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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19
Food for Sheep.

Ensilage is not considered good for
sheep, and If 1t is fed at all 1t should
be fed very sparingly and at intervals
OF two or three days.
Turnips, carrots and sugar beets
make fine feed for sheep, and no mat
ter how small the flock is every farm
er should raise some roots for the win.
ter feeding
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19
Nutrients In Foods.

Protein, starch, fat, sugar and fiber
are the nutrients that make up foods
Protein Is the only one from which
muscle and tissue can be made-the
others serve to produce heat, energy
and fat. Starch and sugar are equal
in food value. The fiber in the plant
cut green has the same food value as
starch; when the plant is mature the
fiber becomes largely indigestible, as
In straw. Fat serves the same pur.
pose in the animal body as starch; It
is more concentrated, having ~
times as much nutriment in a given
weight.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19
Live LItterateur Resented

You don't seem to care FOR an' ,ss
thors except those of a previous
Grafton" =, a
Well" replied Mr.. CumroN, va
Kind o. prejudiced in their raw. - II
see. there's no chance that mo'. y
the girls will invite 'em to pa'"
act supercilious and superior
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19
Buckwheat as Honey Plant.

A Pennsylvania reader is DESTROYS
ey plant. Buckwheat honey is of a
deep, dark purplish tint and looks very
much like New Orleans sorghum mo-
lasses. 1t Is usually Of heavy body;
the flavor to one who is a lover of
clover and Eastwood, and who has
never been brought up on buckwheat
honey, is more or less rank. The cap
pings Of the honey are almost pearly
white.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A man In Pennsylvania hanged him.
self because his crop of tobacco was
too large to store In his barn. Hounded
to death by too much prosperity. he
Tell a victim to the Inconsistency of
human wishes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19
Good Use for Weeds

A good use for weeds and old vines
from the garden is compost. Every
body who maintains a garden should
also Keep a compost heap where
everything that will rot and enrich
the soil can be thrown from time to
time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Isn't 1t about time to invoke the
clause of the constitution prohibiting
cruel and unusual forms Of punish
ment7 A New York magistrate told
the wife OF a man brought before
him on a serious charge to take him
home and tell him what she thought OF
him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

We are told that the yelling Of
parrot In New York saved twenty-five
lives in a burning building 1t also
saved the feathers OF the parrot. which
was a question Of far more concern
to said parrot
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A Boston girl. who proclaimed her
right to choose husband for herself.
has received one hundred proposals of
marriage. Declarations Of indepen-
dence are now In order.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Highwaymen. after robbing a Chi
cago man. took away all his clothing
and left him shivering in the street.
It may become necessary to have emp
" barrels left around at convenient
places.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

We are told that the summer has
been too hot for oysters. We also
have reason to believe that some sec
lions Of 1t were too hot for human be-
lugs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

There IL a form Of butter In India
called "ghee." We will hazard the
opinion that some of our own cold
storage kind beats It
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A fireman has beaten Weston's
walking record from coast to coast.
but Weston still holds the record for
eO-year-old pedestrians with gray mus
taches.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Another unsuccessful attempt has
been made to swim the English chan
mel. But why try to swim when It ia
so easy to fly across?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Tho census gives Nevada only sew
en-tenths OF man to the square mile,
There are in Nevada a good many
square miles that don't deserve even
that much.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A New York policeman who res
cued a girl from drowning was reward
cd with kiss and hug. Here il .
suggestion for Andrew Carnegie
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

The trouble between Germany and
England reminds US of quarrel be-
tween two prominent pugilists. All
the fighting il done In the newspapers,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A Chicago man Is suing for divorce
because his wife has been throwing
things at him for nineteen years.
Probably he 10 tired of paying FOR
having the dents taken out of the
ceiling.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Fruit pests are being killed by cleo
tricity in Spokane valley. The mod
arn agriculturist earns his bread by
the hum Of his motor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

The corset may go. az fashion die
utors say. but we may rest assured
that something worse will be substi-
tuted.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

An expert tells US that birds spread
disease. This probably will be seized
upon by the ladies' as a pretext to
wear dead birds on their hats.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Professor Brooks comet Is thus far
obscured by clouds, but the presump-
ton IL that It is keeping its adver-
tlsed date.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

We have reason to believe that the
new "ankleview" skirt will cause
mere men to sit up and take notice.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Hay fever may be a sign Of brains.
but good many people are willing to
forego the brains II. by doing so. they
can get rid of the fever.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

It IL limited that the Mona Lisa was
stolen by an artist He certainly was
an artist at getting away with It
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A man out west is trying to regain
Q fortune by newspaper work No
wonder he lost It
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Europe IL - unhappy a. II It had
Just lost the baseball pennant
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Elijah may have been the first avi-
ator. but there was no promoter there
to collect the gate receipts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

