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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27

What time in the season rave champions
mace their recordsf This 10 q question that
has frequently been asked. As q rule rec
ords are made during the last two months
Of the s~eason-middle OF August to the mid
ole of October@but this year Cresceus
knocked out all precedents by his wonderful
performance 30 early in the season. Com
mencing with Flora Temple. the first trot-
ter to beat 2:20. / find that the record Of
2:19X was made at Kalamazoo, Mich, Oc-
tcter Is. 1859. I also find that she won nine
races from that date to December l Of that
year, but did not come near her record,
and. although she raced through 1850 and
1861. she never approached 1t. This record
stood at the lead until Dexter reduced It
to 2:17A at Buffalo, N. Y, August IL 1856,
but he never equaled It afterwards.
Goldsmith Maid next carried the record
to 2:14 at Mystic Park, Boston, September
z 1874. and. although she raced untl 1878
and tried many times on different tracks
against ume-about twenty in ALTO beat
2:li. every effort was reported lost"
In 1878 Rarus was In the zenith Of his
fame. and at Buffalo, n. Y. August 3. in
an effort to beat Ella. he carried the record
down to 2:13M. but although he raced
through 1873, any effort to beat 2:13N was
recorded as lost" only once making his
mile as fast as 2:15h.
The next drop in The record was by St
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27
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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27

This has been q great season for pacing
mares. Up to last fall only sixteen pacing
ehan seven mares have beaten that time in
q ~ They are: Edith W., 206: Hetty
O.. aN6k: Darrell. 256it; Little Squaw. 20S:
aG6sette, 2,06h, and Matin Bells, 206n. With
3ho exception Of Hetty g., all seven have
tAhsn new records and she has eQualed her
record made last year.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27

week was the death at Providence, r. l.,
OF the grand mare Aiix, the great daughter
of Patronage and Atlanta. by Attorney,
who held the worlds record at 2.03$a for six
years. AliX suffered a stroke Of paralysis
about a month ago, and to spare her the
torture of a lingering death she was hui
namely killed by the administration OF
Galesburg, Ill. September L. 1884. driven a
mile against time by Andy Mcdowell, she
established the worlds trottiug record for
a stallion. mare or gelding at 2:C3&4, being
IA quarter of a second faster than the rec
ord of Nancy Hanks, which hal stood since
September Is, 1892. AliX's record was not
broken until The Abbott. on September Is.
Ind, lowered 1t to 2:G3A, and this stood
until Cresceus, at the Columbus meeting,
the past summer, put it down to 2:0Z1l4. Thus
4Alix died with the distinction of having
trotted Il mile faster thin any other mare
that ever lived. A cosby monument will
be erected at her grave.
It is usually a 3-year-old which carries
off the biggest end of the money at the
Lexington meeting. and this year was no
exception to the rule. D. c. Palmete OF
Chicago heads the list through the victories
of Peter Stirling. Other big winners Of the
meeting are ]. L. Drum of Bardstown, KY,
sition in the list; Charles Marvin. who won
two races with Captor and got second
money with Grace Eldred in the 2-year-old
Futurity; Alonzo Mcdonald, Of Massachu-
sets, for whom Mazette, Chain Shot and
Miss Whitney acted as bread-w winners, and
the Bitter Root stable, that took down 5000
In the Lexington stake. with the sensa-
tional Prelatess. Following Is the list Of
winners who got as much as $500 of the total
of go mn nhorQd hy the ogncfaftOns
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27

Julien at Oakland. Cal. October Is. 1879,
when. in an attempt to beat 2:13A. he placed
a record of 2:l2s4 to his credit. In 1880. at
Rochester. \. y, in an attempt to beat
2:12a2l, he reduced his record to 2:i1sa. and
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14

