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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
TO live AMONG POOR
HORACE FLETCHER WILL TEACH
CHILDREN TO CHEW.
Is Exponent of Thorough Mastication
and Will Spread knowledge of
Proper Nutrition in Tenement
District of New York.

New York.-Six flights up in an East
side tenement in New York city is liv-
Ing wealthy man who has given up
the comfort and pleasures of palatial
home in Venice to bring more health
and happiness into the lives of the
children of the district in which he
now resides.
He is Horace Fletcher, sociologist,
writer, philanthropist and globe trot-
ter; native of Lawrence, Mass, and
the originator of "fletcherism"
Now in his siXtieth year, Mr. fetch
er has voluntarily given up his life OF
ease in Venice and has settled down
In the East side to teach the young
there his gospel of the proper masti-
cation of food. A couple of weeks ago
ne was living at the Waldorf-Astoria,
now be has to climb 80 separate steps
to reach his rooms on the top floor of
331 East Thirty-first street.
While his plans for the enlighten
| ment of the children of the East side
are tentative, they are comprehensive
Il have moved here to get in touch
with the people, said he. Il am going
to spread the knowledge of proper nu
| trition-if you will, of fletcherism.
want to teach those in greatest need o.
it how to eat, and that is an important
matter. There can be no economic re
form until there is proper nutrition
| and proper nutrition depends upon {
proper system of eating
Mr.. Fletcher says he is in the fell
to assist. and that he purposes to take
section with definite boundaries AM
to begin his crusade there. At the be
ginning and at the expiration of 81,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
PRIZE FOOD
PaIatable, Economical, Nourishing.

A Nebr. woman has outlined the
prize food in a few words. and that
from personal experience. She writes.
AFTER our long experience with
Grape-Nuts, l cannot say enough in Its
favor We have used this food almost
continually for seven years.
I'VE sometimes tried other adver-
tised breakfast foods but we invariably
returned to Grape-Nuts as the most pal
atable, economical and nourishing
of all.
when l quit tea and coffee and be
gan to use Postum and Grape-Nuts
was nervous wreck. l was so ir-
ritable l could not sleep nights, had
no interest in life.
After using Grape-Nuts a short time
l began to improve and all these all
rients have disappeared and now | am
q well woman. My two children have
been almost raised on Grape-NutS
which they eat three times a day.
"They are pictures of health and
have never had the least symptom OF
stomach trouble, even through the
most severe siege Of whooping cough
they could retain Grape-Nuts when al
else failed
"Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor
bills, and has been, therefore, a most
economical food for u.s.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
| Creek Mich. Read The Road to Well
| ville," in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letters new
| one appears from time to time. They
| are genuine, true, and fall OF human
| interest.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
Social Psychology.

One of the chief problems OF the
twentieth century will be the regu-
lation of other combinations of men,
whether based upon race or voluntary
associations for industrial and other
purposes; and that problem will in
volve politics, jurisprudence and social
science. In one point political organi-
cations must be followed. 1t Is that
of accepting the natural tendencies OF
a progressive age instead of trying TO
run counter to them. Inc
true, and, therefore. the permanent SO
luton must be found in keeping III
mind both the individual and the
group, and politics and Jurisprudence
can be wisely directed only by thor
ough study of the psychology OF the
group.-A. Lawrence Lowell, presl
dent-elect of Harvard University, IN
Address on Social Regulation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
Emma Games and Impresario.

Emma Games never willingly sings
the role of Micaela in Carmen, -
though in star casts the part is prop.
erly given to 2 soprano of the first
rank.
One night while sitting in her dress
ing room waiting for the second act
lin which Micaela does not appear
to pass, Maurice Grau, the impress
ario, entered Madam Eames looked
him over critically and said savagely:
Upon my word, you must be very
rich man to afford to pay me my sal
airy to sing such part.
Magazine
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
A Gentle Hint to Motorists.

IF the same amount of effort ex-
pended on the horn to get people to
move out of your way were used to
move the steering wheel slightly so as
not to seem to bear directly upon the
person in front, and if you should
steer around wagons in the road, as
the end, rather than blow and blow
the horn IN vain effort to get them
to move, much less friction would be
caused and the speed increased.
think it is much better to pass careful
ly and as quietly as possible. Otter
you are noticed hardly at all, and yot
can generally tell if warning is nee
sary.-Outing Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

During the exposition in Charleston
one of the many colonies in North
Carolina came here with Gov. Aycock,
says the News and Courier. He was
very fond of ice cream, and at one
of the most brilliant receptions OF that
period asked for pepper and salt, with
which he declared it had always been
his habit to eat his cream. That was
something new under the sun in these
PARTS, but as the Erskine college man
says, De gustibus non disputandum.
II must be said, however, that the
tarheel colonel is not the only person
of distinction who likes salt. A bril-
liant young lawyer shocked his assocl-
ates at the Taft dinner in Summer
vile by drinking his champagne with
salt. 1t is said that salt gives almost
as fine bouquet as vinegar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
THE BUevILLE BASEBALL GAME.
Distinction Without Difference.

