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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

to senseless extremity. Many who
are ready to combat the imputation
that their indulgence in cards or bill
lizards is evil, even though specially
referring to the place they are prac-
ticed In, saloons and places of intern
perance, are the first and loudest to
raise the howl of horror, if these
games, innocent in themselves, are
connected with any institution of re-
ligious or moral pretensions. We
think we have seen and heard of, sew
eral times, a Mortified wall from the
common public over the connection
OF billiard table and card room
with some Christian institution 1--WE
don't remember what one or where).
The fine sense of the mass seemed
woefully shocked. Billiards is a fine
and noble game, innocent as croquet
or tennis; it is educational and bene-
fetal to the player Cards are harm
less and amusing. The connection
of billiards with a church or christian
edifice and played through the week
is not a particle derogatory to its
moral standing, no more so than
tennis court in its vicinity. The
amusement obtained from pieces of
pasteboard with hearts and diamonds
printed on them contains no more
wrong than pasteboards with birds.
animals or human faces upon them,
and il church societies by furnishing
these pleasing amusements to young
men can keep them from seeking
them in places of vice where they
will be led to gamble on the game, it
is doing good work and helping
them to be better men. Gambling
On "Authors" could be made as
harmful as draw poker. The trouble
s, those who are highly moral through
'ellgious sentiments and those who
indulge in careless and commonly
ermed immoral habits are thrown too
ar apart by antagonistic prejudices.
t the one might be less of an ex-
remist and step down a very little so
IS not to pretend to see so much |
oul-destroying calamity in harmless
hings, the other might be reasoned
o little higher plane and improve
n character for simple morality's
axe. They might be easier bettered
nd led by kindly human reason and
ense, than be driven by the pious
ash of heavenly wrath as interpreted
y the many cold tongues of human
totes.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

theirs. Do they ever look upon us
except as prey? What has no ben
eft to the East has no interest to
them and we should likewise exhibit
our selfish back bone and look upon
them as an alien land. We need
them not The blood and sinew is
in the West to make a grander coun-
try than toadying, rotten New Eng
land. The gates of the Pacific are
open for a grander commerce with the
Orient than the Atlantic coast ever
enjoyed. We can control it all and
shut them out, building up manufact-
urlng and industrial interests and
wealth for ourselves and advancing
the West to great living land of
power and progress. What trade we
have eastward should be with the
South and through Southern ports,
and to encourage this should be one
OF the objects of this Congress.
The West for western men, bone and
muscle. Stand up and show them
our might Who else will do it for
us? The whole secret of our condi-
ton today is because we are not
united and they take advantage of it.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14
A dispatch SAYS:

The postponement of Cuba Day." to
have been celebrated at the Cotton States
and International Exposition to day. is
said to have been made in Difference IL
the wishes OF President Cleveland. His
desire for the postponement. which virtu-
ally dispenses with the demonstration al
together. Is said to be due to the fact that
he intends to make certain recommends
lions upon the subject of the Cuban rev.
oiution to congress, and in the meantime
does not wish TO have the question agita.
led
That is just like Cleveland He
must boss our expositions in anything
that may trench on his pet notions
No one should express an idea OF a
sentiment until his thoughts are
learned and then they should be fol
lowed. Don't agtate, for the love
OF Heaven until the big belIied mo-
gul tells the congress on his hands
what to do Not long ago we had an
article on "Cuba's New Enemy" and
we still think it was about right.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14
WHEN THE CHILL MISTS

OF the morning hang like pail over the
surface of the earth, it will be well for
you before venturing into the raw vapor-
Gus air charged, perhaps, with the seeds
OF malaria or provocative of rheumatic
twnges, to take wineglassful of Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters. and thus shield
yourself from atmospheric influences
threatening to health. If you happen to
get showed. sleeted or rained upon, use
the same preventive, and avoid the rheu-
matlsm or ii dangerous cold. The agree
able warmth infused into the circulation
by this genial stOmachic, its invigorating
and regulating properties commend it to
all appreciative of the fact that proven
ton is better than cure. Use the Bitters
for dyspepsia, bi iousness, nervousness
and kidney trouble, sick headache and
debility.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14
Commissioner Hofrstatter rece,

