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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
GIVING Himself AWAY.

She never knew he was only a
waiter, for he had basely told her he
was a gentleman of Independent
means. One hot day they were sit.
ting in Hyde Park. He felt very
drowsy; she felt very loving.
John" she whispered, "do you love
me?"
"Eh? What?" opening &s eyes
Love you? OF course 1 do, darling
and again his eyes closed.
How much2" she asked; and be
dreamily said: Ga =
"Roas' beef, shilling, sir; taters, tup
pence; cabbage, tuppence, sir; bread
penny; half-stout, tuppence; one an
ten, please, sir. Royal Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

"He was a plowin ten or fifteen yoke
of cattle If | recollect right, but he
didn't go to Heaven till he took his
mind off the cattle, Didn't take none
of his oxen with him, but he took wis
dom with him, and good book is the
mouthpiece of wisdom. How old are
you. Brother Stovean?"
I'm eighty odd"
"Gettin along putty well. And now,
lookin' back over your life, what have
you enjoyed the most?"
We'll, 1t don't seem to me now that
I've ever enjoyed anything since was
boy. 1t has been a scufiie for me to
live and to take care of what little l
had raked together. l have had to
watch man all the time to keep him
from Robin me-"
But he could only rob you of mate
rial things. If you'd been wiser you
would have laid up somethin' he
couldn't rob you of, and you could
have set down by your fire at night
and dreamed over 1t without any fear.
You have known all along that they
were goin' to blow the horn for you
some day. 1t has always been GER
tain that you had to go, and then who
is goin' TO take care of the things you
have raked together? Come to think
about 1t, don't believe ever heard
you laugh right good"
Il haven't had anything to laugh
about" the old man replied.
And nobody else that was always
afraid that he might be robbed while
he laughed. But you have been
robbed out of a mighty few pennies I;
ever since | can remember you have
been able to go to sale and buy what
you wanted, and yet of all the men |
know. Stoveall, your life has been the
biggest failure"
"Jucklin. | could buy and sell you
three times in a day, with the price
doubled every time bought you
back"
"Oh, you mean my land and my
| house. Yes. / reckon you could, but
you never saw money enough to buy
me. In lookin' through advertisements
for bargains did you ever find happi
ness for sale? No sir, for there amt
no bankrupt stocks of happiness. oh
used to think along your line.
didn't think that I'd ever be happy till
owned all the land adjolnin' my
farm, and | was miserable because
saw no chance of gettin' 1t. Every day
or so I'd see a hearse goin' down the
road, haulin' some old fellow to tht
graveyard, and one day 1t came or
me all of a sudden that had to &c
along there, too. Then lowed that
ought to get as much happiness ou
of the world as possible, ard I was
thinkin about it one day while l was
in town, and | says to the count,
iedge, says l, ledge, is there any wa!
for man turned forty-five to be hap
py?' He asked me If could read
Il told him l could make out
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

II 1t was printed in a sheriff's sale.
Then he said: Well, read good books
and think about 'em. Don't read the
things that will stimulate you to ar
gufy but the things that will feed
your mind without raisin' its bristles.
Some books are full of the sweet I'M
selhshness of the human heart. Read
them Some make the fancy play like
you have seen the lightnin' of an
evenin' on a low-hangin' cloud far over
In the west. Read them. Don't read
the vicious ones any more than you'd
keep close company with a vicious
man. Do this and you'll find the world
openin' up toward the past and a
brightenin' toward the future. One
man is really stronger than another
for what he knows and not for what
he's got We know he can't take his
material things with him, but no man
knows that he can't take the spir-
itual things Solomon was the wisest
man, it is said, but believe he would
have been a little wiser IL he hadn't
been quite so rich. He wouldn't have
been mixed up with so many women,
and right there is where he proved he
want any wiser than some of the rest
OF us.
"Well, thought over what the coun-
ty ledge said, and began to read,
slow at first. for l hadn't been well
schooled, and the more read the
bigger my farm seemed to grow. and
now I've got more than ten million
acres under cultivation. Laws
massey, what a chance you youngsters
have. Instead of bein' happy only in
the latter end of your life you can be-
gin now. don't mean that you should
neglect any work that you may have
to do, or that you shouldn't want to
make money, but l do mean that you
ought to lay up an estate that can't
become bankrupt. / am givin' you
old talk, It is true. but It is the old
principles that touch man the most,
for they have always had bearin' on
his life. Don't understand me to
mean, boys, that you should become
bookish, but jest to mix your readin'
in along with your life. 1t will keep
| you from breakin' yourself down try
in to keep up with some man that can
make money easier than you can, and
he will always be there. jest little
in front of you. Love your feller-man,
for he's all right in the long run. He's
got more sympathy than hate Some
body may tell you that human nature
is all selfish, but don't you believe It.
Well" he added, getting down on the
fence. Il must box up my gold now
and cart it home Coin my way,
Brother Stoveall?"
ss, Jucklin, but you are no COM
49,, RIGHT for
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