II hobble skirts are made any
tighter. the wearers will not even be
able to hobble.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

aviators making transcontinental
jaunts.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

The cost OF dying has gone up 33 1-3
per cent. and some feel that they
cannot afford the expense.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

These velours hats for men arc
lovely things. So are china eggs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

A neat, natty and practical head
wear for women Automobiles is this
cap, which is modelled after the soft
material college hats of dressy youths
and retains all the jauntiness Of the
latter.
1t is made of soft white felt, hav
ing a colored band; the veil being at
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Al 10 well known. 4 handsome wo-
man can be attractive In almost any
style.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

In some ways an oyster Is like an
egg. You never can ten till you open
It.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-12-19

Straw hats still linger. but chiefly
In the guise Of next years hens nests
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
DISCHARGES IN THE ARMY.
Amended Regulations Of Purchase,
But Prices Remain UNCHANGED,

General orders have been issued by the
War Department amending the regula-
tons governing discharges by purchase
from the army. The prices of discharge.
which range from $40 after one years
service. to $50 after eleven years serv-
ice, remain unchanged. The limitation
that a man who. by re-enlisting within a
year. and thus becomes entitled to the
bonus Of three months pay. may not
purchase his discharge, is removed. but
1t is provided that the price Of purchase
shall be increased by such bonus.
The new regulations also provide that a
soldier who has once purchased his dis
purchase until after completion of an
other years service. In the event of his
being so discharged again the purchase
price will be determ ned by the length of
time he has served since he was last dis
charged by purchase. Service in the army
only will be considered in determining a
soldiers eligibility for discharge by pur-
chase, and the amount of purchase price
Such service is not required to be con-
tinuous, but credit will not be given for
any previous enlistments that was not
determined by an honorable discharge, or
for any per cd Of time required to be
made good under the provisions Of para
graphs $50, 131 and 1872 Of the army reg
ulations. Discharge may be purchased by
an enlisted man OF a stan department in
Alaska or in the Philippines when he has
completed the prescribed tour of foreign
service in such staff department since the
date of his last arrival In Alaska or the
Philippine Islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
WORK ON WILEY REPORT.
Will Be Ready for Presidents
Action by Next Tuesday.

The report Of Secretary Wilson OF the
Department Of Agriculture on the answer
submitted by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. chief
of the bureau Of chemistry, to the charges
made against him by the departmental
personnel board, in which it was recon-
mended he 'be permitted to resign"
probably will be acted upon by President
Taft next Tuesday.
Secretary Wilson said last night he had
made much progress in the preparation OF
his report, and expected to have 1t COM
pleted and ready for presentation to the
President upon his return from Beverly
Tuesday morning. The Secretary refused
to make any comment on the nature or
his findings, and gave no intimation as
to its tenor. although 1t Is confidently
expected he will recommend lentency for
the pure food apostle.
Mr.. Wilson admitted he had received
communication from DR.. Floyd NJ Rob-
tson. the New York food expert. who was
dismissed from the bureau Of chemistry
a fortnight ago. demanding he be given
an opportunity to appear and defend HIM
self against any and all charges. and
said the right would be accorded DR..
Robson.
Robison's decision to demand thorough
congressional investigation OF his dism.s-
sal was disclosed in a letter to Alfred w.
Mccain, a leader in the fight for pure
food. in which he stated his dismissal is
an attempt to harm DR.. Wiley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
Paw Of Rural Letter Carriers.

Rural letter carriers are henceforth to
be paid according to the length OF their
routes as shown by tho records Of the
Post Ofsice Department, as follows: Those
serving routes whose length is miles
and less than miles will get $500 per
annum: miles and less than 10 miles.
$50; 10 miles and less than IL miles.
$3.50; IL miles and less than IA miles. $500;
IA miles and less than 16 miles. 5000; 16
miles and less than Is miles. 500: Ii
miles and less than 20 miles, $500: 70
miles and less than % miles, $500: %
miles and less than "a miles $500; "a
miles and over. $1,000.
A carrier serving route tri-weelsly
will be paid on the basis specified in the
above schedule for a route one-half the
length Of such tri-weekly route. A car
rier serving two tri-weekly routes will
be. paid on the basis specified in above
schedule for q route one-half the COM
bined length Of the two routes served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
PRESIDENT TO TAKE REST.
Leaves for Summer Home at Beverly
to Remain Two DAVIS.

President Taft left Washington last
night to spend his second week end at
the Taft summer cottage at Beverly.
Secretary Hilles and Maj. Butt went
with the President and Secretary Of
the Treasury Macveagh. whose sum-
msr home is at Dublin. N. H.. accom-
panied him as tar as Boston. Senator
Penrose went as far as Philadelphia.
The President will spend two days
motoring, playing golf and resting be-
fore he returns to Washington. He
will leave again late Monday night
will reach Boston this morning and
motor QUITO Beverly. He will leave
again late Monday night for Washing
ton. and will be back In the capital
Tuesday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
SEVERAL TREATIES SIGNED.
Main Purpose of the Bolivian Con
gress Not Accomplished.

