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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-05-23


The continued heavy hitting OF
George stone. the speedy outtesdef
Of the 81 Louis browns. 10 the sen
aatIon OF the American LEAGUE lie
IL hitting well beyond tho 400 marx
and his timely swata have brought
many eamea home to his team al.
ready this season. Stone IL not .
hard hIttcr-that h. he docn cot Try
10 knock the ball over tho ouliiela
ers' heads. bat Is content II ko
scada Il on a line too high fof the
inftoidcru and not atFong enough to
reach thg players Ia the daial
patches II l. n remarkable taei
nat stone very seldom sends the
han through The diamond On ths
ground. he aims 70 meet the sphere
sanarrly and drive Il out 0n a iias
Tbsre N nathlnk sensational about
Ms ulayinK and he never admins
tera ire wallop that briAEs the tahs
cheering 10 their feet AZ the eai'
LIS oVef the fence. bat hs Keeps .
hifttnr and hiiting in Wy thAs
makes Iifc miserable TO oPts'saek
ulirhers aad helps his team aioas
IN tho RAGS.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
NEW YORK SUFFERS COSTLY

In all the world nowhere do so
many persons enjoy after-theater din
ners, or spend SO much money upon
them to the individual, as in New
York. If the earth were c~anvassed,
Paris would probably be found to
come next, with London third; but in
the latter two cities, as in Vienna,
Berlin and st. Petersburg, most Of
the money is spent in what is known
as the season." In New York the
season" is practically the year
around. Never in New York does the
round of gayety cease, although at
times it may appear just a tri1e re-
laxed.<
, Twenty-Five thousands restaurants
feed New York. OF course, many of
these, indeed, thousands of them. are
not open at night; but the ones that
do remain open manage to make it
pay. If you we're to strike an average.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
Lac HorseIess Ace.

A Yankee down East thus sizes up
the horseless age. Il pity the man
who says the automobile will drive
out the horse. There is all the differ.
enc in the world between the horse
and the machine. The difference be.
tween the living and dead; between
the game, resolutess do-or-die spirit Of
the horse that compels admiration
and the inanimate machine that does
not. Take a clock that has stopped
forever, even a faithful clock, and
you can't wiring a tear out of the chill
dren with a force pump; but they'll.
cry as if their hearts We're broken over
a st. Bernard that's passed on to the
aSimal heaven. The steam engine
and the trolley haven't put horses oul
of commission and the automobile
won't; still, l hope for their sake
that it'll take a few of them out OF
the hands of the brutal and ignorant
who don't know how to use them
Providence Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
Turks Rejoice at Patriots Death

Says a message from Saloniki, El,
ropean Turkey, There is jubilation
in Turkish circles at the report oil
the death of Radnaliyovan (Yovan of
Radna), who has been a thorn in the
side of the Turks for thirty. years
past. Yovan of Radna took to the
hills out of resentment for the wrongs
he had suffered at the hands of the
Turks. He has often figured in recent
years as a kind Of Macedonian Robin
Hood, protecting the weak against the
strong and occasionally furnishing by
death the Turkish village rufians of
whom his people made complaints to
him. When surrounded by the Turks
in overwhelming force in his last
fight Yovan was at the head of a band
of only nine men, three of whom, with
their leader, were killed in the fight
the Turks losing heavily"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

Mrs. Wood Swift, president of the
National Council of American Women,
was praising servants.
Servants get too much abuse, too
little praise" she said. "They have
the worst house and the unpleasant
est work in the world; yet they are
cheerful. They have too many temp
tations and too many responsibilities,
but they try con%scientiously to be
equal to any task imposed on them.
Consider, for example, the many
scandalous quarrels that servants
hear. Suppose they told of these quar-
rels. But servants, as a class, tell
nothing"
Mrs. Swift paused. Then, smiling,
she resumed:
"a San Francisco woman had one
morning, in a maids presence, a dis
graceful squabble with her husband.
Both lost their tempers completely.
They shouted that they hated one an
other. They said a number of things
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

the policeman, grinning. And there'l
another windy in the closet opposite
which is in this gents room, and no
thinks it's ghosts"
l would willingly have gone to the
madhouse if l could have gone that
minute, and never faced them again.
But had to tell my miser
able story to the beautiful girl in the
wrapper, and she listened with
mingled laughter and tears.
1t seems she was a musician just
returned from abroad, where she had
studied under. the same masters
Heinrich had (which might account
for my ha%llucination as to the touch)
and she was doing concert work il
the evening, after which she delight.
ed to play away all for herself. Sc
she had rented the big fiat, where she
thought she was alone with her serv.
ants and would disturb nobody.
That's a!l-excepting that the beau.
tiful young woman that was is my
beautiful wife that. is, and she is now
summoning us to dinner.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

