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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

ache, and as have heard at you can give
beluful advice 70 girls in r. J condition, am
writing you. my rtle Mia Oquawka, III
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- (Second Lettsr.)
" It is with tbs feeling Of utmost gratitude
that / write to you to tel you what your
valuable medicine has done for ma When
wrote you IN regard to my condition had
consulted several doctors, but they failed to
understand my case and / did not receive
any benefit from their treatment. followed
your advice, and took Lydia z PlnkhsIls
Vegetable Compound and am now healthy
and well, and all the distressing symptoms
which had at that time have disappeared -
Myrtle Mills, Oquawka, IL
Miss Matilda Borman writes Mira.
Pinkham as follows:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
Before taking Lydia Z. Pinkhan's Fege-
/ table Compound my periods were irregu-
( lar and painful, and / always had such
I dreadful headaches
But since taxing the Compound my head
aches have entirely left me, my periods are
regular, and am getting strong ard well l
am telling all nv girl friends what Lydia z
[ Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for
me.H-Matilda Borman, Harrington, Iowa
If you know of any young girl who
is sick and needs Inotherly advice, ask
her to address Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, and tell her every detail of her
symptoms, and to keep nothing back
She viii receive advice absolutely free,
from . source that has no rival in the
4 experience of woman ills, and it viii, il
followed. put her on the right road to a
strong, healthy and happy womanhoOd-
i Lydia E. Pinxham's Vegetable Com
pound holds the record for the. greatest
number of cures of female iITs of any
medicine that the world has ever
: known. Why don't you try it2
- ~ a. -
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

There are now ten Lady Pagets in
Great Britain, the latest being the
wife OF Gen. Paget, who has just been
knighted. She was Miss Minnie,
daughter of Mrs. Paran Stevens, Of
New York. Her first appearance in
London society was made a good
many years ago, when her beauty and
yiyacity caused quite a sensation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
leaves Literature for Invention.

II is said that Gabrielle d'Annunzio
has wearied of literature and now as
hires to become a great inventor. His
discoveries up TO date are a new sys
tenn for bicycles which does away
with the rubber tire and a sure cure
for badness. The discoverer is still
very bald
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

The government Of Ecuador has
signed a contract with an agency in
Guayaquil for the purpose Of import
ing immigrants into the lower and
eastern portion of the republic. The
company binds itself to import 5000
families. It is specified in the con-
tract that the immigrants shall be
white and preferably of the German
or Dutch races.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
Innortant News chronicIed.

An English pager gravely announ-
ces that "Sir Kerr Singh, the maharao
of srohi, lost his last jaw tooth on
July : and had diamond one put in
it's place"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
RIrd,a IInhrnken EIinht.

In one unbroken nocturnal flight the
European bird known as the north
ern blue throat has been proved to
travel from central Africa to the Ger
man ocean, a distance Of 1880 miles,
making the journey in nine hours
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

The sin which is termed dishonesty
is the same evil as that which Is
called disease in living bodies or
blight in the seasons. and in cities
and governments has another name,
which is injustice.-Plato
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

Carpet rags dyed with PUTNAM
FADELEsS DYES win remain bright and
beautiful. No trouble to use.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic.
SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY.

The Standard Athlesie LshrarY o. tie Wsgid- A@ea
hs eoupIeae IN iEaeif- BsTs oscon4e prnnaAA@b N
Mr pzrricuar sport Study the taxi G1 any ems -
tEzse books Prize each BOOK ID cents
So 1ss-Indian Clubs and Dumb ssliss 10 la4-sS8s
fE-Heaifh HINTS 10. %s-Dumn Bells 30 a9-hssw
= zsra-7a 4 skassr Ne HIS Ee&lrn AnswsFs- Is
zf4-G-zaee Cslis7hsHics and p11h hN sillz ~ . -
Va. Es2-Sehael TAeEtsg And Maz@ kl1E4z@
- sssE4sv To Wressie- Aa80c4Az1cl F1cs E4l
Ne Ea-M1sels Building. Ne 2a&-A&h4sste ArAf2z& -
g.-SosFhs4rs. No. L&A-d0w Become @owlar &ee
2s8-0r7eiAl Basket Ball Guide for Nezaen- Ao-s
-4sfne Ezsreisss. 30 9ES-1ee Hockey sld lee kesas
So z7l-Ths olympic Games AZ AHhezs 1seAe N@ -
Ofcial Foot Ball Guide. Ne lss-101 Ste1e 49, 80
- 80 ell Ne zz0-OecaAl Basket Ball Gutz& PRzSTs
per book For sale ~ GeaA@rs. - seat - A
Every boy should send PassAI card aad reeefyR
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

