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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-24
The One Price Cash Store lead
but never follows.

The One Price Cash Store leads
but never follows.
Don't neglect that cough, it leads 10
consumption. One Minute Cough Cure
possesses double irtue. 1t cures and
cures quickly. Jenney & Warehouse.
New Hats and Caps at Sommer &
Sons.
Sommercamp offers better ladies
shoe for 81. so than can be had for
$500 at any other store in Weiser. y
You can get the best wearing Boots
and Shoes at the lowest prices at the
One Price Cash Store.
just received nice line of Cloth
ing from the Oregon City factory, at
Sommer & Sons.
We wish to state to our patrons that
One Minute Cough Cure is safe and
reliable remedy for children troubled with
Group, colds, hoarsness and lung trou'
bcs 1t is pleasant TO take and quicnly
curee. Jenney & Waterhouse.
Ladies Patent Tip Dongola Button
Shoe for s 80 at Sommercamps.
Such price has never been made il
this State before We want you &c
look at it and see if it is not the equa
of any Shoe you have been paying
81. so and SO 90 for.
Prompiness is commendable virtue
That's why we offer you One Minut
Cough Cure 1t is prompt in relief ant
prompt in curing. That is what it /
made for Jennev & Victorious.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-24

SoMMER & Sons.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-24
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured }.
G. Gorrell of the worst case of eczema
ever known in the state of Indiana. 1t
cures scalds, burns, indolent sores, and
never fails to cure piles Jenney "
Waterhouse
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-24

just received a new line of Ladies
Fine Shoes and Slippers, the very
latest styles, at the One Price Cash
Store.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27

Don't forgit to take down the coats In the
lean-to, and set the pals aSquick as you can.
for IL does come in like sixty when il begins Il
shall work for my keep there. and il they allow
paupers TO go Sisitin'. I shall come over wheu
/ ken Your anectionate wife,
"MALvINA WEEKS"
"Wal, / never see the beat o. that!'
He ate his meal in silence, trying to
digest the fact that his wife had taken
his frequent illusions to the poorhouse
in earnest, and thought if she had to
enter the house some time she might
as well take advantage of the condition
of her own home and avail herself of
its shelter at once. Who'd although
she would?" vas a question he asked
himself over and W as he took the
pals and went out to milk.
As he came back, he noticed the seal
ing paint and the bare sashes, and said
to himself: 1T looks wus'n l thought
it did" Then he remembered hts last
remark to her, hat she could go to the
poorhouse if she wanted to, he didn't.
She had taken him at his word.
Just at dusk, the keeper Of the poor
house drove up, and, stopping before
the house, said to the man sitting on
the doorstep: Hello, Weeks, met with
reverses?"
NO, not specially. Why?"
wal, Mis- Weeks she cum up an
talked with my wife alone, and asked
if she might stay and help her a spell,
IN my wife's real glad she's come, COS
she does think your wife knows a leetle
the most about doin' pickles an things
of anybody round, an she put her in
the spare room, an sent me down to
see you"
John chewed a straw vigorously
while he wondered what Mr.. Grove
thought, and what excuse he, one of
the largest tax payers in town, could
make for sending his wife to the poor
house. He tried to seem perfectly
easy as he said: oval, the fact is, /
told her she could go. I'm goin' ter
hev the house shingled and painted,
an 1 thoughts longs the smell o paint
makes her sick, I'd git her out of the
way; but I 'xpect she'll be some
s'prised, COS 1 didn't let on hat l was
goin' ter hev it done"
'All right, neighbor, 1 won't say
nothin' bout it," and turning the
horse he drove away, but he wondered,
and muttered to himself hat "'twas
curis doin's, and he bet there was
suthin' that he warn't told"
However, the next time he passed the
Weeks place, there were men at work
on the roof, and men painting tina
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
Very Much Occupied.

