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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Germs in Paper Money

The fear of contagion from disease
microbes which our ancestors never
felt because ignorance was bliss" to
them seems to be putting its ban upon
one thing after another. One may not
indulge longer In clans, oysters, wa
tercress, spinach, lettuce, shaving,
kissing, public library books, feather
busters and numerous everyday neces-
sites without taking antiseptic pre-
cautions. Now comes chemist at
Washington who has found green
back which was the favorite resort of
l44 different kinds of the disease mi
crobes. Startled by the announce.
ment, some brokers already are NOV
ing to protect cashiers and tellers by
disinfecting all currency.
One Boston scientist has suggested
the placing of cotton waste, saturated
with formaldehyde, in the safe or
money drawer, and another the pour
ing OF spoonful of it in a vault each
night, which boards of health say
Will destroy millions of germs. Some
bankers are inclined to sniff at the
precautions. They rightly affirm that
the microbe, though a comparatively
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
IdVl of HalSted Street

The bad boys sell him for dime 10 soihe
kind hearted wight,
And Bruiser sheds a pous tear anu
fawns In chaste delight.
The bows then whistle for the houno; ne
gallops down the street
with half a yard of red hot tongue that
maps In base deceit.
Bruiser is an Ishmaelite. and is Stunned
on Halsted street,
He hangs around the urchins with stone
bruises on their feet;
He sees them shoot the festive dice ana
roll the ivory bones,
And when he hears the circus band, ne
utters graveyard groans.
Bruiser likes Miss Rosey, she once gave
him hot mince pie
Miss Rose was wont to pat his cayed-in
ribs and pout and frown and sign:
You are an ugly, horrid hound" the
fearful Rose did cry,
"You have a clumsy sheepish way, theyn
shoot you through the eye"
Bruiser hates dog catchers, and he scents
them from afar,
He lies SO low as on they go, like troops
to the war.
And when they swing the lasso and fam
would rope him in.
He sashays down old Halsted and the
ne.ghbors jeer and grin.
They corralled Bruiser yesterday, that
fierce dog catcher crew,
They flung the moose around his neck,
he yelped his last adieu.
They'll shoot him throu the forehead"
the fearful Rosev cries
"He was such q stupid 1oggie, but he
had such big. brown eyes!"
JAMES E. KINSELLA.
Registry Division, Chicagos Postoffice.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
The Dangers of Living

Death through the agency of a meas
ly microbe is becoming a thing so
common that men no longer marvel
at it. In fact, it is almost impossible
now to die of any old-fasbioned dis
ease. Everything must have a bug in
It, even to the otherwise empty attic
or crank. Appendicitis is now class.
ed as being bug-promoted affection.
Toothache will doubtless be the next
malady to fall into line. In this con
nection some simple rules for lodging
the various bugs that would work
havoc in our delicately adjusted sys-
TENS may be appropriate. They are
suggested by contributor to the
New York Sun, who signs himself
High Price Guesser, M. d., and are as
follows:
May beg to caution my fellow citi-
zens against using telephones? The
microbes upon the mouthpiece are a
sure cause of infection. Also against
taking ones meals in restaurants
Nobody knows who uses plates, cups
and saucers, glassware, etcetera. Also
against entering a room where other
persons are. The agitation of the air
caused by ones entrance sets mi.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
All Rlqht Aoaln.

Opal. Wyo.. May 16.-After suffer
ing terribly for four or five years, Mr.
A. ]. Kohner OF this place, has been
completely restored to good health
His ease and It's cure is another proof
OF the wonderful work Dodd's Kidney
Pills can do. Mr.. Kohner says:
For four or five years I have been
sufferer with Kidney trouble and a
pain over my Kidneys. thought |
would give Dodd's Kidney pills a trial
and am glad did so. for they have
done me good work and feel all
right again.
Many cases are being reported
every week in which Dodd's Kidney
Pills have effected cures OF the most
serious cases.
These strong testimonies from earn.
est men and women are splendid tri-
butes to the curative properties Of
Dodds Kidney Pills and judging by
these letters, there is no case Of Kid
ney trouble or Backache that Dodd's
Kidney Pills will not cure promptly
and permanently.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08

