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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

bring forward He was her hired man
and he swore that he once heard Dea-
con SpoOner tell her that she ought to
kill the worms in her plum trees with
kerosene oil
She didn't depend on living wit
nesses. however. She brought forward
written and printed proofs of the dea
cons perfdy. She had kept a diary
for several years. and it was full OF
such extracts as:
The deacon called again this after
noon He said one of his COWS seemed
to be sick Asked me If wasn't afraid
of tramps. I think l saw love in his
eyes as he said Good night. Nancy. !"
After about fifty extracts had been
read, each and every one of which
seemed to be a nail in the deacon's
coffin and caused the spectators to
suck in their breath with q gasp, the
court excluded the diary.
Then Nancy played her trump card
She produced from paper box. where
in it had repOsed for long weeks. a
slip of paper on which was printed in
good fair type:
II you loved me
AS I love you
No knife could cut
Our love in two.
What did the verse meant She had
read it over a thousand times. She
had repeated the lines to herself by
day and dreamed Of them by night
They had told her that while butter
and eggs were not fetching the price
they ought TO. she was beloved
1t was, or appeared to be, q sock
dologer on the deacon II had come
from his own hands. On an occasion
he had brought her from the village
half pound of broken candy. There
were peppermint. wintergreen and
cinnamon pieces among the lot There
were chunks and hunks and cubes.
Wrapped in 8 tissue paper was hunk
bearing the above motto. II was the
deacon's way of declaring his love.
Ii had been accepted as such. bat he
had refused to follow up his good luck
and ask Nancy to name the day. Every
time he had departed she had burst
into tears of disappointment
Her wandering thoughts had made
her mix up the sour with the sweet
milk half dozen times over and when
she sought her couch it was to toss
about and sigh and groan and suspect
that the deacon was heartless viz
lain.
When her tale had been concluded
everyone in the courtroom rose TO his
feet to mob the deacon. but before
hand was laid upon him the court dis
missed the case and assessed the costs
on the plaintiff.
In legal lore he explained that the
poetry signi6ed nothing. and that by
no possibility could Nancy's heart
have been broken in consequence of it.
The candy might have given her indi.
gestion. but the poetry could not have
given her hold on the deacon.
Deacon Skinner stood forth trium-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

plant, but his church had to take IN
lne matter. He passed another bad
three days, for there were those who
we're inclined to think love and broken
candy went togsther. But when the
affair had been concluded the verdict
was:
We cant say that the deacon tn
guilty as charged. but after this We
hope he won't leave any poetry with
his packages. Amanda CIarksoa In
Boston Globe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

The American who has lived long in
Mexico and come 70 New York il
queer on money. How much did y0u
say you made last yearTs you ask. and
his reply viii be A hundred thousand
Mexican. or $4,000 gold What is
your regular salary as PRESIDENT
Twenty-Five thousand gold He
buys hat The price, Five dol
lars Mexican or gold9~ Gold,
treasury certificates or silver dollars. =
Here's an old hat that cost me SIS
in the City Of Mexico That's = dne
Panama We viii sell you one like it
for SIS Mexican or gold - United
States currency. Mine cost $4S
Mexican. so beat you sS.ss bold 1t
takes the clerk all the rest of the day
to figure it OUT
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25
Bride was CAUTIOUS.

The marriage of Mrs. Annie Mary
E. Zahm, 80 years old, and Thomas
Wood Stein, ~ years old, by Jus
tice Murphy recently in Jersey City.
might not have occurred if Stein had
not. just before the ceremony, made a
will bequeathing to his wife several
pieces Of unimproyed real estate in
Flushing.
Mrs. Zahm said to the justice: Il
love Mr.. Stein, but can not marry
him unless he makes his will Life
is too uncertain"
Stein remarked that a 'wilIfuI wom-
an must have her way" but said he
would make the will.
Mrs. Zahm declared she was not
'willfHl. but cautious"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

VISOR instead. This may seem i'm.
possible or foolish, but by experiment.
Ing you viii find that dividing by two
you win bring the same result as
multiplying by five. providing you
add cipher to the quotient II the diyi.
dend be an even number, or five If IT
pc odd. For instance, If you multiply
zIS4 by five. the product is 1850.
what is still easier, divide 2734 by
two, which is done almost instantape-
ously. Then tack on your cipher and
you have 1850 Try It with large
sums and see how much easier II is.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25
Feat with Figures.

