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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

There is one class of postal en-
ployes with whom the government has
certainly not dealt generously. These
are the men in the railway mail sery-
ice, who do more arduous work than
any other class of postal employees, be-
sides the peril which their service in
wolves. In a speech in the house, Rep
resentative Emerich of Illinois made
an earnest plea in behalf of those en-
ployed in the railway mail service,
pointing out the exact nature of their
duties, the physical strain of their
work and the danger attending their
employment He said the railway pos
tai clerk leads the life of a nomad.
His waking and sleeping hours are
spent in the uncomfortable and nerve
racking environment of the United
States mail coach and his waking far
exceed in number his sleeping hours.
His duties demand his entire atten-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Cure for sackache.

Randolph, Neb., May 30.-Cedar
county has seldom heard of a more
wonderful case than that of Mrs. Lucy
Nicolls of this place For a long time
Mrs Nicolls suffered with very Sc
we're pains in the back and almost in
stantly these pains left her. She has
tried doctors and everything, but
nothing had helped her till she used
Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says:
'Dodd's Kidney Pills did me so
much good l can't tell. it was so won
derful. Ny back hurt me all the time.
l doctored and tried everything but
did not feel any better. | thought my
life was short on earth, but now feel
like a new person. l used one box of
Dodd's Kidney Pills and | do not feel
the slightest ache or pain. | can turn
and twist any way without feeling it
and | feel so proud of it ! cannot
hardly express my gratitude to Dodd's
Kidney Pills for what they have done
for me"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
eutter.MakIna in Siberia.

Siberia, SO long stretched before the
imagination of the world as a land of
snow and desolation. that even now,
when the Trans Siberian Railway has
been built and when the productive-
ness Of that vast country is beginning
to be understood, one is rather sur
prised to hear that more than sIO.-
100000 worth of butter is annually ex-
ported from Siberia. It's great plains
afford good grazing, and within three
years after the railway was opened
1000 butter manufactures were
erected. The government has now IN
dertaken to furnish free instruction
on a large scale in dairying and but
ter-making.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

The Philadelphia Press tells of the
largest black bass ever caught in the
waters of Pennsylvania, according to
the records of the State Fish Commits
sion. Dr. L. T. Trumbower of Nor
ristown caught the bass in the Perkio-
men Creek on Sept. 2 of last year. 1t
measured 241a inches long, 171a
inches in circumference back of the
first fin, and weighed six pounds six
ounces.
Dr. Trumbower had spent the after
noon fishing near Collegeville with in
different success. Among his captures
was a catfish between four and five
inches long. AS the sun began to sink
he thought of the catfish as suitable
bait to lure any big bass before night
set in. His conjecture proved correct,
for in a few minutes the bass pounc-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
SUNG TIE KINGS PRAISE
Little Material to Work On, but Off
cial Did His Best.

Little Material to Work On, but Off
cial Did His Best.
In recent published book on the
Kafirs of South Africa the author
tells of the practice of the native
chiefs of keeping a court praiser-
which might be translated poet laure-
ate-whose business it is to go before
the chief and sing his praises. Some
times it happens that this function
airy is apt to be embarrassed for lack
Of matter, as in the case of the Swat
king Bunu. One day he went out
hunting with a hundred warriors, and
after whole days effort he managed
to kill only one miserable little hare.
Yet the court praiser ran in front OF
the king calling out: "Bunu, the
king of the Swazies, the chief OF
chiefs, has killed a hare. Let all the
people listen. 1t was as big as an OK
as fierce as lion and as swift as a
buck. The brave King Bunu killed
the hare all alone. He killed it " I
his assegai. Listen, ye people. Bunu
the king has killed a hare. Without
any help the king has killed a hare
1t was as terrible as a tiger. as large
as an elephant; its eyes were flames
of fire; and yet Bunu the great Ent
has killed the hare" This long riga
marole was repeated over and over
while the king followed behind witt
great gravity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
A Huge Black Bass

ed upon the catfish. Then the strug-
gle began. The bass was gamy, and
DR.. Trumbower exhausted all his skill
to land it, as he lacked landing net.
Finding the struggle might end in the
escape of the fish, DR.. Trumbower
called for assistance. Reese P. Bald
win of Lower Providence Township,
who was crossing Perkiomen bridge
at the time, aided the struggling fish.
erman, and the two men landed the
bass.
DR.. Trumbower. in order to estab-
lish the veracity of his fish story, re-
ported its size and weight to State
Fish Commissioner Meehan. At Mr..
Meehan's suggestion DR.. Trumbowef
had it mounted on a plaque and sent
to st. Louis for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

