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Notice Of Assessors Meeting

Notice Is hereby given that the
assessors Of Dawson county will meet
together with county commissioners
at the Office Of county auditor on
Tuesday, April z, 1908, for con-
ference with county commissioners
and auditor in reference to tie per.
Torrance of their duties as assessors.
Dated this 10Th day of March, 1908.
FL. B. Anderson,
County Auditor.
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H%OSTETTERS'
STOMACH BITTERS

is unequalled In cases OF Spring Few
er. General Weakness, Colds, Grippe,
Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Costiveness
and Malaria. Refuse all substitutes.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-27
Mitchell Grain Market

Wheat No. L. Gle; NO. ?, soc; No
3, 84c; No. 4, 76c; rejected. CSC
flax, 81; oats, Ale; corn, 48c; bar
ley, 81; rye. IS.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-27
STOMACH ILLS
WILL

Very quickly If you will only resort
to the Bitters as soon as you notice
the first symptom of distress. Thou
sands of persons similarly afflicted,
can tell you of its wonderful merit.
But try it yourself and save a lot of
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ETHAN.

GOUdu, mAfCu I1.- xne Iu0eF8 OF
Carl Thompson was held at the house
on Friday-.and the remains we're
taken to Tyler. MIMI, for burial.
They were accompanied BY Nj.
Thompon's two daughters and
younger son. Mrs. Thommpsn IL
sick With pneumonia, and Andrew
t1e Oldest ron 10 also quite sick at
this time.
On Thursday night about 9 O'Clock
tbo news came over tho phone that
the beautiful Catholic church at
SAT- was on fire. II .Wss ali ablaze
- SadsSWhen II W. discovered. The
paws were saved and a s60O organ
vas got to the door but they could
not Get II out so that too wss de-
stroysd. Il Is said 1t will soon be
replaced By beautiful $50, 600
Structure. No cause is known q to
the dre's origin.
NJ. Damon returned Saturday
from Mitchell 90 % to DO 10 readiness
for school Monday morning. The
ether teachers Will probably arrive
today.
Another run away team belonging
to1osis Felleger clrcled the whole
l1a0t3 81 Main street on ssturda,
stleeDeeD. 1bsy bsaks 5 lssEe assd
esaephonpDoie lhssoeS these pdscss,
broke al four tugs and tn neck
yoke. They we're caught II Arthur
Miller's barn yard. No one vas
injured.
Rsv. z. ]. Norton, Of Mitchell.
addressed Z rather small but yery
apprsciatise audience In the NJ. e.
church on Friday'eyening. He spoke
very earnestly and was listened to
vith much attention. His subject
was s.Prohibition.n
Clsaning mouse and yards and
making garden Will be the next thing
% order.
!. Albert Schmitt has bought.two lots
in the east part OF town from Ole
Rosenquist.
g. =. Brown has bought four lots
soutb q OLE Rosenquist's residence,
intending to build a tine residence
there IN the future. Mn. Brown
does not enjoy. living on Main street.
Nj. Morgan had q sale yesterday.
o he will soon leave for his claim
~ Stanley County. Another family
gone from us.
LOOMS.
LOOMS, March 26.-Mrs. Henry
Pool Is not very we'll at the persent
writing.
+. az, Foss' little baby has been
vsrV sick for a week but is on the
gain.
y. w. Gillian went TO Sioux .City
Thursday to see how badly his
brother Jane GilHllan was hurt.
The Gilfillan family got a phone
from Sioux City Thursday morning
that James GilHllian had met with
an accident We hope MI. Gilillian
is not seriously hurt.
John Campbell shipped a car OF
cattle from Sioux City Wednesday.
Mrs. J. Z. Shaw Is visiting ia
Mitchell for a few days.
Elmer Marsden has a cousin from
Wisconsin visiting with him.
y. Smith and Geo. Ayers each
sSbaMgRsd a viii goose not long since.
saN:: 10. Allen and Ira Fraser went
atUs Chicago with six cars of fat cattle
a1d lops Saturday. W. " Davis,
sofs MY. Vernon, bought W. v.
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Resolutions of Respect.

Resolutions Of Respect.
Below we publish a copy OF the
resolutions adopted by the Honest
John Mining, Milling & Tunnel
Company upon tine demise of their
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ETHAN.

