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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
LOCAL NEWS.
Weiser Train Schedule.

Born, Friday, September 18th. at
Weiser, to Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey
Sperling, 10 pound daughter.
A Bryan club was organized at the
Hemenway school house last Satur-
day evening.
Geo. Meyer has painted life
sized picture of VIM. j. Bryan for
use on public occasions. 1t is a
beauty.
The machinery for the cyanide
plant which the Ford Brothers are
putting in at Black Lake has arrived
in Weiser-
Thos. Ranahan went to Kansas
City yesterday, having received a
telegram announcing the death of
his brother.
Mrs. Carl Williams, wife of Rev.
D. Carl Williams of the Baptist
Church at Weiser, returned Friday
from Oregon.
G.. NJ. Waterhouse and W. b.
Goodheart are in Boise this week
attending Masonic grand lodge as
delegates from the local lodge.
A. G. Butterfield returned last
week from Pennsylvania and other
eastern points where he went to
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13

make his annual purchase of blooded
bucks.
A. j. Crook is in Denver purchas-
ing a new smelter for Mineral.
Every body is back from Portland
and good time is reported.
An enthusiastic bnod meeting was
held at the Opera House last evening.
Fred Burgdort passed through
Weiser last week on hasty trip to
Boise.
The Weiser term of the district
court has been postponed until Nov.
18th.
The Vendome has placed q fine
plate glass cigar case in the bar
room.
Mrs. Sharai has employed Mrs.
Miller, an expert dressmaker from
Chicago.
Van P. Sieberst has gone to Council
and Cuprum for the E. NJ. Burris
liquor house.
Mrs. Lyman Perkins and daughter
Linnie have gone to Salem, Oregon
on visit. Miss Linnie will remain
there and attend school.
Burglars broke into Kelley's lum
Der office last Friday night for the
third time. They got some insurance
papers only.
The first car of prunes of the
season was shipped Sunday night by
Pont Moulton. 1t was consigned tc
Porter Bros, Chicago.
d. J. Richardson, of Council, wa:
in the city Monday. He made the
Signal office a pleasant call and sale
the Council Bryan club had over 100
members.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Parker ar
rived home from Portland Sunday
morning. Monday evening the
Weiser band gave them a pleasant
serenade.
The Weiser band was out Tuesday
evening serenading Mr.. and Mrs.
James Gerwick. They we're invited
in and served with ice cream anc
other refreshments.
Ed. Shainwald took Mrs. Shain
valid to Portland yesterday to receive
treatment for her foot. Mrs. S. step
ed on nail some time ago and thu
wound has brought about very ser
ious condition.
To prevent consumption quickly cure throa
and lung troubles with One Minute Cough Cure
&c, T. Williams.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
Is impossible with a

Is impossible with
collar that's continually prod
ding You on the southwest cor
ner Of the neither surface Of
the jaw. We have Comfort
able collars, stylish collars and
collars that are the latest as to
style and feeling. These last
will do for the young swells,
but for ordinary, sedate bust
ness and professional men the
others are better. The stand
ard brands, and we have them
all, are Of course sold at stand
ard prices. Other Gents fur
nishing goods at business fig
ures.l
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
Closing Out Sale.

At the Cast Iron Store. Every
thing in Groceries, Dry goods and
Hardware will be sold cheap. Don't
wait until they are gone and then
pine away because you got left, now
is the time to get your choice OF the
stock.
Property for Sale or Rent.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
Does Your
Baking Powder
Contain
Alum :?