He who steals a watch should not
be surprised II he has to do time later.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
The Common Evil.

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing syrup.
For chlcren teetaing zoftens the gums, reduces In
nammaEon slsgs pain. cures wind collie &c botlle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01

they excel other Makes
If I could take you Into my large
factories at Brockfon, Mass. and show
you how carefully WI Douglas shoe9
are made you would then undersfAn9
why they hold their shape fit BETTER
wear longer, and are Of greater value
than any other make.
Wherexer voa five ysu can obtain W. L.
Dou9Ias shoes Ills name and price IS stannps@
on the bottom which protects you against hlzm
uricHs and Inferior shoes Take no kuesftS
fssfm ASK your dealer for W. l.. Dongsa Snoe@
ard insist upon having Them
fast Color geists used; trey afif 1st sea- s,3sss
Write Tor Illustrated Caxalsx Of Fall styles
WI DOUGLAS, Dept IL BrOektans NAsa.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
Immiqrants for Ecuador.

yda E Pnkhams Vegetable Compound Makes Sick Women We'll
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
Imnnrtant Ia Mofhers.

a safe and cure remedy for infants and children,
and see that It
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-01-01
New York Girl Now Lady Paget.

In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bcught
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

nous. for nil exper, testimony agrees
that Old Virginia sausnge Is one Of the
greatest civilisers the world has ever
aeen. Barbaric nations who have early
been introduced to Old Virginia sausage
have always become civilized seven
times as quickly as nations who have
not been so blessed. Wherever civili-
cation hns spread, there are the rerown
and public services OF Old Virginia
sausage cherished closely in the peo-
pies hearts. In those States and coun-
tries no other sausage Is ever per-
mitted to enter, under penalty of death.
and the refined and discriminating III.
habitants will either get the genuine
Old virginia article or they will go
down in sausageless sorrow to their
graves.
Neither sausage nor civilization, oh.
viously, has yet penetrated to that
sprawling and unshuven hunk of TIL.
earths surface which photographers
label Texas. Until such time as they do
controversy with the Houston Post
would be both unseenly and impos.
sible. Meantime, we express our pleas.
ure at the fact that there are people
living In Walker county, Texas. Other
wise there would be no one to eat the
so-called Sausage" that originates
there. AS we remarked once before,
Providence thinks of everything.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
sAusAGEs AND olv.Llx .'r1oN.

+ TIE Times Dispatch has never found
fault with its contemporaries for eulo-
giving those sections of the earth which
they chance severally TO inhaslt On
the contrary. this paper admires local
prid.s and commends it, however UNI
founded In fact it may be. Therefore
we have sat back in silence and all
various communities 10 launch their
arrogant and absurd claims unrebuked.
But when these same spokesman, stim-
ulated by immunity TO further au-
dacity, have dared to institute compari-
sons between their puny and puerile
attractions and the incomparable eX-
cellences OF Old Virginia then has
silence grown into fault, and casti-
gallon TOO kindly deferred, becomes
inevitable.
We had thought that even the Hous.
& ton Post, the most audacious and
shameless of Journalistic barker.
would have shrunk from laying irrev-
erent fingers upon the Old Virginia
I
# init ourselves TO hope In connection
with the unregenerate, We have been
disappointed. For now we find the
Poal.not only disparagng the product
WHICH, perhaps rnore than any other,
has VI given America high standing
arnol,s tho world powers but actually
! speaking cxpltantly OF tho Country
4 sausage OF Walker county, Texas"
Amazed readers who arc at first in.
Y nlinea TO feel Indignant over this
4 brazqn oIrogat!on will very soon, We
are 5fonhdcnt become oyermastered by
gIhe iiumor Of 1t. Sausage from Walk
5cf county, Texas Well. well, well,
7 he course OF civilizat Oh and of gen.
nine Old Virginia sausage is westward
old Virginia sausage always a lap In
tile sIsad. In time. we have no doubt
bothsof these wone~rs win reach TeSas
4 IN the order indicated, Yet, ia {. sense
gkhe two terms arc weN,nlgh synony-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
TUESDAY, DECEMBER II. 1907.
Bravery. honesty. vcrncity-tlesc
arc tho Qualities which IRE always
needed as the root Of the real great.
ness In mnn.-FrOuilc.
THE POLL TAx.

