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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Great Pasoda at Rangoon

Rangoon, the principal city of Bur
ma, grew up around the sacred spot
on which is built the great Shoay Da-
gon pagoda, one of its principal won
ders. Rising to a height of $50 feet,
its size is greatly enhanced by the fact
that it stands on an eminence that is
itself 166 feet above the level of the
city" says a writer. 1T is covered
with pure gold from base to summit;
and once in every generation this gold
is completely renewed by public sub
scription. Yet throughout the inter
val the process of regilding goes on
perpetually. Pious people who seek
in this way to express their venera-
ton and to add to their store of spir-
itual merit climb up daily with little
fiuttering packets of gold leaf, which
they fasten on some friction of its
great surface. There is no more pic
turesoue sight offered by it than that
of a group of these silken worshipers
outlined against its gold. in the act of
contributing their small quota to its
splendor. The pagoda itself has no in
terror. It is a solid stupa of brick
raised over a relic chamber"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
THE Death DIM in an automobile performed by Mile De ~

Bang Bang! They hit the upward
rointing end of the second loop at tne
same moment But they do not ami
bilate each other as one expects those
hurting bodies to do; one strikes the
loon underneath and the other ABOVE
The one who has been upside down
n,nirls around below, and even as MS
wbeel rights, he is hurled on again.
once more reversing his course, 70
lean lean through the air second ume
and bounce with a shock onto pat
form whence he rides on onlo the
found aU The other in the meantime
Sas reached the end of his runway
mas mas - also shot off and upward to a
n nnt at the opposite side
what next? The circus people can A.
,mosine. But the chances are Una.
s sr,r somebody is trying 70 peat
.Sase two feats already Win some.
me-. .nvss even more wildly spectacular
and deadly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Present of Gold and silver CONN.

The anniversary of Pr BismillaA
Shah, near Victoria Terminus, Bonn
bay. having taken place recently,
Mr.. Haridas Valji, who has keen re-
gard and great esteem for the said
Pr. has presented to the Durgha Of
this Pr a coffin made of gold and sill
yer. with some eptiaphs engraved on
it, and valued at 5000 rupees. The
coffin is indeed beautifully made and
the engravings in gold have added
much to its high workmanship.
The coffin was brought out of the
residence of Maulvi Sayed Zaminul
Abedin Rafai and Mutavallees of the
Durgha at Jail Road at about z a. m
to take it to the Durgha at Victoria
Terminus. The procession left for the
Durgha at a. m. with the recitation
of Maulud. While passing through the
Mussulman thoroughfares flowers
were thrown on the bier by the Mus
sulmen. The procession reached the
Durgha at $3.50 a. m, where after due
ceremony the coffin was placed. After
distributing sweetmeats the procession
dispersed. Distribution of flowers and
sweetmeats end vote of thanks to
Mr.. Haridas and those present con-
cluded the meeting.-Bombay Cosmo-
politan Review.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Changed It's Mind.

AS mamma was preparing her boy
for breakfast she said: How many
cakes can Eugene eat for his break
fast this mornIngz"
Il can eat four, Mamma"
Seated at the table, his appetite
seemed to have materially diminished,
for he ate only one of the cakes.
Mamma thought you were going to
eat four cakes this morning. What is
the matter?7
Well" said the five-year-oId, my
stomach changed its mind"
1t occurs to us that the wise mans
stomach often changes its mind" as
in this case, but too often that much
abused organ is so pressed upon as to
be convinced against its will, though
of the same opinion still, and, yield
ing to the demands Of an abnormal
appetite, finds itself wishing the real
man had been master over the lust Of
the flesh
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
THE DOUBLE
SLcop THE GAP y

