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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
FOR SAFETY ON CURVES.
Lesson Learned from Railroad Wreck
in England.

The railway accident at Salisbury,
Eng, in which a train at high speed
was thrown from the track on a curve,
has led to much discussion concern
ing the conditions necessary for safe
running on curves. The tracks are
specially banked to prevent derailing,
and the cause of wrecks seems to be
failure OF the trucks to guide the en-
CINE. This, it is shown, does not de-
pend upon the truck itself. An old
engineer points out that certain
trains which had a habit of leaving
the track on a downhill curve we're
braked mostly by the engine, caus-
ing the cars to bump against it, and,
as the drawbar between engine and
tender was lower than the axle of the
trucks the rear end of the engine was
depressed and the forward end raised.
The conditions are now reversed.
With emergency brakes, the braking
is mostly done by the train, but as
the drawbar is now higher than the
axle of the trucks the forward end of
the engine is raised by the pulling
back of the cars. A new locomotive
design is the suggested remedy. In
this the weight must be r~eadjusted
and enough must be placed on the for.
ward trucks to make sure that they
can guide the engine at all times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
OWL GOOD sgEe.
II Is Possible for the Small Farm to
Produce II.


1t is possible to produce good bees
on small farm, and much of the beef
OF the future will be thus produced.
The demand for beef will never be
less thar it is at the present time, but
the great ranges on which the beef of
the past has been produced must grow
smaller as the land is brought under
irrigation. Great projects are under
way for i~ddigating vast stretches OF
land that before now have been the
feeding ground of cattle. How mucn
OF the ranges are to be eaten up in
this way we do not know at this time.
1t means that the price of the best
beeves must advance and that these
VIII largely be raised on small farms
n be almost a by-product. To pro-
duce this good beef. says Farmers
review, the farmer will need but make
sure that the animal he is raising for
beef is a high grade Of some n of
the beef breeds. Some of the really
good beef made now is being produced
on the farms in the middle West,
where only a few beef animals are
Kept per farm. The beef steer is
ing to be a side issue with many OF
u farmers, but a side issue thai
yields annually a good profit.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

few miles at normal speed, the train
would have been much more than 80
minutes late.
The exasperating thing about it to
the engine crew was the stick-to-it-ive-
ness of old Mr.. Horse. He seemed to
like the right of way and refused to
turn off at any of the crossings. The
head brakeman went out OF the run
ming board and pelted him with
chunks of coal, while the engineer
expressed profanity with the whistle
but the track remained blocked for
speed by the moving obstacle. They
didn't dare run him down, and when
they we're at a station he was so far
ahead that they couldn't run on and
catch him. He babe defiance to block
system signals and derailing switches
and so it was a big relief to a thor
oughly mad train crew when. a mile
beyond New Germany, he flirted his
tail and turned off on an intersecting
road. He had made a run of % miles
and was as fresh as a daisy at the
finish.
81 don't mind bein' 80 minutes late, .
said the engineer with an air of an
noyance at the end of the run, but
/ hate like the dickens to run my train
as the second section of a horse"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
use Left.Handed Movement.

The New York Central for conven-
fence uses a left-handed movement
of all its trains running in and out
of the Grand Central station below
Wakefield on the Harlem division
and Spuyten Duyvil on the main line.
A left-handed movement simply
means that trains pass n another
on the left instead of on the right.
A New York Central official said the
other day that while in England the
left-handed movement is used ex
clusively there are only two railroads
in the United States which habitual
Iy use 1t. These are the Lake Shore
and the Chicago & Northwestern
N. Y. Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

There's a Pittsburger in New York
looking for a site for a Fifth avenue
home. and he thinks he has a griev-
ance because he cannot find any va
cant land for less than 100000 a lot
Between Ffty-ninth street and Lenox
library. at Seventy-second street. he
found no available land at all. and
from Seventy-second to One Hundred
and First street he found only IA lots
offered, at prices running up to $780,
600, and that is too rich even for a
Pittsburger who has the price.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
In CONSTANT FEAR
WIVES or ENGINEERS NAVE UN.
QUIET LIVES.
Know Full Well the Danger That Each
Trip Of the Loved One May Be
His Last-one Woman's
Story,


