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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

and caught hold of straps. AS luck
would have it they happened to stand
directly in front of the disappointed
candidate for matrimonial honors.
Quick as a flash the rejected one saw
her chance for revenge, and she
worked it for all she was worth.
Pray take my seat, madam" she
said.
Dodson's wife sat down. She did
not recognize her rival and accepted
the offer gratefully. Then was when
the other woman got in her work
Il never can bear to see those old
ladies stand in a car" she said in a
loud voice. ut is hard enough on US
young women, but for a woman who
is fat and has gray hair it's positive
cruelty"
Dodson was so mad he couldn't
speak. II is a cinch that when he
gets ready to marry a third time the
spinster with the caustic tongue won't
be the winner.-New York Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Drugs IN Popular Us

A London chemist has assured me
that he sells on an average of 100
bottles of chlorodyne a week, and
knows that per cent of his custom.
ers are addicted to the habit.
Among the society women arsenic
is in great vogue. largely on account
of its identifying" effects.
Those who are more concerre /
with brilliancy of conversation than
OF complexion give the preference
to sal volatile and ether. Ether drink.
ing as a secret drug habit is especj-
ally popular in London, and during
the season large quantities of the mix
ture are sold.
Some women fancy various a-o-
matte extracts, such as eau de
cologne, lavender water, etc. AS these
extracts are often made with the
coarsest spirit, the result of this tip
ping may easily be imagined.
Another addiction is the ginger
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Put Cardinal Under Arrest.

Very few knew that the present
pope was once arrested. He had visit
ed a poor man dying and stretched
on the bare ground. On retiring to
bed the thought of the poor man
without a mattress came back to the
prelate. This was too mucn for his
fatherly heart and, without more ado,
he rolled his own up as we'll as he
could and slipped out with it on his
shoulders. But he had not bargained
for the watchful police and he was
presently in the custody of two Vene-
tian gendarmes. AS soon as they rec.
ognized him, however. they took
charge OF the bundle themselves and
carried 1t to where the good cardinal
directed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
scotch Funeral Custom.

Natives of the northeast coast OF
Scotland observe a curious custom at
funerals. After the burial service the
comm is carried outside the house ana
placed upon the two chairs on which
It had rested within doors. AS soom
as the pallbearers lift up their bur
den and begin their journey to the
graveyard these chairs are at once
thrown sharply on their backs. In
this position they are kept until the
interment has taken place. when they
are taken indoors again. ANY attempt
to place the chairs on their legs or
10 take them in before the proper
time is at once frustrated by the rsl-
Rtives of the dead.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Defects in Modern Bread

was informed a few weeks ago by
a gentleman who owns large flour
mills that TIE craze for white bread
is being carried to such extremes that
many millers are putting in expensive
machinery for the purpose of actually
bleaching the flour, says ccrrespon-
dent of the London Times.
This is being done by ozone and
nitrous acid, the object being to make
an artificially white bread and to ena-
BILE grain to be used which would
otherwise give darker color to the
-four.
The development of the grading
process during the last few years has
been such that the oldfashioned
stones have been replaced by steel
rollers actuated under great pressure.
The germ and other most nutritive
constituents of the wheat are thus to
a great extent distracted and the val
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

liable character of the bread greatly
reduced.
1t is the opinion of many who can
speak with authority on the subject
that bread. instead of being. as for
merly, the "staff of life" has become
to a great 6agree an indigestible, nom
nutritive food, and that it is respon-
sible, among other causes, for the
want of bone and for the dental trou.
b!es in the children of the present
generation.
1t is doubtless true that the variety
of food now obtainable in a measure
compensates, in the case of these who
can afford it, for this abstraction of
phosphates; but l think l am iusti-
fed in stating that every medical
man, If asked. win give it as his opin-
ion that very white bread should be
avoided and that seconds" flour, now
almost unprocurable. should only be
used for bread or pastry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

INTO a peal of laughter that wrecked
their Would-be suitor's hopes.
Barbasse had consulted every opt,.
clan in France. But each and all had
said:
A mere trick of nervousness, my
dear sir 1t viii pass away with adj.
vancing age"
But What good would It do Francois
to have normal eye at co? He wonId
be hitter for his grave than for a do.
nestle freside by that time.
Accordingly, you may understand
the poor mans feelings as he left
mis- house that cold, gray morning.
1t was February and a high wind
was blowing, a wind that scattered
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
The Coward.

