The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-12-01
Some of the Silver creek opal
nagnates were in town last week.

Some of the Silver creek opal
magnates were in town last week.
The Cassia County Herald. pub
Iished at Albion. Idaho, has the fol-
lowing to say in behalf of our County
Attorney of Custer county in the
Adamsou-Chapma7 case
ssThe case of W. w. Adamson at
HALEY, which has excited so much
comment throughout the State, and
which has beeo demonstrated that
young mans popularity among the
leading men of his profession, seven of
whom have offered their services
gratis, has been continued I'LL the next
term of court The former Mrz. Ad-
amson's side Of the case was heard and
I probably that is all that will ever
oecupy the courts attention as with
drawl of the suit by The plaintiff IS
expected A generous spirit has been
manifest by Mr. Adamson in waving
I preliminary examination aud ia not
presenting his side of the controversy
as in either case the private character
of Mrs Adamson would have. of neces-
sity, been zssaiIed and that is and has
been far from the desire of MIR. Adam
son..
Last Thursday. Thanksgiving day.
we overheard the following converse
tion in ohaIIis by two of our we'll
known citizens
Mr. Ave are ordered to give our
thanks today The President says
there are things TO be thankful for,
aud the Governors have fallen in be-
hind him in fuA cry like . pack of
hounds. Now want to know what
the dwelIers in the valley of the Kaw.
the Missouri. the Mississippi, and the
Passaie have TO be thankful for when
they look back over 1903 How large
is the sum of gratitude that can be
scrzped together among those farmers
whose crops have been scorehed or
wasbed-out or frost bitten ? There
are thousands of them The form&lity
of thanks deereed in high worded
messages is to me ridiculous. Some of
our people have enjoyed no benefits
and some of them have lost their best
friends auG are almost driven to des-
pair by the conditions before them
Why should they be asked to giTe
thanks today ,
Mr. B--Dear fellow, l sympathize
with your aching heart and sympath-
ize with your point OF view; but you
are touching on mystery wide and
deep and interminable as the human
raee,-and that is the existence of evil
And neither you nor are able to reach
a conclusion about it in one evening
or dozens so let me narrow down the
discussion 70 a line in which, even if you
find no great sense of Thanksgiving.
you will at least riss up from your
spirit of despair You have mentioned
great natural disasters In those very
regions you will find Thanksgiving
Day as sincerely kept as anywhere.
Why Because Nature is ever striF-
ing back to perfection A wounded
limb tries TO heal. every living cell
along its cut or bruised edge throws
out new cells to barriczde life from
the assaults of death Death eonquers
sometimes but Nature is never dis
eouraged from trying again on the
next wound of hillside, field. or erea-
ture- We human beings initiate great
Mother Nature We forget the pain
of last week or last year If we did
r not life would become cruel cage of
( bowling mani2cS- So soon as disaster
befalls. the energy of repair takes the
string from the seeming evil and the
: conscious strength of accomplishment
, makes Hope rise in the heart Lowell
i: makes Cromwell say TO Hampden
. No, Hampde1 they have halfway con
Qusred Fate
who 80 nall way 10 meet her.-as viii II
talk to you direct in this matter-do
. you not enlarge too much upon physi-
z cal disaster ? | have known souls
E bereft of every visible comfort in life
4 who were far fuller of reasonable
], Thanksgiving than the rich aud pros
0 porous Were they fools No they
: were great souls whose eyes saw deep
f er than hills of corn, wider than u
) flled baru-yard and higher than =
5 comfortable roof. They thanked God
: that they inherited ideas, that they
q belonged to a race of creatures that
: could think and could record their
: thoughts for those who came after
: them They thanked God for the sense
, of kinship with all of good that had
/ gone before. not dead in its effect but
q living as an inspiration to good in the
{ present, and to beQueathing good to
: the future. These people were sane
{ They lived in an atmosphere of in
J. spiration and IN turn they inspired
, They have passed on 10 greater tasks
g in greater sphere. in my belief. For
I'll. So tsa