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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
POWERFUL CHINESE MEDICINE
One Dose of Celestial Compoun
Can Safely BE Warranted 10
4 XIII or Cure.

ST have always heard that Chimes,
medicines are very powerful" sal,
the city salesman, "but l never has
any idea what tremendous effec
they were capable of producing on tbs
system till 1 saw a Doyers stree
Chinaman take a pill the other day
and then realized that one dose
celestial compound can safely b
warranted to kill or cure" says New
York exchange. Never in my borr
days did see such a pill. How OF
earth the fellow ever got it down is
a mystery. 1t was fully as big as a
pigeons egg, and, so the patient told
me afterward, fearfully bitter. Upon
inquiry found that that was fair
sample of most Chinese remedies. M
matter what the nature of the med
icine, it is generally made up into
enormous pills, whose naturally bad
taste is modified by nothing but q
little licorice. These pills are inclosed
in wax capsules which preserve them
from the air and keep them from
being broken to pieces before their
time. Aside from the pills the only
remedies used by orthodox Chinese
in New York are a medicinal oil
which they rub on the temples to
cure headache, and liquid made by
boiling down the leaves, stems, seedsand
roots of certain plants in a quantity
of drinking water. According to my
Doyers street authority, this fluid
medicine is even worse than the pills,
for it has to be cooked till it is al
most like strip and drunk scalding
h1f
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

LiEht-Fingered Expert Tells WAY
HIG Kind Prefer Them to TkiA
Subjects to work On.

Fat men of easy temperament are
the favorite prey of the professional
pickpockets, according to no less an au-
thority than molly Matches" who
his day served time in many prisons
in the process of learning to let thin,
nervous individuals alone when plying
his lawless trade, says the Chicago
Tribune.
Like all good dips" this particular
pickpocket was a respectable looking
fellow, who would pass unnoticed in
crowd. He had lots of experience and
knew his business thoroughly. His
reasons, as given by himself, were
these:
Experience has taught me that
nervousness and fdgetiveness are usual
characteristics Of thin people when in
crowd. Therefore, they are more
apt to turn suddenly around, and take
quicker notice of any push or jostling
they may receive. / have invariably
found that such people are constantly
on the alert, so that they are not so
easily got at as more corpulent and
consequently easier going people. 1t
is deuced sight more difficult to take
anything from them without detection
than it is from the individuals of more
extended corporosity, who fall into
| passive attitudes and reveries' that
render them quite unconscious of the
sly, stealthy hand of the pickpocket."
This theory is known to all expert
police and they govern themselves in
accordance with the rule to always
watch the fat ones when looking for a
Il fflir
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
A Go.od RING shot.

A peculiar incident happened at the
Yarran, Victoria, rifle ranges. A man
was taking aim at 400 yards and just
as he fired several magpies few in
front of him, about 200 yards distant.
The bullet struck one of the magpies
and brought it to the ground and
was registered by the mark
er for the shot. A bulls-eye and mag
pie were thus scored for one shot.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

Sexton Mark McTigue has had
charge of the village cemetery in
Kokomo, Ind, for 46 years, and in that
time has dug with his own hands some
5000 graves. He was born in Ireland
"A years ago, and came to this country
when boy. He believes that he holds
the worlds record in the number of
interments and years of service.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

There is a deadly spring in the des-
ert in south Nevada. A prospecting
party found the skeletons of several
men about the spring, but drank of the
water unwittingly. They were seized
With violent cramps and suffered in
ensely. Some of the water was
rought away and analysed. 1t was
ound to contain large percentage of
rsenic.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

William Boone, a miner, says the
Kansas City Journal, who has come
down from Dawson City, Klondike, to
spend the winter with relatives at La
Plata, says he has dug 225 feet in the
ground of his claim, but has never
been able to reach point where the
ground was not frozen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

Twelve couples recently celebrated
their golden wedding together at Now
Vinodo in Croatia. Fifty years ago
"a couples were married at the same
time and in the case of half of these
both husband and wife are still living.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
Turkish Honey.

Turkish honey was already famed
among the ancient Greeks. The best
is still made on the Island of Kalym-
ma, to which the coast beekeepers
take their hives for a few months
each year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
The Power of Music.

A lunatic in Poughkeepsie was re-
stored to sanity by hearing an orches-
ira. 1t must have been the playing of
some other orchestra, says the Chicago
Tribune, that made him insane.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
NIalta,s MiIch Goats

Probably in no country has the
raising of the mileh goats been
brought to such degree of perfec-
ton as in Malta. -
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

The smokestack of the ocean steam
er Cedie is so large that trolley cars
could pass through it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

Permission to acquire land has just
been granted to the Jews in Russia.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12
DIRECTORIES.

