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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
A Chinese New Years

Chinatown of San Francisco was
keeping holiday, and all was gaiety and
hustle.
The narrow, picturesque streets were
decorated with brightly-colored Ian
terms, while overhead above the roof
tops, the yellow dragon-fags foated
against blue California sky.
1t was n sunny day in February; and
the streets were swarming with a null
titude of Chinese-men, women and
chlldren-all arrayed in their richest
holiday attire. The children especially,
with their bright faces and black eyes,
and in their pretty costumes, formed a
most pleasing and interesting feature
of this living Oriental picture.
Everybody seemed to be happy and
good-natured; and ever and anon, as a
group Of friends met they stopped and
amid much ceremonious bowling ex-
changed the compliments of the season;
for this festive occasion was nothing
more nor less than the celebration of
the Chinese New Year.
The idea of celebrating New Years
Day in February may strike some of
my readers as odd. But, since this has
been the Chinese custom from time i'm
memorial, and Is older, by several thou
sand years, than our acceptance of the
first of January as the proper time, the
Chinese, perhaps. are not far wrong
In supposing themselves to be at least
as much in the right as ourselves. This
question, however, was of no concern to
this merry holiday throng. They were
quite satisfied with the arrangement;
and, with the utmost belief in their own
superiority, they felt at heart an Unborn
contempt-common to all Chinese--for
'outside barbarians." This term en-
braces all nations not living within the
sacred boundaries of 1.-THE Flowery
Kingdom" and includes the inhabi-
tants of all the world; and these unfor-
tunate outsiders are broadly divided
Into classes-Eastern and Western bar
barians.-St. Nicholas.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

every school, and they are today agreed
that it stands--lone as the reliable rem
edy for building up PERSONS health
in the spring.
The most overwhelming testimony to
the value OF Paine's celery compound
that has recently appeared from men
and women of national reputation:
Hon. George B. Swift, mayor of Chi
cago; Francis Murphy, the foremost
apostle of temperance in the world;
Mrs. Matthew S. Quay, wife of the
great Republican senator from Pennsyl-
vania; Ex-President Cook, of the Ma
tlonal Teachers Association; Rev.
Charles L Thompson D. D., the bril-
liant Presbyterian leader of New York
city; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Secre-
tary Carlisle's private secretary; State
Treasurer Addison b. Colvin of New
York; John Graham, the foremost man
IN American athletics; the wife of Rev.
Charles II. Parkhurst, the famous
preacher and reformer, Mayor Nc
Shane, of Montreal, Major General
Birney, Judge Powers of Vermont. and
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
EYE DISEASES.
Mild and Safe Treatment for All
Diseases of the Eye.

Every form and variety of disease o:
this delicate and important organ treated
by DIR. Darrin with unparalleled success
Many hundreds of cases which had Nth.
erto resisted every appliance of the med
zeal faculty, had been pronounced incur
able, he has had the proud satisfaction OF
bringing to a speedy and successful ter
mination. In fact. during the whole pc
riod of his professional career lac has
never lost an eye, though the most agra
waited cases have come to him for treat
ment.
DIR. Darrin operates for cataract, stra-
bismus or squirt glaucoma, ectropium
teverson) and entropium Inversion of the
eyelld), with trichiasis. or inversion of the
eyeashes upon the ball; staphylema, arti-
hcial pupil; tumors or cysts in the eye
lids; closures of the lachrymal ducts. etc
IN fact, all the various delicate operations
required upon the eye are performed in
the most modern and skillful manner.
DR.. Darrin can be consulted free at his
offices in the Auditorium building, Spo
kane. Wash. Office hours: 10 n. m. to D.
m. daily. Those not able to call may
write. Inquiries promptly answered.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

tion of life have so often heartily testi-
fed that Paine's celery compound is
the very best of all remedies for nerv-
Gus exhaustion.
Joseph Haworth rightly calls Mod
jeska 1.-THE peerless queen of artists"
Modjeska's health is matter of
worldwide interest, and her testimo-
NAL to the value of the great remedy
which makes people we'll is of partcu-
lar moment in the early spring, when
from every quarter reports come of
men, women and children who are tax
ing Pains celery compound, and are
gaining in nervous vigor, weight and
every other indication of better health.
The Thoughtful portion of the COM
munity knows the need of purifying
the blood and regulating the nervous
and alimentary systems as spring comes
on.
There is the danger that in their
eagerness to take spring remedy a
thoughless person may carry home some
bogus connection prepared with only
such smattering of medical knowl-
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

