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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-13
Every Boy Has The Same Chanoe

Every Boy Has The Same Chance.
1T is not necessary that a boy who
learns trade should follow it all his
life. Senator Palmer of Illinois was a.
country blacksmith once. President
Lincoln was raised on farm and
split rails. President Garfield drove
mules on q canal. Jay Gould was
n surveyors assistant. John D. Rookie
teller was a bookkeeper. Erastus
Corning, too lame to do hard labor,
commenced as a shop boy in Albany,
When he applied for employment first
he was asked: "Well, my little boy,
what can you dor" "Can do what /
am Did," was the answer. That Sc
cured him place. Ex-Gov. Stone of
Iowa was a cabinetmaker, at which
trade the late Hon. Stephen A. Doug
las also worked in his youth. Large
numbers of prominent men now liv.
ing have risen from humble life by dint
OF industry, without which talent is as
useless as a gold coin on n barren
island. Work alone makes men bright
and 1t does not depend on the kind OF
work you have to do whether YOU rise
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-13
M oral Backbone.

Without n stiff moral backbone a
sound condition of the mental organi-
cation is impossible. Yet this essen
tial element of mental stability is
rather rare: Weakness of the moral
spine is in fact much more common
than disease of the material vertebre.
1t is sad disability, and works an
infinity OF mischief. Those who aee
afflicted by it only wrong themselves
through its influence, but also inhicts
serious evils upon society. They lend
money, which in some cases they can
i'll spare, TO persons whom it does not
benefit; become security for people
they do not know, and are mulcted in
the amount of the guarantee; recon-
mend rs worthy of the confidence of
other men in whom they have no
confidence themselves, and are dis
honored by the conduct OF their pro-
teges; bestow places on individuals
they do not esteem; live in q manner
which neither their conscience nor
their tastes approves, and all this be-
cause they have not strength enough
in their moral spines to bear up
against the pressure of Importantly
and temptation. Where there is a
natural tendency to this kind of
weakness it should be checked in early
life, for it rapidly grows worse by in
diligence. "He has had an ill educa-
ton" said the elder Brutus, "who
has not been taught to deny" A per-
emptory negative at the right time
has saved many multitudes from per-
dition. A weak assent at the wrong
time has been the ruin of millions.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-13
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
WORKS OF ADVICE FOR THE
FARMER.
About Misunderstanding Value OF
WheJ--Thoughts About Sheep
salt the Cows--Result OF
Rough Treatment.
About Milking,

The first thing in milking is to see
that the udder is clean. Wipe the
udders Of all the COWS to be milked
with flannel cloth wrung out in luke
warm water and dry them immediate
Iy. The mixer should then wash and
dry his hands and see that there are
no long or broken nails. Commence
now to stroke gently the teats and
udder q few seconds, to excite the flow
OF milk and to relax the muscles which
close the mouth of the teats. Now
grasp the two furthest off teats in such
way that the little finger is just out
Of reach of the milk as it issues from
the teat. For it is absolutely neces-
sary that the hands are kept dry from
start to finish. The milk cannot be
kept perfectly clean when the hands
are wet, no matter how carefully both
udder and hands have been washed
and dried and milk, as all know,
readily absorbs any dirt or
dirty smell and imparts it to but
ter or cheese. But a yet weightier
consideration is that diseases OF the
teats and udder, especially sore and
cracked teats, are to q very large de-
gree attributable to nothing else than
wet milking, while the danger of infec-
ton being conveyed from one animal
to another is increased enormously.
Taking care, therefore, to keep the lit
tie finger away from the milk, pro-
coed to drive the milk out of the teat
by a steadily increasing pressure ire
member not by pulling, commencing
the pressure with the thumb and first
finger and following rapidly with sec
ond, third and fourth fingers. Now
loosen your grasp and raise the hand
into the udder, as it were, giving gen.
tie shove or blow so as to bring the
milk down into the lower portion of
the udder. Then repeat the squeeze,
but take care never to stretch the
teat the least bit beyond it's natural
length, or serious internal ruptures
might result; besides, this stretching
the teats makes milking very I'M
pleasant to the COW. Even at the end,
never resort to stripping-that
is, sliding two or three fin
fingers down the teat, which
is kept fabricated with milk, but
continue squeezing the milk out
till no more will come, and even then
go on for few seconds to encourage
the flow of blood to the udder; then
do the same to the two near teats.
The quick, soft push into the lower
portion of the udder is exactly what
a calf does when suction no longer
brings it any milk. 1t opens it's mouth
slightly so as to take i'll larger por-
tion of the udder, and gives it n gentle
poke with it's nose, whereupon it re-
sumes sucking.
Too rapid and violent milking is
not enjoyable to the the COW and will
cause her to "hold up" her milk, and
slow milking makes her wearied.
Conversation among the mixers
should most strictly be forbidden.
The position of the mixer is often
such that he cannot see whether all
the milk goes into the pail or not, and
he must consequently trust to his
hearing. And an interesting conversa-
ton is not conducive to attentive
listening to the sound of the milk pail.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
---T=---~---- 's---- -=H4-~--7~---==- Scott In all His Glory.

