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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
Married Life a Model.

The married life of most birds could
be taken for a model even by members
of the human family. There is, for
instance, the staid, dignifed and
homely bald headed eagle-the glori-
Gus emblem of the American republic.
He mates but once and lives with his
n mate until he or she dies. If left
a Widower-even a young widower-
the bald eagle mates again. He
remains alone and disconsolate in the
nest on the rocky crag or in the
branches of a tall pine that formed his
domicile when his mate was alive. No
other female eagle can tempt him to
forsake his disconsolate life. With
him, once a widower always a wild
over.
With the female Illinois parrot wild
owhood and death are synonymous, a
circumstance rare enough in the hui
man species, yet Of which birds give
us more than n example. When
after some years of happy conjugal
life a wheatear happens to die his
companion hardly survives him a
month.
There are, however, some birds who
are as tickle as men and women. A
widow maybe mates within a few
hours after the death of her husband,
and in one known instance a frivolous
magpie selected seven husbands, one
after the other, in as many days. Jays,
falcons and starlings are ~inconstant,
and their home life is the most un-
happy of all the birds.
Bad fathers are rare amongst birds.
Usually the male rivals his mate in
love for their children. The carrier
pigeon-in fact, so do nearly all birds
feeds his mate while she is on the
nest. More than that, the crow, the
most dismal of all the birds, often
sits on the eggs in the nest in order
that Mrs. Crow may have an hour or
so of relaxation and gossip among the
other Mrs. Crows of her acquaintance.
The blue marten, the black coated
gull, the great blue heron, and the
black vulture all do the same. Polyga-
my is almost unknown among wild
birds.-Chicago Tribune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
The Fans of the Mill.

which is forced over and down in the
other side of the box, another blade
always coming up to take its place,
and so a constant revolution is Sc
cured. The shaft, or axle, on which
the frame revolves passes out through
the ends of the box, one end of the
shaft being given a crank form to
which a pitman rod is attached for
the running of machinery, OF a wheel
may be put on at this end for a belt
to run upon in the ordinary way, &C
cording to the machinery that is to be
run. A grocery box two feet square
and eighteen inches deep will make a
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Here is a new pastime for tbo
when it is cold enough to call ~
skates out. "I|
An old broom and a bucto,
necessary for each player. The w.. ~
cts should be filled 10 the brIm -.
water and set in front of tbeI, !.
spective owners.
The object is to push the su.,
buckets of water a given disl,,s
across the ice, and the player who l.,
ceeds in traversing the distance in 4.
quickest time wins, providing hs !,
tains more water in his bucket m,
the others. But if he spills more tb,,
does the boy who comes in seconl'
then the order of finishing is reversed
and the second boy in point Of sDss
wins. A rule can be used to mesr.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

match sticks in opposite directions I
you do all these things properly A'
nut shell will be horizontal, or neatI
so, and its sharp point will be drVel
into the candle by the tension Of 20
stretched and twisted rubber Oanl
OF course, you must use a perlsa
shell with an unbroken point.
Now your little automatic =
tinguisher is perfectly balanced In
elastic band would make it ny "
turning on the hook as on a pivot
it were not held in place by the pom
driven into the hard wax, or paEsa4
or tallow. Now light the candle
AS it burns down and the name Y
proaches the shell the wax Willy.
holds the point softens, and When u
top of the candle is about leVel Wv
the shell the wax has become 700 y,
to hold 1t, and suddenly 1t fleS O''
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
simuIe Box Windmill.

The two pictures shown are enough
to enable any ingenious boy to axe a
fine windmill without any further ex'
plantations. The windmill is a small
copy of one that is used in a great
many places throughout the Western
states. The big ones are immense at-
fairs that give power enough to drive
quite heavy machinery. The fans are
placed in the box so the fan that Is
uppermost will just rise above the
edge of the box as the frame reyolVes.
The wind strikes only this blade,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
Rlrd Of Paradlse,s woolnu.

