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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-30

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-30

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-30

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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
civilians, Part in the Mar.

What man who served as officer or
soldier will say that he would not
rather go into battle like Shiloh.
Chickamauga, Antietam or Gettysburg
or any great contest than to run an
engine with a train load of soldiers
through country where any moment.
through the lifting of rails or weak
ened bridge, lie and greater or less
number of, his passengers might be
hurled to eternity? Both in the east
ern and western armies there were
large numbers of these men who
through four years offered their lives
in their county's service Just as much
as any man In the army offered his.
and scores of them gave their lives.
Have any of them been recognized?
We know too well that they have not.
| can lift my hat to any of those old
war time engineers and it would do
my heart good to call them comrades
and companions.
Il presume there are others. The
nation comedies that the patriotic men
and women who remained at home
performed a service of boundless
worth, but for forty years we have
been recognizing them and praising
them for what they did, and the whole
nation has recognized and praised the
soldiers and sailors. and l suppose
they will go on recognizing and prais-
ing them for years to come. | know.
and you know, that much of this rec
ognition, that much of this praise. has
come because of the organization
among the soldier element. | am sor-
ry, very sorry, that telegraphers. war
correspondents, commanders of army
transports and military engineers did
not vigorously organize long ago and
thus secure recognition Lieut.. Col /
A. Watrous, U. S. A.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
DEERs' FoNDnEss FOR TuRNlPs.
Animals Have an Irresistible Liking
for the Juicy Roots.

Animals Have an irresistible Liking
for the Juicy. Roots.
'Turnips taste better to deer than
whisky does to an Indian, and the
animal will run as great risks to get
the vegetable as the red man will to
get the liquor said Otto Wilke Of
International Falls at ST, Louis
II know men who make it their
annual custom to plant turnips in the
spring in some secluded spot in a
game country, just so they will be
assured of easy venison in the fall or
during the summer months, If they
happen to live in the woods them
selves.
IF turnip patch is located in any
district where there are deer, every
deer within that district will visit it
several times week, the time of day
they make their visits depending
upon the wariness of the animals and
the nearness of settlers.
Even after snow falls these visits
are continued, as long as any of the
vegetables are left in the ground.
Until the snow gets too deep you can
see where it is paved away after
night in search after the succulent
roots.
Through the more sparsely settled
districts they are actually pests to the
homesteader who has a garden, for
nothing but an eight foot fence will
keep them from eating the growing
things and trampling the ground all
up, like flock of sheep. 1t does not
matter how near the vegetables are
to the house, the deer win get into
them Just the same, the only differ
ence being that they will come around
later in the evening, when the dark
ness covers their movements. - Du-
luth Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

1t is the size OF little child's fat
hand, but l am told that the inventor
who made 1t worked seventeen years
and spent $4,000 on his experiments,
He may never make much money
out of 1t, and yet he my become
wealthy from the sale of the machine
of which It is a main part.
II he fails he will be called by some
fool. If he succeeds these same peo-
pie will call him a genius
DO such seekers after new ideas
work for years for the money there
may be In the discovery? There must
be love for the work rather than a
love for the wealth which may come
from success, though hope of wealth
or glory may start many on this path
How can. inventive people become
more successful financially? One man
told me that his father invented many
good things, any one of which would
have made him wealthy if marketed
correctly but he kept all of them on
the shelf for fear of getting cheated,
and never profited by his originality.
One thinker was in jail for debt
while studying out chemical com
pound, but later became national sue
cess. He had marketable product
when 1t was ready, and he put all his
time on 1t when he once got it
started.
Yesterday good business man told
me about a man who had good arti-
Gle but he got rid of his partners and
'then found that he did not know how
to market his own good article. Sales
fell 10 a small figure, and he was
forced to hitch up with man that
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