SUPREME COURT.
James F. Ailshie,
/. N. Sullivan,
Charles Stockslager.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
A WESLEY lnclrEnT.
Eir.t Hethos.ist Lay Preacher Fol-
lowed In q Year by Twenty.


q Tie societies met on SNm!aya, but
{ never at the -Four of church service,
lnnd when neither Wesley nor amy
other clergyman WAS present. spele
. tho hour in prayer and religious con-
kvclsation or e:Shortation. From ex-
Ecrtation before the society to formal
{ rrrcucnimg before it was only step,
/ but 10 Wesley it seemed a very long
I step.
B While in Bristol he learned. one day
j in 1879, That one of liis converts
8 Thomas MaNtield, had been preaching
{ before thu Follnuery society. He Eur-
ricd up TO London to stop it. But his
: mother, who since the death of hcr
husband had becn living in a room OF
|, tlle Foundry building, net him witt
a protest, John take care what YOU
Go with reference to that young man
q for lie is as snrely called TO preach as
3 ycu are" .NdMoAiSllcd by lliis couu
:: from cne whose eai....su on all
Z ei.lireliiy matters lie knew to Dc quite
!. equal TO his own. Wesley reluctantly
/ consented to licar MaStisl Id preach
! Aitrr listening, he exclaimed: lit is
{. tho I.o:,,'s doing. Let him do as seem
/. 9th TO hinl good" Convinced III spite
i of dcap rccs,sl disincliMnion. he sane
: !i,nsM the ..rst Methodist lay preacher
b Within Il yr;li' there were twenty.-C
& u. Winchester in c"nlury.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
Grotesaue EnRlish.

No doubt purchasers in other lands
;have reason to smile ut English at
.tempts to worthily describe English
wares in foreign tongue. 1t is to be
;hopcd however, that our business
houses do not send forth announce
,ments quite so grotesque as some that
lcomc to this country. Here is a form
ISSUED BY very considerable conti-
mental firm: docs your dressing case
:need. by chance, superflne nntiseptic
!soap, an energetic perfumed lotion, u
delicious cream. an impalpable yelou-
;tine. Il very delicate and lasting ex
stract and unmatchlessly ctticGlt denu-
:frice? Or do you wish to buy those ar
/ iticles to make present. the most de-
.sirablc one. to very dear person on its
saints or birth day ?"-London Express.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
A Nice Li.tle # ak.

An expert E.;,tienla,c.an once Sc
himself the nice little task of caicuiat
lag the nn.Mb"r OF different ways in
(which f1fty-two cards OF pack can be
distributed among fonr pl'yers. thir
teen to each. taising every possible com
,bination end prrnuta,iun.
! 1t would he no use to present the
answer hero In long row oA>1!.-ures
for no one can realize to himself what
such a numsricnl array really conveys.
NOR would II br laWch better to play
M.,l the words billions and trillions.
SCI ing that these are E,ere words ana
nothing more to most Of us. Dat the
following Illustration is more likely to
hc appreciated by tllr ordinary reader:
!. Ii the entire population OF tie earth
we're to deal the cards iEccssantly day
and night for 1ON.DoO.GcO years. at the
rate Of Il denl by each person minute.
they would not have exhausted the one
hundedtko,:santlth part of the num-
Der OF essentially di.Tere mt ways IN
which the cards can I've so distributed.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
l,,. Second Stonlmch.

smugglers' brains are proverbially
fertile, and clever cXpedicnt was enc"
adopad 10 import brandy into Par.s
without paying the octroi duties, says
the Golden Penny For several weeks
II splendid elephant and his keeper he
longing To Il circus had constantly gone
in and out of one of The Paris gates.
when one day Il custom house officer
suddenly thrust his Irobc into tac
creatures side. The spectators were
mortified, but the elephant did not mp
pear TO feel amy pain, while from lh"
wound fcl! four tiny barrels Of brandy.
The keeper, considering that a little
extra size in the unwicldy shape of his
change would not be noticed, had in
casod its stomach in the old skin of q
larger elephant and had filled out the
space with brandy Il very profitable
enterprise
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24

