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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
Triumph Of Nerve

when was a young man in the
business" said Mr.. G. S. Whitson,
vice president of the National City
bank, 81 knew chap who was sort
of promoter-before-h is-time, That is,
If he had lived to-day he would have
been exploiting industrial combina-
tions. AS it was he did the best he
could in the small way his opportuni-
ties offered, and had plenty of money
sometimes and none at all at others.
HE was great fellow to talk i'm
pressively of his resources and his
standing at the bank-my bank. He
did have an account there, and Twas
very careful to see it was not over
drawn. One day he went to a simple
minded fellow who kept a grocery
store and got him to cash a check for
$50.
"The grocer sent his check to the
bank. The chap who made it didn't
have a dollar to his credit, so l
promptly sent the check back to the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

and Calcolm one man has found land
with wells on it, and is planting a vine.
yard and garden there. People come
scores of miles to gaze at his growing
bushes. Vegetables are dear.
The sixpenny novel and magazine
fetch a shilling apiece here. The price
OF an ordinary London penny weekly
is threepence. A neighbor of mine
bought a good English bicycle. 1t
would have cost him probably sixteen
guineas at home; here he paid e32
los.
The great bush around us, stretch
ing into infnity, until it looks from the
hilltops a great sea of green in
fluences all our lives and thoughts
Prospectors are continually passing
through our streets. The camel band
walking slowly past the hotel tonight
may in month find death or fortune
in the unknown beyond. Every mother
warns her children continually that
they must never stray in the woods
and back her warnings by dreadful
tales, all, too true. Now and then
tribes of aborigines make their way
in from the bush, begging for food.
There is little or no fear of violence
from them. Ugly, horrible, pitiful. the
most wretched and debased Of all peo-
pies, no thoughtful white can gaze at
them without mixed emotion of re.
pulsicn and remorse-repulsion at
their unattractiveness, remorse at the
thought of what civilization has
brought them to.
The desert lies beyond-desert OF
spinifex and sand, oil the hard patchy
grass that cut horses hoofs and makes
progress almost impossible, of sand
that parches and drives to desperation
those caught in its embraces. It Is
desert without shelter and without
water. And yet there are men here
who will repeat the bravest journeys
of the great explorers of history. and
say nothing of them. One lime-kiln
owner, for instance, went right across
the desert to Broken Hill in a light
cart, accompanied by one black track
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
C0aE&GSA21z2EZNcEJ

Nine years since Mount Morgans
was an unknown waste in the Aus
tralian desert The nearest town of
any size was weeks away, and the
journey full of peril. None set out on
1t without long preparation, and of
those who started, taking stars and
compass as their guide, the bone. of
several lie still in the bush around.
Tonight | go up to my room from
the regular five-course hotel dinner
and switch on the electric light to
write this article. It is hard to realize
that, even now. one is on the very out
skirts of civilization. We have luxury
untold; abundant water, both for wash
ing and drinking The furniture of the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

grocer marked N. G.. in big, blacl,
letters.
THE grocer knew dimly that his.
check hadn't been paid, and he waited
for the promoter Finally he came.
strutting along, a few days later.
Here, you! shouted the grocer L
want to see you. The bank sent back
that check l cashed for you
THE grocer produced the check
The promoter looked it over careful.
ly. He observed the big black N. q,
| had scrawled on it,
Why, my dear sir he said
reaching down in his pocket, pulling
up big roll of bills and handing $40
In cash to the grocer, allow me 10
supply the deficiency. see the din.
Guilty. All my checks are payable in
gold. 1t is evident the bank had NO
gold on hand when you presented the
check, for they marked ii IN q "
which means mo Gold" Pleasant
weather we're having, isn't it? Good
morning. New York World.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

