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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartlc. 10c or PC.
II &. G. G. fail TO cure. druggists refund money.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

Removed to new quarters, but sell
ling cheaper than ever.
BARGAIN STORE
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

Carpets for cottage or mansion at
Cordelle's.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

Groceries and Hardware at bottom
prices ut the Cast Iron Store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

Three black walnut bedroom suits
offered at a sacrifice ut Cordclle's.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

Parties wishing dental work done
had better come in during the next
30 days. A. NJ. CURL.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09

0. NJ, Harvey, Sec.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-09


lance to be attended to-
BY order Of n G.
0. NJ. Harvey, Sec.
Karls Glover Root Tea is n pleasant
laxative. Regulates the bowels. purlhes
the blood. Clears the complexion. Easy
to make and pleasant 10 take. 25 cts.
Sold by Weiser Pharmacy.
Fishing tackle, rods, reels, hooks
and lines of latest styles in great
quantities at Haas Bros. Guns ga
lore.
Removed to new quarters, but sell
ling cheaper than ever
BARGAIN STORE
Carpets for cottage or mansion at
Cordelle's.
Hats at 81 and upward at Mrs.
Curtis. More new goods arriving.
Groceries and Hardware at bottom
| prices NJ the NuSt Iron clOlc
Three black walnut bedroom suits
offered at sacrifice ut Cordelle's.
Parties wishing dental work done
had better come in during the next
80 days. A. NJ. CURL
Don't fail TO call ON Gentry Bros
when YOU are in town if YOU want Il
set of team harness or buggy har-
ness We also carry a large stock
of mems and ladies' saddles and Il
general stock of saddlery goods
GENTRY Bros, Weiser, Idaho.
No-To-Ba for FIFTY Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. makes weak
men strong, blood pure BIC 81. All druggists
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24
HANDY BUTTON BAG.
A Convenient Contrlvance to lie
Hung in Young Lady's
Bedroom.

A bag is one of the most convenient
receptacles for small buttons, and o
pretty one of medium size, nicely
made and decorated, will be useful in
a girls room.
To make it a contemporary furnishes
the following directions: Cut from a
stout piece of cardboard round disk
three inches and a half in diameter, to
act as bottom. Cover ii with muslin;
then select some pretty plain or figured
| material for the bag.
Plush, cretonne. silk and denim are
all serviceable goods and offer a wide
variety to choose from.
Allow the bag to have depth of six
inches, and one inch from the top Sr.
range drawstrings to close the opening
or mouth of the bag.
Inclose the cardboard in the bottom
of the bag and tack it fast; then gather
the material together at the center Of
the bottom and attach it with large
button. sewed fast to the cardboard bot
tom.
Around the lower part of the bag n
design made up Of large and small but
tons of various colors can be worked
out, and with Asiatic dyed rope or Rom
an floss silk, few long and short
stitches can be taken above and below
the large buttons, to add to the appear
ance of the design.
Three small bags OF this description
attached together by the ends of the
strings will prove an acceptable gife for
use in the sewing-room. And each may
have Its selected contents. one for bone
buttons, one for small pearl ones, and
the third for cloth buttons. such as may
he used on underclothing; and. to dis
tinguish one from the other. the name
Of their respective contents can be en-
broidered on the outside, just above the
design of buttons.
One bag can be adapted for two kinds
of buttons by using an elliptical-shaped
base and making a division in the mid
die of the bag. and embroidering on the
outside the name of the contents of
each side-St Louis Republic.
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The following lines were recently
hound written in the visitors book Of
the cottage at Alloway, where Robert
Burns was born:
Through Persia on Sidesad lie" is a
new book by Ella c. Sykes. the only
white woman who has ever visited Ker.
man and Beluchistan.
A prominent publisher says that there
are more copies of TX Marvel's "Reveries
of the Bachelor sold in American than
of any other book, except the Bible.
Mark Twain was asked by young
girl, at an evening party in London, for
a remedy for writer's cramp, and he
grayely assured her that beefsteak,
"broiled and taken internally cured
the kind Of cramp he had.
Col Van B. Wisker, now a resident Of
Sedalia. Mo, was during 1S57-5s English
instructor to Alphonso MI, father OF
the present king of Spain. The Order
of Christina was conferred on him by
the queen in recognition of his services
Creation primal stands Gods greatest feat,
earth,
His next when He. mans genius to com.
plete,
Ordained that Burns should in this cot
have birth.
Frank E. Kirby, who, during the
Spanish war, rendered such valuable
service by examining and reporting
upon the qualifications of vessels of.
fered to the government, was the mar
who introduced metal ships upon the
great lakes.
The duke of Argyll is passionately
fond of soup, which he regards as the
panacea for most of the ills of humari.
ty. Whenever he is about TO make an
important speech, can of soup special.
~ prepared at home is sent down to the
house and warmed up for the occasion
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24

