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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Maanate,s WIG Is Thrlftv.

Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, Sr, is
known to be near. It is reported that
she spends great deal of her time
In the kitchen and weighs every arti-
Gle that comes into the house. This
may or may not be SO, but the follow
ing story is true.
Mrs. Rockefeller purchased an ordi-
nary wooden chopping bowl which cost
80 cents. One day while she was u.s.
ing it 1t slipped from her hands and
fell to the floor and broke. 1t had
been made in two halves. One re.
NAMED intact, while the other broke
into bits. The whole half Mrs. Rookie
Teller picked up, and the next time she
drove to the village she went to the
hardware store where she bought II
and asked the clerk to get her another
half to match the bowl He said he
would try. The proprietor sent to
New York, and after shopping around
found 1t impossible to get another half
and so he sent Mrs. Rockefeller a new
bowl.
The next day Mrs. Rockefelle,
stopped at his store and said she
would refuse to pay full price. but Il
she could have the bowl for 1S cent,
] she would take It. He let her have IL
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
The pIsunIted States.

A guessing contest which seems
easy to most girls and boys when they
hear of it. but proves more difficult
than they supposed, is the Disunited
States.
Make an outline, nothing more, of
each state in the Union. These must
be drawn on separate cards or pieces
of paper and be exactly like the out
lines on the map. Have each card
numbered and its number placed OPP
posite the name of the state on a
separate piece of paper, which is not
shown until the contest is over.
You will be surprised at the mis-
takes made, for even those who nave
studied geography for years find 1t
difficult to decide which state the out
line stands for when 1t is all alone.
Each player writes his name on a
slip of paper bearing the number he
ventures to guess. The one who has
the most correct answers should re-
ceive prize. This is a simple game,
but 1t affords amusement to school
boys and girls and to older people,
having let school before many of the
new states were added to the Union,
find 1t no easy task to guess the state
by mere outline.
Sometimes river or a mountain
sketched through the state in its prop
er place will give the guessers a
better chance, but even then many
funny blunders are sure to be made.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Little Prisoners.

When mothers gone away to work. us
kids is just as good
We never do a single thing 'cept what
she said we could.
She gives us all a good-by kiss, an
locks the door up tight,
Sos to be sure to find us here when she
gets home at night.
She leaves the key with Mrs. Brown
who lives next house but one,
An IL there'd ever be fire, why, MIS-
Brown would run =,
An let us out, for mothers work IS
most a mile away;
We know, cause once she took US, put
they wouldn't let us stay.
We see the school kids goin' by, an
then we know it's noon
An time to eat our dinner, which is
always ready soon,
Cause bread and cheese is all we have;
an then we play around,
Or little brother goes to sleep an we
don't make sound.
We watch the funny postman, an the
wagons rollin' past;
The streets get dark, the lights come
out, an pretty soon, at last,
Somebody taps the windowpane, the
doorknob turns-an' then
You'd ought to hear us shoutin', cause
it's mother home again.
Newark News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
AN oLD-TIME GREAT LADY.
Some Anecdotes of the First Duchess
of Marlborough.

Some Anecdotes of the First Duchess
of Marlborough.
Sarah, wife the first duke of Marl-
borough, was as strong character as
the great soldier, her husband. She
was given to using strong language
when annoyed. She once paid an even
ing visit to a friend, who happened
to be out On the friends return the
servant said of the visitor that he
could not make out who she was, for
she would not tell her name; but she
swore so dreadfully that he was sure
she must be lady of quality"
Duchess Sarahs blunt downright
ness is brought out in recent biogra-
ply of ner in the following passage:
Lady Marsham had Jacobian ten
denotes, and the duchess fears were
justified that events were tending to
bring In the prince of Wales Sarah
never used the word 'pretender.'
knowing full well he had right by
birth to the former title, and In this
she shows her hatred of untruth or
make-believe."
Bishop Burnett, who was VIGOROUSLY
absent-minded, on one occasion was
dining with the duchess of Marlbor-
ough. The conversation turned on
the dukes loss of popularity On the
duchess asking whether he could as
sign any reason for it, the bishop
answered, "Oh, madam, Ne has such
q birthstone of wife"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
! Republics Now in Harmony
Especial Correspondence

the white banner of peace for It's EN-.
blem.
The celebrations which took place
in Buenos Ayres in the name of the
Argentine Republic last May 22d to
2Sth, in honor of the Gillian delegates
of peace, resting them purely and sim
ply upon a hypothesis framed of high
ideals, demonstrate to-day by subse-
quent acts of disarmament and incor-
porated by virtue of new policy will
ever remain as the greatest of
achievements in the history of South
America. The anniversaries of bloody
conflicts of the past now pail before
this greater, diviner conflict between
personal prejudices and national jeal-
ousies and victories won with the
everlasting sense of right and justice.
The future patriotism for Argentine
and Chill shall no longer be inflated
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Death Of the Sun.

