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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
Place for the Laurel

The two laurel wreaths sat swinging
idly by the roadside that led to the
house Of fame.
1T is inevitable" said the first lau-
rel wreath, that in the course of tune
we shall both OF us rest upon the
brow of the most deserving"
TOO true" said the second laurel
wreath. "And l can not help but won
der who they will be. Here comes
a modern poet. Brother, do you feel
an impulse to spring upon his brown"
mo, can not say that do. His
hair is of the usual poetical length,
he has the poets rapt look, yet he is
not the real thing. l shall let him
pass"
Well, then, here comes a magnate.
Surely he is deserving of our consid-
sideration. His name is household
word. A list of his public benefac-
tons would fill long column. What
say you? Shall we not give him
trial?"
Never! Tomorrow he will be for
gotten. Besides, he is not entitled to
consideration. He is in reality only
high-class robber,"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
Comfort i'm Having GOut

"Gout is the most fashionable of all
the diseases" said prominent doc
TOR. In spite Of the pain and incon-
Venlence accompanying it, the major
fty OF my equity patients are inclined
to be proud of their affection. look
upon che POPULARITY of the disease as
the result of its associations. An
clens Greek physicians of the four
teenth century were the first to use
the term govt and they attributed
the disease to overindulgence and
luxury. In the works of the early
Greek writer's the word is frequently
used, particularly in Ovid and Pliny.
and Seneca in his ninety-fifth epistle
mentions the prevalence of govt
among the Roman ladies' of his day
as one of the results of high living.
Sir Thomas Watson says: The in
stances are not few of men of good
sense and masters of themselves. who.
being warned by one visitation of the
govt, have thenceforward resolutely
abstatned from rich living and from
wine and strong drinks of all kinds.
and who have been rewarded for
their prudence and self-denial by
complete immunity from any return
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

of the disease, or upon whom, at
any rate, its future assaults have
been few and feeble
Thus the word govt has indicated
rich living and opulence for SO long
a time that although it does not In,
yariably attack the rich and we'll fed,
there is always smile and the usual
pleasantries when a sickness is pro-
nounced govt. You have the govt, old
fellow! Been treating yourself too
well, eh?' l know physicians who, to
humor their patients, take advantage
of the general respect people have for
govt by giving the name to various
other ailments, such as rheumatism.
The term is much more popular and
the symptoms are somewhat similar.
have seen people who absolutely
Dragged about having the govt. re,
member hearing a conversation ON
the subject between two old women
and the voice of the speaker was high
and boastful when she said: My
son John is laid up with the govt. It
is the real thing, too, red spots and
all the regular symptoms. 1t is a re-
suit of to high living, the doctor
says"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Capt. Beaugrand and his eight sur
yiving soldiers found safety on this
side of the Rio Grande, but after re-
operating a few days they recrossed
the river and by stealthy marches sue
ceeded in rejoining the main com
mand, whose officers had placed all
their names on the list of the killed
When the war terminated Capt.
Beaugrand became a publisher for
some time, after which he moved to
Montreal, Canada. He was elected
mayor of that city, but shortly after
ward went to st. Louis.
He accepted a place on the editorial
staff of the Globe-Democrat, where
he became acquainted with the late
]. b. McCullagh, who claimed to have
originated the practice of newspaper
interviewing. Eugene Field was at
that time an employe of the st. Louis
Republic.
Capt. Beaugrand has published a
number of short stories, but, strangely
enough, he has never told in print the
many hairbreadth escapes of his own
career. He will likely decide ON tho
advice of his physician to make Colo
RADIO his permanent abode.-DenyeF
News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Every big fire has some effect on
the invention of appliances which are
used in the saving of life at such a
time, and the great loss of childrena
lives in the lroquois disaster has
directed the attention of inventors to
the rescue of the little ones when they
are too overcome by fear to think for
themselves. For their protection from
fire in the home one clever mind has
Just designed the accompanying es-
cape for children's nurseries.
An opening is made in the wall of
the room, which connects directly with
the street. The outside and inside of
the opening are protected with shut.
tiers, both opening away from the wall.
Into the space between these shutters
collapsible canvas chute is packed
in much the same way as an accord
ion folds up, with one end securely
fastened to the wall by means of
chains.
When there is an alarm OF fire all
that has to be done is to open the
inside shutter inwards, give the outer
shutter and chute push, and the
whole thing falls to the ground, dis
closing a canvas passage. down which
it is easy to make safe journey to
the ground. The nurse or some grown
person should descend first to receive
the children, though their descent may
be regulated by themselves, If they re-
the chute, thus forming a brake.
member to press against the sides of
Being built into the walls of the
house, there is no confusion caused Ia
hunt for the escape in time of need
as is so often the case where portable
fire escapes are the reliance Of more
than one person. In addition no I'M
slightly attachments mar the beauty
of the architecture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Well, then, here comes a modern
authoress. Thousands upon thou
sands have eagerly waited to read her
Iext book. See her confident air. She
has no claim upon us?"
The first laurel wreath rustled in
Indignation and replied:
How can you. She is. here for a
day and gone tomorrow. We are
not for her"
But surely we nave a mission,
Surely there must be some one"
The first laurel wreath uttered an
exclamation. "Seel' he cried. "They
come! They come at last, those whom
we have. been expecting. Brother.
prepare yourself. In a moment now.
we shall be reposing upon the twin
brows of those whose fame shall in.
deed be lasting"
The second laurel wreath trembled
with anticipatory excitement.
who are they?" he exclaimed.
Don't you see? They are the two
best advertisement writer's OF the pres
ent day!"-Tom Maseson in the
Reader.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
Write Notes to Themselves.