When railroad wrecks occur the fire.
man may jump, but the engineer, If he
is faithful to his trust, must stay by
the throttle. To do this means death
in many cases.. No one knows this
better thar the engineers wife. The
engine men say that they become in
different to danger and lose all dread
of accidents and death. Their wives,
1t seems, are the ones who live most
in fear.
Engineers wives are not happy-if
they love their husbands. Many of
them will admit that a shadow rests
on their lives, If you ask them in con
fdence. Their husbands, perhaps, do
not know it.
Il do not care to make my husband
miserable, what little time he is at
home, complaining of his profession"
said In engineers wife. Il never
new of an engineer quitting the bust
ness for his wife or anyone else but
once. | heard of a mar who gave up
the road at the solicitation of his
sweetheart. But after they had been
AAnA a AOW years nc WGuI JAIN
and was killed in a wreck"
my husband has been an engineer
on a fast mail train for nearly 80
years." said a woman with an unhappy
face. Il have found that being an en-
gineer's wife is a kind of semi-widow-
hood. The only time that l am ALSO
lutely sure that ! am not a widow is
Tho f2r> -. kAN@1 ~-. @.I
week that my husband is at home.
When we were first married he
ran a switch engine in the yards and
was at home every day. There wasn't
so much danger of accidents in that.
| hoped that he would always run one
of those busy little engines with a
headlight on both ends.
but my husband was ambitious like
other engineers. He was not salts
fed with work in the yards. | shall
never forget the day that he came
home and told me that he had been
promoted to the road. He seemed
very much pleased. hid my feelings
and made an effort to share his pleas
ure with him. He ran a freight en-
CINE for a few years. Then he was adj
vanced to a fast passenger engine"
The woman stopped talking for a
moment and looked at the clock.
TITS three o'clock; let's see He is
near the town of L., now. A few
miles this side of the place is a bridge
across a river. l am always afraid of
that bridge during high water"
She said that she had learned her
husbands schedule by heart. Every
hour of the day she knows just where
his train should be at that time. She
has been over his run many times and
knows the location of every bridge,
every high embankment and every
dangerous curve.
Wrecks? Yes; he has been in sew
eral. Twice l have seen his name in
the death column in the newspapers
They were awful experiences for me
and the children until we knew the
truth.
THE life of an engineers wife is
made up of many sad farewells. Each
time that l see my husband leave il
is with the thought that this may be
his last trip. | believe that / owe my
gray hairs to those hundreds of times
that l have had to say good-by."-
Kansas City Star.
rN KEN WEcT nv Dali WITE
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
NJ. M. SWEET, Publisher.


%. &pou PtOOus
Without good blood we cannot be
healthy, or live long. Plain, healthy
food, moderate exercise, and fresh air
make good blood; pastr5, candy, and
the rich and cAfnty dishes which are
considered tne masterpieces OF the
cooks art, cause numerous ailments
as well as bad blood. 1t naturally fol-
lows that to eat nutritious, wholesome
food and breathe pure air would in
sure pure blood, There is another
thing 10 DO considered, however, avs
New York Weekly, and that is the
casting out OF waste material that rem
'ders the blood impure. This is usual
ly performed by the bowels, the kid
neys, the skin and the lungs. If, then,
we would have pure blood, we must
see that these organs are kept active.
Breathe pure air night and day, being
careful to wear no clothing which in
the least interferes with deep breath
ing. Eat plain but substantial food,
use a moderate quantity at regular
times, and absolutely nothing between
meals. Keep the skin active by bath
ling often, the kidneys active by drink
Ding freely of pure water, and the bow
els active by right food and exercise
Keep a clean conscience and a serene
mind. and you will have pure blood,
and the rudy tint of health will glow
in your cheeks.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
Good Manners pxInu out2