each winch mas rendered It imprac-
ticable. The latest invention of the
kind is here shown. The bicycle mo-
tive principle has been applied to the
new screw propeller, and the inventor
asserts he can travel eighteen miles an
hour. This contrivance literally screws
itself through the water, the entire
body turning with the sprocket and
chain mechanism. Metal arms extend
beneath the water on either side
which enable the operator to remain
in a perpendicular position.-New
York Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

art marts of the old world and puz-
zling their ingenuity to ascertain
where it had gone. New York is now
its permanent home, thanks to the
testamentary munifcence of the late
Jacob Rogers, the locomotive builder,
and to the acumen Of President
Rhinelander of the Metropolitan mu.
scum and his advisers.
The chariot is one of the real treas
ures of the museum, and as one of
the comparatively few remains in
which the art genius of the Etruscans
found expression it is likely to be-
come an object of study to archeolo-
gists which will bring European stu
dents of Greek art more than ever to
New York in their efforts to trace
the civilization which gave the bigs
being.-New York Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Long since they FASTENED on athirst for
In far-off mines and streets they toll
and plod
While here unchanged the guardian for
ests hold
Eternal riches from the stores OF God
Silver and gold the mountain gives no
more;
Such as it has, it gives, unasked un-
bought.
Infinite wealth passed by Of men before.
Mad for the petty baubles which they
sought.
Nor hands Of greed shall Gluten the treas
ures stored.
Nor foot Of pride come near to wreak
mans viii
On these, the treasure chambers OF the
Locl,ed in the Businesses of sky and
hill.
The pure IN heart shall see them. Those
Unto thc hills their eyes shah find
again
Healing for soul and body. ~ra ,fous shrift
From the old burdens Of lies soil and
stain.
Infinite wealth of beauty. boundless store
OF fragrant gifts outreachcd from tree
and sod.
So shah the fading roadway be once
more
A road of treasure leading up to God
Youths Cumpaninn
!, . =
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
Reason strannelv Restnred

Charles E. Libby of Scarboro, Me-,
who five months ago, lost his reason,
and wandered through the woods in
demented condition, has now been
restored to reason in a peculiar man,
ner. A pile of wood fell upon him,
INJECTING a severe wound on his head,
and causing the blood clot which had
formed on his brain because of a fall
sustained five months previous, to pass
away. He is now once more in pos
session o. his mental faculties.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
No Poetry in It For Him.

A snowflake on a window sill
TO him was just n snowflake. Stil
Why blame him If his soul was not
Filled up with ecstacy by what
Might once have been a maiden's tear2
To him the wintry days were drear,
He longed for sunny climes and fair;
He hated icy blasts; the air
That bit his ears and nipped his nose
Meier plunged him In ecstatic throes,
The flake that tumbles from above
May be a tear once shed for love.
But when 1t lodges on the sill
He views II as a snowflake still
And doesn't care tinkers durn
How soon to water 1t may turn.
IS. Il. Kiser.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
statlon,s Good Rennrd

Last year the Plymouth egg collect
ing station gave the best returns Of
any of the three fish hatcheries main
tanned by the government on the New
England coast, the receipts there be-
ing more than both the others to
gether.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
Russian Rarharltv.

The captain Of the Russian cruiser
Aurora, while at Spezzia, Italy, recent
ly, asked the local authorities for per-
mission to execute within the harbor 9
seaman who had been found guilty of
striking a superior officer. The request
was refused, whereupon the cruiser
left the port, returning the next day.
1t has since been stated that the man
was executed on the high sea in cir.
cumstances of great barbarity, the
poor wretch being keel-hauled. He was
tied to cable, which was then passed
under the ships keel three times. It
was not until the third time that the
man was pronounced dead.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

