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The Press., 1907-09-25

Occasional headache, belching, bad taste
in the mouth, lack of appetite and slight
nervousness are symptoms of Indigestion
which, when allowed to go uncared for,
will develop into case of dyspepsia that
will take a long time to get rid Of Don't
neglect your stomach At the first indl.
cation of trouble take something that
will help it along in its work of digesting
the Cd you eat Kodol for Indigestion
and Dyspepsia will do this Kodol will
make your food do you good and will en-
able you to enjoy what you eat. Sold by
AnIers Jacobsen
The Press., 1907-09-25
pomastie Economy,

II see Robinson's married again
married his first wife's sister,"
Eyes. He said he didn't want to
have to break in another mother-iD-
lnw." I.eSlie'a Wonklv
The Press., 1907-09-25

Hello" said Borem, 81 just thought
I'd drop in on you today to-
II thought you would, too" inter
rupted Merchant
'You did? Now, that's strange, be-
cause
mot at all. This is the busiest day
I've had for two weeks. "-Catholia
Standard and Times
The Press., 1907-09-25

DeWitt's Little Early Risers are good
for anyone who needs a pill. They are
small, safe, sure, little pills that do not
grippe or sicken. Sold by Anders Jacob
sen.
The Press., 1907-09-25
CUTTING Down competition.

II saved $500 this year by moving"
Cheaper house"
mo; found that my Va ;. was try
ing to outdress rich woA.hn in the
same block"
The Press., 1907-09-25
A Trick That MON.


"Once, when Long John Wentworth
was mayor of Chicago" said an old
time resident Of that city, "a hot cam.
paign was In progress. The rough ele-
ment was showing signs Of turbulence,
and Long John knew that the police
force was totally unable to cope with
it II there should be a riot. There
wasn't much Of any police force In
those days. The few officers that there
were didn't have any uniform outside
Of a plug hat. On the front of this
was a semlcircle of tin with the mans
number on 1t. There was no money to
pay for additional officers, so Long
john bethought himself Of a bright
scheme. He had figure '0 added to
the number on every one of those hats.
On election day the different members
Of the force were stationed conspicu-
ously where the trouble was most like
" to break out. The roughs saw the
numbers. $780, $780, $780, ETC., where
they had before seen only 49, '29' and
49, The word went around that Long
john had added several hundred men
to the police force, and the tough crowd
were SO intimidated that they never
darel to do a thing"
The way to get rid OF cold. whether it
be ''bad cold'' or just little one, is to
get it out of your system through the
bowels. Nearly all Cough Cures, espec-
iall2 those that contain opiates, are con
stipating Kennedy's Laxative Cough
Syrup contains no opiates and acts gently
on the bowels. Pleasant to take. Sold
by Anders Jacobsen.
The Press., 1907-09-25
A Real oenlua.

From the composers Of all time
Beethoven stands out by himself like
some gigantic tree towering up above
the rest OF the forest. He was the
greatest genius Of all. not for any one
thing that he did, but because he was
equally great in every style Of music
that he essayed. The first test OF real
genius is the ability to excel in ali
directions, and for this reason I have
always looked upon Beethoven, Shake
speare and Turner as the three greatest
geniuses who have ever existed.-Emil
Sauer In Strand Magazine.
The Press., 1907-09-25

You are not very good unless you
are better than your best friends imag-
Inc you TO he-Lavater.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
spaIn,s cannu Rallro.a.

IN Spain the railroads do not lose
a chance to make little profit even
IN the case of non-travelers. When
you see somebody off in that country
you must pay for the privilege
The railroads all sell billetes do an
uen' which are good for the platform
only These cost generally five cent?.
mos equivalent to cent in Ameri.
can money. -'ei :
Just why this is done is hard to 900
because persons entering a train oan
not very we'll avoid the conductor
VINO is always making trips to Inaneot
"a tne carriages. If person attempted
p ~ steal ride in a carriage he would
with - sinaii chance of getting away
WIN IT, If caught he would have r.
lay lay penalty of just twice the faro
o oeemeen the point where he was dc
covered ,o. and the point where tiotata
last were inspected. 'i'Ae'S
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
GIRL KILLED A HAWK.
Bird Had Attacked Her When Driven
From Pigeons.

