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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-01
pie. Cured without the Knife.

Itching Blind Eiecding rrutrudinE plies
Your druggist Will refund your money II PAZ,
OINTMENT fails TO cure you. 10 cents.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
MarshAl Who Has
Killed Many
Bad Men.

He stuck to his resolution, and he did
not lose his life. either. But he had
several narrow escapes. He was punc-
tured by bullets until his frame could
be used for sieve" and he had his
blood spilled in many fight but
not enough of it at any one time to
make him bite the dust. While tho
desperadoes were making 1t interest
ing for Bruner he was keeping them
busy He was a dead shot. and when
ever he pulled the trigger on his man
1t meant separation Of soul and
body. There was no discount on that.
Bruner began to hunt down the des-
peradoes. The first one he killed was
buried in a grove south of Tahlequah.
The second one was also laid there.
And so it went until the carcasses of
twenty-eight bad men who had met
death at the hands of Bruner while
he was acting in the line of duty were
buried in that grove. A rail fence was
run around the graves and the ceme-
terry was named Burners graveyard"
Only one grave in the yard Is marked
with marble stone. That Is the grave
of a noted horse thief. His pals chip
ped in and bought the tombstone be-
cause he was good fellow" All
the rest of the graves are marked with
wooden slabs. Many of them are in
closed with slab fences, while others
are inclOsed with rails laid in hog
pen fashion. After Bruner got his
graveyard pretty we'll filed up the des-
peradoes began to realize that he
meant business, and whenever one
would hear that Bruner wanted him
he would come into town and give
himself up rather than run the risk Of
being the next one to occupy space in
Burners graveyard. From that time
on Bruner had an easy time. He had
accomplished his object. He had driv-
en- the entering wedge in the civili1
cation of the toughest country the sun
ever shOne on.--kansas City Journal.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
He Was Correct Enough.

In certain regiment was an expert
gymnast, who taught his brother sub
alterns how to walk across the barrack
room on their hands. While thus en-
gagged one evening the door opened,
and the colonel, stern disciplinarian,
entered the room, looking attentively
at the inverted company, shook his
head gravely and departed without ut
tering word. Extra parade duty next
morning was the least punishment ex-
pected for this breach of discipline.
Some days passed, however, and, no
notice being taken, it was thought
that an apology and explanation
should be offered by the prime insti-
gator of these unsoldierly movements.
A reference being made to the evening,
the colonel amazed the intending apol-
ogist by exclaiming: Hush, my dear
fellow, would not have anybody know
1t for the world. The fact is, l had
been dining out with an old brother
officer who had served with me in In
dia, and pom my life had no idea the
wine could have such effect upon me;
but when looked in to see if you were
all right in your quarters l could have
sworn that / saw you all upside
down! "-Tid-Bits
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
Grow Careless
Of Danger
Constant Handling
of Explosives Make
Men Reckless,

was liable to explode the dynamite,
and | ordered him sternly to stop and
never to repeat such performance.
The proper method would have been
to have drilled a new hole near by and
exploded the first cartridge with Sec
ond blast. He Obeyed sullenly ,grumb-
ling to himself, and in less than a
month afterward was blown up while
doing exactly the same thing. He
lost his left arm at the shoulder. his
lett eye and part of his left ear. He al
SO lost his contempt for dynamite,
and when he finally emerged from the
hospital | gave him back his former
job. l never had a more scrupulolsly
careful employe than he was from
that time on. 1t seems brutal thing
to say, but there is nothing that does
an old dynamite hand as much good
as to get blown up once or twice."
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
HAS HIS
GRAVEYARD

