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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-19
FaVorite Costume, Skirt and Waist Silks

22-inch. Black Peau De Sole, at. ..$1.75
23-inch Black Peau De Sole, at.... 1.5O
22-inch. Black Peau De Sole, at.... 125
2O-inch. Black Peau De Sole, at.... LOO
2O-inch Black Peau De Sole, at.... S5
q inch. Black and Colored Coolie
Silks, at ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. .S5
3einch Black Morie Antique, at. 125
22-inch White. Black and Colored
Morie, at LOO
2O-inch. White, Black and Colored
Morie, at .~.......,.......'... rs
36-inch. Black Taffeta (warranted) at 1.35
36-inch BLACK Taffeta, Superior
make, at ..................... 1.25
36-inch. Black Taffeta, at........... LIS
36-inch. Black Taffeta, at .......... LOO
24-inch. Black Taffeta, at ........ rs
1S-inch. Black Taffeta, at.......... so
36-inch. Black Eaffeta Japanese Silk,
at ........'...'.'''.... LUZ
36-inch. White Japanese Silk, at.... rs
27-inch. Black, White and Colored
Japanese Silks, at ................ so
24-inch. Black, White and Colored
Crepe De Chine, at .............. LOO
21-inch. Black, White and Colored
Crepe De Chine, at .................. .S5
91-inch. White and Colored Korean
Crepes, at ...................... 10
24-inch. Printed Silk Foulards, at. LOO
20 TO 24-inch. Individual Waist
Lengths-Patterns, at ....$150 to 500
19-inch. Superior Taffeta, Black,
White and Colors ................ rs
19-inch. Fancy Striped Wash Silks. so
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-19

Several ladies complain that at night
sneak thieves are making raids on their
flower gardens and carrying off plants.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-19

Mr.. w. R. Terry has started a paper
here called 1.-THE New South
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-19

Straw hats were in abundant evidence
yesterday, and fitted in with the beautiful
spring weather.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
LEATHER A
Made of S~heepskin, H~Orsehide and
Observation-Disclosures and Warm.

Mad of Sheepskin, Horsehide ana
Observation-Disclosures and Warm.
Leather coats are made of sheepskin,
of horsehide and of dogskin. They are
lined with corduroy, with flannel, and
with sleeps wool. The corduroy-lined
coats are made reversible, so that they
may be worn either side out. The coats
of sheepskin are usually finished black,
the horsehide and dogskin coats russell
colored. A leather coat of sheepskin,
c~orduroy-lined, costs about five dollars;
horsehide coats sell for $12 to SIS, and
dogskin coats for $18.
Leather coats are worn in the west
by truckmen and policemen and hunt
ers and lumbermen. The leather coat
is serviceable and warm, without great
bulk. The duck shooter lying, per-
haps, for hours in a battery, waiting.
keeps warm in a leather coat. The
sportsman after big game wears a
leather coat. 1t keeps the wearer warm
without impeding his movements.
A leather coat is sometimes worn I'M
der another coat for the sake of its
warmth, as, perhaps, by a policeman.
And the leather coat may be worn with
the corduroy side out, so hat more
leather coats are worn here in cities
than might be supposed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
SHOES POLISHED IN RAG TINE.
Experience ON the BOOtblack'a stand
When "A Hand Organ Came
Along the Street.

"Just after I had got comfortably
settled in n of the leather-cushioned
chairs" said Mr.. Ellington, relates the
New York Sun, there came along the
street one of those big piano organs
with a voice like a ~calliope's, and halted
right in front. 1t was a two-chalr
stand, and there were two men on it..
l was the only customer up at the mo-
ment, and the two each took a foot.
"They had just begun polishing when
the hand organ began to boot 'Loozy-
n Lou Instantly the two backing
artists swung in with the music, and
from that on, with many original rag
time variations of their own, they
piled their brushes and polishing
cloths in time with it. When stepped
down to the sidewalk to be brushed off
both men took up that work, the hand
organp playing now The Georgia Camp
Meeting and the two men coming in
with their whisk brooms with an in
terlocking flip-fiap movement that was
nothing short of marvellous. 1 would
not have been surprised any minute to
see them each turn a c~artwheel hand
spring changing places in the tur' ing,
but keeping up the brushing and ever
for a minute losing time. They kept
right on down to my feet, and putting
in there a singularly able combination
effect in that last final touch around
my hoppers they turned me loose.
81 paid for the polish and put a nickel
in the organ collectors box, for the
backing artists and myself, and then
I walked away, keeping step with the
music, on the sidewalk, on one side of
the hand organ, while a horse pulling a
grocery wagon, and going the same
way, kept step along on the other in
the street. The whole earth seemed to
move, in fact, to the stirring strains OF
rag time"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
SLEEP, WORK AND LONGEVITY.
Proves That the fdea of Eight Tours
Rest Is Erroneous.

