The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-03
THE VESTS SOCIAL SIDE
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that know of in all the state, but
it is not wise to bank on human CO.
wardice and peddle gossip or be over
handy with insult. You can get a
s'shooting match most any time you
want it, if you only put up the right
sort of demand. That is one thing
possibly that keeps the social and
business atmosphere free from fog
and frost. Men do not carry knives
or guns, and the day of the "bad
man" is past. But it is just as well
to sdo unto others as you would
have them do unto you..' II might
save both cash and hide in the long
run. Of coure, there is the saloon
habitues and the carousing element
not taken into account. But that
is comparatively small, and only seen
now and then, here and there. There
are 'frontiersmen," who have settled
up some of the valleys and class
who are indolent and non progressive,
but they have pushed or are pushing
out of the larger towns and valleys
and are nearer the wilds of real
mountain life. 1t will be only be a
few more years when the "wilds and
woolly vest will be dream of the
long ago. l have said the people of
this section are generous and they
are. Nowhere is the cry of the
needy responded to with more cheer
fnlness and less cheating of drums.
Nowhere will the response for dona-
tions to any enterprise of the town
or county be larger among business
men. And nowhere Is there such a
universal feeling OF pride or confidence
In town and country than in Idaho.
1t men leave other western states. the
south, east or north, and drop into
> community to live, it is looked up
on - one of the most natural things
n the world that particular thing
should happen. The only thing that
esems strange to an Idahoan IL that
Nm who ses the country do not come
: thousand fold faster. Now in
saying all this, and while saying that
sort OF feeling Is catching and that
l have q touch of it myself, do not
forget that human ills and human
disappointments come and 20 with
al the good things hanging around.
The dust gets into your eyes in
August. At times green apples are
big with representations OF collie for
the t'kid" that nibbles too early
The 'skeeters have bills equal to a
Texas toothpick. Measles, whoop-
ing cough, chicken pox. and fevers
grow in their season, and if you do
not happen to be "Christian Scient-
let, " "divine healer or "oxygenor'
crank, the doctors bill hits like the
thump OF the once immortal John L.
Then, too, that most unwelcome and
distressing OF all woes, work, comes
in for its eternal demands. But on
the whole like the country and the
climate and the people. They have
treated me like a prince and they
vote when the polls are open to suit
my style of thought. And the nat
ursl change in the political atmosp-
here between Iowa and Idaho for a
democrat is most respectfully and
delightfully."- congenial Yes, sir
thank you, and don't you, dear read
er, get on your elephant and kick
with both feet because thereis asmall
spot of alfalfa somewhere in this
politically blasted republic where
ye old democratic mule can feedand
feel heightened, and as the darky
says, ''Most bodashiously content
ed" Do you like fruit? Well, YOU
can have it. Just come over in some
OF our valleys and settle down and 90
to work You can begin in the
spring with strawberries, then rasp
berries and cherries, pears, plums.
pruhes, nectarines Can educated peach
that is); then apples and melons,
green corn, cucumbers and collie and
all sorts of fruit way up until fall
and some of them in the winter
Then begin over again in the spring
This year you can mix in grouse. saoe