The Weiser signal. [volume], November 28, 1901, Thanksgiving number, Image 10

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DIVER FIGHTS
WITH DEVILFISH
Killed tl)e Ocfopus After a Ter
rific Corpbat Will) tt)C
Dreadful A\ooster.
Nearly every one Is familiar with the
battle of tbe hero of Victor Hugo's nov
el, "Toilers of the Sea," with a mon
ster devilfish which attacked him in a
cave in an island In the English chan
nel. It Is a thrilling story as told by
the great novelist, but as an Incident of
fiction It lacks tbe quality of interest
which attaches to an actual happening
In real life and on our own shores.
Captain Ed Conrad, one of the best
known divers In the country, died re
cently at his home in New Orleans In
directly as the result of a terrific fight
he had with a devilfish.
He was working on the steamship S.
Oterl when a huge octopus stretched
forth one of his tentacles to draw him
Into his capacious Jaws. The diver cut
off the arm, but another was thrust
FIGHT WITH A DEVILFISH.
forth and grasped him, and a most des
perate conflict In the sea ensued. Cap
tain Conrad was a tall, powerful man
and an athlete, but bis strength was of
little avail, with the resistance of the
water and his cumbrous armor militat
ing ngulust the free use of his limbs
and bis ability to strike a fatal blow,
but he finally killed the monster and,
nearly exhausted from the fearful
struggle, was raised to the surface and
divested of his armor.
He suffered terribly from the experi
ence, but Insisted on exploring the
wreck of the battleship Maine for a
firm of contractors. He had to quit
work, come home, and death finally
came to him.
A Colony of Outlaws.
In Lower California there la a colony
of outlaws, and some of the most noted
escaped criminals who operated during
the latter half of the nineteenth cen
tury are probably to be found In this
strange nest. Hamlin Gurland thought
enough of the Moki Indians to take
them up and write elaborately about
the weird snake dance which has be
come a religious ceremonial with tills
strange people; but, so far as known.
Garland und no other writer bus ever
dealt with the colony of outlaws in
Lower California. They live In a
strange, rugged stretch of country with
the gulf of California on one side and
a range of foothills which spread down
toward the Mexican border on the
other. There are no ports at this point
on the coast of California and no rail
roads stretching In from the other di
rection. so the men are pretty well
isolated. Occasionally they send out
for a supply of provisions when the
larder begins to grow low, but they are
awfully cautious about this, for they
are afraid of the outside world and, for
good reasons, want to have nothing to
do with it. They have been congre
gated In this section for years, and no
effort lias been made to disturb them.
They do no harm there. They live'to
themselves, pursue such callings as are
most genial and In no way come In
contact with the outside world except
when they send out for such provisions
ns they may need. They are practi
cally prisoners. Crooks of every kind
may be found, and many of them have
lived there for years. There are stories
to be gathered in this strange quarter
that would probably unfold many
mysteries.
General Wood reports that there has
not been a single case of yellow fever
in Havana so far this year. At San
tiago and its vicinity not a case has
occurred for two years. In the matter
of sanitation, at least, the Cubans have
no reason to find fault with Uncle
Sam's occupancy of the island.
I'onslatent.
"I am afraid I can't pay you this
month."
"But you said that last month," re
monstrated the tailor.
"Well, you'll at least give me credit
for having kept my word."—Philadel
phia Ledger.
A Compromise.
"Mister," said Meandering Mike, "I
have Just heard your time was worth
60 cents a second."
"What of It?"
"I was Just goin to stop you to ax you
what time It Is, but you kin give me ds
60 cents instead."—Wastington Star.
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Rocks the Cradle
Is the hand that rules the world." But
before the Hand Rocks the Cradle it
Must Have One to Rock
Now we have everything needed
in the home—many things as
good as new, but all at second
hand prices. The great trouble
about second hand furniture is
that though ever so good they
must be sold cheap.
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Proprietor Second Hand Store.
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When traveling west in search of a new home,
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Pacific A Idaho Northern Railway to above sec
tion of country, and investigate its mauy re
sources. You will not be disappointed.
DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE,
Cool night breezes from the snow-cupped moun
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Plenty of excellent unoccupied government
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General Manager. Weiser, Idaho.
THANKSGIVINGS
OF LONG, LONG AGO
BY M. K. RUTLEDGE.
Copyright, 1001. by F. L. Pollard.
HE turkey in all its all
round
capering on the campus
of man's joy long be
fore Thanksgiving day
became one of the
country's gladdest and
most glorious institu
it is quite
likely that the gobbler of that remote
period often shook his head and won
dered what he was ever put upon the
earth for, for in those slow, humdrum
days the natives had not so much to be
thankful for as we have in these times
of wireless telegraphy and politics, tisli
fishbhlls
ized tea biscuits ami
would have been regarded as the result
of witchcraft at that time. It is the
opinion of many
thinkers that the only thing the natives
of tlie early colonial period had to be
thankful for was that they
able t
aborigine that was frequently projected
not entirely in the interests of artificial
baldness. And it is likewise believed that
this thankfulness ami all round grati
tude that filled the hearts of our worthy
ancestors were the combination that led
to tin' appointment of a certain day for
a general feasting ami thanksgiving. In
h
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greatness
was
lions, ami
1rs«
jokes, Raateur
•flier luxuries that
loop
and profound
lllld I >01*11
tin* tomahawk of tin*
slimt.
a reward was made to fit the
heartfelt gratitude. There is n great deal
of difference between feeling thankful for
simply being alive and grateful for that
condition of joy that takes
and camps ont n
suddeuly gathers an an looked for and
eubankod on legacy.
