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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
Thou Shalt Not


such sight world renowned John D. posing the
side religious benefactor to humanity and on the
other creating and maintaining the most unrghteous and
infamous of business standards would have been an i'm
possibility.
eff the pulpts of 100 years ago had been preaching
righteousness strenuously did Jesus in those three
church corporation in New York owning and maintaining
the worst of the wretched enemens of New York
would not have been possible"
This somewhat sweeping Indictment comes from Rev. w.
H. Hopkins of Denver who minister of the gospel is
perhaps licensed to express strongly than the aty
his opinions of the shortcomings of his calling.
Down in the pews-and among the other men and
who might proftaby fill the vacant seats in most
churcheshere will be undoubtedly prevailing opin-
ion that Rev. Hopkins has hit upon truth.
Too many ministers and too many aymen have been
tent to interpret His words in the light of conditions that
existed in Jerusalem and Rome 1000 years ago.
They have recognized sin only by its ancient methods.
Thou shalt not steal "Thou shalt not commit MURDER -
still binding, recognized laws. But most ministers
and most aymenhave been content to picture the
derer only with his weapons of steel by which the slayer
personally struck down his victim. They have rob-
berry only when vicous-faced derelict reached into
pocket snached purse broke into a house.
They have not learned that today the sins multi
piled to victims, may be shielded behind mahogany
desks that the gum shoes of the midnight prower
directors room.
Today there many way to steal besides reaching into
till or chng pockeboOk There tariff that rObs;
rebate that robs; monopoly that robs.
There many to murder besides the swift blow
of the dagger or the shot from revolver.
There is the unprotected machine the dangerous mine
into which hungry driven by their necessities the
adulterated food that posons but brings profit.
Perhaps day shall all see the light that the Den
stand that the word righteousness means living that
state of mind where recognize all brothers. and
that the full wisdom of the Law and the Prophets lies
doing unto each other wish others to do unto u.s.
When we do shall be troubled with mountains of
billion dollar charitiesand awful chasms of misery
that comes with privation and penury
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
OBSERVATIONS

cleaners which
height of the
recognize the terrapn
Hannah Williams died In New York
which in
other hands to touch
pleasure
Williams he playing that old
with
the of There Jewish
York Albert
and destitute He assigned but when he
at meal 102
himself by the guards with terrible
They
q course know who he That
Chicago
acting queery Examined his
he
one cared for when baby by
his life like
could fat woman the street without an impulse
and hush him He
said usually could resist the impulse but at times it
The Judge took adrisement
MunslerbeIE .s<ste eHse -NyssTszf
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
PRESSOGRAPHS
every 10 minutes celebrates a mar.

every IS minutes celebrates a mar
riage.
The older a girl gets the less she
believes in long engagements.
Suddenly white form appeared
at window. All about leaped the
mad flames. But see, a noble hero
dashes under the ropes, makes his
way to the elevator, and shoots up
to the leventy-leventh floor, where
the lonely form is still standing
Within about eight and a half min
utes he comes tearing out of the
building with the life he had saved
beside his own. Just then the en-
tire building and the man who had
the mortgage on it collapsed. About
$4,000 people rushed over to see the
hero-the man who, at the risk Of
his own life and without the aid Of
a brass band, went to the. rescue
of one lone man.
Twas indeed noble of you," the
people cried, with one voice. "Why
did you do it,"
WELL" said the hero, Il had to.
He owes me 40 cents"
YET MORE HARBINGERS:
Circus posters, robins, automobile
shows. dandelion greens. tramps,
For Rent" signs.
When first the lone butterfly fits
on the wing;
When red glow the naples, so
fresh and so pleasing,
Oh, then comes the bluebfrd, the
herald of spring, y.,-u
And halls with his warblings the
the charms of the season.
Wilson.
The best spring medicine is one
/ you don't have to take. NEy
ADDITIONAL HARBfNGERS .
Seed catalogues, daisies, tops, real
estate agents, bluebirds, baseball
skunk cabbage and millinery bills
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
AmCRA! (. :
e Vas LISTENED BY FRED SCHAEFEE2.

