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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
HOW TO DRAW A CORK.
It Can Be Done With Common Piece
of Sealing-~ax.

It Can Be Done With Common Piece
of Sealing-saS.
If YOU want to amuse friends at a
picnic, or have left the corkscrew at
home, as usually happens, tell them
that you can draw a cork out Of any
bottle without a corkserew. OF course
they will laugh, but very soon it will
be your turn to smile.
Take a piece of sealing-wax and
hold one end of it over a lighted
match until it becomes soft; then let
some drops of the wax fall on the
cork in the bottle. As soon as the
cork is covered with wax you must
press the piece which you hold in your
hand against the cork, and you must
hold it there until the wax is quite
dry. Then it will be easy for you to
draw out the cork by using the stick
of wax which adheres to it, in the
same manner as you would use a
screw.
No matter how firmly fixed the cork
may be, it will almost Immediately
yield to the pressure. You must,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
Champion Steak Eater.

At besfsteak dinner given recent
ly at Palm Garden. Greene and Ham
burg avenues. among 3 few friends.
Michael Schmidt, a cigar manufac-
turer. and Herman Hochwart, one OF
the proprietors OF the garden. entered
into q contest as TO who had the best
appetite. the contest being for a hand
some umbrella. says the Brooklyn
Times. The others az dinner watched
the contest with much enjoyment
The referee selected was Frank Ross.
q partner of HOchwart, who claims
to be the champion steak eater OF
the country The contestants started
OF eating three dozen Little Neck
clans. six plates OF chowder. three
small loaves Of rye bread. and then
the steaks were tackled When Hoch-
wRrt had finished seven and a half
pounds Of steak he withdrew from
the contest, for Schmidt had Just
finished eight pounds The umbrella
was then awarded to Schmidt amid
much applause. Each of the contest
ants also drank several bottles of ale.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
Minister Wu 3 sarcastic

In recent lecture on his country
men WI Ting-fsng made some pung-
ent comment on Bret Harte's famous
line, The heather Chinee is peculiar"
Mr.. WI said: From your point OF
view this is true. but from ours you
are peculiar. In China we accept a
mans word in business transactions.
mere you exact writing from him.
Since foreigners have been doing so
much business in China native mer-
chants have learned to demand some
kind of writing from them. We re-
spect age. while you seem TO give most
respect TO money. muscle and Drawn.
The Chinese do not think so. Pecul-
lar, isn't it7@
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

and arranged them as artistically as
knew how around the second. John
watched the proceedings, bombardins
me with numerous explosives while
the work was progressing, and Of
course l let him lombard. And Tom
Lamkin stood leaning over his own
fence, smoking his pipe. and watchina
us, and saying-nothing
Then John began to wake up and
show signs of activity Hardly was
my work completed before he spat on
his two hands, grasped his spade firm.
ly by the handle. and, with the same
determination as before, started in to
steal that spring back.
And he made his work count. too.
Hang me if right up in the corner
of the Tense close to Tom Lamkin's
land and mine, that old cross-grained
Ishmaelite didn't strike water again;
and when he did and inspected my
own spring, the water began to gurgle
less and less until finally it died out
and stopped altogether.
knew it was then or never with
me, so, grasping my spade, l darted
into my own corner of the fence and
began to dig dirt, too.
Holy smokel how the soil did fy.
1t was mud and water flying here.
mud and water flying there. mud and
water shooting in every conceivable
direction, and with John and myself
right in the center of attraction.
And in the end, to serve us both
right, Tom Lamkin, who at divers
times had been leaning over his fence
smoking pipes and watching us. and
saying nothing, went to work on his
own land, found that same channel,
cut it of, dug a ditch up over the
hill and down to his own premises,
by the expression on Johns face, who
put in a ram. and took nearly every
drop of that blamed water right over
to his own house.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

At Evian-les-Baines, France. there
is doctor who does not waste time
When he makes the round of his pa.
tients he carries in his carriage a
basket Of homing pigeons. Before he
leaves the house he writes out a pre-
scription and fixes it under the wing
Of bird, which flies straight to the
dispensaTy. An assistant makes M
the medicine. ozclist delivers it and
the patient receives it al within a
few minutes OF the doctors departure
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

OF getting to the track in time for the
second race he hired an automobile
10 take him there
The driver of the motor car ran as
rapidly as he dared over the bridge,
and had scarcely reached the Brook
Ign side when the machine broke
down. The broker ftImed and swore
and the driver perspired and puttered
about the machinery, but without
avail. The broker saw thousands get
ting away from him every minute. He
had $500 in his pocket to bet on Lady
Hollywood for himself. and $500 for
friend to be wagered on the same
thoroughbred, and here it was well
toward 2:S0 already. There was no
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
LAKE OVER VOLCANO