The Bolivian congress. consisting Of
representatives OF the five South
American republics originally en-
braced in Bolivia-Venezuela, Colon
bia. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia-will
adjourn today after the signature Of
several conventions. but without
agreement on any question Of politics
or boundary dispute, for which pur-
poses 1t was primarily convoked. The
congress was called July at the in
stance Of the President of Venezuela to
discuss long program relating to the
betterment OF communication among
tho Ave countries, the reduction Of pos
tai and Geographic rates. the adop-
ton Of conventions looking to the set
Element by arbitration Of all pending
boundary disputes. etc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

Of any subordinate or empIoye during
business hours for their own personal
convenience or advantage.
The order follows criticism by one OF
the House committees because one Of the
officials Of the department is said to have
used one of the messengers or laborers
Of the department for private purposes
some time ago.
In the good old days It Is said, 1t was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
GIDEONS ELECT OFFICERS.
A. B. 7. Moore Of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Is National President.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July 22.-In the
national convention OF the Order Of
Gideons, a religious order among COM
mercial travellers. today the following
officers were reelected: National presi-
dent A. B. T. Moore, .edar Rapids,
Iowa; treasurer. Nels Rylander, Chi
cago; secretary, w. Il. Henderson, Chi
cago; chaplain, L. C. Smith, Waukesha,
wis. A. E. Mielenz Of Milwaukee was
elected vice president. the only new
ONCE.
A resolution was adopted to the ef-
feet that the United States Gideons
recognize the work as q world work,
and that the order would cooperate
with the Canadian association in form
ing an International body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
Perfect Lady" Gets Peeved.

A. middle-aged woman. who told the
desk sergeant at the first precinct police
station she had no name and lived ''ev-
ervwhere." became highly incensed last
night at what she regarded as reflection
on her character when the policeman who
had made the arrest informed the SER
Reant that the charge was ''vagrancy and
She will be given an OPP
portunity to tell Judge Pugh about it to-
morrow morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN
ON POTOMAC PARK SITE
Recommendation Said to Have
Been Made by Fine Arts
Commission.

Potomac Park has been recommended
as the site for the Lincoln memorial
by the fine arts commission, according
to an authority thought to be familiar
with the decision reached a few days
ago.
Just what form the memorial is to
take has not become known. It Is un-
derstood, however. that tho fine arts
commission in its report discusses
what it considers the best form Of
memorial to be placed on the several
sites which have been suggested
The decision Of the fine arts commits
sion is to be laid before the Lincoln
memorial commission at it's meeting
Tuesday afternoon. At that meeting.
it Is believed. final decision as to the
location and nature Of the 100000
tribute to the martyred President will
be determ mined.
Decision Not Final.
The Lincoln memorial commission.
of which President Taft Is chairman. Is
not bound in any way to accept the
recommends ton Of the fine arts COM
mission. and 1t is possible that decision
may be reached in favor OF the cree
ridian hill in 18th street. or in the
proposed park lying between the Union
station and the Capitol building. or 1t
may decide upon the construction OF
memorial highway from Washington
to Gettysburg battlefield. or q splendid
memorial bridge across tho Potomac
river. However, the recommendations
Of the fine arts commission, composed
Of some Of the most prominent archi-
tects and artists in the country, will
be given careful consideration.
Details for Confederation.
The memorial commission. besides de-
Gliding whether to accept the recon-
mendations OF the fine arts commits
sion, will decide whether 1t will hold
an open competition for a design for
the memorial, or whether the commits
sion will invite a comparatively small
number of we'll known architects to
submit plans. Some Of the members Of
the commission are in favor Of the lat
ter plan, holding that it will obviate
delay On the other hand. 1t is said
that all the architects Of the country
should be allowed to compete for tho
honor of designing the national memo
rial to the dead President. It is con-
tended that in view Of the fact the
nation has waited half a century since
the death of Abraham Lincoln before
erecting a great memorial to him. a
little further delay will be unimpor-
tant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

common thing for high officials Of the
department to use laboSers for any little
chores that had to be done at their homes.
The Postmaster General, 1t is said, was
quite as astonished as the House COM
m ttee when he learned that the practice
had been revived, and he took prompt
steps to put an end to 1t once and for
all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
BALLOON FLIES so MILES.
First Part of Trip Made in Forty
Mile Northwestern.

