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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
Announcements.

The Sumers family appeared nj
the Columbia last night and presented
a very pleasing program The enter
tanment merited much larger audi
ence. 1t consisted nf II concert first
part while the second part WAS de-
voted to specialties, most OF which
were very clever. The smaller child
rem are born commedians and they
kept the audience convulsed with
laughter Miss Nellie Somrrs pos
sesses voice of rare sweetness and
remarkable range. and her singing
completely captivated the audience.
Boise Statesman. June 8
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

They have got their bonds, why
don't they push. the war to an end.
Had it occurred thirty years ago our
army would have been in Cuba in
two weeks after the declaration.
Havana would have been taken at
the same time Dewey sunk the Span
ish fleet at Manila, and the war
would have been ended at an expense
of much less than has already been
expended 1t would have been over
before bond bill could have been
framed.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
SALUBRIA CONVENTION.
Last Call for the County Sunday School Con
vention. Next Week-Wednesda and
Thursday, June %, 20 at
Salubria.

The convention will be held in the
Methodist church All persons from
points more remote than Middle Val
ley should should start either Monday
or Tuesday, according to locality, so
as to arrive in Salubria before sun
down, if possibly, on Tuesday even
ing. All will please report at Meth
odist church on arrival where the
assignment committees, of which
Rev j. W. Edgar is chairman, will
assign stopping places. The head
quarters of he committee of arrange
ments, and also of the County Exec
utive Committee will be at the
church.
The indications are that there will
be large attendance and we may
expect great blessing and new
impetus be given to the religious
work in the county.
Yours in the work,
H. A. LEE,
Permanent Secretary.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

~
war in the usual laundering English
fashion rs follows:
Those Americans who expected shor
war will, we fear, be grievously disap
pointed. Short wars are only for State.
which maintain armies and fleets AWAY,
in readiness for action, and the Union
has not yet arrived ut that stage Of sci
entific organization. 1t will all come. MS
IL has come in 'effete" but highly expert
enced Europe.
So far as it goes the above is cor.
rect, but the Spectator knows only
half the truth. just before the dec.
laration OF war, Gen. Lee, after q
long residence in Cuba, returned and
reported that Spain had on the Islands
80, 600 troops that could perform mil
itary duty, but that these were most.
ly boys, ill-fed, and without disci.
pline, that is, war disci pline; that
the defenses of Havana amounted to
almost nothing, as there were but two
or three effective guns and no one to
serve even those. We had at Key
West Admiral Simpsons squadron in
complete form and with commanders
and crews ready for work We had
20, 900 trained regular soldiers; the
State guards in three or four states
had been trained for years and 20,
600 OF them could have been counted
on at once. The fleet could have
captured Matanzas in day; 40, 900
soldiers could have been landed there
in two weeks after the declaration of
war; the squadron and the land force
could have invested and taken Hava-
ma in ten days, and that would prac-
tically have finished the war.
But there was no such intention
or desire. The things wanted were
to call out 1875, 900 volunteers; to put
them in camps and hold them for six
weeks without food, clothing or bed
ding, until certain number of IA
vored sons could be made staff Of
licers and until a $500, 600, 900 bond
issue could be secured from Congress
Ii the country could be held down
it was the determination to have no
war at all until just prior to the No
vember elections. The purpose was
to create a war debt of magnificent
magnitude; to create whole array
OF officers in payment of political
debts; to raise mighty bug bear of
the need of vast army to 60 against
the starved boys in Cuba which are
called "veterans. This, with the
history OF what General Scott did in
Mexico against better fighters. He
stormed battlement after battlement
carried deiile after deile, and never
fought less than two to one. pene-
trated populous county, cleared
away all distractions, captured the
capital, more than 200 miles inland
and dictated the terms of peace to
several millions of people. When he
did it his own force numbered less
than II, 600 soldiers. III
Admiral Dewey, 10000 miles
away from the strategic board, went
into the harbor OF Manila, sunk the
Spanish fleet, silenced and captured
he shore Notifications and then cut
The cable. And now on the shore.
he insurgents, armed with knives.
ire gobbling up those ''veteran sol. !
iiers' of Spain at "a rate which threat
ms to have all the work finished be-
ore the first detachment of Gen.
lerritt's command can reach there.
hat is the advantage of being so far
way rs not to be intcrfered with bv !
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
There are three million horses

