The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-07

We have installed a now
mailing machine.
-Childrens' Day will be OBJ
served in Challis next Sunday.
Memorial Day was observed
in an appropriate and fitting
manner in Challis.
IF. e. Helsinger. who is own
er in a Stanley Basin ranch, was
in Challis last Saturday.
Miss Dora and Julia Jensen
have gone TO Loon creek to take
charge of the Lost Packer board
| ing house.
The Challis committees on a
4th of July celebration in this
city are rustling to make the af-
fair big success.
We have on sale at this Office
a few more copies of the popular
novel Realization of Hope" by
Mrs. Mary Rodgers. Price per
copy, S1.25.
Mrs. II. Nickerson and child
ren and Mrs. Al. West and daugh-
ter departed yesterday for visit
with their parents In the State
of Washington.
1t is reported that Fred, the
15-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dellen, of Custer, was drowned
on May Oath while attempting to
cross Middle Fork in q small
boat.
Ex-senator Heitfeld stands
a pretty good chance TO be the
next democratic nominee for GOV
ernor in Idaho. Latah, Idaho
NezPerce counties have instruct
ed for him.
Custer Encampment No. 10,
I. o. o. f., last Wednesday eve
ming elected the following named
officers for the ensuing term
G. P.-W. J. Bowen,
| H. Pm. NJ. Sweet,
! S. Wv. w. Adamson,
| J. W.-Geo. L. MCGOWAN.
Scribe-J. G. Finnell,
Treas. c. Dougherty.
| We realize that even in the
rocks that burn and iu almost
every form of life that we see,
the influence of sunshine is the
great influence to give life its
full value. Life is not sunshine,
but the growth of life is almost
totally dependent upon sunshine.
Look over your fields and out
into your woods and compare
them In your nliad with q little
while ago. What has brought
the marvel of glorious change !?
Life responsive to the heat of the
sun. The trees with their leav-
es and their flowers make the air
fragrant where q few weeks ago
there was simply a smell of cold
lin the nostrils. The silence of
the winter woods has been brok-
en- and the summer woods are
filled with sound. The insect
marvels that now ill the air were
q little while ago sleeping. They
were awakened by the heat of
the sun
| Human titles are of course
pleasing to us if any become at
tached to us through merit. II
is delightful to know that our
fellows estimate us so far beyond
the ordinary as to give US a
badge of distinction; but we musi
not let titles be our sole estimate
of q mans value to a community
or of the value that community
sets on q man. If a man is doing
as best he can the work that he
is best able to do, and doing it
without desire for praise simply
because it is his duty, there is no
nobler man-such q man is as
noble as any. no matter whether
he bears a title or not. Men may
give titles, but nature and d
mans own grace confer nobility.
1t is q narrow view on our part
to argue that the sons of the
great must be great, and that
the sons of the insignificant must
themselves be insignificant. That
is snobbishness. Nature is not
to be limited by any man made
decree, and the moulds for great
souls that she prepares, them
selves do not necessarily have a
long family record or any repu-
tation at all. Viewed in this way,
why are we to fret if we have
no title ? Truly in some cases
titles conferred by men seem
mere accidents of chance, but the
real nobility of nature which
makes a man do his duty as we'll
as he can, by all the powers that