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The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-02-15
the county seat Tuesday.

the county seat Tuesday.
Mrs. Joseph Sinden was on the sick
list few days this week.
Charlie Frasier is clearing off sew
eral acres of his homestead to put in
grain this spring.
Artie Muir has returned from Salt
Lake. The other boys will not be
home until Sunday and Mr.. Muir will
spend the winter in Salt Lake.
Dated Feb. 10.
Mrs E. j. Sam and Miss Ethel
Ashley came out from town Friday to
attend the social at the school house
over Saturday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Ashley.
Mrs. James T. Stephen who has
been sick with severe attack of La
Grippe is able to be up again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Sinden we're in
Weiser Saturday.
Albert jackson and Miss Lille
Vassar were over from Crystal to at
tend the entertainment. Miss Hattie
Vassar returned home with her sister
to visit over Sunday.
Mrs. A. S. Bauer and Mrs. Fred
Thorson visited with Mrs. j. G. Root
Thursday.
Ben Ashley made business trip to
Crystal one day this week.
Clyde Glasscock, George Day and
Misses Pearl Glasscock and Kate Kel-
ley were over from Sunnyside to at
TEND the entertainment Friday night.
Mr.. Pearson's little child who is
being cared for by Mrs. Holloway is
reported to be quite sick the last few
lays.
The recent cold spell has caused a
number of our good people to take
severe colds.
The entertainment was a decided
success. Everybody seemed very we'll
pleased with the programme and
added a neat sum to the organ fund.
Those who failed to see Jasper B ostie
IS a bashful wooer missed one of the
unniest things of the season. Il
Farley Holloway and Will Muir
made a business trip to Weiser Mon
lay.
Vernie Shelf and wife we're in town
'ver Sunday.
Mr.. Steve Durbin is very sick with /
he infiamatory rheumatism. t
Mr.. A. Barton of Mann Greek was
'ver to Jim Stephens visiting Sunday. !
There was church at the Mann
'reek school house Saturday and I
sunday.
DIR. Warehouse was called ont 2
friday to attend one of Lank Jones a
'oys who is very sick. 4
Dated Feb. IA. nv
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News Of Our NeighbOES
MidvaIe.

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. NJ. Root of Midvale died Wednes-
day night with pneumonia fever 1t
was buried Thursday in the East-side
cemetery.
Emerson and Corda Keithley bid
their many friends and relatives in
Middle Valley good bye Tuesday
morning and left for their home In
Oregon. They have spent several
pleasant weeks in this vicinity.
Freeman Stewart has been hauling
wood the past few days for John D.
Keithley in return for hay.
Nelson Linder is hauling his posts
from W. +. Seid's ranch, where he
cached them last fall, to his ranch
over on Last Chance.
The worst windstorm of the season
arrived here from the Northwest last
Tuesday night about seven O'Clock.
And if there had been loose snow
enough this neck o. woods would have
experienced regular blizzard. AS
1t was the snow drifted in the lanes
and thoroughfares pretty badly.
Mr. Lafayette Lansdon made fly
Ing trip to the hub Saturday return {
ing Monday in time to WELD the rod
at Mt. Pleasant school. G
Rev. W. Ii. Bowler closed his meet 6
ings here last Sunday evening. There
we're five conversions, and seven addi- h
lions to the church. Mr.. Bowler b
leaves here for other fields where q
there is work for him to do.
Thos. Mackey arrived here Friday 9,
morning on the up train. He has
been visiting in the state Of Washing
ton for few weeks, but is glad to
return to Middle Valley.
N. Chapman has been laid up for g
he past few days with rheumatism in al
ais leg and back. Mr.. Chapman came is
iere from Oregon and was afflicted
With this dreaded malady when he a,
'ame, but got all right last summer M
{ is hoped he will soon be up and
round.
Little Lois Reavis is some better at
his writing. She has been sick with :,
he fever for sometime past. NJ
Ras Virgins butchered fine beef NJ
asst Tuesday, and is enjoying himself a,
ating porterhouse regardless of the v
meat trust. "a
John McRoberts had the misfortune ca
o loose his two fine watch-dogs last
7eek by poison. People are little HI
90 handy with poison in these parts,
nd will only stop it when two or !.
hree of them have been prosecuted to
The fullest extent of the law. =
The eighth grade at Mt. Pleasant g
iscussed the following question Fri
ay afternoon: Resolved, that art
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This is Worth Trying.

