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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
Dawson Citizens Enjoy Life

John Scudder McLain of Minneapo-
lis, in his recent book, Alaska and
the Klondike,' says of famous arctic
city: Dawson has a good theater. an
athletic clubhouse for winter sports
and athletic grounds well prepared for
baseball, cricket and tennis. A pecu-
liar institution is the town crier,
known as Uncle John who parades
the streets with a megaphone, an i'm
provement on a bell, and announces
the hour and place of forthcoming
events. The long summer days simpli-
fy arrangements of this character ma
terially. The baseball crank and the
office boy are not compelled to devise
excuses for the neglect of their bust
ness in the middle of the afternoon to
witness a baseball game. The game
does not begin until o'clock in the
evening, and the theater, recognizing
it as a stiff competitor, does not ring
up its curtain until 10 O'Clock. This
means, Of course, that the play is not
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

over until 1890 or 1 O'Clock in the
morning, but inasmuch as the night is
nearly as light as the day no incon-
venience is suffered on that account.
Dawson lies north of the 64th de-
gree north latitude and experiences as
wide differences of temperature, prob
ably, as are known in any inhabited
portion of the globe. The thermome-
ter registered 80 degrees above zero
few days before our arrival and two
days OF our stay were uncomfortably
hot at midday. In winter 60 or 20 be-
low is not very rare experience.
And yet the sour coughs (well sea-
soned residents)." Mr.. McLain contin-
ues, speak with real enthusiasm OF
the winter climate. 1t is all right
here in winter said one, except when
it moderates sometimes and the tenn
perature rises to % or 80 below. You
see it feels so much like spring that
our people foolishly expose themselves
and catch cold -
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
Old-Time Naval Equipment

Very strange to modern eyes would
be the armament of Great Britain s
medieval navy. The very names of
many of the implements of attack and
defense sound queer. According to
the books, in the year 1887 the vessels
of the navy were furnished with
"espringalds," ancient spring guns;
''haubergeons, coats Of mail; "baci-
nets" small helmets; bows, arrows,
doublets, targets; 'pavises," large
shields placed at the sides, and serv-
ing the double purpose of protection
against the sea and against the enc
my; lances and firing barrels" As
early as 1888 cannon formed part of
the armament of ships, and about 1872
guns and gunpowder were commonly
used. Among the stores belonging to
one vessel of that time were three
iron cannon with five chambers,
hand gun and three old stone bags,
probably for shot. Another ship had
an iron cannon with two chambers and
one brass cannon with one chamber
Among other implements of war
used at that time were cannon
paviors'' OF stone shot throwers and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
What Children Fear Most

A well-known professor has recently
made some interesting studies with re-
gard to the causes of fear in the in
fantile mind.
A study of fear in the youthful sub
Jects was made by distributing hun
dreds of lists containing all manner of
cases such as might excite that emo
ton. Parents, teachers and other per-
sons-even the little ones themselves
marked of such items as the latter
really feared.
After reducing all of the replies to a
table, it was found the highest num-
Der feared thunderstorms, the next
highest reptiles. Then followed in
order, according to the number fearing
them, strangers, darkness, fire, death,
domestic animals, disease, wild ami
mails, water, insects, ghosts and 9TH
ers.
A comparison of an equal number of
boys and girls showed that the girls
feared 1,765 things on the list, and the
boys 1,106 things. The girls exceeded
the boys in the fear of everything ex-
cept water, high places and strangers
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
unaratefuI State of Maine.

James G. Blaine, whose name was
so many years linked with Names
political fortunes, has no monument
erected TO his memory in the state.
Shortly after his death there was an
effort made to procure funds for such
a purpose, but the difficulty in getting
subscriptions was so great that the
project was abandoned. The state
has not even claimed the remains of
her once illustrious son and the body
is buried in Washington. In the no.
tunda of the statehouse is the bust OF
James G. Blaine. done in pure white
marble. More than the usual interest
has been attached to this work OF
art since it was learned that it has
never been paid for Prof. G. Trenta.
move of Florence, Italy, made the
bust and it was placed in the rotunda
of the capitol in 1899, but up to this
day the sculptor has never received a
red cent.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

"murtherers," which were smaller and
threw any kind of shot. There were
also 'basilisks," port pieces stock
fowlers" -sakers" and "bombards.
The bombards were of hammered iron.
made of bars welded and bound to-
gether with iron bands. They threw
stone shot weighing between 140
pounds and 1876 pounds. A battery of
these erected on a slip of land at the
naval battle of Chioggia (13S0) be-
tween the Venetians and the Genoese
did great damage. They were loaded
over night and were fred in the morn
ing.
Froissart tells of a lombard used at
one of these ancient sieges that
might be heard five leagues off in the
daytime and ten at night The report
of it was so loud that it seemed as if
all the devils in hell had broken
loose" Brass ordnance was first cast
in England in the year 1885. The
pieces had various names. Many of
the different caliber were mounted on
the same deck. which must have
caused great confusion in action in
finding for each its proper shot.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

