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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-25
Athen. saved by ro,trx

when (B. G. 404 after heroic strug.
gle Athens, the "City of the Violet
Crown" was captured by I.ysander
there were not wanting clamorous
voices to urge that the city whose lust
for empire had brought such woes ON
Greece ought to be laid level with the
ground.
The Spartan general at first lent n
willing ear to his powerful allies. but
While the council was still debating
TINS momentous issue plaintive voice
was heard from the city walls chanting
those noble lines from the Electra of
Europides, that most human of the
poets of Greece, in which the heroine
contrasts her fallen lot with the splen-
did exploits of her father, who had dis
mantled the towers of Troy.
Lysander bent his head and Wondered
on fortunes cruel reverses. Triun.
phant as Agamemnon, who could tell
but that he might be reserved FOR a fate
as cruel? The lesson of moderation
was accepted Athens was saved.
Milton has immortallzed this dramat.
lie event in one OF his best known SON
nets:
The repeated air
OF sad Electra's poet hsd the power
10 save the Athenian walls from ruin
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-25
ORDINANCE NO. ~.

An Ordinance giving notice of intention tc
gravel Main street, in the City OF Weiser
from First street to Weiser Slough bridge, aud
levy and assess the abutting property with the
cost thereof.
BE IL ordained by the Mayor and Council OF
the City OF Weser
SECTION /. All property holders owning the
property abutting ON Main street in the City
OF Weiser, from First street to the Weser Slough
bridge hereby notified that it is the inten-
ton OF the said Council to gravel the said cen
tral portion OF Main street between First street
to the Weiser Slough. "A distance OF about 62O0
feet, forming gravel bed 20 feet wide and six
inches deep along, and 10 feet wide on each side
OF the medal line of said street. and that the
estimated cost OF the same will be fifteen cents
per lineal foot for each side. which cost will be
levied and assessed to each and every abutting
owLer along the north aud south sides Of the
said street between First street and the Weiser
Slough bridge.
SECTION II. All owners OF property fronting
on said Main street between First street and
the Weiser Slough are hereby notified thai any
and all protests that they may have and de-
sire to make against said proposed i'm prov ement
may be filed in the Office Of the City Clerk OF
the City OF Weiser on.or before The 9TH day of
August 1908, at the hour of o'clock p. NJ.
Said local improvement district as proposed
shall include all property fronting on Main
street to be improved between the points herein
named to the distance back from said street.
II plated in blocks, to the center OF the blocks;
II plated in lots only to the center OF the lots
and II not plated, then to the distance OF 100
feet from the said street.
SECTION Ill All ordinances and parts OF
ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
Passed and approved this the 23rd day OF
August, 1908. A. +. HIT, Acting President OF
the Council,
Attest STEWART H.TRAyIs,
Ctart
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80 Aston Place, New y0fs wy
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stray steers when far across the plains
he saw the object of his aspirations.
The broncho on whose back she was
seated had stopped to indulge in the
wild west business of bucking and
Jumping, and Tom imagined that he
could hear terror stricken shouts from
the rider. 1t was all Imagination. how
ever. When he had reached her side
after furious burst of speed and
begged the privilege of saving her life.
she quietly replied:
please don't interfere. 1 rather en-
JOY the change"
Tom Jones was nonplused. but he
waited. In the course of two or three
Gays Dutch Pete broke loose on one of
his quarterly jamborees Dutch Pete
kept the doggery at Dead Mans Cor
ners, and when he started out to clean
up the state he kept his two guns red
hot. Tom figured that 1t would be ON
the bills for Pete to bear Miss Girls
comb away into the mountains. and he
lowered along the Fort Wingate road
as her protecting angel His figures
turned out TO be way off. Miss Girls
comb ana Dutch Pete met one morning
at the crossing of Lame Wolf creek
and when the cowboy came nm the
terror had his hands raised. and the
slri had gun on line with his eve.
she thanked Mr.. Jones very kindly for
the interest he exhibited, but she really
couldn't think OF putting him 10 any
particular trouble. -
Then Tom Jones prayed for a cloud
burst Lame Wolf creek had IT'S rise
up In the mountains. At o O'Clock OF a
summer morning II might be a mere
rlNulet crossing the stage road. An
sour later food wave six f6et high
might De booming down as the result
OF cloudburst up among the peaks.
The burst came az prayed for. Miss
eflscomD Nas Oh the west side OF the /
creek when caught by the n0hd. and
ep escape seemed cut on when me
cowboy came tearing around Bull bend /
~ rescue her jhree minutes lafor fhe /
fpl Wa fescuipg bim. bIis broncl.o
soi fepfled np Rifu d mhss III djln I
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TOM JONES,
COWBOY
...........By c. B. LEWIS
Copyright. 1905. bv 7. C. Mcclure .