The ni~ht tefore the battle met
He sang the splendor of the fray,
TIL all our legions, hard beset
Took heart against another day.
He sang the thurder-swift attack.
The shock of shields, the overthrow;
The shout that roared the chorus lack
Startled the camp fires of the foe.
The harps' hour passed. Dawn heard
aiCne
The high heroic bugles' cry;
But ere blade had crossed his own
The singer turned his horse to fly.
They slew him as he fed the field:
But all day long the foe in vain
Shattered against our spearsmen steeled
With memory of his noble strain.
So half fell foul into the snare.
And half sped splendid to the goal
What earthly trit une can declare
The doom of this divided soul?
Frank Little Pollock in the Atlantic.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

Francois Barbasse left his house
Lane morning in the frame of mind c.
i man who has decided to jump of
|he Eifiel tower.
Evidently there was no luck in life
FOL him. For the tenth time in less
than year he had that morning re-
leeived letter in his mail that dealt
"a death blow to his hopes. A lette.'
|ihat contained q polite refusal 10 his
|oler of marriage made the week be.
toe,
You must not think that this lette-
came for the tenth time fiom the
|fame hard-hearted beauty. No, in.
iced! Francois Barbasse was not
|tspable of such opportunities. Be.
sides, the real truth of the matter
vas that it was not a woman he so
|alently sighed for; it was a nome
aad conjugal happiness. He dreamed
lof sitting at the head of his own table.
wien nothing would ever be served
tfbt could possibly suggest the meru
|oi boarding house. And he longei
'ir coy fire where he might smoke
AAh pipe in peace and listen to the
he chatter Of pretty wife.
For Francois Barbasse waa by no
peans insensible to feminine charms
Ne had fallen desperately in love with
kle. K, whose beauty had for
loag seemed to him the perfection of
'sarthly grace.
For long time he suffered in sill.
|saee Then at last he ventured to
impose.
Poor Francois. His request was met
viii clear and firm refusal; a no
vreathed in polite excuses, Lut new.
|esheless a no.
Then for six months he was miser.
'asle indeed. at the end OF that time
|As tried again.
But Mile. c. was no kinder than
Vie, Z had been.
Fresh disappointment, alas! for
ynncols Barbasse.
4 month later. with a third young
Pay. he made a third proposal. The
8sesult was still the same.
and thus 1t went. From one mo"
10 the next, he descended the silken
|hdder of grace and beauty that led
~ marriage.
Consequently, the letter he had re-
viewed that morning wounded only his
|pfne. His heart was not affected.
Put why, do hear you ask. did poor
BafbaSse get SO regularly and sadly
|ulpwn down on his proposals?
Why! This is treading on delicate
around.
francoise Barbasse was the best
N good fellows. always attentive to
|'as old ladies as we'll as to the young
|oass, young, rich and a good dancer
INhat more could have been required
I'M very model OF lover or son.in
1ut alas! all these advantages were
Esaoered as naught by a small. but
Rafible infirmity.
y bis calm moments, Barbasss
||Alght even have been called fairly
|s'qolooking, but at the approach OF
III emotion, however slight. he would
n to wink with enc eye in such
I. naiculous, unexpected way that the
~ serious people on the face OF the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Fore SITS Of a Po e {

1 am soon to make a voyage to a dis
tant foreign land
Where I'll take possession OF vast
estate:
There are grounds of matchless beauty
and a palace great and grand
Which grim death caused an ancestor
to vacate.
I'll be honored with title. be in favor of
the king,
Be revered by many thousands. high
and low,
And to royal style OF living will never
do a thing
It's a fact, Tor a clairvoyant told me
so.
I am soon to write a poem that will
send a lightning thrill
Through the reading world all DER the
whirling earth,
And viii lift me to the summit OF the
literary hill
bic hearth.
I'll be diademmed with honor when
lay the burden down
And am summoned up where good
poets go,
And will sleep beneath a monument near
good old Denver town
That's no fable, for palmist told me
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
The First Umbrellas.

