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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07
Eo. H. PHELPS, Secretary.

Judge F. L. Fitzgerald, of the
Surrogate court of New York, has
been making tour of the west. He
came west with single standard theo-
ries. The effect of his observation
is seen in an interview lately had at
Denver:
"IA'will frankly state" he said.
"that | did not understand the mon
etary question prior to leaving New
York. | had been misled by the
New York single standard papers
until | had laid all the present dis
tress to silver. My trip convinces
me that it is the lack of silver legis-
lation that has created this crisis.
The people of the west, in asking for
free coinage, do not do it with mar
row minded views. / am confident
that they see it will result in great
good for the country generally. Fol
my part, since investigation, | am {
Thorough convert to silver as money
metal on equality with gold. | vii
not hesitate to explain my situation
to all my New York friends.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

She took ny hands in sheltered nooks'
She took my flowers, candy, books,
Gloves, anything l cared 10 send
She took my rival in the end.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

The Doctor-You are very badly run
down, Felix. Do you know that?
Felix-By who, docther? Oil allow
no wan t talk behoind me back widout
maxim thin prove livery wur-rud thots
bin sed. Oil not.-Judge.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

"You can't suffocate a shoemaker"
observed the exchange editor, be
cause he can always breathe his last
"If he does" retorted the financial
editor, won't it bring him to his
waxed end?"-Chicago Tribune.
He Realized 1t.
Wife-A man is fool to have any
thing to do with lottery.
Husband-Y ou hit it, then. I'm still
kicking myself for marrying YOU
Brooklyn Life.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

Condition powders and hoof oint-
ment at Riggs. Also Stewards Heal
ing Powders, the finest discovery
known for gals, barb wire cuts,
etc.
Chew Stag Head Tobacco. Each
box contains one plug in which Q
81. so gold piece is enclosed Try
your luck. Sommer q Son.
Axle grease, harness oil, harness
soap, copper rivets, etc, at Riggs
Harness shop.
Do you read borrowed paper'
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

rOpean ana ASlatlc port, ana tne
wares and products of other climes
be returned to us with reciprocal
profits.
"We therefore urge upon the gov
ernment of Mexico, South and Central
America and upon the American
states interested IN the work and upon
all the commercial and manufacturing
bodies within them, to send delegates
to the convention, and we further re-
quest all railroad and steamship lines
of this and the South American con-
tinent and of Europe and Asia inter-
ested in establishing new ports and
lines of communication upon the lines
suggested, to send representatives for
consultation and suggestions.
'Let US proceed in this work with
deliberaton but firmness. 1t is a
great and patriotic task as well as
one of mutual profit and advantage. p"
A. G. FISK,
President Pan American Bi-metal-
lie Association.
GEO. Fl. PHELPS. Secretary.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07
Excellent Opportunity for a
Saloon Man.
FOR Sale.

RED FRONT BILLIARD PARLOR.
The best situated Saloon in Weiser. viii
sell cheap for cash. First-class Billiard
Table. j First-class 10 Ball Pool Table.
Bar Fixtures and stock of Liquors. Rea-
sons for selling, Wish TO engage i'll other
business. Enquire of
IS NJ. JOHNSTON. Weiser, Idaho.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

Eastern Man-Considerin the price
you ask, it seems to me that tins lot is
very small.
Western Hustler-But you must re-
member that this is new town, and
growing like all possessed. That lot Is
Young yet.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07
THE VALLEY HOTEL

MRS. BOB JOHNSON, Prop.
Nice clean beds and grand good grub.
Evervthiag home-like makes it a favorlte
stonning place. Rates $500 per week for
hoard and lodging. Transient. sl.Oo per
day.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07
For $1,000

You can get 160 acres of fine agrl-
cultural land on Mann creek. Every
foot under fence. Seventy acres in
cultivation with growing crops on.
This offer NAV be withdrawn at any
time and delay is dangerous If you
desire this grand bargain. Enquire
at this office
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

Agleigh-I wonder why it is there
are SO many weddings take place in
the autumn?
Wagleigh - Traditional custom.
Adam and Eve were married round
about the fall.-Vogue.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07

"Where do you intend to go when
you visit Europe?" asked the plumber
addressing the iceman.
ITO Mont Blanc"
''Why there?"
Because there ice comes high. IN.
Y. Press.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
Plan for Cheap Hog House.

