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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
oATH-TAklNe IN MANY LANDS.
Well Enough If All of Them Could In
duce Veracity.

duce Veracity.
Chinese witnesses must be sworn in
several ways If they are to be bound
to tell the truth. In some cases the
witness breaks a plate and assents to
the imprecation that his soul may be
shattered in the same way if he strays
from the paths of veracity.
With large section of the Chinese
the formula is for the person admins
tering the oath to light a match OF
candle, and, blowing it out, tell the
witness that thus will his soul be ex-
tinguished if he does not speak the
truth, to which he assents by giving a
short nod.
Come tribes living on the Thibetan
tableland can only be sworn in courts
by cutting off the head of a live game
cock.
The Hindu law says:
Let judge swear a Brahmin by
his veracity, a soldier by his horses,
his elephants or his arms; an agricul-
turist by his cows, his grain, or his
money and souder by all his crimes"
A Gala of Abyssinia sits down over
a pit covered with hide, imprecating
that he may fall into pit if he breaks
his word.
A Brazilian savage, to confirm his
statement, raises his hand over his
head and thrusts it into his hair or
touches the point of his weapons.
Among the Aracans, an Asiatic tribe,
the witness swearing to speak the
truth takes in his hand a musket, a
sword, spear, tigers tusk, a croco.
dies tooth, or stone celt.
The hill tribes of India swear by
tigers skin, and the Ostraks by
bears head
The sacred oath in Persia is "by the
holy grave" that is, the tomb of Shah
Besa de, who is buried in Cashmere.
Jews are sworn on the Pentateuch
with their hats on; Mohammedans by
placing the right hand fiat on the
Koran and the left on the forehead,
and then bringing down the forehead
to the book, and finally gazing a while
at the book. The highest oath of the
man who dwells by the Ganges in In
dia is taken on the water of that
river.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
When Father Pays the Bills
Al Concerned Unite 10 Secure Slice of the Old Mans
Wealth When He Is Arranging for the Wedding
Festivities of His Daughter

There are two men who In the
midst of their troubles never get any
sympathy and they are the man with
the mumps and the prospective faith
er-in-law," said citizen of this city
VINO Is planning an Easter wedding
Tor his daughter to a writer In the
New York Commercial Advertiser. 81
am planning the wedding of my only
daughter and so am learning what
every other father before me has
learned, that the prospective father.
ln-law Is the legitimate prey of the
class OF tradesmen who get rich out
OF the altruism of brides and the Gull
llDlilty, or papa / refer to the
caterer, the florist and the choirmas.
ter.
1t is the duty of every prospec-
tive father-in-law to give his daugh-
Ter bangup wedding, but it is also
ms privilege to study economy at the
same time. first had conference
with the caterer who helped us out
when 1t was our turn to entertain
the Frisky Fossils Thursday Evening
Euchre club. remembered he fur
nlshed us punch, sandwiches, ice
cream, lady fingers, coffee and camp
cnairs for fifty people at the rate of
81 cents head, not counting the
charge for walters. And I calculated
NED charge an old customer at the
same rate per head for wedding
Victuals of the same sort. But, oh,
no! This is wedding! He couldn't
think OF serving a hundred people for
less than 5000. and that would include
champagne punch. | insisted that
common, everyday punch was good
enough, but the caterer succeeded in
convincing me that only champagne
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

the clouds, he's missing heap of in
teresting and important doings down
in the valley. Never lose your dig
nifty, of course, but tie 1t up in all the
red tape you can find around the Of
fee, and tuck it away in the safe.
It's easy for a boss to awe his
clerks, but a man who is feared to
his face is hated behind his back. A
competent boss can move among his
men without having to draw an imag-
mary line between them, because
they will readily see the real one If it
exists.
Besides keeping in touch with your
office men, you want to feel your
statesmen all the time. Send each of
them a letter every day, so that they
won't forget that we are making
goods for which we need orders; and
insist on their sending you line
every day, whether they have any
thing to say or not. When a fellow
has to write in six times a week to
the house, he uses up his expIana-
lions mighty fast, and he's pretty apt
to hustle for business to make his
seventh letter interesting.
Right here / want to repeat that in
Keeping track of others and their
faults it's very, very important that
you shouldn't lose sight of your own.
Authority swells up some fellows so
that they can't see their corns: but a
wise man tries to cure his own while
remembering not to tread on his
neighbor's.-From Letters from a
self-Made Merchant to His Son." by
George Horace Lorimer. BY permits.
sion of Small, Maynard & Co., Pub.
fishers, Boston, Mass.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
Where People Talk Too Much
Restaurant Waiter Tells of Bad Habit of Many People bo
Dine Ia Public PLaces-ExcepHonaI Case of
Crahfed Curiosity IN Point