Some Of the greatest workers of our
day have done with much less than
eight hours of sleep, says the British
Medical Journal. DR.. James Legge,
professor of Chinese in the University of
Oxford, who has just died at the age Of
81, was, II is said, in the habit of rising
at three a. m. and allowing himself only
five hours Of sleep. Brunei, the famous
engineer, for a considerable part of his
life worked nearly 20 hours a day. Sir
George A. Elliott, afterward Lord
Heathfeid, who was in command
throughout the great siege of Gibraltar,
which lasted four years, never during
all that time slept more than four
hours out of the "a. Gas l get old" said
Humboldt, 81 want more sleep-four
hours at least. When ] was young,
two hours Of sleep were quite enough
for me-" On Prof. Max Muller limiting
that he found this q hard saying, Hum
boldt said: "It is quite a mistake,
though it is very widely spread, that we
want seven or eight hours of sleep.
When l was your age I simply lay down
on the sofa, turned down my lamp. and
after two hours sleep l was as fresh as
ever" He lived to be 80. These ex-
amples are. to use the consecrated
phrase of the photographers. more for
admiration than for imitation; but
they serve to show that longevity and a
small allowance of sleep are not in all
cases incompatible.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
WHY THE COWS LIKED TO LOOK.
She Was No Longer Sensitive About
Her Large Feet.

h Was No Longer Sensitive About
Her Large Feet.
They were in a st. Louis shoe store
the other day, says the Sunday Re-
public, and this is what was overheard.
The speaker was an elegantly dressed
woman with a smiling face. She was
a large woman and the shoe clerk was
looking for a comfortable shoe for her.
"You know ! have such long feet"
she said to her friend. 'The size of
my feet was a great trial to me. The
children at home always leased me,
and | often cried because they were so
ugly. AT IA my feet were as large as
they are now.
IAN old neighbor of ours, who lived
on an adjoining farm, was something of
a Nyag. He was more of a hunter than
n farmer, and he often leased us chill
dren. He would rather talk to us than
TO our elders.
"one day he said to me: The cows
are glad when they see you walking
round, Molly
"'Why2' said I.
because when they look at your
feet they know their hide will never
have to be cut. 1t will take a whole hide
TO make a shoe for YOU"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
NEGROES MAKING PROGRESS.
New YOrk's COlored Population Is
Improving Its Condition
Rapidly.

Though a large proportion of the
negro population of this city still re-
main in the degraded condition which
was the natural result of the races
servitude, there are many-both men
and women-who have broken through
the barriers surrounding them, and
have won for themselves respectable
positions in various walks of life, says
the Scottish American. No longer are
they crowded together to the same ex-
tent as formerly. They are to be found
above the Harlem as well as below it,
and in the suburbs of Brooklyn as well
as in the quarters which in time past
were considered peculiarly their own.
In the latter borough there is a Society
of Sons of Virginia, and in Manhattan
the colored people from North Carolina
have banded themselves under the
name of Sons of the Old North State.
They have several churches of their
own, and also places of instruction in
which pupils are prepared for special
callings.
The negro medical fraternity num-
bers about Is, all with diplomas from
well-known institutions. Five are
graduates of Long Island college, and
Harvard. Dartmouth, the University of
Pennsylvania and Howard university
are all represented.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
RAT HUNTS IN OHIO.
Opposing Armies Frequently Resort
to Trickery.

