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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
FIXING RAILROAD RATES.

Making railroad rates is like play.
ing a game of checkers or chess. Com
munities to be benefited, producers,
manufacturers OIL shippers to be aided
represent the pieces used. Every pos.
sible move is studied for it's effect
on the general result by skilled traf.
fc managers. A false move in the
making of freight rates may mean the
ruin of a city, of a great manufacture
ing interest, of an agricultural COM
munity. Railroads strive to build ND
all these so that each may have an
equal chance in the sharp competi-
ton of business. So sensitive to this
rivalry are the railroads that in order
to build up business along their lines
they frequently allow the shipper 70
practically dictate rates. Rate max
ing has been a matter of development;
of mutual concessions for mutual
benefit. That is why the railroads of
the United States have voluntarily
made freight rates so much lower in
this country than they are on the
aforementioned and operated rail
ways of Europe and Australia that
they are now the lowest ~transporta-
ton rates in the world.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
IN Record Time.

Piney Flats, Tenn, May 29th.-
(Special)-Cured in two days of Rheu'
matism that had made his life a tor
ture for two years, D. S. Hilton OF
this place naturally wants every
other sufferer from rheumatism to
know what cured him. 1t was Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are the grand.
est pill on earth" says MI. Hilton,
az would not take any sum of money
for what they did for me For two
years l had what the doctors called
rheumatism. l could hardly walk
around the house. It seemed to be
in my back and hip and legs. I tried
everything but nothing helped me till
l got Dodd's Kidney Pills"
"Two days after I took the first
dose all pain left me and it has never
come back since. | can't praise Dodd's
Kidney Pills too much"
Rheumatism is caused by uric acid
in the blood. Healthy kidneys take
all the Uric Acid out of the blood.
Dodds' Kidney Pills make healthy
kidneys.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
"ExcIamatory" All Rloht.


While the oil excitement was at its
height in Texas several years ago
John w. Gates put up at a hotel in
Beaumont where colored girls are
employed as mattresses.
At the dinner table, on the even
ing of his arrival, wishing to be pleas
ant to the girl, who had taken great
pains to see that he had everything
he wanted, he turned to her and said,
not knowing whether she was mar
ried or not: How is your husband,
Eliza?'
HE amt much bettah, Sah," re-
piled the girl.
ooh, then he's been sick. What's
the matter with him" asked Mr..
Gates.
why de doctah say he got ex-
clamatory rheumatism, Sah."
Explanatory rheumatism! You
infammatory, don't you? Ex-
clamatory "a to cry out" said Mr..
Gates.
Oats ies' it, Sab. OATS jes' it.
He do nuthin' but cry out all de time
New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
BRAIN WORK AND BEAUTY.
English Specialist Thinks They Can.
not Go Together.

English Specialist Thinks They Can.
not Go Together.
According to an English specialist
who has made a careful study of the
subject, the reason why women are
better looking than men is because
they are more indolent and are not
called upon to use their brains as
much as men are. Hard intellectual
work and a%ssiduous attention to bust.
ness, he says, are harmful so far as
physical beauty is concerned. AS
proof that his theory is correct, he
points to the Zaros, whose home is in
British India. Among them women
hold the place which in other Jul
tries is occupied by men. The FARO
woman manages the affairs of state,
goes into business on her own account,
and does not wait for a proposal of
marriage, but proposes herself; where
as the Faro man has nothing to do but
COOK the meals and look after his chill.
dren. The natural results, says the
scientist, is that the men of this singu-
lar tribe are very pretty and the wom-
en- are unusually plain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
The Ignorant Landsman.

Capt. Kaempf, of the Deutschland
was entertaining a little group OF
passengers with sea stories.
why is it," said Capt. Kaempf.
that landsmen are so ignorant of the
sea? Seaman are not ignorant Of the
land. 1t is only, in fact, through
knowing the land well enough to avoid
1t, that seamen keep their ships afoat
But landsmen's ignorance of the
seat is deplorable."
I'm Bremen, n day, I saw a farm.
er looking at the shipping in the har
Dor. A longshoreman was explaining
the shipping to him. Finally l heard
the longshoreman say:
ut is low water, now, sir
THE farmer took his pipe out OF
his mouth and pointed it solemnly
toward a h~eavily-laden tramp steame,
that was passing.
Its a good thing for that vesse,
going past that it is low water he
said. The waters near over the edge
of her now"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
lobster Race the Lateat.

