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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

that when the truck is wanted to lift
hives off the bottom boards or to carry
to another stand they can be removed
and by opening the front pull-bar the
handles may be sprung open sufficient
ly to go easily each side Of the hive.
and when the pull-bar is put back il
place and the pin put in, the hive can
not slip or shift. The drop-leg shown
will hold the hive up and leave botf
hands free, and two ends and sides
clear to work at. As regards the drop
leg, make the joint so that the leg will
be free to work only one way-back
and forth; otherwise the weight OF
the hive will swing the truck round
and let the hive down. I suggest a
joint something like the hinge of a
rule; and below the pin the leg swings
by, have a hole right through the Joint
and leg TO put a pin through; then the
truck cannot possibly move. Now.
when you lift a hive by the truck, the
writer in Bee Culture goes on to ex-
plain, you can, if you wish, move it
sidewise, or back or forth, as needed:
and in putting it back you a guide
1t home to one-sixteenth inch. When
the drop-leg is lifted for ordinary
work about the yard / would have
short fixed legs to come, say, just
back of where the back of the hive
comes for lifting; and when the drop
leg is hooked up to the side-rails it is
out of the road. With the loose floor
boards in place, you have a handy cart
for carrying supers and the many
other things needed in a yard worked
for bread and butter. With a pair Of
wheels and an axle a handy man
would make it in a day, and have a
tool that would make many a hard
task pleasant and easy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
Rubber PLAYS a Part.

The increasing demand for rubber
makes the Congo State a center of in
;erest to the world. But no one wants
rubber extorted by the lash and by
m%utilation, No one believes that n
such system is necessary. 1t is a
mistake to think that the African
negroes are lazy. says the Philadelphia
Inquirer. After their fashion they
are energetic, but most Of their labor
is wasted In vain efforts. 1t seem
reasonable that a mild and intelligent
administration will produce much
more rubber and will not only benefit
the natives. but cheaper the article.
The American concessions stand. and
these are vast, but they will be under
the supervision of the Belgian govern,
ment and We shall have no more bru.
ulity by wholesale. The Belgians are
an intelligent race. fully competent to
solve this great problem.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
Snakes pIaanosed EdItorIallx.

Snakes Diagnosed Editorially.
Ever since Adam was a bridegroom.
and a certain celebrated, but not be.
loved, snake made trouble In the fam.
fly and caused him to lose his farm
and gardens. snakes have been un.
popular In Adams family. II the
snake had never been in the Garden
OF Eden 700, probably we could be
roaming around yet on a perpetual va.
cation, with nothing to do but eat
fruit and pick flowers. We folks who
have to work and dig around eight or
ten, hours a day can never quite for.
give the snake for putting us out OF
the paradise palm garden, says the
Baltimore Sun. II was worse han
the civil war. Never since that little
snake incident at Eden have we been
rich enough to quit work. You cant
say the snake is a beautiful animal
He looks like a long streak Of devil
ment, with fangs In front and little
spots and streaks Of unrighteousness
all the way down. He IL as unsociable
as a croes-eyed hermit. and slippery as
a gumshoe politician. AS Mr.. Roose.
welt would say, the snake Is immoral,
a malefactor Of great stealth, an un
righteous u~nregenerate, almost as de
PRAYED as a reactionary or a conserva.
tive. Being Jealous and spiteful, It is
no wonder that the reptile has so
few close friends. His low, %retreatlne
forehead shows that he has no taste
for Music or the arts. and would as
soon bite Elbert Hubbard or Paderew.
ski as he would Joe Cans. He never
shows true affection or c~onstancy, and
cannot be trusted with ladies and
children.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
TWO MINIATURES