mad to hide for days in the canyons
from hostile Indians, when in trying
TO reach an almost inaccessible ruin
she fell and nearly lost her life. AL
though she suffered hunger and thirst,
WEAKNESS and danger, she did not de-
spair, but bravely kept up her efforts,
saying that she wanted other women
TO see the ruins, but wanted no other
woman to suffer as she had done in
the attempt
Finally in the fall of 1899, gathering
a few intimate friends about her, she
organized the Colorado Cliff Dwellings
association and set out to do a work
which will make the association and
Its members remembered in the scien-
tific achievement of their state. The
hrst and greatest obstacle which con-
fronted them was the inaccessibilitv
Of the cliff dwellings. Located as thew
are between thirty and forty miles
from any railroad, over a rough. wild
7uninhabited country, the cliff dwell
tngs could only be reached at great
expense of time, strength and money
and long and exhausting journey on
horseback. To overcome this obsta-
Gle the first object to be attained was
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14

a wagon road. Here again was diff
ficulty.
The Mesa Verde is part of the Ute
reservation and the Indians objected
TO white men travelling over their
lands. After much consideration the
association hit upon the project OF
leasing the Mesa Verde from the In
dlans and negotiations were immedi-
ately begun. Mrs. McClurg, who had
known the Ute chiefs and been known
by them from child, appeared before
their council and, through an inter-
prefer, laid before them her plans. The
chiefs signed the lease giving the as
ISOLATION the right to build and use
a wagon road across their reservation
IN consideration of the sum of $500 q
year.
A Wagon Road Opened.
This settled, the work on the wagon
road was Immediately begun and
though the association was small and
badly hampered by lack Of capital, it
was pushed rapidly forward until Sept.
l, when it was considered sufficiently
under way to warrant a formal open
ing of the wagon road to the Mesa
Verde and cliff dwellings.
The pictures presented herewith are
from sketches made by members of the
party.
All of the ruins are interesting to
the archaeologist. In many respects
the one known as balcony house is the
best preserved and probably the most
recently occupied. In contrast with
the surrounding dwellings, the walls
OF this one are smooth and even and
the stones well fitted together. The
tower is straight, square and has three
windows, the lower of which, though
now broken through, has evidently
been of T shape. The whole ruin
suggests strong and almost impreg-
nable fortress. A small force of men
could hold it against a vastly superior
enemy.
Balcony house is so called from a
projection or balcony. It is a rather
narrow balcony, but was undoubtedly
used to sit and rest upon. Like all the
ruins in Cliff canyon, it is difficult Of
access and is filled with dry dust and
fallen walls.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Diamond Cutters Need Work.

The South African war is causing
starvation among the 200 men en-
ployed in Paris in the delicate work
of cutting diamonds. Scarcely any dia-
monds come from Brazil or India now.
Before the supply from the Cape ceased
these men earned as much as so francs
a week, out of which they have to pay
their employers four francs a day for
implements and motive power. Two
carats each of diamond powder and
boort are also necessary. This costs
23f. 5Oc., and the cutters assistant
draws another 12f, making altogether
69f. 5Oc At present the men who still
have work are earning about 6Of,
which leaves them slightly over 2Of.
week to live upon. A meeting of the
200 has been held, at which the 10000
cutters of the Amsterdam and the 800
OF Antwerp were represented. A gen.
eral strike was unanimously voted, and
all cutters who continue to work are
assessed five per cent of their earnings
for the strike fund.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Witch hazel,

In medical botany, witchhazel has a
wide renown. Strange to say. for all
the EXTENDED use of extracts and pre-
parations in general, there are eminent
medical men who regard it as of no
real efficacy. It's use in medicine was
introduced through it's extensive use by
the Indians. They use the bark in de,
coction for tumors, inflammatory swell.
ings and hemorrhages. This would in
dictate the presence of considerable tam
min in the bark. as this is the main act
ing principle in remedies for these
troubles. The Indians of the South ate
the seeds, and made pretty ornaments
from them. In the same natural order,
there is apparently nothing of medicin-
al value, unless it be the Liquidambar,
or sweet gum, species of which is
much admired in ornamental garden
ing. This is said to exude a balsamio
re Sin.-Meehan's Monthly.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
In Memory ON Mare,