Among the Ojibway Indians, who
once occupied the lands about The
great lakes in Canada, the sun, moor
and stars were all objects of worship.
for the redman was, in his own waI
a decidedly religious person. At daw
the old chief and warriors chante
the praises of the sun, and at might
fall they thanked him for the ligt
and heat with which he had SUPPLE
them during the day. An eclipse
the sun filled them with dismay; thsi
event was looked on as his deaA
and they were then very anxious
about his safety. They used to fastei
bits of live coal to the points of thef
arrows and shoot them up into the ali
in order that the expiring sun Nigh
be relighted. AS for the moon, it wa
equally precious; they reckoned theh
months by it. Their children wer'
forbidden to point at 1t with thef
finger lest it should be bitten of.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Can You Seer

Try it in this interesting game,
which any number of persons may
play. The objects to be seen are
placed on table in a separate room,
or they may be the ordinary articles
OF furniture in such a room. One of
the players should prepare the room
or the table. The more articles there
are the better. Each player is admit
ted to the show room the same length
OF time, say half minute, or, the
whole company may file in slowly and
keep in line as they pass around the
room and out again, looking carefully
at every object Then all write down
as many articles as can be remem-
bered. Each player is allowed the
same length of time to think and
write.
These lists are then read aloud by q
leader and checked by a correct and
complete list previously prepared. The
points player makes equals the
number of articles he names correct.
ly. If he names an article that was
not in the room he loses a point. The
prize goes to the player who has the
most points at the close.
The same game may be played out
Of doors, and each. player be given
three minutes to write down what he
sees from the piazza or wherever he
may be sitting.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
A noveoote For Your lawn.

If any of you boys or girls are think
80 of putting up a dovecote or bird
house out On the lawn so as to attract
the birds tc your place, here is beau
tiful model for you to copy.
If your father happens to have a
tree on the grounds that he does not
wish to keep alive, it will be just the
thing for your purpose. Saw it off
about ten feet from the ground, or
as much lower as will leave clean,
straight trunk. CA pole set in the
ground will serve the same purpose,
but will not look quite so well at
first.)
If you can, at the top Of the trunk
leave three or four portions of
branches, sawed off clean and level
at the ends. Of you can't, then nail
three or four wooden supports to the
top of the trunk)
A platform thirty-six inches square
should be nailed on top Of the sup
ports.
Then on top of this platform set up
house with inclined sides. Measure
ments: "a inches square at bottom,
20 inches square at top, and 40 inches
high (42 inches If measured along
the inclined edge.)
Cut five windows in each side, and
underneath the upper tiers of win
dows fasteh little shelves for the
birds to perch on.
On top of the house set up a tail
attic roof, with the ridge lines a little
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Girls Now Run chalk R.ce

Boys have their many games, and
now here is novel pastime for the
girls, although. there is no reason
why the boys should not play it. too.
II they can tear themselves long
enough away, from their marbles,
baseball and other boy sports OF the
season.
1t is a chalk race; that sounds as
ii it might be exciting, does it not?
Well, so 1t is, and the beauty of it is
that two or any larger number can
join in-that is, as many as can find
bits of chalk or anything else which
will make a mark on stone pave
ment.
Each girl arms herself with piece
of chalk and stands at the startine
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

On your second or third try you
may get your toes just over the stick,
when, to your surprise, you find 1t
torn from your hands and 10! you
are standing with both feet on it!
If you keep at it, you will soon learn
the knack of it, which is in moving
your arms just far enough to pass the
stick beneath your feet at just the
proper moment. Then, when you are
an expert at this, try it backward,
holding the stick behind you and
bringing it beneath your feet to its
old position in front.
When you can do both these with
ease, try the feat on some of your
friends and when, at their first at
tempts, they pronounce it impossible,
surprise them by doing it both for.
ward and backward.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
The Christ of the Andes.