"Now look at Castle garden" said one of those of old Boweryites who are always giving "reminiscences, while
 Itell you of my first memory of it. It was just after the Mexican war, about forty years ago, when the splendifer. ous conquerer of Mexico, Gen. Win. field Scott, appeared there at recep- tion given him after his return here It was the grandest thing that had been seen up to that time in Castle garden. The victorious hero, who had a majestic figure, was proud that night; he was gorgeously arrayod in the military style that gave hifa the nickname of "Fuss and Feathers; :; he marched in an imperious way to the front of the platform, and tell you he looked toplottical as he bowed before the welcoming shouts of the multitude in the decorated rotunda of Castle garden. It was great night for Winfield Scott and for the whole city as tarup as Union square. Icould tell of many another spectacle of the old times in Castle garden but not of grander one than that. New York Sun.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
The Song that Reached Their
 Hearts,

A gentleman who was recently at . small-hour banquet relates: 1t is astonishing how many business men are good singers. You will find more men who can sing than you will find women. At the affair oi which 1 speak there were representatives from nearly every foreign country, our own countrymen, of course, predominant ing. And most of those present were singers. A young student from Hci- delberg gave us in it's native tongue
 The Watch on the Rhine, for which, of course, he received the customary recognition. An Englishman sang Annie Laurie an lrishman Tho Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Hall, and a Frenchman the 'Marseillaise Each one of these songs was as we'll rendered as 1 ever heard it, and know they were all appreciated. Then some onegaveus' America ltdiden't quite hit, i'll some way. A young man with one of those ringing tenor voices started the Star Spangled Banner. Before he reached the chorus every man was on his feet, and each one was waving his napkin, and each one was singing with all his might
 They went over 1t again and again
 and never heard such singing in my lie. That was the song that reached their hearts. Philadelphia Press.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
A Strange Story.

Early in January Of the present year. woodman engaged in chopping some of tho monster oaks in the northern part of the great Black Forest, Ger many. and who had built fire against n large dead log preparatory to partak- ing of his midday meal, was surprised
 to see Il serpent of gigantic proportions crawl from the log as soon as the rot ten wood had got we'll warmed through. The day was bitter cold and the snake only made n few yards over the frozen ground until his convolutions became smaller and smaller. until he finally ceased to wriggle and quietly coiled up near a large pile of brush. The sturdy German chopper, who had been more surprised than scared. waited until tho creature had become thoroughly be- numbed with the cold and then ap- preached and dispatched him with his axe. Measurements showed the slimy creature to be 27 feet inches in length and nearly l5 inches through the body in the middle. But the most curious part of the story is yet to be told: Just back of the immense head.
 which was eleven inches in length and almost as broad. little gold ring had been put through the skin. Itwas in the form of two rings rather than ono, being shaped not unlike a figure $. One part of the ring was through the skin while the other was through q hole in small copper coin bearing date of l7l2. Ono side of the coin was perfectly smooth. with the exception of these letters and figures. which had evidently been cut on it with pocket knife. the workmanship being very rough: Louis Krutzer B. G. O., l7Sl." Some of the oldest inhabitants of tho Black Forest" remember hear. ing their parents tell of ''Krutzer, the serpent charmcr." and they all unite h declaring that this gigantic serpent
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
TOM TURNED THE JOKE.
It Was . Monkey, After All. and Was
 Ruthlessly Slain.