Mercifully sent to sleep at Land
guard, full of years and honor, Free
dom, chestnut mare, belonging to DR..
Cowper. She was bred by me and was
named Freedom by Mr.. Bartlett, on ac-
count of her absolute freedom of move
ment, when quite tiny filly. In her
best days she would be hard to pass on
any road, but-till DR.. Cowper had her
and found out her little Nanities-she
did not like the single harness cher
father never would go in single harness
and her grandmother despised it, too!)
but latterly she condescended to it. She
had sweet but peculiar nature, and
much of the classic versatility of her
sex. She never cost her two masters a
shilling for whipcord in all her long
life.
1t is pleasant in these days to find a
mar writing thus about his faithful
Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14

A bill has been prepared for sub
mission to Congress at it's coming ses-
sion providing that the cliff dwellings
of Colorado shall not be destroyed by
time or vandalism, but that they shall
be preserved for the benefit of scien-
tific investigation in future years. The
measure provides that the region sur
rounding these habitations of a pre-
historic race shall be set apart as a
national park, protected by the gov
eminent for the use and benefit of pos
terity.
These marvellous relics of American
antiquity, for centuries inaccessible to
any but the boldest and most tireless
explorers, have at last been opened up
by little band of enthusiastic women.
The ruins have long been considered
by archaeologists to be among the fin
est and most interesting in the world
and have stood almost unknown and
wholly neglected in the Mancas can
yon of southwestern Colorado. On the
rare occasions when they have been
visited, except by one or two parties
of scientific explorers, it has been by
careless tourists and sightseers, who
did not scruple to knock down walls
and otherwise deface the ruins in their
efforts to get and carry away inter-
esting pieces of pottery and the relics
valuable only to science.
These ruins were opened and made
accessible to the public by the Colo
RADIO Cliff Dwelling association, COM
posed of fifty women, and organized
in the fall OF 1899 by Mrs. Gilbert Nc
Clurg of Colorado Springs. Col. In
1882 Mrs. McClurg, then Miss Virginia
Doneghe, descendant of Edward A.
Dunning, who made the first anthro-
biological collection for Harvard and
Yale, learning OF the ruins Of the cliff
dwellings in the Mesa Verde, made
an excursion to and explored the ruins
at the risk of her life and under the
escort of United States troops.
Appreciated Their Value.
What she saw of them convinced her
that they were of great scientific in
terest to the world, and she resolved
If possible to preserve and reclaim
them from the ravages of time and
vandal marauders. For sixteen years
she labored, never once losing sight
of her object, and when in 1885 she.
with party of friends, was beset and
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Dictionary Stalled mt "a"

The French government and the
French Academy have been on had
terms for a long time, and everybody
knows it; but their last point of con-
trcversy is calculated to astonish the
world. 1t is all about the dictionary,
the famous dictionary which was be-
gun forty years ego and is still at the
letter "a" One wclld hardly expect
the subject to arouse lively passion,
but 1t appears that the government
pays salary to the makers of this die
tionary It is not very strange, then, If
they begin to think that the time con-
sumed is raher excessive. A deputy
now has the audacity to propose a
withdrawal of the "alary. It is easy to
understand how he has brought down
all the thunder of the forty ''Immor-
.als."
1t Is trle the amount each "Imnior-
tar' receives is not very great; it is
calculated that each gets an average of
1000 francs, which draws from the state
some $4,000 francs a year. But if one
calculates at the rate, they are going,
the long centuries it will take to finish
the work. the deputy argues that the
people will have paid little dear for a
Gictionary.-London Sketch.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
MARKET LETTER,

The following market letter is fur
nfshed b. Edwards, Wood & Co.,
Grains, Seeds, Provisions, Commission
Merchants, No. 8 Chamber of Com
merce, Minneapolis, 80 Board of Trade.
Duluth.
Nov. 7.-During the past week wheat,
oats and corn have been active and
strong. and have advanced in price.
The causes Of the advance are the enor-
nous exports and a very active cash
market. The action of France, in TAX
ing possession of a Turkish port, has
also had it's effect.
Minneapolis No. Northern has sold
at the same price with the December
option. and No. Northern at &c over.
The car situation is worse. and affects
all markets. Minneapolis millers have
old premium of one-half cent per blu
Tor wheat in cars, that could be loaded
with flour for shipment East. Corn ad-
vanced on the strong situation. Cash
corn IS 65c per blu at Kansas City, SC
over Chicago, and at st. Louis corn on
tn" cob has sold in small lots at SOC per
tu.
The Mexican government has sus.
pended the tariff on wheat, which
amounts to zoe per blu, and Mexico has
taken 100000 bu of wheat from u.s. and
is said to be buying more, on account
of the scarcity and high price of corn
in the Southwest.
Texas is importing wheat for home
consumption, and an increasing amount
is being fed to live stock in Kansas and
adjoining states.
Flour, rye, barley, bran and shorts
are higher. Flax has been nervous,
but, in the main, strong. The demand
for oil is good and home consumption
large. All the flax will be needed at
good prices.
1t looks like a strong, old ashioned
bull market If you are not familiar
with the grain trade, write for our free
private cipher. explaining speculation,
and our free daily market letter.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Highest Attitudes Possible to Man.

