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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Universities Of ireland.

Another step looking toward impor.
tant concessions to Ireland was taken
when the British house of commons
passed to the first reading, by a vote
of S07 to "a, the bill providing for two
new universities, in which there shall
be entire absence of religious tests.
Complaint of inadequate provision for
education has been of long standing in
Ireland, but within recent years there
has been marked improvement in that
respect. Schools have increased in
number, and requirements as to at
tendance have been greatly relaxed
Public schools are now in existence
which are open to all pupils, and no
attendant is obliged to be present at
religious exercises to which parents
or guardians object. The additional
universities with the latitude allowed
as to religion, will, says the Troy IN.
70 Times, facilitate the requirement
OF proficiency in higher education and
will obviate the necessity for students
to go abroad to find what they want in
the way of collegiate training. The
effect of such action should be most
beneficial.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
How Would You Like Loousts7
as. M SWEET, Publisher.
CHALLIS,

How Would You Like Locusts7
Probably few people are aware that
insects, as group. constitute source
OF food supply for the races OF man.
kind. Yet insects have been ep4en
from time imfnemorial, sometimes fig.
uring as luxuries, at others as a staple
article Of diet. Perhaps the chief
food insect--and an important one, too
lis the locust. 1t furnishes the favor
lite food of many numerous African
tribes, some nations living almost ex-
clusively upon its teeming hordes. Lo.
Gusts, says the Scientific American,
have been regarded as luxuries from
the earliest times OF which any rec
ords remain to us. In the British mu-
scum there is Nineveh sculpture
showing men carrying different kinds
OF meat to some festival, and among
them are some who carry long sticks
to which locusts are tied. In Athens
of old locusts and grasshoppers were
sold in the markets and they were
then preferred as dainties above the
most succulent quails or the best figs
According to Mr.. P. l.. Simmonds.
who made an exhaustive study of
strange kinds of animal food, the fla
vor of locusts, while strong and dlsa-
greeable when raw, becomes mild and
readily disguised when cooked. In
fact, from his own experience and that
of several of his friends, whom he in
duced to partake of the fare, he as
sures us that broth made by boiling
the unhedged Calopteri "a Rocky
mountain species) for two hours in the
proper quantity of water and seasoned
only with pepper and salt, is quite
palatable and scarcely to be distin-
guished from beef broth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

families rule than do persons better able to
afford to do so, should be forced to remain single
while men and women whose marriages are of
no advantage to the community to iposterity
may wed at will.
Conditions among the poor are in many cases
such that the rearing and the keeping together
of a family are rendered impossible On every
had the poor mans efforts to establish and
maintain the sacred relations of matrimony
discouraged.
How for instance, can poor man take to him
self wife when the cost of living is SO high that
he can barely support life in himself? How can
he ask woman to share his lot when he knows
he may at any time be thrown out of work and
perhaps be obliged to watch her starve? How
can a man rear family when the chances may
be all against his being able to maintain it? For
mai cannot maintain family when he has no
work. The sight of starving wife and children
has driven many man to Disqualification to
crime.
Yet 1t is the right of the poor TO have a home.
With them that right is as inaienable and per-
haps more precious than with the rich. And so
cial conditions should be arranged as to allow
the poor to escape from the burden of vice
through the blessed bonds of matrimony. These
conditions which are rendering marriage among
the poor more and more impossible, are every
day bringing more and more sin into the world.
maintain most strongly that there is a remedy
for vice. And that remedy consists in making
marriage possible among the poor and in provid-
ing for such people home.
In this country, it is true there is a brighter
side to the question than in Europe as may be
proved from statistics.
In London out of every 1000 manageable per-
sons 729 are unmarried More generally speaking
less than onethird of the manageable population
of London (the largest city OF the world) enter
the state of matrimony. More than two-thirds are
single. The conditions for marriage there are all
against the poor man and woman. They may fall
in love as utterly could any millionaire but
the gates of the Eden of matrimony are closed
against them and guarded by the flaming sword
of poverty They may sigh for marriage but
they realize that such luxury is far and away
above their means.
In this country the marriage statistics are al
most exactly the opposite of Londons Here about
twothrds of the manageable population are
married, leaving barely third unwed
The explanation of this difference between the
two countries is, of course easy to find 1t con-
ssts in the better wages, the increased chances
for work, the general conditions which prevail
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

