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The Globe-republican., 1903-04-02

ALL UP-To-DATE H0UsEKEEPERs
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. ALI groceTs.
All women may be jewels but great
deal depends upon the setting.
INSIST ON GETTING rT.

MISSION GETTING IT.
Some grocers say they don't keep Dc.
tiance Starch because they have stock
in hand Of 10 OF, brands, which they
know cannot be sold to q customer
who has once used the 10 oz. pkg. De-
f1ance Starch for same money.
The Globe-republican., 1903-04-02

We're there Ihnight schools in the
Dark Agesf
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
White Feathers

No white pigments have been found
in feathers. The color of white feath-
ers is usually explained to be due to a
total reflection of the incident light
from air spaces or bubbles in the
feather structure. White feathers do
not differ essentially in structure from
black, red or other colored ones. ex-
cept in the fact that no pigment is
present. Though some of the white
comes from the walls of the air-con-
tanning medullary cells of the barb,
the larger portion is produced by the
barbules which have no air spaces.
The white effect, as with snow or pow
dered glass, is dependent upon the
small size of the structural elements.
These have a large number of sur
faces so placed for any position of the
eye that the angle of incidence equals
the angle of reflection with a maxi
mum reflection to the eye. There is
almost no absorption by the unpig.
mented feather substance, and the
amount of light transmitted through
the feather from objects behind it is
so small as to be imperceptible to the
unaided eye in the intense reflection of
light.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
Wireless TeIearaphY.

The recent experiments of Marconi
on board the Italian cruiser Carlo AL
berto have been reported upon by M.
Solari, who concludes:
First-There is no limit to the dis
lance to which electric waves may be
transmitted at the earth's surface, pro-
vided the energy is increased as the
distance increases.
Second-Material obstacles inter.
posed between the transmitter and the
receiver do not interrupt communica-
ton.
Third-The effect of sunlight is to
diminish the field of radiation of the
electric waves, so that a greater en-
ergy is required by day than by night
to do the same work.
Fourth-The influence of atmospher-
ic discharges forces us to reduce the
sensitiveness of the receivers SO as to
make them independent of these dis
charges, and at the same time it is
necessary to increase the energy of
transmission to obtain the desired eff.
fects
Fifth-Wireless telegraphy has
reached point where it must be reck.
oned with in commerce as well as in
war.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

Whatever you do, never let a WON
an manage anything" growled Dudley.
To Landon the advice seemed super
fuous, but he looked interested.
ITO square myself for not taking my
sister to the kirmess l bought a dress
circle seat for the matinee" explained
Dudley. Then we received word that
an Eastern cousin would be here Sat
urday on her way West and Western
cousin would be in Chicago the same
afternoon. proposed giving up the
theater, but my sister said the girls
would rather see the play than talk to
us, so bought two more seats. /
thought one of my cotisiRs would be
willing to sit in the back row of the
balcony, just for the pleasure of being
with me, but my sister said that the
girl who had to sit with me deserved
the best seat as a reward. Anyway. as
Cousin Ella would want to visit with
each of us and also Cousin Clara, she
thought we ought to change partners
for each act. Saturday arrived and so
did the girls and as four people in
the dress circle stood up to let Cousin
Ella and me get to our seats | could
see the admiring glances cast at my
cousins gorgeous red hair and magnifi-
cent figure, felt that was the envy
of all the men. AS the end of the first
act the people made no comment when
we left, but our four neighbors stood
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

Sliding Weight Drives the Hook Out
profanity, for he has provided himself
with the little fishhook releasing de-
vice which has just been introduced
by Michigan inventor This is prob
ably the first device which could be
sent directly to the cause of the trou-
BILE, and there is little doubt that it
Will accomplish its purpose The in
vention consists of a tubular section
OF lead, with a cord attached to raise
and lower it on the line, and 1t is OBJ
vious that If the fisherman pulls the
tube up and allows it to drop on the
hook number of times the latter will
be driven out of the snag to which it
has become attached. To permit this
weight to be slipped over the line with
out liability of becoming detached as
it falls, the slot through which the
line is passed is in the form of a
double spiral, making it easy to slip
the tube on the line and drop it down
until it strikes the hook.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
nzslIIf1zgz::

