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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20
Women Saved COrean King

The dress of the Korean women is
very quaint Long, voluminous white
cotton dresses reaching to the anle
show baggy trousers underneath.
which, ending in slippers with up
turned toes, give them somewhat the
appearance of Turkish women. Over
the head is thrown long cloak gener-
ally GREEN fastened under the neck,
the sleeves through which the arms
are never passed. hanging down over
the shoulders. BY this cloak hangs a
tale, historical and interesting.
Once upon a time king Of Korea
invited the officers of his army to a
banquet in the palace at Seoul. in
complete ignorance that a military
conspiracy, aimed at his throne and
life, was afoot. The conspirators. who
were among the guests, resolved to
seize their opportunity to murder the
king during the progress of the ban
quet On entering the palace the Of
fcers deposited their large military
cloaks in an ante-chamber and took
their places in the hall where the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20
GIVING Medicine 70 = sick Tlaer.

In this particular zoo is very
beautiful tiger, said to be the largest
one in captivity. But if he would
only move about as if he felt at home.
and not be so dignified, we should be
better pleased with him; yet the
poor creature is excusable, because
he has dyspepsia, and his sufferings
make him cross.
One day the keeper decided to adj
minister a dose of medicine, so with
the bottle and whip he climbed to
the top of the cage. Was that tiger
cross? You would have thought so
If ~ou had seen him throw back his
great head and snap at the whip
The keeper, after engaging him.
poured little medicine down the
lash, which he gradually withdrew.
until in its place there was a tiny
medicinal stream, at which the tiger
kept biting and swapping, too much
surprised, it seemed, to distinguish
between whip and liquid. When he
turned away his head the medicine
was poured over his paws, and when
he had licked them clean that days
treatment was completed.-St Mich.
olas.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

presents its cold front to the world.
while the small shop in which Capt.
Cutie minded the mariners instru-
ments for the absent Sol ellis has
had to make way for modern office
building.
Mansfield street, Cavendish square.
where Mr.. Dombey dwelt, in severe
but gilded responsibility, still re-
mains, tall, dark and dreadfully gem
teel. Scarcely any change has been
made in this locality and the same
may be said of Wigmore street, close
at hand, where Nine. Mantalini ad-
vertised her business to the nobility
and gentry by the casual exhibition.
near the handsomely curtained win
dows, Of two or three elegant bonnets
of the newest fashion and some cost
ly garments in the most approved
taste.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Scattering sunshine, sorrow. pleasure,
Letters drift like timorous Dirds'
Bringing suicide. death or treasure
Comfort, healing, girlish WORDS.
Like snowiiakes fiuttering to bleak places
True lovers VOWS that never ran
Fond boyish hopes, shy beauties faces
The burden Of the y. s. Mail.
The Mail Is the pulse OF the nation,
And gauges the state Of the times,
And measures Trades fierce emulation,
When Commerce grows big or declines
And Christmas comes on and It's snow
with Santa Claus sleigh in the air,
Coyne's clerks all their schemes are
1t Would drive all the subs" to de-
spair.
Hurry up. New York Is waiting,
The Denver Overland is due,
Here's the bill o'lading stating.
Ihat me night set shoVes mem
Lock the Windsor pouch and station,
Chuck the San Fran" DER the rail,
While big. sprawling Yankee nation,
Waits eXpectant for the mail
Loosen up there. Rough and Ready.
Jerk those pouches through the door.
Cluster round there strong and steady,
Twist those chunks along the floor.
Jiggers. Ed McGrew is calling,
Clear the decks and start anew,
While ten tons of mail are falling:
Rondy, we will shove her through.
Then the pouch rooms all commotlon,
Fraught with keen and lusty life,
Tons of mail surge like the ocean,
Swapping all in stubborn strife
Look alive there quit your dreaming.
Rouse up from your studious trance,
Keep your eye on Rondy teaming
Jiggers, quit your song and dance!"
REFRAIN BY THE NIGHTWATCH.
You are young and your life's work be-
ginning,
You are keen for the joy Of the fight.
You are eager for striving and winning,
You exult in the pride OF your might.
A word in your ear ere you wander,
To plunge i'm the thick of the fray,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