Boston has recently established
custom for which it is Calming much.
It is the New Voters festival held an
nually in Faneuil hail. 1t is not a
partisan move but seeks IN poetry and
prose to inspire patriotism in those
who have recently come into the
browning right Of citizenship. In the
meeting just held the stars and stripes
were lauded without stint. the way out
of civic corruption was discussed, the
red insignia of anarchy was metaphor.
ically trampled under foot and various
aids to getting rid Of public evils were
exploited. II the scheme will, as
claimed for 1t, make the new voters
better than old ones. it is worth wide
adoption.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

Some fault-fnding persons are crItl-
cising the 500 New Workers who dis
cussed poverty over dinner costing
$40 plate and where some of the
guests appeared wearing costly jew.
iels. II this money haC been given to
the poor they think more good would
have been done. More good to the
poor. perhaps, but not to the guests at
the banquet Just think, remarks the
Indianapolis Star. how much satisfac-
ition 4s9 of those guests took in in
speeding the titled visitor with her
diamond tiara and ropes OF pearls
Some people never can see two sides
to question.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

asked her why
Because did not try 1t sooner"
And that speech of hers frivolous as 1t may
appear sounded the keynote of the marrying
question far more truly and resonantly than could
the sneering epigrams of world full of cynics
l bear unqualified testimony to the fact that
the man who passes his life in what is miscalled
single blessedness" has missed most of fe's
pleasures
Life at 2O-even at 30-may seem pleasant
enough to man without wife to share its
triumphs and failures. The world is young There
is much to distract and amuse Home perhaps
seems a place to go when all the other places
are closed. Friends are plentiful relatives and
immediate family are about him
But when a man reaches middle or old age?
Friends are not so many perhaps so disin-
terested as at 90 old-time pleasures lack their
zest
Blessed, thrice blessed then, is the man who
has home, wife and children to ease that last
stage of lifes long climb. Most miserable of NOR
tails is he who must look forward to a loveless
and lonely old age.
Annexing wife and family in youth is merely
higher and wiser form of putting money in
bank NO other investment yields such interest
In later years
let man marry just soon as he can sup.
port wife. The youth who puts off this great
step in order that he may search through the
world for affinity" is foolish In the search
he is more than liable to pass by his true affinity
and to choose at last wife whom no stretch of
imagination could twist into an affinity for any
one The traditional man who wandered for davs
through forest looking for material for a cane
and who at last picked up crooked stick was
fortunate If that crooked stick did not turn out
to be a snake
man is Just as likely to hit upon his ideal
early in life as later on. My advice then as
the supposititious mans lawyer, is: Don't watt
Marriage halves ones privileges and doubles
ones troubles" is an idiotc saw probably invented
by bachelor. There is too much talk of this
sort. Men speak of matrimony as a milestone
tied about the neck of youth The lives of the
worlds most successful men give the lie to this
tallacY-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
No Cause for Alarm.

II can't understand my husband.
doctor. l am afraid there is some.
thing terrible the matter with him"
What are his symptoms?"
"Well, / often talk to him for half
an hour at time, and when l get
through he hasn't the least idea what
I've been saying"
do not worry any more about your
husband. l wish l had his gift
Chicago Record Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07


