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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

tense Chenier. the ladys maid, who
occupied an airy fourth-story apart
ment, to which the visitor was con
Quoted by grumDling footman. Leo
line felt altogether out of her element
and almost sorry that she had come:
but when she saw the superb silks,
scarcely worn, her heart leaped within
her. The blue one was trimmed with
deep, pointed white Spanish zlond, and
proved to be the exact color 70 match
Leo's bright beauty.
Madame bestows these upon US"
said Hortense, grimacing and twisting
herself after the manner of French
maids. Madame is all goodness"
Leo bought the dress and it was
sent home that night.
Yes, it is very pretty; but all the
same | don't like you to wear a second.
hand Dress" said her aunt.
"A great many ladies' do the same
thing, Aunt ~"
A great many ladies do a silly
thing, then" retorted the old lady.
But, Notwithstanding Aunt JOS dis.
approval, Leo felt very proud ami
happy when she went of that evening
dressed in the blue silk, which had
required very little alteration to flt
her supple figure.
MISS tltzalan's parlors were full.
and Leo's heart beat high with antici.
patory triumph as she saw MIR. Man.
rice among the crowd. The next mo.
ment she perceived that he was no,
alone A tall and beautiful young lady
leaned on his arm. With a oang of
jealousy Leo would fain have shrunk
away but MIR. Maurice advanced u.
ward her.
Miss Harper, allow me to presen,
10 you my wife; Mrs. Maurice. Hiss
Harper oh, see you're surprised
So am |. She only arrived from En-.
roFe four days ago.; this with a
smile.
Leo tried to mutter a few consratu.
iatory words. but could hardly make
herself audible. Mrs. Maurice put nm
her eyeglasses. '' ~
How very strange!" she cried
Il
MY blue silk dress that | had made
at Worth's. should know the trim.
ming anywhere. May ask, Miss Har
per- If you order your dresses from
Worth?" Aioiu
Leo turned scarlet, but she cluns
orayely to the anchor of truth.
NO" she said, blushing with mort,
hcation; 81 am only a school teacher
and can afford no such extravaganc,
as that. | bought 1t secondhand y
Mile. Hortense Chenier, No. - Rotber
ward street."
My maid" cried Mrs. Maurice
And she stole 1t from me-all the tim,
pretending that the packing case tho
contained 1t was lost on the vovsss
the hypocritical thing"
Mr.. Maurice laughed.
That comes from your fore,v,
French maids" said he.
leoline Harper felt her face e,ov
with burning scarlet.
Il am very sorry. | hone Won =,
not consider 1t my fault" she said
Oh not at all; perhaps shouldn'
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
LONG sIgeEs IN HISTORY.
@osne Gallant Defenses Made by BE-
ieaQuered CarrIsons.

Gone Gallant Defenses Made by BE-
ieaouered carrIsons.
The longest siege of antiquity was
that OF Ashdod by the Egyptians. Ac-
Cordiug to one authority 1t lasted nine
teen years. Another fixes 1t at TWEEN
ty-nine years. Tabled Troy was be-
eieged for ten years.
The siege OF Jerusalem by Titus,
"A. d. 20, though not the longest, was
the most sanguinary on record. SYRIA
cuse, 214 b. c.. held out against the
Romans for three years, and Carthage
wesisted them. lat b. c., for two years.
Famous among sleges was that of Par
ma, which capitulated in 1885 after q
years investment.
Gambia. In Crete, surrendered to the
Turks In 1863 after a siege of twenty
6our years, during which, 1t is said,
100000 were slain. Gibraltar success
fully resisted the spaniards and
French from July 16, 1873, to Feb. s,
a7Ss.
Among modern sieges that Of Sc
vastopol. 1885, is interesting, mas
much as the besieged were Russians.
6evastopol and Port Arthur are sea-
ports. When the former was invested
the Russians blockaded the harbor
with sunken battleships. When the
evacuation took place they sank all of
their remaining ships. The siege of
sevastopol lasted $40 days, during
which the besieged were heavily rein
forced.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
AduIteratlOn Always practlo.c.