Witherby-Did you sew the buttons
on those shirts l laid out this morn
ing?
Mrs. Witherby-T'm sorry to say 1
didn't.
And 1 don't suppose you've had
time to crease those trousers 1 spoke
about"
mo, dear. The truth is"
slow about those socks of mine that
needed darning? Haven't you touched
them?"
mo. /"
Exactly. And 1 don't suppose you've
given a thought to that hole in the
lining of my dress-coat."
'Oh, yes, 1 did. But I've been SO
busy"
Busy! What on earth have you been
doing?"
1--WE been down town getting fitted
for a pair of bicycle bloomers."-N. Y.
World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
" I'VE BEEN so LONESOME, Oh, JOHN"

L DbbN CO AoNEsCO1hLE OHI NH-N
kitchen inside, and he thought the
front DOM was being papered, but he
could not quite tell.
Meanwhile Vina was homesick, and
though she went into the end room
and looked out on the meadow that
she knew reached her home just out of
sight beyond the woods, it only made
the tears come faster, and she Won
| dered if she couldn't have stood the
leaks and the pealing paint a little
longer, and then, perhaps, she might
have coaXed John.
John was homesick, too. and hurried
the carpenters and painters till they
made jokes among themselves about his
impotence. The home was not home
with Vina gone, and he thought per-
haps she might get so used to living in
a big house that she would never again
| care for the little house she had called
home SO long.
With fear and trembling he harnessed
the horse, put on his best suit of
clothes and started fer the poorhouse.
''She's awful sot, an ef she's TUX a no
ton she's a going ter live in that big
poorhouse, nothin1l fetch er back.
Mebbe if 1 told her I'd build a house
next year, she'd come" So he tried to
go over all the arguments he would
use with the woman who was more
ready to return than he could possibly
be to have her.
She sat on the back porch knitting,
when Mrs. Grove called her to answe
the doorbell, for her hands were in the
bread. John Weeks argument fled,
neck and sobbed:
I've been so lonesome, oh, joint"
And he patted her shoulder and said:
'So've l, Why, so've L"
Then when she could think she said,
with a curious expression on her face:
'Have you come to stay?"
"No. Isay. Why, I'm willin'-rndo
anything-Tn build a house if you'll
only come back to live. Miss Smith
can't make bread fit to chew!"
Happy woman that went riding down
the valley by Johns side, and told him
of her stay in the poorhouse. Happy
John when they came out beyond the
the woods, and the cottage with its
new paint and bright blinds looked at
them, for then Why put her head down
on his shoulder. and cried that she
would never go away again, and that
it was all wrong for her to go when she
did.
And he said very grufiy: 1T was all
right, and she could go again whenever
she wanted to, if she'd only come back
when he come after her"
She does not look longingly at the
big poorhouse now, and John never
mentions it. Malvina has had the sew.
ing circle meet in the parlor, and she
took them all over the house, and
showed them the new paint and paper,
till some one declared: John Weeks
couldn't be called stingy about the
house, anyway"
Vina repeated it to him, with this adj
dition: Il do like to have folks think
wal of We, John."-Household.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
PERFECT VENTILATION.
some Popular Errors on This Subject Cor

some Popular Errors on This Subject Cor
rected.
There are many fairly-well educated
persons who can not understand that
ventilation does not necessarily mean
an open window or a draught of wind,
and who would fancy themselves ILL.,
| provided with pure air even in the best
ventilated rooms wherein these objec-
tionable features were not certain evi.
dence to eye and feeling that some
pure outside air was entering. THE
two ideas of wind and GOODNESS form
the whole of the public care or knowl-
edge in regard TO ventilation.
There is also the incidental belief
hat foul air rises, and that there
must be some means provided for let
ting it out. This idea takes concrete
form in the little whirligigs seen in so
many Office windows, and the tendency
towards opening windows at the top
on general principles" The general
belief and tradition is to make n hole
somewhere in the upper part of the
and other improper things in the at
mosphere will quietly, and of their own
accord and free will, let themselves
out.
In these crude ideas we have practi-
cally all that the public knows or cares
about ventilation. In the actual prac-
tice of the individual there is no intel
ligent appreciation of pure air, nor can
most people tell whether the air they
breathe is fit for respiration. Even
people belonging to the educated
classes do not use the evidence of their
senses in regard to the quality of the
air in their houses.
1t is the duty of sanitary and ven
tilating engineers to educate the pub.
lie up to a higher plane as regards
ventilation; and in order to do this.
there must be more general apprecia-
ton of the difference between pure
air and foul air from their own char
acteristics rather than sfrom cir
cumstances which have nothing to do
with the case" This means, of course,
hat attention must be given to meth
DDS for testing the quality of air in
and of itself, without reference to
visible means of supplying it, or to its
sensible effects upon the surface of the
human body. when this educational
work has been accomplished the field
of the engineer who devotes himself
exclusively to ventilation will be the
widest of any belonging TO the engi-
neering profession" Philadelphia
Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
WORST KIND OF DREAM.
Nightmare Gives q Feeling of Terrible
Oppression.