1.-THE present czar of Russia learned
the art of making an American cock
tail from an American physician,
said a man in an uptown saloon where
he was slipping the oldfashioned tip
pie. 81 have that from the physician
himself"
mot only that, but | slipped a cock
tail made from the same formula, out
of a handsomely carved cup which
bore an inscription from the donor,
who at the time was %czarevitch, and
which had contained the stirrup cup
drunk at the last meeting between the
Russian heir apparent and the Amer
lean doctor.
"The doctor was a few years ago
practicing in a city in western New
York. He was once an attache of the
Russian court and had some appoint
ment, l have forgotten what, later on.
zone evening when he had been
called to see the c~zarevitch the talk
ran to American drinks. The new doc
tor carried his own stock of American
liquors. He spoke of the American
cocktail, which, at that time, was the
most-called-for mixed drink at the bar.
"The %czarevitch was amused at the
name. He thought it was a joke. The
Yankee doctor assured him 1t was not.
"The ~czarevitch said he would like
to try the drink. The doctor brought
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
CHURN BUTTER AT TABLE

Londoners recently had an opportu-
nifty in their dairy show to see a nov
city in machines which may modify
u breakfasts considerably and usual
ly much to their advantage. Epicures
long ago found out that the only way
to have satisfactory tea or coffee is to
make it yourself on the table. With
butter such a proceeding would have
been out of the question and we have
all been dependent on the dairyman
and the grocer, who, alas! too often in
fiict ON their customers a rancid, Dor
axed substance better suited for axles
than for stomachs.
In French and German markets it is
easy to get sweet butter every morn
ing fresh from the country. In Eng
llsb and American cities it is seldom
possible to do this; wherefore we
ought to bless the inventor of the new
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
WILD ANIMALS NEARLY EXTINCT
Colorado the Only Preserve Left, and
Game Grows Scarce There.

0O'OAdoO w. OIhJ EfNoCt nc LILLY NfI0
Game Grows. Scarce There.
Among the distinct purposes Of the
annual meeting of the Nationsl As
ISOLATION of Game and Fish wardens
and commissioners, held at st. Paul
recently, were: Elimination of politics
from the department. in each state;
uniform laws for the protection of
game and the propagation of fish, says
the Denver Post.
Colorado is considered the most
important state in the Union so far
as the preservation of game is CON
cerned. Big game in all Middle West
and in the Northwest is becoming ex.
tinct. Some is still preserved in the
mountain fastness of this state.
Sportsmen, both. in and out of Office,
regard Colorado as the battle ground
for the enactment and enforcement
of laws that will. curb the wholesale
slaughter of the distinctly American
wild animals.
Colorado is the only state where the
elk still survives in his native haunts
where there is practically a closed
season. The statute permits the kill
ing of this animal between November
| and 5, but even this provision is sus-
pended until 1907. AT the next SEES.
sion of the legislature it is probable
that the time for enforcement of the
provision will be still further extend.
ed, sc that the closed season for elk
will be made permanent.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
czAR MIXED A COCKTAIL

g. bis INGREDIENTS and prepared a
cocktail in the presence of the care.
witch. who was intently interested.
when he had tasted it he went into
OBSTACLES and called for more.
"After he had sampled several cock.
tolls he proposed to make the mixture
himself. and learned with much more
ease han he has learned some other
things since.
"Wben the American doctor was
leaving st. Petersburg the czarevitch
had assembled the throne. The physi-
clan asked leave to pay his respects
and,was accorded an audience.
oThe emperor reminded him that he
was an expert in mixing the Ameri.
can tipple, and thereupon they re-
haired to a private room where the
czar of all the Russias produced the
ingredients necessary to work out a
cocktail. The car mixed drinks for
the two like a regular barkeep and
enjoyed it.
"The car assured the doctor that
II was the greatest bracer he ever
took. But then, you know, royalty
lays on it's praise and compliments
with a trowel.
"However. the doctor was probably
he only American who ever had the
ruler of Russia to mix and give him a
cocktail."-New York Sun,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
RARE RELIC OF NAPOLEON

