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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
FOREIGN SERVANTS.
Every Country Under the sun Repre-
scented in American
Homes.

We are getting so cosmopolitan that
we almost lose sight of our own nation
atty in some things. We very seldom
hear of anything which is distinctly
American. The things which seem to
appeal to us are distinctly foreign. We
are always looking for something inn
ported, something unusual, something
odd. We certainly have an opportunity
to indulge ourselves in this curious pro-
pensity nowadays in the matter of do
nestle servants as well as in house
furnishings and clothing.
/ do not refer to Irish, English, Ger
man. French or Italian, but to still more
distant countries. When we advertise
for cook we are offered oriental cooks
Chinese or japanese. The former
have a long-established reputation on
the western coast of this country and
are now invading the eastern. Those
who have lived in California know from
experience the fine cooking of the
Chinese as well as their economy. They
are now trying to compete with our
fayorite French cooks in New York.
We are also offered Japanese Wallets
4 and buffers. These little people are ex-
tremely neat, dexterous and quiet about
I the house, as also the East Indians.
4 They all know their business to the mi
nutest detail, and attend to it strictly.
4 They also know their places as servants,
and have no aspirations which inter
fere with their duties. Consequently
\ they are a real comfort.
/ And so we have the greatest variety
/ of nationalities in some of the most ex-
elusive homes of the city. We are
driven by English coachmen, accom-
panied by English footmen; the door is
opened by japanese butler; we. are
attended by an Alsatian valet, take
Russian tea in Turkish corner served
by an East Indian, smoke an Egyptian
cigarette and wonder who we are and
where we are at!''-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
BLIZZARD BROUGHT Joy.
Two Little Eskimo Children In New
York in High Glee over the
Grent storm

It would have been impossible for
the big city TO have prepared better
reception for its little Eskimo visit
ors than the blizzard the weather man
sent. Even the polar bear Gagged in
Central park did not welcome the
frost and snow more than the two lit
tie twin girls from the ice region who
are now housed in a comfortable brick
dwelling in West Thirty-ninth street,
with their foster father, Winner w.
Bruce.
While everyone else in the house was
half frozen Artmarhoke and Zaksriner
sought cakes ice and buckets of snow
in the back yard. They rolled and tum-
bled about, laughing merrily while
their pies and cakes "baked" in the
frost.
30. my, 1 am warm, Artmarboke!"
said one.
80, dear, dear, so am I, Zaksriner,"
said the other.
To cool off they sat in the snow and
made more snow pies TO freeze into ice.
Their eyes glistened like black dia-
monds and their cheeks we're red as
roses. Indoors people were bundled up
in wraps and seemed to think they
never would get warm, while the little
youngsters outside were happy.
Zaksriner spent two hours sewingthe
other day for her baby, blonde-haired
doll of which she is proud. and then ran
over to Capt. Bruce and asked:
''These people don't have such cold
weather like this all the timer
"No, indeed. If this would keep up no
one would go outdoors" said Capt
/ Bruce,
20, wouldn't that be nice if it was al
ways like this? Artmarhoke and
would like it, We just love it,"
But the people in this part Of the
country are not used to such cold,
said Capt. Bruce.
perhaps this weather just came foi
Artmarhoke and myself Maybe il. JUS
followed US here. o, my. suppose-sup
pose-it did. Then wouldn't the people
be mad, and SADLY perhaps they
wouldn't let us stay herel"
Artmarhoke went TO the Museum o
Natural History the other day. wher'
casts are being made of both the chill
dren. Hers is almost. completed
Zaksriner remained athome.
Accompanied by servant from he
: home Artmarhoke went over TO tn
arsenal, leaving the museum, an,
watched the bears snoring in thei
: snow-lined cages.
, "Zaksriner and like the snow jus
s like the bears do" said she. do 70
] get some snow for the bears in sun
!. mer? hope so. You ought ton
g Y. Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
BURGLARS IN SILK HATS.
Their Dress ImpresSes Servants in
Paris and They Gain Adj
mittnnce.