Ethan, March 25.-W. B. Tobey,
v. Cults, John Clement, Mike
Donovan and Chris Nelson went to
Mitchell Tuesday to attend the con-
vention.
The latest pupils to enroll in the
public school are Marion Tiff in the
primary room, and Geneva Lowrie
In the eighth grade.
MrA Lee Bleisner and little son,
Louis. are spending few days in
Goshen this week, visiting her
uncle. Geo. Fuller, and family,
before departing Tor their future
home In Stanley county, to which
place Mr.. Bleisner has preceded
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Drake. Mr..
and Mrs. A. U. Drake and Mr.. and
Mrs. 8. j. Wilson went to Mitchell
Wednesday.to.attend the last number
Of the lecture course.
John Craig came down from Plank
linton Monday to make Q short visit
with bis parents.
Mrs. T. Nicholson and children,
Of Mitchell, are visiting at the home
of their uncle. g. A. Carlow.
Miss Edith Annis is spending a
few days in Mitchell this week.
A crowd Of young people gathered
at the home OF MI. and Mrs. A.
Ortmsn last Saturday evening and
gave them q pleasant surprise. The
usual good time was had.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Oathout have
moved into the John Siberz house
In tue east part Of town for the
summer:
Miss Ina Dodd will close q very
successful term of school on next
Friday, March, q. For the past six
months she has taught the school !
miles northwest of Ethan, known
90 the Darling school.
ALI Dodd left last week for Indiana
to visit his parents.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-09-22

not only that, but "out of the fullness
Of the heart the mouth speaketh,"
and he who has read much and re-
membered much can write well.
Discretion of speech is more than
eloquence," and the most discreet
man is the man who knows where to
borrow to advantage. There be those
who write original essays of which the
best that may be said is, ut is his
own" Better far the essay that gilt
ters and sparkles with a thousand
gems filched from the worlds great
%lapidaries.
"Brevity is the soul of wit" but II
does not follow that every postal card
contains an epigram. The safest way
to insure wit in your essay is to pick
It where you find it, and ten chances
to ore that will not be In your own
brain. Better the wit of others than
no wit at all-which might be a prov
erb, but is not.
Shakespeare has well said: There
is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it So" If this but
applied to your essay, o writerl what
an excellent thing it would be! But it
lies not within your gray matter to
compass 1t. Again, with the bard,
you say, 81 must become a borrower"
and you walk down the pleasant gar
dens, plucking here and there a flow
er Of fancy until your little essay
stuns the eye with color. Here's
richness!"
Nothing that you can say but has
been well said before; therefore quote
it, fusing it, If you will. with your poor
thought to crystalline 1t and make
1t seem a new thing.
A siXteenth-century writer says:
"They lard their lean books with the
fat of others works" There you
have an old precedent, so fear not.
You are in good company. You do
but take what others have taken be-
fore. Quote you never so well, you
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-09-22

