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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

The most northerly point Of land
known is Cape Morris Jesup on an
island north of Greenland. 1t was
discovered by Commander Peary in
1900, and named after the president
of the Peary Arctic club. Morris X.
Jesup, who has lately died. Mr.. Jesup
was n of the most liberal patrons of
science, art and exploration of his
time. He not only gave generously to
the cause of arctic exploration, but
provided the money for many scien-
tific expeditions organized to study
antiquities in various parts of the
world. He will be known for these
things to a limited number for a few
years, but every schoolboy will pro-
nounce his name for no one knows
how long when asked to name the
most northern cape in the world. Only
the latest Biographies show it on their
maps now, but they will all have it in
a few years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
The
Church
Tt Has Failed
But 1t Will
Yet Be Great
BY PROF. CHARLES ZUEBLIN.
SociolodIst.

HE church is not useless; it is going to be greater than ever.
But it has failed, as the municipality has failed, to serve the
interests of the common life. The church has been too world
4 90 l to let religion expand; it has been too unwoldy to give
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BTM@WH people a chance. The church has never been democratic
\ hR0NR enough to allow the people to voice their sentiments. There
ENH has always been dominance of the hierarchy if not of the
MR%M \ clergy. The people do not voice their opinions in religious
@&@aa@5 matters, and are not expected to have them.
1t is also the great weakness of all government that we do
not trust the people enough. We are confronted in our American ira
diions with the difficulty of a national church and the need
of a national organization of religion. We keep our religion
now for the seventh day, and look upon the clergyman and
the politician as different beings. We divorce the separate aspects of life
from each other, yet all these special interests are founded, like language
itself, on the common life Of the people.
If we go to the people for our language, why not go to them for the
sources of our inspiration? If we went to the people, learned their needs
and tried to incorporate them, we should get more efficiency. Might we
not appeal to the laity to get a new infusion of blood?
The church is trying to get at our workngmen. It doesn't let them
voice themselves. Let us open our school houses on Sunday and give them
an opportunity of expressing themselves in worship. Then we can afford
to tax the private religious houses if people want to go to them.
In England they let people talk all sorts Of nonsense. It's the best
safety valve. Our religious life lacks spontanity, and moves along con-
ventional channels. The municipality is our best unit. We are going to
regenerate our municipal government before we regenerate our national
government. We are going to extend the town meetings and multiply
the basis of free expression. 1t will give us the first leverage to the idea
that there is one representation in the life of all, and that is the state.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
Concrete culvert End.

Large culverts and bridges should
always be designed by competent civil
engineers and constructed under their
supervision. Indeed, very often the
advice of such an engineer in regard
to the smaller waterways might be
sought with profit. Money is too often
wasted from a lack of knowledge con-
corning the proper sizes of pipes and
%culverts.
In many localities it is the custom
to extend to the center of the road
driveways leading from adjacent lands
to the road to meet its center grade.
This practice makes it necessary to
carry the gutter water under the drive
way in a pipe. Nearly always it is
possible, by regarding such a drive
way, to make it coincide with the gut.
ter grade, so that the surface water
will flow by without interruption.
This should always be done when pos
sible. Pipes with open ends laid at
the gutter grade are always unsatis-
factory, since they fill up quickly with
leaves and sand and with slush in
winter time, and thus the surface wa
ter is forced out upon the macadam
and soon gullies it. When a pipe is
required, a catch basin should be built
on the upper side of the driveway, the
pipe should be laid to connect with it,
and carried sufficiently far under
ground to discharge properly into the
gutter below the driveway.
In cuts where the grade is in ex'
cess of three per cent. and where the
soil is loose or sandy 1t is sometimes
necessary to pave the cutters with
~cobblestones or with paving bricks
or paving stones to prevent the for-
nation of gullies in the shoulders and
in the macadam. Usually a gutter
three feet in width laid on the same
or a little greater slope than the ma
cadam, with an outer row OF large
stones about one foot high laid YER
tically against the bank of the cut, Is
sufficient. Such a gutter usually re-
places the shoulder, and it should not
be constructed until the macadam ID
substantially completed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
Cuba Progressing.