The neighborhood sale, held at an
old homestead, brings out the impor-
lance and the force of the man who
has been thrifty and who has ready
money at command II is a sad pic
ture-the passing of the farm. the dis
indignation Of family. the blighting
Of thousand memories that cluster
about a heartbstone. At such time
the squeaky voice of ready money be-
comes thunderous in tone, awning the
modest aspiration of a neighbor who
looks toward the purchase of yoke
OF cattle, wagon, a colt; and when
ready money seems determined the
promissory notes of the modest fall
back into tameness and silence. But
ready money does not care TO acquire
everything at a nelghborhood sale,
S1ekpg material II looks to material
shiHKs.. and It's estimate of the spir-
kaaAA III but shallow, so, when at the
MF#M{n sale Lin Jucklin outbid
StNKAAll, and become possessed of a
pile of old books heaped on the floor.
some of his friends marveled that he
should have run the risk of exciting
the opposition OF the wealthiest man
in the community.
''Oh, i knew that he didn't want
en-" said Lin as he climbed to a seat
upon the rail fence, low but esti-
native throne of observation. ''In his
house they would be just so mach
rubbish. They don't talk to him. and
when book don't speak TO a man 1t
is the dumbest thing in the world. 1t
can't make as much noise as a pig,
for a pig squeals; quieter than a duck,
for a duck quacks-it simply takes its
place along with the brlckbat or the
old shoesole that curls up in the sun.
But when a book even whispers to a
man it tells him the sweetest OF Sc
crets. II tells him that he amt a
blamed fool, and this is a mighty i'm
portant piece Of news Whenever l see
an old book / think of Abe Lincoln.
He gathered corn for two days, keep
in up the down row, for a life OF
Washington, and you men that have
.kfg1asneed yourselves all day behind a
wagoe know what that means. He
I wAa pendin' his body to the work OF
q %tfax4HN up MS SOUL. IL CdihS ndIu
thAb book did; it meant backache, for
ststh6k Lincoln a long time to reach
a0Hn n the ground, but 1t meant
nsoss. rhah II he had been workin' for
a ls4ndfsd1ollars day. Don't under
stand ms ts say that every man that
thinks so much of book will be
greats h. nay never be able to go tC
sals H6sn IS, this and buy yoke Of
steers huB In the long run it will be
worth more I'd him than all the steers
that Ofd Eli6hA was a plowin' wher
the call Came him to go up"
"But tls prpphet was handlin' o
steees insteas4@of books" remarked
Stoveall. who had come walking slow
iy to join Inns audience.
yes, that's fact" Linn replied
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

Mrs. Bronson-You appear pleased,
my dear?
Mrs. Woodson-Indeed, l am. You
know while 1 was away Henry went
fishing and the neighbors said he came
home with beautiful skate"
Mrs. Bronson-And is that why you
are so pleased?
Mrs. Woodson-Certainly, my dear.
looked in the encyclopedia and found
out that a Skate is a large fish.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
DAfR kaATrgRsR
The home market apf an

.s4t AAeaA ~ l&tssSiaflnSl 'Ctiis
dairy products is So great tharL--5'
need not worry about the foreign out
let for dairy products.
The dairy COW on the farm needs
improving still more than the dairy
COW in the barn of the professional
dairyman.
Green stuffs should be grown for
helping the COWS over the dry time of
summer.
Plan to raise a good bunch of heller
calves this year. Look ahead two or
three years to see where the price
of COWS is likely to be. The high
price of feed last fall sent more than
the usual number of COWS and heifers
to the block, and it will cost good
money to replace them.
When COWS are kept in the stable
continuously, as in STORMY weather, it
should be cleaned often enough to
keep as free as possible from manurial
odors.
always use butter color in making
butter, writes a farmers wife in Farm
and Home. l use one teaspoonful in
summer and two teaspoonfuls in win.
ter to six gallons of cream. put it into
the cream and churn the cream when
ripe, that is, when 1t has the appear.
ance OF velvet over the surface after
II Is stirred. l have a safety No. 1
separator and never mix the warm
cream with the cold cream. l use salt
at rate of IL ounces to one pound
butter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
CUTTING Out Losses.

rs bridge still popular, Mrs,
Gambler"
Eyes, Mr. Thrifty, it is with mel
play every evening""
For stakes?"
For high stakes"
1T must be an expensive pleasure"
mo, one evening win and the next
time lose"
well, why don't you play every
other eveDing?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
On Terra Firma.

