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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
Conundrums.

Conundrums.
Who was the first girl mentioned In
the Bible? Jenny sis.
why do old maids go to church
early? To be there when the hims
are given out.
When was the first game of tennis
slayed in the Bible? When Joseph
served in Pharaoh's court.
What is the difference between a
turnip and a package Of oatmeal? You
don't know? Well, should never
want to send you to the store to buy
me a turnip, then.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
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The Shepherd Boy.

Once there lived a little shepherd
boy who was noted far and near for
his wise answers to all questions. One
day the king Of the country heard of
this, but did not believe it, so he sent
for the boy.
So he said to him, "If you can an
swer these three questions that I ask
you l will keep you as my own child"
Then the little boy said, What are
these three questions?
How many drops of water are In
the worlds ocean,"
Then the shepherd boy answered,
Your majesty, let all the rivers on
the earth be stopped SO that not a
little drop can flow into the ocean,
which | have not first counted, then
I win tell you how many drops are in
the ocean"
Then the king said. The second
question is. How many stars are in
the SKYE"
Then the shepherd boy said. Give
me large sheet Of white paper"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
New Trick with Cards.

Take twelve cards from an ordinary
pack and lay nine Of them down in
three rows, with three cards in each
row. Hold the other three in your
hand aad ask some one to lay them
down with the nine in such way as to
have four cards in each row either
way.
When he is ready to give up. which
is almost always the case, place the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

dissolve the various ingredients, su.
unless cold water IS added they ex
pand and break to rapidly in the
blowing process. A curious pipe that
will blow several bubbles at one time
can be obtained from any kindergar
ten supply house.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

Every time great man does any
thing along comes some little man
who claims to have advised him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
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HORToN COUNTY. North Dakota, has rich black
loam soil on clay foundation, producing heavy
crops--where corn grows. Good water in wells 10
TO 30 feet. Where Coal Is Free. Feeding about
six weeks In year. Creameries sell butter at Ell
gin prices. Farm lands "a to Sl3 per acre. Graz
Ing lands - TO 81. 100 acres Free H0mesteGds adj
joining. 5000 people now in county. Health lest
climate Write for maps and folders TO
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

McCarthy's "EZ Foot Comfort" is
guaranteed to cure your Chilblains.
Ask your druggist Price Csc.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
MANY WOMEN

MANY WOMEN
Discuss men as though they were
features Of county fair.
Fall into the use of slang through
desire to appear unconventional.
Are unable to resist the feminine
ambition to write fiction stories
Forget that men see through the
effort to appear more than they are.
Wreck their reputation by an indls-
eretien which really meant no wrong.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

Upturned eyes are typical of devo-
ton.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

is there, and IL you will cut out the
figures Of both the nice, good-temper-
ed gentlemen and put them together
in certain way, their outlines will
form the figure Of the boy who caused
all the trouble. Can you do It? Try
it. anyway.
I>~.~sososo~~-~-~-o-o-os~ ~-oo~o-~oo~~-~S~~~
yet no one has grasped the opportun-
ity of selling this commodity at stated
times. The clay is not hard to get.
costs nothing and sells for five cents
a quart.--Good Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

Magnet Pile Killer Cures Piles.
Justice only takes mans part, but
Injustice takes 1t all.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

liver troubles, indigestion and
dyspepsia! Get rid of these
troubles and your complexion
will clear up like an April day
after a shower. Take
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
LOOK in YOUR
MIRROR

Whatwouldyou
give to be rid of
those pimPles
and blackheads,
that sallow COM
plexion, those
lustreless eyes7
No doubt you
would give 30
cents to be cured
of constiDation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05
Dr.Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin

Mrs. Mary o. Hahn. No. 500 Michigan Ave.
troubled wit, bliousness eansed BY inaetivity OF
tho liver. had dizsy spells at times. pains
across my back ana q tired, heavy feeling, with
loss Of appetite and nervousness. Our family
physician prescribed some liver tablets which
certainly did not help me IN the least. l took
Apollinaris and other mineral waters, but my
complexion became more yellow aud my general
] decided to give DIR. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin
trial and am SO glad did. One bottle did moro
knew at once had tho right remedy. 1 keep
taking 10 for several weeks, when / considered
myself completely cured. Ny skin "a white and
smooth as u baby's aud feel in excellent health
cad spirits, thanks to your remedy"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Eve Nurses a Fox.

