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, 1902-12-18

GREAT care should he taken this
cold weather to see that all chimneys
and stove pipes are perfectly secure
and that there is no wood work in
danger Of fire from either a hot stove.
or a stove pipe. This is the time for
red hot stoves and there is always
more or less carlessnesS in such mat
tiers. Every mau should examine his
stoves, stove pipes and %chimneys at
lenst once a week during the cold
weather and make sure that they are
absolutely safe.
, 1902-12-18

more favorable view of the matter
but says when men do so appear, it
is the work of the devil. Curious
enough when Jesus said. though one
came from the dead, they would not
believe.
Why does orthodoxy attribute to
the devil whatever it cannot explain?
T~heosophy tells us why we are here.
1t tells us why we find ourselves in
our various stations and makes out of
the seeming chaos of life Il perfect
harmony.
T~heosophy says every man must
work out his own salvation, that he
must meet his own debts and reap
his own harvests. 1t teaches Il man
that no one can gain his experience
for II man but himself. No one else
can pay his debts and no n else
may take the result of his choice.
T~heosophy invites inquiry and asks
every man to investigate for himself.
In Theosophy the man who inquiries
and investigates is the man who is
ready to evolve. And, finally, The
osophy says The profound v%erities
touching the divine and the human
spirit were as much truths twenty
thousand years before Jesus was born
in Palestine as after He was born;
and TO say that the world was left
without such teachings, and that man
was left in moral darkness from his
beginning to twenty centuries ago, ~
to say that there was a humanity
without Il Teacher, children without
ii Father, human souls crying for
light into ii darkness that gave them
no answer 4 conception rs bla-phe-
nous of God as it is desperate for
IMAM, Il conception c~ontradicted by
the appearance of every age, by the
mighty literature, by the noble lives,
in the thousands Of ages ere the
Christ came forth
OLIVER c. SPEER
+ ''E-oteric Christianity by Annie
Besa 1t. p. l45.
, 1902-12-18

purchase of the M NWA OF Sec. IL
Tp. II N, R. 50 W., and will offer proof
to snow that the land sought is more
valuable for its timber Or stone than tor
It's agricultural purposes, and to estab-
fish her claim to said land before j. +,
Crawford, U. S. Comr., Dist OF Wyo. at
his Office in Saratoga, %yo-, on Satur'
day the 9th day of December, 1902
She names as witnesses: Torges Neko.
laison, Christ Gra-sde, Claus Christian.
son. all of Elk Mountain, Wyo., and Ed
win Meredith, of Widdowfield, Wyo.
Amy person claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to
file their claims in this Office oil or before
said 9th day Of December. 1902.
". h. CHAPLIN, Register.
, 1902-12-18

Stock in the Dewey mine is be
coming the favorite on the market .
We know of several of our citizens
who have made investments in the
stock the past week, one man taking
as high as a thousand dollars worth
of the stock. One of the original
owners was approached to e if he
would dispose of his interest in the
mine but he has refused to sell. or to
ever place an option on his stock,
so strong is his faith in the final out
come OF the mine.
, 1902-12-18

lr is the duty of every citizen to
assist in the stamping ont of iniectu-
Gus diseases. To that end all the
help possible should he given to DIR.
Burke in his efforts TO prevent the
spread of smallpox throughout the
town. There are but four cases at
present and, il proper care is used,
there need be nu more. 1t costs you
nothing 10 have DIR. Burke call and
make an examination of n case, if il is
suspicious therefore. if there is the
least question about any form of sick.
ness in any family in town, instead
or hiding the fact. he should be sum.
moned at once and the matter placed
in his hands. There is but one pos.
sible way to keep these diseases down
and that is for every citizen TO obey
the law himself and give the author
tiles all the help they may need.
, 1902-12-18

