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The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
PRAIRIE DOGS.
They Have Had Their Day on the Plains
of tho Far West.


Passengers on the 90 system who
have ridden the better part of a day
through western Nebraska and east
ern Colorado will remember the prairie
dog. He is numerous in that section
of the country. He lives in villages
and the villages are as close together
as the villages of certain parts of Eur
ope, says the Des Moines News. But
the prairie dog has had his day. Tn,
agricultural department says he must
go. Mr.. Wilson has decided that the
dogs kill the grass and ruin good graz.
ing land. "Tama jim" has little of the
love Of picturesqueness in his make.
up. He is e%minently practical and his
philanthropy is Of the type which
seeks to make two blades of grass grow
instead Of one Therefore he proposes
to relegate the prairie dog to the pic.
ture books and to the stuffed specimens
of the museum along with the buffalo
Mr.. Wilson's chemists have discovered
a mixture that will make whole vii.
lagos fight for the first bite, but which
at the last biteth like q serpent and
stingeth like an adder. Under it's in.
fuence the hole that knows the prairie
dog will know 1t no more forever. The
frisky, nervous, barking little beast
will join the innumerable caravan o.
prairie dogs who have gone before
There will be more grass when the
prairie dog is gone, and therefore more
cattle. There will be less break.
ing of the legs of COWBOYS ponies and
the rattlesnake will live alone in the
hole until the m come to him
also.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28

well. we'll. SO this Ia New Years
day" said Mr.. Spooner. DO you re-
member how we quarreled this day
one year ago."
Remember! | think | dol" cried
his wife. "Why, the cards were order
ed when It happened, and | didn't
know whether | could have your name
taken out and Dicks inserted. In case
changed my mind"
SIN case I changed my mind. you
mean. dear. Strange that | never sus-
pected how much poor Dora cared for
me until that day"
I'm sure she had concealed II very
well-the way she ran after Dick, AS
II he ever had eyes for anybody but
me! He never told his love. bat Il wo-
mans intuition was"
"A synonym of vanity. dear. OF
course. | couldn't help knowing that
she cared for me when | met her In
the boarding house parlor, with her
eyes full of tears. on the very morning
after you had told Marie. her dearest
friend, that we were To be married In
q month"
"Humph. that girl would cry about
anything; I've known her to cry when
the villain In the play was kil!ed-as II
"A villain could expect anything else In
the last act. But as soon as | saw Dick
that morning | knew that he knew 1t.
Why, his necktie had slipped around
s,,IA. ..n aae ..I III, ,,A,,n "a, l.,
wished me n happy New Year, was so
sad, that ! felt guilty. though my IN
science told me that | had not encOur-
aged him
you've forgotten how you used to
praise the 8 ape OF his head"
"As II tina. meant anything, A girl
only praises he shape of n mans head
when she ca Z find anything else to
flatter him about. lit means nc
mor than 1t does when she tells n
small man that he resembles Napoleon
But when | remembered that you had
once gone down on the floor in your
new trousers to pick up Dora's hand.
kerchief l knew that | had been cruelty
deceived. So when you ~reproached m,
about Dick, i
81 remember how badly I felt wher
she replied to my New Years greet
ing with the remark that happines!
for her was over forever. And befor,
I could comfort her Miss Marie cant
in and | could only go sadly ava!
without telling her that | should al
ways be a brother to her"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
%eaSonabfc .|ayin6S.

The new leaf that very seldom gets
turned over is the one in the diary.
Some men claim that they see the
old year out and the new one in by
getting SO drunk that they can't see
anything.
BY New Year the silver plating
wears OFF many a Christmas present.
A good beginning is nalf the battle
except in the case OF keeping a diary.
The new date is as hard to remem-
Der as the new leaf.
Even though the arctic explorer
never discovers the north pole he de-
serves credit. for he always keeps a
diary.
New Year gives us a chance to re-
Ciprocate to those who Unexpectedly
gave us a present at Christmas.
Seeing the old year out puts a man
In a fit condition to swear off the next
day.-N. Y. World.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
SCRAMBLE FoR p,AMoNDs
Gems Thrown Away by an Afssnt
Minded DeaIer.