Mrs. Boardby already had expert
enced over two years of married life
when her friend Lucille became a
bride. Consequently she looked with
patronizing sympathy upon the young
er woman's housekeeping.
Six months after Lucille had settled
down to housewife existence she and
her husband dined with the Board
bys.
ooh, by the way, Mr.. Livingston, I"
said Mrs. Boardsby, after the dessert
had been served, Lucille tells me
that she is foolish enough to buy her
butter at the tea store down town.
I'll warrant they're palming off but
terine on her for creamery butter.
Now, don't take any chances on that.
was pretty lucky, however. l must
admit. Just week after we started
in housekeeping an old farmer came to
the door one morning. He wanted to
ell me some butter, and he asked
e5ree cents under the market price
He told me all about his cows and
their names and he seemed to feel
pleased when | told him about my I'm
Gle Jim down in Vermilion county. de
said on account of my uncle being a
farmer he'd make the butter a cent
cheaper on the pound.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

The original carnation was a five
petalled bloom native in the south of
Italy. 1t was imported into England
about the time of the Norman Con-
quest. AS early as 1919 horticultural
works gave minute directions for the
cultivation of the flowers in winter.
The carnation industry has risen to
considerable Importance during the last
ten years, according to Town and
Country. AS 100000 young carnation
plants are sold each year and florists
produce an equal amount grown by
themselves which are not sold, the en-
tire production of young carnation
plants approximates 100000 and up
ward year. These plants are grown
under glass during the winter time for
cut flower purposes. producing an an
nual average of more than 100,OO0.000
blooms. What becomes of this enor-
nous number OF flowers is somewhat
of mystery. They are put TO innnSa@
sr&ble uses
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

Peat has about half the heating
power of coal and double that of
wood.
A mercury atom is reckoned to have
2O0x700, or 100000 electrons all slowed
away inside.
All chemical affinity is traced to az.
gregations of electrons. or atoms, with
odd or unbalanced electrons, either
positive or negative.
Every atom is composed Of positive
and negative electrons or vagrant cleo.
trio charges in space. Just how such
a charge exists in space or what its
mechanism is does not yet appear.
1t is familiar fact that a lawn
which is once watered during a dry
season will have to be frequently
watered or the grass will suffer often.
times more than if it had not been
watered at ALL The first watering in
duces a supergcial root development
which must be supplied frequently
with water.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
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MlS<4IRG9N6Nz1E
~'$ O.

Mr.. Fitzgerald believes that how
ever well woman may do a thing
man could do it better. Mrs. Fizger-
aid carries on the benevolent enter
prises of the household and Mr.. Fitz-
gerald generously furnishes the
money. Recently, the wife, having
an invitation to spend a month in the
South, permitted her husband to look
after her work of benevolence.
therefore when Mr. Fitzgerald
kissed her goodbye she produced
from her pocket memorandum,
saying that she had there noted few
OF her most special cases, which she
hoped he would look after This
memorandum read as follows:
"McBriarity family, very numer-
Gus. Father, alcohol; mother. wash
ing; children, half-fed and half
clothed. Must be helped
Joe Barnaby, shoemaker in alley.
trying hard to reform. Help along
with wholesome food.
Grandma Delaney, remnant of fine
old family; very aristocratic. All
necessities supplied, but depends on
me to keep her in wine tonics, brand
led peaches and like deIicacies."
Mr.. Fitzgerald smiled as he read.
Why" he declared, "she hasn't learn
ed the rudiments of science yet. Vast
ing her money and time without sys-
TEN. But why should l use my s25-a-
day brains and energy on so simple
a matter?"
Then, hastily writing three orders.
ne told the office boy to telephone
them to the biggest grocery and pro-
vision dealer, with request to dupli-
cate the orders weekly.
A few days later Mrs. McBriarity
called. She came to explain that her
husband had pawned the last bushel
of coal for the purpose of heating his
interior. Mr. Fitzgerald sent with
her an able-bodied clerk to summon
McBriarity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

