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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
TURNED HIM INTO A FREAK.
Young Mans Unfortunate Experience
With a "Hair WASH"

There is a young resident of the up
per western section of the town who
is blessed with dignity beyond his
years, and With a sister whose years,
albeit these number but "a, are be-
yond her common sense. says the New
York Press. One night, having an
extra guest, and the sister being away
at at seashore, Binks occupied his sis
ter's room for the night. Discovering
on her toilet table a bottle marked
hair wash, and thinking that perhaps
his own not oveI luxurian crop re-
quired attention. he applied the n
tents of the bottle literally to his
scalp locks, rubbing it in with thor
oughness.
The following day, two hours before
any business house opened its doors,
an individual with a SLOUGH hat pulled
down over his ears and having all the
signs of dementia went speeding down
town on the subway express. Wild
eyed and incoherent he sought the es-
tablishment of one of the best hair
dressers in town.
He has repeated his visit to the
shop every morning since that time
and the specialist is slowly removing
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
Timely Notes.

English farmers are compelled by
law to dip their sheep.
Good roads economic time and
force in travel and transportation of
products.
Barley, of all grains, appears to be
the best for infants food or for inva-
lids. Barley water has no irritating
properties.
There are $4,000, 900 acres Of swamp
lands in the country. Take the water
out of a few acres of your own swamp
and see what drainage means.
Good roads mean profit; bad roads
mean loss. Good roads possess a
money value as surely and certainly
as Toes any desirable commodity.
The greatest battle the farmer has
is against weeds, yet weeds are a
good friend to the farmer, for they
protect the places that would other
wise be bare.
The Massachusetts Asparagus Grow
ers' association are working to find or
produce rust-resisting varieties. They
already find that some plants are
naturally more resistant than 9TH
ers.
Red clover can stand wet feet bet
ter than alfalfa. While clover will
make a fair growth where the water
level is barely three feet below the
surface, alfalfa should have five feet
az least before striking water.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
THE r WORKSHOP.
A Valuable Adjunct to the Work Of
the Farm.

The first consideration should be
the building. This may be some shed
or outbuilding already standing on the
farm, or a lean-to may be built to the
barn, smokehouse or buggy house, for
a few dollars. In case it should be
necessary all the tools except the
forge could be kept in the barn, and
this could be covered with a few
boards far enough from the barn to
insure safety from fire.
If a new building is to be construct
ed or an old one remodeled, l should
say a room 12x14 feet with dirt or
cement floor, double doors in n end,
a window of two sashes placed hori-
zontally in one side, and a regular per-
pendicular window in the opposite
side, would constitute a convenient
and welllighted workshop, writes a
farmer in Orange Judd Farmer. This
will prove every way ample. A work
bench 2x1O feet made of 2x12 inch
lumber for the top and 1x12 front
board with 2x6 legs, should be set
under the horizontal window. The
bench should be equipped with a good
steel-jawed wise, attached near one
end. A bench drill should be screwed
on neal the other end.
1 like to have drawers and shelves
under a part of the bench, to the
right when facing it. -Four drawers
Is inches wide and six inches deep,
one above the other, and a set of
shelves two feet deep and a foot apart
mex to the drawers, would make safe
( and convenient ~receptacles for tools
and material. Some of the drawers
should be divided into compartments
to accommodate small tools, bolts,
screws, etc. The shelves could be
used for rods, heavy bolts and scraps.
Convenient receptacles for chisels are
leather loops tackled to the wall above
the bench. The saw, square, draw
shave, etc, may be hung on nails.
If only a few tools can be procured
they should be of good quality. ]
would begin with a 26-inch No. s hand
saw. a steeI-faced claw hammer, steel
square. set of bits and ratchet brace,
three chisels from IL inch down, and
a drawshave. One could get along
fairly well with these which would
not cost more than S.. The tools that
could be added to this list and are
really necessary to do a@good job OF
woodwork are, a set of planes-jack
plane. smoothing plane and block
plane-spirit level, spoke shave, oil
stone and grindstone. This will run
the cost up to about $40. This could
vet be added to as means would per
NIT or circumstance demand.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
Making the Balls Dance.

