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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
CHILD'S GIFT REAL CHARM
Rescued Father From Dependency
and Proved the Foundation
Of Fortune.

A certain business man has a curl
GUS little charm for his watch chain
He wouldn't sell it for $1,000; no, nor
two, nor three. His little child gave
1t to him one day when. as he says, he
was down"
Il had lost every cent l had in the
world, and there at my desk. my head
on my arms, was thinking of a posi-
BILE way to end it, when my little child
came up to me and asked: What does
ruined" mean, papa?' And then I
knew had been grooming loud enough
to be heard and understood. You said
ruined" paper. What does 1t mean?'
1T means l haven't any money,
baby. Papas a poor man. The little
feet battered away, then back again,
and here on my watch charm is what
she gave me. Not great fortune-no,
but the foundation Of one. Whatever
I've got since came from 1t, for 1t gave
me courage" Christian Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

California IL one Of tho western
states which shows rapid growth. The
census figures Just announced give
California population Of 2.377.549. =
gain Of COL per cent over 1900. This
10 the largest increase made by any
state from which the final census
returns have yet been received. and
shows that the glorious climate OF
California" and other allurements are
attracting settlers quite as numerous
" as did the gold fever Of 40 and
later.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

The barn illustrated Is built on the
plan Of prairie schooner. as 1t Is
mostly roof and has no beam or NOR
tise In Its makeup, and ordinary farm
help can do all the work, says CORE
spondent of Rural New Yorker The
barn is 40 feet long and go feet wide;
the arches, which represent the bows
of q prairie schooner or movers
wagon, are made OF Inch boards 6
inches wide and boards deep. The
boards can be Of any length or vari-
our lengths. Each board Is bent to
shape as it Is nailed to the others. US
ing plenty of nails and giving good
lap over each Joint.
The half-circle arches are made In
a form constructed Of posts set a few
feet apart in the ground and to the
outside of q half circle line drawn
With the proper radius. The posts
should be set .perpsndicular and *
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
BUILD BARN WITH ROUND ROOF

tend 3 or feet out of the ground to
make room for several arches to be
made at one time. These arches are
placed about 8 feet apart on the side
walls, which were built of stone 4
feet high and 2 feet thick. The arches
or rafters were covered with sheath
ing and shingles, except at the top,
which was too fiat for shingles, and
the metal roofing was used. Six
round posts were used In each end,
extending from the top of a stone wall
l foot high to the arches. The cir.
ders and siding were nailed to these
posts.
The floor is paved with field stone
about IL inches deep, except in the
stalls. which were filed with sand
inches deep and covered with wooden
blocks 4 inches long set on end. The
stone was covered smooth with hard
clay.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
OLD COMMON SENSE.
Change Food When You Feel Out o.
Sorts.

"A great deal depends upon yourself
and the kind of food you eat" the
wise old doctor said to a man who
came to him sick with stomach trou-
Bile and sick headache once or twice a
week, and who had been taking pills
and different medicines for three or
four years.
He was induced to stop eating any
sort of fried food OF meat for break
last, and was put on Grape-Nuss and
cream. leaving off all medicines.
In few days he began to get bet
ter. and now he has entirely recover
ed and writes that he is in better
health than he has been before In
twenty years. This man Is IS yearr
old and says he feels like a new man
all the time"
Read The Road to MELVILLE" in
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever vead the above letter. A..-
sne appears from time to time. Thev
kenuAnes truas and fuu Of hunaS
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

cracks should be filled with mixture
of cement and sand. The proportion
which will best fill the requirements
II part cement to III part OF good
clean sand. This should be mixed thin
enough to spread easily and then
swept into the cracks with a heavy
barn broom or steel brush. Such a
floor will be found very sanitary and
not 80 slippery as concrete. For drive
ways where loads are to be drawn or
where horses are to stand, a better
grade of brick will be required.
Concrete Is the best and most SAM.
tary floor that can be used In dairy
barn and effort should be made to
have such floors installed whenever
q barn is being constructed. They
should be laid upon good foundations
and finished with grooves to prevent
the animal slipping upon them. The
stalls should be provided with mats
of lumber 30 placed that they may be
frequently removed for cleansing. All
parts of the stalls which are made OF
wood, should be removable SO that
they may be readily replaced when
worn out
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
Valuable Crops,