Nightmare Gives q Feeling OF Terrible
Oppression.
The condition of nightmare, in which
the sufferer is under the feeling of
some terrible oppression, is one of the
most affecting kinds of dreaming. In
the more simple order of cases of
nightmare the dreamer is only labor
ing under the influence of indiges-
ton, but in the more severe the cause
is ascribed to cerebral disorder. A
gentleman in Edinburgh, long since
deceased, was afflicted for years with
a nightmare which almost rendered
existence unsupportable. On falling
asleep he dreamed hat he was chased
by a bull, and frequently, in terror of
being tossed by the horns of the in
furiated animal, he leaped from the
bed to the opposite side of the room,
on n occasion doing himselfa serious
injury.
At the death of this unhappy gentle
man his head was opened and a portion
of his brain found to be affected by a
deep-seated ulcer. In many cases of
this kind, we are told by competent
authority, the spectral illusions of the
dreamer are usually most vivid, and,
on awakening, it requires a strong eff.
fort of reason to be convinced that the
appearances were nothing more than
unsubstantial creation or phantoms of
a d~isordered brain. Many instances OF
a like nature might be quoted to show
hat where the brain is subject to dis
ease or the digestive organs deranged
strange Authorizations are liable to
make the life of the victim one of tor
ment, and 1 have often thought, when
considering the matter, that insanity
is a kind of merciful release-when it
is not of a violent nature-from the
awful consciousness of such misery
Boston Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27

would not be such a bad place to stay
in, after all.
Next day she went about her work
very quietly, and stole away in the
afternoon to Widow Smiths for a little
while. The second day she made one
more effort: Don't you think you
could have something done to the root
after you get the harvest put of the
way, John?"
IF you want to go to the poorhouse,
you can, l don't" vas the concise an
Swer.
When John came in at night, his sup
per was ready, but his wife was not to
be seen. He thought she would be in
in a moment, but after resting awhile
and seeing no sign of her, he decided
to eat. as she had probably been called
to some one of the neighbors. On his
plate lay a note:
DEAR JOHN: I have made arrangements
with Widow Smith to come in three times a
week and cook the victuals and clean up the
house while am away. c'Good land, where's
she ~goin'f") 1 was looking at the poorhouse
the other day from the Blue Hill pasture, and
it did look so nice that 1 thought if I'd got to
go there. Tmight as well go there now. 1t has
lust been painted. and l asked Goody Blake II
it leaked, and she said no; and I'm going to
ask Mis- Grove to let me keep the END room
for you, for 1 s'pose it won't be many weeks
before You'll come. too. That room looks right
down on the medder that leads to our back
door, and think II it's empty she'll keep 1t for
You. for she's always ban real ccommodatin
ter me-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Manchester, England, has voted,
through its town council, a million dol.
lars for a technical school.
There is not likely to be my lack
of druggists in the near future, for this
country boasts of 81 schools of phar-
macy, with 1894 students.
Three thousand men united in the
audible use of the Lords prayer at the
recent laying of the cornerstone of the
Masonic Temple in Detroit.
The Congregational Sunday-School
and Publishing society has founded
5000 Sunday-schools since 1888. From
these beginnings have grown 500 Con-
gregational churches.
Both Oxford and Cambridge made
money by their university presses last
year. The Clarendon Press earned
$685. 900 clear profit for Oxford and the
Pitt Press SIG, 900 for Cambridge.
The ear believes in the higher edu-
cation of women, and has ordered the
r~eopening of the Woman's Institute of
Medicine at st. Petersburg, which was
closed by order of the government some
years age.
"A japanese Buddhist bishop is in
San Francisco and will establish d tenn
pie with a corps of attendants in that
city, his special objects being to pre-
vent japanese in this country from
straying into strange faiths.
Rev. Charles Gordon, S. j., Roman
Catholic bishop of Jamaica, who is snow
visiting Baltimore, is a baronet by de-
scent and the eldest son of the late Sir
Charles Gordon, of Argyleshire, Scot
land. The archbishop of Edinburg and
the bishop of Aberdeen are his first
cousins.
Following the Italian disturbances
10 Istria, Austria has now to deal with
a row in the Syrian diet over Slovenian
nationality. The German majority in
the diet voted hat the use of Slovenian
by the side of German in the high
school at Gill was not necessary, and
was intended as a political attack on
the use of the German language, where
upon the Slovenian deputies resigned
in a body.
The American Association of Ed
u~cators of Colored Youth propose to
hold their next annual meeting in Lon
don, and have accordingly planned for
an excursion to Europe to cover forty
five days next summer, at an expense
of two hundred dollars each, hoping to
visit London, Glasgow, Antwerp, Paris
and Rome, and with the purpose also
of acquainting the European public
with the educational, moral and mate
rial progress made by the American
negroes since the emancipation.
According to the Student Volun-
teer it takes S,716 united Presbyter-
ians to support n ordained foreign
missionary; 1857 reformed Presbyter-
ians (covenanters) are equal to this
work; 4,SOs Presbyterians (north) are
required for the same task, and 6,352
Methodists and 5,O63 Baptists, re-
s~pectively are needed as Aarons and
Hurs for each ordained Moses in the
heather world. 1t would thus seem
that the harder" the theology of a
church the more missionaries it car
support.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
CURIOUS WEDDING CUSTOMS.
Odd Phases of Social Life In Northern
MICHIGAN.

