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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-09

Pie has always been laughed at national
dish, but hash bids fair become a close second.
Senator Hanna famous for his corned beef hash
and his Sunday morning breakfast table always found
noted men there to enjoy the dish Subsistence
officers of the army that hash exceptionally good
food for soldersand who is going to object to
hash,-good hash, that is,-for breakfast?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-09

The earthquake reported thruout New England
short time proves, instead, to been fall
of mountain in Maine Bald Mountain and it's boil
ing springs in the Tbouque valley have disappeared
and in their place is muddy lake Strange, isn't it.
that earth that be solid when falls on it
act softlke this?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-09

Minneapolis Journal
the
devoted principally their writings There is
welcomed competitors The editor
All should addressed Editor Journal Junior
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

nine-mile circuit from the sea. From
the sea one gets an enchanting vision
Of churches, palaces, houses and ter
raced gardens. In the heart of all this
splendor the inevitable electric street
car runs. These lines come to a com
mon center at the Garibaldi statue, in
the Piazza de Ferrari. Genoa also has
its university, its hospitals, the larg-
est theater in Italy and it's cathedral
dates from the year 9S5.
1t requires five hours in an express
train to reach Rome from Genoa, and
twice as long to reach the Eternal
City from Naples. The tourist natur-
ally is usually inclined to spend the
time to make journey to one of the
wonder cities of the world
Naples, on its beautiful bay, is ever
associated with Vesuvius, whose
smoking cone is a striking figure in
the background. The trip up the vol
cano is neither difficult nor particular
ly dangerous except at times well
known in advance, and a visit to the
excavated city of Pompeii is only a
short journey.
After Naples, the wizard Isle of
Capri is usually visited. Here the
inhabitants are practically supported
by the income from tourists, who
number about 10000 a year.
Palermo, the beautiful city on the
island of Sicily, and the British Isle
of Malta, are likely to be visited, if
one has Egypt as an objective.
This is the best time of year for
trip up the Nile, although one will find
much of curious interest in Alexan-
dria, the home of the Khedive. or
Cairo, the old capital Here the tour
list finds himself in the land of the
Arabian Nights, and he who has his
Thousand and One Nights well
learned will feel at home in the midst
of this strange civilization. From
Cairo, trips up the Nile, visits to the
pyramids, a look in at the Sphynx,
which perhaps is not the one Oedipus
encountered. are usually parts of the
itinerary.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
A Gun RIindase.

range of the small caliber military
rife, that entertainments in some
form or other are absolutely essential
to troops in the open.
The man who in the face of the
enemy can burrow the quickest, and
at the same time is prepared to spring
forward and seize the opportunity
that is afforded is the best modern
day soldier.
The absolute necessity for the
spade on the field of battle was first
clearly demonstrated in the Russo
Turkish war, when modern rifles were
brought into play.
So great, indeed, was the necessity
that the Russian general, Skoboleff,
provided every man in his command
with a spade, and when his men
reached the outskirts of CONSTANT
nople it was found that they had dis
carded every article except their
spades, belts ahd rifles. They had
learned bitter and an unexpected
lesson.
At the entertainments of Plevna
they discovered to their cost the hav-
oc that could be created by deter
mined men with plenty of ammuni-
ton behind earthworks.
The Turks had used their spades
with a right good will, and in addi-
ton to their fighting trenches, had
erected bombproof works that were
afterward the admiration of the world.
At Plevna the Turks lived entirely
within their bombproofs during the
bombardment by the heavy artillery,
and when the assaulting columns
pushed to the front the Turks sailed
out and, lining their fighting trenches,
drove the Russians back with terrible
slaughter The spade made their
earthworks impregnable. but starva-
ton eventually undid what the spade
had done.
Bombproofs are usually made OF
logs placed against the side of hill
or embankment, and the whole COW
cred with earth-turf and sand for
preference.
Bombproofs can also be made by
simply tunneling into the side of a
hill the idea of bombproof being
protection against shrapnel shell.
These shrapnel shell, filled with
innumerable bullets, burst, as a rule
some 80 yards short of the enemys
position and above it. The small shot
together with the steel filings, etc,
are hurled on the top of the defenders
N the open shelter trenches, search
ing the cavity from end to end.
Against this high angle fire bomb
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
ONE MORE BoUck STORY.
Strictly CONFIDENTIAL Letter That
Was Widely Read.

