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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

in quality and liquid r~efreshment pro
duced under the sum-.
The wine merchants of Europe call
us a nation of label drinkers, and the
reason is apparent. Thousands of
Americans journey to Europe yearly,
and, owing to the phenomenal adyan-
tages offered, have large sums of
money to spend, and as a rule they
contrive to spend it in whatever man
ner will attract the most attention.
There is no keener student of human
nature than the European hotelier.
He will, with the most servile bow
and extravagant gymnastics, send
away a bottle of choice wine, that has
not found favor in the serving to a
party of diners, whose knowledge of
the beverage is based on the price OPP
posite the name of the wine on the
card, and substitute a cheap, strong
liquid, with every assurance that had
he known the gentlemen desired the
best they should have had it at first.
New York, Ohio and California now
produce some of the choicest wines
IIOuu1Gu III liz d4n III IL q
very difficult matter to market them
against the foreign wines. An early
fault Of the American sparkling wine
was it's sweetness and it's alcoholic
strength-faults now overcome. A
dry wine is an imperative condition
to popularity now. The Latin palate
is adjusted to sweet wine, but the
English and American champagne
consumer of today wants a "brut"
wine.
While some writer's credit the origin
of champagne to the Benedictine monk
Dom Perigon, the careful students
of the subject know him for a blend
er and improver of wines, while the
production of champagne dates from
the Gallo-Roman days; but the cult
walton of plantations required for this
wine did not become properly devel
oped until the fourteenth century.
Several New York club n many
private residences have what can
safely be classed as among the choic-
est collections of wines in the world.
There are also many wine buyers who
visit the leading sources of supply in
the interest of their clients, and keep
their cellars stocked with the choicest
and oldest wines obtainable. When
the late Queen Victoria sherries were
sold a large percentage of this wine
came here. In one cellar there are
nearly ten gallons of Madeira brought
to this country by Lord Baltimore.
There is port of 1775-1S11 and 1920,
stored away in one cellar, New Eng
land urn in the days of the P%uritans,
brandy and whisky long past the 100
year mark in many places and choice
collections of champagne. Old col.
lectors have quantities of every
known brand of sherry fifty a old.
New York Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

A son of the late Henry Ward
Beecher is, we are told, holding a
minor clerkship in the Seattle city
~treasurer's office. The only question
of public interest in a case of this
kind is based upon the hope that he
will be competent and honest in his
calling. There is no reason in the
world why a Beecher should not earn
his living in an ordinary vocation, and
no reason why he should wish, in so
doing, to conceal his identity. The
older Beechers, men and women,
worked diligently and were not
ashamed of work. Harriet Beecher
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
MADE BOLD BID FOR LIBERTY.
convicts in Berlin Prison Figure in
Remarkable Deed.

ConVicts in Berlin Prison Figure In
Remarkable Deed.
Three conyicts of the Moabit pris-
on, Berlin, recently made an attempt
at escape which reads like fiction.
The men, whose names are Baranow-
ski, Goldbach and Muller, were serv-
ing terms of penal servitude, and DC.
cupied adjoining cells. They com
~municated with each other by tap
ping out the Morse code on the hot
water pipes, and arranged to carry off
the tailor's shears from the work
shop where they were employed, to
attempt to bore a hole through the
walls of the cells. They set to work
as soon as they were locked in their
cells, and continued their labor for
six hours unperceived. Baranowski
and Goldbach bored passages into
Muller's cell. which stood between
them, during which time Muller was
at work forcing an opening through
the roof. They helped each other
through the attic to the roof, by
which time day was dawning and
diminishing their chances Of escape.
Out of bits of cloth which they had
taken from the workshop they had
manufactured a rope, by which they
proceeded to lower themselves from
the roof 100 feet to the ground. Ba.
ranowsk and Muller slid down safe
ly, but Goldbach fell from a height
of fifty feet and broke both legs
Baranowski and Muller left him
where he lay and proceeded to scale
the outer wall. Muller, who was the
slower of the two, was seen on the
top of the wall, and was re~captured
but Baranowski got away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Peruna Is Exempt.