Actors are great hands to write
mash notes to themselves" said
stage manager. "The leading young
men, you see-the heroes that marry
the beautiful girls-are supposed to
attract to the theater myriads of young
women. They draw big pay on this ac-
count, their friends talk seriously of
the powerful, almost hypnotic influ-
ences that they exert on romantic fe-
males. This power is the stock in
trade of the actor who travels on his
beauty instead of on his art. and he
must always have tangible proof of
it. So II the young women don't come
up each mail with bunch Of authen-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
FIRE FIGHTING IN THE EARLY DAYS

Fire ordinances are by no means
modern or even complicated, at least
In proportion to the new inventions
and causes. electric lights and other
elaborate and infiammable fixtures.
and to the various inventions and
methods of prevention. Nearly a hun
dred years ago there were ordinances
as numerous and as long for the pre-
vention and extinction of fires. In 1915
Detroit had an elaborate fire ordi.
nance. It ordered every householder
TO provide a pair of water buckets and
wooden vessel holding twenty or
twenty-five gallons, with two loops
strongly attached thereto" which
were always to be kept full of water
In place where 1t could not be frozen
and to have a lever or pole of sufl-
cient weight and strength to sustain
said vessel. To each chimney of his
house he must attach a substantial
ladder, to be fastened to the roof and
another ladder long enough to COM
municate with the first.
Every male person capable of giving
assistance must, on an alarm of FIRE
repair to the scene, carrying one or
more of such vessels, and obey the
orders Of one of the trustees. Twelve
householders appointed by the hoard
OF trustees were to provide themselves
each with "a good telling ak" and re-
pair to the place of the fire. Six others
were to be provided by the corpora
tion with three battering rams, to be
used at fires. There were also TWENTY
tour to be provided with fire hooks"
every shopkeeper must provide him
self with two or three bushel bags
with which to beat out the fire
For neglecting to provide these vari-
csx implements fine of S. was i'm
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

So in the important province of
Chill, which contains the capital, Pc
kin, there is a government proclama.
ton notifying the "eight directions for
tree plantation"-most minute instruc-
lions as to the kind of tree required.
the depth they should be planted and
the fertilizers to be used-and the
ten benefits to be derived from the
same" such, among others, as the sale
of timber and fruit. the beneficial in.
huence of trees in attracting rain, pre-.
serving the just equilibrium of wind
influence, and purifying the atmo.
sphere, while travellers and families
will find shade and rest under the
branches"-a poetic touch for conclu.
sion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

tic mash notes. he sees to it, any
way, that he gets mash notes all right
He times them so that they reach the
theater during rehearsal. The manager
every afternoon brings them to him
half dozen pink and blue and cream
envelopes, smelling of violet and or
ris. He takes them with a guffaw,
reads them, passes them around.
Every one pretends to be amused at
their silly contents, but the minute
the actors back is turned the murmur
passes back and forth; They're fakes.
He wrote them himself. He spends two
hours day writing himself mash
notes To tell the truth this actor gets
a number of authentic mash notes, but
nobody believes it. 1t is thought that
every note is a fake"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
THEY MADE 1T TRUE.
Queer Marriage Proposal Accepted by
Lady Duff Gordon.