Adulteration laws we're quite as
necessary in the good old days as in
the sophisticated twentieth century.
Even the adulteration of feather beds
and holsters had to be provided against
October IA. l495, is the date of a stat
ute prohibiting the sale in English
fairs or markets of these articles or
OF pillows, except they be stuffed
with one manner of feathers" 1t ex-
pressly denounced the use of such
unlawful and corrupt stuffs" as
"scalded feathers. or fen-down." The
last substance is the same as cotton.
grass, and was evidently in great de-
mand as a fraudulent substitute In
bed-stuffing. In the eighteenth cen.
fury. again. there were complaints
against people who bought fen-down
at a halfpenny pound and sold II
among feathers at sixpence.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! w ork Of Dr.. Barnardoi

7l~ss-s~sss fA~ss-.-ssl gsss~~s
Especial Correspondence

Philanthropists who have made
careful study OF the conditions of the
very poor on both sides of the At
lantic are convinced that the abject
and awful poverty Of London far ex-
ceeds that of the worst degrees of
poverty In American cities. Possibly
one reason for this is the well-known
fact that intemperance is far more
common and more extreme in England
than In America. Extreme intemper-
ance brings poverty In its train, and
suffering is the portion Of the chill
dren of the common drunkard.
The city Of London has thousands
and thousands OF children who are OBJ
Jects of public charity because of the
evils arising from the intemperance
Of their parents. II has many children
poverty-stricken to the last degree for
other reasons, and every society for
the relief of the deserving poor has
more appeals for help than It can re-
spond to.
The most noted philanthropist in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
prevention o. Railroad Wrecks.

In the good time coming there will
not be any single-track railroads nor
any trains going In opposite directions
on the same track; grade crossings
will have been abolished. the road
beds. tracks and rolling stock of all
roads will be as sound and safe as
science. skill and money can make
them. and no effort to insure safety
viii be spread. Very few of our enor-
nous aggregate OF deaths and injur-
ies by rail would have occurred had
all OF these conditions been present.
II is the absence of most OF them that
piles up the appalling list. So long as
that absence exists the slaughtering
will go on. 1t will decrease in pro
portion to tho extent to which the
obvious causes are removed.-Wash-
lrgton Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

the confidence the people OF England
have In DR.. Bernardo and his rescue
work.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
attended the thirtieth anniversary Of
the opening of the Bernardo Homes,
and the prince voiced a general senti-
ment when he said: These homes
are carrying out a work dear to all
who wish well to their country, mas
much as they have reclaimed thou.
sands Of children from the slums, and
are still continuing their benevolent
labors. We have seen something to.
day OF the healthy and homelike sur.
roundings, and the excellent training
which the homes provide for the chill.
dren they receive. 1t must be our
great wish that continually increasing
success may attend the operations of
this beneficent and national work"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
New Kind Of Giant.

NANNY" Friend approached DIS W :.
friend Lew Dockstader at the Heras
Square theater a few nights ago Wv ~.
a request for an engagement WIN ~
show. a.,
why, what use could ! possiY'
have for your" asked the minsisA
Advertise me as your neWp :
quired giant" said the lawyer .,,r,,
Lew laughed uproariously' "" .Iv
Nanny" he exclaimed, you're v vSJ
two feet and a half tall. Wna' A''
of giant would you make! IA
1.-The smallest giant in the wy, wu, N
averred the diminutive Friend D s,.
be a brand-new line, too, for tns nav
sheets. New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
Evidence Of Insanity.

When it came to the crosseAaI%,sus.a
ton the witness who had est oot
that he believed the prisoner u 0sD 4
ed settled himself in anticipS'OD
possible trouble. ,.,lui
Have you any reason Tor S,'
to send my client to maunOD'
asked the lawyer.
None" replied the witness -, n,
"wel, what particular thing naI ,Oq
done that has tended to conV,ss'
that he isn't in his right minu' .,oVly
WELL" said the witness ss,~.ej
''look at the fool he made OF niDD'S
in selecting a lawyer"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
How Boys sotanlzed T.,,s..,.