While holding a term of court at Au-
gusta once, Judge Walton sentenced a
man to seven years in prison for a
grave crime The respondents coun-
sci asked for mitigation of the SEN
tence on the ground that the prison
er's health was very poor. Your hon
or" said he, Il am satisfied that my
client cannot live out half that term,
and | beg of you to change the SEN
tence" We'll, under those circum
stances" said the judge, Il will change
, the sentence l will make it for life
instead Of seven years"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
Novel Kite Game.

The manner in which kites can be
manipulated is well illustrated by the
game Of Vakata. This game is best
played with squads of ten or less a
side equipped with ordinary Indian
kites of tissue paper and reels like
dumbbells.
The game is to fly your kite so that
It cuts the string of an opponents kite
by saving it. rescues being effected
by Red Cross kites so manipulated
that they get underneath and pick up
the falling kite.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
Rebellion,

John Henry" sharply spoke Mrs.
Vick-Seen, there's a young man that
comes here about five nights in the
week 10 see Bridget, and | want you
TO tell him to quit coming. right of. I"
"Alvira,' said her husband. you've
and have never disputed your author
ity in all that time. but this is where
| kick, am going to assert nay man
hood, If you want 10 stop that big
strapping. two-fsted young man from
coming here to see Bridget by the
great hornspoon. Alvira. you'll have
to do it YOURSELF"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
Poor Pat.

The surgeon Of a large hospital was
paying a visit to the patients when he
come to a cot wherein lay an Irish
very bravely, for he was grooming
loudly.
"Oh, come, my poor fellow" remon-
strated the surgeon. try and bear
your pain like man. It's no use
kicking against Fate
"Shure, you're roight, SORT groaned
the Irishman, who had been severely
kicked by a mule, specially whin
they're the fate of a mulei "-Ex-
change.
Professor Munyon has just issued a
most beautiful, useful and complete Al
manac; it contains not only all the scien-
tific information concerning the moon S
phases, in all the ATTITUDES, but has IL
Illustrated articles on how to read char
acter by phrenology, palmistry and
birth month. 1t also tells all about
card reading. birth stones and their
meaning, and gives the Interpretation
of dreams. 1t teaches beauty culture
manicuring, gives weights and meas
ures, and antidotes for poison. In fact
it is a Magazine Almanac, that not
only gives valuable information, but
will afford much amusement for every
member of the family, especially fol-
parties and evening entertainments
Farmers and people in the rural dis
tricts will find this Almanac almos'
invaluable.
1t will be sent to anyone absolutely
free on application to the MUNYON
REMEDY COMPANY, PHILADEL
PHIA
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
A Substitute for Work.

Physical culture, father, is perfect
ly lovely." exclaimed an enthusiastic
miss just home from college. Look,
To develop the arms l grasp this rod
by one end and move it slowly from
right to left"
We'll, WE'LL" exclaimed the father;
what won't science discover. If that
rod had straw at the other end of ii
you'd be sweeping. Success Maya
zine
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20
Tenderness.

1t was in the hotel Of a western min
ing town that the New England guest,
registering in the office, heard a sue
cession of you'd yells.
What in the world is that-a MUIR
der going on upstairs?" he demanded
NO." said the clerk, as he slammed
the book and lounged toward the
stairs. 1T is the spring bed up in No
5. That tenderfoot up there don't get
the hang of it, and every few days he
gets one O. the spiral springs screwed
into him like a shirt stud. | guess III
have to go up, if there amt anything
more | can do for you for few min
utes. "-Youth's Companion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

Anna Margaret had great many
toys, and her mother thought she
ought to give some of them away be-
fore Christmas to less fortunate chill
dren. Anna Margaret was willing to
part with the broken trunk and the
cracked set of dishes and the one
legged Teddy bear, and few other
toys that were in the same dilapidated
condition. But when it came to her
pet baby doll, the one that went to
sleep with her every night, she re
belled. Mother assured her that Santa
Claus would undoubtedly bring her an
other doll, even better; but she re
fused to be cOmfOrted.
Mother" she walled, IF God SEN
Aunt Jessie another baby, would she
give Baby Jean away?" She kept bel
doll.-Harper' Bazaar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

Each person lives best who does his
best for one day at time, and then
refreshes himself for his level best
the next day-Robertson
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

PILES CURED IN TO IL DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any cas-
of Itching, Blind Bleeding ProtrudinS Piles II
to IA days money refunded. 6Oc-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

A Cough IL neglected. often affects the
Lungs Browns Bronchial Troches' give
relief. 25 cents a box. Samples sent free
by John l. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

It makes a woman awfully tired to
see a man make a fool of himself
over any other woman.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

What you call temper in your wife
you call temperament in yourself.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

The common people believe without
proOf.-Tacitus.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

A woman probably feels blue wher
she Is green with envy
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

navorfng that is used the same ~ lemon
or vanilla. By dissolving granulated sugar
in water and adding Aapleine, = delicious
syrup is made and syrup better than mapis.
AApleine 8 sold by grocers. Ii not send 8c Tor
The Washington times., 1909-12-25
THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
RACE AGAIN.