Hurry and bridge have killed the
art of polite conversation; hurry has
robbed correspondence of its grace;
hurry is fast transforming the once
sedate city OF London into a pande-
monium OF whirring noises, whirling
wheels and evil fumes. Dignity, grace,
repose are banished from our midst,
and we areas yet-only at the be-
ginning of this breakneck race through
life. Perhaps some dusty memoirs of
our period will cause the men and
women of the future to say: Those
people were very punctilious, very
slow, very sedate." That. says
Adolphus Vane Tempest. in Nine
teenth Century, may be the opinion
held in the not very far distant days
when ~contending a%reoplanes crash
into one another without an apology.
and myriads of motor cars sweep ove
the PROSTATE bodies of pedestrians
without inquiring II they are hurt.
but there will be less difference be-
tween the people of that day and the
people of ours han there is between
MS and the powdered, courteous gal
1ants and DANES who worthily upheld
the traditions of good manners when
the first gentleman in Europe was
THE glass of fashion and the mould of
form"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
HORSE LIKED THE TIES.
Enloyed Pleasant Trot in Front OF
Angry Train Crew.

This is why the Hutchinson tran
on the Great Northern was half an
hour late at the terminus of the line
says the Minneapolis Journal.
A nice old Charley horse, maroonea
at Lake Minnetonka by the return Oh
the summer residents, got on the tracK
at Crystal bay and trotted placidly
ahead of the train till 1t had passed
New Germany in Carver county. When
the train pulled up at a station ola
Charley kept steadily on and it TOOK
the locomotive several minutes 10
catch up with him again. Had 1t not
been for these chances to run for a
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

II has been announced that the Keii
canal is to be widened at a cost of
many millions In order to enable it
to admit vessels Of the Dreadnaught
type. The Kaiser Wilhelm canal was
opened in 1895 by the German en-
peror. 1t is GA miles long and has
locks only at its extremities at Holt
neau and Brunsbuttel. The width is
1877 feet. Its naval value to Germany
is said to be equal to 15 men of
war.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

Don't let the shoes stay too long on
the work horses. 1t is not hard in the
winter time to keep shoes ON horses
LOT three or four months, but il allow.
ed TO stay on for more than four or
nve weeks the shoe is likely to n
a the foot and make trouble. So
we would advise having them reset at
least once a month or twice in three
months.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

The German scientist who predicts
that in 800 years water win be worth
10 cents a drink surely expects bath
tubs to go entirely out Of fashion. At
the very best they will be found only
In tho homes of billionaires,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

In ordinary language
one may divide strength
into two varieties phys
ical and constitutional.
The former is h e
strength of large kind to
be desired.
A man with large
muscles and a heart
strained by the improper
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

Take a chisel and good block Of
wood and cut of the long grown out
toe OF the hoof. After going through
the winter without attention the feet
are likely to be in bad condition in
the spring time n when the colt
starts running over rough ground he
IS likely to stumble and break into
the quick or twist a pastern.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

A German article describes a loco
motive equipped with feed-water heat
ers which has recently been put into
service on the Egyptian state rail-
ways, and effects a saving in Goa con-
sumed of 21.4 per cent, or over 81, 900
per year per engine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

l seemed to behold a
great crucible where a
thousand ingredients are
slowly mixing to form
an unknown substance /;
and in his work of
a%malgamation what ac-
tivity is expended, what
riches, what scientific
endeavor! There is one
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
Plan 10 Break Halter Fuller.

cord. Whenever the horse pulls, the
inner part of the cord is drawn fore
IDLY against the jaw. and the eff
feet is severer punishment than he is
willing to endure.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

L.NI O.
Rk4 -.-e'.asG~
TO BREAK A HALTER FULLER.
Arrangement Of Rope Which viii
Prove Effective.