sculptor, dlla1ng WITH lne youlA uldl
in art is never old, blinked knowingly.
"Betram has a story he is bursting to
tell" cried the city editor. Mrs. Weth-
erell has given him the cue. l wager
choice public is about to be supplied
with a revised, annotated, up-to-date
edition of Jane Austen"
Imagine a Jane Austen of the Latin
quarter!" smiled Mrs. Pentland, with
an encouraging nod.
For once the clever Mrs. Pentland is
in error,r said the sculptor, settling
in his chair with the ease of raconteur
sure of one telling arrow in his culver.
Nothing could be more remote from
the Latin quarter than this story which
the drift of the conversation makes so
timely. To be candid, my chief pur-
pose in accepting Mrs. Pentland's hos
pitality was to recount Hillhouse's ro-
nance"
He was my best friend" continued
Betram, encireling the table with a
second significant twinkle; 81 may say
lifelong friend, About year ago
Hillhouse was called to harrington to
work on the equestrian statue of which
YOU may have heard. He took studio
in a back bay house that had outliyed
not only prosperity but gentility. The
studio confronted a formidable row Of
dwellings in a very similar state. These
houses were occupied for the most part
by dodgers and mealers of various ages
and colors and conditions of servitude.
In intervals of inspiration, and they
were not infrequent with Hillhouse, he
fell. between whiffs of his pipe, to spec
ulating on the daily occupation and the
heart stories of his heterogeneous
ueighbors. One of his studio windows
looked almost impertinently into
ballroom of the most imposing house
in the row. To Hillhouse's surprise,
his mirror one day reflected its oecu-
pant. who rivrted his attention with
a fascination almost as irresistible as
that which wrought the ruin of Paul
Prv." Betram paused. The interest
in his auditors eyes urged him on.
She was iran lltAtC "NhA"H' ~
said, at length. with a certain faded
splendor, the splendor of brilliant au-
tumnal flower that deties drought
and frost. and with a color and perfume
of its own. holds sway long after its
garden companions lie withered and
dead. She rarely went out save in the
flush of the morning or late in the twi-
light. Her room, like herself, bespoke
a faded splendor, diseeruible even from
Hillhouse's studio. A kindergarten
of old-fashioned bloom and plentiful
lv-stocked bookcase that crowded the
small apartment almost to suffocation,
absorbed her days.
Certain hours she was wont 10 sit
in the window, an open book in her
lap, her heavily-fringed gray eyes lost
in invisible worlds. know u whether
il was the style Of her dress-the white
null fichu, closed on the low bosom TO
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24