Take the number of your living
brothers, double this number and add
to 1t 3, multiply by five and add to
the result the number of your living
sisters, multiply the result by 10, add
the number of deaths of brothers and
sisters and subtract $50 from the re-
suit. The right hand figure will rem
resent the number of deaths the mid
die the number of living sisters and
the left the number of living brothers
Elk.
After you have figured this out
bring or send $500 to this Office and
try the Signal twice-a-week for one
year. Besides we will make Won a
present of one of our handsome lsroa
81 so premium maps. Wen all he
pleased. Try it.
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Willamette Univer-
sity and at Salem
Business College.
His first life work
was in a clerking
capacity for Patton
Bros, of Salem,
Ore. and then for
J. X. Gill, of Port
land, Oregon. He
then In the capacity
OF co m m erciaI
traveller for three
years made a wide.
reaching territory,
and 1t was while
thus engaged that he
discovered and came
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bon, Ohio, and admitted to practice SHORTLY q.
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Mr.. Nevin appointed the General Counsel :, ~
p l. N R. R. July last and he is deeply interested \
the extension of the road to the Payette Lakes ana
is his confidence that it will be extended to that o,
fore the close of the present year.
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Farmers Feed Your Hay-Buy
Cattle l will make you loan for
this purpose. Call on r. @. McKin-
ney, Weiser, Idaho. 21tf
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
THE VETERANS IN MEMoR1AM.

Comrades of sixty-hve, the bugle's loud
alarms
Now forty years for us have ceased to
sound;
No more thera comes the rude call: Take
Arms"
No more in battle line we tread disputed
ground.
But, yet sometimes in memory or in
dream
The boys in blue march out to meet the
gray.
To right and left we see their bayonets
CLEAN,
We hear the signals for the coming fray.
And now earth quivers with the cannon's
roar
And shot and shell sweep screeching,
through the air,
Like rain the leaden bullets fiercely pour,
The red blood freely flows, and thia is
war,
When night comes on the stars with pity
ing eye
Look down on dreadful scenes; here dead
men lie,
And gashed and torn, no covering but the
sky,
Others in agony of pain wait but to die
oh, Patriot Deadl On many Southern
field
Your earth-walled tents are spread,
At duty's call willing obedience thou didst
yield,
And in that service gave thy life, thy all
Thou hadst work that was designed in
Heaven,
To strike the shackles from the sorrow
ing slave.
No grander mission was e'er to mortal
given,
Though in that labor he but finds a
grave.
And you were Abraham Lincoln's boys;
his name
And yours are borne upon the soullit Hall
of Fame
That's built within the Nations grateful
heart,
structure more enduring, far, than any
work of art.
So rest thee, then, within that hallowed
shrine
Your sacrifice has made so near to the
divine;
For whether on the tented field or in
the battles van,
The grandest death a man can die is
where he dies for man"
Comrades who live to those who fell,
Once more we say: Hail and Farewell"
&C. R. Westcott Second Minnesota,
Brookings, S. d.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
THE SOUTHERN BARBECUE.
Preparation of the Feast as Described
by One Who Has Had
Experience.

