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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

The Great Buffalo of the West Meets
His Cntimely Fate.

His Cntimely Fate.
Scared by arrows, wounded by bull
let's, pursued by foes from valley to
valley and from river to river, the
whilom monarch has at last found a
covert and breathing spell for day.
he has crouched like a fox In his lair.
The cry of vulture lowering high
above had made him tremble-he, who
had driven the dreaded grizzly out of
his path more than once, and whose
sharp, stout horns had sent more than
But the cries of the coyote have
brought company! They come sneak
ing out of thicket and grass and crevice
until there are dozen. The youngest
calf of herd would not fear them,
and yet their angry snarls make the
old monarch tremble The sun seems
to drop into lower notch as the old
monarch moves softly about to snatch
bite here and there, but always keep
ing his eye on the pack. As the crav-
ing of hunger becomes partly satisfied,
the fire comes back to his eyes, and he
even gives his head defiant toss. II
their bowling brings the savage wolf,
he will die fghtins-he will die game.
He has fought them hundred battles,
and never suffered defeat. Here they
come! He looks up to find himself al
most encircled. They are hungry and
gaunt. Their eyes blaze. and tam
falls from their lips as they close in on
him. Now, watch him! He Is NO longer
the fugitive-the craven, trembling at
every sound. His head is held high;
there is royal fire in his great eyes,
and he utters low below of defiance
and paws the earth as a challenge for
them to come on. Crack! Crash!
Hurrah! The bull totters, sways to
and fro, and falls to the earth, shot
through the heart. A man leaps out of
the thicket, waves his hat and gun,
and cheers the success of his shot,
while the wolves sneak away into the
twilight and growl and snap at each
other.
The last Of his race is dead. He would
have died fighting as monarch should,
but man prevented. 1t Is the last hide
the last feast for wolves and vul-
tures-the last monument to mark
mans savagery when stirred by cupid
ity and selflshness.-M. Quad in De-
troit Free Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Fife Times,
owosso. FRIDAY, MAR. 20, 1896.

In the fall of 1893 a son of Mr.. L. a.
Mcfarland, prominent merchant of Live
Oak, Suffer Co, Cal was taken with a
very heavy cold. The pains in his chest
were SO severe that he had spasms and was
threatened with pneumonia His father
gave him several doses of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy which broke up the cough
and cured him. Mr.. Mcfarland says when
ever his children have Group he invariably
gives them Chamberain's Cough Remedy
and II always cures them. he considers it
the best cough remedy in the market. For
sale by Johnson & Henderson. druggists
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

Rev. Christian Spathelf who is pastor Of
the German Lutheran church, corner Of Oil
yer and Washington streets, conducts a
thriving little school in a room at the rear of
the church. The children learn the Ger
man language correctly and speak English
very well, too. A class preparing for con-
Sunday and those passing the examination
will be confirmed on the following Sunday,
which is Palm Sunday. During Lent even.
ing services are held at seven o'clock.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Electric Bitters

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for
any season. but perhaps more generally
needed when the languid exhausted feeling
feeling prevails. when the liver is torpid and
sluggish and the need OF tonic and altera-
tive Is felt A prompt use Of this medicine
has often averted long and perhaps fatal
bilious fevers. No medicine will act more
surely in counteracting and freeing the sys-
tenn from the malarial poison Headache.
Indigestion. Constipation. Dizziness yield to
Electric Bitters. SOC and 81 90 per bottle
at Sprague's drug store.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Luxury in Alaska.

Alaskan Host-Will you have straw
berries, mum?
Fair Tourist-Dear me; strawberries
in Alaska! Yes, indeed l will. But
what is that you are puring on them?
It doesn't look like cream.
Alaskan Host-It's blubber, mum.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Here's a Firm for You.

Buffalo has a furniture firm, Irish
& English" and the Buffalo Times says
the combination has always served
them as a good advertisement. Sim
gular to say, however, Mr.. Irish Is
English and Mr.. English is Irish.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Children Cry for
Pitchers CAstOria.
Children Cry Tor
Pitchers Castoria.

