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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19
GAINS WIFE.


Where did he get her'
Who was her brotherl
Had she a sisteri
Had she a mother.
Was she pre- Adamic--
Born before history
With her identity
Shrouded in mystery
Maid of Phnnicia,
Egypt, Arabia,
Africa, india,
Or sun kissed Suatial
Who was her fatheri
Was he a viking,
Cruising about
Just to his liking;
Out of the Whenceuess,
Over the water,
Into the Where,
Bringing his dauRhteri
Native of Norway
Denmark or Sweden.
Lured by the charms
OF the Garden of Edenl
Blonde or brunei!
Round or slenderi
Fiery or frigid.
Naughty or tenderl
Why ore her graces
Unknown to famel
Wnere did Cain meet herr
What was her name.
Whisper it softly
Say, can it be
The lady we seek
Was X. Haggard's "Sher
Tell me, ye sages,
Students of Life,
Answer my query:
Who was Gains wifel
Chicago News
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

IT is an interesting outcome of the
grand scheme for dividing up the terri
tories of the African continent among
the Kingdoms of Europe that some OF
the people who have thus been assigned
to the rule of different governments are
protesting against rule in which their
choice has not been consulted.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

The agitation against cheap immi-
grafton and imported contract laborers
does not seem TO have reduced the
supply OF immigrants. On the prln-
ciple, probably, that human beings
are bent most on going where they are
least wanted, the influx Of foreigners
into TIE United States not only does
not decrease, but on the contrary APP
pears TO be on the increase.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

Professor VAUGHAN, of Michigan
university, claims to have discovered
five poisons which are the causes of
typhoid fever and cholera infantum.
and he has manufactured typhoid
fever lymph which he says ought to
cure, If the Koch principle is correct.
How far win this craze extend for in
jecting poisons to counterfeit other
poisonsp
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

The meanest man has been discov-
cred, and lives in Georgia. He bor-
rows his county paper, and when
through reading it rents it to near
neighbor at profit Then he at once
proceeds to abuse the editor, because
there's nothing in it," There is no
"home in glory or Groom in Paradise
for that sort OF soul.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

THERE are not lacking Indicators
that in some respects the times are sad
ly out OF joint. Inconsistencies appear
so common in everyday life us to sug-
gust that rules are reversed. II has
been commented upon in every part of
the country that a conservator has re-
Gently been appointed over Chicago
business man because he has only the
matter OF million dollars left.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

If you run across anything in a news
paper that doesn't suit your fancy skip
it. Newspapers are made for every
body, you know.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

WHEN aluminium gets little cheaper,
as it surely will, it will displace steel
in nearly all the mechanic arts, and
what revolution that will inaugurate.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19
THE WORLD OF WOMEN.
INTERESTING MATTERS FOR THE
FAIR SEX.

The FaShiOn5--HOW Daughters
Should be Educated--Ameri
can Girls Supreme--A Nota-
BILE ousseau--Strong Women
Hints About Home.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19
Father of FIJI Children.

Nero an cd lonesboro Negro. who be-
lon-ed in slavery times to the Koonee
family OF Henry county. asserts that he is
los years old, has cen married nine times
and Is the father Of III children. lie has
been pr aching SO years. still as all his
senses, and is now about as active as A
ool' Ills last wife is living and is sixty
seven years old. Major ri has known
the Old Negro for 70 ty Years and saws
That be was an old man when he FIRST
knew hun. olumbia S. C.. Register.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19
Strong Women.