The reason, Signor Mosso tells us.
why so few have attempted the as
cent of the highest peaks on the face
of the earth. is the conviction that
man cannot withstand the rarefied air
of these attitudes. "Heroism shrinks
from such prolonged sufferings as
those due to lack of health" His own
experiments and observations. how.
ever, give us the assurance that man
will be able slowly to accustom him
self to the diminished barometric pres
sure of the Himalayas. "If BIRDS" he
says, Ely to the height of $4,000 feet
man ought to be able to reach the
same altitude at slow rate of prog
ress."-Pearson's Magazine.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14

tom can be found in others. There is
nothing but theory as to the source Of
the supply of the lake, but NO one
seems to know what the component
parts Of the acres of black fluid. The
indians say it is composed of the blood
OF bad Indians who are suffering in
their hell amid the volcanoes. Samples
OF the lake have been brought to Yuma
and Los Angeles for tests and exami-
nation. It is good for common mark
ing purposes. Cotton goods that have
been soaked with the strange black
fluid keep their color for months, even
when exposed to the sun, and the
goods have stiffness that is somewhat
like weak starch. A gallon of the lake
hu1d was sent to the Smithsonian In
stitution at Washington the other day
for analysis.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
AN lNKY LAKE.
One of the Most Peculiar Mysteries of
Colorado.

One of the Most Peculiar Mysteries of
Colorado.
The most unusual curiosity in the
strange, uncanny land by the Colorado
river is what the naturalists in Califor-
mia call lake of ink. The scientific
journals in Los Angeles and San Diego
have discussed time and time again
what the lake of ink really is. It is a
great pool of black fluid that resembles
black writing ink more than anything
else 1t is about an acre in area, The
surface of the lake is coated with ashes
from the volcanoes to the thickness of
about half foot, and the explorer in
these parts who is not looking out for
this freak of nature would be very ant
to walk into it. Surveyors have found
that the lake is some three hundred
yards deep in some places. but no bot
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Fault-Findfng HELMS Nobody,

Contumely helps nobody; least Of all
the one who administers it. Pessimis-
tic remarks dampen the enthusiasm Of
others. discourage honest effort, and re-
act on the grumbler. Chronic fault
finders command no favor with en-
ployers or fellow employees, and are not
the ones selected for advancement.
Talking failure makes failure easy. A
gloomy, melancholy disposition is
largely a matter of habit and material
ly retards ones advancement. It does
not matter IL one is unconscious Of the
habit, it all figures in the result Of life
work. just the same. Watch your
chance remarks. Make them count for
hope and encouragement.-Su
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
ARGENTINE NEWSPAPERS.


Introduced 1t in 1905
One feature of the progress Of this
South American States is the increase
of the number Of magazines and news
papers, A recent issue of the Demo-
graphic Bulletin of the Argentine Re-
public gives some details of the devel-
opment Of printing and journalism in
that country. The article calls atten-
ton to the fact that the first printing
office In the region of the River Plate
was established in 17O5 by some Jesuit
fathers at their missions in Paraguay.
Ihey at first engraved blocks of wood.
and later separated wooden types. In
l'75 they established the first printing
office In the Argentine Republic proper.
That was at Cordova. When the Jesuit
Fathers were driven out, two years af-
ter that, the printing Office at Cordova
was abandoned, but it was transferred
soon after to Buenos Ayres. There it
was called the Printing Office Of the
Forndlings, as it's earnings were APP
piled to the support of the foundlings.
1t was continued until 1924.
The first newspaper in Buenos AyreA
was the Mercantile telegraph, which
came out in 1901. At that time there
was no freedom for the press, but the
revolution of 1901 gave an impulse to
the publication of newspapers, and
from that time on the number kept
growing larger.
There are now 739 periodicals pub.
fished in the country. OF these, 81 are
dailies and 256 weeklies; 6S2 of them arc
Spanish, II are English, "a Italian and 7
French.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
AN HONEST NAME.

