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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-12-24
Cweny Years Hgo.
Of Of Dec


ner, 9s; George Hartley, 96; Ida Joslin I
81 Emma Taylor, "a; Fred Taylor, %;
Mamie Salee, 90,
(DEo. 49, 1882
Work on the irrigation canal has been
suspended for the winter.
The beautiful snow.
Mineral has been discovered on the
Snake river l6 miles below town. A
sample of the ore left at our Office by Mr..
shaw looks good. Quite number OF
locations have been made
Mr.. Moser Of Council, is in the city
J after his encounter with bear.
A blacksmith shop has been started on
court street by Mr.. Harmon.
Mr., Thompson, foreman OF the Null
doom mine, on Wood river, and Mr.. w.
johnson left Wednesday to visit the
J Heath district.
DR.. Hunt of Otterville, Missouri has
located in Weiser. He comes well re-
; commended.
. DR.. Reynolds, of Boise, is in Weiser,
and thinks of locating permanently.
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The public are invited to atteno
the Christmas day service at StI
Luke's, beginning at III, a. m.
H. D. Rankin and B. j. Mack left
Monday morning for their mines IN
the Black Lake district
Festus Foster went to Council
Monday to attend the funeral of his
sister-in-law. Mrs. Guy Foster.
John Smith and r. Beckman, two
Thunder Mountain miners. arrived
from Roosevelt Monday afternoon.
o. M. Harvey went to Boise Mon
day Afternoon on business connected
with the Weiser Irrigation District
bonds.
Miss Maud McCune, who is attend
ing st. Margaret's school at BOISE,
is spending the holidays with her
parents.
W. B. Goodheart went to Payette
Saturday morning on business con-
nected with the Masonic order of
that city.
/ D. W. Hunsinger, principal of the
Cambridge school, is in the city and
will spend the two weeks vacation
with his family.
r. G.. Stewart of Indlfn Valley,
arrived from Boise Saturday where
he had been on business and left
Monday for his home.
Jake Ulman, of Alexander's store,
Boise, is in the city. He is filling
Mark Schas' place at Alexander's
store in this city during his absence.
Ware & Johnson have leased the
Red Barn opposite the Signal office.
The gentlemen are experienced IN
the business and will keep good
horses and rigs.
Schuyler Opp left Saturday after
noon for Pennsylvania and New York
i He expects to spend the winter IN
those states and visit the scenes OF
q his childhood.
Miss Edith Taylor, who is en-
f ployed at the Bank of Commerce al
Boise, is spending Christmas with
e her parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. G.
Taylor, of this city.
!, Mrs. Dan Meads requests the Sig
nal to return her sincere thanks tt
Y the many friends who assisted he
l. during the illness of her late hus
! band.
le G. L. Swanstrom, who has beel
employed at Hathaway's camp o.
re Grouse creek, has returned to tn
ty the city after an absence of sewers
months.
D. The Christian church Sunda
s, school was organized Sunday morn
ing at the opera house. Twenty
r. four children were present and sign
er fed their intention of being reguls
attendants.
10 Miss Louise Taylor, daughter
ug Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Taylor, is
the city from Boise where she h
ne been attending school. She W
vs. visit with her parents during vac
ton.
I'm Rev. G. E. Evans OF the Christi'
Iys church will preach at the Ope
House Sunday morning next, and
ed the Christian Endeavor chapel on T.
ere fiat in the evening, Sunday school
III a. m.
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AT the residence of the brides
brother, R. E. Lockwood, in Weiser
last Sunday, G. M. Fife, of Boise,
and MISS Linnie A. Lockwood, of
Weiser.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10

