The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-05-02


of the second day we came to a sta
ton on railroad and made consid-
cradle effort to get ride for half
price. The railroad men saw we were
determined. However, they sue
ceeded in putting up job on us that
| never will forget, nor you either,
when get through telling you about
my partner and the monkeys. One
Of the railroad men came to us and
said: Boys, go easy, listen to me.
There are three box cars over there
that will 90 with the next freight.
After dark get into the cars; | will
lock them up and you are all right
for Chicago in three days. We com
piled with instructions The train
came along, took our cars about
twenty miles up the line and switched
us Off. Next morning city marshal,
a policeman and a railroad man un-
locked the cars and told us to con
slider ourselves under arrest There
were seven of us. They marched us
up town TO the police court, but the
judge gave us no form of trial. He
asked our names and said The
Courts order is that each man per-
form ten days work on the streets of
the city A Sucker wants to know
what city. i withhold the name for
reasons you will discern hereafter
They put us to work digging a ditch
for water pipe. At noon the schol-
airs from the public school had to
cross our ditch. The scholars, small
and large, were very naughty and
impudent and hard to please about
adjusting the planks for them to cross
on. My partner from Washington
got his anger up at the epithets they
applied to us, such as trampies,
buns, etc, and said; What are you
young ones putting on all those airs
about, over honest workmen? You
are nothing but the descendants of
detailed monkeys, the best of you.
The larger scholars and two lady
e~@NcuSio Oiooe' uiVuhu my phrlner
and one of them said: I'VE will re-
quire you to give good reason for
calling us the descendants of such
low animals before the police court
Said he, i will give my reason now,
if you wish to listen One of the
school mas ans said, we will listen.
My partner said: Il came from the
province of Venetia in Austria HIM
gary In our country we have history
and tradition that goes away back in
the dim shades of the past fifty thou
sand years, time when there was
not a man or woman in the world
nothing but moles and monkeys.
Well, the latter animals had to have
laws and rules to govern them, and
whenever one Of them committed O
grave crime, such as we would call O
felony, two of the tribe were called
on to chew off the tails of the offend.
ers 1t was not many generations
until young ones began to make theil
appearance without any tails, and the
young ones seemed to be the smartesl
and most intelligent, perhaps because
their brains and senses could not &C
down to their tails any more; an6
they grew and improved and improved
and grew until they got so they would
: build houses to live in, and after &
while we read of them having bows
and arrows. Another custom or law
they had was, if one of them com,
} mitted a crime such as we would cal
} n misdemeanor, they would have theil
, trial, and two would be appointed tc
SINCE the hair off the offenders heac
, with fire brands. By the way, die
, did you ever take notice of the mum.
Der of bald heads there are in con
J gressY One of the scholars said
we will correct you. You should
say amputate the monkeys tail My
, partner said, No, | have as good I
right to say detail monkey as yor
have to say de-horn an OK. The
crowd became so large by this tim,
7 that everything was confusion. Aftel
dinner the officers took us to the de
pot and shipped us. One of tn,
officers told us if they kept men will
such ideas as we had that the jai
would be burned | assure you W,
did not want to stay. We never lief
the train until we arrived III Chicago
We told all the conductors that til,
city of -- sent us. Now, gentle
men, see what effect a good stor,
will sometimes have on the most en-
} lightened people, In Chicago | me
our brother, the Jayhawker, and W,
went to the lectures together
) A Hoosier requests the presiden
to sing and we will adjourn.
The Jayhawker requests the Creol,
to give the Rocky Mountain beal
} hunters prayer, that we heard il
Chicago, instead. Al
The Creole: ''When Coin was leH
| uring on the financial situation, h,
| said; Now the time has come tina
r we have to meet the issue face t
, face, like the Rocky Mountain beal
, hunter when he met the bear on tn,
( trail, steep bank on one side and
precipice on the other. He said: oh
r Lord, am forty years old and
never prayed to Thee before in my