An Illinois Statesman Tells a Good
StOry-Knew His Fathers Son
Would Not Lie.
The Honorable Alva Merrill of Chilli
cothe, member for the Twenty-fourth
District State of Illinois House of Rep
resentatives, tells an interesting story.
Some two years $50 Mr.. Merrill gave
a testimonial stating that Dodd's Kid
ney Pills cured his rheumatism. This,
with Mr.. Merrill's portrait, were pub
lished in thousands of papers all over
the United States.
On the train returning home from.
Springfield one day last winter were
the Honorable Mr.. Merrill and several
other members. After time one OF
them said:
Merrill, what time do you get to
Chillicothe?"
This attracted the attention of an OLD
man who had been apparently await
ing some Identification of Mr. Merrill,
and as soon as he heard the name he
rushed UP to his seat and extended his
hand, saying:
"You are Alva Merrill, and you saved
my life. I was most dead with Lumba-
go, and in an advertisement I saw your
picture and your recommendation of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. I knew your
father, and I knew his son would not
lie, and, therefore, decided to try the
Pills.
1T am satisfied that Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and nothing else, have saved my
life. and ] have been waiting this op.
/ ortunity to thank you personally, for
had I not seen your recommendation I
might never have been led to use this
remedy: but. thanks to God, through
your honest name and the honest medi-
cine which you so heartily recommend
ed, am still alive.
II have been watching you since you
got on the train at Springfield, and
thought I recognized you face as the
one I had seen in the advertisement,
and as soon as this gentleman called
you by name knew you were the man
I had to thank
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Pixies Peak Railroad.

Capitalists of Colorado Springs have
organized a company to build an cleo
trio railway to the top of Pixies Peak
at cost of 100000 or more. The road
will start from Colorado Springs or
from some station on the Cripple Creek
Short Line. Experiments show that
electricity can be operated without
trouble at the altitude necessary, 14,14s
feet. The Cog Road has heretofore
held the field exclusively.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14

means Rome will also gain communi-
cation with Brussels. The second new
line branches off at Milan for Chiasso,
where it joins the Swiss system, with
which Vienna is already connected
and Berlin shortly will be. The four
principal capitals of the continent,
with their chief provincial cities, will
thus shortly be within speaking dis
lance" of each other, and as England is
already connected with Paris the con-
tinental network approaches compile
ton, the next step will be to find a
common international exchange.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Trunk Line Telephone.

The Italian government has just
sanctioned the construction of two i'm
portant trunk lines of telephone which
will bring Europe long step nearer to
the goal of continental system of
international telephones. One of these
lines goes from Rome through Bo-
logna, Florence and Turin to Mount
Gents, where it is to be connected with
the French line from Paris, by which
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14
Tho First Ironclad.

According to records recently discovered
the first ironclad was built in the six.
teenth century, but as 1t proved unman.
ageable was soon abandoned. In the
medicine and that one in the hope Of find
ing relief from ailments of the stomach.
liver and bowels. There is only one med.
tcine that will cure Indigestion, dyspepsia,
flatulency, biliousness and malaria, fever
and ague and that is Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. Trv it and YOU will be convinced
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-14

not amount to 81 per
head, or $4,000 900,
against less than 81
per head thirty years
years ago. Multiply
China's population
conservatively esti-
mated at 350,00O,OOO
by Sc, and we have,
as a reasonable esti-
mate of China's for
eign commerce, when
she shall be opened up
and her government
improved like that of
Japan, the magnifi-
cent total of $780,
coo, 900 per annum.