My plan, explains an Illinois corre-
spondent of Prairie Farmer, consists.
Of an ordinary ring halter with the
two side rings connected by a strong
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11
WORLDS Railroad Earnings

The average railroad earnings ior
the whole world are 3A per cent. Of
the capital invested.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

The most remarkable railway in the
world is now under construction in
Florida, where the City of Miami is
to be connected with Key West by
way of the chain of islands known as
the Florida Keys, a distance of 154
miles,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-06-11

Have New YORK as Terminus.
New York city is the terminal for
% railway lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-14
Woman,s whIst LenEue,

NEW YORK, April 13-From present In
dications 1t looks as II the tenth congress
OF the Woman's Whist league, scheduled
for May to II, Is to be the largest meet
ing that has been held for some time
Whether 1t is that the players from other
cities find New York the most attractive
meeting place, with strong approval OF
the Waldorf as the site of the congress, or
whether II is that the interest in bridge
is on the wane, matters not; the fact re-
mains that the corresponding secretary of
the league, Mrs. Henry W. Newman, has
been surprised and gratified at the num-
bers of entries that she has already re-
ceived for the Washington trophy and
Philadelphia cup events. These show with
no uncertain voice that the New York
congress Is destined 20 be the largest meet
ing that the league has had for number
Of years.
A decision OF the tournament committee
tables In each section OF the progressive
to meet with universal approval. This
will be especially of benefit to the out-of-
town players who, II the open pair games
are run in large and unwieldly sections
are likely TO be delayed in reaching home.
The short game OF thirteen tables, with two
deals against each adversary, is the ideal
one for large congress. Mrs, II, w.
Cannon, the president is determined also
that the games shall all begin promptly,
which would mean that they would be over
by IL o'clock. The scores, according TO the
ellison method are known Immediately
after the last card is played. Delegates
to the Boston congress last summer found
this TO be the invarlable rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-14
BIG JEFF is GOING ABROAD
james J. and Wife to Make a Tour
of Europe During the
Summer.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 13-If Bill
squires expects to fight Jim Jeffries for the
heavyweight championship of the world as
soon as he arrives in America he will be
sorely disappointed. There will be nothing
doing with the big fellow this summer.
Already he and his wife have engaged
passage on a big ocean liner, which sails
from New York for Europe on June IL.
Jeff has seen the sights Of his own country,
but the old world is an unexplored field
with him. He has planned several trips
abroad only to have them bust up at the
last minute. Jeffries and his wife will be
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Adams
Of San Francisco, friends OF many years
standing. Just how long this jolly party
will be away is uncertain.
Mrs. Jeffries will want to be gone four
or five months" remarked Dick Adams,
but the big fellow, 1 suppose, will get I'M
easy and want to kick back in about two
months. 1t will be up to Mrs. Jeffries to
hold him on the other side. My wife and
l want to be away four months or So so we
will do the best we can to hold JEFF We
have engaged passage on the Kaiser
Wilhelm, which leaves New York on June
H. We are looking forward to a very de-
lightful time
Then there is no chance Of Jeff fighting
this summer quizzed the scribe.
mo. or no other time" retorted Dick"
JEFF IL doing plenty well out Of the ring.
He has no desire to go back and his wife
and mother are both dead set against him
fighting When you have two women like
your wife and mother on your heels you are
liable to do as they desire.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-14
GUN SEASON NOW CLOSED TIGHT

New Law Puts Ban on Shooting and
spOrtsmen Turn to Fishing.
The days Of the hunter are over In Ne
braska until September Is. The new laws
make a closed season for the man with the
gun from April 10 until September 10,
when he may hunt for prairie chicken,
grouse, ducks and geese and jack snipe,
Wilson snpe yellow legs, doves and plover.
Some of these provisions are OF no use
as far as the hunter is concerned for the
plover come along in June, the snipe in
the spring This was an exceptional spring
and many of the Omaha nimrods were able
to jump into the marshes the first of last
week and return with good sized bags.
Hunters say 1t may be a long time before
the Jacks get around again in the spring
in time for the local hunters to get at
them before the law is up
With the stringent laws against summer
shooting being enforced the Omaha sports
men will have to turn their attention more
to fishing for which the prospects were
never as bright as they are at the present
time. The numerous plants which have
been made In Cut on lake by Commissioners
O'Brien are bearing fruit and judging from
the way the early fishermen are catching
strings the fishing will be great at this
newly discovered summer resort
"Olson knows the very spot, but how
shall / get there" is a common saying
among fishermen at the lake for the pop
ular baker seems to be able to go out at
any time and get a nice string OF fish, AS
one wag put it. "Olson knows just where
the fish are going to eat and the time of
their lunch and he manages to get there
with the food they like"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-14