elder pith, or even of cork. the gas
cannot escape except at intervals, for
as one ball is lifted from the oriice
another will drop down to close it.
BY painting these balls in different
%colors, you may produce a pretty
effect.
The effect may be made o beau
tiful, says the Chicago Daily News, by
cutting tissue paper in the form OF a
butterly's wings and gluing them to
one of the balls. The balls viii dance
up and down in the funnel and the
imitation butterfly will iutter as if
over q flower.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15

Oha ShS SAASA FASSAg
be enormousi In a moment or two,
she argued, he would realize that she
"a merely a picture, and come and
stand underneath her to examine
more closely the wonderful fidelity
of the portrait, the exquisite skill OF
the artist; and then, knowing that
she could not hear anything he said,
he would utter aloud all those burn
ing words he had bottled up so long.
In a moment or two
Feeling hot all over, his dense head
in a whirl, certain only that Eva
had got into the picture in order to
make a fool of him, Teddy sat down
in the chair by the fire to try to
transform the chaos of his brain into
something approaching order.
During the next hour he remained
~motionless, not looking once in the
direction of the picture. To him, the
hour was a minute. To her, sitting
in the same attitude, hardly breath
ing, hardly thinking, getting more and
more hungry, the hour seemed a
week, a year, an eternity. She made
up her mind that when he did think
aloud she would snap her fingers in
his face and tell him, in scalding, bit
ter words. that she loathed him. and
that ooner than marry him she
would die a thousand deaths.
Good graciousl There goes the
gong for dinner! Oh, how awful, how
horrible! What will they think?
Idiot! Creaturel Why why .
Obi" she cried aloud suddenly, for
getting everything under the inlu-
ence of cramp. "Oh, obi"
Teddy sprang across the room.
Whats the matter? What's the
matter?"
Desperately concerned, Teddy stood
upon a chair, lifted Eva down from
the picture with the huge gentleness
of a six-foot-three man, placed her
tenderly in a chair, and knelt at her
feet. Her eyes were closed. He
was certain she was dying. Eva,
my little darling, open your eyes!
It's me, the man who loves you more
than all the world" His grammar
became shaky, his heart stone, his
breathing cyclonic. Eva, my sweet
heart, my beloved, look at me, il
only for a moment, and tell me before
you die that you will be my wife"
OF course, with the change of pc
sition the eramp had gone, and Eva
knew that those symptoms were
snares. She sat up coldly. Il have
no intention of dying" she said; "an6
of course 1 will be your wife. But
l think you are the most abject per
SON it has ever been my misfortune
to meet. Yes, of course love
you, dearest Teddy; but think, think
what you have made me suffer. The
gong has runs and you don't know
never will know. how frightfully hun
cry l am"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
wavs Of Bees.

There are about 5000 species of the
wild bees, all with interesting ways of
their own. Among them is a species
whose females are veritable Amazons
and carry more and better weapons
than the males. These are the
cuckoo" bees, which deposit their
eggs in the nest of others, the progeny
of both living peacefully together un-
til maturity. when they separate. Then
there is the tailoring bee, which cuts
leaves with his scissor-like jaws and
fits a snug lining of the leaf material
into his cave-shaped nest.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
Whom Could He Mean7

l happened last evening to be talk
ing politics with a physician-a good
physician and n l trust, says a writer
In the Boston Transcript. Presently
he said: did you ever hear of G..
P. IL"
who's he?" l asked.
"Oh," exclaimed the doctor, &c. P. l,
isn't a politician; it's a disease-gen-
eral paralysis of the insane"
Then he explained that the malady
begins with delusions of grandeur, that
the patient thinks himself great. that
he ~conceives enormous ambitions, un-
dertakes colossal enterprises. displays
frantic energy. Only, he accomplishes
nothing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15

twinkling had become. for the first
time in her life. a quiet, meek little
figure with downcast eyes and folded
hands.
"How's that?" she asked, through a
cascade of chuckles. Are you GER
tain o can't see my breathing? And
do you think it matters il | blink
every now and them"
Certain. The unsteady flicker of
the fire in this dim light will make
any blinking seem quite natural"
"Enid"-Eva looked down with sud
denly earnest eyes-"if everything
works well you shall choose what
ever you like from my wedding pres
ents. S-s-s-shi There's Teddy
at the door. l know it by the way
he clutches the handle"
Ten minutes later, after Mrs. Clut'
ton had quietly led the conversation
from comic opera to tobacco, from to-
bacco to Eva, and from that young
woman to the new portrait Of her
above the bookcase, she asked
Teddy to excuse her while she went
W lOOh lOI uSH hlllc lilShu, anu
left the room. Teddy had his
back T. the picture as the door
closed; but in the looking-giass over
the fireplace he was amazed to
see a handkerchief 1utter hastily up
to the pictures nose, and futter as
hastily back again-amazed, infinitely
worried, and full of wonder.
During the first quarter of an hour.
he stood with his back to her, gaz-
ing at her in the looking glass. From
the corner of her eye, Eva watched
him with a kind of tingling amuse
ment, immensely flattered at the
thought that even in the presence OF
her portrait-a mere thing of oils
he should still be bashful and diff
dent. The strength of his love must
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
THEN HE STOPPED LAUGHING
Wiie's Simple Question Evidently
Hard One to Answer.

