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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
YOUNGEST ENGINEER.
FOUR YEARS OLD. HE RUNS ON
UNION PACIFIC.
Oils Round Like Veteran-Besldts
Running the Road He Knows Lots
of History and Geography, and Ac-
CURED ais Knowledge without a Tear
(Snecial Letterl

The Brownie Engineer" as the peo-
Pile in the west know him, is a real
person, aged A. His full name is Hume
Gibson Richards, and he lives with his
grandfather, Mr.. Henry A. Richards,
at Laramie, Wyo. To everybody he is
known as Buster" and there is not
an engineer on the Union Pacific sys-
tenn, popular as they all are, who pos
sesses half the popularity owned by
this diminutive throttle-holder. He is,
indeed, the pride of his friends and a
wonder among boys-the greatest lit
tie man on the railways of America.
OF course he is not hired by the rail-
road to run fast express, because
passengers might object to SO much
responsibility on such youthful Shout
ders. But what he doesn't know about
the parts of a locomotive is hardly
worth acquisition. He is as much at
home near the boiler of a big express
locomotive as he is in his own little
bed and speed of fifty or sixty miles
an hour, either at midday or midnight,
has no terrors for his manly little
heart. He has even been known to go
asleep beside the boiler of an express
running at sixty miles an hour. All
must admit that Buster" makes a
remarkable and commanding figure as
an engineer. His regulation suit of
overalls, and his oil can, almost as
large as himself, are attractive and
conspicuous as he stands on the cow
catcher of the locomotive, his little
figure contrasting strangely with the
mighty mass of iron strength behind
He "oiled around" holding his oiler
at real mechanical cant, and running
about the boiler as if he had been
doing it for twenty years. 1t was
amusing to watch the energy which he
put into his work, and the interest on
his boyish face. Most marvellous of all
was that he kept clean. Not a spot to
speak of on his clothes, not smudge
on his face-two facts that entitle him
to the honor of being the cleanest en-
gineer in the world, as well as the
youngest.
The cleverness Of this boy of is
shown by his ability in other direc-
lions than engine-driving. Before he
was 3 years old, so his grandfather
writes, "he could tell all the names
Of the prominent generals and adj
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
RAN AWAY FROM HOME.
And Found Brother Whom He HAD
Never Seen.

And Found Brother Whom He nsS
Never Seen.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Charles Ray
mond, Is years old, was the guest of
honor at an informal banquet held at
the Palmer house the other evening,
given by brother whom he had never
seen until that day. The boy ran
away from the home of his brother-in-
law, Rev. William Wright, a Method
list minister of Muskegon, Mich, be-
cause he could not by reason Of his rel
ative's itinerant habits gain the educa-
tion to which he thought he was en-
titled When he had purchased his
ticket by beat to Chicago the lad had
80 cents left, which he spent the first
day after his arrival. Rev. Mr.. Wright
came to Chicago in search of the boy
and notified the police, but no trace OF
Charlie could be found Meantime the
lad, after passing twenty-four hungry
hours, had secured employment in a
Clark street cigar store. He knew that
his brother David, who had run away
from their home in Trenton, Ont, sew
enteen years ago, was travelling
salesman for an eastern jewelry con-
Germ, and that he made his home in
Elgin, and thither he sent letter. AL
though David Raymond had never
seen his younger brother, the boy hav-
ing been in Michigan on the occasion
of his last visit to Trenton, he imme-
diately sought out the boy at his place
of employment, and Charley trans
ferred his quarters from cheap
lodging house to the Palmer house.
David Raymond invited a score OF
friends to his room to see the night
parade, and incidentally to toast the
future of his adventurous relative.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
CODDLING MEN.
Some Poor Women Have to spend Their
Lives Doing 1t.