d Phases of Social Life in Northern
Michigan.
Many curious customs are in vogue
among the foreign population of north
ern Michigan, especially in social mat
tiers. When a French couple get mar
ried a carriage or a sleigh ride is in
evitable,% according to the season of the
year. The couples are not packed to-
gether in one wagon or sleigh, but
each fellow and his girl have an indi-
vidual rig, the bride and groom taking
the lead and the others following like
a funeral procession; but there is moth
ing funeral about it, especially the
pace set. After the procession has
been riding for hours, a dance ends the
festivities.
The Polanders have a curious we'd
ding custom that is very ingenious as
a money getter, and takes the place
of wedding presents. After the
wedding feast follows a dance
that sometimes lasts twelve to four
teen hours and W. longer. The
chief honor is to dance with the bride,
and this is decided in a curious man.
ner. The mother of the bride takes
her place in one corner with a plate in
her lap, which she takes very good
care shall be built after the plan of an
clearinghouse coffee cup. The gallant
who wants to dance with the bride,
and all are in honor bound to do SO at
least once, must pull out a piece of sill
yer and endeavor to chip or break the
plate by throwing their money upon
it and only those who succeed in chip
ping or breaking the plate are allowed
the coveted honor. Let those who
think it easy to break an ironstone
plate, try it. Few succeed in doing it
for less than fifty cents, and it is not
an unusual thing for the brides money
to amount up to seventy-fve dollars or
one hundred dollars, even where the
crowd is apparently as poor as a church
mouse, and it may go even higher
when the bride is pretty and popular.
All the money goes to the bride, and
in a backwoods country fifty dollars to
seventy-ive dollars will start a happy
couple nicely in housekeeping.-De
troit Free Press
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27

