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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-26

Uncle josh.
Yes I went L taOEn to her N
pitcher took / didn't care nuthtns
about ii m'self but wife seq. Land
sakes. Jonathan. what Il ye should
die OF suGdint Ike an Eothius fer tn
boys Z remember ye by, an seq.
Well, III be gol dzrned ef tn boys
has got To have n Photograph fer to
keep n nem'ry fresh an green
guess il won't make much differences
arter tn novelty Of the pitcher wears
OFF,
But wife. she's lest IKE an ii.
wimmin' folks when onct they git sot
on anything. 50 dressed up IT I, XIII
Hadn't had on a billed shirt fer six
years that bein' when run fer school
director Tn paper collar BIZ
that's my boyl loaned ne didn't ride
sidesaddle very good, but we tied er
daown with Z red an yeIIer necktfs
NY wife had fer a scarf when she was
young critter. an OF we vent Z tn
Photographers, my Sunday boots max
in me mis'abIe an that thar dummed
collar chokin' III seeds Outen my
Adams apple
We'll. sir, ne got there. and the
Photographer was Z hum
-Four dollars fer a dozen and three
dollars fer half seq he begin to
back out. but Bfirizr she got tween
me an tn door and argued
Art aIlus does come high she
soy zhc.ofrt no h.a1r- s-%,- 49, -
grafter's tsntacles,
Well bum-by they got me ready
fer 'settin' and tn photygrzfter he
smOothed my weddin' suit about tn
shoulders and sex I look right about
here on the dOOr-iamb, an then he
put III back O. my head in a vice
and SEE to keep cool and look nat'raL
Then he pressed one O. them there
injia-rubber balls in his hand and
Click went tn dumb thing an
jumped up. smiIin' an triumphant,
Never hurt Bit SEE I. Iaughfn',
and he sez:
Wait. ain't took it YETI and sot
ne down agfn an put me in tn iron
vice and got behind q buggy robe.
machine cover. er somethin' Ike that
and turned tn darned thing around,
pintin' right at me-
Mr.. Photographer I ser. re don't
kalkilate it'll break tn glass. do yer
An I haw-haWed right out
He didn't pay no 'tention to me.
but all to Onct ne grabbed hold of III
handle OF tn cannon-thfng an started
right down tn room towards me-
could see III muzzle pintfn' right at
my heart. an with one bIoOd-curdIin'
whOop. I up an jumped.
re see I'd been SHOT at in tn bat
tie o Gutenberg. an l want takin'
no chances on having tn thing repeat
ed in times O. peace-but. anyhow,
when jumped that dummed vice
on tn back o. ny head hung on Ike a
puppy I q root and in less than q
mint We was all down on the floor
photographer. pitcher-maehine. seen
cry an mean them there clamps a.
hsngin' on fer dear life
Wei. I make a long story short.
finally got loose and cIumb through
tn side window into tn alley an cut
fer huml
An I reckon that them kin git shot
that wants to- Anyhow. fer me. I'd
ruthsr be a forgotten father than o
dead photygraftI~
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-26

Gated story that the garrison at Fort
kearney actually fired their canon at
an immense herd once to prevent
them taking the fort in rush. Many
officers and cavalrymen who were
stationed on the frontier years ago
tell of travelling for month at time
and never being out of sight OF their
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-26

When bees remain close In the
hive shoe the little chickens into the
hen house-it's going to rain. In sum
mer when the sun burns more than
usual. predict thundershowers and
make yourself solid as prognosti-
Gator. This reminds US Of a clever
old fellow who lived in city divided
by river He invariably predicted
rain for one side and fair weather
for the other. Then he visited the
side where he had hit il. and looked
wise This IS scheme which our
more metropolitan weather guessers
seem to have entirely overlooked
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-07-26
THE FAMILY GOLFER
GnIlath Anain-

Johnnie was playing David and Co
Hath. He was David and every stray
dog that CHANGED that way was Co
Hath.
~Of course this isn't Goliath at all. I"
he unused, sending a stone down the
alley after a kiyiing dos. but IN
meet the real thing one of these
dayst~
Crashi
The stone had struck the top OF the
alley fence and bounding. hurtled
through g plate glass window in
Browns conservatory
That night when father came home
and had to pay for the window. John
met Goliath all right, but the scrip
lures were dreadfully reversed. A
woodshed holds great revelations to
the average boy,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
co THE PAWN SHOP ROUTE.
Many Now in Comfortable Circum-
stances Have Been Com
PEELED to Travel It.

