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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
NERVOUS DEBILITY
"A Scranton Woman Tells How Or.
Williams Pink Pills Made Her
Well and Strono.

Nervous debility is the common name
for what the doctors term n~eurasthenia.
1t is characterized by mental depression,
nits of the ''blues," or melancholy, loss
'of energy and spirits. The patients eyes
become dull, the pink fades from the
cheeks, the memory becomes defective so
that 1t is difficult TO recall dates and
names at will. Some of tsssse symptoms
only may be present or all of them. The
remedy lies in tOning up the nervous
system and there is no medicine better
adapted for this purpose than DIR.
Williams Pink Pills.
Mrs. Jane j. Davies, of No. 314 War
sren street, Scranton, Pa, says: "Some
years ago / became greatly reduced in
health and strength and my nervous
system became so debilitated that / felt
wretched. Icould not rest or sleep well
at night and woke up as weary and
languid in the morning as l was when /
went to bed. My head ached in the
morning and often there was u pain in
my right side which was worse when ]
sat down. My nerves were on edge all
the time, every little noise bothered me
and l was generally miserable. Then l
decided to try DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, as my husband had taken
them with good results, and they did
wonders for me. Now / have no more
pain in my side, no more headaches, I
sleep well and feel strong and able to
do my work"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills cured Mrs.
Davies and they can do just as much
for other weak, pale, ailing men or
women who are slipping into a hopeless
decline. They strike straight at the root
of all common diseases caused by poor
and impoverished blood.
DrsWilliams' Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists, or will be sent postpaid, on
receipt of price, 80 cents per box, six
boxes for $3.50, by the DIR. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
rbeories as to earthquakes.

The director of the solar observa-
tory at Kensington in England an
n that at the time of the San
Francisco and Valparaiso earthquakes
and those which occurred in 1894 the
spots on the sun were at the maxi
mum of their size. 1t is not known
that the sun spots and the earth
quakes have any relation, but their ST.
multaneous appearance has been OBJ
served often. There is another the
DRY of the western earthquake, how
ever, which is more simple and prob
able. 1t is that the mountains on the
western shore of the continent are
slowly but, constantly being forced up
ward. Occasionally the upturning
strata of rock slip and the result is
destruction to the cities within the
area of disturbance. This theory fits
we'll with the earthquakes on the Pa
eific coast.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
DIFFERENCE IN THEIR MAKEUP.
Water Might Be a Necessity. But Not
for Old Soak.

old Marsh" was a well known char.
acter in Sanford, Mass, a number OF
years ago, who had a tendency to get
full" whenever opportunity offered.
One time he was on the stueet. feel
ing purity good" as he expressed it,
and walked up to a group of young
fellows and said:
Say, do you know where can get
anything to drink?'
why, sure" replied one. thinking
70 ioke him. Il know where there is
lots of good water"
"Huh!" said Marsh. water is the
only thing l do not drink"
"Why, Marsh. don't you know o
could not live without water2'
wall, maybe you couldn't, said
Marsh, with a sarcastic air, because
you look half-hsh anyway; but 1 can
get along without it all right"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
The Efficacy Of PRAYER.

Years ago, an old darby, whose mas
ter had some fine, fat turkeys. made
up his mind that he must have one
of those turkeys and as he tells the
story he sets to work to get 1t by
prayer.
81 pray the Lord" he said, dat he
would send me one of dem turkeys.
1 prayed, that way mornin' and chen
in for a week, but still dat turkey
didn't come, and l tell you my mouth
was just a-waterin' for it. So 1 says
to myself, l must change my prayer
and so l prayed one ebenin' dat the
Lord would send me after the turkey,
and, brethren, dat turkey was here
before daylight"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
From Sandals TO shoea.