The veteran sits in his easy chair on his
porch at the hour of noon.
And looks thro' the clouds of his long
stemmed pipe DER the bountiful
meadows of June,
Till the fire dies out of the odorous
leaves that under their ashes are hid.
And the fire is quenched in his yet keen
eye by the drop of it's tremendous
lid;
Then he mods and he dreams, forgetful
of aIl-the mortgage, the crops, and
the rain;
For the bugles and drums of the long ago
are echoing loud in his brain.
Let the bugles and drums call on. call on.
shrill blast and voluminous roll;
For they sound to the conflict enacted
again on the field of the slumberer's
soul.
Although in the trenches they've mould
cred away for many and many a
year,
In rank upon rank. Respondent with
arms, the men and their leaders APP
pear;
For phantasy marshals those squadrons
of ghosts that sweep Ger the hoof-
cut plain,
And the keen bright swords of the long
ago are flashing anew in his brain,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Built First Sea Sneak

Il built the first torpedo boat that
ever worked" said James G. Cousins,
local newsdealer, to a reporter, in
discussing the use of torpedoes in the
Russo-Japanese war, says theToronto
correspondent of the New York Her
aid.
Il was ship carpenter at Charles
ton, s. c., when the civil war began,
and as there were a lot of Yankee
vessels about there Gen. Beauregard
asked me one day to see what could
do in the way of a torpedo boat
Il took some one-inch boards and
built cigar-shaped boat thirty feet
long. At the bow we rugged a copper
kettle holding about seventy-five
pounds of powder. The kettle was
fastened to pole, so that we could
lift it out of the water when the boat
was going, and then sink it about
eight feet under water when we got
to close quarters.
The pole was at an angle of forty.
five degrees, so that the kettle would
strike the hull of the enemy below the
water line. The kettle had some per
cussion caps on the top, and the force
of the collision would make them ex
plode the powder. The boat was made
like this" said Mr.. Cousins, and, pull
ing out pencil, he drew a sketch.
I'VE rugged the boat in Capt. James
Eastman's yard and called it the Lit
tie David. That was IN 1862, Wher
it was finished we saw the big Van
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
The Old Soldiers Death

Let the bugles and drums play on, play
on. the scintillant sword blades
wheel;
The battle runs riot in tempests of lead
and terrible whirlwinds of steel;
And onward the riders thro' columns Of
smoke sweep down in the heart of
the fray,
The veteran borne in the midst of the
charge on the back of his strenuous
gray;
But ne falls from his saddle. still clutch
ing at air, and the battle is over
again,
BY the bullet that wounded hum long ago
to-day he is stretched with the slain
The bugles and drums have ceased. have
ceased. the cannon roar not on the
hill;
The stiffness Of noon has been broken
alone by the pipes of the locust
shrill;
He slips from the arms of his easy chair
and lies outstretched on the floor,
AS he fell from his horse in his younger
days, and lay in the dust and the
gore.
The doctor will come and mutter ''his
heart" but never a doctor can know
He was killed by the bullet that wounded
him once in a battle of long ago.
Liverpool CEng.) Mercury.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Cafarrh of the Stomach is Generally
Called Notwithstanding to
Produce Artificial Digestion
is Generally Taken.
Hence, Pepsin, Pancreatin and Host
of Other Digestive Remedies
Has Been invented.
These Remedies DO Not Reach the
Seat of the Difficulty, Which
is Really Caiarrh.
EX. U. s. Senator NJ G. Butler from
- South Carolina, was Senator from