Carrots and mangel-wurzels, or
mangolds, are two neglected crops
that are valuable and easily grown.
Either OF them produces heavily on
good corn land and makes excellent
winter feed for all kinds Of live stock
and poultry. Carrots are especially
good for cows and horses. while a few
mangolds for cows, sheep and pigs
promote health and growth. For poul
green feed or other kinds.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

When Webster Smith placed biz
sign outside the door Of the cottage
~ had chosen for An once and liv.
iAg room, he gave . sigh Of relief.
The Arst step in his career had been
taken.
Smith was . lawyer. An indulgen:
parent . leading member Of the bar
Of nearby city. was responsible for
Smiths residence in the suburban VII
lags.
What the deuce will they want Of
. lawyer out there. dad?" he had
asked his father.
Never mind, Webb" had been his
reply. I'VE are overrun with budding
lights and diploma-bred attorneys
here. You get out where no one
ever heard Of = lawyer named Smith
and let's see what's in you"
So the newly admitted member Of
the bar had come to the little place,
more to satisfy his father than to
practise tho arts Of ono Blackstone.
Blairville had never had . FULL
blooded attornsy-at-law before. There
was Squire Brown, a kindly old mag
istrate. who dispensed justice and
warrants 1t 20 much per head. No
thought Of ever questioning 4 deci-
sion OF the squire ever entered the
heads Of the simple country folk.
Tho advent of Webster Smith. At
torney-at-Law. As the sign read. was
duly noted In the weekly Telegraph,
commented on around the cracker
barrel at Deacon Jones grocery and
then forgotten.
Time went ON 40 It has = habit Of
doing and the attorney still waited his
nrst client.
Repeatedly. no had travelled to town
to inform his father that the simple
life was too wearisome for him to
bear longer
Webster had become acquainted
What good-looking young man. a
stranger In . small town, could avoid
It?
There was Sadie Brown. the sQuire'a
only daughter. . miss Of long stand.
Ing. who always kept = watch out
for strangers. in hopes Of annexing q
husband, despite her advancing years
Theresa Perkins was another kind
" soul who took It upon herself t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

The story from Now York that
loans to the aggregate Of $4,000. 900
have been negotiated abroad indicates
that American credit II excellent, and
also that the money 10 likely to be
put whore 1t will do the most good in
promoting American enterprises. In
sidentAlly It ID proof that tho money
market . BY NO means ~ hard" ~
had been supposed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

look out for the welfare Of strangers
Her pity was also for . purpose Mat
rimony was the goal she would reach
Tho attorney with tho ordinary
name treated all the damsels with
politeness. steadily declined any in
vitations and spent most Of his time
reading decisions Of the higher
courts.
Then Betty Sloan came to town
She was visiting the Turner's. up or
the pike road. Blairville at once be
came interesting to the barrister. ant
be pondersd on . way to get &C
Quainted.
Betty was . typical summer girl
When Smith first saw her she wal
dressed in . fluffy pink gown.
This at once scored for Miss Betty
for Webster Smith had decided lik
ing for pink. 1t had been his favor
ite color at college. and some hat
gone 90 far ~ to call him Pinkey.
1t was q hot. duty August morn
ing Seeking . cool nook tho younI
lawyer had esconsed himself in {
uWUIuOCA Ou tu0 POASo Vi uiU O4dSe
. fan in one hand and . magazine Il
the other.
Evidently the story had not prove'
very interesting. for he was arouse
from his slumber by a knock on on
Of tho porch posts. while q voice
rather timidly, was saying: II be
! pardon. IL this Mr.. SMITH"
| Smith hastily leaped from the han
mock and bowed low to the vision i
pink before him, and whom he q
once recognized at Betty Sloan.
Webster Smith. at your service!
he exclaimed. Wont you step int
the offlce?"
II would much prefer to sit OF
here where 1t IL cool and shady, M
Smith," she replied. you see hav
come to consult you on legal bus
ness"
Her words brought him back
earth She had come to consult hi
on legal business. His nrst cast
Smith could not bring his senses t
gether to figure out what kind Of
case she could have for him.
He brought out his large ofn'
chair.
; "A client must confde In her la
} yer. have bean told" commence
, Betty, with an arch glance at tho I
! torney before her. so hrst Of al
have q confession to make"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