A large hen hawk, weighing nearly
fourteen pounds, attacked Miss Elolss
M. Shields, Is, of Milton, Mass. while
the young woman, accompanied BY
some friends, was spending the after
noon at the Blue Hills reservation
The party had just had their lunch.
con and were feeding some pigeons
when the hawk swooped down and
started to carry off one of the pigeons
In It's talons. Miss Shields quickly
picked up stone, and throwing II at
the bird made 1t drop its prey. The
hawk then attacked the girl and nest.
ling on one of her shoulders started
TO beat her with its wing. After
knocking of the bird with her hands
Miss Shields picked up one Of che
tonic bottles, which the party had
been using, and hitting the hawk a
hard blow on its head, killed it. Except
Tor a few scratches the young woman
was not injured.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Cave Which the Indians Decorated.

Two gold prospectors recently dis
covered in the Santa Susanna noun
tains. about so miles from Los An
geles, Cal, the largest and most re-
markable cave in western America.
While looking for indications of gold
they found an opening which they en-
tered. The opening led to a great
cavern; consisting of many passages,
some of them wide but most of them
narrow and lofty. The passages lead
into great halls, some containing an
acre, studded with stalagmites and
stalactites, in some cases so thickly
that it is difficult to get through.
The walls of one of these halls are
covered with rude drawings, some al
most obliterated but others still clear.
The drawings represent incidents of
the chase, showing Indians on foot
pursuing bear, deer and other animals.
One wall painting shows the bear pur-
suing the hunter. The work is done
with a soft, red stone much used by
the Indians for that purpose.-Scien-
tifc American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Cost oil Electrlfioatinn

Careful estimates recently made for
the identification of rs miles of staan,
railroad indicated that there would ba
saving of Fl per cent. in the operat.
ing expenses of the road. Lewis n
Stillwell and Henry ST. Clair Putnam
two eminent engineers, have made CIV
haustive calculations which show tbat
taking the entire 216.950 miles of steam
railroads in the United States. a 70.
duction of operating expenses to 90
per cent. of the present outlay would
be made by electrifcation of all tbe
railroads. This would mean a not
saving of 1887 mile in one year
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Hurry.

To our own age belongs the credit Of
having raised hurry from the degraded
position of a disease to that of com.
mercial process. Formerly hurry sim.
ply brought people to an early grave,
with nothing to show for it, whereas
now 1t is become the means of trans
forming peace of mind, which is
soleclsm, to say the best of it, into
really money. Hurry has grown to he
great fact in life. Even the fashions
take account of it, until women are
found doing up their hair in such a
way that they may go the speed limit
without fear Of its coming down. And
the best of hurry is that it is its OWL
sufficient justification. lJobody e1
poets hurry to have any particular
reason behind 1t any more.-Life.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
The Humble FREIGHT Car.

1t is the freight car that makes the
Pullman possible. 1t was the freight
car that last year earned $55, 00O. 900
for the New York Central as against
an earning of $2S,OOO,OOO to the credit
of the passenger car. 1t was the
freight car that last year earned $11O,,
100000 for the stockholders of the
Pennsylvania, as against an earning
by the passenger car of $4,000, OOO
And it is because the homely freight
car means so much to the big systems
that a new rule has gone into effect
whereby railroad that holds the
freight cars of another will have to
pay penalty of so cents a day for
every day 1t does so, instead of one
dollar a day after the first 80 as here,
tofore.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24

A Harlem IN. " resident after
busy day was seated restfully at home
when the telephone bell rang says
New York letter. Meet me at the
Waldorf within an hour" called an
intimate friend at the other end Of
the wire; must see you. Don't fall
Within an hour Important. Good
by. The Harlemite grumbled, Won
dered why business should follow
ured man into his home, got into bis
boots, kissed his wife and hustled for
the hotel. His friend was waiting for
him in the Waldorf cafe. "Well, jim,
ne said, what is It? What's ur?
What's up?" echoed Jim. WHY
m as lonely as castaway tonight
want company-some one to talk
with. What will you drink" Jim Is
a bachelor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
THE "cAANoEn HE DIDN'T oET,
Had It Coming but Machine Would
Not Give II Up.