4 10 any Who regard tile whole Legal:
4 profession with suspicion l can only!
& answer: "you are probably right in,
. saving that ii Il lawyer had played
7 Tie vlllture lla ould not ten of it, yeti
!, in truth these evil birds of prey are,
!, mot tie ma ;ori.y in t..S law Ii they
Y were more tha.l Il small minority onf
{, prorcssicn could not sustain tie almost
r sboGnliess; confidence il enjoys from the;
: w!.olc busines, world. Remember. Il;
Z lawyer is Judged ds,y by day. and by
s Lis deeds iic is justified or condemned.
sIf Il significant number of lis were
3 straitors To olr clients or If by our
S,iypocrisy We undermined the lo;iy of
gpofrssional ethics, tie liysl and ul!-
1 stisvgivcd men OF this generation would
q not be placing ~. lawyers hands every
{ day their E,Gtt llomcnlous interests
( and ti.ilsti... Implicitly in tic honesty
Il of their advice. suppose we do have
1; our littie professional attitudes and
s,poscs and ppnposities; those are but
Il .jsrpe.iicial naanrrisn.s which may
siim;.:se us awkward and tedious wnen
Il We, too. wo.iid write a popular article
II but which have nothing Lildcr heavcE
81 to do ..i..th oiir faitAfnllcss TO our eli
& cats. On tliut faithl"lncss We meet
b oui' Judgment day six times Il week. y
N Eyer5b0tly's Magazine. ~
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
eAvsp sI5 FINGER.


INC iNttnlssk tFUnm3n FClS, HOVE r
3 cs-r. That lie Had Lost Caste.
One day Brah,nIn aey.dan,allvy
itouchcd somn unclcan OBJECT with his
silttie finger. The Rrah aan thou Ii. at
now. his little finger having become mn.
jclean, amy substance which ii would
{ touch would be also rendered .lncleau
i land thus n.;,lie him an uniean man. (
) Seeing 10 oli.@r way TO .et out OF the
!. scr#pe lie resolved to set the offending
s meL.bcr amput.itcd. Forthwith he went /
Sto IL carpenter aad explained 10 HIN
! tl.at unless tl;l finger was cut of Le
{ Qllc Brahnanl was unable I" take food
s The carpenter tried to ,liss .,a,lc the /
devc.ee and urged that an application
Ecf some drops If water from the s;l-
dcrcd river i,un.l would make llie tn ,
{ ger once more luly. but the i;rallman
SHsrssttu H., sad t.iai tie finger was
sof No USE to Mim amy longer and that
4 he would not rest un.il it WAS severed. Z
4 AS Il i..iai recourse the carpeMler re-
!: solved To play his awkward customer a
strich I.c told tie Er;,hln..n to put his
4 finger cn an anvil and to look to the
: sky while the wound was inflicted.
I, Tho Ei;ihman did SO. The carpenter,
Z took up IL liaicliet and gave the finger
~ sin;lrt blow with the back of 1t. This!
.;clicitcd Il cry of pain from the pa
Il tcnt. who ut once put the finger in his
4 mouth to al!ay the agony. The carpen-
sstcr. laughing. explained to tile Brah-
s;nlan that the blow had missed and the
!. !i:tla finger was Still cntire; and, worst
s.of ALL the Brnhman had defiled himself
Z by putting the finger into his mouth.
q Tho obligiilg operator. moreover. Offer
/; cd TO perform the operation once more,
I but the Erahman had had enough pain,
!, for the no.ce and declined with THANKS.
y Golden pcnay.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
".n41o-sazon English"

There is IN old fallacy that Anglo
Saxon words are the best. The fallacy
.is based on the belief that words of
I sAnglo-SaXon origin are more simple
Innd vigorous than those derived from
. Latin. In point of fact solle Anglo
Saxon words are obscure and long. anG!
.many of our comlnonrst, most simple
awords are from the Latin. The Lon
sdon News tells story in point.
\ bar:istcr more remarkable for the
svigor of his address to juries than for
sh;s learning was commenting on the
sprncccding of the other party in casc
under trial
II do not know what gloss my
slearncd friend j., going to put upon this
matter. bnt ! will not mince my words.
ii denounce ii in plain, downright An
. .glo- Saxon as Il ncfarious transaction.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
Thc Dinner Hour.