Prof. Geo. F. Barker, M D., University of
Penn. "All the constituents Of alum remain
from alum baking powders in the bread, and
the alum itself is reproduced to all intents and
purposes when the bread is dissolved by the
gastric juice in the process of digestion. re-
gard the use of alum as highly injurious
Dr. Alonzo Clark: CA substance alum
which can derange the stomach should not be
tolerated in baking powder.
Prof. W. G. Tucker, New York State
Chemist: "I believe it (alum) to be decidedly
injurious when used constituent of food
articles
Prof. S. W. Johnson, Yale College: 81
regard their alum and soluble alumina salts)
introduction into baking powders most dan
gerous to health.
In view of such testimony as this,
every care must be exercised by
the housewife to exclude the over
and over condemned cheap, alum
baking powders from the food.
Baking powders made from of tartar, which
ishghly refined grape acid are promotive of health,
and efficient. No other kind should be used
in leavenng food Royal Baking Powder is the
highest example of pure cream OF tartar powder
WILLIAM YORK
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13

Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat
ment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agree
ably aromatic. 1t is received through the
nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur
face over which il diffuses itself. Druggists
sell the SOC. size; Trial size by mail, 10
cents Test it and you are sure 70 continue
the treatment
Announcement.
To accommodate those who are partial
TO the use Of atomizers in applying liquids
into the nasal passages for catarrhal trou-
bles, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in
liquid form, which will be known a. Ely's
Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the
spraying tube il rs cents Druggists or by
mail The liquid form embodies the med
icinal properties Of the solid preparation
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
Frank j. French is down from

encountered in all the mines and
many large pumping plants will be
required in the camp
4. NJ. Barton returned Saturday
from trip to Seven Devils. Every
visitor to that camp, lately, comes
back with his eyes bullying out, and
amazing tales of new found wealth
Sam Swanstrom, Geo. Hotfstatter,
Jim Under, Nose Hopper, Uncle
Weston, Judge Cole and R. +. Will
son we're noticed among those who
came down from the north to hear
Towne.
Chairman f. A. Fem of the re-
publican state central committee,
was in tue city Monday. He came
up to chaperon the distinguished or
ator, Mr.. Cecil, but was not conspic-
uous at the rally.
|
gone into the eastern part of the
state, on matters connected with that
institution He lectured in the Con-
gregational church at Boise last Sat
urday evening.
The Signal acknowledges a com
plimentary season ticket to the grand
stand of the Sumpter Racing Associ-
alton. The Association is arranging
a mammoth race meet for September
Goth to Goth.
Carruthers Bros. yesterday shipped
two cars of ore from the Peacock
and Helena and will ship two cars a
week from now on. This is the first
ore that has gone out from the Hell
ena.
The railway crossing on the way to
the Weiser ferry is reported to be In
very bad shape and residents of Ore
gon, who trade in Weiser are doing
much complaining. Several wagons
have been broken and the crossing
should be fixed at once.
Flournoy and Guy Galloway and
Virgil Ryan left Monday for Walla
Walla where they will attend Whit
man College. The Academy grad
yates of 1900, Robert Ringer and
Row Wolfe will also take advantage
of this excellent school the coming
winter
A very pleasant surprise party
! was given at the home of Harry
Harris on Commercial Street las
: Saturday evening, by several of hi
young friends, in honor of his eight
zenith birthday. Songs were sung
games we're played and luncheon par
9 ticipated in. All went home happy
The Reading Room Commute
h requests all those having books iron
n the travelling library to return tn
same. as a new box has arrived an
the old one should be sent on
Please remember to bring your fine
for books that have been kept owe
time. A bound volume of Centur
g and Lucy DRESSER are missing
Please return.
Frank Hubbard, who recentl
;, traded his farm property at Wels'
for his brothers place at Graz
Creek, has finished moving. Fran
- was in town this week and says wit
10 his advent into upper Crane the
are now four democrats in that pr
II cinct. They held meeting out
III the hills the other day, and eve
u with one of them out as sentinel
seemed as though they had la
l. start towards a quorum.
" In the account of a mob assau
- Oh a wedding party, in last week
Signal. it was stated that accordir
ie to reports, there were no officers
y hand, which appears to have been
10 mistake as night Waterman Conkl
escorted the party from the hotel
as the depot Mr.. Conklin says 1t WI
he impossible to give any better prote
id ton and owing to the darkness of Il
10 night. he could not distinguish Il
participants The dirt and cinde
r which were thrown in the face of Il
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13

Try the "Ledgerett' bill file for
small accounts. File and 300 state
ments 42.75 at the Signal Office.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13

Entered in the postoffice ut Weiser rs
Second-class matter
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13

Baking powders made from cream of tartar which
shghly refined grape acid, are promotive of health,
in leavening food. Royal Baking Powder is the
highest example of pure cream of tartar powder.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31
Secured Her Hired Man.

