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parents, Mr.. and William Cumbey. Of
Olive street. next week.
The pupils of Grant school gave a lit
erary and musical entertainment Thurs
day afternoon in the Arlington Hills
presbyterian church.
The Elysfan Euchre club will be enter
tanned Monday evening, the 18th, at the
home of Mrs. Guernsey, on East Twelfth
street.
Miss Ruth Lundquist, Of ST. Peter, win
spend the holidays with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Lundquist. on Sims street.
Mrs. l. J. Hart and Percy Hart OF
Pine street, will spend the winter in
Davenport, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Howe. Of whita1l
street, entertained the first Of the week
DIR. and Mrs. e. III. Frost Of Willmar.
The NJ. Fl. K. P. Euchre club was en-
tertained Friday evening at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence E. Corbett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Cameron, Of
Minnehaha street are entertaining Rev.
Jameson, OF South Dakota.
Mrs. ]. G. Boucher, of Thirteenth street,
entertained the North st. Paul Euchre
club Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. f. r. Ide, Of Fauuuier street has
been entertaining Miss Victoria Buck
man, Of Bozeman, Mont
Mrs. J. R. Hallan, of Carroll, Iowa, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs Q. G. Miller,
of East Tenth street.
Mrs. U. D. Miller, Of Westminster street,
entertained the Lower Town Euchre club
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Artz, of Grove street, is en-
tertaining Mrs. Lipps and the Misses Nora
and Anna Horst.
Mrs. H. Reeve. the recent guest Of Mrs.
George Perkins, has returned to Lake
City.
Mrs. D. P. Herener, of the willard, .
entertained the Monday Afternoon Euchre
club
Miss Lille French, Of Philadelphia, is
a guest Of her sister, Mrs. Adam Stoddart,
OF Case street.
Miss Jessie McCulloch, Of Case street,
has gone to Kalispell. Mont, to visit
friends
Miss Blanche Greer entertained the Fri
day Night Euchre club this week.
Miss Ethel Hart, of Pine street, viii
spend the winter in Vancouver.
Mrs. ]. R. Morton, of Case street, has
returned from Chicago.
Mrs. Gouiding, Of Clark street, has gone
to North Caroline.
Mrs. j. c. Sahin has been visiting friends
in Chicago.
Mrs. Adams has gone to Ontario
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EAST ST. PAUL,

A musical and literary entertainment
was given Thursday evening in the First
Swedish Lutheran church. Those con-
tributing to the programme were Prof.
Peter Johnson, the Misses Minnie Lind
quist. DR.. L. "A. JohnStone made speech.
The Daisy Euchre club was entertained
Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. G.
w. Mcclure, on Burr street. Prizes were
Won by Mrs. Randall Mrs. Reinick and
Mrs. Wadell. Mrs. Enbank of 337 Rondo
street, will be the next hostess.
: Mrs. J. G.. Holmes, of Burr street en-
tertained the first of the week. Mrs. James
Balsam, of Nicholson MINI.
The pupils of John Ericsson school will
give Christmas exercises Wednesday
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| Of Carroll street, entertained the Cinch
club Monday evening. Favors were won
by Mrs. Tuttle and O. q. Lothman.
The ladies OF the Study class will enS
Jan. 4, at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. E
B. Lynch, Iglehart street.
The sewing circle Of the Young Peo-
Pies Mission club met Tuesday evening
at the home OF Mrs. w. 0. Hillmanv
Dewey avenue.
Mrs. H. s. Moore and children, Of Mar
| shall avenue, left Wednesday morning
to spend the holidays in Dubuque and
! Lancaster.
Mrs. John Becker and daughter, Miss
| Geneva Becker, left Saturday afternoon
for theis new home in Ashland. Wis.
The Misses Helen and Alice Ostrom
have returned from st. Mary's hail. Fari-
bault, to spend the holiday vacation.
The Burkey club, Of Central high
school, will give a dancing party at
Mrs. @. o. Goss, the recent guest OF
Mrs. A. B. Bell. Of Carroll street, has re-
turned to her home in Winona.
Misses Louise and Armine Watkins have
returned from st. Mary's hall Faribault,
to spend the holidays at home.
Miss Jessie Matson, Of St. Anthony ave-
nue., spent Sunday with her sister, Miss
Sadie Matson, in Hutchinson
Mrs. Harry Titcomb. Of Iglehart street.
entertained Monday afternoon for the
members Of the G. r. club.
Miss Ida Stevenson. the recent guest Of
Miss Lou Andrews has returned to her
home in Bloomington, ILL.,
Roy A. Ostrom has returned from Shat
| tuck school to spend the Christmas vaca-
ton at home.
Mrs. I. F, Hastings and daughter Cher
rill are the guests of Mrs. A. S. Nash, Of
| Iglehart street
| Rev. John Pemberton, Of Hamline, will
occupy the pulpit Of Trinity NJ e. church
| this morning.
| Mrs. F. I. Bennett, who has been visit
| Ing Merriam Park friends. has returned to
| Fargo, N. D.
Mrs. f. w Sachse. Of Prescott street,
| entertained the Ladies' Study class Friday
| afternoon.
| Mr.. and Mrs. P. Walsh, Of Prior avenue.
! left Thursday evening for Philadelphia
| to reside.
Mrs e. A. Currie, st. Anthony avenue
is entertaining relatives from Currie
| MINI.
| The Bald Eagle club gave a dancing
party last Friday evening at Woodrud
/, hall.
Mrs. Florence Patterson. OF Carroll
I street, will leave soon for a several
months visit in Louisville, KY
Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson, of Sioux Falls,
3. d., are visiting Merriam Park friends.
| Mrs. F. L. Beckley Marshall avenue
| has returned from visit in Lake City
| Mrs. Graham Terrence left Tuesday
| morning for her new home at Bemidji.
| MIR. and Mrs. T. G.. Andrews Carroll
| street, have been visiting In Chicago.
Misses Maude Rand and Dorothy Du-
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MERRIAM PARK.

Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Mandigo, for
merly of Merriam Park, celebrated their
twenty-f fifth wedding anniversary Thurs
day evening at their home, 722 Selby
avenue, st. Paul.
Harry Simons and Johnnie Page en-
tertained about twenty Of their young
friends last Friday evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Simons, Of Carroll
street.
Mrs. Frank Tuttle and Mrs williams,
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Saclzett. Mrs Theodore Patten, Mrs. FL.
s. Freeman, IT. s. Freeman, Theodore
Patton and Weldon Dayton.
Mrs Rothwell, of Minneapolis, was a
guest the first of the week Of Mrs.
Charles Tisdale, of Maria avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie c. Trott and
daughter Quinn have returned to MiIwau-
kee after visit with relatives
Mrs Corridor entertained the Palms
Embroidery club Wednesday afternoon.
Miss May Stapleton. Of Maria avenue,
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has been entertaining Miss Keyes, of
Saltwater. the last Of the week.
surprise was given Friday evening
for Mrs. B. F. Johnson, OF East Fourth
street, in honor of her birthday
The Young Ladies' Thimble Bee met
Friday afternoon with Miss Virginia de
Haas, of East Sixth street.
The Nonpariel Card club meets Satur-
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Continued on Nineteenth Page.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
New Automatic contrlvanee.

Among the new contrivances, says
Hardware Iondon), is an automatic
telegram and letter delivery machine
which has received the sanction of the
postoffee, and which should be Of
considerable use to variety of peo-
pie at large railway stations. If two
persons have an appointment. and
one of them is unable to keep it. a tele-
gram or letter can be dispatched to
one of the machines addressed to the
persons required intimating the fact
The dispatch is deposited in the ma.
chine, and the person to whom the let
ter or telegram has been addressed
can, by placing a penny in the slot
and pressing a knob, obtain the mes.
sage. There is a new machine which
supplies paper. envelope and pencil
and an umbrella can be obtained from
another for two shillings. An auto
matte domestic and general advertise
ment can be exhibited for day for
a small sum, is also to be placed be.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11

which the seductions of the East
reaches its greatest subtility
Officially, the khediye of Egypt and
the British government administer the
country, but in the city of Cairo King
Carnival holds open court the year
round, and there is none, excepting
few missionaries. to dispute his sway
Cairo is a.city of so many and such
diverse attractions, architectural, his
torical and social, that the limits of
this article prevent any more than
a cursory glance at the chief features
of interest to strangers.
Most of the important hotels and
the principal pnblic buildings face the
gardens or are near at hand. The
New hotel is on the west side, the
Hotel d'Orient on the northeast: Shep-
heard's, with its splendid verandas
and fine cafe. the Continental-the
WaldorfAstoria of Cairo-and the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11