A quaint story is told of the man
ner in which the late Lady Duff Cor
don was proposed for by her husband.
When she was a young girl she was
thrown much into the company of
Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, and peo-
pie began to gossip about them.
DO you know people say we are
going to be married?" Sir Alexander
said to her one day.
Indignant that he should mention
the matter so bluntly, she burst out
with a hot retort. but he checked her.
Shall we make it true?" he asked.
She forgot her indignation and shy
ly answered YES"
Lady Duff Gordon lived a great part
of her life in Egypt, and was loved
by the natives more than any other
Englishwoman has been before and
since. She was very beautiful, and a
veritable Helen of Troy in her power
over the hearts of men. When she
was a gray-haired grandmother
young Arab sheikh begged her to d.
vorce her husband and marry him.
telling her that she was "a woman for
whom men killed each other or them
selves"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
Know Value Of Trees

Tree planting in northern China is
being strenuously enjoyed by the
authorities, not only as productive
industry for the people, but alike as a
means of strengthening the river en-
bankments against floods and of
checking drought, says the Golden
Penny. OF late years trees have been
cut down wholesale for agricultural
purposes, while the peasants do not
take the trouble to plant fresh ones,
because the soil is so loose that they
must dig down very deep for a salts
factory foothold. So vast tracts OF fer
tile land are left barren, while in the
northern provinces especially the in
flux OF sand carried by high winds
from the Monaghan deserts threatens
to fin up the unoccupied ground.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
VERY EASY FOR HER.
Problem Presented No Difficulties to
This Woman.

Problem Presented No Difficulties to
This Woman.
A "woman's reason" with all it's ira.
ditional lack of logic, came out in an
amusing fashion at recent dinner
party in Brooklyn.
In the course of the evening the con-
versation drifted around to those odd
little mathematical bits of the How
old-is-Ann variety, when one Of the
company, with explanations that the
next problem would not be very
difficult one, questioned as follows:
If bottle and cork together cost
$1.10, and the bottle cost a dollar more
than the cork, how much did the cork
COST"
Almost instantly one of the ladies
was ready with the answer:
"Why, the cork cost five cents and
the bottle $105. That's too easy"
The lady's husband, familiar through
years Of experience with her woeful
lack Of skill in figures, looked up in
establishment.
"HeavensH he exclaimed. "How did
you come to get that so soon?"
"Why, my dear" was the reply,
"corks always cost five cents, don't
they?"-New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
1t the Auction Sale

The farmer folk come over the hill,
And up from the neighboring vale
TO bid and bargain for, and buy
The last of my goods for sale!
The posters out on the countryside
Said: Everything must gol"
But I'll have to turn my eyes away
From one poor bid. know.
One cheap little bid of a mother yeung
Who lives a mile to the west;
She has come to bid my cradle in
For the babe upon her breast
The cradle bought for a mother~bride
And a babe of loves first dawn
III have to turn my eyes when l hear
That Going oing-gonel"
| remember how the song of the lark
In the sky came trembling down
The morning I brought the little crib
In my wagon out from town!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The daisies ,curtsied along the road.
T An1 the thrushes took a peep
l know they guessed that the tinv he'd
Was nest for baby's sleep
piped NAeS
- In the, morning damond-dewed
me nother sang by her aowny nest,
ma; ana the paby crowed and cooed;
III the baby's fancy passed away
One night on a stormy CLEAN.
A ma the mother followed him, to hear
The end of his little dreaml
What need of a house and a cradle nov,
-, what need of rest for me?
me silence is my only mate,
And the babe is memoryi
l eve the crib to the mother young
TN the babe on her breast at piav-
SUI N nave TO turn my eyes, / know
When she carries II awayi
-Aloysius Coll in HousekeaDar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
Nc and Love.

Most men know love but as part of life:
Ihey hide 1t In some corner of the breast
Even from themselves; and only when
they rest
In the brief pause of that earthly strife
rife
They draw it forth Cas one draws forth
a toy,
To soothe some ardent, kiss-exacting
boy),
And hold It up to mother, child or wife.
An me- Why may not life and love be
Why walk we thus alone. when at our
Love. Ike. visible god, might be our
guide?
How would the marts grow noble. and
the street.
Worn like dungeon floor with weary
Seem then a golden courtway of the sun.
Henry Timrod
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

posed; for neglect of duty at the fires,
a fine OF $40.
The present habit of disregarding
fire ordinances would seem to be an
inherited one. But at least this can
not be said of the failure to enforce
the ordinances. The record shows
that at least once a week there was
some complaint of noncompliance. An
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

entire session. July 2, 1921, was taken
up with this business. Nearly forty
delinquents we're fined from rs cents
to SLIPS for being deficient" ono or
more ladders, having ladders in bad
condition, lack of bags or buckets, or
for not having their names ON them.
All would seem to have gone to the
fires, for no fines are recorded
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

A British schoolboy is held respon-
sible for the following comment in
his school examination papers upon
one Of our national institutions: "In
the United States people are put to
death by elocution." Indeed, the boy
spoke truer than he knew.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

When Rose, the Cleveland defaulter.
found he was $4,000 short he rea-
soned that he could make It up by go.
ing on specializing. So he speculated
and speculated until he was $4,000
short. Why say more?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03
Send Geese 10 eermanu.