The lives of many people are very
much like a voyage down a tempes.
tuous river in a frail boat, There are
times when the water is smoothe aud
all is plain sailing. Then, again, the
water is rough and YOU think you
bark is going to founder and vour
progress is made through much diff,
Guilty and great fear, But the danger
is past,and calmer waters are reached,
and you go on rejoicing, until a turn
in the river reveals another danger
Gus place, when the same difficulties
are encountered and the same fears
spring up to assail you.
, 1902-12-18

The men who are entirely devoid
of ambition are all dead. Now and
then you find IA man who is without
ambition, but he is generally a candi
date for the insane asylum, has a job
hunting for the North Pole, or has
been condemned 10 he hung. 4 man
thinks ambition is as dead within hi.
bosom AS "A dried herring, and then
some little thing will fan it into
flame and the first thing he knows he
is all afire again.
, 1902-12-18
Timber Tand, Act June 9. 1878 Notice
for Publication.

LANu OFFICE AT CHEYENNE. Wyo., /
Nov, 10, 1902.
Notice Is hereby given that in con-
pliancc with the provisions Of Congress
Of jan" 3. 1873, entitled An act for the
sale Of tImber lands IN the states of
California, Oregon, Nevada and Wash.
ington Territory as extended to all the
public land states 10y act of August 4,
1892, Samuel Hansen, of Widduwtield,
county of Carbon, state Of Wyoming,
has this day filed in this office his sworn
statement No. 227, for the purchase of
the VIZ SEA Of Sec. g, Up. II n, K. 80
W., and will offer proof TO show that the
land sought is more valuable for ills tim.
BIER and stone than for agricultural pur.
poses and 10 establish his claim to said
land before j. +. Crawford, U. s. Comr.
Dist. of Wyu,, at Saratoga, Wyo, on
Saturday, the 3lst day of January, 1903.
lie names II witnesses, John Veitch,
Gabriel Boberg, lver Olson. and Freder.
lex f. Hansen, all of Elk Mountain.
Wye. Any and all persons claiming adj
Ncrsely the above described lands are
requested to file their claims in this Of
lice ~ or before said 3lst day of Janu
AIRY, 1903.
w. f. CHAPLIN, Register.
First Pub. Nov. 20, last Jan. d.
, 1902-12-18
Goodwin's Euiosy Of Tom Reed.

The great soul has finished its
work here, In malice and mean
ness his enemies dubbed him
Car" but in real truth he was a
king among all the men who sur
rounded him. He had u clearer
brain than the best of them, more
tirmness of purpose than any of
them, and courage which was SUI
perb, When a%ssailed by all the
inyective Of n furious House of
Representative, his calm: The
, 1902-12-18

"RoAsTING' a man is like filling his
hide full of ininitesimal arrows.
They are too small to i%ujure him but
they smart and rankle in his flesh
and irritate him far more than II ser
ious wound. The "ronstor' may also
expect that he. in turn, will get just
as big a dose in time as the "roastee"
is able to hand him. Moral: Don't
roast" a man. 1t don't pay III the
end.
, 1902-12-18

The Wyoming Tribune, whose
plant was recently destroyed by fire,
has, We are informed. been coming
out regularly, though somewhat re-
duced in size. We say Uniformed, -
for no copy Of the new issue has yet
reached this office. We are glad to
know that the owners Of the Tribune
intend TO install a new and upto-
date plant at once and 90 right on as
though nothing had happened That
"a tho kind Of people that make towns
and develop countries. The Sun
wishes them every success.
, 1902-12-18

An Omaha society woman the
other day took off her silk petticoat
in a street car for the purpose of
wrapping il about the bare legs of a
shivering boy and now she is receiv-
ing her reward 10y reading Of the
event in all the papers of the coun-
try. Omaha has some good people.
, 1902-12-18

The burning of the buildings at
tho Doane Rambler last week was We
ry unfortunate, but the Battle Lake
Tunnel Site Company are enterpris-
ing people and will not let any thing
like the loss of a few buildings and
machinery daunt them in the prose
cution OF their work OF developing the
mines under their charge.
, 1902-12-18
THURSDAY, DEC, Is. 1902.
u. r. Trains at WalcOtt-
WEST.
EAST.

