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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
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By DR.. ROBERTSON WALLACE.
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the qualities of the nyheared stepmoh Fair look upon
though she be- there stant Of cruelty her character On
OCCASION well well know she may be red in tooth claw She
has great love for humanity She ens mans pryng into her
secrets She gudg him his of all the
that hers alone In her upsar
the planet taken FORMULATING the sphere his He
simply much earthly matter become detached from the globe
temporarily galyanised Her business is get him back
with all due speed She yearn for him. her yawn him.
later she ra him down into the cool ea and fixes him securely
in his native elements. 1t is her business.
Nature much likely kill than cure left to her
devices Her bacteria deadly than bmb her microbes
fatal than Mausers Her posong with subtle ptoman
unaccountabe She freezes she burns she sarve mans
humanity at her will There mawsh
Nature.
There better methods treatment mgnaire
When made seek lost health by crawling
fou is found rigorous regime fine thing knock the
of the average hypoonda Heroic only
be borne time by heroes And hypochondac
perhaps to his cash chemist No will deny that
will benefit those persons who habtuay overeat Everybody will
NIT that fruit vegetables and nuts should have
the dietary and that people who habuay eat meals per day.
enjoy better health three Simple ailments easily combaed by
simple methods
But when to the treatment of organic diseases
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
Classics In the Modern School.

Classics In the Modern School.
My subject raises two questions, one
of which depends on the other: /.
Should the classic form part of mod
ern education? 2. If so, what part?
1t is not safe to assume the an
swer yes to the first question. because
we are so often urged to do away with
the classics on the ground that to
study them is useless; ] must, there.
fore. briefly consider both questions,
writes DR.. Rouse, headmaster of Perse
school, Cambridge, in the National Re
view. What is meant by useless?
Some persons mean that which cannot
be turned to direct account In wage
earning That view is the common
view of the parents of our boys, and 1t
underlies most of the criticisms Of ed
ucation which we read in the press.
Take the ideal, which seems to be
dearest to the heart OF the public, to
sit on an office stool for 40 years and
then have a pension; for such life
nearly every study is useless in the
accepted sense. or what use to the
government clerk are history, litera-
ture. algebra, Euclid, Scripture. ge-
ography-this we know on high au-
thority is useless also to the diplo-
mat and the ambassador-not to men.
ton French, German, Latin or Greek?
To be consistent boy ought to spend
all HIS time on the three Rs, precis,
and tots, and his parents would expect
him to save FIVE years and be ready at
IL years Of age for the civil service.
But need say no more. In it's ex-
treme. this wage-earning fallacy is
ridiculous; It is, however. the hardest
of our tasks to convince the people at
large that this is so,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
WhistIer's Grave

Whistler is buried, not in Cbiswick
churchyard, where Hogath lies but in
the cemetery that adjoins it saws tbe
London Morning Post. No stono
marks the grave of the artist which
is almost hidden by carefully tended
flowers. A little fence of wooden troll
lis protects it, and over fenoe ana
grave trailing ivy, geraniums and
honeysuckle grow luxuriantly Tho
grave is beside the high wall Of tho
eemtery, and partly sheltered NV a
wild plum tree, overgrown lust NON,
by creepers, that has sprung nm cIosa
to the boundary. Beyond tho we'll
rise ancient yew trees and the uora
ancient gray tower of Cbiswio,,
church, but modernity asserts itseis
in the incessant rafting and bammer
ing from the torpedo boat worts
whose long ranges of black buildinSs
separate these peaceful acres frnn,
the adjacent river. ~
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

The British youth of the present
generation is not in quite so bad
way as the recent discussions of physi-
cal deterioration would indicate. At
tention was lately called to the inter
esting condition revealed by study
OF the measurements Of the schoolboys
at Marlborough for the past 20 years.
The 14.year-old boys Of 1906 are five
pounds heavier and one and one-half
inches taller than boys of the same
age in 1886. and the 16-year-old boys
are eight pounds heavier and three
fourths OF an inch taller A halter
who provides hats for the boys in six
schools says that few years ago he
rarely was asked for hat 21la inches
in circumference. but now Ne is fire.
quently called upon for hats an inch
larger. II is not at all unlikely that
the revelation OF the poor physique Of
the British youth that followed the
Boer war recruiting aroused parents
to a sense of the Importance Of getting
their boys into the fresh air, where
they could take proper amount OF
wholesome exercise.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
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BY DIR. w. A. BARTLETT,
Chicago Pastor.