When l marry a rich man and take
to eating in restaurants myself in
stead OF waiting on other people who
eat there. | dom intend to talk about
anything but the weather, and shall
discuss that with a great deal of eau
tion," said Waitress No. 10. II shall
be thus guarded In my remarks, be-
cause think 1t had form to give my
family affairs away before folks the
way most people do when dining and
lunching away from home.
Il remember, for instance, the case
OF the man and woman who couldn't
agree to get married on account of
their relatives. They sat here for
two solid hours talking 1t over. He
had three children, which she didn't
want to be bothered with, and she
had a mother that he didn't want
hanging around. Much as they see n
ed to care for each other, neither
would agree to break family ties, yet
neither would accept the others in
cumbrances. The argument waxed
pretty hot at times, and they went
away still in fighting mood.
Several months after that the wo-
man came in one day alone. She sat
at my table. / was devoured with
curiosity, and finally, as the risk of
losing my place, spoke to her.
1t has been long while since
yon were here, / said.
"she was surprised, but she did not
get angry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

punch should be served at a wedding
reception, and that wedding feed in
variably includes chicken salad and
croquettes a la something. So / gave
in.
Then ! sought the florist. MY
daughter decided on daisy bouquets
for the bridesmaids, bouquet of Ill.
les of the valley for herself and
boutonnieres of daisies for the ush.
ers. | figured on rs cents for the
boutonnieres, SIS for the lilies of the
valley and So each for the bunch of
daises and thus fortified went to the
florist. In this item | had to raise
the ante about 100 per cent. got the
boutonnieres for so cents, the daisy
bouquets for SIS and the lilies of the
valley for $40 and for this price l got
a Cascade bunch, which, | was in
formed, was a great concession for
which | ought to be thankful
But got my real eye-opener when
| went to get the choirboys to sing.
Now, l thought the boys would be
glad to come around to the house and
have good time and sing Faithful
and True and The Voice That
Breathed Ger Eden for so cents
each. But l forgot again that wed.
ding changes the aspect of all things.
The boys will sing Lohengrin and the
anthem at So head.
THUS have my eyes been opened
and my legs been pulled, but l am
rejoicing. My girl will have as pretty
a house wedding as has ever been
given above I'D street"
well, then, don't kick when the
livery stable keeper tacks on $40 to
your contract bill for carriage hire
added a sympathetic listener.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
On the Management of Men
"Old Corgon Graham" Writes The Subject to His Son
PIerrepont-Sone Pointers TO the Successful
Conduct of an Up>to>Date Business.

Consider carefully before you say q
hard word to man, but never let a
chance to say a good one go by
Praise judiciously bestowed Is money
invested.
Never learn anything about your
men except from themselves. A good
manager needs no detectives, and the
fellow who can't read human nature
can't manage it. The phonograph
records of a fellows character are
lined In his face, and a mans days
tell the secrets of his nights.
Be slow to hire and quick to fire.
The time to discover incompatibility
OF temper and curl-papers is before
the marriage ceremony. But when
you ind out that you've hired the
wrong man, you can't get rid of him
too quick. Pay him an extra month.
but don't let him stay another day.
A discharged clerk in the Office is
like splinter in the thumb-a center
OF soreness. There are no executions
to this rule, because there are no ex.
ceptions to human nature.
Never threaten. because a threat is
q promise to pay that 1t isn't ALWAYS
convenient to meet, but If you don't
make 1t good 1t hurts your credit
Save threat till you're ready to act
and then you won't need It. In ali
your dealings remember that to-day
Is your opportunity; tomorrow some
other fellows.
Keep close to your men. When a
fellows sitting on top of mountain
hes In a mighty dignified and ex-
allied position, but If he's gazing az
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