body got hammer and knocked OF the
hardened accretions from its interor,,
till 1t was restored nearly enough to Its
original capacity to render further SER
vice.
In Tory Island, an out-of-the-way bit
Of en- Irish islet, and indeed to less
degree throughout Donegal, the natives
are not much more dainty in their llv-
ing, and their habit Of letting the
grounds remain indefinitely in their
teapots has disastrous consequences.
Every day and all day long," says a
recent writer, "the teapot sits stewing
in the embers of the hearth, and at each
successive brew fresh tea is thrown in,
but the old Is never thrown out until
the pot is choked" The result is an
unusual and excessive rate of insanity
Little wonder, when a Tory Island boy
who was questioned as to his usual
meals, could reply;
"Stirabout for breakfast and tay for
dinner; tay, ay course, Mt daytime, and
stirabout for supper. Whites we have
tay for breakfast instead and stirabout
Luz OuE uluuel anu lHeu duOlutr sup VI
tay before bedtime"
However, this diet, Injurious as 1t Is
to the nerves, does not seem to affect
the muscles. The Tory Islanders are
robust and vigorous race, the men aver
aging six feet in height and the women
unusually tall and strong. The women,
Indeed have need of nll their physical
strength, since 1t is they who do the
bulk of the outdoor work, while the
men stay Mt home and spin and weave.
"At Anagry Strand on a Sunday
morning." says the same observer, zone
may witness a strange sight At low
tide more than a mile OF roundabout Is
saved by wadlng across a narrow bay.
The men include in their Sundays
wardrobe shoes and stockings. The
women, by courtesy and custom, wear
martyeens'-footless stockings with a
loop passing over the toe. Each good
wife takes her goodman upon her shout
ders, and the heroes are conveyed
across dry-shod."
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

true specific recognized and prescribed
today by eminent practitioners for dis
eases arising from debilitated nervous
system. Prof. Phelps gave to his pro-
fession positive cure for sleepless-
ness, wasting strength, dyspepsia, bill
iousness, liver complaint, neuralgia,
rheumatism, all nervous diseases and
kidney troubles. For all such COM
plants Paine's celery compound has
succeeded again and again, where ev-
erything else has failed.
When Modjeska in letter published
in Boston said 81 have found Paine's
celery compound the very best of all
remedies for the nervous exhaustion
consequent upon the arduous work of
my profession" she voiced the expert
ence of every tired-out, rundown, ex-
hausted woman whoever went to this
greatest of all spring remedies for
relief.
No one ever yet failed to find strength
and health returning who faithfully
used natures true remedy-Paine's Gel
cry compound.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
Explosion Under the Ocean,

Investigations concerning the great
sea-wave which suddenly swept in
upon the coast of Japan with terribly
disastrous results last June have, it is
reported, convinced Mr.. Igi, of the
Japanese College of Science, that the
cause of the phenomenon was a vol
CAME outburst at the bottom Of the
ocean. He locates the point of ex-
plosion about 200 leagues east of the
coast Of Yoshihama, and thinks it was
comparable with the great eruption
that blew the island of Krakatoa to
pieces In 1888. 1t Is said that the tenn
perature of the sea-water In the neigh
borhood of the place where the explos-
lon Is though to have occurred, was
found to be- degrees above the nor
mal
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22


The new fee bill required fee of 1O
cents for every bill presented to the board
of county commissioners.
The First National Bank of Idaho has
compromised its suit against Ada county
to recover $4,000. by paying $4,000.
The state auditor has received orders
from the president of the board of trustees
of the Albion normal school. to pay the
warrants issued the teachers of the school
for back ray. They amount to s112.i9.
The principal at st. Margarets at Boise
has received a communication from Bish-
op Talbot stating that he has the promise
OF S25, 900 contribution on condition that
similar amount is raised by the trustees
of ST. Margarets and of the boys school
at Laramie. The $4,000 will then be di-
vided equally between the two schools.
The state engineer has been busy con-
sulting with representatives of the vari-
GUS irrigation companies of the state re-
garding the late laws passed by the last
legislature. One provision of law requires
companies to sell water by quantity and
not by acreage. They are now consult
Ing as to the best devices for measuring
the water in their respective localities.
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just Reversed.