Testament laws very and that when intro
duced the law love the old regime passed away anyone will take
the pains read the the they will Jesus Christ
not only upheld the ten commandments but he made tremendous
additions that the commandments themselves small COM
pared with those mountainous requirements of Lord.
cannot how preacher consistently marry who have
been divorced whether guilty not Because ased in the
church service these Wh God hath Joined no man
put asunder The marriage service then covenant with the
seal Of God When that contract broken by court
and not by the church. In the sight of God according the ideals
taught by Jesus Christ there be putting away remarrage
The parties who have been separated by legal process should go to the
law they desire remarag The preacher represents God and
the church, and it not question for him decide according to
judgment.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
LA PLUIE
Ey F. Fl. LANCASTER
lcopyrIght. BY DaIly story PuO. col

that Bete.noire grabbed his brothers
hand !,
you feeling pretty good now ha'
Raoul?" ,.4
Raoul made no answer, he had faint
ed for his fun. Marie spoke quickly:
"You stay wit him, Bete-noire ana
me, | run to house for fetch papa
mo" Numbered Bete-noire.
Den, me, stay wit Raoul ana
you go"
mo! You going stay wit me- MY
God, / was scare'!"
There was nothing for it then but
to carry the cut youth to wltmh
shouting distance of M. Noise and IL
was we'll for the rogue that night that
Marie had inherited her fathers nne
physique along with his tender heart
Stubbornly, Bete-noire broke the
way with his brothers head on his
bent back; pluckily Marie trod In MS
steps, the cut leg in a sling from her
shoulder. Raoul came to and demand
ed to be left alone while Bete-noire
and Marie went together for help, but
to this neither of them would consent.
Leave him alone, hurt, in the night.
It would take harder heart than ever
beat in a 'Cajan breast to do that.
'In lii while we be to mile-post,
Raoul and den Bete-noire can make
papa hear. Bete-noire have big voice"
Bete-noire did not have big voice.
The woods beloved and blared with
the name of M. Noise before there
came to them that startled stentor-
ian:
"Oul!"
And Bete-noire beloved with all his
might:
"By sixteen milepost. Fetch wagon
if you please"
"Oui!" The word wanged its way
with the hurting twist that only a
'Cajan tongue can give it and M.
Noise was in the stable waking up
his horse.
Madame Noise was there, too, hold
ing light, buckling strap-too wise
to talk in an anxious time. When M.
Noise turned with husky Goodbye,
Bebe, reckon be back pretty soon,"
madame kissed him; but as the big
monsieur climbed in heavily over
one side of the wagon, his live little
madame flashed in over the other;
if there was trouble in store for her
old man, Madame Noise was going
to share it.
The rattle of that rapidly driven
wagon rang like a cheer to the anx-
ious watchers by the mile post and
yet at the sound of it, Marie rested
Raoul's cut leg on log and sitting
down beside it began to cry.
What are you crying for now, La
Pluie?" Raoul asked gently.
"Oh," Marie sobbed to her knees,
"das going to make Camille feel so
sorry when she find you been hurt like
das."
Raoul tried to laugh.
Il reckon, me, das going make Ca
mile feel so proud when she find
she got ILL sister so game like das.
DOu I you cry marie.
But Bete-noire sat down beside the
shaken girl and lifted her dropped
head to his shoulder:
You cry all you want, La Pluie,"
he comforted. "And if any man on
Bayou say you can't cry when you
want, he's going have to lick me.
And l reckon, me, he amt going
fine das easy, mol"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
Size Of crIb Mex to PassagswaE