EX. U. s. Senator NJ y. Butler from
- South Carolina, was Senator from
that State for two terms. In a
recent letter to The Peruna Medicine
Co., from Washington, D. c., says:
81 can recommend Peruna for dys-
pepsia and stomach trouble 4 have
been using your medicine for s. short
period and 4 feel very much relieved.
IL is indeed a wonderful medicine be-
sides good tonic. I'M. c. Bgffer.
The only rational way to cure dys-
pepsia is to remove the eatarrh. Peruna
cures catarrh- Peruna does not produce
artificial digestion. 1t cures catarrh
and leaves the stomach to perform diges-
ton in a natural way. This is vastly
better and safer than resorting to artl-
fetal methods or narcotics.
Peruna has cured more cases of dys-
pepsia than all other remedies com
bined, simply because it cures eatarrh
wherever located If catarrh is located
in the head, Peruna cures it If catarrh
has fastened itself in the throat or
bronchial tubes. Peruna cures it. When
| catarrh becomes settled in the stomach,
| Peruna cures it, as well in this location
as in any other.
| Peruna is not simply a remedy for
/ dyspepsia. Peruna is a catarrh remedy.
Peruna cures dyspepsia because 1t Is
| generally dependent upon catarrh-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

kee war vessel Ironsides just outside
of Charleston harbor, and sent the Lit
tie David after her. The boat was in
Charge of Mr.. Mills and the crew
we're Lieut.. Lascelle, Charles Hance,
who acted as pilot, and a big Irish
mani forget his name. The Little
David went straight for the Ironsides,
the torpedo was lowered and exploded
against the hull. The water washed
over the Little David and some of it
went down the smokestack and put
out the fire. Lascelle and the Irish
man jumped overheard, but Hance and
Mills managed to get the Little David
back into the harbor, and she often
did good work after that. The Iron
sides did not sink, bue she was so
badly damaged that she had to be
towed away by two other vessels"
Mr.. Cousins, who was born in New
castle-on-Tyne, England, has had a
varied career. After a trip through
the Baltic he sailed for years in the
yard in Quebec about fifty years ago.
but, becoming tired of the job, trav-
eled through the United States. After
several years in Europe he went to
Charleston, S. c., at he opening of
the war and joined the Charleston
Light Infantry, under Capt. T. G. Sim
mons. He spent four months in gar.
rison at Fort Sumter after the sur.
render of Maj. Anderson, and after
ward took part in fourteen engage
rnents
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
This Way is Fame

His way was in a bloody lane where
clanking 1caissons splashed along; his
goal, the line where blazing guns
laughed out their song of death. On,
on he went. His ears were filled with
sounds of quick commands, bugle
blasts. discordant drums. No flutter-
ing fear was in his heart. no thought
of home, no specter of the dread de-
spair that waited at the hearth if he
never came again. To him there was
no warning in the bullets deadly hiss.
Youth trod all reason under foot; am
bition saw all glory overhead. On, on
he went to WOO his bride, the priceless
jewel, Fame.
Another, in garnet, sighed for
Fame. Crusts were his portion, and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
A prominent club woman,

Mrs. DanfOrth, of st. Joseph,
Mich, tells how she was cured
of falling of the womb and its
accompanying pains and misery
byLydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
DEAR Mrs. Life looks
dark indeed when woman feels that
her strength is fading away and she has
no hopes of ever being restored. Such
was my feeling a few months ago when
was advised that my poor health was
caused by prolapsus or falling of the
womb. The words sounded like
knell to me, / felt that my sun had set !;
but Lydia IL. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound came to me as an
elixir of life it restored the lost forces
and built me up until my good health
returned to me. For four months 1
took the medicine daily, and each dose
added health and strength. am SO
thankful for thehelp Iobtained through
its use" Mrs. FLORENCE DAEFoRTH,
1907 Miles Ave, St. Joseph, Mich. -
$4,000 forfeit II original Of above letter pyouiTg
genuineHess cannot be produced.
GREE MEDICAL ADVICE
TO WOMEN"
Women would save time and
much sickness if they would
write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice
as soon as any distressing symp-
toms appear. 1t is free, and has
put thousands of women on the
right road to recovery
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Sparkling Wines.

