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The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-02-14
Money in Cattle

It seems to be an undispu uted fact that
the cattle business yields larger and,
surer; returns than any other business iii
the world. IN ordinary business life the
merchant u satisfied with ten to twenty.
percent, and IL these profits are sure the
business Is sidered q good one. BntI
to make anets profit Of ten to twenty per.
cent the merchant must make q gross
proftlof thirty So ! forty stfsiye PEI cent. and
then he has to rustic hard TOT d market.
Rent; help hire, loss on goods held over
and from handling and fifty other ex-
ipenses necessitate very close figuring to
make any profit at a
sook at the di ference III the cattle
business rbitant charges for rent m
are reduced to nothing at al. The loss
on the merchants goods from holding
over another year ~ exactly u where the
profit ot the cattle man d arises. The SAL
Iary LIST ott the merchant and stock man
ii the only point upon which their ex-
pensss bear any relation to each other.
Outright here We must add that outside
salary and food off the cow boys and the
food 81 the horses, the expense oft run run
ming q rancho, no mai tter how. large, ID
almost nothing Every ytlIing pays for
itself on the rancho: Nothing IS d dead
loss.
We have prepared d table with the as-
lsistanee of experienced cattle men which
will open the eyes Of many as to the prof
its| nSeattle raising. We have computed
the profits for d term of3 seven years only
sas; beyond that they noun Up 10 rapidly
2that.it i almost yond credence Prof
its beyond the seven years can easily be
figured with tie guidance ot the table
and each can salts himself The rate
sofs sincre i aimostt equal 10 i problem
i'm eometricals ogression IL reminds
one of the story Sof The black iii who
was To receive a. cent ffOrs the first nail in
ta horses shoe; two cents for the second,
four for the third ands on for all thirty
two naiis. We have several u reams Of
blank paper which swes NIL sell Sats cost
price 70 those desiring to work out this
problem
@ et ns start now with s2o,o00 andswe
find that this VIII pure ], 900 head Of
syearling sheifers and plt. hem on tie
range Throng ghouti We VII figure that
.ttWo-year Olds WI Il, have fiftyf Der cent 0f
and t1iree year! ids and over seYen-
ity=fiyesp per cent hisEit viii be seen d a
The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-02-14
! AllSWest u the Miss ouri River opcnu u
for Settlement ssI
. .No n! \! ORE R5lIlE:ssERyEIpllI I e 6 LANDS.
The Ohio r River Floods. q
/ THE LAND ! GRANT

THE LAND g !. 81 Is
There sis avery well sauth nticated r1-
NOR that con gress has passed "a bill de-
5claring the land grant Sof the Northern
Pacific west off tie Missouri river to be.
forfeited This news viii create lneater.
sensati ion and d slarge ii boom for the
Northwest than has Seye yers hitherto been
experien need. one sofs the greatest draw,
backs u settli ling on tlnsurye eyed land was
that after years of labor tie land might
turn out to be railro land. There IS d
5prOyisos i'd the bill Which has undoubted-
llypassed con gresss Which guara arantees the
rights of innoc emf purc cIlassrs from the
railroad company d one who has; act.
Iually I'd aken pos of land bought 81
the railroad win bs harmed in anyway. NJ
gIf the law has actually passed, twill
result I'M the greate est claim jumping
scene on record lionsaniIs ofs acres 81
yalaable slaniI haYo been reserYeilsby tho
railroad at ave. point at which there
was any appeal rance oii u pro osperous town
n5the future all ba3 open ,itaf
tor entry and tIle next three days win
witness snelf ra,nbIe for claims from
lMIanlan tos ftland as win slay tie Bis
5marck boom q lear III the shade.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06

was not natural to him to appear fierce, and
yet he always acted at the bar as if person
ally full of hatred of his opponents. I know
of few lawyers who entered so completely
into the feeling auimating his clients. He
made each clients cause his own, and was
apparently even more bitter in feeling than
were those who retained him to prosecute for
them or to defend their causes. 1t is very
fascinating light in which to appear to clients,
and is sure to bring lawyer other retainers.
Beach would act throughout long trial as if
he really believed that his opponents, the law
yers, clients and their witnesses, were the most
unblushing of perjurers and scoundrels,
knowingly seeking to defeat justice. His
fierce look was quite as strong as his denun-
Citations were bitter. He would glare at
witness with all the intensity with which he
months, day after day, he thus confronted,
frowned on and inveighed against William
NJ Evarts, Thomas G. Sherman, Austin
Abbott, and their client, Henry Ward
Beecher-four as mild-mannered men
as ever sat in court; and he actually seemed
to believe that the absurd theories of Tilton
as to his imaginary wrongs were facts, and
that the testimony of Moulton, with his
manufactured confessions and distorted let
tiers, was gospel truth. do not mean to say
that this identification of himself with his
clients cause was all assumed when I say
that Mr.. Beach's seeming ierceness was not
natural to him; on the contrary am satisfied
that for the time being he felt all the rage
and luminosity he displayed and expressed
But 1t was not William A. Beach's nature to
be harsh or unjust. The truth is that his was
a loyesble mood generous disposition, a
eonfiding nature. Yet, with all his Overhead
mess to succor others in trouble, he had few
steadfast friends. His confidence was shared
almost exclusively with his son Miles. And,
In spite of his ardent, loveable nature, he
knew nothing of domestic happiness in his
own home, but that, he was always the first
to declare, was nobody's fault save his own.
After the close of the Tilton- Beecher trial,
for which service Mr.. Beach had been paid
nothing, Theodore Talton one daJ went to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06