/. Frank S. Pendleton is in possession
,of a plaster of paris cast from the
death mask of the great Napoleon,
isays the Houston Chronicle. There
are now only four Of these masks in
existence. DR.. Antomarchi, physician
of the worlds greatest military genius
at st. Helena, made FIVE. One of them
went to London and four were carried
to Mexico by the Zacatecas, one to
Mexico and n to Vera Cruz. One of
those taken to Zacatecas has been lost
and the other is the one from which
the cast now in the possession of Mr..
Pendleton was made.
OF course, only the face is shown in
the cast, and on the side of the base
of the cast is the following inscrip-
tion: Napoleon Imp. Et. Roi, Sub
%scribcion, DR.. Antomarchi, 1888"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
The Poet,s Dilemma.

I've been for at least ten years, in verse,
Admiring golden curls;
Though the songs were vapid, and oft
times worse,
They fitted so many girls
Whose hearts, for the moment, ] sought
to win
But Fortune has thrown me down!
It's to Dorothy now that my hopes 1 pin,
And Dorothy's curls are brownl
I'll ALLEVIATE all of the other girls
If l sing of the charms untold
That halloW a cluster of chestnut curls.'
I've said all that of the gold!
I've sun of a sunbeam's being caught,
And of wearing "a halo CROWN
But can l now? All. perish the thought
For Dorothy's curls are brown.
1 can't insist that 1 wrote for pelf,
For it's known hat my verse rang
true
Although a court may reverse itself,
For a poet that course won't do!
And I'm fearful some verse to her may
be shown
(There's scores of them here in town.,
So yellow that Dorothy Want condcne,
Since Dorothy's curls ar6ssifown!
Roy Farrell Greene. in New York Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
Copyright. 1906, by Daily Story Pub. Col

My twin brother, Heinrich, was, as
you know, a musician of rare talent,
L not genius. Both of us were said
TO have exceptional abilities along
musical lines, in our youth. Like
most twins, we were very close to-
gether and very fond Of one another.
Both loving music passionately, we
resolved to become musicians and
spent our pasrimony in our studies.
We went abrTsad and worked under
the best masters and developed our
talents as bert we could.
l ultimately found that l had mis-
taken my vocation, even as Heinrich
had found his. For while ! loved
music equsily with him, my apprecia-
ton appas emily covered the entire
range and loved equally to cultivate
the voice. tue piano, the violin and
ala the o. ler forms, finding none in
which | et celled particularly, but find
ing joy III all. Heinrich, on the other
hand, fouLd his keenest delight in the
violin, to which he devoted himself
and of which he became a master. |
remember when Heinrich discovered
the S~trasiyarius and secured it. /
thought re would go crazy with joy
and l way nearly as much pleased and
excited.
Well, nj things have to come to
an end Dur patrimony exhausted,
the question of bread-winning became
predominant. 1t became clear to me,
after soyie thought, that | never could
hope to become a great musician in
any givel line, and respected music
too muck to become a mere piano
thumper Or an orchestra hack. So
] embarked in business with the aid
of some fN lends. Heinrich-well, you
remember his short and brilliant
career anS--and his sudden death.
All. it was Aard that he was to die far
away in a foreign land, and that it
was not to no given me even to press
down his lidN and kiss his lips in fare
well.
All that came to me from Heinrich
was his precious S~tradivarius, and 1t
was brought TO me by a devoted
friend of his who crossed the sea at
MS UGuCot " 0GAlNCl IL llIO NY NAM Il
It was, as ysu may guess, both q
sorrow anS q joy. The night l re-
ceived it ] ast many hours gazing at
1t with teSlffll eyes and recalling the
sweet harmony ! had heard the dead
wiring from IL. fondled it. I kissed
it. | embraced 1t, knowing that his
loved fingers had touched every part
of 1t. 1t seemed almost as though
Heinrich was In the very room with
me.
Finally l replaced it in the case
and put it carefully in my closet on
a high shelf, where it would be safe.
| fell into a peaceful slumber, tired
out from the play of my emotions. |
do not know how long | had slept
when l awoke and lay perfectly still.
My WEAKNESS had vanished and | felt
singularly peaceful while my mind
seemed clarified.
AS l lay there thus peaceful and
passive, there came to my ears per-
fectly plainly the clear notes of a
violin. And the music was Helm
rich's favorite. What startled me
was that the touch was Heinrich's
very own-and the sound was slight
1y mufied. The inference vas clear,
The music came from the Stradivar-
ius in the case in the closet.
My heart stopped beating as I re-
called the many talks Heinrich and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