Miss Johnson was an s,f
teacher, but her taste in dres.
cially headdress, was 80 Decul,,.
even her adoring pupils could n,
to notice 1t. The verdure vhI.s
peared upon Miss Johnson's h.,
season was so gaudy that 'a.
wondering comments were msS.
the boys.
I'm going to ask her vb,, !.
green stuff is" said one bow v,u
ly, in spite of the vigorous ob,s.a.
Of his companions. "She wont ~
and next nature study class Pm 49,
to ask her, and see who's rigbtn
So, red in the face, but stubbor l
rose at the end OF a lesson IN y
side flowers, in response n ny
Johnson's general request "a, L.
questions which might have com. |,
since the last lesson.
"Pd like to know about that r..,
stun on your hat" he said blU,,.
John AIKEN, he says It's beach r,',
but say it's onion sprouts."-YoutI,
Companion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
Star-pust,

Mr.. Pettus, the "Nestor" Of the Sea
ate, is fond of telling stories Of darn
humor, and among the best be nj
lates is the following:
There's an odd little negro Of eIsil
years living in Alabama who is ETa
to the putting of funny questions b
his parents. One night be sudisaJ
awakened from a sound sleep. Tvr
ing to his father, who CHANGED 10 "
awake, the little fellow asked;
"'Is 1t night, pappy?'
"'Yes. my chile, responded Ia
father, kindly; look auter de Vnts
and yo' will see de stars. Better o
to sleep ag'in, honey, It's tVel'
o'clock
THE little darby gazed reaectvsI
through the window. Twelve Ococi
pappy? Den de stars is changin' trur
yesterday to termorror, amt deyf :
Lippincott's.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
in Search of Work.

"Well. sir" said the railway super
intendent to a forfolrn-locking nlh
who hSd gained admittance to S
presence, what do you want"
II would like a situation on you
line"
mo place for you, think
but there is. / want to be lnIT
prefer"
interpreter"
"Yes. sir; to tell the passenger
what the porters say when they 0A
out the names of the stations.
The superintendent studied y,
minutes, and then, looking up pon'S
to the door.-Birmingham (EnslaAa
Weekly Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

Lave spoken OF II. but Won
o taken by surprise. Prsv 'se
lress; 1t is so charmlngly ~. Ssa'
you" said the lady. ''cOnaas
Leo did not stay long 9,
II every one in the room n.y., ue Iel !
that she was wearing a , ouN D
dress, stolen from its owner S'OadAA',
fact, now for the nrst time az. AID
that Mr.. Maurice was a MAJ,
seemed to take all the spareis q
her life. She went home a" on
cried herself to sleep. The n .alV I
ing she sent back the dress a'l
Maurice with a note Of ano,. % y
she has been a wiser girl svos =
"If my fortune comes n VI 'l''
and good" she said, but | sh.T w 7
4 step out of my way to ssa'. 20
Chicago Journal. wa y
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31


II love were what the rose Is,
And l were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or Powerful closes,
Green pleasures or gray grief;
IL love were what the rose Is,
And l were like the leaf.
II I were what the words are,
And love we're like the tune.
With double sound and single
Delight our lips would mingle,
with kisses glad as birds are
That get sweet rain at noon;
II I were what the words are,
And love were like the tune,
II you were April's lady.
And I were lord In May,
Wed throw with leaves for hours,
And draw for DAYS with flowers,
TIL day like night were shady,
And night were bright like day;
II you were Aprirs lady.
And / were lord In May.
II you were queen Of pleasure,
And I were king of pain,
Wed hunt down love together,
Pluck out his flying feather.
And teach his feet a measure.
And find his mouth a rein;
II you were queen of pleasure,
And l were king Of pain.
-swinburnA
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

Glamour.
I have read so long in the Book Al A.
Brave, ~

Glamour.
have read so long in the Book d a,|
Brave, ~
/ hear the tramp OF their feet
In the quiet village street.
i catch the sound OF an echoing cb,e,
Blown down the night wind. family ~,
And the drums unfaltering beat
have read so long in the Book Of a,
Brave,
Their flags go streaming by,
Sharp comes the sentry's cry;
The shaded light OF my study lamv
Seems a low giimmer from some vts
camp
Where the sleeping soldiers lie
have read 80 long In the Book Of d
Brave,
I march where the heroes are;
On my breast / feel a scar.
/ turn to gazc on the rayless night;
The gloom Is cleft by a beacon LINT
And behold-the bivouac star!
Lulu Whedon Mitchell in the csntu1
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
Home RuIe IN seOtIand.