meshes to the inch, to cover the Taiiea
inner wall of the cribs. and also "
cover the floor. After spreading u'
screen on the floor l put on II Y
other shiplap plank floor, letting l'
wire turn up at the edges OF crib aoo-
about five inches. The screen on sue
was put on the outside Of rails mex, y
the central barn space, and was =
tened in place by laths nailed u0''
with shingle nails.
Overhead between the ioiss
spread an extra heavy galvanized WV
fly netting, of about 1856 meshes 70 Y.
square inch, and held it tight 70 ~
floor over crib by mailing lath Oh 7
l have not seen a rat since pu' 4
the screens, although it has been 4, y
several years. 1t will last -
time.
The heavy galvanized No san'
screen cloth will cost three ana Ol
half cents per square foot Hove ''.,
there has since come to my aV%n i,,ss
wire cloth of finer mesh that vi h
decidedly better for the purpose i,
is No. s evaporator, Ga meshes " I I,
square inch, and costing four een~
the square foot. The extra heaN
vanized wire fly netting costs WV /,
one-half cents per square foot " 4
broken rolls of 100 linear iees
which prices quoted are based ~
find this plan for a ratproo d
much better than building one ,rS
stills, which will compel sou 70 ~ x
a ladder $50 times a yeer for llN L.
of your life.-Missoun Valley fS
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

pIeUIIsy VIII tIIUsUH, UUUDG pHeUIHUHId, IUnIlaI-
ing appendicitis, pericardtis, gastric ulcer, srangu
lated hernia, dphtheria, and forth, where do So
called natural methods of cure come IMP Nature has
short way with sufferers from maladies such as
these She does not trouble to the disease She
removes the patient The medical art alone save the
sufferer from the natural doom of the unfit The vic
tim of severe disease make effort to save himself
lie must rely entirely Others With art and artfce
they defy the maevolent devices of Nature to emi-
nate the unfit And time and again they triumph.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
me palry euaIness.

The dairy business does keep ,A,i
tied down; there is no mistake ~ IN 4
score. But is there any oraIS M
farming that includes live s'o.s II.
doesn't keep man tied down ,,,s .
can't get something for noun othe
dairying any more than IN an, .,Silr
business. and the more reSponi 4 al
a man takes the better his wo'A
10 be paid.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

heavy undressed one by four crib stuff
set about one and one-fourth inches
apart, which gave the corn access to
the air. The ends and outer walls Of
these cribs are of shiplap barn siding
Above both central space and cribs is
the haymow, 80 by 80 feet This hay
NOW is tightly foored with good ship
lap lumber, which forms the covering
for the cribs.
From wirecloth mill obtained
sufficient wire sand-screen No. 4, ten
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

1t is to the poets chief
ly that nature owes a
reputation for benevo-
lence. This reputation is,
h o W e er, ill-deserved.
Nature rightly regarded
is neither friend, philan-
thropist, nor physician.
Mother she is not, though
she may possess some of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

A man In Philadelphia who killed
himself by inhaling gas left two dollars
behind to pay for the gas This is
somewhat encouraging to believers in
human nature when one stops to re-
fleet how shamelessly the conscience
less public takes advantage of confid-
ing and generous-hearted gas com.
panies.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

planks. The cribs are six feet wia.
80 feet long and ten feed high Tbi'
leaves a space between the cribs NJ,
floored, 16 by 80 feet and about !,
feet high. This central space IN
closed in part by sliding doors Mn.
feet wide and ten feet high and ann,
up seven feet Of the open end sDaea
by shiplap siding.
The sides of crib next to the la,y,
central space 1 rallied up by usiSY
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
RAT PROOF BARN AND cR,ps
Plan Recommended by a Farr..
Neosho County, Kansas +"

l built a small barn 30 by % g..
with cribs on the sides set unor ~
foundations IL or Is inches bieb VIZ
ing two by six for the floor ioieta y. "
flooring the crib with good sb,. Saa
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