be who did not go into their homes and live with
them their daily life
Marriage conditions among the poor have
formed the theme of much of my personal re
search and of many of the reports made to me.
IL is one OF the great-one of the very great and
very grave-questions of the day
Marriage among the rich may mean any one
Oh many things. 1t may mean social or fnan-
cial advancement; it may be a mere matter of
convenience; 1t may be the outcome of idleness
and propinquty
But marriage among the poor is the most
cogent means of reform By making marriage
universally possible among those who are not
blessed with an abundance of this worlds goods
the most deadly blow imaginable would be dealt
to vice. The greatest step would by such means
be taken toward vices utter elimination
Marriage is an honorable estate" and mot to
be entered into lightly" But, too often under
present conditions, the poor man cannot afford
to enter into it at ALL Yet he perhaps far oftener
than his weather. brother recognizes the "hon-
orable" condition of that estate"
say this advisedly. Among the poor infidelity
is far less frequent than among the rich The
poor man and his wife hold the marriage relation
more sacred than do those of greater worldly
wealth.
1t is therefore doubly unfortunate that class
so worthy of the blessings of matrimony should
be SO frequently debarred from those blessings;
that the people who maintain the sanctty of the
marriage tie and who, moreover, bring up larger
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

nine nature. Man loves, but not quite as woman
loves f 90
Whlle man may become so wildly infatuated
as TO spend his business hours in drawing On
plds all over his letterheads, yet love can never
permanently occupy SO large place in his life
as II does in womans. His life is too full too
acIVe' TOO varied in its interests.
concession on both sides is the SOVEREIGN roma.
dy Tor domestic differences
IL you were to drop two strange cats into !,
oarrei and then clap on the lid you would mol
narVel at the ensuing sounds of wrath nor az TIA
noaung upward of Grant scraps of fur
! ct when man and woman reared alon.
inherent lines and in separate environments a.
not agree In every particular the world stand.
ashast at the tale of marital .infelcity. where's,
ht'ie torbearanoe, careful study of each 9th,
er moods and failings win soon reduce This
strife to a minimum 'nis
- peneVe tnat no couple who began by loving
eaon otner and had the right consideration 70,
each other ever came to serious trouble Tba
euoIt Oh each to please the other leads in l,tt,s
WINE 10 not having to try because of the svrn'
pathy between them - 'ie sym
Mss ana make up" is good rule. n tho
e tp 40 not properly consider their Relations
mere VIII be good many kisses. but far MOI
necessity of making I'M ou' Il" more
copyright by JOSEPH X RavIo.N
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Preiudloe.

Robert. this spelling paper is very
poor" complained the small boys
teacher. Nearly every word is marked
wrong"
1T wouldn't have been so bad" pro-
tested Robert, but Annie corrected
my paper, and she's mad at me, and
for every little letter that got wrong
she crossed out the whole word. -
Lippincott's.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Dogs Give Valuable Service.

In the dog tests recently held at
Nanterre, France, the dispatch-bearlng
competition was won by a Swiss dog
and the searching for the wounded
prize was awarded to a German dog.
Thirty German police dogs have been,
ordered for St Petersburg to guard
the palaces against assassins.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Shopping by mail with
the r. j. Hill Drug Co..
"The Never Substitu-
tOrs," Salt Lake CITY.
assures you of good
service and Just what
you write for.
a strone POINT AeaInst HIm.

A Strong Point Against Him.
You say you have known this de.
PENDANT for many years?"
Eyes, ever since he was boy"
do you consider him to be Of SOUND
mind?"
We'll, 1 don't want to say anything
against him if it isn't necessary"
But you are under oath to sneak
the truth. Have you ever observed In
his actions anything that would lead
you to the belief he was weak men,.
tally?"
He married the daughter of a poor
man when he might have become the.
son-in-law of wealthy manufacturer
who would have made him general
manager of the business"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

Here comes the inventor OF gun
which, as alleged, can carry big shell
from London to Paris or the reverse.
There has been a great deal of long
distance fghting recently, but when it
comes to such range as that war
would appear to be reduced to a math.
ematical calculation how to hit the
object aimed at. Perhaps the time
will arrive when hostillties win be
carried on by telephone.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