With reference to the CROWNS scOt
fish demand for home rule lo ,.rSs.
land, the London News e,ansed
Having already acquired oy ssnsgs
time. the prescriptive right 70 q MAJ
English affairs for Fngl'shmens, visa
be that Scots, ,.ng ""a -. .oo fol-
will find their her's nlmosy ,s tbsf
II they BEGIN moddNng VIZ
own as we'll"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

OF the daw with borrowed plumes,"
warned Aunt Josepha. IF this man
is really a man of sense he will think
as much of you In your cashmere
dress as If you wore the queens dia-
monds."
But Leo, believing that her aunt was
hopelessly behind the age, persisted.
81 will go to the number and ad-
dress. l will just look at the silks; OF
course needn't buy unless like
them"
The house was a magnificent brown
stone establishment whose splendor
rather abashed our little school teach
er. II. c." proved to be Mile. Hor
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

Price. twenty-five dollars each. Anp,v
to II. C., No. = Rotherward street.
What do you think of that. auntv ,
Blue is just my color. And silk. tool
Why, never had real silk in NV
life!" -A'
i don't like the idea of second.
hand finery," said Aunt Josepha. shak.
Ing her head.
But when you can't afford anytA,rg
else pleaded seine "Oh, Aunt
Josey. / do so want to go!"
MY dear. remember the old fable
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
Needs Cancellation.

Mrs. Highmore-I was surprised to
see you speak to that man. Does he
move in society?
Mrs. Upjohn-He doesn't have to.
He's the agent for the apartment
house we live in.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31


England-perhaps the most noted
benefactor of children in the world
Is DR.. Thomas Bernardo, under whose
kindly care there are to-day more than
1000 of the children OF London's poor.
The Bernardo homes give shelter to
1900 of the little waits of London,
and many thousands of children have
been cared for In these homes since
DR.. Bernardo established his first
home for the child OF the slums, IS
years ago. That sweet and sympa-
thetic singer, Ellzaheth Barrett
Browning, touched the hearts of many
good men and women In England
when she wrote her appealing "Cry
for the Children" in which she said:
Do you hear the children weeping, o my
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads
against their mothers,
And that cannot stop their tears.
One writer has told us that 1T was
this poem which drew out of the
heart of the neverto-be-forgotte
Lord Shaftesbury, then Lord Ashley,
his manly, Christian protest against
the neglect of childhood in this coun-
try. 1t was that which inspired him
with the determination. God helping
him, that he would lift them out of
neglect into the light of human lift
and into the hope of their country,
and ever since he began that Chris
tian work, sustained by the noble band
or Christian workers with him, it has
never tagged, and we believe, when
we see and examine such work as
that of DR.. Barnardos homes, that it
never will. 1t is a splendid thing for
such land as ours to possess such
Christian institutions as those of the
National Incorporated Waits associ-
alton"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
Fifty Thousand Rescued.

Since the opening of his home. DR..
Barnado has rescued more than so.
600 children from vice and degrade.
ton, and he has now more than 1000
under his care in his various homes.
The income contributed by friends of
the homes amounts to about $3.50. 1000
per year, and the many buildings
owned by the corporation are valued
at many thousands of pounds. IL YOU
ask DR.. Barnado how all this has
been brought about he will answer
you in two words-"by prayer"
Those who believe that 1.-THE pray.
er of righteous man availeth much"
will find much to strengthen their
faith In the stories DR.. Bernardo tells
of what he believes to be direct, posi-.
tive and immediate answers to pray.
err In time of great need, for there
have been times when II has seemed
as II the homes must be closed for
lack of financial support. Referring
10 his unfailing faith in the power of
prayer DIR. Bernardo says:
my nrst home was opened in def.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31