At first sparkling wines we're only
made in the French province of Cham
payne. In the early part of the nine
teenth century the first experiments
to manufacture sparkling wines we're
made in Germany. The wines, how
ever, grown in Champagne are best
suited for this purpose, hence most
of the German firms manufacturing
champagnes obtain their wines from
Champagne and mix them with Ger
man wines.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

his raiment only rags. Hermit-like, he
toiled alone; nor cold nor hunger even
daunted him. He marshaled all his
hosts, and visions came and went. On,
on he toiled. In the snowflakes that
drifted in and touched his hands he
read a message from the world with
out; all white, all cherries. As a
chrysalis his fancy wove and spun and
made its garments wondrous, then
burst in splendor on waiting world.
Both fought the fight; each in his
bronze. one for speechless marble
face. Each for an epitaph-that all
the ages in the dust of time might
know he did and died.-Philadelphia
Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Roentuen RAYS Aid Women.

The use of Roentgen rays in the
hospitals of Germany has opened up
a new field of work for women. Tho
service of nurse for patients treated
by X-rays and as assistants at the use
of them is of very delicate nature.
and in Berlin courses of instruction
for X-ray nurses are to be instituted.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Many Blind in one Eve.

DR.. Ernest Clarke of the Central
London Ophthalmic hospital in giving
evidence at an inquest not long ago
said that many person went through
life with only one eye and did not
know it. A British Judge had lately
found to his establishment that he
was blind in one eye. having lived
more than forty years without sus-
pecting his infirMity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
Photoaraphs Of Neptune.

The French astronomer Touchet, by
using an ingenious method first en-
ployed by Warren de Ia Rue, has sue
ceeded in making stereoscopic pic
lures of Neptune. the planet farthest
from the earth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
ancient Books.

The Babylonian and Assyrian books
consisted of clay tablets, prisms and
cylinders baked by the sun or in an
oven into an almost imperishable hard
ness so that they have come down to
us exactly as they left the hands Of
the ancients.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
How,s This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo o
We, the undersigned, have known Cheney
for the last Is years and believe him perfectly hon
orabe in all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his nrm
WALDING. KISNAN q MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, .
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials sent free Price % cenes per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05


If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

Mr.. Easy-~why should people visiting The Ex-
position at night, use more Aliens Foot-Esse than
In daytime7"
Misc Foote-t Because under the brilliant ilumin-
alton of the grounds, every foot becomes an acre y
Mr.. Easy--"Fair Only fair! Pray. conduct me to
the nearest drug store and I promise never TO
accept a substitute for you or for Aliens Foot
Ease"
FooTNoTE-Tae t,oafa tciis be made one in june
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gltus reduces Tn
nammation alays pain, cures wind collie CSC bottle
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-05
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Especially
Mothers
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Cleansing, Purifying,
and Beautifying
Properties Of
Eu4Snvu,.
\ SOAP
Assisted by CUTICURA
Ointment, the great
Skin Cure, are OF
Priceless Value.

For preserving, purifying, and
beautifying the skin, for cleansing
the scalp of crusts, scales, and
dandruff, and the stopping of fall
ing hair, for softcning, whitening.
and soothing red, rough, and sore
hands, for baby rashcs and cha
fings, IN the form of baths for an
moving irritations, alterations, and
inflammations of women, and
many sanative, antiscptic pur-
poses which readily ggest them
selves, as we'll as for all purposes
of the toilet, bath, and nursery,
CUTICURA Soap and CUTl-
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vrsnt Soc Resolvent soc. u orn Of Chocolate Coasa
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-01
HEARST GETS TWO DELEGATES
Nineteenth Ohio Congressional Dis
trict Supports Him.

