The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-12-17
December II, 1901.
HORACE G. NEWMAN.

man who we'll might serve to illus
trate the words of the writer who said
There are two lives to each of us,
gliding on at the same time,
scarcely connected with each other
the life of our actions, the life of
our minds; the external and the in
ward history; the movements of the
frame, the deep and ever restless
workings of the hearth Amiable
as Horace Newman was found to be
by ordinary acquaintance during his
past dozen years of aimless life,
it was only the few who passed his
outward general geniality into the
green and lowered fields of his more
reserved mental life. Unfortunate
as be was in human weaknesses, his
mind was a springing meadowland
Of charming and delightful scope for
those whom he welcomed into those
enhancing preserves. And it re-
quired nature akin to his own to
appreciate and grasp what was really
a splendor of his inner self. To the
small circle who came in touch with
him thus, who enjoyed the genius of
his more elevated intellectual life,
it was constant sorrow that, either
because his maker had omitted some
necessary element in his compost
ton to give force to his talents and
furnish the energy to use his capabili-
ties for the high accomplishment of
which they were possible, or because
Incidents of his past life, possibly
weaknesses of his own, so often fatal
to men naturally brilliant, had des-
troyed energy and ambition, that he
would not strive, or seemed not to,
to avoid the things that dragged him
down and pursue the paths that led
to high places. Abundant oppor-
tunities had he of the latter, but for
naught. His bark pursued it's single
path, not to the golden and sandy
shores where he might have written
his name on the scroll of glory, but
drifted with the winds to the gloomy
lsgoons of wretched aimlessness and
emptiness in his declining days. The
place is vacant where his natural pow
ers entitled him to plant his stand
ard, and blank the page where be
might have embossed his name.
Spending his early youth in Kalam-
azoo, Michigan. he early went west
ward, then to Mexico for time,
where he quickly picked up fair
Knowledge of the soft Spanish tongue
which appealed to his poetic nature.
Then he roamed northward and be-
came one of that now long gone and
worthy class of daring young Emeri-
cans-the pony express riderl Mr..
Newman has reeled off the weary
miles on his feet animal with all the
variations with which the records of
the west ornament the romantic
careers of that once important and
valiant band. When the war broke
out he enlisted in the Nebraska Home
Guard (if the writer remembers
clearly He was stationed in the
state and was not present at any of
the scenes Of great struggle, although
Of the regular army. The Indian
troubles rendered bic service not
witbo'n event, however
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