A fourtcen-inch naval gun has been
built for the United States navy It
is now being tested out at the Indian
Head proving grounds. At the very
same time, a 26,OOO-ton battleship, the
Utah, is put off the ways.
She is the largest ever launched in
the world Yet there is naval author
ity for the statement that if the four
teen-inch gun is a success, and is to
be adopted. the 26.OOO-ton fighter will
have to give place to the 3o,0Oo-tOn
vessel. If that shall prove the case
and it must be said that there is an
other naval view, which maintains that
the 10000 ton vessel will be heavy
enough for battery of fourteen-inch
guns-then the Utah may be set down
as well on the way to obsolescence as
soon as she is in the water.
The Britishers, who manage TO keep
right on setting the pace in naval de-
velopment, despite their--own pessi-
mism about themselves as a naval
power. are working out the problems
of a thirteen and oue-half-inch gun.
Doubtless the twelve-inch destroyer
Will sooner or later be superseded; and
then Will be the time for another cast
ing aside of all old navy models, and a
new heart breaking and bankrupting
campaign of competitive construction
Of greater Dreadnoughts than ever.
Where is the end to comet
The drydocks are not big enough
and the harbors in general are not deep
enough for the monsters now under
construction. The navy is certainly
giving promise of becoming presently
a vastly more expensive establishment
even than IL is now. And meanwhile
we have lost second place among the
navies of the world TO Germany, whose
Dreadnought campaign has been the
most remarkable squirt any nation
ever made in naval development.
The Washington times., 1909-12-25

land and Germany must have the ques-
ton of reduction of ornaments
brought home to them. Recent months
have been marked by situation be-
tween Great Britain and the German
empire so strained and feverish that
it has disturbed the whole civilized
world. Both nations have been madly
rushing ahead with vast naval pro
grams, to say nothing of their army
programs, fearful lest the day for
reckoning old and bitter scores was at
hand. The fever in England and Ger
many has been felt in enlarged war
preparations in other coutries. Mean
while poverty increases, living costs
more, taxes pile higher and higher,
budgets are swollen, and the burdens
grow to staggering proportions. The
end of this vast expansion of arma-
ments must come some time What
is already a crushing weight cannot
be allowed to grow and grow and get
heavier year by year. The time is ripe
for consideration of the limitation of
ornaments and the reduction Of arma-
ments, and it is to be hoped the re-
ported agreement between England
and Germany viii be verified.
The Washington times., 1909-12-25
KANSAS OFFICIALS
WILL TAKE APPEAL
Authorities Nonplused by
Courts Rejection of Bank
Guarantee Law.

TOPEKA. Kan, De- 25.-Fhe decision
Of United States District Judge Pol
lock holding the new State bank
guarantee law TO be unconstitutional
is the topic Of general discussion
throughout the State today.
The governor and the law officers Of
Kansas are In conference regarding
what action Will be pursued 1t IL prob
able that the Supreme Court Of the
United states will be asked to finally
decide the question II there is anything
on which an appeal can be hung,
In the light Of authorities, II must
be held a legislative enactment that con-
fers special privileges and benefits on a
class which by the law. and not by the
conditions, are denied to another class
in the same business or calling, and
which privileges and benefits so con-
ferred on the favored class may be
and are employed to impair and de-
stroy the business OF those belonging
70 tho excluded class. II inhibited by
the provisions in the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the National Constitution
And more especially must this be
true. I think. In a case such as this,
where the business conducted by the
excluded class Is not only OF the same
nature and character as that trans
acted by the favored class. and Is con
Quoted in the same city, town. or 10y
cality, and in competition one class
with the other"
Three cases were submitted to the
court One was brought by Frank 8.
Larabee, a stOCkhOlder Of the State Elk
change Bank Of Hutchinson. The in
junction he asked, preventing the bank
commissioner from enforcing the law,
was granted
The Washington times., 1909-12-25
COOKS PREMONITION AND
IT'S REALIZATION.