The internal revenue commission
er has decided that Pe-ru-na as TO-
manufactured is exempt from internal
revenue license.
The highest medical and pharma-
ceutical authorities in the United
States have passed upon the product.
1t must be highly gratifying to the
many friends of Pe-ru-na and the local
commercial world that the product
which has carried Columbus name
into all continents, again enjoys the
same fixed status as any other recog-
nized medicine.-Columbus Dispatch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

alton for the support of the realm, it
is also a fact that the liquors of two
centuries ago were almost without
exception produced by and invented
by the jewellers in the mountains.
The natives of North America are
almost the only uncivilized races with
out an intoxicating beverage of their
own invention and production. The
Kafir and Zulu have their beers, the
Hindoo and Malay their palm toddy,
the Chinaman his sam-su, the Japan
csc his saki, Central and South Amer
leans have their carasha, Mexico has
it's pulque and mescal, either of which
if introduced extensively to the Amer
lean throat and nostril would do more
in the temperance field than all the
bands of prohibitionists in the land,
as the former resembles liquid limbur-
ger cheese, while the latter can only
be compared to hydrated alcohol
In Southern Russia they distill the
Juice of the watermelon and produce
a very fair brandy. Wine has been
made of currants, ~gooseberries, plums,
CluSl llCoJ NuAllCog pa ohAPSg AhU
barb and potatoes. The natives of
Siberia prepare a strong intoxicating
beverage from the field mushroom.
Hippocrates records that wines were
made in his day from medlars, null
berries, asparagus, organum, thyme
and many other herbs. The liquors
and cordiaIs of the Latin American
countries owe their origin to the bark
Of trees, leaves, flowers and fruits of
the tropics.
Chilli produces a champagne quality
Of wine from the apples of the coun-
try, while British Guiana obtains the
same result from the undeveloped
flowers of the palm.
Six thousand separate and quite
distinct intoxicants now find a mar
ket here. The obscure drinks in use
in the odd corners of the world are
only to be found in the cafes or board
ing houses frequented by newly made
Americans from those places who
have become residents of New Work,
now the most cosmopolitan city in
the world.
In the history of the globe there is
no great name that is eve suggest
i've of total abstinence. After the ia
tigues of battle the great captains of
the past were refreshed with a 1agon
of wine. Before great mental or phys
ical effort the great men Of the past
were prepared for the ordeal with a
stoop of wine.
Napoleon drank Clos-Vougeot, and
even now whenever a French regi-
ment marches past that vineyard it
halts and presents arms.
The greatest of all ceremonies of
welcome and the browning honor of
the festive board is the '%pledging a
health" 1t is Saxon memento of the
times when the drinking horn had to
be raised with both hands and the
drinkers pledge" stood beside him
with drawn sword in order that no
enemy might stab him while drinking.
The time honored toast of all ma
vies is "Our Country" or Our King
and when the wearers of the uniform
of any nation stand and give this
| pledge 1t does more to endear home
and country than all the other OBJ
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

ductive beverages form the liquid I'M
derlay of the country entertainment
to-day as they did when silk clad cav
alters escorted stately DANES in the
days when George III. was King.
The early Californians found the
Americo-Spanish hasendao producing
a fine wine from the vineyards on his
hillside, and as the quest for gold
brought u and established the fam
lilies of the gold seekers the ranches
changed owners and the enterprise
that caused the habitant of the East
ern coast to journey to the Pacific
spread out from the mining camp and
found (what always follows but never
precedes an adventurous advance) an
agricultural outlet. Now the vineyards
of the Golden State produce wine
which in quantity almost equals the
entire product of the Old World and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Effect of Acids of Fruits on the Hu.
mar System.

