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Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-26
sunday school. 10 Meet in May.

ABERDEEN. S. D., April 25.-(special)
C. P. Gregory, president of the South Da-
1ota Sunday School association, announces
hat the state convention will be held at
sioux Falls, S. D.. May p, p and 2S. An
interesting program is being prepared.
Speakers from abroad will be present and
/ most interesting session is assured.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-26

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81. l1yLls Local, Council
BUNS W am alO.3O DIN
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
Making q Neyrspaper.

The game of Making Newspaper"
Is excellent practice for boys and girls
In their teens, and has been tried with
great success. Either the host who
gives the party, OF some cne else is
appointed editor-in-chief.
To each Of the players is given q
Sheet Of foolscap paper, at the top of
which is written the heading Of q
department. or the title Of an article,
and lead pencil 1t is then ex-
planned that it is the duty Of each to
I'LL out his department after the man
ner Of a daily newspaper. At the end
OF half an hour all the papers are
gathered together, and the results are
read by the editor-in-chief. AS mat
ter Of course the more absurd the writ
ings are made the greater the amuse-
ment, and the paper provides an ample
opportunity for cleverness, wit and
humor. This can be played by any
number Of boys and girls for an even
ing party.-Home Magazine.
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Gear il Beaver Trap.

When the trappers in the old day
set their traps by the Canadian
streams they sometimes caught other
animals besides beavers. 4 hunter re-
turning to see what luck he had had
noticed that one trap was missing.
He also saw signs that bear had
been in the neighborhocd. y and by
he heard sounds il the big forest as of
a big eature clumsily forcing its
way through. Hiding himself, he be.
held 4 great bear come limping along
aathrecL L!cgi- ttle- for-tt4lA--heihg- en-
tangled in the missing trap. The bear
raised the imprisoned forepaw to e1-
anime it more closely, turned 1t about
with very puzzled look, knocked the
trap on rock, and finally licked his
foot as if in pain. Perhaps it was
kindly Of the hunter to shoot him,
Us there and then he did. for this put
an end to Bruins troubles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
Courtesies of Life.

The Toronto Sun comments on the
allegation that people are losing their
democratic dignity. An instance is
cited Of certain ladies of the smart set
at Vancouver entering the royal ship
and carrying Off as souvenirs anything
they could lay their hands on, and
even clipping the trimmings of the
royal bed room with scissors.
Such an offense is virtually theft,
and too gross form Of misdemeanor
to be termed an indignity. The in
stance, however, causes us to ask,
"Are we losing whatever considera-
tion and regard for others that we ever
had?" 1t should not be forgotten, as
il too often is, that life is made pleas
ant. not by great things. but by the
little acts of kindness. A timely word
of encouragement or comfort, pleas
ant smile, in fact, 4 thousand little
considerations for the comfort Of 9th
crs, which cost the bestower nothing,
all go to make the world brighter. Not
only this, but they return to the foun-
tains to enrich the nature by which
they are so benignly promptcd.-Lcn-
don (Ont.) Advertiser.
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Xaluc of Standardization.

The apparatus which the manufac-
turer considers standard and which,
therefore, is built in large quantities
and carried in stock is usually shown
in his catalogues and price lists. This
apparatus costs less than unlisted or
special apparatus; it can be furnished
in shorter time. and it is more likely
to prove satisfactory in operation. a
greater amount of thought has been
bestowed upon its design than it !s
practicable to give-assuming the fu!-
tillmcnt OF reasonable dates of deliv-
ery-to any new designs that can lie
specified. The buyer, therefore, will
sometimes find it to his advantage,
even to so out of his way in an en-
deavor 10 make standardized appar-
atus answer his requirements when il
does not seem to be exactly suitable.
Engineering Magazine.
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RATDING THE RUSTLERS.
An Episode in the Cattle History of Montana.

