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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Time For Women to Act

Then do your part in your own COM
Portable home to help the sick and
suffering. Sew for the destitute wom-
en- and children.
Third, you can produce food. Today
we are in greater need than ever be-
fore in the history Of our country,
The whole world is looking to US for
help. We simply cannot fail those
who have nowhere else to turn for the
very necessities of life. Raise all you
can for your own consumption. and
thus lessen the demand on bigger
growers. Don't waste time and space
on lettuce, radishes and other such
non-essentials. Put in the things that
will count next winter-carrots, tur-
nips. beets, potatoes, and all the other
vegetables that can easily be stored
without canning. A few cents ex-
pended for seed now will produce
many dollars worth of fresh green
stuff that possibly will keep you from
hunger next winter. The United States
department Of agriculture will furnish
free booklets on raising everything
from head Of cabbage to a field Of
corn, and We should put every avail
able foot of ground under cultivation
at once.
Women and children make fine gar
deners. Do your part. Enthuse your
nelghbors. Help the country break its
glorious record in world food produc-
ton.
Here are but three of many lines of
work. Choose one and then go to It.
Don't be a slackeress!
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Apt Comparison,

Old English sections have a tradi-
tional reputation for wit, reaching as
far back as the grave digger in Ham
let" One Of this class stood listening
one day to street preacher in the
market place. The preacher, an I'M
educated man, attempted an oratorical
flight. MY brethren" he exclaimed,
III every field in the world was thrown
into one field. what great field that
would be-" "Ah," said the sexton. loud
enough to be heard. ~and II every
jackass In the world was one jackass
what a big jackass that 'ud be-" =.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
On the Road to Success.

That young man is wise who makes
a plan, organizes his ambition, and
makes each day contribute something
toward Its fulfilment. Success often
seems delayed, but it is surely on the
way for those who are getting ready
for 1t. Over the desk of the boy or
girl struggling with hard lessons that
may seem at the present quite useless,
let 1t be written in letters Of gold !:
Il will study and get ready. and may
be my chance will come"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
A Washout.

Elsie arrived home one evening with
a beautiful silver mounted walking
stick and her younger sister was anx-
ious to know whence 1t came. But
Elsie would not tell, SO the curious
one asked her father to obtain the
information for her.
II found it, Elsie poutingly said to
her father. floating on the waves one
day when l waJ bathing"
But two days later Elsie's sister said
to Elsie, "Come, tell me! What Is his
snamey
Manner repeated Elsie blankly
"what do you mean?"
81 mean, dear" said Elsie's sister,
that last night l tried to make that
stick of yours float in the bath, and
well. darling, it sank ~
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
BY OLIVER HYDE FOSTER
OF The VlolIantes.

Women of the country, wake up /!
The time has come for you to act !!
Wherever you are, the government is
in immediate need of YOUR help!
Just as surely as the country re-
quires at once the aid Of all its intel
ligent, able bodied young men, SO 1t Is
in urgent need Of the services Of each
and every woman. Furthermore, there
is no age limit. Every female, from
the little schoolgirl to the aged
woman, can and SHOULD help!
Three lines Of work are open, one
at least of which you should be able
to do, no matter who, where or what
you are. Choose 1t now.
First, If you are incapacitated in
other ways, you can at least learn to
knit. The blind do this beautifully,
and it is even recommended as quiet
ing to the insane. Our millions Of
boys in service will need plenty Of
warm sweaters and wristlets next WIN
ter. Get busy now.
Second, If you stop to think of the
awful carnage going on abroad every
day, you will realize the pressing need
of all the Red Cross bandages and
surgical dressings we can possibly get
ready, working night and day. Go to
the nearest headquarters and take a
course, so you can do this work in
your spare moments. If your little
town has no Red Cross unit, appeal to
your nearest city, where arrangements
can be made to get an instructor.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

she knows is undeserved. The girl who
is marked 100 in her recitation be-
cause she happens to be called on for
the only paragraph with which she has
familiarized herself, is quite likely to
congratulate herself upon her narrow
escape" but, as matter Of fact. she
has no reason for complacency, She
can make no more disastrous mistake
than the assumption that she can nur.
chase success at less than the cost
price. Moreover. the right sort Of eirl
Will wish to give full measure for
value received.-0irls' Oompanion
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
0ietetic Habits.

