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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-27
WHEN DADDY PLAYS HIS FIDDLE

When quiet settles Ger the farm.
An night takes place NV day,
An all the stock Is housed an fed,
An supper's cleared away,
Tim daddy talks his iGGle out.
An tunes the + and 4,
An then the @ string with the ID.
An then begins toplay.
He plays a reel or Jig or two
To git his fingers free;
To take the kinks out left by work.
lie says TO ma an me.
An then he puts in longer strokes,
An lays his face hard Ger
An plays on three strings at time.
An sometimes hits the four.
He cuts in deep upon the bass,
An thunderstorms pass DER,
An then he sails high on the +
An clears the skies once mare.
Now deep an loud, now sdft an low,
Life tremblin by a thread
A dismal wall on in the light
Where graVesturs mark the dead.
Then daddy strikes streak Nv hope
An sun breaks through the rain,
An then he strikes a martial air.
An marches home again.
No time. no tune, 70 written score,
Jes' somethin' Cuccy plays.
The Ike Of which wuz never heard
In old or modern days.
He seems a Gtffrunt man wh6ne'er
His fioCle's IN his hand;
There is a bond between the two
Thets hard TO understand.
An ma she sets an kIits away,
An dreams her dreams Nv old,
While daddy's fiddle takes EN- both
Way of 20 LANDS NV gold.
No doubt they spy a shady lane,
An hear the song Nv birds.
An see themselves, two lovers there,
With hearts too full fur words
I've heard big bands an orckestras,
Church organs an the rest.
But fur sweet music frum the heart,
l like my dac1y's best.
Joe Conn. In ". Y. sun.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-27
Good Luck.

1t is easier to hear of good luck
than to see it.-Chicago Daily Nevs
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

81 was shadowing one of the wors1
ruffians on the east side" said New
York detective the other day. "This
man had knocked a policeman sense
less with club as the officer tried to
arrest him for garroting passerby.
was standing in front Of Bowery the
alter when l saw my man pass in with
the crowd. l followed and took a seat
behind him. L did not care to make a
row by arresting him in the house.
When we went outside, that would be
time enough.
1.-The play was melodrama Of the
regular sort only little more harrow
ing than usual The villain was par
ticularly villainous and the good hero
inc unusually unfortunate. No one
Kissed at the bad mans badness more
than my friend the cutthroat. He
howled with rage, and then he fairly
blubbered over the woes Of the good
people in the play. When virtue finally
conquered and villainy was dragged of
the stage in handouts, he roared ap
plause stamping his feet like a pile
driver, and was generally delighted
The grin of pleasure had not faded
from his face before laid my han6
on his shoulder, and he tried to stall
me-"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16
RAGT 7 ME
ROMANCE
BY CECILY ALLEN
Hello, nah baby! Hello. nah honey!

Hello, nah baby! Hello. nah honey!
Hello nah ragtime girl!
In the twinkling of an eye pande-
monium reigned in the sewing room
of st. Agatha's mission. twenty-five
small girls dropped fells, French
seams and buttonholes in wild rush
for the open windows and their first
love-the street piano man.
Their pretty teacher was far too ten
der hearted to stem the hegira. So
little music could come into the lives
Of these slum children. Why deny
them this pleasure? So she quietly
gathered up the scattered pieces Of I'M
bleached muslin, smiling as she softly
hummed the air which came changing
and clanking from the street below.
"O-ee- Miss Grace-come an see
He amt got no monkey. He's got a
mana real, live swell toov
The Italian displayed his small,
cleaning teeth, as he gazed up at the
children, crowding upon the fire es-
cape. The teachers in these missions
he had heard of them. They lived
on the avenue. They wore furs and
violets, and always they gave their
pupils for the street musicians nick
ell, perhaps even dime.
Grace Byrne slipped ten pennies into
the hands of as many eager girlies,
then leaned over their wriggling, ex-
cited little figures to catch glimpse
Of the extra attraction. In the center
of a gaping circle was well built
fellow from her own walk Of life-a
carefully groomed chap, too, he was,
clad in the conventional frock coat,
gray trousers, silk hat and modish
gloves. And he was dancing, actually
dancing to that frightful ragtime mu-
sic. A loud guffaw rose from the cir
Gle of slum denizens, and Grace leaned
farther out the window, to the dis
comfort of herself and several smaller
forms whose owners would not give
way even for teacher"
"Hello! Hello" screamed the piano
In final triumph. The young man
stopped dancing, whipped his polished
hat from his shapely head and DELHI
erately held it toward the gaping.
laughing crowd.
"Oh, teacher, give us some more pen
nies-quick! See, he's goin' away, an
he's SO FUNNY Jes couple, pleasev
But Grace had stumbled back to her
table and was sitting there now, with
her white face half hidden in her slen.
der hands.
The children, awed by her silence
and pallor settled quietly to their
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16
Teachers Examination