Commissioner Hoffstatter recent,
gave us new idea of the A. p. A.
lie thinks it is a plan of capital tc
breed dissention in the ranks of labor
We don't know but there is a good
deal in that. The scheming class
fear the labor organizations and lone
to see their ranks cleft in twain
What more subtle plan could be
adopted than through mems religion
The laborer's religion is generally his
most vulnerable spot. When he
could remain passive at all other at
tacks, he is on fire when his creed is
assalled. Among labor there are
thousands Of Protestants and PERTAINS
great many more Catholics. Inject
religious warfare among them and
the objects of their organization is
lost sight of, their ranks rent asun-
der and, Eureka, what victory IL
may be, it may be. 1t would be n
cunning scheme and worthy of the
class who antagonize sturdy ma
tional manhood.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14
LET THE WEST STAND TOGETHER

Governor Mcconnell issues an aid
dress to the press and points out that
If the people are not alive to the
need of silver delegates to the Trans
Mississippi Congress, they may find
the gold bugs have been at work to
pack the convention and get declar
alton against silver. eve know of
one two thirds gold bug already ap
pointed by the governor) He urges
the papers TO push the matter of
holding public meetings for the pur-
pose OF naming suitable persons from
different counties aud also to raise
funds to send delegates. The latter
IS not possible in the majority of
places. Interest in the meetings
could not be aroused and contribu.
IONS would be failure. The public
purse is too woefully cramped.
The Congress should, however, be
assisted in every possible way and
those who are willing to 90 on their
own expense should say so. The or
ganizatlon is a great factor in West
ern interests; it has accomplished
much good and possibly can accom-
plish more. 1t is certain the West
should stand together for good or i'll
and let Eastern sluggards die in their
shell. We must be up shoulder to
shoulder to preserve ourselves. The
interests of the East and West seem
to be widely apart, and let us battle
for ours as they work and scheme for
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

machine to accomplish sort OF
official examining down of his ideas
into the threats Of all it were possible
to reach. He denied the right OF
Kentucky to think for herself, in
dElged in officious meddling and
ruined the democratic party in that
state. He denied the right of con-
gress to think for itself, and was
ready with the work of ramming
home his own thoughts with the lever
of official patronage. He denied the
right Of Admiral Meade to express a
thought OF his own, and to enforce
it drug that grand and loved old
naval commander from the honorable
place he had won, and tried to tram
pie his honors in the dust. He wrote
Governor Stone letter denying the
right of any who enjoyed official pat
ronage to hold any opinion other than
those transmitted from his own
mighty self II is not Clevelands
right to hold his own opinions that
every paper in Idaho, except the
Boise Democrat and the Blackfoot
News, would spit upon him for, but
his denial of that right to everyone
else. The attention of the Democrat
is also called to the Cuba Day" par
agraph in the preceding column.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

There are just two populists in the
Kentucky Legislature, but those two
populists will have wonderful lot of
power and they will have an oppor-
sunity to show the country the depth
Of their character and how much they
love their country and what they are
capable Of doing for its welfare. The
republicans and democrats will be
evenly divided on joint ballot and
these two will have the balance of
power II they are great enough
for the occasion offered them, they
will throw their weight to Senator
Blackburn. He is the best silver
man they can possibly get and has
made a desperate fight against the
whole power of the administration
III they fail now, let them not insult
the public with explanations.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

Secretary Carlisle returned from Ken.
lucky this morning. He promptly gave
orders to his private secretary to say tc
newspaper correspondents that he decin.
ed to be interviewed on the result in Ken
lucky. Mr.. Carlisle believes the result
speaks for itself and carries political
moral with it.-Daily News.
The secretary is right in that, and
we hope the political moral it carries
will be treasured up by him, that he
may learn better than to aid any adj
ministration in interfering in state
politics. Mr. Carlisle may have the
satisfaction of knowing that his and
Mr. Cleveland's work defeated their
party in the Bourbon state.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

After telling of the rise of silver
In Panama on account of it's being
controlled by a syndicate, the dis
patches go on to say, at has caused
a reduction in the premium on gold
from 245 per cent to 200 per cent
and it now looks as if gold would 20
still lower That is peculiar
point il would be well for some of
our ''wise men of the east" to ex-
plain.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Boise City, Idaho,
September 2S 1895.