Hec Bruner. a United States marshal
of Indian territory in the early days,
enjoys the rare distinction of having
cemetery named after him. And the
strange part OF it is that no one is
buried there except his own victims
There are twenty-eight mounds in the
cemetery. Under each lies the bones
OF some bad man who brushed up
against Bruner and got the orst Of it.
When Bruner was marshal the In
dian territory was about as wild as
country ever gets. 1t was filled
with horse thieves. cattle thieves, train
robbers and desperadoes of all kinds.
A law abiding peaceable citizen did
not stand much show. Murders were
SO common that they were not con-
sidered news. Thefts attracted no at
tention whatever except from the ones
who suffered loss. The country was
run as near along anarchistic lines as
the most ardent anarchist of New York
or Madrid could hope. Little atten-
ton was given to the consent of the
governed" The desperate with the
quickest movement of his shooting
hand and the most nerve ruled the
roost. That was the condition until
Hec Bruner was appointed United
States marshal. When he took charge
Of the Office he decided to revolutionize
things and make Indian territory "a
good place to live in" His friends
laughed at him, although they knew
he had nerve. To go up against the
notorious gangs Of the country, they
said, was foolishness. 1t might result
In cleaning out gang or two, but in
the end would result in the marshal
being wiped off the map. What was
the use to endanger ones own life in
order to make trouble for the desper-
ADDE'S, they would ask. To this Bruner
replied that he would drive the open
ing wedge toward civilizing the terri
tory if it cost him his life the first day.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
Mother Hints

Mothers often complain that their
babies do not appear really ill. and yet
do not grow and look as healthy as
they should. The Difference between a
healthy and an unhealthy child is very
marked. A perfectly healthy baby
sleeps great deal of the time during
the first few months of it's life, and
when it is asleep wears an expression
of absolute and blissful repose. The
little eyelids are completely closed, the
lips very slightly parted and the
breathing is rhythmic and scarcely to
be heard. There is no visible move
ment of the nostrils in the healthy
baby while sleeping. When a young
baby sleeps with the eyelids incom-
pletely closed, SO that the whites of
the eyes show, be sure that something
is wrong. When the baby's rest is
broken by pain, even collie. the eyelids
will twitch. and the eyes will not COM
pletely close. But the same symptoms
indicate often the appearance of a Sc
we're illness. SO that the mother should
always be on guard.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25

After a miner has handled dyna-
mite for eight or ten years without a
serious mishap it is good idea TO
put him to doing something else about
the works." says one who has had IA
great deal of experience with high ex-
plOsives. ''The chances are 100 to 1
that his long immunity from accident
has given him such contempt for
danger that he is an unconscious men
ace to everybody on the premises. He
will do things that not only imperil his
own life. but the lives of his COM
rades. To give you an illustration,
| once had an old Cornishman at
work at a mine in which l was in
terested and had intrusted him with
a general supervision of all the blast
ing. He had been handling dynamite
for twenty years or more and was just
y regarded as an expert. During the
entire period he had never had an ac-
cident worth speaking of and by de-
grees the care and vigilance that were
responsible for his excellent record had
worn away until he was beginning to
entertain the delusion, common to old
hands, that the danger of the stuff
vas much exaggerated.
'One day l was passing through a
cut where some blasting had been 60
ing on and noticed the old Cornish
man hammering drill into what
seemed to be boring in the ground. I
asked him what he was doing and he
told me cody that there was a cart
ridge in the hole that had failed to
explode and that he@wa just knock
in out the tamping to reprime it. I
was Mortified, for at every blow he
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
North and South
They Go

The geographical prize OF the CEN
Jury is the discovery of the North Pole.
1t will be quite feather in the cap
Of the nation whose flag is first plant
I'd on the northern center of the earth s
axis. The United States Is a sharp
competitor for this prize. Lieutenant
Peary is now somewhere in the frozen
regions and intelligence from him is
anxiously awaited. Two European
countries are now represented there by
Capt. Sverdrup and Baron Toll. Mem
bers of one of these expeditions might
have already reached the coveted spot
Their return or a report from them is
quite certain during the summer. In
/ short time another American ex-
petition will start under command of
Evelyn e. Baldwin, who has had a
great deal of experience in Arctic ex-
plorations. William Ziegler of Phila-
ielphia has placed 81 900. 900 at the dis
posal of Capt Baldwin and no expense
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25