fore the season was ended, dozen
plans were on foot to beat the act.
Fitzgerald himself beat it by going
iown the same terrible declivity in
tie next season on an automobile.
His bicycle had been improved on by
two men who few the staircase on a
single wheel, one standing on the
oher's shoulders and firing off pis-
tO as they sped.
Along came another man who rode
IN an enormous cage made Of Stats set
widely apart. Gradually, as his veloc-
lty increased, his wheel climbed the
dde Of the apparatus till he rode at
right angles to the stats. Before long,
three men were riding around in the
cage. Then others found that the act
would look more thrilling if the cage
we're lifted high in the air and had no
bottom to it, so that any accident
you'd certainly hurl the performers
outward and downward like a cannon
ball,
Then came the loop-the-loop freak,
and the public said that this surely
vas the limit. So thought the circus
people themselves. They figured that
there might be some modification of
the thing, but that the limit of daring
mortal injury and death for wages had
probably been reached at last
Yet within two years the loop-the.
OOp ride was lost before the loop-the'
gap ride, and in the same arena an
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

this, till, completing the circle, the
thing is RICH. side up again and goes
careering along the incline to the
ground.
Auto bolide, they call it. The ride
lasts four seconds. 1t is to be done
twice a day in this country. That
makes eight seconds a day or forty
eight a week, which makes her salary
81. 1000 for less than a minutes "work"
a week
But how many persons would take
the ride one single time for the whole
weeks salary or for the whole sea
sons earnings?
The bicycle Loop-the-Gap has been
out.freaked and out-thrilled, too. The
circus crowds of the season will see
two inclines facing each other and
each ending in the familiar loop with
the break or gap in it. The gap has
been vastly extended so that there are
more than 80 feet of open space now
for the riders TO leap.
A rider starts at each summit. The
two wheels cash down, apparently
bound helplessly toward each other.
One. arriving at the end of his loop,
which inclines backward over itself,
is hurled violently upside down and
catapults in a direction reverse to his
course. At the same instant the
other rider shoots into space from the
tippedup end of his runway, and the
two whiz by each other in mid-air.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

clothes" for $4,000 a week for ber and
brought her over as its star attractson
Tor the season of 1905.
Tnis new thrilling freak ia a nre,,v
woman Maurlcia de Tiers is her
name.
she seats herself in an automobile
high In the air on the top OF a skele.
Ton structure as tall az a fiye-storv
Dulidlng. Before her the runway
points almost straight down till II
reaches a point about midway from
the ground. There it turns inward
underneath itself, like vast hook
IL looks as II, once started from ,ts
glddy resting place, the heavy automo.
pie must surely fash down the IN.
cline and drop wildly of into spare
the moment it reaches the dip where
the roadway disappears.
The machine, with the little whit.
clad figure in it, rips downward with a
roar. 1t dips down like lightning. still
clinging to the roadway, but upside
down, shoots on into the air with ifs
occupant head down. and the next mo
ment strikes the up-tilted segment OF
wooden roadway more than thirty
feet away with a crash. Still upside
down 1t darts down the under side Of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
a Centennial ceIebration.

The people of Fayette, Ohio. recent
" showed their appreciation of the
favor conferred on them in having in
their community a fine old lady who
has rounded out the full measure of
Mrs. Amelia Dubois was celebrated
by hundreds of people who met to do
her honor. The public schools were
closed, that the children might Join
in the celebration. In charge of their
teachers, they marched to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dubois and escorted
them to the opera house, where an in
teresting program. in which many
prominent people of the neighborhood
took part, was carried out.
One pleasing feature was the pres
entation by the children of a quantity
of flowers the money for which had
been collected among themselves.
The interest shown in the occasion
by the people of Fayette and surround
ing towns is evidence of the high
esteem in which this remarkable old
lady is held. Every faculty of her
mind is alert and responsive, and her
brown eyes still retain their attract
i've sparkle. She is an accomplished
needlewoman, and still spends much
time in preparing dainty gifts for her
friends. Mr.. Dubois, to whom Mrs.
Dubois was married sixty-one years
ago, is no less remarkable than his
wife. The unusually healthy and &C
tive old age of this fine couple is a
testimony to the value of their simple.
natural. peaceful life of activity. Com
menting upon this. the Fayette Review
says:
zones relation to the ALL are so
simple that 1t is not necessary for
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

with ordinary care and caution, acct
dents might be altogether eliminated
He said the other day:
1T is a shame that horrible fatal,
ties so often occur in automobiling
1t is a shame that, at motor races, ii
is possible to hear what l heard not
long since.
AN important race was to be run
but at the hour of starting there was
some delay. The people became i'm
patient over this delay A man in a
brown ponyskin coat accosted one Of
the officials, and l heard him say:
1.-The race was scheduled for 2, and
here it is almost 3. What is the
trouble? Why all this waiting?'
1.-The official answered politely:
1.-The ambulance surgeons, sir, have
not yet arrived
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