Tom Jones was a real Montana cow
boy, the genuine stuff. BY that is
meant that he was no consumptive son
who had been sent out from Boston to
try the western ozone, nor was he n
student of Yale or Harvard who was
picking up $50 a month TO help him
squeak through college He was born
to the business, knew all the ms and
outs, and no one could beat him at
turning stampeding herd or throwing
the lasso. 1t was said on all sides that
there was only one thing out of killer
with Tom Jones-he had aspirations.
II he had aspired to keep three guns
shooting at once or to hold four aces
In every other hand of poker, he might
have had the sympathy of his fellow
workers, but his aspirations took a
different line.
Tom Jones had read no less than six
different accounts of eastern heiresses
coming out west on visit and falling
In love with and marrying cowboys.
Cowboys had saved them from rob-
bers, Indians, stampedes and prairie
fires, and their natural gratitude had
resulted in love and marriage. What
had happened once might happen
again Toms aspirations, then, ran to
helresses. He was expecting one along
any day in the week and was always
prepared to carry out his part of the
contract
Even an heiress may come to him
who waits, and in due time, when her
engagements permitted, Miss Griscomb
from New York, paid visit to rela-
tives at Taylor's ranch. Tom had heard
OF her beauty and what a pile of mon
ey her old dad had in the bank within
twenty-four hours after her arrival 1t |
was now up to him to bring in the
heroics and start things going. He got |
out his Sunday togs and creased his |
hair as beginning.
Nor was the labor thrown away He |
had hardly set forth on hunt for
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had saved an heiress from stampede
utes. There were 5000 steers covering
the plain between Taylor's ranch and
Lame Wolf creek. If they would only
get a move on them at the right time
he would be there to do the hero's part
The steers were cheerfully willing.
One morning soon after the heiress had
passed down the road they lowered
their heads, threw up their tails and
stampeded. The move was not expect
ed by the cowboy, but by great good
luck he was on hand to mix in. 1t
seems the easiest thing in the world
for hero to cut across the front of a
stampeding herd of steers and snatch
an heiress from her saddle and bear
her away to safety and win her eter-
nal gratitude, but Tom Jones didn't
find it so in practice. AS a matter of
fact, he was rolled in the dust and
walked on In shameful manner,
while the heiress saved herself, and
when the herd had passed she helped
him to find the remains of his hat and
advised him to go home and keep quiet
for q few days to avoid nervous fever.
There was only one more hope for
the cowboy hero. If he could rescue
Miss Griscomb from prairie fire, all
might yet be well. A drunken Indian
brought things about as he wished. II
wasn't an overgrown spectacular dis
play as far as flames went, but there
was heap of smoke and a grand OPP
portunity for yelling, and in due time
Tom Jones started In on his work of
rescue. While he WIS dashing through
the pillows of smoke and frantically
calling upon the heiress to be saved
she had already saved herself, and it
cut him to the quick to have her re-
mark as he finally rode up to her that
she didn't like the smell of singed hair.
The cowboy had played his last card,
and, weary and hopeless, he sought out
the Diogenes of the flock and stated
his case
My son. said the old man when he
had heard the story, did you ever
hear the saying of up to dateY"
"Of course. I'm there myself"
And there lies the cause of your
failure. Miss Griscomb is more up TO
date as girl than you are as man.
You had better stop making a fool of
yourself and hustle those steers
around"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-25
A Surprised Bore

