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makes them short weight or short
measure according to the orders OF
the packer, who is to fill them with
his products.
One very noticeable short weight
fraud is the practice OF selling butter
in jars. The common half gallon
butter jar is known by the trade as q
five pound JAR" but when it is filled
level full with butter i: will generally
hold less than five pounds of butter.
It is not difficult to find give pound
jars" of butter on the market contain
ing only (4a) four and oue-half pounds
| of butter. The customer who buys
one of these jars of butter for 81. 80
thinks he is getting'butter at 36 cents
per Id. while in fact he,ls paying just
40 cents per Id.
This department is powerless to
compel statement of the net weight
on all food packages, as there is no
law requiring such labelling, but un-
til such a law is enacted there is no.
relief. in sight except that the individ-
ual purchaser can protect himself by
weighing the goods he buys and in
sisting on receiving what he pays
for.
Producers of and dealers in eggs
are again warned against selling or
offering for sale eggs, which are not
fresh and wholesome. Inspectors of
this department are instituting prose-
cutions against vio]ators of the law
in every section of the state and the
lowest fine that can be assessed by
any court is 5000 and costs.
Among the analyses reported from
the labratory recently are the follow
ing.
Lab. 1s4O-Extract of Almond,
"Puritan," manufactured by Wright
Charleston Mercantile Co., Duluth.
Illegal, labeled 2oz.. exact net weight
/ OF.
Lab. 7O8-1mitation Fruit Jelly,
manufacturedby Berry Mayburn Co.,
Chicago. Illegal, marked IL lbs. ex-
act net weight 10a lbs.
Lab. 1193- Ground Cinnamon,
manufactured by j.. P. Dieter Co.,
Chicago. Illegal, labeled / h., exact
net weight 2.8 OF.
Lab. ll76-Black Pepper, mana
featured by DR.. Ward Med. Co., WI
mona. Illegal, labeled 8 o., exact
net wight p or.
Lab. ll65-White Pepper, manu-
featured by 81. B. Strait & Co. St.
Paul. Illegal, sample is adultrated
with ground cocoanut shells and con-
tains considerable amount of star
chy matter.
Lab. 84-Boiled Linseed Oil, man
featured by American Linseed Oil Co.
Omaha, Nebraska. Illegal, adultrat-
ed with mineral oils
Lab. 90-Boiled Linseed Oil, man
ufactured by the Central Linseed Oil
Co., Omaha, Neb. Illegal, adultrat-
ed with mineral oil.
T7DvTYADD II CT ATED
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/ Miss Lulu Thompson, of Sioux
Falls, is guest of Mrs. J. h. james
this week. 49,.
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MERCHANTS COUPONS.

All stores that have donated premiums this contest
have coupons Every dollars cash purchase entities you
to 25 for any contestant you may Call for
coupons purchase is made and vote them at
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Yours very truly,
OXFORD LINEN MILLS

If those who intend to raise flax
next year will hand their names in at
the Advance office, we will forward
same to this company. Believe far.
mers will get better prices by keeping
seed and selling straw to this compa-
np than to sell the unthreshed fax to
harvester companies for binding Irvine
purposes.
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GOOD MARKET
FOR FLAX STRAW
Large Eastern Linen Mills Con
vert Straw into Linen Fibre,
Ready for Spinning
OXFORD LINEN MILLS
Manufactures OF
Linen From
American Flax
227 Fifth Avenue, New York,
Oct. 81, 1907.

wv OIL xOO(s
Dear Sir:
Are the farmers in your vicinity
burning their flax straw? If 81, 1t
will be to your interest Gas we'll as to
theirs and to ours to stop them, ad
vising them to write US before destroy
ing any more of this valuable pro-
duct.
A market for the millions of tons of
fax straw that farmers oi the north
west have forced TO burn as rubbish
every year, will be made by the Ok
ford Linen Mills, organized with
capital Of 100000 for the manu-
facture of linen from American fax.
We intend to contract with farmers
for the purchase of this fax straw,
and preparatory to that step We de-
sire to secure the names and address.
es CT all those who now grow or con-
template growing fax. We shall
therefore esteem it favor if you re-
fer this letter to some one willing to
send US list of farmers in your vi.
cinity-that is, in case it proves in
convenient for you to furnish one.
The sale of this hitherto waste
straw will yield the farmer good mon
ey and increase very materially the
profit on his fax acreage.
Thanking you in anticipation of
your courtsey, we are,
Yours very truly,
OXFORD LINEN MILLS
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For Sale