Learned men of science gravely lis
tened to a lecture in the Paris muse
UNI of natural history this week Civ.
ing the report of a lobster race which
has just been held, say a Paris spe-
cial to the Kansas City Journal. The
contest took place off the Isle of Man.
A number of young and spry Holsters
each with a number attached to it's
tail were dropped in the sea.
The winner-that is, the competitor
which so far as known, travelled tar
thest from the starting point, was
fshed up thirteen and one-half miles
away three days later. The lobster
ace was got up with a view to ascer-
tanning certain questions relating to
the distance these crustaceans are
likely to travel within a specified
time, 1t was not as~certained how
many finished, but the truth of the
reports are now vouched for.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
The Mean Godfather.

Congressman Morrell, of Philadel'
phia, in a discussion of the Delaware
river appropriations, mentioned a
mean man.
"There are many mean men" he
said, "but this man surely was the
meanest of them all, Besides being
mean he was also rich.
ITO a poor young couple living near
him a son was born and they decided
to name their son after the mean man,
and to ask him to stand Is its god
father.
He consented. He was fiattered,
"%Thereupon the joy of this poor
young couple was great. They won
dered what gift the rich godfather
would give to his little godson. Per
haps a house and lot? Perhaps a half
dozen government bonds? Perhaps a
herd of cattle?"
Senator Morrell paused and smiled.
what do you suppose" he said,
''the mean man sent the youngster?
He sent it, sir, a cup that one of his
Cochin China hens had won at a poul-
try show"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20

The impertinence of the sparrow
was recently exampled at the Phila-
delphia geological garden. One of
these birds that win admiration by
their very audacity was seated be-
side the big bearded vulture In the
latter's cage. He had already flown
off with one of the downy feathers
he had picked up on the floor. It
evidently occurred to him to prefer
a fresh feather. Pursuant to this
scheme, he moved up closer and
closer, the savage looking bird from
Asia paying no attention to him. IT'S
next move vas to look c~ovetously at
the soft breast feathers of its host. II
chose a nice, downy one, stretched up
and plucked 1t out with a clever jerk.
Then off 1t went. The big bird was
too surprised to stir.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
wooED HIS OWN DAUGHTER.
Strange Chain OF Circumstances Re.
ported from Switzerland.

ported from Switzerland.
A remarkable affair has occurred at
Appenzell, in Switzerland. Nearly
twenty years ago a young Swiss com
mercial traveller named Muller desert.
ed his wife and infant daughter. and
emigrated to Mexico, where he sue,
ceeded in amassing a considerable for.
tune. During his absence his wife
died, and the little girl was adopted
by a farmer of Appenzell, named
Schloss. The child assumed the name
OF Schloss, and was generally regard.
ed in the district as the farmers own
daughter, A year ago her father, who
called himself Ilfelder after leaving
his native country, sold out his bust
ness in Mexico and returned to Appen-
cell. He was informed, and naturally
believed that both his wife and child
were long since dead. Later he met
his daughter, and, ignorant of her
Identity, fell in love with her. She is
now nearly twenty years old, while he
Is f~orty-one. For four months the re-
turned %wanderer wooed the girl with
e consent, and it was only when he
asked the approval of the farmer,
Schloss, that he learned the girls his
tory and recognized that he had won
hand of his own daughter. Rush
ing from the house, he travelled at
once to Bale, when he wrote to the
farmer, confessing everything and
placing $4,000 to the girls credit in
a Zurich bank. Nothing more has been
heard OF him, and the daughter is
heartbroken.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
LovELoRN FAITH OF GENIUS.
Great Natures Seldom Win True Hap
piness in Marriage.