Have come to the conclusion that
most people have been hard up at some
time in their lives remarked the city
salesman, to a Chicago reporter. My
reason for thinking so is the post gradu-
ate course in pawn shop ethics that two
thirds of the people whom you meet
seem to have taken.
This pessimistic view of the financial
condition of mankind was forced upon
me several months ago. Since then |
have improved every opportunity to
sound men on the pawn shop question,
and in almost every instance the result
OF my probing has borne out my theory,
Only last night overheard converse
ton in the lobby of an uptown hotel
that demonstrates it to perfection.
There were ten men in the group
that did the talking. All are now in COM
Portable circumstances and some of
them were piling on airs with trowel,
but in spite of all their manners and evil
dences OF aff1uence every last one OF
them fell into the pawn shop trap and
gave it away that they had been worry
ing along at ebb tide before striking it
rich.
There wasn't big city in the coun-
try, from Portland to San Francisco,
whose prominent pawn shop was not
known to at least one man in the crowd.
In many cases they didn't know much
else about the towns mentioned; they
couldn't tell the name of the principal
hotel or the biggest bank or the SWEETEST
church, but they could spot the most
popular pawn shop every time.
This universal knowledge may, of
course, be mere coincident and may
not mean anything in particular, but to
my mind it is rather a significant fact
that in every group of ten men that you
meet there are at least half dozen that
are interstate pawn shop directories"
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Ancient Tasmanians.

When we read of the men who inhab-
tied the caves of Europe at time when
mammoths dwelt on that continent, we
seem to have gone back to Ieriod SO
UNNECESSARILY remote that we can hard
ly picture in the minds eye the appear
ance which the representatives of our
race then presented. Yet, according to
Prof. E. B. Tylor, the natives OF Tas-
mania remained within the present
century representatives of the immense
ly ancient Paleolithic period" Recent
studies of the relics of the Tasmanians
who became extinct when brought into
touch with modern civilized man, show
that the workmanship of their rude
implements was below that exhibited by
the drift and cave men" of Paleolithic
times.-Boston Budget.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
A LOVE LETTER.

Oh, des received letter fom de sweetest
little gal;
oh. my; oh, my.
She's my lovely little sweetheart an her
name is Sal;
Oh, my; oh, my.
She writes me dat she loves me an she
loves me true,
She wonders eff I'll tell huh dat loves huh,
too;
An my heaht's so full O. music dat do
know what to do:
oh. my: oh, my.
I got a man to read it an he read it fine;
Oh. my; oh, my.
Dey ain no use denying dat her love is
mine;
Oh. my; oh, my.
But heah's de ting dat's putin me in such
a awful plight.
I t'ink of huh at morndn' an dream Of huh
at night;
But hows gwine to cou't huh wen do
know how to write?
oh. my; oh, my.
My heaht is bubblin' ovah wild de things
want to say;
oh, my; oh, my.
An dey's lots o. folks to copy what tell
EN- fu' de pay:
Oh, my; oh, my.
But dey's things dat Use a-t'inkin' dat is
only fun huh ears,
An couldn't lu'n to write 'em eff took a
dozen years;
So to go down daih an tell huh is de only
way, it pears:
Oh, my; oh, my.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. in Good House
keeping
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TO MAKE ALL MEN WE'D.
Unique Proposition Submitted to Re-
publican Convention by Worlds
Congress of Old Maids.

Before the republican convention at
Chicago concluded it's work it was
called upon to consider the plant that
had been made by half hundred old
maids recently assembled in conven-
ton in the Salem (Wis.) opera house.
Here is their sad and eloquent
plant epitomized:
There are, by many thousands, too
many unmarried men in the United
States; therefore, we, old maids as
sembled in worlds congress here,
deem it only right and just to demand
that the state Legislature disfranchise
all men who have reached the age of
Is years and are still unmarried"
This is the burden of one of a num-
Der of resolutions drawn up for pre-
sentation to the republican conven
ton.
AS a result of a call sent out sever
al weeks ago for a convention of the
old maids of the world. so single
ladies, ranging in ages from rs to
65, assembled on the platform at the
opera house.
About 200 letters of regrets were
read to the convention. A letter was
read from a matrimonial bureau
which is sending women to the Klon-
dixie.
Several delegates addressed the
meeting on the subject of equal rights
for men and women, and paid glow
ing tributes to Susan B. Anthony and
other women who had devoted their
lives to the advancement of woman's
rights.
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Circle q. and
Circle j.
BY J. c. PLUM NJ z p
Copyright. 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.,

