The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-12-08

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Reed Smoot will not join the Wet. U.
Miss Martha keenan,, County Supt.
of Schools, visited the schools in Big
Lost river valley last week.
In the United States there are $40
periodicals to every million inhabit-
ITS, in Great Britain 113, in Russia n
and in japan II.
The option on the well-known
Singiser mines, held by b. f. Myers
of Harrisburg, Pa, has been renewed
by the payment of handsome sum of
money. The Singiser group, reckoned
among the best gold producers of this
county, belongs to Geo. l.. Shoup and
the SPAIN estate. The money chang
ed hands and papers were signed this
week.-Salmon Herald.
The prices for cattle are lower
than they have been at any other time
since the Civil war. There are several
causes for this. To begin with, early
in the season, there was a prospect of
scarcity in the corn crop. Men who
make business of feeding cattle for
the market consequently did not feel
like paying the prices prevailing last
year. The growers would not come
down, and as a result they had the
stock left on their hands Large
amounts of money were tied up in cat
tle Soon the commission men and
others who had been loaning this
money began to urge the marketing of
the product and the payment of the
loans. This kept big stream flowing
steadily to the market, and largely
feeders for which there was little de-
mand. The packers did not bid against
each other, and the prices dropped on
all grades Still the stock was forced
to the market. The foreign demand
fell off, the Boer war and other un-
usual conditions being over. Times
generally have not been so prosperous
within the last few months, aud
domestic demand has fallen off All
these conditions have pushed down
the prices. The receipts of cattle at
Chicago so far this year are probably
300, 900 to 500, 900 head over what they
were for the same period last year,
while the prices are fully 33 per cent
less. Since the corn crop showed up
so well, there has been an increased
demand for feeders, but at the lower
prices. The price of dressed meat has
not been reduced in proportion TO the
fall in the cost of the animals on the
hoof. The consumer is paying the
cost of everything.
Take walk through a cemetery
in large city and you will pass the
last resting place of the man who
blew down the muzzle of gun to see
if it was loaded. A little further down
the slope is buried the man who tried
to jump on a moving train. The hand
some marble shaft of the man who
blew out the gas casts a shadow acros:
the bosom of hired girl who lit the
fire with kerosine, while in close prox-
unity lies all that is mortal of the old
lady who kept baking powder ano
and strychnine on the same shelf in
the pantry. The dude who wore d
plug hat in Texas is quiet now, and he
rests by the side of the gambler who
turned the trump from the bottom o
the deck. The fair damsel who pinch
ed her corset to the last hole anC
danced every number at the freman''
ball, slumbers close to her lover, the
intelligent idiot who rode bicycle ter
miles in nine minutes. The stylish
young man who smoked cigar while
cleaning his clothes with gasoline
sleeps most peacefully and the branch
es of the rose bush which adorns the
last resting place of the old maid wh'
contracted the morphine habit anC
took too much, wave DER her grave
But, alas ! beneath a grassy mounC
moulders a greasy suspender button
all that could be found of the printer
devil who lit cigarette over the ben
zine can while washing the rollers
The troubles of the farmer who stooC
in front of the sickle to oil his moving
machine are over now and so are thos
of the battle-scarred veteran VIII
fought in the great rebellion, VOL
laurels in tn late Spanish war, bu
failed to successfully draw his muske
through barbed wire fence while ou
hunting ground hogs. The foregoing
nearly completes the list-there is onl,
one other. Way over in the northwes
: corner of the graveyard, near the pot
ter's field, with his feet sticking out il
/, the icy blasts of winter and the blist
ering rays of the summers sun, lie
: all that is left of the fellow who trie
to whip the editor. Yes, the fools ar
slowly floating down aud through tn
/ backward fence of the past Prett.
soon they will all be gone; then some
: body win Invent way to make a liv
inr vvithout work and life will becom