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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

The Sioux City Journal says: BE
fore the holding OF the South Dakota
state convention it was not at all
sure former Senator Pettigrew was
a democrat, and is not at all sure
now" The Journal is just about
right in its surmise. The former
senator has.the hardest job on earth
to stay with any party.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Mortgage sale.

Where rs, default has been made In the pay.
ment OF the money secured by a mortgage date,
the 4th day OF December. A. ID. 1909. executed by
Recklef Lunschen and sophia Lunschen. OF Mo
WocknltZ, OF the county of Dawson and state OF
SCUM Dakota. and which mortgage was recorded
IN the Office OF the register OF deeds of The county
OF DAWSON and state of South Dakota, in Book 81
OF Mortgages. on page ls0. on the 23d day OF De-
cember, 1903. at 9 As O'Clock a. m. and
Whereas, no action or proceedings at law or
otherwise have been Instituted to recover the
debt secured by said mortgage. OF any part
hereas, detault has been made in the pay
ment OF the interest as stipulated in said mort
gage. and
Whereas, the whole amount of said principal
and interest has become due by reason of said
default.
Whereas, the amount claimed to be due upon
said mortgage. at the date of this notice, is the
sum OF two Thousand and twenty-one dollars and
nifty cents (S2.U2l. 500, to-wit: S2.Gy9.79 principal
and SLID interest, and ten dollars (Sl0l attor-
ney $ lees, provided by statute for foreclosure by
advertisement.
Now, therefore. notice is hereby given that by
virtue OF the power of sale contained In said
mortgage, and duly recorded as aforesaid and In
pursuance OF the statutes In such cases made
aud provided. the said mortgage will be fore
closed by a sale or the mortgaged premises there
In described. at public auction. by the sheriff of
DAWSON county, at the front door OF the court
mouse IN the city OF Mitchell aud county of Davi-
son ana state of South Dakota, on the Both day OF
July, !9Oi, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon Of that
day. The mortgaged premises are situated In the
county OF Dawson, In the state of South Dakota,
and are described as follows, to-wit:
teen lhe a 5ofi IN f nal1 81 the eS south h,nd half s OF section c mo If
north vi range sixty 900. west of the 5th p. M.
Dated at Mitchell. S. D., this 10Th day of June
A. .. l90i. ALBERT W%ocKNlTz, Mortgage.
PRESTON d HASSErT, Attorneys for Mortgagee.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Notice to Creditors.
state of lanes dickson. deceased.

Estate OF James dickson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
administrator of the estate of James Dlc'sson
deceased, to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said deceased, to ex
hibit them. with the necessary vouchers, within
six months after the first publication of this no
tice, to the said administrator AT the law ofic,
OF Preston " Hannett, in the city of Mitchell, IL
the county OF DAWSON.
Dated July s. 1909.
SIMON A. DICKSON,
Administrator of the Estate OF james Dickson
Deceased.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
The pacetyers-

Miss Nerjuce-Wh a shame it is
how the men deceive Us poor women!
Miss Bluehose They would never get
a woman 20 marry them unless they
did. my deaG-New Yorker.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

Mitchell has accessibility, center
CT population, lower taxes, better
railroad facilities, better building,
free capital site, as against Pierre's
one poor solitary geographical CEN
ter, which has been exploded in past
years.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

First CItiHen AREN'T you drinking a
little more than usual: Second Citizen
Yes. My wife has a cold in her head
and can't smell a blamed thtng.-Al-
bany Journal.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Rcn.inns One.

Instructor tat night school What
are some Of the evils of wealth?
Shaggy Haired Pupil-Autom bilea is
n OF Gnu Chicago Tribune.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

When you feel constipated. have
sour stomach or biliousness try
Berg's Sweet Laxative Chips. They
do the work. 10 and % cents. L.
o. Gale.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
A Wish.