There isn't any answer to that
except that grew up with this face
and now it's knit on me- My wife
values it for keep sake. She
knows that with this face she will
keep me, all right.
But you ought to have seen me
when was kid. My name is Bel
Wis, but everybody spoke of me as
Apollo, because my mother used to
call me 'Belva, dear"
But made lot of money when
was a beauty doctor. l had all
the incurables. In that way, other
peoples faces were my fortune.
had some stuff that would re-
move the wen on persons nose,
When the nose would come off, the
wen would. Of course, after that
a new nose would be necessary,
but I'd give them the choice of one
without a wen on it.
For people subject to muddy com.
plexiOns l would graft mud guards
on their faces.
Sometimes would iron out wrin.
, kles. But If they weren't well
starched, they'd wilt.
But my greatest success was the
"Pro Bono Publico Superfluous
Hair Remover" Placed on any
bald head it is guaranteed to be
entirely superfluous or money re
funded.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
OH, SAY, DID YOU TRY IT, TOO!

The -Four Jealous BeauX' puzzle is a hoax
tempting breaking the
Y
Mathematician the quizzca ha
a which b,
a b. holding
without the crossing
unless her mate also
with four coupes-NO. 1t has been declared impossible.
eforeA III,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01

At the next meeting of the Story
| club. Dollchild arose and read hel
story, which she had very carefully
written out. Freckleberry said this
| wasn't fair, but he was overruled
| The story was about the Gonagain
| and how he hides himself
Every animal has some way to
protect itself against it's enemies, y
read the Dollchild. This must be
so, because every writer on natural
history says it is SO, and anyway
you can see it for yourself Life
is just one long game of hide-and.
| seek among animals. only it isn't
a very pleasant game for the ami.
NAL caught.
But l am quite sure you have
never heard of an animal which
protects itself as the Gonagain
does. Have you ever heard of the
Gonagain? No? Well neither
have |; but that makes no differ
ence.
THE Gonagain Is a very vora.
cious animal. That means it can
eat great deal. Some writer's call
it the Greedy Gonagain, or they
might call it that if they had ever
written about it. 1t really isn't
fair, though, to call the Gonagain
greedy. AS matter of fact; it
must keep its large stomach nearly
empty as a means of defense.
THE flesh of the Gonagain is the
very daintiest morsel ever tasted,
or it would be if anyone had ever
tasted it. 1t has the flavor of
a truffle, with just tinge of wild
strawberry and honey, and it
smells like cookies just out of the
oven. If you can think of any
thing better than these, why, it
tastes like that, too.
This delicious flavor of the Con
| again makes. it very much sought
after. Every animal hunts it day
and night, or would hunt it, if 1t
were only known that there were
such thing as the Gonagain. Why,
once Gonagain was chased by a
| horrible, hungry crocodile behind
him and by a man-eating lion on
one side and a half-starved royal
| Bengal tiger on the other, and they
chased him right to the edge of a
cliff which hung over the deep,
| deep ocean, and in the ocean he
could see the black fins of sharks
waiting to get him if he jumped
| in. There was a tree on the cliff
and the Gonagain was just going to
climb it, when he saw the biggest
boa constructor ever constructed up
in the tree. So there was no posi-
Bile means of escape, if he had been
anything else than a Gonagain.
Luckily for the Gonagain. he
hadn't had anything to eat for three
weeks. so he bit off his tail and
it, and then he unjointed
his hind legs and swallowed them
and then he crowded his stomach
up behind his ears and swallowed
the back part of his body right up
to his head. and then he turned his
long lips in and swallowed hrs
head After that there was nothing
else to do but to swallow his stom
| ach, and when the lion leaped and
the tiger sprang and the crocodiie
lbseusht down his jaws and the boa
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
THE STORY OF A COPYRIGHT MARK

Maybe you've noticed that cute little c. neatly fenced
in by circle beneath many of the pictures in the
papers and magazines, and you've wondered if the
graver had stuck it on to add to the beauty of art
Well if you bark back to distant date of the past
YOU will remember that under lots of the pictures in
this paper you read little ne-that is, some OF you
read it--like this:
Copyright, 1909, by What's His Name
Evidently Uncle Sam did not like to weigh down a
picture that heavily, for he has given permission
to lop off the first word and the year, substituting
therefor the mysterious circed G..
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01