Those who suppose that the mn
brella is modern continuance will b@
surprised to learu that umbrellas NAV
be found sculPtu-ed on some OF the
Egyptian monuments and on the Nine
yah ruins. That umbrellas bearing m
close resemblance to those of to-day
were in use long before the Christian
era is shown by their representation
in the designs on ancient Greek vases.
The umbrella made its first appear
ance in London about the middle OF
the eighteenth century, when one
Jonas Hanway. 1t is said, thus pro-
tected himself from the weather az
the cost of much ridicule.-Harper,s
Weekly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Value Of EueaIxrtu. rres.

The Australian eucalyptus tree in
being grown on large scale in south.
err Europe and northern Africa be-
ceuse of its tendency to drain
swamps. This was formerly supposed
to be due to abundant exhalation OF
watery vapor from its leaves, but il
has been shown that actually the
Transportation of the eucalyptus is
only one-half or one-third that OF
willows, birches and other trees. and
It is therefore sumed that the pie
nomenon in question is due simply to
the rapid growth NJ the eucalyptus.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
HORSE RODE TO FUNERAL.
'ronIe End to Career of Hard.worked
London Animal


London Animal.
mere Is true and pathetic story
Oh bus horse. It was told to me a
uay or TWO ago by medical friend of
'uiiie VINO has an extensive and Pc
lunar practice in the south of London.
one sunday morning, during the hot
test Gays, he was asked to come round
10 an omnibus yard as quickly as pos
slDle' II seemed that one of the
horses, driven to desperation bv the
neat mad insisted on climbing into the
Dus' instead Of taking it's proper DO.
sllion alongside the pole. The stable.
men had endeavored to get the animal
out OF the bus, but the poor horse.
curing The course of the struggle. had
plunged its head through one of the
windows and cut its neck. The doc.
tor' unfortunately, arrived too late to
De OF service, with the consequence
mat the horse bled to death. And
mere comes the ironic sequel of the
grim little tragedy. Even when the
morse was dead the men were unable
70 remove the body from the inside
OF the omnibus, and thus it happened
that they were compelled to harness
Two other horses to the vehicle and
araS the corpse to the nearest car
penter show, in order that the bus
might be taken to pieces Truly, it is
better to die glor.ously that to live
out life of hateful and ignoble bond
age 1t would be interc sting to know
tha thoughts of the ether bus horses
on seeing their former comrade riding.
Ike any gentleman, through the
streets of London.-The Sketch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Maturity of Trees.

Though there are oaks living which
are known to be mors than a thou
sand years old. the average oak does
not live more than seventy-five years.
That is to say. its growth extends
over that period. The same is true
OF the ash. larch and elm. The spruce
and fin reach maturity after about
eighty years. At the end of that time
their growth remains stationary for
some time and then their decay be-
gins.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Good News for All.

Bradford, Tenn, Nov. 21.-(spe-
cial)-Sc.entifc research slows Kid
ney Trouble to be the father of so
many diseases that news of a dis
covery of sure cure for it cannot
fail to be welcomed all over the coun-
try. And according to Mr.. ]. A. Davis
of this place Just such a cure is found
in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr.. Davis
says:
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are all that is
claimed for them. They have done
me more good than anything l have
ever taken. | had Kidney Trouble
very bad, and after taking a few boxes
of Dodd's Kidney Pills am COM
pletely cured. cannot praise them
too much"
Kidney Complaint develops into
Bright's Disease, Dropsy, Diabetes,
rheumatism. and other Painful and
fatal diseases. The safeguard is to
cure your kidneys with Dodd's Kid
ney Pills when they show the frst
symptom of disease.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

l am soon to meet woman who has
millions at command
Who Will steal my unsuspecting heart
by stealth,
And beside her at the altar ere a six
month / will stand
And be lifted up from poverty to
wealth.
II to me is not revealed what DISPOSE
ton / will make
OF the wife on whom / now my love
bestow;
But know the coming fortune is no Wis
ionary fake,
For spirit through a medium told
me so.
l will yet amuse the people OF this glo-
rious western land
With my stingless jests and merry ling
ling rhyme.
TIL my funny bone is wishered ana the
pen falls from my hand
And the bells hung in my brain have
ceased 10 chime
Then I'll pass away regretted by admir-
ers OF my pen,
In humble tomb await the trumpets
blow,
Then will rise to realms OF glory and
take up the work again
Common Sense. the Great Forecaster,
tells me 50.
james Burton Adams in Denver Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
OLDER THAN THE CHINESE.
clIff Dweliers a Race That May Even
Antedste Far cathay.