Ii Is i, curious fact that With almost
every generation the dinner hour has
iuld der.nnc a change. tlir principal meal
.uf .llc day b ing eaten at different pc
7viu,ls, f'oll ~ O'clock IN the morning
;umil 10 O'Clock at night. The author
.of "i'ir Pleasures of the Table points
soGi that in Enslilnd 400 or 500 years
sa.o people tool; four meals breakfast
}at Z, dinner at lU, supper at ! and liv
scry at s. In France in the thiiteenth
century . in the morning WAS the dim
sner l.oir; Henry VII. di!lcd ut IL. In
\ sCromwclls $ time | O'clock had come to
lie the fashionable hour and In Addi-
!soil', day . o'clock. which gradually
lwai transformed into H. Pop" found
Sfault with Lady Suffolk for dining go
late as 4. -Four and > continued to he the
popular dining hours among the nris-
stocr;lcy Until the second decade OF the
. min ,tcciltll century, when dinner was
:fir;hnr postponed, from which period
lit has steadily continued to encroach
iupcn the evening.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
SHOPS or CANTON.
Every Art ma Industry Represented
In the Chinese City.

q Every Art ana Industry Represented
- In the Chinese City.
q The merchants alleys are the para
Hdise of tho stranger who visits Canton.
& EChinn. The shops have open fronts On
!. either side the narrow lane, and every
& art and industry. the homeliest trade
Eand the most fascinating pursuit,
= sthrives In the dark passage. Black
f.swinsing signboards proclaim the busi-
mess In characters of red or gold. Pan
g adelnonium trlumphs In n series of yells
s. as the chalrmen scream for pass room.
q The poles hit the pedestrian in the eye,
a and the mandarin 1oggles the stranger.
EaI'hc native tilts his huge hat sidewise
b to avoid Il crush, and often the coolies
Il swing aslant in the alley or duck into
9; a store to avoid n catastrophe.
III The Chinese as n people are modest
ssexposed. Women wear double breast
4 cd sacks which fit tight to the throat.
and men are usually covered. But
3; under the stress of hard labor the man
Esaat the forge is stripped to the waist.
q sand in the foundry a nearly nude
g workman strides the iron seesaw like
& horse in the treadmill The butcher
= ccaves his tiesher on the block amid
8. dried rats and skins of fowls stretched
!. taut on the rack. Next door the gold
3; ;bcater hammers in his cave. Beyond
Z. the kindling man piles high his forest
v of fagots. Near by the miller Is beat
q: ing the meal through coarse sleeves.
Z: His neishbor skins fish and hopes to
aS sell them from the box where they
Isi float under feeble squirt of water. In
Z: the adjoining den beautiful embroider-
4. les are piled mountain high, with silks
Ess;ltins and brocaded taffetas In won
y;drous designs of dragons and flowers.
SHau Cheung Tai patiently transfers
= Ethem by the hundred from shelf to ta-
IS bic In the hope that some stray bit may
Escutch the buyers fancy. Feathers are
an important industry, and fans, fold
~ ing or open, line the next shop, painted
siin every fanciful conceptions
tjt'rec Press.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
A EIin- ct Irnlysnn.

In TIE "Ncw Letters and Memorials
,of Jane Welsh Carlyle is a letter to
;Lcr husband in which occurs the fol
flowing amusing little fling at Tenny-
:son:
ibid you know that Alfred Tennyson
1is 10 have Il pension OF l2;lO a year, aft
jcr all! Peel has stated his intention Of
Recommending him to her gracious maj
,cs,y, and that is considered tinal-'.A
,c.acun scion 81 capncite." Lady Har-
'rict told me he wanted TO marry; must
;have woman to live beside; would
sprcfcr lady but cannot afford one,
land 50 must marry Il mailservant.
1lIrs. Henry Taylor said she was about
TO write to him In behalf of their house
sn:ait!, WHO WAS quite superior charac.
ter in her way"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
VICE MEMS MISTAKES.
.nc .f the Queer Elunhcr. Made