Five young men went into a store to
buy a hat each.
Seeing they were in a joking mood,
the clerk said. Are you married."
They each said. Yes"
Then I'll give a hat to the one who
can truthfully say he has not kissed
any other woman but his own wife
since he was married
7Hand over a hat, said n of the
party. I've won it..
When were you married.
YESTERDAY" was the reply, and the
hat was handed over.
One of the others was laughing
heartily whilst telling his wife the
joke, but suddenly pulled up when she
said:
4 say. John. how was it you dida't
bring one?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
A Stout Jack.

foot from the end of a and brace ii
securely. The upright C is three feet
long, placed six inches away from b
and notched at the upper end for the
bolt through the lever d. For the
lever use a piece of thin timber 2x3
inches thick and four feet long. To
use this jack, says Farm and Home.
place the short end of the lever under
the axle, press down upon the handle
until the wheel is raised, then pull the
brace c over until a notch holds down
the lever.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
DANCING BALLS.
Amusing and Mystifying Results
at Small Expense.

Get a wide-mouthed bottle, closed
BY a hollow cork, in which is inserted
the pipe of a small glass funnel. BY
means Of s~ealing-wax make alright
and water-tight all the crevices that
might leak, both between funnel and
cork and between cork and bottle.
Half fill the bottle with water. and
throw in the two powders that are
used to make settler water. tartaric
acid and b~icarbonate of soda, which
may be bought at a drug store ready
for use. E~ferveseence will at once
take place, throwing off carbonic acid
gas, and this will escape through the
funnel.
But If you have placed within the
funnel two or three little balls Of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
Naming HIndoo Babies.

A Hindoo baby's name is generally
cnosen by the mother, and bestowed
u days after birth. Sometimes the
father wishes another name rather
than hat selected by the mother. In
that case the names are written and
over each is placed a lamp, and the
name over which the lamp burns
brightest is the one which the enii=
receives.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
Why He Wanted Her.

Stop" commanded Miss Nurox,
with a disdainful sniff. The idea of
your proposing to a lady in my sta
ton of life. You ought to know
betterl"
"WeIll" replied Mr.. Hunter, Il do
know better. but not richer"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
Pictured Hay fever.

In Paris there is just now proceed
ing a ~seasonable discussion on hay
fever. concerning which an amusing
instance of the capricious nature Of
the infection is related. A lady was
quite proof against catching the sneez-
ings of hay fever from either hay or
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15

any other flower or plant except one.
The mere sight of a rose used to set
her sneezing violently. Knowing her
weakness she carefully avoided these
flowers, but one day she carelessly
stopped before a still life painting rep
resenting a basket CT roses Almost
instantly she was seized with a sneez
ing fit. Clearly imagination has its
mart in the case.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
a snsnioinus Character.

"Jiminee! but Mr.. Good, the candi-
date for county treasurer, is mad at
you" said the foreman of the country
weekly.
What! Why. we gave him great
send-off in this weeks paper"
Yves; he says you've ruined him.
You referred to him as "a trusted en-
ploye.'" - Catholic Standard and
Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
@
aFARE
EFFEcrIvE Aeo JACK.
One That Can Easily Be Made Out Of
Materials Lying About.

1 have used a jack such as shown IN
the sketch below for a number of
years. For the bottom piece, a, take
two strips 2k feet long, one inch
;hick, and IL inches wide. Place the
upright b, which is 2K feet long, n
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15

by occult processes known to his
trade, the brilliant gold streaks which
were so noticeable amid the jetty
black of the remainder of the couture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-15
ENCOURAGING TEDDY
BY Cosmo Hamilton

Copyright. 1906. BY Joseph B. BOwlea1
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
BY Authority.
SEALED TENDERS.