9TH man who airs his
opinions on tn back plat
form of a street car talks
twice as Alecky eff he sees
somebody look half way in
terested. Don't encourage
him.
A straight ticket, unfortunately,
isn't always as straight as it
sounds.
The house of representatives has
had 81 speakers during the 12t
years Of its existence.
THAT young man you are going
to marry is already becoming one
of the family" said Mr. Grooch to
his daughter.
What makes you think so,
papa?"
"He is commencing to show dis
like for your MOTHER said the old
man.
New York receives an immi-
| grant every az seconds, has fatal
accident every hour, divorce
every eight hours, a suicide every
10 hours, death every six minutes
a birth every five minutes, and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01

A straight ticket, unfortunately,
isn't always as straight as it
sounds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01

I1Sttn. I uSpu 10 De q DVdUCy
specialist.
It's everybodys duty to be beauti-
full. But then, some people will
shirk. Why, I've seen members Of
the fair sex that when you got them
into the bright daylight it was easy
to see they were only honorary
members. You couldn't preserve
their beauty with benzoate of soda
in their flesh food
Man in the back of the hall wants
to knew whether l was driven out
of the business by my face or didn't
l quit sooner because l did a mail
order business.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01

~ EDMUND VINCE COOKE
HOW THE GoNAGA1N HIDES HIMSELF.

constructor dropped to the ground,
just where they thought the Con
again was, why, there was nothing
but nice smell of cookies just
out of the oven.
And they all rolled over the
cliff into the ocean, and then the
Gonagain just unstomached him
self and ran away"
Tomorrow the Storyman will tell
Of mother Natures Christmas
Tree"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01
CITY MUST REMOVE
ENGINEER RALSTON

From the standpoint of the citizen the taxpayer and
good government the finale of the Sprague fill
litigation tried this week in the superior court tragic
shattered the lurking hope that possibly there might be-
in the ntrcaces of the law, chance to the city from
serious loss in the most bungng job Of engineering
fosted upon long suffering community But the finding
of the court sweeping that every prop knocked
out from under the citys case and left to foot the
bill for the damage suits that pending and the
nous cost of rebuilding the Improvement
It will rest with the city council to make the loss as
light it possibly The first step to accomplish this
end will be to city engineer j. Ralston
has been tried his plans and convicted of unness and
there for the council longer depending upon him
The city council should the services of
peent engineer if it becomes necessary for the
Gil to employ one itself.
RALSTON'S USEFULNESS HAS TERMINATED
AND FURTHER TOLERANCE OF HIS UNFITNESS
ON THE PART OF THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE
ALMOST CRIMINAL.
With competent advisor in the city engineers office
the city council then take up the Sprague avenue FILL
secure the best settlement possible drush the work to
completion in justice to the property owners Of the east
enc of the city.
FURTHER DELAY AND TEMPORIZING IN THE
CASE OF RALSTON IS OUT OF THE QUESTION.
ELIMINATE HIM FROM THE CONTROVERSY AND
SEE IF PEACE AND RESULTS CAN NOT BE
BROUGHT OUT OF DISSENSION AND WASTED
EFFORT.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-01

eff so years ago the pull
pits of America had been
emphasizing righteousness
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
I&A. g. 1IzEslD zxaaA!|,
GElU[laa[5D> 0ElO[L[50
DECLARED OFF.

when can you spare the time for
s1ur marriage. Marion?" the betrothed
mmn asked.
The woman consulted her engage
xntnt book Three O'Clock next Fri
day afternoon" she replied.
~Oh, that will be out Of the ques-
t1Dn." he cried protestingly There's
= special meeting Of the Glitter Gold
1Dmpany that must attend at that
S1me.~
We'll. it's the only time have" she
1sld him with an air OF easy resigna-
k1nw- Every other hour for the next
sfwo years is filled up"
The man jerked his shoulder trri-
t1bly. Il guess we'll have to call our
Nftle matter of, them he said.
lit seems to be Inevitable" she
agreed, indifferently
And so they parted, for with some
people marriage is but an incident.
and an incident Is. of course, too
ariviAl to deserve the sacrifice of an
event.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
There Should,

