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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-22

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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
B y F. AL ES
AL MOST EXTINCT

The American buffalo is fast disap-
pearing from the earth. 1t is estimated
that there are now remaining alive in
the world only 1924 of these noble
beasts, 684 of which are in captivity.
But it is not possible to be exact in
such statement, inasmuch as the wild
survivors cannot be rounded up and
counted. In the densely wooded re-
gions between the Saskatchewan and
Peace rivers, in British Columbia, are
several hundred buffalo; there are
twenty or so perhaps in the desert
Panhandle region of northwest Texas
and in the Yellowstone national park
there are fifty or sixty more, it is
believed. There are none at liberty
anywhere else.
These few remaining wild bison are
being steadily reduced in number. In
British Columbia they are being
killed off gradually by the Indians,
while those in the Yellowstone park
are potted by poachers whenever the
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
MEN OF MIDDLE AGE

Let those who are young cease to
vaunt themselves and they who are Of
middle age rejoice. Research has
proved that the human mind is at it's
fullest power between the ages of 40
and 60. There are, Of course, excep-
tiOns to this rule such as Byron, the
young Napoleon and Alexander, but
taking it full and by" the prime age
of the mind of man is between 40 and
GO. Swift was 40 when he wrote Gull
liver's Travels, and John Stuart Mill Sc
when his essay on Utilitarianism was
published, although his Liberty was
written three years before. When Wa
verley came out Sir Walter Scott was
A years old, and nearly all of those
tales which have made his lasting fame
as novelist were written after he was
46. Millions genius made its lofti-
est flights when he was between "a and
So. 1t was between those years that he
wrote Paradise Lost. The Task and
John Gilpin were written when Cowper
was over so, and Defoe was within
two years Of 60 when he wrote Robin
son Crusoe OF all the writing of
Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
Carriage
Makers

The rapid strides made by the manu-
facturers OF wood working machinery
have changed completely the fitting of
the carriage woodshop of the present
day, says the Hub. Fifty years ago
one Of the largest and best fitted wood
shops in the country was advanced SO
far that it was provided with a cir
cular saw, an upright saw hung on the
gate method, and a wheel boxing ma
chine, worked by hand power. All tim
Der that was to be planned by machin-
cry was sent to shop where there was
circular planer and saws, the pro-
prietor of which confined his attention
entirely to planning and saving for
carriage, wagon and cabinet factories
and carpenters and builders. Three
years later an enterprising machinist
set up head knife for dressing up the
heavy timbers, and the woodworkers
In the cities began to get rid of some
OF his heaviest work, but he of the
country shop sawed out his shafts,
poles, felloes, etc., by hand. Then a
set OF rip and crosscut saws, which
saws, small and large, constituted an
important part of the woOdworker's
KIT. We recall prosperous shop in
an inland town where there were fif-
teen woodworkers. Through the center
or this shop was row of fine chop
ping blocks, with their broadaxes for
hewing heavy timbers, spokes, etc.
The axle makers (the axles being all
OF wood, the wheel makers, the body
makers and the men of all work &C.
cupied benches in the one shop. Not
piece OF power machinery was used;
even the grindstone had to be turned
oy the youngest apprentice; men
worked eleven and twelve hours a
day. The best wheel maker was able
to make one set of buggy wheels a
week. The man who made a single
seat phaeton body Of pattern similar
TO the Queen in one week was look
ed upon as a marvel of speed, and all
other work was accomplished in about
the same proportion of time. Wages
ranged from 81 to $12 a week, except
tor the wheel ma kers; these got 81 to
"a more, according to their skill and
speed. The apprentice boy received
S25 a year and his board for the first
year, and $35, $50 and $S5 year for
the three years thereafter.
When the labor hours were reduced
to eleven day the year around en-
ployers cut down wages accordingly,
and there was visible reduction in
the yearly output. The life of the
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18