me-nay, but only with your eyes, be.
loved-and tell me how mortal | am"
He kneeled down beside her now
and cast his arms about her fair body
as she sat in his seat, looking up at
her with eyes that changed slowly
their wonder for worship. Then he
loosed hand and drew down thick
curl of yellow hair to his lips, and
presently blindfolded his eyes with its
softness.
Il am answered." the woman said
at last THAT which is not mortal in
you has spoken to me immortal, and
we know one another. So"-she drew
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
Too Radical a Rsformsr

Count Batthyany, young man of
twenty-six, and an enthusiastic Toll
stoian, has been confined in an asy-
lum in Austria for the insane at the
instigation of his relations. His
friends say that he is perfectly ra-
tional, and are agitating for his re-
lease. The Court has an immense
estate, and set about to inculcate his
doctrines among his tenants. These
serf-like peasants he treated as
brothers, preached anarchy, and read
to them Tolstois works, which he
translated into the Magyar tongue.
On account of these doings, his rela-
tives, to whom such innovations were
abhorrent had him placed in the
asylum.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

shadowy upper end Of the room, Where
the climbing freight could no longer
find them.
And when the morning came, rosy
and wind-tossed, Hugh O'Rourke came
out to his serving-men with life and
the Joy of life In his eyes, and he and
the fair woman elinging to his arm
gave them good-morrow and went
forth, laughing. But, an hour later.
these found the body of Hugh
O'Rourke lying on his bed with shut
eyes and folded hands, long cold. So
the serving men knew that they had
seen and hidden farewell to the soul
of Hugh O'Rourke and that all was
we'll with him at last.-The Sketch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

anger, but now lift my curse"
the bandage of hair from his eyes and
smiled down into them-"you love me
Hugh?"
If know what love is. beloved"
She uncovered his eyes and looked
deep into them, laughing Il am beau,
ty and / am love, and have chosen
to lie on the bosom of man whom
the tongue of the world knows not
a dreamer who has achieved none of
his dreams, soldier whose sword has
won him nothing-and there is beauty
and success and strength in the world
outside. How is it you can keep me
here, Hugh?"
Sweet, shall never know"
Hush, unbeliever! Let us be man
and woman together for little. My
! feet are cold, and | have hunger and
thirst upon me, Hugh. Bring me food
and drink, and let be the fire. You
shall warm my hands in your hands,
Hugh, when we have eaten together"
Dear, what will you eat? There is
only coarse bread here, but l have red
wine in my butt, and there is honey in
the comb, | think, and store of apples
in the loft-Winter Queenings, and the
like"
Bring me here the bread and wine
and honey, beloved, and we will make
wedding feast of these. And bring
me Winter Queening that we may
play ball with it when we have eaten"
He went out, and came back soon
with the bread and wine in a basket
on his arm, the apple in his hand, and
silk coyerlet over his shoulder. He
laid the quilt down at her feet.
This for your carpet, beloved. Now
will you eat?"
She drank half the cup of wine that
he poured out, and Hugh drank after
her; then they broke bread and ate
the honeycomb together.
Tell me my name, Hugh?"
"Grania, maybe, because you shine
SO bright, beloved"
mo"
"Esca, then, because your face is
as pale as the moon when she is
young"
Not Esca. Have you heard ever of
a woman that was bitterly wronged of
an O'Rourke long ago, and died ours
ing him, and has come back and back
to cry for the passing of every
O'Rourke since them"
Il have heard of her, beloved?"
Il am she, the banshee of your
house, Hugh o'Rourke; but for you
shall not cry. barren years have
abided in mine anger, but now lift
my curse, for my love is put upon
man of the house that wronged me.
Do you take me for your wife,
O'Rourke, knowing this?'
II take you for my wife, Ban.shee,
in the face of the sun and moon, and
plight troth to you past death,
whether it come tonight or in fifty
years."
Il take thee to my husband, Hugh
oRourke, and l lift off my curse from
thy house, thus and thus"
The woman dropped to his feet, shod
in worn brogues as they were, and
kissed them; rose to her knees and
kissed his hands and the hilt of hia
sword; rose to her feet and kissed HIS
month.
Then they went. handfast, into the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
AS others see lie