The face, though calm in the repose
of death, with lips slightly parted, is
the impersonation of force. The chin
bespeaks the bulldog determination
which characterized the man in life.
The prominent cheekbones tell that
q trace of cruelty blended with his de.
termination when obstacles blocked
h way to his desires, strikingly evil
denced by his putting away the only
woman who ever loved him by the
cruel hand of ambition.
The faculty of reasoning is brought
out in bold relief against the base of
his massive forehead, and the firm
lines OF the mouth are a striking fea-
ture OF the face of the man whose per-
sonar magnetism changed mems blood
to molten steel kissing through hearts
OF ice to fight like demons at his COM
mand.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
MAID KNEW THE SITUATION

they didn't really mean.
"All this, mind you, in the presence
of a mild-mannered maid of some for.
ty years.
"The lady, afterward, was ashamed
and frightened. She wished to remove
from the maids mind the impression
that there had been a family quarrel.
She called the young woman to her
and said:
al suppose you heard my husband
and me conversing rather earnestly
this morning, Martha?
1.-THE maid blushed.
eyes, madam she replied.
"T hope you thought nothing I'M
usual was going on-nothing worth re.
peating or talking about?'
"'Oh, madam, | wouldn't say a
word the maid exclaimed earnestly. I
once had a man myself, and, l assure
you, never a day passed that the
n~eighbors didn't believe one or the
other of us would be killed."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

machine referred to-a churn which
makes butter in sixty seconds. ut is
SO handy" we are told, that it might
very well be placed on the tea table
as an accessory to the cups and tea
pot and yet not look out of place.
Given the requisite amount of cream,
with a temperature of sixty degrees,
butter can be made at any time when
desired"
uch an invention is really of great
81 Importance than it may appear at
nrst sight. There is high medical au-
enority lor the assertion that there is
noenlng americans need so much as a
greater supply Of easily dieested fat.
Fresh butter is theqBest Of these fats
and the more pure and temntine we
can make it the more will dyspeptics,
invalids and all hard workers he boz
ehted.-New York Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

it would be found, according to a
standard authority, that twenty res
t%aurants, including the st. Regis, the
Aston, the Waldorf-Astoria the Hol-
land, Delmonico's and the Imperial,
around the theater center of New
York, realize on an average of s., OOOa
apiece an ordinary night from persons
who have been to the theater.
1t is by no means out of the ordi.
nary for a party of twenty-five to
spend $1,000. for music and flowers
and supper. The supper is mentioned
last because it really costs the least.
The food rarely costs more than 81
a cover; the wines from 1915 to $40
more; while the charge for flowers is
frequently from SIS to $25 for each
member of the party. One will cease
to wonder at the floral cost when men
will pay $3.50 apiece, as they are do
ing now, for a single white gardenia
to be worn in the buttonhole.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