ditions. If a cistern y used for re-
tanning the liquid mature it may be
desirable to have more fall.
The liquid manure cistern should be
SO situated as to permit Of as few
angles as possible in the pipes lead
ing from the cutters. Traps should
be so constructed where the pipes
have their beginning in the cutters
as to permit Of quick cleaning. Open
ings should be provided in the floor
at each bend of the pipes. In this
way little difficulty would be expert
enced in keeping the drains free.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
Priceless Memento.

And this" says the proud man, IL
one OF my most priceless possessions.
l would not sell 1t at any price"
"Why, it's simply queer photo
graph What does 1t symbolize~ asks
the interested caller.
THAT is a picture Of my left ear.
taken on the day the president whis-
pered in It Please pass the salt at q
dinner given in his honor"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
Malady Worth Haviro,

Il can't understand my husband.
doctor; am afraid there is some
thing terrible the matter with him"
what are the symptoms?"
well. l often talk to him for half
a hour at time and when l get
through he hasn't the least idea what
I've been saying"
Don't worry any more about your
husband. wish | had his gift."-
Stray Stories.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

Tho latest thing At Newport II =
ng-time bear dinner. A bull and bear
dance would look pretty lively. only
It would be unpleasantly suggestive
Of shop"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

altitude to sea level proved too much
for me and became afflicted with ca
tarrh and cold In tho head and general
debility to such an extent as to almost
incapacitate me for attending to my
duties.
IT was Induced to try Peruna, and
after taking several bottles in small
doses I am pleased to say I was entire
" restored to my former normal condi-
ton and have ever since recommended
the use of Peruna to my friends"
Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruns
Almanac for 1911.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A banknote that had been washed
and ironed by . fastidious woman was
pronounced = counterfeit. The public.
evidently. u familiar only with hlthy
lucre.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A Chicago woman, in suing for d.
vorce, declares that her husbands
etsnographer looked at him longing
y, lovingly, sweetly and invitingly."
That stenographer certainly must
have been . good locker.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

One Of the Harvard professors pa
thetically declares that Yankee blood
b dying out We suspect that the
trouble with him IL that he hasn't been
away from Z big town lately.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

That Long Island Judge who ruled
that 5000 = year Is enough for tho
education Of . sixteen-year-old girl
doubtless had In his crude masculine
mind only the useful things. Other
kinds cost more
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A Mississippi man who put . stick
e dynamite in his pocket and then fell
down with It will recover from his In
turtles. A man so favored By pure
dumb luck" - this ought to BE- in
steady demand a. q mascot.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

While It IL true that one makes &C
Quaintances with queer people ON
ones vacation. It is not always nee
essary to 60 on q vacation to achieve
that end.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
PROMINENT
ODD FELLOW
Rad cass Of catar1j1 and othee
Complications. Fully Re-
stored By Perma.

