The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-02-09

the following year, 1915, the deed was
done. The southern herd had been
swept from the face of the earth; the
northern herd went in the same way.
In 1882 it was believed that there were
100000 buf1alocs alive in the herd,
but there were at least 5000 white
hunters at every point. Such 4 merci-
! less war of determination was never
before witnessed in q civilized land
Then came 1888: thousands took the
field this year and Sitting Bull and
some whites had the honor of killing
the last 10000.
There were living at the last Gov
ernment census, made eight years ago,
256 pure-blooded bulfaloes in captivity
the last of the untold millions that COW
cred this continent during the past cen
tury Scientific american.
CHARACTE IN ONES VOICE.
Unless the voice sounds cordiality
words are powerless; unless the voice
attests self confidence protestatons do
not convince: unless the voice speaks
sincerity the apology is useless. 1t is
necessary that we should control the
voice to reflection Of that phase of
mind and mood which we desire to pre-
sent When we would convince pco-
pie Of or efficiency, we must not per-
NIT a week kneed voice to stagger un-
der the words. When our heart goes
out in warmth and affection, it cannot
get far in a brass lined, iron bound
voice. Cancellation is vain when the
voice rings defiance.
Imagine yourself at telephone
when the instrument whirs and wheezes
The most impassioncd appeal to John
to come home to dinner and meet
Cousin Mary is likely to prove inetfect-
ual. a message to that ''brute of a
dressmaker man" who wants his money
may be divided into the receiver with
all dignity of tone and choice of word,
but the wabbled reproduction at the
other end does not 90. You may use
all your most dulcet tones and most
expressive words when You are talking
through the possessed wire to the MANA
ger, but if the possessed wire is in a
creaky fit the business manager does
not get the right idea at all.
The truth is that most of us are al
ways talking through a telephone.
The honest will, the corteous intent,
the high heart of courage, speaks clear
and sweet and strong, but the unified
wheezy, creaky, thin, unnatural, color
less result at our lips misrepresents us,
and Jonh doesn't, the dressmaker man
insists, and the business manager gives
the other fellow the job.
What can we do about it? The diff
ficulty is almost always first a voice
habit-a color the voice has taken on
from some prevailing tint in our life.
This is so with almost every one. This
stain of the natural voice color is rot
voice individuality; it is q modifying
of voice individuality, an ohscuring for
it. 1t is habit, not characteristic.
1t must be got rid Of
Only inst what you want must go
INTO Your voice Think of that little.
When YOU call to the child W ho stands
on the edge of fall, shall yonr panic
go into your voice or just the reassur-
ing note of gentle authority that you
know will bring the child to you in
stead Of startling it over the dreadful
edge? When you interview the insub-
ordinate cook, shall your sense that
she very well deserves to be thrown
out of your back door and her trunk
on top of her prevail in your voice or
your earnest desire to keep her in hand
till after tue impending dinner? When
you face just the personality in your
world who holds at the minute your
fortunes in his gift, shall your sick
sense that he does not know and may
not believe in your fitness for what
you are going to ask color your voice,
or shall your firm belief that you can
fill the place characterize it? That is
the whole question. Shall your voice
vibrate tc such quality of your mood
as YOU choose, or shall it be at the
mercy Of just what will do you an
! injustice in the minds of those who
hear!
Marie" he cried passionately, rs he
threw himself at the rich widows feet,
will you be my wife?'
Yes, John" she murmured, putting