Strictly Confidential" Letter That
Was Widely Read.
Here is a story once heard about
Gabe Beuck's handwriting" said Hen
ry NJ Davis of Superior at the Hotel
Pfster: During a session of the legis-
lature in Madison a bill was present
ed which Bouck was very anxious to
have killed. So he wrote a letter to
his member from Oshkosh, and stated
his objections to the bill and asked
him to have 1t killed. The member
saw that the letter was from Bouck.
but that was as far as he could go.
He sat up nearly all night trying to
make 1t out, and in the morning
he was In state of mind He had
been able to make out only two or
three words.
HE took one after another into his
confidence until he had consulted
nearly every member of the legisla.
nre. After about a week, with the
aid of ex-printers and natural az.
perts, he found out to his horror that
Bouck wanted the bill killed. It had
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
lnvlted to pucaI Weddlnu.

Recently when the Duke of Norfolk
was married the ceremony had
pleasant commemoration in London.
Some time ago a lady who is near
kinswoman of the duke organized two
restaurants at which the great sur
rounding population Of shop girls can
obtain luncheon at cost price and
free service at the hands Of bevy
of ladies'. On the dukes wedding day
the clients of the restaurant came in
as usual in their hundreds, but the
accustomed clink of coins-the music
to which these maidens march forth
refreshed to complete the days bust
ness-was silenced by the simple an
nouncement made to them: "The
Duke and Duchess Of Norfolk beg
you to be of the number of their we'd
ding guests"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
Fouaass Blows up the Approahna Enem

mite is placed at the bottom. and
the hole is filled with stones, the
ground being carefully arranged on
top so as not to create suspicion. At
the proper moment the fougass is ex-
ploded, either by electricity or by con-
tact.
There is always reason for appre-
hension when entertainments are first
thrown up that the fresh turned soil
will not disclose the position to the
enemy, but by skilfull manipulation
the spade work may be effectively
concealed-by the spade.
Indeed, for modern warfare on land
the spade is quite as necessary as any
other military implement used in the
field.
1t is the modest adjunct of big guns,
for it throws up earthworks to CON
ceal their presence, without which
they would be useless. The engi-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

great inland sea of Europe, Is easily
led to make a flying trip by steam
ship to the wonderful Oriental cities
on the African coast. But even If the
prospect of visiting their Moorish
architecture, their minarets piercing
the azure and the splendid domes on
their mosques and temples swelling
and glistening in the sun, does not
lure them, trip inland may be more
attractive.
On the way to the tideless Mediter-
ranean some steamships make a stop
at Funchal in the Madeiras, one of the
quaintest places in the world-a
horseless, wheelless, noiseless para
disc for the invalid. From Funchal
the route lays to Gibraltar, the ma
1estic rocky guardian of the entrance
to the Mediterranean.
Once at Gibraltar there lie little
trips and tours at every hand. One
can run up to Granada and view the
dream of palace erected there by
the Moors-the Alhambra--or one
can take a ship across to Algiers,
where France is dominant, but has
not sought to interfere with it's de-
lightful character, it's picturesque
creamy white houses and terraces ris-
ing against a deep cobalt sky are a
most attractive spectacle.
The Riviera has for many years be-
come the Mecca of the fashionable
world during "the season. which
lasts from January to tho end of May
There thousands go each winter and
find plenty Of pleasuraGle excitement.
Originally suggested as most excel
lent region to mend the health. it has
become garden of fashion. Coach
ing and automobiling along the grand
promenade that nearly parallels the
sea, the carnival at which the very
latest thing" from Partisan milliners
is shown by the most charming wom-
en- in Europe.
Nice, at the foot of the Alps, is the
western extremity of the Riviera, and,
except for Villefranche, Cannes and
Mentone. is perhaps the most popular
resort Here the climate is dry, mild
and inyigorating, and the city, stu
eted on bay, locked by the noun
tains, is the resort of thousands every
year. To the north is Cimiez, with its
interesting distance Is Monte Carlo,
in some respects the most remark
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