Some sf the Queer Elupdcrs Made
by Famous Writer'S.
g low and t.en one meets will: pas
= hratcd authors which display an ig-
norance of things that every sc,loolboy
i is supposed To know.
& Sir Walter Scott in his "iIeart Of
4. Midlothian" speaks of Ills heroine as
4 having "the merit of those peacemak-
8 crs to whom it is pronounced as q
bcnediction that they sail inherit tie
earth" Born and bred and passing
lis life in Bible reading Scotland. Sir
b Matter was Vet ignorant of the fact
& that ii was 10 the meek that the ill-
heritance pf tie earth was promised,
{ nna the bencdiction of the peanemn'se's
g was that they shall he called the ch
E,dren OF Cod
IA Dickens in his Tale of l'wc Cities
says tile name of the strong man of
Ole Scripture descended TO TIE c..ief
e.frrc1ion,iy VITO worked the :suil.o
{, tine" .ne does not have 10 ", pro
+ found siuucni OF ti.c French revolution
Fto know t'nit ti.e notorious executions!
E,who chopped OIL leads in tic Place Gy
( la Revolution was named Samson am
not Samson.
4 lh" lowss pupil In the lowest class
& in history in TIE puii,ir schools knows
f! tli.lt it WAS Balboa who discovered TIC
= Pacific ocean, yet Keats in Ills i'm
Islnortal sonnet ''On First Looking .lts
Is e l.EllianS Homer makes CorieS TIE
ssman who stood silent upon a peak in
s Dal,icn" and saw the great "soilt, sea-
&. stretching away before kim.
"a The great Gi,|soll. who WAS so in.ol
b Grant OF tie errors of other men
Z. Speak; Ia his "Hoilan Empire" of "tllt
ACXis and to .T;,.:artcs, two rivers ol
Hancicnt renown which descend from
T.. the mountains Of India toward I'll,
:. Caspian sea-" Net every school ."og
E. r.;3i.y shows that the two rivers Iom
F. into the sea Of Ar;ll and tile jaNarte.
E most certainly rises iii 10 mountain:
,cf India"
Ei Shakespeare wrote cf ..tlie coast o
H Hohelni;,. and in lis "Gertrudn o,
ENyoming" Campbell had tigers prowl
d ing through tho iungles OF Ecnnsyl,:l
e MIA. Such ignorance in high places
cannot be excused, for with ordinary
& ease, GiDbon. Stakes ..;;ie and Camp
/. bell colld have asrcrt;linej the facts.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
ss,ne s;us.acac n;story.

What is the history of the mustacllc7 Z
In Greece and Rome no mustaehes
were Worn without brHlt.s, but in the
ccnluering days of the Roman empire
several half civilized races who had
'coEie partially under tl.e influence Of
'tl.e Romans and who wished to be rid
;of the name of barhaIi, or wearcrs of
boards. attempted To shave In imitation
of their connHerors; but. ns they had
very imperfect iM:Dcmenis for the pur-
'pnsp and rs the upper lip is ho;oriously
Me I.ai,.cst part OF the face TO shave In
,tl.c csc of amy one poorly skilled In tie
ar. il.cs = re unable TO make Il clean
Iio'y oi ii aml left quantity of hair on
.thc upper lip.
lhis; mark w;.s chara; ;tcr.stic of sew
lcr;.l nations Oh the conline., of Roman
civilization. CT tla Gamls in particular,
sof tie Dacians and some others. The
] sLa.in language hos no word for mus
;iache. This burbarous accident was
sEnNoithy of the honor cf a Roman
inal!c. Exchanges.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
WOMAN.
Woman is the m;. ;tcrpicce.-Con!

Woman is the m: ;tclpicce.-Confu
'cius.
Shakespeare has no heroes. only Lcro
ines. RMshin.
Momcn teach US rcpose, civ.,ity anc
! dignity. Nol:airc.
Woman is The most perfect when tho
most wonanly. Gladstone.
!: / woman lest Eden. such as She
snlollc can restore it.-Wliitticr.
! There is a woman st the beginning
lof all great things. I;llnartinc.
Woman is last ut the eros; and car
licst at the grave t. $. Barrett.
\ handsome woman is Il jewel; {:
good woman is Il treasure -Sanidi.
The sweetest thing in life is the un
scloudcd welcome of Il wifc.-N. T.. vii
sli.;
For where is any author in the woTt
] who te;tclles s,cil beauty as Il woman''
scyes? Shakespeare.
Heaven has nothing more tendci
; ;tham IL woinan's heart when it is Tho
abode of pity Luther.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
Ecechcr.s Application.

I One Saturday afternoon two Brook
4 ism men were ON their way over Fulton
!. ferry to the City of Churches. Mr.
4 iBecclcr happened to lie on board. AS
/ tile farry,,oat felt its Way into the slip
4Mr. Bcccller seemed 10 lie looking on
snbstractcd.y. .As the boat struck the
;piliny at the Side. which crcakingy
I yielded. Mr.. l;ccchcrs face lighted up.
3Ci1e of the mcn, who knew MIR. Beech
ifl.'a iac.i.od Of sermlollizin%. remarked
,;o the other: ''ll,crc will bc something
1a,uGt that in tomGrrows sermon. Let
], us go and see" Tie men were in Plym-
:ion.h church the following morning as
/ suggested. ss;lre caou@il. in the course
of the sermon MIR. ECcehcr made some
sGch rclSs'ence as this There are In
every community men who perform
afor society The service that yonder pill
Z ing does in The ferry slip when they
care struck they gracefully yield, yet
Care not quite swept from their position.
4 ll.: stand for principle but they tact
afully yield in noil2ssantials. Those
!: buffer souls are valuable members of
q snCntv