1nnumerable complaints have reached
the Paris police of late touching the ex-
PLOTS of band of burglars. which had
begun operations in the Charonne dis
trict of the capital. This latest add--
ton to the gangs of rogues by which
Paris is too frequently infested is chief
~ distinguished from similar asso-
Citations by the care which its mem
bers devote to their dress. They go
about their nefarious business at
tired as handles of the smartest cate
CORY. Their clothes are of irreproach-
able cut; they would blush TO 60 I'M
gloved, and their patent leather boots
are in themselves a sort of guarantee
of responsibility. Their GROWING
glory, however is their silk hats,
which are of the latest fashionable
shape and shine with luster it would
be hard to surpass. Thus accoutred
they have no difficulty whatever in
obtaining entrance to the houses they
propose to ransack. In broad day
light they politely inquire of the. con-
cierge whether one of his tenants is at
home, and the doorkeeper, impressed
by their agniicentappearance, throws
no difficulty in the way of their eX-
ploring at leisure the house intrusted
TO his care. Well equipped with false
keys and ingeniously contrived jim
mics. they make light of locks and
bolts, and as they disdain all booty ex-
cept money and bonds, their depart
ure excites no suspicion. Last week
alone over 40 burglaries are believed
to have been committed by this gang
In several intances they left note
behind them, addressed to their vic
tins, and in forming them that they had
I had the honor of receiving the visit of
4 the "Silk Hat Band" So far the police
have been outwitted by the gang.-Chi-
cago Evening News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
puNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


Yeast-"Did you take in the play last
night2" Crimsonbeak- NO; it was
j who was taken in. 1t was rank
Yonkers Statesman.
Anxious There are but
few officers, even in the militia, who are
under age. 1t is particularly hard to
make minor a major.-L. A. w. Bull
letin.
Tom-"What are the relations be-
tween you and Miss van Dyld nova
days?' Jack (gloomily) father
and mother, hang it!"-Harvard Lam
pooh.
SHOULD you be much put out if
kissed your he queried. NO, but you
would be, mighty quick" answered her
father from the head of the stairs.-L.
a. w. Bulletin.
An up to date Frankfort man recent
ly gave phantom party, which was
such a success that several of the guests
went home under the influence of spir-
ts.-Philadelphia Record.
''Oh, yes, l can see my weigh clear
enough" said the butcher; but he took
the precaution to stand IN trent of the
scale in such way that his customer
couldn't see it.-Boston Transcript
YES" said the man who thought
deeply; uneasy lies the head that wears
a crown" Huh" shifted the super
fetal creature, what do the fools sleep
in them for ?''-Kansas City Independ-
ent.
Assure Thing. Mrs. May Fair-"Good
morning, Mr. Keane. ] want to run in
4 and see your wife. Is she at homer
/ Mr.. Par Keane-"Yes. She'll be at
1 home all day. When / left she was try
! ing to make up her mind to go out and
have a tooth pulled. IN. o. Times
4 Democrat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
The Blacksmith ana the king.

Some time ago, while holding couvS
in the royal palace, overlooking the
Danube, Francis Joseph received a
Hungarian blacksmith, who desired TO
thank the king for the decoration con-
ferred on him in recognition of his hav-
ing invented an agricultural machine.
During the audience the blacksmith
drew from his pocket two photographs
representing the king and queen, and
said, handing them to his majesty,
May l ask your majesty, and also the
queen, for your signatures?" And
why?" demanded the king, smilingly,
well, when l die the cross of merit
which your majesty has given me will
have to be returned and my children
will at least have your majesties' por-
traits and signatures in remembrance
of this audience" THE queen is alb
sent from Hungary" said the king.
''and l cannot give you my signature at
the present moment, for have neither
pen nor pencil within reach" Il have
brought a pencil with me" said the
smith, handing it to the monarch. The
king thereupon attached his signature
to the photograph, and dismissed the
smith with smile. The smith did not
retire. however, but stood his ground.
rs there anything else 1 can DO for
you?" asked Francis Joseph. YES.
Your majesty, am waiting for my pen
ell" The king had mechanically pock-
eted it. and he returned it with hearty
laugh.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09