An old Irishwoman, who has received
many benefits at the hands of benev-
client minister and his wife, is so shift
less that occasionally the large-hearted
couple lose all patience with her; but
she has such sense of humor. and
such begulling tongue, that she never
fails to amuse them and finally to win
them back.
AT one time when money was given
her to buy warm underclothing with,
she wasted 1t upon large plush pho
tograph album. The minister spoke to
her with considerable severity, as did
also his wife, and for some time Bridget
received no calls from either of them.
One afternoon, however, the minister
relented and stopped at Bridgets door
on his way to see a sick woman.
"Shure, and it's mesilf that dreamed
about you last noight, Mlsther Will
iams," said Bridget, with a beaming
smile. "Oi dreamed that you and Mis-
sus Williams came here to see me, and
says you, How are you off for. tay and
coffee, Bridgetr and OF says It's nlver
a drop of ayther Owe got in the house,
Misther Williams! And thin you pre-
sinted me wild a pound of tay, and Mis-
sus Williams wild a pound of coffee on
the shpot! Yis, sorr, that was my
dream"
well, Bridget" said the minister,
striving not to smile, you know
dreams are said to go by contraries."
"Shure, and that's fwhat OF said to
mesilf," exclaimed Bridget triumphant
ly. said OF, 'Mlsther Williams is the
wan that'll be giving me the coffee and
Mlssus Williams the tay! This was
my very thoughts, sorr."
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a host more of prominent
women, including no less thss
s. congressman, are amono 81
sands of grateful people who ~
Gently sent to the proprieto,. ]: :. j
wonderful remedy their ernr...
its unequaled value-men and 1
who can well afford, and do CO.. nsaa'
the highest medical advics 4.
country.
And then also the people in i q
nary walks of life there con-. 0o'di
sands of honest, straightforward ~
felt letters. telling how Pains,s ae e
compound has made them well, Uls7
Their testimony simply GOES !, ),
what New England's most yivo' Dsa's
itor so aptly said in letter ' tal,' y
the benefit Paine's celery co,s as z
had been to member OF hm ~ Se''
"Paine's celery compound i. ss'
patent medicine; it is not sarsana ~ y,
it is not a mere tonic; it is NO. fs''a
binary nervine-it is as far bero W, - o.
all as the diamond is superior r. w s's'
glass;" = ''eaE
1t makes people we'll. It il ~. !
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
Effect of Light on Plants.

The attention of botanists has lately
been recalled to experiments made at
Juvisy, near Paris, by Monsieur Flam-
marion on the effect of exposing the
seedlings of sensitive plants to lights
of different colors. Having placed four
pairs Of mimosa seedlings In four sepa-
rate pots In a dollhouse, he covered one
pair with bell of blue glass, another
with bell of green glass, third
with a bell of red glass, while the
fourth was left exposed to ordinary
white light. At the end of two months
the plants subjected to blue light were
only one inch high, having hardly
grown Mt all. Those exposed to white
light were four inches high. those that
had grown In green light were five
inches high, while those whose light
had been red were no less than sixteen
inches high. Experiments with other
kinds of plants gave various results,
but In every instance blue light I'M
peded growth and development.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
A Meteoric Bomb.

Several remarkable meteors, seen in
and around New York City ON the
afternoon of December 4th last, were
the subject of discussion at recent
meeting of the New York Academy of
Sciences. One passed over Central
Park, one was seen from the Brooklyn
Bridge and one appeared at Fordham.
At nearly the same hour a meteor
passed over Passaic, Irvington and
Danbury, Connecticut, and one burst
near Railway, and apparently came TO
the ground In four pieces. From a
study Of the reports concerning these
phenomena 1t has been suggested that
the bursting meteor seen at Railway
was fragment of the body which later
passed over Passaic; that the meteor
again separated into at least three
parts, one Of which shot over Irvington
and Danbury, another over Fordham
and the third over New York, but
where they struck the earth is not
known
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
NORTHWEST BREvITIES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE CoUNTRY's RESOURCES.
erni Interest In Idaho, Montana
md Washington.