Friday, it has been discovered By
a palnstaking and Iaborious stausti-
clan, is not the unluckiest but actual
ly the luckiest day of the week.
Taking all the great calamities
which befall humanity. the painstak-
ing gatherer of facts has discovered
that the general average gives the title
Of ''luskiest day" to Friday, and that
Of the unluckiest day to Monday
The moral is plain. Beware of Mon
day.
In one line alone it has been found
that Friday deserves it's present title
In railroad accidents Friday heads the
list. So it is wise, if you be superstis
tious, to avoid beginning journey on
Friday.
The thirteen superstition" was
knocked in the head long ago. and it
was to be supposed that an iconoclas-
tic age would take a punch at the
Friday dread before long.
1t has not been necessary for a per-
son to admit being superstitious to
acknowledge a preference for begin
ming certain things on any other day
than Friday. This feeling is Unborn
in nearly all nationalities except the
Scandinavian.
First take the record of assassina-
tons. In these Sunday is pre-emin-
emily the conspicuous day. Wednes-
day comes next, counting attempts
which did not succeed as well as at
tempts which did Saturday is third,
and Monday fourth. Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday are equal
There is possibility that the person
having in mind such an attack chooses
any other day than Friday, in the be-
lief that the day will prove unlucky
for him. An examination Of the rec
ords of such attacks in the last $50
years has disclosed the fact that the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
Sunday Favored by Murders,


would-be murderer looks on Friday
as an unlucky day for his attempt
That might be construed to prove
either side of the argument, but it is
fair to accept the statisticians con
clusion in favor of Friday as the
lucky day.
Three famous men, among others,
were assassinated on Friday-Abra-
ham Lincoln, William Mckinley and
Nasr-er-Deen, shah Of Persia. Three
attempts were made to kill Alexander
II. of Russia on Monday, two to kill
Bismarck on Mondays. and three to
kill Louis Philippe on Tuesdays.
The sailor has a right to consider
Friday his luckiest day if exemption
from shipwreck be considered. 1t has
been pet superstition of the sea that
Friday is the unlucky day for sailing
This is found to be extraordinary, as
the number of shipwrecks occurring
on that day of the week is the small
est
To secure this conclusion the sta
tistician examined the records of the
disasters to British vessels from 1895
to the present day. He found that "a
per cent happened on Thursday, 16
per cent on Saturday and Sunday, IA
per cent on Monday and Wednesday,
II per cent on Tuesday, and only
4 per cent on Friday
BY examining the record of railroad
disasters from 1898 up to date it was
discovered that the nervous person
who fears to begin journey on Fri
day can point to some substantiation
for the fears. 1t was in this item
alone that the day kept up its reputa-
ton.
Wednesday is the best day to be-
gin Journey. Saturday, Sunday and
Monday are close rivals to Friday,
while Tuesday, Thursday and We'd
nesday have small records.
The greatest danger from fire has
been on Monday. Wednesday and Sat
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11

with profusion of tropical flowers.
About a half-mile south of the Esbeki-
va is Abdin square. in front of the
khedive's palace, where military re-
views sometimes take place.
Because we had attended to it two
months in advance OF our arrival in
Cairo, there were rooms waiting for
US at Shepherds This famous old
hosiery is still, in all essential re-
spects, the most comfortable and at
tractive hotel in the city, in spite of
the fact that there are numerous 9TH
er hotels of great size and modern ap-
pointments that are even superior in
some points of elegance to Shep-
heard's, as it will always be called in
spite of the fact that it is no longer
Shepherds, and another name is on
the stationery in the writing room
and in the bottom of the soup plates.
Hotels have their associations as
well as homes, and in reality this fine
old place, both by situation and tradi-
lions, is satisfying in every way. The
atmosphere of Shepherds is good
humored, well bred, cosmopolitan,
friendly, and in the big white room.
with its old-fashioned panels and stiff
groups of palms hiding in the corners,
one sees the greatest medley of we'll
known people, with and without titles,
famous for many things. from poll
tics to poetry. brains to mere beauty.
Past the hotel steps flows the multi
colored life of the city, and to the ter
race come the vendors of curiosities,
conjurors, snake charmers and Arab
musicians, with their odd instruments
and barbaric songs, most of them, as
far as the words are concerned, not
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
UNCLE SANS TREASURE WAGON

More Than Four Billions of Dollars
Have Been Carried in This Cart.
Down in the sub-basement of the old
custom house. along with the ash cans
and rubbish barrels, there stands
sturdy little wagon which has carried
in its day more than $4,000, 000. 900 of
Uncle Sans money
When the little wagon was con-
signed to the scrap heap some time
ago Custodian Lawlor decided to pre-
serve it if he could.
I've been here for nearly twenty
years, said Mr.. Lawlor, and it amt
within my memory when the little
wagon failed to make its daily trip up
Wall street to the sub-treasury, and
never penny spilled There's them
that have been here thirty years and
the tale is the same call that faith
fulness and Uncle Samn have hard
time finding any other word for it,
guess. Anyway, I'm going to keep the
little wagon as long as he'll let me-"
The wagon, as it's picture shows,
still seems fit for duty. Its joints are
rather weak, though, and it has been
repaired so often that it was thought
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
wool" from Turf Fibres.

