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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

full efforts of Mr.. Plckering's allies ia
assassinate me, as a mild form OF elm
nation, one would naturally expect me
to sit calmly down and wait to be shot
in the back. But you may tell Mr..
Pickering that | throw myself upon
your mercy. | have no other home
than this shell over the way, n |
beg to be allowed to remain until-at
least-the bluebirds come"
Il quite sympathize with your re-
luctance to deliver the message your
self" she said. rs this all you came
to say?"
Il came to tell you that you could
have the house, and everything in its
hideous walls" l snapped; ito tell you
that my chiyalry Is enough for some
situations and that / don't intend to
light a woman. l had accepted your
own announcement of the legacy in
good part, but now, please believe me
II shall be yours tomorrow. I'll WELD
possession to you whenever YOU ask
it,-but never to Arthur Pickeringl AS
against him and his Observation-Disclosures
n assassins l will hold out for a
dozen years."
"Nobly spoken, Mr.. Glenarm! Yours
is really an admirable, though some
what complex character"
My character is my own, whatever
it is" blurted.
Il shouldn't call that a debatable
proposition, she replied, and l was an
cry to find how the mirth / had loved
in her could suddenly become SO hate
full. She half-turned away so that
might not see her face. The thought
she should countenance Picker
Ing in any way tore me with Jealous
MI. Glenarm, you are what 1 have
heard called a gutter, defined in COM
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
CHAPTER XXI.
The Door of BewIIderment.

me Door OF beWilderment.
We had established the practice OF
barring all the gates and doors al
nightfall. There was no way of guard.
ing against an attack from the lake
whose frozen surface increased the
danger from without; but we counte
on our night patrol to prevent a sur.
prise from that quarter. | was well
aware that must prepare to resist the
militant arm of the law, which Picker
ing would nc doubt invoke to aid him
but intended to exhaust the possibilI
ties in searching for the lost treasuI
before | yielded. Pickering might. II
he would, transfer the estate of Johr
Marshall Glenarm to Marian Devereu,
and make the most he could of tina.
service, but he should not drive m,
forth until l had satisfied myself of thu
exact character of my grandfather,
fortune.
The phrase, "The Door of Bewl1der
ment," had never ceased to reiteratt
itself in my mind; there was a certain
fascination and charm in it. We dis
cussed a thousand explanations of II
as we pondered owe the scrap of paper
| had found in the library, and every
book in the house was examined ir
the search for further clews.
The passage between the house anG
the chapel seemed to fascinate Larry
held that 1t must have some par
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Spells of Couohino.
STUDY NOT A NECESSITY.
End and Aim of Woman's Life, as Un-
derstood by Rosie's Mother.

In one Of the Philadelphia public
schools is a little girl pupil whose an.
cestors and coreligionists have ever
held that the principal end and aim of
the life of a oma is marriage. This
little girl is well up in most of her
studies, but she has an inveterate dis.
k of geography and it seems impos-
slole to teach the study to her. The
other day her teacher, made impatient
by her seeming unwillingness to learn
her geography lesson, sent to Rosie's
mother a note requesting her to see
that the girl studied her lesson. The
next day showed no Improvement
however, and the teacher asked Rosie
whether she had delivered the note.
Yes, ma'am," was the reply.
And did your mother read the
note, Rosie" said the teacher.
Yes, mann"
What did she say?"
MY mother said that she didn't
know geography, an she got married
an my aunt didn't know geogranbv
an she got married, an YOU know
geography, an you didn't get mar.
ried." ~ mar
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Used cannon" to commit suloide

Oseu cannon" to Commit Suicide,
A Norwich, Norfolk, Eng, black.
smith named Robert Want was found
dead in bed at his house, a few DAYS
ago, having apparently committed sui.
eide by means of a home made can
non. A loud report was heard one
morning, and neighbors who rushed
in found the bedroom filed with
smoke and noticed a strong smell of
gunpowder. Want lay dead in bed
with n side of the face blown away.
At the foot of the bed was a niece
of gas-piping, IS inches long. which
had beer made into a annon One
end had been welded up and a touch.
hole bored. Want must have filled the
tube with gunpowder, and as he Law
IN bed held the weapon in one hand
While he put a light to the ~touch-hole
with the other. The recoil threw the
cannon out of his hand to the foot of
the bed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