The next regular examination for
county, primary and state certificates
will be held at Weiser and Cambridge
August 28th, 29th and 30th, 1902.
Questions in State Constitution
will be taken from Article 5 and in
School Law from Chapter 81.
The examination for state papers
will be held In Boise, Pocatello,
Salmon City, Weiser, Moscow and
Rathdrum.
Examination for state and primary
papers will not be in again this veal
and there will be no special exami
nations. MARY q. HARPER,
County Superintendent.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16
Family Jars.

Schoolmaster Ito his wife)-My dear,
wish you would speak more careful
ly. You say that Henry Jones came to
this town from Sunderland
Wife-Yes.
Schoolmaster-Well now, wouldn't
it be better to say that he came from
Sunderland to this town?
Wife-I don't see any difference in
the two expressions.
Schoolmaster-But there is a differ
ence, a rhetorical difference You don't
hear me make use of such awkward
expressions. BY the way, / have a
letter from your father in my pocket.
Wife-But my father is not in your
pocket. You mean you have in your
pocket letter from my father
Schoolmaster-There you go with
your little bubbles. You take a de-
light in harassing me- You are al
ways taking up a thread and repre-
senting it as a rope.
Wife-Representing it to be rope,
you mean.
Schoolmaster-For goodness sake, be
quiet. Never saw such quarrelsome
woman in my life.-London Tit-Bits.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16


FRIGHTFUL RAGTIME MUSIC
tasks. In mechanical fashion Grace
directed the remainder of the after
Moons work. and finally each pupil,
armed with slice of warm ginger
bread and murmuring, "Goodby, teach
err" marched from the room.
Their teacher walked back to the
window and looked down drearily up
on the narrow street. Again she
seemed to hear the ragtime air which
to her would henceforth sound like a
miserere. Again she saw the out
stretched hand Of the man who passed
the hat, the flushed face of-the man
20 whom her heart and hand were
pledged.
What had happened? She had known
Fred Yerkes for years. Their love af-
fair had started during their first term
In the dancing class, but she had not
known this-that he ever-no, she did
not want him to be goody goody fell
low. She had always said that no man
should need to sign the pledge His
will power should be his only guard
Ian. But this! She recalled his flushed
features, his excited eyes. Instinc-
lively she shrank back from the win
dow. Had he seen her as she leaned
over her little charges? She forgot
that the musician and his homogeneous
companion had long since rounded the
corner and disappeared In the babble
of east side tenement life.
The janitor entered the room. He
noisily arranged the chairs and tables
for the meeting Of the boys club In
the evening. Grace drew herself up
proudly, donned her wraps and with a
few courteous words to the attendant
swept out of the mission rooms. feel
Ing that she never wished to see them
again.
That evening. as the dinner gong
sounded In certain residence over
looking the park, young woman with
4 determined expression on her face
and a contradictory trembling In her
hands tied up two packages. One was
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