SEALED TENDERS will be received
by the superintendent of Public Works
until IL m. of Tuesday, December 31st,
1907, for furnishing all material and
labor and constructing two room
schoolhouse at Waipahu, Oahu, 7. II.
Plans and specifications on file in
office of Superintendent of Public
Works.
Each tender must be accompanied
by certified check for Fifty Dollars
(s50.GO) made payable to Marston
Campbell, Superintendent of Public
Works.
MARSTON CAMPBELL,
Superintendent of Public Works.
Department of Public Works,
December IS, 1907. 1914
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
NOTICE
OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCK
HOLDERS OF KIHEI PLANTA-
TON COMPANY, LIMITED,

Notice is hereby given that spe-
cial meeting Of the stockholders OF XII
hei Plantation Company. Limited. is
hereby called. at the request OF MEM
bers of said company representing
more than one-tenth Of the shares Of
it's capital stock, said meeting to be
held IN the directors' room Of Alexan-
der & Baldwin, Ltd, I'm the Stangen~
valid Building. on Merchant street. I'm
Honolulu, Island of Oahu. in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii. on Monday, the thir-
tieth day of December, 1907, at the
hour of 2 o'clock p. m. for the pur-
pose of considering proposal for the
sale by the company Of all Of it's prop
erty and interests and the winding up
Of its business and affairs under pro-
ceedings for corporate dissolution, and
for the transaction Of such other bus
mess as may properly come before
said meeting.
Dated at said Honolulu this 18th day
of December, 1907.
ELMER r. PAXTON,
Secretary. Kihei Plantation Co, Ltd.
1912
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
NOTICE.
PAYMENT OF WATER RATES.

PAYMENT OF WATER RATES.
JAS provided for in Chapter As of the
Revised Laws of, Hawaii. 1905, all per-
sons holding water privileges or those
paying water rates are hereby notified
that the water rates for the six (6)
months ending June 80, 1908. will be
due and payable on the first day of
January, 1903.
On all such rates remaining unpaid
on January Is, 1908, an additional
charge of 10 per cent. will be made.
All privileges upon which rates re-
main unpaid on February Is, 1908, are
subject to immediate shut off without
further notice.
Rates are payable at the office OF
the Honolulu Water Works, Capitol
Building.
J. NJ. LITTLE,
superintendent of the Honolulu Water
Works.
7s12-Dec. II. 10. 10, 20. 81, %, %, "a. 25
2s, 81, %. %. so, 81.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
FIRST CIRCUIT, TERRITORY OF
HAWAII. = IN PROBATE. AZ
CHAMBERS.
In the Matter of the Estate OF Ben1a-
min r TAYLOR. Deceased.-Before
the Judge Presiding.
Order of Notice of Petition for Allow
ance of Final Accounts and Dis
charge in this Estate.
on reading and filing the petition
and accounts of Ollie B. Taylor. ad-
ministratrix of the Estate Of Benjamin
r. TAYLOR. decea sed, wherein she asks
to be allowed 1864 SO. and charges her
self with 1858 10. and asks that the
Same may be examined and approved
and that a final order may be made OF
distribution of the property remaining
I in her hands to the persons thereto
| entitled. and discharging her and her
/ sureties from all further responsible
itv as such administrative.
It is Ordered that Monday. the Z'tH
day of January, a. D. 1908, at O'Clock
| a m. before the Judge of said Court
/ AT the courtroom of the said Court at
| Honolulu. Island of Oahu, be and the
| same hereby is appointed as the TINS
! and Mace for hearing said petition and
| accounts. and that all persons inter
ested may then and there appear an0
| show cause. If any they have, why the
same should not be granted, and ff2as
present evidence as 90 who are emu
| tied TO the said property. And tha'
] notice of this order. in the English
language, be published in the Paclh.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO FORE.
CLOSE AND OF SALE.