Farmer Nye of Hopbottom, Pa, last
fall discovered that something was
carrying off his poultry. He set a
trap and caught a fox He promptly
killed 1t.
Hardly had he done so when a baby
fox came out from the brush and
moaned piteously around its dead
mother. The farmer took the young
ster home. Refusing the food offered
it. the little fox was in a fair way to
starve to death when Mrs Nye had
a bright idea.
One Of the ewes had been robbed of
her young by wildcats and the little
fox was carried to the bereaved eve
to receive nourishment.
The fox throyo amazingly on sleeps
milk, and the strange foster-mother
formed strong attachment for the
little fellow. Before other animals.
and to all human beings except Mr..
and Mrs. Nye, the fox is extremely shy.
but 1t sleeps side by side with the eve
and the farmer can handle the baby
fox as he might house dog.-New
York World
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Smallest Child in the World.


Probably the smallest child for her
age in the world is little Ruth
Schwartz, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Schwartz, of Dallas. Ruth
is a midget Standing just one foot
nine inches high, she barely reaches
above the seat of an ordinary chair.
Her little head is just a size larger
than a billiard ball and her whole per-
son is in exact proportion. The child
was, on her last birthday, four years
old, and at that time weighed 15
pounds ounces; she now tips the
scale at 16 pounds ounce, showing
a gain Of 10 ounces in four months.
At birth the child weigher three
quarters of pound and could easily
have been placed in a low-quarter
shoe. In spite of her small size every
faculty Of her mind is developed be-
yond the average of child of nearly
five. She converses with all the se-
robustness and ease of a girl of twelve,
and is an adept in music, being espe-
cially proficient on the piano. She
also sings well and her voice has
been the admiration of all who have
heard Exchange.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
telegraph Facts.

Every day that telegraph opera
tor works, at three minutes before IL
there is only one man in the whole
country. from San Francisco to New
York, that is privileged to use his key.
That man is the operator at Washing
ton. In those three minutes every key
Is open and all operators wait for
three minutes ticking which tells
them the correct time. From that
ticking every telegraph company's
clock is set. There are at least 90
600 operators at work. Taking three
minutes from every one of them equals
$4,000 minutes idled away every day.
1t would take one man 125 years to do
the listening of all these men for
those few minutes. At the rate of $50
a month, and working for the required
number Of years, this man would re-
ceive $4,000. This is what the com
pany pays to their men for just listen.
ing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
LlteraIIy Wiped on the Earth.

Joseph Shaffer, a nitroglycerine
shooter employed by the Pennsylva-
MIA Torpedo Company of Bradford,
Pa, was blown to atoms near the
state line. Shaffer was driving a
team. His sleigh contained 100
quarts of nitroglycerine, and he was
on his way to shoot well in Nicho-
las Valley, in the vicinity of Line
stone.
Sleighing is rough in the country
districts, the snow not yet being
packed along the roads, and ShaH-
fer's sleigh dropped into a rut. The
sudden jar loosened the pent-up
forces Of the explosive, and in flash
the man, his horses, sleigh and load
of glycerine were going skyward,
wholly disintegrated and in smoke.
People in the vicinity, alarmed by the
deafening explosion, hurried to the
scene, but found nothing of the man,
horses or sleigh. A deep hole in the
road showed very plainly what had
happened.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