ticular use and he devoted his time Il
exploring it.
He came up at noon-it was the 29tl
OF December-with grimy face an,
lands and a grin on his face. I hat
spent my morning in the towers to M
purpose and was in no mood for tb,
ready acceptance of new theories.
I've found something" he said, fill
ing his pipe.
Not soap, evidently"
mo, but I'm going to say the las,
word on the tunnel, and within ar
hour. Give me a glass of beer and 8
piece of bread, and We'll go back anc
see whether we're sold again or not"
Go ahead and let us be done with
1t. Wait till l tell Stoddard where
we're going"
The chaplain was trying the SECOND
moor walls, and l asked him to ca.
some luncheon and stand guard while
Larry and | went to the tunnel.
We took with us an iron bar. an az
n a couple of hammers. Larry went
ahead with a lantern.
You see," he explained. as We
dropped through the trap into the mas
sage, I've tried a compass ON This
tunnel and find that we've been worl,
ing on the wrong theory. The passage
itself runs a straight line from the
house under the gate to the crypt: the
ravine is a rough crescent-shape anc
for a short distance the tunnel touches
1t. How deep does that rayine aver
age-about 80 feet?"
Yes; it's shallowest where tbe
stands. 1t drops sharply from
there on to the lake"
Very good; but the ravine is all on
the Glenarm side of the wall, isn't ~
Now when we get under the wall TN
show o something"
Here we are" said Larry, as the
cold air blew in through the hollow
posts. Nov We're pretty near that
sharp curve of the ravine that dips
away from the wall. Take the lantern
while get out the compass. What do
you think that c on the piece Of paner
means? Why, chapel, of course. I
measured the distance from the
mousse the point of departure, we NAV
assume, to the chapel, and three.
of it brings us under those
posts. The directions are
as plain as daylight, The passage il.
self Is your N. W., as the compass
proves, and the ravine cuts close in
here; therefore, our business is to ex.
plore the wall on the ravine side."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

mon Americanese as one who quits
Your clustering can hardly conceal the
fact OF your failures. l had hoped you
would really be of some help to Sister
Theresa, and incidentally to me, but
we both sadly m~isjudged you"
Her tone, changing from amused in
d1fference to severest disdain. stung
me into self-pity for my stupidity in
having sought her. My anger was not
against her, but against Pickering, who
mad persuaded myself, always
blocked my path. She went on.
Mr. Pickering is decidedly more
than a match for wou, Mr.. Glenarm.-
even in humor."
she drew herself up with tragic
scorn in every line of her figure. then
relaxed, laughed and was Olivia again:
and as watched ACKNOWLEDGING. per-
picked, chagrined,-she turned swiftly
away and RAM am sure she ran
from the room.
she left me so quickly, so softly,
That stood staring like a fool at the
spot where she had been, and then l
went gloomily back to Glenarm House
angry, ashamed and crestfallen.
While we were waiting for dinner /
made a clean breast of my acquaint-
ance with her to Larry, emitting moth
ing,-rejoicIng even to paint my own
conduct as black as possible.
You may remember her" l con
cluded,-"she was the girl we saw at
Sherry's that night we dined there.
She was with Pickering, and you no
ticed her,-spoke of her, as she went
out?"
THAI little girl who seemed so
bored, or tired or sick? Bless me.
why her eyes haunted me for DAYS.
Lord, man, do you mean to say"
A look of utter scorn came into his
face. and he eyed me contemptuously.
"of course | mean i'll" | Numbered
at him.
He took the pipe from his mouth.
pressed the tobacco viclously into the
bowl, and swore steadily in Gaelic un-
was ready to choke him.
"Stop!" | bawled. do you think
that's helping me? And to have YOU
curse IN your blackguardly Irish dia-
lect! | wanted a little Anglo.Saxon
sympathy, you fool! 1 didn't mean for
you to invoke FOUR infamous gods
against the grill"
Don't be violent, lad. Violence is
re~prehensible," he admonished with
maddening sweetness and patience.
What | was trying to intimate very
was the fact, borne in upon me
through year of acquaintance, that
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

would wheeze and have SPELLS ofoou.
ing that would sometimes last fos
half hour. "r a
Now wecan eve thank you enouob
Tor the change you have made in 60
little ones health. Before She bagan
taking your Peruna she suffered evesrr'
thing in the way of cough. colds ana
Group, but now she has taken not nnita
a oottIe OF Peruna, and is WeHandsfrono
as she has ever been in her life"
Pe-ru-na for Colds.
Mr.. James Morrison, IS East 10th ST
Paterson, N. j., writes: ~
IL nave given Peruna a fair trial. and
[ find it to be just what Won claim II
to be. cannot praise it too hiphlv, 7
have used two bottles in my family for
colds, and everything imaginable. I
can safelySay that your medicine is the
best have ever used"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