RAahS@@
The part that love has played In the
lives Of men and women OF genius
never fills to interest the rest OF the
world, but it is no matter of surprise
to students of human nature to dis
cover how few of these love stories
have represented anything like the
happiness which falls to the lot of well
behaved nobodies with only everyday
capacities, and hopes, and aspirations.
Occasionally two great natures may
reach the heights of those magnificent
solitudes of genius together, and enjoy
their splendid isolation in an atmos-
phere in which the more commonplace
would be exceedingly bored and un'
comfortable. 1t has probably been the
dream of every great mind to enjoy
this intellectual companionship, and,
in the first stages of youthful hope
and ardor, perhaps, to expect 1t.
In comprehending In how few cases
the anticipation has been realized, we
strike the tragic note of so many IL
lustrious lives, already sufficiently
handicapped by sordid poverty, sick
ness, early death, and by the never
ceasing struggle for fame and recog'
uition.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
oId-Tlme Prescription.

An old-time quack compounded his
sympathetic ointment" according to
the following prescription: take
Nose of a ded mans he'd 2 ono.
mans greace, l ono, mummia, mans
blood of each half an one, linseed
oyle % one, oyle of roses, bolearmin-
lex of each an ono. bet them together
in a mortar till it be fine leeke an
OINTMENT, keep it in a box" Then
all the sick person needed was the
weapon with which a man had been
stricken. This he anointed with the
ointment, pressed to the wound and
was well again. or should have been.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
The Valley Road.

AT eventide ! shade my eyes
And peer into the west,
where, winding down the shining plain
And round each shaded crest.
The high road goes the sunset wav
Upon the endless quest.
Fun many a traveller I nave seen
(And one was passing fair)
Go down the valley from the doow
And swiftly vanish there.
some nave sped upon their path
And lightened some of care
one day too shall take my STAR
And down the valley GO. 20"
Fot one who went was passing fair.
And waits for me, l know,
And l shall find hero. NV soul,
Beyond the sunset glow.
Magazine. w" Hhsiano
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
ATE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM
Prisoner stops Trial by Chewing and
Swallowing a Forged Check

Prisoner Stops Trial by OneWihs anu
Swallowing a Forged Check
The Kings county court was thrown
into disorder and dismay, says a Seat
tle special to the st. Louis Post-Dis'
match. when the prisoner at the DaI'
H. r. McTavish, ate all the evidence
in the case on trial. McTavish was
being tried on a charge of forging a
s15 check. The check lay on the trial
fable. marked exhibit A." McTaVlsh
sat beside his counsel, who was en-
gagged in cross-examining a witness
for the prosecution.
The case was going against NC
lavish when his eye fell on the check'
which was about to be introduced IN
q violence. Like a half-starved mar
and with a look of hunger in his eye,
the prisoner pounced upon exhibit A
and chewed it to pulp. !.
With soulful satisfaction he gulpeu
it down. The prosecution was IN con
s~ternation, for its main piece OF eVi-
dence was gone, and demanded mat a
stomach pump be used forthwHh'
While the lawyers argued pro and con-
the prisoner calmly picked his teeth
with a Whitfield match, plainly the
master of the situation. The defense
argued that the ball of paper in the
defendants stomach could in no wise
be construed as documentary eVi-
dence, and that a dismissal was prop
er.
The case of the state of Washing
ton against H. R. McTavish is now II
statu quo pending the untangling o
the legal question involved from the
defendants impromptu luncheon.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20

back and sides. For a time | was un.
able to walk at all, and every make
shift tried and all the medicine ]
took had not the slightest effect. My
back continued to grow weaker until
| began taking Doan's Kidney Pills,
and must say l was more than sur
prised and gratiied to notice the back
ache disappearing gradually until il
finally stopped"
Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all deal
ers or by mail on receipt of price, SO
cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Lanouaoes of Australia.

Australia, by its reception of repre-
sentatives of many lands, has an In
finitude of tongues; but your real Aus
tralian-born is proud Of the fact thar
among the aborigines-the bushmen-
there are relatively as many IAN
guages as there are in India. Many
have a sort of relation to each otner'
by means of which a man masterins
one thoroughly would have a sort Oh
key to several.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
ULCERS FOR 80 A
Painful EruptIons From Knees to Feet
Seemed Observation-Disclosures
Ends Misery.

Another Of those remarkable cures
by C~uticura, after doctors and all else
had failed, is testified to by Mr.. NJ.
c. Moss of Gainesville, Texas, in the
following letter: For over thirty
years / suffered from painful ulcers
and an eruption from my knees to
feet, and could find neither doctors
nor medicine to help me, until | used
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills,
which cured me I'm six months. They
helped me the very first time | used
them, and l am glad to write this SO
that others suffering as l did may be
saved from misery"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
AduIteratinq Wines.