the fort. They were very quickly
found after the Americans got in.
The manner of using the lantakas
was similar to the Pandapatan style.
They were mounted on pivots and
fired through embrasures. Down on
the shore of the lake the natives had
stone barricade with lantakas in it,
having expected the American col
umn to land there to attack Macui.
But the column marched around the
point and the beach fort was not OF
much assistance to the Moro fort.
These forts of the Moros usually fly
a red flag attached to a bamboo pole.
The Moros has at Macui some
homemade devices for war, one of
which, though it seemed ridiculous,
was much more effective than one
would have supposed. 1t consisted of
a followed tube of wood arranged
vertically in a base block. The base
block was set in stone and earth.
Powder is placed in the tube and
then sun-baked clay balls. When the
powder is ignited the clay balls are
discharged in the air. The clay shot
are calculated to fall upon the heads
of the foe.
In the Pandapatan fight saw one
man put out of action by getting hit
in the face with stone apparently
shot from one of these wooden guns,
while another man was wounded in
the ankle and third in the back. In
the Maciu battle no one was hurt by
these missiles.
Toward daylight on Oct. 2, after we
hau been on the alert all night, the
yells of the Moros ceased and the
firing discontinued. Gradually many
of the inmates of the fort had been
picked off by our marksmen and the
few remaining concluded to escape
through an underground passage to
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

At Maciu, instead OF unese great
trenches, an additional wall was erect
ed about the fort and the outer wall
seemed as strong as the inner.
When Pershing's column of four
companies of the Twenty-seventh in
fantry, under Capt Philips, the
Twenty-ffth battery, under command
of Capt. McNair, Troop A, Fifteenth
cavalry in charge of Lieut. Mangum
and the Engineering Corps under
Capt. Morrow, surrounded this fort,
1t was seen that 1t could not be car
ried by assault without considerable
loss. Therefore siege operations were
begun.
The high walls were covered with
the usual shrubbery so that the enemy
could shoot at us to advantage with
out being seen. The occasional puffs
of smoke on the wall, however, To-
Gated the position of the Moro marks
men and a volley from our lines
would quickly respond to every shot.
The artillery did very effective work
in sending solid shot through these
great walls of earth, bamboo, stone
and sandbars, and damage was done,
but an effective entrance could not be
broken through the walls. The ar
tillery also maintained a hot shrap-
mel fire and many shells burst d.
rectly inside the fort.
The companies of infantry held
their line with the fort surrounded
from the forenoon of Oct. until the
next morning, keeping up constant
return fire on the fort.
AS in the march against Paandapa-
tan last April and May, the column in
approaching Maciu had come across
many small forts and stockades of the
enemy along the line of march from
Camp Wears, but these places were
captured without any trouble. AS at
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Ferret's New occupation.

Il recently" says a correspondent
of the Field, saw ferret put to a
new use as an electrical engineer.
The electric light wires in my district
are being renewed where required,
and, as the wires are protected by
earthenware covers through which
they are run, the only means of put
ting new wires in, without disturbing
the covers, is by the use of ferret.
The one | saw was very lively, and on
good terms with the workmen. He
had metal collar, to which a string
was attached; he started of to the
next manhole and then when the ferret
was removed the wire, to which the
string had been previously attached,
was drawn through"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Brave Girl Saves a Train.

Minnie Martin, pretty country
girl, 15 years old, of New Martins,
vile, Va, on the West Virginia
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, has received a check from that
road for $50 for preventing the wreck
of passenger train.
Recently, after heavy rain, she
noticed that large bowlder had
been washed down into a deep cut.
Mounting her horse bareback, she
held on by its name, and forced II at
the risk OF her life to swim stream
swollen by the rains, and reached the
track in time to flag the passenger
train.
AS the rock was in cut and 3
curve, the engineer could not see it,
and she saved many lives.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

Pandapatan the Moros continued to
fall back from these weaker forts to
make stand at one of their strong
holds.
Maciu proved to be the strongest
and best equipped fort of them all and
the Moros of the Maciu district were
assembled therein upon our arrival
and kept up their end of the battle
with constant yelling, and occasional
shooting with lantakas, or metal Moro
cannon, shot guns, Remingtons, &c.
The Sultan of Maciu had long de-
fed American authority. His tribes
men had shot into our camps, cut
telegraph wires, attacked outposts and
engineering parties at work, and had
boosted of it and finally had invited
the Americans to come and try to
get him. He supposed his fort Inn
pregnable. The Spanish troops had
never taken it.
Once during the engagement Lieut.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
TAKING A MORO FORTRESS
OUR TROOPS MAKE SHORT
WORK OF THE DEFENSES.
ssss