81 figure that one of the cash regis
fer companies owes me Is cents and
the interest thereon" remarked j. u.
Brown, city passenger agent OF the
Erie road the other day
when | was on a trip out west not
long ago, our train stopped at a small
station for lunch. About the only In
dustry in the town was one small res
taurant that was conducted by two
women. Just for the sake of being up
to date they had put in, day or 30
before that, a brand new cash regis
ter which glistened on the end OF
the lunch counter. Now, my meal
came to thirtyfive cents. | handed
the woman a half dollar and saw her
ring It up on the cash register. A
few moments before time for the train
to start on | asked the woman IL
didn't have Is cents coming to me.
Eyes, indeed she says, frankly,
you gave me 80 cents and your meal
was only 35 cents. You're entitled to
Is cents change.
But she didn't make any move to
get 1t out for me, and asked her
again what about my change.
"'Why,' she says, I made mistake
and rang up so cents on this machine.
You've got is cents coming to you,
but can't get 1t out of there now
without mixing the machines record
all up.
81 told her that there must be some
way of getting around that, but she
said that if there was, she hadn't had
the machine long enough to find it
out. My train whistled then and l
went on. She was perfectly willing
to give me my change, but she simply
couldn't arrange it."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
BUILDING OF A wlTlclsM
Point OF Joke the sams r..
Under Changed conditIon. W

The Bohemian had an article
tied, How a Joke Is Made" ~ 10y,
Marshall P. Wilder, the well ta ~ u
humorist. cites this story as an ,U
tration Of one method. "Hero -
story with a joke in it about
chere, the genial editor of Toa vOu
Truth. When he was standlno
the borough of Northampton fop ~ wi
English parliament a little girl us
up to her father and said: PAM ~
made Mr.. Labouchere?' WHY d..
dence, my dear answered the so~.
what astonished parent And wl",
for, papa?' inquiries the child NJ W..
that Isn't a bad joke. 1t was natn..'
anyway. But listen to one of m,sa
which really has the same no..
though 1t is brought out in di1o.a-,
way. A child and her mother arc :"
the cars. Opposite them sits a vonS W.
man dressed in the height Of fasb,or
Says the child: Mamma. what !.
thatY and. as she asks the ouestlo.
she points to the young man onnoo,,a
Hush, my dear answers the ro,hs.
But, mother, l want to know ~
quiet the Chad the mother whisnar, -
her ear: He is what we call a dnds
dear The child persists as usual 4
gaining some more information. AND
who made him, mammaY Wbv
providence, dear, of course, replIss
the mother soto voice, whereat tbs
child exclaims: oh. mother, doesn't
Providence like to have fun soma
times? You see, the stories are real
~ alike. At all events, the point il
the Same FNA' 10
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
sunerstltlon and Eear.

Men would never be superstitious IL
they could govern all their circum.
stances by set rules, or if they were
always favored by fortune; but being
frequently driven into straits where
rules are useless, and being often kept
fluctuating pitiably between hope and
fear by the uncertainty of fortunes
greedily coveted favors, they are con.
sequently, for the most part, very
prone to credulity, The human mind
is readily swerved this way or that in
times of doubt, especially when hope
and fear are struggling for the mas
terry; though usually it is boastful
overconfldent and vain--Benedict Spi
noza (1632-1677).
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Railroads in nermanu

At the beginning of the year 1906
the total length of the standard gauge
railroads in Germany aggregated ga
ia English miles, an increase of @. 3
per cent. over the mileage length of
ten years ago. The area of the Ger
man empire is 20S,7SO square miles
and it contains population of CHIPS.
600. For every 100000 inhabitants
this would give 81 miles length of
trackage. The receipts from passen.
ger traffic for the year 1905 amounted
to $163,77S,75O, exceeding by 63.4 per
cent. those of the year 1895. The mas
senger and baggage traffic contributed
2S.19 per cent to the total receipts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
TEACH THEM THEIR WORK.
Western Railroad Has Undertaken
Education of Apprentices.

