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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
RARaAIN FOR CASH.

40 acres, all rich level land, free
from rock; in the prairie five miiee
southeast of Duenwig; all fenced
and now in wheat, one-third Of
which goes to purchaser. This
land 10 directly in the mineral
range between Duenwig and Gran
by and Lead and Zinc have been
found on adjoining land. 1t lays
on the two main roads, one on the
north the other on the west. Small
pear orchard in southwest corner,
which 10 fine building site. No
house on the land. This fine little
tract of land so situated ought to
be cheap at $75 an acre; but as 1t is
strictly a cash proposition. and in
order to make a quick sale, 1t has
been priced down to $40 an acre.
Parties wishing to see this land
with view of purchase will call on
DANIELS & PLUME
nrccS' fVFRRY cnUEH
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
Presbyterian Church Notices.

Sabbath school 9:45 m. Morning
rervice at Hoo m. Evening ser
vice, 7:30 p m. Junior Endeavor
Society, Monday 400 p m. Prayer
meeting. Thursday at 7:3O p m.
You are heartily invited to attend
all the above services.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
up.

Quite a number of our old moss
backs are getting stirred up over
the prosperity of the city and they
are painting, embarrassing and re-
pairing TO beat the band. Some OF
them are putting their gates on
hin ges and changing them to swing
in instead of out. We call the atten-
ton of some of our colored people
to the diiapidated condition of their
homes. A little paint and some nee,
essary repairs would be in order
The Igorotrs would do this much
Take up the white mans burden
and do something for yourselves.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
The Half Was Never Told.

There are people who believe the
world 10 just entering into the mil
lenniai reign of Christ. and that
wonderful age of progress, ooth
material and spiritual, is about to
be ushered in preceded however
by ten or fifteen years of most in
tense strife and anarchy They
believe that the earth and the great
bulk of humanity, both present and
past, will during the next thousand
years, be restored to perfection lost
in Eden, by the fall of man into ain
and degradation elk thousand
years ago. They reject the idea OF
eternal torment, claiming it to be
unscripturai; claiming that only
those who are guilty of shining
willfuliy against full light and
knowledge will be considered IN
corrigibie; these, and these only,
are to be destroyed in the second
death. But space will not permit
rehearsal of all the peculiar views
of these people. Come and hear a
discourse along these lines on
Goods Eternal Purpose" by a
representative man. If you are
seeking truth you will be amply re-
paid for all time and effort by at
tending. At Mount Hope school
house on the evenings of October
q and %, beginning at half'past
seven o'clock. No collections taken
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20

If you want to sell your property.
list il at this Office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20

St. Marks church, Baxter Syringe
Evensong and sermon on Friday
Oct, %, at 8 o'clock p. m. You are
cordially invited.
THE REV. ]. C. FRRRIER,
Rector.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20

Mr.. Samuel Brown, who owns the
Spring River Power Plant, and pro.
poses to build the electric road will
be here next week, when some def
mite action will probably be taken
as to the road. It could be con-
structed this fall and winter much
cheaper than in the spring.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
CARD OE THANKS.

We desire to thank those kind
friends who 40 ably assisted US
during the sickness, death and bur-
ial of our dear wife and mother.
IosEhH STEIN AND CHILDREN.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20

A we'll known real estate owner
anticipates a material advance in
rents of all kinds. and the opinion
seems to prevail generally that
with a substantial advance in the
price of real estate, rents should ad-
vance correspondingly. If this is
SO why should not tenants be look
ing around for homes and business
houses of their own? Every man
should own his home If possible,
and the longer he puts of buying
the more he will have to pay. Prop
erty will never be cheaper.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
DO YOU WANT A GOOD FARMs