Opposing Armies Frequently Resort
to Trickery.
Rat hunts are becoming very common
in these parts, says a Bloomingburg
(O.) correspondent, and it is just being
discovered that some very smooth
tricks are being played by the oppos-
ing "armies" of hunters. A rat hunt
has just been concluded here in which
11,455 rat tails were counted, and a
supper was given to the winners. One
crowd brought in 6,S02 tails ard the
other 4,653 tails. 1t now leaks out
that one of the leaders of the winning
crowd bought from parties at Madison
Mills who had recently held a rat hunt
1886 tails, paying one cent each for
the first 1000 tails and two-thirds of
n cent for 4s6 of them, the tails cost
ing more than $12. This enabled this
crowd to come out victorious. When
the tails were purchased a man from
another place was present, but was not
willing to pay so much for the tails.
When the 11,455 tails were counted
out here a man was present from
Plain City and offered to give $25 cash
for 1900 rat tails, but they were all
burned, and he was not allowed to take
any away. 1t now appears that the
same rat tails frequently win victories
in many different rat hunts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
An Arizona mn Of Fare.

ST was at a restaurant out in Ari-
iona once" said a salesman for a
well-known revolver corporation, land
was looking over the bill of fare. 1t
gave a better description of some
features of the country than a whole
volume. For ten cents you could get
some delicious lamb chops and fried
potatoes. But bread and butter were
extra, while a dish of milk toast was
Is cents. You see that meant that
they raise cattle out there for their
meat and o for dairy purposes.
Mich cows are scarce and dear. But
the Chinese broil beefsteak by frying
it and then making the marks of the
griddle with a red-hot poker"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial
District of the State of Idaho, in and for the
County of Custer.
ELIZABETH P. HARRIS, Plaintiff,
FRANCIS HARRIS, Defendant. i
The State of Idaho sends Greeting to the above
named Defendant
You are hereby required to appear in an ac-
tion brought against you by the above named
Plaintiff in the District Court of the Fourth
Judicial District of the State of Idaho, in and
for the County of Custer, and TO answer the
complaint filed therein, within ten days (exclu-
sive OF the day OF s~ervice) after the service on
you of this Summons, if served within the
county or il served out of this county, but in
this District, within twenty days; otherwise
within forty days, or judgment by default will
be taken against you according to the prayer OF
said complaint. The said action is brought TO
obtain a decree dissolying the bonds of matri-
mony heretofore and now existing between the
Plaintiff and Defendant, as will more fully APP
pear by the complaint on file herein, to which
reference is here made, costs of suit and per
hitting Plaintiff to resume her former ZANE,
Elizabeth P. ziiley, and for general relief.
Said action is based on the fact that Defend
ant has for more than four years last past
willfully neglected to provide for Plaintiff the
common necessaries of life.
A copy of said complaint is hereto attached
and made a part of this Summons.
And you are hereby notified that if you fai
to appear aud answer the said complaint, as
above required, the Plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded therein.
Given under my hand and the Seal Of the Dis
trict Court of the Fourth Judicial Dis
OCN trict of the state of Idaho, ia and fol
SeIZ the County of Custer, this Sth day oil
CSI July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and two:
GEO. e. KEYES, Clerk.
w. j. LAMME, Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication July 18th, 1902. We
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02

A New Disease Discovered by "A French
Physician.


"Theater sickness is the name of the
new disease recently discovered by the
eminent French physician, DR.. Morti-
cole, which is at present a topic of a
good deal of discussion in scientific and
lay circles in Paris. The doctor declares
that "theater sickness and sea sickness
resemble one another, take their vic
tins entirely unawares, and prey espe-
cialiy or women The symptoms con-
sist of giddiness, loss of consciousness,
a deep faint, and in perverse cases the
malady causes death. 1t seizes a victim
after he has gazed long at the stage, and
more commonly in tragedy than in
comedy, and, in brief, it constitutes a
species of asphyXia. When men feel
''theater sickness coming ON they be-
come according to DR.. Morticole, obliv-
ious to all considerations of locality and
put their heads between their knees,
while women feel an inclination to re-
cline with their feet at an acute angle
above their heads, so excessive is the
vertigo. Fortunately, cases of "theater
sickness" are as yet the exception
rather than the rule. A theater where
all the mems heads would be bowed
down between their knees, and where
all the women were to have their feet
in the air, would furnish a strange mix
ture of the m%ournful and of the hilari-
OuS
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
DOGS FOR THE kLoNDlKE.
Are Being Gathered I'm All the Large
Cities