Mner rider was laundering nightly
uOwn an incline so sheer that no man
Ouia climb it, dishing up another and
saplng from the end of it over more
Aan twenty-five feet of space to the
uPulted end of still another.
inese things looked pretty hard 10
Seal and they were. But they have
l0een beaten again.
IN Europe to-day woman is max
s what the program calls "a Flight
~ me Moon" High up in the top Oh
re building is painted canvas MOON
Spposite 1t is the up-tilted end OF one
=, enese loop-the.loop contrivances'
aug woman flies along on her Wheel
ANS on the very end of the dizzy
~ ,VSu and goes spinning clean across
~ arena, high over head, till she
=. S'Aes the moon, which opens ana
2Aes In her and her wheel.
scarcely had the people of Europe
~ ~ time to gasp at this before "a
~ SslAn woman came out with some
ss lung that was indeed worthy of being
s'eu the biggest thing yet"
% dig was 1t that the American CIR
W. Promptly went "down into It's
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

The British Medical Journal recent
ly devoted eight pages to a discussion
OF the best means for the prolonga-
ton of life. The greater part of this
space was occupied by a lecture re-
Gently delivered by Sir Herman Web
er, d. D., z. R c. P, before the Royal
College Of Physicians of London. and
the main points of his advice were as
follows:
Moderation in eating, drinking and
physical indulgence.
Pure air out of the house and with
in
The keeping Of every organ OF the
body as far as possible in constant
working order
Regular exercise every day in all
weathers; supplemented in many
cases by breathing movements, and
by walking and climbing tours.
Going to bed early and rising early.
restricting the time of sleep to six
or seven hours. eve question the
wisdom of this teaching. Most people
require eight hours sleep; some
more.)
Daily baths or ablutions according
to individual conditions. cold or warm,
or warm followed by cold.
Regular work and mental occupa-
ton
Cultivation Of placidity, cheerful
ness and hopefuIness Of mind.
Employment of the great power OF
the mind in controlling passions and
nervous fear
Strengthening the viii in carrying
out whatever is useful. and in check
ing the craving for stimulants, ano-
dimes and other injurious agencies.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Hothouse PIants.

The following abstract from the
Cincinnati Laneet-Clinic in regard TO
one of the worst evils of modern child
life is very timely:
Refinement in matters Of social
life proceeds hand in hand with re-
finement in other lines as civilization
advances. From the standpoint Of the
physician and Of the anthroPologist.
it is a question whether the physical
side of mankind is improving or de-
generating.
The method Of bringing up chill
dren. especially in the families Of the
well-to-do. is too often a serious men
ace to the child's health and develop
ment- Too much indoor life, too
much supervision, too little freedom
of motion ami viii is undoubtedly the
cause of the many weaklings seen in
the families Of the wealthy. Such chill
dren have the characteristics OF hot
house plants.
The remedy is. of course, to do away
with the surplus care and attention
bestowed on the child, to let the child
do more for itself. have more free
dom. more fresh air, more play with
other children. Foods and medicines
are only temporary helps for child
weakness
Nature is its own best doctor. and
in the end can take care OF dollhouse
children" if fond parents viii only
give her the chance.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
TASTE TELLS ONE LITTLE.
UnassIsted by Sense Of Smell, Onions
and po4z41a. A. Affka