The Buffalo Bulletin has qui, the
old fogy practice of ''wetting down
its paper before printing and its APP.
pearance has improved an hundred
fold. There has also been n decided
improved in the editorial columns OF
that paper, all of which is to he com
mended.
, 1902-12-18

To tell a man of his faults is like
running your hand over the sore
spots on his body, it makes him
finch. There are few men who have
the nerve to listen to a recital Of their
failings, ven when such a recital is
brought out by their own invitation,
and never so carefully and tend-rly
done.
, 1902-12-18
Wouldn't Work Twice.

when you stepped on that gen.
tIeman'- foot, Tommy, l hope yon
apologized7"
''Oh, yes, indeed did" said Tom
my: and he gave me siXprncr ior
being such = good boy
Did he? And what did YOU dc
them"
stepped ON the other one and
apoIized, but it didn't work" lid
Bits.
, 1902-12-18
PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
Some Things Which Fail to Satisfy. and
Some Which do.

One of the things which has been "A
piZ2ie 10 tine minds OF mauv was how
a beneticent Creator could simply,
for his own glory, create mankind
under certain conditions of attaining
after death, happiness, knowing full
well that ninet y-nine hundredths Of
his creatures should surely fail to
reach that condition Of happiness
after death.
Another thing is how in the natural
order Of things in the spiritual world
il is possible for one man. or million :
of men for that matter, to commit the
acts that would Lar them from heaven
forever, and for one other To he able
to atone for all the others.
Human justice, based as our laws
have been primarily on the Mosaic
code, does not recognize that one
can atone for another. The murder
er must pay his own penalty. No
one would be accepted rs Il slIbsti-
tute for him i'll any court and is ii not
presumptuous to assign to God Il
justice inferior to II own?
Creation by caprice, setting one IN
IA high place and another i'll a low,
that God might lie Sloriiied thereby,
fails to satisfy the most cursory ex-
animation.
The attitude of the church that
when there is a tendency TO inquire
into the why of things, IL IA tempta-
tion of the devil, is another one of
those things which are, to say the
least, very misleading.
Science and her friend Archaeology
haze pushed back the age of the
world and man thousands Of years
before the time accredited i'll the Bi-
BILE, yet no II ventures To tell us
why no Savior of men appeared till
nineteen hundred wears ago.
WHY orthodoxy fails To harmonic
the discrepancies OF life is more than
mortal mnn can tell, remembering
that il pretends to offer a salve for
every wound, II panacea for every
pain.
Why the Christian religion has ON.
ly such truths in its system as a way.
faring mau, though II fool, as he run
meth may read! Why it holds moth.
ing that will satisfy the man Of
breadth and cultwr-t Why nothing
does satisfy him in art, literature OF
science but the VERY highest they can
offer while he is asked 10y orthodoxy
to bring himself to the level OF the
ignorant aud foolish in matters that
are SPIRITUAL
Why is 1t that men ask of Theoso
ply proofs that they never ask OF
amy other philosophy, : fence or re.
ligion!
No m has ever asked an asiromu
mer to prove the nebular theory of
the formation ot the world.
A man can go and see the variou-
proofs of an ice age offered by geolo
gists but no one so far has had the
temrrity to ask them To produce the
ice rs proof that such AN age existed.
Theosorhy s'tys ethers exist ON
four levels. Science suspects two OF
them. Theosophy says men do inv,
after their bodies are cast aside aud
that they can, under certain cundi
tons communicate with their friends
on earth. Thcosuphy say. with prop
er training N can communicate with
his friend at IA distance. Theosoph,
has said for "A long time that there is
n planet outside Of Neptune. Today
astronomers cannot account for Ger
tain conditions in the heavens unless
there is "a planet beyond Neptune.
Materialism denies the fact that
II who has left the earth may IT,.
turn to ii. The church takes II little
, 1902-12-18
PRESS CLIPPINGS


TTsHTHTIlF N'TIIhTITHt-
Thomas b. Reed n Democrat,
The democrats are already eulogiz'
ing Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed
He is drifting into democracy. Dead
republican statesmen almost invaria,
bly, get into the democratic party at.
ter the lapse OF time
, 1902-12-18

President Roosevelt a Statesman.