Mr.. Chn L
6auer. Grand
Scribe. Grand
Bncampment
L o. o. f.. Of
Texas. writes
from San An
tonic. Texas:
Nearly two
y e q r 9 ago I
q c c e p I Q d q
p os ition al
secretary and
treaUurer of
on . Of tho
l e a d ing dry
goods estab-
lishments of
G alv . . I on.
T . IA .. The
. U d d . n
change from .
Al-A H.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A man In New York bet six months
In Jail on the election and lost. Now.
despite his efforts. he can't break into
Jail to pay the debt A worse hard
luck tale could scarcely be told.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A motorcycle ran against tho rear
end of an Indiana mule the other day,
and It Il reported that two or three
pieces Of the machine were afterward
found almost intact.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

An Indiana man died recently after
having lived for ninety years without
ever having had his face shaved OF
his hair cut. 20 he claimed, but the
story seems incredible. Surely his
mother must have cut his hair whom
b vas too young to put up . fight.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

Montenegro IL . kingdom now In
stead Of = mere principally. Over IN
Montenegro there are people proba'
bly, who think We care.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

That New York professor who do
elares college women have not made
good" cannot successfully maintain
that they have not made good fudge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

Meat prices have como down. &C.
cording to market reports. but some
Of tho local dealers evidently don't
rad the papers. Somebody ought to
toll EN-.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

The man who introduced moving
Dictures into this country 10 dead, but
whether no died remorseful or unre-
Dentant the dispatches do not say.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A Swiss doctor says that drunkards
i've longer than total abstainers.
stu. even this 10 NO excuse for being
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A hobble skirt In which q disguised
burglar tried to escape assisted
greatly In his capture. Thus we see
that even the hobble skirt hath it,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

And 1t sometimes happens that .
man likes to have his wife get so mad
she won't speak to him-then she will
not ask him for money.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

II shoveling in coal and carrying
out the ashes were all there Is to rum
ming a furnace 1t would be excellent
exercise. But many a man becomes
dangerously fatigued when it comes to
writing out checks for the coal mer-
chant.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

It 10 planned to unionize the hoboes.
Excellent. And then stop them from
working other people after union
hours.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

A Winsted (Conn.) farmer has
trained = rooster to ride q bicycle.
This 10 something to crow about.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
Nat DI.po.ed "a Draw n o,n

Not Disposed to Draw II Out.
ITO read Bible through. at the
rate Of chapter day. would taxa
three years and three months"
well, should read more than Z
chapter = day and get It over with
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

WIN tho international school OF
$500 organize = football team ana
- out after the championship
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

Progressive farmers are now pillow.
~ By gasoline. thus having more
AAy to sell.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07


the stall the
In D difficult clean.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07

There 10 still = place for the horse
IA this auto-nying age.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

Wilmington, Del, Sept. 5.-Mrs.
Laury Kirby, colored, age % years
lO4 Walnut street, is the mother
of 27 children. No other mother
in Wilmington can lay claim to
such a record. OF her 27 children
nine four girls and five boys are
living. Only one, Jas. Kirby, is
now in this city. He is her first
son, her first daughter being a
twin sister to James. This mother
of many children was slave in the
home of John Davis, at Centerville
Md. Just after the war, when she
was Is years of age, she was mar
ried to Louis Kirby. Mrs. Kirby's
first children were twins. They
both living. She gave birth to
three more sets of twins, and then
her children came singly, one each
year, until there twenty seven IN
all. Although large woman and
a mother of twenty-seven children
Mrs. Kirby is a very active wo-
man. She goes out to do washing
early in the week, and takes wash
ing at her home the last half of
the week. She lived at Center
vile until about nineteen years
ago. when at the death of her hus-
band came to this city.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

Louisville, Ky Quite a num-
Der of months ago several ladies
proposed to establish a home for
colored girls where they would be
trained in Domestic Science and
other useful arts. Everyone,
white and colored, was in favor of
the establishment of the home.
Several solicitors were placed in
the field; the site for the home was
selected in a white residence dis
trict. The white citizens in the
neighborhood raised storm and
have held several indignation
meetings, declaring that the es-
ia blishment of such home in this
aristocratic neighborhood would
depreciate the value of their
homes. 1t seems so strange how
some of these same persons Will
not have any one else but colored
servants who sleep on the premi-
ses, who cook their food, laundry
their clothes, nurse their children
and fill every position around their
home. Yet when a home is es-
tablished to train young women
for these places a great storm is
raised.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
WHITE AND CoLoRED FARMERS