New Yorks Bowery has been de-
scribed in song and story by many
critters, and now poet has arisen to
STAG about the long-neglected but
almost equally well known Halsted
street, the thoroughfare of Chicago
which most truly corresponds with
the Street of All Nations" of the
eastern metropolis. The sad end of
the popular Btuiser furnishes his
theme
Bruisfr barks like blazes, but he does 1t
sor bluff
Bru' ser is a shaggy hound. his tattered
hide is gpugh,
Fo. Bruiser IL a yellow dog, cur of low
degree,
He madly wags his sawed off tail and
growls at you and me;
bruiser prowls around our house and
buries juicy bones,
his nose 10 almost worn away from root
Ing Jagged stones;
Bruiser howls Tor mercy when they hit
him In the face;
Bfulser means and buries bones the
custom of his race.
Old Bruiser is an ugly dog with sheep
ish, rowing eye,
And maybe he's a hypocrfte he ways his
tail so high,
Bruiser likes his porterhouse and GROWER
full of beer,
Bruiser likes canary birds-the doggy's
taste Is queer,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Calls Rabies a "Graft"

Uncle Dick" Fellows, breeder of
dogs, whose home is at Hornellsville.
n. Y, declares that hydrophobia is
all imagination and the invention of
physicians and specialists to secure
practice, AS he puts it, at is a
graft"
II have handled 10000 dogs a year
have been bitten hundreds of times.
and care no more for dog bite than
a scratch Of PIN" he said to the
writer Foolish and unreasonable
periodical scares have prevailed ever
since public attention was drawn to
Pasteur and his crank followers TWEEN
ty years ago.
This has had bad effect on the
public mind, magnifying the danger of
very rare disease. which is SO slight
that 1t does not deserve public notice.
Many other diseases, such as tetanus.
epilepsy, mania, cerebrospinal menin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
MADE WELL BY FREEZING.
Swiss Gentleman Cured Himself Of
Long-Standing Dyspepsia.

Swiss Gentleman Cured Himself OF
Lons-standing Dyspepsia.
Scientific investigation has discover
ed that that troublesome disease, dys'
pepsia, can be cured by short inter
walls of exposure to intense cold, fol-
lowed by hearty eating. M. Raoul
Pictet, Swiss gentleman, was ex-
perimenting with very low tempera-
ture. He had produced an artificial
temperature in a sort of pit which
caused the thermometer to sink to lao
or $50 degrees below zero. Among
other experiments he exposed himself
for brief interval to this tempera-
ture by lowering himself into the pit.
On emerging he found himself in
tensely hungry and ate freely. The
process was repeated several times,
and as a result he found himself cured
of chronic indigestion, from which he
had suffered for years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
CHILDREN MEANT WELL, BUT
Their Present Must Have Been Some.
what Embarrassing.

Their Present Must Have Been Some.
what Embarrassing.
Little Mary and Ben had been
greatly exercised over the approach.
ing anniversary of the parental wed.
ding day. They had overheard SO
much discussion of the subject that
they supposed that numerous pres.
ents would be quite the order of the
festival; and Ben. with the responsi-
billy of his eleven years, proposed
that they secure their own pennies
and buy nice present for mamma
and para"
Mary gladly agreed, and with great
secrecy they made their preparations
With dollar they ran away one day
and with much excitement made
their purchase, which was safely hid.
den until the important event came
on When the presents were exhib,
tied theirs proved no less interesting
than the more expensive gifts--there
was "a beautiful picture" as they
both assured their parents. Sure
enough, there were two splendid lions
In large cage, and under them the
Inscription; "A Life Sentence. Chi.
cago Record-Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
NATIONAL SONG OF RUSSIA.
Country's Hymn Dates Back to Relon
of NichoI5p

country's Hymn Dates Back to Relqn
OF Nicholas |.
The Russian national anthem is the
only national hymn which was adopt.
ca as such in open competition. Until
the time Of the Emperor Nicholas 1
the English God Save the King" had
served Russia, but Nicholas deter,
mined to institute a genuine and ma.
i've Russian anthem. He announced
a competition open to all musicians
ior an original national hymn. A
musical committee reduced the thou.
SANDS OF entries to two, and between
.nese' the works Of Glinka and Lvoff,
the car himself decided. The highly
martial character, with the drums and
trumpets. of Lvoff's composition won
the imperial verdict, and 1t was da
creed as henceforth the Russian
national anthem.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
AS SHE READ 1T.
Entirely Novel Rendering Of Simple
French Phrase.