I to finish the interrupted sitting. He
had not worked long, however, until
he was sharing his models quiet mirth.
"A street fakir had evidently in
weighed her into buying mechanical
toy, such as abound in the streets of
our large cities during the holiday sea-
son. Far into twilight this stately au-
tumnal flower sat playing with the
trivial thing; and the footprints of
time magically vanished from her
sweet face, as she repeatedly pulled the
string, and the grotesque wooden
monkey, with its multi-colored jacket,
slid up and down the yellow pole.
Through the veil of snowiakes Hill
house continued to watch his neighbor,
and as her smiles at the monkeys an
tics broadened his outlaws filled the
lonely studio with companionable
echoes. Suddenly there was a rift in
the Lutte. The incorrigible monkey
was perched at the top of the pole
and refused TO bulge. In vain the sor-
ceress cast her spell. The toy fell
from her hands wreck; disaster, dire
distress, beclouded her face. Not a
shadow escaped Hillhouse. In a jiffy
he had seized his hat and was knocking
at her door.
az have observed from my window
l am your neighbor,' he exclaimed, To-
eating his eerie den across the way
that you have met with an accident
/ am not without some mechanical
skill. and l thought might be of serv-
ice
"She opened the door wide for him
to enter In the dignity of her pres
enee the shabby gentility of her sur
roundings vanished.
"'You are kind, sir she said. To
morrow is Christmas
"'Ah! so it is,' said Hillhouse. 1 had
forgotten
81 promised to take Christmas din
ner yesterday after long years of sep
aration. There is a little boy in the
family. and | thought the toy would
amuse him..
"'And so it will,' laughed Hillhouse,
as il has you and me.
"She colored like an old-fashioned
garden pink, and her limpid gray eyes
dropped as he picked up the mutilated
monkey. In less time than it takes to
tell, this grotesque representative OF
the missing link was restored to its
pristine agility.
"'How can l thank yoHY
"'By telling me some day. said Hill
house. that your young friends en-
ioyment of the toy has been greater
than ours
"Some days elapsed before Hillhouse
had the courage to knock a second time
at his neighbor's door. In the inter
val he had learned little Of her his
tory. 1t was not without purpose that
he scanned the bookcase until his eyes
lighted on a strangely familiar volume
al see Miss Foxglove is an admireT
] of Lucille. remarked Hillhouse.
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
some short Items of Information
Pertaining TO Cooking
and Nursing.

In making drip coffee allow one table
spoonful of coffee to each cup of water.
In making the filling for eocoanut
or eustard pie there will be less chance
of having a soggy crust if the milk is
brought to the scalding point and the
eggs and sugar stirred in before put
ting in the crust. This will shorten the
time of cooking by half
Absorbent cotton is one of the incest
things for removing floating globes of
fat from the soup, where time cannot
be allowed for it to cool and harden be-
fore reheating and serving Take a
small bit of the clean cotton, wipe deft-
ly over the top of the soup and every
bit of the fat will be absorbed
The annual harvest of coughs and
colds is bearing its legitimate fruits,
and the demand for eflicaeious cough
remedies is well-nigh universal. An
excellent cough sirup that requires no
persuasion to get it taken is made In
this way: Steep three tablespoonfuls
of flaxseed in enough water to make 1t
half cup of clear fiaNseed tea when
strained. Add to this a cup of loaf
sugar and the juice of three lemons and
cook until a clear, jelly-like sirup is
ebtrained. This is not only agreeable
to the palate but will be found most
soothing to the irritated throat and
lungs.
Among the prettiest table decora-
tions for the service of fruit in the win
ter are maple leaves, prepared by Dip
ping in a solution of glue water, Maple
leaves, bronze, or scarlet; berries, holly
branches, pear and grape leaves, ferns
and strawberry runners are all suitable
for this purpose, are easily prepared
and will be found invaluable when it
Is difficult to find suitable decorations.
The proportions of the glue bath are
one tablespoonful of liquid glue to
one pint of water. Dipped in this, care
fully dried and packed in boxes, the
artistic service of fruit becomes pos
sible without the aid of the high-priced
florist.
A dainty little housekeeper who de-
HBHlS III lDe tAolullOu Ol HeA anu u u
petizing dishes for the delectation of
her family and friends stands sponsor
for a delicate egg puff, which all who
have eaten approve, 1t may be made in
the chatting dish or baked in mold in
the oven; but in either Case should be
eaten the moment it is done, while
light. puffy, brown and delicious. The
ingredients called for are foureg half
as much grated cheese as egg. half as
much butter as cheese, thin tablespoon
full of cream, scant half teaspocnful OF
salt and saltspoon of pepper melt the
butter, add well-beaten yolks of eggs,
the cheese, cream, salt and pepper, and
lastly the whites of the eggs whipped
stiff If the chatting dish is used. cover
and cook over the hot-water pan.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24