The mortgage for $500, 900 on the union
depot at Spokane has been foreclosed.
A new paper, independent in politics,
Will be started about May l al Ilwaco.
There is talk of an oar mandatory in
Aberdeen. to give employment to 20 men.
Kitsap county is going to have n fair.
1t Will be held at Slverdale Sept. 30.
Governor Rogers has committed to life
Imprisonment the sentence of death i'm
posed upon William Carey of King coun-
ty. Carey was accused of killing his
squaw wife during a drunken brawl, but
the evidence was entirely circumstantial
The government will begin work at
once on the Port Townsend Notifications
for which congress has appropriated
large sums.
Snohomish county is fighting the back
salary claims of justices of the peace and
constables, amounting in the aggregate
to $685.
1t is reported that so acres on a ranch
In Sumner, Pierce county, will be planted
to strawberries for eastern shipment in
carloads.
The fees received by the county clerk of
Cowlitz county last month exceeded the
clerks salary by 1876.
The citizens of Eatonville are consider
Ing the proposition of building n flume to
tide water, to aid in the handling of lum-
Der.
completed its seasons work, having
turned out over 100000 fish during the
year, the loss of eggs and young fish be-
ing very light.
1t is unlawful for fishermen and fish
dealers to have in their possession be-
tween March l and November l. sturgeon
of any size, the penalty being $40 for each
sturgeon so found.
A Seattle lumber manufacturer thinks
he sees a good thing in making ready
made houses for Japan, as the sample
house sent to that country found quick
market.
During the last quarter there were re-
ceived into the Steilacoom insane asylum
80 patients. eight less than for the quarter
ending December 81, 1896. The discharged
numbered "a. The deaths. IA: on proba-
ton, 3. In the hospital at present, $40.
Hon. b. f. Barge and Judge Goodwin,
Indian commissioners, are expected in
North Yakima the latter part of this
month to continue negotiations with the
Indians for the opening of the reserva-
ton.
Puyallup hop farmers are working their
fields for all there is in them. The slim
ulation they have received from the adj
vance in price. the rosy prospects for
1897, has spurred them to do all they can
to regain the neglected or abandoned
acreage.
Whatcom county has more miles of
planked road than any other county in
the state, and proposes to continue to
network the county with these useful
highways of commerce, having just
awarded a contract for seven miles to be
built for $11, 716
State Auditor Young has completed his
first quarterly report, showing $3iO, 42i.51 on
hand in the various funds April l. The
largest item in this amount is s136. 94731
In the tide land fund while the current
school fund contains 81, 44027.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
Mice which Hunt R,rds

A young woman living in Harlem was
the owner of canary bird last week
that could do anything canary birds can
do. This birds name was Speck, and
the way he could sing was a marvel to
listeners. 1t was not the loud. ear
breaking sound of ordinary canary
birds, but Sweet tuneful murmur"
that this bird made On Thursday
morning, just as the sun began to crawl
down the door of her room, she heard
the bird In the adjoining room end Its
song In a sort of gasping cry, When
she got time she saw mouse on the
bottom of the cage with the birds
throat in its long teeth. The bird was
nutterlng, but soon died, and the mouse
fed in alarm. 1t is not often that Gagged
birds are attacked with mice. but such
things have happened. A rat was one
time seen to still hunt sparrows on a
New York pier
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

There are about 25 cases of diphtheria
in Dillon and the schools have been
closed indefinitely.
Some of the agents of the cattle COM
panies, who have been over the ranges
do not find the winter losses as large as
they feared.
The state normal school contractors
have resumed work on the building at
Dillon and it Will be finished early in the
summer.
II the creditors approve, the Merchants
National Bank of Helena will be re-
opened paying dividend of 10 per cent
down and the balance in six equal pay
ments.
Butte Cinnamon have applied to the
United States court for an injunction re-
straning the labor organizations from
interfering with their business. Eminent
counsel have been retained, the govern
ment authorities at Washington consulted,
and suit of unusual Importance promis-
ed.
Choteau, Cascade and Teton counties
contributed n majority of the land entries
and final proofs for the quarter ending
March 81 in the Helena land office.
The question of fencing the Blackfoot
reservation is being agitated. and 1t seems
to be the general wish of the Indians TO
have it enclosed within a barbed wire
fence so as to keep intruders off and the
natives within. This is not agreeable to
the large cattlemen. who in the past have
monopolized two-thirds of the range.
Justice Hunt, of the supreme court of
the state, in an opinions rendered last
week in a case against a corporation. has
settled the question of liabilities of presi-
dents of interpretations and the liability
of interpretations for the acts of their
presidents. The court holds that the
president of an Incorporation has no i'm
piled authority by virtue of his office to
act as agent of the Incorporation bu. on
q hn nv
delegation of the board of directors. I'M
less he may be acting within the ordinary
scope of the business of the incorpora-
ton
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HE BECAME A RAvINe MANIAC.
HypnoticaI Ohio Farmer Believes
HimseIf an Indian Warrior.