I'VE ministers have many strange
experiences in performing the mar
riage ceremony" said the Rev. w. F.
Sheridan, of Pontiac, Mich, in the
Pittsburg Dispatch. "One of the most
curious in my experience occurred not
long ago. A large and heavy woman.
accompanied by comparatively small
and meek-loOking man, had come in
and asked to be married. Everything
was regular and the ceremony was per
formed. After 1T was over the bride,
explained her position.
You see, Mr.. Sheridan she said,
farm hands are mighty hard to get In
this part of the country aud they are,
even harder to keep. You get good
hired man and get him well broke in
to work around the farm and the first
thing you know he quits the job and
goes Off to town or somewhere else
Last spring | had a first-class hand.
about as good as ever expect to get.
but just when the season got right busy
he up and quit me.
~ just made up my mind that L
wasn't going to be left in the same fix
this summer, so here we are
The bridegroom in the case simply
stood and smiled meekly. He had moth
ing at all to say"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

thority Is giant umbrella. The spokes
are OF embossed gold, and on the end
of each spoke is a human skull. This
emblem has descended TO him through
a long line Of ancestry.
King Prempeh has exactly 1888
wives. Why this number should have
been decided upon he does not know.
Like several other things they came
to him by Inheritance. He takes them
for granted
The kingdom VI Ashantee is rich in
gold. and Prempeh is many times Il
millionaire. He wears earrings of solid
gold. All Of his personal adornments
are OF gold He owns the only house
In his kingdom. 1t is a rude structure
of stone. His Royal Highness sleeps
on the floor.
King Prempeh is bloodthirsty ruler,
and is In the habit of making human
sacrifices. This Is one of the practices
which England desires him to stop, for
whenever his gods are displeased he
seeks to propitate them by having a
few hundred of his subjects beheaded.
II was to put stop to this that Eng
land made war on the King OF Asian
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

race who are capable Of putting up
such stiff fight as are the people of
Ashantee, for they are born warriors
and love their country with a savage
kind of patriotism. Besides, they would
not dare refuse to fight. Refusal
would mean not only disgrace. but in
stant death. The power of this pictur-
esque monarch is unquestioned. Should
the Car of all the Russias even think
OF doing what King Prempeh does and
thinks nothing of doing, there would
be a vacancy at the Winter Palace. The
Sultan of Turkey Is a novice in tyranny
as compared with the black King of
Ashantee. If his breakfast does not
happen TO agree with him, the cook is
liable to lose her head. literally. If
one Of his subjects should even hap
pen to look at one of his wives, the
said subject would be conducted by a
subordinate to some shady grove or to
the rear of the woodshed-and he
would never return. Should any Of his
warriors refuse to fight-well, there is
no telling where the gore-shedding pro.
cllvities OF the monarch with the plug
hat would stop!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

This King lives-in the interior Of At
rlca, several hundred miles from the
Gold Coast. on the western shore. He
wears girdle Of dried grass around
his loins, and plug" hat. Where he
got this hat nobody knows, but it is his
only crown. He has no throne. but III
stead he has stool of solid gold.
which four slaves carry around for him
wherever he goes. Upon this he sits
and gives his orders. They are all YER
bal, but often they mean either life or
death.
The Kings name is Prempeh. and he
is the absolute monarch of more than
100000 savages. His emblem Of au-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