by the sound of war drum and fife
as call to brutal battle, but rather
of that other kind, more lasting and
glorious, the idea that each man is
factor for good to the world and to
his brother and that the fruits Of
mans labor and capital shall repre-
sent beautiful roads, safe harbors and
sanitary and comfortable homes, in
stead of the wretchedness of the des-
truction of human lives by barbaric
war, the spending of billions of dol
lars in order to carry this out, and the
generalization and degrading influ-
ence which war engenders in the
breast of man. Hereafter the specie
money of Chilli bears not the motto:
IF not by right, then by might" but
rather with mighty justice toward
ALL"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

line with her back toward the All,
line, which may be any distars
away, although sixty feet is quite !
enough for an ordinary race.
At the starters signal the rac.
are off, each girl placing her chalk
the starting line and drawing a !
Gle. This circle may be as largo
as small as the racer pleases, but
must be complete circle; III.
must be no gap in it.
Now the racer draws another Cir
beginning at the farther edge Of N
first, and joining that, a third circ
and so on, taking a step backw,,
each time until the finish line \
reached. The first one to draw
circle one edge of which touches N
finish line wins the race, provide
her other circles form an unbroks
chain to the starting line.
II one of racers circles sbonp
be separate from another and NJ
touch it at all, that girl is out of n
race, although the circles may oys
lap as much as you please.
Some may like to make a LOT d
small circles, for they can be draw
very quickly, while others pre,s
large circles because one covers !
much ground. Whichever metbo
you try, you will find that 1t TAX,
quickness, good judgment, and
steady hand to win. Try it; you wi
find chalk race lots of fun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
How to Make 4 DoIps House.

To furnish dolls house collect O.
many corks and bungs as you can get
a few ounces of colored beads all one
size, with two or three dozen big
ones, packet of pins, and you have
all you want except a small skein o.
wool. Slice up the corks crosswis'
to make the seats of the chairs ant
the table tops. The bungs will do TO
the sofa seats. Slip half a dozen Q
the beads on pin, putting big on
on first of all, and dig the points int
the slices of cork to make the chal
legs. The chair and sofa backs ar
made with plain pins and the woo
laces across them from side to sidt
If you want the furniture to be yer
grand the cork may be painted wit
enamel or gilded
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Threading a Needle

This is not so much a trick as 1t is
test of limberness and agility. Every
boy, unless he be very stout boy, or
has very short arms and long legs,
should be able to do it easily after
a little practice, although at first it
looks very startling.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

An imminent agricultural authority
informs us that hogs are said to cut
their threats when they swim" The
trouble with the sort of hogs we have
around here is that they can't be In.
duced TO swim enough.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The brilliant Washington Post
quotes current magazine as putting
this soul-searching question: as
America Developing an Aristocracy?"
IL we are, it is certainly one of the
worst cases Of arrested development
on record.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Get thing stick, about three feet
long. Hold it before you with both
hands and. jumping into the air, ssy
to pass the stick beneath your feet
without letting go of it with either
hand. 1t is not so easy as it looks in
the picture, and at your first attempt
you will probably strike your ankles
or toes against the stick and knock
It out of your hands.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Two Philadelphia society men fought
twenty rounds with hard gloves and
one finally knocked the other out
Philadelphia as whole may be slow
and sleepy, but there are parts OF
Philadelphia which are as alert and
modern as the Bowory.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The Academy of Medicine at Paris
has decided that excessive meat eating
causes appendicitis. 1t does more. II
causes emaciation of the pocketbook
and bankruptcy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

A Tennessee court has decided that
woman cannot be compelled to tell
her own age. When under oath. the
average woman is apt to be under age,
as well.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Judge Brewer recently declared that
In forty years experience on the
bench he had never heard but one law,
yer tell lie in court. This is the
first time that we knew that the Judge
was as deaf as all that.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

A Pennsylvania man who inherited
$4,000 has received no less than 900
offers OF marriage. Money must be
uncommonly scarce or women uncom.
monty plenty up there.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Argentine sculptor. Mateo Alfonso,
was unveiled.
But not until March of the present
year was the dream of the bishop of
Cuyo fully and materially carried out
when the Christ was placed on an
eminence $4,000 feet above the sea.
The grand ideas of the sculptor are
fully embodied, from the flowing Cali
lean robes, which look as il gently
tossed by the chill winds of the
Andes; the hand outstretched as if
pronounclng the beautiful benedictfon
-urbi'et orbe; the magnifcently pois-
ed head, facing the north, looking no
doubt for the day when all Of South
America shall be one strong country
under one federal government. with
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

According to the Department of Ag-
riculture, peanuts contain about four
ounces of protein and 2,767 calorics of
energy" We know now why these cir.
Gus men are all 30 strong"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The theme chosen for her com.
mencement essay by one of Chicago's
sweet girl graduates was the Psyche
logy OF the Pig" The subject has the
true stock yards flavor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Wen bet some mean man meant to
put woman's temper to severe test
when he started discussion of the
question, why have women more tenn.
per than men?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The June bride didn't realize how
she viii hate next December when the
thermometer is marking 10 degrees
below zero, to get up and build the
kitchen fire.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