Examination for Agricultural College.
An examination for admission to the Ag-
ricultural College will be conducted at Cor
unna, March Goth and 27th, as provided for
by law. E. ID. DrMoND, COmr.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
WANTED TO BORROW HIM.
Queer Request Two Women Made of n
PhfladeIphian.

Sueer request Two women Made or
PhfIadelphian.
e A genial Philadelphia, who for OBJ
vious reasons does not care to have his
name printed on this occasion, secured
a parlor car seat on an express train
for Reading a few days ago, and as he
was about to pass through the gates
was surprised to hear himself accosted
in feminine tones with the somewhat
startling question: please, mister.
could I borrow you for a while?"
Looking around, he found two
buxom women, who hastily and hesi-
tatingly explained that they were rid
Ing on pass made out in the name Of
a gentleman and his wife, and, as the
gentleman was not present, they
wanted the genial-looking citizen to
place his bought ticket at the disposal
OF one lady and take the other one
under his wing, while he personated
the absent owner Of the pass.
Which is my wife?" he inquired
with an inward qualm, lest his own ab-
sent better half should ever hear the
story.
you can take your choice, sir" said
the lady in search of an escort, and he
promptly did so by tucking the arm of
the youngest fair one under his own
and leading her into the car. The
couple proved to be right jolly travelling
companions, and the citizens only re-
greet in the transaction was due to a
fear that the story might leak out and
get home ahead of him. But 1t didn't.
How to Cure Rheumatism.
ARAGo, Coos Co., OREGON, Nov. 10, '93
Il wish to inform you of the great good
Chamberlain's Pain Balm has done my wife.
She had been troubled with rheumatism of
the arms and hands for six months, and has
tried many remedies prescribed for that com.
plant but found no relief until she used
this Pain Balm, one bottle of which has
completely cured her. l take pleasure in
recommending it for that trouble. Yours
truly, G. A. BULLoRD. SO cent and Sl.00
bottles for sale by johnson & Henderson,
druggists.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

Rheumatism Cured in Day.-"Mystic
Cure" for rheumatism and Neuralgia. rad
ically cures i'm l to 3 DAYS. It's action upOn
the system is remarkable and mysterious
1t removes at once the cause and the diseaes
Immediately disappears. The first does
greatly benefits. rs cts. Sold by Johnson 4,
Henderson. druggist. Owosso.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
An Account With the Dentist.

Brown had the reputation of beins
the most miserable of men. but he
plumes himself on his memorable sense
of justice. For fifteen years he owed
a dentist SIS Tor filling front tooth
with gold, refusing to pay it because
he said the bill was exorbitant. The
other day the filling came out. He
took the gold to a jewelry store and had
it valued. Then he wrote to the den.
fist and inclosed a check for the
amount: actual value of the gold
$3.50; amount of labor (Which I deem
liberaD, So; for use of the tooth fifteen
years, S.; total $3.50. 1 return the
gold on account and inclose check fol-
balance, $40.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

WANTED-A reliable lady or gentleman to
distribute samples and make house-to house
s75 n month easily rade. Address Crofts g.
Reed, $40 to $50 Austin Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

gaA
Inflammation of
the stomach, and
weakness of the
female organs.
=" l used Lydia
II. Pinkhdn1's
Vegetable Com
pound, md
found q perfect
cure in it for
, these troubles"
Mrs. LIZZIE
DECLINE, 224
G.ond street,
Jersey City. New
Jersey.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

FITS.-All Fits stopped free by DR.. KIine's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day s
use. Marvellous cures. Treatice and $500 trial
bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline,
1893 Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
Value Of the Telephone.