Squire Redwine, who has been in
Phoenix for several days, yesterday
described a smoking lake not far
from the country where he lives. says
the Arizona Republican. Tie lake is
about forty miles from the town of
Imperial and twenty-one miles south
of Mexico. 1t lies within the Cocopah
country at the base of the mountains.
even below the foothills, but it has
not been there very long. 1t is on
the Mexican side of the line. 1t used
to be in California and was supplied
with water By the Chino river, but the
Mexicans damned that stream and
the water was turned into the Coco
pah river. which feeds the new lake
and does little else.
Within the boundaries of the new
lake there has been for several years
what the Indians believed to be a vol
cano. Smoke was almost constantly
rising from the ground. but there had
been no other sign of an eruption.
The water Of the lake now covers the
volcano to a depth of from FIVE to ten
feet. Ever since the water has been
there there has been trouble, and il
is getting worse every day. The In
dams have moved from that neigh
borhood and the whites in the settle
ment twenty miles north are thinking
of moving. The lake is about four
teen miles long. but not of great
width.
AT first the disturbance was con
fined to that part of the water in the
vicinity of the volcano, but now the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

little ripples on the surface Of the
stream over yonderi" said she, costa,
tically.
Yep" he replied, really thinking
however, Of how he VIC d like to play
with about two large Southdown NUT
ton chops and some lyonnaise pota-
toes.
THE sky is Of such a deep turquoise
hue to-day. is it not?" she inquired Of
him.
1T sure is" said he. but the Diue of
the sky made him think of a. pudgy
huckleberry pudding and caused his
teeth to leak.
She perceived that he wasn't gar
rulOus little hit IS to the sky tints.
perspectives. middle distances, and
things like that. ard so she paused for
a little while So did he. His mind
was on the carnal things Of the world.
What are you thinking of" she
asked him playfully. breaking the
sizeable pause. ~Of the music made
by the zephyrs as they fit through
the lovely trees over there at old fort
Washington
Nope" said he. in a matter-of-fact
tone Il was wondering whether I'd
have mustard or not on the four swiss
cheeze sandwiches that I'm going to
lean up against wher we reach our
getting-oh place"
Then she gazed at him reproach-
fully and passed up the tropical-moon-
light conversation until the brute was
fed.-Washington Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

dollar on Mercer at s 10 L
Mercer won his race. and so did
Orion. the latter at 40 to L The rail-
bird was telling a friend about 1t as
gates TO the trains There's that boy
now" he cried. and pointed 70 the
little humpback, who was coming
from the ring with his battered hat
full of bills and a countenance that
was simply seraphic-
Il tOle you dat hawse Orion done
gwine ter win he shouted. as he
caught sight Of his benefactor.
Wouldn't 1t jar your" was the rail-
birds comment There's $3.50 from
that dime I gave him. and lost two
hundred on the DAY. New York
Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

escaped; the third hurried forward,
throwing up his hands and scream
ing: 4 surrender, l surrender"
Tichener was much annoyed. He
could not shoot a man who had vo.-
UNFAIRLY made himself a prisoner cf
var. and the direction taken by the
others was such that he should have
risked hitting his prisoner if he fred
upon the two tugitives: so he had 10
les them go and bring his one prize
into camp. The captive proved TO
be a local preacher who knew the
country so well that the eonfederates
rad pressed him into service as a
quite. and he revealed the fact that
one of his companions was a confed-
crate officer and the other the gueril-
ls Mosby, who, in the then state OF
feeling within the union lines, would
undoubtedly have been given short
shrift and hanged.
Mosby afterward met Tichener and
told him that he did the liveliest run
ming that night of any time in his adj
venturous career.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
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A n a. INV EdAE IuHMlME mt
- ticker tape through his fin
80 gers as the results Of the
races at Brighton were com
ing in -NOsed out again" he said
sadly to himself as he shook his head
dOlefuiIy. Somehow. I can't seem TO
root EN- across. When I play EN-
straight they get the place, and il /
play EN- for the place they finish
third
More hard luck storiesZT inquired
a sympathetic bystander. helping him
self TO the free lunch.
Nope" said the wOeful one Not
to speak Of. this time. did hate
hard luck once, though"
And when was that2" inquired the
symphathIzer.
Last Spring when the were run
ming al Gravesend." replied the tape
inspector, reminiscently. 4 couldn't
go to the track that day. but / sent
down So BY a friend of mine on a four
horse play. I'd figured it out in the
dope tae night before, and l couldn't
see how Andronicus. Janice. Aargra-
yiate, and Dactyl could be beat So |
told my friend 70 send my winnings
right along
Il dropped in here about the time
the first race was called. and. sure
enough, Andronicus came IN a winner
at to / That put me s. to the gooc
The second race l skipped, but Janice
came home on the bit in the third, as
l figured she would. and the tape said
g to l. That meant that / got s27
for my 50. By that time I was getting
quite chesty. and l rubbered at the
tape with confidence when the third
race began to come in Sure enough.
Margrayiate COPIED the dough at ~
to 1. and saw myself $50 to the good
well, went on the speaker. with a
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