they may be used with wire entangle-
ment or chevaux de frise for the de-
Tense of trenches.
Cheyaux de frise may be made of
anything sharp-brokon blades or
sharp iron spikes stuck in block Of
wood and bristling outward like the
quilts in porcupine's back. A large
tree, or a tree of hardwood, stripped
of it's leaves and with all it's branches
pointed sharply toward the enemy,
makes a very effective chevaux de
frise.
But after all it is the spade work
that tells; and it is the spade mat
makes the fougass or land torpedo, an
illustration of which we give. The
fougass is simply kind of mine.
A deep hole is dug in front Of the
trench, a charge of guncotton or dyna-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

various ways, one of which is shown
in the illustration.
Another way of making gun pits
is by "blindage," which consists OF
tree or something of the kim in
front of shelter trench that con-
ceals the position of the piece.
When shelter trenches assume large
dimensions they are known by the
name of earthworks, and in the de-
Tense of a position every ingenuity Of
the soldier is brought into play.
In front of the trenches a deep
ditch is sunk. and in this ditch may
be placed crows feet-iron balls with
three spikes-so arranged that at
least one spike must be perpendicu-
lar. These crows feet, by the way,
are intended mainly for cavalry, but
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
He Did.

one day" said Representative
Clayton of Alabama, a started ont in
the country for village in NV dis
trlct, and walked quite a distance in
the wrong direction. Finally met a
negro driving a NANCY mule bitched
to wagon.
M. there, Rastusp | said; how
far is it to the hotel?'
Weli' boss, it am dis err way
said the negro; IL poor white man
war to walk it. it is bout TO- miles,
put II man like youse war ter trab.
pei IT, why, it wouldn't be more'n
nan a mile and half dollar behind a
real spry mule; an dat is bout as
near as ! can come to it, boss. Does
you think you need d lift, boss?'
clayton decided that he did.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
~-~N THF@--
MEDITERRANEAN
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Especial Correspondence.)

There is a something about the
Mediterranean cruise which is total
ly unlike one in the tropical Carib.
bean. In the Mediterranean one is at
tracted by the foreign character of
everything seen, whether it be man
or art. In the West Indies the for
eign surroundings, while appreciable,
are not SO insistent, for there is
something familiar about them, al
though the exotic character is appar-
ent.
The tourist, unless directed by his
physician to dwell for time in one
or another Of those dreamy old cities.
finding himself on the shores of the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

If at this moment one could wander
at large over the Russian position
above the Yalu river. there. would
doubtless be astonishing evidence on
all sides of the power OF the spade in
defensive works. Entertainments
would be everywhere.
In modern warfare the spade is as
mighty as the rifle, and woe be to the
army that cannot handle both with
equal case.
1t is because of the effectiveness of
9hrapnel, and because of the long
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