COL Corn (as he saw for the first
tlme an automobile going at 4O.miIe
vnpl-By gravy, but them horses must
nave gave that wagon a good start
oeioEe they broke loose!-Judge
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

Now If professional theatricals on
board some Of our steamships could
only diminish professional poker play
ing, many verdant passengers would
have more of the long green" in their
wallets when they arrive on the other
side.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

Indian Territory is making much
fuss over girl said to be the hand
soonest woman Of the Conanche tribe
The beauty contest will not be com
plete until entries are made from
among the Diggers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

Preachers should not
remarry divorced per-
sons. As the marital
bond is broken by the
courts, the courts alone
could assume the respon-
sibility of remarrying di-
vorced persons.
Some people have
claimed that the Old
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

truly the public simply the problem always and everywhere pres
ent life Of securing for positions of trust and power who
not only intelligent but upright who not only efficient but honest
is not combination and cooperation that be feared and nagon
zed but only monopoly and discrimination
Problems of Importance not only legal but political the
highest sense arise when attempt fix the and by which
the government shall control and corporations Our cons
utonal limitations political traditions and past party differences
and the complex structure of whole governmental system with its
state and national make the problem control of
corporations an extremely difficult There those who think they
short methods Of accomplishing the desired end but pred
ton that true the characteristics of people, shall work
Just solution OF these involved problems not stroke wholly
logical processes but step by step and after many experiments and
that not few unforeseen difficulties will have be
cumvened
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14
Chr Rpgltlattnn nf ttr
TrltHta MltHt 1F Oranual
BY DIR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER.
President Columbia University.

Nothing is necessarily TO be forced from corpora
ton because of its size The character of corporation
does not depend upon its size, but upon the principles
and policies which actuate its management Corpora
tons themselves have moral qualities it is corpor
ate officers and managers who good bad honest
or dishonest, the may be- The problem of Great
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-14

Stop up the cracks in the %, 10 d.
lumber and not with feed si''D
low.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17
WANTS A VACATION,
Secretary of Commercial Club Insists
On Summer Lay-oif.

Who will give the secretary OF The
Commercial club a vacation" He wants
1t and everyone is willing he should
have it but he can't locate Il. Presi-
cent Kaser is at Hot Lake On account
of ill health and Vive- President De-
ment is in Portland. No one will give
the hard worked scribe II the COM
mercial organization his mucn needle j
rest.
For II months Mr.. Moore has been
writing letters telling how this is the
greatest country on EARTH and why,
but although that is no tax on his
imagination, still he is tired and
wants a rest.
All morning he has been pursuing
vacations around the corner, just get
ting in sight Of a good one when along
comes some one to hand him a five
years subscription in advance and he
loses the trail.
If only some one would catch a va
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17
SQUARE SPORT.

Lovers of baseball will be interested
in the statement that over 100000 has
been recently lost in Chicago by the
race track bookmakers who attempted
tc make books on baseball. For once
in the history of gambling the book
les" were beaten at their own game
the baseball lovers know the game too
well for them. 1t took just four weeks
for them to learn that baseball would
not lend itself to the tiger" They
lost from $1,000 to $4,000 each. Book
makers, with racing stopped, were
growing fat and seedy until the base
ball field allured nine of them, veter-
ans of many hazards. A unique sys-
tenn of giving odds to the betting fans
was compiled and the boards showed
range of selections such as IS to 5
against two clubs winning or "A to 1
against three clubs winning" or IS to 1
against four clubs winning" Practi-
cally no bets were taken on single
games. but the selections. set forth
with odds, were offered. The scheme
seemed to present to the fans an op
portunity to bet on eight teams and
two leagues with a combination of "a
plays for the bookmaker However the
fans, who knew all the teams and
players averages by heart. picked the
winning teams. Saloons which took
bets from the fans and telephOned them
to the clearing house received a COM
mission Of so per cent. Gamblers who
Lave made many book on the great
American derbys. have found that
baseball is a straight game that
cannot be "doped.''
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17