The confllet between Section 81 and
Section IS of the Constitution of vir-
ginfa relating to the proper payment
OF poll taxes six months in advance
ms prerequisite to tbs right to vote
directs attention to the danger OF
using the taxing power for any piir-
poas other than that OF raising reve-
nuss Section u was designed primarily
10 saiscouragc shiftless negroes from
voting. and the requirement that the
poll tax must be personally" paid was
ia tended to prevent politicians or po-
litisal organizations from paying the
tax for the voter.
In proof Of the first of these asser-
tIohs, we point to Section 90, which
provides that the collection of the
State poll tax assessed against any Que
shall not be enforced by legal process
until the same has become three ycars
past due
Another proof is found in Section
11:. Under the former Constitution, tho
State poll tax was limited to ST. and
counties and cities were permitted 20
ley an additional poll tax of 90 cents
per head for their own benefit.
But Section Us of the new Consti-
tuition provides that the General AS
sembly shall levy a State capitation
Iax of not exceeding $3.50 per annun
on every male resident not less than
twenty-onc years of age, except those
pensioned by this State for military
services; 81 OF which shall be applied
exclusively in aid OF the public free
schools. and the residue shall be re-
turned and paid by the State into the
treasury of county or city in
which it was collected.
Under this revision the total poll
taxes are not increased and the conn-
ties and cities get the same proper
tticn that they formerly received, but
the State collects the entire amount
and makes it's payment SIX months in
advance condition of suffrage.
The understanding clause" as long.
as 1t lasted pro ted us from the OBJ
iectionablo negro vote. but it expired
ny limitation in 1903, and now the
whites and blacks qualify upon pre-
ciseiv the same terms.
The prepaymentbf thetcapitatlon tax
was intended, Ne ffepsat, as protec-
ton against negro Suffrage. and there
is no apology for it; but it was also
tie purpose of the trainers of the
Constitution to make every man pay
his own poll tax and to prevent any
interested person or organization from
paying 1t for him. If possible the law
should be strengthened at this point.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR,

The News Leader says that "the
financial interests b"ou~h. the panic
after SIX months hard work hammer.
Ing securities.
This is an injustice to President
Roosevelt In several Of his recent
speeches he claimed, in part. the credit
of having brought on the panic. and he
is reported to have sent since then the
following message to the West:
TELL the boys out III Omaha that IL
] am responsible for this money pant.
which showed UP the rotten foundn-
lions on which the finances OF the
country were built am glad of It.
1-don't care what Governors and Judges
say; this panic had to come sooner or
later"
We believe in giving credit to whom
1T is Justly due
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