ance of all the rules of worldly pru-
dence. II had no capital-not a penny
In the bank, nor the promise of a
shilling. 1t was simply and solely a
tiny effort made by an altogether In.
significant individual to follow what
he then felt to be the manifest lead
ings of the Holy Spirit But the
prayers of Christian friends were
around it like an atmosphere. I think
I may claim for our homes a high
place on the list of Christian EVIL.
dences, as l am sure that 1t Is unto
the answered prayer of faith that all
their real progress is to be ascribed.
Often the last shilling was expended
but always the Golfers were replen.
ished from our Lords own inexhausti.
BILE treasury"
All Sorts Of Homes.
OF course, this kindly Father OF
Nobody's Children" cannot house his
great family under one, nor even un.
der dozen roofs, and he has all sorts
of homes for them in and around Lon.
don. There Is In his Home for Work
ing and Destitute Lads at Stepney
Causeway, the Leopold House Home
for Little Boys in Burdett road, the
Nursery Home for very little boys,
the Open-All-Night Refuge for home
less boys, Labor House for Destitute
Youths, Babies Castle, Her Majesty's
Hospital for Wait Children, Rescue
Home for Young Girls, Union Jack
Shoeblack Brigade and. Home, the
Beehive Industrial Home for Girls,
Orphan Home for Girl Waits, Indus
trial Farm, Blind and Desf-Mute
Home, Wood Chopping Brigade, and
long list of other homes in which
children of all sizes, all colors, all ma
tionalities are cared for.
1t is interesting to know Of some
of DR.. Barnardo's personal expert
ences in dealing with individual
cases. Not In the wilds of Africa
could one find children more utterly
ignorant OF the Bible than are some
Of the waits Of the London slums.
Her Majesty the Queen was a pa
iron of the National Incorporated AS
ISOLATION for the Reclamation OF Des.
titute Wait Children, otherwise
known as DR.. Barnardo's homes. The
president of the association is Lord
Brassey. The lord bishops Of Dur.
ham, of Manchester and OF Liverpool,
and many of the most noted men in
England are vice-presidents of the as
ISOLATION, which is recognized as the
most potent power for good in Eng
land.
At the beginning of the present
year DR.. Bernardo had 1000 children
under his care. Many Of them were
orphans, and all of them had once
been forlorn and utterly destitute
The donations to the support of the
homes during the year reached the
surprisingly large sum of nearly $780,.
600, which is sufficient evidence Of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-31
Beginning OF earnardo's Work.

1t was our own great-hearted Phil.
lips Brooks who said that "He who
helps a child helps humanity with a
distinctness. with an immedlateness
which no other help given to human
creatures In any other stage OF their
human life can possibly give again"
DR.. Thomas Bernardo must have had
some such thought as this in mind
when he decided to devote his life to
the lettering of the conditions of the
poor children of London.
His great work, the greatest work
for the children of the poor in the
world. had a very simple and ordinary
beginning. DR.. Bernardo, then a
young medical student attached to a
London hospital. had his attention
called to wretchedly poor little waif
in one Of the East End ragged schools
OF London, and 1t was this sympathy
and interest that led up to the great
work when he began his child.saving
service and became what w. T. Stead
has since called him, the Father OF
Nobody's Children"
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1905-07-03
"A Ia lOIiCia.

20 La poIicfa de s. N Juan viene vigi-
IRndO. CON Sgrad0 del p1blicO, el que
On los puGstcs de CArnes estA bIeCidOs
en- IN plaza del M MerCado. Se venda ls
Carne con el peso complete.
TOdo ell T1bliCO bGradece esta medi-
do tomad0 por eats institution; mas
debierR hlcer su dignO Jefe, que tel
medida 90 extendierS s los dem6s pues'
tos que existen esthblecid0s en- IaB dis
tintaa Calles de eAtA CapitaI, asf como
Los bRrFios de lR Msrins. PuertR de
TERRA y SAnturce, pues de eatR mRne-
n eli vecindario R9zar6 de los benei-
clos que produce tsl reaOluCi6n.
Por 81 iGnora el n6merO de puestos
estAbleCidOB en- los distintOB puntOB de
Lon bArrio8 designR RdOg, le expOndre-
mos: que On Ia capital hRy nueve pues.
tOs: en- 10 MErinR- un0, en- PuertR de
TERRA. cuatr0, y en- SGnturCe CinCO.
Si estos dstos nd le fueFGn> >bAstSnte
para 90 investigation. podremos fsci-
tRrles los d nerOs y Gales donde estan
situRdOs, asi como los puntOs de Ru III
tuaci6n. en- PuertR de TERRA = San
turCe.