The German emperor hints that he
would like TO have his salary as king
of Prussia increased; but there seems
to BE- no probability that he will 60
on strike in case his demand is re-
fused.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Headache and cold Eeet

Often 1t is found that chronic suf-
ferer from headache also complains OF
cold feet. This shows bad circulation
and 1t sholld be strengthened. A sim
pie and helpful remedy is to battle the
feet in cold water night and morning
and rub briskly with flesh brush or
Turkish towel.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

When a man in New York or else
where loudly boasts that he Is
southern gentleman" he is a pool'
cheap fraud. A gentleman from any,
where is a gentleman anywhere anu
he does not need to proclaim the faoI
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
The Difference.

A goose eats corn and grows teath-
ers. A horse eats corn and grows hair.
A coon eats corn and grows fur.
A COW eats corn and grows milk. A
hog eats corn and grows fat A sheep
eats corn and grows wool. A man eats
corn and grows tired of 1t, and that's
all he does grow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Euturs for Rutlls Metal.

Rutile is described as the purest ore
of the metal titanium. They think
that this metal is going to be in great
demand for the bearings and axles OF
flying machines. A big deposit of ru-
tile has been found in the Timaroo
district of Queensland.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
MAKE Over Old Firearms.

A large business in making over o,t
firearms is carried on in Belgium a.
Liege 5000 gunsmiths. WORKING Pr
cipally at home, turn out "antioui'i e.
They transform modern rines i
fintlocks.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

Though thou be destined to live
5000 years and as many myriads be-
sides. yet remember that no man
loseth other life than that which he
liveth, nor liveth other than that which
he loseth.-Marcus Aurelius Antoni-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
This Patience Not a Virtue.

"a lot o folks patience, said Uncle
Eben, resembles dat of de man who
stays in de house an waits foh de
snow to melt, regardless of de people
OATS fallin' down on his sidewalks"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Mamma QUE Of NOTHING

Nothing can come out of nothins'
any more than a thing can so back TO
nothing Aurelius.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

1t is reported that BeIgal is about
to adapt the Pitman system Of short.
hand writing to the Bengal language.
A small committee consisting of ex-
perts in shorthand and certain educa-
tional officers was appointed to con.
slider the matter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
Woman and Her Wants.

Woman has many wants-not for
the wants themselves, but for the fun
of wanting and the sweet misery Of
not Chicago Record-Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07
A Handican M.

.A, "nat sort OF telescope do you use for seeing
ealnss on Mars? The eminent astronomer babit,,'
aeed TO scanning the heavens at magazine snaca
ia.es, stayed his pen but an instant II have
Tha So. ne replied mot to rely on any telescope.
imagination" N"s pay o. tns
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

ECENTLY a young lady who had just
come back from months honey
moon called on me.
How do you like matrimony?" l
asked
y am utterly wretched.n she REPLIED.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

HE work of the army of which mine
is the honor to be commander lies
largely with the poor. We are better
acquainted with every item of their
: real life, their surroundings, their vi
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-07

by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-02
PREACHER is EDGED
Audience Did Not Take Kindly
To Attack on Catho-
lie Church.
HE DID NOT MIND 1T.

Peru, Ind, July 2.-Professor Long,
claiming to be Baptist preacher was
greeted with a shower Of eggs Tues
day night at Bunker Hill. The eggs
were not nice and fresh, so they made
rather poor bouquet to hand a gen
tleman.
This was the first of a series Of lee
lures that Professor Long has been
gagged to give on Romanism, or, in
other words. as the Professor himself
stated this morning, talks against the
Pope and priests. At any rate it was
not we'll received by a large crowd,
who left the church before he was
half through speaking. He did not
seem to mind the way ne was treated
as he stated to Prosecutor Kagy this
morning when he arrived in the city
to file several affidavits against the
mob, that it was a common occurrence
and that he had been treated in a like
manner on several other occasions.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-02
MONTH TO Be MARKED
BY SEVERE STORMS
There Will Also Be Plenty of
Hot Weather.