inc nothiA.y and la~llygagging at court
with the nobility. l wish | had an
uncle who was a senator. Pull is
everything these days"
you Dutchman, 1 won this place on
my own merit, Indignantly.
Forget it!'-grinning.
you are im~pertinent."
But truthful, always"
And then we smoked a while In
silence. The silent friend is the best
Of the lot. He knows that he hasn't
got to talk unless he wants to, and
likewise that it is during these lapses
of speech that the vine of friendship
grows and tightens about the heart.
When you sit beside a man and feel
that you need not labor to entertain
him it's a good sign that you thorough.
ly understand each other. l was first
TO speak.
81 don't understand why you should
q. in for medicine so thoroughly. 1t
can't be money, for heaven knows your
father left you a yearly income which
alone would be a fortune to me-"
"Chivalry shivers these days; the
chill of money is on everything. A
man must do something's man who
is neither a sloth nor a fool. A man
must have something to put his whole
heart into; and l despise money as
money. l give away the bulk of my
income"
Marry, and then you will not have
to-" l said h%ippantly.
you're a sad dog. Do you know.
I've been thinking about epigrams."
mol"
YES. l find that an epigram is pro-
duced by the anne cause that produces
the pearl in the oyster"
"That is to say, a healthy mentality
never superinduces an epigram?
Fudge!" said l, yanking the pup from
his lap to mine. According to your
diagnosis, your own mind is diseased"
Have l cracked an epigram ?"-with
panied surprise.
well, you nearly bent one," 1 com-
promised.
Then We both laughed, and the pup
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and she has limited that she could
have had you"
"Ha, IL I'd married her she would
have had me-you can bet a settin' of
eggs on that"
1T was the talk of the n~eighborhood
how you used to go to dances with
her"
Eyes, 1t was the talk of the neigh
borhood whenever anybody went with
her at all. Cad, she had a tongue that
would pick out a briar. And now she
is a reformer, an uplifter of downtrod
women. Well, she spent about two
thirds of her life tryin' to tread 'em
down. l can recollect when every girl
in the neighborhood was afraid of her.
An old gypsy came along one time and
had some love powders for sale, and
Miss Patsy she bought some and man.
aged to give EN- to zeb Collins. She
must have given him about half a
pound from the way he acted. Went
out and hung over the back fence
and called hogs for ten minutes, he
did. After awhile when he was silent
she looked out after him and he was
a ketchin' of his horse. We called him
Bakin'Powder Zeb after that. But he
didn't rise"
81 don't believe she gave him the
powders"
mo, just loaned 'em to him. At any
rate, he got EN-. And now you trace
back some of the biggest of these
women reformers and you'll find love
powders in their lives somewhere.
There amt nothin' on the earth bright
err than a bright woman-and there's
nobody the Lord ought to shower His
favors down on more than her. No
matter how good a man is he can't
begin to ketch up with her. She is
tenderness, love, truth, religion-all
in me But when she's pizenous-
look out. That is the time for Satan
himself to dodge. And I'll bet every
time he sees old Miss Patsy comm
he takes to his flnty heels. When a
mans disappointed with life he gen.
orally tries to keep it to himself. But
with a woman-she not only wants it
to be known, but wants to make 9th
ers dissatisfied"
Yes" said Mrs. Jucklin, 'for when
a mans a failure it's his own fault. A
woman could never have helped her
self"
You've got me again and I'll have
to get out the best way | can. Yes,
the of failure lies with the one
that has failed. 1t was a lack of
energy, a lack of j~edgment-a lack of
somethin'. A man must make circum,
stances, but sometimes circumstances
won't be made. Under the law all men
may be born free, but they amt born
equal. Neither minds nor constitutions
are on a par with one another in diff
ferent men. Man acknowledges this
and quietly knocks under, takin' hold
of the next best thing and dom with
1t what he can. I'm talkin' about
sensible man But the woman-of the
| Mise Daisy stripe-she does her best
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-09-22