There are probably few even among
those who use the typewriter who have
any proper conception of the variety
and universally of the ingenious sub
stitute for the pen. Although only in
its very early youth, it has already
penetrated into every corner of the
earth. 1t has gone with invading
armies and explorers into the very
heart of Africa. Lieut.. Peary has in
troduced it to polar ice, and it has trav-
eled thousands of miles over Siberian
SHOWS. 1t travels with every army and
fleet and it was one of the FIRST things
rescued from the suuken Maine. Two
of the most costly typewriters belong
to the queen and car of Russia. They
are exquisite machines of white enamel
and gold. with keys of ivory. The queen
regent of Spain uses one for her CORE
spondence, the khedive possesses one.
and, in fact, there is scarcely a court in
Europe where the typewriter has not a
place.-N. Y. Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09

tuberculosis has been communi-
Gated to fishes by French bacteriolo-
gists, and proves fatal very quickly to
them, whether the bacilli are derived
from human beings, rabbits, or hens,
or from previously infected fish. Tu-
berculosis bacilli from fish, however,
have very little effect when injected
into rabbits and fowls, the inference be-
ing that their power is nttenuated in
the colder blood of the 6sh.--St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
DIRECTORIES.

SUPREME COURT.
Ralph r. Quarles,
/. N. Sullivan,
Charles Stockslager.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09

CUSTER ENCAMPMENT NO. 10.
Custer Encampment No. 10,I.O.O.F.
holds its regular meetings in the Odd
Fellows hall in Challis, on the Island
3rd Wednesday nights of each month
at g O'clock. Visiting Patriarchs in
GOO d standing welcome.
A. p. CHALLIS, c. P.
Geo. e. Keyes, Scribe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
mann Tricns the CInours.

Peas are proverbially alike, but not
more so than Niger" law students.
And when each wears astrachan hair,
gold spectacles and a Stewart tartan
neektie, DE Manik Lal is as like Dad
abhoy Jamshedii as any two men in
iron masks. This fact is not lost on n
willy Hindoo law student. This bright
young mind has, it is said. taken several
scholarships at Lincoln's Inn under his
own name. He. now, for a considera-
ton. is willing to temporarily adopt
the series of consonants which form the
name of any gentleman with similar
color scheme, and in his improper per
son goes up for end successfully passes
the examinations OF the counel -
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09

9TH be along in about IS minutes.
said the doctor. "What does your fa-
Their think is the matter with him?'
Hes afraid he's gettin' the amen
dicitis, replied Jchnny.-Chicago Trib-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-09
TERMS OF COURT.

Following are the terms of Court in
the Fourth Judicial District of Idaho
for the year 1902:
Lincoln County.
Shoshone. April 81, September %
Cassia County.
Albion. -. March oath, September 2
Gilmore County.
Mt. Home -. May II, October 23rd
Custer County
Challis.. 1000. March 3rd, October 9th
Blaine County
HALEY. ....June 3rd, November 18th
Court to convene at $50 a. M, at
each time and place.
KIRTI.AND I. PERKY, Judge.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23
Feminine PhraseoIogy in Society: MAX O'RELL

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
When a woman says of another that
she has good figure it means that she
squnts, has an extraordinary nose, or
some other defect that makes her face
ugly.
When she says of her:
"Oh, yes, she has a pretty face" that
means that she has bad figure or no fig
urc
When she says: "She is a good, kind
woman it means that she has neither a
good figure nor a pretty face.
If she says: ''She is a cat it Is be-
cause she has good reasons to expect the
other to speak i'll of her. through jealousy
or other motive; but if she says:
''Oh. she is perfectly lovely take it for
granted that she has met her just once
and has received compliments from her.
If she says: "Yes. she is an excellent
person. l will spare you the translation
of this insult
Women use a phraseology which is Pc
cularly their own.
If you are not versed in It, the language
of women will be Hebrew to you, and you
will be condemned to frequent only women
who call spade q spade, and these. let
me tell you, are not worth knowing.
1t is this popularity in women that
makes them so interesting and so full Of
piquancy.
When a woman says to another woman:
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23