Il wonder if my face will change.
too, when | am your age?" asked the
sweet girl graduate, in tone redol.
ent with insinuation."
Undoubtedly, DEAR" replied the
elderly female, land you ought to be
thankful for the loss of a generous
portion of your cheek"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
O'Rourke's Marriage


Over the low fire In the middle of
the waste place that had been ban
| quoting hall crouched Hugh O'Rourke.
He was wet and chilled to the bone
with a long ride through mountain
mists in the heart of winter. There
was winter in his heart, too, for his
step was a broken one, and his name
prescribed, and, where his father
might have held together the breaking
fortunes of name and clan by the
sheer power of voice and face, Hugh
the younger had been borne by his
mother in time of tempest and terror.
and his face was wan and uncomely
and his eyes wild and sad.
My father did not we'll to take a
woman by force" he said aloud to the
sinking fire that was all his company.
Black eyes and yellow hair pleased
him well, belize, but he pleased not
my mother, and she revenged her upon
me who was innocent and unborn, Civ
ing me an April mind and a craving
heart for her gifts on the day that she
conceived me. Who enters there. in
the name of God?" He sprang up.
sword in hand, and then laughed at
his cutlery, for it was a girl child who
stood in the doorway, a little maid of
eleven years, fair to see, white as a
snowdrop. with pale yellow hair
streaming from under her put back
hood.
Little maid, you come to an empty
house." Hugh O'Rourke said. Hbut Won
are welcome. You do not come
alone?"
Il come alone, Aodh," she said, an
swering his English with the Irish
tongue. Il shall not fill your house"
Hugh stood still beside the fire.
while she came slowly down the room
toward him, shaking the raindrops
from her flowing hair as she came. A
little way from the fire she stood.
looking at him with large eyes.
why do you meet me with hare
steel?" she said. Il looked for other
greeting from your fathers son, Hugh
O'Rourke."
Hugh cast down his sword upon the
bench he had risen from and took a
step forward to meet her. Then he
stopped, amazed for It was not a
child she was, but grown woman il
was that cast off hood and cloak and
came to him with eager face and
eager hands.
Hugh O'Rourke," she said again In
the kindly Irish tongue, "have you for
gotten me so soon?"
Have | ever seen you before. o fair
one?" Hugh said. Then, because her
fingers were warm in his and her ewes
dwelt on his, he ceased questioning |
and had no more wonder or fear at
the fairy change than had passed upon
her in a moment, making a woman out
Of child.
i am she you have desired SO long"
she said, with tears and laughter in
her voice. II am she whose eyes Won
have seen in many faces that looked
not kind on you, whose breast you
have desired to lie on so many times.
whose soul your soul has sought and
never found"
And she laid her mouth to his
mouth, and the beating heart of her
futtered like bird against his breast,
and the fairy eyes of her darkened
and laughed and lightened into his
and set all his blood on fire.
A little while they chung together
10; then he put her from him and held
ler at arms length, looking at her
With eyes that were anhungered.
If dared only think of it, be-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

A poet writes piteously to the New
York Times to explain that he wrote
"Bud-scented April Evenings" and
the printer made 1t "Bad-scenteJ
april Evenings" The obvious mora,
is that he ought to improve his hand
writing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The Maine man who has worked nm
business of exporting cat-o.nine-
tails to London, where he finds a mar.
ket for all that he can get, certainly
thought of something that had never
occurred to any one before.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
RaclIll Make Fields FertI,.

The bacilli which grow on the roots
of clover plants and have the power
of abstracting nitrogen from the air
account for the increased fertility of
fields after crop of clover has been
grown on them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
A Wise M. D.