The Supreme Court has decided that.
technically at least, Admiral Dewey did
not overcome a superior force when he
fought and won the battle of Manila
Bay. The decision holds that land bat
teries, mines, tOrpedoes and other agen.
cies not operated directly from Monte
JOS ships do not count The effect Of
the decision is to reduce the prize
money awarded to the men in Dewey's
squadron from 100000 to 5000, 900.
The admiral's personal share is cut
down from $4,000 to one-half that
amount Few people will be so un.
gracious as to rejoice at the reduction
of the amount to be paid to the men
who crushed the Spanish power in the
Philippines, but there will be fewer
still who will not be glad that prize
money in any form or in any amount
Is now thing Of the past--Congress
having repealed all statutes giving
bounty to officers and sailors of the
navy for the destruction of an enemy's
vessels. Prize money was n survival
of medieval military traditional mod
ernlZed form of loot" In cOmpara-
lively recent times, indeed, the soldier
was encouraged to find his recompense
in plunder rather than In his stated
pay. Armies were recruited by induce
ments of pillage and on the sea pri-
watering placed naval warfare on a
purely sordid basis. Thus ii came
about that the men of the regular navy
were solaced by prize money to place
them on even footing with the pri
vateersmen. The institution survived
In the navy long after "looting" in the
army was an offense punishable by
death. 1t Is well that In this country
and, II recollection serves, In most
other civilized nations-prize money Is
no longer to be awarded. 1t made fight
| ing Il mercenary business and while
mercenaries sometimes fight WELL M
such inducement Is needed to inspire
the sailors OF the republic with deter
mination to maintain the prestige oi
the American navy and the honor o,
the American flag. Hereafter In tn,
navy as In the army victory will b,
uncolored by any Interior thought o
financial reward. II Is thus that Amer
lean seamen should fight.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

occasions.
Every time there is national fes-
tival there are human sacrifices. In
fact, blood letting seems to be one OF
the principal occupations of royalty in
Ashantee.
Back of the town of CoOmasie there
is place called by travellers the Grove
of Skulls, where the bones of victims
are thrown. Here Is what Henry STAN
ley said of it when, in 1874. as war
correspondent, he accompanied the ex-
pedltion of Sir Garnet Wolseley: AS
we drew near the foul smells
became Suffocating. 1t was almost im-
possible to stop longer than to take
general view of this great Golgotha-
We saw thirty or forty decapitated
bodies and countless skulls, which lay
piled in heaps and scattered over
wide extent. The stoutest heart and
most stoical mind might have been ap-
palled."
Several officers of the eXedition, al
though it remained in Coomase only
two days, visited this Grove Of Skulls.
and subsequently described it as sur
passing in horror anything to be seen
In the world.
The King of Ashantee is opposed to
progress. He does not want any roads
in his domain. When the English cut
their way inland from the gold coast
they left fine road behind them. With
several pistols pointed at his head, the
King agreed to keep this road in repair
and not allow it to be overgrown. but
he knew that the rainy season was at
hand and that the English would have
to hurry back to the coast. The road
was never touched.
The system of human sacrifices prac-
ticed in Ashantee is founded on wilf
idea Of filial duty, for it is believed
that the rank of dead relatives in the
next world will be measured by the
number of descendants sent after them
from this. There are two periods, call
ed "The Great Adai' and ''The Little
Adai," succeeding each other at inter
walls of eighteen and twenty-four days
after the death Of some member of the
royal house, at which human victims
are inundated to monstrous extent.
On the Great Adai the King visits
the graves of the royal dead at Ban
tama. where their skeletons, held to
gether by links of gold, sit in grim
| mockery Of state.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31
His Beginning.