ubttH
Minded Dealer.
Have you got any Of those dia-
monds?" ia the question OF the houy
in Birmingham. Some 800 precious
stones have been shared out by lucky
prospectors in Vlttoria street, and the
search still continues, says the London
Express. 1t happened in this wise:
In a At of abstraction John Davis
member of a firm OF diamond mer
chants, while walking down Vittoria
street an a recent morning, pulled an
old envelope out of his pocket and
commenced to tear II up. When he
reached the last section the terrible
fact dawned upon him that 1t was the
envelope in which were some 1900
small diamonds, valued at G100, and
that he had been sowing these broad
cast over a public thoroughfare. The
new spread with lightning-like rapid
ity. Shopkeepers locked up and came
to the more lucrative occupation OF
picking up diamonds, while for a mile
around an errand boy at his ordinary
work was a phenomenon. Such n
scraping of the street with knives and
sticks had never been seen. AS II
happened, most of the lost stones went
down the cellar gratings of a jewelers.
shop. Ingenious youths fshed for
them with a piece of soap attached to
a stick and reeled in three prizes at a
time. Others sat in the gutter sort
ing an anxiously guarded handful of
dirt. Still the crowd grew. At one
period over 1900 lads were to be seen
hard at work. From noon to seven
o'clock the street was nearly blocked.
When night fell candles. lamps and
lanterns were brought to aid the indie
~fatlgable hunters for treasure trove,
and the scene presented could only
have been done justice by Hogarth.
About half the diamonds have found
their way back to their rightful owner
Some were sold to a shopkeeper and
the rest. like the graves of a house.
hold, are scattered far and wide. Dia-
mond pins will shortly be fashionable
in Birmingham.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28

time was just beginning to carpet the
land when we went to it, and in that
miracle not even the rambling old
house, with its falling pillars and
weed-choked drives could seem any
thing but beautiful.
1t had been a stately old colonial
mansion in its palmy days. known far
and wide as The Locusts.' from the
trees that lined its broad emu and
formed q grove about the house.
Long neglected and unpruned young
sapplings had sprung up everywhere,
encroaching year by year upon the I'M
titled acres until the house stood vir-
tually In the MIDST of a vast locust
thicket. 1t was now in full bloom,
and from every twig depended great
snowy plumes, that waved in the soft
spring breeze and made the air heavy
with their perfume.
From the moment OF our arrival
Arthur began to improve, and 1t was
while he was in the first flush of re-
turning health and happiness that he
painted his famous picture, Spring"
and into it he somehow put some of
that riotous JOY In mere living we all
feel when We have been down to the
doors of death, and are recovering, and
every breath brings with it the thrill
of returning strength. The picture
was very simple. Just the figure Of a
oma standing amidst the tender
green Of the trees, with upstretched
arms. and all about her the white,
white rain Of locust blooms, and on
her face the ineffable glory of youth
and love-that look that never comes
but once in a lifetime, when the
%springtime Of the heart meets the
%springtime Of the year.
When the picture was done Arthur
sent 1t to the exposition, where, as
you remember, 1t was the sensation OF
the year n sold for what seemed to
us a little fortune. Better still, 1t at
tracted the attention of an old college
friend of whom Arthur had lost sight
and who, coming South on business
dropped off to make us a little visit,
He was a shrewd man OF affairs, and
when he saw our locust thicket, he
fairly gasped with surprise.
1T Is a little gold mine" he said
where did you get it?" and | told him
Of how the worthless old acres had
been allotted me in the division
OF the family estate, when | was a
baby and had no n to look out fol
my interests, and how they had been
left to grow up as they would.
Well" he said, with a grim smile
the wicked sisters don't always sue.
coed in doing Cinderella, you may re-
member, after all, and your barrier
acres have grown into a fortune" anC
so indeed they had. Our business
friend sold our locust forest to a rail
road ANY, and w have long beer
back in the city, where we have
charming home, and where Arthur Il
winning the recognition his talent de
serves.
He is now engaged In painting m,
aunt's portrait, and that-from m.
aunt-is equivalent to a melodramatl,
blessing, with tears.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
THE ANOA.
Dwarf Cattle OF Celebes Arc No Longer
Than Ordinary Sheep.