trinkets for sale, and youngsters of both
sexes insisting upon doing acrobatic
stunts for the fraction of a penny The
guides are select men, though woe to the
interloper who would dare offer his serv
ices. He would be pitched from the
mountain and probably killed. The ci-
cerones on Mt. Vesuvius are all employees
of the various communes claiming pos
session of the great mountain.
1.-THE road was tolerably good at the
start, but after a few hundred feet of
climbing our difficulties began. The lava
blocks became more irregular in shape,
the fine ashes reached, in some spots, to
the tops of our CATERS, while here and
there, out Of zig-zag crevices, rose hot
sulphur cloudlets. so strong as to tarnish
the metal buttons and buckles of my
skirt and bring tears to my eyes. There
were Sedan chairs for the wealthy and
ropes for the many not on speaking terms
with Mr.. J. P. Morgan.
Imagine all the vapors Of a great city
rising out of single chasm, snowwhite
column, tinted delicate pink here and
there, O mile or more in circumference.
For five or ten minutes the cloud rose as
steadily as a Welsbach burns, then there
was a violent agitation. Separate clouds
appeared, spouting forth as If under IT.
resistible steam pressure, and an exploS-
ion seemed imminent.
with this sublime spectacle In sight,
climbed Cat the end Of my rope) some
forty-five or fifty minutes until at last
! stood ar the crater's brink.
'tAll around is a footpath, about three
feet broad, consisting of hardened lava.
This gallery is about two feet from the
ground. and 1t gave me peculiar sensa-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10

ton when the guide pulled me up by the
hands. What If his foot slipped and he
fell backward. dragging me after him?
Something similar happened some ten or
fifteen years ago. and the parties, Nea-
politan and German professor, were
never seen again, of course. Lucky If
they dived. head foremost, into the sea
Of fire, for then their death was instan-
taneous. But think Of the bodies catching
on one of the jagged rocks and being
slowly broiled or steamed to death.
''Just now the crater has two openings
it changes it's form after every eruption
and is said to be some 1900 feet in cir
conference. 1t looked much smaller.
though, probably owing to the fact that
1T is never visible in it's entirety at one
and the same time.
"Out of the further throat came cloud
of steam and smoke, intermixed with fire
balls, stones, ashes and lava
LAS they spouted UP the whirling
masses united and dissolved, forming
bizarre figures In the air, now mighty
boulders threatening slaughter, again as
Stunning shapes that reminded me of the
finest flligree work. There was a con-
slant change of colors, pink and scarlet,
alternating with saffron and poisonous
green-yellow. Now there appeared
cloud of brownish hue. 1t turned a SOM
ersault and then. suddenly, as if seized
in the clutches of gale, dissolved into
yellow, blue, purple and pink smoke. But
prescott united again and continued
its aerial trip as ball of fire, or, may
be, a rain Of snowfiakes.
'The guides told us that up to week
ago it was permissible to descend some
three hundred feet below the outside rim,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10
H0l1 Oriental Youngsters Lire

they had been the night before to we'd
ding feast of relative. On the third
day the teacher remarked:
Late again.
Yes sair" came from Prince Feridun
In voice of careless inquiry, as much
as to say I'm not sure of my watch.
but rely on yours!''
DO you think I'm your servant, ieune
prince?' was the reply
Yves, sair-N-no, sair-I do not know
sair," said the boy at length, somewhat
alarmed.
when I have given you sound
thrashing, my friend, I shall leave you to
settle the point at your leisure said the
teacher, suiting the action to the word.
Then he left the school-room.
The tutors absence. even as he ex-
pected, soon reached the ears of the
sultan, who himself came to make inquiry
about it. The tutor was summoned to his
presence in the school-room and asked to
explain the situation. This he did, say
ing: I am proud to be your 'serviteur,'
but I refuse to be treated by your chill
dren as their domestique' y
The parent comprehended in moment.
"Domestique, non!' he roared, as he
caught the nearest boy and soundly boxed
his ears. Each in turn was treated to
the same corrective. Afterward he shook
hands with the tutor, to whom he said:
did I not tell you to use the sticks?
You have a whip handy. Use it,
But in spite of few such incidents,
which were necessary to establish discip-
line. later on the English tutor and his
Persian charges came to a most excellent
understanding He Joined them in all
their sports. He taught them foot ball,
which they entered into with all the
ardor Of American boys. At his request
the sultan had foot ball field specially
prepared
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10
IN the Burning Brink of Crater of Sponting Vesnius