One furnace and two heaters cheap
Enquire Of M. P. Mann or John Ra-
! mage. >.-.sa.1.
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
His SAGE Conclusion.

well, sab, if yo' please, dess go
ahead and flung in 20 predestined
pro-ratty. and be done wild it," trifie
impatiently said good Brother Shin
paw, who was passing the hat
4 isn't got all day TO linger whilst
yo' premedicates over the mattah.
Dess recollect dat de Lawd loves a
churful giver. and proffawm aecaw-
din"
@Yessah. Toe be shot, pleasantly
replied old Brother Bimmelick. who
was hesitatingly coming over Is
cent piece. a dime. a nickel and a
copper cent. reposing in the palm of
his hand. well, uh. den. muh brud-
der as KANT no-ways contribute dis
yuh quawtah as churfully as | kin
dis Injun-headed penny, | dess suits
de action to de words, as dey sea N
stories. and chucks de cent piece into
de election dat am bein' took up for
de heather. uh-way of yonder some'rs,
dunnah whuh '-Woman's Home
Home Companion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09

A boy was amusing himself BY
watching the birds that were flying
around him. At length a beautiful
bobolink perched on a rough bough Of
an apple tree near By.
The boy picked up stone, and got
ready to throw it at the bird The
birds throat sweIled. and forth came
the song: "A-link. a-link, a-link. bobo
ling. bobolink, a-no-sweet, a-no-sweet
know it, know it, a-link, a-Iinks
don't throw it, throw it, throw it
And the boy did not throw the
stone. but dropped it on the ground.
Why didn't you stone him. my
BOZ You might have killed him and
carried him home
The little fellow looked up and re-
piled. Couldn't cos he sang So
Puck
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
Used Him as Eraser.

The late Dr. Henry Martyr Field
some years ago related at q Williams
alumni dinner a rather amusing incl
dent Of his freshman days at college.
Being only IL years old when be
entered he had not reached the point
where the natural friction between the
big boy and the small boy ceases ana
he was at particular feud with one OF
his fellows. a stalwart country youth
fresh from the farm One day young
Field went early to the classroom and
put upon the big blackboard a very
exasperating caricature Of his en-
envy, with his name beneath. When
the aggrieved party saw what had
been done he said not a word. but
catching up his youthful tormentor, he
used him as an eraser and after rub
bling out the offensive picture quietly
took his seat
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
preooeItx Of the Modern chIId.

There is no doubt that the thought
full child of to-day would have been the
much-punished child of the past. says
the London Chronicle. At the same
time the witty child does add to the
gayety of life. besides enforcing a
higher standard of conversation among
her reproving elders. 1t was a mis-
take. for instance. on the part of the
reproving elder to tell one of these
wits of the nursery that if she was so
naughty she would not go to heaven.
The little culprit seemed impressed
for a brief moment and then she gave
a resigned sigh. "oh, WE'LL she re-
marked. i've been to two theaters
and party and circus. I can't ex-
pect to go everywhere.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
MARCUS AURELIUS
BY HAROLD AVERY
Ccopynght. 1906. BY Joseph B. BowIes)