dens. That left you twenty-nine acres
of open ground from which again you
must subtract five acres for your roads;
and after that. you had twenty-four
acres as mapped out by Bowling into
FOG most attractive plots. Bowling
calculated that the land all through
would carry without the smallest DIFF
8ficulty an average ground rent or f1o0
per acre. That is TO say: when the
twenty-four acres We're covered, you
would have created ground rents to
the preasant tune of e., 400 per annuIn
which. when sold at>twenty-five years.
purchase. would bring the tidy capi-
tai sum OF 100000. Thus your margin
smiled widely upon you: 100000 Of
profit minus interest on money Dor.
rowed, loss of interest on money sunk
cost OF roads, law charges, etc. but
plus--and what plus 1t was!--ths
twenty houses and eleven acres OF Fill
Rise.
Then indeed would arrive the golden
epoch. The real battle would be over
with all his money safe home again,
Crunden could quietly deinolish and
develop Hill Rise itself. First one side,
then the otlier--the even number first
should be given to the house breakers;
the ground should be cleared: the love
~ attractive strip-the cream OF the
'" s.oAS ei.ti' - III EILS uSdlNsly
most up to-date little vsllas--electric
bells. tiled bathrooms. no basement.
This. indeed, would be leisureIy lux
urious task--an easy happy time Of
ali plus, no minus: everything coming
in. nothing going out.
Mr.. Crunden by no means accepted
Mr.. Dowling's glitterlng figures. ne
made heavy discounts for tempera-
mental enthusiasm; he weighed an
things In his own mental balance. The
considering cap was worn by night
and day before he decided to take the
great plunge. He knew, far better
than Bowling, what loss of interest on
capital some times means. 1t begins
rs mischievous little pilferer, but
with time enough 1t swells into most
rncnstrous thief. taking your all. THE
public never thinks about loss OF In
teresl: and thus men may be enyied
for making Il fortune when In fact
they are spending one. Nevertheless,
he thought ne saw his way clear to the
end of the journey and substantial,
reward. Ills own estimate OF the me
required was five years at the worst.
He thought he had foreseen all that
could possibly occur at the worst. at
the worst was his maxim and watch
word. and. satisfied that the worst was
good enough. he started boldly and
resolutely.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
cLAprnAr oRAToRy.

Critics are now conr.uat.h.s tho SEN
timents of Governor Blacks Concord
address with the glowing eulogy OF
Mr. Eoosevelts craftsmanship and USE
fulness which was contained in the
speech. wherein Mr.. Black. at Chicago
on Thursday, June 90, 1901, put Mr..
Roosevelt in nomination for a second
term as President of the United stot"s.
The eSpanat on is that at Concord
the New hampshire lawyers listtneu ~
the philosopher, the student of tenden.
cies. the analyst of character. whereas
at Chicago Black himself was on the
barrel head addressing what was in
some sense mob. and he spoke then
as the professional politician. the cam.
pnign orator, the personally chosen adj
vocate Of personal cause.
Unfortunately, the dual Mr.. Black
is not an exceptional character. We
have in mind another distinguished
speaker, who is statesman or politl-
clan according to the occasion. AS
statesman he entertains with lofty
themes and thoughts that soar on
high; as politician he entertains with
claptrap. The two orators combined
in one personality are as different as
Jellyll from Hyde.
The reason for these differences Is
simple enough Tho statesman appeals
to reason; the politician on the barrel
head appeals to emotion. The politl-
clan who goes after votes has an eye
to the workable material. That ma
terial is found among men who do
not think for themselves, who do not
Consider" They are sometimes found
in jury boxes; they are always found,
in numbers large or small, in politl-
cal gatherings. 1t is these who create
the demand for political harangues,
and where there is demand there is
apt to be supply.
But does the claptrap method really
pay? 1t may gain temporary success.
but does 1t have permanent success?
We think not. The men who have
made lasting impression upon the
American people, whose memory is.
honored from generation to generation
are the men who have always deal,
honestly and frankly, who have never
resorted to the trickery of oratory to
becloud fact or garnish fallacy
with the semblance of truth. The labor
Of such man, whether or not he polls
n majority of the votes is not vain.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
Columbus tGa.) Paner Evlnces Interest in
lle ~ -

the Glorious Reform.
Not many weeks have passed since the
Atlanta Georgian instituted IN inquiry ar
10 whether the newspaper paragriphcr can
efter the kinsdom of heaven That oucs.
ton could not be answered. sinca neither
sreciai correspondents. press associations,
wireless telegraph. hpliogra phs carriet
pigeons. or the whisperlngs of the winds has
even brought. since the first man passed iron,
earth, any tldings as to who do and who do
not enter over there. But the question WIS
something eof air assault and i, was fol-
lowed up by n suggestion by the Richmond
Times-Dspatch that is In the nature of re-
Election upon the poor para grapher. The
iI.nes Dispatch said
Uncle Henri Wattcrson called the para
g1aphers pert. and see what happened to
him The photographers may not be all tina,
h. might be. hut he is immune from ere
fc,m,' and is nssa.led with more or less
danger to the ailant.--Coinmbus EnGuir-
tcr-Suu
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