but when Vesuvius is working It would
be sure death to risk an invasion. Be-
sides, we were quite near enough to the
real thing, for even where we stood the
lava was so hot as tc burn the under
straps Of my CATERS and scorch the soles
of my stout boots.
Jessie made some excellent counterfeits
of American dollars and cents of molten
lava and the leader OF our party poached
some eggs on rhell-fire' that tasted de-
liciously
After this and similar nonsense, some
body had the hardihood to remind us that
we stood facing the most horrible death
possible to imagine. And, indeed, not
more than fifteen feet away yawned the
safety valve, as tremendous as 1t is in
calculable, whose breadth of smoke and
vapors might instantly turn into fiery
avalanche, knocking the shinbones and
toes off the italian boot. devastating
miles of city streets, townships and vii
lagos, the fields and forests as far as the
eye travels, and killing all living Great
ures, men and women and children and
cattle on the earth the birds in the al.
and the fish in the sea.
Just then / got Whit Of Vesuvius
power-a f1fty-pound boulder from the
craters bottom dashing over my
shoulder.
ut left trail of sulphur behind that
colored yellow the white veil protecting
my face and threw me into coughing At
from which didn't recover for five n,iu-
utes or more. am carrying the dyed
piece Of silk back to America as q moro
genuine souvenir Of Vesuvius than tt.o
lava brooches and similar ornaments sold
in Naples stores
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10

public roads to the crater of Vesuvtus;
an eruption seems imminent; gunboats
are patroling the tav of Naples warning
all shipping away, and everything is be-
ing made ready in case the worst should
happen.
1.-THE night before I visited the crater
of vesuvius I received the American
papers containing the news of the Mar
Unique disaster. The next morning was
up at daybreak, and ais bought my ticket
the porter said: tits working. You will
see it at its best"
1--WE had evidence that It was working
all the way up the long road to the top.
The giant throat was sending up steam
and smoke in white and black clouds,
which mounted heavenward jas straight
as the flame Of candle.1
-Four hours travel over miles upon
miles of lava streams. deposited in 1881.
1858 and 1872. brought us to the cable rail-
way, that, to our minds, seemed little
more than an elevator in a, New York
skyscraper. IL
At the landing place scores Of guides
and an army Of beggars, old men and
women, who exhibited soresa black-eyed
girls Offering babies to be kissed and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10