There are three million horses fol
sale in the country; there are one
hundred thousand needle women in
the United States who would each
like to make suit OF uniform for q
soldier, there is no lack of cloth, but
the soldiers are shivering around
camp fires in the remnants of suits
brought from home, the rough riders
are still on foot, and yet it is said to
be wicked to express the belief that
little bit of horse sense and execu-
tive ability would have had things
different.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
THE WAR.

Is it war. or Is it dress parade
What has been accomplished during
the forty-slx DAYS since the begin
ming of these lamb like hostilities?
1t is true that Admiral Dewey sunk
Montijo's feet in Manila hnrbor, but
that was on the other side Of the
earth. 1t is also true that Schley
seemed disposed to do something,
hut has been more etfectually bot
tied up than has Cervera. Sampson
probably claims the credit for Hob
sons courageous feat in the Santiago
channel. 1t was n brave act, but
only an American ship was sunk and
there was no smell of gunpowcler
about the performance.
1t is said that by this act Samp-
son corked the bottle into which Ger
vera so alertly entered, and from
which he apparently has no desire to
escape. Cervera is undoubtedly
corked in, but Schley is also corked
out. This, however, seems to har-
monte with our strategic policy
The sailors on the Merrimac were
brave men, but such heroism can he
put to better use. This is especial
ly true in view of the fact that the
destruction of Cervera's squadron
would terminate the war, and restore
those normal conditions of finance
and commerce which, before the he
ginning of these hosiilitips, promis-
ed so much of prosperity to the
country.
The dreaded Spanish mines were
not in evidence. The craftsmanship
of the Spanish gunners was ridicu.
lously poor even for them A fight
ing ship could have MS easily and
safely entered the harbor as did the
collier. Others could have followed.
Dewey would have disdained the
mines, silenced the forts, and sunk
the Spsniards He learned that trick
from Farragut. Cervera is bottled
up. He is in pickle But this pro-
tracts the war and gives Admiral
Cainara time to prepare his Cadiz
fleet for our annoyance aud the en-
OF SPANS delusive
hopes.
The policy now prevailing at Wash
lng'on seems to contemplate an in
definitely protracted war. This pol
icy is n calamity for many reasons.
In addition to the enormous direct
expense to the Government. and the
ncalculable financial, commercial
md industrial waste and loss to the
whole country, it wounds the pride
md patriotism of the people, demon.
'llzes our fighting forces on land and |
yea, and magniies an enemy that
$ pitiably insignificant except in
'rimes against humanity that call for
Instant punishment.
This tedious, temporizing war pol
cy seems to he inspired by the of.
Icious military amateurs and parven-
les who wish to justify their unearned
tiles and make their decorated pre-
ensions less ridiculous The Wool |
Record and Textile News,
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

So far as we have been able to learn
nearly every populist who has so far given
encouragement the anti Moscow conven.
tion crusade is an Office holder and is I'm.
bued with u mortal fear of being forced
TO suckle at the hind it.--Boise Sentinel.
If that is true, Washington and
about seventeen other counties in the
state must be pretty full of popu-
list Office holders. Rats Paddy
Blake, you're talking through your
hat
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

whats the matter wild Briggers?"
asked the gentleman with the red shirt.
81 thought he was always so radical in
his bell Is I'd wanted the money of the
country ti,Idcd up evenly. Now he
doesn't e:'' It word"
'Ecturac," remarked the man with
the whisl,crs, his uncle has just left
him $1,000 Cincinnat Commercial
Tribune.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

The school law requires that the
school census be taken on the first
Monday in July. This year the first
Monday falls on the 4th, legal hol-
iday, and consequently census mar
shals will take the census on the 9TH
See section ~, General Provisions
Applicable to all Codes. Revised
Statutes.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