According to the weather prognosti
Gator. July is to be filled with storms
and hot weather. This week will be
liable to electrical storms, with storm
period of three days central on the
9TH. with heavy electrical display on
the 9Th, followed by cooler weather for
a few days. The next storm period is
of four days central on the 18th. Next
storm period is on the 18th and 18th,
bringing warmer weather and rain.
Threatening clouds and wind storms
10th to 9th, this condition will pre-
vail in this section and at which time
a drought will probably be suffered.
Cooler weather from the oath to 9th
followed by storm and extremely hot
weather.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-02
WELL KNOWN RAIL ROAD
OFFICIAL SUCCUMBS
Geo. H. Daniels of New York
Central Is Dead.

Lake Placid, n. Y, July 1.-George
H. Daniels, exgeneral passenger ag
ent of the New York Central lines
died at his home here yesterday, aged
66 years.
He was one of the best-known rail
road men in the country and at the
time of his death was the manager OF
the advertising department of the
New York Central lines, his office be
ing in New York city
Mr.. Daniels had been i'll with a
hardening of the arteries for some
time and this was complicated by indi
gestion, which made it possible fol
him to take only the slightest nour
ishment. His life had been despaired
of for several days.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-02
CARRIERS TO MEET
WAYNE County Will Be Repre-
sented at Gathering of
Uncle Sans Men.
KOKQMo TO ACT AS HOST.

Wayne county will be well repre-
scented at the annual meeting OF the
State association of Letter Carriers
which will be held in Kokomo July
d. The programs for the event have
been received in this city. The Wayne
county letter carriers are members of
the state association and will partici-
pate in the session.
There are siXty-One cities in the as
ISOLATION and KOkomo expects to en-
terrain fully 1000 people, made up of
letter carriers and the members of
their families. Representative work
ers of the postoffice department will
be present and deliver addresses
The business meeting will be held
at the city hall and at its conclusion
the carriers will assemble at the park
for an outing and banquet. Elaborate
entertainment has been provided for
all the visitors and they expect to be
royalty taken care of while guests of
Kokomo.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-02
ARTISTS BLUNDEhs.
A Procession of Monks That Adam and
Eve Enjoyed.


Among the most amusing breaks"
by artists is a landscape by Turner in
which a rainbow is depicted behind
the sun. This occasioned almost as
much humorous comment in English
art circles - dl the slip Of Constant,
the great French artist, who in his
portrait OF Queen Victoria painted the
tibbon Of the Order of the Garter the
wrong color.
A picture of Adam and Eve in the
garden Of Eden hung in the gallery
of the Gesu, in Lisbon, represents the
first couple as watching a procession
of monks.
In the famous galleries at Antwerp
are certain pictures of old masters IN
which the tumble of ideas is as re-
markable as the technique is fine. In
one picture of heaven the archangels
are armed with bows and arrows, and
in celebrated painting Of THE Muir
der. of the Innccents" the massacre is
represented as taking place in a city
OF Holland. The parents Of the chill
dren are stout burghers, the Roman
soldiers are Dutch policemen armed
with muskets, and the innocent infants
are transformed into solid schoolboys
in bulgy wooden trousers and jackets
and hobnailed shoes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-02
Cobra's Fatal Site.

One of the deadIiest snakes in India
is the cobra. which claims hundreds of
victims every year. An English Off
cial once saw one bite fowl, and. be-
ing curious to learn how long the Ven
ON took to act, he timed it with his
watch The moment the cock was
touched it screamed, but at once ran
off TO its mates and began picking as
If nothing were wrong. In thirty sec
onds the comb and wattles changed
from red to black. In two minutes it
began to stagger and fell down in con-
vulsions. struggling violently until it
died. three minutes and half after it
had been bitten. On plucking the fowl
a wound not bigger than a pin prick
was found at the extreme end Of the
wing. Round this spot the color was
very dark. but the rest OF the bird S
body, excepting comb and wattles, was
of a natural color.