up in establishment when l returned
with my sister, who is of medium
height and has brown hair. Before the
end of the second act began wishing
for a fire and wondering if l couldn't
climb over the back of the chair and
pull my sister after me rather than
make the four stand up again"
Why didn't you leave your sisteh
there and send your Cousin Ella
back7"
She wouldn't be left, and as she
put on her hat the neighbors began
snickering. The four bit their lips as
we passed. Once in the balcony l Of
fered the girls all sorts OF inducements
to let me of, but what is one man
against three women?"
Landon shook his head as one who
also had had troubles.
Il put on my glasses and looked as
dignified as possible" said Dudley, as
stalked back with Cousin Clara. who
is petite blonde, but the ill-man-
nered people around us were not at
all awed. One idiotic person behind
us began cracking jokes about killing
three birds with one theater ticket.
They even began wondering aloud if
the other girls were waiting on the
sidewalk. The afternoon was rather
expensive, but it made me feel like 80
cents"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

An association has been formed by
some of the most prominent men in
England to force Parliament to author
lie the formation of royal commits.
sion which shall inves. gaze the ques-
ton of feeding England in time of
war. In a recent manifesto it is point
ed out that more than one-half of the
forty-one millions who make the popu-
lation of the country have an income
which averages less than fifty shillings
a week. Seven million do not average
twenty-three shillings. In case of war
even the fear of shortage would imme-
diately bring food to famine prices and
it would be but short time before
the conditions became intolerable. The
idea of this new association is the ulti-
mate establishment of great granaries
which would hold a reserve supply of
food.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

We'll, the end Of it was 1 had him
bring me three pounds a week, so
we've been enjoying fine butter fresh
from the farm all this time"
Not long ago the two families came
together again for the first time since
the dinner at the Boardbys.
"oh. Mrs. Boardby, I've been want
ing so long to see you" said Mrs. Liv-
ingston, and get the address of that
delightful old farmer who brings you
butter"
"Why-ah-you know, he has quit
coming" responded Mrs. Boardby.
Boardby was chuckling. Go on,
my dear, and tell her when he quit, ("
he suggested.
"Oh, it was the last week in June"
his wife responded. trying to appear
Indifferent. Some more coffee. MIR.
Livingston?"
Yes" went on Boardby, sit may be
that the dear old hayseed retired. or
Mollie and Susie and the other cows
we used to hear so much about came
to an untimely end. But am inclined
to think that our unsophisti0ated
friend must read the newspapers. He
stopped coming on June % and the
oleomargarine law went into effect on
July l."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
QUIT AND EAT.
Some Coffee Tales.

Show a woman an easy, comforta-
BILE and healthful way to improve her
complexion and she is naturally in
terested.
Coffee is the one greatest enemy of
fair women. for in the most of cases
it directly affects the stomach pro-
dueing slight. and sometimes great
congestion of the liver and therefore
causing the bile to be absorbed into
the system instead of going its nat
ural way. The result is a sallow,
muddy skin and a train of diseases of
the different organs Of the body
which, in all too many cases, develop
into chronic diseases.
A lady speaking of how coffee af-
fected her says: Il was very fond of
coffee but while drinking it was UNI
der the care of the doctor most of the
time for liver trouble, and was com
PEELED to take blue mass a great deal
of the time. My complexion was bad
and had a pain in my side steadily,
probably in the liver.
When | concluded to quit coffee
and take Postum Food Coffee had
it made carefully and from the very
first cup we liked the taste of 1t bet
ter than any of the old coffee.
I'm a short time the pain left nv
side and my friends began to com
ment on the change in my complexion
and general looks. have never seen
anything equal to the good / got from
making this change.
"A young lawyer in Philadelphia
named -, whose life was almost q
burden from indigestion and its train
of evils, quit coffee some months ago
and began on Postum Food Coffee.
He quickly recovered and is now well,
strong and cheerful and naturally
loud in his praises Of Postum.
Another friend. an old gentleman
of seventy. named -, who for years
suffered all one could suffer and live.
from dyspepsia, and who sometimes
for weeks could eat no bread or solid
food, only little weak Cruel or milk,
quit coffee upon my recommendation
and took up Postum. He began to get
better at once. Now he can eat rich
pastry or whatever he likes ard is
perfectly we'll"
Names given by Postum Co., Bat
tie Creek. Mich.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
POPULAR SCIENCE