The late Justice Carter of the SUI
preme court of the District of Column
bia used to relate an incident of a Phil
adelphia man who called at the White
House so frequently and took I'D so
much OF President Lincoln's time that
the latter finally lost his patience. One
day when the gentleman was particu-
hrly verbose and persistent and re-
fused to leave, although he knew that
important delegations were waiting.
Lincoln arose, walked over to a ward
robe in the corner of the cabinet cham
Der and took bottle from a shelf.
Looking gravely at his visitor, whose
head was very bald, he remarked:
Did you ever try this stuff for your
hair?"
No, sir; 1 never did"
WELL" remarked Lincoln, II advise
you to try 1t, and | will give you this
bottle. If at first you don't succeed
try. try again. Keep 1t up. They saw
1t VIII make hair grow on a pumpkin.
Now take it and come back in eight or
Ten months and tell me how it works."
The astonished Philadelphia left the
room Instantly without word. carry
log the bottle in his hand. and Judge
Garter, coming in with the next dele
CATION, found the president doubled nm
With laughter at the success of his
strategy. Before he could proceed To
business the story had to be told
Ihe True Abraham Lincoln"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-25

Il don't see how the count could pro.
pose 10 you when be can't talk any
English and you don't speak French {"
"oh. u was very easy. We were sit
ing ~ The Darlor. Pointing up AZ an
Oh painting ~ papa, the count took out
a piece Of paper and q pencil. Then
he SET down dollar mark and after il
placed Dsure D. Looking az Ile out
~ bls Dig deep, eloquent lovely eyes.
hf began making ciDbers after ne dol
'ar mark aud die ngure . Wien Le
'ha ipnHe four ciDheps. WhirD. viii the
oiii4f hgpro mcauf $1,000 be- stopped
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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-25
ORDINANCE NO. 70.

An ordinance for the purpose OF raising revenue
and placing a license tax on Merry -go-rounds.
BE il ordained by the Mayor and Council OF
the CITY of Weiser:
SECTION | There is hereby levied and shall be
collected as other city licenses are collected "A
license tax of $500 FIVE dollars per day II
granted for less than one week, and (s30OO)
thirty dollars per week from each owner or man
ager Of merry go-round running or operating
the same in the city Of Weiser.
SECTION H. The city clerk shall be entitled to
n fee II fifty cents for each license issued under
the person to whom the license is issued.
Passed and approved this 23rd day OF July.
1908. A. +. HIT,
Acting President OF the Council.
Attest; STEWART II. TRAVIS, City Clerk
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-25
Thrown from a BUGGY.

Mr.. j. r. Thomas has sprained
wrist and his nephew, Ellsworth
Thomas. a sprained and bruised
shoulder, as the result of being
thrown from buggy few days ago
The gentlemen were driving home
from town, when the tugs became
nnhltcbed, frightening the horses.
aud they starred 70 run. Mr. J. r..
Thomas turned them quickly, oyer
turning the buggy, throwing them
both out hr Thomas thinks they
"sfe lucky W escape ~ easily.
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slfssis ylng and being within said nro.
poseq district are hereby notified fhat anv
npp au protests that they have and az.
eff ~ make against said proposed IN.
gfVtttmepls may be- fled in' the onice -
lls cliy CLERK " the City of Welser an
NJ before ibe 5il day ofAugust l96a ~
ne hour Of z O'clock y. al f"'' ~
Passed and approved MA Al. oo,s a.
VI July, 1908 n ~, -'lN nay
ffesldeni NJ DE Council. '''' '''''F
Al'esl syfVAnr n TnAyis.
fliy CLARK
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hpeNp 4lplng COMPANY ghngsde,
pi'e'peqp Yhe gen,emeu sieted
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Excellent Lectures.