Here is something worth knowin~
After learning this little trick (though
1t is really not trick. but an accor,.
plishmenD, you win gain the renut..
ton of being lightning mathematl.
clan.
Everybody knows that learning tAs
tenl, in the multiplication table Is as
erEs winking, and that the ayes .ra
20 uchA harder. But, slight ma ,s
theVoentaI effort required in multInlv.
ng~any number by Ave. IL may be Les.
sened still more by discareing the NINA.
saolier entirely and substituting a de.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

Speaking Of AOw seriously educa-
ton is taken in these days. a certain
school had to be closed because Of an
epidemic of some childrsns disease
and one Of the parents met the kinder
gsrten teacher on the street.
You must be glad OF this unex-
pected rest" she said.
We'll. / should be but that there
win be so much back work TO be made
up when we return
Mamma unused. AS she went on her
way, where the arduousness OF the ls-
Dor came in in making the little three
and four year olds recall that they
had once learned that -iasssc Good
morning. merry sunshine and other
jingies of that ilk
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25
The whirIIoiq.

Cut this whirligig out very care
fully and paste it on square bit OF
thin cardboard Ia postal card would
dol. Let it dry, and then cut the
cardboard out round the whirligig, and
with a tiny pin fasten it through the
center to a bit of stick for handle.
This should be about the thickness
of match and three times as long.
Now take hold of it by the handle
and slowly turn it from left to right,
and you will see that it appears to be-
whizzing round and round at a ire
mendous rate.
If you paint the white circles very
carefully a bright red or a bright blue
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

aever gone beyond windmills. light
ning rods and carpet rags. and in shak-
ing hands with her he had always been
careful not to squeeze any harder than
he would in handling a ripe peach.
The deacon made these assertions
and denials to his friends and his
lawyer. while Nancy simply set her
law and said she would prove her case
ut the proper time.
The case came on at last. Ii was
fnst as the potato planting season had
arrived, but not a farmer for ten
miles around minded that He was
bound TO be present at that trial If
potatoes went up to IS per bushel in
the fall.
Nancy's lawyer looked IKE a man
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25
Trick with roothpicks.

Take three toothpicks. Call them
first, second, third. Take one person
out OF the room. Then ask a person in
the room to point to one of the tooth
picks. If she points to the first, say
Come" If to the second. say Come
in" and if to the third say "AI ready"
Then the person outside will come
in and point out the toothpick which
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

all the pegs and fasten to them the
guy ropes There are eyelets in the
tent for these ropes Two stay ropes
may be run from the top to the rear
upright pole toward the front of the
tent and fastened on the side near
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

who had confidence in his case. In
his opening address he talked Of
wolves in Sleeps clothing. hypocrftes,
liars. broken-hearted women and many
other things TO sway the spectators,
and his listeners decided that rae dea-
con was a pirate in disguise
Nancy had only one living witness To
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

was chosen, for he knows that Come
means the first one. Come In" the
second, "AlI ready" means TIE third
one.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

Cut piece of cardboard the size of
a f1Ve-cent piece. Draw a mouse in
silhouette on one side and a trap on
the other, as shown in our picture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-25

the effect win be still better; only you
must not paint it until after you have
pasted it ON the card and it is quite
dry.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07