When Mr.. and Mrs Mord Lincoln
awakened Friday morning at their
home in Midtown, on the Southern.
twenty-five miles west of New Albany.
they were startled to find huge
blacksnake coiled at the foot of the
bed
Lincoln kicked the reptile to the
floor and after a lively fight managed
to kin II by hitting II on the head with
chair. Mrs Lincoln was so badly
frightened that she has since been suf
fering from nervous prostration.
The door OF the house had been left
open on account OF the heat. and II
Is supposed the snake glided in from
the yard, and. finding that the foot OF
the bed afforded comfortable quarters,
coiled itself there. ~ ouisvIle Courier.
Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

knew how to put things on the mar
ket and keep them there. 1t is easy
to find good things to push, and diff
cult to find men who can successfully
push them Why? Well, to market
an article requires a steady energy
and ready resourcefulness few people
possess You can walk ten miles in
ten hours, but can you run ten miles
In one hour? Competition may require
the business man to think ten days in
ten minutes or to work twenty hours
a day for month. l was told about
a wealthy American who marketed an
article successfully but who had never
recovered physically from two weeks
of work done at critical period IL
his business.
Down in the heart of Indiana year
ago sat in the office of an energetic
and resourceful man who had forced
the world to stop and think, and pur-
chase his goods AS he finished his
days work and turned to me he said
This work is something fierce-these
people who come in and tell me how
to do things make me tired-they
know about as much about it as
then he got off some special remarks
which we're characteristic of the man.
He was right and he was wrong
Outsiders knew little about the hard
work he had to do to make his big
money, but as great men as he have
been ruined by not recognizing the
telescope wisdom in the suggestions
of some caller or agent Everyone
needs to know more, and everyone
knows something useful. A barber
does not cut his own hair.-Paul Point
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Truth About Barbara Freitchie.

ruin ABOUT barbara FreltCnlc.
The house of Barbara Freitchie was
not on the line of march, and it was,
therefore, highly improbable that any
general Union or Confederate, would
advance against it for the purpose of
shooting either her or her flag. War,
in September, 1862, was too serious
an affair to waste shot on old ladies
who lived on side streets. The real
heroine of the flag incident was
young woman-a Mrs. Mary Guam
trille, who lived on Patrick street. Ac-
cording to the testimony of reliable
persons who lived in Frederick during
the war, this Mary Quantrille was one
of those young and ardent patriots
who got out of their way to shake the
flag in the face of the enemy. THAT
crazy Mary Quantrille." they were
wont to say, will get us all killed
yet, or sent over the line, for her flag
waving" When the Confederates
marched into Frederick, in Septem-
ber 1862, and the wise ones drew in
the starry banners, hiding them from
lawless hands, Mary ran out on the
porch, waving small flag in the face
of the passing troops. One of the sol
diers jokingly called to her that he
wanted the flag to give to Gen. Lee.
Whereupon Mary stoutly answered
that the flag was worthy of better
cause than the one for which his Gen.
Lee and himself were fighting. This
seemed to amuse some of the men,
and one of the officers ordered the
band to serenade the heroine. They
played Dixie" Maryland, My Mary
land" and THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner' in front of her house Mary still
waved the flag, and one of the soldiers,
who did not look gently upon her, as
did his more gallant comrades, came
up and struck the slender staff with
his bayonet. The flag fell, and he
trampled upon it. An officer stepped
out of the line and reproved the man
for what he had done, whereupon a
comrade of Mary's pulled small silk
en- flag out of her voluminous sleeve
and handed it to her. This flag she
waved vigorously as the men marched
on. 1t seems that every one in Pat
rick street knew of this incident; but
there was no talk of shooting on the
part of the Confederates, nor was
Mary regarded as heroine; indeed.
she was called SILLY Era Magazine
for August.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