Rev. w, S. Kress of Cleveland is
giving an interesting series of lee
lures at the Catholic church this
week. Many non Catholics have
been present on each evening Sun
day Father Kress spoke on Christian
Marriage. He said In substance that
the Christian religion does not per-
NIT a severing of the nuptial bond
for any cause whatever, not even ex-
cepting martial unfaithfulness. He
also denounced lnfanticide and the
practice of limiting families. Mon
days lecture was a historical argu-
ment against agnosticism. On Tues
day the speaker treated the ruler of
faith and on Wednesday, the problem
of sin and its forgiveness. Thursday
the lecture was on Purgatory, and
last night on the Papacy.
On Wednesday night, after telling
of the benefits arising from its prac-
tice and now Catholics prepare for
confession, Father Kress proceeded
to prove its divine institution from
st. John, 20 22 and 90: .He
breathed on them and saith unto
them, Receive We the Holy Ghost.
whosever sins ye remit they are re-
united unto them, and whatsoever
sins ye retain they are retained !" He
said In substance:
These words prove a real pardon
ing power on the part of the Apostles
that divine power of forgiving sins
which is operated through them by
the Holy Ghost They imply confess
sion on the part of the penitent, for
. discretionary or a judicial power
was confided to the Apostles. They
could not use their power arbitrarily
without the hearing Of evidence
Christ did not need to employ the
word confession" since the Jews
whom he addressed were accustomed
to confess their sins. But as their
priests merely prayed and offered
sacrifices for the pardon of sins, the
Saviour emphasized the greatet
authority of his own priests: sWbo-
'oever sins ye remit, etc.
That this power was not intrusted
% the Apostles as a personal peroga-
live is evident from the nature of
he commission. Sin existed not
'nly during the apostolic age. nor
lid Christ mean to save only those
wing in the first century. So long
IS sin exists the pardoning power
must te found in Christ's church.
Iust as the commission to preach
md baptise is universally believed
o have decended to the successors
II the Apostles, so to be consistent.
We must hold the same to be the
one of the commission to pardon in
,hrst's name.
Sacramento confession and priest
dissolution have been practiced in ,,
very age of the church, from the {
avs OF the Apostles down through
very succeeding age. They con
utute the channel, fixed by Christ ,
Dr. the forgiveness of our transeres-
ons
The question box has proven an 1
lteresting feature of these meetings !
ueries were asked regarding the I
slibacy of the clergy, the veneration c
saints, the manner of confession,
C. a
The series will close Sunday at 8 :
clock with a lecture on ssWhy Am >
Catholic " a
Thrown from . Rueev :
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24
Farmers Institutes.

Farmers institutes are being ar
Kerrow is the head of this depart
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24
The american Woman" Abroad.

With the approach Of the silly sea-
son the London journalist can safely
count upon getting up a little breeze
by making an attack upon something
neutrality-suspicious. it is our pork,
just now it is our women.
1t is an amusing and impossible
creature that is pictured in the article
quoted in a special cable dispatch to
New York paper and labeled an
American woman-although the writ
er hedges by limiting his structures to
"the hybrid variety"
1.-THE ape-like decadence of New
York society, where extravaganza is
distinction" is smart phrase If this
journal knew anything of New York
life, however, it would be aware that
the occasional fantastic entertain
ments of which exaggerated descrip-
lions are given in American newspa-
pers of it's own class have just as
much relation to the special life of
New York as the vagaries of "the
Kaffir crowd" during the palmy days
Of Barney" BaInato bore to the social
life Of London.-New York Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

The recent action of the asylum
trustees in naming superintendent
of the county home and asylum does
not meet with favor on part of large
majority of people who are acquainted
with the manifold duties and response
bilities devolving upon one in this po-
sition. The qualifications Mrs. Alder
son possesses as matron go without
question, but the general sentiment
seems to be that the supervision of the
institution and their extensive inter
ests, the management of the farm
proper and exterior affairs should be
presided over by a man. 1t seems
somewhat incredible to believe that
in this large county of Grant with it's
10000 Inhabitants that no person of
masculine gender could be found cap
able of filling the place to the satisfac-
ton Of the trustees, the matron and
the county in general.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The valley of the Amazon still re-
mains almost unexplored.
More than $50 books on the war
in South Africa have been published.
1t is estimated that half the vine
crop of France was destroyed by the
frosts of April.
Lord Jersey, who is SO, is a member
of two county councils and lord of 90
600 acres.
Los Angeles claims to have a greater
stretch of attra ctive ocean beach in its
vicinity than any other American city.
Nearly eight hundred patents have
been granted to Edison.
1t is said that more than $4,000
women are employed on the six princi-
pal French railways.
California had the best season for
tourists last winter the state has ever
known.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24
is YOUR DAUGHTER ONE?