Lord Palmerston used to tell this
story OF his grandfather, Lord Penn
broke: When the latter was ques
toned about a~dulterated wines he
would nswer There, gentlemen.
are my claret and champagne. l give
1t to you on the authority of my wine
merchant. My port | can answer for;
| made 1t myself" Palmerston de,
clared that he had never tried the
recipe from which 1t was made, but
he preserved 1t, and here 1t Is: Eight
gallons Of genuine port wine, forty
gallons OF cider; brandy to fill the
~hogshead. Elder tops will give ii
the proper roughness, and cochineal
whatever strength of coloring you
please. The quantity made should
not be less than a hogshead. 1t should
be kept fully two years in a cask, and
as long in bottle before 1t is used"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
ATAX|A is DURABLE
REPORTED CURE STANDS TEST OF
FULL INVESTIGATION.
A Former Victim of LocomOtOr Ataxin
Now Free from Suffering and
Actively at Work.

A Former Victim of Locomotor Ataxiu
Now Free from Suffering and
Actively at Work.
Eyes, " said MI. Watkins to a reporter
sit is true that Mhave been cured Of
ataxia by Or. Williams Pink Pills"
"Are you sure you had locomotor
a~taxia?"
1.-The doctors themselves told me so.
Besides | recognized the symptoms"
"What were they?" \
"Well, the first indications were a
stiffness about the knee joints that came
on about four years ago. Afew months
after that appeared, my walk got to be
uncertain, shaky-like. I lost confidence
in my power to control the movements
of my legs. Once, when / was in the
cellar, / started to pick up two scuttles
of coal, and my legs gave way suddenly,
and ! tumbled all in a heap in a basket.
/ couldn't close my eyes and keep my
balance TO save my life. Then | had
fearful pains over my whole body and l
lost control over my kidneys and my
bowels
How about your general health 20
q OOuueVliueS 4 was SO weak bndU l. mad
to keep my bed and my weight fell off
twenty pounds. Things looked pretty
bad for me until / ran across a young
man who had been cured by DIR. Will
liams' Pink Pills and who advised me to
try them"
"Did these pills help you rightaway?"
II didn't see much improvement un-
Gil | had used six boxes. The first bene.
fit l noticed was a better circulation and
"a picking up in strength and weight. I
gradually got confidence in my ability
TO direct the movements of my legs, and
in the course of seven or eight months
all the troubles had disappeared
do you regard yourself as entirely
well now?'
I'll do the work of a we'll mar at any
rate. i can close my eyes and stand up
all right and move about the same as
other men. The pains are all gone ex.
cept an occasional witch in the calves
of my legs"
MIR. James II. Watkins resides at No. ~
Westerlo street, Albany, NY. DIR. Will.
hams' Pink Pills can be obtained at any
drug store. They should be used as soou
as the first signs of locomotor ataxia ap.
pear in q peculiar numbness of the feet.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
DO Il Now.

Ii you are about to make a trip any.
where, let me know. Pleased to give
you full information as to low rates
plenty of 'em this summer-train ser
vice, etc. THE Santa Fe" trade mark
is the sign of safety, speed and ease.
c. F. WARREN,
Genl. Agt., A. T. & S. F. Ry., Salt Lake
City, Utah.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Know ThYself.

Everybody who writes a book makes
a more or less public confession of bis
wi character. So every reader who
likes or dislikes a book makes a SINH
far confession to himself of himself in
the process. 1t is an easy way, close
at hand, of learning whether you are
right with the world or not.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
crItIcIse European Eyes.

A Manchester (England) man ask,
ed q Japanese what struck him most
about the European face. He replied
that 1t was the horrible round eyes. A
Hindoo, to whom he put the same
question. said that 1t was the glimmer
Ing eyes of the European that he no
ticed-meaning, presumably, half:
closed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20

Where tea and spirit are
right, therei is little danger of
going-astray in the business.


Says a railroad man: Men who
grumble at work or fret about an
eight hour working day forget that q
man will be tired at the end of the
day whether he works or not. The
fatigue OF work is much better than
the fatigue of idleness. and there is no
pleasure like that which comes from
the consciousness of having accom-
plished something"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
AID TO POOR MEMORY.