The first foot coverings were sand
ais. After these came shoes left open
at the toes, hen the wooden shoes
of the ninth and tenth centuries, fol
lowed a little later by shoes with
long pointed and t~urned-up toes,
which sometimes reached as high as
the knee. Later a shoe was worn
with an exceedingly wide toe, so very
wide that it impeded the process of
walking. Queen Mary restricted the
wearing of this by proclamations. The
proclamation ran to the effect that
shoes should not be worn wider than
six inches.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
WRONG In REVENGE
PARDON rs THE ONE GREAT EN-.
NoBLING ACT.
Surely Two Wrongs Never Yet Have
Made a Right-Truth in Lesso
Taught by Wisdom and
Love-.


So many crimes are committed in
the name of vengeance that it gives
one pause and turns one back TO the
meaning that lies beneath the word.
Once, evidently, men killed at need,
and snatched at greed, and each
mans idea of personal enlargement
was to be a formidable power, holding
out threatened injury and death to
all who encroached. Civilization is
a slow but sure progress toward the
idea that all enlargement is by sym
pathy and service, by tolerance and
kindness.
To return a wrong by another
wrong has never by any mathematical
computation made other than two
wrongs in the world; they have never
produced a right any more than ten
persimmons can produce an apple. To
imagine that a man can enrich him
self by robbery is sheer intellectual
qualification. Whatever a man takes
from another to the others loss and
detriment, becomes the ~impoverish-
ment of the robber, paradoxical as ii
may sound, and another's suffering
can never be our gain. We have
but to look at the spiritual p%auperism
of the unrighteously rich to know
this.
The whole lesson of revenge was
taught of old. There came to live
and to teach in the world Wisdom
and Love incarnate, and men, see.
ing the power and the beauty, and
desiring all power and all beauty in
their W hands, said: Let us tor.
ture and KILL" and this they did
And Wisdom and Love incarnate
spoke and said: "They know not what
they do" and passed on. The re-
venge is that since then Wisdom and
Love supreme are without bodily
form in the world, and men who de
sire it go searching, and lose them
selves in mists and thicket and
swamps, they stumble and fall and
rise again, and hope and despair, and
cry out, but for no yearning, and nc
ayers, and no stretching out OF
arms through the centuries does the
visible form become alive again.
This is the great revenge, to hide
in the shelter of the silence and the
mystery; acts entail further acts
and we become drawn into the mesh
of human in~tricacies and pa%rtialities
But in the far quiet there is peace
for the slain while the slayer wraps
about him the gray isolation of his
acts, and out of his errors come the
sufferings which are the birth throes
of new consciousness.
This is the wisdom of ages that
there is no big and no little, and
betrayal and fulfllment of destiny are
one and the same; men do what is IL
them to do; they act according to the
ideas that have already shaped the
brute world. But in the future, the
least and the lowest of men will
know that there is but n revenge,
and that is pardon.-Harper's Weekly
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Using Kerosene.

Kerosene is an excellent cleanser.
Add some to the washing water IL you
want your clothes TO be extra white.
Use equal parts of kerosene and
machine oil to clean the sewing ma
chine. The kerosene eats up the lust
that clfngs to the machinery as moth
ing else will.
In case of sore throat or chest. rub
thoroughly with kerosene. Take a
very little oil at a time, apply first
with a rag, then rub In with the
fingers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Got ALONG Without Exercise.

Rev. William Davies, a Hereford
(England) vicar. died some years ago.
For 35 years he took no more exer-
else than was involved In walking
from one room to another; he was a
hearty eater, with a marked weakness
for such %appetizing things as hot but
tered rolls Che always had them for
b~reakfast) and roast pork, and he
could make away with a bottle of
port wine after dinner. And yet he
W. had a days illness during all
these years, was the picture of health.
and full of spirits and Energy, and
he lived to enjoy a hearty meal on his
hundred and fifth birthday.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Anecdote Of Robert 3. HItt.