rery small and contained a jewelers.
box. The other held eleven photo
graphs, all of one young man at vari-
GUS ages and in diverse garments, a
bundle Of notes and letters and some
faded flowers. She directed them with
care. then resolutely descended to the
dining room.
But her appetite had taken fight.
She toyed with her soup and sent the
fish away untasted. Beef la mode
she declared to be too heavy for this
season of the year
Her father looked at her keenly.
"You ought to give up that mission
work, Grace. Can't you find some 9th
er fad? Tenement air does not agree
with you"
Talking about tenements," broke in
the irrepressible Tom, 1--WE had good
one today on Fred Yerkes. Another
bit Of beef, father"
Grace, turning dizzy and faint,
clutched frantically at her napkin.
Was she to hear the story of Fred's
disgrace here, before the entire fam
lily? Wildly she thought Of fight; then
taking a fresh grip on her napkin,
which by this time resembled a snow
ball, she determined to face the or
deal
"You see," continued Tom. Fired
made some foolish bet the other day
with Cummings. 1 didn't hear what
it was all about but anyway the
loser was to go down in the slums
somewhere with one Of those organ
grinders, do a cake walk and pass the
hat"
Grace gasped.
81 should say so! Any fellow ought
to know better than to mix up with
Cummings. He's always putting up
game But, having lost, Fred paid his
bet like a man-went down this after
noon, with lot of us in tow to see
that he played fair. And he did, by
Jove! He put up jolly good cake
walk, and I guess that organ grinder
thought he'd struck Klondike. We fell
lows all Clipped in. But best of all
was when Fred got through, and lit
tie chap marched right up to him,
yelling, Say, mister, yer toys is out
Nv sight, but yer steps is bum, very
bum-seeY"
Everybody at the table laughed.
Grace wondered if that hysterical
treble was really her own voice. She
felt such a ridiculous desire to cry in
stead. Finally she unrolled her nap
kin and decided to try a bit of beef
after all
Half an hour later, when Tom
dashed upstairs to his room, he was
met in the dim entry by his sister.
She laid her hand affectionately on his
shoulder.
TON, dear, you know that stickpin
the pearl one-you asked me for the
other day? Well, here it is. You may
keep it. II think 1t will look very
well with that tie."
Then, kissing him gently, she slipped
back into her room, while Tom hur
ried on, muttering:
"Girls are queer things-a fellows
sisters the queerest of all. She turned
me down good and hard when l asked
for that pin beforer'
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

A member of the congregation named
Knight died. On the Sunday following
the funeral. when the members of bis
family-widow, sons and daughters
dressed in deep mourning, sat in a
front pew at church to hear the fu-
neral sermon and eulogy Of the de-
ceased. the unconscious humorist, the
vicar, gave out as his text, There
shall be no night there" He was much
scandalized when subdued litter was
heard at the back Of the church.-Lou-
don Answers
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16
Sale and Want Column.

Advertisements under this head one
cent per aDord each issue. Make yotr
wants knoi1n here and you will secure
results. If you toant employment, or If
you toant to employ some one, teHit. II
you haze any thing to sell, tell 1T. II
you do not care to attach your name,
ledve particulars at Signal office.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16
Business Opportunity

To the right party we will give exclu-
sive sale OF our product in Washington
county. Require limited advance pay-
ment for goods. Address International
Power Vehicle Co., Drawer G, Stanford,
Conn.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

$50 REwARD-Lost Pocket Book con-
tanning $50, 90 cash-number of Drafts
and Money Orders payable 10 J s. Free
man. Finder can retain cash if he will
return Drafts andMoney Orders to State
Bank Of Idaho at Weiser Payments has
been stopped. j. S. Freeman;
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16
Mining Books

Idaho Mining Rights, by o. E.
jackson, 75c. How to locate and
Hold Mining Claims, by j. G.. Watts,
81. 90. Sent post paid by mail.
Address the Signal.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

For Rent-Five-r room dwelling
house. Inquire of W. A. More
head. 69-tf
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

Wanted = A furnished house for
two to three months. Inquire of Mrs
W. 9. Doak, at Mrs N. M. Han
thorn's. 67-tf
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-16

