The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-01-18


century government
Street cars reekins with the pun.
gent odor Of moth balls remind the
people that winter IL near.
No wonder the earth II shaking just
1t present There are enough things
doing on It to make It . tribe nervous.
II Noah's ark was - full - the
Smithsonian institution soon will be. It
must have been loaded beyond Plim.
soils mark.
There u reason to believe that
hsnceforth the great white plague will
occupy more modest quarters In the
census reports.
Once IN awhile. even now. = man or
= woman will die for love, but It
doesn't happen nearly 20 often - was
formerly the case.
Meals on railroad trains average 70
cents. Who buys them 1t Z lower
price than that to cut down your @126
check to the averaee3
II - only the conventional kind Of
living that comes high. When = man
can set Z pair Of khaki trousers and
two khaki shirts for two dollars. what
more does he need3
A proposed society fox hunt in Ohio
has been stopped BY the humane 90
cieties. The humane authorities must
have thought some OF the hunters
we're In danger Of catching the fox.
The csar will rot visit MOSCOW, tho
old capital Of the empire. He ought
20 sympathise with the demands OF
bis people for greater freedom. for he
seems to have very little Of It him.
Uelf.
Only = short time ago the wireless
telegraph and aerial navigation were
classed ~ visionary; today they are
practical realities. Progress in the
twentieth century moves with neet
teet.
The military aeroplanes Of the fu.
turs will drop bombs on warships.
Warships Of the future will be fitted
with guns to destroy aeroplanes. And
70 the takeand-give invention Of war.
tare goes on.
The Joy riders Of Gotham have
broken out afresh. Nor will their raw.
ages be checked until the law and the
authorities devise = punishment to At
the crime. which ought not to be dif.
ocuIt IL this day Of resources.
England las turned out the biggest
sea.nghtins machine yet. supposed to
Be impervious to torpedoes. Now the
Inventors will get to work on 4 con.
Quertns torpedo. That ID the way. Al
soon % an immovable obstacle 10
found out. then human ingenuity gets
quickly to work on another irresistible
force. The comforting reflection with
peace lovers 10 that no war could
last long with such instruments Of
Wholesale destruction.
The bureau Of statistics Of the d.
partment OF commerce and labor an.
uounces that = continued Improvement
In the Industrial situation Of the coun.
Try 10 indicated BY the reports Of lead.
ing internal commerce movements
during the past month There 10 q big
Increase In the transportation and use
Of materials like soft coal, coke and
iron in the output OF mills and distri.
button Of products With good grain.
crops It looks like busy and prosper
Gus winter.
The total dividend and interest pay.
ments October | will reach $16l.72l..
0U0. which lie $16.574,000 more than
last year. showing the marked ad-
vancement In prosperity and the gain
In Industrial activity within the period
indicated. And the way In which mills
are starting up. crops are coming to
market and railroads are getting busy
exhausting the stock Of surplus cars
and calling for more. gives sufficieut
indication OF still better times In the
immediate future.
The theory that man must depend
on the munitcence OF friends n he
Wishes " eutoI Tue NAtS OF literature.
and be entirely contented with the
glory that may come to him is per
feet absurdity Inventors work for
glory and for money. Men who write
give fair return to the world. They
are entitled to some reward more tan
gible than mere words He who con.
tributes q classic to our literature
adds to the sum total OF civilization.
His work IL more lasting than the
In the United States education has
long been too much of an accom-
plishment. not a training. For our
boys and our girls we have been
proud to provide schooling that or
naments their lives with graces OF
conduct or smattering of knowledge
that may flatter our vanity while 1t
units them for the fierce struggle of
life. But all this Is being changed.
and It must be changed II our nation
can hold It's own. not only AQainat