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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Many a poet has written of autumn.
leaves They tell most persons true but
melancholy story of how life budded, was
green, hourished for summer, then RI
pened, turned brown, fell and became the
sport of winter winds. But that is not
the tale with the one who makes wonder
full prayer of which our text is a part He
speaks of an inner self that has gone
through moral experiences, not physical
I'VE are all become as one that is uncean,
and all our righteousness are as a polluted
garment; and we all do fade as a leaf and
our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29
NJ. NJ. SWEET. Publisher.

Though two in canoe may be bliss.
it often ends in blisters.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

waste Of our soil from washing There better example
Of waste than the ghu and wholly unnecessary which,
the last few months have caused the loss of of millions
property and many human lives illustration is found in
the enormous loss OF fertility which the farmer suffers by the washing
soil from his best fields the poute their currents
clog their channels and entail large expense for its removal
The other form of far less spectacular but no less real
When we allow the tens OF millions of potential horsepower
for lack of breaking conservation
almost fully if the streams themselves destroyed
allow the water power to flow unused draw unnecessarily
fully upon stores of coal and fuel oils replace power we waste
BY When fail the navigation we make huge
and unnecessary drafts supply of iron and coal 1t estimated
that to transport freight by requires less than one-haf
coal and iron as to transport it by rail Unnecessary
coal and iron they will gone power
as long as the sun gives rain.
Let us fix it firmly minds that conservation develop
ment much as preytono waste Conservation the
of all the of this great country
best good Of the people for the longest time and develop
ment just as nssteny it demands the preservation of
and their efficient and economical use.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

II would be interesting TO know the
feelings of the men who make battle
ships and big guns as they read OF the
honors heaped upon the Wright broth
ers In the sacred name OF peace
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

It's better TO have loved and lost
than never to have enjoyed her moth
er's good cooking.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Hudson bay is reported to be al
ready almost frozen over. The hay
fever season must be very short in
that region
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

IITINa " guy VAtTPIUN ITUIH ODtUtnCe 70 law; the
bride giyers and takers the criminals of bottom mid
die and top of our social order, all help to tear from
our foliage the leaves that for the healing of ma
tons Every institution that harms our national life
must 60, if our glory is to stay.
But, there can be no fading nation unless there
are faded men and women. There is no such thing
as a nation apart from the persons who make it. How
many high purpose has become only the acrobat of
present moral decline, low lives turn it over and
over, as the October wind does the faded leaf!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Prussian women are to have better
opportunities for higher education
The suspicion is spreading over there
that the three ks" are not of neces
sity quite all Of woman's sphere.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Now comes a student of criminology
who asserts that blonde criminals
largely outnumber the criminal bru
nettes. This puts an entirely different
face on the matter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The fishhook cactus is the compass
of the desert for It always points 10
the south
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The science OF navigating the air Is
of slow growth II is a century old
and sim In It's infancy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

King Edward is absolutely free from
personal debt. This will seem almost
unprofessional to a number of neigh
boring rulers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The greatest heat is never found on
the equator, but some ten degrees to
the north. while more severe cold has
been registered in northern Siberia
Than has been found near the pole.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Somebody has made the interesting
discovery that the blonde criminals
outnumber the brunettes who &c
wrong. II may be. however. that the
brunettes who bleach are counted as
blondes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Speaking OF Standard Oil politics.
Bryan's campaign treasurer appears
10 be fairly we'll creased himself, from
the days OF Calvin S. Brice down to
date.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The colleges Of the country turn out
$4,000 new lawyers every year. but
then the trust demand IS also big.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The Merry Widow says she knows
what it feels like when a wedding IS
"solemnized"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

II that Yellowstone park highway.
man who held up II coaches has a
head for business he will incorporate
in New Jersey.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The Clyde shipbulldIng yards pro
duced 500 vessels during 1907, as com.
pared with 372 the previous year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

That report about flies carrying
typhoid germs is true enough, though
some revengeful baldheaded man may
have started H.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

When money is tight, no one else
has an opportunity to be.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

The government is going to conduct
a sham battle for submarines, this
being one set OF maneuvers that won't
interfere with the farmers fences.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

Chewing gum, It is said, will prevent
seasickness. On the other hand, sea
sickness often serves the useful pur
pose OF preventing gum chewing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

New York slipper makers are about
10 go on strike, but the small boy will
no doubt be happy so long as the slip
per wearer doesn't
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

II man tells a woman she is pref
~, she believes him. II he tells her
the same thing about another woman,
she thinks he's Imaginative.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29
Lesson
of the
Faded
Leaf
By REV. W. C. BITING,
Detroit.