clIff Dweliers q Race That May Even
Antedste Far cathay.
Older even than China, the oldest
existing nation, are the cliff dwellings
CT southwestern United States. homes
OF a race whose very name has per.
ished from the earth. Explorers, puz.
cling through the Mancos and Casa
Verde canyons of Arizona and New
Mexico, have found the houses of this
strange people in the widest and most
inaccessible Of the mountain sides.
Did the cliff dwellers antedate the
pyramids of Fgypt? Were they OF
blood relation to the early inhabitants
Of the land where the Si'a is god.
Some students are prepared to ans
swer both questions afr atively ana
to give what is to them abundant
prccf. The pottery from their long,
wrecked homes suggests Egypt. and
the few inscriptions found have SIM
liar suggestions. Mummies. bodies
wrapped in cloth, feathers from the
breast Of the turkey have been dug
from burial places among the cliffs.
and. in bone and hair much unlike the
Indian of to-day, there is a hint of re-
semblance to more Oriental tyre. I
the cliff dwellers left any decendantA
however remote, they are do1btless
the Moki and Zuni Indians. who. re-
sembling them in habits and appear
ance, are their closest Linsmen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

from Long Island, how on earth can
ever live without YOU
Dawes wife read that gush and a
lot more Just like it without ever turn.
ing hair.
"'Well,' she said. coolly, that girl
is a fool. If she knew you as we'll as
do she would be wondering how on
earth she could ever live with you.
And that, in the opinion of the dis
eliminating few, cuts a whole lot
deeper than common. everyday rum
pus. New York Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

How has so dainty a drink
as tea gone over the world
SO far. and made friends so
many?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

ciasped her in his arms. And in spite
OF the Joy of his emotion, both eyes
were steady and well behaved. His
leit eye, once so impish and so danr
aging beamed with a perpetual smile
~ was made Of glarsl-Boston Herald
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
It,s All In the Point Of View.

"Most men," sand the man of expert.
ence, think it must be awfully nice
to have a wife who takes things as
coolly as Dave Potters wife takes
them, but others, more discriminating
would prefer a good. horest row to
her quiet cynicism. The way she be-
haved the other day when she found
a letter in Dawes pocket from some
girl over in Brooklyn is an example OF
her quiet manners.
"T don't see, wrote the Tragic Muse
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

WI eouid not keep from laughing.
IL os one eye was wet with emo
aket u SHINING with tenderness, the
asre "Uuiu commence its Internal
|dsno heneath the winking. blinking
Ill Eye ball would rush back and
III al Itating and contracting, as II
' himself.
j we poor ladies' were scarcely
<Nva II ut Francois first words
o"u ion"'0" they should burst
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
TEA

promotes light thinking and
light conversation. Tea time
is the time for light thought
and talk.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03

Are you acquainted with
tea? Is it tea that you
know? Are you sure you
know tea?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-01-03
Needn't No Walters
Wiring Here.

............s... ...............
New York Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-18
Notice to Corporations and Hold
erS of Charters.