Under or by virtue of the power OF
sale contained in that certain mort
gage, dated the 5th day of January,
1904. made by Alwine Conradt, wife OF
C. C. Conradt of Honolulu. as mort
gagor, to j. NJ. Dowsett of Honolulu,
Trustee, as mortgage, and of record
in liber 259, pages to 8, Hawaiian
Registry of Conveyances; and pur~
suant to Section 2161 (Chapter 1880, of
the Revised Laws of Hawaii. the
undersigned, J. NJ. Dowsett, Trustee,
hereby gives notice that he intends to
foreclose the said mortgage for con-
dition broken, to-wit: the non-payment
of principal and interest secured by
the said mortgage when due.
Notice is hereby likewise given that
the property conveyed by the said
mortgage will be sold at public auction
at the auction rooms of Jas F. Morgan,
S57 Kaahumanu street, Honolulu afore-
said, Auctioneer, on Saturday, the 18th
day of January, 1908. at twelve o'clock
noon.
The property conveyed assigned by
the said mortgage to be sold consists
of:
10 An undivided one-ninth part or
share of all that tract or parcel OF
land situate in the block in Honolulu
aforesaid bounded by Fort, Hotel,
| Nuuanu and Pauahi streets and 'front.'
ing partly on Pauahi street, partly on
! Fort street and partly on Hotel street,
Honolulu aforesaid, and comprising
| all the land in the said block of which
H. A. Widemann, late of Honolulu
aforesaid, deceased. the father of the
mortgagor, died sliced or possessed;
and
| (2) All that lot. piece or parcel OF
land situate on the westerly side OF
Punahou street, Honolulu aforesaid De
tween Beretania street and Wilder ave-
! nue.. and being the lot, piece or par2ei
of land conveyed to the mortgagor py
| the MORTGAGE by deed dated the hfth
/ day of January, 1904, and recorded III
| T.iber 254. on pages 365-367, and more
/ particularly described as follows: Be
| ginning at a point on the west slde
of Punahou street us feet from tbs
corner of Beretania street, and run
ming as follows by true bearings:
IN y. 800 O0' E. 1900 feet along PuI
/ hou street:
a n $40 90, w. 1888 feet along II. a
/ widemann, Judd premises
ia N s4o 0V E. 30S feet along same
i 4, n. $50 4s, w. 2O6.s feet along same
liz 8 go Is w. $50 feet along w. X
Seal lot;
/ s. 500 30, w. $40 feet along w. r
Il Seal lot;
Il g. CSC 30, E. S12.0 feet along 10
devised to Mrs. Gertrud
LAM;
8 s4o As, E. ESQ feet along sam
across roadway;
& 55s 90 e. 2790 feet along same [
initial point, containing al
, area of 1884 acres.
; Terms: Cash, United states Coz
, Coin; deeds at expense of purchaser
For further particulars. apply I
Holmes & Stanley, Kaahumanu street
: Honolulu. Attorney for Mortgage Q
James F. Morgan, Honolulu, AUG
tioneer. -
: Dated. Honolulu, December b. 100
]. Nj. DowsETT, Trustee
, Mortgage.
7si5-Dec. 20, p Jan. 8, 10.
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DOING BUSINESS.

Silva 5 Toggery seems to be the stop
ming place for a majority of the peo-
pie passing along King street day OF
night The PrSty little electric lamps
in the window give just enough hight
TO be an attraction and the elegant
goods displayed are much admired,
There is a big Christmas demand for
the character of goods sold by Silva
and his daily record shows that the
people of Honolulu are after quality
The store win be open every night
until Christmas.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
MARINE

The Matson Navigation Company
steamship Enterprise, Captain Young
rem, from San Francisco, arrived last
night shortly after six o'clock, bring
ing five passengers for Hilo, 100 tons
of miscellaneous freight for this city,
and a full cargo for the Hawaii port.
She will sail for Hilo this morning at
10 o'clock, taking passengers from here.
1t was a familiar sight to see the
Enterprise, as she drew alongside the
Brewer wharf, though she has not been
in this port before since last March.
Captain Youngren, who is very well
known in this city, is still in command
and First Officer Thompson is also an
old timer. Chief Engineer j. r. Forbes
is new face here, though he has been
on board the Enterprise since last
April.
On her deck the Enterprise had a
full passenger list, some fine livestock
being brought down for ranches on Ha-
wall. On board for the Kapapala
ranch were twenty one head of mares,
two fine registered stations, one young
jack and eleven mules. Besides these
there are twenty-five other mules on
board for different ranches and plan
tations on Hawaii. Julian Monsarrat.
the manager of the Kapapala ranch,
was on board. as was ]. NJ. Ross, man
ager of Hakalau plantation.