In not liking the way American
yachts are sailed, the Kaiser is assur,
ed of the hearty sympathy of Sir
Thomas Upton.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

A Milwaukee man tried to fly the
other day, but owing to the fact that
his starting place was only five feet
high he is still able to be up and
around.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

A Brooklyn judge recently declared
1t to be his candid opinion that Adam
deceived Eve. Probably had to to
get his share of the fruit.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

To the residents of Port Arthur the
case of the Trenton IN. - man who
never sleeps does not seem at all re-
markable.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

In Boston the pianoforte is now used
70 assist in the cure Of nervous dis
eases. Eccentricity always was Bos-
toms forte anyhow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The new battleship Kentucky is said
to be swift. The Blue Grass state al
ways did produce racers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

This is the time when the cam
paign song-writer makes the inventor
of names for new breakfast foods look
like wilted seeding.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

It was man who declared man the
proper study of mankind. Whether 1t
is proper or not, man always has de-
voted most of his studying to himself
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

One of those up-to-date New York
financiers has a safe with tin back.
Needless to say that his depositors
never get their money back"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The difference between the Fourth
of July and Thanksgiving is that one
has It's night before. the other its
morning after.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

A Chicago woman believes that men
should pay their wives regular sala-
ries. Some of the wives may be de-
pended on to get theirs anyhow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The late Mr.. Herbert spencer's lady
housekeeper desires to meet with a
similar position. Highest references.
Address the London Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

A San Francisco man is now suing
his wife for divorce because she will
not talk. There's no accounting for
tastes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Those current attempts ito reform
the Fourth of July" unfortunately ig
more the necessity of first reforming
the average small boy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16
Plndertoy.

The pindertoy is very simple and
amusing toy, which can be made %
two minutes. Cut out the pieces, and
with one pin fasten all together. The
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

The Atlanta Journal says that Lon
don proper" is but small town.
But then, so much of 1t is improper"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-08-16

Quiet weddings are now said to be
the proper caper. Designed to harmo-
nize with the divorces, probably.
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-10-14
REWARD FOR BURGLARS.

Sheriff John II. Parrish has offered a
reward OF $50. 90 for any inform atiJn
that will lead to the arrest and convict
ion OF the party or parties who robbed
the safe OF Alma College on fht night OF
Friday. Oct 2. 1904. The money stolen
amounted TO about 800. 90. and was de-
vided as follows: One $lo greeDback bill
OF 1861, the number being into the rs
thousands; three Canadian % bulls, two
$5 gold pieces. 40 silver do lars Clio In %
cent pieces. q quantity OF nickel. dimes
and phnnies. and one automstic num-
bering machine. now called the Barnes,
Wire information tot ndersheriff b. O..
Button, Alma. or tn John II. Parrish
Ith CT.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-10-14
GREAT ORGANIZATION.
Alma Art Club Admitted to state Fedora
ton of women's Clubs.

Among the new clubs admitted TO
m rlbersl.ip H. the State Federation OF
Won rs Clubs. at the meeting in Ssgi-
nav last Tuesday, we're the Bay View
Reading Gircle and the Coterie Club, OF
Ithaca, ant the Art Club. Of Alma.
The total numb Il federated clubs is
III, with ar approximate membership
~ III 900
Tn u4iness meeting NJ the board Of
menag RS Of tho federation was held at
the ho,nc II Mrs. O + Rosenbury, AMI
25 new clubs were admitted e. member
ship.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-10-14
B. W.ELLISON
BOtA Phones No. II

Kite Condensed Milk l0c for 25c
Leader per can.... l0c
Evaporated Cream per can... l0c
Easter Seeded Rasins l0c ID. 8 ID Is
Good Corn Starch sc ID -. g ID 25c
Domestic Macaroni l0c ID. 3 ID 25c
Shredded Whole Wheat Biscuit. l0c
Mothers Crushed Oats. l0c
Quaker Rolled Oats. l0c
Rolled Arena Oats. l0c
Salmon per can l0c, l2c, l5c and zoe
Lake Shore Pumpkin zoe ..3 for 25c
Boneless Chicken per can.....3 0c
Bananas, Oranges, Lemons. Dates,
Figs, Apples, Ounces and Grapes.
Cor. State and SuueriOr.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-10-14

Every farmer and business man in the
county should have one OF those Record
atlas maps
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
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