Such is the home hat the male bird
of paradise prepares in advance for
his lady love. Then he goes a-wooing.
He is deeply in love, and his feathers,
always beautiful, assume their most
brilliant colors az he parades back and
forth in front of his sweetheart. She
is coy, but he is persistent. She shows
signs of relenting, and then he flies
with her to the bower he has built
and adorned. He shows her the mos
sy carpet of lawn, the bright colored
berries and pebbles, the flowers, and
usually this evidence of love is suf-
dcient and the birds are mated.
There is poetry and song in the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
Who Likes PeanutsY

All boys and a good many of their
sisters are fond of peanuts. Every
body knows that no circus is complete
without them, but probably not man,
boys of girls know just how the1
grow. The peanut is supposed to be
a native of Africa, where it forms the
chief food of certain rAeiong, but it Is
found, too, in South AlAerica and En-
rope, the species varying in the dtf
ferent countries. Here in the Unite,
States it is cultivated chiefly in yir
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

High and Low.
All men are equal in their birth,
Heirs of the earth and skies;
All men are equal when that earth
Fades from their dying eyes.
IT'S man alone who difference sees
And speaks of high and low,
And worships those, and tramples these
While the same path they go.
o let man hasten to restore
To all their rights of love;
In power and wealth exult no more
In wisdom lowly move.
Harriet Martlneau.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

uear the pointed end and near the
use n on each side of the point.
lhread the double or endless ubbar
oaho through these holes, and secure
! by a bit of match stick slipped into
.he ioep at each end on the outside of
ne snell. The rubber band must he
use long enough to be adjusted In
ms way with a little stretching.
NOW insert the hooked loon of tbo
lalrpin under this tight elastic hand
usloe OF the nut shell, slip the whole
pparatus down the candle until the
o,nt OF the shell is an inch or two
elow the wick, and twist the rubber
inu' 10 tighten it. by turning the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
Novel Grab BAD.

On a narrow sheet hung up in a
doorway, cut a hole large enough to al
low a false face to be fitted in. Flaps
of cloth are left for FASTING inside
the face. Cut two holes for arms to
pass through. In these sew sleeves of
material, perfectly bright tolored mus
lin, but in the form of an apron. The
sides are then pasted or sewed to the
sides of the sheet.
When pasting in the false face, first
cover the flaps left at the opening for
the face with stiff paste. Then paste
these flaps into the inside of the false
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Nine. Rejare, the frisky French ac-
tress, declares that American soci-
ETY. women are the best dressed in
the world" But in some cases, either
the goods Oh the money seem to give
out before the shoulders are covered.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Think of the collection of 1,179,713
printed books and pamphlets in the
congressional library at Washington!
How many lifetimes it would take to
read them through!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Here is that old, old question again
as to how it is that the women dupe
men so easily, not only in money af-
fairs, but in about everything else.
The conundrum is as old as Adam. So
is the answer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Thomas w. Lawson and Col. Greene
might both be able to make up their
losses If they would build a fence
around themselves and charge admis-
sion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

and is clappee down on vOp
wick, extinguishing the
shown in the right-hand plc' o1
You see what a simple ril
teal little device this is. It
quire a little patience 10 II
work Just right, for the siDV ths 81
hairpin, the way it Is bent #
of the shell and the tension
band have to suit each otheI. as
You can put the extinguiss 4
below the wick as you cnoo' me d
lower you place 1t the 'onse, nucs
die will burn before being s Olf 50
moniously snuffed out by i
speak.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell thinks
he has solved the aerial navigation
problem. II is to be hoped hat he
has at least provided himself with a
feather bed upon which to fall.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The young men report that the flow
ers that bloom in the spring, tra-la!
don't interest the girls now a bit.
What they want is the roses that
bloom In the dollhouse.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The Ambidextrious society has been
organized in London for the purpose
of encouraging people to use both
hands with equal facility. All the
pickpockets ought to join.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

A young woman who sued a New
York street railway company ior ST.
900 damages because she fell while
attempting to get on a a lost her
case in court. The papers say she is
very beautiful. but that must be a
mistake, as it took the jury only FIVE
minutes to decide against her,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

A dispatch from South America says
no revolutions are going on there at
this time. 1t is midsummer in South
America and the people probably are
trying their best to keep cool.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

A corps of motorists is planned for
the German army. Judging from the
record already established by motor
lists, they ought to be invincible in
warfare.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat is
our authority for the statement that
women are easier to wake than men.
But it's mighty hard to put their sus-
picions to sleep.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Whenever a rich American girl
makes up her mind that she wants
one there seems to be an earl, or a
marquis or a duke or something left
somewhere.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Victims of kleptomania should take
care to have a good social position or
they are likely to be mistaken for
shoplifters and treated accordingly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

struts about before his lady love,
sweeping the ground with his tail and
acting the dandy. The crested duck
raises his head gracefully, straight
ems his silky aigrette, or bows to his
female, while his throat swells and
he utters a gutteral sound, which is
the nearest he can come to singing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

What satisfaction would it bring to
a bald-headed man If he could grow
another crop of hair? People would
only say that he was wearing a wig.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

OF course, MI. Lawson hopes that
there haven't been any members of
the New York yacht club caught in
the stock market this week.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