Unassisted by Sense Of Smell, Onions
and Potatoes Are Alike.
do you really think that you can
distinguish the tastes of potatoes and
onions?" was the unusual question
that Prof. Burtis Burr Breese asked
his psychology class at the University
OF Cincinnati the other morning.
Il have yet TO see the individual
who could tell them apart when they
were reduced to the same consistency
and when the sense Of taste only was
used"
At this point Miss Luella Latta, a
member Of the class, showed some evil
dences Of doubling, and the professor
asked her II she would not exhibit TO
the class exactly how discriminating
her sense of taste was.
He explained that he did not have
the potatoes and onions on hand. but
that he had something far more de
cided in it's taste and quite as familiar
to most people.
Then Miss Latta was asked to steI
up to the rostrum and when she was
seated Prof. Breese told her that she
must not breathe through her nose
that is, she must rely altogether on the
taste and that he was certain she
would be unable to distinguish the
three things that he then proceeded
to give her separately.
She failed. quite as the professor
predicted, and he then told the class
that Miss Latta had not been able &c
tell wintergreen from peppermint oil
peppermint from cloves.
"In fact" he said, none of you car
tell the difference simply by the sense
Of taste. The taste is aided greatly
by the sense of smell All you really
taste is sweet and sour, salt and bit
ter."-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
LIFTS MEN OUT OF RUTs.
Merchants System Gets Work from
His Employees.

Merchants System Gets Work from
His Employees.
A well known employer. whose force
S one Of the largest in the country,
aas a syEtem Of wedding out dead
timber" among his employees. This
nan is a philanthropist. He helps
more men TO find themselves, possibly.
han any dozen training schools. His
system is philanthropy elevated to the
highest plane. When he notices that
e man begins to show signs that he
is falling into a rut at one kind of
work he promptly changes him to
some other kind of employment If
there also his disposition is to become
mechanical IN his work, he is shifted
again. Two or three changes will
either put him in place where he can
expend his energy to the best advan-
tage of himself and the house, or show
decisively that his sphere of activity,
IL he has any, is somewhere else
Then he is discharged.
81 absolutely will not have men in
my employee who fall into a rut," H
the way this employer puts IL. i
don't want machines in my Office. !
want men who know enough to i'm
prove themselves as the years go on,
and who are progressive enough to
be Just little ahead of their jobs, so
that if need man to fill the position
Just ahead will have man to take
and promote. The man who stands
still is detriment to any business"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

BLOT ON STATES GOOD NAME
l Unsanitary Condition in Prisons and Stun, Dtx
8 tricts Crime.


Since the attention Of the Chicago
authorities was 50 forcibly called to
the conditions present in the peniten-
tiary other states have been inyesti-
eating.
The rapid growth Of tuberculosis
among prisoners in the Joliet, Ill. pen
itentiary, attended by marked in
crease in the prison death rate. has
aroused the officials to action. An in
yestigation and reform is to be insti-
tuted by the State Board of Health.
The members Of this board do not
deny that under the present conditions
all efforts to combat the disease are
hopeless. Better general sanitary con-
ditions must be established or it will
be impossible to prevent the spread Of
tuberculosis to all the present prison
ers and to all who may be so unfortu-
nate as to be sentenced later.
This is another instance Of the state
forcing its citizens to live under con-
ditions which mean almost sure death.
1t is surprising In this day Of enlight-
eminent that the state should allow its
citizens to live, voluntarily, in unsani-
tary homes. Yet it does. The resi-
dents of the slum and tenement dis
tricts are dying from faulty santa
ton and bad hygiene. But more the
state forces some others TO spend
from one to ten years in a dark cell
from which they so often come, strick'
en- By the great white plague
wrecks of their former selves and a
continual expense to the community.
With the message of prevention
and cure" of consumption in every
paper let the state not forget its pris
oners who must silently suffer what
ever fate is decreed for them
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
He pidnr Smoke.

Several Of the villagers were seated
around the stove in the general store
at Selkirk yesterday afternoon when
Coroner Ray dropped in on his way
back from a call just below the village.
The Coroner invited all hands to have
a good cigar and only one of those
present failed to respond.
Don't you smoker" queried the Cor
oner.
81 reckon not" was the reply.
well. have something else" said
the Coroner.
VERY WELL" said the tardy one, look.
ing around, give me two loaves OF
bread Albany Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
RISK LIVES TO GIVE AMUSEMENT
Daring Exploits of Freaks" Who Court ~. - ~
mat Make Spectators Gasp s IA'