proof is the only resource. In one of
our illustrations we show a three-tier
shelter trench and bombproof.
These three-tier shelter trenches are
very effective, and it is quite unne-
cessary to say that they give three
times the rifle power.
OF shelter trenches there are vari-
aus kinds, from the hasty shelter
trench thrown up in a few minutes by
sldrmisher to the deep gun epaule-
ments for artillery.
The greatest care is taken in con-
cealing those trenches from the enc
my, the earth thrown up in front for
a parapet being cunningly screened
by leaves, brushwood, grass or any
thing but the color of the ground in
the vicinity to prevent detection. A
parapet thus screened is of the ut
most service to the marksman.
Another effective method used by
crack shots is rifle pit. This is
simply large circular hole, with
the loose earth thrown up around con-
cealed either by turf or brushwood.
The rifles of the marksmen are prac-
tically level with the ground, and for
a party to advance against line of
marksmen in rife pits would mean
humiliation.
In the same manner gun pits are
dug for field gur7, their ugly black
shouts lying parallel with the ground
and almost touching it. A bomb
nroof guuscreen can be erected in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

you try kindness on the animal? Don't
you suppose a horse can be reached
by kind word, the same as a human
being?"
believe we're right, sor," replied
the teamster, a quick-witted Irishman,
who, with all his faults of temper.
was not bad man at heart; IAN If a
harse has feelin's, sor, don't We s'pose
Tn dhriver has, too? Thry a koind
word on tn dhriver, if We plase."
The stern face of Mr.. Bergh relaxed
INTO smile, and in the better under
standing that followed the horse for
got that 1t was baking and started
OH In a trot.-Youth's COMPANION.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
SPADE AS MIGHTY AS THE RIFLE
Difficult Who Know How
How Shoot

been passed without much opposition
a day or two before. Bouck came
down from Oshkosh in q rage and
hunted up the member He asked
him of he had not received his letter
and why he had paid no attention to
it. The member explained the facts
and told him he had found out what
he wanted only after he had called
in the services of the entire legisla-
ture.
But even then he said there were
a couple of words at the end of the
letter which no one could make out
So he took out the letter and asked
what they were? You - fool!
roared Bouck that is Strictly conf
Dental Milwaukee Sentinel.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
Lanan,s Wav.

Japan of late has attracted many
Indian students to her schools and is
showing a desire to cultivate a good
feeling between the two countries. An
Indo-Japan club established at Toxic
has been reorganized as the Undo
Japan Association" It's object is to
encourage good relations between
Japan and India in the matters of lit
erature, religion and business. Japan
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

with the most artistic villas. There
is the Jardin Public and the Prom
enade du Midi, both well filed with
gaily attired visitors at this season
Like many another Mediterranean re-
sort Mentone has its grottos. These
are the grottos of Baousel Rouse.
where Riviere found evidences of a
prehistoric race.
Genoa, called the Proud, and GER
tainly grand city, is next along the
coast. 1t is, as everyone knows, the
birthplace of Columbus. but it is also
much more. 1t is dream of marble
palaces and noble staircases, and the
old city rises like an amphitheater in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

has the ambition to become the cen.
ter OF pan-Asiatic movement of
progress and learning and has already
gone far in that direction. Chinese
and Indian students are being attract
ed to her universities and are warmly
welcomed, and the establishment of
clubs and associations will help con
siderably toward developing her in
fiuence and power.-From the Eng
lishman, Calcutta, India.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

neers and sappers of a great army
have enormous responsibilities de-
volving upon them. Unfortunately.
besides having almost all the hard
and dangerous work to do, they all
too seldom receive any of the glory
that should be attendant upon it,
Boston Globe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Captain Tvkov of the Manchnrian
army has been shot for revealing
secrets to the Japanese. and the Rus
sian army organ announces simply
that he has been excluded from ser
vice." Exclusive Russian officers OBJ
ject to associating with spies
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
Rerah and a RaIkx Horse.