encounter that caused him consider
able embarrassment.
mr.. Westover, our youngest nov
elist, Miss Warren"
The serenity and self-containedness
Of the frail pretty girl before him was
in striking contrast to the blushing
stammering awkwardness OF the young
author. The clear blue eyes, however,
put him at his ease quickly and he
found himself lost in amazement at
how different the girl before him was
from the morbid woman with a past
he had pictured her.
Your letter. suppose may speak
OF twas very kind" her voice broke
musically in upon his semi-absorption;
but there are some things in your
book would like to talk to you about.
May I?'
Westover found himself in a quiet
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
WONDERFUL ADVANCE
MADE IN THEIR WORK,

youngest apprentice was hard one.
He did about al the rough work that
no one else would do; after that he
got bench. and then began to learn
his trade" but with all his disadvan-
tages he could, il he would, become an
expert workman, although he worked
on the "cut and dry rule. The work.
however. was of the hardest kind and
his wages small and these, small as
they were, were further reduced by his
being compelled to trade at the village
store. In this latter respect the jour-
neyman was little better off as he, too.
traded at the store, and was fortunate
indeed II he received IS in money each
week. We can call to mind the boy
who received $3.50 in money during
the first year. and the journeyman in
the same factory received 50 in cash a
week from January until July. and
replenished their impoverished pock
etbooks by working in the harvest
fields for the neighboring farmers.
How different then and now! We enter
the carriage woodshop OF today, and
we see nothing Of the Old-time fittings.
neither do We see the apprentice. The
wheel maker is missing, and in
place of rough plank and thick panel
boards we find the workman supplied
with his framework timber dressed to
thickness, and not infrequently en-
tirely dressed to pattern, his panel
boards all planed to a thickness, and
around him all manner of appliances
to facilitate his work. We are not re-
ferring to the wholesale factory, where
machinery fits almost everything
ready for gluing or screwing together
but in the shop Of the custom builder
we see power machinery that relieves
the workman of much of the heavy
labor. The shop Is arranged to insure
comfort in winter as well as in sum-
mer, and the sanitary conditions are
such as to protect the health of the
Workmen. The manufacturer Of today
has learned the Importance of caring
for the convenience. comfort and
health OF the employees. Wages are ar
ranged on more equitable basis; the
store order is thing Of the past; the
wages earned are paid in cash, and
the workman is free to buy where he
will. His hours of labor are reduced
and fixed by law. Not only are the
wages higher than they were fifty
years ago, but the buying power Of the
individual dollar is, with the single ex-
ception OF house rent, higher, and in
every way the worker is better stu
ated than he was then.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18

knew. He had q very definite notion
that he had spent by far the greater
part Of the evening in the society Of
Miss Warren.
That night in the seculsion of his
chambers, over his cigar. he came not
unwillingly to the conclusion that aft.
er all:
What is to be is to. be, and it seems
to me that the fates have ordained
that l should create heroine for my
self. Either l am in love or am drift
Ing relentlessly towards that happy
state of mind. OF course marriage is
the to-be-expected outcome of love
and for a young man struggling for
fame and fortune sympathetic wife
Is great helper, constant incent-
i've" and thus he proceeded to adapt
his views to the altered state of his
circumstances.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
LITTLE MORE THAN A
THOUSAND OF THESE
ANIMALS in EXISTENCE

chance offers. A mounted head of one
OF these animals is today worth from
$3.50 to 5000, and a skin brings a good
price. Ten years ago there were
nearly 400 buffalo in the park and it
is thought that the survivors can be
preserved only by corraling them and
reducing them to captivity.
c. J. Jones, better known as "Buf-
falo' Jones, of Oklahoma, has a herd
of over 100 full-bred buffalo, which he
wishes to sell to the government. Aus
tin Corbin was the possessor of ninety
bison, which have been more or less
scattered since his death, some of
them having been presented to New
York city. The animals, when kept in
captivity, show tendency to increase
in numbers, and Buffalo Jones has pro-
duced thousands Of desirable cross
breeds from his herd.
1t Is stated that there are not 10
pure-bred American bison outside of
this country
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
GUESSING AT THE ADS