There are records of strong women,
although they arecomparatively rare.
In the time OF Louis XIV there was an
actress engaged at the Theatre Fan
Gals, Mile. Gauthier, who could break
a coin between the fingers ofone hand,
and roll silver plate into the form OF
a cup OF conical shape. No one could
bear the pressure of her hand, and
only Maurice de SAKE, one of the
strongest men ofhis time, was able to
open her closed hand.
In the same century there lived in
England woman, Miss Bette Thomp-
son, who could break chains with her
hand. Miss Kerra, q young mulatto
woman who appeared in most of the
capitals OF Europe, was we believe the
first to perform the feat, while hang
ing with the bend of her knees in a
trapeze, holding a man at his belt with
her teeth and turning him rapidly
round with her hands. The same trick
was performed more recently, among
others, by Miss Leona Dare and Miss
Carrie Wilton
1t cannot be said that this is exactly
a fitting performance for women, or
that the exhibition of the weaker sex
as athletes generally is an altogether
edifying spectacle. 1t ought to be dis
couraged as much as possible as de-
gradingto the seX.-Chambers' Journal.
To inaugurate an economical fashion
is well; only let it be one of preven-
ton, not of cure. To rear a girl in
absolute dependence, good for moth
ing, selfish in her aims, and exactingin
her demands, is sin against the
daughter and against society, to be-
gin at her birth to economic and re-
trench in every department for the
accumulation OF. money, that this
monstrous perversion of her life NAV
be accomplished and maintained, is
grotesque and heathenish. Girls thus
trained will fail of attaining a high
order OF womanhood. Their aims will
be petty, their ideals low, and nothing
very excellent can be expected of them
IN wlfehood or motherhood Let the
reform already inaugurated be made
fashionable and be carried on.
While we carefully gaurd whatever
is womanly in our daughters let them
be trained to more OF fiber and finn
ness. Educate them to self denial if
pecunlary circumstances, demand it,
and not to self indulgence. Accustom
them to be OF service in the household,
to regard economy as praiseworthv
and even heroic, and to add to I'll
their other accomplishments a prac-
tical knowledge OF work and the pos
session OF some lucrative vocation or
industry by which they can support
themselves. Such girls when portion
less will carry to their husbands dow
cries in themselves.-North American
Review
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

Fine Milan braid is "A favorltc material
Tor Oonnets, with split English straw and
French chips good second.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-19

Father What do You III nix of a boy
that will throw lanana skin OH side
wax?
SON don know. What do you think
of banana-skin that will throw a man on
the sidewalk Life.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

The promptness with which Journals
in the conspiracy 10 depopulnrize the
new tariff law have acted upon the order
from headquarters TO insist that a gen
eral advance in prices OF manufactured
articles will result from its enforcement
a raised conflict of veracity between
publishers and their advertising patrons.
While editorials are insisting that prices
OF all kinds OF goods have advanced,
mer shantS are paying for the use OF the
adjoining columns in which To set forth
the fact OF their Willingness 20 supply
customers IL prices quite as low IA have
ever ruled for similar articles.
More than average temerity must exist
on the part Of writers or less than aver
age intelligence be- credited to readers in
expecting men To disregard iactsso read
~ within reach Of every one who cares 10
look for them. Side ny side with assur-
ances from merchants OF recognized re-
sponsibiity that goods can now bc
bought of them at prices lower than ever
before, free-trade agents are repeating
the stale maxim that any tariff on fore
ign products "riises the price to consum-
ers OF all articles imported and subject
TO duty by precisely the sum paid for
such duties" and are insisting that
NEARLY or quite the same enhanced
price" has been added to all protected
articles Of domestic manufacture.
~ a.
ton that the tariff is added to prices
find relutation in the ad neutrality-suspicious.
OF most journals repeating that absurdi-
ty-it finds contradiction in the actions
OF the principal conspirators themselves.
II true that foreigners have only to add
the tariff 20 the selling prices OF their
products and our people will pay the
difference, why such intense interest on
the part OF frcc-trade attorneys
such enormous expenditures ofeifortand
money to break down protective bar
riers? Evidently they are wanting in
candor as well as consistency.
IL is the wholesome fear oflosing Amer
lean customers by having the wants Of
our people supplied from domestic man
uiactures-and not the fear OF higher
plices-that occasions European solici-
tude and inspires the activity Of import
ers and other free-trade agents this side
the Atlantic. Voters who cannot see
this despite the glamor Of sophistry and
clouds Of misrepresentation by which il
is sought TO have thercal facts concealed,
have yet "A lesson To learn, TO which they
can none too soon apply themselves.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