An eminent Japanese bacteriologist
has shown that the acids of lemons,
apples and other fruits-citric acid,
malic acid-are capable of destroying
all kinds of disease germs. Cholera
germs are killed in fifteen minutes by
lemon juice or apple juice. and ty-
phoid fever germs are killed in half
an hour by these acids, even when
considerably diluted. If you squeeze
a lemon into a glass of water contain
ing cholera germs, and let it stand
fifteen or twenty minutes, you may
drink the water with impunity, as the
germs will be dead; these juices will
kill other disease germs, says the
New York Herald. Instead of telling
a man to have his stomach washed
out, we can now tell him to drink
orange juice, which will cleanse the
stomach as thoroughly as a stomach
tube, provided it be not a case Of
gastric catarrh. If we have to deal
with gastric catarrh, in which there
is a large amount of tenacious mu
cous adhering to the walls of the
stomach, a stomach tube to dislodge
it is required, but in ordinary cases
of biliousness, foul tongue, bad breath,
sick headache. and headache
a fruit diet is a wonderful purifier.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
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Three Thousand Varieties of IntoxicantS
in Use Throughout the United States

While we as a nation use and appa-
rently enjoy a little more than three
thousand more varieties of intoxicants
than any other peoples, we also rank
among the temperate folk of Christen-
dom.
There are about six thousand, more
Or less, generally used kinds of intox-
eating drinks in the world, and we,
owing to the picturesque variety of
our citizens, use a fairly liberal al
lowance of nearly each and every
brand of liquid eXhilarator brewed,
fermented or distilled for the tenn
porary inspiration of jaded man.
While it is an historical fact that
all nations have considered s%pirituous
liquors a proper subject for heavy tax.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

of the defenders of any flag.
"Sweethearts and Wives" keeps the
memory of home bright, and often the
sip of wine is met with a lump in the
throat Of a grim old warrior, who
through tear dimmed eyes above his
glass gets a glimpse of his loved ones
at their faraway Preside, and the
world is better for a noble sentiment.
Wine growing has steadily in
creased with the growth of the coun-
try. The few vineyards of the sunny
hills of Western New York were fol
lowed by the many great vineyards
of Ohio. The Carolinas and Virginias
have made wine since the Colonies
were practically penal settlements and
the labor outside the slave lin s
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
elft for columbia University.

Mrs. A. A. Anderson of New York
has given 100000 to Columbia univer-
sity to start a suitable endowment to
establish a pure science course lead
ing to the degree of bachelor of sci
ence. The other members of the
board of trustees. who have asked
to have their names withheld, have
offered to guarantee any deficit arts
ing from this new course during the
next ten years up to a total amount
Of $4,000.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
LYtton,s Famous Phrase.

The phrase which has become trite
by its frequent use, "The pen is might
Ter than the sword" which Lord Lyt-
ton put in the mouth of Cardinal
Richelieu, was written when the steel
pen had barely began to supplant the
quill.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Sand Well in Canada.

A curious well in Canada produces
sand, instead of water. This a
comes up in a fine stream, like a foun-
tain. The force which drives it to
the surface from a depth OF 100 feet
has not yet been discovered.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
When Courtesy is snubbed.

Did you ever try the experiment OF
being gallant in a crowd that had no
time for f%ipperies? 1t is well worth
your while Just once, as a lesson. You
may step aside till the crack of doom
and still ind plenty to take advantage
of your unselishness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Use Tor Old Newspapers.

Newspapers r good to keep out
drafts, put over the windows inside
the blinds. Sew them on the ma
chine with a long stitch into a
as large as you want to put under
carpets and art squares. One can
change them twice a year and be
much more wholesome than the paper
we buy.=Exchange.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Tea onIY.

The most damaging testimony
against tea N from t~ea-tasters
employed by the wholesale tea
houses. Some of these are compelled
to take long rests from their vocation
that they may recoyer from the bane-
full effects of the tea taken into their
systems.-Leslie's Weekly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

Stowe, who may be said to have shed
some luster upon the name of her
father and brother, wrote her great
book in the intervals of household la
Dor, the tasks of which she daily per
formed with stained and battered
hands. "-Oregonian.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
h a Pinch. Use ALIENS Foor.EAsE.

A powder. 1t cures painful, smart
ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails.
It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Makes new shoes Easy. A
certain cure for sweating feet. Sold
by all druggists, 25c. Trial package,
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE
Roy, N. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

1t has been discovered that by the
use of acetylene gas in a blowpipe
much higher temperatures can be OBJ
tanned than are available with the or
binary oxyhydrogen blowpipe. The
latter gives from 5000 to $500 de-
grees; the former more than 1000 de
grees.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
One of Evarts' Epiorams.