a lot of natives and the r
capture of Aguinaldo, and Is
before, we were lying in The o
awaiting the word to advance
Just a few feet from me ',
Tracy, a Montana boy, and 4
Of health, life and courage.
been talking of the coming Cd
the desire seized me to smoke
plenty of loose. tobacco, bu
per. Give me a cigarette
Jack | said.
Sure, said he, at the SCI
rising to his knees and reza
side his coat where he keE
This action exposed his heat
the trench and just as he ]
forward to hand me the "a
gave a faint groan and fell
on his face. thought he VI
ing at first. but he lay so stl
c-awled over TO see what '
matter. He was stone dead
pino bullet having struck biz
back of the neck. seyering tii
cord. Since then don't 9
relish the sight of a cigarette
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20
A Post Office Poem

Have "a, a care ere your trcasur. !.
And waste all your gifts h.
Don't you hear the team,,,
''Jtggers, Rufus. where !, "
Look alive the night Is IN Z
The engines pulling ON tbst
We must get the mail Coma
We must shove her thrni,sf -
Girls love letters are ev,.s,,
Sweet as ripping. roglilsb
VOICE FROM THE Por-cp
I'VE are jOllying the game ~ y
strenuous day.
Pull yourselves together
the right OF way. 'fi
Hustling heavy mail sacks
pouch room floor. 80
Wrestling with the "Ovaris,a.
inside the door.
Graphing with big bulRipq ~.
Frankfort on the Srree 90
Smelling of salt ocean brine a.
Of the sea. w
Roasting all the fresh vouny
they sojer along. ~
Tuning up the old night tn,.
some rousing song
Yes, old Santa Claus on a..
has swamped as righf
Throwing mail from dewy ~.
OF mail at night
Each one gets his Christmas -.
ed In ripping rhyme. -
The postal clerk gets MS IA ~,
ling all the time. ~
We are iCllying the zane all.
the star-strewn night.
Connecting every scrap Of ~
dawns upon our sight
Sweet and low across the s1ou .
deers swiftly glide.
VIII the crooks hold IAN r,,,
Claus this Joyous Cn1s.r.s.
We hear the sleigh bells ~,
their mellow tinkling cbirs 4
The Christmas tree. the bOyia
rings like silEery rhyme
Shy, piquant girls with wind 81
beneath the mistletGe.
With fawn-like grace and rosa
and lustrous eyes aglov
But the boys behind the No..
connecting all the mail
They have no time for pleasU,,
ing stations on the rail
JAMES T. KIM
Registry Division, Chicago Z. ..
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

When Gas Was Sold in eIadders.

The death occurred yesterday at
Blackburn of Mr.. John Lund, the old
est magistrate, an ex-mayor of the
borough and for over fifty years a
leading member of the Conservative
party. The deceased gentleman, who
was eighty years of age, claimed that
his father was the first cotton manu-
facturer in Lancashire to illuminate
his mills with coal gas, which was
brought in large bladders from Man.
chester years before the. local gas
works was established in 1S1s.-Lon.
don Telegraph.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