Some people seem to think that q
vegetarian is curiosity. A rough
calculation shows that the population
of the world, now estimated approx
mately at 1,6OO.OOO,OOO, is said to be
divided as to dietetic habits about as
follows: Strict vegetarians, 25O,OOO,.
600; practically vegetarians, but eat.
ing a little fish or flesh. 100000. 600 ;
eating meat about once week (on
high days and holidays, 100000 600 /;
eating meat daily and sometimes more
than once a day, 4OOOOO.OOO.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
The Lutte.

The lutte has vanished. It was one
of the Oldest Of instruments. and had
q beautiful vibrant tone somewhat like
that Of the harp. But Its size and COM
plexity were against 1t. It had long
tail, and many strings, and while it's
size increased its power and range, it
also increased its weight and made it
cumbrous. The minstrel Of today plays
on the mandolin, the guitar or the
banjo-and the lutte is forgotten.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Find Old CiStern

Laborers excavating Park street.
Ashtabula, O., prior to the construc-
ton of a new pavement. discovered a
cistern, thought to be 100 years old.
extending nearly the entire width Of
the street. 1t was more than 80 feet
deep, and was walled In with stones
and rude masonry.
The finding Of the cistern seriously
upset the plans of the excavators and
It was necessary to all In the entire
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

space before the work could be con-
tinued. The Oldest residents do not
recall when the cistern was in use, or
what purpose 1t served in the COM
munity. However. at Lake and Park
streets stands an old house. built no
one knows when. and 1t Is the suppo-
sition that the cistern was used In con-
nection with that structure In days
long gone by.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Barley Iona Known to Man.

Barley was originally a wild grass
of western Asia. It is believed to bo
the most ancient cultivated vegetable
food of mankind. Three. varieties Of
the grain have been found in the pre-
historic lake dwellings of Switzerland,
dating back to the Stone Age.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Almost Beyond Imagination.

Astronomers reckon that there are
at least 100000, 100000 suns in the
universe; and some Of them are so far
distant that light starting from them
long before the earliest dawn Of hui
man history has not yet had time to-
reach MS,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Swift.Runnlno Animals,

The swiftest dog in the world. the
borzoi, or Russian wolfhound. has
made record runs that show 70 feet
in q second. while the gazelle has
shown measured speed Of more than
20 feet a second. which would give 1t
q speed Of 4,Se0 feet in a minute If the
pace could be kept mp.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Read to the Children.

When children read book to them
selves the words do not leave the same
impression upon their minds as when
they hear them read aloud. When
some one reads book to them they
learn how to pronounce those words
which puzzled them; and if they do
not know the meaning, it is easy to
ask.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Accounted For.

1 1.-The company listened to his story
With bated breath"
"Of course; wasn't it fish stOry?"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Out Of Slaht.

When a good-looking girl smiles at
. man he always forgets that he is
carrying his wife's picture In his
watch Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Chaplain Was in the Way.

Sergt. Jimmy Wilde, fyweight box
ing champion Of the world, tells this
war story:
An army chaplain came across a
baggage column with a wagon stuck
fast.
Men. see you're in difficulties" he
said. Can be of any assistance"
Eyes, sir" exclaimed one of the
drivers, "by making yourself scarce.
You see, we can't very well say to the
horses what they'd understand while
yOu'ro ahOut"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

Willie-What's n substitute, dad?
Crabshaw-Anything that costs
nore than the real article.-Life.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Watch Your Skin Improve

Watch Your Skin Improve.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash
of Ointment In five minutes with Gu
sticura Soap and hot water. For free
sample address "Cuticura, Dept. K,
Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 5O.-Adv.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
WHO IS
TO
BLAME

and medium size bottles. You may re-
ceive a sample size by Parcel Post, also
pamphlet telling about it. Address DR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, and
enclose ten cents, also mention this paper
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
When Your Eyes Need Care
Try Murine Eve Remedy

70 s%arting . JIss D: CemfeIt @ esnts p
k1r1g8istS or sail Write for Free Ne Book
0URKNG GAB 8&0EDY Co, CHICAGO
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

Less Than Cost Price.
One Of the worst things that can
happen to girl IL to get credit which
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
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Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Could Tell Him.

Miss Oldbird keeps me guessing.
never know what she is about"
"Oh, she's about fOrty-five."
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

F ONLY American children
could know how the chill
dren of Italy love them as
far-away brothers and SIS
ters-well, here is a true
story from Turin, Italy, for
girls and boys back home.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07
Better Not Try.

