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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
KNOW NOTHING OF SYMPATHY
That Feeling Beyond Lower Animals,
Says John Burrouuh,

mat FeelnQ beyono Lower Animals,
Says John Burrough.
An Iowa correspondent asks me to
give him my opinion as to whether or
not any of the dumb animals have
sympathy, says John Burrough in Out
ing, and added that a minister at a
funeral in their town had said that no
animal except man was capable of
sympathy. l agree with the minister.
Sympathy, | think, is beyond the low
er animals. When we sympathiZe
with person we put ourselves in his
or her place; we feel sorry for him:
we pity him; we would gladly allevi-
ate his suffering-all of which implies
more or less imagination and disin-
terested regard. Susceptibility to the
higher attributes. When sympathy
was born the race lifted above the
purely animal plane
The next step is taking the suffer
ings of others upon yourself, which is
the highest form of altruism. Pure
selfishness rules the lower animals,
and necessarily so. Sympathy is not
necessary for the continuance of the
species. but affection for their young
is. Animals certainly have a feeling
of comradeship for each other and ex-
perience something like grief at sepa-
ration, yet dog or cat or a horse
or COW will sniff at the dead body of
its dead fellow with apparent uncon-
Germ. A cry of distress among the
birds will bring every bird within
hearing to the spot, and cause them
ito be more or less agitated, but it is
only because they are alarmed for
their own safety; a common enemy
may be about In the herd and the
flock sick or wounded member is
often fallen upon by its fellows and
destroyed.
If any animal ever experienced the
emotion we call sympathy it is Of
course, the dog. The dog has so long
been the companion of man that he
often shows in his nature a trace of
the purely human.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
GAS AND WATER
Is ONE AS NECESSARY AS THE
OTHER?
Citizens of Large Cities Say 1t Is.

New York, June 13.-In the recent
agitation here about the price Of gas,
the demand for lower rates was sup
ported by the argument that every
resident is as dependent upon a sup
ply of gas as upon a supply of good
water.
1t has come to pass that the day
laborer uses gas as his only fuel for
cooking, because Of economy, and the
rich man uses gas on account of its
convenience. Gas for lighting, with
modern improvements in burners, is
cheaper, better and more satisfactory
than any other kind of light. Gas
sells at $1.00 per thousand cubic feet
in large cities and from that 10 as
high as $500 in smaller towns.
The consumer of gas in the country
uses Acetylene pronounced a-set-a-
lene), and each user makes his own
gas and is Independent of Gas and
Electric Companies. Acetylene is a
more perfect illuminant than the gas
sold by the big gas companies in the
cities, and the cost to the smallest
user is about the equivalent of city
gas at IS cents per thousand.
Acetylene is the modern artificial
light, the latest addition to the many
inventions that have become daily
necessities.
The light from an acetylene fame
is soft, steady and brilliant, and in
quality is only rivaled by the suns
rays. II water and a solid material
known as Calcium Carbide are
brought into contact, the immediate
result is the making of this wonder.
full gas. The generation of acetylene
is so simple that experience or even
apparatus is not necessary to make
1t. If 1t is desired to make it for prac-
teal lighting, and to keep it for i'm
mediate use, then a small machine
called an "Acetylene Generator" is
employed. There are many RESPONSE
BILE concerns making acetylene gener.
ators. In practice, this gas is dis.
tributed in small pipes throughout
buildings, grounds, or entire cities
and towns, in the same manner as
ordinary city gas. Acetylene is the
only satisfactory means of lighting
isolated buildings located in the coun.
try or suburbs at distance from city
gas or electric plants.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
RAILROAD Rae LEeIsLArloN

Testifying before the Senate Com.
mittee at Washington, Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty said
in discussing the proposition to give
to that Commission the power to regu-
late railway rates;
Il think the railways should make
their own rates. | think they should
be allowed to develop their own bust
ness. l have never advocated any
any law, which would put the rate
making power into the hands of any
commission or any court While it
may be necessary to do that some
time, while that is done in some
states at the present time, while it is
done in some countries. | am opposed
to it. The railway rate is
property. It is all the property that
the railway has got The rest of it's
property is not good for anything I'M
less it can charge rate. Now it has
always seemed to me that when
rate was fixed, if that rate was an I'M
reasonable rate, it deprives the rail-
road company of its property pro
tanto. 1t is not necessary that yor
should confiscate the property of
railroad; II is not necessary that you
should say that 1t shall not earn three
per cent or four per cent. When
you put in rate that is inherently
unreasonable. you have deprived that
company of its rights, of its property,
and the Circuit Court of the United
States has jurisdiction under the four
teenth amendment to restrain that.
have looked at these cases
a great many times, and l can only
come to the conclusion that rail.
road company is entitled to charge a
fair and reasonable rate, and If any
order of a commission. il any statute
of a state legislature takes away that
rate, the fourteenth amendment pro
tects the railway company"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