sigh, Il went out
and took a walk
around the block
before the fifth
race. When 1 came
back l hardly
dared to look at
the tape. When /
did / almost faint
ed, for DactyI had
won at 40 TO l. As
soon as / could get
my breath I fig
IftQ u I'D lNdt 1
was $3.50 richer
than / had been
that ornin g
Then / went out
and bought bubble
water in every
cafe in Park Row.
1 knew the bar
keep in Andy's,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
The Planet vest..

Vesta is the only one of the smaller
planets which can be seen with the
naked eye. Its diameter is only three
hundred miles and its whole surface
but one-ninth that of Europe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

water is boiling over a considerable
part of its area and explosions are
growing more and more frequent.
People living in the neighborhood
of Texico are often awakened by them
in the night time Eruptions are go
ing on all the time. but they are gen
orally Of sufficient force only to throw
up the water TO the height of a few
feet That makes no noise that can
be heard at any great distance. But
occasionally the eruption breaks
through the water and shoots mud
into the air at a height of forty feet.
Whenever this happens the noise can
be heard and a flame can be seen for
miles. 1t was such demonstrations
as these that frightened the Indians
away. There are boats on the lake
and parties have started out to the
volcano. but they have always turned
back without completing the investi-
cation. One party which came back
reported seeing an area of mud forty
feet square thrown fifty feet into the
air. The level Of this lake is several
feet below sea level.
The whole Cocopah country has
been a volcanic region. The side OF
the mountains and the country for a
considerable distance around are COZ
cred with sulphur Within the mem
DRY of some Of the older residents OF
Arizona one of the volcanoes in the
mountain range was active.
All the troubles of this world are
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

and had to tell him about my wind
fall, of course. He looked pitifulIy
at me. Why said he, didn't youse
hear about that Dactyl racer
Hear what?' said L I heard /
was near $4,000 to the good
-Four thousand nOthin',' said he
They disqualified the fly And dod
rot me if they hadn't Ny thousands
faded away. and haven't bought
champagne since"
'WelI," said the sympathizing
friend, have some now" And they
did.
the crowd pushed its way out of the
OF course, the hard luck stories are
more numerous than tales OF good
fortune at the races. but occasionally
the god of chance favors the specuIz-
tor in some extraordinary fashion.
There a New York broker who is
congTauiating himself these DAYS on
what seemed at first a crushing bit
of illluck. One day recently a friend
Of his who knew what was doing at
Brighton assured him that in the sec
ond race the next day there was a
horse that simply could not lose I'm
less it dropped dead mare called
Lady Holyrood. The broker made up
his mind not TO miss this good thing.
He was kept rather later than he ex-
pectcd at the Office. and 10 make sure
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

however. take care not to wrench the
stick of wax away from it while you
are drawing it out. and you must also
see that the cork is perfectly dry be-
fore you put any wax on il.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

re danced tIshers Hornpipe."
all over it if it killed every spear of
grass there was in it,"
And he replied, just as sneeringly
as he knew how; "Tomkins. I'm a
goin' tn wall this spring up. an lock it
with an iron kiver: but when you
feel so inclined you kin come over,
an though you can't get at the water
you have my full permission to hear it
'gurgle.
To which | went w-r-r-r-r-r-rhl And
when man goes w-r-r-r-r-r-rh mes so
mad he can't use the Anglo-SaXon Jan
guage.
watched John wall that spring up
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

An unhappy wife is one whose hus-
band always lets her have her own
way.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10


Now you've got
your dollar What
are you going TO
do with it if you
win The boy
rolled up his eyes
until nothing but
the whites ap-
peared
Dat hawse Or
Ion he's gwine L
win de las race,
too he answered,
confidently. H
dis hawse Mercer
done win Use gwine
L bet it all on Or
loft | knows de
boy wat rub him
down. and he say
he gwin T win.
shuah.~ and the
negro scampered
away to bet his
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