The education of apprentices has
been undertaken by the Santa Fe and
schools are to be established in all
the shops of the system. F. w.
Thomas, formerly engineer of tests,
has been placed in charge, with the
title of superintendent of apprentices.
and regular courses of instruction
have been arranged
In each shop where young men are
employed a foreman will be appoint
ed to have charge of the classes. 1t
will be his duty to instruct the boys
in the regular work essential to me-
chanical training. They will also be
instructed in arithmetic and the sci
ence of mechanics. These school ses-
sions will be held for two hours a
day three times a week, wages being
paid on the same schedule as for shop
work.
Especial care will be exercised
hereafter in the selection of appren-
tees, who will have to pass a thor
ough investigation as to physical and
moral acceptability. After a proba-
ton period Of six months the appren-
tees who have met all the required
tests will be duly enrolled. II it sub
sequently appears that any of them
are better fitted for some other branch
of railroad work they will be given
an opportunity to be transferred. A
similar system has been tried on the
New York Central lines with success,
but the Santa Fe is the first western
line to adopt it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Real Desperate.

"Gwacious!" exclaimed the first
mollycoodle in the sapphire hosiery.
Harold Hatband is getting veal des
perate, on my word
What has the deah lad been doing
now" asked the second mollycoddle
in the vermouth colored shirt ALLOW
ing his chauffeur to be fined for speed.
ing?"
"Oh, no. Although there is a law
against making cigarettes, Harold
rolls one openly and dares the police.
man to arrest him"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
The Jewel of forgiveness.

Nothing is more moving to man
than the spectacle of reconciliation,
our weaknesses are thus indemnlneu
and are not too costly, being the
price we pay for the hour of forgive
ness; and the archangel who mas
never felt anger has reason to envy
the man who subdues it. When thou
forgivest, the man who has pierceu
thy heart stands to thee in the reia'
ton OF the sea-worm that perforates
the shell Of the mussel, when
straightway closes the wound win .
pearl-Richter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Doc AGENTS for Charity.

Among the different funds establish
ed by the Great Western Railroad
company of England for the benefit
OF their employees, the widows and
orphans fund" has become familiar
to the travelling public through the in.
strumentality of the company's col
lecting dogs. The sum collected by
the dogs amounts to between e2OO
and $500 per annum, and provides
enough to meet the assistance given
by the institution to about 25 widows
out of about 1900 who are dependent
on the fund. Some of the dogs earn
as much as $40 or $40 a year: 9th.
ers are not so successful. A great
deal depends upon the characteristics
OF the animal and much upon the wav
in which it is trained. The most
famous of the Great Western Railroad
collecting dogs, says the Great West.
ern Railroad Magazine, was undoubt.
edly Tim of Paddington, which col.
lected at that station for a number of
years. He has been dead for years
now but his preserved remains are to
De seen In a glass case on the princi.
pal departure platform where he con.
unues to appeal to the public on he.
half OF the widows and orphans In
May 1900, he was by special com.
mand of the late Queen Victoria hon.
ored by a presentation to her Majesty
at Faddlngton Station, and in Febru-
ary' 1901, he was similarly honored
Dy presentation to his Majesty
hing Edward VII. He has earned for
t aa fund considerably more than e
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Each His Work.

II you cannot preach, then pray Il
you cannot go, then give so tha'
others may go. If you cannot sins
then sympathize. But in any event
DO not forget that Christ assigns D!
natural endowments to "ea6h man his
work. Rev. M. E. Harlan, Disciple
Brooklyn. n. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24

II woman's work is as good as
that of man she will receive equal
recognition-even more prompt recog-
milton, for men are surprised when
we have the courage to compete with
them and more quickly recognize our
ability. They are not the tyrants some
would make them, but kind and good
and generous to us If they are made
to feel that we are not simply posing
but are really seriously in earnest.
There are, no doubt, some few men
who are narrow-minded and unjust
and who would keep down the aspira-
lions of woman, but if her work bear
the stamp of genius, like truth, it will
not be downed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24
Women SculptorS
Should Not
Marry
BY Winnie Ream Horie

Famous Woman Sculptor Tells
How She Became Welded TO
Her Art-Made 10 Life-Sized
Busts IN First Two Months of
Experience - Every One Can
Marry Not All Can Model
Matrimony flinders Development
OF Art-Men Quick to Appre-
ciate Genius in Women.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24