Form of Puzzle Working Devised Inv "a
New York Young Woman.
A new game is being played on the
upper west side by young people, says
the New York Sun. 1t is an outgrowth
or the immense amount of pictorial
advertising which is being done in all
the newspapers, magazines and street
cars and elevated trains. Almost all
articles which have a sale that is
more than purely local, whether they
be books, cOrsets, gloves, magazines,
crackers, pickles, hair tonics, stove
polishes, or liniments, have nowadays
some pictures which have become
Identified with them in the public
mind through seeing them in all sorts
OF public places. This led certain
young woman, who was at loss for
something new to do for an evenings
entertainment to work out game
She collected lot of magazines and
cut from the back pages all the ad-
vertising pictures, carefully removing
any hint of the article advertised
which was not part of the picture
A.oSAA' AASA DIG Sc1cCLeu JulILy-SlX OF
them and pasted them on cards. Civ
ing to each number. These she
strung around her parlors and when
her guests arrived they were put at
work to find out what the pictures adj
vertisad. Some of the pictures were so
familiar that the task was not difficult
and yet it was surprising to find how
confusing it all was to the puzzle
workers. Pictures that seemed fami-
liar were mighty elusive when it
came to identifying them among
thirty-six others. The soap ads got
dreadfully mixed up, and so did the
hair restorers. If the pictures were
ever published labeled the way most
of. the guests guessed there would
have followed a whole lot of trade
mark infringement suits. The girls
were very much better at the work
than the young men. presumably be-
cause the articles advertised were
mostly household things and SO of
more interest to the fair sex than to
their brothers. OF the thirty-six pic
lures the highest number guessed was
twenty-five and this was by one of the
young women.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
CAPTIVATING sHlRrwAlsrs.
There Are Many ChsrminE and Accent.
able Spring Styles. a

There Are Many Charming and Accent.
able Spring Styles. q
There is no genuine shirtwaist
weather yet, but womankind is evil
IDENTIFY determined to be equipped for
the pleasant season when it does come
Petticoated purchasers now stand
three deep about the counters where
the new cotton blouses are displayed.
Shirt manufacturers have learned to
cater to every taste by producing no
less than dozen varieties of this in
valuable garment, ranging from the
perfectly plain percale and duck to
organdie and fancifully trimmed silk
madras garments. There is no tenden.
cy to reinaugurate the use of the
stiff white linen collar. Contrasting
and fanciful neckties hang cheek by
jowl with the shirts, and no woman
can escape the hint Sleeves, as is only
natural. are inclined to the bishop
shape, to wrist puffs or double cuff eff.
fects, and bosoms still pouch a little
and hang in soft fullness. Last au-
tumn, when the new flannel waists
were put on the counters, the women
who rushed in to buy turned away in
disgust, for the manufacturers had
daringly tried to force a tight fitting
shirt. The sacrificial sales of tight
flannel shirtwaists now forced at the
retail shops have impressed the mer-
chants with a sense of their own help
lessness in choosing the mode, and
among the percale and toll du nord,
and brown batiste and colored French
linen shirts not one basque-like model
is seen.
Pretty sailor blouses are evidently
going to play a part this spring, for
dozens of charming white and colored
cotton examples are being brought up
decorated with collar, cuffs. a tiny
steel blue linen blouse of this variety.
opening over vest of finely tucked
white linen and decorated with big
white cut pearl buttons. A rival to
this is shirt of soft toll du nord.
decorated with collar, cuffs, tiny
yoke and broad front band of exceed
lngly coarse cream linen lace edged
with narrow cream linen braid. and
third noticeably popular model is
made OF bingham in blue, brown, red
or green embroidered in dots of a con-
trasting color and made up with en-
broidered bands that echo the two
colors in the material itself,-Bostop
Globe.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18

blankly at the wall in an endeavor to
collect his thoughts and adequately
consider the situation presented to
him. In a moment the humorous as
pect of the affair dawned upon him and
he laughed quizzically.
Zone Of the delights of novel-writ-
dng." he murmured aloud: lis to run
across some hysterical woman who
finds your book mirror of her past.
II I am expected to reply to all such
my hands will be full. Yet what a
splendid answer to the critics.
His better and more sympathetic
nature, however, for as yet he was not
experienced enough to be callous, as
serted itself. and he penned a duly
consolatory letter to Miss Germyn
Warren.
4 week later Paul Westover had an
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
MENTAL POWERS ARE
STRONGEST BETWEEN
THE AGES OF 40 AND 60

and The Bridge of Signs are the best
known and will live the longest. Hood
wrote these two poems at the age OF
46
Darwin wrote his Origin of Species,
when he was SO. and was 62 when he
gave the world his Descent Of Man.
Longfellow wrote Hiawatha at As, and
Oliver Wendell Holmes gave us Songs
OF Many Keys when he had passed his
55th birthday. George Eliot was near
80 when she wrote Middlemarch. Ba-
cons greatest book took SO years to
mature, and Grote's History of Greece
several years longer.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
A erROL.LINC SINGER.
(By Charlotte Becker.)