prizes donated by F. P. Kirkendau Luther
Drake, Howard Baldrige, r. r. Busch w.
B. Meikle, r. E. Tier and Fred Hamilton
More attention will be given to the
woman's department OF golf at the Country
club this year and that all the members
are in sympathy with this move is shown
by the way they have come to the front
with valuable prizes. Omaha has always
had a few women golfers OF the highest
class and the directors hope to bring out
several more good players by giving added
interest to the game. Fifteen women re-
sponded to Mr.. Colpetzers invitation to
dine with him at the Omaha club. and all
promised TO come out for the opening play
which will be for the quartet prizes These
will be open to challenge and the holders
at the end Of the season will be declared
the owners.
The mems season will open at the Coun-
try club May and the prizes for the OPEN
ing day will be the Dozen Club Trophies. 3"
These fobs will be beautifully engraved and
given to the twelve winners at medal hand
leap play. The competition will be similar
to the conditions which govern the women's
eight, as the holders will be subject to
challenge Of any other club member. A
member may challenge for any Saturday
afternoon, and IL he does not make good
on his challenge II will cost him forfeit
Tennis Men wen Pleased.
Tennis men were pleased to learn of the
decision OF the Country club to pay more
attention to tennis during the coming sum-
mer than has been the custom at any pre-
vious time The first move in the right d.
rection was the decision to perfect the two
courts which are now at the club and 10
add two more courts making four In all.
which will be kept in the best possible con
dition. Every inducement will be offered
to the younger members Of the club to
practice up at tennis and see II they cannot
wrestle some Of the honors which have
been held by the Field club since that club
was organised. When the Field club was
first launched Il was Joined by the best ten.
mis- players Of Omaha and these have seen
that the game has been kept going, the
club being the best influence for good ten
mis- OF any organization in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-14
NEW COUNTRY CLUB MOVING
Payments on stock Called for and
Grounds Being Put in shape.

Payments on stock Called for and
Grounds Being Put in shape.
When the Happy Hollow Country club
was formed the members subscribed for
stock at 800 a share. A call has now
been made for the payment of the stock
in full, which is taken as an indication
that the buildings and grounds Will be
improved at once and the club put in shape
for the use of the members as soon as
possible.
This splendid house, which was the home
for so many years OF ]. n II. Patrick
and family. will not require much rear
rangement to make as fine a club house
as one would wish. The grounds purchased
taken with those adjoining which have
been leased will soon be converted into
playing links. While Il Will take some time
to make the grounds as smooth and An
ished as the other outdoor clubs it will
not be long before Landscape Gardner
Gibson will have the links in shape so the
members can play
The decision OF the members to do with
on, the BUFFET features Is receiving favor
able comment I'm many quarters and still
there are those In Omaha who like to take
a little ale after a hard match at golf.
The Omaha Rod and Gun club has done
very we'll without bar and the new club
hopes to get on famously
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-14
No Chicaro-sIichienn game.

ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 13.-The die is
cast, and Il will make no difference TO Michi-
gan what Chicago action is, 80 far as foot
ball is concerned. Baird, the manager, has
scheduled the five games that is the limit
in the conference class, and il Chicago
adheres TO the position that none Of the
big Nine" should be allowed to play more
than this number, il will mean that the
Maroons will positively be cut on the bill
for next fall. Michigan has been very
backward about closing time with the men
from the midway, on account OF not know
Ing under what rules the men Of Gost would
work and II would not look very well for
Michigan TO sign up and then concel after
the big shout that went up from here after
Chicago WEIGHED last year about coming
/ through with game The following Is
the schedule, as far as arranged: october
s. Case Scientific school at Ann Arbor
october r. NJ. A. c. at Ann ATbor; October
q, o. S: u. at Ann Arbor; November 2
Vanderbilt at Nashville; November lB
Pennsylvania at Ann AIbor.