Assen1blyman TIgte's letter should
be read by every brain worker leading
strenuous life.
Hon. John Tighe, No. 80 Remsen st.
Cohoes, N. Y, Member of Assembly
from the Fourth district, ALBANY
county, N. Y, writes as follows:
'Peruna has my hearty Endorsement
as a restorative tonic of superior merit.
AT times when 1 have been completely
broken down from excess of work, SO
that my faculties seemed actually at a
standstill, Peruna has acted as a heal
Ing restorer, starting the machinery of
mind and body afresh with new life
and energy.
II recommend it to a man tired in
mind and body as tonic superior to
anything | know of and well worthy
serious consideration" ~. TiQhe.
Excess of work so common in our
country causes impaired nerves, leading
to catarrh and catarrhal nervohsnessS
a disease that is responsible for half of
all nervous troubles.
Peruna cures this trouble because it
cures catarrh wherever located.
II yoa do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased 10 learn
that there . az FEAST dreaded disease that science
mas been able TO cure in all its stages and that Il
Catarrh. Hairs Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
Delng constitutional disease, requires coustitu-
uonai treatment. Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken In
ternallY, acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby DESTROYING the
Ioundation OF the disease, and giving the patient
Strength oy building up the constitution and assist
ing nature In doing its work The proprietOrs have
50 much faith IN its curative powers that they Oer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails TO
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address r, J, CHENEY s CO., Toledo, o,
Sold by all Druggists, 15c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
REpEEMs ALL BAD MONEY.
New York Church Member Keeps Col
lectlons at Par,

NSShtSUu az
we have a member of this eongre-
CATION" said an usher in a Lexington
avenue church, according to the New
York Press, who contributes to its
support in an unusual way. He pays
his pew rent all right, but he has
rooted objection to dropping a coin
In the collection plate. No matter
whether the contribution is for church
expenses or for foreign missions, this
man ducks the plate when it passes
his pew. He says he abhors giving
aims before men, But he redeems
all the bad money that others drop
Into the plate as way of getting even
with his conscience.
When the collection is counted
all the bad coin is picked out and
given to the treasurer of the church.
Some Sundays there is a good deal
of it. 1t seems as though men and
women who have Canadian dimes and
quarters, mutilated coins of all de-
nominations and money that was
never made in the mint feel justified
in dropping it into the collection box.
When the treasurer gets a handful of
this money he calls the old man into
the vestry after the Wednesday even.
ing prayer meeting and gets good
money for it. The old man puts the
bad coin in his pocket and takes it
home"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
ASKING Advice.

The sheriff of Santa Cruz county,
Ariz., has received the following let
ter from one of his constituents:
"Mr. Charles Fowler-Dear Sir: 1
thought I would write you a few lines
to ask you a few words, and l don't
want to do anything until hear from
you. My stepfather is chussing (prob-
ably chasing or cussing) my mother
all the time, and she don't want him
around here any more and she wants
him to leave but he won't go. He is
just chussing her all the time and
once he was going TO hit her with a
rock but made him lay it down. She
is washing all the time and trying to
do right with him and l am going to
stop this. l am asking you what l
will do and be sure and tell me what
if l would shut (shoot) him think
l would be in the right because l don't
care for him and if do kill him /
will show you that was right. Well,
/ will close for this time. Be sure
and write and tell me what to do. So
good-by, Yours truly,
tom PARKER"
Arizona Republican.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
The COMING Of the kIna.

He came in royal robes of state.
And smiled upon the eager throng
Hearts there were there all desolate
Not to be moved by mirth and song
'He robes i'm purple-we in rags;
He dimes on gold-we beg for bread;
Shame on his sceptrei shame his throne
And we, his people" low they said
"If he be King. let him be great.
And save us e'er we perish" they
Cried in their bitter wrath. Then he
Heard and made answer tenderly:
81 am q King--but not so free
AS you, who wander where you will
No day that dawns is mine alone
Stern daty is my master still;
Only when death has called for me,
Nay / be known of men as free
May Austin Low
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
hara is RaIlnf for Nnman-

Mother Gray, a nurse in New York,
discovered pleasant herb remedy for
women's ills, called AUSTRALIAN
LEAF. Cures female weaknesses, Back
ache, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary
troubles. At all Druggists or by mail
soc. Sample mailed FREE. Address,
The Mother GRAY Co. Leroy. n. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
Push Auditorlum Into street.