The Klondike will open up a new
field of usefulness for the dog. In
Seattle an enterprise is ON foot to ee-
tablish a dog nursery, where the ami
mails will be trained for the Alaska
service and then sent there and sold
to the miners. 1t is believed that the
dogs will solve the yexed problem of
transportation, says the New York
Journal.
EX-Mayor Black and j. b. Powles, of
Seattle, who are behind the enterprise,
are gathering dogs in Chicago, ST.
Paul and other cities. The first car
load of 220 picked animals has already
arrived in Seattle. They have been
gathered with a view Of doing packing
and sled drawing over the Alaska trails.
No spania,s or other sporting dogs
have been secured, but only the hard
footed, long-haired breeds, that will
weigh from 60 to 10 pounds each.
sour object said Mr.. Powles, Gin
bringing the dogs TO Seattle now is to
give them a good training. They will
be placed in charge of Oscar Jones,
who has charge of the Seattle kennels.
We expect TO sell the dogs, and house
and train them from now until spring,
fitting harness to them, breaking them
to drive, and in every way training
them so they can be used as soon as
they reach the trails. We have brought
them in thus early in the season to
avoid risks of cold weather. We ex-
pect to bring a carload from Philadel-
phia soon, and in all will have four or
Gva oo,1oodev
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
ENGLISH.
At Least II Is Supposed to he English
- = A.n-..aA mL.-l- lI-n IL

At Least 1t Is Supposed to BE EnSlhsh,
Bat Ii Doesn't Look Like 1t.
English costers have a language of
their own. There is nothing very re-
markable about it, its chief character
istic being a palpable kind of back
spelling, says Tit-Bits.
In money matters a coster will speak
of a halfpenny as a "hatch," while
''gen" is a shilling; but "teaich-guy'
is eight shillings. Coulter means a
sovereign, "net-gen" passes for half a
sovereign, half a crcSvn being given the
somewhat unpronounceable term,
"latehynorl."
A curious method of expressing multi
pies is shown by "erth-ewif-gens,'
meaning Is shillings. "a doogheno'
means "a good market; "dabheno," q
bad one. "a regular trosseno' stands
for "a regular bad one.n
Eyes and mo- are represented by
"no" and SAY Tumble to your bar
rikin'' expresses understand YOU
"Flash it" signifies "show it," Gross
chap means a thief. "Showfuls" is an
equivalent for bad money,
"Do the tightner'-a very expressive
term, the derivation of w.ch is not
difficult to understand-means "go tt
dinner" "Nommus' stands for "bt
off" and "tol" is a "share."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
Notice of Forfeiture.

To the ADMINISTRATORS Heirs and Assigns and
all persons Interested in the estate of Michael
SPAIN, deceased; and TO Robert Shilling, his
heirs or assigns
TO the Administrative, heirs and assigns of
and all persons interested In the estate Of
Michael SPAIN. deceased You are hereby
notified that we have expended the sum of Five
Hundred Dollars t$500.00) in labor andimprove
ments upon the VANITY" lode mining claim
for the years s9I-iS98-ls99-I9O0 and 1901, in
order to hold said claim under section 23A of
the Revised Statutes of the United States.
Your interest is one -tiftl. in said claim, and
your proportion of such expenditure amounts
to $4,000, besides one-half the cost of this
notice, which amounts to 81 so, making a total
of Sl0T 80.
TO Robert Shilling, his heirs or assigns: You
are hereby notified that we have expended the
sum of Four Hundred Dollars (S400.00) in labor
and improvements upon the VANITY lode
mining claim for the years lS9s-ls99-t900 and
1901, in order to hold said claim under Section
1924 of the Revised Statues of the United Stat
es. Your interest is one fifth in said claim and
your proportion of such expenditure amounts
to 5000, besides e-half the cost of this no
tice. which amounts to S7.50, making a total
amount of SS7.50
Said lode mining claim is situated in Sea-
foam Mining District, Custer county, Idaho.
And if within ninety days after the full pub
LEGATION of this notice you fail or refuse to con-
tribute and pay to us your proportion of such
expenditure as as above stated,
your interest in said claim will become the
property of the subscribers under said Section
1924.
IL. l.. SWEET,
Co-Owners.Y CHARLES WALLER
WILLIAM DUNN.
Dated, Challis, Idaho, March Goth, 1902.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TREE.
A Man of Family Pride who Met with
"a Surprise.