What does become of all the pins?a
cried Mrs. x, as she vainly sought fol
one on her dressing table.
II know, mamma" cried her little
son, who had just begun to study
Latin, They fall to the earth and be
come terrapins. "-Harper's Weekly.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
CEMENT FOR CREAMERY fIooR.
Danger Of rheumatism obviated by
Steam Pipes Laid in Cement.

The Industrialist, issued by the Kan
sas agricultural college, regarding ce-
ment floors for creameries and cheese
factories, says:
For many years creamery sanitation
has been a question of vital impor-
lance to the dairyman. To secure this,
one of the most important projects is
the installation of a perfectly close
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

RS. WoRTHING,
Mrs. Greg DRY
Worthing, said to
me the other day:
Il cannot un-
derstand why IL IS
that so m a n y
mothers thin k
their ducks are
s W a ms. N W
{ h ere S MIS-.
Brown, alw ay ;
Boosting a bou I
the rapid progress
that her Dorothy
h as m a d g In
music, and my
Ethel, who did
not begin until q
term later, plays
a great deal bet
ter.
Different moth
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

the boys In the choir, and that was
enough for Mrs. Demock. She began,
and she talked and talked about the
beauty OF Clements voice, and said
that he took after her Absolute con-
ceit. and yet she never imagined for
a moment that / noticed It, Now, with
Gregory, his singing comes perfectly
natural, because | have always sung,
and in fact when | was a girl / used
to be always asked to sing in com
pany, but when married l gave
1t up"
When ! remembered that to my UNI
prejudiced eyes Gregory was a good.
natured hobbledehoy and Ethel kind
hearted but hopelessly commonplace
child, ! couldn't help wondering with
Mrs Worthing why It is that so many
mothers think their ducks are swans.
(e)-fsl-(O
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
The Reason.

Man." didactically began Prof.
Broadhead, sis the only animal that
laughs"
''Eh-yah!" broke in the Venerable
Crouch. And that's b'cuz he is the
only animal that owes money to an
other animal and is therefore obliged
to laugh whenever the latter animal
gets off his favorite funny story
Puck.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
Publicity.

1--WE don't hear so much about graft
in public matters as we did" re-
marked the citizen. 81 regard that as
a very favorable condition"
1T is a favorable condition" re-
piled Senator Wadd. Those matters
were becoming altogether too public
for a spell.-Puck.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
A Peanenaker.

You're a liar!" exclaimed the first
man.
You're another!" retOrted number
two.
Calm yourselves, gentlemen" inter-
posed the peacemaker. 'It is quite
possible that you are both right"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

4 iiGiNG 10 a DOg
that l admire In
the u b urb in
W h | c h l live,
which suburb is
in Connecticut, by
the way, 1t is
Tom Bingham. He
is tall and sturdy
and good tenn
pered and a favor
lite with boys and
girls; he has a
W @ III developed
sense Of humor,
and l never meet
him but l find that
we two have a
good deal in com
mon In spite of
our so years dis
parity.
The other even
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

ing l went into town in the same car
with his mother and father, and had
quite a chat with Mrs Bingham, who
Our subject was children, and con-
fessed to her that l was clean dis
couraged about my boy Harry; that
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
Nothing New.

Miss Passay-This is my twenty
third birthday.
Miss Pert->What?
Miss Passay-I say this is my TWEEN
ty-third birthday. Didn't you know
It?
Miss Pert-Well, l declare / didn't.
1t has aged terribly since l first saw
it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
After CalMinn

AFTER calving tepid water only
snouid be given, as cold water may
Orlng on a threatening ailment. II
hourlshment is needed, little oilmeal
" 0sf9lnd oats in the water given will
prove helpful. Let the feed supplied
after calying be light for few days.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

Policeman just called to say that
your dog license had expired.
Mrs. Sniff-So has the dog. He died
this morning.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

Master-You want large wages for
a boy who's had no experience
Boy-Well, amt it harder for me
when 1 don't know how?"-London
Opinion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
Az the lntelllnnnoe oHlon-

Manager-Do you wish a plain cook
madam?
Mrs. Honeymoon-Yes, please; just
as plain as possible.-Judge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28

do you think your father would
hurt me if was to ask him for your"
Hardly. But there's no telling
what he will do if you don't say some
thing pretty soon!"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-07-28
LK5A & q vIzE3lD e.
GNl][l[d1[5D> STILES
TWo MILES A MINUTE.