ard the result is a metal that win not
expand.
An oil-containing lens, recently in.
vented, enables the photographer to
take snapshot of such places as thea.
tiers witloGt the air of a fashight. an
out-ofdoor exposure OF fifteen minutes
on a pitch dark night will secure a
good picture of the scenery, while one
minute will be sufficient if the moon
is shining. This lens is based on the
wel[known fact that certain oils have
very great light-rehecting powers, and
the inventor claims for it an immense
advantage over the all-gIass lenses.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
LAUGH AND BE WELL.
Effective Prescription That Should Be
Easy tc Fill

Effective PRESCRIPTION That Should Be
Easy tc Fill.
Be jolly by all means. The latest
is the Laughter cure" which has
the merit of being rational if nothing
else, for from time immemorial the
effect of good hearty laugh has been
regarded as a healthy tonic for the
melancholic and restorative for the
depressed
Another ancient physician recon-
mended good laugh as a powerful
means of "desopilating the Spleen"
whatever that may mean; while a
third writes of laughter as "a mighty
stimulant to the liver and a lifter-up
of the heart" Coming to more re-
cent times, Foussagrives believed
mirth to be the most powerful lever of
health, while Tissot claims to have
cured scrofulous children by tickling
them and making them laugh.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

The shareholders Of a big corpora
ton were preparing to convene in the
Office of their counsel, Mr.. Fitzgerald.
when the clerk returned with the Of
fender.
Taking the candidate for benef-
cence aside, Mr.. Fitzgerald stated
with great force certain excellent
principles adapted to the private con
conduct of a father of eleven child
reh. However. before he had com
pleted his exhortation McBriarity in
quired with spirit: I'D like to know
who guy you the right to run me and
the old woman and the kids, and
amt it a free country"
There was a sound of whizzing ink
bottles and crashing law books. After
that the stockholders meeting tenn
porarily adjourned in order that a
physician might have an opportunity
to patch up the countenance of the
lawyer.
Mrs. Fitzgerald arrived home quite
Unexpectedly the third week after her
ACP0A I'LL anu alhEQ ll4lO uCI nus
bands Office with the face of an
avenging angel.
MY dear, I'm delighted to see you, -
exclaimed her husband
Thank you" she replied, coldIy.
DO you know that 1 found our back
porch piled high with provisions of
all kinds, accompanied by a note
from. Grandma Delaney, stating with
all the force of her aristocratic vo-
cabulary that when she was ready for
the poorhouse she would inform her
friends? l have learned, too, that
some Good Samaritan has seen fit
to accelerate old Uncle Joe's journey
to the grave by way of the alcohol
route by sending him a weekly supply
of wines and branded peaches. But
what is the matter with your face?
Applied benevolence, my DEAR"
he said.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

Governor S. w. I. Lanham of Texas
has sent in his first veto. 1t disap-
proves a bill allowing the marriage Of
a man to his step-daughter and of a
widow to her daughters husband after
that daughters death. The Governor
says he can see no good reason for the
legislation proposed, or that it is nee
essary either from public policy or
sound morality Applause followed the
reading of the veto in the House.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
To Aid Deaf and Blind Mute.

Heretofore the language of deaf
mutes has been confined to the manip-
ulation of the fingers or movement of
the lips, both of which are difficult to
learn and can only be communicated
in the light and within the range of
vision, while he language of blind
mutes is limited to raised letters. By
the use of the apparatus here pic
tured these unfortunates are enabled
to dispense with the language meth
DDS above mentioned and can converse
freely, rapidly and accurately, as well
in the dark as in the light This ap-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
Railway Fusee Pro iector.