How could the early settler have been
thankful for that which he had
The early settler had not an automobile
to make his heart overflow with thanks,
which it would have done, as the vehicle
in question would have enabled him to
glide gracefully away from the hand
painted savage, who would have found
it more dilfieuit to decorate him with an
arrow when flittiug awheel than when
traveling afoot.
if
ui one's soul when one
not V
And then the people of that long ago
historic time didn't have bridge whist to
while away the evenings, and they didn't
have tennis as a sport or means
advancement. They hadn't even dreamed
of such a game as baseball, with all its
attendant attractions, such as sliding for
home on tlie eyeballs and the utter demo
lition of the umpire's facial beauty. And
their farms had no real value at the time,
as they were only available for purposes
of agriculture and not as golf links, be
cause golf had not
from Scotland.
yet been imported
Aud instead of chasing
the whistling gutta percha sphere across
the twinkling green they chased the pi
bald equine that was held down on the
earth securely by the plow, while they
discoursed dainty melodies on his flanks
with a hickory stick that had the desired
effect of keeping him moving athwart the
field in the pristine ragtime of that airy
period.
And how could the antique spinster
with the corkscrew curls have felt
very thankful while working at the spin
ning wheel that was not a sewing ma
chine and, besides, had no value whatever
as an aesthetic ornament? How could
she have been thankful when she had a
harpsichord instead of a grand piano ami
had to play on it with her hands instead
of playing it with a machine that is work
ed by foot? And then site knew no such
exhilaration and excitement as are sup
plied by the department store that serves
SO
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a table d'hote dinner for 7 cents, with
music thrown in to aid digestion.
There were no continuous performances
in those days except the continuous per
formance of such duties us put sole leath
er palms on the hands and caused tue
anatomy to ripple in a wild undulation
of miscellaneous lumps. They had no
Wall street in which to take a flier- in
fact, all the flying they Tl was when
they flew from the hawk (the tomahawk)
with might and main to get through the
front door in time to slum it again at the
Romanesque proboscis of the hostile red
man.
And what had they to be thankful for
in the way of a roof garden when the
starry summer nights were upon them
and the cabbage leaf had withered in the
broad brimmed hut? There was no such
resort, with up t
with jugL
imported,
hours, and there
summer drink to take the
care out of their throats. They hadn't
bicycle's from which to he thrown in fa
vor of the surgeon, and there was not a
trolley to whirl them along at the highest
rate of speed allowed by law, and, with
out all these things which we have to
day, they didn't have a general day of
thanksgiving before 1<>20 or 1(121. The
date music an 1 songs,
lers and acrobats, domestic and
to while away the moonlight
was no long refreshing
cobwebs
if
turkey strutted about without a penalty
on his head.
lie could roost
ill
peace
without being
like u watermelon, and ;
unruffled, in the
plucked from the bough
hi- lived all
full knowledge of the
fact that he would always be-likewise
unraffled. And whenever he was eaten
the diner was thankful, and it was all
he had aud yet quite enough to be thank
ful for. Aud when we think of all the
things (hat we have to be thankful for
in the way of every kind of all round
blessing we think it would take twenty
or thirty Thanksgiving days a year to
enable us to properly offer up the thanks
that blossom in our hearts, while we ad
mire and wonder at the gratitude of our
time honored ancestors who were quite
as thankful ns we. although they didn't
live in the enjoyment of progressive eu
chre and bargain counters, each of which
is a veritable fairy dream unto itself.
A Silver Lining.
No tongue or pen can even faintly ex
press the gloom into which the people of
the nation were plunged but two mouths
individual soul, however deep
grief, could measure the
>f sorrow provoked by the ns
bullet. One needed to witness
and to share in the public grief in order
to comprehend the emotions of a whole
nation aroused and outraged. Aud yet,
through the unspeakable darkness which
prevailed when William McKinley was
borne to bis tomb, there streamed a light
of inextinguishable glory. In all the land
there was not one discordant note; no
voice was heard but the voice of devotion;
no song uplifted but the anthem of woe.
So strange and impressive was this uni
versal mourning that the sad event, per
haps more than any other in the last
generation at least, gave cause for na
tional thankfulness and congratulation.
Stirred to their depths, the hearts of four
score millions throbbed in unison. This
noble tribute, then, to a martyred presi
dent was also a tribute to tbe living, who
thus nobly made manifest an enrthly sor
row and a heavenly faith.
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Wreck at Weiser.