Build Il regular frame, or feet
high, 2ox3o. Have your feeding floor
right in the middle, lengthwise, feet
wide, with five stalls on each side of the
feeding floor: also door to each stall
all around. For feeding floor the door
on one gable end, also one window on
each gable end and half windows on
each length side rs high up as can be.
For floor take good oak plank. For
partitions I would take sycamore or
any other kind of hard lumber. Each
stall ought to have its own trough, and
stick out to feeding floor enough to
put in your swill and feed; and one or
two wooden ventilating chi,nneys on
the roof Windows ought to be fixed to
open when wanted. This hog house
will be handy for winter and summer
use. You must have four long sills
and two short ones. All the bottom
timber ought to be oak. On cost You
can have your own figures. My figures
are SIS thousand feet on lumber all
: .ound; would bring it to about 1928,
besides carpenter work. Rural World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

BUcKwHEAr is recommended for apple
orchards. Its principal use, however,
is to keep the soil loose.
PARIS Characterization should be KEEP.
constantly stirred while .:sc spraying Is
being done. It readily settles at the
bottom.
CARROTS sent their roots deep into
the soil, and therefore arc root that
stands the drought well. One writer
says that they seem to enjoy dry
weather.
If people cannot be induced to spray
their fruit trees-and many cannot be
why would it not pay somebody in the
neighborhood to provide spraying APP
paratus and contract to do the spray
ing?
PEOPLE sometimes buy choice seed in
small variety and declare that 1t never
does as well after the first year. The
reason often is that it is planted under
the most favorable conditions the first
year, and never under such conditions
again. Voice.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
GRAPEVINE TRELLIS.

is no reason why the amateur should
not practice it. There are lots of ways
in which the principle may be carried
out, even if pears, apples, ~plums, etc.
are not grown. For example, the grape
vine readily yields to any kind of train
ing either in single canes or many.
Even tomatoes may be trained readily
by beginning as soon as growth starts.
Where there is an abundance of room
most people arc content to let them
grow on the ground in n natural way.
But there are a great many who have a
city or village lot and, by little in
genuity in this way. may grow lots OF
things. The engraving from London
Gardening will show the French Gordon
method of growing apples. The other
illustration shows simple method OF
strinEing wires on a post and is useful
for training the grapevine, etc.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
THE FARMING WORLD.
BARRED WIRE FENCES.
They Were Used In France Long Ago
"a SCI and 1905.

They Were Used In France Long Ago
1891 and 1893.
The writer has already called atten-
ton to French patents of Grassin-
Baledans, 1851. and Jannin, 1865. for
barbed wire fences. which are both an
terror to the earliest date of invention
set up by the first American patentee of
a barbed wire fence, who, as is well
known, provided the wires of wire
fence with a series of spur wheels.
Almost about the same time e Breton
brick manufacturer, Gilbert Gavillard,
received 4 French patent, dated August
81, 1867, No. 1850, for barbed wire
fence, which may be described as fol
lows, by following as nearly as~possible
the French description: .,.,.a--.--...
This fence is composed OF three gal
vanized wires and of spines, also gal
vanized, placed between and clamped
by two strands, while the heads are
covered by the third strand. These
strands of galvanized wire are twisted
together, so to present iron thorns
on all their faces. In order to form a
fence, it suffices to plant posts in the
ground and attach thereto, by means Of
iron wire hooks, three of these artificial
thorny branches, which are placed ut a
sufficient distance apart to prevent an
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
The Production OF naslk.

In our experience in producing milk
we have succeeded best by using from
is to 20 pounds daily of a feed composed
of 100 pounds of bran. SO pounds of
wheat meal, SO pounds of bucl<xvheat
shorts and so pounds of corn chop, says
a correspondents. The bran we use is
not the new process bran-*hat we
have found out by experience to be
worth a good deal less than we paid for
it-but n good, solid, "td-fashioned
praI,-shorts and ALL The wheat meal
is made by grinding low grade wheat
and taking out only the bran. The
buckwheat shorts we regard as es-
pecially useful in causing a large flow
OF milk, and the corn we add for its
heat and flesh producing elements. A
ton of this mixture costs us, at present
prices, s1G.73 per ton. We occasionally
add oil meal in small quantities, but do
not think it would pay to add regularly
at SO per ton. We have no arrange
m"nts for cooking, and % feed dry
Farmers Voice.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
dRANDMA's GARDEN.