Speaking of the enormous war ex.
penses to date, the ship "NIerrimac'
sunk on the bar at the entrance OF
Santiago supplies a hint of what
may possibly be going on. She was
foreign ship which her owners de
sired to sell; she had been partially
wrecked. The auxiliary board re-
fused to recommend her purchase at
any sum to exceed $3.50, 900, but the
owners made a direct appeal to the
Navy department and received $342, =
900 for her. The chances are that
had not Hobson sunk her deliberate
ly, and under very glorious circum
stances, the old collier would have. a
little later, ingloriously sunk Hob
son and his crew-Salt Lake Tribune.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
An Endless Line

OF Canned Goods, Fancy and
Staple Groceries, as well as high-grade
but reasonable-priced Table Delicacies,
may be found at our store
The volume of our business enables us
to carry complete stock always, and to
sell at prices which yield very little profit
on each sale. but in the aggregate make
a very respectable showing.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
Inhu,n a n

THAT was a very inhuman reception
Henderson gave the tramp who called
there for bite TO eat yesterday, WASH Z
it?"
"I hadn't heard Of it. What did he
do?"
Got out one OF his wife's biscuits
and"
Surely he didn't feed it to the poor
fellow?"
s"No; he hit him with it."-Cleveland
Leader
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 1893.

There is no discount on American
patriotism and today millions are
ready to take up arms if necessary,
but the way the war is being used to
bolster up the sharks of the country
grinds the true American heart almost
unbearably.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
Opera House.

Tuesday evening, June 81, the
Som Rs Family Musical company
will appear in one of their superb up
to- date programmes of chorus sing
ing, solos, Duets, comic songs, char
acter songs, coon songs, Irish songs,
Dutch spccaltes.
Come aud hear Miss Nellie in her
Patriotic song composed and sung
by her This alone is worth the price
of admission Perrin, the boy alto,
Carl, the hottest havseed commedian
of the aye, Little Loitie, the song
and dance artist, Mr. Somers, Dutch
commedian and grotesque dancer,
Mrs Somers, dnetest' and chorus
singers. w. Hale Gladly, Pianist.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

"You've got me charged with box
Of cigars on the 1ath inst. that didn't
have" said the customer.
"On iAa -lh, did you say?" replied
the en- Ter; "Oh, yes, you had
'em. I are the ones your wife gave
you for your Observation-Disclosures
Statesman.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

The bond bill contained the pro-
vision that it should be issued rs
might he necessary to carry on tn
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
4 CHEMICAL VICTORY
The Belfast

Washing and Bleaching Compound
Practically does away with the was hboard
will save more than half the labor in washing
VIII remove rust. ink and fruit strns. viii
bleach the yellowest cloth pure white Warrant
ed not to injure the most delicate fabric. Pre-
pared only BY the Chicago Western Chemical Co
For sale by
NJ. f SOMMFRCAMP & co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
Permanent Secretary.

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, 1898-06-16

"In St. Petersburg my wife remarked
to a f,nd that she'd give me a good
blowi g mp W hen she met me, and they
arrested A,r for nihilst."-Phi.adel-
phia North american.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

Tell you what it is" said the re-
turned tourist, you can't be too care
full in Europe"
"Whvp"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16

Ladies. Take the Best If yon ara
troubled with Constipation Salow Skin.
aud II Tired Feeling take Knrl's Glover
Tea it is PHEASANT 10 take. Sud by Wei
ser Pharmacy
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
POORLY POSTED.

The London Spectator discusses our
war in the usual laundering English
fashion as follows:
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-06-16
DAINTY WOMAN'S TOILET

+. May be beautiful in its simplicity I'm,
II is really wonderful HON it is briphten,a
nr BY piece Of jewelry-if it is in good
taste.
The sparkle OF precious stone. tina
sheen OF a bracelet. the rich yellow Of a
golden chain against creamy neck. ali
these serve to bring the brsnty of Nh,
wearer into strong relief. All OF them ar,
here in this store. So.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Robbed the Grave.