A man who was supposed to be a
pauper died in Omaha the other day
with $4,000 concealed under the lin.
ings Of his clothes. He came just as
near as any one can come to taking It
with him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Tsi An. the doughty dowager en-
press OF China, is delighted with her
new automobile. and tue next time
that war brings foreign troops to the
city's walls she win be able to beat
the Chinese record out of Pekin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Although this is leap year miss,
you cannot ask him to sit up and
watch for the eclipse of the moon, for
there aren't going to be any eclipses
of the moon this year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Abe Hummel, the New York law.
yer, says that there are from 500 to
1000 women in his city who never
speak to their husbands, although
they live in the same houses with
them. This shortage of talk is made
up for by some wiaes who don't do
much else.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

The startling news comes that "out
OF 1000 convicts in the Ohio peniten-
tiary not one could repeat the ten com.
mandments." But, by the way can
you rattle off the entire ten yourself
without a stumble?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

A Columbus clergyman says the
source Of mans power is his ability
to keep a secret. We trust this is
not intended as a reflection upon the
women.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

II Gear Nicholas could have foreseen
that Poet Laureate Austin was going
to write a poem about him surely he
never would have let the situation
reach such a crisis.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Speaker Cannon complains that he
has been swindled by a book agent.
And the worst of it is that the agent
who came it over your Uncle Joe
wasn't a sweet maiden who was
bravely supporting an invalid mother.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

An irate Nova Scotia member OF
parliament announces his desire and
ability to thrash any citizen of the
United States. But did he ever see
our Mr. Jeffries in action?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

It's a satisfactory working arrange
ment where husband gives his wife
some judicious flattery and the wife
give her husband some judicious cook
cry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

The man who breathes through his
nose, keeps his feet dry, avoids drafts
and liquor, and observes ordinary
rules of hygiene has comparatively
little to fear from pneumonia.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

When the Russian battle ship Oslia-
bia meets the Japanese Shil1ishima in
deadly combat it will be troublesome
day for the proof readers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

If the author of Builders of the
Beautiful" is right in saying that the
body is the dramatization of the soul.
how unlovely a good many peoples
souls must be-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

1t is not to be wondered at that an
applicant for a marriage license did
not know his name Just at that
stage of the game a man is in that
frame of mind.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Is there anybody more exasperating
than the man who asks you for your
opinion about something and then
doesn't stop to listen to it?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Why should the London Times wish
its readers a happy new year and
then start in by publishing new
piece of verse by Alfred Austin?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
ART PRIZE IN NEW YORK.
Etruscan Relic Secured by the Metro
politan Museum.

PUIIAaT WUoEUTIIs
Visitors to the Metropolitan muse
UNI of art in Central Park, New York,
now have opportunity to see there a
work of ancient craftsmanship whose
like the traveller may seek in vain
among European museums. 1t is the
bronze biga, or eco-Etruscan two
horse chariot, dating at least from
the sixth century before the Christian
era, whose acquisition by the Metro
politan museum was first chronicled
in the Sun in August last, while the
correspondents in Europe were re-
cording its disappearance from the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

The London Lancet declares that
the plum pudding has no nutritive
value. Still, as a completely satisfy
ing and vacuum filling Wand there is
nothing like it,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

The extravaganza of a woman who
spends quarter for chocolate bon
bons makes the man who smokes So
cent cigars terrible pessimist.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

DIR. Parkhurst decries New Years
resolutions. Still, as balm for the
katzenjammer conscience they GER
tainly help some.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Canada talks of buying Greenland,
and thus wisely elects to do her ex-
banding along the line of least re-
sistance.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

The way for girl to have nice.
rosy complexion is for her to try to
climb fence and get caught with
half Of her on one side and half on
the other.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

And 1t is in the year 1904 that the
niece of the great Napoleon dies, so
easily is a century of history spanned.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
A Water Cycle.

Many inventors have taxed their in
genuity to produce a cycle which could
be navigated on water, but there has
been some flaw in the mechanism of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

What Russia is anxious to do is to
emigrate to warm country. She's too
big to pen up in her snowdrifts
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

The soaring price of wheat indi-
Gates that the dove Of peace is hav-
ing some difficulty in finding an olive
branch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

London had 2O5 rainy days last year.
No wonder the toper's black list failed
to keep the town dry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

If there is a wal, which are you go
Ing to bet on, Russia or JapaEY
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

Bradsreet's states that so per cent
of those who fail in business are those
who do not advertise. Enough said.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
TIME IS MONEY.
DON'T TAKE MINE UNLESS YOU:
/: CAN GIVE VALUE RECEIVED.