September 2S, 1895. !
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
made before the clerk of the probate court
of Washington county, Idaho, at Weiser,
Washington county, Idaho. on November
10, 1895, viz: John NJ. Harris. Weiser,
Idaho, homestead application No 1862,
for the e4 nw4, et sw4 section 81, tip. -
II, range W. b. NJ, Idaho.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land. viz: William
Apologize Henry Applegate, Alfred Sta
cy, James NJ Barton, all of Weiser, Wash
ington county, Idaho.
AZ CHARLES HnIRoD, Register.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Boise City, Idaho,
o. % 1OQ5

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Clerk of the Probate
Court, Washington county, Idaho. at
Weiser, Idaho, on November l6, 1895,
viz: Herbert A. Lee, Weiser Idaho, home
stead application No 1920, for the NJ swf,
81 nw4 section 20, tip. II n, W, b. M,
Idaho.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land viz: John Han
thorn, Joseph r. Numbers, William b.
Kurtz, John w. Ayers, all of Weiser,
Washington county, Idaho.
43 CHARLES HMRoD, Register.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

The Idaho Democrat is unable TO see
why newspaper Of this or of any other
state would want to spit upon President
Cleveland. The fact that he claims the
equal right OF opinion on public and pri-
vate affairs with every other citizen. and
mas the manliness TO express the same. is
certainly no reason TO put upon him SO
oase an insult.-ldaho Democrat.
NO one questions Cleveland's right
as man to hold and express opin-
IONS on any subject, but it becomes
disgusting when the president denies
mat right TO others, when he bends
We whole force Of the administration
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You can't quarrel with our prices
SoMdERCAMP.

NANTED:-Several Trustworthy, gen
w tlemen or ladies 10 travel in Idaho Tor
established, reliable house. Salary SIoo
and expenses. Steady position. Enclose
reference and self-addressed stamped en-
velope. The Dominion Company, Third
Floor, Omaha Bldg. Chicago, Ill.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

WANTED:--Sever Trustworthy gem
W tlemen or ladies to travel in Idaho for
established, reliable house Salary $3.50
and expenses. Steady position Enclose
reference and sef-addressed stamped en-
velope The Dominion Company, Third
Floor, Omaha Bldg, Chicago, III.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

Many self-claimed free silver re-
publicans and papers 10 Idaho have
completely forgotten that issue in
their Joy that "the republicans are
again in power for long time to
come "
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt will furnish
all needed testimonials ms to the new
patent medicine, ssDukes Ointment, "
for strained family relations.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

Times are so outrageously hard
back east that a gold-bug orator will
make speech for silver, greenbacks,
notes, gartlen-sa sass or cordwood.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

In the District Court of the Third Judicial
District of the State of Idaho, in and
for the county of Washington.
Leonard Logan, administrator
with the Will annexed of the
Estate of Thomas Il. Logan, NoIice
deceased, plaintiff, ~
VS.. N''"Oh
L. G. Kelley and Edward OAR nieh''
by, defendants
Notice is hereby given, that in the above
entitled action there has been an attach
ment issued against the property of the
defendant, p. G. Kelley
Witness my hand and the seal of said
Court, at Weiser the seat of said
rsrA1l county. tins 10th day of Octo-
Der, 1895, |. F. SMITH,
4It3 Clerk of said Court
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THE WEISER SIGNAL.