Some of the cowboys in the posse
began to get more than they had bar
gained for, and wanted to quit the
business, but "Flopping Bill" pointed
out to them that they would be hanged
by the civil law if their share in the
impromptu hanging was known, and
that, together with other cogent rec.
SONS, prompted them to remain.
The next bunch of rustlers was To-
Gated along the Missouri. They passed
as woodchoppers, and a large number
Of them had a rendezvous at Long
johns Bottom on the Missouri, short
ways below the mouth of the Mussei-
she'll "Flopping Bills" posse came
upon the camp early one morning, and
was discovered by the horse herder,
whom they promptly shot, and charged
upon the camp There was block
house with stable attached, belong
ing to the rustlers, but most Of them
were sleeping in tents, and when the
shooting began one of them was slot
while getting to the blockhouse. Once
there they ueied the posse, and itsWas
only by strategy that they were dis
lodged While the posse kept up a. hail
Of bullets against the house, one Of
the cowboys snealied up through the
grass and set fire to the stable, and it
in turn fired the blockhouse. Just ho.T
many rustlers were killed will never
be known, but there were at least II
in the house anu six were taken pris-
oners, while one escaped.
The one who got away was Dixey
Burroughs, half-breed, and we'll
known in northern Montana. Bur-
roughs managed to get away from the
house, and was stopped by one of the
outer guards, but dropped behind a log
and at the fourth shot managed to get
his man, and escaped. Who the cow
boy was that was shot has never been
divulged He was buried where he.
fell and a hint given that nothing was
to be said about it. (,
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novelty to aid in eXterminating the
pests which infest dwellings and other
buildings, and the inventor intends
that it shall be the cause Of many a
shocking death. There is no compN-
Gated mechanism about the trap; in
fact, it is so simple that the wary
rodent is not at all likely to regard
the device with suspicion. Everything
is in plain sight, and the animal is not
compelled 10 insert its head in moose
OF to enter n cage in order to reach
the bait. In this case the tempting
morsel is suspended within easy reach,
but the instant the electrical current
is completed by the rodent itself death
ensues without the bait Ieing dis
turbed. The trap consists Of two me-
tallic plates connected by wires to an
electric light circuit, the plates being
insulated by plate of non-conducting
material placed between. The bait
holder is suspended from supporting
orob eoour,I +n +l,~ ~.-I~- 10 - Thorn
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Thu ClercYman,s Error.

