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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

safety of her own room. II never
meant to do It l didn't care, really l
didn't, If the valley brimmed over
with men who wanted to make me less
lonely. But l couldn't resist you.
had to write wee note when you
came-and then You may put your
naughty faces together and laugh if
you like. It's just that I'm lonely" she
whispered. TITS unbearable, the lone
liness-since no longer have my work.
! wonder?"
June came and drifted away; July
was ushered in; the summer rested on
the mountain-top like a full tide that
has no ebb, and, as day followed day,
wheeling on, more than one mountain
top dweller saw the change in Miss
Carleton.
How strong she is growing; how
beautiful" they would say as she
passed. And 1t was true. Under the
influence of the letters that were laid
at her plate morning after morning
from a man whose very name was
unknown to her, Tor he signed himself
simply, "The Man in the Valley" her
nature was sweetening, seeding at its
core for larger, dcarer life.
did you ever write letters to q
woman you idealized, DIR. Herbert?"
''In my Lochinvar days, Miss Garlic
ton" the doctor said.
"And did something come between
you? And did 1t hurt so? Is thai
why you left big city practice ant
came 5000 feet up to minister to ugly
coughs?"
mo" said the doctor, gravely. 'r
had a better reason. Isn't makinl
you well and sending you back reason
enough for my being here?"
Sending me hack?" in sudden ter
TOR. But I'm not goingj l ate my
heart out to go back when | came, bu
now-now-"
When the silence grew heavy be
tween them the doctor spoke again
Fl once knew a chap who wrote letter.
10 woman-a white slip OF woman
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
Highest Dam in World.

What is said to be the highest dam In
the world has been built on the Salt
river, Arizona, and will submerge and
completely obliterate the town OF
Roosevelt. The work is well under way,
and 1t is expected, says the Iron Age,
that by 1908 the town will be 172 feet
below the surface of the water. tits ex-
pected that the head obtained will be
the means of securing abundant power.
A temporary power plant, cement
mill, ice plant, and saw mill have been
completed. A telephone line has been
installed to the head works of the power
canal, Is miles above Roosevelt, and ex-
tended in the other direction to the site
of the great dam, which is 80 miles from
Phoenix.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
a SUMNER ATTRACTION.
How to Make a sEy-Banner Kite
Which Will Prove Useful as
Well as Interesting.

The use of sky-banners to announce
the location Of picnics, fairs and other
outdoor occasions, as we'll as to ad-
vertise theaters and local stores, will
be a common sight this summer.
Some Of the kite operators show per
forming dummies Of men and ami
mails, which at a height of several
hundred feet appear to be a genuine
performance. These are alternated
at short intervals by pulling in the
dummy and running up the banner.
Such display made recently over the
principal retail street in Chicago so
congested the street that in five min
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

tie force yet employed has only an odd
job of patching or the fashioning of an
anchor stock occasionally. The swirl of
smoke from the tunnels of lake levia-
thans is covering Chicago river and hid
ing forever the picturesque character
who labored in oak with chisel and
plane for the rearing of Chicago's tower
of prosperity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

Mexico, and that liberal advertising has
led to America getting over half the
trade. One important point in which
this country has an advantage is the
cordially and good-fellowship with
which the foreign buyer usually is
treated by manufacturers when he
shows, through visit to this country,
his desire to become acquainted with
its productive capacity. Mr.. Leay re-
marks that Mexican merchants com
plain of the inaccessibility of business
principals when the former go to Eng
lard.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
MOT Am Dead.