from which he was graduated in the
class of 1878. He was admitted to the
bar of the supreme court of Indiana
in 1879 and Immediately entered upon
the practice of his profession. In 1881
he was given the degree of A. NJ. by his
alma mater, and in 1883 moved to Des
Moines, Ia, where he practiced law for
three years, returning to Lafayette in
1886. Shortly after he took up his resi-
dence in Indiana for the second time
Mr.. Miller was connected with Sum
day newspaper of which he was the
editor. The paper passed out of his
hands shortly after~ard, however, and
I've returned to the practice of law. He
was able TO build up a flourishing prac-
tice as an attorney and was promi-
nently identified with the public affairs
of Lafayette and contiguous portions
of the state, although he steadily de-
clined to hold public office of any kind.
A few years ago Mr.. Miller became
connected with the Lafayette Journal
as an editorial writer and his able edi-
torials on all subjects pertaining to
national and state affairs soon raised
him to a very high place in public es-
TEEN and in the estimation of the
prominent men of his state.
Mr.. Miller was selected by the presi-
dent as assistant secretary of the in
terror because of his thorough knowl-
edge of the pensionslaws and the prac.
tice of the department in pension
cases. In the course of his duties as as.
sistant secretary Mr.. Miller will have
to pass upon the pension appeal cases.
which require an accurate and ex.
haustive knowledge Of all pension laws
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07
HAS A GOOD RECORD.
New Director Of Census a Man Of
Wide Experience.
.. n. .. North Chosen to Sacceed Mr.
Merriam-Has Been u Success-
full Newspaper. Man and as
St0tistlciau.

Official announcement has been
made that the successor of William II.
Merriam as director of the census will
oe S. n. ID. North, who was formerly
the chief statistician in the divisi III OF
manufacturers in the census Office. The
position was rendered t Mr.. North and
accepted BY him, and Mr.. North will
May. Although Mr., North's standing
in statistical work is high and his abil-
sity and fitness for the position unques-
toned, the announcement of his Sc
lection was a surprise, in view of the
general belief that ex-Representative
Mercer was SO strong that he would
be selected for the place. The presi-
dent has at no time, however, indicated
that Mr.. Mercer stood a chance of Sc
lection, merely saying that he liked
Mr.. Mercer, and would be glad to con-
slider him for the place. = e..
Mr.. s. Newton Dexter North was
born in Clinton, n. y, November 20,
1910. He was given thorough educa-
ton under the direction of his father,
who formore than 60 years was profess
sor of Greek at Hamilton college. Mr.
North was himself educated Mt this in
stitution, and on being graduated en-
tered the newspaper business. He
became attached to the Utica IN. Y.)
Herald, of which he was part owner
and managing editor from 1873 to 1886.
During the latter year he acquired
an interest in the Albany Express, Of
which he became the managing edi-
tor. Mr.. North was the Washington
correspondent of both his papers dur
ing part of the time he was connected
with them. He made the acquaintance
of many public men through his serv-
ice in this city and became known
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07

throughout the country as one Of the
best authorities in the United States
on the tariff and the tariff schedules.
He remained with the Albany Express
for three years, when, in 1890, he was
elected secretary of the wool manufac-
turers' association Of Boston, Mass,
which position he has held ever since.
In 1880 Mr.. North was selected to
prepare the newspaper statistics for
the tenth census, and in 1885 completed
the preparations for the taking OF the
New York state census. In 1890 he was
wool manufactures for the eleventh
census, and in 1894 was secretary of
the republican branch of the senate
committee on finance. While engaged
in his duties at the capitol as cor
respondent Mr.. North attracted the
attc,ltion of the late President McKin-
ley, who was then on the committee of
ways and means of the house of repre-
santatives. Mr.. Mckinley had charge
of the preparation of the tariff bill
passed during his-sla term in con-
gress, and which was known as the Nc
Kinley bill, and Mr.. North was charged
with the making of the tariff schedules.
Later he performed the same service
for Representative Dingley. This
work secured for him a position on the
industrial commission, towhich he was
appointed by President Mckinley in
1898. A year later, at the earnest So
licitation of the president, Mr.. North
resigned from the industrial commits
sion to become chief statistician in
charge of the division of manufactures
of the twelfth census. The work of
Mr.. North in this division has attracted
attention throughout the world, and
his thorough knowledge OF, the statis-
tics, not only of his special division,
but of all the divisions Of the census,
made him a valuable aid to Director
Merriam.
A short time ago Mr.. North found
that he could not continue as secre-
tary If the National Wool Manufac-
turers' association if he desired to keep
up the work of his division at the CEN
sus office, and as he preferred the for
mer of the two positions he rendered
his resignation to Director Merriam
about the middle of February and left
the office February %.
Mr.. North was mentioned for the
position of director to succeed Mr..
Merriam from the first, although his
candidacy has been kept quiet by his
friends. He was strongly indorsed,
however, and his selection by Presi-
dent Roosevelt was no surprise to his
former associates. He was popular
with all the employees of the census
Office, and his departure from the Office
was the occasion of general regret.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07