Cuba Progressing.
Cuba is making slow progress toward
self-government. The first time the
United States interviewed in the behalf
of order it had to remain in control of
affairs more than three years. Then
a Cuban congress and a Cuban presi-
dent assumed power. Everything
went smoothly until the election Of a
new president, when the opponents OF
the administration were kept from the
polls in SO many districts that an in
surrection soon started. The United
States had to intervene the second
time, in September, 1906. 1t has been
busy since then Strengthening out the
tangle into which President Palma In
volved the island. President Roose-
welt announced to congress the other
day that our work would be completed
on February l, 1909. This will be In
less than two years and a half from
the appointment Of the American pro-
visional governor. AS the election of
a new president and congress is to be
under the supervision of the American
officers in Cuba, it is likely that there
will be fair play. The text test of
Cuban ability will come in four years
more, when the Cubans try again to
choose a new president. If it should
happen that the United States has to
be called in a third time there are
many persons who believe that it
should not retire so quickly, but should
remain long enough to assure the
country against Instruction every four
years.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
School for Socialists.

A school for socialists has Just been
established in Brussels.
The object of the school is to teach
the speakers of the party political
economy, the history of social sys.
TENS and doctrines, and the principles
OF cooperation and trade unionism.
AT present Herr Bernstein, a former
membe OF the German reichstag. is
giving a series of lectures to the
scholars on strikes and lockouts IN
Germany.-London Mail.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

New York city, which hysterical
imaginations are fain to compare with
Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Sodom and
what Mr.. Dooley calls other ancient
"metroluppuses." is not an unhealthy
place, as great cities go. Last year
the births exceeded the deaths by
10000. This is a greater gain than
appears for the same time in London,
Berlin or st. Petersburg, and in Paris
the death-rate is much greater than
the birth-rate. New York is a healthy
young child and the nation will sue
coed in bringing 1t up yet.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

Mr.. Edison has sent Count Leo Toll
stoy a monograph of the latest and
most improved pattern, and in return
will receive a cylinder registering Toll
stoy's voice as he gives his interpreta-
ton of certain Bible texts. The time
will come probably when the voices of
all prominent ~personages will be thus
preserved for the edihcation Of later
generations. For that matter, the
voices Of private individuals will
doubtless be kept in the same way for
the benefit of their families, just as
universally as photographs are now.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
DRAG THE ROADS.
Work II Done While Roads Are sor'
Is Most Effective.

The spring of the year is the time
when the work of road-dragging must
commence If the roads are to Dc
brought into a good condition throusI
this process. Dragging is a work tn"s
must be done at the very mudales'
time to be most effective. Some COM
munities have waited till m~id-summe,
or fall before beginning this WORK. anu
the results have not been very sa'l'
factory.
In the spring the frost coming oul
of the ground leaves the roads muuus
to a great depth. The whole mass -
then plastic and will yield under NV
passing of the road drag. Inc go
ing is then easily done and when W.
good weather comes the heat ol
sun dries the surface into a nara 9 -
that remains so for a long tme,
states where great advance mas -
made in the science of road ur"senn
the major part of the work mas Ue.o
done in the early spring. Altel nn
foundation work is done the worA 20
be later continued after 'he
but these rains do not usually wet
road in to a very great depth
The benefits of dragging nave Ue
demonstrated in a thousand ioc"i
where the soil has in it enough aad
to glaze under the passing OF the IO~
drag. We believe that every oo
munity where the roads are not s" .Sis
in nature can afford to take up is
work and give the roads trea' the
that will insure good roads ior
balance of the year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

The American style of b~enevolence
seems to be contagious. other coun-
tries are feeling the effect. The will
of Mrs. Rylands, widow of a wealthy
cotton manufacturer of Manchester,
England, leaves 3d. 65 {. 900 to various
charities, including $1,000, 900 to a Ii.
brary on which she spent 1880, 900
during her life, This is suggestive of
some of the princely gifts to philan-
thropy made in the United States, al
though the American record is as yet
ahead of all others.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
Never Rode on Cars.