he Is the hero of CORY career but when all is said
and done-chi fly sad-the dead and wounded" re-
main alive and aarmingy healthy the hero stables
his Windbroken steed Skaters his lance in pure dis
gust and, having wholly exhausted his enthusiasm,
subsidies.
Spasmodic heroism counts for nothing-less than
nothing. 1t is but a manifestation of weakness, a
hindrance to reform of every Sort encouraging the
enemy and discouragng the allies Honest effort
toots no clarions and pennants but strikes
telling blow when it and then waits for the
next chance. The 'cvic renaissance will come, if
ar all. through the persistent repeated efforts of
earnest every yday people. not through sensational
formers of doubtful endurance and duration. 1t will
be a practical reform opposed to the sounding
brass of shouted platitudes
1t will come when the banker and the hodcarrier
and the brakeman, the butcher. the lawyer the pro-
fessor and the cobb.er undertake quietly to bring it
about of their own accord. Something must occur to
interest them in t-they must become interested in it
naturally. The grandstand, spasmodic hero serves
only to disaffect them He is thoroughly weari-
some nuisance. To ignore him will be a first step to-
ward reformation.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23

Il am fright to-day" she expects her to
answer:
Il have never seen you with a dress
that suits you better"
When she says it to a man, she expects
him to reply:
Il have never seen you look so beauti-
full"
Her remark invites a woman to pay n
compliment to her dress, and man to pay
her one on her looks.
L have got TO dress like ANYBODY else
means, Il have to get as many new hats
ana dresses and as many diamonds the
Wealthiest woman among my friends or
acouaintances; that is to say. hats of big
ger dimensions, gowns of higher price, and
diamonds of greater value"
The husband who. on hearing his wife
say that "she has not got a decent gown to
put on reminds her of how many she
possesses to his knowledge. and goes on
through the enumeration of them, is a
hopeless ass
This phrase simply means that she wants
new dress or a new hat for some coca
SION, party, wedding, a horse show or
to eclipse woman of her acquaintance
who has Stunning new gown
or, may be. the weather has got suddenly
very cold and she wants n velvet dress-to
start from her bosom downward; or the
weather is fearfully hot, and she wants q
hat that will expose the back of her head
to the fierceness of the sun-or 1t may
simply mean, II have not had a new dress
or hat for at least a fortnight.
Men who do not understand these things
ipporaOt hrutes
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23

Many women buy for the love of buying
and paying themselves.
AS a rule. men pay for everything; they
pay the tradespeople, the landlord, the SER
wants.
1t is they who buy and pay always.
In dressmaker's or milliner's shop. it IS
woman who buys and pays.
The bill is sent to her. In that shop she Is
a person of Importance.
People obey her. bow to her. not because
she is beautiful clever (she has enough of
that in society. but because she buys and
pays; for once she feels as important as g.
man; 1t is a little triumph.
In the mouth. of a woman. You do not
understand me- means you understand mo
only too wel-'
Many women, on hearing gossip. even
SANDER on a woman of their acquaintance.
show no sincere indignat ton, but. with
doubling smile. say:
How wicked people are! She may nave
been a little careless. but nothing more
And people leave her drawing-room per-
suaded that she knows the libel to be true.
Unhappy are the women who expect that
their defence will be earnestly undertaken
by their sex
When speaking of man, a woman says:
'Oh, he is a man of no Importance" it
means that women run no danger in his
company and that he is a man who, for
nothing in return. renders services whlch
the other sort Of man would only do for
some extreme reward.
Oh. the ingra titude of womeni How they
despise the man of no Importance!
Copyright. 1902. by W. R Hearst. Great Britain
rights reserved.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23

Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
Denver. Colo, Nov 21.-Out in the great
west. in the cooling shadows of the ma
1estically lonesome hills sits the oJd-time
joker.
His long, dropping mustache is like whit
ened hemp and his eyes. once boldly fixed
upon the setting sun, are now turned bacl;
eastward, the cooped-up land of his Lirth.
Years ago he brought to the camp the
Jokes that made the West famous for its
humor.
Harte and Twain caught the peculiar ia
vor of his nature, the grimness of his Jest
and unconscious of the red light of his
rugged fancy, his humorous tendernesses,
his reckless disregard of human life. he
divided his meat with the stranger and
sang 30 Bowers" when the evenings twi-
light fell
Ecept when his mind was riotous. soli-
tude had compelled him to be truthful
Hardships had made hint generous Trag-
edy's blood on the hands of a newcomer
aroused no suspicious concern. but his hal
ter was waiting for the man who upon a
sluiceboX cast the eye of dishonest envy
Then he was a factor in the scattered af-
fairs of a new worll. Now he is a faded
cipher amid the exact transactions of COM
merc!al development. The color that he
gave to the romance and the life of the
mountains is fading away.
The man who came years later and es-
taDHSned a DanR feSenlS MS huInOr anu
scouts at his exaggeration.
There was time when the tenderfoot ac-
cepted his monstrous recitals. but now, with
the exception Of an occasional Englishman
there are no "tenderfoots''
But when one does come the old fellow
attempts to drag him back into the grim
joshing past.
Into the hotel came smooth. overgait-
cred chap.
He spoke with shawn't and kawn't ac-
cept. and the old-timer, sitting near, was
pleased.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
A near friend of mine makes brick. and
he makes very good brick.
His company has reputation.
Like most men placed he is placed. he
has lots of young fellows who think they
would like to be in his Office.
They would say that they should like to
be on his staff. if they knew enough.
They see very good fellows whom per-
haps they know coming in and out--fellows
who are paid regularly every Monday
morning and who able to go sometimes
to the theater at highland they think
they would like to be in the Norumbega
Brick Company.
That is not its real name. but it will do
for now.
1 suppose my friend has ten such young
fellows who come to him to know if he
can employ them.
And they all OF them have recomme.Is1h-
dations from the High School or some col
lege, perhaps, and they can write a good
hand. and so on, and so on.
WE'LL he is a good-natured fellow, and
he has a particular time of day to talk to
them, and when they come round he is
civil and examines the letters and writes
down the references. and then. when the
man thinks the necessary examination is
over, my friend says to him:
Are you coming into this office because
you want to earn ten dollars a week, or are
you coming here because you want to know
how to make the best brick that is made in
this world and because you want this
company to succeed?"
And he tells me that he thinks he never
makes a mistake-he tells me that he
thinks that In the mere look of the boys
face he can tell whether he wants to help
the world forward by making the best
brick in the world, or whether he wants
a soft thing which shall pay him 80 a
week in an employment where he can wear
boiled shirt and keep his hands clean.
Sir John Lubbock, who Is one of the
wisest men in the world, said in an ad-
dress he made at Glasgow a few years
ago that the difference between a. German
clerk in an English banking house and an
English clerk of the same age could be
easily described.
same observation which nv friend, the
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23
Colorado Up to Date: OPIE READ.

passing through Harvard. wrestles with
football.
Mining has settled down to the running
| of machinery nor does it-thoush sZfvN.ov'
was taken out last year-fepieseh' tAe
product of this great state
stranger would think that agriculture
| had lust been discovered and that II was On
| boom.
In the beet sugar country, not a great
way from Denver, fortunes are mace every
! year A sugar factory costing half mil
| lion dollars is expected to pay for hseii IN
| one season.
For the beets the farmers get $ ton.
and an acre is productive of from twenty
to forty tons. Land which less than three
years ago was almost worthless now seils
for s2C0 an acre.
Out at Greeley the proprietor of an out
fitting store called his son and said to him;
.'Ab, l have come to the conclusion that
you amt worth the powder and lead 1t
would take to kill you. and you must re-
member that ammunition is cheap.
Il am sorry," replied the young man,
but | guess l waj born that way.
But the worst of it is you don't appear
to re gret it"
Il have tried to. father but 1 can't"
Then don't you think you ought to be
cast adrift?'
well, 1 wouldn't mind it,"
you wouldn't. eh? Then 1 won't let you
60" the merchant replied.
TN just keep you here. But I've got TO
punish you somehow. Let me see. All,
have it. I've got $50 acres of land out ten
miles from town. and I'll just make You
deed to it,
The young man protested.
He was willing to acknowledge that he
was of no account but declared that he had
never done anything vicious.
But his pleading was of no avail. The
papers were made out, and now he is the
richest man in the county.
Copyright. 1902, by W. r. Hearst. Great Brit
ain rights reserved.