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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

Hip-pockets must go. The habit
or carrying concealed and deadly
weapons has been often, and Justly.
condemned. But when a gentleman
in weapon-bearing community goes
about with empty pockets concealed
under his coat tails, and in other
suspicious places he dallies with
death by giving provocation. without
being able to defend himself The
gestures of the man with pockets
in his clothes are too often mis-
taken and quite frequently he runs
up an embalmer's bill for his family
before his armed Wis a Wis finds out
that he has erred in Interpreting a
movement of the pistol hand
Louisville Courier-JournaI
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

The Republicans and anti-Beck-
nam Democrats of the Kentucky leg
islature combined Friday for an adj
Journment till Monday. How long
VIII it be till they combine for the
election of a United States senator?
Columbus Dispatch.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

hattesburg bank cashier who
gave robbers the combination of his
safe while walking in his sleep will
probably wake wake up when he
hnds another cashier on the lob
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24
SC|SSORRINCTU s

Baltimore is making a noise like
wanting an exposition Hasn't il
heard about that Norfolk affair yetg
kentuky has a man whose heart
IS in his stomach. This is not such
popularity Married women say
that a mans stomach is his heart.
An earnest appeal for your sup
port IS solicited, declares a West
Virginia candidate for sheriff in his
public announcement. He ought TO
get 1t.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

Entered as second class matter
April 9Th, 1906, at the Post office
at Blueheld. w. Va, under act Of
Congress, March 3rd, 1879.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

New Jerseys reverence for the law
Is something imposing A husband
who knocked down man who in
suited his wife has been fined $75.
You must respect the law" said
me justice who assessed the penal
ty.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

The Tillman pitchfork will not
nave lived in vain if it succeeds I'm
prying open the real truth of Cortcl-
You and the New York banks.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24

The man who talked the most
about the trouble he was having in
getting cash out of the banks is still
having the same trouble. You see
the banks insist that h. must put
some money in first.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

II he could buy a low-priced molasses
and could make an amalgam of mo
iasses and sawdust and ADVERTISE II 40
the only nutritious food, good alike
Tor brain, Drawn, cuticle, and hair
ne could make a fortune in a month
or two.
So he called in an adyertisinp man
and put him on a princely salary a.
once, and said:
G ahead. Advertise sord Trst IN
any way you like, as long as Won ,at
n peoples attention"
Now, the advertising man was
genius and he said to himself; oIs 7
advertise this thing a little in everv
paper people will only think a rtt,o
OF 1t, but If 1 bend all nv ENERGIES
on n paper, and that a very ,mno%
tan one, and advertise II tbono
uniquely for a month or Sc. tho 80
oddity of the thing will attract atto.
ton" @''en-
SO he vent to the office of the Do,,,.
Howler and said: Hy
4 want to buy every page in vor-
paper for advertising purposes .
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23
Railroad to Mecca
IDAHO

n0tlTOdO 70 MCCCds
Announcement has lately been made
that tho railway from Damascus to
Mecca will be completed as far as
Medina on September 1, and that in
two years more the remaining 300
miles to Mecca will be ready for use.
This is one of the most remarkable
railroads in the world. Some, If not
all, the money for its construction has
been contributed by Mussulmans In
British India and In Africa, as we'll as
In Turkey, and 1t is regarded by them
as a religious enterprise. 1t is intend
ed to make easier the pilgrimage to
the holy city. The religious motive
has not only led the faithful In various
parts of the world to contribute
money for the railroad, but, stranger
still, 1t has led the Turkish officials
and contractors engaged in the actual
work OF construction to abstain from
their usual practices Of dishonesty,
which In America are In a general
way called grating The road runs
through a waterless desert for long
distances, and in these parts has not
cost, including rolling-stock, more
than $4,000 a mile. The best record
made in track-laying is two and three
quarter miles in a day. Arrangements
are already making in Medina to cele-
brate the entrance OF the new o
into the city. While 1t is a religious
enterprise to the Mussulmans, the rest
OF the world is aware that 1t has
great political value to the Turkish
sultan, for 1t will make 1t easier for
him to control Arabia by sending
troops there quickly. and 1t will also
afford an easy route for dispatching
an army to the Egyptian frontier In
case he should think. it desirable to
assist the Egyptians in any effort to
throw off British rule.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23
American
Parents
and Their
Children
By HON. FRANK LEVERONI,
Associate Jusics, JuvsnIIe Court, Boston.