Years ago there was a cold night In,
the latter part Of December at Brattle
bOro, VT. There had been many freez-
ing nights there before, but on this one
something happened.
A young man, Larkln q. Mead, at
tracted by the beauty of the great white
stiffness, went out-of doors, and slow
ly, yet with much delight, modelled Il
figure which, in his mind, stood for the
Recording Angel writing down the
events of the year just dead. All nigh
the statue grew, and the sculptor threw
on water at intervals, to freeze 1t into
hardness. He was alone and happy.
The next morning the neighborS
awoke 10 find the snow angel, pen in
hand. recording their history upon a
snowy scroll.
Local history says that this bit Of
work decided the future of the young
man who did 1t. He resolved to be
come a sculptor, and went abroad to
study. Well known as his work after
ward became, perhaps he took no such
pleasure in it as in that little bit OF
modelling under the cold Vermont sky.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

ditions, among others that he would
abolish the practice Of human sacri-
fees, but these arguments neither
koffee nor Prempeh has carried out.
The consequence has been frequent
trouble ever since Great Britain has
undertaken the task Of civilizing these
black-skinned and untutored savages.
The fact that the country of Asian
tee is exceedingly rich in gold, and
that France controls the neighboring
country Of Dahomey, may have some
thing to do with England's solicitude
FOR the people of Ashantee and their
comic opera King.
There is probably no other savage
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

Prof. Chrisman raised storm Of
protest at the mothers congress in
Des Moines by asserting that men new
er love. Doubtless the way in which
his audience replied to and repudiated
his assertion was tinged with a con-
siderable amount of personal feeling,
for most of the women present had a
good right to believe that they were
or had been loved by man, but it was
the natural rebuke that thinking men
and women would give to such an opin.
ion, which was Objectionable not only
in itself but In the place where it was
uttered. The assertion that men do
not love Is not new. 1t Is a part of
the doctrine Of the strictly materialistic
school. Prof. Chrisman seems to have
deviated from the usual track Of the
proponents Of the theory that love is
merely manifestation Of certain nerve
forces acting upon the brain, in that
he claimed that women loved, although
men did not. He was thus inconsistent
from the so-called scientific point Of
view, and either ignorant or menda-
cious from the standpoint of ordinary
humanity. If he spoke merely from
his own experience he was unscientlfic
in generalizing from limited knowl-
edge Of his subject; If he professed to
speak as an expert who claimed TO
have carefully investigated what is call
ed love he must have had peculiar spe-
cimens OF mankind under examination.
1t is probable that few persons can de-
fine exactly what they mean by love,
yet most people feel that they know il
when they see it-also when they feel
1t. Life Is full of disproof of this pro
fessor's assertion. He must be a sin.
gularly blind observer If he has not
seen hundreds of cases of mans unself,
ish devotion. Perhaps the speaker
correctly defined his own theory OF
mans love, but If so most likely he now
regrets that he exposed his incapacity
to comprehend and feel the spiritual
love with which other men are ia
| mlliar.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

There are no great unclaimed estates
in England, despite mistaken or fraud
ulent assertions TO the contrary. The
State Department warns the American
public against possible swindling eff
fected by the promoters OF schemes
based on imaginary assets. A London
hrm Of solicitors was asked by the
United States embassy to examine GER
tain claims. In one thousand cases
thus sirted no valid claim was discov.
cred. Furthermore. there are no large
deposits In the Bank Of England await
ing claimants. The familiar theory
that people like to be imposed upon is
made more probable by the history OF
the pursuit OF supposed estates in com
parison with which Castle In SPAIN
is substantially itself.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31
Extinct Giants OF Guam

Were there giants in the old days in
our latest possessions, Guam? The
present races are Melonesian and Ma
lay, with occasional Negritos. But
these men could never have built the
massive forts that dot the isles-fortS
IA massive as those OF Yucatan. The
walls range In height from s feet to 10
feet In one wall cornerstone 10 feet
by 2la by q was found twenty feet
above the ground. How did the ma
tives, who have left no trace of skill
beyond stone axe or two and an iron
spearhead, rear those mighty walls?-
81. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-31

Twenty-one wagons passed through
the city Of Wabash, Ind, not long ago,
In solemn procession. They were load
ed with the last marketable black wal
nut logs in the county. The ceremony
would have been equally appropriate
in any other county of the great central
States. The walnut, which half cen
tury ago was the most plentiful and
ma jestic tree Of the region, Is to-day
practically extinct. A stronger argu.
ment for protective forestry laws
would be hard to find.