Are men spleeny? There is such
thing as keeping a husband well. He
may start out with the idea that he
must be coddled for every ache, but
rightly managed he can, it seems, be
trained away from invalidism, says
the Philadelphia Inquirer. One wife's
recipe for keeping her best beloved in
blooming condition is never to encour-
age him in being sick She triumphant
ly asserts that she never asks him how
he is. She asserts with vigor that years
ago she should have had a confirmed
invalid on her hands had she encour-
aged him to complain. Here is one
ingredient in a very famous remedy
and here is a husband as full of fun
as boy, popular with everybody,
man who never bores other people with
his feelings" There are men, we have
all had to put up with them, who
would consider themselves cheated OF
their rights If friend or foe failed to
listen to a rehash of their fancied all
ments. Such men start out in life with
mothers who coddle and end their days
with wives expected to do as mother
did. If they don't there is the mis-
chief to pay. What a dreary object a
half-sick man is, one suffering from a
touch" of something. He looks as If
every breath would be his last. Some
times he stirs up the entire household,
sometimes he mopes in corner. In
either case he is terror. The more
he is fused over the sicker he gets.
When he is really i'll things are quite
different; he goes to bed and has a
doctor, like a sane man. Then he is
as patient as woman. 1t is the
imaginary sickness that converts
masculine into creature of moods,
a being more pettish than a teething
infant, candidate for a padded cell.
There are men, poor dears, who so
through life doing the coddling. When
they were boys they tip-toed about be-
cause a headachy mother must not be
disturbed. Their married lives are
given up to sick-room ministrations.
Unkind fate has handicapped them
with would-be invalid, woman who
nurses each passing twinge. They lead
dogs life. But at her very worst
woman can never compete with her
brother in matters pertaining to semi
invalidism. 1t takes one of the sterner
sex to make things lively for his
folks" when he is hunting sympathy
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
Girl Life in Greece.

Few persons have any conception of
the life of a Greek maiden. In Greece,
girls are bethTothed while they are
mere infants, and are taught that it is
disgrace to be an old maid. Mar
riages for love are unknown, but a
Greek father is very stern in regard to
young man having ample provision
to support wife. A girls dowry con-
sists of household furniture and linen
rather than money Although most
Greek girls are naturally very pretty,
they begin to paint and powder from
very early age--the cheeks bright
red, the eyebrows and lashes deepest
black, and veins delicately blue. The
result is that they are withered old
women at 40, and thus nowhere are
uglier females to be found than be-
meath the blue skies of this classic
land. Next in Importance to beauty
comes languages. Every Greek family
who can afford it keeps a French nurse
or maid, for French is almost univer-
sally spoken in society. Painting and
music are quite unnecessary, but
girls are carefully trained in dancing
and drilled to conduct themselves with
elegance. Lastly, household duties are
taught; how to make rose jam, Turk
ish coffee and various delicate sweet
meats.-New Orleans Picayune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
WHAT EYES TELL.
Signs by Which Character Is Said to Be
Read Unerringly.


Hazel eyes show steadiness and pow
er of constant affection; green-cat-like
orbs, though frequently fascinating,
are dangerous, for they are a sign of
deceit. Black eyes show strong intel
lect and passions. The eyes of genius
are said to be of varying tints, like the
sea-sometimes blue, tinged with green
or orange; in certain lights, or when
affected by emotion. deep and almost
dark. 1t should never be forgotten
that eyes are more capable of mislead-
ing than any other feature. Widely
expanded eyelids see much without re-
fiecting greatly; they live in the senses
and think little beyond the present
moment. Eyelids half closing over the
eyes denote less facility of impression,
but clearer insight more definite ideas,
greater steadiness in action. Deep-set
eyes, with wrinkles at the outer cor
ners, show penetration and a sense of
humor Eyes set near together, espe-
cially when there are wrinkles across
the nose, are a sign of cunning and
meanness in small things-money mat
tiers and otherwise. Set wide apart, the
character will be generous; if too wide,
careless and eXtravagant. The proper
distance between the eyes is the length
of one eye.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

genius, in fact, that is worthy of it's
nation. Is there any other woodpecker
but Yankee one that could make a
pantry out of telegraph post?
The American bison when he roamed
the prairies also showed an unsuspect-
ed intelligence in adapting the tele-
graph poles as rubbing posts, and
sometimes threw down miles of the
wire. An American, thinking to cure
him of his passion, studded the lower
part of the poles with spikes, but the
hirsute buffalo required no ordinary
currycomb, and ever after preferred
the spikiest poles. Elephants have
also amused themselves by uprooting
hundreds of poles with their trunks,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
BEAR