Indianian, I think, transplanted shortly after
the war, and he has been in public office al
most constantly ever since. His Office has a
high-sounding name-it is that of the public
administrator-but its Importance is slight
and its revenues little. Practically, he has to
administer only on the estates of men who
are too poor to make wills, and very few rich
men in this city choose to die interstate. But
Mr.. Sullivan, in another sense, is a public
man. No public movement is allowed to
proceed far without his figure appearing
prominently in the vanguard of the process
sion; and the procession seldom passes I'M
til he has had something to say about its des :
tination. He leads in the opening dances
at ali the big charity balls, does the intro
ducing of other speakers at political and So
cial meetings; is invariably one of the sign
ers of every declaration of political reform
and partisan good intentions; is familiar in
half score of clubs; and no society news is
complete unless his name is conspicuous y
mentioned. He is aware that
this continual prominence renders
him little ridiculous at times
anu hC uSptCCdLCS IL, Dut DULL lf s5oSS
on unc easingly. He once asked me if I
thought this social prominence likely to in
jure him professionally, and 1 had to reply
rather evasively that did not believe it was
calculated to unless clients got an impression
that he was too busy with public affairs to at
tend to private business. l added that l be-
ieved that holding worthless office like that
of public administrator was calculated to in
jure him professionally, for I believe the hold
ing of any Office is temporarily financial
and professional injury to any incumbent.
The time spent in public office is usually
thrown away; the salary of such position is
generally spent while holding it; years of
time are wasted, and considerable expense is
incurred after an official term has expired in
regaining the professional prominence aban-
doned for the office, and if while in Office the
professional man has made money other than
his salary, either by business, investment,
speculation or professionally, he is sure to be
set down as having corruptly obtained his
wealth. Ours is the most ungenerous of peo-
pie in this suspicion of public servants.
William A. Beach, who has just died, at
tanned his prominent position as lawyer
through his belligerent disposition chiefly. It
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06
A SONG OF LONG AGO.

Indianapolis Journal.
A song of long ago,
Sing it lightly, sing it low,
Sing it softly-like the lisping of the lips we used
to know
When our baby laughter spilled
From the hearts forever filed
With a music sweet as robin ever trilled.
Let the fragrant summer breeze,
And the leaves of locust trees,
And the apple buds and blossoms, and the wings
of honey bees,
All palpitate with glee
Till the happy harmony
Brings back each childish joy to you and me.
Let the eyes Of fancy turn
Where the tumbed pippins burn
Like embers in the orchards lap of tousled grass
and fern,
And let the maynard wind,
Still singing, plod behind
The cider press-the good old fashioned kind.
Blend in the song the moan
OF the dove that grieves alone,
And the wild whirr Of the locust, and the bum
ble's drowsy drone,
And the low of COWS that call
Through the pasture bars, when all
The landscape faints away at eventual.
Then far away and clear,
Through the dusty atmosphere,
Let the wailing of Kildee be the only sound You
hear.
o sweet and sad and low,
AS the memory may know,
Is the glad pathetic song of long ago.
james Whitconab Riley.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06
Tuskey. Elephant In England.