Excuse me for half an hour or SO, !"
said prominent official few days ago,
"while have talk with my doctor"
II thought your doctor was in New
York;" was the reply.
ooh, yes" the official answered. "he
is In New York, but at O'Clock every
afternoon he comes to the telephone
the long distance telephone = and we
have a talk. 1t is not convenient for me
to run up to New York often, SO re-
port my condition to him every after
noon, and changes, etc, and he in return
gives me his advice and prescribes for
me through the telephone. When the
time comes for him to send the pre-.
scription, simply connect him with
my druggist and my doctor tells him
what to mix for me as easily as If he
had to write 1t. This long-distance tele-
phone surpasses even the widest dreams
of its inventors. New York Tribune.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02

At St. Pierre, le- Palud, in the Canton
of Abresle, near Lyons, lived, says a
Paris correspondent, handy man, half
carpenter, half mason, and a years old
His wife died seven years ago, and he
had lived alone ever since. Some lime
ago he said an idea he was going to
work out would astonish the whole
country. His idea, it now appears, was
to construct unaided a guiilotine and
be his own executioner. He had got
two vertical beams nine feet high. The
knife was Ratchet carefully sharpehed,
and mason's sledge-hammer, weighing
stone, was adapted to it. Nothing
could be neater than the grooves, pull
leys and adjustments. A semi circular
groove was arranged to keep the head
well under the Ratchet. Deparcieux
lay on his back with his neck in the
semi-circular cutting in a cross-plank.
He set heap of straw on the place
where he calculated the small of his
back would be and placed his feet
against wall.
This done, he let go the knife by
means of a cord that he held. In the
fall it severed his head clean from his
body. The strange suicide was not dis
covered for some days after it was com
mitted. Neighbors began to wonder
what had happened to Deparcieux. Al
his dog howled fearfully, they deter
mined to enter the house. Going from
one room to another they discovered
nothing unusual, but when the dog wa
liberated from the kitchen it rushed
down to the cellar land again began t.
howl. The neighbors following, fount
there the guilletine aRd the guillotined
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02

Next to being good husband ana
father | consider it every mans duty
to become good neighbor.
Neighborly instinct is as natural as the
parental
have never yet seen the country
neighborhood where the spirit of neigh
borly kindness was lacking.
The man cannot be found who Is al.
ways at variance with his neighbors
who is not himself blamable for 1t.
Qnarrelsome neighbors are invariably
little minded persons. A really noble
mind never quarrels.
Poverty not infrequently makes
good neighborhood, for when men and
women are engaged in a struggle for
bread and are Obliged to depend upon
mutual assistance In sickness, they are
very apt to be good neighbors.
1t is not good neighbor who shuts
himself within the walls of his posses.
sion and quarrels about boundary fences
and entertainments.
It is not good neighbor who stands
ready to pounce upon any unlucky pet
OF your neighbor the moment It enters
your enclosure. The real neighbor is
noble; he will himself suffer inconven.
fence before he will annoy his neighbor.
He will suffer many before he will dis
play small, mean spirit of revenge.
An unpleasant neighbor is a nuisance.
There is no need why the word neigh.
borhood should not be as sweet, sueges.
tive and sacred as the word family.
Home itself incomplete without good
neighborhood life, and every man who
poisons the latter is the enemy of every
home affected by his act.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02

A teacher in the primrry school of a
Western city recently read to her pu-
pills "The Old Oaken Bucket" After
explaining 1t to them very carefully she
asked them to copy the first stanza from
the blackboard and try to illustrate 1t as
the artist illustrates a story. Pretty
soon one little girl handed in her book
with several little dots between two
lines, circle, half dozen dots and
three buckets.
81 do not understand this, Bessie
said the teacher. "What is that circleP
ooh that's the WE'LL" was the reply.
"And why do you have three buckets''
ooh, one is the oaken bucket, one IL
the iron bound bucket and the other is
the bucket that hung in the we'll"
"But what are the little dots2"
"Why those are the spots which my
infancy knew.'-New York Tribune.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02