life!ses matter it is a habftable and
therefore of necessity an inhabited
planet, much as the earth is. Observa-
tons with the solar spectrum, the
solarscope and the solar electroscope
have given him new and beautiful
idea of the universe and of Gods hand
work therein.
In brief, without laying down his
line of reasoning step by step, Mr..
Young has reached the conclusion that
the sun is the universal source and
center of electrical energy, lot OF
heat. Immediately surrounding the
sun is a conductive atmosphere, out
side of which and surrounding it is
q nonconductive atm sphere, the same
being true of the earth and some other
planets. The converging streams of
electricity passing into the sun and
the diverging streams passing out
into the vast regions OF interstellar
space meet with resistance in the outer
solar tmosphere and evolve light and
heat. the illumination thus caused be-
ing the glare that we see in looking
at the sun and that scientists have
enormously supposed to be the light
of that orb itself, attributing it, by
magination purely, to inconceivably
hot fires, burning but not consuming
the body of that planet. d
In the same way the electrical cur
rents passing in and out of earth il
illuminate and warm its outer nom
conductive atmosphere and to other
planets our little globe appears as
ball of everlasting fire in the same
manner, but to far less extent, as
the sun appears to them and to us.
The light and warmth that shed their
benign influences upon us and make
our globe a fit habitation for animal
and vegetable life in all its varied
forms cannot by any scientist be
traced beyond the terrestrial atmos-
phere, asserts Mr.. Young, except by
pure assumption. The fact is that
they are evolved in that atmosphere
by means of the resistance it offers
to the great permeating streams of
solar electricity passing in and out.
According to this theory the sun sends
forth electric currents, not rays of
heat and light. It is warmed and H.
Illuminated by the heat and light
evolved by the passage of those cur
rents through its own resisting at
mosphere and not by any fires of its
town.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07
WHITE HOUSE RULER
Miss Isabelle Hagner, Mrs. Roose-
h., velt's Social Factotum.
Her Life II One Round Of Social Fun O.
lions - Considered by Society
AatrOns the Cleverest Girl
in Waahlngt0n.

Miss Isabelle Hagner, social secre-
tary to the wife of the president of the
United States, is the one woma n identi-
fed with the administration circle who
has sailed through the arduous waters
of the gayest social season on record
and landed upon the shores of Lent as
buoyantly energetic as in the begin
ming of social days.
Miss, Hagner is marvel of tactful-
ness and efficiency. She is to Mrs.
Roosevelt what former Secretary to
the President Cortelyou was to the
chief executive, the power behind the
throne, the invalua bic friend, the pro-
moter of social harmony, the manual
of social tactics and the smoother of
the social way.
Miss Hagner is not Roosevelt prod
uct. She belongs to Washington and
is deep-rooted in the soil of smart So
Getty H. 4
Miss Hagner was not more grateful
to secure the position of secretary to
Mrs. Roosevelt than was the latter
grateful to secure Miss Hagner as her
social advises, because there is no one
who better understands the social
structure of Washington than this
clever, invincible girl, who was born to
aftluence and position and who, when
the necessity came, proved herself
equal to a personal encounter with the
world. y
Eight years ago the most popular de-
butante, the toast of the season and
the leader of cotillons was Belle Hag-
ner, and even then she possessed a
woman's courage despite her girlish
years. She presided over her fathers
house, advised her motherless sisters
and brothers, attended more luncheons,
dinners, teas and balls than any girl
in her set, and she was never mentally
nor physically fatigued. Her wonder
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07
NAN WITH A THEORY,
Indiana Philosopher Thinks the Sun
Is Inhabited.
Says the Big Lumlnary IL Not Mass
Of Fire, ~ Has Been Generally
Sapposed-Reasoas for
His Belief. ss.4