Washington, d. O., Sept. 20
Census Director Durand gave ou
today an important advance state
ment from the bureau of census
containing additional figures and
details of the agricultural statis-
tics of continental United States
collected at the thirteenth decen-
nial census, April Is, 1910. 1t is
based on u preliminary compara-
tive summary submitted by DIR.
LIE. srand Powers, chief statisti-
clan for the division of agricul-
ture in the bureau OF the census
and it supplements brief prellm-
mary notice issued in July last.
The figures here given are sub
iect to revision, inasmuch as there
are a small number of farms the
returns for which are incomplete,
which will be included in the final
tables. Such additions, however
will not materially modify either
the amounts or the rates herein
stated.
The number uf farms operated
by white farmers was 5,422,S9 or
S5.5 per cent of all farms, while
the number operated by Negro,
and other non-white farmers was
917, ,465, or 14.5 per cent of the
whole. There is a slight increase
in the proportion of Negro and
other nonwhite farmers, the pro-
portion of farms operated by them
10 years ago being l3.4 per cent
Whether this increase in the pro-
portionate number of Negro farm
ers means any increase in the rela-
tive extent of farming conducted
by Negroes cannot be determined
until further tabulations are made
showing the size of farms, by color
or farmer.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
Famous Negroes.

A quartet of famous Negroes
Sergeievich Poushkin, born IN
1899 of a noble Russian family on
the paternar side, had an Ethiop-
ian grandmother. Alender Dumas
pers. born in 1902, descended from
an African grandmother from Hal
ii and French nobleman. The
novelist's father took the name OF
Dumas from his Ethiopian moth
er. Samuel Coleridge Taylor,
born in London in 1857. the son OF
West African doctor and an
English mother; and Will Marion
Cook, with both maternal and pa
ternal African forbears. Cook s
mother was the first colored school
teacher in the state Kentucky, and
his father one of the first colored
lawyers in America to practice ln
the city of Washington, ID. o..
where the composer was born forty
four years ago.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
SOUTHERNOR SCORES COATES
VILE BURNING.

[ am & white man of pure Gus
casian blood, with not a drop of
Negro blood in all my ancestry.
l am a Southerner by birth-a ma
tive of Louisiana. In politics L
am an Independent Republican,
and in every line of thought l am
an Independent and Progressive.
1 am not in love with the Negro,
but am in love with justice and
with humanity; and if the awful
deed, the more than savage burn
ing of the Negro, Walker, that has
forever blackened the name of
your city, and left the stain,
which not even justice can wipe
out, is not followed by bringing
to swift justice and merciless pun
ishment the worse than hyenas,
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

not of the crowd. 1T was blood
thirsty crowd; seemingly needless,
fundamentally lawless, and eager
for any sort of excitement"
ANY strong man could have
turned them aside" The pas
tors of the seven Protestant
churches were away on their va
cations: the Roman Catholic priest
was in the city, but away from his
nome. Only the nurses at the
hospital which held the wounded
Negro raised voices in protest,
and they, frightened by the pres
sure of besieging mob of thous-
ands, in vain sent appeals over the
telephone ''to the officials and to
leading private citizens for succor."
Now that Coatesville has had
time to reflect, her attitude toward
the crime is fixed. Nothing in
the Coatesville conditions depress-
ed me more than the city's appar-
ent callousness to the enormity of
its offense." The citizens went
about their usual business, and
the observer made his vistit their
talk was of the business mems an
nual picnic on the morrow"
"Yes, the town of CoatesvIlle
went on picnic to Reading,
three days after this tragedy which
startled the world. There were
two train loads, aggregating. the
station agent told me, between
1000 and l, 100 persons. All this
is not the conduct one might e1-
pect of city, more than half OF
whose adult population had COM
mitted, or approvingly witnessed,
a foul murder which had caused
the whole nation to lift its voice in
horror stricken protest.