If go. call on me. / have for sale
fine l60-acre farm five and one-half
miles from Baxter Springs. The
place is we'll improved and has a
nice pasture with everlasting water.
Good district school is near by.
T. +. NEEDS.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20

during the sickness. death and bur-
ial of our dear wife and mother.
JosEhH STEIN AND CHILDREN.
Did Won ever realize that Baxter
Springs has the best climate in the
world: Some countries or staff 9
like Oregon have rain nearly every
day in the winter. Others like Cal
ifornia, have no rain winter OF cum
mer; others have billiards. and zero
weather six months out of the year;
others have tropical yellow fever
heat ten months of the year; some
have dull, heavy, murky, oppres-
sive atmosphere; others have an at
mosphere 80 rarified and vacant no
one can live in il. A number OF per-
sons at social party the other
night were comparing the climate
of Southeastern Kansas with that
of other states in the Union. These
people travelled and resided in sew
eral states and all agreed we had
the best climate in America, it not
in the world. We have just enough
winter TO make the summer months
BILE, and just enoagh sum-
mer TO long for the few mild winter
months that follow. We have plen.
ty of rain as a rule and not too
much as a rule. Our winters are
like a Northern autumn and our
summers are so mild and refresh
ing, with cool. gentle breezes and
invigoratipg nights, we hardly
know when spring has passed and
summer has come. 1t Is fact that
no one who has lived here five years
but will say we have the best all
around climate in the world. If you
want climate don't go to Florida,
Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, Califor-
mia, Oregon or New Jersey, Baxter
Springs has more fine days and
lovely nights than any city in the
United States. Buy home in Bax-
ter Springs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-20
Frisco System.

Kansas City, Mo-, Fall Festivities.
October to T. Round trip rate 81 40.
Dates of sale Oct. ? to eth. Return
Oct.S. CARL PETERSON. Agt.
Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs and colds and prevents
pneumonia. Take no substitutes.
Sold by A. X. Kane.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
When Jim Came Home

Now, this is the way Jim Brann came
home-he came in the hobo style,
Tucked on the trucks and clutchinR a
truss for many a weary mile.
And here In the ways of his boyhood
days, with thoughts of hiss youth re-
born.
He stumbled and cursed the wretch he
was with something like honest scorn.
lie thought of the lies his letters had told
TO the loving folks bach there
Protestations of decent ways and vows
that his deeds were square.
Lies and lies-the soothing liesi He had
held them better than truth,
But mere, In the hush of the fields Of
home. shame gnawed him with tear
Guile and guilt for the folks at home!
Yet these not half the woe,
FOR Wickeder far his mock of love-and
now they must know, must knowi
And under the lilac's s%hrouding shade. in
the lamplight's mellow glare.
He knelt by the window-sill and gazed on
the old folks sitting there.
starring In from the chill of night on the
old homes fireside
And hearing the trustful boasts of those
to whom his letters lied.
They were telling one who sat with them
the news of their worthy son,
OF his proud success and his stand
mongst men, in the great wide world
up yon,
And mother, bringing her rosewood box.
where all she priced was kept,
READ once again hat Jimmy wrote and.
reading, softly wept.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

but not the coveted map for which the
world had been seeking so long.
The search had been abandoned and
the subject almost forgotten when a
herman professor stumbled over the
missing map in the princely library of
the castle of Wolfegg. Here it had
lain hidden amid tones of rich moroc-
co and parchment.
The professors name was Joseph
Fischer, of Feldirch, who was making
an examination of the library of
Prince Francis, of Walburg-W olfegg.
He found "a volume of great size"
says THE Monthly Bulletin of the In
ternational Bureau of American Re-
publics,' antiquarian folio, Gothic
style, substantially bound, and hav-
ing for its covers two beech boards,
supplied with clasps or brass fasten-
ers, in which were found united.
forming a kind of atlas, various
leaves of three distinct maps.
"One of these was the original
Waldseemuller map Of 1907, which
had been so persistently searched for
and of which SO much had been spo-
ken, magnihcently printed In twelve
sheets. and In an excellent state
Of preservation"
The prince permitted the map to be
photographed, so that the facsimilies
which have been made public are cor
rect reproductions.
When its parts are put together
the Waldseemuller map measures s
feet wide and 4 feet high. IL repre-
sents the new continent with a
.vagueness which seems comical to a
mar of to-day. Yet when one consid-
ers that II was drawn only fifteen
years after Columbus had crossed
the Atlantic on his first voyage. II is
possible to understand the cloudiness
with which the new land is bounded.
A few of the West Indies are depicted
by clumsy blotches and North Ameri
ca is pinched into a strip of land,
which looks more like an attenuated
island than a continent. The proper.
tons of South America are more near
the truth. and represent to a certain
extent the V shape character Of that
continent. The name America ap.
pears written transversely in capita!
letters in the southern part OF the
continent to the north of the Tropic
Of Capricorn.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