MISS Mary A. Egge, one of Allen.
owns Oldest women. died suddenly to.
uay' after having lived more than SO
years within a block of a railroad and
'or 10 years close to an electric rail.
way, but without ever having riddle,
N a steam train or trolley car
Philadelphia North American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

Over rs years ago London Truth es-
tablished a doll competition. This
year 1t was held in Albert hall, Decem-
Der is and 10. There were 10000 toys
and 1000 dolls and 1000 s~ixpences.
all to be given to children in London
hospitals. warehouses; and infirmaries.
For years a great friend of the poor
children, Sir Francis Barry, gave the
11.OOO %sixpences; he died a year ago,
but friends and relatives arranged that
the pile of sixpences should be given
just the same to the expectant chill
dren.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
HerOiSnn
of
DarninS
Socks
By ROBERTSON WALLACE.

II forward into the menacing darkness Of the future. She is balanced
on the brink of the infnities. A peilous position! But she does not
quail. She is brave-ah heroine without knowing it.
Again, take the case of the suburban family whose growing require
ments take their daily toll of the planning brain and unAagging spirt of
the mother They are doomed by force of circumstances to live the Gre
spectacle" life of the suburbs condition of existence as far removed
from the simple life as east from west. The problem of living a COM
paratively full life on a superlativey empty purse is indeed a difficult one,
but must be faced by the women on whom deyoves the dire responsibility
of keeping up appearances. The children must be dressed, fed, schooled,
be entertained and entertain in conformity with the ideas of the exclusive
suburb in which they reside. The suburban matron's wardrobe must
Withstand the fire of criticism. Now to cultivate the fine flower of a
suburban life on a poor soil is really heart-breakng work. Nobodys in
come is ever so ample as it ii S made to appear.
But the wife has learned the secret of perennial opulence. She is the
keeper of the keys of social life and death. Does she not serve as a slave
at home that she may shine a a queen abroad? Does she not strive and
struggle half the day that her husband and children may froHc and frivol
half the night? She makes apparent extravaganza possible because of
her genius for small economies. She saves that others may waste. She
plots and plans that husband and children may be
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

free from petty cares. She has to lay out every penny
SO that it shall appear to return the value of two. In
hours snatched from rest she rings the changes on
the evanescent garments of children, making new
things from old ones. She darns her husbands socks
and repairs what other things he may require. She
keeps the peace amongst inharmonious relatives, for
the children's sakes. In a word, is she not a brave
woman? Is she not one Of the heroines of the SUI
burbs? l am sure she is. For true it is that unheard
of heroines, like unheard melodies, are sweeter than
those whose names are on every tongue.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

DR.. Lyman Abbott puts it thus
neatly and p%ungently: There is only
one argument in favor of race track
gambling, namely. that it improves
the breed of horses. The answer to
that argument is conclusive-it deteri-
crates the race of men"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
&aROADA AND %,
CEMENT ~cULvERrs.
Prove the Cheapest Beeau,.
Last Longest. me

If 1t is necessary to lay q
within two feet of the surface q, p ~
roadway, iron water pipe or gao .n'
should be used. For larger voIn pp'
of water culverts of rubble mssau
or Portland-cement concrete ma"
built. Very often, with a proney y
sign, it will be found to be mesS
economical to use the concrete
ticularly If it is REINFORCED with st 20,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

MI. Rockefeller's income is said to
be over 100000 900 a month. Perhaps
he considers that he deserves a rather
large salary for standing for the disa-
greeable things that are continually
said of him
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

To many women life is such, that to face
it, demands more courage than to face death.
To live for ones kith and kin is often more
heroic than to die for ones country. Not all
women's lives are cast in pleasant places.
There is the daily toll of the young girl who
struggles to earn an honest livelihood, see
ing all too little of the JOY of life, and sip
ping all too early of the cup of sorrow and
disappointment. Scarcely can she feed or
clothe herself as she should be fed and
clothed. Her outlook and prospects are linn
tied. From the drab surroundings of the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

Trees received in frozen or drl eaTs
condition should be buried tor md
in the ground to thaw OUT
moisten.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19
Card
Players
Are
Gamblers
By REV. r. E. HOPKINS. D. D..
Chicago.