II was while a large party of as
were staying one summer at farm
house-that the boy picked him up
little, sad-faced, lop-sided. mongrel
puppy.
The old sheep-dog. who had long
LOSE all recollection of his own child
hood, treated him with that arrogant
contempt with which Age. that may
be said to have learnt words of one
syllable, habitually regards poor
Youth, still struggling with the alpha
bet, and in consequence the unfor-
tunate juvenile was forced to seek
amusement in the society of litter of
small pigs. Whenever you crossed
the farmyard you were sure TO catch
right OF him trotting about with his
miniature herd of baby swine, his de-
jected look, and ragged puppy coat,
making him the very persOnification of
a poor little four-footed prodigal.
Whether, under the circumstances.
1t would have been fair to have
blamed the pup for his choice Of
friends, or to have judged him by the
company he kept, are questions which
the reader can decide, but | know at
the time he certainly seemed to me to
be, from an intellectual standpoint,
hardly at all superior to his compan-
ions.
When you called him he promptly
ran away, and if you pursued he would
lie down and grovel on his back in the
mud, and as often as you set him on
his feet he instantly fell down again.
What little mind he had appeared TO
be attracted towards medical research.
and (having no one else to practice
on) he freely administered to himself
most strange garbage with all that dis
regard of personal risk which charac-
terizes a true martyr Of science.
A penchant for prescribing for his
own real OF fancied ailments seemed
indeed to attend him all through life,
and even now, though well advanced
in years, it is hardly possible to take
him for run round the garden with
out being startled by his suddenly
commencing to cough and choke in an
alarmingly noisy manner over some
particularly long blade of grass which
he has rashly undertaken to swallow
The boy. however. with the same
youthful confidence which caused him
to believe that the vile little imitation
meerschaum that he smoked clandes
timely behind the hay-rack would some
day color" averred that the pup has
a future before him, and, when full
grown, would be in some way or othel
a remarkable animal So firmly die
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09

Prof. George W. Jones. head Of the
department of mathematics OF Cornell
university viii retire az the end OF
the present year. The board OF trus-
tees viii ask the Carnegie endowment
fund for a pension for him Prof.
Jones went to Cornell as the head OF
the department OF mathematics in
1877 and has occupied that place ever
since. He is one Of the Oldest men in
point of service on the Cornell facul-
". He is the author OF several
treatises and textbooks.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
Lost in Deep Reverie.

this unaccountable belief take root in
his heart that he secretly purchased
the object of it from the farmers son,
the price paid being dime and the
two bottom joints of fishing rod.
This happened the day before we
left, and ON the following morning.
while returning in an open wagonnette
a sudden exclamation from one of the
ladies caused US to glance in the d.
rection of the box seat, and we were
surprised to observe a small, brown
face peering down at us from under
the boys elbow. with a quaint, apollo
getical look which seemed to say, I'm
here, but don't blame me-"
you don't mean to say you've
brought that little beast with yon!"
"Of course l have" answered the
boy, taking the mougrel up in his
arms. He's mine; and he's not lit
tie beast. Are you my beauty?"
"Ughl you dirty thingl" exclaimed
the pretty cousin. How can you let
him lick your"
He's only kissing me-"
We'll, don't let him DO it."
Go onl" answered the boy. with
Charming impudence. You're jealous. -
"O-ohl" cried the girl, dimple com
ing in her soft check and adjoining it
like a jewel. very well. III never kiss
you again"
Wort you? Just wait till we get
into the train"
An. boy that was long ago now, and
times change.
1t must have been nearly is months
before saw the pup again. On this
occasion, having caslei at the boys
home and strolled out into the gar
dea, saw. sitting in the sunshine. out
in the very center of the lawn, an un-
shapely, disreputable looking dog, APP
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09

my prince as thought, storm through
the lists on his white horse. 1 saw
him bare his head and receive the
crown Of victory. / stood before him,
ashamed yet glad. hosed and doublet-
ed like boy in the summer pavilion
I heard his gracious words. loved
my prince, who so soon was to be
wholly mine. The months slipped past
and l was ever the gladder the faster
they went. The woman stirred within
the STRIPPING girl In half year, in
twenty weeks-in five-in one-in
day-an hour, would put my hand,
my life, into his keepingi Then came
the glad tumult of the rejoicing folk,
the hush Of the crowded cathedral.
said, oh, not yeti will not lift my
eyes to my prince until We stop
ped. / lifted my eyes-and the prince
was not my princel"
There was long and solemn pause
between these two on the old watch
tower. Never was declaration Of
love returned so given and so taken.
She went on.
Now you know all, Conrad" she
said. isle Rugen can never more be
the isle of peace. You and / have
shiyered the cup of our happiness.
We must part. We can never be
friends. I must abide because am a
prisoner. You will keep your counsel,
promising me to be silent, and to-
gether we will contrive way of es-
cape"
When Conrad answered her his
voice was hoarse and broken, almost
| like one rheumed with sleeping out
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
GUIDES CHILDREN.
Experience and Mothers Love Make
Advice Valuable