Fritz the gardener was stolid Ger
man VINO was rarely moved to ex-
traordinary language. Even the most
provocative occasions only caused him
to remark mildly on his ill-luck. Not
long ago he came back from the city
in the late evening after a hard day
In the market place. He was sleepy,
and the train being crowded, the bag
gageman gave him chair In his
roomy car.
Finally the train rea ,hed Bloom
field. Fritz still slept as it pulled in
and his friend had to shake him and
tell him where he was.
Il tanks you," said Fritz, as he rose
slowly to his feet. The open door OF
the car was directly in front Of him.
He walked straight out of 1t.
The baggageman sprang to look aft
or him. Fritz slowly picked himself
up from the sand by the side Of the
track, looked up at the door, and said
with no wrath in his voice:
There should here be some steps
st. Paul Dispatch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27

then the whistle would stop and q
voice would give CHEEKY greeting to
Virginia.
Virginia always sent back timid an
swers. Miss Cornelia had no use for
the neighbors on the other side Of
the fence. She called them shiftless
and refused to recognize that the son
of the family was different from the
others. She would not admit that
his industry was redeeming the scrub
by farm that his father had let run
to waste. Indeed. Mark Graham's
garden promised to be superior to
Virginias. Virginia had spoken Of 1t
that morning In q shy conversation
over the fence.
Il don't see how you make your let
tuce and radishes grow SO fast" she
had murmured. Mine are just begin
ming to show above the ground, and
yours will be ready to eat before
many days"
well a man knows more about
such things" Mark had said. with q
glance at the slender hands on the
fence rail- 1T doesn't seem as II Z
woman ought to dig"
"Oh, I'd die II didn't. Aunt Cor
nelia would keep me sewing In the
house. and love to be out of doors.
Its shame" Mark muttered
that you cannot do as you please. L
i" He stopped suddenly.
Virginia knew what he wanted t.
say to her. She knew that he lovet
her. and she knew. too, that HI
would never tell her as long as h
was poor and struggling farmer
She knew that even II he did ask he
Miss Cornelia would never consen
to their marriage
She sighed and he saw her shad
owed eyes.
II wish | could tell you all that |
In my heart. Virginia." Mark said.
Virginia smiled bravely and sale
But you mustn't. Mark" and the
she had run away from him into tn
house.
Miss Cornelia had seen the two
the fence and had resolved to kee
Virginia, If possible, out OF the ga
den. Miss Cornelia had her own ides
about matrimony for her niece. tn
young doctor In town who called no
and then. and whose admiration
Virginia was obvious. had money, p
sition and a good practise Therefor
Miss Cornelia argued, If Virginia ma
ried, why not marry the doctor?
Virginia liked the doctor. but whe
she rode with him or walked vii
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Enterprise.

A Boston doctor sat in front seat
in a fremont street theatre the other
night. In the breathless silence as
the third act neared it's climax, there
was a commotion near the door. and
then a grave voice said
SIS DR.. Blank in the audience?'
DR.. Blank rose calmly. He passed
down the aisle with the serious, self
contained air of one on whom the life
of fellow creature depends. A young
man awaited him at the door.
"Well?" said the doctor. well, sir.
what is it?"
Doctor" said the young man, as
he drew a large wallet from his
breast pocket, Pm Cash & Payup's
new collector. Would it be convent
ent for you to settle that small &C.
count this evening? Washington
Star
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
A Freak of Nature,

Col Dennison had become the hap.
Ply father of twins, and his unbounded
pride in this two-fold blessedness
found expression on every occasion.
he stood with friend on the bank
steps one day as a young woman
passed wheeling baby carriage con-
tanning pretty girl baby.
Doesn't woman look queer" said
the colonel, loftily, with only one
child?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27

Virginia came In. all grubby from
digging In her vegetable garden.
Il don't see." her aunt said. why
you like to dig in the dirt"
Virginia flushed. III you would let
me have flowers" she began.
II never could fuss with flowers"
Miss Cornelia grumbled. They amt
useful, and believe In people being
useful and things being useful"
Virginia did not argue the question.
In fact Virginia did not argue any
thing. She was still fair. shrinking
child, In spite of her twenty-one years.
She had come to live with her aunt
when she was little girl, and 1t had
not taken her long to find out that
argument with that strong. stern per-
sonality was like beating her head
against a stone wall.
The one compensation for the tack
If sympathy which she found In her
home was the beauty OF the country
surrounding It, Virginias childhood
had been spent In the city and her
aunt's rambling white house, with the
orchard to the right OF it, and with
the garden to the left of 1t, and the
stretch Of wooded land behind it, filled
her soul with delight. 1t was IN the
spring that she liked 1t best.
Miss Cornelias ideas as to the du
ties of young women we're old-fash
loned She liked to see Virginia per
forming domestic tasks in the kitchen
or In the living-room. where they
sewed together.
But Virginia loved the out of doors
She had begged the privilege Of ia
king care of the vegetable garder
when she found that she could no
have flowers. OF late. too, there hat
been deeper reason for Virginia.
10y in her out-of-door work Across thu
fence was another garden, and In THU
garden some one worked who's
| whistle was as clear as the call O
the blackbird On the fence. Now ant
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Interested Them.