Every shower that came over h hills
brought hurry and worry with it, for
she must taxi down everything hang
ing il the lean-to, and set pals in half
a dozen places in the attic, and the car
pet in the end room had already been
taken up because the numerous wet
tings that it had received were spoil
ing it, and the brilliant colors were all
running together in one i~ndistinguish-
able blur.
The paint was all off the house in
some places and fast coming off In
others; in fact, the cottage was in a
state of peel all over. The neigh
bors had begun to speak about it, and
say to Malvina how nice it would look
painted in light colors. And down at
the sewing circle one lady had heard
that she was going to have her house
painted, and another asked 'if she'd
got to hev paintin' done this fall!'
She had asked and asked John to
have it done, and for two years she
had asked in vain. First, John must
have a new barn, for ga merciful man
is merciful to his beast" and then he
must have. a new binder, for it would
save half the time, and he would need
but one man.
In vain she told him the house
leaked, in vain she told of the peeling
paint, in vain she bewaiied the new
rag carpet ruined by the dripping
water, and said how tired she was of
setting pals, and how afraid even to
go to the nearest neighbor for fear of
a sudden shower and no one at home
to attend to it.
Now his last refusal was ringing in
her ears, and the poor woman, tired
out with the numerous cares of a
farmers wife, Just sat down and cried.
But if you think a woman's tears end
the matter, you are much mistaken.
The tears are only the beginning.
When she wanted anything done,
John was always ready to start for the
poorhouse, and was quite sure that
anything laid out on the house, inside
or out, vas only so many paving stones
on the road to the great, roomy old
farmhouse where the dozen or so poor
and crippled ones of the town were
cared for.
The first time she asked him timidly
if he didn't think the house needed
paint, he said: Yes, I do, but we
should go to the poorhouse if we got
everything we fancied."
When she wondered if he couldn't
have the roof patched, he said: NO,
he couldn't lay out nothiu' this year,
for that binder had estabout swamped
him. an he calc1ated he'd have ter go
ter the poorhouse if he KEEP on spend
in money"
She heard about the poorhouse till
she was tired of it, and one day when
she was out in the berry pasture, she
sat down and looked at the building
which could be seen in the distance
Just over the hill, and, with a queer
feeling at her heart, she thought if she
did have to go to the poorhouse, it
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
HUMOROUS.

His First Game of Cards.-''Dinnis,
phwat's troomp?' "Shamrocks." Jaw,
yez mean clubsr' "Pfwell, ~shelalees,
thinI"-Harper's Bazaar.
Mrs. Poore-"Jabez, why do they
say hush money!" Mr.. Poore-"Idon't
know, Marindy, unless it is that money
talks."-N. Y. Morning Journal.
-Hiland-'My horse is the most in
telligent animal I know" Harket-
go on" Hiland-"He's away up in
gee" - Pittsburgh Chronicle -Tele-
graph.
He bangs the door the show his spite,
The hateful man, he does not care,
And she to make things even quite,
Goes right VI stairs and bangs her hair.
Cincinnati Tribune.
Mrs. Turnbull-''It's too bad tina
your husband cut off his flowing
beard" Mrs. Crimple-"Oh, but he
had to do 1t; 1 gave him a diamond
scarf-pin for a birthday present"
-Landlady (who catches Hall Bed
room cooking over his gas jet)-"Here,
here; I'll have none of that" Hall
Bedroom-"You are quite right,
madam. It's all for me. "-Chicago
Times Herald.
Medical Examiner-"Have there
been uany symptoms of insanity in
your family?" Applicant for Insur-
ance-"Yes, sir-er-that is, my sister
once refused a man worth half a mil
! lion."-Tid-B
Army Surgeon-"What's the mat
ter with you, Private Locks?" Private
Locks-"Doctor, my boot hurts my
foot so that" Army Surgeon-''Out
| of my line. Go to the shoemaker
Boston Transcript.
is that baby strong?" well, I
should say so. He raised the whole
family out of bed at three o'clock this
morning, and scientists say that that's
the hour when everybody's strength is
at its lowest point"
"A Stiff Breeze.-Clerk Coming I'M
There's a very stiff breeze blowing
around this corner" Boss-'Ah? How
does it get around the corner if it is 50
stiff ?" Clerk (shying)-"I suppose it
bends in the wind" - Detroit Free
Press.
"A Calumny Exploded.-"They tell
US" he said dreamily, that women
are extremely susceptible to fattery."
I've heard that" replied his friend.
well, don't you believe it. ! tried
this morning to tell my wife she was
SO good-looking she did not need anew
spring dress. Star.
"A young housekeeper who lives in
a small Kentucky town had occasion
to reprimand her cook for neglecting
her duties. "Well, Miss Laura, rs
been Worried" was the reply. "Fs
studyin' a most 'portant question.
Tell de trute. / dom know which ia
get. a winter cloak or q divohee."-
! HarDer's Drawer