\ startling incident of which Mr.
John Oliver of Philadelphia. was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows:
81 was in a most dreadful condition.
My skin was almostyellow, eyes sunk
en-, tongue coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite gradual
ly growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. Forum
ately, friend advised trying Electric
Bitters, and to my great JOY and sur
prise. the first bottle made a decided
improvement. | continued their use
for three weeks, and am now a well
man. know they saved my life, and
robbed the grave of another victim. :"
No one should fail to try them. Only
80 cents per bottle at w. c. Haman's s
and all drug stores. 8
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

y recent railroad wreck in North
Carolina was caused in a peculiar
way. y cOlored man wanted ito get a
ride. andtried tojumpa train of empty
fiat cars. He missed the car and fell
across the track, where the wheels to
several gf the cars passed directly
over him. His body threw two of the
ears off the track, and the straneest
part OF it is that afterthe cars had run
over him the man was able to get up
and walk away. As he looked around
him he was heard to exclaim:
We'll, we'll. l never see de like
sence / wuz BON. III bet my week 5
wages DAT railroad'l II sue me fer dam
ages. ATLANTA Constitution.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Holiday Literature.

The christmas article together
with the Christmas story. poem. ora
toriO. or what not, appears 10 he in
its usual force this year. like other
holiday goods like them. too. in
being well fitted, if not sold now. to
Lc Just as takingly labeled Easter
git. and offered again later. But
IT,, Uu~-rVamt can defect certain So
phi~'i-Hted quality in the holiday
Literature Of the present: it is not So
deliberately joyous: if forthe children,
it is all the while winEing at the cd
ers: it is in hastc to be done. TIE
ability to keep it up," in the old
sense of long-drawn-out jCllity, seems
to be tagging. But this may be only
4 part of our general disinclination to
prolonged mental effort. y recent
selection from the "British Satirist"
shows the line TO be narrowing Omin-
ously rs the present is approached.
One explanation is that I'VE live in an
age Of excuses. Wien righteous indig-
nation is felt to be Il little out of
place. Perhaps better explanation
is that satire takes TOO Ion" to read.
Swift wrote for more leisurcd people
than can now bc found. Whatwc must
have is cpigram, condensed impadrnce
fUll-lcngth satire We weary o. 100
easily. so OF III" old soW-paccI
literature Of the merry-makIug. Cod
blcss-you-all" sort: ii has begun to
disappear partly because the audience
was seen to be yawning and whisper
ing to each other. Nv ould I were
done New York Post.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Novel insurance,

y novel system ofinsurnnCc is being
organized at Atlantic City. y. !. One
of the citizens of that opularwatcring
place has been pOndcrin@ on the fact
that only three people are drowned
there every year cut Of the million
bathers who risk the periIs of the At
lanti: undcrtow. He calculates that
if only half OF this number tool; out Il
&c insurance policy. to carry $1,000
compensation in case Of their death.
the receipts OF the insurance Curpor-
alton would be &2J. 900. and even if ave
persons were drowned there wC;,iu be
a net profit of $50, coo. Encourage by
these figures, he is organizing com
pany. backed by well-known capital
lists, and it is said that the stock will
shortly be issued. An additional item
in the estimates is the consideration
that there are ten chances to one that
the people who do drown will be per-
sors who have neglected to avail them
selves of the privilege offered by the
insurance company.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

y paper read before the London
Statistical Society. giving the eight
principal causes Of insanity and the
percentage OF cases occurring from
each Of them. declares that love af-
fairs are responsible FOR only Il trille
over one in a hundred cases. In some
systems OF classification the lunatic
ans the lover are rated together: and
love Itself. according to the analysis
of responsible if somewhat unsympa-
thctlc authorities. is kind of transi
ent lunacy. tending. however. to heal
itself as time goes on, and restore the
victim to ways of reasOnableness and
sanity. OF the other causes of mad
ness the same can hardly be said.
their force showing much greater pO-
tcncy and persistence. Drink is set
down for about third of all the
cases: a like proportion is ascribed to
domestic troubles and mental anxiety:
old age and adverse circumstances
are included in the classification. the
cases resulting from each being about
thirteen in the hundred: whiie only
four in the hundred are set down as
due to religious excitement. Thus
among the causes enumerated religion
and love are. contrary to the general
belief. by far the fecblest in their
opcration.-Nc York Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Strayed

