The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-01-20

The Assemblymen addickted
to Addicks grow smaller and
beautifully less.
That Mississippi 'colored lady,
now drawing pay as poshnistress
may not be good cook, but she
has got the administration into
hot water.
1t begins to look as if the
Sugar Trust was absorbing the
beet sugar industry. When the
ABSORPTION is accomplished. God
help the farmers engaged in rails
ing sugar beets.
Since Christmas day, 13 dead
and z injured is the record of toy
pistols in Norfolk, Va. Green
Christmas always make fat
church yards, particularly when
the greenies have guns.
If all the facts regarding the
Indianola postoffice are as Post
master General Payne has stat
ed, doubtless the President was
entirely correct in his action.
But are the facts as represented?
Prepared mince meat that
makes mince pies like mother
used to make them-only better
at Busters.
The friends of the Nicaragua
Costa Rica route for the Isthmian
canal will win if perseverance
counts. Apparently they never
sleep.
Representative Cochran of
Missouri will soon surprise the
country with financial bill
which it is promised will place
the republican congressional fin
anciers in bad light.
Lemon juice is recommended
as a destroyer of microbes. Lem
on juice is good with or without
"bug-juice" and is a cure for
snakes in the head and bugs in
the intestines.
The Newfoundland treaty
would help the farmers by in
creasing the market for Ameri-
can meats but few New Eng
land fishermen oppose it and SO
it must not be ratified.
| The German press is frothing
at the mouth because Uncle Sam
also has some backbone. In the
language of the Hebrew Kipling.
"Why do the heather rage and
imagine vain thing ?"
Apostle Reed Smoot was the
republican caucus nominee for
10. S. Senator from Utah on the
18th inst. He received 35 out of
45 votes.
Washington has progressed as
far as to get a corner stone for
the long desired memorial bridge
across the Potomac.
Marble bends and flows under
Ipressure like a viscous fluid. Its
movement is slow, but in CEN
turtles quite appreciable, and
this may explain some of the
twistings found in mountain
strata.
/ Senator Cullom fears that he
sees in the Hoar antitrust bill an
obstacle to the Cullom measure
providing for fifty sinecures to
draw salaries from the national
treasury and the senator from
Illinois is indignant.
Mr.. Oxnaran has concluded
that a 90 per cent. reduction of
the tariff to Cuba will do the
beet sugar industry less injury
than continued agitation of the
lquestion of tariff reduction. His
decision is a great disappoint-
to certain senators who would
kill the Cuban treaty because it
lowers some of the sacred Ding
ley statutes.
In speaking of the senatorial
contest, Mr.. Borah said
''Of course it was at all times
the field against me. Standrod
solicited his men to support Hey
burn. The friends of Senator
Shoup urged the latter's sup
porters to do likewise, and thus
through Influences which / could
not meet. they managed, all three
of them to get six more votes
than | was able TO secure. Ipre-
sumo it was all right for them to
do this"
i A black cat, its feet shod with
walnut shells, nearly caused d
panic in Statuary hall in the Nat
ional Capitol about midnight on