The business man propped this up
conspicuously against a bill file and
then said YEARLY to the Office boy:
Show him in"
A large, florid man entered.
"How are you, Simpson," he said,
cordially. Are you busy?"
Busy pretty much all the time"
Il calculated you would be, but
there was a little matter l wanted to
see you about. don't suppose I'd
have thought of it hardly but Tom
Dempsey BY the way, did you
know Tom was married? Yes; he
married some southern girl-a Miss
Avery. got bid to the wedding but
/ didn't go. Lampson went and he
says she's about as pretty a girl as he
ever met. Comes of one of those
heightened old families, you know.
They only got back from their honey
moon trip about three weeks ago.
But guess you didn't know him very
we'll"
What was this little matter he re-
minded you Off"
Bless your heart, he didn't remind
me OF it! That's a pretty good joke.
Ha, ha! No. was going to say that
Tom Dempsey and had been to lunch
together at the Tolferino and as it
was so close by thought I'd come up
and see you. l had it on my mind
some time"
What did you have on your mind?"
This matter I'm talking about.
thought possible I might see you at
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

clared. Scarcely were the words out
OF his mouth before the entire as
sembly rushed out toward the new
township.
The town sprang up. AS men grew
rich, tents gave way to weather-board-
ing. Mount Morgans grew, while the
neighboring town of Margarets de-
clined, Then the whole town of Mar
garets transferred itself to Morgans,
houses and all, for a weather-board
house can easily be removed on
wheels. A postoffce and inland rev.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08

There was a card on the business
mans desk. On it was printed in
large black type:
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
CONSUMPTION
II, SCHOOLS

DR.. S. A. Knopp, q high author
ity, outlined recently IN an ad-
dress before the American Acad-
envy of Medicine at Atlantic City
some of the means which ought
to be adopted by public school
officials and teachers to prevent
the spread of consumption among
pupils. The school building
should be on high point where
the air is good. There should be
connected with it either large
playground or a roof garden.
The rooms should be kept cool
and well ventilated. A gymnas-
ium every public school should
have, and, if practicable, a swim
ming tank, and regular exercise
should be observed against over
taxing boys and girls at the crit
ical period when they are verging
upon manhood and womanhood.
When the weather is good classes
should be heard frequently in the
open air. Pupils of every age
should sing a good deal. The
German army authorities have OF
late much encouraged singing
while marching as an effective
means of repelling pulmonary
troubles and raising the general
health and vigor of their troops.
Tuberculous children are remov-
ed from French, German, Italian,
and Dutch schools and placed in
public sanitariums, where they
are both treated and fed and DR..
Knopp advocates the adoption of
SINH" plan in this country.
In the ceH&,-s gear 1900 the
people WHO died 81 consumption
in the United S-,ites numbered
11OO59. more tian sore carried
off in the same year by appendi-
citis, railway accidents, diph-
liberia, grip, cancer and typhoid
combined. Any and all measures
which promise to check the NOR
tai ravages of the "great white
scourge' are worth trying almost
regardless of cost.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
IN SOCIETY.
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Mission Club.