The prize may be 100000, such as some newspaper dream writer
recently said exchanged hands at a poker game, or it may be a water bot
tie or IS, "to buy what you prefer, you know" or just car fare, or "a little
house money" 1T il the prize men and women play for and not the mere
pleasure. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to learn how many
card parties have long existed without prizes.
Card-playng destroys the art of conversation, discourages sociabihty,
limits the social sphere, turns what should be friendly meetings into
money-making chances, sets a bad example. and the inveterate card-player
is a useless citizen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-19

Men and women learn to play the piano
without wanting to bet every time they sit
down to the instrument that they can play
faster than someone else. They can learn
to dance without wanting to bet they can re-
main on the floor until everybody else is ex-
hausted. They can go to the theater and
enjoy it without gambling that they can re-
member more lines of the play than the man
on the other side of the aisle; but as soon as
men and women learn to play cards the
amusement loses its interest if there is not
a stake. Herein lies the danger and the evil
in card-playing.
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16

1t cannot be denied that in advocating bachelors the
German emperor has scored both Theodore Roosevelt and Mr.
Bryan We would not have believed possible that the president
would have let German get ahead of him. particularly after
himself suicide the
of the child But such the fact; and the German
discussing the emperor proposal which takes with all serious
Thus the Berlin Tagebat while evidently favorable the
doubts whether be without fishing
general income takes for granted that the will be
incomes Certain is that if imperial income put
the married could be made their share but the Tag
bat is worried lest people consider taxing bachelors kind
of discriminating legislation The kaiser has unfold
ed the details of his We however, that the
will decrease with the the bachelors That the
smaller the income the larger the which will thus the
double melting matrmony and stimulating the bach
eor to become useful and valuable member Of society
Upon this double ground have doubt the will
mend itself everywhere and win for itself place
Mr. ROoseve platform of 1872 odage that
which he will make his appeal for reelection
Y. Post.
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16
FIRST TO RECOGNIZE PROSPERITY.

Edward L. Ru SELL vice president of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad that the old scedue effect May last
reduced because of the panic of last summer and
fall viii be restored Moreover trainmen section hands tee
operators conductors freight handlers and the like
pended when tim got bad to be reinstated.
This action returning confidence and returning COM
activity Mobile and Ohio Railroad from ST.
Louis the Gulf with number of branch lines penetrating coal
fields cotton plantations and lumber regions In summer there
the products of the farm haul the period of trans
porting cotton and corn beginning about September l.
But Russe's business has improved
with his that he is justified reempoyng his old men
and paying all the salaries they received when the country
enjoying of prosperity.
All this land good The fields OF the West cry
for In the Northern timber cutters whetng their
and for raids the forests In the manufacturing
metals and coal being piled fer immediate
STILL heard the railroads the Mo
bile and Ohio admitting that prosperity coming back has
come back to
Mr. Russe railroad constructed 1848, has record Of
having killed passenger although it has earned millions
And making another of history that other roads,
imagine, entitled by the times, to emulate.
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16
AN ORDINANCE

Be it ordained by the Mayor
and City Council of the City of
Columbus, Mississippi, that it
shall be unlawful, and it is here
by made a nlisdesneanor for any
person to EXPECTORATE, or as
commonly sa8ed SPIT on any
paved or cemented sidewalk of
any street in the City of Colum-
bus, Miss, or on the floor of any
street railway car or public build
ing, or in the door or stairway
of any store in said city; and
anyone thus offending, shall on
being convicted thereof before
the Mayor, be fined in any sum
not exceeding Five Dollars for
every such offense,
Be it further ordained that
this Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after
July 25th, 1908.
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16

The vcepredency continues flourish big The
thing ambitious do for
place and then for the legislature the
fame thus achieved It's easy-Bosron Hearld
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16
For May r.