Dead little town you've got here
isn't it?" said the passenger with the
heavy watch chain, as he ordered 8
cup OF coffee and sandwich at the lit.
tie eating house near the railway sta.
ton
Eyes. sir" answered the man behind
the lunch counter. Nobody ever
comes here but body snatchers or poor
relations of the deceased. Which are
youg"-Chicago Tribune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

II is related that Col. Charles W..
Larned. professor Of drawing at West
Point. stood In the sunshine under an
elm. THE spring is rather backward,
sir" said cadet ooh. no" said Col.
Larned THE daffodils, the crocuses
and violets are backward. sir" the cadet
insisted. respectfully. Nevertheless. .
said Col. Larned. there is no doubt
that spring is really here at last"
Why. sir. do you think sol" the cadet
asked. Because all the comic art
lists" said Col Larned. have now be-
gun to put vegetation in their back.
grounds"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

rush of the modern age of steel. There
still exists along the river, however, the
type of hard-sinewed workman whose
adze and plane swung busily in the days
when hundreds of wooden craft crowd
ed Chicago's harbor and races by wind
for thousand miles were common
events in the lives of hardy lake mar
iners.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

Year by year the numbers of ship
carpenters dwindle. Year by year the
stout fleet of lumber craft, which braved
the gales of Lake Michigan in the days
of old has dwindled. To-day there is
pitiful remnant of the once prosperous
fleet and the ships earn a precarious
living. No more of them are built. The
steel giants of commerce are crowding
them out of existence. With them is
vanishing the ship carpenter. The lit
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
Gas Industrv Of Rritain

The gas industry in Great Britain,
according to the Society of British Gas
Industries, consists of 1880 gas COM
panies and local authorities, and sup
plies 100000 consumers. The London
companies. e., city and suburban
within the ten miles radius--included
in the foregoing have $4,000 con-
sumers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
Ns psrmansntlr Rieh.


II In quite unnecessary in this coun'
try, says DR.. Charles w. Eliot, Of Har-
ward, IN Worlds Work, to feel alarm
about the rise of q permanent clasa
OF very rich people. To transmit great
estates is hard. They get divided or
dispersed. The heirs are often unable
to keep their inherited treasures, or
IL, by the help OF lawyers and other
hired agents. they manage to keep
them, they cease to accumulate, and
only spend. This is one of the natural
effects on his children of the very rich
mans mode OF life With rarest excep
ton the very rich men of to-day are
not the sons OF the very rich men Of
30 years ago. but are new men. 1t will
be the same 80 years hence. The wise
rich father will try to put his sons
into those beneficsnt professions and
occupations which have strong intel
lsctual and moral interest, and in
which pecuniary independence is
distinct advantage Such are the pub
lie service in elective or appointive Of
fees, the ministry, scientific reasearch,
social service. and the management OF
charities and of serviceable endowed
institutions. Inherited wealth enables
young men to devote themselves early
to these fine employments. which are
not pecuniarily remunerative, but yet
possess the highest sort of interest and
offer all the rewards of beneficent In.
fiusnce among men.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

Reform has already progressed so
far in Russia that man there can
now think anything he pleases, pro-
vided he exercises due care not to
mention his thoughts to anybody. or
to act in accordance with them If they
are at all progressive.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

We are spending at fearful rate.
and much of the expenditure has, for
the nonce, no offset except paper
profits. The land is full OF nouveaux
riches who, as the slang goes. think
they have money to burn" and their
womenfolks are lettering the instruc-
ton. The cost of building and living
has thus been raised to level on
which it cannot rest for very long. AS
the old adage hath IT, Put a beggar
on horseback, and he will ride to
the devil" From the present out
look the record viii be broken by the
Jockeys who are now in the saddle.
After awhile the season of repose. re-
pentance and economy win come
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

The prominent lawyer who asserts
that women are responsible for 80 per
cent. of the divorces is too conserva-
tive. Make It 100 per cent. II wom-
en- did not accept proposals, of mar.
giaga there would be no divorces.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
THE MAN ON
THE MOUNTAIN TOP
BY SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN
(Copyright, by Joseph b. Bowles.)