Those who are interested in the varieties
of the Indian elephant will be pleased to
hear of the arrival of the two very good spec
linens of the tuskers at the royal aquarium
Westminster. The elder is one of the lar
est individuals of the Indian species that
have ever seen. exceeding in height should
imagine, any of those that we have had in
the geological gardens. He is almost as
much entitled to the appellation of white
elephant as the individual that lately attract
ed so much attention having large blaze
gins to the ears, and considerable amount
of white on the under side of the trunk.
But he is chiefly remarkable for the poss-
ession of pair of splendid tusks about four
feet in length, very cylindrical, but slightly
tapering in their form and beautifully sym
metrical in size and curvature. They are SO
long that the mahout who has the elephant
in charge ascends to his place on the neck
by standing in front of the head, then, seiz-
ing the margins of the ears, he walks up the
oblique tusks to the forehead, and so reaches
the required position. This elephant is said
by Mr.. Wilson, the proprietor of these ami
mails and the jumping horses and lions &C.
companying them to have been formerly in
the possession on of one of the Indian rajahs
but be its previous history what 1t may,
think it may be regarded as the finest tuskel
ever brought to Europe, and it is certainly
the best I have ever seen.
There is also at the aquarium second
tusker; this is a small animal, some FIVE feet
in height said to have been procured from
Java. 1t has very well-developed, sharply
pointed tusks, of a thickness quite proper
tionate to its size. The variable history of
animals in performing circuses is always
difficult to obtain, and l could get no salts
factory evidence as to whether this animal is
of a dwarf race or mere individual varia-
ton but it is interesting to see the tusks Sc
perfect in so small a specimen. The ami
nal has been well trained and goes through
an interesting series of performances. In
connection with these animals | NAV call at
tention to the leaping feats of three Walers as
the Australian horses are termed, that are
imported into India. These are remarkable
for their jumping powers; one, dark brown
gelding, 14.3 leaps over solid wooden fence
five feet four inches high, some dozen times
in succession, the take off and landing be-
ing the wooden floor of the promenade
covered with a layer of cocoanut mating,
and the rider man of ordinary build
London Field.
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SOMEBODY'S MOTHER.

The woman was old and ragged and gray
And bent with the chill of the winters day;
The street was wet with recent snow
And the woman's feet were aged and slow.
She stood at the crossing, and waited long,
Alone, uncared-for amid the throng
OF human beings who passed her BY,
Nor needed the glance other anxious eye.
Down the street with laughter and shout,
Glad in the freedom of school let out
Game the boys like flock OF sheep,
Hailing the snow piled white and deep.
Past the woman so old and gray,
fastened the children on their way,
Nor offered q helping hand to her,
So meek, so timid, afraid to stir,
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses feet
Should crowd her down in the slippery street.
Atlast one of the merry troop
The gayest laddie of all the group
He paused beside her, and whisper,low,
"rll help you cross if you wish to co.
Her aged hand on his strong, young arm
She placed, and so, without hurt or harm,
He guided her trembling feet along,
Proud that his own were firm and strong.
Then back again to his friends he went,
His young heart happy and well content.
''She's somebody's mother, boys, you know,
For all she's old, and poor and slow;
''And hope some fellow will lend hand
70 help my poor mother, you understand,
ST ever she's poor and old and gray,
When her own dear boy is far away"
And sssomebody's mother bowed low her hea
In her home that night, and the prayer she salt
Was: "God be kind to the noble boy,
Who is somebody's son and pride and joy!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06

who conceded Johnson everything and was a
mere fgure-head as collector, found his po
litical career cut short by the failure of John
sons administration. Johnson, in order
not to offend Depew and his friends, nomi-
mated him for minister to Japan, but old
Commodore Vanderbilt put his foot down on
that proposition and would not hear of Depew
leaving the country. Several times he came
near to being United States senator from
New York, but his personal popularity could
not overcome the opposition which existed
toward the great corporation he is so closely
identified with. He was elected secretary of
state on the Republican ticket away back in
1868, but that was at period when the party's
nomination was equivalent to an election,
and the office was not an important one even
in war times. In those days, war governors
filed the public eye, when cast on anything
less than national events and persons.
Mr.. Depew is one of the most delightful
impromptu speakers in the country. He can
talk at momeut's notice on any subject, or
all around it.. His after dinner eloquence is
something wonderfully clever, witty and
pointed; and few public dinners of import
ant societies or occasions are complete with
out speech from him. Like most witty
men, he deprecates the reputation he has
won of being funny, and wishes it under
stood that the serious and sentimental are
his strong points, which, it is needless to
add, they are not.
Algernon S. Sullivan is another illustra-
How Of 81 IN
direction; but his has not been anything
like as great a triumph as that of Mr..
Depew. He is western man,
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held to their faith and died triumphantly.
Those who have been thus executed are
more than 100000. 1t shows that the people
are ready to receive the Gospel. The priests
also were often persecuted, but they needed
not the dangers"
| The majority of the pew owners Of Ply
mouth church and parish, Portland, Me-,
have voted to sell their Westinghouse fof
| $50, 900 to the Casco street Free Baptists.
The church will disband, as there seems to
be sufficient number Of Congregational
churches in the city, with those formed in the
| suburbs within few years, to meet the needa
of the people.
The Presbytery of TT. Wayne can claim an
honorable place among the Presbyteries in
the way OF building new churches. One
| year ago they met in new church which had
just been completed Nagrange). Last
| April they met in another beautiful new
church at Warsaw, and next spring they will
be invited to meet in still an other new
church to be completed at Button.
| Catholics the world over will rejoice to
| hear of the great success Of their Belgian
| brethren in the recent elections. 1t was a
great victory won in the face Of great diff
cuties. The Liberal party has received what
we hope is death-blow Belgian Catholics
have been oppressed for many years, and
their late success ought to be an incentive to
their brethren in other countries TO follow
their good example and to strive for free
dom. N. Y. Catholic ReyieD.
Robbery with violence is common Of
Tense in the London streets nowadays.
But the character of the violence is some
times very uncommon. In a case heard at
Bow street recently it appeared that the pris-
oner seized the prosecutor, an Italian waiter,
by the neck and trousers, turned him up
side down, "stood him upon his head, and
while in that condition, shook him until
some money fell out of his pocket" The
money was only 3d. in coppers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06

