The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-07-26

dy and the vice presidency all at one
gulf. The fact is, up in the noun
tains | wanted my blanket over my
anatomy all night. Down here in
the valley on Snake river | take it off
the bed and hang it on chair. Hot?
Yes, moderately so, but no hotter
than in Iowa Besides there is
yes, there is, and no tibbng-an ex-
hiliarating influence in the atmos-
phere that always rejuvenates and re-
freshes you during the night.
! saw man last night who seven
Years ago was as poor as Lazarus, and
of about the mental caliber of the
4 prodigal son. Instead of eating
husks with the swine or begging for
crumbs at rich mans gate, he
hired out to a stock nabob at $40 a
1ponth and keep He looked no
longer upon the wine when it was
red, but shot every dollar he could
pick up into sheep He lived out in
the bills, at fiapjacks, 'sow belly,
and dirt wore only overalls, cheap
coats, a sombrero and coarse shoes.
He avoided luxury and stuck strictly
to business. Always sheared and
branded his own sheep, and possibly
some-hold on there Quaker! and
today he is rolling in wealth. $20
600 to $50, 600 strong, and in in
n huence that has an unusally legisla-
tive fusk on both cheeks. l know
another man, Dutchman Of the
dutchiest kind of timber, who started
eight or nine years ago on piece OF
raw sage brush land. He shut one
eye to the alurements of fashionable
society and set the other one on
future orchard farm and fortune the
finest in the gem state of the union.
He worked early and late, ate what
he couldn't sell five years out
: of the seven, worked himself and his
family early and late, like tough
cayuse ponies, dressed for cold in
winter and heat and comfort in sum-
mer, smiled with the sun at intervals
and melted the frost with his temper
e between times. He can tell you a
) story of disappointment and toll and
8 hardship that would turn the hair on
T a lop- cared poodle wrong end to.
+, But now, listen, my boy. He has
: that orchard farm, as beautiful as 8
e garden, as full Of productveness aud
e resources as an old time Idaho pros
e pector is of first class lies; he has {
n happy home, table fit for a king
money in the bank; his children a
I school and twenty thousand dolla
!. offer for that farm slapping him il
! the face every time he pokes hi
head through the bank door at th
e county seat. The only reason l cal
e not give you the exact figures o
L what he made the last two years
J because, after showing me the ne
e results he urged that | keep the fact
/ out of the paper or the authorize
q finding it out would raise his taxes.
u Then | see all around me men o
IS finer education and much more re
: fined appearance. They have bee
e here just as long, or even longer, an
/ have been equally as anxious to gro'
'e rich. and are in their way workin
'' just as hard. But, my boy, they ar
le getting on in the world not even
little bit Do you know why? The
il are like your uncle, the scribe. To
ID high toned to wear overalls, soil thei
j. lily white hands, or bare their head
ld and backs to red hot sun. They al
- not struck as deeply as the shee
man or the Dutchman, the poet an
a. the politician, with the dignity I
d. labor and the rich prospects of sa'