n hAhh Oh hHhliAS GGiOe w AO AASt Will
a Surprise.
A Washington man who prides him
self pom his family connections is just
recovering from an attack OF nervous
prostration, says the Star. This man
lately became possessed of the idea of
constructing a family tree, feeling as
sured he could produce a growth that
would dwarf the giants Of the Califor-
MIA forests into insighifcarce. He be-
gan on one branch of his family, and
soon struck Miles Standish, from whom
he ran various shoots ard offshoots,
with many a feeling of pride. With re-
newed interest he went to work on an
other branch of his growing tree, and
had gone back but four generations
when he was amazed to strike a great
grandfather who had died from stran-
gulation brought on by a rope en-
circling his throat, his death occurring
in the presence of a large gathering of
curious people, who had taken a day off
during harvest time in order to see the
hanging. BY this time the man of fam
lily pride had become intensely disgust
ed with genealogical Investigations, but
all that his friends knew of his disap-
pointment was the fact that he re-
NAMED away from the busy haunts OF
his fellows for several weeks, and the
family physician gave out the informa.
tion that he was the victim of a severe
case of nervous p~rostration.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
MOST PRECIOUS MANUSCRIPT.
The Handwriting of Milton Treas
ured as the Gem of All
English Poets.

We have spoken of the Milton book
at Trinity as being the most precious
manuscript of English literature in
the world, says Edmund Gosse, in At
%lantic, and the longer we consider it's
constitution the less likely we are to
dispute this claim. Nothing of Shakes
peare's works remains in his own hand
writing; nothing important, so far as
we know of Chaucer's, or of Sponsors.
Of later poets, indeed, we possess man
uscripts of more or less value and in
terest. But in no other case that l can
recall, ancient or modern, has it been
our privilege to examine the sheets in
which, through several years of the
highest creative intensity, a great poet
has left on record the very movement
of his mind and the h~esitations and Sc
lections of his art in the act of produc-
ton. When that poet is Milton, the
most splendid artist in verse whom the
English race has produced, the impor-
lance of the document stands revealed
beyond any need of emphasis or in
sistence. Now, in the Trinity manu-
script, everything is the unquestioned
handwriting of Milton, except some of
the sonnets, which have evidently been
copied by successive amanuenses.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
ne Probate Court of the County of Custer.

In the Probate Court of the County of Custer
and State of dab
Estate of Arthur Farren, deceased /:
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned,
Ellen Farren, administrators of the estate OF
Arthur Farren, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against said de-
ceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within four mouths after the first
publication of this notice. to said administra-
trix at her residence at BayhorSe bridge or
salmon river, four miles south of the town OF
BayhorSe, in Custer county. state OF Idaho. the
same being the place for the transaction of the
business of said estate.
ELLEN FARREN, Administrators.
First publication July 18th, 1902.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
what the queen Tnkea with Her.

There are certain things that al
ways accompany Queen Victoria when
she travels abroad, and they make a
goodly showing. They include her
bed, favorite easy chair, and footstool,
a special table, the plate, linen, glass
and china required, her carriage
horses, donkey chair and donkey, har-
ness and other accouterments, a wheel
chair, many pictures and a collection
of framed photographs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
sreaiah Tirewomen.

At the jubilee festivities of King os-
car of Sweden and Norway, one of the
features that appeared most to interest
him was the exhibition of the female
fire brigade of Koenissen. There are
$50 of these young women, from 20 to
80 years old, directed by a male com
mander, who is married.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-02
Desert Land, Final proof-Notioe for Publication.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, J
United States Land Office. :
HALEY, Ida, July 10. 1902. }

Notice is hereby given that Francis j. Hagen
barth, of G%oldburg, Custer county, Idaho, has
filed notice of intention to make proof on his
DESERT land claim No. sos, for the SEA SWh,
Lots 8 and 4, Sec. 10. Lot 1; NE4 NE4, Wa
NE4, NE4 NWA, Sec. 80, TIP. 10 N, R. 23E.,
before the Register and Receiver, at HALEY,
Idaho. on Tuesday, the 2nd day of Sept. 1902.
He names the following witnesses to prove
the complete irrigation and reclamation of said
land:
II. @. Wood, Harry Dunn, Thomas f. Hender-
son, Edward Hunter. All of Goldburg, Idaho.
N. j. SHARP, Register.
First publication July Goth, 1902.