The late Robert r. Hit had a knowl-
edge of stenography which was of
great value to him in debate. He has
been known to rise with his hand full
of shorthand notes of a speech just
delivered to which he was about to
reply n woe to the man who &C
cused Mr.. Hit of misquoting him. He
was the patron saint of the stenog.
raphers of the house. Not long ago
political influence was about to dis
place from the line of promotion a
young expert writer of shorthand from
Michigan whose work Mr.. Hit had
occasion to admire. Mr.. Hit went to
Speaker Cannon. This will never do,
joe said the shorthand authority of
the house. I'VE can't do without this
man. The house must have him" "All
right, HIT" replied Speaker Cannon.
IF anybody knows the sort of stenog-
raphers this house ought to have you
are the man." That settled it and the
Michigan st~enographer held his place.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
New Use For eramonhone.

Drilling native Malay levies by word
of command emitted from a gramo-
phone is the latest instance of modern
ingenuity. Even the Zulu can now
hear his own native songs and war
dances from records made by a Lon
don company, who have sold more.
than 20 machines to swarthy warrior
chiefs in South Africa. Folk-songs of
the Pygmies were recently procured,
and a machine has been dispatched to
Lapland for the purpose, If possible, of
procuring Eskimo f~olk-songs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

Everybody in China works hard,
even those who have reached the high
est positions. 1t is related of a mem
Der of the Chinese cabinet that he
left home every morning at two
o'clock, as he was on duty at the pal
ace from three to six. AS a member
of the privy council he vas engaged
from six to nine. From nine until
IL he was at the wal department, of
which he was president. AS the mem
Der of the board of punishment he
was in attendance from IL till two,
and as a minister of the foreign Of
fee he spend every day from two till
Eve or six there. In addition he fire.
quently served on special boards or
commissions.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Tie Enrtu WInks.

Some people have the gift OF sleep
and others haven't. The secret Of
more than one notable instance Of
beautiful mothers and grandmothers
ia acknowledged &c be due directly
to the power OF sleep, to take a quiet
Httle,nap at n time OF the day. when
a busy afternoon or long evening Is
before them. 1t really seems then'
one of the cIeverest open
to the eternal feminine. this capacity
of capturing 40 winks whenever she
p~leases.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Rnmarkahle coincldences.

Some remarkable condolences are
recorded in the case of two men, Will
liam Connolly and Patrick Cantwell,
who we're dlpwned a short time ago
by the upsetting of a float" on the
Grand canal, neal Tullamore, Ireland.
The two men were born on the same
day SO years ago; they were baptized
In the same water; they were
drowned together in the Grand canal,
and they have now been buried to-
gether at Rahan, Kings county.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Like the klpllng and the Dickens"

Like the klpling and the Dickens"
The p%roprietors of a Siamese news
paper have distributed handbilIs con
tanning the following notice:
The news OF English W. tell the
latest. Writ in perfectly style and
most earliest. Do a murder git COM
NIT, we hear Of and tell 1t. Do a
mighty chief die, we publish 1t, and
in borders of sombre. Staff has each
one been colleged. and write like the
Kipling and the Dickens. We circle
every town and extortionate not for
advertisements. Buy it. Buy it. Tell
each of you it's greatness for good.
Ready on Friday. Number first"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
To RrIahten Up a Carpet.

A carpet looks much cleaner and
brighter If, just before sweeping, some
salt is thrown upon it, or If, after it
has been swept, it is wiped over with
a cloth or sponge wrung out of clean
salt water. This quite removes the
dusty look which SO soon gathers upon
carpets, AMI will brighten the colors.
A cupful of coarse salt to a basin Of
water is the right proportion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
We Make Travel Easy.

Five trains daily via the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, Colorado to Kan
sas City, st. Joe, Chicago. Galveston,
Ell Paso, City of Mexico. Ask me
about reduced rates. c. F. Warren,
G. A., A. T. & s. F. Ry., All Dooly
Block. Salt Lake City. Utah.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

"The boarders don't seem to like
our country vegetables" said Mrs.
Corntossel.
That's funny" responded the farm
err. They ought to 'preciate EN-
They was bought right in the same
town they come from"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
NothIno Else There.

When a fellow shaves himself"
asked young Kallow, lis it necessary
to shave UP against the grain?"
why should you want to known"
asked Elder. You'll only have to
shave down.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Tough Kid.