Than Ordinary Sheep.
Celebes has the distinction of being
the home Of the smallest living repre-.
sentative of the wild cattle, or, in.
deed, of the wild cattle Of any period
of the earth's history. for no group
appears to be known to science. An
idea of three extremely diminutive pro-
portions of the anoa, or sapi-utan, as
the animal in question Is respectively
called by the inhabitants of Celebes
and the Malays, may be gained when
1t is stated that its height at the shout
der is only about 8 feet 3 inches,
whereas that Of the great Indian wild
OK, or guar, Is at least 6 feet 4 inches,
and may, according to some writer's,
reach as much as 7 feet. In fact. the
anoa Is really not much, II at all,
larger than a well-grown South Down
sheep and scarcely exceeds in this re-
spect the little domesticated Bramini
cattle shown a few years ago at the
Indian exhibition held at Earl's Court,
The anoa has many of the characters
OF the large Indian buffalo, but its
horns are relatively shorter, less
curved and more upright. In this, as
well as in certain other respects, 1t
is more like the young than the adult
Of the last-named species, and as
young animals frequently are gradual
ly lost as maturity is approached it
would be a natural supposition that
the anoa is a primitive type of buffalo.
From knowledge.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
In Locust Time.
BY ELIZABETH N. GILMER.

"-A co.
You will starve," said my aunt,
with melancholy conviction.
II love him. | replied, ir~rclevantly.
Love" observed my aunt, philo-
sopAically, lis an admirable sauce,
but u poor substitute for the main
dish of life"
II love him." | repeated, as If that
were the only argument that mnttered.
unfortunately" said my aunt.
"Cne can't live on love, no matter
how i'limitable. 1t isn't legal tender
with the butcher ard baker and can
d.es.iCk maker"
yet it's the only coin that will buy
happiness | answered, softly.
He's nothing but "A poor artist
my aunt added disparagingiy.
"He had a picture hung on the line
in hopefully.
II wish he had been hanged him
SELF" exclaimed my aunt with vicious
energy.
- 1t wasn't the first time that we had
4 discussed Arthur Farnum. Indeed. for
tthc past three m~onths-ever since l
had elected to throw myself away on
a rcnni!ess artist" as my aunt put 1t
it seemed to me that w had con-
versed on no other topic. My aunt
was sixty. and | was twenty, and in
the two score years between us lay all
that life had taught her, and that |
had still to learn. To me, for instance.
lie without love vas life robbed OF all
the glory that made it worth living,
lief that one could get on very COM
iortably without love. provided ones
establishment was beyond criticism.
and ones frucks from Paris.
Yet. in spite of all her worldliness
my u had been all that was kind
and tender to me. She had given me
all the affection and the only home |
had ever known. My parents had
lied when | was a mere baby. My
two sisters, much older than myself,
were married to grasping and selfish
men, who, in the division of my faith
er's small estate, had ruthlossly pos
sessed themselves OF the lions share,
leaving TO ne nothing but the OLD
homestead, a tumble-down Old South
ern mansion house, surrounded by :
few poor acres. | must have beer
forlorn, indeed, but that my aunt
struck with the tawny gold of m
hair and a certain childish grace. tool
a fancy to me. and carried me bach
to her rich Northern home, where
grew up surrounded by every luxury
that wealth and generosity could give
II she looked for me to make a wealthy
and brilliant match, and take my
place in that fashionable society 81
dear to her own ambitious heart, 1
was not unnatural, nor more than sh,
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28

u love MIN, L Teplltu ilTeie'dnty
had a right to expect. / was pas
sionately grateful to her, and grieved
at the thought Of disappointing her.
and yet-and yet, what else could |
do? Love had called me, and where
IL led | could but follow.
SO one day | kissed my unit a tear
full goodbye, and Arthur and | slipped
away to the little church around the
corner, and were quietly married, and
went TO live in the studio, where we
slept in beds that did duty as Turk
ish couches by day, and cooked our
morning chop oyer a gas lamp that
masqueraded as a Pompeian vase, and
we made acquaintance with queer
Bohemian restaurants, and were as in
consequently happy as love and youth
could make us.
Arthur worked away like mad that
winter, and / would bring my sewing
in, and sit beside him, when | wasn't
posing fAr him. lie use2 to say that
my hairl was a color study, and he
paintedfeS.e as everything from a
/br Ca.i
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28

They think you both must have guess
ed 1t. | remember that Tom was in
the parlor with Dora when I ran in on
New Years morning to tell her of your
engagement. She had been on the
point of asking him to help her to
make up with Dick. And when she
told me about it, ! wrote him a note
telling him that | believed she would
forgive him II he came at once. That
note found him at your house, Irene,
where he had gone to ask your aid as
peacemaker. Odd. wasn't IT,"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28

WV 50 ~ Ao'N SNS
greets
The New Years dawn,
While we, with heads bowed low and
dull heartbeats.
Live sadly on.
Visions too grandly bright for mortal
gaze,
To her unfold
Blossoms each noble deed Of earthly
days.
In beauty's mold.
The glory of our Lord her eyes have
seen.
With undimmed sight,
Safe in His presence dear. she dwells
serene
And knows no night.
She clasps the hands Of loved ones
waiting there
On Heavens shore.
With them she treads those streets 30
wondrous fair.
In rapture DER.
In glad surprise, Joyous and pure and
free,
Her soul so blest.
Solves the deep mystery OF eternity
And perfect rest.
Isabel l.. Boardman. in N. Y. CD
server.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
Merely an Official Form.