lin. the .'non-partisan" candidate Tor
justice, they would revive the dickinson
bin and give 1t reconsideration, and
those Iron Mountain sharks sold their
souls for a few pieces Of silver and voted
10 elect man who was pledged To pro-
tect and shield the tbieving senators who
disgraced the noble old state Of Michigan
by Illegally unseating two honorable
members and giving one of the seats
thus stolen 10 an illiterate bigamist and
despoiler OF womans' virtues. That's
why Iron Mountain went Durnocratic,
and Tuten, Who Processes to he "A Repub-
lican and run Republican paper, looks
on and applauds the action; more than
likely voted Tor Champlin himself. and
then tries u pull the wool over the eyes
81 his Republican supporter by singing
the silly song given him by a Republican
lawyer" Rats. That "non-partisan"
racket il hardly what we expected TO
hear from the Range.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11
O u r
Dry Goods Department.

We wish to call the attention OF the people
of this city and neighboring locations 10 the
fact that we have just opened in our store
full and complete stock OF Dry uoOus anu
other articles pertaining to that line OF trade,
which we are offering for sale at prices that
know no competition. The stockis Wen ana
carefully assorted. none better IN the CITY.
The goods are for sale and Weinvite nspeCtlOn.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

SHORTLY after the passage OF the Me-
Kinley bill there was quite vigorous
debate rs TO whether or not there were
really any tin mines in this country, and
especially IN the Black Hills of Dakota.
As a Cornishman by BIRTH aud worker
in tin mines for over ten years, when ~
boy and young man, ! read the discus
sion with interest, and last month, hay
ing occasion Co 60 into the new states in
the northwest. | took a days journey
and saw the alleged mythical tin mines
at work. Scores OF Cornishmen are work
ing there and the tin seems exactly the
same as the southwest England article.
The weather prevented any great activity
while was there, but considering that
the mines have only been sunk 400 feet,
the product Is remarkable. Tin in pay
ing quantities IL seldom found SO near
the surface as this, and when the usual
depth OF 600 or700 feet has been reached,
a genuine surprise viii probably beforth-
coming-A Miner in st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

iRoS MOUNTAIN went Democratic last
Monday always went Republican before.
Here Il the lie the Range gives in explana-
ton; "The notable feature in the cleo
"tion was the landslide in favor Of the
recollection Of Judge Champlin TO the
"supreme bench, which gave the Demo-
"crat state ticket a majority OF 293 in
.the city. This OF course does not por-
"tray the political complexion OF the
"city, as hundreds Of voters east their
"ballots for Champhn, believing that non
BIPARTISAN considerations should control
"their action in this instance" The
truth OF the matter is, the Dickinson
county measure had more To do with
Democratic success In Iron Mountain
than the desire for non-partisan judges.
The Democrats in the legislature prom
ised the Iron Mountain fellows that II
they rolled up big majority for Champ
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

SEVERAL years ago IL was q favorite
pastt;me of Joe Soults' TO scan TnE
DIAMOND DRn.D and every time he saw a
iloater yell-out "plagIarist," in a loud
campmceting voice. The LIS. Democrat
has contained DIAMOND LRILL mining
news without credit pretty regular OF
late and IL is good time 10 get back az
Joe; but it'sall right, Joes good fellow
and can have any thing we've got.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

LAST week Mr. Anderson was laid by
with the grippe aud this week Mr.. Akin
son has been under the doctors care with
the same disease. The job room Is Over
run with work and the paper has 10 SUI
fer in consequence All this will be rem
edied and The DIAMOND Dm.L will soon
again be itself, which * the best
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

j. MAURICE FINN claims the authol-
ship OF the Kirk bill He isa Democratic
.lay--one Of the writer's OF the Lake SUI
pcrior Democrat, lshpeming; he il q
emart follow. but quite smnrt enough
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

The BILL for the establishment OF
Normal school in the Upper Peninsula
has been killed in the legislature. The
present administration has much deep
love FOR this part ~ Michigan
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

THE election of last Monday shows
just what the people OF Michigan think Of
the senate steal and Of "A candidate for
iusticswho was pledged to protect the
thieves. II il "a Just rebuke.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