clothing. """S projected by
They start out perhaps in the heat of the day and do not feel the n,
wraps NN 'e need Of
The rapid moving of the car cos the body unduly. When they hoard, A.
car perhaps they are slightly pesprng. When the body is in This n CO.. E Tu the
easily chilled. This is especially true when a person is sting "tHoh 1t Is
Beginning a street car ride in the middle of the dv' and ond,. =.
evening almost invariably requires extra wraps, but people 10 not Io, ~ IN The
precautions, hence they catch cold. Nv" oo'iFe these
Colds are very frequent in the Spring on this account and as +o c.
advances they do not decrease. During the Spring months M - summer
think of riding n the car without being provided with n wran ' "e should
A cold caught in. the Spring is liable to last through The entire g.
Urea treat aNh Slou De oosefVed at TINS season, against exposure to cold Dwy.
he hBt few, pleasant days of Spring, the liability of catching cod s pWng
Eases during this season.. "u catarrhal dis
However, IN spite of the greatest precautions colds will he cauI+
AT the appearance of the first symptom, Perma should he fatan .u-r
to directions on the bottle, and continued until every SUMMON dnu 0Wuhg
DO not put it off. Do not waste time by taking other rernedEass p
once to take Peruna and continue taking it until yu espoitiw fL+ Pm az
mas entirely disappeared. This may save you a long and perhaps seTo, sT geed
later OF. PPS 8Wus illness
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Too Free snesch

The allegations made during a triar
LOT Dlasphemy" raises the whole cues
Iion OF courtesy and kindness in NH
tic discussion. Ridicule and sarcasm
are permissible, and effective weapons
IN debate, but mere vulgarity and
abuse or ~irreverence in dealing with
SUBJECTS that are sacred to others. are
hot TO be COMPOUNDED with free speech
and cannot be tolerated. Tiovd,s
(Eng.) News. .
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Greatly Relieved.

The old farmer imagined himself to
be a sick man.
Il feel terrible, doc he sighed as
he glanced at his tongue in the mirror
oh, you are only suffering from
ennui'" said the doctor, briskly. Cut
it out"
Thank you, doc"
For what?"
For telling me to cut the ennui ont
thought you would cut it out vour.
self and send me in a bill for five bnn.
bred"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

you are,--to be bold, my, lad, to be
bold,-a good deal of a damned fool"
The thrilling of his RS was like the
whirring rise of a covey of quail.
Dinner is served" announced Bates.
and Larry led the way, mockingJy
chanting an Irish l~ove-song.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Fastldious.

When a New York fireman answer
ing an alarm attempted to enter =
Firth avenue mansion, he was -
quested to wipe his feet.
NO doubt he is glad the bpt,o,
wasn't fastidious enough to ordeD sne
Dealer. ram
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Better still

OF course she said, in a tone
redolent with sarcasm, 81 am the erst
girl o ever loved?"
OF course, you are not" answered.
the truthful young man, but Won are
the last" "'
And being a wise maid, she let Il
so at that. "
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Bad Effects From Cold.

Mr.. M. j. Deutsch, Secretary Building
Material Trades Council, 151 Washing
ton St., Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
81 have found your medicine to be
unusually etficacious in getting rid of
bad effects from cold, and more D
cially in driving away all symptoms of
catarrh, with which l am frequently
troubled.
"The relief Peruna giVeSin catarrhal
troubles alone is well worth the price
per bottle. | have used the remedy for
several years now"
Spells of Coughing.
Mrs. G. E. Long, writes from Atwood,
Colorado, as follows:
when l wrote you for advice my
little thr~ee-year-old girl had a cough
that had been troubling her for four
months. She took cold easily, and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
Important to Mnthar0

1enuine greatness is marked bv
simplicity, observation-disclosures self.
loLsettulness a hearty interest IN
otners' a feeling of brotherhood with
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09
THE

He-Farewell! Farewell, 1 said
thou jade!!!
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-12-15

vestigation shows that SO per cent OF
the foremen and overseers in manufac-
turing enterprises in New York State
were educated in Europe.
Of our total bread winners only
per cent are in the professions and
in the public service-the other 96
per cent would be Immediately benefit
ed by industrial education. Our back
wardness in this regard is phenomenal.
For it is true that the American
people, until now, have not appreciated
the superlative value of the most eff
cient instrument in international COM
petition: system of thorough indus
trial and technical education.
In the Commissioner of Labor's re-
port we are told that special trade
and technical schools have been
judged, both in this country and
abroad, as the most efficient means
of promoting the growth of industry
and the Improvement of product Man
ufacturers everywhere are turning to
the study of industrial education-no
longer with any question as to it's
value, but merely as to the best means
and methods"
Doctor Draper gives credit to the
OLnor imam regular 1uuuSCrldl SCuOOIS
in this: private business colleges,
which for profit have undertaken to
train pupils in simple mathematics,
business forms and the like, have been
a great help to many for long time.
Several of the Young Mems Christian
Associations have established schools
of this character and some of them are
beginning to include trade schools in
their scheme. Correspondence schools
have attracted thousands Of students
and developed the existence of wide
spread desire for self-improvement."
Germany and Japan are living exam
pies of what has been accomplished for
the world, both in peace and war, by
him who studies, first industrially
and then technically, to accomplish
the material things of life.
Industrial education accomplishes, as
Person states, three things: 1t raises
the average of intelligence; 1t devel-
ops specialized labor; it offers an op-
| portunity for genius.
Our theories of education are obso-
lete-our practices are wasteful. The
ory is the grave of all progress. The
cry is for men and women who can
do things. Let America supply these
men.
An address was also made by Con
gresham Charles r. Davis, or Min
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-12-15