THAT %youngster of yours seems to
be having his WI way lately. You're
not as strict with him as you were"
mo, 1t was a question of economy
with me-"
Economy"
Yes; every month l used to have
to buy myself a pair of slippers, and
the boy a pair of trousers"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
To Launder White SILK Handkerchiefs.

the ordinary wash, as they are easily
Numbered at home. Make a strong lather
of Ivory Soap and water. but do not
rub the soap on the handkerchief or use
soda. Rinse and iron while damp with
n moderately hot iron.
ELEANOR r. PARKER.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

Origin of EngIand's National Debt.
England's national debt originated
in the reign of William Ill, whose
first loan was obtained In 1894.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce
the brightest and fastest colors with less
work and no muss.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In
hammation allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c a bottle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Like Sheep.

Men whose counsels you would not
take as individuals lead you with ease
In a crowd.-Cato.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

Somehow 1t doesn't sound just right
when a spinster asks for a match.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

Hurt, Bruise or Sprain
st. Jacobs Oil relieves from pain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

About two-thirds of a mans friends
are enemies in disguise.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

Those men who ride on the water
wagon get some awful jolts.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19
MRS. EVA EMERY DYL..

that vast and rich country drained by
the Columbia River.
Sacajawea. when but thirteen years
old, was stolen from her people-the
Shoshones-aud became slave to the
Dakotas. They treated her well, how.
ever, and at the age of eighteen they
sold her to a French fur-trader, Char
boneau. who made her his wife, prom.
Using that he would, in time, take her
to her own people. Shortly after this
the Lewis and Clark expedition, with
its motley band. came along. making
their winter quarters in that section
which is now the southern part of the
Dakotas. The expedition needed
guide, and Charboneau learning of
this, told his wife that by guiding the
party she would have a chance to find
her own people. She offered her serv-
ices to the pioneers, which were ac-
cepted; Charboneau was hired as
cook.
During the winter, while the party
was making preparations for moving
forward next spring, Sacajawea gave
birth to a boy baby; yet, not to be de-
TERED in her hope of again being
united to her people, and with her
baby on her back, she led the party
over the rugged mountains to the head
waters of the Columbia.
Before rehcning lne enQ OIL the jour
ney the explorers came across the
tribe from which the Western heroine
had been stolen. Her own people en-
deavored to persuade her to remain
with them. Sacajawea had given her
word to guide the men to the Pacific
Ocean and she was not to be swerved
from keeping her promise. This is
the story which Mrs. Dye has set forth
in 1.-The Conquest" All through the
book is full of little incidents of the
bravery of the woman guide, how she
saved the band from humiliation at
the hands of an unfriendly Indian
tribe, the leader of whom was her
brother. Mrs. Dye brings out into the
light the story of Lewis and Clark
themselves, in which they give SAGA
jawea the credit for having saved their
lives and having made possible the
success of their expedition.
And SO this country now gives recog-
nition to her services through the
agency of woman. A statue has been
erected to woman through the aid
of woman; Miss Alice Cooper, of Den
yer, was the designer; Mrs. Dye and
her woman friends procured the funds
for the monument and a woman con.
tributed the necessary metal.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19
Paris Statue of ErankIin.

The two hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Benjamin Franklin on the
nth of January has brought to light
the regard with which that philosopher
and statesman is esteemed, not only by
Americans, but by foreigners as well.
The memory of Franklin, as first min
lister of the United States to France, is
much revered in the capital of that
country. and it is quite fitting that the
first statue to him in a foreign cline
should be unveiled in Paris.
AS early as May % last Mr.. John II.
Haries, at present the resident mem
Der in Paris of the firm of Morgan, Har-
jes e Co., formulated an offer to Paris
officials of n bronze statue of Franklin.
While it was originally intended that
the gift to Paris of the statue should
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19