The ratio of girls to boys in the fear
of rats and mice was rs to 10, as
might be expected.
1t was also ascertained that fear in
the boys increases from the seventh
to the fifteenth year, and then de-
clines, while in the girls it increases
more steadily from the fourth to the
eighteenth year before diminishing.
The fear of thunder and lightning, rep
tiles, robbers and machinery was
found TO increase with age.
Another novel inquiry enlarged upon
the fear of ghosts in children BY
questioning the little ones and tabu-
lating their answers it was discovered
that the most frequent source of their
knowledge of ghosts was in stories
told by other children
Stories read by them ranked second
in frequency. OF all the other sources
servants had been the most active.
Some had derived their first knowl-
edge from pictures. a fewer number.
less than one per cent, had first heard
of ghosts from their parents. 1t was
discovered that fear almost universal
ly accompanied belief in such spectres.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

posts and forts we're located at vari.
GUS places on or near the Mississiupi
river and later became i've villages.
extending from Kaskasha on the
south to Cahokia on the north.
The courthouse remained the seat
OF government for the French, the
Northwestern Territory and the new
state Of Illinois until 1909, when the
seat was moved from Cahokia to
Belleville.
The original government as a couu-
ty was established in 1909 by Gov. st.
Clair and was called ST. Clair county.
Cahokia, being located in the great
American bottoms, attracted different
tribes of Indians. and the government
commissioners met at the house Of
Col. Whiteside and adjourned to the
home Of George Blair. where they de-
termined that it was to the best inter-
ests Of the public to change the place
of holding court and recommended
that new county seat be located in q
corner of George Blair's cornfieId.
which was done. and the foundation OF
Belleville, which has since remained
the county seat, was laid.
Several incidents and skirmishes be-
tween the Indians and French oc-
CURED near the courthouse and have
added to its historical interest. The
great Chief Pontiac, one of the great
est Indian generals known, laid con-
spiracies for massacres near the place
and assembled his Indian tribes to at
tack the French at this point
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
A LESSON IN ECONOMY.
One Cent WastefuIness That Endan.
gered an Enhancement.

az engagement
Il have Just had great jolt" said
the betrothed young man, and Incl.
dentally lesson in economy.
you know, they make mailing
cards nowadays that are beautiful and
1 have been sending daily to the OBJ.
ject of my affection a pretty mailing
card with few words from myself
on it.
The other day | got letter from
the old mani mean the young lady's
father-saying that he would like to
see me. When l went up to call on
him l found him looking very solemn
Young man. he said, I have given
my consent to your engagement to my
daughter, but shall have to with
draw it,
What's the matter, l asked.
You are wasteful and extrava-
CANT said the old gentleman. Look
at thati'
"And he held up one of my daily
postal cards. didn't see anything
until he pointed at the stamp. Then
light broke on me. The stamp was
a two-center. hadn't happened to
have any one-cent stamps around, and
so on all the mailing cards had sent
her I had been putting two-cent
stamps.
81 had simply thrown away a cent,
and that had impressed the old man
far from pleasantly. He could afford
TO spend dollars where l couldn't have
spent mills, and there wasn't a mean
fiber in his body, but he hadn't accu-
mulated his money by wastefulness.
and my carelessness worried him
greatly.
After a long wrestle with him
did finally persuade him to give me
another trial. And now I'm sending
her not one, but four mailing cards
daily. with not a two but a one-cent
stamp on each. I'm showing him that
| can economize."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
Why He's Eatinn Out.

Hello" exclaimed Hashley, meet.
ing Bakerman in restaurant at 1880
a. M, Il thought you were going to
cook your own breakfasts while your
wife was in Europe. Come to think
of it, you even invited me up to see
what you could do in the way of a
bachelor dinner"
That's right" replied Brakeman,
gloomily. but my plans have been
upset, for the present. at least.
shall have to wait until my wife
reaches the other side, receives the
letter wrote to her last night and
can find time to reply. You know
what a careful. methodical woman
she is. Well, she made out list of
everything in the house should re-
quire while she was gone, told me
where toefind it and put the keys of
all the cupboards | should be likely
to use on separate ring"
"Well?" asked Hashley, after long
pause.
"Then she carefully locked the
cupboards. packed the list and the
keys in her trunk and carried them
away with her"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
Courthouse To Be Preserved