William M. Evarts, when asked II
he did not think woman was the best
Judge of woman, replied: Not only
the best judge, madam, but the best
executioner."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Had Stuck cIoselv 70 Home.

A mar over IS years of age, who has
lived all his life on an island within
thirty miles of Portland, Me-, visited
that city for the first time last month.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

FATAL TO ALL DISEASE GERMS.

A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only
5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Imnortant to Mothers.

Examine carefully every bottle Of CASToRrA,
a safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
and see that it
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Automobile.

A French design for an automobile
which the inventor claims would be
much safer than the style used at
present.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
HoD sLocoMs GOT COLD BATH.

Unfortunate Incident Disguised Him
with Ice Cutting.
Hold Slocomb done a fool thing
while cuttin ice tother day and come
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Hiqh Temperature,

In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Speaker Objects to EuIOgy-Demo-
Gratis to Use Knife.

IF It IS the general impression Of men who are
accustomed to preside at public meetings that
speakers like TO be introduced with extended
and exaggerated eulogies. they may be surprised
TO hear from the Rev. DR.. Kerr Boyce Tupper
that they are mistaken. DR.. Tupper was one
Of the speakers at the Baptist Young Peoples
Union rally, held in the Baptist Temple few
days ago. Chairman Estey introduced Dr. Tup-
per briefly, and his brevity was appreciated. In
opening his address, the speaker remarked that
he was always glad when presiding officers were
brief IN their introductions. Long introductions,
especially when eulogistic. he explained. were
enough 70 put the Oldest and best trained speak
ers IN nervous condition bordering stage
fright
sSome time ago." he continued, II was called
On TO address a large religious meeting. In in
Producing me the chairman launched forth IN a
Howery euiogy that made the cold chills run up
and down my back When he concluded this
portion OF his Introduction, he turned to the
subject upon which had been asked to say a
few words and explained at length what I was
about 20 say. When he finally stopped talking.
both my speech and the time allotted me for
speaking had been almost completely exhausted
AS there nothing left for to say, I asked
the congregation TO sing the first verse Of How
Firm G Foundation This runs as you ell know:
How firm foundation, ye saints Of the Lord,
What moro can He say than to you He hath
said
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
Then I sat down.

Democrats about Brooklyn expressing re-
lief that they are ct last IN position to knife
Hearst et the polls without proving disloyal to
the organization TO which they belong SEN
ator McCarren's speech before the county COM
rnittee last Tuesday night has satisfied them
shat voting for Hearst would be actually the
most disloyai act that they could be guilty Of
on Election Day. All sorts Of expedients for es-
Gaping their obligations at the polls were being
concocted. Now the storm has passed McCar-
ren has placed his ban on Hearst and IN. rest
ts easy.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
AN APPEAL FOR CHARITY

The Bureau OF Charities appeals for special
rund Of $50 to look after a family while tho mother
Is away and to re-establish the family upon her
return. In the mean tine ffteen-year-od son
has gone 20 work. and his earnings; joined 70 those
OF his mother will support the fainily coin1ort-
ably after the present crisis Contributions may
be forwarded to William l. Nichols seneEsl SEQ
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

The Daughters OF Isabella. Court Regina. will
give dance at the Knights OF Columbus Institute,
az hanson Place and North Portland avenue. next
Monday evening.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius II. Tangeman sailed Tues
day on the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Thursday, December q, is the date set for the
debut of Miss Mary Latin, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Homer A. Lattn of No. IA South Portland
avenue The reception, however, will be given in
their new home. No 56 Pierrepont street. formerly
occupied by John H. Stoddard.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Mr. and Mrs. Philander r. Jennings and Mr.. and
Mrs Frank c. Jennings will give reception
Wednesday. December g. from until p. m. at
the Standish Arms for their niece, Miss Mary
Buchanan Jennings. daughter OF the late Spencer
A Jennings.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Mrs. Joel S. de Selding, of No. St Paurs Court
Flatbush, will make her initial bow to society Sat
urday, December p.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