The painting-although he never was
much of an artist-should not be hard.
All things considered, the hardest work
of the entire undertaking will be moving.
Oh, the thought of that chaos Of furni-
ture, clothing, books, carpets, etc.
But of one thing Prof McMullen is
sure. His house will be at least strong
enough to stand the wear and tear of 4
moving-in process.
Some modern houses are not.
The speculative builder does not hesi-
tate to call them Queen AIMS.
1t is a gallant and tempestuous style of
art, in which every detail does its best
most valorousiy to outstare all the others.
1t is clever, too. You may fancy that the
doorstep is stone: but, mott is an in
genious sort of composition which
crumbles steadily and quietly, and no
doubt has the advantage of being softer
for tender feet. A rash observer would
tell you that the gable was half-timbered;
but in reality the climbers are Just
streaks of brown paint over the plaster
much more easy to renew than timber, and
handler to carry up ladder. There are
columns stuck about here and there. too,
that you might suppose to be stone at
least as solid as the doorstep; but you are
sold again-they are not even that; they
are wooden cylinders with iron bars up
the centers. and no doubt there is some
great advantage in this device. AS to the
thin coat of plaster which makes the wall
angles look also like stone, that has enc
very great advantage over the genu ne
mo tertal-from the speculative builders
point OF view. 1t is an advantage shared
by all the other substitutions named; but
If you ask the speculative bidder what
this advantage is he will not tell you,
though you may observe a twinkle in his
QXYn fc fro 10 10
tive builder is sworn not to betray trade
secrets-sworn over shovelful of real
mortar, kept for the purpose It is the
only sbovelful in the trade.
Prof McMullen has a shovelful of the
real article.
His house when completed will be two
stories high, containing six rooms and
bath. It's dimensions are 24x32 feet. The
front foundation will be faced with stone
"a very pretty effect. The house lot is
large one commanding many pleasant
and recreative advantages. Directly back
of it is a small grove, shady and cool, in
a sufficiently wild state to afford a &C.
lightfnl pleasure ground. In the back Of
the lot Prof. McMullen has planned 10
raise a garden-indeed, he is partic l'Ir'y
enthused with this idea, already having
laid out hot beds, walks and miniature
fields
Then the chickens and the family
plug" Surely ''hennery' ought to be
no item compared with a house.
Prof. McMullen's assistants, Mr.. Paul
Edwards, high school student, and Mr..
Charles Richards of Cicero, Ind, .lava
entered heartily into the spirit of the I'M
neutrality-suspicious. plan or experience,
following the arrangement of their embryo
boss"
None Of the three have union cards.
Six DAYS in the week from an "a RI,
hour in the morning until noon, and from
I p. m. until g. in their overalls and wide
brimmed hats, the trio form an interesting
picture.
Enlarged muscle, horny hands and sun
burn.
valuable experience, says the pro-
fessor. And it will be, particularly as re-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10

outlined the new tutors duties he adj
dressed him thus:
Besides teaching my sons English and
French and the elements of mathematics
and science, I wish you to doNyour utmost
to educate them to a love of truth and
honor, for those virtues are M re COM
mon in England than they are in Persia.
DO not forget that you are the spirit
ual father of my sons. Though they are
the light Of my eyes, they Rre only boys
and require to be reduced to discipline.
To that end you may relay on my sup
port, adopt what methods you may. If
you will take my advice, you will not
spoil them by sparing the sticks"
The school-room In the palace is equip
ped with blackboards and maps much
like any other school-room. But for
desks there were six round marble Ia
bles. The little princess who sat before
Persian cashmere of many colors.
them were dressed like full grown men
in the national court dress in
On the first day Of the new tutors ar
rival each came forward separately to
bid him welcome. Then began the first
lesson in French dictation. The day was
warm, and as the lesson progressed the
children became thirsty. One of them
remarked: ut is too hot-yes. sair?'
There was no reply from the teacher and
the BOY resumed MS Work.
Later he. lifted up his voice once more,
and this time his tone was loud and i'm
porous. "Bachah!' he cried
To the teachers amazement in stepped
a stately general, who halted at re-
spectful distance in an attitude of grave
humility.
'Ab-i-khwurdau'' drinking water),
commanded Prince Akbar, and the gen.
eral obeyed. In a moment he returned
bearing a silver teapot. Solemnly he
went the round of the class, raising the
spout to each thirsty little mouth In turn
until the imperial thirst had been
Quenched. Again, q little later, the same
dignif1ed soldier, in full uniform, was
summoned by Prince Babram to clean
the latters slate!
These Incidents" remarked the tutor,
convinced me that the first thing I
should have to teach these youthful
princes was not modern languages, nor
mathematics, nor science, but rather the
first principles of self-reliance and SELF
help"
But the chief trouble with little Persian
pupils was their lack of punctuality. They
came late to school with amazing regu-
larity. Repeated admonitions were OF no
avail. One day their excuse was that the
sun got UP late (there was no eclipse),
why should not they rise late too? Again
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10
The Deans wit.