The morning he had dropped down
beside her, as she sat aloof from the
hospital inmates in her special corner
OF the portico, he was awaiting direc-
tons for his days tramp.
She had suddenly felt herself a
ghost chained to a walking cough, but
with strength still left to creep into
the sunshine and watch the passing of
this vivid, eager eyed, sun-browned
young woodsma1.
His eyes had paid irresistible tribute
to the wistful glance from her eyes,
and when he left, the violets that he
held in his hand as he waited, toying
with them idly, lay on the chair be-
side her. Vaguely moved and feeling
that something in each had crossed
the bar of sunlight that lay on the
floor between them and touched in
greeting, she had lifted the frail
woodland violeIs and pinned them on
her gown.
Impelled by he hardly knew what
impulse, the doctor of the mountain
top hospital had heen watching Miss
Carleton as she read a letter. For
month he had been watching her
Women were not much in his line-he
hated the symptoms they poured over
him and fed from them, and their To-
quacity-but the silence of this wo-
man who asked no questions but sat
day after day, her listless hands fold
ed, her listless eyes on the shining
ranges that lost themselves In the sky,
irritated him.
Misc Carleton laughed-a low little
laugh.
The doctor looked at her dumbly.
He hadn't heard her laugh before, and
he wanted to say that he had been
feeling old; that the gray hairs thick
ening in his dark thatch had depressed
him vaguely; bu. that it was all a
mistake; that lie was deliriously
young. bubbling with youth and buoy
ancy since-since a moment before
when she had laughed.
"Violets," the Doctor said maybe
two weeks later. Aren't they COM
ing pretty often? The women here
say you get them every day. I'm
glad they're interested in your affairs
anything is better for them than
bending over those eternal waists they
embroider."
ITO wear in heaven" Miss Carleton
flung in saucily
And 1t relieves me from talking
cough to them-I get mighty tired of
talking cough. I'd rather hear about
letters that come every day; rather
smell violets-"
But Miss Carleton was gone.
You're laughing" she complained
tc the violets, having reached the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
"Hello" Just Grew

Did Edison invent the telephone
hello" doubt the story. To say
hello is older than the Edisonian
nils. Nothing is more natural than
70 say Hello, FONT" Hello, Doc!"
Hello, Hank!" Hello, John!" No
one learned 1t of Edison. Like Topsy,
It grew.-N. Y. Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
Health Of school children.

Proper attention to the health of
children is an excellent civic invest
ment. A great part of the diseases
which develop as chronic in after life
could be obviated by closer medical
superstition of children's health. Els
pecially defects in hearing, eyesight
or teeth can be checked In early life,
while In later years they become too
confirmed to yield to treatment. The
investigation of the board of educa-
ton have shown that a majority OF
the school children have either de-
fective eyesight or a tendency to bad
vision. 1t is now proposed to sx-
anime the school children's teeth al.
80. This experiment has been tried In
Germany, where attention to the
teeth has improved the eyesight and
the hearing by improving the diges-
ton Of the children treated. II is as
necessary for child to have sound
senses and good bodily health as mem
tai development. In the majority OF
the occupations at which the present
school children of the present will in
future years earn their livelihood,
sound health and good physique will
be OF more value than education frills.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
Premature Death.

At Utica, N. Y, young man dropped
dead in restaurant just after giving
his order. If he had fallen a corpse
after getting the check it would hays
been easily understood.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
SHIP CARPENTER VANISHING
onrush of the Modern Age of Steel
Is Driving Him Out of
Business.

Quaint old craftsmen whose labors in
years past went for the upbuilding of
Chicago's lake commerce have seen
their fates fall in hard lines with the on
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03

There are signs. says a Washington
report, that Alice Longworth is bring
ing up her husband properly. In fact,
the idea is afioat in Washington that
he is fairly we'll tanned already. He
has gone shopping with his wife more
than once. ITO be sure" says an
ofticial in one OF the departments, he
went shopping with her before she
was his wife, but that doesn't count.
It's the shopping he has done since
then that makes or breaks the rec
ord. The antenuptial shopping was
expected. The postnuptial-well, un-
I'll II is done the tanning has not been
accomplished. The Washington rule
for judging whether the husband has
been tanned is to invite him to go
shopping in one OF the department
stores before lunch. II he does, he
has been broken TO double harness."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
Cordially Helnine.