And shall we be saved?' This kin his con-
fsson for who there has not said the
same thing?
The true patriot is good citizen. Every person
land who amps justice dealing with another righteous
civil commercial realms who luxury whose
occupation degrading himself Others turning
green to brown The shfte and the idle rich
archst who wants law ALL the equally
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29
WhyCon-
SerVatiOn
Save the Waste;
Develop Our
Resources
BY CLIFFORD PINCHOT,
Forestry Department United States Dent of Ad,c,Iu

The conservation of natural resources has often
been taken to mean simply the prevention of waste
1t does the saving Of those resources which we
are now engaged in using, but this definition is too
narrow. The conservation of natural resources in
cudes both the prevention Of destruction and the pre-
vention Of waste from nonuse. Conservation means
development not less than saving
There two forms of waste: One is such as
takes nace i'm the desrnctnn of orr forests or thn
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29

,oI me Norman sailed bashfully into
s1oor half an hour later the uni
FORMS OF its crew evolling severe com
ment from the people on the nnav
Az lne same time, Mr.. Harry Bliss
walking along the road some ten noiIas
distant was trying to decide unon bis
future career his present caIIina ~" 80
81. snipwrecked sailor" being somewhat
loo hazardous even for his bold snirit
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
Make Autos PAY Toll.

A lady. writing for the Indianapo-
lis Daily News, about automobiles
that pass her country home, uses
some plain, but forcible, words in
venting her Indignation She says:
If our roads are to be made safe
for all sorts of travel, shall not the
automobile be made to pay for the i'm
provement? AS it is, the driver of
horses must keep out of the way; in
other words, he must get off his own
road. Monstrous unfairness! Inor-
dinate injustice! What a wonder
we submit to it. We have lot
OF laws supposed to govern the auto
mobile and all of them seem in favor
of the driver of horses. But who is
out on the road to enforce these laws,
and how helpless we are in the race
of the speeding machine
She makes the suggestion that we
put forth some weeks ago, that the
autos be made to pay toll" or taxes
to widen and improve the roads so
we can give them a wide berth and
nave oOAC onOW W IHdHdSc all GU
streperous horse or get out of the
way.
That plan may have to be taken
to allow both kinds of vehicles to use
the same roads. Have two roads
side by side, and require the auto
people to keep to one of them ex-
clusively, and pay for making it and
keeping it in repair. There would
be nothing unfair about that, to the
machine people at least.
If any reader has any feasible plan
to suggest that is better than this
we shall be pleased to hear it. The
auto is here to stay; how can we
best protect ourselves from it's en-
croachments and dangers? Indiana
Farmer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
One Of the
Essentials

ri the happy homes Of to-day is a vast
fund OF information as to the best methods
OF promoting health and happiness and
right living and knowledge of the worlds
best products
Products nj actual excellence and
reasonable claims truthfully presented
and which have attained TO worldwide
acceptance through the approval of the
Well Informed OF the World; not Of adi-
viduals only. but of the many WY. nave
the happy faculty Of selecting anc Z, tam
ing the best the world affords
One Of the products Of that class, Of
known component parts, an Ethical
remedy, approved by physicians and COM
mcnded by the Well-Informed Of the
Worldas valuable and wholesome family
laxative is the well-known Syrup OF Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA To get its beneficial
effects always buy the genuine, manu-
featured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by all leading druggists.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
WISE WORDS.

Some farmers are smaller potatoes
than they raise.
When money begins to talk people
sit up and take notice.
With the numerous courts in ses-
sion these are >trying times.
Jealousy is the trading stamp
given with each case of true love.
The MULTIPLICATION table doesn't
satisfy small boys hunger.
If a man doesn't care to be his
own boss he might as well marry.
Many a man receives cool treat
ment because of his shady reputation.
Lots of proud men take of their
hats when they meet an ultimatum.
Every widow who knows her busi-
ness knows when man means bust
ness.
Somehow compliment is pleasing
to woman even when she knows
it isn't sincere.
It's surprising how brave the aver
age man is when there isn't any real
danger in sight
There isn't much philosophy in a
man If it doesn't get busy when he
mas occasion to visit graveyard.
A girl will forgive a young man
quicker for kissing her against her
will than for not being interested
enough to try
When YOU are willing to go in
debt for things You don't need. Just
because your neighbor has them, it's
time to stop.
Cupid doesn't pay any attention
whatever to flag of truce.
How we enjoy meeting a man who
enjoys paying his debts!
A straight man goes lame when he
strays into crooked paths.
Some people can't stand prosperity
because it refuses to stand for them.
When an inspiration strikes a man
it's sign that he needs the money.
The odds are all against the woman
who marries for the purpose Of get
ting even.
She is indeed a homely woman
who can't make up to look pretty in
photograph.
Many man wakes up with a head
ache the next morning after his wife
goes away on visit.
When man is forced to eat crow
he Is apt to consider a bird in the
bush better than two in the hand.
A man never realizes how much
heroism there is missing from his
makeup until he is put to the test.
Although man may imagine that
he has married an angel he should
see that she stays near the ground
while testing her wings.-From
Pointed Paragraphs in the Chicago
News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
DROPPED COFFEE.
Doctor Gains 20 Pounds on Postum.