He wished me a happy New Year;
The words would have tickled me.
but
| knew from his bearing austere
l was booked for a salary cut
Chicago Record.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28
what Can You Expect?

There was a bargain sale OF GLOVES
in one OF the uptown stores the other
day. One woman who had considered
herself fortunate in being in the front
rank in the bargain counter rush was
much %disgruntled when she reached
home to find that both gloves were
for the same hand. She took them
back and explained. What can you
expect at such a pr" asked the
girl Of whom the purchase had been
made, In a deprecatory .toneA-New
York Times.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-28

A law In dents
to keep street mus III soSs, 3ON FROM
heir houses. Ra3.M
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
FIRST LAFAYETTE COIN.
An American Woman Forms Initial Impress of Nations New
 Dollar.

On the one hundredth anniversary of the death of George Washington the first La Fayette dollar was coined by the
 United States treasury in 'he Philadel- phia mint. the honor of coining the new money falling 10 the lot of Miss CIerv. of the Quaker city.
 Speaking of her work, she said:
 ''I was so embarrassed with all the people looking at me that l could hard ly slip the unstamped coin in the groove.
 Everyone was standing so close and l knew Superintendent Boyer, Director Roberts and Engraver Barker were watching me. My hand was shaking so that l felt convinced l would drop the silver on the floor"
 Miss Clery felt the dramatic moment even more keenly than the audience. Five men stood behind her ready to turn the great, Old-fashioned press. The round silver discs soon to become veri- table treasures to the numismatist were heaped up in her lap.
 At her side Mir. Thompson, secretary of the commission, was talking. Grouped around him stood those high est in authority. Mir. Roberts. keen faced, gray-haired, erect, confident; NIT. Boyer, anxious, watchful; Mir. Bar Der. holding his powerful glass waiting to examine the imprint of the first coin.
 Someone said: At this hour on the day the great Washington died we coin the first La Fayette dollar in honor of his foster brother"
 Then came the signal, "Go on," and everyone held their breaths for a mo- ment.
 Miss Clery put in the silver disc.
 Five men swung the wheels; there was a jar and hitch somewhere; the master gave a few quick orders-and that dollar, for which 5000 other dol lars were offered-came out of the ma chinery and was handed to the engrayer for inspection.
 Tt is all right" said the glad voice of the man who had been working on this design since March.
 Director Roberts took it in the name l of President Mckinley, and those who | saw it knew that they had watched one | of the great coins of the world struck. |
 President Mckinley will present it to the president of France, and it will here after repose in a S1 ,OOO case.
 Miss Clery was delighted at her for tune in being appointed to the task. 'he said it was the most memorable n.o- nent of work in her life.
 She completes 5O,OOO of them before he task is over, and each dollar is to be old by the American commission for wo dollars
 This S1OO,OOO will be Americas gift to he great equestrian statue of La Fav- tte to be erected for the French expo itiOn.
 The dollar designed by Mir. Barber as the prOfiles of Washington and La 'ayette Overlaid on one side; on the re- erse is copy of the La Fayette statue s it will be.-Chicago Chronicle.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
CHINESE GOING HOME.
Large Numbers Who Have Died Abroad in Recent Years VIII
 He Sent to China