II have here" says the inventor to
changes in sleeping cars"
~Yrs?" murmurs the capitalists.
This plan liner eases the space Civ
~ to each passenger and makes the
berth much more comfortable by"
Cant consider it."
We'll, the second plan makes the
gar uncomfortable. but 1t enables 1t to
AID"
-G!ve US the complete details. with
estimates OF cost"-Llfe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Scented a Bargain.

A worker in the Salvation Army
tells the following story:
"A down-and-out beggar came along
an uptown street the other day where
l was getting ready to hold a meet
ing. The man looked pretty much up
against it, and l watched him to see
what he would do.
HE approached bystander,
shame facedly, and muttered some
thing The man asked him to repeat
it, and l heard the beggar say:
Please, sir, will you give me 10
cents for bed?'
Certainly, certainly the man re-
piled, taking dime from his pocket.
Where Is the bed?' boston TRAY.
eler
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27

Despite the fact that she is 80 years
of age Mrs. Mary Conner of Bendigo,
Victoria. when out on horseback with
friends challenged some younger
women to a race. In the race her
horse fell, and the aged lady sus-
tained fractured thigh.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27

The obese party with che big dia-
Annnd in his tie claimed to be a self
made man and a millionaire
But" we asked. were you not hap
pier when you were earning $1.15 a
: day by the sweat Of your brown"
No" he answered. Il am happier
now than At any previous stage Of the
i. came"
Thus were We led to doubt the mil.
Eionaire portion of the claim.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Out Of season.

Desc pure-food guys make me
= tired" muttered Micky Jones. as he
looked over the newspaper.
What's de trouble. kiddo?' asked
This chum.
why. In de winter months dey al.
ways get on dat gag about ice cream
being adulterated an unhealthy. Why
don't dey spring 1t In de summer
when de COILS are nagging yer every
hour to treat?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
He Know the Kind.

Little Edward, aged four, was an
only child. He was anxious for a
baby sister. and was talking of 1t one
day with friend of the family In
the friends family was baby girl OF
one year. The lady said, Edward,
you may have my baby; she Is pretty
and sweet"
"Oh," said Edward, II don't want an
old baby. want a bran new one wifi
noff1n on but talcum powder" Red
Hen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Trustworthy.

Rufus, you old loafer, do you think
It's right to leave your wife at the
wash tQb while you pass your time
fishing?'
"Yassah, jedge; it's all right. Nah
wife don need any watching She'll
sholy wuk jes' as hard as if was
dab. Boston TRANSCRIPT
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Only an Echo.

They were heckling him at a polit.
ical meeting. At last he could stand
it no longer.
VINO prayed there?" he cried sar.
castically.
II was only an echo,' retorted
somebody amid much laughter
Bits.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
More Frenxled Finance.

sBleeker-I don't see why our gov
ernment should tax the people or need
= tariff. It has exclusive control OF
IN earth.
Meeker-Referring to the mint?
Bleeker-No. The stamps we pay
cents apiece for cost the government
only cents Z thousand.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
The Ultimatum.

Mamma-"No, you can't have any
more pennies today"
, The Spoilt Child-"If you don't give
me one I'll wake the baby."-Brook,
lyn Life
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
Too Small for Use.

Man." remarked the student OF I'M
natural history, lis the only animal
that uses q handkerchief"
Then" rejoined the thoughtful
thinker. ut is just as | suspected"
How Is that?" Queried the student
"A woman's handkerchiefs are only
for show" answered the t. t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
A. Amended,

1.-THE man who trusts acother edu-
Gates him." remarked the generator
of near-philosophy.
You have said It." rejoined the stu
dent OF human nature. And the more
trusting he does the more he will add
to bis own stock OF knowledge"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27
A Bold Jollier.

Mrs. Hashleigh-Yes, we've been
having considerable trouble with onr
milk lately. Do you take your coffee
with or without?
New Boarder-I take If with,
Boston Transcript.