President Roosevelt IA Statesman.
The statement that j. p. Morgan,
a ~monopolist of mighty magnitude,
has declared war ON President Roose-
velt's antitrust views should and no
doubt will strengthen the president
in the minds of the people. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is a statesman of
TOO broad views to fly at the trusts
in a general OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
manner, bat that he is sincere in his
demands for trust regulation can not
lie questioned by anyone who is ia
miliar with his public record during
the past ten wears.
, 1902-12-18
Timber Land, Act June 3, 1878. Notice
FOR Publication.
LANp OFFICE CHEYENNE, WYo. !
Oct. 20. 1902 (

Notice is hereby given that in com.
pll"nce with the provisions Of the act of
Congress Of June 3, 1878, entitled AN
act for the sale Of timber lands in the
States of California, Oregon. Nevada.
and Washington Territory" as extended
TO all the Pubic Land States by act Of
August 4. 1892, Annie Meredith, OF Wild.
dowield, county of Carbon. state OF
Wyoming has this day filed in this Of.
lice her sworn statement No. 223, for the
, 1902-12-18

JuDeIN" by the appearance Of the
stores i'll Saratoga there never was Il
10 prosperous Christmas in the
town. The business houses are filed
with Christmas goods and the peo.
pie are buying very literally, indeed,
far more so than usual. Merchants
have bought far larger supplies than
usual and they all report a brisk
trade. Christmas time is always "A
sure barometer of the financial con.
dition of the people. II they are
hard up they are careful in their
Christmas expenditures, no matter
how inviting the display of holiday
goods. If their purses are full they
are lavish in their purchases. Al the
present time they are buying with "A
free hand and the coming holidays
promise much good cheer for every
body in the valley.
, 1902-12-18
Timber Land, Act June 8, ls7s.-Notict
for Publication.
LAND OFPIcE, CHEYENNE, WYo.
Oct. 20. 1902. I

Oct. 20. 1902.
Notice is hereby given that in com
pliance with the provisions OF the act OF
Congress of June 3, 1878, entitled IAN
act FOR the sale u timber lands in the
States of California, Oregon, Nevada,
and Washington Territory" as extended
to all the Public Land States by act of
August 4, 1892, Claus Christianson, Of
Elk Mountain, county Of Carbon, State
of Wyoming, has this day filed in this
office his sworn statement No. 224, for
the purchase Of the So SW4 OF Sec.
IA. Up. II, n. r. 80 W, and will offer
proof to show that the land sought
is more valuable for it's timber or stone
than for agricultural purposes, and To
establish his claim to said land before
j. r. Crawford, U. S. Conn, Dist. OF
Wyo., nj his office at Saratoga, Wyo.,
on Saturday, the 9th day of Dec
ember. 1902. He names as Witnesses
Torges Nekolaison, Christ Graude, Of
Elk Mountain, Wyo., Edwin Meredith
aud Annie Meredith, OF Widdowtield,
Wyo. Any and all persons claiming ad.
verscly the above-described lands are
requested to file their claims IN this Of
flee on or before said 27th day Of Decem
her, 1902.
W +. CHAPLIN. Register.
Last Pub Dec. D.
, 1902-12-18

Up in Canada the law is when a
person is arrested for setting ont Il
forest fire or for carelessly allowing
a fire to get out, the burd,n of proof
is upon the defendant TO prove his
innocence instead of upon the Gov.
ernment to prove his guilt.
, 1902-12-18
senators Will Take More Exercise.