A physician of Wash. D. c., says Of
his coffee experience:
For years l suffered with period
tcal headaches which grew more fire.
quent until they became almost con-
slant. So severe were they that some
times ] was almost frantic. | was
sallow. constipated. irritable. sleep
less; my memory was poor. trembled
and my thoughts were often confused.
MY wife. in her wisdom, believed
coffee was responsible for these ills
and urged me to drop 1t. tried
many times to do so. but vas it's
slave
Finally wife bought a package of
Postum and persuaded me to try it,
but she made it same as ordinary
coffee and was Disguised with the
taste q make this emphatic be-
cause fear many others have had the
same experience. She was distressed
at her failure and we carefully read
the directions, made 1t right, boiled It
full Is minutes after boiling com
menced, and with good cream and
sugar, | liked tit invigorated and
seemed to nourish me.
That was about year ago. Now
have no headaches, am not sallow,
sleeplessness and irritability are gone,
my brain clear and my hand steady
have gained 20 lbs and feel am a
new man.
Il do not hesitate to give Postum
due credit or course dropping coffee
was the main thing, but had dropped
1t before. using chocolate, cocoa and
other things to no purpose.
Postum not only seemed to act as
an invigorant. but as an article of
nourishment, giving me the needed
phosphates and albumens This is no
Imaginary tale. 1t can be substantial
ed by my wife and her sicter, who
both changed to Postum and are
hearty women OF about 20.
Il write this for the information
and encouragement OF others, and
with feeling OF gratitude to the in
ventor of Postum"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. Read "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs There's Rea-
son."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. The,
are genuine, true, and full Of human
kptaxest.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
Pottery and Secrecy.

in the royal mandatory of pot
terry at Meissen, Saxony, the work
was formerly carried on with the ut
most secrecy to prevent the processes
from becoming known elsewhere. The
establishment was a complete fort
ress, the portcullis of which was not
raised day or night, no stranger be-
ing permitted to enter for any pur-
pose whatever. Every workman,
even the chief inspector, was sworn
to silence. This Injunction was for
mally repeated every month to the
superior officers employed. while the
workmen had constantly before their
eyes in large letters rne warning mot
to, BE Secret Unto Death" 1t was
well known that any person divulging
the process would be imprisoned for
life in the castle of Koenigstein. Even
the King himself when he took stran-
gers of distinction to visit the works
was enjoined to secrecy. One of the
foremen, however, escaped and assist
ed in establishing a mandatory in
Vienna, from which the secrets
spread all over Germany.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
Marian Life DYING.

A sadder interest attaches to such
existence; that it is. cosmically
speaking, soon to pass away. To our
eventual descendants life on Mars
will no longer be something to scan
and interpret. 1t will have lapsed
beyond the hope of study or recall.
Thus to us it takes on an added CLAM
our from the fact that /: has not long
to last. For the process that brought
it to its present pass must go on to
the bitter end, until the last spark of
Marian life goes out. The drying
up of the planet is certain to proceed
until its surface can support no life
at all. Slowly but surely time will
snuff It out. When the last ember
is thus extinguished, the planet will
roll dead world through space, its
evolutionary career forever ended
From Prof. Lowell's Proofs of Life
in Mars" in the Century.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
RUN OVER BY EXPRESS.

Nine coaches of an express train ON
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road, running at forty miles an hour,
passed over Julia Weigle, two years
Did, at Mayfair, ILL.,, without harming
a hair of the baby's head. She fell
under the train in an effort to rescue
her Teddy bear.
The little girl toddled across the.
racks while playing near her home.
Between the rails she dropped her
Teddy bear. She allowed it to lie
where it had fallen, while she sat
1own along the embankment to gath
or dandelions. Suddenly she heard
the Omaha express laundering to-
ward her down the track. She
scrambled to her feet and started to-
ward the track to rescue her play
thing. AS she was within foot of
The rail the train whizzed toward her.
The suction of the flying cars drew
The child under the train. James
Lewis, the engine driver, leaning
from his locomotive cab, saw the
oaby jerked under. He stopped his
engine four blocks further on, leaped
% the ground and ran back. At the
spot where he expected 10 find the
body he saw the little one sitting in
depression between the ties, the Ted
iy bear Rugged tightly to her breast.
New York Telegram.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
Self-Pruning by Trees.