A party of commercial travellers had a lark at one of the large hotels the other afternoon, says the Washington Post There were several in the crowd. A fellow-travcling man, Thomas Huert- ly. had retired the night before half seas over. He had not been seen dur ing the day. Presently an Italian or gan grinder with monkey stopped in front of the hotel and the knights of the grip" were not slow to grasp this opportunity for joke.
 An offer of 6 to the grinder was sui ficient to hire both monkey and organ for the rest of the afternoon. A key t) Huertly's room was quickly obtainci. and the musician was stationed in tl.e hallway near his door. The men were all near by to hear the fun. They opened the door. and. to the strains of We've All Been There Before, Many a Time" the monkey hopped into the room and perched himself upon the footboard of Toms bed, the occupant of which was fast asleep. It was not long before the latter began to grow restless, and. as the tones of the organ penetrated deeper into his muddled brain. he rubbed his eyes and looked about with dazed expression on his face Then he saw the monkey and his eyes fairly bulged out of their sock cts. He rubbed his eyes again, then reached for glass of water and took a drink. He rubbed them a third time, and gazed intently at the object on the foot-board, which kept up constant labbering.
 Finally, Have I got emp Is that a monkey? No, it isn't; I've got 'em, sure.
 The fellows in the hall overheard but they took no pity on Toms despair. They waited for further developments, which soon came. Huertly seemed to take courage, for addressing Jocko solemnly he said:
 Now, Mir Monkey, if you are a monkey, good-by. monk; if you are not monkey. good-by, Tom Huertly," land he adroitly shied his boot at the mon- key. knocking him of his pedestal and killing him instantly.
 Huertly really had the best of the joke. for it cost the other fellows $10 apiece to pay the monkeys insurance policy.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
The Railroad Mans Memory.

I graduated from the rank of q brakeman, and when it became tol- erably certain that was on the high road to promotion 1 asked my con- ductor one day how he managed to remember the number of every car on his train. 'Comes natural was his reply; but that didn't seem enongh to me, nor did l see how man could possibly learn the numbers on twenty or thirty cars so accurately that he could record the number of each cue left at a way station without refresh ing his memory by a glance. Alter worrying for while Ipaid out S20 for series of lessons in d system of mem ory training that was all tine rage then. l acquired the system all right and found it consisted of a series of tables of associations" whereby long lists of figures could be learned almost at a glance. l learned these tables all righ | and practiced them daily on the train car numbers. When, however, my promotion arrived 1 soon dropped the system, and for years lhave forgotten every taoie alu pTintiple. Dut, us III y old conductor said, 1t ''came natural '' 1 can ascertain in few minutes the number of every car 1 take out and leave along the road. and cannot call to mind an instance in which ] have blundered The faculty is re, markable one, but all competent con- ductors are blessed with it From the New York World.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
Because He's An Old soldier.