Pursuant to the provisions OF section
~ Of No. 90 of the Acts of 1904 enti-
tied can act relating to corporations
and charters therefor (being number
ed 92 in the newspaper publication
corporations organization under the
thereby, notice is hereby given that all
laws Of Vermont having capital stock
or deposit, except cemetery associations
and such corporations as are organized
solely for charitable, religious or edu-
cational purposes, are annually re-
quired by law to pay to the state on
or before the first day Of March an
annual license tax and to make proper
returns therefor; and that all such cor
porations which shall neglect or re-
fuse to pay all annual license taxes due
to the State of Vermont and to make
proper returns therefor on or before the
first day OF April 1906, shall cease to
exist as corporations subsequent to said
last named date.
Pursuant to section IL aforesaid no.
tice Is also hereby given that some one
or more of the ineorporators named in
each charter granted by Special Act OF
the General Assembly or some one Or
more Of the signers of the several ar
/ ticles Of association for the voluntary
formation Of corporations, respectively
under which no organization shall have
/ been had, must pay the tax imposed by
tsections 81 and 20 respectively Of No
20 of the Acts Of 1904 and make return
therefor as herein provided, on or be-
fore the first day Of March in each year;
and that all such charters and articles
of association for which no tax shall
have BEEN paid and for which no return
shall have been made on or before tbs
first day of April 1906 agreeably to tht
provisions OF the statute, shall on said
last named date become null and void!
but that none of the foregoing provis
lions shall apply to any corporation
which shall not be liable to the pay
lment of the annual license tax.
Notice Is also hereby given to all cor
porations, incorporators and signers O
Iarticles of association hereinbefore nam
ed, calling attention to all Of the pro
visions of No. 20 and 90 Of the Acts O.
1904 aforesaid, relating to the non-pay
ment Of taxes and to the legal effect Q
the same.
Blanks for the returns herein required
may be had upon application to the un
defsigned addressed to him at Burhng
ton, vt.
10th day Of January, 1905.
j. e. CUSHMAN,
| Commissioners State Taxes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-18
DOING THEIR DUTY.
Scores Of Barre Readers Are Learning
The Duty Of The Kidneys.

To filter the blood is the kidneys duty.
When they fail to do this the kidneys
are sick.
Backache and many kidney Ills follow.
Urinary trouble, diabetes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them all.
Barre people endorse our claim.
veteran Geo. w Hunt (retired). Miles
Block says "When / went to r. A.
browns drug store In the winter Of 1897
for Doan's Kidney Pills / had been sub
iect to attacks Of dragging heavy pains
In the small of my back. extending down
wards. They were particularly In evil
dence after hard days work or II
exerted myself In any way. Many q
night Mrs Hunt has rubbed my back
with liniments and applied hot water
for the slight ease those makeshifts af-
forded. | was so pleased at the respite
received from the almost constant pain
that when Doan's Kidney Pills stopped II
/ endorsed them publicly ! have had no
reason TO alter my opinion in the In
term. l can add to my own experience
that OF others who have used Doan' 5
Kidney Pills and are just as enthusiastic
about the benefit received as l."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no substitute
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-18
WARD cAUcusES.

Those who are qualified legal voters
in March meeting in the following wards
are hereby notified to meet on Saturday
evening, February 18th, 1905, at z
o'clock for the purpose of placing in
nomination candidates for the following
named offices, to be supported at the
coming annual March meeting:
Ward One, An Alderman for two
years; a School Commissioner for three
years; meet at Church street school
building.
Ward Three: An Alderman for two
years; a School Commissioner for three
years; meet at Summer street school
building.
Ward Five: An Alderman for two
years; meet at Blackwell street hose
house.
Ward Six: An Alderman for one
year; meet at City Court room.
BY order Of the Republican and Dem.
ocratic City Committees.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-18
rwo INrEREsrINe RELIcs.
St. Albans Man Has Revolver and Can
non BAH With Historic Associations.

ST. Adams, Feb. ISIS. Sampica OF
Lake street, who has charge OF the re-
pair work Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co.'S lines in this section, is
The owner Of two relics with which he
refuses to part The first is an old
"pepper-boxs revolver, made in 1897
This revolver is entirely unlike the mod
ern revolver in that there IS no cIyin-
der, so called, but there are, in place
Of it, six barrels which all revolve at
each shot from the revolver. Mr.. Sam
plea picked the revolver out of the
dirt on the battlefield Of Gettysburg,
when there some thirteen years ago on
his wedding trip.
The second curio is an old cannon
ball found while digging postholes near
the Rouses Point bridge. The ball or
she'll, which weighs four and half
pounds, was dug out Of the earth some
i've feet below the surface about forty
ave rods from the Vermont end of the
bridge. Mr.. Sampiea believes the shell
to have been fired from gun in Fort
Montgomery, about mile away.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-18

COLONIAL STATIONERY
was crude at It's best We know Il i
the fashion to PRAISE everything that
IS old, but il isn't fair.
OUR STATIONERY
IS entitled 70 as much respect IS that
ef Washingtnn's tine. L i Just a.
good azd ininisssy nera graceful and
pretty. CheaPers too. hy great desl.
Want some