Also views of Colum
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cent trip.
Work Lxcellent. Prices Moderate.
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Leading Photographer.
Weiser,
Idaho.
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These Latin American Revol U M
According to advices from Colon
Panama, tlio fighting is fast
ous in Colombia and portions of V«
ziteln, with a fair prospect that mi
thing in this line will soon be doing'
Ecuador. At this distance it looM
good deal like a free fight not ai
among the three little republics, !
among the people of each of them,
seems to be both international an«li
terual.
Colombian Insurgents
against their own government, have à
ready made two incursions into Va*
zuelan territory, which have been«
lowed by battles in which about 15,Oj
men have been engaged.
There are evidences that the LI hen
governments in control in Venewl
und Ecuador have an understanM
with the Colombian revolution!«
Uribe-Uribe, whose purpose is
stood to lie the recreation of the Gr**».;
er Colombia, to which all three one*
belonged, doubtless with the view j«
placing himself at the head of the ce*.'
solidated government.
Acting President Maroquin of
lombia has u stubborn fight on will
the Liberal revolutionists, President
Castro's two years' term expires in (Xs
tober, and the four years' term of I'm
and
In
rev
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ident Alfaro of Ecuador also ends thhl
year. Each executive is face to fa«!
with a revolution, present or
pro I
spective, and each, it would seem, hope*!
to head it off by the enforcement of i |
bellicose policy toward his neighbor*,!
Each apparently thinks that a foreign 1
war would help things at home. i
General Urlbe-Uribe's scheme of * j
Greater Colombia seems to he the lut ■
card of the revolutionists rather than ifl
a serious and concerted project, though ■
his movements may embroil all three *
of these little republics lit most de- 1
structive warfare. That our govern- ■
ment is alive to the serious possibBl- M
ties of the situation is shown by tit« a
proposition to send, in addition to the 9
Muchlas and the Wisconsin, the Iowa !
and the Ranger into South American 9
waters. These war vessels may be 1
found necessary to fulfill our treaty 1
obligations to keep open tbe isthmus of J
Panama to traffic and our obligation!* -1
guarantee Colombia's "right of sot- i
erelgnty and property" over that terri- M
tory. That our interests will be cou- 1
served there Is little room for doubt, 1
however much the little republics may jl
succeed in despoiling themselves.
Pope as a Man. 1
"In conversation he was below him- 9
self," said Lord Chesterfield in speak- 1
iug of his friend Pope. "He was sel- I
dom easy and natural in corupauy and I
seemed afraid that the man would de- I
grade the poot, which made him at- j
tempt wit and humor often unsuccess- a
fully. I have visited him a week at a 1
time at his home at Twickenham, when I
I saw his mind in its undress, and be 1
was both an agreeable and instructive I
companion. ;
"His moral character has been warm- I
ly attacked and hut weakly defended. ;l
Consequently his writings turned to |
satire of which many felt the smart. |
He was most irritable, offended with j
trilies and never forgetful of forgiving, j
He was as great an instance as any be
quotes of the contrarieties and iucon- |
sisteucies of human nature, for, not- j
withstanding the malignancy of his sat- 1
ires and some blamable passages in his j
life, he was charitable aud piously at- |
toutive to his old bedridden mother. 9
"His poor, crazy, deformed body was
a mere Pandora's box, containing all ;
tho physical ills that ever afflicted hu
manity. His works speak sufficiently
for themselves. They will live as long
as letters and taste remain aud be more
and more admired as envy and resent
ment shall subside."
A Rental KuMervatlou.
The St. Joseph Herald declares that
a little maid in East St. Joseph is des
tined to be tho wife of a president
or something "equally good," as the
politicians say, some day. Although
she is disobedient at times, she has suob
a winning way of accounting for it that
ohastisemeut in her case is made impos
sible. Not long ago this little girl was
taken to church by her parents. Before
they started a young gentleman, who
had called to see her sister, gave her a
shining 5 cent piece to put in the col
lection. ij
"Oh, that's too pretty I" she said. "I
too pretty
waut to keep it. "
At this she was told she could not
have the mouoy unless she gave it in at
church, aud she promised she would.
When the family returned from wor
ship and tho maiden was removing hor
wraps, a new nickel rolled out of her
pockut. Her mamma saw it aud in a
tone of reproach said ;
"Isn't that the money Mr.-8 ave
you?"
"Yes, mamma."
"But I saw you put it in the collec
tion basket."
"That wasn't tho nickel,
one of grandpa's battons,"
tie miss.
"You promised to give the money,
though," responded the mother.
"Yes, I did out loud, but under nty
breff I said, 'No, I won't.' "
That was
said the lit"
A Deliberate Deed.
"What verdict did the coroner's Jury
bring in?" inquired a man who had
seen the lynching.
"Suicide," answered Broncho Bob
promptly. "He must have known per
fectly well that stealin a boss in Crim
son Gulch was bound to prove fatal." -
Washington Star. _
Women are not half so helpless
physically or mentally as they think
they are and, what is worse, often ap
pear to enjoy thinking they are.