King Peter of Servia
that he is in favor of arbitration. AL
most anybody would, in Peters place,
be an enthusiast on the subject.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

If the law of supply and demand is
still working. there should also be a
sharp decline in lambs wool On Wall
street.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

In Chicago they are now kidnapping
chorus girls. These homes for the
aged have got to be filed up some
how.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

When a fellow has money to burn,
there are a lot of others who believe
in spontaneous combustion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The difference between charity ana
reform is that charity occasionally be-
gins at home.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

1880 for a lock of T~hackeray's
hairl Many a young man cherishes
a lock of hair that he wouldn't sell
for double that.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

If there is another Andrew Carne-
gle, probably he feels fiattered, too, to
think that anyone could borrow ST.
100000 on his name.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

II a girl is only attractive enough,
she gets all the more invitations when
she doesn't know how to skate.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The Bidwells, however, with their
100000 operation in connection
with the bank of England, still hold
the record by a small margin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

One of the most thoughtful suicides
on record is that of the Kentucky man
who paid all his debts before taking
his life.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The new Servian cabinet lasted just
n day. If it was so soon to be done
for, we wonder what it was begun for.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

Some men," observes the New
York Evening Mail" are honest only
when they swear" Honest?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

The celluloid back comb of a Chi.
cago young exploded the other
day. What red hair she must have!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
The Windmill Complete.

good one, and a dry goods box about
three by four feet in length and
breadth will make a very powerful
windmill which will run almost any
small real" machinery.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

the amount of water remaining in ID
bucket.
If you are giving a skating part
and wish to introduce some novelties
you will find the bucket race VII
make a hit as one of them, as well .
affording the slower and more caTed
skaters a chance to "eyen up on tha
speedier and more careless friends
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21
Serpent Enters MaIIard Eden.

Serpent Enters Mallard Eden.
One day the serpent entered the
Mallard Eden disguised as a jaunty
male pintail duck. He was a bachelor
duck without the suspicion of a wad-
die in his walk. Mrs. Mallard Duck
fell in love with him at first sight.
She swan about him and rufied her
feathers and sang to him is well as
she could and made no secret of her
affection. Mr.. Pintail was at first
alarmed, but wnen his shyness passed
quack that Mrs. Mallard was really
the only duck that had ever appreci-
ated him. The upshot was that Mr..
Pintail and Mrs. Mallard eloped and
old Mallard was left to shift for him
self in a deserted pond.
The autumn came and winter pass
ed and still Mrs. Mallard and Mr.. Pin
tail Duck gave M sign of regret. They
held up their heads proudly and seem
ed to glory in their depravity-for
that is the term Mrs. Bald Eagle used
in talking about it. And when spring
came Mrs. Mallard proudly brought
to the old pond a brood of eight little
ducklings, every one of which strange
ly resembled Mr.. Pintail Duck.
This was the scandal that threaten
ed to disrupt the Federation of Bird
Clubs. And it vas a scandal. In this
busy working human world one is apt
to forget, even If one ever learned,
that there are love, marriage, divorce,
Opponents, widowed grief and sorrow
among the birds just as in the human
family; and the study of the joys and
sorrows of bird life is fully as inter-
esting and as instructive as the study
of similar joys and griefs in our own
world.
There is something beautiful in the
courtship of birds that appeals to the
heart of every woman For instance,
the ~lovemaking of the bird of paradise.
The male bird of paradise constructs a
little c~onical hut for his lady love. In
front of the hut he smooths the ground
and carpets 1T with a layer of bright
green moss, carefully laid on the fresh
moist earth, so that it will take root
Around this little carpet of green,
messy lawn he constructs the barest
outline of fence of bright colored ber-
ries, pebbles and shells. Then he
brings bright colored flowers with
which he adorns not only the lawn but
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-21

There was a great fluttering of
wings on the afternoon that the Ma
tional Federation of Bird Clubs met in
annual session at Bird Center. The
business OF the convention was entire
ly lost sight of and all the delegates
from the saucy Mrs. Startling and the
pert Mrs. Jay to the stately Mrs. Fail
con and the severely digniled Mrs.
Eagle, were eagerly discussing the
social sensation of the hour-the
divorce granted to Mr.. Mallard Duck
from Mrs. Duck.
The scandal promised nearly to dis
rupt the Federation of Bird Clubs,
for half of the Mrs. Birds were of the
opinion that Mrs. Mallard Duck vas
deserving only of scorn and social
ostracism, while the other Mrs. Birds
declared that Mrs. Mallard was per-
fectly right and that old Mallard Duck
deserved to be deserted and scorned.
The facts in this, the most cele-
brated scandal in the whole history of
Bird Land, are briefly these:
Mr.. and Mrs. Mallard Duck had
lived happily together in a quiet little
pond for two years and not a cloud
had darkened their domestic horizon
SO far as Bird Land knew. But
secretly Mrs. Mallard's heart was
slowly eating itself out. The fact was
old Mallard Duck waddled outrage
ously when he walked. This filled the
breast of Mrs. Mallard, who was real
ly a beautiful duck, with anguish.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
JUST RECEIVED!