feast. was spread, waiting otl
nal to fall on and STAY Their 4
But a number of the Ee.'
Seoul had become acQuainiSI
the conspiracy. Loyal 10 me-
arch and unable to warn hin I
they went in a body TO the paE
gained admittance into utl
chamber. SEEKING the Officer
they entered the banquetins y
observed; some. stealing noS
up behind the officers as thei
the feast, flung the cloaks ow,
heads and pinioned them in =,
while others ran to the pe
king, hurriedly warned hin
plot, and spirited him sais'
before the bahled cOnspira'on
release themselves from the
their brave captors. In toSs,
gratitude to his loyal lena,
jects, the king decreed that
the Korean women should "
military cloak thrown Owe
heads as a mark of houor'-.'i
serly in Macmillan's Maga1llsI
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Finnish people, seventeen divisions.
Jews.
Tartar peoples, nine divisions.
Mongols, ten divisions, including the
Anus or Hairy Kuriles," and all
other people of oriental blood in ST.
IBERIA and in the Pacific provinces.
Based on the last general census of
the empire, the present estimated nu-
merical strength of the principal di-
visions of population is as follows:
Slavonic people, including the Poles,
Servians and Bulgarians, 90,000000;
Tartars, including the Usbegs and
eight other divisions, 10000,000; eau
casian races, 7,000,0O0 Turkestan and
Caspian people, 100000; Jews,
100000; Roumanians, including the
Karakalpak and Serbs, 100000;
Lesghi, 'Georgians and Ossentinians,
100000; Armenians and other Iran
ian races, 100000; Germans, 1,300,-
600; Mongolians, including the Anus,
or Hairy Kuriles," and all other peo-
pie of oriental blood, 100000;
Swedes, 100000; Gypsies, Persians,
Kurds and -Sarts, 10000; Samoyedes,
10000; all other races, about 100000.
In 1899, before Russia had advanced
to occupy Mongolia and Manchuria,
Vladimir Holstrem of the st. Peters
burg Viedomosti wrote the follow
ing for the New York Independent:
The great car of Moscow, Ivan
the Terrible, who nearly $50 years
before Peter the Great had sketched
out for that Russian reformer his plan
of action, fought Sweden and Poland
in the west and subdued the Tartar
kingdoms of Kazan and Astrakhan in
the east. The name of Russia rang
throughout the whole of Asia, and her
chief princes and the khan of Siberia
voluntarily acknowledge the suprem-
acy of Russia, sending ambassadors
to Moscow and paying tribute to the
czar.
After the conquest of the Tartar
kingdom of Kazan. in 1852, the suprem-
acy of Russia was acknowledged by
the numerous tribes of Bashkirs dwell
ling eastward of the Volga and form
ing q link with the tribes toward the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE {
Many Races Speaking Different Languages Ackno"'-
edge the Sovereignty of the Great White Czar


in 1854. The Strengthening of the
southern boundary of Siberia, the TAX
ing of Irkutsk, the building of Merit
chinsk and attempts at establishing
direct communication between central
Siberia and the far east by way of
the Amur and the Shilka soon fol
lowed.
THE work of subduing the Russian
Kirghiz in central Asia, the Kalmuck
and the Mongol tribes lasted until
although the once-powerful Kingdoms
and empires of the Asiatic continent
were completely broken up, yet con
slant strife with various tribes of the
steppes continued through the sew
enteenth, eighteenth and well on into
the nineteenth century, the KAYAKS
giving more trouble. These KAYAKS
are of Turkic mot OsmanlD origin
and are nearly related to the Cos
sacks on the one hand and the Rus
sian Kirghiz tribes on the other.
Their power was finally broken
when in the second half of the pres
ent century the Russians subdued
Turkestan, conquered the Khanate of
Khiva, took Tashkent and Samark-
and and brought under their sway the
khanates of Bokhara and Kokan,
thereby rounding out their posses
sions in central Asia.
There was no special plan adopt
ed for this wonderful progress
through two continents. 1t developed
itself under the pressure Of circum.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Aral sea. Russias possession Of west.
ern Siberia was assured to her in less
than half a century, In the same
wonderful way FRussials progress
across Siberia to the very shores of
the Pacific was accomplished in little
more than so years. $500 .,f
About 1904 Russia entered into a
mutually binding agreement with a
powerful Mongolian khan of southern
Siberia to keep open access to China
Soon afterward, in 1919, the emperor
OF China sent his first embassy tn
Russia, In, 1858 tea was first intro.
duced into Europe I'm this matter
Russia was before England). During
the next twenty years all the regions
to the north and northwest of Siberia
all it's northern river system and the
Arctic coast were explored.
"A Cossacls expedition, 7so strong
dispatched from Yakutsk, reached the
river Amur. and following Its course
discovered, in l643. the straits of Tar.
,tary and the sea of Okhotsk Nov
the whole of Siberia was in Russia .
hands, everywhere ION the prineinaI
rivers up to the Arctic circle and be.
You'd y, and the natives acknowledgement
Russian supremacy and paid tribute.
= "Arg adventurous trader from Va.
kutsS conceived the idea of opening
for Russia the region about the Amur
and the Saiilka rivers. and gathering
ogether 9 rclac etns of $50 mem with
TWO cannons, accomplished in some
TWO years the task. This took place
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20
Snow Amid the Roses