The historic old Cahokia courthouse
was offered to the city council of East
st. Louis as a gift to the city by its
owner, A. Celia, of East st. Louis, pro-
vided the city would remove the struc-
ture and place it in public park, says
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Of
fer was referred to the committee on
public buildings. who recommended
the acceptance of the building.
The courthouse was built in 1716,
five miles south of East ST. Louis, in
what afterwards became known as
the old village OF Cahokia. 1t stood
on the banks of the Mississippi river,
which later changed its channel and
left the building a mile from the
stream
Court was held in the building from
1716 to 1909, after which the land
upon which the structure stood
changed hands several times, and in
1903 Mr.. Celia, who lives at ABS Col
linsville avenue, purchased the build
ing and moved it to the worlds fair in
st. Louis, where it was exhibited as
one Of the historic features of the
Mississippi valley. After the fair the
Chicago Historical society offered Mr..
Celia substantial sum for the court
house, but he refused to sell.
The land upon which the courthouse
was built was first explored by Louis
Joliet and Father NJ quette in 1873
and remained under the control of
France until 1865. The first trading
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
MRS. PoTTER's RRIc-A-BRAc.
Her Home Recently Sold Was Filled
With Costly Thinus.

Friends of Mrs. Bowen-Potter, not
to mention collectors of rare things.
will wish they had been present at the
sale of her household goods, which
took place recently at Bray Lodge.
says the Boston Herald Americans
who have visited the famous actress
in her attractive home can recall the
interesting furniture which filled it,
and may well long to have become
possessed of some object to add to
their own collections. One of the lin,
SEPARATIONS" as a well known New
York woman describes it, is a ma.
hogany settee which once belonged
in the assembly rooms at Bath and on
which tradition swears Nell Gwynne,
with the merry monarch, had often
sat. The back is a rare piece of trel.
lis work, and would alone make the
seat valuable did not this association
hang around it. Then there is another
souvenir from which Mrs Potter must
hate TO part, the superb four-leaf
Chinese screen which was presented
to her by Ii Hung Chang himself one
day in Canton. But it was a collec.
ton of japanese paintings that made
artists rave when they were shown
Mrs. Potters bric-a-brac, and it is
hoped the rare examples of Japan's
Oldest and youngest painters might
find their way to Boston.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
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Especial Correspondence

three concentric circles. within which
are standing side by side, the low,
open sarcophaga These circles are
connected by wide drain cutters lead
ing to the well in the center of the
building. The men are laid in the
outer. the women in the middle and
children in the inner circle.
The whole inner construction re.
minds one of the inside of a classical
amphitheater, only, that in this tower
the players-the corpses and the vul-
tures-occupy the place Of the specta.
tors, while the center-the arenas
occupied by the well. fifty feet in
diameter.
Having entered the iron door, lead
ing into the tower, the khandias imme-
diately strip the corpse of all clothing:
for Zoroaster has said: Naked thou
contest into the world and naked thou
shalt depart therefrom." The body
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
Moral Standards in Business.

From thousand pulpits our mid,
summer moralists assure their perspir.
ing auditors that things are bad, very
bad. in the business world Just now.
The publicists and the reformers
shake their heads dolefully and re-
peat the pessimism. The magazinists
and the paphleteers search in vain
for some less depressing theme. Isn't
1t barely possible that the vast ma.
jority of observers are all generalizing
too much? The morale of our bust
ness life is not to be measured by the
rascals who occasionally come to the
surface in it any more than the pc.
tency of the Christian religion is to
be judged by the backsliders from
it.-(New York Mail.)
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
TaIkinq Good for the Teeth.

Somebody has advanced a new
theory to account for the rapid decay
of the teeth of human kind. 1t is
due. this wiseacre says, to the decline
of conversational powers. Talk ex-
ercises the jaws. and jaw exercise is
beneficial to the teeth. The more
talk the more benefit. Our ancestors
were forced to talk because there
we're few amusements to silence them.
Their teeth were more shapely and
stronger and they endured. Nowadays
cheap entertainments of many kinds
literature of an engrossing character
draws them from the, natural exer-
else that their molars and incisors so
sorely need.-(Boston Transcript
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
Preacher roc strenuous.