Oh, that the war were over!
Oh. f21 some language which
Does not include a word that ends
In either ski or "vitck."
Boston Globe.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

The Salem Special, palished in a
neighboring town, isn't al all neigh
oorly. and it keeps arGilu4 with its
conscience against Mitchell for the
capital. 1t is stated in this weeks
issue that s'you will notice that in
all the literature sent out by Mitch
ell, She has not offered to provide a
site for the state house, B!er.
Dingman does not read the papers to
any great extent and does not see
much Mitchell literature. 1t was
announced in the capital debate at
Canton and has also appeared i'm the
public press that the business men
of this CITY have donated to the
State of South Dakota a piece OF
ground containing eighteen acres to
be used for capital purposes when
ever the state is ready to occupy it.
The deed for this ground has been
deposited with the Sioux Falls Ma
tional bank, and will be turned over
to the state whenever the capitol
building goes up. say, Brer. Ding
man. you have another guess COM
ing. and ii is not necessary to tell
such an absolute faleshood to be
strong in your support of Pierre.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Baby Parks In Japan.

Have you ever heard of the won
derful dwarf trees In Japan? It is
said that several specimens are to be
seen in the Roman garden owned by
a North Philadelphia family.
These dwarf trees are perfect in
every respect, with gnarled trunks
and twisted branches-but are only a
foot or two in height.
In Japan dwarf parks are laid out
filled with these tiny trees. and little
bits of streams of water and bridges
and walks are put in here and there.
Instead of grass a cunning tiny
green moss is used. And in the tiny
1.-TWO or three inch) flower beds the
most wonderful little Alpine flowers
are to be found.
The whole park, trees, flower beds.
streams, bridges and all. would stand
easily on an ordinary dining table.
No other people in the world know
how to dwarf trees. 1t is a secret
carefully preserved by the Japanese.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

can scarcely blow any smoke from
their mouths without making rings.
while the mouths of others are so
formed that they cannot make a single
ring, no matter how much they try.
Smoke rings are made by the parti.
cles of smoke all revolving in the
same direction, whirling around in a
circle, pursuing each other in sort
of smoky follow the leader" fashion.
AS soon as they stop whirling about in
circle they separate and drift away
in an ordinary cloud of smoke.
Get an old hat box or pasteboard
box OF some sort, and in the bottom
cut round hole about six inches in
diameter. Now fit some old blotters
In the cover Of the box, and on the
blotters pour some ammonia, lust
enough to soak the blotters so that
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
How Light Should Fall

1t is almost universally believed
that the best form of reading lamp is
one which, by means of an effective
shade, concentrates the greater por-
ton of the light upon the reading mat
ter. Furthermore, the lamp is usually
one of the "drop-light" sort, which
brings the flame near and below the
readers eyes. The result sought after
is, that much light be precipitated on
the page, and on the page only, while
the surrounding parts of the room
be weakly illuminated, even to
gloominess.
If this condition be obtained an
ideal state of affairs is presumed to
exist, and, at first it looks very plaus-
ible, indeed. that it is usually accept
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
A Home Made Ball.


There are many kinds of balls for
sale in the shops, but most of them
are too hard for ordinary hand playing.
The writer of this has never seen any
thing to equal the balls he used to
make for himself when he was boy,
and he wants to tell the other boys
how he did it.
Get a perfectly round orange and
cut the peel into even quarters, num-
bering them at one end so as to be
able to put them together again in
their proper order.
Ask your mother or your sister for
pair of discarded kid gloves with
long wrists, and out of these wrists
cut four pieces exactly like the four
pieces of orange peel. Number them
as you did the pieces of peel, and
with linen thread sew over and over
three seams, thus putting the four
pieces together but leaving one seam
open. This is the cover for your ball.
Get solid rubber ball about three
quarters OF an inch in diameter, and
on it wind the common wooden yarn
OF which stockings are made. You
can buy the yarn at shop, or, if you
can get an old stocking, ravel it out.
Do the winding evenly, so as to keep
the ball perfectly round, and try it
now and then to see whether it is
large enough for your cover. You must
make it so that 1t will fit in the cover
exactly, and then you draw the re-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
French a Polite People