Device That viii ~supersede Time.
Honored String.
II people persist in forgetting the
things they want to do it is not the
fault of the horde of inventors, who
have furnished innumerable devices
for making such lapses Of memory in
excusable. You can have this mem
ory prodder attached to your watch
chain, to our ring, to your specta-
Giles, or to your watch, itself. The
time-honored custom of tying a string
around the finger is quite obsolete.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20

One form of such a device is a ring
formed of wire much after the style of
the now almost forgotten flexible wire
carriers and sle%eveholders. The ring,
which is comparatively inconspicuous,
will, by reason of its design, fit any
ones finger. 1t carries a setting de-
signed to afford space for making
notation of the specific details to be
executed. Another such reminder
takes the form of an attachment to
cover the case of your watch, it being
presumed that some time during the
day o will consult your timepiece
and so be confronted with the memo
randum, which is written on a round
disk fitted to the watch Ease and car
ried by the stem. These two illus
trations merely represent two recently
patented ideas among the many dozens
of this class that appear during the
course of each year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
FEMALE TROUBLE
NOT RECOGNIZED
AS CATARRH.
Returned the Salute.

A traveller who visited the small
Siberian town of Kansk tells how sur.
prised he was by an incident in the
theater. The first actress who made
an appearance on the stage bowed to
the audience, whereupon the whole
gathering rose as one man and return
ed the bow in the most polite manner.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Ready to Be Temntad

what would a Christian do with
tsoceieliers wealth? asks the pitts.
purg Post Well. we can't saw much
on the hypothetical case. but !, soma
one VIII arrange a transfer of a large
slce OF that oily lucre to us we stand
leauy 70 present the world with an
Herald. anea
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
TEA
Do you think it worth
while to serve good tea at
your table?
satan hIs EavorIts.

The mother of a little 4-year-old
boy OF Tampa is in the commendable
habit of telling him Bible stories, OF
which she has a wide range at com.
mand. She was a Srife surprised the
other evening when he looked up and
said: Mamma, please tell me some
about Satan. He is the dandiest
fellow of 'em all."-Tampa Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Poor Philadelphia.

A Philadelphia trolley car crashed
into a bakery wagon and sent a load
of pies through the air. What with
germs in the drinking water and pies
in the air, Philadelphia must be an un-
healthful place, indeed.-Buffalo Elk.
Dress.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Negrito Dice.
# Xxi IIII
Nesrito Dice.

A game of dice called saro is played
by the negritoes in the Philippines.
Instead of dots the marks on the small
wooden cubes are incised lines made
with a knife.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Aaed Man Fond OF exercise.

Ira G. Potter of Wilbraham, who has
just passed his Goth birthday, has ex-
ercised all winter at a pile of four
foot wood, with the result that he has
now sawed and split a full five cords.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
Steal to Attend Theater.

Having found that many children
were guilty of petty thefts in order tic
get money to go to the theater. Black,
pool, Lancashire, is thinking of pass.
ing an ordinance %forbidding children
under IL to attend theaters.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20


miles from
4 + e n [ o n,
Mo-, says:
"a S e v e e
cold settled
In my kid
neys and de-
veloped S o
quickly that
| was obliged
to lay off
work on ac-
count. of the
aching in my
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
TEA
There is good and bad
tea; there is good and bad
tea cookery.
Which have |?
says the whIstIlna whittier.

"A horse in a burnin' stable an q
man in love resemble each other
great deal in one respect" remarked
the whistling whittier. mo matter
how hard you try to lead 'em out,
they'll rush right back into danger"
Detroit Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
TEA
outIastIno Ideals.

The path of progress is strewn with
broken presidents, said a wise man,
and the path of progress in the indi
vidual a well be marked by the
ideals hat have been created and
thrown down as the way is won up
ward,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
TEA
Formlc Acid for Malaria.

P. Howard Williams, writing in
praise of formic acid as a cure for ma.
laria, says it is an old Matabele rem.
edy. The Matabeles get it by eating
spiders. Mr.. Williams says that when
he had malaria in Matabeleland a dose
of two spiders cured him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-20
TEA

Do you think the only diff
ferences in tea are a few
cents a pound?