IAN eastern astronomer for whom
have the profcaaScst respect" said
Alexander Young, the aged philoso-
pher of Laporte, Ind, who clings to
the belief that the sun is inhabited,
declares that the sun is ball of
fire encircled by a shell which gener-
ates the heat; that he has proved that
the sun is too hot to allow of any hab-
itation there, and that the existence
of vegetation on that planet is to any
intelligent astronomer beyond the
range of possibility. In taking this
view the eminent scientist has mere
ly adopted the conclusions of his fore
runners during many centuries and
has committed the fundamental er-
ror of attaching the results of his
valuable observations to prehistoric
theory instead of examining that the
DRY itself in the light of his discover.
les, and those of Others" n.,2. .
With this introduction, Mr.. Young
proceeded to elaborate his own views.
which are based on long study OF
books, including the latest, and on ex-
tended observations made by himself
He does not intend or expect to revo-
lutionize the science of astronomy by
his recent announcement of reasons
for believing there is life on the sun,
but neither does he feel that his OBJ
scure position places him under a
command of silence if he has opin-
ions and can advance arguments in
their support.
Putting aside the fire notion and
seeking a theory with which all the
established facts could be harm onized,
Mr.. Young was led irresistibly to the
result that the sun is not a central
source of heat and light, that it is not
a globe of fire, that its surface is not
fame-swept waste. Instead of being
a flaming or incandescent sphere of
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07

ulation of Brooklyn He was reflect
ed in April, 1881, for second term;
in April, 1883, for third term, and in
April, 1885. for fourth term, and he
ran in 1891 in one of the most exciting
canvasses ever known in Chicago
with five mayoralty candidates in the
field
The campaign terminated as fol-
lows: Washburne (Rep.), 46.957; Gre
gier (dem.), 46,5SS; Harrison Gnd.).
42,931. Harrison was defeated, but he
ran again in 1908, much more impor-
tant municipal election than the one
which preceded it, for the term of Of
fee covering the period of the Chicago
fair.
In this contest Mr. Harrison re-
ceived $4,000 votes, his republican ad-
versary $4,000, and his antagonist of
two years before, Mr.. Cregier, 5000.
Mr.. Harrison was assassinated while
mayor on October %, 1893, two days
before the closing of the fair.
Mayor Harrison, his son, was born
in Chicago in 1860, and was gradu-
ated from the Yale law school in 1883.
He practiced law until 1858, when he
formed real estate partnership with
his brother.
When the father secured control OF
the Chicago Times. the son acted as
business manager, managing editor and
proprietor until 1894. In 1897 he made
his first race for the mayoralty and
has run twice since, successfully.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07
Island. Bui1t By Oysters.

DR.. Grave. of the United States fish
commission. has recently been study
ing the islands found in Newport river
and Beaufort harbor in North Caro-
lima. The islands, which are in various
stages of growth, are shown to be built
up of generations upon generations of
oysters, and appear to grow in very
much the same way as the coral islands
of the Pacific. The original reefs grow
across the river, because the swift cur
rent keeps the edges clean, and thus
makes favorable surface for the at
tachment of the young spat. In course
of time. by action Of wind, waves and
vegetable growth OH the accommodating
generations of oysters. the reef even
tually becomes established az an island,
says the Minneapolis Junior Journal
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-05-07
ARCHBISHOP BRUCHESI.
Rumor Has 1t That Head Of Catholic
Church in Canada In to BE
Made q Cardinal. Ia

In no section of the western hemis-
phere is the Roman Catholic church
held in higher generation than in the
province of Quebec, Canada. The pop
ulation of that section of the dominion
consists principally of "habitants," az
the French citizens are called by the
English and Scotch residents. They
live under church government which,
although rigid, has been accepted by
them for centuries, and the march Of
progress or the increase of prosperity
has not disturbed the feudal-like ar.
engagements: made at time when Can.
ada was still French province.
Among the famous churchmen Of