Thanks to Pasteur and Lister, the
surgeon of to-day can do some aston
ishing things in the way of grating
one piece of living tissue on another.
A remarkable case is furnished by a
doctor who writes to the British Medi-
cal Journal. His patient had a finger
bitten clean off by a pig, through the
shaft of its middle bone. He put the
finger in his pocket, among a lot of
tobacco dust and other rubbish, and
walked with a friend six miles to the
doctor, who demanded to see it. The
finger had been cut off for about two
hours. The doctor applied antiseptics
to the end of the finger after wiping
off the tobacco and ashes and dirt,
similarly cleansed the stump that re-
manned on the patients hand, put the
two together, applied a couple of
splints, and the patient uses his fin
ger to-day. Such are the healing pow
ers of the healthy body.
And now a Frenchman is advertising
his willingness to sell his nose and
ears for similar purposes to those who
have need of them. His prices are to
be moderate at first" and there is
little doubt that there will be offers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
MarvelS of Surgeons Art

Skin-grafting, of course, is now quite
commonplace. 1t is done in our hospI-
tails every day. The skin to replace
that destroyed by a burn or other
causes may be taken from a healthy
portion of the patients own skin,
from another human being, from a
rabbit, the abdomen of a young puppy,
or from various other sources. The
operation is of great value in count
less cases.
Similarly, part of a nerve may have
been destroyed, and 1t is impossible
to bring the two ends together. Such
cases have been successfully treated
by joining the ends with a piece OF
nerve or of a spinal cord from a rab-
bit.
Sir William Macewen of Glasgow
has had great success in bone-graft-
ing. Suppose that inflammatory dis
ease has completely destroyed, as 1t
often may, the snatt of the shinbone.
In such cases a piece of bone from
one of the lower animals. or a piece
of healthy bone taken from a recently
amputated human limb (amputated by
~accident) may fill the gap.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
Don't Lose Your Grip

A woman said the other day she's
losing her grip. She meant, that the
other woman was becoming discour-
aged and was verging toward despair.
That the other woman's mental dis
turbance was obvious, meant the
gradual and ultimate loss to her of
the confidence in her ability to carry
responsibilities.
The consequence is pathetic-yes-
but as the world goes, it is SO.
No matter how discouraged you are.
don't seem to be losing your grin.
cautions a writer in the Chicago Jour
nal.
If you feel one hand hguratively
loosening on you efforts and duties
take an overgrasp with the other. and
If you cannot climb, just hang ON to
the situation.
Make 1t apparent hat you have CON
hdence in yourself. While doing
this, o assure to yourself the trust
of others in your ability and in your
force to carry it into effect.
1t is very hard, often bitterly din.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

cult, to act this part when you are
feeling utterly crushed. But you
must do 1t in order to achieve.
There are lots of hard things that
be done in achieving and sus-
tanning a business of social or artis-
tic success-and n of the hardest is
not to seem discouraged when the
tide of adversely is sweeping you OF
your feet.
But, no matter how so~ul-wrenching
1t is. the direst calamity that could
happen in % darkest hour is to
seem to be losing your grip.
So hang on tenaciously when every
body can read clearly that only OBJ
stacles are coming your way.
Don't forget that the world casually
pities and never sympathizes with
n soon forgets the lost grip.
All this is cold comfort for the day
OF need-cold and brassy.
But is a simple and straight telling
OF one way of the world-a way OF
the world that is cold and brassy.
So don't seem to be losing your
grip.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