How TO GALL TINES DISPATCH.
ftr-sons wishing to communicate with The
Times Dispatch by telephone will ask cen.
trial sfor "ioil," and on being answered from
thai office switchboard. will Indicate &c de-
rnTtment person with whom they with
to speak.
When calling between 6 a. NJ and Q
a. "a. call TO central office direct for 4o4t.
corhposlng-room; +o4a. business office: to4s.
for tnaiiin and press.rooms.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

An aged Ohio farmer made bon
fire of $4,000 in bills the other day.
1t is frequently better for man to
burn UP his money than to leave the
job for his children to attend to. as
doubtless Pittsburg would now admit
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

II certainly am candidate for the
Democratic nomination" says Cow
ernor John Johnson. How about John
son and Bryan" as leadins-arttcle
topic for next weeks Commoner?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

William ritt
Earl of Chatham,
born in 1T0s, and
who died In 177S-
the elder Pit t.
like his co-laborer
iii u good cause,
L d m Il nd Burke,
was a warm and
consistent friend of
the American coll
onIes in t II Q i +
struggle for inde-
{pcndence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

formed Episcopal Church. The recently
established chair OF blblical history and
Literature Will afford opportunities for
work that Will doubtless be appre-
oiated by a constantly increasing
snumber,'
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

A Massachusetts married man recent
~ came home after forty years. alb
sencc. Fortunately it appears, how
ever. that his wife had not sat up 70
him.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

The Chattanooga Star has an i'm.
pressive looking article entitled ."The
Dam Work" We suppose it is about
prohibition.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

The very cash boys of Royal Rich
mond are eleven times as Christ
maspirited as the Haunting and flcer-
ing financiers of Miserable Manhattan,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

We mention our most profoundly es-
teemed contemporary at this time ONLY
to say that we would object emphati-
cally to seeing It's name changed to the
Jocannon Record.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

Meantime the impression is slowly
but steadily gaining strength that the
next President of the United States
is not going to be nominated at Chi
cage, Illinois.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

The Times-Dispatch will merely say
to Mr.. pobyns OF Chicago. thpt old
Bill Sklllit of Henrico totes. but never
Carries" Further. when Mr. skillit
be toting about quarter-carload OF
beautiful Henrico Christmas trees or
some 5000 worth Of sednte and succu-
lent Old Virginia sausage
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

We wish very much that the Demo-
Gratis OF Arkansas would see to 1t that
the fuletide sock of Mr.. Jeffries
Davis contains at least one five-pound
box of senatorial courtesy.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
PASSING AKOuNn rHE uAr.

PASSING AROUND THE HAT.
In commenting upon the letter of our
distinguished guest, Mr.. Herman
Haupt. Jr., of South Haven. Mich, de-
handing the return of his hat or the
price of 1t, the Abingdon virginian
says:
IF it was a silk hat it could have
been nothing more than q cheap one,
and In that case doubtless harnonized
with the man. If derby or felt, he
paid too much for it. If he paid as
MUCH as he claims. A man of that
mold does not generally wear such
hfgh-priced goods. 1t is to be regretted
that Richmond had to entertain such
q, guest. Happily he was neither an
Fastener nor a Southerner. and can
hardly be a typical Micligander.
1T looks as II he had q little field
Of his, own that is too small for any
would think of doing SO. The Saliva
ton Army ought to take up the case
and do something for the soul of this
man.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17

IA New York woman announces that
she is going to- devote the rest of her
life to interior decoration. Old vir-
ginia Is the place this lady Is looking
for. where abound marvellous delicacies
fit t. decorate any interior that ever
walked