u ETH HOPKINS, master of the bay
schooner Alert, stopped, meditative-
~, over two boxes on either side of him.
"The one on the left to Parson George
and the one on the right to Deacon
lobe" said he.
He dipped the brush into the pot and
was about to make some cabalistic fig
ures on the box lid when rasping shout
came down the companionway
Oars big tree master comm up de
dock, capting, an she'll scrouge US fob
sho"
Capt Hopkins placed the pot on the
floor, and, leaping on deck, by the prompt
use of tenders and profanity managed to
keep the sides of the Alert free from in
jury; then he returned to his task and
carefully marked circle G on the box to
the left and circle j on the one to the
right, entirely ObliVious of the fact that
when he arranged the boxes he faced aft
and that now he was facing forward.
81 ought to have been a sign painter"
exclaimed the skipper, gazing admiring-
ly at his handiwork.
When the Alert reached the landing
on the Manunky river, the skipper called
Pete, the deck hand, aft.
'HoW are these two boxes marked,
Peter" he asked.
"Carcle G an carcle J." replied Pete,
who could read.
Good; now borrow wheelbarrow
from the store and take the box marked
circle to Deacon Jobe's. Tell him
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.
System of Circulation Employed by
Political Bureaus of
the Cities.

'The watchword of the campaign
committee is publicity Mr.. Day AL
len Wiley writes, in an article on
Running the Campaign" in Pearson's.
''To get this it tries to catch both the
eye and the ear of every voter who is
not of it's party, but who may be in
fiuenced by the pen of the writer the
pencil of the cartoonist, or the tongue
of the orator This is why one of the
first steps is the creation of a bureau
to provide literature, and a bureau to
furnish speakers.
with the field of action plotted out,
the bureaus which are to enlighten the
masses as to the virtues of their side
and the sins of the other, get ready for
business. The press bureau organizes
with a chief, and enough assistants to
examine and edit the mass of copy re-
quired from the staff of writer's en-
ployed. Editorials, reviews, statisti-
cal articles, witty hits directed at the
opposing party, even poetry, form part
of the product of this literature fac
tory to be spread broadcast over the
COuuLIy VI IL pl AhCCO w LAO bu-
reau in leafet and pamphlet to be de-
livered directly to the voter, some of
it to reach him through the medium of
the newspaper.
Excluding the newspaper copy,
which each party furnishes on so very
liberal a scale, the press bureaus put
out material, ranging from pamphlets
oo4f 90
the carload 1t was not uncommon for
it to be shipped by freight from Chi
cago during the campaign of 1900"
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IN FEMININE FIELDS.

In Valparaiso all the conductors ON
trolley cars are women.
Club women in San Francisco are to
start a womans municipal league.
Miss Sarah Louise Gilman, of Hal
lowell, Me-. has just resigned as
school-teacher, after constant service
of So years, during which time she has
had as pupils some of the leading men
of the states history.
Though totally blind, Miss Della
Pittsford, of Selma, Ind, has practical
charge of a large Sunday school class
and of the choir of a leading church
In Selma. She also does considerable
literary work and Is a skillful type
writer.
The arrangement of the cascade
gardens and numerous other fine land
scape decorations at the worlds fair
was the work of Miss Ada A. Suffer-
meister trained landscape architect,
and for some years Mr.. Kessler's as
sistant.
Mrs. Mary J. Tillinghast has served
continuously as police matron for Ii
years in Providence, r. l. She is on
duty from $3.50 a. m. to $3.50 p. M,
when she IS relieved by the night
matron. During the past year over
1900 women and girls and over 1000
boys have come under her charge and
influence.
Three prominent English women
who are devoting themselves to the
science of astronomy are Lady Hug
gins, Miss Agnes M. Clarke and Mrs. e.
Walter Maunder. Lady Higgins is the
wife Of Sir William Higgins, and 1t Is
acknowledged that considerable OF his
success in spectroscope has been due
to her, his assistant.
Monroeville, O., has a woman bank
president in the person of Mrs. Annie
M Stem, who is a financier Of ability
and has managed her large private for
tune in manner that has multiplied
1t many times. Mrs. Stem was the
wife Of a former bank presluent of the
First national bank of Monroeville and
was recently chosen to fill the same Of
fee herself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21