The dean Of Rochester, England, whose
fame as rose grower is second only to
that of being the wittiest living member
of the English church, is gathering fresh
laurels with his most recent volume,
"Then and Now" In Rochester many
amusing stories are told of his ready
humor. Shortly after his arrival at the
deanery he was waited on by local milk
man, who sent in the message that he
had the privilege of serving the late dean
and he hoped DR.. Reynolds Hole would
patronize him. Tell Mr.. -" said DR..
Hole. looking at the card, that I hope
to initiate DR.. Scott in all his ways, even
in his milky way" So the enterprising
milkman got the job.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10


liz m entail royalty live is story
which the western world has
H hitherto had little opportun-
ity to hear. Now, at last
- there is some one to tell it.
An English tutor to whose care was in
tkusted the education Of the princelets of
Persia has set forth in a book the inter-
esting narrative of his life while he was
member Of the court of the
Zillu's sultan, brother of the shah
and ruler Of number of the
provinces of Persia. The book is entitled
''Persian Children of the Royal Family"
and the author is Wilfred sparroy.
There were nine of the children. At
least that number includes the children
of Importance, the boys whom the Zillu's
sultan speaks of always as 1.-THE light
of my eyes" Moreover, they were the
sons who were born Of the rulers favor
tie wives OF course there were many
daughters, but by all that is sacred to an
oriental no man tutor would have been
permitted to instruct these buds of the
harem. Quite contrary, however, to the
ways of the English world. where girls
are deemed OIL 1llllC with, SAASAN ~ SAAS
daughter whom the ILLUS sultan Wor-
ships When she was a little girl, up to
the age of ten years, he had her dressed
In boys Clothes so that she might ac-
company him wherever he went. Now
she is a winsome maiden of seventeen
and must be sequestered in the harem.
But she is still the apple of his eye. He
docs not permit her to marry because as
he saws. there is no man in all Persia
good enough for her. She is the queen OF
her fathers heart, and, tyrant though he
be. she rules him with her smile.
Her brothers, too, adore this beautiful
sister and she exercises great influence
over them For, while they were small,
they lived in the harem, each In his own
mothers apartments. They feared moth
ing SO much as a word Of reproof from
this favorite sister, and she became tho
tutors most powerful ally in intoxicating
in them the spirit that made for manli-
ness and manners.
For 1t was the tutors business to train
them in the way that they should go
morally as well as mentally. He had been
SO commissioner by the Zillus-Sultan,
who babe him not "to spare the sticks. .
They were ordinarily lusty. hearty boys
and they needed correction as often as
laeir kind is wont to. When their father
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10
One Farmer S Way of Paying a Note

John Smith," was the farmers reply
What is the amount of the note?"
81 don't know"
when is it due?"
II don't know"
Have you the money with your
yes"
How much have your"
II don't know; didn't count It."
Didn't your. father tell you how much I
he gave your aHa a
NO
I'm whose favor is the note drawn?.
81 don't know
Did your father give the note at al
sale?''
Don't know"
What did he buy when he gave the1
note?''
He didn't tell me. He told me to
go to the bank and pay his note
Losing all patience, the teller directed
the young man to run away home and
ask his father to come in to pay the
note himself. 1t is still unpaid.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10


CARDS health, Mr.. McMullen was Ill for
three months last winter with nervous
prostration-that is one of the causes for
the experiment
mot only do I figure says he, that I
will be greatly benefited in health, but as
regards economy 1 will save at least one
third the cost of the house. From this
hypothesis (here Mr.. McMullen became
Prof McMullen) if my experiment is sue
cessful, and everything is propitious, an
economic precedent will be established
yes, l intend to make this my home
and comfortable one too.
mo. 1 have no intentions of abandon
ing my physics for the trade of con-
tractor
Prof. McMullen graduated at DePauw
university in 1897. In the fall of the same
year he took charge of the physics de
partment of the Shortridge high school,.
which position he has since held. VI
present he. with his wife, lives at 800 L
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