W
obey without questioning, and this custom is reflected in the relations Of
parents and children.
In this country even the latest corners seem to divine that here ia q
place where one may ask questions and where certain kinds of commands
are ooeyeu only 0 reasons explained. That spirit, we may be sure, can be
carried TOO far, but it is essentially what we learn to associate with de-
m0cracy The government is the peoples; everybody is a part of the
government and nobody is the whole of it.
1t seems to me that the child, being more impressionable and mora
receptive than the adult, having a more lively imagination and a lesser
Willingness to endure restraint, would reflect in it's ideas and conduct this
spirit OF democratic independence. The parent also must feel the ouick-
emng' melting influence of the doctrines of equality and freedom, and the
spirit OF authority naturally suffers in consequence.
IL s true that many parents are overindulgent and that manv chill
dren show the effects of indulgence who would be without fault if subiecf-
ed to even moderate restraint and control.
Education of the parent is very important IS an influence to rMv
upon for correction of this condition. Discipline of the child onobt f. he
more systematic, and l agree with DR.. G. Stanley Halls statement TO
the extent that | think a great deal of time and labor is wasted in irving
to affect by moral suasion children who could be almost immedio+ou m9
permanently set straight by a good whipping.
Love and fear are two powerful sentiments. Thew arr invokad oon
stanuy by nature, never singly and quite universally in combination e.
correct and direct her maturer children,
and it is important that the combination
should be employed judicously in the
control of juveniles. 0[A2e~& %RH$A6T&<s
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

And the business manager fold him
1t couldn't be done.
So the advertising man showed him
what a large check he could write
and then the business said n
was possible, and the next dav Mr.
Man had every page in the DAILY
Howler. There was not a murder. NOT
a olt Oh editorial speculation. not a
thlng OF any sort in the paper. excent
tne name and the date and the sinh.
scription price.
And OF course there was mo advar.
usement And that piqued curiosity
wen, this thing happened next dav
ana tne next, and then on the editorial
page was printed in very small letters.
TRY SORD UsT
NOW o may well believe that sinh.
Orders began to rush in, for here was
a paper that could be introduced into
1ae most bigoted home in the land
mere were no tiresome politics IN A..
Sord Ust. ns Dut
0y one said 1t was the ~cleanest
that had ever been issued AND
more and more people subscribed 70
IT. It got to be quite a fad To he
sure, the subscribers did O know
"nat was going on in the world excent
NY hearsay, but they had that mncb
ume Tor other things, and thew wera
consequently, far happier, and read,
ing about no murders or steamsbin
trusts or presidential possibilities
.ney finally came to the conclusion
mat tne millennium was at hand.
But of course, the thing that mado
ehe most impression on them was this
oora ust. They began to inouira. for
u In the stores and they found that
10 one Kept 1t. No one had ever
a Of it. 1t was impossible 70 hnv
a oox of it anywhere because The
elever advertising man had given or
uers TO his employer to refuse to sell
1or al least six months.
People did not even know wbe,ber
u was a new kind Of soa or a break.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

Q a ralroader-s t JUS. that she be given a vote on matters that involve
uese activities! The national government, of course, both in the United
states n IN England, is concerned in all of these things, and this gov
eminent IS maintained by the votes of the male portion of the population,
"mcn u indirectly decides on the army, the navy, the railroads and the
scores Oh material interests in which women cannot bv nature take an
active part.
But there are other questions, questions of an educational nature and
on 'nese l oeneVe women should be permitted to vote. The schools, the
nosP1al' INC chartles--to mention the most obvious-of a city O a ma
uon III IN the control of the government, and yet women have lust as
much OF a responsible interest in these matters al men. 1t would seem TO
De o' uSt' therefore, that they should be allowed to vote on them. In
LONDON, happily, within the past two years women have gained the right
to vote on the county councils.
Womans sphere should not be limited more than the physical hmita-
~. mpoSea ny naur l believe IN women entering a many fields of
activity as she proftably can. Her first sphere of activity of course 10 Tho
lamlN the nome. But where that is denied her, why should she not turn
her attention to other duties, duties that in the old "hearth and bomeu
in the worlds work?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23
Value of PsychIcaI Research.