apple grower and nurseryman of that
section of the country, and his long
experience in propagating finally pro-
duced the Ben Davis apple. There is
probably not another species of apple
that has received more merciless crit
icism or higher praise. Other apples
have better flavor, and some varieties
in certain localities are better pro-
ducers, but the Ben Davis is prolific
and sure producer, good keeper and
good shipper. The name of the man
who introduced this apple will be
Familiarity mentioned by coming gen
erations. In politics Mr.. Davis was a
democrat, and in the years 1812-14 he
represented his county in the Ken
lucky legislature At the outbreak of
the war he took a firm stand on the
side of the union. He reared large
family of children, and died in 1863
N. Y. Tribune-Farmer.
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SHIPPING FRUIT IN BOXES.
The Practice Is Good One and Should
Be Adopted by Fruit Growers
Everywhere.

The relative advantages of barrels
and boxes as packages for fruit were
given a very thorough discussion at the
recent meeting of the Western Horti-
cultural society. The advantages of
the boxes are chiefly, that they can be
made and obtained more easily and
cheaply, and that fancy fruit generally
sells for higher price in them as it can
be packed solid in nice even rows, like
oranges; also the export trade is accus-
toned to this kind of package, and it sells
more readily and for q higher price
abroad.
The principal disadvantage is that it
requires an expert packer to put in fruit
in this way. 1t is also true that there
is practically no opportunity to work in
uneven or poor fruit in a box. 1t de-
ponds on the point of view whether this
is to be classed as an advantage or dis
advantage.
AS to barrels, they are increasingly
expensive and difficult to get, and it
requires skilled labor to make them.
Their principal advantages seem to be
that it does not require skilled labor to
fill them, and that they are easier to
move because they can be rolled.
There seems to be a good deal of
conservative clinging to an old-fash-
toned custom in this respect despite the
fact that barrels tend to bruise and in
jure fruit. West of the Rocky noun
tains, however, barrels are no longer
used, partly because they cannot be cas-
lily obtained and partly because only the
very choicest fruit is shipped, and boxes
are preferable for this grade.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
RACE DONE?
Not a Bit of It.

A man who thought his race was
back to perfect health.
zone year ago l was unable to per-
form any labor, in fact / was told by
my physicians that they could do moth
ing further for me. l was fast sink
ing away, for an attack of grip had left
my stomach so weak it could not d.
gest any food sufficient to keep me
alive.
There I was just wasting away,
growing thinner every day and weak
er, really being snuffed out simply be-
cause could not get any nourishment
from food.
"Then my sister got after me to
much good for her, and she finally
persuaded me, and although no ether
food had done me the least bit OF
good, my stomach handled the Grape
Nuts from the first, and this food sup
piled the nourishment had needed.
In three months l was so strong l
moved from Albany to San Francisco
dnu AOW Va Ivy I'LL CO AACdlo Va NJ oPN
Nuts and cream every day am strong
and vigorous and do dfteen hours
work.
81 believe the sickest person in
the world could do as / 10, eat three
meals of nothing but Grape-Nuts and
cream, and soon be on their feet again
in the fush Of best health like me.
mot only am in perfect physical
health again, but my brain is stronger
and clearer than 1t ever was on the
old diet. l hope you will write to the
names 1 send you about Grape-Nuts,
for want to see my friends well and
strong.
"Just think that a year ago I was
dying, but to-day, although am over
55 years of age, most people take me
to be less than 40, and feel just as
young as / look" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's reason.
Look for the little book, @The Road
to MELVILLE" in each pkg.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
It Is Thought That Counts.