contradiction to all the philosophy of
my life. Before the next night l had
half-convinced myself that the entire
affair was an hallucination superin-
duced by the powerful emotions pro-
duced by the coming of my brothers
Stradivarius.
Again that night l was awakened
by the muffied music of the violin,
and again l investigated to no pur-
pose. On the third night / could not
sleep. l felt myself in the presence
of the Great Mystery. Again the mu.
sic came and, throwing on a bath.
robe, l dashed into the hall and sum-
moned my neighbor from the next
oom in the fiat where had lodgings.
Not a sound could he hear. AS soon
as l returned to bed the ghostly con-
cert was renewed.
l became frantic, laid the case be-
fore all the occupants of our fiat, who
helped me investigate, but to no pur-
pose. l was so insistent that they
finally agreed l was a little touched
In the upper story.
The affair got on my nerves until
| became hysterical, and one night
when the music burst forth in a
grand melody | ran screaming into
the hall in my bathrobe summoning
my neighbors.
They got together, and after con-
sultation decided that for my own
good should be sent to a sanitarium.
Some of the people were actually
afraid of me. To tell the truth. l
had serious doubts as to my W san
ity.
1t being late at night an ambulance
vas summoned and it came attended
by a big stout sergeant of police, with
a thick neck and a small round head.
He waited in my room while / packed
a few necessaries in a suit case.
OF a sudden the music came again.
l looked up wildly and grasped the
sergeant by the arm. He regarded
me su%spiciously.
do you hear it," l asked tremb-
ling.
Hear phat?" he replied,
"The music" l said pleadingly.
Sure / do" said he, "and a purity
piece it is, too"
/. nearly wept for joy.
Where does. it come from" l
asked.
81 dunno" said he. ITS zone of
me business"
at is" l cried. THAT is what they
are sending me to the asylum for.
They can't hear the music and I say
1t comes out of that violin case, play
ed by the spirit of my dead brother
"Gwan," he said, walking into the
closet.
Coming back he summone me to
follow him.
"Ill cure We of the bughouse if
YEN mind" he said.
I followed him to the door of the
fiat and into the outer vestibule. He
pushed the bell of the next fiat.
Presently a young woman attired in
a loose wrapper appeared.
Whose playin' the fiddler" asked
the policeman.
81 have been" she replied, all in
a tremble. "Oh, | do hope it hasn't
disturbed people. / rented the whole
of this big fiat so l could play when
| pleased without disturbing Others
well there's a windy in your
closet that opens on the court" said
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
Changed the Subject.

The, young divine touched his
glasses %nervously and leaning forward
took her hand.
+" Miss Milvain,' he said, Mabel, I
can no longer conceal the sentiment
that CLOVIS in my breast. The time
has come when | must divulge the
hope that has long been cherished
the burning devo-"
But at this moment the parrot,
trained by the bluff, football playing
brother, interrupted;
"Cut it out" said the bird. None
of that rot old man."
And the minister, drawing himself
up, said stifiy;
ITO continue the topic of a few
moments ago, repeat, Miss Milvain.
that Mommsen's History OF Rome,
etc"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

Finally, in sheer respect to my ma.
terialistic beliefs, l arose and opened
the door into the main hall, to see if
| could trace the sound. The music
ceased as | opened the door.
| went to the windows and looked
out and made every Investigation, but
could find no physical source Of the
music. AS | returned to bed l was
not surprised at hearing the violin
again. One short selection was all,
although | lay awake long waiting
for more.
The experience upset me more than
| can tell you as the phenomena
had experienced was in most violent
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24
THE TWO GREAT MySTER1ES

We know not what IT means, dear, this
sleep so deep and stil;
The folded hands, the awful calm, the
cheek so pale and chill;
The lids that will not lift again, though
we may call and call,
THE strange. white solitude OF peace that
settles over all.
we know not what it means, dear, this
desolate heart pain.
This dread to take our daily way and
walk in 1t again.
We know not to what other sphere our
loved who leave us go,
Nor why we're left to wander here; nor
why we do not know.
But this we know. our loved and lost,
If they should come this day,
Should come and ask us, What is life 2"
not ous Of us could say.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

l had had regarding psychic phenom-
ena. He had been a firm believer in
the imperishability of the individual
spirit, although he held to no definite
theories or views. l had been a
skeptic. Was it-could it be that the
ardent spirit of my loving twin had
returned to his Stradivarius and his
brother?
l listened intently. The music con-
tinued jumping from one of his old
favorite tunes to another-now sad.
now joyous, now majestic. now
pathetic-and through them all rang
the very spirit and touch of Heinrich.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

can be, SSP as ever DEAN
hes Oh i've now Sn dear it is to us, this life we
Then might they say. thasa ,,.,,sbed
$50 deatb shq blessed is the thought.
we may show 20 us beloved. thouah
we may not to the onicEs the
mystery of death; A reveal
fe cannot, II We WonId
terry of breath. ieFeai the mSs
"e oR Rnov Tn9 enters life comes not with
So those who enter daatL M
little children. sent must 60 hAe
is overhead. 'eiieNe that wv
And as life is To The u,t,u
ehe deadl "s' So oeatn Is "
Exchange.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-04-24

A loathly contemporary says that
schoolmarms are homely, and that is
why they stay schoolmarms. Not only
is he a prevaricator. but the teachers
out his way are not unionized. One
more such remark and they will be-.