The august and learned senators
looked pretty hard at the section in
the immigration bill prohibiting the
sale of Intoxicating liquors in the ma
tional capitol. but did not strike it
out. III becomes a law. the
tors and representative will take
more exercise.
, 1902-12-18
Timber Land, Act June 8. 1878 Notice
fer Publication.

LAND OFFIoE AT CHEYENNE, WYo., I
Nov. 10, 1902. (
, 1902-12-18

CFirst Pub. Nov. 20, last Jan. ~
, 1902-12-18

JONES & WILLIAMS

cattle branded left side, earmafl
bali overcrop on right half undeTervi
on left, horses branded left zhonldsi
address Saratoga or Encampuent,
The National tribune., 1902-09-04
I'm AVOLUNTEER Mf
t I. e., AZ IN IUZON h i
BY CAPT. HARRY L. WELLS, I'd Ore, U. S. v.

TT-7N

Besides their other arms the i'll
surgents had about 6.000 Remingtons.
Occasionally we met force in which
there were men armed with these, al
ways of the militia, or amigo" class. 1t
must be remembered that the Springfield
bullet is all lead and fiattens out when it
strikes an obstacle, while the Mauser and
Krag bullets are small lead slugs covered
with hard steel jackets, giving them great
penetrative power.
l have tested them by firing at block
of sandstone such as is used for founda-
tions of houses, and discovered that the
Mauser penetrated the stone eight inches
at a distance of 80 feet, the krag six
inches and ;he Springfield not at all, fiat
tening itself on the surface.
THE REMINGTON RIFLE.
The Remington bullet is the same size as
the Springfield, but it is a lead slug covered
with thin jacket of brass. This is what
led to the reports sent home that the i'll
surgents were using poisoned bullets, all
absurdity which is only equaled by other
reports based upon ignorance and army
gossip, but which our home critics accept
ed as gospel truth because they came in
letters of private soldiers. Sometimes
these brass-cOvered bullets had a little
verdigris on them, and such bullets would
naturally affect the wound created by it.
That was all the poison there was and all
there is to the poison stories, except pos
sibly poisoned arrows used by Igarrotes
in the first battle, about which l can say
nothing, though the >Spaniards assured us
such poison was used by IgarrOtes. But
they never cut any practical figure in the
war.
These Remington guns had about the
same range as the Springfelds, and the
The National tribune., 1902-09-04

dark during night attacks. As luck would
have it we had to defend our station
against a heavy attack the very night
the guns were issued, yet not single man
who had been given a Krag had any
trouble in handling it or in using it ef-
fectively, though it had been in his hands
but a few hours. The entire regiment
would have done just as well. 1t would
have been practical thing to have armed
the regiment with Krags, which might
have been done, because the guns were
then in Manila, but to give companies
two kinds of guns and make them have
two calibers of ammunition is violation
of common military principles of which no
man with pretense to military knowledge
should have been guilty. AT the begin
ming of the civil war it was necessary,
and was the cause of much loss of life
and danger of loss of battles. In the
Philippines it was entirely unnecessary,
and was the result Of the stupidity OF
consolidated report theorists.
(To be cOntinued)
The National tribune., 1902-09-04

Have you read extracts from the fine addresses the
President is delivering his New England tour?
you get his books you will find them filled with
good reading matter put in type.
The National tribune., 1902-09-04
Mondays Treasury Receipts fo
a Year and q Half.