In letter to the New York Sun
the correspondent of that paper in the
Philippines thus describes the taking
of Moro stronghold:
The Moro fort at Maciu, the strong
hold of the Sultan of the Maciu dis
trict of the lake country in the inte-
rior of the island of Mindanao, fell
into the hands of the American troops
after sharp engagement which be-
gan in the forenoon of Oct 1. This
fort was built somewhat differently
from Fort Pandapatan, which was
taken on May 2, 1902, after hard
battle in which the casualties to the
United States officers and enlisted
men were heavy.
In the construction of Pandapatan,
reliance was placed upon many deep
trenches about the walls of the fort
to retard the advance of an enemy
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

the tall grass. Possibly handful got
out in this way.
The Americans easily took the fort
at daybreak and then began to clear
the jungle. An infantry and cavalry
skirmish line went through the grass.
Private McBeth was attacked and
badly boloed by native before the
latter was killed. A number of other
Moros were caught in this manner,
possibly all that were in the fort,
although 1t is thought that a few got
away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
From Prehistoric Times.

The construction of the Pennsyl-
vania Schuylkill Valley railroad
through the lower section of Schuyi.
kill county, and particularly in the
vicinity of Arwigsburg and Adams.
dale, has revealed large deposits OF
fossiliferous rock. Millions OF fresh
water shells, evidences of reptilian
life, vegetation and other specimens,
all petrified, have recently been re-
vealed by blasting and excavatinK.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
sSSS

Loring and G Company attempted to
storm the place, not knowing that
there were two walls. Private Nolan
was shot in the head. Capt. Per
shing wisely recalled the company
and the siege of the fort was contin.
ued.
The natives were well prepared for
a siege. They had an abundance of
rice in stock. They had a well of
water inside the fort. They had re-
moved the nipa from the roofs of
their shacks so that fire brands could
not be used to advantage. The little
gate opening into the fort could hard
ly be seen, so well was it protected
with thorny bamboo stuff.
The defences awaited little against
the American attack. AS for the walls
on which the Moros placed SO much
reliance, some of the solid shot of
the battery passed through all four
walls, coming out beyond. The shot
left wreckage in their path inside the
fort, but the walls were not mate
rally damaged. Everything was pref
ty well torn up inside the fort by the
shrapnel, and it is wonder how the
Moros held out as long as they did.
The pride of the Sultan of Maciu
was in his lantakas. He did not want
these guns to fall into the hands OF
the hated Americans. When he real
lied that the fort must fall. he had
the lantakas buried in the earth in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
AfieId In October.

Bob White! Bob whitel Thy challenge
rings
Across the stubble brown.
Bob Whitei Bob White! The north wind
brings
The challenge into town.
The Uttered pages on my desk
Do rustic in the wind
AS If of crisp October leaves
They fain would me remind
They whisper me of copse and wood;
OF sumac's flaming red;
or field and meadow brown and sere
Since gentle summer fed.
They whisper me-ah who can fail
To take the challenge of the quail!
Country Life in America.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Recovered Watch THROUGH Dream.

Some weeks ago John H. Tudor, a
well-known citizen, went squirrel
hunting a few miles from Montreal,
Canada. He bagged number of
squirrels, but in the "bagging" lost
watch. He was puzzled over it UNI
I'll he recollected dream he had that
his watch was in certain spot near
where he had hunted He went where
the dream had directed him to go, and
found his watch. 1t was hanging to
twig of tree. He had shot SPUR.
rel in that tree, and as the squirrel
had lodged in the tree he went up
it and got his victim In descending
his watch had been torn from his
pocket.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Too Bio for a Soldier.

Among the men called out by the
conscription at Cuneo, Italy, is one
Battista Ugo, feet inches high,
and weighing 400 pounds. He was
rejected because he showed up the
shortness of the other soldiers. He
is twenty-four and still growing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
LARGE Brain Causes Death.