other autOmODiie IN sight and in dez-
peratiOn the broker took 10 a trolley
car. in the vain hope Of reaching the
track in time. They were on As. too
late to bet. he rushed. perspIring and
tuning. through the clubhouse gate
and from the clubhouse verauda
strained his eyes to pick out the win
ner as the field flashed down the
hOmestretca. When the numbers
went up he mOpped his moist brow.
fell into chair. ordered a highbaI.
and smiled for the first time IN an
hour Lady Holyrood was not in the
first three. Lady RadnOr won the
race at Il 10 /
The automobile Is q great institu-
ton murmured the broker to him
self
A funny little humpbacxed negro
sidled up to the raiIbird as ne was
watching the selling pIaters warm IN
before the fifth race at Brighton the
other day.
''Dere's dat hawse Mercer he said
conidentially. as big bay gaIIoped
by. Juggling at the bit. hes gwine ter
win. suah1
Think sog" said the raiIbird smil-
ing Then why don't you bet on
him."
I ain'I got only 30 cents. said the
deformed mite. -an' dey won't take il
on de dead line Won't. take uuf5u'
less'n q dolIah" The raiIbfrd dug in
TO his pocket and produced a dime
Here you are. he said. sm5Iinefv
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

HE old racegoer stood in a
Park Row cafe running the
ticker tape through his fin
gers as the results Of the
races at Brighton were com
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

All the troubles of this world are
born with winds.-Mary E. Wilkins.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
THEY ARE COMING BACK

Census figures do not bear out the cur
rent belief that the negroes are rushing TO
the Northern cities, though the exodus to
the North since the census was taken
from portions of North Carolina has been
considerable Some of these are coming
back. After the recent riots in ILLINOIS
and Indiana trains going into Kentucky
were crowded with negroes who sung i m
going back to Dixie" A Cumnock CORES
pondent of the Chatham Record tells
the same story:
Several negroes who left here for West
Virginia mines sometime ago, have return
ed somewhat the worse for wear and tear
and are very anxious to get work again
at this place. There is not any reasonable
excuse for any one who intends to work
at mining leaving this place under the
existing conditions, as they can save more
money here than in either Pa, or West
Virginia, because there are no labor
troubles or strikes here"
Industrious and worthy negroes land
there are many such among us)-live bet
ter and get along better in North Caro-
lima than anywhere else in the world.
They are protected in their right to
work, in their property, and have the
friendship of their white neighbors. In
Raleigh the relations between the white
and colored race is all that could be de
sired. This is because the bulk of the
negroes are industrious and worthy Of the
it always be so!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

have full assessment of its property and
a low tax rate. 1t will be ten-fold better
than to keep up low assessments and a
high rate, But" we are told, ut will be
hard to secure the reduced assessments
public officials will wish larger incomes
and will find excuses to prevent the re-
duction of the rate" Public officials are
public servants. If they refuse to heed
the wishes of the people, the voters are
masters. No unreasonable demand should
be made upon public officials. 1t is not
unreasonable to demand a reduction of
the tax rate in city and county in the
exact proportion of the increase in the
assessment of property. IF it means close
and rigid economy in the conduct of the
affairs of the city and county, that IS
what the taxpayer wants.-Editorl
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
THE SERPENT AND THE APPLE.

If the serpent had not deceived Eve and
if Adam and Eve had not eaten of the
apple-how much of speculation, theolog
icaI, psychological, genealogical, have
hung around that portentous eff"
Here's "a modern story of the apple and
the serpent from the Asheboro Courier:
"Mr James Keever, near Liberty
church. says his little grand son was eat
ing an apple and snake about foot long
came out of it. 1t was about the size OF
a common sewing thread, white and had q
fiat head. 1t struck at the boy like a
large snake and tried to bite him."
Throughout history there seems to rur
some kindred influence between the ser
pent and the apple. In this day it is more
particularly seen in converting man into
devil by imbibing too copiously of the
Juice of the apple Not day passes but
some deed of man made mad by brandy
is recorded. Is the apple fore-ordained
for all time to bring about the undoing o.
man?
We are told that Eve saw the serpent be
fore she partook of the apple. In the case
from Randolph the little boy did not sec
the SERPENT until he had bitten into the
apple In both cases there was a close re
lationship between the apple and the
snake.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
A MORNING TONIC.
(Jean Nicolas Grou.)

All extreme sensitiveness, fastidious
ness, suspicion, readiness to take offence,
and tenacity of what we think our due,
come from self-love, as does the unworthy
secret qualification we sometimes feel
when another is humbled or mortified;
the cold indifference, the harshness of our
criticism, the unfairness and hastness of
our judgments, our bitterness towards
those we dislike, and many other faults
which must more or less rise up before
nest mems conscience when they ques-
tion it sincerely as to how far they do
indeed love their neighbors as Christ has
loved them. He will root out all dis
likes and aversions, all readiness to take
offence, all resentments, all bitterness,
from the heart which is given up to his
guidance He will infuse his own tender
love for man into his servants mind and
teach him to love his brother as Christ
has loved him."