among them NJ. Witte and General
Kuropatkin.
The Persian minister was bedecked
with the grand cross of the Persian
Order of the sun and Lion founded in
1S0S by Shah Feth-Ali, and the highly
cherished decoration of that monarch.
1t is bestowed for conspicuous military
or civil sevices to Persia. In its centre
is seen the rising sun and the lion
rampant, Persia's emblem.
As Worn by Weyler.
Spain was represented by her accom-
plished diplomat, Senior Don Luis Pas
tor. In the centre of his order is the
white enamel cross and the once pow
erful crest of Leon and CASTLE, sur
mounted by the Spanish crown. "Al
merite militar" dor military merit is
inscribed around the crest. General
valerano Weyler, the former "butcher,"
Captain General of Cuba, wore it as
his great emblem of valor.
Portugars Royal Military Order of
Christ, founded in 1917 by King Denis
l. was displayed by the Viscount de
Alte, the literary Portuguese minister.
The cross. in field of white enamel.
is surmounted by the pierced heart
and surrounded by jeweled crown of
thorns. The decoration grew out Of the
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19
They Read the Senator's Lips.

Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania. con-
Quoted a remarkable kindergarten
class in lip-reading by deaf mutes in
his committee room in the Capitol the
other day. His pupils were half a
dozen youngsters of both sexes from
the Philadelphia Home for Training
Deaf Children in Speech. an institu-
ton supported by Miss Nary Garrett,
who has devoted her life to the work.
Miss Garrett wishes to broaden the
scope of the institution by turning it
into a sort of national normal school
for the instruction of teachers in the
art of lip-reading. With this object in
view, she is seeking an appropriation
of 100000 from Congress, and her
visit to Washington with half dozen
of her pupils was to interest Senator
Knox in the project.
She told the Senator what she had
accomplished with totally deaf chill
dren. mostly taken from the slums, who
had been committed to her charge and
educated in reading the lip movements
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19
Respondent DIPLOMATS.
Grand Display of Jewels at Presi-
dents Reception to Foreign
Representatives,

President Roosevelt's reception to the
diplomatic corps, Thursday evening,
January 4th, was one of the most
brilliant functions the White House
has ever presented.
The foreign diplomats and their sec.
retarics and attaches, in rainbow-hued
attire, their breasts bedecked with
gold. silver, enameled and jewelled
grand crosses; their gold hilted swords,
sashes, belts and gay colored chap
eau, We're resplendent living pictures
of chivalry's romantic age.
Courteous, yet dignifed, these repre-
entatives OF knighthood's gallan-
ry and gentleness charmed the vast
assemblage With their speech and
manners.
French. by long usage. is their official
and social language. But many diplo-
mats speak all the Latin tongues and
the others of continental Europe.
The White House echoed the speech
of nearly all civilized nations. The
corps unfailing apprecia-
ton of the ladies, their clever bon
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19
STATUE OF SACAJAWEA.
Story of the Indian Maiden Who Pilot
edLewis and Clark-Resuit of
Moman's Work.

Mrs. Eva Emery Dye. Of Oregon
City, Ore, wrote a book on a very old
subject, but she treated 1t in another
way. This book. THE Conquest" was
the history of the Lewis and Clark ex-
pedition, with which every school
child is familiar, but she brought out
most refreshing incident showing
the invaluable services rendered the
expedition by one woman.
A number of women of Portland
Ore. banded together under the name
of the Woman's Club, felt in duty
bound to honor the memory of that
one woman. Sacajawea. Mrs. Dye was
elected president of a Sacajawea
Statue Association. With woman's wit
they found various methods to acquire
the necessary $1,000 to erect the
statue Even with all the money pro.
cured the association found itself in
a uuandary until Mrs. Henry Waldo
Coe. through the generosity of her
husband. came to the rescue with the
copper for the casting. And this lat
ter gift was by no means inconsider
able, for it means nearly ten tons Of
pure copper. not to speak of the ex-
penses for smelling and shipping the
ore across the continent.
And after all it was but fitting that
this statue should be erected. for had it
not been for Sacajawea. the Lewis and
CLARK expedition would never have
lived to bring under the American flag