weeks visit with friends and relatives
in Spokane.
L. L. Hunt a large fruit and vege-
table raiser of the valley and an inde-
pendent shipper, left last night for a
few days business visit in the COAST
cities.
Louis Sutherland and his sister, Miss
Leila Sutherland, left this afternoon for
an outing in the mountains above Pom
eroy.
N. D. Hopkinson, of the Walla Walla
Paper & Stationery company, has gone
east on an extensive business visit.
]. j. Schiffner has returned from We
naha springs, where he went a week
ago fpr the benefit of his health.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Sutherland
have returned to Walla Walla after
an extensive visit in the east.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17
NOT THIS YEAR.

The New York Post says: THE st
Louis Times, which represents the
opinion of the best German element il
st. Louis, does not follow the lear
OF the New York Staats-Zeitung il
supporting Bryan"
But perhaps the ST Louis Times does
not follow the lead Of the German
element. Certain it is that American
citizens of German extraction are moi
TO be led to the support of special in
terests by an editor who either does
not understand, or does not care tc
understand. the dangers OF plutocracv
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17

of. who will, when forced to face the
inevitable. align themselves With the
militant millions rather than with the
privileged few who are continually
adding to their swollen fortunes
through the favoritism of legislation
and who are using this money extra:t-
ed from the sweat of the brow OF
American labor and from the body OF
the child slave of the mills and mines
to buy foreign titles and castles for
their daughters and to bring disgrace
upon the land which they have plum
dered under the guise of law"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17
SECOND CHOICE VOTES.


Under section IS of the direct pri
mary law. where there are four or
more candidates of any political party
for one state or congressional office"
every voter in the primary election
must vote for a first and second choice
candidate. The voter can not vote for
the same person as first and second
choice; he must vote for two seperate
candidates of the same party.
Where there are four or more candi-
dates of the same party for a state or
a congressional office the provision is
mandatory; voters must express a Sec
ond choice. or their votes will not be
counted at all, SO far as the particular
office is concerned.
By section SO of the direct primary
law. Judges of the supreme and SUI
perior courts, state senators and rep
resentatives shall not be considered
state officers within the meaning Of
the provisions of this act relating to
first and second choice voting"
On the republican ticket there are
eight candidates for governor: every
republican voter must indicate a first
and second choice. or his vote will be
void and not counted as to the COVER
nor.
There are five candidates for lieu
tenant governor. and republicans, in
this case also, must vote for a first
and second choice.
There are four candidates for attor-
ney general of the state, and four can
dldateS for insurance commissioner.
and in these cases first and second
choice voting will be required on the
part of men who vote the republican
ticket in the September primaries.
On the republican ticket there are
only two candidates for secretary of
state, three candidates for state treas
urer, three candidates for state aud
itor. three candidates for commissioner
of public lands, and one candidate for
superintendent of public instruction
Second choice voting, in these cases
VIII not be required, because second
cholce voting is necessary only where
there are four Or more candidates of
the same party for one state or CON
gressional office
But republicans must remember that
in voting for governor lieutenant gov
ernor, attorney general and insurance
commissioner in the September primar-
les they must vote for first and second
choice candidates. and vote for one man
for first choice and for different man
for second choice. because there are
four or more candidates for each Of
these positions. The vote which does
not comply with the terms of the law
In this respect will be void and not
counted, as TO the particular officers re-
curing first and second choice voting.
Democrats have not the same wor-
ries as the republicans. although they
nave to exercise the second choice
proposition in voting for their choice
for the party nominee for governor.
there being five candidates for this no.
mination. vVT