From John Howard, one mile and a
half from Arbor, about December 10th.
1897, two horses, one a dark bav.
about five years old and about IA
hands high, weight about eleven hun
dred, foretOp cut to about four inches.
harness marks on sides. The other a
light bay mare about years old with
tail about half cut off.
y reward of five dollars will be paid
for the return of the horses to
JOHN HOWARD.
Moss Tie Company one mile and n
half south of Arbor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
\ Clever ChiId's Enemies.

I'VE should not hear 20 much about
The rugged path of genius if the
native powers of children were not so
lovingly and unwisely magnifed in
the little world of home says lhe
Woman's Home Companion. The
most unreliable OF all critics are one ;
relatives and friends, who ar too rar-
tisan to judge of ones work fairly.
and too kind to point out iaws. even
if they see them. In sucn matters it
may be said that the child's enemies
are those of his own household. :
Some parents would urge their tender.
offspring to expect eternal fame in
the art of sculpture on no better
ground than because he could fashion
a snOwdrift into the semblance of a
man. These kindly.critics often, too.
mistake the child's mere taste for
music. literature, etc. for creative
power in these branches of art. \
sufficiently hard lesson for the young
enthusiast to learn is the enormous
difference between the creative and
appreciative faculties. Victory awaits
the true child of genius: but woe to
the pretenderl Better to administer
early to the mistaken little prig the
,alutary snub rather than leave that
Office later to disappointed and
wra'hiul public"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Working woman's Home Associa-

Working Woman's Home Associa-
tiOn.
p 5. Peoria ST., Chicago. ILL.,.
Jan. IL, 1896.
Our Working Woman's Home AS
sociation used Foley's Honey and Tar
six years ago, and areusing it to-day.
1t has alwas been favOrite, for while
its taste is not at all unpleasant its eff
fects are very beneficial. 1t has never
ye disappointedus. Wishing you all
possible success, sincersly yours,
Laura G. Fixon, Mgr. w. H. Coer-
yer, druggist.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
No1tce to StockhoIders.

a meeting of the stockholders of the
Sturdivant Bank will be held at the
banking house on Tuesday, January
4th, 1898, for the purpose of electing
five directors for said bank. Polls
open from one to three p. IN.
L. J. ALBERT. Cashier.
Cape Girardeau. Mo-. Dec. -. 1897.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
TO SAVE DURRANT.
Another Attempt TO obtain Re-
pricve From Gov. Budd.

San FRANCISCO. CAL, Jan. 3
Theodore Durrant's attorneys will!
again seek to obtain the aid Of the
Federal courts and will ask Judge
Morrow for a writ Of habeas corpus.
Wine this legal contest is being con
Guc.ed another appeal to Gov. Budd
viii be perfected in the hope that he
will be induced to grant Durrant re-
pricvc until all the legal points at is
sue have been fully determined. In
case ali efforts to save Durrant fail.
which is expected. his father will be al
the foot of the gaIlows to hear his
sons last words and to witness his
death.
Mrs. Durrant will he with her son
unfit half an hour before the end. She
will not witness the closing scenes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
JUDGE Bland and InsLetters.

The following jingle in a New York
paper must have been intended as an
ode to Judge Bland. of St. Louis:
''Lives of great men all remind us,
As their pages O er we turn, Thatwe re
apt to leave behind us. Letters that we
ought to burn. Carthage (Mo. J
Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that meet
ing of the stockholders of the Brown
wood Il Northwestern Railway Co.
will be held at the office of said COM
pany, at the northeast corner of
Spanish and Independence streets, in the
city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. on
Monday, February the 7th, 1898, for
the purpose of submitting to said
stockholders, for their consideration.
a contract for the consolidation of
this company and the Cape Girardeau,
Bloomfield q Southern Railway Co. g.
and the Missouri Southeastern Rail-
way Co.: and for such other business
as may come before said meeting.
DANIEL ). BROWN.
dec4n33 President.