During the past summer, which
spent exclusively among French peo-
pie in hotel at Saint German, esti-
mated that 1 lost quite twenty-four
hours out of each week saying Good
morning" and Good evening" to the
men, women, little children and dogs
about me. If you encounter the same
person twenty-five times in the same
day you must each time smile raptur-
ously, pause, at least shake hands, if
you do not kiss, tremendously in
quire how he or she is "going" and
tremendously bid him or her eau re-
voir' at parting.
Not only every man and woman ex-
poets this, but all the little children
toddle up to you, shake hands, and ex-
act the same amount of ceremony.
Then every well regulated French
family has a dog who more than like.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Hard Task for Russia

The Russians in carrying on war on
the Pacific coast, more than 1000
miles from their supplies of men and
materials, all of which must be for
warded over one single-track railroad,
have problem unique in the history
of war, and their success or failure in
1t deserves, and doubtless will receive,
the attention of all students in the art
Of war. Before the completion OF the
Siberian railroad, in the face of an
enemy as powerful as Japan is now,
for the moment superior at sea, it
could have made practically no de-
Tense. Even if sufficient army could
have been placed in Manchuria, it
could not have been supplied.
Some two years ago, before war was
seriously thought of, it was determ-
ined to replace the 51-pound rails with
65-pound rails west of Lake Baikal,
and otherwise to strengthen the road /;
the wide intervals between stations,
which limited the number of trains.
could be remedied by the laying of
sidings and passing tracks within a
few weeks, il material is accessible,
though not easily in a Siberian win
ter; and the Russians have the con-
struction forces available which have
just built the great railroad. The
transportation of troops over so long
a line in Siberian weather requires
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

provisions not heretofore made in any
country. Russian freight cars, like
those of other continental countries,
are all labeled with the number OF
men and horses which may be put in
them in military service-usually 40
men or 10 horses. But what is DOS
sible for a journey of 200 or 300 miles
in weather not much below freezing
may be quite impossible for one last.
ing two weeks or more, with the ther.
mometer 40 or so degrees below zero.
The men must eat and sleep en- route
To provide for this, the cars USED
for carrying soldiers were lined with
felt or felt paper; little glass windows
were set in the sides, and an iron
stove set up In each. The benches
were made so that they could be,
transformed into hunks at night Al
every alternate station hot water was
provided for making tea. In nearly
every train one car was fitted as 4
kitchen and supplied the men with hot
rations of meat and porridge. SHOW
else were carried, so that in case of !
snow blockade the men could dig the
train out. A surgeon and hospital
steward accompanied each train. All
several stations on the line camps
were established where the men rest
ed day, with facilities for washing
etc, while the cars were inspected and
cleansed.-Railroad Gazette.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

When, oh when, thou goest out to battle
Against thine enemies-long since one
said,
The glory of the mount still round his
way
A people more than thou be not afraid,
For the Lord thy God is with thee in
that day.
Thinkest that thou goest now to battle
Scythes of chariots, and horse and
spears,
Panoply of armored legions? Nay.
Concern thyself with no remembered
The lord thy God is with thee in this
dayl
Nay the squadrons thou shalt go to bat
tie
with great power beside thee are not
those
Flashing sabered. clothed in wars array.
Things invisible are these thy foes
But the Lord thy God is with thee in
this dayi
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Il Makes You Look Green.

Darken the room. Now pour half a
pint of methylated spirit into a pan,
place handful of ordinary table salt
In 1t, and then set fire to it. 1t will
flare up in an instant. and give every
one in the room a weird and hideous
appearance.
If you want the flame to be green,
use nitrate of barium instead of salt.
Or If you prefer red use nitrate of
strontium in place of salt.
Another trick is to take beforehand
a little nitrate of strontium, dissolve
it in a little hot water; then take
pieces of white tissue paper, dip them
into the solution, and then hang them
up to dry.
Then, when you are ready, touch a
match to these pieces of paper, and
they will burn with brilliant red
flash. If you combine this with the
green" trick-i. e., perform the two
tricks at the same time-the effect
will be weird beyond description.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

actd. At once the box will become
nlled with thick white smoke.
Now for your vortex rings. Turn
the box on it's side and aim the hole
In the bottom in the direction in which
you want the rings to go. Tap the
sides of the box smartly, and great
whirling white rings of smoke will
come out, ever so much heavier and
thicker than tobacco smoke rings.
You can shoot these rings in any
direction you please. and they will
sail clear across the room without
breaking If there is no draught. The
curling, twisting smoke is very bean
tiful, and 1t is lots of fun to make
smoke figures by sending several
rings in the same direction in auicl,
succession
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Made Change in Tune