The ingenious Germans, says the
Kobe Herald, are now making wool"
from turf fibres. 1t is said that re-
cent improvements in the process of
treating turf fbres have resulted in
the production of a soft material,
which can be spun as readily as the
wool of the sheep, and which, besides
possessing excellent absorption prop
critics, is capable of being bleached
and colored for use in the many DIFF.
ferent textile industries. Dusseldorf
is the centre of this new industry and
in that city cloth hats, rugs and many
other things are being manufactured
from turf fibre. The discovery, it is
asserted, opens up the prospect of a
new industry for Ireland.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11

the sightseer thereby visits Port Said,
sees the canal, learns what a desert
is like in the ride from Ismailiya to
Iz-Zaoaziq, and sees a great deal Of
the delta country from there on to
his destination.
Never was a town laid out in so
precise a pattern as Ismailiya. the lit
tie halfway stopping place on the
Suez canal. A bread road, lined with
trees that look as though they had
come out of a child's Noah's ark and
then grown up little, leads up from
the landing place on the lake, across
the fresh water canal to the Quai Me
hemet Ali, a broad avenue, bordered
on one side by the canal and on the
other by the houses of the principal in
habitants.
Around Ismailiya lies the white des-
ert, reclaimed only in this small spot
by the ingenuity of man. And when
one sees the wonderful luxuriance of
the floral and vegetable growth wher-
ever a regular supply of water has
been distributed in the desert, it
seems an unfortunate thing that all
the vast wastes of Africa should not
be made to blossom; all their aston
ishing fertility now lost and hidden
by some strange trick of nature.
Cairo is not holy city, but life
there is holiday and it is the Mecca
of the pleasure seeker. Every year
the number of fashionable and
wealthy people from all over the
world who gravitate to the Egyptian
capital increases. for Cairo is Trou-
vile, Saratoga, Monte Carlo and the
Riviera rolled into one, with no end
of special attractions of it's own in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11

BY taking an average Of these re-
suits we find that Tuesday is the luck.
lest day, with Friday close behind:
Wednesday and Thursday run a dead
heat for third position; Sunday comes
in easily fifth, with Monday some dis
lance behind. and Saturday last. But
if we strike an average of the per-
centages obtained from actual figures
used in preparing the diagrams. we
find that 10 2-3 per cent of the disas-
tiers took place on Friday, 10 sic per
cent on Tuesday. IA 1-3 per cent on
Thursday, 1415 per cent on a We'd
nesday, 161z per cent on both Satur-
day and Sunday, and 1s % per cent
on Monday
1t is recorded that this favors the
theory that Columbus started on his
voyage of discovery on Friday; first
sighted land on a Friday; started ON
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
orientation Of Animals.


The Society of the Institut General
Psychologique of Paris has just issued
a circular calling for information bear
ing on the special question Of the
sense of orientation in animals and
puts its questions in the following
form: ID In cases where long-dis-
lance orientation permits the animal
to return to a place far beyond the
range of the senses as commonly I'M
derstood, can we accept a hypothesis
like the following? At every moment
during its displacements the animal
continually maintains the orientation
of its point of departure, the displace-
ments of the point being coniugate
to those of its own motion. It suf-
fees, then. that the animal knows
what its displacements with respect
to the point of departure have been
in order that it may also know what
the displacements of the point relative
to the animal itself have been. All
animals know, through their senses,
the direction and the velocity of their
own displacements, and this double
Information is afforded by the labyr-
inth of the ear, or by organs or SINH
lar physiological function. Other
functions can only be associated with
this one and aid it ~. What facts
can be adduced for or against such a
hypothesis? (9) What facts support
other theories of orienta-
ton by smell, by magnetic attraction,
by sight, ETC.? Replies are to be adj
dressed to the society, at % Rue Ser
pente. Paris.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
Thursday Leads in shipwrecks.