A Carlsruhe engineer is said to have
which, in the vent Of fire. the audi
torium of theater can be detached
by hydraulic power from the stage and
pushed, audience and all, into the
street
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

PA, who is Many Voters%" asked
young hopeful of his sire. Don't
know him, my son; why?" Cos l
saw you signin' his name to that let
ter you got the other night, askin: you
to run for alderman" "Sh-h-h, my
son. here's nickel; go and get some
candy. La Grange CGa.) Reporter
(Dem.)
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
Inn Is in Two Counties.

The little village of Llanymynech,
on the borders of Wales, boasts an inn
which is partly in England, and partly
in Wales. Thus one-half of the build.
ing is subject to the Welsh Sunday
Closing act, while the other half is
amenable to English law.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
capt. GEORGE M. aalrd.

Capt. George w. Baird, U. s. A..
lately retired, aside from his excellent
war record, is a scientist, writer and
inventor of some pretentions.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

One of the secrets of being happy
is learning how to forget. If you have
found it exceedingly difficult to form
the cheer habit, no doubt the trouble
lies in your failure TO forget.-Ex-
change.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
Mia FOR DIVORCED oueen.

Herr Mankiewicz, German million
aire. has presented a villa at Meran
to the divorced wife of the King OF
Saxony.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

When married woman wishes she
were a man her husband is apt to
echo the wish.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.-MRs. THos. RoBBINs,
Maple Street, Norwich. N. Y. Feb. II. 1900.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

There is a species of treason in car
rying water on both shoulders in a
love affair.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

Some women say nice things in a
way that brings feeling OF pride as
well as satisfaction.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
Important to Mothers.
Economy.

Always taking out of the meal tub
and never putting in, soon comes to
the bottom.-Franklin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
TIE
Your grocer and you have
common interest. Tea is
good for you both.

four grocer returns your money II you don't
like Schilling's Best.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

A fellow feeling for your pocketbook
is not apt to make you wondrous
kind.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
TEA

You can't convince woman that
any man who has proposed to her is
fool.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

One Secret of Happiness.

A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only
cents The Russ Company, South Bend Ind.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08

We do some things because
we want to, and others be-
cause they belong to a plan
that is good on the whole.
Your grocer returns your money If you done
like schillng's Best
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-08-08
TEA
We don't mind the money
the moneyback money
there isn't much of it.

Your grocer returns your money If you don't
like sehilng's Best.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

his way. The successful off1ceholder
is always an understudy to Sunny
Jim. Just because he has friend with
long, strong pull at Washington is
no excuse for his becoming Czar-like
in his manner. Look at the fix he
would be in if he had to get out and
hustle for votes to hold his job like
those who got it for him had to do.
Why, the man who can't stand a little
cross stirring without getting peevish is
the poorest kind of a politician.
The civilian is always critical. He
knows just how the government ought
to be run. Considering he has his
own business to look after, isn't it
likely that he may miss a few points
here and there in checking up the
officials? I do not advance the theory
that the king can do no wrong, but
refuse to believe that the American
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

cause he is walking while someone else
is riding. He can ride if he will save
his money and buy a horse. Most Of
those who are riding now have had
plenty of walking in their days. The
young man ought to prove his work be-
fore he begins to growl about being
neglected. He may think his superior
does not appreciate him, but that
should make him work all the harder.
He should improve his chance to gain
experience and save his money, so that
he can make himself independent of
the unappreciative boss. 1t may hap
pen that just about the time he thinks
his case is hopeless he will be pro-
NOTED. He certainly cannot further
his interests by dissipating. The young
man who drinks and CANDLES has no
more chance to succeed than a one
legged man has to win foot race. The
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

government is going to the demnition
bowWoWS because some of the boys
who have been here long enough to
qualify for an old settlers reunion are
not in harmony with it. I refuse to
believe that the American government
and Mr.. Taft and the Commission have
entered into a three-cornered conspir-
acy to bamboOzle the Americans on &C
count of their nationality. don't
say that the latter would stack the
deck on their little brown brother If
they had the chance, but as it is the
Filipino will be lucky if he gets low,
to their high, jack and the game.
BREAKING DOWN TALL GRASS.
THE first corners to a new country
take big chances and they want big re-
turns. As soon as the stakes begin to
shrink they lose interest in the game.
When the price of a shave fell to fifty
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

beginner has to sweat and dig and
deprive himself, but the end is worth
it, He shouldn't get bilious because
some fellow with a pull lords it over
him. If he keeps on working he may
get the other mans job.
UNDERSTUDY TO SUNNY JIM.
1T is really amusing to see one of
these small-fry officials swell out his
chest like a carrier pigeon. 1t isn't
likely that when he was appointed
there was anything said about his be-
coming proprietor of the government.
When the civilian comes around to
call he his treated like book agent.
1 know he has been knocking with
long handled hammer, and that he
harangueS about being taxpayer,
and that he envies the official his job,
and all that. but the man with the ap-
pointment should cheer up and mend
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
HOLDING UP HIS END"