do but requote, and it may be that
he ffom whom you quote lifted his
thought from a richer than he. It is
well said that "a dwarf. standing on
the shoulders OF a giant, may see fur.
Their than the giant himself" and If he
can see further it stands to reason
that he ear be seen further. Your
borrowed plumes will make you a
marked man; that is, one who is
read, marked, learned, and inwardly
d~igested."
I'VE "a say nothing but what hath
been said" Why attempt the impos.
sible, then? 81 would help others out
Of a acknowledging" have been
thought-dry myself. 1 dare say that
there were mornings when John Mil
ton said: Il had rather than 40 shil-
lings | had eve begun Paradise
Lost have keyed it so high that
it splits my throat to sing it,"
angling is somewhat like poetry
men are to be born So" So angle that
We obtain the prize. Fish in other
mems streams and a full basket will
surely reward your perseverance. And
When you have spread your wares in
the market place, not one in ten will
care who owned the fish originally.
You will receive the credit even if
you pepper your work all over with
quotation marks.
Emerson says: "The passages of
Shakespeare that we most prize were
never quoted until this century" Do
you not see that it was not what
Shakespeare himself said that men
valued? 1t was not until his jewels
flashed in other mems bosoms that
we perceived their luster. Therefore
quote, for in so doing you will be rem
dering the bard a service.
ut is hard for an empty bag to
stand upright" but thanks to your
incursions into the fields of literature,
your bag is full. Let it stand.
Copyright, by James Pott & Coz
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and then tries to get even by dom her
worst. She looks for happiness in the
misery of others. In a sorrowful coun-
tenance she finds the reward of her eff
forts. She holds man accountable for
the fact that she was born a female.
The dog that banks at the moon sees
somethin', but the woman that rails
against nature sees nothin' but her.
self. / know that some of the women
folks would like to shoot me for sayin'
it, but l do say that the mother of a
child is greater than the woman that
makes a speech five columns long and
has the whole community talkin' about
how smart she is"
How about the father of a child?
Isn't he greater than the man that
makes a speech?"
"He may be. About as no account
a man as | ever came across could
make a speech for the clouds, l tell
you. But when he got through he was
just a seashell that the musical wind
had been BLOWN into. That was all.
He eve had the joy of carin' for a
little human bein'. He was jest a
Teller that folks could call great be.
cause he could talk. We may not have
a mission on this earth, but if we have
1t is to obey the lovin' instincts of ma.
ture. The man that hates and the
woman that has no love in her heart
are both the enemies of nature. You
may say that old Miss Patsy would
have loved If the opportunity had been
given to her. She would have married,
that's true enough; but | don't believe
she, nor any of her ilk, ever had n
real love in her heart. I'm not standin'
here talkin' up for man. Bless you,
he's hopeless. He's gone all the gaits.
But the best Of us have loved and
honored our women. We haven't called
them the enemies of man simply be-
cause nature set a limit to our minds
and-because fate, or whatever you
may call it, showed us our weakness.
We've played some cards and have
drunk a good deal of liquor, but the
best of us have reformed and we hope
the Lord has forgiven us"
"Oh, of course" said the old lady,
amy man is willing enough to ask the
Lord to forgive him when he knows
that 1t is nearly time for him to die.
During all the time, night after night.
while these dear little ones that he
thought so much of have been growing
up, he has been off at elections and
other things; and when he gets old
enough to quit then he talks about the
mission of nature and all that sort Of
stuff. If man doesn't want women to
go around maxim speeches why
doesn't he marry her and take care of
her? If he thinks that marriage is so
beautiful for a woman why doesn't he
prove that it is beautiful for him?
Summing up my book, as you summed
up yours, why doesn't a man learn
earlier how to behave HIMSELF"
We'll, l reckon you've got me
again." said the old man.
copyright, by Opie Read.)
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other besides her is concerned. and I
can not tell you. Some day, when
everything quiets down, I'll get you
into a corner with a bottle, and Won
VIII find it worth while"
THE bottle?"
Both
From rumors I've heard, this prin.
cess is a great one for larks: rides
bicycles and automobiles, and general
ly raises the deuce. What sort is sbe?,
If you are going to remain in Bar.
scheit, my boy, take a friendly warn.
ing. Do not make any foolish attemnt
TO sec her. She is more f%ascinating
than a roulette table"
This was a sly dig. Max smiled. 4
recent letter from him had told of an
encounter with the goddess at Monte
Carlo. Fortune had been all things
but favorable.
I'm not afraid of your princess. bo.
sides, came here to study"
And study hard, my bow. study
hard' Her highness is not the onIv
pretty woman in Barscheit. There's .
raft of them" :"
I'll paddle close to the shore - With
a smile. Win
day" '0u up Inurs-
How -lazily.
bout at Mueller's RatbskeIlar
Half a dozen American lads on =:
whom is called home. Just fixed nm
his passports for him. You'u no ~
welcome as the flowers in the snr,nn
some Of the lads will be in voyr
classes III your
Fut me down. 1t will be like old
times. l went to the reunion Low.
June Everything was in its nlaco i S't
you. Hang it, why can't time alwavs
go on as it did them" ways
Time, unlike our watches rou.
has to go to the jewelers. for reratnu !,
said l owlishly. p"ifs'
Max leaned over, took my I'M,
rier by the neck and deposited J hun, e
his lap. nlm on
Good pup, Artie-if he's anvth,oo
K MS master. Three years. NV hors
since saw Won And here vnn ns Ooy'
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plugging away over rusty nalls anu
grass-grown tles-till he came to Bar
scheit. -
"Hope is the wings of the heart
said |, when l thought the pause hau
grown long enough. you still nope!
In a way. If l %recollect, you hau
an affair once,"-shrewdly.
l smoked on. l wasn't quite ready
to speak.
"You were always on the hunt LOT
ideals, too, as | remember; hope you II
find her"
MAX. my boy, I am solemnly con-
vinced that | have" :,
Good Lord, you don't mean to tell
me that you are hooked?" he cried
81 see no reason why you should use
that particular Tone" answered stliily'
ooh, come now; tell me all about II.
Who is she, and when's the wedding!
81 don't know when the ddln 5
going to be, but I'm mighty sure h a
| have met the one girl. Max, there
never was a girl like her. Witty she
is, and wise; as beautiful as a sum-
mer's dawn; merry and brave; rides
drives, plays the cello, dances like a
moon-shadow; and all that,"-with a
wave of the hand.
you've got it bad. Remember how
you used to write poetry at college?
Who is she if l may ask?'
1.-THE Honorable Betty Moore, at
present the guest of her highness, the
Princess Hildegarde with pardon
able pride.
Max whistled. you're a lucky beg
gar. One by one we turn traitor to our
native land. A Britisher! l never
should have believed it of you, of the
man whose class defamation was on
the frey subject of patriotism. But
is it all on one side?"
81 don't know, Max; sometimes |
think so, and then l don't"
How long have you known her."
Little more than a month"
"a month? Everything moves swift
ly these days, except European rail
way cars"
There's a romance, Max, but an
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started up and licked my face before
could prevent him.
lid ever show you this ?"-taking
out a locket which was attached to
one n of his watch chain. He passed
the trinket to me.
What is it?" I asked, turning it
over and over.
It's the one slender link hat con.
meets me with my babyhood. 1t was
aiound my neck when Scharfenstein
PICKED me up. Open it and look at the
face inside"
l ola So A woman's face peered up
at me. 1t might have been beautiful
put LOT the troubled eyes and the
urooping lips. 1t was German in type,
evidently of high breeding, possessing
.ne subtle lines which distinguish the
race OF the noble from the peasants
from the woman's face l glanced at
Max's. The y e were sometime alike.
VINO do o think it is?" | asked,
wnen had studied the face sufficient.
~ TO satisfy my curiosity.
I've a sneaking idea that IT NAV be
ny mother. Scharfenstein found me
loaa!lng about in a railroad station,
ana that locket was the only thing
ABOUT me that might be used in the
matter OF Identification. You will OBJ
serve mat there is no lettering. not
even the jCweler's usual carat mark to
quaillS the gold. l recall nothing; life
WIN me dates only from the wide
pialns and grazing cattle. 1 was born
e,,ner IN Germany or Austria. That's
an l Know. And to tell you the honest
ruin boy it's the reason I've placed
Iy woman ideal SO high. So long as
pace her over my head I'm not fool.
lsh enough to weaken into thinking I
can nav her. What woman wants a
man without a manner"
ITO BE CoNTINUED)
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Lin