Entirely Novel Rendering Of Simple
French Phrase.
With the spread of education dead
languages and foreign tongues are
no longer mysteries soluble only by
the cultured few. The famous Elton
boy who rendered splendid mendax"
as laying in state" is but a pioneer
Quite recently a pupil teacher, fairly
well advanced in her teens, who, at
a teachers center, is still learning to
read French with furious Cockney
accent, and to decipher 1t, was taken
to lunch at a French restaurant in
Soho. Scanning the menu with
show of interest which healthy ap.
petite alone could hardly have excit.
ed, she was overheard to murmur,
"Canard savage aux petits pois-
The duck Is savage at the few peas"
London Daily Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
CAT ALMOST KILLED CHILD.
Rsseuers Forced to Risk Life to Saws
Him.

Rsscuers Forced to Risk Life to Saws
Him.
Only by risking the life OF little
John Hynes by firing repeatedly close
to him could men kill cat that was
tearing wildly at the boys face at
Springfield. N. j., the other day. Four
times the men shot the cat and still
it clawed and bit the boy in a mad
frenzy. Only when the fifth bullet
lodged in its body did it fall dead be,
side the injured lad. The men were
in a blacksmith shop when they heard
the boys screams in field nearby,
They rushed to him but were unable
to grab the cat and had to shoot
almost at the boy in order to kill the
mad animal. A doctor treated the
boy, who was terribly scratched and
lacerated. The lad had been playing
in the field at the rear of the shop
when the cat, with a snarl. jumped
upon him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Names Of Little Japs.

Japanese babies are rarely given the
name of living member OF the fam.
lily or friend. The reason is the. In.
convenience Of similar names in the
same family, middle names as a
means Of avoiding this difficulty be.
Ing unknown. Little girls are com.
monty called after beautiful objects
In nature, such as Plum Blossom,
Snow, Sunshine. Gold or Lotus
Flower. Little boys. especially among
the lower classes, frequently start out
In life with the handicap of being
named Tiger Bear, Rock or Panther.
IL is not considered an especial com.
pliment in Japan to call a child after
any other person. - Washington
Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Could You Use ANY Kind of a Sewing
Machine at Anv PricaS

Could You Use ANY Kind of a Sewing
Machine at Any Price9
II there is any price so low. any
offer so liberal that you would think
of accepting on trial new high-grade.
drop cabinet or upright Minnesota.
Singer, Wheeler G. Wilson, Standard
White or New Home Sewing Machine.
cut out and return this notice. and
you will receive by return mail. post
paid, free of cost. the handsomest sew.
ing machine catalogue ever published.
II will name you prices on the Mime.
sofa, Singer, Wheeler & Wilson.
White, Standard and New Home sew.
ing machines that will surprise Won.
we will make you a new and attract
i've proposition, sewing machine Of
fer that will astonfsh you.
II you can make any use of any
sewing machine at any price, If any
kind OF an offer would interest Won
don't fail to write us at once (be sure
to cut out and return this special no.
tice) and get our latest book, our
latest offers, our new and most sur.
prising proposition. Address
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.. Chfcaxo
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08

gifts, have been mistaken for hydro.
phobia. Similar symptoms have been
induced in some cases by intestinal
worms, morbid growths and other dis.
turbing causes.
i know, of course, that dog with
coilc or earache or toothache or
worms or epileptic fits is always called
a mad dog. A callow reporter sees or
hears OF the case and under scare
neaalng he manages to do a lot ~
narm' but you may rest assured that
there never was a genuine case ~
rabies in America. -
some years ago the American Ken.
mel club had committee appointed 70
investigate hydrophobia, and thew ra,
ported Just as I say. Whenever hear
Oh any city with lot of mad dogs T
oHer to let the worst specimen tbav
can procure bite me, Just to prove that
the dog is not mad. None has as VOC
accepted my offer" ~
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
BAD pREAMa.
indicate Improper Diet, Usually que
TO Coffee.