she was the pet OF the family As the
children were born they were taken
to the barn to make her acquaintance.
Their earliest childhood recollections
were of playing in her stall and Of
watching her lift her delicate limbs
so that they should not be trampled
upon.
Every family event entertaining
the parson, having relatives come,
birthday parties. christenings-th bay
mare took part in. Freed from her
stall she would stand at a front win
dow and be fed with dainties by all
the guests Yet she kept her nerve
and strength, answering to every call
for work Larry put upon her, just az
she had in the old war days,
Decoration day was the proudest
one of the year to her because then
gayly caparisoned. she moved in the
parade with Larry, heard the bugles
call, saw the cleaning bayonets again,
recognized familiar uniforms. To
horses that had not lived what she
had she seemed TO say:
I've lived the real thing. | was
companion of war-to me belongs as
much honor as to the dead"
One day Larry was taken sick and
he realized thar lights out" would
soon be sounded for him. He went to
his end as a man of soldierly spirit
should, his affairs arranged. himself
unafraid. But as he weakened he had
the mare brought out each day to a
window by the side of which stood
his bed and she would stand there by
the hour to take his feeble caresses,
her eyes mutely questioning as to what
he suffered.
So one morning while he ran his
white, knotted fingers through her
name, he said to her:
Grille. the bugles are calling from
the other side; I've got to leave you.
But I'll be watching for your coming"
The wife came in later and found
him asleep at last, the mares bony
head close to his stilled lips.
Now Larry and his wife had made
love match and through the years they
had kept tender one to the other, SO
with his going, although she gave to
the children all the great good in her,
she chung most to the bay mare.
1t was pathetic of an evening to see
her go to the stall where the shadows
were already deep and talk to the bay
mare of Larry.
I'VE miss him, don't we. girlie?" she
would whisper. I'VE want him back
badly, don't WEI"
To which the mare gave quick as.
sent in her own way
Its hard for woman to be with
out her man, grille, after she's walked
with him many years. The children
are good, the home is fair, but, oh.
grille, | want him back again"
The years have been many since the
bay mare. too, went her appointed
way. They came one morning to the
stall to find her dead through old age.
She was decently buried and until
time and weather obl;terated the
board there marked the spot on the
old Vincennes road where she lay a
slab bearing the inscription:
'Larry's Grille III. /. C. in Chi
cago Post
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
The Reformed Bartender

Them Chinks, said the reformed
bartender is tricky lot. It's hard
to keep up with EN-. No sooner do
you think you've learnt all their
lodges than, bin! they spring new
one on you.
When ! was tending bar out West
Chink come in one day anG took
a bottle out of his wide sleeve. !.
Gimme he says. 'blandy. Han a
dolla.'
I" Half dollars worth O. brandy /?
Is that what you mean, john?
Yes, yes, yes
So | filled the bottle for him and
he put it in his sleeve again and felt
in his pocket for money. All of a
sudden he frowned.
No got money, he says. You
wait. Hold bottle. Me fetchee money.
Excuse.
And he handed back the bottle to
me and hurried off, full of apologies.
"A polite heather, thinks / to my
self, as stood the bottle on the shelf
behind the bar
This Chink, though, never returned
50 the next day started to pour his
brandy back into the demijohn again.
There was strange smell around
somewhere. put the bottle to my
nose
BY crinus, / said; the ChinlS
shifted TASKS on me.
THE bottle he had handed back
contained nothin but cold tea. New
York Herald
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Larry's say Mare.

When Larry came home from the
war he brought the bay mare with
him. She had done good service from
the day he captured her from Blu
chanan, the Confederate spy. In Lar
RVS life that was a day never to be
forgotten. He was serving in the 18th
Illinois on detached duty, acting as
scout for Grant and Sherman outside
Of Vicksburg.
Buchanan, disguised as a woman
had entered the federal lines and
gained valuable information. Making
his way out, he found his mare hid
den in thicket, and started for the
Confederate headquarters Larry was
sent to overtake and capture him
He rode black stallion.
The two men met on yellow, wind
ing southern road. Buchanan fired
twice at Larry and missed him, and
then jumped the bay mare over a
fence, into a cornfield, and headed for
distant crib. Larry followed Blu
chanan rode round and round the crib
Larry pursuing.
Suddenly Larry whirled his horse
about so as to come face to face with
his foe They met on the corner. Lar
ry's bullet killed Buchanan; the lat
ters ended the life of the black. stall
lion. Larry mounted the bay mare.
put the dead mans body in front Of
him and rode into camp. That's how
he won the mare.
She was true to him. In all the wild
riding that he did for three years.
scouting for Grant. She never COM
planned at any hardship put upon her.
When he was shot down on Pearl
river and sick almost to the death
hung over her neck, she took the
water and carried him to safety.
On his return to duty she turned
her soft eyes on him and welcomed
him in true beast fashion. One night
he left her in corn brake with the
one injunction;
stay here, grille, until | whistle"
He was gone thirty-six hours and
then came back hard pressed by cav
alrymen He whistled as he entered
the brake and she came to him
straight from the spot where he had
left her. Now he was in the saddle
and off for the fence on the far side.
Twice he turned in the saddle and
killed a near pursuer. Twice the mare
was hit. But she took the fence and
brought him out of danger
With the war over. Larry and the
bay mare came to Chicago and Larry
married.
He drove the mare to cart now
through the stockyards district and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Unless Peace Doth Relan.