We can all rest easy now that the
supreme court has decided beans to
be vegetable.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-14

1t is truth in medicine that the small
lest dose that performs cure is the best
De Wits Little Early Risers are the small
lest pills will perform cure, and are the
best. Jenney e. Warehouse.
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CHURCH NOTICES.

Congregational.
Preaching every Sunday at eleven o'clock
n. m. and at eight p. m.
Sunday School Immediately after morning
service, ut 12:l5 p. IN
Weekly meeting for Bible study, Friday
evening at o'clock.
Meeting of the Band of Hope, Saturday,
at 2 o'clock p. m.
\. p. S. G. E., Sunday, at p. m.
Saint Lulte'S, WeiSer.
SERVICES:
and Sermon, II a. m
Evensong and Sermon, 1880 p. m.
Sunday School at 1915
dnesday-Litany, II a. m
Evensong and Sermon, 800 D. m.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-02
English Self Reliance.

1t is not a light thing to govern the
British empire, not in any sense because
we regard the task as beyond human pow
ers We know that it is not and that firm
and honest hearted MEN, who will do their
best and fear not, can steer the ship of
state as we'll now as in former times Our
course may be through reefs and shoals
but the perils of navigation never stopped
an English ship OF made towards of the
captain and crew Though the response
bility is great, it is not greater than the
courage of those who are called to deal
with the burden of the empire.
In a recent controversy on the question
OF foreign clerks in the city, a London
merchant wrote to explain that German
clerks were in all respects but one vastly
superior to English clerks. 10y talked
more languages, they were more regular in
their hours, they cost half, thay never
grumbled they took shorter holidays and
worked longer, and they never drank or
gambled or gave any trouble. The one
drawback was that they could not be in
duced to take responsibility, whereas the
stupid, i'll educated, tiresome Englishman
would, and that made him, after adj,
worth twice as much as the German. No;
the failure to take responsibility is not the
vice of our race and while this is So we
need not fear the burden OF empire beconi
ing too great. Be the problems that beset
us what they may, depend upon it, there
will always be Englishmen perfectly will
ing to assume them and cheerfully and
without any histrionic heroisln 10 do
their bost in spirit worthy Of the occa.
sion -Iontsr, siet,tator
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-02

fYes, what does IL meanY dein.fsneo ~
Mrs. Smead in the measured syllaioles VI
the divorce court nm.
sit means, explained Mr.. SmeaG, 'n 4hs
my wife has not yet learned to p3oA ois
compass. She gave me southwest aiao
your wife locked me up in room thaI has
no ventilation and under criminal DOL
But forgive her, - he added, with galisi ~,
protest, whereat Mands cheeks grew fee,
with embarrassment, and Mrs. 0inet'u
said:
''Come home! After this will meet
you at the train and see that you oon
get into the wrong house."
"Do forgive me, Mr.. Smead, said Mauo
penitently, while Perry glared darkly Ike
a jealous stage lover, "but you did look SC
sol
"She said you looked like convict,
remarked his wife,
SAT least it has made us acquainted,
observed Mr.. Smead, true to his colors
and with this parting shot he followed his
wife to the southeast" cottage. Detroit
Free Press.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-02
TOLD BY A BICYCLE.
I am a bicycle.