lures were found concealed in his bed.
A clerk in the public administrators
office thought the pictures were gaudy
bits of junk and offered them for sale
at $3.50. His patriotism, however.
prompted him to ask so cents more
for Monroe than for Nelson.
No n dreamed of the true value of
the miniatures. A buyer was lacking,
even at the marked down price. A
Market street halter who CHANGED to
see them thought the pictures would
be a good advertisement if exhibited
In the window of his store, so he Of
fered $3.50 for the pair"
So the miniatures, which are now al
legged to be worth $40, 900, lay neglect
ed and UNDECIDED in the office of the
public administrator until one day in.
terest was aroused by the finding of a
statement in the case with the picture
of Nelson which would seem to sub
stantiate the claim that it was a
genuine miniature of Lord Nelson.
1t was this statement that PROMPTED
the authorities to make an investiga-
ton into the facts of the case. Placed
in the hands of those competent to
judge, the miniature was found to be
of rare value. 1t was ascertained that
the portrait was one of four paintings.
the other three being in the British
museum. All four are from the brush
of W. C~arnevalli, A. 2. A search for
the missing portrait, which has been
carried on through every by-path of
the civilized world, was begun years
ago by the British museum, but
though thousands of dollars were
spent in the attempt to find 1t, the SET
has remained incomplete till now.
In painting the miniature of Presi.
dent James Monroe an unknown artist
has portrayed with fine care those
characteristic features of the Monroe
family which date back 10 that Scot.
fish cavalier, Hector Monroe, an off.
Ger of Charles /. The painting, ae-
cording to Mrs. Anna L. McNultv. a
director of the National Art society.
with headquarters at Chicago. who il
in San Francisco for a few DAYS. an.
proaches in its admirable rendering
paintings from the brushes of famous
miniature painters.
The miniature was painted at .
time when President Monroe was en-.
crossed with that doctrine which has
served to keep old world powers from
encroaching on western territory
America for Americans" was the pre-
vailing sentiment.
The painting is thought by certain
connoisseurs to be the work Of Wash.
ington Allston, a painter of Soutb
Carolina, who was a friend of the
president.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
SAVE MINERS LIVES

which competitors were to enter, re-
naming therein ten minutes, during
which time they were required each
to saw two pit-props. Other tests in
cluded the removal from the gallery
of a dummy figure and the lifting of
a 56-pound weight eight feet high 20
times.
One of the appliances tested consist
ed of a breathing bag, and cylinders OF
compressed oxygen, carried by Shout
der straps, and so hung that the wear
er is free to do work. In the breath
ing bag are sticks of pure caustic
soda, which absorb the carbonic acid
gas breathed out by the nan The
oxygen is conveyed to the bag by a
tube, and the amount of gas is calcu-
lated to last two hours, a pressure
gauge fitted in front-a most impor-
tant consideration-enabling the wear
er to see what quantity of oxygen re-
mains in his cylinders. The equip
ment comprises an electric lamp with
alarm clock, and the alarm will ring
every few minutes to remind the
man to look at his gauge. The weight
of the apparatus, fully charged, is 30
pounds. In less than one minute from
the order to Get ready" the wearer
a be completely dressed for a start.
The use of liquid air in rescue ap-
paratus is engaging the attention of
mining engineers, some of whom, in
deed, predict an important application
of such a supply in the near future.
The "Aerolith," a type of apparatus
designed by Mr.. Otto Simonis, adopts
this principle, and has formed the sub
ject of interesting demonstrations. Ex-
periments have shown that 31a pints
of liquid air enabled the wearer of the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
PotentIal Wheat Aoreane.

Nith the many means which are at
hand TO the future farmers of the
United States to meet the ever.grow.
ing demand for the staff Of life" It is
hard to imagine a real wheat famine
for our population in the immediate
future. He is a most unwlse prophet
who would attempt to estimate the pc.
tentlal wheat acreage Of the United
States 10, 20, or so years from now.
While 1t Is true that the most avail
able and most productive wheat lands
have already been tapped. the future
acreage of desert-and-swamp lands
that may be made productive through
engineering skill. says Century, is an
absolutely unknown factor. That
many OF these regions will sometime
be extremely productive no one can
doubt, and II high prices for wheat be
come persistent. an extensive wheat
acreage may be developed in old agri.
cultural regions that have abandoned
wheat for more profitable forms of
agriculture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
FATTENINe
They Must Be Confined to Obtain the
Best Results.

