The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-01-02
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1896.
ALL HAIL, '96!


music of the spheres has paused ant
not sound comes from the angel
of the stars. Eternal youth clothes
their limbs with radiant beauty. Ii
two or three hours that dim, phan
tasmal tragedy which men annually
talk about will have taken place, ant
the lettering, feeble cycle DE sweep
out of existence by the celestia
young year. In the old days of the
ages men saw the stars on their ruby
thrones watching with sleepless eyes
upon the world, and they thought
Shat, as the new year was ushered in,
an archangel visited the universal
galaxy and gave to each star therein
its peculiar charge They thought
shat In these charges the destinies of
men and empires were portioned
forth for the coming year and un-
consciously to ourselves, our fates
become mlnioned to the stars. On
that night was given to the spirits
We see not, a privilege and power;
the dead are troubled in their forgot
ten graves, and men feast and laugh
while demon and angel are contend
ing for their DOOM AS we look on
the stars tonight we see naught writ
ten on their faces but that dread
calm, that fearful stiffness which
feels not, sympathizes not with the
earthly dooms over which they are
brooding If, rs the men of old
thought, war; tempest, pestilence,
the rise of empires and the fall of
men, they ordain and compass, the
stars are unexutant and uncompas-
sionate. The fell and thrilling crimes
shat stalk abroad when the world
sleeps, the stealth of the parricide,
the claiming of men in Industrial
slavery, the bloody hand and lifted
knife, the schemes of foul men to fix
calling financial letters on free but
dreaming peoples, the unwifed moth
er as she plunges into the cold, dark
river, mans own inhumanity to man,
the starred kings behold and their
luster is not banched nor their youth
whhered with remorse.
All, indeed Il solemn night is that
IN which the dark gates of time open
so receive the ghost of the dead year.
and the young and radiant stranger
shines forth from the clouded chasms
of eternity We hope and trust the
Archangel of the Stars will appor
ton pleasant destiny this New
Years to all of the many friends and
patrons of the SIGNAL. We wish
for grand lines to be laid down for
Washington county. We hope the
Ross decision will he reversed by the
u. 5. supreme court this month, so
our people can own their own bitches
II they want to- We pray the
angel to tell Weiser's star to carry
out all the closing of 90 promised
Tor next season.
We can look forward to next spring
with the most founded hopes.
The outlook is better and of a differ
ent nature than anything we have ex.
perienced before, as all unanimously
agree. The small voices, that tell
OF the immigration to this section of
a substantial number and n desirable
class of people, are numerous and
distinct. Increased irrigation works
ARE assured and the new land that
will be brought into cultivation and
the transformations and creations
thereof present glittering prospect.
The prospect of new, large and hand
some business buildings in Weser is
of the very best. We feel good
around this choicest spot of Idaho
and ought to. And there will be
plenty of newcomers to help us be
cause the seductive charms of our
climate soon capture the new conner.
and he is not long in becoming ms
enthusiastic in his love for the state
as the older residents The Idahoan.
especially the Washington county
ldahoan, thoroughly believes that
there is no land like his own. none
so desirable, none that offer so great
inducements to labor, or that promise
to it such an abundant return. Har.
vests are never failures with MS.
aud there are here no battlings with
billiards and cyclones. There is no
spot on earth where the sum of I'm. 4