An Ills. mother writes about feeding
children:
'.If mothers would use Grape-Nuts
more for their little ones. there would
be less need for medicines and fewer
doctor bills.
IF those suffering from indigestion
and stomach troubles would live on
Grape-Nuts. toast and good milk for
short period they would experience
more than they otherwise would be-
Iieve.
''Our children have all learned to
know the benefit of Grape-Nnts as an
appetizing, strengthening food. It IS
every evening. with few variations,
like this: Mamma, let's have toast and
Grape-Nuts for breakfast. or, let's have
eggs and Grape-Nuts' forget
ting the latter.
"One OF our boys in school and IS
years of age repeatedly tells me his
mind is so much brighter after having
Grape-Nuts as a part IL not all his
breakfast" Name given by Postum
Co. Battle Greek, Mich Read the lit
tie book. THE Road to Wellviile," in
Dkxs. There's a Reason"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
FIRST OF EARrH's ARCHITECTS.
Principles Laid Down by Greece Not
improved Upon.
(To be continued.

FFlUClpicS LdiO Oo6H pJ GTCCCS Not
Improved Upon.
Our architecture came in the first
place from Greece. Egypt, Assyria,
Persia, India and the far east have
had but slight influence upon it, com
pared with that welded by the small,
arid, mountainous country. where.
nearly 5000 years ago, men made in
the domains of art and thought in
vestigations and experiments which
are of immediate and direct value to
us even to-day, says the Philadelphia
Record. One cannot reflect upon this
without feeling of establishment. 1t
shows us the closenese of our connec-
ton with the people of distant ages,
the community that exists, in spite of
seeming differences among the human
species ON our planet.
A well-conducted experiment per
formed at one spot on the earth and
in one hour of time can be of use to
the whole world and through all ages.
The Greeks of the fifth and sixth cen
turtles B. G. made such an expert
ment as this when they thought of a
certain form of temple with columns
and laid down certain rules for its
construction. And we of the TWEEN
tieth century turn to the subtle-mind-
ed Greeks of 2,400 years ago, when
we have to deal with a problem in
architecture and want to know how
to solve 1t with elegance and preci-
sion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09

parently lost in o deep reVerie. and
wearing on his head an absurd model
Of top-hat On hearing my footsteps
he rose and shambled across the grass
to meet me, his hat (which was Sc
cured with an elastic band) cooked
knowingly over one eye.
Why, you remember hint" cried
the boy This is the dog / bought at
the farm. We call him Marcus Au-
relius because he's always meditating-
He's awfully clever; I've taught him
heaps Of tricks"
The animal sauntered up and wiped
his paws on my trousers by way Of
greeting.
Hello Marcel said his master. "sit
up"
The dog promptly Topped down fun
length on the grass.
Il didn't tell you to die" cried the
boy. "Sit up you little blackguards"
Marc, with his top-hat hanging I'M
I der his chin like nose-bag, rolled
over and entertained US by dying"
on his back.
I
1 tits the easiest trick he's got; and
whenever tell him to do anything
else he always will die he won't ST
up or run round after his tail"
Marc having -died" for what he
considered a reasonable length Of
time. now rose to his feet and saun-
/ tered back to his meditations, this
time wearing his top-hat on the back
of his neck, as though it was sol
dier's knapsack.
Whats he got that on for2"
why, | want him to get accus-
toned to 1t, because I'm going to teach
him to wear it when he goes out into
the street"
What can he do besides die"
Well" answered the boy. I think
he'd make a good sporting dog be-
cause he's always digging holes in the
garden, and | think he's kill rats if he
had the chance. tried him once with
mouse that / caught in the stable;
l let it loose on the kitchen floor, and
somehow Marc lost it, and it ran away
somewhere. and we couldn't find it.
and mother made an awful fuss. She
doesn't like Marc, I'm sure she doesn't,
and he isn't allowed even to lie in
front of the dining room fire, but al
ways has to go into basket Women
never value a good dog; they don't
know one when they see him Do they,
Marco"
The dog-who appeared now to
have finally determined to carry his
top-hat as a chest protector-on hear
ing his name called. awoke with a
start from his reyerie, and after mo
ment's hesitation, as though he forgot
exactly how the trick began. turned
slowly over and died"
Many years have slipped away
since / first saw Marcus Aurelius medi
tating on the sun-lit lawn, and though
1 knew him as baby, I find him t.
be quite a gray-haired old man. M
top-hat appears rakishly perched upoI
his shapeless head. and he stretches
himself With perfect confidence upor
the sacre hearthrug and suffers M
rebuke.
Marc" says mother. with Sigh
tremble in her voice. where's you
master?"
The dog wags his stumpy tail bu
it is a heartless proceeding, and h
does not even raise his head Per
haps he knows as well as We do tina
wide seas roll between himself an,
Australia, and long before the boy viii
ever think of crossing them again
Marcus Aurelius will have performed
his old trick in sober earnest ant
shambled of down that dusty pathway
trodden years ago by the family o
juvenile porkers. the old sheepdog
and all the other friends of his youth
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
Valuable ReIlcs lJnearthed.