The way we fix for barbecue is to
begin to get ready the day befo'. The
meat is roastin' all night, says a
writer in Outing. We have plenty Of
different kinds-shote, calf, kid and
goat-and we roast 'em whole. A
trench is dug and oak bark Goals put
in. Then sticks are laid across for the
shote and other creatures to rest on.
Some white man has this in charge,
but the niggers keep the fires goin'
an do the basting and the rough
work. The next day everybody comes.
There's a detail to do the carving, and
we all step up and get what we want
and go and set down by some tree to
eat it. OF course, there's potatoes and
cornmeal, light-bread and pickles and
cake, and there's ice cream, and there's
pure, genuine coffee that the old ladies
make in abundance. Then there's fried
chicken If anyone is fastidious enough
to want it, and some enterprising fellow
is likely to bring a dozen bottles Of
beer and invite his special friends out
to his buggy to drink it. But the
best thing to my thinkin' is the shote.
A man hasn't got any part in the resur-
rection until he's eaten barbecued shote.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16

Among the conspicuous examples of
newspaper men being called by the
president to high Office might be cited
the following: Secretary of State John
Hay, who was a writer of great
strength and virillty on the New York
Tribune before he entered the diplo-
matte service and began a career that
has made him the premier of the ad-
ministration. Whitelaw Reid, now am
bassador to Great Britain, has been
newspaper writer and editor all his
life, and served several years as a
Washington correspondent
These two are both frequently spoken
Of as newspaper men who have made
their mark in the public service, but
there Is an extended list of men of that
profession in other departments There
is Robert j. Wynne, now consul gen
eral to London, who occupied a seat in
Mr.. Roosevelts cabinet for several
months. He was Washington corre-
spondent of more than a quarter of a
century's experience. The two civilian
commissioners of the District of Col
umbia, Henry l.. West and H. B. F..
Macfarland, were both prominent men,
bers of the Washington corps of corre-
spondents and newspaper writer's be-
fore they were called upon to run the
district government. Francis E. LeurD,
for 80 years writer on the New York
Evening Post, and for more than 20
years its Washington correspondent, is
Mr.. Roosevelt's commissioner of In
dian affairs.
Then there is the venteran Gen.
Henry V. Boynton, so long connected
with the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
ette, who is now at the head of the
Chickamauga park commission. Other
newspaper men who served as Wash
ington correspondents and are now in
the public service are Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury Reynolds, Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics Austin
Chief of the Dead Letter Office Young
H. Conquest Clarke, connected with
the rural free delivery, George w
Rouzer in the employ of the senate
and George E. Gilleland, also employed
in the senate.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16

to kindness and little attentions TO
win; but all failed
II saved her life Harvey, taking q
cold bath, and spoiled a suit of clothes
in her behalf. and got coldly thanked
in return. Then tried the letting
alone process, and that was the most
complete failure of all. l announced
my departure. She was sorry--valued
me as friend, and all that sort of
thing, but nothing more. Pique was
mingled with despair in my mind; |
did not want to give her up. had
said was going, and must go.
proposed again, and l got mo- for
an answer. l vowed that would set
out at once for Alaska. She told
me that 1t really did not concern her
In the least. l got angry and left
N. But could not drive her face
out of my memory.
Three weeks ago while on trip
to Montreal, 1 stopped all night at
Rutland, and the first name on the
registed-at least the first that saw
was Ella Benton. sent up my
card, but she would not receive me-
came down in the morning. and
turning to the clerks desk, put my
hand in my pocket for my wallet. 1t
was not there. l searched my clothes
no wallet; l went back to my room
no wallet. l was stranger in the
place without money. The clerk open
ly expressed his belief that l was a
fraud. Quite crowd gathered around
me as | endeavored to explain the mat
ter. Just at this moment lady
passed through the hall and bowed to
me, though very distantly. 1t was
Miss Benton.
"In few moments she sent for me.
1 went up. wonderingly, and as en-
tered she arose, and said
"'Mr. Hirst, heard, accidentally,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16

of your misfortune. Will you oblige
me by using this check, which you
can replace at your convenience?
Il tried to stammer out refusal,
but she would not hear of it.
Well said l. Miss Benton, will
accept your kindness; but have no
security to offer unless-unless it is
myself
Which 1 will accept cheerfully
said the little woman.
Do you really mean it?' said l..
hardly knowing whether l was asleep
or awake.
Why, yes, she said. I am very
strict about money matters, and as
you have no other security | suppose
I must take you. Are you satisfied?'
why, you know my answer, of
course, old fellow, and we were mar
ried then and there. But l say, Har-
vey, there's one thing I've forgotten
entirely. l never have returned that
check to my wife. IN. Y. Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
ONLY MOTHER KNOWS.
Only a kiss on the babS,s face.