Miss Carrie Devore pleasantly
entertained the Mission club OF
the Presbyterian church Monday
evening at her pleasant home at
Chestnut Grove. The occasion
was a very enjoyable one, the ev-
ening being spent in very pleas
ant and profitable manner. At a
seasonable hour refreshments
were served the guests. Those
present were: Rev. and Mrs. L.
A. Anderson, Mrs. Blanche Nc
Coach, Misses Shriver, Krug,
Swan, Gossling, Porter, Anderson,
Mccormick, Reitz, Russell, Bolce
and Porter.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
ADJUSTMENTS.
New York Symphony Orchestra.
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One of the star attractions
Manager Doyle secured for the
season on his recent trip East is
the Boys New York Symphony
Orchestra, which will appear at
the Auditorium in the very near
future. This organization is
composed of seventy members,
and its appearance here will
prove to be the greatest theatrical
treat ever given in this city.
This attraction has been secured
by the management Of the Pitts
burg exposition for weeks en-
gagement commencing September
&c, after which they will play a
week of one-night stands in the
larger cities before returning
East, and we are pleased to state
that Sistersville is included in
this list. This orchestra plays
anything from an entire Wagner
ian program to popular selections
of the day. The ability OF these
boy musicians was very much in
evidence during their engage
ment at Willow Grove Park,
Philadelphia, which closed three
weeks ago. They played twenty
eight distinct programs in two
weeks, not repeating a single one
during that time. The apprecia-
ton of this engagement should be
shown by a crowded house when
it appears at the Auditorium.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
Cookino Eeqs Without Fire.

Did any of YOU boys and girls
ever hear OF boiling an egg withou:
a fire? This sounds very funny
but it can be done. Here is the va
to do it:
With pin make hole at =.
ends of a raw egg and allow,a SIN
part of the white to run out. TAX,
the purcst alcohol and pour /.
through the holes YOU have made,
Close the two openings with a Ii. nc
wax and shake the egg thoroughly,
so that the alcohol will mix with
the contents left in the egg.
At the end of four minutes break
the shell, and your audience will be,
hold what looks for all the world
like hard boiled egg, and yet OF
handling il they viii find it cod.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
Appropriately Remembered.

Mrs. Frank Russell and little
daughter Hazel of Benton street,
left for independence, Kan, yes
terday afternoon where she will
Join Mr.. Russell, who has been
in that country for some time.
Mrs. Russell was a very popular
lady in church and fraternal Or
ders in this city. The M. E. Sab
bath-school attested their appre-
citation of her services as secre-
tary by presenting her with a
handsome Bible last Sabbath.
Superintendent Dorm did the
honors in few well-chosen
words. The Lady Maccabees sur
prised her at her own home with
a pleasant call, the usual fine
lunch and a pretty silver tray as
a memento of their love and past
association. The Ben-Hurs and
Degree Of Honor surprised her
Saturday evening to the number
of thirty. A pleasant evening
was spent and an elegant lunch
served, and the suitable gift of a
very handsome gold-mounted silk
umbrella presented by the ladies,
reminding her of their protecting
arm in times of life's unfailing
storms.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
Take your tax tickets and see

Take your tax tickets and see
what you paid last year. Place
a full valuation on your property,
figure the State tax at "a cents
instead of IS cents, and the
county and municipal tax the
same as it is now, and you will
find out what additional tax you
will be required to pay in 1905
unless a Democratic Legislature
reepals the law next January, be-
fore the first assessment is made
under the law requiring all prop
erty to be assessed at its full and
actual value.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
D. of R. Outing.

Yesterday the Daughters of Re-
becca and their guests spent a
very enjoyable day at Paden
Park in celebration of the 55th
anniversary of the order. Mrs. c.
E. Pyle and Misses Marshall and
Watts. visiting members from
Middlebourne, were present, and
New Martinsville was also repre-
sented.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
Will Receive.

esdames Harrington and
Sutherland will give a reception
on tomorrow afternoon to a num-
Der of their friends at the home
of their mother, Mrs. Edward
Roome, of North Main street.
The hours will be from 3 to g
o'clock.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-21
It Wouldn't Work.

II see the Russians are trying
to win by firing the Japs out. "
Eyes, | once knew a man who
thought he'd do that with a bull
dog that had secured a grip on
his leg. But he finally decided
that it would only be wasting
time"