Some very good stories were told at a campfire in Providence. recently, and there was a very gratifying absence of chestnuts. The story that seemed to take the best was ono told by Adin Capron about Grand Army man out west who was on trial for stealing a horse. The charge was proven by the testimony of half dozen witnesses. but the prisoners counsel made shrewd refence to the honorable war record of his client There were several veterans on the jury and the verdict brought In was: Not guilty, because he's an old soldier" The judge rcprimanded the jury severely and sent them back. tell ing them to bring in verdict in ac- cordance with tho evidence. At the end of fifteen minutes the jury returned with the simple verdict mot guilty" to which, however, the foreman added in an undertone But it's lucky he was an old soldier" Commander-in- Chief, Veazey, clapped his hands and laughed immoderately at the story, as much as to say, Those are my senti- ments."
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
Shakespeare In Germany,

The Neue Theater Almanach fo, 1891 contains tables showing the ire quency of the performance of certain classes of plays in German theaters during the last nine years. From these 1t appears that, altogether Shakespearian plays were performed S22 times in the year 1880, 75l times in 1888. TIT times in 1887, and 67e times in lS66. In 1881 they wers performed 795 times, which is attri buted to the influence of the Meiningen plays. Of late years especially the most popular play seems to have been "Othello, which during the nine years, lSSl-9, was performed s37 times; next comes Hamlet" with s16 per formances, and "The Merchant oi Venice" with 685 performances. The plays most seldom performed wers "All's We'll that Ends Welt" and The Merry Wives of Windsor" each of which had only a single performance during the nine years.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The 'manna" which fell from the sky in Asia Minor Inst August and was baked into bread. has recently been examined by men of science. and is identified as lichen.
 The acreage of tho geological gar dens in Europe ranges from about a half a dozen 10 half hundred acres, but hardly one of them has roop enough for it's animals.
 In the Wheatstone automatic method oftelegraphy, when transmitting at the rate of coo words n minute. there are 33, 600 currents per minute sent out. each having a duration not exceeding .oo2 Of second.
 Experiment has proved that, if q delicate piece of lace be placed between an iron plate and q disk Of gunpowder. and the latter be detonated. the lace will be annihilated, but it's impression will be clearly stamped on the iron.
 The brightness of tho moon is not sc very much greater than tho brightness of tho same area of sky. The total light of the full moon can be compared with the total light of tho sun. though it is a very difficult problem, and the result will be that the sun is as brigh, as 6s0. 900 full moons
 The speed with which the bodies known as meteors enter and pass through the atmosphere is 90 much ir excess Of that of cannon ball tha, there Is no comparison between the two bodies. A piece of iron may b< heated by pounding it on an anvil. and the atmosphere acts ike an anvil k the extra-terrestrial bodies which ente, it. It can be shown by a mathematical calculation that the speed of the me teorite and the resistance of the atmos- phere are sufficient to produce the de gree O! heat observed
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MODESrY
The odd Idea That Rough Man Had e1
 Propriety.


 Propriety.
 You would hardly believe what silly ideas some rough. uneducated men have about propriety." said the nurse to New York Tribune man, as she smoothed the pillow and rearrang- ed the bed-covers with a gentleness and dexterity that recalled to the patient the ministering hand eff . mother to a sick boy. 'I recollecA nursing . big 'longshoreman when | was in the hospital who had an idea of chivalry which. mistaken and nonsen- sical though it was yet was refreshing in one of his class. He had been in some drunken fight in low grog-shop near the river, and had received a number of bad wounds. His antago- mist had cut right for his heart, and had made three or four gaping slashes in his chest
 The injured man was one of the best-built men ever saw, and if his chest had not been padded with thick muscles he would have been murdered outright. As it was he was in a criti- cal condition, and only tue best care and treatment could save his life The surgeon dressed his wounds the first few days and then turned the task over to me. l went up to the patient whose name was Jackson, the next day, and began to lay back the covers on tho bed
 What are you doing?" he asked.
 'I am going to dress your wounds," answered.
 "You--a ladyp" he asked in aston ishment.
 'Of course; come, no nonsense" I went on, for he had grasped the cover in his weak hands and was trying to prevent my laying it back. 1 tried to argue with him, but he blushed and said doggedly that he wouldn't let a lady dress his wounds. I told him he would die if he didn't let me take care 1 of him, but he said he didn't caro if he did, so had to send for surgeon. After several days the patient was per- suaded to let me dress the wounds, but he turned crimson when he barred his chest fer me- although he had to ex- pose little more than society woman does when she wears a ball gown We'll, the 'longshoreman got well, and since then l have been convinced that the coarsest men are not without in. stincts of gentility."
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
He Could Explain It.