OUS 10 OlU0A DULL Ol UIO OGl OOO WAOb
several girls like her. They walk arm
in arm, and are apparently well
pleased if the line stretches across the
sidewalk, and Indifferent to the fact
that pedestrians must step into the
gutter or brush against the sides OF
the dusty buildings in order to pass.
She calls her girl friends "chums" or
''pards" and her young men friends
"fellers." She chews gum en- the street
and talks slang everywhere. You can
hear her talking half a block away
and her laugh can be heard even
farther. She stares impudently at
people whom she meets who are not
dressed according to her idea. She
acknowledges no one as her superior in
any way, and old age seems deserving
only contempt. Her greatest efforts
seem to have been expended in getting
up according to the latest st 70, and
flirting is her chief recreation and
amusement She is not at all partic-
ular about the style of man she firts
with-anything in male attire will do,
and she feels "cut up" if she discovers
there is style Of Irritation with which
she is not familiar. She reads sensa-
tional stories and pronounces the m
."too lovely for anything" Her smart
young fellows" are "too killing or
''too cute for any use' and quieO young
men are "clams." She has great deal
to say, but if it were printed verbatim
and handed to her, it would make her
blush with shame.
IF she lives at home, she is seldom
found helping her mother, there are
so many other ways in which she pre-
fers to spend her time. Among her
many ambitions the most noticeable
is a desire to have more "fellows"
than the other girls, and to marry the
one that mosG the girls are after, a de-
termination TO keep her hands soft
and white, and wish to have all the
world know that she is a cute little
thing, and does not know how to do
anything useful, and who has no idea
of her own on any subject.
On account of the last named &C
complishment she is attractive to most
men and is often engaged to be married,
but she does not marry unless the en-
gagement is short one, for she be-
comes tiresome on close acquaintance
to even the man whose menGal powers
are limited. If she does marry, she
falls into the class of wives who do not
have the respect Of the husbands.
Now this girl has a her, if only
for short time, then the pGher can
not be blamed for having SUI a daugh-
ter, and it is to be hoped that she has
no means of knowing what silly
specimen of humanity she has brought
into the world. But if the mother is
living now and sees her daughter as
others see her, what punishment she.
must suffer for having neglected the
training of the little child put in her
keeping?
Is it your daughter? Do you dare
look at her and say you have done
what you could? There is surely some
thing wrong in the home training OF
such a girl.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

At the M. w. A. national convention
at Indianapolis last week it was voted
to increase premium rates gradually
from present schedule 80 to 100 per
cent. The sum of $4,000 was voted
flood sufferers of Illinois, Kansas
Missouri and Oregon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

It is now announced that there will
be no hard coal strike this season; but
that extra ten cents ton goes on every
month just the same and you might as
well stock-up early.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

The country press is being entirely
ignored in the distribution of the in.
surance statement publications this
year, the governors organ at Milwau-
kee having them all. It is to be hoped
that the boost it thus receives will be
the means of improving it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

Somebody expresses the fear that
time, Complaints of their scarcity
suggest that they are too few to get up
"a strike.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

Antiseptic toothpicks, warranted
free of germs, are being supplied by
the large hotels and restaurants in
London
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

The man who was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth usually retains a
fondness for the bowl
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

The consumers of the products of
petroleum now tremble when they
hear that Rockefeller has made another
big donation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-24

Artemley, Russian electrician. has
invented a pliable c0at-of-maiI which
effectively protects against currents Of
100000 volts.