We strive for wealth, we toll for fame
We labor after sound and show;
We deem no sacrifice too great
And stake a fortune on a throw.
What splendid triumph shall be ours.
what wondrous rapture In each gain!
How soon we find the grandeur naught
Unless within sweet peace doth reign.
How old the caution Still we fret
For sun and moon. for stars that CLEAN;
we seek the distant. spurn the near
Ana barter substance for dream.
what seas we cross what hills upclimb.
., roses in the Alpine chainl
we ind too soon the prizes fade,
II IN the heart no peace doth reign.
And though our years be humbly spent
NO star of glory in our sky.
NO grandeur cleaning on our way,
But simple duty ever nigh
When love inspires us to each task.
= The roses In our path to train,
How clear resounds the joybells' chime,
For In our heart glad peace doth reign
-ROstOn Transcript.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Dimensions Of CRYSTAL Palace.

The dimensions Of the Crystal Pal
ace. the building for the great ex,
hibition in Hyde Park, London, in
1851, were as follows: 1t was 1851
feet in length and 456 feet in breath
at the widest part. 1t covered IS
acres. The total cubic contents were
33,000,000 feet The length of sash
bar used was about 205 miles, and
the quality of glass about 100000
square feet, Weighing upward of 400
tons The total area of the ground
floor was equal to 772.7S4 square feet,
and that of the galleries to 217,100
square feet. The width of the main
avenue was described as being nearly
double that of the nave of St. Pauls,
while its length was four times as
great. The following comparisons
were made: "The walls of St. Pauls
are 4 feet thick. while those OF the
Crystal Palace are only inches. st.
Paul's occupied thirty-flve years in
building while the Hyde Park edifice
was finished In less than eighteen
months. All the dimensions are null
tiples of 81
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
DOG SAVED LITTLE MISTRESS
Example of Reasoning on Part Of
Household Pet.

Household Pet.
The intelligence and faithfulness OF
dog probably saved the life of Ber.
tina Lackmer, ten years old, by its
strange actions before the child's
mother says the Chicago Chronicle.
The child had gone in the fields
around her home to gather blackber.
ries, accompanied by her pet dog
Nero, and had wandered several
blocks from home, She was about to
cross the street at Harvard and SEQ
vile avenues, when she stepped into
the opening of catch basin which
had been completely covered with
weeds.
The rains had filled the bottom with
water to the depth of foot, and this
probably saved her from severe inju
ries. Nero whined around the edge
of the basin and barked frantically,
but the child had strayed so far away
from any houses that neither the dogs
bark nor the child's screams were
heard.
At last the dog started on run for
home and reaching there, ran up to
the child's mother, who was on the
back porch, and barking at her,
turned around and ran in the direction
of the accident. When Mrs. Lackmer
did not follow it returned and repeated
its actions a humber of times.
Finally the actions of the dog
caused the mother to fear that some
thing was the matter with her daugh-
ter, and she followed it to the basin,
where little Bertha was crying from
the cold.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
English Women Keen Polo Players,

English Women Keen Polo Players.
Life apparently has no value these
days to the woman polo player. who
cheerfully risks 1t in pursuit of the
all absorbing pastime. English women
are wildly enthusiastic about the
sport, and at polo match recently
played between two teams OF women
the Queen herself was among the in
terested spectators. Persons tastes
vary. however, when it comes to rec
reation, and few American girls have
cared to enter the lists against their
English cousins.
Although they are fond Of variety
In their existences. the danger court
ed in this game Is such that II Is diff
ficult for those who Ike to feel a
sense Of security In their pleasures to
see where the fun comes in Women
are seldom seen at a more decided dis
advantage than when 6olo playing,
and the costumes worn are generally
ugly enough TO cause attractive Ameri-
can women to give Il the cold shout.
der. If for no other reason.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Mrs. Dewey Gives Elaa