by determining to do SO Is possible
only to those souls whose fibres are
spun from steel and adamant.
To the conclusions thus. advanced
came Jason Fenwick on the morning
when he perceived with bitterness that
even those poor resources he had been
able to call his own had been drunk
and eaten all, leaving neither crumbs
nor lees behind. He had slept uneasily
in chair in an all-night saloon. fear
full of election from its warmth. tim
oro1s of approaching the unspeakable
free lunch" which, beneath the OBJ
servant eye Of the bartender, held out
its bawdy allurements only to those
who had 1.-The price," Jason didn't
have the price. and he knew better than
to invite the door by making unjusti-
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
The path Of reform and work should

The path Of reform and work should
now be his.
Suddenly, as If his brain had en-
countered live electric wire, came the
shocking, sickening thought that even
were this prize his very own he could
not use it. Its value was extreme.
How much he did not know, but his
trained experience had suggested at
the first rapid glance that it had cost
hundreds. Nevertheless, it was dross
in the hand which clutched it. Should
he try to pawn it. he would be ar
rested. Should he try to sell to any
reputable person he would be looked
upon with suspicion and refused. If
he took it to a fence" some 'Ievee"
thieves banker, he must accept the
tenth value which would be offered.
AS these reflections crushed him, his
head was bent again and once more
the wind stung him like whip.
Then a new idea came to him and
Jason turned westward and hurried to
the saloon across the court from the
public library. He seized a morning
paper and feverishly turned to the
Lost and Found "ads." All, here it
was the first thing:
LOsT-While driving in Michigan boule.
vard Thursday afternoon, between
gold watch. set with diamond wreath. 1t
is valued as souvenir and $3.50 will be
paid for its return to 299s Michigan ave
An hour later worn and tired man,
blue with cold. i'll from hunger.
grimed, unshaven, shivering, timidly
rang the electric bell at the vestibuled
doorway of No. 1895 He was SILVER
ing, partly in apprehension that he
would wake up and find he only
dreamed. A neat maid responded to
the summons. She looked him over in
dubity. Such callers were not usual.
II have found lady's watch" he
stammered. "and see by the
paper"
But the maid cut in on his speech.
She smiled graciOusly.
Miss Edith will be so glad" she
said. IF you will come in, sir, will
call her, if she is up"
He waited long, in a drawing room
whose aromatic breath made him
think of all the unforgetable past
and then there foated from behind the
portiere a divine vision of loneliness
arrayed in morning robe of cerulean
blue and looked upon him in the dim
light Of the drawing room. He had
risen, hat in hand, with his old court
ly grace, to greet lady.
Then, as he stared, speeches., the
vision swept with single undu-
lation to his very breast and threw
both of her fair arms about his neck.
ooh! Jason!" she cried, Have you
come at last?''
Edith was all he said, but being
mortal, he kissed her where she stood.
The law firm of Jennison and Fen.
wick has the reputation of dividing
the most lucrative practice in Illinois
courts, and especially is it's junior
member regarded by the members of
the bar which his talents adorn as one
of it's brightest lights
Miss Jennison's parents, you see, had
only recently purchased No. 2999, and
Jason didn't know it. In his case that
little knowledge would have been o
dangerous thing.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
Weird Tale from the Pacific Coast,