Defiance. Ohio, April 16.--Amos Keenan,
of Hicksvile, this county, a well-to-do
farmer, has suddenly passed from a
harmless hypnotic state to a hopeless
state of insanity. lie is believer in spir-
itualism, and for a year past has paid fire.
quent visits to an Indian medium and hyp-
notist at Fort Wayne where he allowed
himself to be placed under the influence
OF the medium in order that he might
better study the secrets of the heart In
these seanceS Keenan, was given to be-
lieve himself an Indian, and it was while
impressed with this hallucnation that
his mind gave way and he became raw
ing maniac, initiating the habits of an
Indian, even to the war whoop.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

Chicago, April 19.-Rev r. G.. Hobbs of
Jacksonville, this state, who has been
successful in securing n cargo of corn
for the famine sufferers OF India, which
will shortly be shipped from San Fran
CISCO will probably go to the famine
stricken country to see that the supplies
are properly distributed.
Death of Mrs. II. G. CIOwry.
Chicago, April 19.-Mrs. Clowry, wife OF
Colonel r.. G. Clowry, vice president and
general superintendent of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, died at Lin
coin, Neb., yesterday of apoplectic paraly-
sis. Mrs Clowry was a woman of rare
culture and accomplishments. Her musi-
cal compositions were numerous. one of
her earliest efforts reaching the extraor-
binary sale of over one million copies.
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RATIFIED.

To make a mad dog to order, tie tin pan
to his tail. A man made mad is one who,
after suffering 10, 10 or 20 years with rheu-
matism, finds that by the use of a bottle of
st Jacobs Oil he is cured. He feels the
waste of his life in pain, with the loss of
time, place and money, and then rejects
that for the expense of SOC. he could have
saved all this and lived free of pain; it is
enough to make him mad. Most ofour suf-
ferlngs are intensified by delay in seeking
relief, and there is much worth knowing as
regards the cure of pain that we find out at
last only by the use of the best cure. II is
worth knowing that for the cure of rheu-
matism there is a special virtue in The
Great Remedy for Pain, st. Jacobs Oil, and
as SO much can be saved by its use, the cost
is really nothing.
The rhinocerous is the most formid-
able and pugnacious of all wild baaets
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

During large fire in Charlestown
last December Mr.. Ward, of Harvard
University, found an uncommonly good
clouds In the atmosphere above the
fire. Whenever there was an especially
active ascent of the smoke n large
cumulus cloud formed over it. This re-
calls other observations of such clouds
becoming dense enough to produce n
shower Of rain.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22

The news of Modjeska's recovery
IRON the recent severe sickness that
compelled her to leave the stage will be
source of congratulation to the whole
world.
Modjeska, in letter to Wells, Rich
ardson g. Company, says she has found
(what thousands of people in every sta
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Carried by Their Wives.

An old campcr-out once related to q
Mortified housekeeper his experience of
.dlsh-washing In miners camp. 1t did
not take much time, though the com
pany was numerous and the utensils
Of the kitchen were In constant use
The reason why 1t took but little time
he sufficiently indicated by the state
ment that the cook-pot was not cleaned
till 1t became too small to hold & pud-
ding Of Reasonable size. Then some
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-22
M0DJESKA THE GRAND.
Found Paine's Celery Compound
the Best of Remedies
For the Nervous Exhaustion Consequent opo'
Her Arduous Work-The Remarkable Art's'e
Who Stands Pre-Eminently at the Head OF ne'
Profession.

edge as can be picked up behind a
counter.
Paine's celery compound is prepared
in exact accordance with the prescrlp-
tion of Prof. Edward L. Phelps, Nj. D.,
LII. D., of Dartmouth college. Its
curative effects have been closely
watched by the ablest physicians OF