apparently for no other purpose than
to get rid of their superfluous energy.
Ants are feeble folks compared to
elephants, yet they are far more de-
structive to the telegraph. In tropical
countries the white ants, or termites,
devour wooden poles in short time,
and it has been found expedient to
employ posts impregnated with oil Of
creosote, or, better, still, posts of iron,
where these tiny marauders are known
to swarm. In Japan there is spider
which is very troublesome to the tele-
graph men, owing to its habit of spin
ming webs from wire to wire, and caus-
ing a leakage of the electric current
from one wire to another, especially
in the morning, when the webs are
heavy with dew.
Submarine lines would appear to be
snugly out of harms way, but they,
too, have their pests. The limnoria
worm and xylophaga shellfish devour
bosA the hemp and gutta percha which
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

The dining car service of the Denver %
Rio Grande Railroad is proving great
convenience to the travelling public. Ele,
giant dining cars are attached to all trains
leaving Denver on this popular road, where
meals are served in manner pleasing to
all travellers, and at moderate prices. The
enjoyment of trip through Colorado's
wonderful scenery that abounds along the
road is enhanced by the dining car and
other conveniences that have been adopted
address S. X. Hooper, General Passenger
and Ticket Agent, Denver, or II. M. Cush-
ing, Travelling Passenger Agent, 100 West
Second South Street, Salt Lake City.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
Tine and Distance AnnIhilated

IN Keeping with its past unapproachabls
record, Union Pacific r. r., the Great
overland Route, will, on October 18th,
place in service an entirely new, strictly
hrst-class limited train to be known by the
old familiar name of "The Overland Linn.
tied" This in addition to the present OK,
eellent schedule which will be continued.
Ahe NEW OVERLAND LIMITED will
leave Salt Lake City daily at 1l:5 a. M.
ogden 10 p. M, arrive Denver o a. m.
onaha f;lo p. m, and Chicago 8 80 a. M.
In ample time for all eastern connections "a
New York, Boston, Washington, etc. and
DO the most handsomely equipped and fass.
est train ever given to the western peonls
as usual there will be no change OF cars to
Denver, Omaha and Chicago, and only one
chanse to principal eastern cities Further
particulars at company's office, "old
stand" POI Main street, Salt Lake City.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
where Elephants sim Abound.

Through the British Central African
Gazette comes bit of news which will
interest many others beside tne hunt
ers of big game. 1t is to the effect
that the decrease in the number of ele-
plants, which has been so universally
regretted. seems to have been arrest
ed in the British Central Africa Pro-
tectorate. The only people who, APP
parently, would rejoice in the extinc-
ton of the elephant. the natives of tho
country, have recently complained to
the English authorities of the damage
done By the great beasts to their
limitations
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
New Dining Car Service.

Effective June 1st the Rio Grande West
ern railway began operating its new din
ing cars, serving all meals on all its through
trains. The Arrangement included No. .
leaving Ogden at 7:80 a m. and Salt Lake
City at $3.50 a. IA. also No. leaving Og-
den at 6:35 p M and Salt Lake City al
g;40 p. M. The west-bound through trains,
both morning and night, will also carry
diners. The cuisine is as perfect as it is
possible to make it. Service, a la carte
so that you can have your coffee and
rolls" for breakfast, or you can select from
menu as elaborate and complete as the
market of Utah tan supply.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
Thunder and Fels.

From the London Telegraph: How
was it that our Shakespeare knew ev-
erything- except, perhaps, the exact
geography of Bohemia? He makes one
of his characters say: Thunder shall
not so stir the beds of eels," etc., and
lately, at Sandwich, thousand of dead
cells have been found floating in the
Deli stream, near that town, after the
recent thunderstorms, Are they SO
sensitive, and is that why there are
electric cells? 1t is very curious!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
NUMEROUS ENEMIES.
DESTROY TELEGRAPH LINES ON
LAND AND WATER.
WoOdpeckers, Bisons, Elephants Join
Forces with Ants, Spiders, sawfish and
Various Other Creatures. and Make Life
of the Repairman AN Arduous One.