Weird Tale from the Pacific Coast.
The Chinese residents of North va
kima have many sacks Of rice supposed
to have been poisoned by the officials
and missionaries in China. One mer-
chant has twenty sacks put away, and
refuses to eat any or sell to the Chi
nese. Those who claim to know say
that at least $500 is invested in pois-
oned rice in that city. The rice is sold
to Americans, but the Chinese purchase
their supplies from local merchants
They say that six years after eating
the rice the victims die. The object
of the poison. 1t is said, is to kill off all
the Chinese in the United States.
Portland Oregonian.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
~
LIFE IS WHAT
r.,,.mt, =,
WE MAKE 1T

life is simply what we make it as we
hasten needless on
To the future that awaits us just beyond
the gilded dawn:
We can plant our path with roses, aye, or
water 1t with tears,
We can shadow it with sorrow that will
stay throughout the years:
We can make our neighbors happy with
laugh or with a song,
We can scatter sunshine always as
through life we pass along:
Life is simply what we make it; let us
make 1t bright and gay,
For the bird that carols sweetly gladdens
all the summer day.
Aye, life is what we make it, bright or
clouded DER with woe,
AS fate doth sweep the pendulum unceas-
ing to and fro:
Plant roses in your pathway, weed the
thistle from your door,
He in whose heart a laugh is born cannot
be counted poor:
So make life bright and merry, sunshine
never killed a flower,
And never came a smile amiss unto the
weary hour;
The birds doth fill with happiness the
meadows where they throng,
And we can set the world aglee with
laughter and with song.
II. C. HARBAUGH.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
Hardy Explorers
of Many Countries
Seeking Polar
Centers.

will be spared to insure the success OF
the undertaking.
An expedition is fitting out in Scot
land and another in Germany for trips
to the Antarctic regions. With the
knowledge and experience of the last
century to aid them, it is probable that
the scientists and explorers who are
starting in SO early this century will
come pretty near reaching, if they do
not reach, the two fiat areas of this old
earth's surface.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
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Jason's Golden Fleece.
BY WILLIAM BLOSS.

BY WILLIAM BLOSS.
Copyright 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
When a man has been dissolute for
long times together: when his friends
shun his approach lest he be about to
renew reiterated applications for lust
small loan, you know, old man.;
when his clothes have descended from
that sartorial alf-basement called the
shabby genteel to the sartorial sub
cellar denominated the ragged; when
even his kindred shun him; when the
lady who furnishes his cheap lodgings
1ntlmates that unless the unpaid rent
OF the last fortnight be forthcoming at
once, would he be SO kind as to give up
his key; when the lucent meal restau-
rant man with reluctance, but firmness,
advises that further line of credit
will be impossible in his case until
this old account which has been run
ming SO Longevity, then, what is a
man to do?
Broadcast among the paths lying be-
fore him run two. First, there is sui
eide. One always contemplates sui
eide under such conditions. Whether
one is remorsefully sober or sentiment
tally drunken, suicide is the solace
springing spontaneously to greet
thought. In theory it is easy-but in
practice only the desperate rush to its
chill embrace. The icy waters of the
lake and river do not WOO as did the
Paphian goddess. And among those who
nave made practice Of drowning it is
looked upon as disagreeable exercise.
Carbolic acid and rough on rats have
features most Objectionable
Besides, one has moral objections to
self-destruction. The church has cried
anathemas upon it. Society frowns
upon it by making its attempt penal in
some states. It is really not good form.
And then one owes duties, to others
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25

who might grieve. No. it must not be
thought Of. it is oisgraceful. determines
he in such case as has been made and
provided first herein.
True there is the dual path of reform
and work. Along its broad and
straight but steep and rocky way its
twin sign-posts stand side by side,
pointing with unbent fingers to the
temple Of hope shining afar in the
fields of ease. But the ascent is ardu-
Gus Nor is 1t SO easily undertaken.
II reform without work is fruitless.
equally true it is that work without
reform is profitless. And to achieve
the one and secure the other merely
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-25
A German Fashion Exhibit,