HN'S@NS AHtPTOPSF OiSIs usually Due
to Coffee.
One OF the common symptoms of
coffee poisoning Is the bad dreams
that spoil what should be restful
sleep. A man who found the reason
says:
Formerly | was slave to coffee. |
was like morphine fiend, could not
sleep at night. would roll and toss In
my bed and when did get to sleep
was disturbed by dreams ard hobgob.
oiins, would wake up with headaches
and feel bad all day, so nervous /
could not attend to business. MY
writing looked like bird tracks. had
sour belchings from the stomach. In.
digestion, heartburn and palplsation
OF the heart, constipation, irregularity
OF the kidneys, etc.
Indeed, began to feel had all
the troubles that human flesh could
suffer but when a friend advised me
TO leave off coffee | felt as If he had
insulted me. could not bear the
Idea, It had such a hold on me and i
refused to believe 1t the cause.
"But It turned out that noadylce was
ever given at a more needed time for
i finally consented to try Postum, and
with the going Of coffee and the com
ang OF Postum all my troubles have
gone and health has returned. | eat
and sleep well now, nerves steadIed
down and | write fair hand las You
can see), can attend to business again
and rejoice that | am free from the
monster Coffee" Name given by
Postum Co, Battle Creek Mich.
Ten days trial of Postum in place
OF coffee will bring sound, restful, re-
freshing sleep. There's a reason.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book. "The Road to WellviIle.,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
WIDOW GETS LUCKY FARrHINc.
Enterprising Woman Turns Small
Award to Good Account

Enterprising Woman Turns Small
Award to Good Account.
The farthing. which the English
judges have been making use of fire.
quently of late in awarding DAMAGES
to litigants, has proved in one case
a useful coin. A West Bromwicn
widow recently obtained a farthirg in
brech of promise action she had
brought against faithless lover She
put 1t In the windows of her tobacco
snop with printed warning to trust.
ING women to beware of mizpah rings
and inviting men to come and bnv
breach OF promise cigars and widows
mite cigars. Tie result was spct a
big business that the police had to
stand by to keep the pavement cIear
while nineteen men, mostly widow ers
came and offered themselves in ,rn,,
rage. - ''i
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
lew FaIIurea h Mexloo.

One of the great advantages IN
selling goods in Mexico is that fail.
ures are almost unknown, as the mer.
chants of Mexico are very conserya.
i've and extend their business only as
Iar as their capital will permit. Fires
and their results, which ruin thou.
sands OF business men annually in
the United States. are Of very rare
occurrence there, Mazatlan has not
been afflicted with FIRE for over thir.
ty years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Creek Entrants.

Few Greek emigrants take their
wives when they leave their country.
Nest OF them are members of the
Greek church. OF which the car is
pope, and half OF them are illiterate.
They are under medium weight and
have strong constitutions. They
nearly all have had to labor for very
low wages. to live on coarse. cheap
food, and to wear homespun or other
cheap clothing. About one-half OF the
males who emigrate have served in
The Greek army or navy. Steerage
passage to the United States costs
g35.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Language Prohlsm.

The English language. writes a
correspondent to the London Globe,
contains three words, TO, too, and two,
sounded alike. Now, 1t is easy to
say There are three to-too-two's in
English" but how would you write it,
using one Of the words only? That is,
would the plural be "to's," "too's," or
"two's"7
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
The Hot Sand Ran

We are all acquainted with the
virtues of the hot-water bag, but
many persons are not aware of the
fact that sand bag is even better.
The way to prepare it is this: Get
some clean. fine sand: dry it thorough.
ly In a kettle on the stove; make a
bag, about eight inches square. of
flannel; fill it with the dry sand. sew
the opening carefully together and
cover the bag with cotton or linen
cloth. This will prevent the sand
from sitting out and also enable the
person using it to heat the bag quick.
ly by placing it in the oven or on the
top of the stove, After once using
this no further recourse will be had
to tne hot-water bottle or the brick.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Ducks Slow lntelllnen..

some ducks in Rhode Island find,no,
themselves prevented by the ice from
enjoying swim in their favorita
p rose en- masse in the air and
came down plump in the middle ~
the pond, breaking the ice by tba
force OF their united impact and 90
curing for themselves open wafer -
which to disport. ""'er IN
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08

serous degree; no facilities for ado.
quate filtration have been provided
and the shallow wells which orn 49, .sr
S s OF those who do not draw
from the river are little better than
pockets In swampy spots which All
WIN WIN surface water made dangerous bv
Ine nitn accommodations Of the winter
russian civilization has not reached
tne stage of development which rec.
osh,zes the Importance of systematic
pubic sanitation.-New York Times
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Disease the Ally of War.