Doctor" said the village gossip.
I'm troubled with that tired feeling
What would you advise me to do?"
"You might try five drops of chloro.
form on your tongue every half hour"
replied the local pillmaker, as he
winked his other eye.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

DR.. A. Conan Doyle is the only man
In the world that can unravel the
Bnrdick murder mystery, and he
will want about a dollar a word for
Ehe work.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Granting all that Sir Thomas NAV
say as to the terrific speed Shamrock
III. win make during the races, it is
still fair to suppose that the Reliance
win not be exactly standing stiI at
the time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The baseball player who scores the
FIRST home run of the season is great.
er than he who ruleth at the city hall
lin the minds of some.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Henry Ward Beecher's experience
with the contribution plate gave him
great skill In detecting coin values
The congregation never could fool
him with pants buttons.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Minister Bowen told the Yale stud.
ents tnat Venezuela is no place for
young men from the United States.
Good. For American young men OF
'the right sort there's no place like
home.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Missouri has gained considerable
notoriety by making chicken stealing
Felony. AS logical sequence it
ought now to make mule stealing a
capital crime.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Mascagni is telling the Europeans
that the Indians who inhabit America
are much worse than they have been
painted.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The man who is to cross Niagara
falls by hanging to wire with his
teeth will probably turn out to be a
inew-fangled dentist.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
One of Manv

Bess-l Dung Calloboy is an exceu.
tionally good talker, isn't he?
Nell-Yes, he's a good tslker an
right enough, but he has an impedI.
ment in his thoughts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The Turko-Bulgarian debate is as.
Stunning more threatening attitude
daily. In South America It would
he called a war.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Russell Sage has retired from ac-
ave business, but 1t is not true that
he Is going to spend three afternoons
. week playing ping pong with Mrs.
Hetty Green.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Buffalo Bill admits that he is q
millionaire, and what is better still,
that he will soon retire from the
show business.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

On March 20 the Philadelphia Id
quirer boldly asserted itself In these
words: Stock is freezing out in
Wyoming, but here the buds are
blooming" And the chances are two
to one that the neyt day 1t showed
in Philadelphia.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Or. jacques of Boston says he can
make electricity from coal More
fame for him IL last winter he had
made coal from electricity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The New York actress who has
undertaken to write a play in twenty.
four hours probably won't get 1t pro.
'duced In twenty-four years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Young Rockefeller is a chip of the
old block. He insists that, for the
purpose of taxation, his vast wealth
~ more than Offset by his colossal
debts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The news that Haiti is on the verge
iof q revolution is not surprising. The
revolution microbe is always active
In the tropics.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

What Matos 1t who is president of
Venezuela. now that the customs re-
ceipts have been properly distrib-
uted?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

A new comic weekly is to be start.
ed In New York. 1t is one of the cas-
lest things in the world to start a
comic weekly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

European monarchs are getting to
DO as "sociable" as village spinsters
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

A good many men act on the prin-
ciple that the early worm who caught
the bird stayed up all night to do 1t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

How could G. Oliver Iselin continue
20 be famous If Upton were to quit
challenging for the cup?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

Diamonds are going to be marked
up s per cent. Lay in your summer
stock before the rise.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

loved" Hugh said. "Yet you have
mortal beauty upon your face and
body"
What do you know of mortality
Hugh o'Rourke? And beauty is that
cora of our little life that cannot pass
awtJ, though the fruit that covers IL
turn rotten after growing ripe. Kiss
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
One Mans Wisdom

Kerwin-I have discovered a was
to best my wife in an argument
Farker-Put me next.
kerwin-I keep my mouth shut
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The politician who sets out TO save
the country is frequently hauled up
Tor robbing her.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The flying machines and automc
biies are helping good deal In the
race suicide business.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

DIR. Parkhurst's ideal newspaper
may be handicapped by the shortage
of Ideal people to support 1t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

The valued Cleveland Leader asks |:
why not boil the trusts?" True,
roasting doesn't seem to answer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

ignorance of the law is no excuse
seven for lawyer.