II woman feels that she has un.
usual talent for sculpture and desires
to enter this field, let her determine
TO make it her life work. Let her
not be handicapped by marriage.
Every one can marry. but not all
can model. Not that | discourage
matrimony-an institution so noble
in itself-but II is distinctly not con
ducive to development in art. Hus-
bands naturally are jealous of any
other love, and a mothers heart
yearns more tenderly over her real
than her clay children. Little ones de-
mand constant attention, and there is
work enough In a house, be the sery-
ants never SO plentiful. to absorb the
constant attention of a woman and
keep her busy day after day, week
after week and month after month.
If woman student is really seri-
ously in earnest let her study anat-
omy and draw from the nude. Let
her put her whole soul into her work
II she can afford it, let her engage
experienced teachers that she may
profit by their experience, and let her
follow every advantage that means
will procure. But If she cannot afford
these helps, let her take the clay in
her own untutored hands and work
out her own salvation.
There is certainly nothing unwom-
anly in this vocation. All the sur,
roundings of art are elevating. It's
environment is refined and its pres
ence is felt by the pure in heart.
A woman need not even be before
the public If she desires privacy. In
her own retired studio she can bring
forth these children of genius, and If
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24

they are stamped with that seal, pup.
lie opinion will be the high priest that
will christen them and the world will
recognize their worth.
Every surrounding of art is refined
and its atmosphere pure. A woman's
touch Is as delicate, her eye as true
and her hand as firm as that OF a
man. Yet it is not the delicate touch,
the true eye, that speaks the artist.
The workmen who reproduce beauti-
full statutes in marble have that. 1t
is not these things that bespeak the
grand result. 1t is the seeing of these
things in the minds eye before they
have taken shape in the clay 1t is
vance, as the poet feels in his soul
his verses, as the orator feels his
theme, waxing him eloquent to move
the hearts of others. We must feel
deeply ourselves to reach others, and
to bring forth a work of art 1t must
be in our minds to conceive it first
before emancipating 1t from the silent
clay. Themes of beauty and of grace
must chase each other through the
brain.
The mind must be filled with noble
purposes and beautiful shadows, ideal
forms, majestic, noble groups waiting
to be set free. All of these must
hover around and inspire the artist
even though he or she may never
have the means to carry any of them
out to perfection in the marble or
the bronze. The artists greatest work
is often being done when his model
ing tools lie idle-when he sits ap
parently idle, "brooding over his
theme" sometimes for weeks, for
months. Beside this work which is
being done by the brain, the mind
the soul, the working out in the clay
seems to be almost mechanical.
The field for art is broadening every
year. Our forefathers had no time or
means for these Injuries, for Injuries
they certainly are, not necessities
Wealth is accommodating and the rich
like to surround themselves with
beautiful and costly things. People
of refinement and culture try to sat.
isfy for themselves this thirst for ele-
CANT and artistic surroundings. Even
the very poor yearn for them and in
their squalid homes of poverty gaudy
prints and cheap plaster casts of i'm
possible figures adorn their walls,
attesting to their desire-their reach
ing. out-for something beyond, bet
ter than the toll and monotony of
their daily lives Their tastes are
slowly becoming educated, and the
public schools, a great factor in this
cause, on a broader and more gener-
GUS plan than of old, are gradually
art in the minds of the
working people. The once barren
walls of the public schools are now
with the finest engravings
and photographs of celebrated paint
ings and their halls are adorned with
casts of treasured statutes of ancient
art
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-24

My own experience when making
my first steps in the study of art
a study that has been such a great
pleasure and comfort to me all my
life long-may be of interest.
A mere child-a delicate girl had
never been in studio until the fate
full day when | was taken to Clark
Mills studio by friend. He was
modelling in clay and | was instantly
impressed with the fact that /, too,
could model and in that very hour /
made my first essay. In two months
| had made in clay the likenesses of
Thaddeus Stevens, Reverdy Johnson,
Gen. Custer, Gen. Grant, Gen. McClel-
Ian. Gen. Thomas, Gen. Fremont, Rep
resentative John Wentworth of Chi
cago, Gen. Frank p. Blair Senators
John Sherman and Nesmith, Parson
Brownlow, Gen. Morehead of Pennsyl-
vania, Representative Garfield, Gov.
Yates of Illinois and Abraham Lin
coin. they we're all life-size busts
and have copies of them all here in
any studio now, and | look at them
with deep and affectionate gratitude,
as they all became my warm and
devoted friends, inspiring me to in
dustry, application and high ambition.
These busts were said to be striking
likenesses and the senators and mem
bers who were lookers-on at my early
efforts took a deep interest in their
young protege and had the kindness,
sympathy and courage to uphold will
ing hands.