"A New Lot of Pear
HOminy and Grits.
Dried Peaches and
Apples, Nice Prunn*
and Raisins.'
Fine Oranges and
Apples and Lemons
always on hand -.
Our Garden Seed are
now in, also Silvoi
Skin and yellow
Danver Onion Sets.
Big; stock of Mems.
Boys and Women
Shoes going cheap.
Few pairs Childrens
Rubbers left which
we will sell cheap
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
Letter to Hon. Claude Kitchin.
Scotland Neck, n. G..

Dear Sir: cit costs as much to put
on poor paint as good"-a common
saying and true-it costs much more
to put-on poor paint; more gallons.
Poor paint ia paint and barytes or
p~ln: and sand or paint and lime or
paint and chalk or paint and be1 zine
OR paint and water these are the usual
cheats there are Others
1t takes more gallons of panhandle
cheat than of honest paint; and the
cost of the labor of painting is so much
a gaiion-one gallon costs as much as
smother, tor labor.
This Is the way to reckon your costs
for this year but how about next year =?
Paint Devoe, and next year costs
nothing; year after next the same
the same for several years.
Paint anything else, and your costs
recur according to what you paint,
with. Some Of the mixtures wear one
year; some two some three.
1t costs twice, three times, four
times, five times, as much to main,
with cheat as to paint with Devoe.
Yours truly
F. w. DEvoE & Co.
E. T. Whitehead & Co. sell our paint
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
Oklahoma-L. B. Irwin.
Indian Territory-G. w. York.
HARvIE JORDAN, President.
RICHARD CHEATHAM, Secretary.

n. B.
The people must act now
and throw off the obstacles in
the way Of the prosperity of
this section. Gin unity there
is strength Let all of our peo-
pie stand together in a common
cause. The committmen ap-
pointed by the Farmers meet
ing at Halifax, N. c., Februa-
ry 18th to organize their town
ships and precincts must set
their own time for electing Off
GERS, but the names Of members
must be sent to the,County Sec
rotary, E. E. billiard, Scot
land, Neck, NC, by Saturday,
February Is, 1905, and the ini-
tiation fee of 25 cents must be
sent to f. P. Shields, treasurer,
Scotland Neck, n. G.. Same
date. We are to report to the
State meeting February 81,
1905.
Whatever work you do after
said date report to the same
officers.
w. G. WHITAKER.
Pres. Halifax Co. Assn.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
Certain Cure for Chilblains

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, powder. 1t cures chilblalns.
frostbltes, damp, sweating. swollen
feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
THEY GIVE IT UP.

Last week The CoMMoNwEALTH CALI
ed the attention of the Charlotte Ob-
server and Greenviile Reflector to the
fact that request had been LETT at this
Office Tor "high dives"-that those ask
ing for them said they were to be founo
only in printing Offices. The Greenvllle
Reflector gives it up and passess 1t on
to the Charlotte Observer, and that
paper makes like confession as fol-
lows: 1--WE give it up. None here.
We keep type lice in stock, but no
high dyes"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
NOtlce.

Notice Is hereby given that on JAM
uary 18th, 1905 the undersigned duly
qualified as executrix of the last will
and testament of the late F. III. Whita-
ker, and any person holding claims
against the estate OF the said testator,
Is notified to present the same
for payment to the undersigned on or
before The 23rd day of January 1906.
Persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make prompt settlement.
This Jan. 23rd, 1905.
ANNIE III. WHITAKER
Executrix of will of F. III. WHITAKER.
1-26.4t
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-02-16
GRAVE TROUBLE FORESEEN,

It needs but little foresight to tell
that when your stomach and liver are
badly affected, grave trouble is ahead,
unless you take the proper medicine
for your disease, as Mrs John a Young,
of Clay, NY, did. She says: 81 had
neuralgia of the liver and stomach, my
heart was weakened, and 1 conld not
eat. I was very bad tor long time,
but in Electric Bitters 1 found Just
what I needed for they quickly rel)ey-
ed ::and cured me-, Best nedlcine for
weak women. Sold under guarantee
by E. I. Whitehead &; Co., druggists,
at Soc bottle.