Rev. Thomas Mcleod, a Brooklyn
clergyman, in a sermon in the Con-
gregational church, North Adams, re-
Gently, rounded out a statement by
saying: you can put that in your
pipe and smoke it." A woman who
was up in front rose and, in tones
audible all over the church, said:
Sir, we are not accustomed to such
language in this pulpit. Such words
are more fitting for the race track
than the house of God" Mr.. Mcleod
paused for moment. and then re-
torted mildly: 81 have no objection
to women speaking in meeting. :"
Whereupon the incident closed and
the dominic continued his sermon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

sacred. Not, however, in the sense
that they are worshiped-the Parsee
worshiss only. God-but they may not
be dehled. The earth must not be pol
luted by the decaying body Of man.
These Towers of Silence are found
everywhere in Persia, where the
corpses, placed under the open sky
is dried by the sun and dissolved by
the rain. But in Bombay. where the
burial is limited, and where death and
misery invite vultures in great num-
bers, the dissolution is considerably
FASTENED by these carrion eaters.
The tower itself consists of a stone
wall thirty feet high, forming circle
about 300 feet in diameter-a roofiess
tower. The floor, made of cement, is
an inclined plane. terminating in a
deep and wide we'll 1t is divided into
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
The Man Without Content

He toiled through the market in search
OF the things
The crafty and worldly-wise huckster-
man brings;
He looked on the lettuce with snail-wary
eve,
He ogied the rhubarb and yearned for a
pie,
He gazed at the chickens laid out in a
row
They'd been in coid-storage since long.
long. ago.
Things look pretty good he distressful-
" thought;
Eat IN see something better just after
I've bought"
foo a suit
or summer weight clothing his stock to
recruit,
He looked at the plaids and he looked at
the browns
He called on the tailors. he tried hand
me-downs;
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12
No Easy Matter.

Lulus mother heard great splash
ing in the bathroom and upon investt
cation found her little daughter stand
ing by the partially flied tub in q
very bedrabbled condition.
Why, YOU see, mamma" she ex.
planned. I've been trying to walk
on the water and it's no FOOLS lob.
let me tell you. Judge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

A young business man who knows
how to make money told me that his
poor spelling worried him. | found
that he was thinking about another
subject, also-how to wait on custom.
'ers. Getting him to write down a
question which dictated, we did two
things-we started a study of how to
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

treat buyers and we took an exercise
in spelling. Under his paragraph ]
wrote the same question and then
pointed out to him his o." which re.
sembled "a" and his errors in spelling
He became interested and got a better
idea of words. Here are the two para
graphs as handed them back to him:
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-12

is then placed in one of the vacant
sarcophagi.
In few minutes the place is cover.
ed with vultures, which, in the course
of half an hour, devour every vestige
of flesh on the fresh corpse, while
the blood finds its way through the
drain canals down into the we'll The
skeleton only remains, as smoothly
picked as though it had been cleaned
in the chamber of an anatomical in
stitution.
In few weeks the burning rays of
the sun and the heavy rains have dis
solved the skeleton and, piecemeaI,
worked it down the well, where the
remaining pieces of bones are further
dissolved in mixture of lime and sui
phur; while the blood and fluids are
strained through a heavy layer of coal
and sand, and enter the undefled
ground of the Parsees as pure water
Advantages of Custom.
1t is claimed that this mode Of bur
ial is the most Clearly of all methods,
and from the standpoint of hygiene
the most safe. Certainly, as it is prac-
ticed in the land of its origin, where
the forces of nature-sun and rain
perform the entire operation, it does
not appear at all horrible.
But oh, the beaks of these vultures,
the powerful stroke of wings among
the palms, the silent vigil on the wall,
What a suggestion of horror it must
be to the surviving ones to see this
bird of death leave the toweri
However, the devout Parsee believes
that the soul is with God
In the pest-ridden city below there
is noise and suffering. greater noise
and more intense suffering than in
any other city in the world Down
the docks there is the loading and I'M
loading of huge ships of all nations:
powerful cranes are working, lifting
hundreds of thousands of tons a day;
while the whistles and bells of the
ships increase the already deafening
noise. While the Hindoo city stands
for Death, the docks of Bombay mean
Life, strong, noisy life, gay with the
The Arizona sentinel., 1905-01-04
NOTES
NO. 9

Divorce is assuredly war on the ideal family, but sometimes it is the only way to avoid 5 worse evil.
 You should not blame the cook when the bread is raw. Remem- Der that woman's work is never done.
 Some people become so ad- dicted to not feeling we'll that they wouldn't feel we'll if they could.
 If we would be as just to others as we are merciful to our selves, we would seldom find foult of our neighbors.
 A Van Buran, Ark, young man caught his best girl climb ing an apple tree the other day. It improved her complexion so much he hardly knew her.
The Arizona sentinel., 1905-01-04

xvCMA LODGE NO. [ \. Q. L. ". MEETS 1 every Tuesday evening q o'clock Visit fns brethren in good standing are invited to attend Yours in c. II. and P
 " H. .SHOREY. M. w
 GEO. M. THURLOW, R.
The Arizona sentinel., 1905-01-04
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

E. wCFPTRAAN. MARY 4. WUPPERM aN yITCrpERMAN & N'UPrEEbfAN. ATTOIb- W nnys at lnw Notary Public. Court Re porting. 0ficcs i2 WupDecnan Building, Yuma, Arizona Telephone No. 2o6