"The telling, you mean; but love
not bit of it. It's as young and as
full of vitality as this King of Love
Feasts-Christmas itself"
Mrs. Weatherell was one of those rare
women at peace with self and the world,
despite The fact that the latter per-
sisted in believing her wretchedly un-
happy. As pretty a woman as one
meets in long days walk was Mrs.
Wetherell; nature and art fitted her to
shine in brilliant society. But Mrs.
Wetherell's beauty was of the spirit as
well as the flesh. Never was she known
to complain. The husband whom the
world dubbed miserable failure was
still to her the Prince Charming who
won her heart when she was toasted
the loveliest girl in her "set."
At five and forty Mrs. Wetherell
judged all marital relations from her
own vantage ground-the love that is
eternal. 1t was this refreshing, Ar
cadian strain in her nature that at
tracted and held the affection of Eliza
beth Pentland, whose knowledge of
'men and things" had come from hard
knocks with the world
81 am sick unto nausea sighed Mrs.
Wetherell, ''of the problems involved in
the modern love story. How refreshing
it would seem TO meet once more in
print love on the old familiar groundslp
Fancy" laughed Miss Dashaway,
sketch artist of Good Form, "the tag
end of this century wading through
Jane Austenl"
Notwithstanding the speed and
spirit of the times" said Return Be-
tram, sculptor who had outlived his
contemporaries, consequently his fame,
material for Jane Austen stories is not
wanting in our own day"
mo, not while you are with us, Be-
tram" chuelled the city editor, replen-
ishing the patriarchal ehiseler's glass.
The ox-like eyes of the sturdy little
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24
WIT AND WISDOM.

Love, like potato, sprouts at the eyes.
L. \ W. Bulletin.
No elocutionist over 16 should give
selection in which the girl in love af-
fair is sonated.-Atehison Globe.
"They say the chair manufacturers
have formed trust" well, we can't
sit down on that any too quick
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He-"There are two periods in
mans life when he never understands
woman" Indeed And when are
they?" Before he is married and after
ward. Life.
"When we gotright into the thick of
the fight" said the soldier, "our ammu-
milton ran out ''Graeieusi What did
you do?" Fell back on the army pills"
Philadelphia North American.
$50 you've lost your new servant al
ready ?" remarked lady sympathetic
eally 10 a neighbor. yes What time
did she go?" u really cant tell" was
the reply; she took my watch with
her. r."-Roseleaf
Speaking of Bright's witticisms," re-
marked young Softleigh, why l could
say smarter things than he if | had a
mind o, doneher know" "0f course you
could" replied Miss Cutting. That's
the only thing you lack, I'm sure
Chicago Daily Record.
Mrs. Green-"I hear that Sarah .Jua-
son is going TO get a divorce from her
husband" Mrs. Brownies; and I
don't blame her one mite. He's mon
ster. Would you believe it, he actually
used one of her golf sticks for a poker
the other morning 2"-Boston Tran
script
"Hush-a-by baby, mamma is nearr
Wrote the poetess lovely lines telling
| The mothery thoughts, the beautiful
thoughts,
Which up from her fond heart were WELL
ing
| While a two-dollar nurse, with bottles and
| things,
| Was keeping her offspring from yelling
| Detroit journal.
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24
A Teachers' Boycott.