Why should not psychical investi.
cation lead to practical results, asks
Sir Oliver Lodge, F. r. s., in the.
World To-Day. Are we satisfied with
the preaching of chaplains. That is
as civilized people content to grow a
perennial class of habitual criminals,
and to keep them In check only by de-
vices appropriate to savages; hunting
them, fogging them, locking them up,
discriminating them? 1t is unwise and
u%nscientifc to leave prisoners merely
to the discipline of wardens and to
the preaching of chaplains. That is
not the way to attack a disease of the
body polite. / have no full-blown
treatment to suggest, but 1 foresee
that there will be one In the future.
Society will not be content always TO
pursue these methods of barbarism;
the of civilization are not
really exhausted. though for cen
turtles they have appeared to be. The
criminal demands careful study on the
psychical side, and remedy or pallia-
ito will be a direct outcome of one
aspect OF u researches. The infu-
ence of the unconscious or subliminal
self, the power of suggestion, the in
huence of n mind over another, the
phenomena of so-called possession"
these are not academic or scientific
facts alone; they have a deep practi-
cal bearing. and sooner or later It
must be put to the proof.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23
Copyright, by opIe Read,)

fast food, or the latest thing in stove
polish.
What was the result? Why, people
were mad to get 1t. They would have
1t. The very idea that in a free coun-
try they were not allowed to buy any
thing they wanted! Was this Maine
with a prohibitive law on something
the people really wanted?
And all this time the editor of the
Daily Howler kept on increasing his
edition, and all the time Mr.. Wise
went on buying sawdust and cheap
molasses until he had a whole county
In northern New York heaped high
with 1t and five large mills hard at
work COMPRISING it into cakes.
And at last, seemingly on account Of
the pressure of public opinion, but
really because the advertising man
said it was high time, Mr.. Wise put
an advertisement on the first page Of
the Daily Howler to the effect that
Sord Ust was a breakfast food, and
that all you need do to it was to pour
a little hot milk on it.; and if your
grocer wouldn't get it for you change
your grocer at once!
Vas it a success?
Well, I guess.
Why, they had one long freight train
stretched from the mills to New York,
moving all the time on a special track
and as fast as a car was unloaded at
the Manhattan end a car was filled at
the other end.
Motive power? Electricity, of course.
And the mar became a millionaire
ten times over before the year was
up and before the Sord Ust had kicked
up any racket in the insides of the
populace.
And now the advertising man be-
gan to advertise in all the papers, and
the Daily Howler came before It's
millions of subscribers with murders
and editorials once more, and they
after their long fast, were only TOO
glad to learn that the world was not
as good as they had suspected, ana
the Daily Howler was a bigger sue
cess than ever.
But the editor had got the tip, ana
he didn't use Sord Ust on his nome
menu.
And he's alive yet.
Copyright. by James Pott q CO..
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

Apropos Of its bargain list" a
firm Of manufacturers that
It recently sold "a 1907 secondhand
automobile" to the vice-president of
n of the largest transcontlnental
lines; another to the president of a
national bank; a third to a prominent
real estate dealer; another to a ia.
nous Wall street operator; n to a
well-known and popular man of leis.
ure; another to the president of a
great commercial enterprise. and yet
another to a noted corporation attor.
ney. This is a class of buyers" it is
added, who in the past would not
consider any but a new car" Perhaps
the reason is not far to seek. They
are not the only persons who are
economizing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

Col. Shang w. Mowlett, the editor
81 the country paper, while out for a
day among his subscribers, halted at
the house Of old Limuel Jucklin. He
had time to stop only a few moments,
he said; a delinquent tax list demand
ed his attention at home, and as his
patent side" had not as yet been re-
claimed from the merciless nav of
the express office, nothing toward the
printing of his ext number could be
done until after his return to town.
And after sitting a long time 1t
seemed as II he were about to go. He
took up his hat and had made a mo-
ton to put 1t on his head when his at
tention was seized upon by the rattle
of dishes in the dining-room, just
across the broad passageway in the
north section Of the old log house. 1t
is of no doubt that the embryo crow
ing of a half-feathered dominecker
a appealed to the scribe to break
his journey in the hope of breaking
his fast at the house of his constant
reader" and as he drove into the
yard he was cen to cock his eye at
a Plymouth Rock pullet.
But as the hours wore hungrily
along he saw no signs of dinner. In
no seeming fear of danger the chick
ems walked about the yard. And from
the window, where a perfumed breeze
murmured music amid the tendrils of
a trumpet vine, the editor looked
across a corner of the garden into a
lot where in the sunshine sucking
pigs, just big enough, if roasted, to
hold crab apples in their mouths,
were tumbling over one another.
Not with an extra effort of memory
was 1t that the newspaper man re-
called the fact that his pre-daylight
breakfast had consisted mainly of sod
den cakes and extreme hurry. 1t was
fresh in his mind as he heard the not
rack, pot rack" of a guinea hen. But
with the air of vital concern he talked
on the condition of the country and of
foreign probabilities. He didn't load
down his speculative mind with what
had taken place. That would have
been a matter of mere industry. It
lay within the keen province of his
vision to discover what might be done
If such and such should happen. If a
certain prime minister should resign,
or If the emperor should so far forget
himself as to say so and so in his
coming speech, why it was clear that
this, that and the other would hap.
pen. And old Linn agreed that it was
no doubt true.
The sun lost its balance and slipped
over into the afternoon, the waving
vine at the window sifted a softer
light, and still there was no call from
pot OF pan. So, at last, the editor
arose and was about to put his hat on
his head when there came from the
dining-room the rattle of dishes.
Then he hesitated, turned about as If
ne had just thought of a wise thing
to say, and sat down.
Il reckon a cat must have run owe
the table," said old Linn, and Shang
w. Mowlett's heart beat low in de-
spair.
Sorry, colonel, you didn't come a
little earlier. Reckon you seen some
of them pigs out there. Had one of
their brothers roasted to a fall of the
year brown, and" The editor !
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