Jerusalem papers report that on the
opening of graves at Pergamos num-
Der of rare relics were brought to
light In one grave lay golden TO
sary. In two other tombs wreaths
we're found. representing artistically-
made gold limitations of oak leaves. A
VOLTS head in gold was discovered.
as wen as various farming utensils.
swords and other weapons. The an
Equities were sent 10 the Museum OF
Constantinople
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09


on a winters night His words whis-
tied in his windpipe, flying from treble
to bass and back again.
Joan, JOAN" he said, and the third
time JOAN" And for the moment
he could say no more.
"True love-" she said, and her voice
was caressing, you and I are barrier
ed from each other. Yet we belong
you to mel to you! viii not touch
your hand, nor you mine. Not even
as we have hitherto done. Let ours
be the higher-perhaps deadlier sin
the sin of soul and soul. Do you go
back to your Office. your electorate.
while stay here to do my duty"
She smiled upon him with pecu-
liar trustful sweetness and continued:
"And once year, in the autumn,
you will come from your high office.
You viii lay aside the princely scar
let, and don the curt hose and blue
jerkin, even as now you stand. You
will gather blackberries and help me
to preserve them. You will split
wood and carry water. Then, when
the day is well spent, you and / will
walk hither in the high afternoon and
tel. each other where we stand and
all the things that have filed our
hearts in the interspace. Thus will
we keep tryst, you and T-not priest
and wife, but man and woman speak
ing the truth eye to eye without fear
and without stain. Do you promise?'
For all answer the prince-cardinal
kneeled down and taking the hem Of
her dress he kissed it humbly and
reverently.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09
b. S.RCROCFETT. AuSto~ o/ MeRauau0


cross-road through all the land of
CORTLAND! And that which would
have done shall not be named beside
that which 1 shall dol"
And he turned and rode after his
men. in the midst of whom was Prince
Louis, his head twisted in fear and
apprehension over his shoulder, and
his slack hands scarce able to hold
the reins.
After this manner was the Spar
hawk rescued from the jaws of death,
and thus came Joan of the Sword
Hand the second time to CORTLAND.
But the end was not yet
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09

on his face. gathered together his
stray horsemen.
"Set Prince Louis in your midst and
tide for your lives." he cried. ITO
the frontier, where bides the army Of
the carl"
With flash Of pennons and a toss
ing Of horses heads they obeyed, but
Prince Ivan himself paused upon the
ton of a little swelling rise and looked
back toward the ALA bank.
'It is your day. Make the most Of
IL" he muttered In three days l
will come backl And then. by Mich
sei the Archangeli will cruelty one
OF rou at evcrv street corner and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-04-09

tack of kidney trouble and Iumbago.
which caused him much suffering. He
began taking Doan's Kidney Pills and
was soon cured We always keep
them on hand Ny husband was cured
Of bad pains In the back by taking
only part Of a box"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-MiIburn Co.. Buffalo. NY