There can hardly be the shadow of a
doubt but that hogs will bring good
price before the year ISo6is numbered
with the past. Hog cholera has sadly
decimated the ranks of the breeding an
finals In all the great swine growing
states, so let every farmer who has
good brood sow left make extra effort to
secure as many little pigs as possible
and what is more to rear the largest pos
sible proportion of the pigs farrowed
There need be no fear that such endeav-
ors will not be abundantly rewarded in
extra prices received for pork products
Let especial pains be taken with the lit
ter farrowed this spring. The breeding
pens and houses should be warm and
comfortable.
Notwithstanding the obvious truth and
Importance of this advice, yet how many
brood sows are left in pens all full of
cracks and creyices every year, and how
many small pigs become chilled and
thereby get their death every narrowing
o~NoCit DCSddsC VIII not
or at least do not take the trouble to
make things right. Even if little money
can be spared for fixing up, each and
every farmer can tack up several thick
ness of old newspapers which are very
good indeed to exclude the cold. There
fore a little labor, but practically no ex
Penses will make a piggery in passable
condition for the narrowing season. This
matter of warm quarters cannot be too
carefully dwelt upon, for spring winds
are exceedingly keen and searching and
often we have weather as late as MAY
more trying than the average winter
days. Immediately before narrowing and
for some time after the operation the |
brood SOW needs light cooling ration,
consisting mainly of slop, bran, and
little linseed meal.
To feed sow upon heating food like
corn meal at this period invites fever.
eating of young, and host of concom-
liant evils. If the SOW Is the best kind
Of mother and naturally deep mixer,
great care will be needed in any event
to ward off milk fever AS II is the best
sows that are most afflicted with this
trouble, SO it is the best and most yalu-
able sows that fall prey 10 the malady.
The remedy lies in prevention by lib.
eral use of roots, sIop, cabbage and
ether cooling foods. The brood SOW all
through the nursing period should have
bran, ground oats and linseed meal with
very little corn meal heterogeneous
foods are needed to produce growth and
not carbonaceous materials Field and
Farm.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
The Germ Theory.

What the world owes to Louis Pas
teur the worlds great vocabulary is in
competent to express. Through his
researches, and those of the students
who have coRe after him, the light has
has been turned on what has hitherto
been total darkness. Doubt, expert
ments and uncertainty has given way
to precision and accuracy In diagnosis.
AS the farmer knows that the chinch
bug is the cause of his withered crops
so the physician knows that the bacil
lus of certain diseases brings about Ger.
tain symptoms. The microscope is the
physicians reliance. A few drops of
blood, bit of tissue, little perspira-
ton brough. under the eye of this
magic assistant will tell him at once the
cause and progress of the disease And
1t Is not the physician alone who bene.
Ats by this knowledge. The farmer,
the vineyardist, the dairyman. the stock
raiser, the cultivator of the silk-worm
and the enthusiast on bees are alike in
debted to the discoverer of the germ.
origin of disease for invaluable aids In
their business. A necessity for the near
future is an Improvement IN micro
SCOPES and their cheapening, so that
knowledge of germs may become more
widespread Every township should
have its bacteriologist and It's micro.
seopic equipment. There is no study
more interesting, and none that is SO i'm
portant to humanity.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
NEZ PIERCE.
POTLATCH,
PALOUSE

These are the names of three great
agricultural and fruit growing dis
tricts In Idaho and Washington,
reached by the Northern Pacific rail
road.
They each adjoin the other an
together form region hard to equal.
The POlouse region has been noted for
its marvellous grain production. The
Potlatch country Is analogous to the
Palouse.
The Nee Perez legion lies south OF
the, Others and has until recently been
a part Of great Indian reservation.
100000 acres of it have been thrown
open to settlement and its lands can
be bought upon cheap prices and
terms. Write to Charles 8 Fee, Gen.
eral Passenger Agent, N. p. R. R.,
st. Paul, Minnesota, or F. D. Gibbs,
General Agent, Spokane, for folder
and rates.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
origin "sVindfall.o