Better Not Try.
A man may be hopeless idiot, but
If he admires a woman you can't con-
vince her that he Is crazy.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

Women as we'll as men
are made miserable by
kidney and bladder trou.
BILE. Thousands recon-
mend DR.. XII m er's
Swamp-Root, the great
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
IMPORTANT ITEMS IN THE LIFE OF BISHOP ATKI

He is native Tennessean although has spent most his life in North Carolina.
 He from family of Methodists his father being Methodist minister
 He has devoted large part of his life Sunday school work, believing it to be the foundation of the church.
 president the Asheville college for women for many years.
 He president of his alma mater Emory Henry col ege, for many years.
 He lives at his beautiful home, "Brannercrest Waynes vie named for his wife her maiden being Branner of the mountain.
 He elected Sunday school editor and served many in this capacity He is also author note known book being sThe Kingdom of the Cradle'
 He is chairman of the Sunday board and has done yoeman service in this line of work.
 He elected by the general conference as chairman of the centenary commission of Methodist Episcopal church. South
 He elected by the as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. South which convened in B mingham 12 years ago.
 He is the founder of the Southern assembly, situated at Lake Junauska, N G. of the important branches of the church.
 He met Dr. George R. Stuart in 1871 whose guest he is during the North Alabama conference great servants of the church have the closest and most intimate ot friends during all the intervening years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIRLIoPHILE

bardment of Alexandria, won the Vic
 toria cross, and later played an important part in the development of Africa, being one of those Englishmen whose impe- rialism was dream of service, of himself serving the empire and of the empire serving mankind" Invalided home, obliged to leave his work half done, he quickly developed a strong af- lection for his two little wards resolving to give them both, and Peter especially, the best possible education. With this object, he went about interviewing the heads of schools, and in the process lost his temper completely. However, he com promised on the best he could find. From school, Joan and Peter went to Cam bridge; and then came the war.
 The opening part of the book gives a very interesting picture of Victorian England, of the days when great masses of Englishmen led "a detached life =. beneath the canopy of the Hanoverian monarchy" and the question, "Why not?" began to be applied as sort of acid test to long accepted creeds of morals and of religion. very long, very leisurely, and occasionally repe- titious volume, the book covers period some 30 years, from the early
 90s to the present year, showing the lives of the three principal characters and thereby a cross-section of upper middle class England during this pe- 'riod-or perhaps it would be more ac- curate to say. showing us MT. Wells opinion of it.
 The woman movement is seen only in the outbreaks of the militant suffra- gettes; the great humanitarian agita- tion of the time appears only in a faint reflection from the insurance act. His Joan and Peter at 19 and 21 are fac
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
JOAN AND PETER

JUAN AND PETER'
 MT. H. G. Wells has written his mas terpiece in Joan and Peter; like Mir. Brittling Sees Through It., his latest novel is interesting from start to finish it is MT. Wells in one of his most dis secting and peculiarly investigatory hu- mors. He takes up a subject which he feels very deeply-that of education, for the subtitle of Joan and Peter' is "The Story of an Education" and he expresses himself about everything and anything under the sun pertaining to the present day methods of education.
 The two adorable children "Joan and Peter are cousins-Joan, being the illi- gitimate daughter of Peter's wastrel un- cle; both become orphans and all left to the care of Oswald Sydenham, Peter cousin, who is one of the best characters MT. Wells has ever drawn; to be sure he Is used as merely a mouthpece for the eminent author to ventilate his views, but even so, he is not only interesting but fine, all-round, splendid fellow. Oswald has been disfigured, we are told, in the book, about 20 years before by the explosion of bomb during the bom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