Only kiss on the baby's face,
Only a kiss with mothers grace,
SO simple thing that the sunbeams
laughed
And che bees ha-hahed from where they
quaffed.
Only kiss, but the face was fair,
And nobody knew what love was there
Nobody knew-but mother.
Only word to a mothers joy,
Only word to her parting boy,
And the changing lights on the window
shone
AS her boy went out in the world alone.
Only word from a mother brave,
But nobody knew the love 1t gave
Nobody knew--but mother.
Only a sigh for a wayward son,
Only q sigh, but hopeless one
And the lights burned dimly and shone
with blur
Could mother condemn? 'Tis human 70
err.
Only a sigh as she took his part.
But nobody knew what 1t cost her heart
Nobody knew-but mother.
Only a sob as the tomb doors close,
Only a sob, but 1t upward rose,
And the lights in the window fiickered and
died,
And with them her hope, her Joy, her pride.
Only a sob as she turned away,
But nobody knew as she knelt to pray
Nobody knew-but mother
Baltimore Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16


suit of his profession to meet govern
ment officials of every grade and he
becomes acquainted with the work of
every department and bureau. In nine
cases out of ten the disclosure of
wrongdoing in the public service is
made by newspaper men in the ordi-
nary practice of their profession. They
are quick to discern any unusual de-
parture from routine methods. and it
is an open secret that the industry
and acuteness of newspaper correspon-
dents were mainly instrumental in
compelling an overhauling of the post
office department and brought about
the disclosure of crimes and fraudulent
practices.
The newspaper man is also we'll post
ed on political matters, and, although
under the Roosevelt administration ac-
tive politics are barred in all the de-
partments, the president is very will
ing to have about him men who are
able to size up a political situation and
who appreciate the significance Of
government policies in politics in the
highest sense of the latter term.
New senators and representatives
coming to Washington are very glad to
secure the services of trained newspa-
per men as their private and confiden-
tial secretaries.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
Japanese smokeless Powder.

Maj. Shimose's smokeless powder is
a Japanese invention, and is acknowl-
edged to be far more powerful than
the English lyddite or the French mel
mite. Indeed, this powder is by act
ual test five times as strong as the
European powder. When a shell
filed with lyddite or melinite is fired
it breaks into ten pieces, whereas the
same fired with Shimose's smokeless
powder which exploded burst into
1000 pieces. 1t is the most powerful
smokeless powder ever invented. end
its inventor is major in the Japanese
army.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
TRIED THEIR METTLE.
What Emergencies in WarTimes Did
to Bring Out the Heroic Spir-
its of Men.

Men of fine spirit" said the captain,
"were found in all regiments in the
army. l remember we'll the finding of
the body of Capt. Peter Schneider, Of
the Fifty-second Ohio, at Peach Tree
creek On the line of -to-hand
fighting, Schneider's body was found
with a bullet hole between the eyes.
Not two feet from it was the dead body
of confederate major with bullet
hole in the forehead. Each man had a
revolver in his right hand, and one
chamber in each revolver was empty.
The inference was plain. Capt Schnei-
der and the confederate major had
faced each other coolly in the heat of
battle had fired at the same instant
and each well-aimed shot had killed it's
man.
'In the same battle, Capt Rothacker,
of Company G, Fffty-second Ohio, was
in very tight place, when Joe Swan
called to him that he would hold back
the confederates while the captain got
out Joe waited until the confederatesi
came in single file around the lunette
in front and fired, bringing down three
at one shot. Meantime, Capt. Rothack-
er had started through the brush OBJ
struction. In pressing through, a
branch that had been bent back caught
the captains hat, and when released
threw the hat clear back to where
Swan stood. The captain ran back for
it, and he ana Swan cut out together.
making good their escape. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16