45 ACRES-in suburbs of Weiser-half
mile from postoffice-all level and in al
falfa fine water system, fine soil-S100
per acre-Mrs. Thos Ranahan, Weiser
Idaho. Aug. 9-3 m.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16

susceptible to it as any one else. The only
difference is he is not near so apt to have
as serious a case, neither will il be as liza
BILE to prove fatal with him. 1t seems as
though some people are more predisposed
to the disease than others Some will be
thrown right in the way Of it and never
take it. The truth of the matter is, though,
from what 1 know of smallpox, and 1 have
had considerable experience with it, L
would rather have it twice a year than to
nave typhoid fever once.
Sometimes" DR.. Wagner went on TO
say, smallpox takes some strange freaks.
l know, when was in France in 1852, l
had a cousin there who was an inferno in
a military hospital which was situated
near Paris. Well, at this time the small
pox was raging there, and in the hospital
there were from 800 TO 400 cases of il all
the time. 1 assisted my cousin in his work,
and yet [ never contracted the disease
and 1 had not been vaccinated. 1 came
pack to this country and had been here
about a year when came in contact with
a light case of il and took ii. l have never
been able TO account for this. IL hardly
seems probable that 1 had carried the
germs for a year before they broke out"
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Battle Flags.

Nothing but hags-but simple flags.
Tattered and torn and hanging IN rags:
Some walk before them with careless tread.
Nor think OF the hosts OF the patriot dead
That have marched beneath them in days
gone by
With a burning cheek and a kindling eye.
And have bathed their folds with their life's
young tide,
And. dying. blessed them. and. blessing, died.
Nothing but hags-yet methinks at night
They tell each other their tales Of fright:
And specters come. and their twin arms Irvine
Round each standard torn. as they stand in line.
As the word is given they charge! they form!
And the dim hall rings with the battles storm;
And once sgain. through smoke and strife,
These cOloTs Lead 10 a nations life.
Nothing but hags-yet, bathed with tears,
They tell Of tri1mphs. of hopes, Of fears;
OF earnest prayers for the absent men.
OF the battlefield and the prison pen.
Silent. they speak; and the tear viii start
As we stand before them with throbbing heart
And think OF those who are not forgot:
Their dag came hither-yet they came not.
Nothing but hags-yet we hold our breath
And gaze with awe at those types Of death:
Nothing but nags-yet the thought will come.
The heart must pray, though the lips be dumb.
They are sacred. pure, ana We see no stain
On those loved flags. which came home again:
Baptized in blood OF our purest. best:
Tattered and torn. they are now at rest
Francis Gallagher. in Hartford Courant.
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Indifferent. 1t is good for us at times to
remember the all-embraeing conception of
the Christian religion. for mankind is in
debted for it's best and most salutary po-
litical and civil blessings to the presence Of
al earnest, heartfelt, religious faith. The
religious life touches all the varied activi-
ties in which a man is engaged not only as
a man, but as a social being, as a citizen,
and as a Christian. Let us then, while we
attend to our individual souls, endeavor to
nave a faith like the faith Of the noble
I~saiah-tke faith that was in Washington
which will take within its compass the
well-being and uplift of our city and our
country.
SPIRIT OF HOPEFULNESS. 4
We notice, also, the hopefulness which
pervades the prophets vision. He saw
clearly the sins and ~wrongdoing Of his
countrymen, but he did not despair. He
knew that, bad as was the condition of
things. there was a cure; cease TO do evil,
learn to do WE'LL and the blessing of God
on his people.
we need this spirit of hopefulness very
greatly in the present day. We now that
civil and political evils abound. Our social
conditions are not what they ought to be.
1t is cowardly to shake our heads and say,
as many do, that we cannot hope TO remedy
the existing evils. Ii is unmanly to stand
aside and let the faithful few fight the bat7
tie against tremendous odds. Let us pos
sess the hopeful faith of IsraeTs great re-
former and prophet, and of our own first
President. Our country sorely needs men
with steel in their blood, with brave, cour-
ageouS hearts who fear not to attack
~wrongdoing in high places as we'll as in low.
And Of one thing be assured, the issue need
never be in doubt. This is Gods world, and
right must eventually prevail. Preserve at
all costs this spirit of hOpefulness and new
er let go the assurance of final victory.
One shall chase a thousand and two shall
put ten thousand to flight" This has been
verified over and over again when a single
soul clad in uprightness and truth has put
to confusion the serried hosts of wrong
doing.
We do well TO remember our anniversary
days. We could wish that amid the pleas
ure and holiday making our people did not
wholly neglect the solemn and serious
thoughts that SHOULD accompany them.
God hath signally blessed our land since
her birthday as a nation. He hath not
dealt so with any people" Great oppor-
tunities of doing good, Of rising to the
highest plane have been granted US. Shall
we be accounted worthy or shall it be that,
weighed in the balance, we shall be found
wanting? You remember Isaiah's patriot
ism. Shall our feelings for our beloved
land be aught less deep than his? Shall we
sit idly by and allow. If we can prevent it,
the smallest speck to cloud the fair name
and fame of the land we love? Nay, nay.
We pray God for grace 10 serve our coun-
try in our day and generation, as our patri-
otto forefathers served it in theirs; for
strength to labor for her best interests and
her surer establishment in righteousness.
for that perfect love which, though it is
not blind to faults, grows never weary in
its service of faith and devotion.
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Usually the Editor Punctuates.
Progressive Printer.