gers, and others, who had Id
been told about it, feared "
hands would be frozen oy Ii
contact with it The eApe Ii
stage was soon past, howe
then the fun was fast aind iasi
was such ecstasy as Eastern
know, with the zest of novelu
it. For a brief time the SEN,
tions and the prophecies ms
between teachers and pup
thrown to the winds. as y
none so high or so low ina, i
ball might not batter him wy
expected. The white missiles L,
through bushes laden WIN
clipped the stately Gala ~ =
their stems as a knife ms
done. y
1t was touch of winter ny. !,
into a garden of bloom ShS
and, an. but the boys, big - -
enjoyed 1t. For all Of when \, I 4
erence might be done to u, e
Hamilton stage driver-ne (.
forgotten that he was onoe
Sunset Magazine,
~-~~~S~S~~~~-~~~-@4~~~~~NJ~~~>' K
farm of Mr.. William Robins
iady's Farm, Altcar ERsla y
ing all that period he hau
one room and on the ons
several occasions he had " -
for longest living in farm
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20
-DlckeNs LANE" FAST CONC,

Spots lmmortalized by NoVelists
Make Way for improvements.
The past nine months Of public
improvement have wiped out half OF
what remained of Dickens Land" in
London The few remaining houses
and haunts immortalized by his
genius are now threatened with de
struction. Characteristic enough the
place in which Dickens placed his
rich and prosperous characters for
the most part remain, while the re-
sorts in which he pictured the abode
OF the poor and humble have been de-
stroyed Mr.. Dombey's house still
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20
Rare Medal Found.

Harold Reed, of Dummerston, Vt,
recently dug up a medal or coin that
was made for a memento of the battle
of New Orleans, fought Jan. s, 1916.
On the diverse side of a relief portrait
OF Andrew Jackson, encircled by his
name. On the reverse is a distinct
picture OF the battle fought by Gen.
Jackson encircled by the words, bat.
tie of New Orleans"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

A movement has been started in
New York to reduce the 400" to 200
If it could be reduced to about one
and that one were given twenty min
utes in which to leave town New
York might look forward with re-
newed hope. r
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

The scientific statement that cobra
poison is sure cure for certain dis
eases is easily credible. The man
who keeps a few cobras around the
house viii never need any more med.
icine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Something Of the range OF modern
rife fire is impressed on the reader
by the dispatch that the Russians
and Japanese are now four miles
apart and that there is a constant in.
terchange of shot!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

A Frenchman claims that he viii
soon be able to raise strawberries as
big as pumpkins, When this comes
to pass, how will they be able to keep
the bottom of the box up where we
are accustomed to find It?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Harry Lehr it is stated, is down
with brain flag, Thinking up that
latest Tuxedo coat and red necktie
stunt was too much for Harry's egg.
shell brain hpx.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

It's about as much trouble to make
up your mind where to go on your
vacation after you've decided to go
somewhere as Il is to determine
where to invest your money after
you've got Il Unremitting toll and
poverty have their compensations.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

If the Doukhobors will have an
other pilgrimage. 1t is good thing 1t
has begun so early In the season,
owing to their peculiar notions of the
proper costumes for these jaunts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

A fire panic was averted in New
York the other night by the playing
OF die Wacht am Rhein." How in
the world did It happen that it wasn't
"Bedelia"?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

r. w. Glider is the first American
poet to be operated on for appended.
It's. But he has regular income
aside from what he gets out of his
poetry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Alaska is now shipping Goldfish to
Boston, which encourages the belief
that the coal trust may yet work
up a little trade with Newcastle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

The individual sense of honor
which leads to duels is not partic-
ularly falser than the national sense
of honor which leads to wars-Puck
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Russia is threatened with failure
of its crops. If there is any special
kind of trouble that has overlooked
Russia 1t viii probably be around
later.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