Sulz, Swiss town, is suffering from
a peculiar boycott. The town dismissed
its school teacher after so years serv-
ice, without giving him a pension, and
then advertised for new teacher.
There were no applicants for the place,
because the Teachers league put the
town on it's blacklist, and declared that
It would not remove the ban until the
discharged teacher received a pension.
The town decided TO sue the league, but
10 lawyer in the canton could be found
TO take up the case. So there the mat
ter rests for the present-Golden DAYS.
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24

fall in graceful folds to the hem of her
voluminous dark skirt, or the outline
Of the coiffure, so like the mode preva-
lent when Hillhouse was the Beau
Brummel of his world-that attracted
his attentions; but the sculptor soon
found himself modelling her delicate
profile. Hillhouse, it goes without say
iug, was a bachelor, in whom the wine
of youth was scarcely less beady at SO
than in the flush of youth"
Just such a chap as our own Be
tram" interposed Pentland.
"Hillhouse's faith, devotion may say,
to the ideal in life, as an art" continued
Betram, has survived the gross mate
rialism of the times with which ad-
vancing age found him curiously in
and out of tune. Away back in the
golden youth lay his romance-a ro-
nance that unconsciously shaped and
colored his life, lending a perennial
freshness TO the man, which he strove
to impart to his work. As the delicate
features of his unknown neighbor grew
ory awoke. and Hillhouse had begun
to revel again in that golden past, when
suddenly his model moved.
"A carriage with the livery of an
exclusive world had drawn up at her
door. A lady muffled in sable alighted,
and soon Hillhouse beheld his little
neighbor in the arms of stranger.
1t was the first visitor that had come,
in Hillhouse's time, to that modest
door The next day il showed steadily;
but about three in the afternoon his
neighbor surprised him by appearing
at the street door. bonneted. With
rapid strides she disappeared down
the ayenue-to appear before he had
smoked three pipes at her favorite seat
in the window The light fell strong
ly on the profile, which now seemed
rejuvenated by some inner glow. Hill
house snatched the clay and made haste
The Van Buren press., 1898-12-24
POKER PLAYED BY A DREAM.
The Losing Player Is Uncertain If
Fate slipped Cog or If He
Is IA Chump.

"Brown always swore that he WASH t
superstitious,s said Browns friend,
but I've seen him twist his second
finger around his first when he met
eross-eyed man, and | know he has
conscientious scruples against going
under ladder. The fact that he occa-
sionally gets up and circles around his
chair three times while playing poker
may not prove anything but any man
who will lay down a good hand on ae-
count of a dream is open TO suspicion,
and that's what Brown did.
at seems that Brown dreamed one
night of having a tilt with Smith.
opened a Jackpot, and Brown just
hipped him once for luck. He held the
eight, nine, ten and jack of clubs, so he
had chances of filing either a straight
OF n flush Smith drew one card-in the
dream--and Brown, of course, did like
wise. He pulled the queen of clubs
Smith seemed to have bettered, too
and they had nice little tilt. When
Smith called he showed an ace full 10
kings, and Brown woke up just as he
was raking in the pile.
"Well, it happened that few even
ings after this Brown and Smith were
in the same game, and after awhile
Brown opened a pot with aces and
kings. The rest dropped out, all but
Smith and raised the limit. Brown
made good, and each man drew card.
Brown got third ace and Smith seemed
to be pretty well satisfied with hii
draw. Then Brown remembered his
dream. He held exactly the hand that
Smith had held in the dream, and ne
broke out in a cold perspiration.
"'Drcams go by contraries,' he
thought to himself, and it's cinch
that Smith has got my straight flush.
Then he bet white chip, and Smith
came back at him with a limit raise,
ard the limit was pretty high. That
blooming fool Brown hesitated for
minute, and then laid down his hand
with a siclly smile. Your straight
flush beats my hand, he said. How do
you know | had a straight flush?' asked
Smith. surprised. Then Brown told
about the dream, and Smith laughed
fit to kill himself There's your dream
hand he said, as he laid it out. The
eight, nine, ten and jack of clubs were
all right, but the fifth card was the
seven of spades.
"Of course Brown swore, but as the
matter stands now, he doesn't figure
out Just where he's at. Those twa
bands came so close TO the dream that
he can't settle it in his mind whether
fate slipped cog that once or wheth-
er he was a chump. But know what
Smith thinks."-N. Y. Sun.