An English clergyman was address
ing congregation OF fshermen' and
in order to appeal the more. to ms
hearers he introduced q number OF
nautical smiles. He pictured cap
tain navigating his craft through a
dangerous passage, surrounded with
rocks and currents. and he described
the voyage in detail. At last ne
reached lis climax, when it seemed
inevitable that the ship should be lost.
And what shall We do now:' he
made his captain Cry. Bless your
soul, guvnor!" replied & voice at the
back. THAT captain O yours can't
do nothin'. He's saiiin' his ship
starn formost."
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ers take their positions in rows, while
the sheep are brought to them by as
sistants. The cutting instrument is an
enlarged and improved sort OF BARRIERS
clipper, which takes huge swaths OF
wool off at once. An expert operator
will handle Tie machine so deXterous!y
that the wool will come Off almost in
solid mass, and it looks for all the
world rs if the animal was being actu-
ally skinned alive. But when the opera
ton is finished, it Will be found that
not a bruise or scratch has been made
On the skin, and the animal scampers
! away shorn and shaved within small
fraction of an inch Of its skin. The
| wool is gathered up b. another oper-
l>.ator and cartcd to the packing house,
where it is tramped into huge burlap
bags, each weighing when filled about
3S5 pounds.
The shearers receive from seven to
ten cents per head for shearins the
| sheep, and days work for one pro
.fessional is from 125 to go head. That
/ is an uncomfortable operation for
barber who cuts the hair of his human
| patients; but then, while the latter IS
operating on one person, the skilled
sheep shearer would cut the wool from
| the backs of half dozen sheep. The
sheep sheared BY a dozen professional
operators in the course OF week
quickly mount UP into thousands, and
the modern ranch, with It's hundred
thousand and moro sheep ready for the
hair cut, does not present such for
midable problem as formerly.
The revival of the wool industry in
the past few years has added material
ly to the number of sheep on the farms
in the United States. The actual
amount of wool can only be estimated
from year to year until the shearing
season has ended The number Of
sneep in the country does not accurate
ly forecast the wool supply. Some Of
| the moderate high-class wool sheep
| give two and three times as much as
the old common animals, and an estI-
mate of the wool can be made only ap-
proximately unless the breed of the
animals is known also. There are
over rs grades and breeds of sheep in
TINS country, and they vary as much
in the quantity Of wool they give as
they do in price and general valua-
ton.
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1t is a story Of which little has been
told Most of those who rode with
"Flopping Bills" yigilantes have left
the state or crossed the Great Divide.
Those who have remained are reticent.
AS 10 the 80 or more desperate horse
thieves and cattle rustlers who operat-
ed in northern Montana in the early
eighties-welI, bleaching bones on
wind-swept prairies tell no tales.
In 1885 the cattle and horse business
in northern Montana was becoming
more and more Improbable, for the
reason that there we're organized
bands of horse thieves who had stop
ping places from the Canadian line to
Mexico, and who made more money in
the business of stealing horses and
live stock than the real owners could
in raising them. Of course more horses
than cattle were stolen, because they
were easier. to get away with, and in
those days were worth q great deal
more money.
The stealing became so serious that
the ca.tlemen of northern Montana
were forced to do something, and in
the fall of 1885 they did it. When the
cattlemen start to do anything they do
it up brown, and it was so in this case.
The tale of the hanging OF road
agents of 1&63-64 by the vigilantes OF
Alder Gulch has been told so often
that it has become known from one
end of the world to the other, and it is
looked upon as the biggest thing of its
kind which was ever pulled off in Mon
tana. This is mistake, and the cow
boys of northern Montana during the
year of 1885, from September to No
vember, hanged and shot more men
than the vigi!antes of Alder Gulch ever
dreamed Of. This may seem like
fairy tale at this time, but it is fact,
and there are men in northern Mon
tana at the present day who have the
papers to prove the assertion.
During the fall roundup of the Ju-
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crossed the Missouri on raft, and M
old man James and his two sons, Diol I
and Jim, together with two other l.
This part of the gang had not bee +
hcme when the cowboys called, AMI q
when Dixey told his story they saw
that there was death in the air, and
started down the river on a raft. They
knew the cowboys were after them and
that they would be shown no mercy,
md so when near Poplar, they surren-
dered to a sergeant and detail of
seven United States soldiers, and asked
to be taken to Fort Giaginnis for trial.
The sergeant and his detail started
with the prisoners for Maginnis, and
carly the third morning tney awoke
10 find themselves in tie nands OF
dozen masked men.
Hitch up your outfit and drive
straight on" said the leader of the
party, and We will not injure you at
all; refuse and we will kill you all.
The prisoners are ours. -.
The sergeant, whose name is not re-
called-the whole affair appears in the
records Of the post during this year
hitched up and drove on as requested.
and the. dozen masked men were left
Gehind The prisoners were never
seen again, except that couple CT
years ago an old-timcr told story OF
mecting DiXey Burroughs over the
Canadian line, and ne said he had
been spared his life by promising to
leave the country.
After this the hansings were desul-
tory. but the aggregate for the two
months Of September and October is
believed to have amounted to about
thirty. The cowboys would be riding
The roundup, and come night word
would go around and in the morning
- OF them would be gone for day Oh
week, and no questions asked.
That winter it is related, crowd of
men rode up to the place where the
cowboy vigilante crew were quaterei,
and served notice that every one Of
them must leave the country or die.
The majority of them left, and have
met death in one way or another, but
there are still two or three of the
posse remaining in northern Montana,
but they do not boast of having be-
longed to "Flopping Bills avengers" in
s.. "Flopping Bill also found it ad-
visable to leave the country many
years ago, and less than two months
ago his death was recorded in old Mis-
.ouri-for Bill was Missourian and
had ridden with Quantrell.
The 1885 episode of the rope and gun
has not been written about very much,
but the advertising it got was such as
70 discourage "rustlins" in northern
Montana for many years, so that it IS
Oh reviving the bssiness-the rca!
o!d-timer Of the bad lands would not
take any ones stocii as a gift-but
"Flopping Bill" the man Of nerve
without human feeling. has gone over
the divide. and perhaps the stock in
spcctors may be given more work In
Observation-Disclosures Standard.
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His First Society Item.