All the overland trains arriving at
 Seattle these days bear contingents of Chinese homeward bound. During a recent week at least 400 of the Mon golians left Seattle for Victoria, from which port they were to sail for Hong- kong.
 Next year is to be a big one in the history of China, and this isl the chief cause of the great exodus. It is then that the ''SiN Companies" in America
 will superintend the shipment of the bones ot dead Chinese to China. Rep resentatives of the empire will be sent to all foreign lands for the same pur- rose, and the beginning of 1900 will witness impressive ceremonies con nected with the reinterment of the bones in the soil of the FIowery King dom on a more elaborate scale than ever before
 During a period beginning about the middle of January, so an old gray headed Chinaman stated, and lasting urtil the middle of March or April. the people in all parts of the empire will observe a sacred holiday. During it's progress lasts and symbolic rites will be observed, and during all this time the tasll of laying the bones in new resting places will be carried on. It is to witness these ceremonies that a large number of Chinese are iour- neying across the Pacific
 Another class is going home, never to return, and among these, it is said. are many of the better class of Can ionese to he found in this country. They are those who have grown rich in America, and. finding old age com ing on, are anxious 10 go home and spend the remainder of their days in ease and comfort. Among a party of l l2 arriving the other day at least two Were wortLtS25, ,OOO in American gold. ! Ihfs in hong-Kong, or further in the interior, where a great majority are going, will not only be an immense | fortune, but will raise the pOssessors | n the social scale to the highest de- ! gree, and may result in royal favors md the comforting of rank and title | Seattle Post-Intellgencer.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
Necessity is he Mother of hvention. ''

# evaS the necessity for an honest, reliable blood purifier and tonic that brought into existence Hoods Sarsapa- rilla. # s a highly concen- trated ertract prepared By a combination, proportion and process peculiar 10 itself and giOfng to Hood'S s SarsaparfHa unequalLed curative po1ver. Ifs FOonderfd record of cures Has made q Anlericas Greatest Medicine.
 Rosy Cheeks -" haVe good health and rosy cheeks, harks 10 Hoods SarSaparala. # budds me up and saOes doctor bdLs." Mary 4. Burke, EaSt Car s., HdfanzpoGs. Ind.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
Deafness Caano1 be Cured

By local applications, as they eanLot reach the diseased portion Of the ear There is only one way to cure deafness. and that Is by constitu- tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in 6amed condition Of the mu- ,>ous lining of the Eustachian tnbe. When this tube gets infamed, you have a rumbling sound or imperfect airing, and when u Is entirely closed, deafness Is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, nearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. which is nothing but au inilamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
 We will give Oue Hundred Dol lars for any cas- Of Drafness (caused by catarrh) tbat caBuor be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure Send for cir culars, free.
 F. J. CHENEY X Co.,,
 Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Draggists, 75r.
 Halls Family Pills arg the best,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
An Esyptian Flower Show

Under the patronage of the khedive of Egypt, who is rare lover of garden ing, an exhibition is to take place at Ghezireh, Cairo, on March 20 and 31 and April ,.19OO, at which Americans are especially invited to be competitors. A programme in very good English has been prepared, which may be had by addressing w. Wilfred Carey, secretary. Kasr-el-Doubara, Cairo, Egypt. Carna- tions, lilies, pansies, phloX, stocks, vio- lets, roses and any good thing not specified" are among the special arti- cles to be exhibited by florists, for which silver medals and sums of money are offered.-N. I. Journal.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
LUNG AND CHEST PROTECTORS
MOUNTAIN CITY DRUG STORE.

~ Mermaid Washing Powder is a
 large package, one-thlrd
 stronger than any on the
 market. See prize coupons
 jn all packages. All gro
 ceTs handle 1t.
 Lost-Dec. 3I, 1899, Lightweight. black cape ribbon tie; lost between Congregational church and post of- flee or between post office aud 532 Shelton street. via Willis street Re- turn to this office. l-7-tf Dr. Ralph ]. Roper, dentist, has opened an office iu office row and is prepared jo do any work connected HEiih modern dentistry. Dr. Roper IS a graduate of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. and is fully equipped fer the practice of his pro fession. 12-l5tf
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
Railroading Patents.

a s'ngis firm of Pqt'nt lewyers, C. :. Snow < Co, ol \ ..a..ington, D. C.. have ID the last year procured l63O patents for their clients, many of rhem for rejected inventions. C.. 4. Snow & Co. have been accused of railroading patents through the Patent oiiica, but they insist that this iocomotion is better than OK cartinJ them. for by the lhtter pro- cess the inventor often di $ before le gets patent. | 9-m3
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07
A Reunion of Volunteers.

Tarra Vili Joe a reunion banquet given bv the Arizona officers and men of the iajn First Territorial U. $. Voluntary Infantry. C ]. M. H. Mel 'ori'- regiment, at PEenix, on th- evening of February l5. the an niv..sarv of our muster out of the service. to which all Of the members of the late First Territorial are in vited. An effort is being made to get reduced rates to PheniX.
 J. N. CRENsHAw, Secretary.