Thursday Leads in Shipwrecks.
his return journey on Friday, and
arrived at Palos on a Friday; he
reached Hispaniola in his second ex-
petition on a Friday, and discovered
the continent of America on a Fri
day. Bunker hill was fought on a
Friday, the motion made by John
Adams that the United States are and
ought to be independent was made
on Friday, Saratoga was surrendered
on a Friday, the treason of Arnold
exposed on Friday, and the collier
Merrimac was sunk in Santiago harbor
by Lieut.. Hobson on a Friday. Chi
eago Tribune
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
Dinner Pail with Non-conduetina
Lining.

hours, simply because the pail is lined
with non-conducting material on all
sides. The pail is so constructed that
warm lunch placed in it in the morn
ing will not cool very perceptibly by
the time the dinner hour arrives, and
thus the workingman may not only
have food of an agreeable temperature
but of pleasant taste as we'll The
essential feature of the invention is
the lining. which is of felt-like struc-
ture. and surrounded by network of
wire, permitting its instant removal
from the pail, when the latter is to be
washed or used for some other pur-
pose.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
NOVEL SIGHTS OF THE
CAPITAL CITY OF EGYPT
Life There Always Holiday, and the Place the Mecca
Of the Pleasure SeekerPopular Hotel Frequented by
the Nest Aristccradc Of the Tourists.
Especial Correspondence

Angleterre, are all within sight or
easy reaching distance.
From the encircling streets radiate
to every part Of Cairo well cared for
avenues. those in the adjacent Ismail-
iva quarter being especially fine.
broad, with the footpath bordered by
shade trees. In this quarter are many
private residences of considerable pre-
tension, with charming gardens filled
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
Cushioned eunstock.

Those who are accustomed to hunt.
ing with the shotgun know by expert
ence the force of the recoil occasioned
by the discharge of one of the shells,
and many boy, forgetting to hold the
gun tight to his shoulder, has felt the
gun kick" with no small degree of
force. An Ohio inventor has produced
a cushioned gunstock which he be-
lieves will considerably lessen (and
perhaps entirely remove) the shock of
the discharge. The idea, as will be
seen by an examination of the two
drawings, consists in forming the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
MEOW.


A public school teacher in the city
of New York, who wished to select
soloist from among her pupils. took
three of them to her private room, and
as quality of voice was the only
question involved, said to the first
little girl: Sing one verse of any
hymn you have learned in school"
The child broke forth:
Lead. kindly light amid the encircling
gloom,
MEOW, meow,
The night is dark. and am far from
home
Meow. meow:
No one who has not been obliged
to fight the garbling of words, sung
by children in chorus. viii fully APP
preciate the easiness of the transition
from Lead Thou me on" to Meow.
me-ow."-S. j. B. in Harper's Drawer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
Impervious TO Heat or Cold

The man who carries his lunch with
him day after day often finds portions
of the food too cold in winter and too
warm in summer to be palatable, as
the ordinary dinner pail affords free
transmission of the heat or cold of the
surrounding atmosphere to the eat
ables within. Now New Yorker has
produced a dinner pail which he be-
lieves will prove a boon to the work
ingman. 1t is claimed that this pail
will maintain the temperature of the
interior at fixed degree for several
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-11
Work Of the Hvdronranhlo omoe.


The chief of the United States Hy-
geographic Office has lately printed in
the National Geographic Magazine an
account of the important bureau under
his charge. There are now in its pos
session nearly 1900 engraved chart
plates and about fifty Photographic
plates, which have been constructed
from original naval surveys from data
reported by naval officers and from
the photographed information derived
from the surveys of other countries.
These charts represent only a third
Of the number necessary for a com
plete set of navigation charts of the
world for the use of the naval and
shipping interests of the United
States. Much remains to be done be-
fore a perfect set of charts can be
constructed and after such a set is
once obtained constant revisions are
necessary. All the great naval powers,
and particularly England, are engaged
in making original surveys and re-
visions, and it is by cooperation in
such work that practical completeness
is attained If a photographic Office
chart is not at hand one can usually
find a chart issued by the British ad-
miralty that will cover the desired
field. Each country strives, first of
all, to make charts of it's own waters.
and now that the Philippines and Por-
to Rico are American, our navy is
likely to find its work cut out for it
for some time to come. The United
States Coast Survey takes care of the
charts of the principal ports and by a
good system of cooperation with the
navy rapid progress is assured.