Fifty thousand young brook trout
have been delivered To the lshpeming
Sportsman's Association for planting in
streams near the Upper Peninsula me-
tropolis.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

eve MUST carry the election" said the
Democrats. because it will mean a
greater victory in 1892" Yes, "a victory
for the Republicans.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

JUSTICE MoSrooMERY, IL you please.
That 'non-partisan" racket didn't work
very nicely.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

SENATOR EDMUNDs, The Vermont state :
man, who has been in the United States
senate since S66, has sent in his resgna-
ton To take effect ON November !
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

THE polls were manned 10y active
Democrats" everywhere possible. but
the voters were not manned that way.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

r. +. BARSUM, the Snowman, died at
lis home in Bridgeport, Conn, last Tues
day evening. lie WAS over eighty yeais
of age
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

MrcmGAN's gone Republican. Just
three months OF Democratic rule has been
enough.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-11

WARS the matter with Michigan
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-12

AT the opening exercises of one Of our
grammar schools few days ago there
was a rather long pause between songs.
did not discover the cause Of this until
heard one Of tho teachers remark in a
shrill voice, 1--WE shall not proceed un-
til the girls on the right side of the room
show some animation in their faces, and
until those on the left side stop fidget-
ing" Tho remark struck me az very
peculiar and contradictory. How can
there be animation without motion!
Perhaps they have a peculiar drill a4
that school known as "animation drill,
conducted In such manner that all the
girls look animated at the stroke Of the
bell That these girls did not feel ami
mated under the circumstances is but
natural
They were arranged in their seats in
such manner that they sat 50 exactly
ono behind the other that line drawn
from tho confer OF the forehead Of the
girl on the front row TO the center of the
forehead OF the girl on the Last row
would have been perfectly straight
one. It follows that the field of vision
Of each girl excepting the first one was
completely flied by the hair on the back
OF the head Of the girl in front Of her.
What there is in this view to bring ami
nation to the soul really don't know.
New York Epoch.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-12

ALLIANCE, o. Nov. I0.-tSpecial, IA
curious story of love and whiskey comes
from Guilford, Columbiana county, a
country village southeast of here. Alice
Hostetter the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of the Widow Hostetter of Gull
ford, the wealthiest person of that part of
the country, out Of the dozen suitors for
her hand, surprised her friends by choos-
ing James Hanna, good natured fellow
who was the talk of the village on account
of his shiftlessness and his weakness for
strong drink. However Jimmie, as no
was familiarly called, braced up and
swore oil after the engagement had been
announced and began preparations for
his wedding. Miss Hostctter's family was
strongly opposed TO the match and inn
plored her to break 1t Off. To this she
would not consent and the family making
the best of II actively participated
in the anti-nupital arrangements. The
marriage was set for Thursday two weeks
ago, and on that day as the hour arrived,
the bride robed herself in her wedding
gown, the guests and minister arrived and
the wedding repast Was all ready to serve.
In fact everything was ready but Jimmie,
and the wedding hour came and went
but the bridegroom was strangely absent.
The bride mortified and nearly ia
Mysteries implored some one to hunt him
up and see what was wrong. This sew
eral of the guests started to do and learn
Ing he had left that morning Tor Salem to
get his wedding clothes, started after him.
After lengthy search, poor Jimmie was
found in coal house in the rear of a sa-
loon, lying on his back in the dirt, Sleep
ing off the effects of a drunken debauch.
When asked why he had got drunk on his
wedding morn, he said he had met several
old friends in Salem that morning and
nothing would suffice but they must drink
to his happiness and future pros
poets, and in the allurements
Of the tempting bowl he forgot
his manhood and his love. OF course the
wedding was declared off and the young
lady In shame and disgrace over the affair
went to Pittsburg for a couple of weeks
until the scandal died down. Miss Ho-
stetter returned last week and had been
home but a short time till Jimmie called
on her and begged forgiveness for the
past and a hope for the future. He plead
ed his case SO successfully that Alice for
gave all, and in spite of the protestations
of relatives, they were quietly married the
next day. Her family are wild over her
infatuation for one who has disgraced
her already so much, but Alice, happy in
the love of the man of her choice, is not
caring and being an heress in her own
right to a snug fortune, has gone TO house
keeping in regal style.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-12