WARREN, O., March 1.-The frs
contest between the regular and re
organizing forces within the demo-
cratic party of the nation has result
ed in a signal victory for the regular
forces. 1t has also resulted in the
regulars in the contest lining up solid
ly beneath the banner of William R
Hearst for the presidency
The first congressional convention
held in the United States at which
delegates to the national democratic
convention were elected, was held in
this city today, and two delegates
instructed to vote for Mr. Hearst were
chosen. The convention was that OF
the nineteenth congressional district
of Ohio, the constituency of which is
OF the most conservative kind.
The two delegates selected to go tc
the national convention who were in
structed to support Mr.. Hearst are M
M. Padegatt, of Warren, Trumbul
county. and c. A. Corbin, Of Ashtabu-
la, Ashtabula county. Their alter
mates are Richard Armstrong an6
Britten Johnson of Kent, Portage
county. The convention selected as
its candidate for congress, c. K. Nc
Cormick of Akron, Summit county
and for presidential elector DR.. William
Miliken of the same city and county
The convention endorsed Judge David
l.. Rockwell of Ravenna, Portage
county. for delegate at large.
NJ. NJ. Padegett, one of the delegates
to the national convention. is the edi-
tor and the owner of the Western Re-
serve Democrat of this city. and Mr.
Corbin is the editor and owner of the
Democratic Standard Of Astabula. AT
ter the 1Sbell delegation had beer
ousted from the convention it retired
to the Park House. where it held {
rump convention and selected Charles
Isbel of Akron, who is said to favo,
the nomination of Grover Cleveland
or some person acceptable to the ex.
president.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-01

On Account Of Presidential Election and
to Keep Free From Politics.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The
fact that the merger decision has not
been pronounced by the United States
supreme court has given rise to a ru-
NOR that for reasons bearing on the
presidential campaign. and desire to
keep the question as free from politics
as possible, the decision may not be
announced until late in the fall
There is nothing tangible at the
back of the rumOr. SO far as can be
ascertained, but it is quite widespread.
1t is pointed out, as a precedent for
such delay, that the supreme court,
during Chief Justice Marshalls time,
sometimes kept cases for one or two
years after argument before deciding
Them
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-01

clock this afternoon to submit argu-
ments when the question was taken
under advisement.
Counsel for Judge Clancy is con-
tending that the fair trial law does not
apply to contempt proceedings. Ten
Of the prominent lawyers of the state
represent the interests involved
The Boston & Montana Consolidated
Copper & Silver Mining Company is
the relator in two of the cases. Judge
Clancy. being the respondent in one
and Judge Harvey in the other In
one case Mile Durand is the relator
and Judge Harvey the respondent, and
in another the Amalgamated Copper
Mining Company is relator and Judge
Clancy the respondent. The fifth case
comes from Deer Lodge county, ]. B.
Gnose being the relator and Judge
yelling Napton, the respondent. In
this case the relator does not question
the validity of the fair trial law, but
presents the question whether a dis
trict judge can remove a case to an
other county without motion for such
removal having been made.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-01
WANT NEWS OF AN EDITOR
People of Warsaw, KY, Ask About
Oldham.

NORTH YAKIMA, Wash, March 1.
Jack Oldham, formerly editor of the
Yakima WashingtOnian, who sold out
here about the first of the year and
left for parts unknown, is wanted in
Warsaw, Ky. No specific charge is
made against him, but for the last
few days letters have been received
here by the c. y marshal and by
others making inquiry ABOUT him. One
letter is from his brother law, who
says Jack Oldham. is an assumed
name and that his real name is Schuy-
Ter G. Kelley. The writer inquired
whether he represented himself to be
married while in this place. When
Oldham sold his paper here which he
seemed anxious to DO all of a sudden
he left unexpectedly, saying that he
would go to Valdes, Alaska.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-01
OFFICE DECLARED VACANT
Prosecuting Attorney of Yakima Coun
ty Fails to File Bond.

NORTH YAKIMA, March 1.-The
prosecuting attorneys office of Yaki-
ma county was declared to be va
cant by Judge w. r. Bell of Seattle.
The opinion was rendered at the re-
quest of the county commissioners.
Judge Bell being here at the time hold
ing court. ON the 18th of February
the American Bonding company OF
Baltimore asked to be relieved of any
liability as surety of Mr.. Guthrie. and
the reason given is that the premi-
UNI was not paid. Formal notice was
served on Mr.. Guthrie, and he mad I'M
til the oath of February. to file new
bond, but he failed. 1t is understood
the county commissioners will not re-
name him for the place.