts Of hostility on the iar. x powerful
European ITO tt %F-'iUic 10 com-
- with its obligation by cue Of thee
spanish American pe.Jri-s LTIngs dis
credit on all Latin-AIntr icI
The countries should lot presume Oh
their weakness and tI- guarantees Of
the Monror doctrine To ITJId I"ligiousiy
meeting heir International a~hiigatiOas.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
ely's Cream Balm.
COLD lN HEAD
FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
Miner Drops Box Containing Dyna-
mite and Explosion KILLS Four
Men.

WiIkesbarre, Pa. December 9.-Four
men were killed and ten injured, three
probably fatally, by ne explosion of a
box of dynamite in number Eve mine of
the LeIigh and W~ilkesbarre Coal COM
pany at South WiIkesDarrr ;oday. h
names Of the killed are:
Robert Humblebee. carpenter. aged
So. married.
Arthur Jones, company hard, aged Is,
single.
Matthew Phillips. nlirer. aged Sc,
married.
James McGIynn. Iab1rer, aged 50.
married.
The men & been lowered into the
shaft, which is 10 feet der. with a box
uf dynamite weighing fifty pounds.
When the bottom Of tfa shaft was
reached. Phillips took the t@X off the
carriage. II slipped fronI his hands and
fell to the ground. The con, uss.cu
ploded the dynamite ana the twenty
men who We're in the L..IlC1iate vicin-
lily getting their tools i'll readiness to
IgO to their respective ers. were
hurled in all directions. The woodwork
the bottom of the shaft also was torn
scattered about. AS sooE as posi-
BILE. word was sent to the surface and
la rescuing party was s:i,I down. The
dead and injured were ErruSnt to the
as soon as possible. Phillips
was mangled almost beyond recogni-
ton. McGlynn had his aims torn off.
The injured were wrapped in blankets
and sent to their homes
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
FUNERAL OF EX-SPEAKER REED
Simple Ceremonies by n
Great ThronE to Show Their Last
Respect.

Portland, Me-, December 9.-Simple
but impressive services, consisting Of
music, scripture reading. prayer and a
brief eulogy, were held over the remains
iOf former Speaker Thomas Bracket
Reed at the First Parish Unitarian
Ichurch in this city today. The edifice
was thrOnged with a distinguished as
.iassemblage which included the govern
iOrs Of Maine and Massachusetts, the
loyal legion, several grand army posts,
members Of the bar, city officials and
delegates from nearly every political or
iganizatiOn in the state of Maine.
The day was one of mourning
Throughout the city. Many places OF
business were closed during The
moon. Public buildings also were closed
during the day.
After the services, the bod was plac-
led in a tomb in Evergreen cemetery to
wait burial in the spring.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
Justice SiTa. RrtireTeut-

Washing. December 9.-The prSspec-
tive retirement of Justice Siras from
the supreme court, which IL was an
uounced by his son some time 2
would take place at no very dIstant
il is believed here, may result III
the promotion TO the supreme n of
IWiuiam H. Taft. the chairman OF t"f
philippine commission. Should Gov
lernor Taft retire the expectation Is thar
his successor as chairman of the COM
mission will be Genera Luke z. Virgin
lof Tennessee, now vice chairman OF the
commission. Hon ". w. no"
irhe head of the bureau of American
~iRepublics. and who represented the
limited States in China. is mentioned as
la probable successor TO Governor
lNright-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Phil Andrew. A~ppotntc Finance
Clerk ut Raleigh PcstGGcc.
Especial to The Messenger.y

Especial to The Messenger.D
Raleigh, n. c., December 3.-Supreme
court today filed opintor following
cases: Fleming vs.. Railroad from Ire
dell, new trial: Rhea vs.. RdVis. from
B~uncombe. affirmed; Brown Us. Rail-
road from Mecklenburo, M error; Nc
Call vs.. Zachary from Madison error;
State VS.. Hagan from Madison, affirm
ed: Smith vs.. Parker from 3uneonbe,
no error: Thomas VS.. Gwyn from Bun
Combe, affirmed; HOpniUS ". Railroad.
from Tyrrell, error: state -. Stanton,
from Madison, per curia!" affirmed;
Duckworth VS.. Davennor-, from Tran-
sylvania. per cuTlam affirmed. MileS VS..
Railroad, two cases from Madison. per
curiam affirmed: Bened;Ct W. Jones.
motion to dismiss denic-;.
Philip H.. Andrews, WhC i few days
ago was dismissed as assistant post
master here because 4" .JteG the dem
acratiC ticket. was today pointed l.
nance clerk in the post office 1t is =
new position and pays twelve hundred
dollars
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
F"uncl.,l of a Veteran Of the CiNtf
War.

The funeral of the late Mr. w :.
Melton, who was found dsad in his
room on Monday morning a. his home.
NO. . North Eighth street. viii take
place this morning at II O'Clock and the
remains will be taken to M~asonboro for
.interment. The Rev. J. w Potter. pas
tor of Market street NJ. f. church Will
.ofiiciate.
Mr.. Melton was aged 60 years and was
Confederate Veteran having served
with the Salisbury independent voiun-
.teers in tbs Eighth North Carolina reg
Iiment. He leaves a wife n six chill
idren. the latter being Messrs. F. F.. H
"A. c. w. w. p. and ]. w Melton and
Miss Laura Melton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
No Time Limit Was Set.

Berlin. December Sit was Fearned
this evening hat the u'tlmatums TO
Venezuela did not fix Z time limit for
IAN answer, but that the officials OF the
herman, and British legations were in
str,cted TO leave Caracas at the end
lof tventy-four hours after their dehY-
if there was no prospect OF a favor
liable reply. This however. VAS left &C
discretion. The officials could
have extended their stay at tht
icanital if they thought it advisable L
do so and the fact hat thev left. L
taken to mean h a President Castr'
does not show signs or giving IN.