1t matters little whether or not the
soil of any section is very rich or only
moderately so. The success or failure
of farming in that locality will depend
largely upon the farmers themselves.
Up-to-date men who are wide-awake,
well educated and willing to take advan-
tage of every natural and artificial aid
will succeed and make money. Do not
be discouraged if your farm is not quite
as good as your neighbours. The chances
be equally progressive. Nor will you
work any harder. 1t is brain, and not
muscle only, that counts.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
Turning the Tables.

Many years ago, before the production
of grain was equal to the demand, wages
of farm hands were high, but as produc-
ton increased, the prices lowered faster
than the rate of wages.
A farmer employed an Industrious
freshman for five years, at the rate of
$50 q month 'and found"-board, lodg-
ing, washing and mending. At the end
of the tern, he said to his man:
II can't afford to pay you the wages
have been paying. You have saved
money. and 1 have saved nothing. At
this rate you will soon own my farm. -"
Then I'll hire you to work for me,
said the other, ''and you can get your
farm back again!"-Success.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
Road Improvement Is Needed.

Why any farmer in the prairie states
should oppose better roads is difficult
to explain. 1t probably is due to the
fact that ordinarily stone or hard
roads are meant when the good road
problem is discussed. These are to0
expensive for localities that have to
go long distances for the material.
However, there are better means of
securing good roads-better drainage,
careful grading, narrowing as soon as
dry after every rain, and possibly in
some places the application of gravel,
slack and the like. 1t would seem
advisable for every community to con-
slider this problem carefully. During
the past spring heavy rains made many
prairie roads impossible for weeks.
Road improvement at slight cost
would have reduced this difficulty
greatly.-Orange Judd Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
Remedy for Chicken Cholera.

To eradicate cholera requires care and
labor, and the work must be done pa
tientIy, as well as repeated every week,
for a month or two. Dissolve pound OF
copperas and pound Of bluestone in
six gallons of boiling water, when cold
add one pound of ordinary sulphuric acid
and then add ten gallons of cold water,
and sprinkle the mixture everywhere.
on the ground, in the poultry house and
on every spot that hen has at any time
occupied, finally drenching place with
lime water or whitewash. 1t destroys
lice, also.-New Brunswick Poultry
News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
Projecting Trees from Mice

Experiments by Prof. H. L. HUT, of
the Ontario Agricultural college, with
several kinds of tarred and felt papers
showed that none was injurious to the
trees and all equally effective in pre-
venting injury from mice during winter.
The paper was cut in strips about one
foot long, enough to go around the trees
and to stand about one foot high. A
piece of string was used to hold the pa
per in place and earth was banked
around the trees and to stand about one
foot high. A piece of string was used to
hold the paper in place and earth was
banked around the bottom of the paper
to keep the mice from getting under
meath It,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
Queer Korean Food.

The Korean is omnivorous Birds OF
tina air, beasts of the field, and fish
isom the sea-nothing comes amiss to
AIS palate. Dog meat is in great request
At certain seasons, pork and beef with
the blood undrained from the carcass;
fowls and game-birds cooked with the
fish, sundried and highly malodorous-
all are acceptable to him. Cooking is
not always necessary; species of small
fish is preferred raw, dipped into some
piquant sauce. Other dainties are dried
seaweed, shrimps, vermicelli, pine seeds.
lily bulbs and all vegetables and cereals
Their excuses make the Korean martyrs
to Indigestion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
How to Plant Pole Beans.

In planting pole-beans, first set the
pole firmly in the ground. Let them be
four feet apart each way. 1t pays to fix
a few hills thoroughly. Scrape the soil
away; fill with well-rotted manure, and
replace the soil. This makes slight ele-
walton. Plant six or eight beans around
the pole; thin these down to three of
the best plants. The vines may need to
be helped to get start up the pole. Tie
them to the pole with cloth or soft
Irvine. Where poles are scarce, wires
may be stretched and the beans planted
two feet apart under them.-Midland
Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-21
Plain American.

G. C. Lawson, one of our old soldiers
who has been pensioner for many
years. tells us that he has never had but
one 0vercoat in his life, and that was
the one Uncle Sam gave him while he
was in the service. He never had a vest
on in his life. hasn't owned horse for
25 years, and thinks nothing of taking
a 20-nile walk. never owned wagon in
his life, and hasn't shaved since the civil
war. He owns good farm and has
plenty of money, but never cared to own
any of the above things mentioned.-Mt.
Olivet Tribune.