Germany will endeavor to be it's own
mold OF form and glass of fashion. :"
Berlin will soon see a fashion exhibit
by which it is hoped that special
fashions for German women will be
established. The managing commit
tee will include members Of the high
est society.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-08-03

you the people did me mighty good
turn when they gave me Mckinley for
a manager and Republican protection
Congress to back him up"
The old gentleman rubbed his hands
gleefully and seemed as jubilant as
boy In swimming.
''You have not said anything about
the big balance Of trade" remarked.
Don't need to; it speaks for itself"
tersely responded the happy man.
"But," he added, ''I'm prouder of those
figures than I can tell you. 1t isn't so
much the six hundred and thirty odd
millions to my credit, but it shows that
the people are expanding at home as
we'll as abroad, We are buying more
home made goods and getting more and
more independent Of the rest Of the
world every year. We can afford to
buy a few hundred millions worth Of
luxuries abroad, but want my people
to buy all they can at home, and 1
guess they all see the point"
And the old gentleman gave me a
merry wink as he went off with his
pockets crammed to overfowing with
coupons.-F. c., in American Econo-
mist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-08-03
CHAPTER Y,
braveSt.

Colin Morton and Robert Bracebridge
were under arrest. and as virtually pris-
oners as if they had been under guard
within the four walls of a Jail, instead of
being confined within the four log walls
of the Fort Clark guardhouse.
When they heard the crash and the
cry they forgot that they were prisoners.
Had the, been as free to act as Mai.
Germon they would have gone through
that window nevertheless, simply because
it was the shortest way to the shore.
There was no preconcerted action be-
tween them. Their conduct was the re-
suit of their own impulses.
The Arrow had struck On the rocks
about hundred yards from shore, and
the wind and the waves were now pound
ing her numerically.
Already spars, with tangles of cordage
about them, like gigantic kind of water
moss, were thrown upon the beach; and
barrels, coops and casks were being toss
ed like huge corks on the waves.
The first man Colin Morton met was
Judge Loring. He had thrown off his
coat and pulled off his boots, and was in
the act of leaping into the water, when
he found himself seized by the arm.
Release mer' he called out, desperate
ly. "Who are you?'
II am your friend replied Colin.
You can be no friend of mine! Let
go, Can't you see the wreck? My daugh-
ter-my Florence-my only child is on
her! l will save her or die!' And again
the judge tried to free himself
You may die said Robert Brace
bridge, now the very personifcaEon of
coolness; "for dying is an easy matter
here. But you cannot save your daugh.
ter, or any one else, in the way you pro-
pose"
81 must do something or l shall go
mad.' said the judge, coming back to rea-
son. ''HariI' to their cries! Oh, what
shall I do?"
Trust me and my friend said Colin,
"and when the time comes we will do
whatever is possible for men to do. 1t is
providence that it is growing lighter .
The soldiers under Capt. Phelps came
running down to the shore. and they were
scattered, with their ropes, where it was
thought they might be made available
Maj. Germon, enyeloped in a great
coat, came putting down to the beach
s~9n after the men, and his protruding
| eyes we're blinded to the ship By the ur-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-08-03
JUBILANI' UNCLE SAM
AWFULLY BUSY, BUT FINDS
TIME TO TALK.
Greatly Pleased at the Years. Report
Trade of ST, 500, 100000, the Treasury
Balance of S175,oo0,OoO, and Trade
Balance of Nearly $7oo,ooo,OoO.

1 found Uncle Sam the other day
deeply absorbed in a mass Of fiscal re-
ports. The old gentleman fairly beam
ed as he gave me hearty hand grasp,
but when | told him l had come for
another interview his manner seemed
to relax little, / thought.
'I'll tell you how it is, Uncle Sam, .
said I. '"The people enjoyed your
Fourth of July talk so much that there
are requests from all over the country
for small weekly chat. Now you
won't refuse the people, will you? |
pleaded.
mo, 1 won't exactly refuse" he re-
piled; "but, really, Pm awfully busy all
the time. thought was busy in 1892,
when the Mckinley law was in such
perfect order, but it didn't compare
with what this Dingley law is doing.
Why, I'm breaking the records all
along the line. Just look at this total