You're peeping through the garden-esSs.
oh, precious little curly pate!
And shall SEQ you by snd by.
With cunning mir 0nd fingers sly,
Cndo-the latch and slip inside,
Then toward the sweetest blossoms glide:
ITO smell. ths poeies." SO you'll say.
Alb rogue. your take q rose away!
Fun fivc nnd twenty years gone by.
Another urchin. just s My
And Just rs sweet ana brown and bold.
With just such locks and cuyling gold,
Would watch TO hnd my curtain down,
As II he feared my slightest frown,
: Then pluck the PROTEST flower nnd run
That was your father. naughty one.
As time passed on. the lad grew meek, ~
And then my full consent would seek;
Thus, by his mnnliness and truth,
Hc gained my trust, the cunning youth
He had 4uecaly Rose in view.
That in my household garden grew;
And soon the blooming flower he won
That waa your mother. little son.
Mrs. M A. Ktdder. in N. Y. L cdgeE.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
AN EARLY FRENCH PATENT ON BARBEE
WIRE.

AN EARLY FRENCH PATENT ON BARBEE
WIRE.
imals from going over this thorny OBJ
Stacle.
A drawing annexed to the patent is
herewith reproduced.
It will be seen that it presents. in a
very striking way, how an OK is pre-
vented from reaching an apple on the
other side of the barbed fence. AL
though the drawing does not show the
form of the barbs, it is evident that
they are I-shaped. and that the third
wire strand prevents the barbs
from dropping out by locking them in
place between the two other strands
The Gavillard patent may be considered
as resembling the Michael Kelly pat
cnt Of February II, 1858, No. 74.37?.-
A. NJ. Tanner in Scientific American:
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
M.kiNLEv IS M,FFED.
The Napoleon Of Protection Anronted b.
the Republican Lesguers.

The Napoleon Of Protection A6ronted By
the Republican Leaguers.
Gov. Mckinley is in bad temper over
the action of the national republican
league at Louisville. 1t will be re-
membered that the governor was wide
" heralded As one of the attractions of
the meeting, and he was expected to
make for the fftieth time a speech
holding up TO admiration the tariff
which bears his name and on which his
claim to political distinction rests.
The governor did not go to Louisville.
Probable he had received a tip as to
the intentions of the league toward his
notorious law. or had been requested to
get up an entirely new speech for the
occasion on any other subject than the
tariff. Anyhow. he did not put in an
appearance, and it was reported in the
dispatches that the republicans who
expected to take look at the man
whose work had cost the party SO dear
ly were out of temper at being cheated
of part of the promised show.
vol<ed. Not n word was said in Louis
vile in compliment of the author of the
Mckinley law or in Endorsement of his
monumental work. Both were ig-
nored, except for the implied re-
pudiation in the resolution that
the democrats ought to carry into
effect their platform policy of an
tagonism to the theories upon which the
Mckinley tariff was based. The con-
vention said as plainly as if expressed
ip the exact words: you democrats
have declared that if you came into
power you would overturn the McKiIl-
ley tariff policy. We have had enough
of it. Take the old thing away and
bury it, the quicker the better" Nat
urally the governor does not fancy
such treatment. and he is not backward
in saying SO. He informed an inquir-
ing newspaper man that 1.-The conven-
ton made a mistake in not affirming
the national platform of 1892 To do
that would have Endorsed the Mckinley
tariff and its author which is what the
governor evidently thinks every re-
publican gathering should do. But
that was just what the Louisville con-
vention did not want to do aud did not
do. The leaguers are plainly not Nc
Kinleyites.
: That was not the only mistake made
by the leaguers, according to Gov. Nc
Kinley's notions. They went a little
too fast and too far in monl<eying with
the woman suffrage question. For him
self he had hardly decided whether to
approve or condemn the equality of sex
plank, but admitted that he Ibid not
see any immediate or urgent need of
woman suffrage The governor will
hardly win the support of the women
on that statement, but as they have no
vote in Ohio, and are not likely to have
when the governor is making his next
position does not give him much I'M
easiness. He would no doubt trade off
the political support of all the women
in Ohio for an assurance Of the votes
and influence of Foraker and his henck-
men.-Clcveland Plain Dealer.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
WANTS HARD ROADS.
An Illinois Farmer Presents Few lfro
futai,le Arguments.