National
off, rural schools President b. 6rS
in and
schools
to
Of
without
country
economy
fetered by techncat In their
that have been made with
to h generation
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-12-15

best means of promoting social eff
cheney.
The most democratic institution in
democratic America is the public
school, Here are trained for the du-
ties of life, for their contribution to
the social ideals, the children OF rich
and poor, lettered and unlettered, lei
sure class and worker, wage Garner
and salary earner-aH alike. And so,
to our public schools which reach the
great masses of the people, rather
than to our chronological and engi-
neering schools which reach very
small per cent of our people, must
this Society look for the promotion OF
it's great work.
DR.. Thomas NJ Ballet, Dean of the
School of Pedagogy of New York Uni
versity, said:
So far as the elementary schools
(apart from special vocational schools)
are concerned, the following forms or
vocational and industrial training are
possible: cooking and sewing; manual
training for all through the entire
course: drawing, color work, design
and the elements of industrial art for
all. The closest possible co-ordina-
ton between the drawing and manual
training should be made.
In manual training mere exercises
should be eliminated and projects,
which appeal to the interest OF chill
.dren. made. The teacher may be in
terested in the exercises involved In
the projects" the pupil is Interested
solely in the thing made. When chill
dren make things which they are not
even willing to SELL then manual train
ing for them is industrial education.
The product has high value to them'
although it may have no market value.
Manual training of unis kind appeals
most strongly to children's interest,
forms a natural transition to strlctly
vocational industrial training, and
forms the broader training on whicn
specialization in vocational training
should be based. 1t bears the same
relation to the latter as liberal edu-
cation does to professional training
in the higher institutions OF learning.
Special vocational schools should
also be provided which would take the
pupils at the age Of twelve, regardless
of the grade to which they belong In
school, and give them a four years
course fitting them for some trade or
vocation. Most communities will not
be ready for several years or more TO
undertake the establishment or this
type of schools although several cit
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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
BY w. J. Spillman.

Some people are scared about intro
ducing agriculture into the public
schools. They are afraid it is cheap
and a thing that will cheat the boys
and girls out of an opportunity to
get an education. l am confident they
are mistaken in this. When agricul-
ture is properly taught it is fully DEM
onstrated that it has as high educa-
tional value as any subject taught in
the schools.
The fact is that while only 40 per
cent of our population actually lives
on the farm, this 40 per cent furnishes
70 per cent of the leaders in every line
of endeavor in this country and is itself
a refutation of the charge that agri-
culture is cheap thing from an agri-
cultural standpoint. Farm work itself
intelligently done has higher value in
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developing efficiency and economic
ability than any subject now taught In
the schools. The worst trouble with
farming is that so many farmers I'M
derstand so little of the principles
involved in their work that farming
to them is mere drudgery, but when
the subject is properly taught and the
farmer learns the wonderful principles
which control the results of his opera
tions farming becomes in a sense an
intellectual operation and the work be-
comes a delight. A small boy put to
pulling weeds in a small garden suffers
both mentally and physically with ev-
cry effort The work is, indeed,
drudgery But give this same boy
ball and a bat and he will work ten
times as hard as he did pulling weeds
in the garden and thoroughly enjoy 1T.
The reason ball playing is not drudg-
cry to him is that he gets pleasure
out of it. Suppose now this same boy
is taught that for every pound OF
growth a weed makes that weed pumps
out of the soil and evaporates from it's
leaves 500 pounds of water, and thus
robs the crop in which 1T is growing.
He then begins to perceive why he is
doing the work. He looks upon the
weed as an enemy and takes pleasure
in destroying it. Suppose that in ad-
dition to this knowledge the boy had
| been taught how to select the seed
and that the crop he is wedding is one
that he himself has carefully bred up
| by selection until it is something to
| be proud of; will this not largely re-
move the drudgery from the work and
make it more like playing ball?
In our cities we have developed
magnificent school system, consisting
! of the common schools or grade, with
the high schools above them. Above
these high schools stand our colleges
and universities, who receive their stu
dents from the high schools. About
SO per cent. of the students in the
grades below the high schools never
go any higher, but go directly into act
i've life. Perhaps SO per cent OF those
who get into the high school never go
any farther. Practically all Of those
who stop before they reach the high
school make their living by their
hands, and very few who never go be-
yond the high schools ever rise to lead
ership. The common schools and the
high schools therefore really have for
their function the fitting of boys and
girls for the hard work of the world.
On the other hand, the colleges train
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