"This talk that has been going on
in the house about lynchings," said
Col" Bill Sterrett, who drifted into
Washington from Texas, reminds me
of thing that happened down in my
state few years ago. Jim Hodges, a
local orator, was just coming into his
house when his boy rushed out and
yelled: Pop, they're goin' to lynch
a niger over by the clearing!'
"Jim jumped on his horse and rode
like mad for the scene of trouble.
They had the niger on a platform
and were just getting ready for the
final act when Jim burst into the
clearing and checked his foam-fecked
horse. 'Stop!' he yelled, with an inn
perious wave of his hand.
Everything came to a dead stop
and Jim, springing upon the platform
began speech that promised to
break all oratorical records.
My friends, he cried, think what
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

between their clock and ours is in the
numbers on the face of the clock.
Our numbers stay exactly where the
clock maker put them in the first
place, but in the Toxic clock the num-
bers can be showed from one position
to another by the man who owns the
clock.
The sunrise number is always
moved to keep pace with the time Of
the sunrise, and the same thing is
done with the sunset number. And
then the five numbers between them
are moved until they devide the day
into six exactly equal parts.
So you see it makes no difference
to the Japanese people whether the
days are long or short-they can al
ways make their clocks suit the length
Of the days.
They do not count 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6,
etc, as we do, but, beginning with 8,
they count 9, 8, z, 6, 5, 4, 3.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

you are about to do. To take the Law
into your own hands will stain thu
fair name of this country with an i'm
perishable blot. To the remotest limi
of time, so long as the memory of mel
remains, the deed you are about tn d
will cause your names to be remem
bered by posterity with shudderinI
shame
There was a restless movemen
in the crowd at this point and some
body growled: Shoot the son of
gum Half dozen revolvers wer
covering Jim in half a second, but b
stopped the coming tragedy by vel
ing: But as l was saying
THE revolvers were half lowere
and Jim went on: But, as l was sal
ing, my fellow citizens, if this dee
must be done, if it seems wise an
necessary, as no doubt it is, l implof
you to proceed with it in an order
and decorous mannerr "-Philadelphi
Ledger.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

ly occupies a chair and eats of
plate beside you at the table, so tn
1T is considered churlish if you do n
also stop and tell the dog bon jou
dozen times a day, pausing to tai
the paw which he is prettily taught
extend to you.
When the washerwoman brin
home your linen there are at lea
five minutes spent in ceremonious
greeting and parting from her. In Il
operation of receiving and paying
linen you exchange "mercis" and "pa
dons" not fewer than ten times. Al
other serving person or tradesmi
who comes to do business with y
throughout the day you similarly I
ceive with Bon jour, monsieur" al
eau revoir," and you thank him al
beg his pardon as often as you G
possibly get the words into the leng
of his story.-Harper's Bazaar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Home.Made vltrIoI eattery.

The blue vitriol battery is used
nearly altogether for telegraph work,
and you can make one easily by TAX
ing deep saucer or plate and piece
of sheet zinc in it, four inches long
and three inches wide and of any
thickness, the thicker it is the longer
it will last
The blue vitriol win cost 10 cents a
pound.
Bend up one end as in figure 1, and
bore hole in 1t so that No. Is wire
will fit fairly tight, If you have not
got No. Is copper wire. iron or brass
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

You know, boys and girls, we have
our day divided up into twenty-four
hours. beginning at - and ending at
~.
But the Japanese divide their time
INTO twelve parts. There are always
SIX parts belonging to the night and
SIX to the day. The day begins at sun
rise and ends at sunset. And no mat
ter whether the day be long and the
night short, or the day short and the
night long, each one always consists
of six parts.
You know there are two hands to
our clock. There are two hands also
to the Toxic clock, but the difference
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Fight the Good Fight