| grabbed out his handkerchief and
wiped his mouth. Old Linn continued:
"And l had some early rose potatoes
as p~ink-eyed as one of these-these
Albumins-is that what you call 'em?'
"Albinos,' drawled the editor.
Eyes, that's it; seen one in the side
show when the cirkis come to Purdy.
And I had some of the best corn bread
/ reckon you ever saw-made out of
this pearl corn. Hard! Why, you
could have a grain of 1t set and wear
it for a breastpin. Along with 1t all,
too, was a yaller pitcher full of but
termilk brought from the spring
house, and"
I've got to CO." the editor ex-
claimed, jumping up and clapping his
hat on his head.
wait a mint and let me tell you
about it. Set down." and the old man
showed the editor back into his chair.
And l do reckon ! had some of the
best sparrar grass that aver crowd
outen the ground, and these little
brownish redishes that look like a
~rusty-coat apple. Haungry! Why,
colonel, l never was haungryer in my
life. And Susan, my wife, she kept of
a sayin', DO have another help to the
pig and-well, l eat enough to last
me for a week. ! reckon you are that
way, too. Folks must bring you thou
sands Of things-these here women
that write; don't care much for suthin'
to eat themselves and fetch 1t to you.
You may not make as much money as
a county jedge, but l take it you live
off'n the fat of the land. So you think
that If this here prime preacher re-
signs
prime minister" muttered the
editor.
"Ah, hah. And you think If he re-
signs and the emperor ketches cold
and sneezes before breakfast there's
likely to be rain in northwest town
ship, range east. Looks that way to
me, too; and l reckon I'll have to
make my PREPARATIONS accordin'. But,
speakin' of breakfast there amt
nothin' nicer, to my notion, than a
piece of roasted pig, with the brown
crust on it, Drilled on the Goals. Oh,
hear of folks that for breakfast eat
milk and doll s%tuf1n', but that
don't touch the spot where l live. Now
a right nice yaller-leg chicken, a
leetle more than half grown, snatched
of'n the face of the earth and fried
before he knows what's the matter
with him-he's some, l want to tell
you. Made up your mind yit as to
who is to be the mex president? But
| reckon you've been so busy YOU
haint paid much attention to it. This
here social life, too, keeps you on the
trot a good deal, 1 reckon. And din
ners, too; you have to go to them;
n they eat dinners now in the night.
I'm told. like 'em best when the
sun gifts Jest about as high as it kin.
but the time don't make SO much diff
ference as what they have to eat.
Sorry my wife amt at home. She
could skeer up a bite for you. She
got my dinner as quick as she could
n hurried over to one of the neigh.
bors, where the old maid school teach.
amt expected to live till shutdown.
Nearly all the women folks in the
neighborhood are f1ockin' over there.
and l reckon they'll have a good time
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-23

1t is pleasant to hear OF the bravery
and unselhshness of American sailors
even in time of peace. when they are
supposed to have little to do outside of
routine duty. Rear Admiral Evans.
commander of the battleship feet, re-
ports to the naval authorities at Wash.
ington the highly commendable n
duct of four seamen while at Punta
Arenas, Chile. This consisted of en-.
tering, at great personal risk. a boat
that was leaking badly and proceed
ing to tbs rescue of two midshipmen
who had been thrown into the water
by the capsizing of a dingy and were
In Imminent danger Of drowning. But
n Yankee sailor is always cool
headed, resourceful aud dependable.