and yet brilliant eloquence, and a good
knowledge of common law, anda special ac-
quaintance with the laws affecting corpora
tons. is by no means profound, hates the
court room, and has q profound contempt
for the Illustrations of the industrious bee
and the early bird which he found in his
suggestive spelling books forty years ago.
He would rather digest good dinner than
an elaborate brief; and the flow of good
wine bottled by others is more interesting a
process than the uncorking of any amount
of eloquence he may have bottled up in him
self. The club, not the court house,is his ia
vorite resort; and the speech which closes a
banquet, not that which sums up cause, is
the more attractive to him. I may
add, that he appears to better advant-
age at the board than the bar. Indeed,
he appears very often at the first, and seldom
st the latter. Nevertheless, he is one of the
most successful lawyers in America, and has
yearly income of probably $780, 600 from
his undivided attention to the affairs of a
single client-William H. Vanderbilt's rail
way companies. He is at the head of the
law bureau Of this great corporation. with
his offices in the Grand Central depot, away
from the center of legal business in Wall
street and from the courts in the city hall
Indeed, Mr.. Depew appears much more fire.
euently before legislative committees than
before the justices of the courts. The If
reverent who hear of him so frequently as
engaged in argument in the capitol at Alba
ny insist, every time Depew is talked of for
office, that he is professionally lobbyist;
but it is only in the sense of the lawyer who
affects legislation by arguments in the inter
est of his clients.
Mr. Depew has several times come very
near to success as a politician, but has not
quite succeeded. If he has any strongly
absorbing passion it is in the direction of his
political ambition; yet while he is ever ap-
parently about to clutch office he seldom
seems to reach it. He once came near to be-
ing collector of the port in 1865. President
Johnson sent General Lowell H. Rousseau to
New York to sound Depew on this subject,
and they met for the first time at my house,
where General Rousseau wss on a visit
When Dspew left after several hours in
terview, l asked the General what was the
result of the conversation. ''He would like
10 be collector" Rousseau replied, and then
added, little vaguely, ''but hewants to be the
collector" This he subsequently interpreted
by saying that Depew would not assent to
several conditions which President johnson
required as to the disposition of the patron
age of the office. In this Depew showed
his good sense, for the sub
seQuent incumbent Henry A. smythe,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06
-Ass A'inint1ted Snotc-PtOtp.

A few days ago hunter known as ''Upcle
Bob Giddings," started up Slate river to in
terview den of bears known to exist on the
mountain side some distance above Cloud
City. Just after passing Cloud he came up
on a trail in the snow which appeared to be
from ten to fifteen feet in depth. The trail
was as wide as though an OK had been drag
ged sideways, and the snow was pressed so
hard that pony could easily have been driv-
en- over it. Bob threw away his snow-shoes
and followed this trail, which led along the
mountain side in northerly direction.
Reaching the ruins of the bear den he found
nothing but the bones of the bears left
While he stood in blank amazement, his eve
was directed to the valley beneath, where he
saw huge serpent making its way down
Slate river, until it disappeared in fathom-
less lake near the ranch of Frank Nichols,
some three miles from here. The terror
stricken man, on his return to town, said
that the snake was all of fifty feet long. Its
propelling power seemed to exist in its tail,
which streamed behind several feet.
There is an old Indian tradition about this
serpent, and an old Indian belonging to the
Uncompahgre Ute nation, in speaking about
this monstrous sea-serpent, described it as
having neck fully ten feet long, and as
large around as the body of pony, It's head
the size of tepee, and eyes like sancers,
about one yard and half apart. 1t lives in
subterranean passage, which has an en-
trance in an unexplored part of the Dark
canyon, on the opposite side of the range.