A few hints to British merchants late
ly given by Mr. Leay, English consul at
Vera Cruz, states that there are few
British brpses of AMI Importance in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
In the Usual mau

Friend-Do thoughts that came to
you long ago ever return?
scriobler-O, yes-if I inclose
stamped envelope.-Stray Stories.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-03
MIS-. vanderbilt,s Thimble.

Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt rejoices In
the possession of veritable thimble
of that excellent needlewoman, Queen
Elizabeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

While our stock meets all the requirements of the general public, we are equally prepared for those who come in search of the quaint, who are foes to the con- monplace, and would have their gifts expres- sive of a strong individ- uality. No other house in Alabama can make the showing which we do in designs that are out of the ordinary and are difficult to dupli- cate. You are cordially invited to call and go through our establish ment. It will be a pleas ure to place ourselves at your service, and we assure you that you will never hear a word about buying unless you choose to say 1t. Let Us suggest that you make your selections of gifts as soon as possible and that you shop in the earlier hours of the forenoon, before the throng arrives, and at the time when salesmen are bright and buoyant, and enthusiastically re- sponsive to the wishes of customers. Under such conditions shop ping is a delight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

through, sometimes in jet almost as if from a brick-making machine. The tail of the shield is usually divided into compartments, in each of which is a sliding door. Through these doors 1t is possible to excavatae ahead of the shield and even for the men to advance beyond the diaphragm, as the wall of the shield is called. When the ma terial is not quicksand, the compressed air will itself hold up the roof of such an excayataion, the pressure used at the ordinary depth of tunnel being about thirty or thirty-five pounds to the square inch.
 If the tunnel is being built through rock, the men advance ahead of the shield with pneumatic drills and blast the rock away in a huge circle, through which the shield can safely be pushed. Even when working in rock. it is nee essary to maintain the air pressure to keep the water from Altering down from the river through Assures. When working through silt or sand above ana rock below, the "apron" devised for the McAdoo tunnel is used.
 The shield is pushed ahead by cir cle of hydraulic jacks extending from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

telescope. which was reilly discovered by the children of an old spectacle
 maker. They were playing with thelr fathers lenses, and in their play put
 two lenses together. Surprised at the ability of these glasses to bring dis tant objects closer" they told their parent, and he then worked out the telescope, with the aid of Calico. To fire in a snuff factory years ago is due the present method of producing the finest snuffs, and now to the sano agency is due an Improvement In the handling, perfection or improvement
 of champagnes.
 The California Wine association s
 building at the time of the great San
 Francisco fire had about million gal Ions of sherry stored in the upper
 rooms of the building in S0,00O-gallon casks. The fire soon destroyed these
 casks, the boiling sherry descending to 1 the cellars or vaults, where was stored
 some 100000 quart bottles of cham 1 pagne. The immense and continuous heat of the conf1agration, for two days
 and nights, kept the sherry constantly | at the boiling point. When the clearing up came after the fire the sherry, being | filled with refuse of all kinds, was sim ply pumped out into the gutters, and there was found about 10000 bottles of the champagne unbroken, with a flavor that was pronounced superb and unapproachable, though at an expense that could not we'll be repeated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
TUNNElING UNDER A RIVER.
How Huge Steel Shield Is Pushed For
 ward Inch By Inch.

The crucial point in tunnel building is the shield Without it subaqueous tunneling, as we know it, would be i'm. possible In non-technical words, the shield is like the cover that fits over tin tea canister. It caps perfectly the advancing end of the tunnel with it's "face" and shell" extending back sey- eral feet over the completed tunnel wall. Inside the hood the tunnel is con. structed in rings composed Of a num- Der of segments with inwardly project ing flanges which permit them to be firmly bolted together When finished, the tunnel is usually lined with con crete, though some are bricked, making in either case perfectly smooth wall. On each side is shelf for wires and pipelines; it also offers foot-path at about the height of the car windows, for use should trains be stalled.
 If the tunnel is being pushed ahead through silt, it is sometimes possible to shove the shield forward without carrying the debris back through the tunnel, the silt simply sliding away from it's face. If the mud does not slide away so readily, it is often possible to make room for the advancing shield as it's cutting edge bites into the soft material by opening a door in the shield and letting the mud come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
NEWEST CULT
Is Scienceocracy, and It's Object Is
 Race of Ideal Men.

London Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Manchester has produced a new school of thought which has been christened Sciensocracy.
 Its followers believe that in days to come the rule of many will be superseded by the rule of science.
 Their first general principal is freedom of individuality. Under it's sway men would regard bread and labor as the fun damental religious laws of life.
 Cciensocrats say that every man should participate in the production of those things of which he enjoys the fruits.
 Government, they further say, exists only that one class may keep another in subiection, and they advocate the adop- ton of a definite, consistent and scientihc policy.
 The conservative party exists, according to the followers of the new cult, to ad- minister the country in the interests Of the rulers. The liberals exist as means of checking the conservatives, while the labor and socialist parties seek to break down the authirity of the others and substitute plutocracy by democracy which might be more evil in It's eHects.
 The sciensocrats seek to achieve their
  what they call "Sciensadivisum, na- tional assembly of scientists convened for advisory work and open to every man or woman with an idea which could be ap- piled to the affairs of life.
 Instead of making laws as governments now do, through parliament, the sciens- advisum would make laws through It's administrators, 1t being a belief with the followers of this school of thought that social science could be accelerated just as mechanical science has been.
 They want to increase the rate of hu- man evolution, to bring order out of chaos, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and ultimately abolish preventible disease and death.
 They desire to build up race of ideal men and women, who shall have oppor- tunities of realizing "a life such as hith- erto the worlds greatest thinkers have only dreamed about"
 The application of science to life will, they consider, restore the people to health, wealth and prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
MT. Law Saw Things.

Winsted Comp Dispatch to the New
 York World.
 J. T. Law had three nerve-racking ex- periences while walking from Mlllerton to Sharon last night. and as a result good ly number of the hairs on his head are white today instead of black. Following is his story
 AS l entered the woods at Indian Lake a mammoth animal, the size of an ee- phant, white as snow, with eyes like two moons and horns like a reindeer rose up in my path 1 gave one yell and the mysterious thing vanished, as quickly as it appeared, without making any noise.
 Reaching the old ore pit on the crest of the hill at the state line, where the Mo- ravian missionaries were massacred by the Indians many years ago, the same ap- partition loomed up in my path, but this time 1t was red as fire with eyes glaring like two block signals. I shut my eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Not Good for Mummers.

Of interest to theatrical managers and merchants with travelling representatives is new railroad map device just installed in the booking office of Charles Dilling- ham, to enable the manager to see at a glance the location of each of his many companies on tour A peg hole indicates every important town and city in the country. Small pegs with tags bearing the names of the managers attractions are moved about to correspond with the attractions changing routes.
 David Montgomery, of Montgomery &s Stone, Dillingham; stars now presenting the big Blossom-Herbert hit, "The Red MIL" got sight of the map for the first time one day last week.
 "A good thing for managers, but of no use to actors" he remarked.
 "Why?' some one asked.
 Tt doesn't show any railroad ties," he answered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Traces of Cock Fighting.
n the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
 Many traces remain in popular speech of the hold that cockfghtng gained on Great Britain during those centuries through which it was even an official in- stitution in boys schools. That beats cockfighting'' may be going out of fashion in favor of "that takes the cake" now that the former supremacy of the sport is being forgotten; but we still speak Of living like fighting cock" though "liv- ing like race horse' might be more in keeping with the times When we say that man "dies game" or that we are game" for anything we are commemo- rating the game-eoek's spirit. The white feather" Is an allusion to the fact that such a feather in a fighting cocks tall