After taking his readers through
the period of fattening chickens from
one to six weeks, the Irish Homestead
expert sums up the subject as fol.
lows; We will say, then, in~the first
place that cockerels and pullets will
not fatten, no matter what quality on.
quantity of food you feed them. so
long as they are running pell nell
about the farm and, therefore, the
chief essentials for ~fattening them
successfully are not only suitable
foods, but also suitable quarters in
which they al be confined.
You must select a good table
breed, and one which can be made to
suit the requirements of your mar
ket.
You must separate the cockerels
from the pullets while ~fattening and
u confine both in either yards or
coops. You must begin TO fatten az
the proper age, and keep the birds
under treatment neither longer nor
shorter than the periods recon-
mended, which are six weeks for ward
f%attening, two weeks for COOP fatten-
ing, and three weeks for examining.
The fowls must be fed only twice.
a day, and the foods used must he
sound, wholesome and of good fat and
hesh-forming nature. The yards.
coops and all appliances must be kent
strictly clean, and it is well to use
slack lime and lime wash freely when
ever possible.
The fattening or examining indus
try in Sussex, England, and the ad
Joining counties, has now assumed
such gigantic proportions that hun
dreds OF thousands Of pounds worth
OF dressed poultry are dispatched from
every parish in a single year. and
there are thousands of families de
pending for their livelihood on the in.
dustry."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

said, $4,000, have been fshed out of a
rat hole on Van Ness avenue by a
nurse in n of the hospitals Of the
city.
A few weeks ago a sick man regis
tered at one of the city hospitals. His
name was Daniel Eisner and he was
well-known in San Francisco as a
buyer Of %curios. paintings, books and
furs. After his arrival at the hospi-
tai Eisner became terribly uneasy. He
wanted something; something which
would not let him rest night or day
for thinking of 1t. Unable to move
himself he confided, in his lucid mo-
ments, in the nurse. He told her of
two small pictures, one of the great
Lord Nelson and the other of Presi-
dent James Monroe, hidden in a rat
hole back of his store on Van Ness
avenue, which were worth thousands
of dollars. He talked necessarily of
the miniatures, pleading with her to
go and get them for him under cover
OF darkness and to let no one know.
When the nurse placed them in his
hands Eisner's Wild rawlings were
stilled. A few days later he died. No
relatives were discoverable and so his
effects were taken charge of by Public
Administrator M. ]. Hynes. The minia-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
Train
Your Boy
For.
Life
By JOHN A. ROWLAND.

community force is the cause. From the problem of the state, on down to
the problem of the least conspicuous individual within the state, mis-
direction may be traced as the prmal. cause.
The average parent refuses for an instant to regard the fixed condi-
tons of time and place and opportunity as having a bearing upon the
training of his children.
Suppose the farmer, deciding upon a horse farm, should stock that
farm with heavy draft horses, determining the stock simply because he
was fond OF the Percheron, when it was manifest that the only paying
market for horses demanded the saddle horse. Would not his neighbors
call him foolish? What would his explanation mean were he to saw in
reply to questionings: 80, l don't care what the popular demand is-Pm
going to breed the kind Of horse l like best?"
Yet this is exactly the position of the average parents who are rails
ing the child crops of the world.
To-day there are tens of thousands of business men in their offices
in the city with a keener, livelier interest in some small office boy who is
rendering more than value received to them, than they think of applving
in a practical way to their own sons at home.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

TT ann I 10
The Fleuss life-saving apparatus for
use in mines consists of a breathing
bag and cylinders of compressed
oxygen carried by shoulder-straps. In
the center of the group here shown is
DR., Leonard Hill, r. r. S., whose scien.
tific Investigations led to its invention.
conditions resemble those obtaining in
a mine after an explosion, have proved
of great value in calculating the serv-
iceable qualities or otherwise of life
saving appliances for use under
ground. A demonstration of this char
acter took place in the autumn of last
year at Telling Colliery, England,
where an experimental gallery 40
feet long had been erected by Mr.. c..
B. Palmer. From a special descrip-
ton of the trials communicated re,
Gently to the North of England Insti.
tute of Mining and Mechanical En-.
gineers, we learn that one side of this
gallery was of wire netting, so that the
movements of the wearers of the vari-
GUS types of apparatus were in full
view of the committee of inquiry wit
Messing the demonstration. The ar
rangements for the latter were so
planned that narrow ara o~bstructed
roadwaNs had to be contended with,
piles of debris ~surmounted, passages
cleared through falls of stone. and
other obstacles faced. Also a cham
Der filled, firstly, with carbonic acid,
and, secondly. with sulphur-dioxide
fumes, had been constructed, into
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