When fusees or signal torches are
thrown from a moving train to give
warning to one following on the same
track they receive the momentum Of
the train and strike the track or road.
bed with considerable impact, which
has been found in practice to mutilate
and destroy large number of the sig
nails, or else extinguish the flame. Az
this necessitates the throwing of other
torches, at extra expense, there seems
to be an opening for the projecting de-
vice shown in the picture AS will be
seen. its purpose is to overcome the
momentum of the train and permit the
torch to fall gently to the roadway
without liability of extinguishing the
flame or breaking up the combustible
material. The protector can be at
tached to the last platform of the train
and with the spiral ejecting spring set
at an indicated tension to correspond
approximately with the speed of the
cars, it is an easy matter to insert tn
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
oruo DRINKING in London.

The new license act in London has
brought to light the fact that great
quantity of drugs that cannot be
brought within the meaning of the
act as intoxicants are drunk by PEG.
Pile. upon whom it has the effect OF
habitual drunkenness. Among things
that are thus consumed are methylat-
ed spirits and eau de cologne. and the
practice is especially prevalent
among society people, chiefly women,
who would resent the imputation that
they were drunkards.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

The birth of lineal descendant of
George Washington's mother in Mount
Vernon occurred in 1901. As this babe
was Of the ninth generation after the
Father of His Country, who was born
in 1872. it follows that the Washing
ton family is not guilty of race sui
eide" the average interval between the
generations being less than nineteen
years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

The way for literary man to get
rich is to wait until he is dead. An
auction of Whittier's unpublished
stanzas and a few letters-stuf not
considered worth publishing while he
liYed-brought $4,000 the other day.
A little poem ON school Boys" nine
short stanzas. brought $40; message
from Lincoln brought ss45. and letter
from Tennyson brought $4OO.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
Flshhook ReIeaslna Device.

We always expect a fisherman to
swear that his stories are true, no
matter how large the fish which just
escaped being caught. and we can al
most forgive the angler who does the
other kind of swearing when his hook
gets caught in sunken log or snag.
as the artist has depicted in the ac-
companying illustration. However,
there is no cause for the angler at
the other end of this line to indulge in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
Iron Thai WIN MOI Exnand.

Iron that will not get hot is the kind
OF metal that is wanted for rails on
railways, and in other positions where
the expansion of metal in hot tempera-
lures is source of danger or great In.
convenience. A firm has just pro-
duced an iron containing a proportion
of an alloy that is impervious to heat
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19
Steam as a plsinfectant.

Experiments to determine the EN-.
cacy of various disinfectants made by
the New York Board of Health show
steam to be the most valuable. It not
only destroys quickly all disease germs
but has the power of penetrating and
disinfection not possessed by tornado.
hyde or sulphur fumes. No other
agent is effective in the disinfecting Of
clothing and bedding.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

paratus consists of an induction coil,
battery and four metallic thimbles
wired to the coil. When these Thin
bles are slipped on the thumbs and
fingers and held apart both persons
receive the electric impulse from the
coil, but when the thimbles are in con.
tact there is no impulse, as the current
passes directly through the metal.
Now, by using the simple Morse tele-
graphic code the two persons within
the circuit can converse with the
same ease and facility that an opera.
tor sends message. It is not neces-
sary to limit the number Of persons
in the circuit to two. and It would even
be possible by increasing the strength
OF the current to give lectures to
these poor people, who now realize so
few of the pleasures of life.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

European inventors prefer to get pat
ents in the United States because OF
the liberality of our patent laws. Near
ly twelve per cent. of all American
patents in 1902 were issued 10 foreign
inN entors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

Sir Oliver Lodge, principal of the
University of Birmingham and prac-
tical inventor, terms his system Of
wireless telegraphy "ethergraphy." 1t
is at least an easily spoken and accu-
rately descriptive name, though it looks
rather queer at first sight.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

The city Of New Haven. Conn. has
forty-eight public school buildings and
has need of at least one more. the total
seating capacity being 1882. and the
number of enrolled children 1916.
The cost to the city in 1897 to educate
each child was S29.12 per year; this
had been reduced to S24.O4 in 1902.