The dispatch from St. Petersburg to
the effect that an epidemic of cholera
and typhoid is threatened at Hardin,
the Russian military base in Man
churia, is surprising. only by reason
OF the fact that it was permitted to
pass the censorship. The streets are
nlthy with accumulations of decom-
posing organic refuse; the river Sun
gari, from which the public warer
supply Ia taken, is polluted to a dan
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
LIVE IN PRIMITIVE STATE
french Peasants Who Know Little OF
Llfe's Strenuousness.

French Peasants Who Know Little OF
Lies strenuousness.
II IL Is hard to know anything about
tne surface life of the Bigoudines. 1t
Is sun more difficult to penetrate their
thought; to know whether their brains
are agitated by anything but the sim
PIE Ideas OF the very primitive peo-
pies, the naive reveries. of children.
or whether they have preserved some
valued traditions of the upheayals Of
humanity which have ended by cast.
Ing them upon this extreme point Of
iand' They speak language which
mas no aftiliation with any ordinary
tongue. IL is Breton, but a Breton
tuii OF unknown words and strange
soioms, as yet unstudied by any philol.
osist' AS to the French language,
they ignore 1t, Intentionally ignore IT
From Andre Saglios THE Bigou.
dines."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
HeatIna House. In Ennlann-

The average house in England is
dependent for it's heat upon CRATE
fires in parlor, dining room and bed.
rooms. The halls and bathrooms are
cold and uncomfortable. 1t is true
the temperature rarely falls below 80
degrees In the middle and southern
portions of the kingdom. yet the
houses are the reverse of comfort.
able.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Mandolin an AnoIen+ In..-

me mandolin was an old instrr.
ment a couple of centuries ago baU.
ing then, after long series Of ev nSv'
IONS reached its present sbane -.
S ~ .n which CITY has always claim.
90 the honor of its origin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
sTATn or ONO. clrv or ToIrpo, :.

bTArE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, -
LUCAS COUNTY. 50.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he IA aenior
partner OF the firm of f. j. CHENEY & Co.. doing
business in the City Of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm Will pay the sum OF
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
ase Of CArARRH that cannot be cured by the use Of
Halls CATARRn CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
ence, this 9Th day OF December, A. D. 1885.
A. W. GLEASON,
ti NOTARY PUBLIC.
Hairs Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system. Send for testimonials. free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08
Liberty Postana s..

In celebration of the centenar :.
servlas liberation from Turkish rule
the Servian government is about -
issue special series OF postage
stamps. S
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-11-08

To be a successful MI
retain the love and sd,,,
of her husband shouIi
wOman's constant stual
she would be all that M
she must guard well aga,l
signs of i'll health. Mrs 4
tells her story for the M
all wives and mothers. |
+" DEAR MRS. PTNKHAM.-rl
Pinkham's Vegetable CoSl
will make every mother wS1
healthy and happy. IdrappslJ
nine years of miserable exists,s
out with pain and wearipes, 4
noticed a statement Of |
troubled as / was; and the NJ
results she had had from M
table Compound, and decidsi.
what it would do for me, and n
three months. At the erS !
time, l was q different won.
neighbors remarked it, and \
band fell in love with ma h
again. It seemed like a new Il,
l had been suffering with IN
ton and falling of the womb h
medicine cured that, and buin'
entire system, till / was inde,
new woman. - Sincerely your
CHAs. +. BROWN, 81 Cedar Terr
Springs, Ark, Vice President |
C!ab.-S50oO forfeit If oyigtrol }, !
pTaUiGg genUinenes5 cannot be uroduca :
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-21
FOUND The
FUGITIVE IN
THE CARRET.
Young MCGEE for Whom The po-
lice Have Been Looking
Arrested.

Albert McGee, nineteen years old,
who, together with ''Tod" Hemstreet,
10 charged, with stealing W. f. Hart.
ma mn IS power boat several weeks ago,
was arrested by Patrolman Hanson,
last night,.i the garrett of his home.
The police received tip several
days ago that MCGEE was sleeping
at night at his home in this city.
When Officer Hanson went to the
house, last night, Mrs. MCGEE, the
youth IS mother, said that he was at
Atlantic Highlands. Hanson made n
senrch with the above result
When MCGEE was nrraipned before
the recorder, this morning, he
pleaded not guilty. He wns held
III default of 81 200 bonds for hear
ing ut O'Clock this afternoon.