TWO MILES a MIMI e
Twomilesaminute,
Geehowwehy!
Swiftasameteor
Streakingthesky.
Whatisthatblur?
Onlythetrees.
Lookatthemwave-
Mywhatabreeze!
Ahonkandarush,
Aflashandasmell-
Whatdidwehit?
Didsomebodyyell?
Ajarandascream-
Observation-Disclosures.
Notellingnow,
Keeptothecourse.
Leonard II. Robbins, in Jersey Jingles
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12

and carrots. But all this was the en-
broidery of life; the violin was its warp
and woof.
The girl was II when Mr. Conrad
realized that his work was ended. With
a fineness of perception, an unselfsh-
ness beyond praise. he saw that he
must resign the task he loved to an
other hand. For the following two or
three wears Henry Holmes taught her.
Then he too. announced that she had
passed beyond his leadership. Hence
forth he could only point the way; it
led to Europe.
In September, 1905. the mother and
daughter left the city they had for so
long called home. Where art, at least.
is concerned San FTanciscos purse
strings are royalty loose. Little Kath-
leen did not go forth penniless. Then
was there not the musician cousin left
al home, whose labor would be devoted
to furthering the darling object of his
hopes, Kathleens success? Neyerthe-
less it was a stern and terrible task
the two had set themselevs. 1t was
the siege of London. London the mighty
the ancient. the unheediIig, where every
day countless hearts are broken and
hopes crushed out. where gaping deeps
of misery yawn for the vanquished in
the bitter battle for success. There
were weary days for the two friendIess
strangers and disheartening struggles
for the first footbold. But Leopold
Auer was In London, and Kathleens
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12
.AfAoUNcsABAT OF AgR PleST eoMeeEI

own fine discrimination led her to him.
When he returned TO St. Petersburg the
Parlows followed. and moved from city
TO city as his engagements led him. For
sone time however, their home was In
LoaGor. and here. IN the most conserva-
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12

tive and diffcult of cities, her first tri-
ulnphs We're achieved. Royalty. the
final arbiter in England, set the seal
on her success On July 20. 1905, she
was s'.mmoned to Buckingham palace
to perform for her majesty the queen.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12

that plain living and democratic gen.
tleman seem very real and human. She
is growing used to being petted by
noble ladies and made much of at
great houses. where not her genius
only, but her sweet and girlish per-
sonality as well. put her on different
footing from that to which talent, is
usually relegated But not here lie
Kathleen's richest rewards. They are
in the love and admiration of the
people who throng her concerts and
stand In the sleet about stage en-
frances to see her come forth and cheer
her to her carriage. This is what has
been happening in cold and critical
Holland. where she has played this
spring between her London engage
ments. To St. Petersburg she SIS
kind of adopted child. and ardently
returns the love of that brilliant and
fascinating capital. whose gayety re-
minds one OF the fabied Dance OF
Death. Berlin. whose verdict is of
prime Importance in musical matters.
succumbed at once. This November
there awaits Kathleen the great and
crowning honor OF a musicians career
Ito play at the Gewandhaus. with
Nikish conducting. Auer. whose word
in the violin world Is absolute; Auer.
to whom TschailSowsky has dedicated
his greatest music, has long since pro-
nounced upon her. His opinion has
received very practical Endorsement in
the fact that for four guaranteed Lon
don concerts this spring Miss Parlow
gets a price beyond Isaye's.
When Miss Pariow left San Fran
cisco she had with her a violin much
patched and repaireA but Of surpass-
ing sweetness of tone. This Mr. Con
rad had bought for her from a broken
down musician into whose hands it
had somehow strayed. and who. ig-
norant of its history. but aware of its
merit, held it to be Bergonzi. But
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12
b. Camilla L. Kenyon