The British house OF lords amended
the old-age pension bill. but when the
commons rejected the amendments.
the lords passed the bill in the form
in which II was sent to them. The
aged British poor over 40 years of age
will soon receive pensions Of vary.
ing amounts, according to their In.
come, The sums are fixed by a sliding
scale which forms a part OF the bill.
Now the statesmen will devote them.
selves to finding money to pay the
pensions. 1t will require $50, 600. 900
a year to start with. n is likely to
need from $780, OO. 900 to s1OO. 600. 600
within a decade.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
POULTRY NOTES.

BE sure that the pullets have plenty
OF good food during the summer if
you expect them to develop and la,
when eggs are scarce.
The fowl yards should be plowed mn
occasionally; this serves two purposes
1t gives the fowls a chance to eat the
worms and gets rid of the tramn,ed
unclean soil on top.
Success in poultry raising is like
everything else-there's money in il
Tor the right man. However. It's M
get-rich-quick scheme and there's a lot
of hard work to do.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
Proofs of
the
World
Invisible
By SIR ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE

great cosmos our senses give us eognizance of.
All the most powerful and universal forces OF nature now are referred
to minute vibrations of an almost infinitely attenuated form of matter
and by the grandest congratulations of modern science the most varied
natural phenomena have been traced back to these reconcile forces. Light
heat, electricity magnetism, and probably vitality and gravtation are be-
ieyed to be but modes of motion of a space filling ether; and there is not
a single manifestation of force or development of beauty but is derived
from one or the other of these.
And these manifestations of force are produced by a form of matter
so impalpabe that only by its effects does it become known to us. Witt
svh phenomena everywhere around us we must admit that if intelligence
Of what we may call an ethereal nature do exist we have no reason to den
them the use of these ethereal for ee which are the OVERLOOKING founta,
from which all force, all motion. ali life upon the earth originate.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
HlvE.LIFTINe WHEEL-cART.
A Continuance That Will Prove Serv.
Iceable to the Bee Keeper.

Honey production having grown
from retail to wholesale. hives, OF
necessity, need handling more rapidly
and easily. Every professional apiarist
surely must always need a hand-cart
of some sort. Then why not try tc
make it do more than one thing? BY
the plan shown in the illustration }
think anyone can modify the details tc
suit his needs; as, owing to hives be
ing so various in many ways. II par
ticular pattern would suit only one
man. In a truck made as suggested
/ would have the ~foOr-boards of the
truck nearest the front free-just tc
rest on the handles-and kept in place
by cleats on the under side, either IT,
come inside or outside of handles, Sc
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

The method of attachment of the
Fleuss apparatus to the shoulders en-
ables the rescuers to work easily, and
to have their arms free for carrying
to safety those who have been over
come by foul air or other mishap. Its
total weight is 80 pounds.
rescue appliance to work under the
requisite conditions for 60 to 70 min
utes, while nine pints were sufficient
for three hours work.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

That intelligent beings may exist
around and among us unperceived during
our whole lives, and yet capable, under GER
tain circumstances, of making their pres
ence known by acting on matter will be in
conceivable TO some, and will be doubted
by many more, but we venture to say that
no man acquainted with the latest discover
les and the highest speculations of modern
science will deny its possibility. The ex-
istence of such preterhuman intelligences,
if proved, would only add another and
more striking illustration than any we have
yet received of how small a protion of the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

A Chicago man plans to have all
our machinery run by the force of
gravitation. That will be all right II
he al persuade gravitation to work
both ways.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