A 0TROLLNG SINGER.
(By Charlotte Becker)
He sang along the woodland paths
When all the world was warm and
gay,
The birds half Knocked him overhead,
The shadows cooled his greenlit way.
''The earth was sweet with growing
things,
The vintage promised full and fair;
And one with eyes like larkspur buds.
And garnered sunlight in her hair,
STOOD watching by the lick trees.
A glow. . welcome in her eyes.
He sank. too tired, at her feet
And smiled through wistful little signs.
Dear love- he said, I cannot live.
shall not see the morrow's sun.
But am fortunate to die
While yet my loving Is not done.
And weep no foolish tears for me.
But when the vines with gold are
hung
Think, life was very good to him.
For he had lived. and loved, and
sung"
-Ainslee's Magazine.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
Uncle Sam Recognizes His Own.

An old tin pan with a IS bill pasted
on the bottom was found in a pile OF
rubbish in Bowdoinham, Me. The find
er cut the bottom out of the pan and
sent 1t to the United States treasury
in Washington, and later received a
new five in return.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18
4 Coincidence and a Recon.
sideration.
BY J. P. COUGHLIN.

BY J. p. COUGHLIN.
copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Paul Westover had every reason to
congratulate himself upon the success
of his new book. The public received
it with gratifying approval, and the
critics bestowed upon it well-tempered
commentator. Being first-born,
however, the critics felt bound to pa
tronize both 1t and its writer in their
customary paternal fashion, and while
lauding its other excellent qualities
they pointed out and dwelt upon the
un-realistic improbabilities of the
main incidents in which Mr.. West
overs heroine was centered.
That this should be so was only
natural: Mr.. Westover was ridicu-
lousy young to know anything of the
dmpenetrable feminine, and yet he had
dared to make Gertrude Warner" the
story OF a woman's life, a story of
many strange phases, and of curious
though incorrect, said the reviewers,
1nsights into the workings of a young
girls mind.
Westover was almost on the point
OF accepting the critics dictum. He
had fancied that his portrayal of Ger
trude Warner was we'll and clearly i'm
agined, but after all what could he, a
bachelor and impressionable, know of
women. The reviewers must be right.
Gertrude Warner was falsely drawn.
But there was at least one person
who did not think with the reviewers.
The newly-fedged author received in
his mail from his publishers a long
letter that was truly startling to his
self possession. Its full length may
not be given here but it's gist is con-
talned in a couple of paragraphs.
You are evidently very intimately
acquainted with the story of the dark
est passages in my life, but surely it
was unnecessary that the details
should be made public SO faithfully
and so callously. would like to think
that your story was purely a coinci-
dence and evolved entirely from your
own imagination, but the details up to
the denouement, in every particular,
are so carefully true to fact that l
have no other course than to believe
that some unworthy recipient of my
confidence has in an idle moment be-
trayed my unhappy history.
DOUBTLESS you will admit that l
have at least the right of asking an
explanation, the more especially, see
ing that you have even given to your
novel a title so like the name borne
by her who asks it.
"GERMYN WARREN"
MISSIONER finished the reading of this
letter with a rue expression. He
whistled softly to himself and looked
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18

The years of dwarf may be many,
yet he never lives long.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
Cleaning and Polishing Brass.