'"The way the people out here strain
themselves for style is all out of pro-
portion to common sense. A young
fellow whose father had some dealings
with me years ago came around to see
me the other day. and complained
about his salary being too small for
him to hold up his end like thor
oughbred. I couldn't help thinking
about the difference between the young
mans present income and what USED
to get in my salary envelope at the
same age I slept in a grocery story TOR
six years when I was a boy, and got so
used to the smell of cheese and salt
mackeral in my bed room that really
felt uncomfortable when L graduated
to a cheap boarding house. When
used to spend eighty or ninety cents
On a circus, or at a barbecue, thought
I was blowing myself. OF course
don't want my boy to sleep with
cracker box for a pillow because
had to. bat the cub nowadays has more
comfort at twenty than the old man
had at forty. 4 little roughing 1t IS
good for a young man. 1t toughens
him and fits him for an earnest, hearty
tussle with the affairs of life A thirty
dollar job that required heavy lttting
has been the making of many young
CONTINUED on Page g.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

cents in Dawson it was called a cheap
town. Some of the early merchants
here IN Manila were bartenders. OF
course every man has the right to
choose his own business, but it will be
hard on the bartender from now on. 1t
will take the trained business mans
best effort to cope with the intricacies
of eastern trade. Most of the first cit
liens generally go out with the boom.
They hit it up hard while the picking
is good, spend their money as fast as
they earn it, and then give way to the
white shirt men who come with the
railroad. That has been the history
of frontier life ever since we left the
Mississippi River. There is no dis
putting the nerve and courage of the
fellows who break down the tall grass
Or the debt our country owes them for
trail-bazing, but not one of them in a
dozen ever profits by his work, because
he is either unequal to his chance or
wastes his earnings.
"a good deal is being said about
the volume of American trade hrip
so small out here at present. Wait
until the underbrush is cleaned out
If the East thinks it has taken the
measure of American commercial
up to date. we've got a nice little sur
prise up our sleeve for the East. The
present stage may well be styled the
first skirmish. We haven't planted
our big guns yet. I'll admit that we
have a good many POINTS to learn
about the strange and devious ways of
the Orient. The one thing that has
impressed me strongly is the error of
our stand-pat way of treating the for
eigner. 1t is a wonder to me that we
have sold as much stuff as we have
with our stubborn take-it-or-leave-it-
alone. policy. What's the sense of
trying to force a cornet on man who
wants a tin whistle? Is there any use
in attempting TO sell patent leather
shoes to a man who has gone bare
footed all his life? We Americans
must get over the habit of endeavor-
ing to force cake on cornbread GUS
toner.
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Continued on Page g.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-30

one changer he wanted it provided that
the guards should not use Intoxicating
nquof.
The observance of Decoration day this
year, so far as keeping the calendar
clear Of athletic games, and other d1-
verting events, is the most perfect
which this city has experienced for
many years. Much of it is due to the
direct requests of the old soldiers them
selves.
The criminal docket of state cases
has been set by Judge Dana IN the
district court from June 13 to. II in
elusive. At that time County At
torney Hungate will play his engage
ment following the run of City At
torney Dreaming, and company, with
the trial of IS city cases.
A Topeka man called up the Rock Is
land depot last night to inquire of the
night agent whether the train DE at
800 and reported several hours late had
arrived. This was his answer: "Oh, I
don't know; a whole lot of trains are
in" That was all the information that
could be secured.
The editor of the Oakland Blade
makes this complaint: One day last
week the L. s. Mail sack for Oakland
from Topeka was brought over the
3:12 p. m. mail car and dropped eff in
the middle of the street. in front of
the postofHce, where it remained for
nearly two hours. When spoken to
about the mail lying in the street so
long, he got gay" and gave us to IN
derstand that it was none Of our bust
ness. Well, we propose to make 1t our
business. Somebody was responsible,
as we'll as liable, for that mail sack ly-
ing there in the middle of the street
under no ones charge or control for
nearly two hours and If the street
railways employe, through negligence,
was the guilty party, he should be in
simultaneously bounced" None of
our business, did you say! Well, it is
Uncle Sans business; and perhaps it
will be the business of the street rail-
way company to see that it does not
occur again.