Mr.. C. S. eager presents in the
Journal of the New York Botanical
Garden, some interesting facts about
the self-pruning of trees as observed
in the garden. In October the sap
ling poplars litter the ground about
them with branches, most of which
are two years old and bear winter
buds. The catalpa, the ailantus, the
horse-chestnut, the elm, the lilac, the
mulberry, the maple and seventeen
or eighteen other varieties of trees
have this habit of self-pruning. With
some, as the naples, it occurs in
spring or early summer; with others,
in the autumn. The purpose appears
to be to get rid of superfluous branch
es. The branches thus eliminated are
not dead to begin with, but die as
result of the pruning process. which
begins by the formation of an "ab-
session layer" or brittle zone, at
the base of the branch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
Professor MunSterberS
on "Trilby."

Science understands to-day that
the facts of hypnotism are in no way
more mysterious than those of any
other functions in the natural life
OF the mind. They are narrowly re-
lated to the experiences of absorbing
attention, vivid Imagination, and
obedient WILL and, on the other side,
to sleep and dreams and mental aber-
ration says Professor Munsterberg,
the Harvard psychologist, in an ar
ticle in McClure's, discussing "Hyp-
notism and Crime" He continues:
Il, perhaps, tell hypnotized man
that he is to give poison to the visi-
tor whom l shall call from the next
room. l have a sugar powder pre-
pared, and assure my man that the
powder is arsenic. | throw it into a
glass of water before his eyes, and
then 1 call my friend from the next
room. The hypnotized subject takes
the glass and offers it to the new
conner; you see how he hesitates and
perhaps trembles; but finally he over
comes his resistance and offers the
sugar water, which he takes for poi
son.
Experiment seems to prove that
all this is entirely possible, and past
hypnotic suggestion thus plays in
literature the convenient part of
secret agency for atrocious murder
as we'll as for Trilby's wonderful
singing.
I'm contradiction to all this.
have to confess that have my doubts
as to the purity of Trilby's hypnotic
singing, and l have more than doubts
yes, l feel practically sure-that
no real murder has ever been COM
mitted by an innocent man under the
influence of post-hypnotic suggestion.
1t is true, l have seen men killing
with paper daggers and poisoning
with white -four and shooting with
empty revolvers in the libraries of
nerve specialists or in laboratory
rooms, with doctors sitting by and
watching the performance; but
have never become convinced that
there did not remain in the mind of
the hypnotized background idea of
artif1ciality, and that this idea over
came the resistance which would be
prohibitive in actual life. To bring
absolute proof of this conviction is
hardly possible. since we cannot really
kill for the sake of experiment"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
Tuberculosis in Brazil.

The present number of deaths due
to consumption in Rio de Janeiro
and in Brazil generally explains the
extraordinary measures to be taken
by the Government against tubercu-
losis, according to the announced
plans. The tables of mortality of the
Federal district show that out OF
total of 1860 deaths in 1905, 1868
were due to pulmonary tuberculosis,
us compared with 2S7 from the
dreaded yellow fever. In 1906. out
of total of 1886 deaths 2649
were from tuberculosis. while in 1907
out of total of 13,014 deaths 1857
was the proportion. Therefore of all
deaths in Rio de Janeiro during these
years, one in five was due to con-
sumption, and that, too, in spite OF
the highly commendable work done
by the League Against tuberculosis
whose efficacy Is already shown in
the slightly decreased record for the
past two years. What systematic
work in sanitation can do. however.
is shown by the totals of deaths given
in the case of yellow fever. In the
latter disease the deaths in 1905
were 2S7, in 1906 AZ. and in 1907
SO. The disease is stamped out, so
far as the general public in Rio de
Janeiro is concerned. the few cases
noted arising in out-of-the-way places
and being so well guarded and pur.
sued that all danger of epidemic un.
der present regulations is done away
with.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
A BIOLOGICAL PARTY.

A pencil together with card num-
bered according to the guests present
is given each one. A slip containing
a number and the name of an animal
is also given each guest. One at a
time they go to blackboard hanging
on the wall, and draw the animal for
which the card calls. The others
write on their cards, opposite the
number, the name of the animal they
think represented. At the close each
marks his neighbours card as the host
reads the correct answers A book
may be given the one having the
nearest correct list.
At the supper following. minia-
ture Noah's Ark might form the CEN
trepiece, around which toy and candy
animals should be grouped in profu-
sion. Ribbons should run from the
ark to each cover, where tiny teddy
bear should mark the ladies' places,
and candy horse the gentlemen s.
Woman's Home Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
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CARBREAKERS TRAPPED.

Cumberland Is p eel a D.-Jacob
Marsage. William O'Connell, John
Cushmyer. John Corners and Mike
Bell. who gave their residences as
Pittsburg, broke the seal and entered
loaded freight car at Meyersdale,
Pa.
The conductor and the brakeman
quickly shut and fastened the door,
and when the train reached Cumber-
land the carbreakers were arrested
and placed in jail. 1t is thought
this is one of the gangs that has
been looting cars for sometime, and
they will likely be turned over to the
Pennsylvania authorities.