There are many substances and mix
lures used for cleaning and polishing
brass. Oxalic acid is the best, but it
must be Immediately washed off and
the brass dried and rubbed with sweet
oil and some polishing powder, other
wise it will soon tarnish again. A very
good preparation for polishing is made
of one ounce of oxalic acid, two ounces
rotten stone, an ounce and a half
sweet oil, and turpentine, enough to
make a paste. When used, a little
water is added and the brass is rubbed
vigorously with this. Brass work that
is SO dirty by smoke and heat as not
to be cleaned with oxalic acid, should
be thoroughly washed or scrubbed with
soda or potash I've. Then apply mix
ture of equal parts of nitric acid sui
phuric acid, and water, with swab
made by tying piece of cloth to the
end of stick, rubbing the solution
over the dirty or smoky parts. Leave
the acid on Tor minute, then wash
clean and polish. Care must be taken
not to get any of this acid mixture on
the hands or clothes as it is very cor
rosive.-Montreal Herald and Star.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
MARQUIS OF LANsDowNE,
The Only Man In the British Cabinet
Who Could Speak French.

The Only Man In the British CabIne,
Who Could Speak French.
When the Marquis of Lansdowne was
encouragement of Canada he had to
make speech to the French-Cana-
dians. says M. A. P. With all its 10y
atty to the English connection, this
little bit of transported France adheres
very rigidly to many things French and
especially to the purity of the French
tongue-at least as it was spoken in
the eighteenth century. Few viceroys
have ever ventured accordingly to
leave the safe security Of the English
tongue. and Twas with some treuida.
ton that the French-Canadians heard
that Lord Lansdowne was going to de-
liver speech to them in their own
language. But he had scarcely uttered
the word "messieurs" when the whole
audience burst into cheers; they rec
ognized at once the accent of the true
French tongue, the accent only posi-
Bile to man of French blood, and one
who had spoken French as his mother
tongue. 1t is perhaps this accomplish
ment which had something to do with
Lord Lansdowne's latest appointment.
When some one demonstrated with
Lord Salisbury for retaining the two
Offices of prime minister and foreign
secretary, his reply was that he could
not help himself, there was but one
member of his cabinet who could
speak French, and that was Lord
Lansdowne. And now Lord Lansdowne
will receive the foreign ambassadors
every Wednesday afternoon, and what
ever else may be found fault with, his
French will be faultless. Lord Lans-
downe's mother was daughter of Gen.
Flahalt, one of Bonapartes officers
Toronto Star.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
interested In what the future might
hold in store for the two whose love-
story was being enacted before her

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interested In what the future might
hold in store for the two whose love-
story was being enacted before her
eyes.
Sometimes she suspected that the
passion of devotion must always have
been more on her side than his His
manner to her was gracefully affection
ate; but for herself she felt that she
would have demanded something
warmer from the man she was going
to marry.
shall go to India with a much
easier mind now that l know Clarice
has some one with her who will make
her life SO bright" said Captain Meri-
vale one afternoon. as they Were re-
turning from walk by the sea,
1T is good of you to say that" Jan
eta answered II need not assure
you that I'll do everything l can to
make Miss Seymour happy. She's the
kindest friend l ever had. and I'm
glad I've got to know you so we'll. l
like to think that, when she cts bet
ter and you marry, shall feel that
may keep you both as friends"
Captain Merivale did not answer TO!
a minute, and Janetta glanced up a
him little uneasily, and saw tina.
he had turned rather white.
Yes" he said carelessly, we've
been capital friends ever since we met
IN that curious way on the railway,
and pulled you through the window.
Janetta felt puzzled and hurt by his
manner. His tone was studiedly in
different, and he referred pointedly to
what had been. rather than to what
might be in the future. She thought,
with bitter modification, that in her
eager sympathy with him and Clarice
she had proffered friendship which had
evidently been regarded as an impert.
inence.
with all my boasted independence,
I've forgotten my position" she said
to herself reddening with vexation;
but her resolve was taken at the risk
OF vexing Clarice, she would have no
more walks Or talks with Captain
Merivale.
She did not make her way as usual
to Clarice's room that afternoon when
she came in from her walk. She felt
as in her inward annoyance might find
expression in her face. She was con-
slderably surprised as she entered her
bedroom to hear the quick shutting Of
drawer, and Mason, with some APP
pearance of confusion, began to close
the window and draw the blind.
Janetta was certainly not suspicious
by nature. but the girls manner made
her feel certain that she had been
tampering with her things.
(To be Continually