Compositors are often requested by
writer's TO punctuate their matter as they
set il up, and 10 their credit ii may be said
they usually succeed in doing II quite salts
factorily TO both writer and reader. But
when the sense is obscure punctuation
often becomes a puzzle. Even the best au-
thorities on punctuation often have widely
divergent views. and each insists that his
notion is the only correct one. There is an
agreement on only two points-that there
should be an Interrogation point at the end
of each direct question asked and a period
at a full stop" Many good writer's claim
that, as a rule, printed matter is too close
ly punctuated; but it is often better to have
too much han none. The following SEN
tence is said to be understandable and
dramatically correct if properly pune
tuated:
THAT that is is that that is not is not
tina that is not is not that that is that that
is is not that that is not"
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Insure with German Fire Insurance OF
Indiana. General Offices % South Delaware
street. Fire, tornado and explosion
The Forrest City times., 1902-12-12

IL you enjoy the beautiful and
sublime, don't fail to attend the enter.
tainmet next Monday night.
Hurry up and get first choice out of
the fresh stock flannel, waistings, dress
goods, at Brandon 4 Baughs.
Our line of Breakfast foods COM
prises evey kind that you can think of.
Phone IL. Fsndren & Smith.
A horses foot is like human foot
AZ lll-htting shoe hurts. Joe a. Beck
hts his shoes. AT J. NJ. Halls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Williams re.
turned from Missouri Wednesday.
after an absence Of three weeks.
We are headquarters for a fit In
men s, youths and children's clothing.
Sterling brand. Brandon & Baugh.
| Ex.Congressman w. l.. Terry OF Lit.
tie Rock was In the city Wednesday, en-
route to Mariana. on legal business.
Prof Harry W. Loag-illustra,ed
song artist-at opera house, Monday
aud Tuesday nights, Dec. Is and IL.
Ed. Allen, the genial salesman with
Becker Il Lewis attended his mothers
wedding at New Castle last Sunday.
Recommended by physicians for
medicinal purposes-Old j. II. Gutter
Whiskey. n. b. Nelson & Co., agents.
= Cashier Chas. II. Sanders, of the
Bank Of Eastern Arkansas, went to
Harrisburg Monday night on business.
60 to the Imperial Barber Shop, w.
+. Duncan. proprietor, for hot and cold
baths and lirst-class tonsorial attention.
You can buy all the pecans you want
at 10 cents per pound or three for Csc
at Nicely & Neblett's. Fresh and nice.
Fall is here and we are the place for
underwear, aud the finest wool bed
blankets In town. Brandon e Baugh.
A. L. Grady can save you money on
your winter bill OF dry goods. Get his
prices before you purchase elsewhere.
See A. l.. Grady about your bill of
candies, fruits. nuts, &C., for Xmas.
His prices are the lowest--in reach Of
all.
Fruits, candies, nuts and fireworks
at EVANS grocery, cheaper than any
place in town. Call and see for your
self.
Mrs. Sam Worrah of Franks was
shopping in town Saturday. Mr.. Wor-
rail- has not been very well for several
days.
II you wish to make a present that
will be appreciated. visit J. II. Duna.
wants and see his stock of Christmas
goods.
Mrs. Anna Hill and brother, Chas
Kelley, OF Pine Tree. were in town
Wednesday guests at the Hotel ST i.
Francis.