Special Letter: Telegraph wires,
whether strung on poles or laid along
the bottom of the sea, are harmless.
inoffensive things, and by no means
attractive in appearance. Yet they
have numerous enemies, in the animal
as well as the vegetable world. The
other day newly erected line which
runs through the forests of Aristook,
in northern Maine, was damaged by
the black bears, who persist in climb
ing the poles and breaking off the
porcelain cups or insulators that sup
port the wires. 1t has been supposed
that he mistakes the insulators for his
favorite crabapples, and there is little
doubt that he regards them as some
thing to eat.
There is large woodpecker in Nor
way which is deluded by the humming
of the wind in the wires like an Aeo-
liam harp, and fancies there is nest of
insects inside the pole To reach them
he tolls for days, and pecks great holes
In the wooden posts, or even through
and through them, only to discover,
as men have done before him, that his
promised feast of delights was pndn-
tom of his own creation, and his labors
all in vain.
Wiser in his generation is the green
woodpecker of California, which makes
larder of the red cedar telegraph
poles. 1t riddles the top of the post
with small pits, and fills them with
acorns-a nut in each cavity-thus
providing against a winter famine.
Surely this bird displays an ingenuity,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
WHAT THE CRITICS WOULD SAY
To One Who Should Invent Situations
Such as These.

Such as These.
My Lord Byron risking on the toss
of a copper whether or no he would re-
new his suit to Miss Millbank. Count
Rumford, wisest of philosophers,
spending four years in counting La
Voissiers widow, yet writing of her
later: 81 have the misfortune to be
married to one of the most imperious,
tyrannical, unfeeling women that ever
existed, whose perseverance in follow
ing an object is only equaled by her
wickedness in framing it," My Lord
Chancellor Eldon marrying his cook
in fear of losing her services, and be-
ing rewarded in finding that as my
lady" she ignored the kitchen. Guizot,
the great Frenchman, falling in love
with woman through her contriba-
tions to Paris paper, and then when
she, still unknown to him, fell i'll, con-
tinuing them under her name, in order
that her income might not cease. The
explorer who, reaching in the heart of
Africa place where a white man
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
The Weed-pestroxers.

The Department of Agriculture an
nounces that the best weed destroyers
among the birds of this country are the
Eoldfnches, the grosbeaks and the ma
live sparrows. The destruction is eff
lected by eating the seeds. The I'm
glish sparrow is too much OF a pillager
10 be included among the more useful
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
no EXCUSE for rhem.

New York Weekly, Mother-I donH
see why you and your husband SHOULD
have so much trouble. You don't be-
long to different churches, do you'll
Daughter-No, mother. Mother Then
there is no excuse for fighting like
cats and dogs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
are You using Allen,s Foot-EaseY

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c Sample sent FREE. Adj
dress Allen S. olmsted Leroy, N. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

Mr.. Pepper don't believe there
was dry eye IN the house when the
curtain went down on the third act"
Mrs. Pepper-''No; but there seemed to
be the usual number Of dry throats.' 2
STRAY StoriRa.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

Victims of tea poisoning are becoming
alarmingly prevalent Women demand the
life and variety of Health, and instead OF
doing it naturally by building up their sys-
tenn they resort to tea. They should talks
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t tones up
the nerves, regulates the bowels and cures
lvsnansia.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, says: ~
am comfortably well off, but never felt /
could afford to pay five cents for street
car ride when could buy six tickets for a
quarter" And he always buys six tickets
and thus rides for 1-6 cents.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

Pugilist Fitzbiffery (dlsgusted) Say,
Mike, dis yacht vfsitin' bizniz is a reg
ular fake. l came aboard dis yacht ter
see de "spars," an now | find out dat
dey hain't no one goin ter Spar
Judge
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
New Cars for the Baltimore q Ohie
Railroad.

Within the past 80 days the Balti-
more and Ohio Rail Road has placed
several orders for new freight equip
ment to meet the excessive demand for
cars. The South Baltimore Car Works
is building 1900 Baltimore and Ohio
standard box cars with all modern i'm
provements. The American Car and
Foundry Company has an order for
$50 refrigerator cars and 10 improved
horse cars have also been ordered.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21
Ancient wIadnn.

All mechanical powers, the screw,
lever, pulley, inclined plane. wedge,
wheel and axle, were known to the
ancients and used in everyday life.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

Expensive woIf ros..