Dr. Thomas NJ. owen, director Of
the department of archives and his.
tory of. Alabama, has received from
Mrs. Mildred Dewey. wife of Admiral
Dewey, letter relinquishing her own.
ership of the battle flag of the 2Stb
Alabama regiment, captured by Gen
William B. Hazen, the first husband az
Mrs. Dewey, at Orchard Knob. The
nag, which is in the National Museum
at Washington. will be returned IN
Alabama by Mrs. Dewey.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

Mr.. Rockefeller said TO the humor-
lists who visited him: Il am one of you
now" and wore proudly badge they
gave him. Still, he should not com
pete with them by sending jokes to
the comic papers even Eat space
rates"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Screamed II Tonether

Family Friend-Well, how are
things?
Young Preacher-Fine. The congre-
cation actually raised my salary this
month.
Family Friend-How much was the
increase?
Young Preacher-There was no in
crease. They merely raised it, that's
all.-Houston Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Couldn't Hear II.

"The lady who moved in yesterday
deceived me-" said the rental agent
alphabetically. "She said she had no
children, but understand she has
baby. Did it disturb your"
NO" answered Mr.. Flatdweller.
"They tell me it cried some during the
night, but the noise was drowned by
the bowls of Smiths dog and the
shrieks of Mrs. Browns parrot."-De-
troit Tribune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
The Decline of pnstru.

THAT was an exquisite poem you
had in the paper this morning" said
the old subscriber. Where did you
get -it?"
''Eh? oh, the poem?" said the edi-
tor. why l bought it." Then he
apologetically added, you see l knew
the poor fellow who wrote it and l
wanted to help him along"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Movino Cheese.

"Will you start the cheese this way,
please?" said the thin boarder at din.
ner.
TITS not time for cheese yet" said
the fat boarder
mo, but if you start it now it will
probably get here by the time I'm
ready for it."-Yonkers Statesman.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
The MISSING Link.

Them three menu" Farmer Border
replied to a question, "them's our farm
hands"
But" asked the city girl, where's
the other one?"
What other one?"
why, there's always quartet of
them to sing the Old Oaken Bucket
isn't there?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
Natural ENOUGH.

Tess-"Mrs. Foartey doesn't really
show her age at all. does she?"
Jess-"No; it's not surprising, con
sidering all her trouble"
Tess-"You mean it is surprising
considering her troubles she's had"
Jes-"No, mean considering all the
trouble she's taken to conceal it."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
JUST A FEW JOKES
SHORT ITEMS MEANT TO CAUSE
a SMILE.
sad End Of the Once Noble Ranger OF
the JungIe-Writer Was Holding his
own-The Appropriate Thing for
Nuritch's Baby.
A Suggestion.

Mr. sloman-Now, you're joking
again, aren't your"
Miss Waite-Judge for yourself; you
should know me pretty well by this
time
Mr. Sloman-But you puzzle me
sometimes; don't know what to make
of you.
Miss Walte-No? BY the way, did
you hear about Jack Brown and May
Long? He made her his wife yester
day.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

With commendable foresight the Ell
voys used several pens in signing the
treaty. so that the great demand fol
souvenirs viii be to some extent sup
piled.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21
blocked.

"I'm afraid my hay fever is coming
on" said Kloseman. trying to get some
medical advice free of charge. Every
once in while feel an itching in
my nose and then | sneeze. What
would you do in case like that. doc
tori"
II feel pretty sure" replied DIR.
Sharp. that would sneeze. too"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-11-21

ooh, yes, Nuritch's baby was born
with silver spoon in its mouth, OF
course"
ITS curious-looking child; takes
after it's father, doesn't it?"
mo, indeed; IL it took after its
father it would have been born with
silver knife in it's nouth"