am bicycle.
Not such as, swept along by the full tidF
of power, the conqueror leads to crimson
glory and undying fame, but plain, ordi'
nary--no, not an ordinary" but safety
bicycle for hire.
True, am in good state of repair and
am as comfortable as my keepers can
make me, but am not decked in ribbons
and nurtured in commodious quarters and
ridden only by the aristocracy over smooth
pavements and for short distances.
never even had such luck when / first
came from the factory. I thought l was
going to fall into that good fortune, but a
man took me on trial-that is to say, ne
took me on the installment plan and tried
to pay for me- but couldn't and was
forced to return me at the end OF month,
and then I was only good enough to go
among the hirelings, and there l have
steid ever since. Goodness me, how long
it seems since got the first wrench to my
steel ribs and had my frame skinned
against tree box!
was born combination wheel-that
Is, you can take out my spinal column,
and then can be ridden by lady not in
bloomers, and thank my stars no boomers
have ever yet enveloped me in their folds.
That time the man had me on trial, I
think, was my most uncomfortable expert
ence, for he was green at the business, and
SO was I, and the result was that both OF
us got bumps innumerable and, though
he came out of it with twisted knee, and
sprained ankle and a barked nose, and a
lame arm, and a hurt back, and black
eye, with a few other incidental casuali-
ties, was nothing to bc.g of myself.
That's why when she had to give me up
they put me on the hireling list.
But was experienced, and that was
something.
A bicycle has good deal to learn when
it first leaves the factory
People who came to hire wheels looked a
little shy at me as stood quietly in my
rack and then passed me by, but not for
long. My keepers put new coat of en-
amel on me and otherwise put me in shape
and thereafter became quite popular
Riders who had me out for spin when
they returned would say they didn't know
why it was. hi,H ] seemed to be more in
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-02

was not s.i.A4>,>..s -4,.e .oli 4.ites Iarther
on an accommodation train that slowed
up for every COW en- the track, and he
wrapped himself in speculative reverie
until the brakeman called ' Oak -l-a nd ~
as if only the deaf lived at that statinn.
Mrs Smead was waiting for har hus-
band whom she expected on the o:3U fraln
MN the ora1n mad come and gone and In
stead of the handsome, well groomed Mr..
Smead. frantic woman her neighbor,
Mrs. Thorne, rushed into her cottage.
sI'ye caught him!' she gasped. "He's
locked I'D in the library. Oh! Oh! Oh!'
"Caught whom?'' asked the mystified
woman. Then seeing that her distracted
visitor was very near fainting, she collect
ed restoratiyes and brought back Mrs,
Thornes scattered wits.
Maud explained as soon as she could
sneak that a desperate looking mana
burglar. she was certain, and a convict as
we'll by the cut of his hair-had felonious-
" entered her house a moment before she
came. and walking boldly into her library
had been looked safely therein by herself.
"The windows are nailed down. / have
been waiting for Perry to open them, Sc
he cannot escape that way she concluded.
81 expected Amos on the last train.
don't see what is keeping him, )" said Mrs.
Smead, but he has not come ye6.
'tNeither has Perry. but perhaps they
will come together. Isn IL ofeadiul! !
daren't go back with that man IN the
house. know py MS LOOKS ne - d nlur,
derer. Our girl hasn't come, ana I'm all
alone. Oh, II MI. Hmead were only hereF
guess III 40 just as wen, said Mrs.
Smead coidly Will take our revolver,
and you can bring the stove ilfter and we
Will interview MN tnrougn Une door.
But what good Will that dor He may
shoot hrst!
Come on, SAID Mrs. Slnead contempt
uousiy. She was only young matron
herself, but she was not going to be igno-
minlously routed by one man army, and
she led the way to her nelghbor's cottage
NO other people hved IN the row, SO they
had all the fun to themselves.
But at that Identical moment the 7:4C
train, sometimes called the husbands
train, so many of them went out to spend
the weeks interval with their families,
stopped at the nearest depot, and Perry
Thorne, with his double load OF packages
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-02
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.

When man knows how to match a ribbon. =.
When woman learns to drive nail,
When man can thread a needle deftly,
When mice don't make woman pale,
When woman gets off right from street cars,
Instead of facing toward the rear, y
When man stops smoking bad tobacco
And drinking sour smelling beer,
When woman doesn't block the sidewalk
With spreading skirts and pulled out sleeves
Waen man stops flirting with new fharmers
And to his lawful darling cleavess
When man can understand the baby
And woman petting it talks sense, y
When m an proposes new bonnet
And woman SHES at the EXPENSE -
Phenomena ike these and others
May strike surprised observers dumb,
But they will know by these same tokens
That the millennium has come.
-Somerville Journal