This Is what DR.. Cook said IN Co.
penhagen, September 4, 1909, about his
feelings after he had hammered the
Big Nail on the head-in his mind;
As I turned away had a sort Of
revulslon of feeling. sickish wave
swept over me as 1 gazed around
that there would be people who
might call the whole expedition an
American blum. I felt that II would
be said that I bribed my two brave
EskimOs and forged my diary con-
tanning my observations.
This statement was made two days
before Peary returned to civilization
with his story Of the conquest The
doctor had a premonition, to say the
least He must have known that the
truth would out. But he erred when,
in that "revulsion Of feeling" he
thought that his doings would be
called IAN American bluff" Minister
Egan, when interviewed in New York
yesterday, made it plain that the
Danes have now no disposition to
consider DR.. Cook as the representa-
tive OF a characteristic American type.
Fakers are takers the world over. No
age and no nation has any monopoly
of them.
Nor were the Danes misled by Min
lister Egan's courtesies. The crown
prince Of Denmark was the first to
welcome Cook when the illustrious
romancer reached Copenhagen. 1t was
the prince who invited Cook to 20
ashore 10 be greeted by the crowd
Then Dr. Hovgaard, president of the
Royal Geographical Society, said while
Cook was changing his clothes: I'VE
accept Dr. Cooks statement absolute
~ without a shadow of doubt"
The Danes were stung irst-that is
all.
The Washington times., 1909-12-25
Cleaned From the Gables

The Russian Nihilists nave read
Maxim Gorky out Of their party, but
Maxim will probably continue to find
Il difficult to get the Russian police 20
believe In hirn.-Chicago Record Herald
-.
The dispatches state that Prince
Miguel Of Braganza7 who recently
welded Miss Anita Stewart, has been
sued for a million. Mike certainly was
an easy spender. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
A New York heiress has announced
that she will not marry King Manuel
II is believed the King Is Of the same
Opinion.-Toledo Blade.
Now the suffragettes have placed
Marie Corelli under ban. simply because
she called them foolish" That's
nothing Marie has said much worse
things than that about almost every
body else.-Milwaukee Daily News.
The King Of Sweden has worked az
q lOngshOTeman TO get an understands
ing Of labor needs. Who lost the d1y s
work while The King was on the jOb?-
New York American
Admiral Togo has gone on the re-
tired list. Now. perhaps, HobsOn Will
believe that the Japs are not getting
ready 20 yellow peril us 90 death
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Washington times., 1909-12-25
THE FUTURE OF THE CONGO
FREE STATE.

A few days before the death Of King
Leopold, the chief officers Of the
Belgian state addressed to the cabinets
Of foreign countries, 10 learned socie-
ties, and TO the press, a protest against
the misrepresentation Of conditions in
the Congo Free State. 1t was very
plainly intended especially for British
consumption, England having been the
country in which opposition to Leo
pold's rule of the Congo has been most
persistent and determined.
Belgian authorities have given as
surance of reforms in Africa, and
there is no doubt that these are well
intended Likewise it is accepted that
under the rule of LeopoldIs successor
there viii be better opportunity for
making the reforms effective.
But the future of the Congo State
none the less seems likely to be de-
termined more largely in Downing
Street than in Brussels. The British
nation is set upon domination of the
great African empire. Britain is de
sirous Of Anglicizing Africa to the
greatest possible extent. British in
terests demand such a policy, and this
the more since Germany has carved
out important spheres of interest on
both coasts Of Africa. and is plainly
determined TO become an important
power in Africa.
The Congo Free State occupies an
anomalous position. Belgium whose
very national existence finds its chief
guarantee in the attitude of Britain
is likely in the end 10 meet crisis
which will force it 10 relinquish It's
primacy in the Congo country 10 Eng
land Belgium and Holland alike live
in constant fear Of the Germans; and
only the certainty that England and
France would join hands with the low
countries to prevent German annexa-
ton has been potent TO keep the hand
The Washington times., 1909-12-25
ENGLAND AND GERMANY
MAY LIMIT ARMAMENTS.

II a report published in Berlin is
10 be believed, England and Germany
have reached an agreement on the
limitation Of naval ornaments. 1t is
certain that no time could be found for
the contamination Of such an agree
ment more fitting than the Christmas
season. the time when peace and good
will among nations as well as indi-
yduslS ought 90 be in evidence. I'm
I'll officially confirmed, the report will
be received with doubt and incredulity
for the reason that up TO the present
time all efforts to get the leading
European nations TO trke any serious
stock in the idea Of hol9ing down their
war preparations have teen failures.
But in spite of the failures of dis
armament movements hitherto, there
are many things about the European
situation that must impel the minds
of European statesmen to disarma-
ment. The limitation of naval arma-
ments as between England and Ger
many would be far from disarmament,
it is true, but it would be a start in
the right direction and one of no small
moment. And especially are there
reasons why the thinking men Of Eng