Pressure on the brain from want Of
room in the brain chamber was the
case of the sudden death of a girl
named Elsie Stone, aged eight, at
Leicester (Eng) recently. At the
inquest the doctor stated that the
child's brain weighed 40 o., or 1
OF. more than the average adult fe.
male brain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Fly in Coffee Fatal.

The sight of fly in his coffee to-
day caused the death of Samuel Wag-
ner, aged 70 years. Mr.. Wagner was
seated at the dinner table when fly
dropped into his coffee.
He asked his wife for another cup
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Hvrax.

The Cape hyrax or Duman rock rab-
bit of south Africa is first cousin to
both the tapir and the rhinoceros. 1t
fs a shaggy coated, mouse-colored ami
NAL, with four toes on its fore feet
and three toes on the hind ones. 1t
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Oldest Printed caIendar.

The most ancient printed calenday
in the world has been found in Wie@
baden 1t was printed by Gutenberg
in 144s.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
14SRfhI'E'!|l|Z pI'HzIR

and she went to the kitchen to get It..
On her return she found her hus-
band leaning forward on the table
dead.
The sight of fly in his coffee or
any foreign substance in his food had
always made him sick, and his death
was due to heart failure aston
(Pa) Correspondence Philadelphia
Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

In American prisons the proportion
OF men to women is as twelve to one.
In French prisons it is as five to one.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

cube, giving total of forty-two in
the nine perpendiculars, in the
eighteen horizontals, and in the four
grand diagonals of the cube.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Magic Square,

With the twenty-seven numbers
complete the rectangle in such man
ner as to obtain 126 in each of the
three horizontals and forty-two in
each OF the nine perpendiculars By
dividing the rectangle into three parts
and superimposine the three parts so
obtained there should result a magic
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Bank Exclusively for Women.

New York is to have bank with
capital of 100000, to be operated
exclusively by women and to have
only women depositors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

UTAH JUNK CO. RSss n highest price Il fSs
@ss' copper, brass. etc. Salt Lake oity. Utah
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

Thousands of people have catarrh who
would be surprised to know it, because
1t has been called some other name than
catarrh. The fact is catarrh is catarrh
wherever located; and another fact
which is of equally great Importance. is
that Peruna cures catarrh wherever
located.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-07
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Christian Church. Alakea street, L.
S. Muckley, Misunderstanding at II
a. m. on Conditions of Prevailing
Prayer" and at 1880 p. m. on THE
Meaning of Baptism" The evening SER
mon will be illustrated by chart. The
following questions will be briefly
answered at the evening service: Are
not great many professed Christians
hypocrites? II so, isn't II just as well
TO keep out of the Church," Does the
Bible teach that man was created an
immortal being?" Preaching every
night next week except Saturday night.
Beginning with Wednesday night, MIR.
Muckley will preach four sermons on
The Prodigal Son." under the follow
ing subjects: Leaving Home" "In
the Far Country" Coming to Him
self" and Returning Home" Chris
tians and non-Christians alike are most
cordially invited to these services.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-07
A NEW WRINKLE.

A game recently invented in the
Eastern States is becoming much in
vogue at social gatherings and at many
places where harmless entertainment
is desired. While simple in principle
1t keeps the mind alert and, though
children play the game going to and
fro, It has been adopted by grown
ups" and is pronounced a clever game.
The word game ought not to be used,
as it is essentially only matter of
quick wits, quickly used. As an exam.
pie: Let each letter Of the alphabet be
numbered, as A being number 1 and so
on through the twenty.six letters. Let
us select the following numbers: 4, Is,
81, Z, ~, /, 10. Each number repre-.
sonts a letter and the mystic word II
spells Is the name Of an article that Is
better known and more extensively
bought than is any other of its class.
We give the answer to assist in work.
ing out others. It is DOUGLAS. Incl.
dentally, the DOUGLAS PATENT
CLOSET is guaranteed against leak.
age and the annoyance Of running wa.
ter. Bath, The Plumber, handles the
DOUGLAS.