After nearly four centuries of mys-
terry the first map on which the name
of America was used to designate the
Western Hemisphere has been found.
1t was made by Martin Waldseemul-
Ter, a geographer and photographer of
the little city of St. Diel. situated in
the French department of the Vosges.
Ever since the year 1907 the world
has known Of a little Latin book.
printed in ST. Diel and made famous
because IT first advocated that the
new hemisphere = should be called
America, after America Vespuccl.
Il do not see who can rightfully
object to it's being called Land of
America. or America" said the
writer, from America, or Amerigo.
the name of the sagacious man of
genius who discovered 1t. since the
names Europe and Asia were de-
rived from the m of women"
From certain references in the book
1t was evident that it was
led by some sort of map, yet the map
was missing. Copies were found of a
map which ~geographers believed be-
longed to the book, but still no one
knew what had become Of the origi-
nal. It was finally proved that Wald.
seemuller wrote the book, and certain
maps were found bearing his name,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
Bunyan Warrant for Sale

h announcement of the impending
sale of the original warrant on which
John Bunyan was arrested 23O wears
ago and clapped into Bedford iail
Tor a canting, ~crop-headed vagabond
has evoked many expressions of fer.
vent hope from English bibliophiles
that the document will not be lowed
to cross the Atlantic.
Interest in Bunyan relics is very
keen among collectors, and it is sure
to fetch a big price. Three years ago
a first edition of the Pilgrims Prog.
ress'-published at thirty-six cents
fetched $8,375. But when the warrant
vas first offered for sale at Sothebv's
many ago, in some inexplicable
way it eluded the vigilance of some Of
the keenest eyes among European
.antiquaries. Perhaps this was dine to
the way it was catalogued among q
lot of valuable old manuscripts. The
entry relating to it reading:
"Bunyan-Letter to the Constables
of Bedford relative to the imprlson.
ment of John Bunyan for preaching
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
KEY AS MARK OF HONOR.
Conferred by Spanish Monarchs OF
Their Favorites.

Conferred by Spanish Monarchs on
Their Favorites.
Under Philip l of Spain and his
successors the ministers of the crown
were possessed of what the Span.
iards termed a clave maestro, or mas
ter key, which gave them admission
to the royal palaces. During the
reign of Charles II (1675-170O) gilt
master keys were conferred on he
mobiles and gentlemen in attendance
on the king. These keys correspondent
with and gave admission to all the
rooms of the royal palaces. They had
huge, oblong bow handles, which pro-
1ected from the right-hand pocket and
were attached to the person by a rib
bon. The subordinate members of
the royal household were honored
with similar keys, though they were
not gilt. 1t is recorded that If one
OF these keys was lost the unfortu-
nate loser had to warn a high official
OF the court, who at once had all
the locks changed at a cost of over
10000 Spanish dollars. This large
sum had to be paid by the unlucky
individual who lost the key. Another
curious custom in vogue in the penin-
sula at that time was the giving of
dummy keys as badges to officials
n to certain mobiles who held no
court post, as a mark of favor and
distinction.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

And when their neighbor went his way,
tse father turned the lock
And laid the rug across the door and
wound the old tall clock.
Then read the Word In solemn tones,
and knelt and prayed for Jim,
Beseeching little for themselves but all
Gods gifts for him.
Then all the house was dark and still.
but in the night outside
There writhed a sObbing tattered wretch
"a prodigal denied!
Thrust back. not by the hands of homo
but by his guilty heart
By conscience towering grim and stern
and bidding him depart.
What bring before a fathers gaze that
face, of sin the scroll?
And thrust beside a mothers heart that
black and blistered soul?
No! Forth he strobe beneath the stars
drenched now with honest tears
swept from heart and soul and brain
the shameful, bitter years,
And with a prayer-an honest prayer-hs
sought the grace of God,
And bent and kissed the worn old sill his
parents feet had trod.
Then, standing. smote his breast and
cried, go forth once more, Jim
Brann,
And stay. God help you. till you bring a
clean and honest mani"
So that was the way Jim Brann went
back to fight the fight of men!
And that was why God seemed so rood
when he came home again!
Holman F. Day. in Parsons.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