daring. reckless flirting with
w Cor the purpose of amusing the
20 -. which has gone to such ex-
~" lengths during the past three
p'r ~, years, will this coming season
~ a limit almost inconceivable to
l. average mind.
me nthrillers" which will thrill the
sIic during the summer have been
P'v sso.od by those human freaks"
L.g the past winter, and some of
w. have already been put on" in
~ York. They are real "thrillers."
w. :. the past few years ingenious,
"a Incredible schemes have pressed
'rs ,;tbout a break. so that there has
.slv been a year when the freak OF
season was good enough to be the
lr,sk Of the next.
me circus people themselves won.
where the nerve of the freaks is
,,g 10 stop. They really thought, or
rbsr feared, that it had reached the
~, when Fitzgerald, the one-legged
I, rode down an almost vertical
s.At of stairs from the top OF Mad,
q Square Garden to the arena on a
s,,cle But if they wondered what
.Sd be found to follow that thriller
AZ had their pains for nothing. Be
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Rejected Candidates

1t is reported that at recent ex-
animation of candidates for admission
to the Naval academy at Annapolis
only eleven out of twenty-five were
found suficiently sound physically to
be admitted. The whole twenty-five
passed the mental examination, but
fourteen of them were unable to pre-
sent the necessary physical require
mnts. This fact is fair index OF the
rate at which the physical decadence
of the American people is progress
ing. Insanity, idiocy and epilepsy are
all increasing at very rapid rate
three hundred per cent within the past
fifty years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Beyond.

Never a word is said
But 1t trembles in the air.
And the truant voice has sped
To vfbrate everywhere;
And perhaps far on in eternal years
The echo may ring upon our ears.
Never are kinds acts done
To wipe the weeping eyes,
But. like flashes OF the sun,
They signal to the skies:
And up above the angels read
How we have helped the sorer need
Never a day is given
But Ii tones the after-years,
And il carries up to Heaven
Its sunshine or its tears;
While the to-morrows stand and wait
The silent mutes by the outer gait
There is no end to the sky,
And the stars are everywhere:
And time IL eternity,
And here is over there.
For the common deeds Of the counmo
day
Are ringing the bells in the far away.
Henry Burton.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
A SUPERINTENDENT Victim.

The papers recently reported the
death at Cripple Creek, Colo, of a
woman who, three years ago, while
visiting the slaughterhouse Of the Ar
mour Packing company in Chicago,
was completely paralyzed on one side
as a result of the shock produced by
the sight of the terrible tragedies
which are constantly being enacted in
that great killing establishment This
victim of slaughterhouse horrors is
only one of many thousands who meet
their death through the slaughter
houses every year. II may not be
said, indeed, that the death can be
traced so directly and Immediately to
the slaughterhouse as in this case, but
the multitudes of men and women
who die OF equity disorders, rheuma-
tism and other maladies resulting
from uric-acid poisoning might enjoy
many years Of life were it not for the
deadly dose OF uric acid and other poi
sons derived from The products of the
slaughterhouse-me eaters disor-
ders, among which must be included
trichina and tapeworm, tuberculosis
and possibly cancer as well as those
which have been traced directly to
uric acid.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

anyone to transgress. Instinct, that
mysterious principle that protects and
preserves all creatures, would protect
us If we did not bury it under an ay-
alanche Of artificialities. Our falling
away from nature is what kills. Our
getting back to it viii reyivffy, and
this principle Of sticking to- nature In
what one sees so distinctly in these
grand old people"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27

tanned by the speaking voice, and the
disk is not left to itself to vibrate
ireely-takes only about a thousandth
OF second to get into full swing.
rms has been ascertained by DR.. r.
Kempf-Hartmann, recent German in
vestigator. who studied the motion Of
the membrane by rejecting a spot Of
hight from mirror, attached to it, SO
that the light would leave its record on
moving Photographic film. From
such records he obtained a set of
curves for vowels, diphthongs, and
consonants, and also for other sounds.
The membrane takes only two swings
to attain its full movement and after
that the curve is steady.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-06-27
Suit Rolls.

Suit rolls. which are something like
enlarged music rolls, come as a new
wrinkle to athletes. especially base
hall. lawn tennis and golflng men, this
season. Really they are intended to
keen out wrinkles in the clothing. Be
sides a place for a pair of shoes, an
outing suit and shirt may be laid fiat
IN the roll and the strapped into a
neat bundle. They come of canvas or
leather with handles like those on a
shawl strap.