For Msyr
HON. E. S. DONNELL.
For ceunoiImsn:
WARD 1
B A WEAVER.
WARD 2
JOHN A SMELL.
WARD 3
VAUGHN
WARD 4
DS McCLANAHAN
WARD 3
ES MOORE.
WARD g
JOHN w STEEN.
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16
Locai and Personal

Mr.. w. S. Phillips visited re-
latives at Dow, last Sunday.
Mr.. n. M. Wells of Caledonia,
spent Wednesday in the city.
Misses Lutte and Beatrice
Guyton, are visiting relatives and
friends in Alabama.
Miss Margurite Wilmot will
leave in a few days for delight
full visit to Clarksdale.
Mr.. Charley World. of Birm-
ingham, who formely lived in
Columbus, was in the city the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs B. K. Sessums
and nephew Seth Meek have re-
turned home after a delightful
visit to the coast.
Mr.. A. B. Seay one of the
clerks for Simon Loeb and Bro,
left Sunday for a ten days vaca-
ton, at Castallion Springs, Biloxi
and New Orleans.
H. Hirshman's store which is
noted for great bargains, is hav-
ing large July sale. Many peo-
pie are attending this sale and
are getting goods as advertised.
Read their ad. in this issue.
DR.. Dabney Llpscomb return I'd
Monday night from the Universi-
ty where he has been assisting
in the conduct of the summer
Normal, and he and Mrs. Lips
comb and the children left yester-
day for Castalion Spring to spend
a lew days.
There will be an entertainment
at the home of Mrs. A. w.
Hampton Friday evening from A
to 6, for the benefit of the Juve-
nile Missionary Society of the
First Methodist church. Ice
cream and cake will be served.
All are invited to attend.
The interior of the store of w.
C. Beard is soon to be greatly
improved by the installation of
an electric elevator to be run
with a fifteen horse power mo-
tor. Mr.. Beard has also placed
an order for about S2500 worth
of Birch furniture for his ready
made departments and when
completed will be one of the
handsomest stores in the state.
Mr.. Hayes RozZelle, of Reform,
Ala, who was operated upon last
Saturday at the Columbus Hospit-
al for an appendicitis, has many
friends who will be glad to learn
that his operation proved sue
cess and it is hoped that he will be
well enough to re. urn home in
a few days. Mr.. Hayes, was
accompanied 20 Columbus by his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Rozzelle
and DR.. Wiuahlprv
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16

Few business comparing their baancesheets
1908 and July 1907 disagreeabe
ing than the treasury Washington. there
surplus the years operation of $8 1000 Today there
deficit of $50 09O Net showing the bad $14000 000 In
private affairs such black result would instant demand
for the most economies Only by drastic
railroads and other been able the
depression But what federal official has lifted up his
economy? Not the PRESIDENT not Mr. Taft What plank in the
republican platform looks to keeping down the of the
ernmen? The have fact been reckes increased
the face of shrinking Next deficit is morally
certain to be than this But economng
Washington. New York Post
The Columbus commercial., 1908-07-16

The attention of the City Council called the great
substantial guard rail the levee the bridge evidenced
by the fact that last Monday morning and his family
wagon theapproach of the bridge and the be-
coming frightened backed the whole thing down the ebank
ent Fortunately injured might happen
so luckily to any else in life tme
Doubtless the matter will be attended the officials
10th do thing for the of life and
Chicago professor predicts that English will have become
dead language by the 1000 Nevertheless the English angu
has demonstrated that withstand
and tear and hard usage.-Kansas City Star