~ JcS san Francisco know that IL
can lay claim TO one of the
IL sssass-s violint-ts in the world
i1 the opinion Of many critics
the very. greatest? 1t is 2 fact The
wonderful girl who al i is being com
pared in Europe only with Isaye and
Kroisler, and whom the great master
Auer pronounces the first Of living
artists, gave her earliest recital not quite
70 years ago in sherman & Clay hall in
Suttor street.-the Sutter street of the
city that was. Even earlier the baby
of Is had appeared with Mrs. Sedgley-
Reynolds at Emmanuel Baptist church
of sinister memory. where she played
selections from II Trovatore"- and
for an encore Papinrs Tarantena
in A minor She had then been
under instruction less than one
year. but had already fallen into
the stride which has since carried
her forward at such an astounding
rate that at Il she seems to have dis
tanced all competitors. even snatched
the laurels from those who have en-
5oyed world wide fame for more years
than she has lived.
Kathleen Parlow was born in Cal
gary at the foot Of the Canadian
Rockies. but by the time she was
years old her mother was fighting for
an existence for herself and her child
in the Mission district of San Fran
cisco, Not long, however. after their
arrival. though long enough to give
them q taste Of bitter hardship. the
cultivated Canadian lady was able
through her cousin. f. James Conrad.
himself q musician. to obtain music
pupils, and very soon. the darkest days
We're behind them. Meanwhile the lone
~ little girl had received from the
same kind bachelor cousin the little
Violin-the merest toy-which was TO
be Of such wonderful significance for
her future, and her reluctant baby fin
gers were being guided over the strings
with inexhaustible patience and kind
ness, for Conrad possesses singular
aptitude as teacher Of children
- first she showed no particular
alaptability and it was quite by acci-
dent that he stumbled on the first indi-
la0;Gent the room where he had been
giving a lesson TO a small boy. he re-
turned and found him and Kathleen
cispUting why demanded Kath-
lven, do YOU play q sharp when Cousin
= mnY says TO play o." i don't, said
tle llttle boy, "Ycu do said Kath-
lcen. Cousin Jimmy eXperimented.
Note after nete the ctila. sttnding with
her back 10 the Instrument called as
IL was given. Conrad had made .his
discovery. Kathleen had the sense Of
extraordinary rarity and value which
musicians cal positive Pitch Her head
is veritable tuning fork For her all
the sounds OF nature have their definite
value IN the great symphony. Mosqui-
t0s. she soon discovered. carry their
4nonotonOus chant from = 10 B fiat-a
minor fourth. Every factory whistle
was recognized: there was the y
whistle, the A fat whistle aad so on
down The gamuL s
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12

Conrad and Henry Holmes, chortling
over their prize, believed it nothing
less than the missing Red Emperor OF
Stradivarius. Three Of these matchless
Red Emperors are known to have come
from the hands OF the master. Two
can be accounted for. but of the third
all trace has long been lost But In
this ancient. battered violin. which,
despite Il broken back and many scars.
held still its unequaled mellow tone.
both these musicians believed they had
unearthed a genuine "Strad." and that
from its peculiar markings it could
be nothing but the lost Red Emperor.
Be IL so or not. Kathleen may now
Iay il aside as relic. both OF the
master craftsman and OF her own early
triumphs- Walking one day in Berlin
she passed the famous violin shop of
Hammig. An instrument of great
beauty attracted her She went in and
tried it. II was exquisite in tone as in
finish But the price was $4,000 marks
(roughly, Si0.000l. So Kathleen felt
there must needs be MANY. more con
certs before she could indulge her
fancy. At ristiania. dining at the
house OF Bjornson. the famous author.
she chanced to speak of the beautiful
Instrument for which she still sighed
The result was a little conspiracy OF
Bjornson, and his friends. a dispatch :
Berlin. and the presentation to Miss
ParlOw. quietly and without fuss. as
the simple northern peoples DO things.
OF the violin-Viottis Guarnerius.
Al five and a half Kathleen Parlow
was resisting with baby fretfuIness
the first gentle efforts to coax her
little fingers upon the strings OF a toy
At she was giving her own recital.
At IT New York syndicate is Offering
her s1J0.O00 for tour Of the United
States and Canada. II she maintains
this rate of progress for 10 years more
one can only see her weeping. with
Alexander, that there are no more
worlds 10 conquer. Meanwhile there
surely belongs to the city where she
played her first notes and to which she
looks back as her home, a greater
share in the pride Of her triumph. and
more, far more. than the faint, re-
fiected glory in which he has been
content TO live. to that first patient
teacher who laid wisely and well khe
foundation Of her present famA