The whole import of live geese to
Germany amounted to 1920, O55 in
1900, 6,431,2 PAT in 1901, and 7254,145
valued at $5,513,492) in 1902, a steady
increase which is typical of most food
Imports which supply the great middle
classes of the German people.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The st. Louis doctor who says whis-
ky Is good for consumptives might
make more of hit with his towns
men IL he could say good word for
beer and plug tobacco.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Professional osculationists should
bear in mind that attempted kissing
without the consent OF the lissee
means 800 or thirty days in jail. The
choicest things in life naturally come
high.-Des Moines Capital.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

People of the District of Columbia
are accused of loving dogs better than
man, woman or child. Perhaps they
can set up the claim that they do not
love man, woman and child less, but
dogs more.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

After prolonged cheering by the
banqueters the slogan was taken up
by nearly all present" Attentive wait.
ers had been around and filed up all
the slogans.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Young John D. Rockefeller says no
man can fool his conscience. This no
doubt is the truth, but the trouble is
that some men have consciences
which wouldn't be worth fooling even
If 1t could be done.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The way to cure pneumonia Is to
have cough and refrain from bath
ing, according to DR.. ]. Dill Robertson,
whose Indian name would be The
Man-Afraid-of-Water Some may
fancy that the cure is worse tn n the
disease.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The author OF Mrs. wigs" has
bought herself a $4,000 home in
Louisville. That's rather modest. But
perhaps the report that the lady's roy
aities have amounted to 100000 are
slightly exaggerated.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

A Connecticut man has lost for.
tune on technicality. The only way
in which he can get even is to go into
the bribing and grating business and
then get off on another technicality.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

What worries some of the other
powers now is the question whether II
the Japs win this war there will be
any living with them on that side OF
the globe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

AS another sign of stable financial
conditions please note the enthusiasm
with which each insurance company
since the Baltimore fire has risen to
shout, Never touched me!'
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

A gastronomic expert says there
are those who eat pour passer lie
temps" Odd, isn't it, that some of
the high-toned restaurants have over
looked this dish?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Nobody dares say Look pleasant"
to royal personages when they have
their photographs taken; at least,
nobody could have said it to the mi
kado.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

A writer in Harper's Weekly asks:
docs civilization shorten life?" What
can we do about it, even if it does?
We all want to be civilized. don't
wef
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The new Baltimore doubtless will
have an additional monument, to
mark the spot where the fire started.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Bertillon has discovered method
for making the dead lifelike. He will
be honored for inventing plan to
wake up some of the living.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The imports of foreign perfumes
into this country are said to be in
creasing by very large per cent.
Whew!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

When mans only salvation is a
woman, he is generally pretty far
gone on the road to destruction
Town Topics.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Chamberlain's son rises, as some
would say, when Chamberlain's sun
ss setting.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

This would seem 10 be about the
time for Kipling to tune up with
few polyglot stanzas of choice Anglo
Japanese.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Sad, isn't it, to reflect that the
translators of the st. James version
of the Bible were so lamentably shy
ON literary form"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Russia wants to borrow 100000
900. Most OF us would be satisfied
with loan of half that sum.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Radium punch and radium cock
tails have arrived. Now for the ra-
dunn scent cigar!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

A portrait of Marconi is to be en-
graved on one of new issue of Ital-
ian stamps.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

Henry Seton MeTiman" left a
fortune of $260,0O0 Another of those
poverty-stricken literary fellersl
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

The Russian admiral has cabled
home: I'VE have met the enemy and
they are peaches"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

spain might telegraph its sympa-
thy.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-04
Bishop Galloway on the Negro Question.

Birmingham, Ala, April 27.-The
seventh meeting of the Conference
for Education in the South convened
at Birmingham tonight. The first
session was devoted to hearing ad-
dresses. Col. T. G. Bush delivered
the address of welcome to the visi-
tors to Alabama in behalf of Gov.
Jelks, who is i'll in New Mexico.
President Robert @. Ogden, of New
7 York, responded. Mr.. Ogden de-
fined the object of the conference,
saying that the party did not come
to the South to advance theories,
but to learn of the educational con.
ditions existing here, especially in
Alabama.
Bishop Galloway, of Jackson,
Mississippi, also addressed the con-
ference. His address was the feature
OF the first session. He devoted his
entire time to discussion of the
negro question. He said that two
points in the negro question had
already been settled in the South.
First, they would never be equal So
cially. Second, they will always be
educated separately and in different
buildings. This was applauded by
both whites and negroes in the audi
ence.
The Jefferson theatre, where the
session was held, was crowded to it's
utmost capacity. Much enthusiasm
was manifested. The conference
will be in session until Thursday
night, when President Ogden's party
will leave for New York.