An Illinois Farmer Presents a Few Irro
futable Arguments.
II YOU will take the trouble to md
the amount of road and bridge tax that
is spent by our commissioners; then add
to it the amount that the taxpayers
are allowed to work or visit out under
the supervision of the ''pathmasters;'
then add the poll tax at s1.25 per day,
you will find that it is not the want of
means that makes our roads bad,
but it is the way the money is spent
that causes the roads to be in the con-
dition they are One-half of the money
spent in each township if used to make
hard roads would make several miles
each year. ''Ah!' says one. Il thought
you were opposed to hard roads, l am
certainly opposed to voting an increase
of tax to build hard roads under the
present system, but the only way we
will ever have good roads is to use
gravel. stone or burnt clay in the form
of brick. We have tried every form of
dirt road that can be thought of and it
is failure with us at certain times and
under certain conditions, and the de-
mand at this age is a road that can be
used at al! times. The dirt road is like
the little girl who had a little curl
when she was good she was very, very
good, but when she was bad she was
horrid."
Now we have proved that one judge
three. ] think the same rule will APP
ply to our road commissioners. If we
have but one we will not have SO many
adjourned meetings for the benefit Of
the fellow that did not come. Then if
the responsibility all rested on one man
he would give some thought to the
work, and there would be no one else
to Law the blame on for the mistakes he
might make.
Then let us have the funds divided
equalIy-one-half to be used to keep
the roads in repair. the pathmasters to
be instructed to haul all the gravel they
the worst places in their re-
spective districts, and the commission
erS to use the other half to make hard
roads, beginning on the one that
is most used and at the end near
est the county seat or leading trad
ing station. If we will do this it will
be but few years until each township
will have one leading road made good
and the worst places fixed on the Others.
and then we have the largest part done.
for the leading roads are the ones that
get the worst owing to the great
amount of heavy hauling done on them.
After we have demonstrated that we
can make good roads as cheaply poor
ones we will be willing to vote an in
crease of tax to hurry the good work
along.
AS to the material I believe there is
more gravel and stone than most poo
pie think. There are places on our
prairies where there is plenty of gravel
from two to five feet below the surface.
Coal is cheap and burned clay or brick
makes good road material. AS the old
saying is where there is a will there is
a way and if we make up our minds
to have good roads the material will be
found. Now let us agitate this road
question and try change. We have
been turning the 1dirt over for about
forty years and have not found the good
side vet. SO let us try something else
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

The republicans mean business
in calling for long tariff campaign.
They will fight it out on that ly'n, if it
takes all summer.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
livery few days Mr.. Clarkson dis
covers a new cause for republican de-
feat AS there were SO many causes Mr..
Clarkson will undoubtedly make more
discoveries.-N. Y. World.
1t may be true. as Clarkson
thinks, that there is Harrison and an
anti-Harrison faction in the republican
party, but the Harrison party faction
consists chiefly of Mr.. Harrison himself.
st. Louis Republic.
Secretary Carlisle is naturally
wary of tho plutocratic patriots who
travel clear to Washington to volunteer
their advice. He knows enough to be
on the alert when the Greeks come bear
ing gifts.-Detroit Free Press.
Ohio did not care to push its can
didate for the presidency of the nation
al league of republican clubs, after it
was developed that the leaders were
not there and those who vNere assem-
bled were doing the most idiotic things
with a pretended purpose of bringing
the party into popular favor once more.
Harrison and Mckinley both saw what
was coming in time to get from under.
Detroit Free Press.
The complaint comes up from
Louisville that the old-time leaders of
the republican party were chiefly no.
ticeable by their absence from the con-
vention. That's true. Most of them
that is those who formerly led the
party to victory-are now in the dem
ocratic ranks. For the absence of those
who have made the party the pitiful
wreck it now is the league ought to be
grateful. Sentinel.
"A republican organ, clamoring in
dignantly against the proposition of
the democrats to revise the pension
list claims that 1.-The 'coffee-coolcrs,
the malingerers and the sneaks gener-
ally were among the very first men to
get pensions after the war;" Very
we'll. Why should honest men, then,
object to striking these off the rolls?
They have already drawn pensions
longer than many who really deserve
I rcasions.-LrcuiSvill Courier-J ournal
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15