The Indiana scientist who says he
has produced chemically either a gnat
or a flea, he doesn't know which,
should try 1t on the dog.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Ine Princess Chimay vows that she
hates this country and will never re-.
turn to It. Unfortunately. however,
May Yohe is making no such promise.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Any prominent politician who hasn't
already made up an electoral vote
table Of his own is away behind the
times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

after SerYi a II s
and Bulgarians.
Lithuanians and
Lettonians.
Wallachians( of.
the Latin race).
Four groups of
lranian peoples,
namely, Armen-
ians, Kurds, Per-
SLAMS and essen
tinians.
Indo European
peoples, namely,
Greeks, gypsies,
Swedes, Germans.
G a Il C a S i a n S,
namely, Georgians,
Lesghi, Kistis and
Tcherkess.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

The Russian empire has popula-
ton of 100000, embracing forty dis
tinct races, speaking more than 100
languages and dialects.
The main divisions of the people
may be grouped as follows:
Slavonic--the people of Russia
proper and the Poles. There are five
territorial divisions among the Rus
sian people Gncluding the Cossacks)
and two grouped with the Poles, the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Those Russian ships have kicked up
more trouble in the Red sea than that
body OF water has seen since the days
of Moses.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

One Of the most remarkable things
about this war is the way Rudyard
Kipling has managed to avoid viola
ton of neutrality.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

why should women be old?" asks
Mrs. John A. Logan. AS yet we have
noticed no experienced persons step
ping forward to tell.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Physicians are now recommending
the childhood game of skipping as
road to health. Defaulters of all
sorts have found 1t SO.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Some cheerful scientist announces
that mosquitoes hibernate like bears
in the winter What good does that
do now?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

o'aPe NHe F1ss 1roWn Large.
There Is grape vine on the Eras-'
tus Peck farm in New Haven, VT.
said to be 80 years, old, that is $50
feet-lonS and 20 Inches iR.eipcamfer..
ence at the base.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Even with dumb BARRIERS there will
be more or less chin with every
shave.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Bombardment of an Englishmans
residence near Tangiers reminds us
that the open season for Anglo-Saxons
in Morocco is under full way.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Between the narsons of Pennsyl-
vania and the peasants of Polling the
Goelets are not having much of a
honeymoon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Graft has been discovered in the
New York sprinkling contract. Get
on to the water wagon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

stances and the influence of that best
of guides-instinct. Cossacks, traders
and settlers spread over the plains of
Siberia and the steppes of central
Asia by way of that river system
which is Siberia's greatest opportu-
nifty and her best chance for the at
tainment of a wonderful degree of
prosperity. The ultimate object of
this expansion was that Russia was
always seeking for an outlet to the
open sea.
During these hundred years Rus
STA has devoted herself to developing
the ineXhaustible natural wealth of
Siberia, but as yet with no great sue
cess, comparatively speaking. We are
now in possession of great empire
which extends from the Ural noun
tains to the far East and covers an
area of nearly $4,000 square miles,
/. e., about forty-four times as large
as Great Britain and Ireland. But it
must be borne in mind that these fig
ures are merely approximate. The
population of Siberia includes many
thousands of Catholics, Protestants
and Jews, and a greater number still
OF Mahometans and heathens.
'Russia's Asiatic possessions have a
splendid future before them. The
country is well known to abound in
mineral wealth. In the old days of
undeveloped communications and
primitive state of industry the trade
of Siberia with Russia amounted to
some $6O,OOO,OOO to $7O,OOOOOO annu-
ally.
Practically, all the towns of ST.
IBERIA are trading centers, but, after
Fladivostok and Irkutsk, this is. ,espe- ]
cially the case, in western Siberia. It
is only now that thanks to the rail-
way, Siberia lis coming into close ma
terial conduct with European Russia.
The natives, numbering nearly 2,OOO.-
600, the Russians, Poles, Firms and
Germans enjoy the advantages of mu-
seums, schools and theaters built for
their instructions Tomsk prides itself
on its university. In short, Siberia
q E..I1
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Raisul is giving some limitations
OF determination on his part to be-
come the Mud Mullah of Morocco.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

A doctor has died Of the drug-tak'
ing habit Most doctors have 1t in
the giving form.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

Holland. the submarine-boat man
who win build an air ship, probably
made a study OF the flying fish.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-09-20

The Hindu hypnotist who succeed
ed in putting Chicago man to sleep
is the real stuff.