Following will be found the Treasury
Receipts Of Mondays for year and a
half. This will give contestants the in
formation that is often asked for.
1t will be noticed the receipts have run
as low as $1,452. .O64.O6 and as high as
So, ,421 ,024.S7. Four times during this
period the receipts have been over three
million.
The figures printed in black type were
guessed at by our contestants, each repre-
senting the date of contest. So far as we
can learn there is nothing expected IN
September that will cause the figures to
be abnormal, either higher or lower than
the average. for Monday, Sept. 10.
As explained before, we select Mon
days receipts because it is simply impos-
sible for anyone to have the least idea
what they will be. AS matter of
fact, the receipts reported for Mondays
are in unopened packages and letters in
tine express offices and postofIice over Sun
day. As soon as delivered at the Treas
ury Monday morning the contents of let
tiers and packages are added up and the
sum Is the receipts for the day. 1t is
simply impossible for anyone to know
what sums are contained in the hundreds
of letters and packages before they are
received and opened Monday morning.
The National tribune., 1902-09-04

just then it struck the man only two feet
to my left just over the left ear. Had he
turned to look at it as l did it would have
struck him in the eyes, and had he not
been there l would have got it. He fell
to the ground as though dead and lay
perfectly still. l saw his hat lying on
the ground with a hole torn in the brim
large enough to put my fist through, and
| concluded at once that l had a dead
| man to report. / stopped down to exam
ine him and turned his head over to see
the wound, and saw that the bullet had
but graZed the skin and he was only
stunred. l wet the place with water from
my canteen. and as he came to l gave him
Il drink. and in another minute he was
on his feet and hurrying to catch up with
the line. We thus discovered that the
bullets that made us do the most lodging
We're not the ones which did the most
damage. l have strayed a little from the
subject of the comparative merits of the
Springfield and the Krag, and will re-
turn.
THEORY VERSUS FACT.
The only excuses offered for not arm
ing the volunteers with the Krag are
SO foolish that one feels like apologizing
for the assininity of the officers in high
command who advanced them to allay
public sentiment at the time it was
aroused by knowledge of tie inferior
weapons placed, or rather kept, in the
haEds of the volunteers.
These reasons were four in number, to-
wit: The volunteers preferred the Spring
field; the Springfield was more effective
because the bullets killed n greater pro-
portion of those hit than the smaller cal
iber ball; the volunteers were not so good
shots as the Regulars, and did not need
The National tribune., 1902-09-04
A PEST OF THE HEMLocK BELT.
woodsmen Hate the spiny-Armored Porcu'
pine-Little Beasts That Know Not Fear
and Will Fight to the Death If Attacked.
(New York Sum-

"There are more hedgehogs or porcu-
pines, as the natives call them, in the
hemlock forests of northwestern Pennsyl-
vania than anywhere else in the East,
said an old Potter County woodsman.
.',rhey are curious creatures, and great
pest about lumber and hunting camps.
"a popularity of these spiny -armored
little beasts is their fondness for salt. If
the four sides of lumber shanty be salt
ed from ground to roof the pOrcupines
would eat it down over the heads of the
inmates, and not leave a salted splin-
ter of it to mark where it stood. They
do not care for. a man or 90 men when
there is salt barrel in camp, and they
will persist i'll getting at it as long as one
of them is left alive.
IAN old lumber shanty in the Mexican
County woods, occupied by two bark-peel-
ers, was raided one night by a drove of
little porcupines. They came from all di-
rections, walked the inmates of the cabin
by scurrying over them, and kept them
awake long time afterward by their de-
termination to take possession of the place.
The bark-peelers fought the persistent
The National tribune., 1902-09-04

Miss Edie Lingenfelter, of Dumfcrline,
ILL.,, another young lady, won prize $50
in the last contest. She had the range so
exactly that it can we'll be imagined she
would have won the first prize of $1,000 if
she had made 1924 or more guesses in the
same range "Git a plenty THE old
iady's advice-applies to guesses as it did
to good farm land when it was selling for
$1.25 an acre.
Miss Lingenfelter writes: 81 was much
pleased to receive, and am very thankful for,
the bank draft. My father, Josiah Lingen-
felter, was in the Civil War, serving in Co. C.,
103d Ill. His two brothers, also, and moth
er's father and two brothers, and grand
mothers brothers, all were in the war; some
of them were killed and wounded"