MI and Mrs. Nathan Lane. jr.. nee Emily Grant
Kelsey, returned Tram their wedding trip abroad
Thursday on the K6ngin Iuise. They now
with Mrs. Kelsey at No. ia Lafayette avenue.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Mrs Clinton L. Rossiter. Of No. As Montgomer,
Place will give a reception to present her tw
daughters, the Misses Marjorie and Elizabeth Ros
sitter, Thursday, December 20.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

On Wednesday, January q Miss Mildred E. Bed
ford will be introduced by her mother, Mrs. Fred
erick Henry Bedford at her home. No. 1913 Clinton
avenue. In the evening a dance Will be given for
the debutante and her brother. Edward T. Bedford,
I'd at the Assembly.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Because of a recent death in the family. tho
marriage OF Miss Madeleine Downing. daughter Of
Mrs. Richard Francis Downing, OF No. SO sth ave-
nue., to Dr.: Edwin Howe Fiske. will take place
quietly on Tuesday. October 80 at St Augustine 8
church. The invitations have been recalled and
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Miss Helen B. Murphey, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs Charles A. Murphey, will make her debut
Wednesday, December 49, at the conventional after
noon reception between the hours of and p. m.
and the following evening her parents will give a
dance for her at the Heights Casino.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Miss Orlena Adene Zabriskie. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Cornelius Zabrskie OF No. SIC Carol
street, will make her debut Thursday, December q
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

None but the members Of the immediate families
were present at the marriage Of Miss Mona Will
Jams Roberts and Sartell Prentice. "hlcn TOOK
nlace Tuesday at the home of the brides rather,
William W. Roberts. In Prince George county MO MO
Miss Mercedes Roberts the brldesmalq, ana
the hest man was Frederick A. Russell Mr.; and
Mrs Prentice will spend the winter in Southern
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

The wedding of Miss Anna L. Joffee and Dr.
Maxwell S. Joffe took place Thursday evening al
No 6S McKibben street. The bride was gowned IN
white chiffon and lace applique, and carried a oou-
uuet of white roses. Her attendants, MISS Dora
Rosalsky. Miss Celia LanO ana victoria IieInost .
peas DIR. S. A. Brownsten was the best man.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Miss Helen Lincoln Appleton. daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. Ruel Ross Appleton, of No 146 Joralemon
street will also be introduced to society Friday
December q.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Jeb Mayhem. OF No. S62 Carroll
street, have closed their country house at Great
Neck, Long Island. and will open their town
house Friday they attended the presentation cere-
monies or a memorial gateway given by the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution of the CITY Of Cambridge,
Mass. near the old elm where Washington took
command of the army In 1T76 They are spend
ing a few days visiting their son. Jeb Mayhew. jr
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

The engagement is announced of Miss Grace NIL
ton Irvine daughter of Mrs. William Irvine, OF
No 70 7th avenue, and Lieutenant Richard irving
McKenney United States Army. now stationed at
Fort Terry. n. Y.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Mr. and Mrs. William McKinny, of No %4 81
Marks avenue, announce the engagement or theli
daughter, Miss Mae McKinny. to James W EScher
coin Place
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

At $19.75. Women's long coats Of blacl
broadcloth. collarless; coat heavily braided
around neck and down front; lined will
satin.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

The dates for several coming out receptions have
been announced this week. and most or them VIII
take place during the Christmas holidays. Friday
evening December 81 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sanger
Snow Will give a large dance at the Heights "a
snO for their daughter, Miss Marion Brooks Snow.
Mrs Snow and her daughter will receive saturday
December 29 and January Il at their home' NO.
o7O Henry street.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

The dates for the Primrose dances to be given
this year at the Heights Casino Saturday, De-
cember l and 90, and Monday. April l. The patron
esses this year Mrs. Horatio Mortier Adams.
Mrs. William Gilman Low. Mrs. Robert Mallory,
Mrs. Sidney Lanier Smith, Mrs George hoffman,
Mrs. William \. Putnam Mrs. Joseph H. Sutphin
Mrs. Francis II. Southwick Mrs. William T.. Van
Sinderen
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Iustice and Mrs Garret ]. Garretson announce
the engagement of their daughter, Miss Lydia
Macy Garretson, to Eugene Willis Denton oi
Mineola, Long Island.