There Is a town in New York which
has been made famous by its million.
aire fire department. In it's ranks are
plenty of brokers and bankers, so It
may be that they are satisfied any
time the town supply of water runs
short they can get enough squeezed
out of their stocks TO answer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

The heaviest hitter In the Amer.
lean Baseball league has married the
richest girl in Atlanta. She prob.
ably took him because the sporting
editors have referred to him as the
prince OF swatters."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

Only a monomaniac, says a scientist,
can think of one subject continuous.
ly for FIVE minutes. oh, say not so.
Weren't you ever hungry for an hour
before dinner timer
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
APPLIANCES FOR USE IN UNDER
GROUND CHAMBERS.
Effort That Is Being Made to Rem.
der More Certain the Rescue
of Imprisoned
Miners.

Ever and anon the attention of the
public is riveted by the announcement
of a mine explosion, more or less de-
structive, and aften entailing the loss
Of many lives.
Tests of rescue-apparatus, conduct
ed in experimental galleries where the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

The question is, Shall the parent be salts.
fled with training a boy simply to his own
probably narrow idea of things, suddenly to
turn him loose upon a strange world that is
out of sympathy with the training and fails
to understand?
There is no one distracting condition in
the world to compare with that which results
from misdirected energy and force. Some
where out of these resulting conditions arises
every evil in the calendar. If the great city
be congested and overcrowded, or if fertile
fields lie fallow for want of tillers while
thousands are hungry, SONS misdirection of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
PROVE PUZZLE TO PUBLIC ADMIN.
lSTRATOR OF SAN FRANCISCO.
One Is of Lord Nelson, the Other of
President Monroe-lf Genuine
They Are Treasures of
Art Worth $4,000.

1t seems like fiction, but as the true
story from San Francisco goes two
magnificent miniatures, worth. it is
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

10 commence the construction OF roads to develop its transport
tation. The territory " Of the United States is 81 great that if it had not
been for the discovery Of steam a a motive power and the development
OF steam transportation lines, it would have been impossible in hundreds of
years to develop the territory as it is developed to-day.
In studying the transportation history Of this country we can d-
vide 1t into three broad periods. First, was the pioneer construction
that is, the lines that were thrown out in advance of the population BY
those great, hardy courageous men, who had foresight and faith, and
rsked their all on the correctness of their judgmcnt-such men as the
Huntingtons, the Crockers and the Hills.
The second period of railroad development involved problems of
greater completely than those of the pioneer days. The demands for
transportation multiplied so rapidly that construction was unable to keep
pace with it. Great cities grew up and with them an imperative demand
for terminal facilities which would be sufficient not only for present needs.
but would look well into the future. In the face Of ruinous competition,
which had forced rates down from one-half to one-third of what they
were in any other country in the world, roadways and bridges had to be
built, improved safety devices invented and installed, curves had to be
eliminated and grades reduced so that the tonnage per train could b. in
creased, and new and heavier equipment provided on a scale that had
never been anticipated; and before this reconstruction work was COM
pleed, the ever increasing demands had outgrown the engagements. 1t
was then realized that a railroad never is completed and never can be COM
p@ed; II cannot stand still but must continue to eXpend and improve
and keep pace with the growth of the country it serves.
The third period is the period of governmental control and inter
ference. Honestly conceived laws to compel a service that will meet with
the reasonable approval of the patrons of a road and prevent discrimina-
tlons, stock-waterng and stock jobbery are right and proper, but to 90 far
beyond that and impose unreasonable burdens and unfair restrictions looks
to the defeat of the very purpose which it is sought to attain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24

The foundation Of every state il the
education of its youth.-Diogenes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-24
The
Railway
Three Periods of
It's Development
in Am
By THEODORE p. SHONTS,
PRESIDENT interborOuah Metropolitan Company, New York.

HE transportation facilities of a country are, and always have
been, the true test Of the nations commercial development
Rome was the greatest road builder in the world in her dav
and the supreme commercial power. Her highways, which
are stla the wonder Of modern engineers, represented the most
advanced stage of the art Of transportation as it was then
known, and made possible the development of her territory.
So strongly was this essential feature recognized by her govern
ing powers that with every territory subdued her first act was