Things unguessed thou goest ont to
tie
Subtle envyings and pleasant lies.
Laughing malice with his swift swo
play.
Fighting though the sun be in u
eyes,
Know the Lord thy God is with thet
this day
Swarming sins thou goest out to BATH
Formless clouds of languorous ease
rust.
Chickering's, slanderings and love OF sE
Love of treasure, too. and bro
trust
May the Lord thy God be with thee
that day!
Mortal sins tnou goest out to battlsl
Monsters shapen out of thine
breath.
Thou art made Of! Fight then to
death.
For the Lord thy God is with thee
this day!
The outloo.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
a Soma Of Spring.


April at the loom Of spring,
What is II she weaveSY
Golden sunlight. silver shower,
Velvet grass and fragrant hover,
Blossoms pink and buds OF green
Hills with purple wales between
Garden vines and orchard trees
Full Of honey for the bees.
Song in all the Swallowed hooks,
Music in the meadow brooks,
April at the loom Of spring,
What Is It she weaves?
Poetry In everything,
Lyrics In the leavesl
April at the loom of spring,
How the shuttles fyl
Silver rain and golden ray,
Wonderful brio of the day
With fantastic figures fair
Wrought upon 1t everywhere;
Bowers of beauty, boughs of birds,
Broidered fields with petaled words,
Woven color, scent. and sound
In the air and on the ground;
April at the loom of spring,
How the shuttles hyl
Poetry In everything
Earth and sea and skyl
Frank Dempster Sherman in Woman
Home Companion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

ed as a positive fact not to be ga
said. But it must be refuted. 7
custom, though of long standing, a
of almost unquestioned correctness,
a bad one, and doubly harmful
cause of the strong hold it has up
the public mind.
The best method of lighting art
ficially when the source of light is
bright one. is to place the light c,
siderably above the head, holding
reading matter in such a position
to be Illuminated as much by the
Elected light from the surround
surfaces as from the direct rays fri
the flame. thus creating an eff
more nearly resembling "dayligl
conditions.-Jew Weekly Cir
lar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
How Jap Children Write.

The pens used by the children of
Japan consist of bamboo and rabbits
hair. The pen itself is a tiny brush
of hair tied to the end of bamboo
stick. 1t doesn't seem possible that
writing under such circumstances
could be good, but Japanese children
really write very well, indeed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

they feel moist to the touch. This
done, put the cover on the box and
turn 1t upside down.
Now you can look through the hole
in the bottom and see the blotters ly-
ing in their places in the box cover.
Drop through this hole upon the blot
tiers below a few drops of muriatic
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

After his successful six-mile trip
from San Francisco in his airship.
DR.. Greth could probably make an en-
gagement at Port Arthur. even with
out waiting to perfect his new ma
chine
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
Rc/

wire will do. or different sized cop.
per wire. This wire should be foot
long. Wrap this in blotting paper ex-
cept the turned up part and lay on the
bottom of the dish.
Next make a piece of copper or lead
in the same way, Lay this on the
zinc. Do not wrap this in plotting
paper
Take glass of water and dissolve
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19
PRETTY SMOKE RINGS.

You have all seen smokers blow
from their mouths rings of smoke
which twist and curl about, growing
larger as they float through the air
until finally they break and fade away.
Perhaps you have seen others try to
do this very trick and fail, although
they cannot tell why. Some men
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

Another proof OF the poets assertion
that in the spring young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love is
Afforded by the case of man in a
New York town Who at the age Of
Sc, has just wooed and won his fourth
blushing bride.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

Forget my bad habits wrote a de-
spondent man in New Jersey, just be-
fore committing suicide. That's what
many OF us want our friends to do, in.
stead Of trying to break them of our.
selves.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

Lillian Russell denies the soft matrl.
monial impeachment and declares that
to her stage happiness transcends all
the Joys OF married life. She ought to
know She has had varied experience
with both.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-19

The Havana walters who struck
against an order prohibiting them
from serving soup in whiskers were
unduly hasty. The order may be
amended to prohibit them from serv.
ing whiskers In the soup.