Pastor (to applicant for rchurch mem bership)-We shall be glad to welcome you among us, brother but in order to become a member of this denomination you will have to be kept on probation, as we call it, for six months.
 Applicant-Six months? What forp
 ''To prove your fitness for being re- ceived into full membership"
 (Struck by a sudden thoughtl-Mr. Goodman. six months won't make any difference at all in this redness at the end of my nose. It's erysipelas.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
DoctorIng Ills Demijohn.
From the Washington Post.

AIVhi thS W Il OSs-
 There is a section of tho rules and regulation seen on the printed card that is tackled up in hotel bedrooms which speaks of charging guests "cork- age" for liquors carried to their rooms. i, e., not furnished by the house. In one hotel, at least, this statue is q dead letter, and the guests --a goodly percentage of whom are Congressmen-keep the best product of Kentucky in their own apartments. | In this particular hotel q Southern NJ. c. had for Q long time been the tbe victim of petty raids on his demi- john. He bought good whisky and ! loved to dispense 1t in a hospitable way, but objected to seeing it disap- pear through the agency of pilferers He locked and double-locked his door, but still the stuff that Colonel Ingcrsoll said "banishes the skeleton from the feast and paints landscapes in the brains of men" kept vanishing.
 At last he was moved to heroic measures. He dosed what was left in the jug with ipecac, and, smiling grim nly to himself. remarked: "Ahal I'll eyed up with that thieving porter. When he gets his dose of this there'll be one Washington coon that Il never more banker after the rosy"
 The M. c. was right in everything save his premises. Instead of a nan seated porter there were just four of the sickest Hibernian chambermaids that ever got surreptitious drop oi the ''cratur." Loud was the racket of retehing that went up in the corri- dors, and pretty soon the quartette, concluding their hour had come, dis, patched Q messenger for priest. A favorable turn in their condition however, made the presence of the 1 holy man unnecessary.
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
Irish Landlords.


 IL ss not understood how desperate the position of the Irish landlords was in 1845. Really half of them were ruined. There was a grand show on the rent rolls, but deduct the charges on the revenues, the annuitios. tho dover charges. marriage portions, in terest on debts, and the remnant will cut shabby figure.
 Sometimes 8 gentleman with nomi- nal rent roll of ton thousand a year had hardly two thousand. Yet he must support the position of the man with ten. Inevitably estates of this kind grew more and more encountered. Half the apparent rapacity of tho landlords is due to this frightful d.s-. proportion between their revenues and. their state. When the famine came. many landlords gave up the struggle. Having long paid the bulk of their in- come as interest to their creditors, now, there being no rents, they had nothing left to pay. The creditors seized on the rent roll. since at that period they could not sell tho land.
 All over Ireland there were land- lords who had no more word in the management of their reputed estates than the poorest cotter. A report of the period tells of one barony where ''every one of the landlords-from MT. -, who is in possession of 500, 900 acres, to the lowest of them--was in- volved. lived on an allowance, and had his estate managed by tho agency. 60 that the poor were placed between . landlord who was unable to give them any assistance and the agent who had no interest in giving them any" ."-Cen- tllfV
The Forrest City times., 1891-04-03
Floored by aLatin Phr.ss.

It will probably shock those dear old fellows, the Latin professors of the various American colleges. to learn that "Nunquam animus sed ignis via'' foored all the college graduates in tho house of representatives at Washington recently. Even the reporters. who generally know more of such matterp than the congressman gavo it up, and some of them were a little ashamed. being not long from academic halls. Congressman Wilson of West Virginia, who is supposed to have been a college president upon time, finally rendered it as Never the mind, but fire malxes the way" but Representative DalzellI of Pittsburg at last came to the rescue with Never mind, but fire away"