Old Linn Jucklin put aside his news
paper, arose, stood on the hearth, and
remarked to his wife, who sat in a
rocking chair, half dreamily knitting:
"rhey must hire folks by the year to
do nothin' else but to write about
women"
"They want to furnish the men
somethln' to read" his wife replied.
Furnish the men somethin' to skip
SOS to read somethin' else" said the
old man. once in a while l read 'em
though, and I've just read a lot of
stun that | know want written by
anybody, man or woman, that had
anything else to do-a whole column
and a half tellln' how to raise chill
dren; and I'll bet a steer it was writ
ten by an old maid"
"Limuel, what are you talkin'
Rbout?"
An old maid, l said; and one of
h sort that snatches up her skirts
and runs like a turkey hen whenever
she sees a child a comm toward her.
oh, / know their brand"
Eyes, ] suppose So" said his wife.
But a woman that a raisin' children
hasn't got time to write, and one that
has them already raised is so tired
she don't feel like It,"
"oh, expected to get II, one way
or another replied the old man. 1T
was due and | deserved 1t. But il
does seem that the writer's on the sub
ject of women ought to stumble on
somethin' new. But man has been
studyln' women-now, let me see.
Well. particularly ever since Sam.
sons wife cut his hair on, and
he hasn't stumbled on anything new
yet. I've given her a good deal of my
time and I'm ready to make my ac-
acknowledgements. I've summed up my
account book. Two and two make
four anywhere else. But with woman
two and two sometimes make six.
You can't tell. Fggers don't lie, but
with her they are mighty accommo.
datin'. And, Lord bless her. she has
finally discovered that man is her
enemy, The old maids have told her
oo anu BIG mas btbuu W bSlltNe IT.
Over here across the creek the other
day a party of 'em had a meetin' and
resolved that man was a tyrant and
ought to be ousted. Old Miss Patsy
Page, that has chased every chance tC
get married that she could find
through a spyglass a comm her way
raj the president. She called atten
ton to the number Of divorces
throughout the country, and she
sighed over all this waste of raw ma
terial. She read a paper, too, on how
to manage a husband. Bet she'd lik,
to read a book on how to catch one.
'Limuel, she's a good woman Sh,
sets up with the sick"
Eyes, and when she does the wei
folks catch it. Shed sour a mornin'i
milk by lookin' the cow in the eye"
well" replied the old lady, "sh'
says that you used to come to see her
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-09-22

m on a passage that he has him
self read in the original setting, his
vanity is tickled.
Tickle your readers vanity often
enough, and he is yours and will
sound o praises. "a nightingale
dies for shame If another bird sings
better" but you who are not a nightin-
gale might die for shame If It were
not for the singing of that large cho-
rus of English birds that make your
songs possible. Homer himself must
beg If he wants means" and If Homer
begs, who are you that says. ITO beg
/ am ashamed?" See only that you beg
at the right gates, and you shall en-
Joy a borrowed richness that in the
minds of many passes for a home
made garment of great value.
Some books are to be tasted, 9TH
ers to be swallowed" and others
quoted. Reading maketh a full man."