N ISHOP JAMES ATKINS, who IO has been the honored guest of JDp) Birmingham, presiding over
 the North Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. south, during the past week, is not only a great man, but a great bishop, for there are two kinds of episcopal greatness; there is the intellectural greatness which stamps itself upon the mind of the church and there is an administrative greatness and personal magnetism which quicken the diocese and touch the heart of crowd, and Bishop Atkins has his full share of both
 Long ago a noted English writer Selden by name-stated in no uncer- tain terms the functions of bishop when he said:
 '.For bishops to preach 'tis to do other folks office; as if the steward should execute the por5er's or the cooks place 'tis his business to see that they, and all others about the house. perform their duties"
 Bishop Atkins offends against this law by preaching constantly; but he fulfils the latter part of 1t perhaps bet ter than almost any other man of his time. for he is a great steward of the church.
 Bishop Atkins is great bishop. too, in the sense that he is great Chris tain: his heart is filled with the love Of his fellow man, but most of all for children-for the Sunday school for since the day when he first affiliated himself with the Methodist church he has been teacher as well as preach er-and the two are not far remote and his work as teacher and as preach CT has brought him in close contact with children.
 The study of the child has been his vocation, his life; into it he has poured all the wealth of a boundless joy; of a nature all sunshine and generous emo- tion.
 Bishop Atkins, while possessing a tremendous sense of humor, also has the gift of inexhaustible good humor; and beyond and above all else he is human-just plain, everyday man, with big heart, a big religious vision and big mission in life.
 It is the defect of the average church dignitary that he is remote from the people, dwells in another atmosphere, talks another language. Bishop Atkins thinks their thoughts, talks their speech. is one of them; he is a man who
 'Hai1s you From" or Jack"
 And shows by humping on your back
 How he esteems your meritt'
 And does it without offense, so that he warns the hearts of men where others of high clerical degree too often freeze them.
 Nothing more delightful or interest ing can possibly be imagined than Bishop Atkins and our own beloved Dr. George R. Stuart like two hovs iok ing each other, smiling laughing. go- ing over "old times" together and reminiscing about tbe time when they were both young and impecunicus preachers."
 As far back as the year 1871 Bishop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
 Could Nd HaUe
BISHOP JAMES ATKINS

the war couldn't have been won; this is acknowledged by the allied leaders.
 '"The post war effects? The opportunity of the ages is now spread before the churches" the bishop said. 'It depends of course, upon whether we take advan- tage of these opportunities or turn away from them, and I firmly believe that we will grasp the opportunities; l have never been so confident of the success of the church, of it's influence and it's necessity before, and say this because of it's work in the war and its postwar measures.
 "This brings me to the work of the Gen. tenary commission of the church on which I am serving as chairman" said Bishop Atkins. This commission is now preparing to raise $35, ,000,000 for foreign and home missions and church extension work, which is a gigantic order for a gigantic work which will be absolutely necessary after the war is over. revival of religion will be witnessed all over the land the like of which has never before been seen; the biggest revival days are yet to come, because of the increased and accepted stand as to the word of God, which as the sword of the spirit is the instrument through which revivals have proceeded.
 Religion, like all other things, suffers changes said Bishop Atkins, but it is always the same old gospel which, like the sun, has a thousand different ways of manifesting itself. Every now and then new cult or ism springs up, and lives for a short time, but the old-time religion goes on forever, and what is td be unusual movement in the church of the future into the fields of practical Christianity is one of the pyproducts of this great world war. It will not re- suit in the elimination of denomination alism, but in producing a unity such as our Saviour taught and prayed fora unity that is deeper than any merely organic unity can be-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
GREEN AND GAY

By Lee Holt The John Lane company publishers, New York
 Lee Holt has written very charming story which he has called Green and Gay" and when one has finished read ing the book delightful impression re- mains of the gracious lady Madame de Sarigny, her lovely daughter, Jacque- line, the devoted nuns and the convent hospital environments.
 Certain phases of the war are brought into the story, for what story is writ ten nowadays that eliminate this world wide subject? The convent t-hospital, SUD- ported and directed by Madame de Sarigny, is attached to a convent of sis ters of mercy (nurses and wonderful nurses, too, they are), which was pur- posed to alleviate the pain and suffering of the wounded soldiers.
 It is with the coming of fresh com pany of these wounded that the story opens, one of the new arrivals being a young man whose head had been ter ribly hurt. At first they thought he would die, but he recovered-to certain extent; the injury left him dumb and with his memory so impaired that he did not know either his name or his nation ality, and had to be taught to read and write The Marquise believed him to be an Englishman; he certainly was not French, and though every one, or nearly every one, liked him, the fact remained that when found he had been wearing a German coat, while the heavy blonde beard which won him the nickname of "Barbe Blonde,'' by which he is known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17

Atkins and Dr. Stuart knew each other it was in that year that they met for the first time; Bishop Atkins then was youthful, unmarried pastor of a Methodist church. Dr. Stuart went to Morristown to work his way through the Reagan school; Bishop Atkins was rooming in a small brick office with two rooms, in the yard of pr. T. F. Summers, for whom Dr. Stuart was working night and morning for his board in order that he might attend school.
 pr Stuart roomed in the back room of the office and Bishop Atkins in the front room; the front room had ftre- place, in which Dr. Stuart made fire for Bishop Atkins, and attended his rooms in connection with his work of making fires and attending the yard and garden and other work for pr. Summers. Bishop Atkins insisted or the country lad sitting by his fire cold nights, and as the weather grew colder he invited this boy, who was consid cred the servant of the place, to share