PITTSFTELD. Mass, July 22.-The
balloon Pittsfield with ]. r Hawley as
pilot and X. Emerson OF New York and
r. F. Day OF Philadelphia as passengers
made rapid but pleasant flight over
the Berkshire hills today TO Southamp-
ton. a distance of fifty miles.
The first part OF the fight was in a.
forty-mile Northwestern but on nearing
the Connecticut river the breeze sub
sided and the landing was made without
difficulty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
PREREQUISITES" CUT OUT.
P. o. Officials Deprived Of Personal
Service of Government Employees.

Postmaster General Hitchcock has is
susA an order forbidding ofiiciaIs and en-
ployes Of the Post ONCE Department and
Of the postal service TO utilize the services
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
RATS IN SUGAR WAR
SpreckeIs Says They Were
Placed in His Barrels.
SAND IN THE MACHINERY
Workmen He Discharged Refused to
Sue for Wages.
URGED TO ENTER COMBINE
Declares Arbuckle and Warner
Asked Him to Agree to a Cur
tailment of Production.
SAND IN THE MACHINERY
URGED TO ENTER COMBINE

NEW YORK. July 2.-Claus Augustus
Spreckels. son of the late Claus Spreckels
of California and principal owner Of the
Federal Sugar Refining Company of Yon-
kers. n. T., today gave the most sensa-
tional testimony that has developed be-
fore the congressional committee investi-
eating the sugar trust during the hear
ings here.
Besides giving most important side
light on the conference between John Ar
buckle and the late H. o. Havemeyer,
which is believed to have ended the great
sugar war. he described, under OATH the
vicissitudes Of an Independent sugar re-
finer. He said that his plant in Philadel-
phia, before it was controlled by the
trust. had been put out Of commission
several times by persons who threw sand
in the machinery bearings and otherwise
wrecked the plant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
Workmen Would Not Sue.

He swore that at the Yonkers refinery,
after he had turned down trust overtures,
dead rats were placed in barrels Of sugar
ready for shipment, and that whole watts
Of liquid sugar had been drained off In the
night into sewers.
The nuisance Of dead rats continued I'M
til private detectives pointed out num-
Der of his employees, whom-he discharged,
refusing to pay their wages in the hope
that they would sue him, and thus enable
him to question them under oath as to
who had employed them. Much to his
disappointment, he was never sued.
MIR. Spreckels declared that III. o.
Havemeyer. Theodore A. Havemeyer and
John f. Searles, ali then officers of the
American Sugar Refining Company. and
now dead. purchased a half interest in all
of the California refineries, to end the
Spreckels sugar war, for $2,225.0G0 in
cash, and six months later sold this in
terest to the American Sugar Refining
Company for $5,0OO.OOO In preferred stock.
which at that time was worth $40 a
share, or $6OOO,O0O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

II you want work read the want col
umns OF The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
Agreed to Reduction.

He told me that we ought to reduce
our output: that there was too much
sugar; that by reducing the output we
could reduce expenses. keep up the
price of sugar, and thus make more
money. He said that that was what
the American was going to do
Ibid you understand from John Ar
buckle that he had reached an agree
ment with Havemeyer and the American
Sugar Refining Company that the pro-
duction Of sugar was to be reduced?"
eyes, he said that he and the American
had buried the hatchet.'
Did any one else ever try to get you
to reduce the production Of sugar."
yes, Mr.. Warner, of the American
Company. He said 1t would create bet
ter feeling among the refiners generally
and that an understanding could ia
reached think that lbolh Arbuckie
and Warner were sent by the American
Refining Company to get me to enter an
agreement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
Made Big Money.

Interesting points in Mr.. Spreckels'
testimony included his assertion that
In four years he had made $4,000 900
in q Hawaiian sugar plantation on
cash investment of $4,000. Since start
ing the Federal refinery ten years ago
by a cash payment Of $3.500.000 for
equipments he has paid per cent
dividends on that $500. 900 regularly.
he declared. representing the preferred
stock. and has turned earnings amount
ing to an equal amount back into the
Improvement Of the plant.
Representative Garrett Of Tennessee
asked Mr.. Spreckels IL he knew any
thing about the conference between
John Arbuckle and II. O.. Havemeyer.
which was supposed to have ended the
sugar war.
Eyes, something" he said. 'soon
after that conference John Arbuckle
camo to me and said: I've just had a.
little talk with Henry o. Havemeyer.
He said an understanding had been
reached; that there was an overpro-
duction Of sugar. and asked me IL
would reduce the output of the Fed
eral. 1 told him the Federal would
work to its full capacity forever. He
said: You misunderstood Havemeyer,
just like did. He is a fine. cultivated
man-why he pays the VIOLIN.
so did Nero play the VIOLIN said
I, and Rome burned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
Straw Hat Sale.

Greatest Bargain
event of the season
In Straw Hats. 1t
is all new stock
in all the popu-
lar shapes. Choice
Of Split Straws,
Sennets, p e n C IL
Edge, Soft Hats,
etc. All sizes.