There is one story about the late
Henry Bergh which, it is believed, is
now for the first time in print. While
walking about the streets of New
York city one morning, he saw
teamster whipping balky horse.
Stop that, you brute!" he ex-
claimed, COR I'll have you locked up
inside of five minutes! Why don't
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Let the Japs take warning. Old
Gen. Killemoff, the celebrated Col.
Dragemoff and the redoubtable Mai.
Blowemhighskysh are on their way
to the front. with blood in their eyes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Some day perhaps some scientific
sharp win walk up to the legislature
with proposition to cross the gypsy
moth and the silk worm and make the
moth pest useful.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

One of the college professors claims
that people who eat apples are virtu.
GUS. Has anybody ever noticed what
a debasing effect peanuts have upon
man?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

On account of the high prices of
-four acknowledged are slicing
the ham in the sandwiches a little
thinner than usual, impossible as that
may SEEM Washington Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Degenerate old England! They are
issuing Insurance policies against
twins over there Here we give pre-
miums on EN-.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

In promulgating their theory that
apples are cure for bad habits and
bad morals the norticulturists wish il
understood that they do not vouch
for the apples efficacy after it has
been converted into hard cider or i'm
ported champagne.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

The average small boy will sympa-
thize heartily with little Miss Adele
Quintera of New York, who ran away
from her kind foster mother because
she was compelled to wear good
clothes all the time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Perhaps the Texas couple that were
married on the roof of a skyscraper
merely wished to emphasize their be
lief that their marriage was made in
heaven.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
PopuIatlon Of portunl,ese.

Taunton has the fourth largest Por-
tuguese population of any city in the
United States. New Bedford has the
largest, Providence second and Fall
River third
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Having demonstrated to its own
satisfaction that apples will cure the
liquor habit science win now turn its
attention to finding a cure for the
slave to apples.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

A recent set of bankruptcies In Ken
lucky has been named for Grover
Cleveland, William J. Bryan, Mark
Hanna and TheodoreRoosevelt. There's
combination for you.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Jan KubelilS has been mobbed by
students. It is unfortunate for Jan
that he isn't over here now to get the
benflt OF the advertising,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

King Edward is spending more
money on household expenses than his
mother did; still, everybody knows
how the price Of beefsteak has gone
up.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Always lay your money on the girls
basketball team that has girl for
referee. In case of extremity, she can
resort to weeping, and the mere man
officiating for the other side is help
less.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

The Red Cross society is probably
the orly important organization in the
world thai is sincerely anxious to lose
its job.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

They can talk more fight and do
less lighting in the Balkans than in
any place on earth, not excepting the
headquarters OF a pugilist.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17
NJ. M. SWEET. Publishes.

Every dog has his day, but he ought
10 cut his nights out. People need
sleep.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Shamrock l. is In process Of demoli
ton to be sold as old junk. For It is
Jolly good junk, which nobody can
deny.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Cotton Manufacture in Russia.
The production of cotton goods in
Russia is growing very fast, and as
the Russians have their designs on
securing the trade of Manchuria in
this line, it is only reasonable to sup
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

These jiu-jitsu pictures are very
pleasant to look at. but isn't The other
fellow ever to do anything but let us
twist him out of shape?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Bacteria cannot live very long or
gold coin. But this fact does not in
sure absolute immunity from disease
for most of us.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Don't spend one moment hating an
enemy; takes just that much time
from the profitable occupation of low
ing friend.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

able city in the world, city that is
supported entirely by gambling. 1t is
beautiful little place. however, and
should be seen by the traveller, even
If he does not desire to sit at the
gambling tables in the casino.
1t is about the same distance from
Monte Carlo to Mentone as 1t is to
Nice. Mentone sits out from back
ground of sloping mountains, on
whose sides are orange. lemon and
olive groves. broken here and there
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Radium is now quoted at s12,6O0,OOO
per pound, with few bidders. The
sales reported are all Of small lots.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Andrew Carnegie may also have hao
grave doubts as to whether the Ameri-
can drama is worth endowing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Man neeos but little here below. A
half pound of radium, for instance,
ought to make almost any one happy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Colombia has reduced its army from
1900 to 5000. Probably the privates
we're all discharged.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

Now is the time for spring poets
to send in their achievements
other papers than this.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-17

The president Of Uruguay died nat
ural death the other day, probably
much to his surprise.