Autograph signature and seals. March
4, 1874"
Inc only man who recognized it's
VaIue was the late w. G. Thorpe. who
tells the story in his still Life of the
inner Temple" BY lying low and
saying nothing" he managed to buy
the document on the fateful day of the
sale for a few soverelgns. Great was
the dismay of the rich collectors gath
cred at the auction when Mr.. Thorpe
explained to them what a treasure
they had allowed to slip through their
fingers.
III the warrant Bunyan's name ap-
pears twice, the first time spelled
SUMMON" and the second. "Bunnion."
u is signed by thirteen justices OF the
peace six of them %baronets and seven
esquires, and little they could have
dreamed that in their ordering the
arrest of the said "Towne TINKER"
as ne is styled in the warrant. they
were doing the only thing in their
nanas that would preserve their names
from complete oblivion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

~arabesqnes which embellish the bows,
which in this unitarian age are re-
placed by ordinary metal rings. The
Keys were first cast and then CHS
i by an expert artisan. The So
called "Strozzi key" formerly the
property of Henri III of France,
changed hands a few years ago for
the enormous sum of $4,000. The
bow represents two sphinxes with
grotesque heads, back to back, on the
capital of a column. The stem is in.
the form of two c%oncentric pipes; the
Dit Is shredded like a very fine comb.
Another famous key dates from the
beginning Of the seventeenth century;
the elaborate bow represents two
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

suspended flsh-shaped cars, in which
the passengers sit. The cars are pro.
PEELED round and round by the rotat.
ing shaft, or umbrella stick, at high
rate of speed. and the sensation of
travelling through the air fifty feet
above ground at sixty-five miles or
SO an hour is sufficiently novel and
exhilarating. One of these curious
machines will be among the attrac-
lions of this years exhibition at
Earls Court, and another will delight
holiday crowds at the Crystal Palace.
IL Is said that Sir Hiram intends to
devote the money received through
this invention to the final solution OF
the problem OF flight in the aj-.-The
Taller.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
A Hot Time in Prospect.

One of the many charitable women
who are interested in the work of
the University Settlement among the
New York East Side poor tells of this
incident, which occurred quite recent
ly while she was making a round of
visits in the tenements. She enter.
er n tiny apartment just as the
doctor who was attending a sick child
was leaving. He had ordered for the
little patient a bath as hot as she
could bear. While the visitor was
talking to the physician the mother of
the child came to the head of the
stairs and yelled to her neighbor be.
low:
Mrs. Casey, will you lend me the
loan of a washtub to scald the babby
in?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
Russia's Universities.

Russia has five great universities,
besides three provincial ones-St
Petersburg. Moscow, Kief, Warsaw,
and Kharkof. The number of stu
dents in the Ave is some $4,000 Rus
STA represents '125. 000. 900 people.
There Is, therefore, one student OF
all SORTS. liberal and professional, to
about 5000 of the people. The num-
Der of students In the corresponding
classes In America represents one to
some o M the people.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

Sir Hiram Maxim's newest inven-
tion is a mammoth merry-go-round.
with flying machines in place of the
ordinary cars, boats or horses. The
illustration shows one of these ma
chimes. For the present they will be
attached to the merry-go-round, but
Sir Hiram hopes to alter their con-
struction SO that they can be let loose
In mid-air. Sir Hiram Maxim's new
flying machine is not an advance in
the art OF self-propulsion through the
air, nor does 1t profess to be SO. since
II Is merely a captive flying ma
chine" 1t resembles a huge, roof
less umbrella. with the ribs sloping
upward, at the ends of which are
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14
Tract Has bloody Record.

On the six miles between he two
rivers, North and South Canadians.
there have been forty-two lives lost
all being in good health at the time
OF their death. On this six miles of
railroad and wagon road, running
parallel with the railroad. seven ne.
groes. twenty whites and thirteen In.
dians have been killed one way or
another.
T~wenty-four Of these went the gun
route, one committed suicide. two
were killed by being run over by
wagons, three by driving on the rail.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

The tablet purchased through dona-
ions made by chapters of the Daugh-
tiers of the American revolution,
through the efforts of Miss Marion
Brazier, in memory of Commodore
Paul Jones, was formally presented
TO the school committee by the Daugh-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-14

Says John l.. Sullivan: "I'd like
TO get into office so some decent laws
could get passed" Meanwhile John
might focus his powers on a revised
version of the Marquis of Queens.
berry code.