F1eecy-I'd give anything if had as
good command Of myself as Downey
has.
Eailey-Is Downcy SO self-Possessed
then?
Fleecy-That man can say truly
rural. up to four o'clock in the morn
inG.-Judge.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
1t Made q DiTercnC

The Judge-You are here as the al
legged murderer of a lawyer
The Prisoner--Iou've got it mixed.
your honor. I'm here as the murderer
of an alleged lawyer.
The Judge-Eh! What's that? why
didn't you say that before? The pris-
oner is discharged with the thanks OF
the court.-Buffalo Courier.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15

~, r,t.-.sr t,ic 70 ocn,rrot birs -. rhr ,Lr
pose, ~ COZ. spiE2t>1rs where b.. ;1r'.-vs
inc facts nc * NV arc f 1''r t!t't rs .:
the men who attempt to use the federal
government in furthering their private
schemes for securing unearncd money.
The removal of Stevens and the APP
pointment of Mr.. Blount will satisfy all
who are not in favor Of allowing
Spreckels to carry out his plans
through the completely of the United
States.
1t is no longer doubtful that a con-
spiracy existed to which Stevens was
party. It will be easy to show that
the entire disturbance was planned
months in advance and that Stevens
was in full completely with it. Mr..
Charles Nordhoff, who is now in Homo
lulu for the New York Herald, has
cured evidence that the troops from the
Boston were landed under the orders of
Stevens. before, not after, the revo1u-
ton. The actual landing took place
between four and five o'clock Monday
afternoon, and it was not until the
next day that the provisional govern
mcnt proclaimed itself-as it would not
have done at all if Stevens. as a men,
Der of the conspiracy, had not used
United States marines in the capacity
of rebels again st the government to
which he was accredited minister.
Excepting Miner in Central America
and Egan in Chilli. there is hardly so
disgraceful record rs this in the
history of our diplomacy.
In touching on the plea that Ameri .
can capital in the islands must be pro-
scted by the use of she navy. Mr..
Nordhoff says it means that the navy
must be put at the service of Sprecl-
els, since Sprecl>els and one other
planter are the only men in the islands
who have invested American capital.
''The cry that our troops must lie
here to protect American capital is n
fraud" says Mr.. Nordhoff. 1.-THE prop
erty which thus cries out for protectio
when no protection is needed is not
American but Hawaiian property, and
has been made here by men who vol
unfairly left their own country to
make fortunes in these islands, most of
them landing here with less than one
hundred dollars in their pockets"
Mr.. Cleveland already commands the
confidence of the people by his
straightforward and courageous action
in opposing SPreclzels, and when all
the facts are bought out there will be
no room fer two opinions. 1t is al
ready certain that a most disgraceful
conspiracy existed and that but for
Mr.. Cleveland the government OF the
United States would have been used as
a cats paw in carrying it out.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
Human Nature.

Cumso-NVait a minute, Fangle. I
want to step into the dressmaker's and
pay my wife's BILL
'.Why don't you give her the money
and let her go and pay it?"
Cumso-She'd order another Dress
Buffalo Ships
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15

xfa,nE-.i, Methods iusr.t0.rc6 IL European
s-nsuEE-Ss,
In that part of the Midway .Plaisarce
at Chicago devoted to nursery exhibits
Chief Samucls will illustrate what these
terms mean. The French have sent
over some fine examples of this kind OF
gardening operations, viz. some fruit
trees of bearing size. An espalier is a
frame or trells on which the tree or
object is trained. A Gordon is a gle
horizontal line upon which even apple
trees are grown. They are usually
boundaries to walks. l don't suppose
much will be done in this line to supply
market fruit in this country but there
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15

Van Petit infer that most of tho
people who get shaved here have hair
on their teeth.
Earbcr-From what do you infer
that, sir?
Van Pclt-The persistency with
which you poke the lather into my
rnout TIN. Y. Herald.