Mr.. Bill Sowell, Of Sylvester, Ga,
comes to the front with a big snake
story. While the facts as narrated be-
long to the suspicious snake variety,
yet Mr.. Sowell says that they are
none the less true. He says that
while Mr.. Serve Jenkins was driv-
ing along the road he came upon a
large rattlesnake and killed it. It
had eleven rattles and q button. In
passing the house of his brother-in-law,
near by, Mr.. Jenkins told him of what
he had done, and the former went down
to look at the snake. When he got
there, however, he found another large
rattler near the dead one, and while
looking around for stick with which to
annihilate snake No. 2, huge moocasin
crawled out Of the grass and coiled up in
position.
1t was an exciting time, but, securing
q stout stick, the gentleman cleaned up
the reptile band in good shape and left
them all dead upon the field. The next
day Mr.. Jenkins son Stafford, in driving
along the same road, discovered a half
grown alligator ON the spot where the
serpents had been slain the day before.
Stafford alighted, and, constructing a
lasso out Of piece of rope that no had
with him. threw it over the gators head
and captured him.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-12
BROUGHT BACK FOR TRIAL.
An Alleged Burglar Captured at Erie
and Brought to Canton.

An Alleged Burglar Captured at Erie
aud Brought to Canton.
Marshal Gentry returned from Erie,
Pa, Tuesday, and brought with him
George Owens, wanted here on the charge
Of burglary and larceny. 1t is alleged
that Owens was implicated in the burglary
at Bohlen's tailor shop in West Tuscar.
awas street some time ago. A man named
Brennan got two years in the penitentiary
at the last term Of court for being impli-
Gated in that job, and it is claimed that
Owens was his pal. MSrshal Gentry has
been on the lookout for him for some time
past, and got a quiet tip that he was locat-
ed in Erie. A private letter was sent to
the chief Of police OF that city, giving u
detailed description of Owens. Marshal
Gentry received word to the effect that
the man had been caught and went after
him. Owens was working in the freight
depot of navigation company, under
the assumed name of Couners. He had
been there but short time. Since leav-
ing Canton he has wandered around the
country, but flnally got tired and went to
work, His case will not come up until
the next grand jury meets.
Owens was brought before Mayor Blake
this afternoon, waived preliminary
hearing and was bound over to Common
Pleas court in the sum of 5000.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-12
started out TO See the world.

Lillian Otwell, a pretty girl of sixteen
years, who had been raised by her aunt
In the village of Horntown, Accomack
county, Va, disappeared from her home
four weeks ago. Her relatives searched
the county around without obtaining the
shghtest clew 10 her whereabouts until
her aunt, who had given her up ~ dead,
received q letter from the section master
Of tho Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad
at Delrnar, the dividing line ststion be-
tween Delaware and Maryland, deecrib-
ing the girl and stating thas she was
safe al his home
For several months before her disap-
pearanoo she had been afflicted with
melancholia, and her aunt feared that
she had committed suicide. The girl,
after leaving home, had cut off her long
brown hair and procured a suit of boys
clothing. Attired in flannel suit, III
fitting pantaloons, a slouch hat and big
boots, che started out to walk to Phila-
delphia, bent upon travelling around the
world.
She had walked the railroad ties for
thirty miles, and was sick and in an ex-
hausted condition when found by the
kind hearted railroad man. He took her
to be poor, homeless boy, and sent her
to his wife to get somefood. His wife,
upon learning the sex Of the little tramp,
made her change her clothing and want
ed to send her home, but the girl re-
fused to tell where she lived, and begged
30 hard TO remain with her new found
friends that they finally consented.
In the meantime the railroad man had
inquiries made along the railroad and
finally located her home. The girl said
she had been kindly treated by her aunt,
and had no cause TO leave home other
than that she wanted to see the world.
She was returned to her aunt today
Cor. Washington Post.