cludes that of officialdom, clearly on
the side of the Japanese, the count has
been able by his own genial personali-
ty to retain the respect and affection Of
all grades in official and diplomatic
circles. The blunders, the misfortunes
and the incompetency that have
marked the Russian conduct of the
war in the east on land and sea have
almost made the Muscovite name re-
proach in this city. Count Cassini has
had to meet all the disgust, disappoint-
ment and ridicule that his home gov
ernment have inspired.
AS the dean of the diplomatic corps,
his position has been doubly trying.
The embarrassment that his nations
misfortunes have brought are greater
than if he had occupied less conspic-
uous place in the list of ambassadors
and ministers AS dean he has had to
take prominent part in official and
social functions. This he has done,
and that immobile countenance and
imperturable manner have hidden any
anxiety and shame he may have felt
over the disasters that followed the
Russian army and navy in the orient
The counts many friends have out
done themselves to show him courtesy
and pay him honor before he leaves
for his new post at Madrid. Dinners
have been the order of the day and
nothing but compliments have been
showered upon the cool headed and
popular Russian.
After the fall of Port Arthur, Count
Cassini was prepared for any sort of a
blow. That was the sorest disappoint-
ment to him of any occurrence of the
war. He had a special interest in Port
Arthur, as the place was named after
him when Russia grabbed it at the
close of the Chinese-Japanese war. The
counts first name is Arthur, or Arturo,
and the Russian government named
Port Arthur after him in recognition
of his services when minister of Pc
king.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
MOTHER BIcKERDYKE.
Memorial in Honor of Civil War
Nurse to Be Erected at Galesburg
by Illinois Veterans.

The illustration shows the monu-
ment which will be erected to the mem
ory of Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, low
ingly known as Mother Bickerdyke, by
the veterans of Illinois at Galesburg.
The design shows wounded soldier on
the battlefield who has been lifted ten
derly to half-sitting posture by fe-
male army nurse, who holds cooling
drink to his lips. The group will be
cast in bronze and will rest on a gran
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16

MOTHER BICKERDYKE MONUMENT.
ite pedestal. This granite block will
bear the inscription: Mary A. Bick-
erdyke-Mother" The memorial to
this heroic woman is being made by
woman, Mrs. Theo. A. Ruggles Kit
son, of Boston. Mother Bickerdyke en-
deared herself to the soldiers of both
armies during the struggle, and when
at the close of the war the grand re-
view of the victorious armies of the
north took place at Washington she
rode on horseback with the Illinois
troops and was cheered all along the
line.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16

before the Birmingham university, in
which he claims that gymnastics are
injurious. Prof. Muirhead of the same
university has enlarged on Prof.
Mosso's theory and has made a sweep
ing condemnation of gymnastics.
Prof. Mosso by a series of expert
ments with an instrument called the
Ergograph contends that he has estab-
lished the fact that the brain is
brought into operation by every act of
physical exertion, and there is a strain
imposed upon this organ by physical
exercise, mental study and the play of
the emotions. Prof. Muirhead, taking
Mosso's experiments as basis, de-
clares that gymnastics are the most eX-
haustive and demoralizing kind of ex-
ercise that could be engaged in. His
contention has aroused quite feeling
and his position has been severely as
sailed by the advocates of gymnastic
training of scholars. In defense of his
theory, Prof. Muirhead says:
II think that what we now know as
to the physiological effect of different
kinds of exercise demands an over
hauling of the older systems of gym
nastic training Gymnastic trainers
are often ignorant of the real princi-
pies on which physical exercise should
be based, and our existing system is a
compromise for open air exercise. In
door gymnastics are very exhausting.
and in my view one of the best forms
Of gymnastics is the outdoor games.
such as the public schools have in their
field sports"