Fully 100000 domestic animals val
ned at 100000, are sanrally davoured
by the wolves in Rus,i.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

Mrs Clara Makemer, housekeeper
for the Florence Crittenden Anchorage
Mission, of Chicago, writes the follow
ing letter from 202 Chestnut street,
Chicago:
"Peruna is the best tonic l have ever
known for general debility, a sure
cure for liver complaint, and never
failing adjuster in cases of dyspepsia.
Il have used it in cases of female
Irregularities and weak nerves com
mon to the sex, and have found 1t
most satisfactory"
From early girlhood to the end of
the collaborating period few women
are entirely free from some degree of
catarrh of the pelvic organs.
With Peruna the thousand and one
ailments dependent upon catarrh OF
the pelvic organs can be wholly
averted.
Health and Beauty" sent free to
women only, by The Peruna Medicine
Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Wireless Teiegraphv in Hawaii
Wireless telegraphy is to be ssed as q
means of communication between the
different islands in the Hawaiian
group.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-21

The woman who marriss her ideal
man generally wishes that she hadn't.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30
Plays and Players.

Harry Langdon will soon become one of
the guests at the Actors Fund home.
Herbert Cawthorn. so long successful in
the title role of The Burgomaster," will
be seen this season in Blue Beard"
Emilio de march,, the leading italian
tenor of the Maurice Grau Opera company.
arrived In New York on Stella last Thurs
day.
Mile. Ventura, daughter of a Roumanian
actress, has captivated the critics at the
Paris Conservatoire by her extraordinarily
tragic acting.
Herbert Sheath OF Weldon G~rossmith's
company, has secured Edgar Selwyn's play,
The Adoption OF Archibald" which he
means TO present at the Avenue theater,
London.
Among the members of the Maurice Grau
Opera company who arrived here from Eu-
rope last week, were Nine. Kirby Lunn, the
English contralto; Adolph Muhlmann, the
basso, and Nine. Schumann-Heink.
Henry w. Savage and George AIDE re-
turned from Europe last Thursday. While
In London Mr.. Savage purchased a number
OF songs by prominent English composers
that he will Introduce in his coming pro-
auctions.
Wilson Enes and wife, Gertrude Berkeley,
who, are we'll remembered in Omaha in con-
nection with the Woodward Stock company,
have leased from Woodward & Burgess the
Century theater at Kansas City, and will
reopen II at once with a stock company. 1t
Will be known as the Gertrude Berkeley
Playhouse"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30
ROASTED TO DEATH IN CAR
Filled with Horses, Hogs and Chick
ems and Burns in a Moving
Train.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Nov. 29.-(Special.)-A
box car blazing fercely, filled with horses,
hogs and chickens, was hauled from the
west end OF the Grand Island bridge to
Ninth street and Doniphan avenue, a dis
lance Of one mile, as part Of a Rock Island
freight train yesterday.
All the animals we're suffocated except a
horse, which was shot shortly after its re-
moval from the car. Thu car was also oc-
cupied by ]. F.. Black, who was shipping his
goods from Montrose, Kan, to Eldon, la. He
slept in the car during the trip and kept a
lantern hanging in the car, 1t was this lam
tern that started the blaze. His loss is
Sc, 200.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30
The NIobrara Line Completed.

The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri VAL
ley railroad has completed it's Niobrara
line. Trains daily except Sunday between
omaha and Bonesteel, South Dakota.
Leave Omaha 1880 a. m. Leave Bonesteel,
eastbound, 1885 a. m, due Omaha 1925
a. m.
The opening of this line enables people
to reach the eastern border Of the Rose
bud reservation.
Watch next congress and see what is
done about opening this reservation to
settlement and in the meantime examine
the land. Homeseekers' rates first and
third Tuesdays each month. One fare,
plus 81; minimum, 50; round trip limit, 21
days.
Ask any agent Northwestern line.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30
At1uSef

the actor who seeks TO portray solely the
carnal side Of human affection will have
but empty seats before him. No art has
ever made obscenity attractive, and the
line between some modern plays and down
right obscenity is very narrow indeed.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30
Exhibition.

Mrs. oreta NJ. Mckay and Mrs. M. J.
Matthews announce their
Annual Art exhibition and Sale
To be held at 1910 North 18th street,
Thursday. Friday and Saturday. December
4. 5 and 6, 10 A. NJ. to 10 p. NJ. Yourself
and friends are cordially invited.