The origin of the expression "wind-
fall, : which is used when one wishes to
refer to streak of good luck, dates
back to the time of William the Con.
querer, says the Republic. At that
time 1t was a criminal offense to cut
timber In the British forests without
royal consent. All that could be gath
cred for fuel or other purposes was such
limbs as the wind would happen to
break and cast to the ground. On this
account the peasants hailed great wind
storm as blessing, because 1t was apt
to cast enough of "windfalls" for winter
firewood. From this old. time forestry
custom comes the modern application of
the expression. At one time 1t was
decreed that only such limbs and whole
trees as should fall during the three
summer months could be used as fire.
wood, but the injustice of the act was
so plainly apparent that no attempt was
ever made TO enforce IL
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
THE PA gEDs Us ALL.

The king ms rule DER land and sea,
The lord NY live right royalty,
The soldiS ride in pomp and pride,
The saiIos roam DER ocean wide,
utthbor that, whate'er befall,
The "a aer he must feed them all,
The writer thinks the poet sings,
The orftsmen fashion wondrous things;
The d,ctor heals, the lawyer pleads,
Butfhia or that, whate'er befall,
TIL, farmer he must feed them all.
Themerchant he may buy and sell,
Tls teacher do his duty well,
Bdt men may toll through busy days,
Oh man may stroll through pleasant ways,
From king to beggar, whate'er befall,
The farmer he.must feed them all
The farmers trade is one of worth;
He's partner with the sky and earth,
He's partner with the sun and rain,
And no man loses for his gain,
And men may rise and men may fall,
The farmer he must feed them all
God bless the man who sows the wheat
Who flnds us milk and fruit and meat,
May his purse be heavy, his heart be light,
His cattle an d his corn all go right,
God bless the seeds his hands let fall,
The farmer he must feed us all
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
Handling Bees.


On cool or rainy days when beees are
OF working, it is best to modest IN
little as possible. They are not in a
condition to be tempered with on such
occasions, and 1t makes them irritable
to such an extent that it is many DAYS
before they forget the insult. Early in
the morning or late in the evening has
also the same effect upon them; SO that
the most satisfactory time of operating
is during the dav, when they are busily
engaged at work gathering honey, and
a large portion of them are in the field
and out of the way. During the honey
season, they can thus be handled with
IMMUNITY, and without the aid of smoke.
There is much in the manner we oper-
ate with them as to their irritableness.
They will bear great deal of careful in
sPection without making any resistance.
but rough usage, sudden jars, quick mo-
tions, etc, they will resent and make a
sturdy defense. 1t is only necessary to
study their nature and work according
ly and 1t is very interesting to see how
readily they will submit TO kind treat
ment.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
800 REWARD a1OO.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure In ali
Cure Is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being consti-
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giving the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they offer
One Hundred Dollars Tor any case that II fails
30 cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address. F. ]. CHENEY, & CO. Toledo, q.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02

They show their power for good quickly.
YOU don't hove to take to 10 boxes before
you can make guess as to whether IL is help
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We nave separate remedies for Coughs and
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Nervous = Exhaustion, Acute Inflamitory rheII
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Our prices are, for the Magnetic Collie cure
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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
Some Wholesome Things.

Turnips for nervous disorders and for
scurvy.
Eggs contain large amount of Hutri.
ment in compact, quickly available
form. Beaten up raw with sugar they
are used to clear and strengthen the
voice.
Onions are almost the best Rervine
known. No medicine is so useful in
cases of nervous prostration, and there
is nothing else that will SO quickly re.
iieve and tone up worn out system.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02
CLEARING HOUSE REPORTS.

New York, April a4.-The following
table, compiled by Bradstreets, shows
the total clearances at the principal
cities and the percentage of increase
and decrease, as compared with the cor
responding week last year:
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-05-02

Clearings in Augusta, Davenport, Day ton
Knoxville, Waco, Houston and Galveston ar
not included In the totals.