The new office boy has longing
to become newspaper contributor.
In his spare moments he practices as
siduously OH the typewriter, and it
brings JOY TO his youthful heart to he
sent to the telephone by the city Ell,
tor to take a news EN-. Tie othe.
night he branched out On lis own re-
sponsibility and handed the following
society item" to tie young woman
who has that department in charge:
"a pedro party was held At the home
OF --- Monday cTeninS. Several
OF the boys of the Cet-Together Club
were invited to attend, and it would
have been a complete success had they
not of charged 10 cents admission,
after the boys expected 1t Was invita-
tional."-Clevelard Leader.
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der the direction of "Floppilg Bill"
Cantwell.
"Flopping Bill" was desperate
character himself and worked against
the rustlcrs because II paid better than
to work with them. From September,
1885, until the weather became too cold
to ride, "Flcpping B!l' and his band
of cowboy cxterninators worked, ana
when they had finished there was no
count of the men Whose candles had
been snuffed, but there are men in
Great Falls today who can name at
least 26 of them. and it has always
been estimated that about so people
were hanged or shot by "FloDping
Bills" band during that fail.
The first performer in the bloody
drama of determination was a half
breed near Fort Maginnis. Some one
believed that he had stolen steer and
butchered it, and one night during
August, 1885, he was taken near the
ranch of Reese Anderson and strung
up to a cottonwood tree without Il
chance to &C.: his prayers, if he knew
any.
That was Tie beginning, and shortly
after "Flop2:ng Bill'' called for volun-
teers to se-iTch for horses whicn had
been stolen from the herds of several
well-knowa 3tockmen. The requisition
was made uron the roundup. which
was canned C the Musselshell about
GO miles abo;c the mouth, and reck-
less riders and desperate Ecn only
we're chosen.
The posse made hard ride that day,
and by night they came to tie cabin Of
a man named Downs, near the mouth
of the Musselshell Downs kept SORT
of trading post, and was suspected Of
being in league with the thieves. It
was early daylight when the posse ar
rived, and they at once surrounded
the cabin, and when Downs came out
it was hands ur.
A search of the corral and vicinity
discovered 22 D. II. s. horses, and
Downs was asked to explain. He saw
that he was up against it, and gave 4
full list OF all the meE connected with
the "rust!ing' business, and .dcated
where they had their rendezvous The
Missouri runs swift end deep where
the waters Of the AGsse!shcll enter it,
and the banks are high and steep. A
rope was placed about the neck of
Downs, and convenient tree was
looked for. Some one spied large
grindstone which stood alongside OF
the cabin.
Tie it 10 lis neck and drop him in
the river" was tie suggestion, and it
was carried out literally. To-day the
big round grindstone, with the Eoic il
the centre, lies in the bottom OF the
Missouri, near tho mouth Of the Mus
selshell. and if time and water have
not proven too mich for the hcmpen
rope tie nccii bones at lc2@t, of Jim
Downs arc the grind,t&ne's companion.
Armed with the Information derived
from Downs the posse rode south to
the moth OF Lodge Poe Creek. where
there were ceve-2l "rrst!ccs' located
md il the carly morning light three 81
them were captured and strung ip on
some cottonwood trees which sur-
rounded TIC cabin where ;iiey he'd
lived One OF The l,crlDen ropes with
w&i"h the !ongias was dc2e swung il
Tic breeze f2r m2ny years ard rcr-
hap; is there yei-:l was Up 20 iy1
TCarS ago.
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WISE WORDS.
Fearing leads to fretting.

Fearing leads to fretting.
Tall trees need deep roots.
Tiny hands make mighty links.
Uniformity is not essential to unity.
The needless life will not be weed
less.
Fretfulness is the cause Of fearful
ness.
Diversities in truth are not divergen'
cies.
Conduct shows the content Of char
acter.
Every act has a cause and is a
cause.
Sincerity is the one great secret Of
success.
Better be a poor man than a rich
machine.
It takes a great man to escape undo
served glory.
The most needy man is always my
nearest neighbor.
No duty is too small to embrace the
sublimest principles.
The true furniture of life IS made in
the factory of drudgery.
1t is the touch of selfishness in our
ambitions that turns them to sin.
If you cannot have what you prize
it is q good thing to prize what you
haye.-Ram'S Horn.
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The l'hree-aIeal Habit,

Our three-meal habit is fearful tax
on our working capacity; it treDss the
temptation to over-eating: our cham
pions stagger under the weight OF
handicap; one-half the
functional energy Of the system is d.
verted by the exigencies Of digestion.
No other hyglenic mistake has done
SO much to make us q generation OF
dyspeptics. as the custom OF AFTER
dinner work. Its victims, moreover,
incur the risk of contracting that form
Of moral dyspepsia called pcssimism.
II tends to rob the working day Of its
reward.-F. L. Oswald. NJ. D., in Sue
noSS
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CHINESE DCC7 0Rs.
Lament For the Dseenvracy of Native
Phyatcians.

fRy5tClanS.
Although medicine is small science,
yet it concerns the lives Of men. The
Tso Chual says: "Unless a doctor be-
longs to the third generation Of doc
tors in his own family we should not
take his medicine" Fan Wenkung
in his youth had an ambition to help
the world and Often remarked: "lf |
cannot be good statesman l will be
good physician Su HsuanAung in
his old age studied the healing art AMI
when he saw good prescription copied
it with his own hand, saying: This
is also a way to give life to men," In
the Hau dynasty we had Chang Yui,
Chang Chung-ching and Hua TO, in
the Chin dynasty 10 Hung, in the
Tang dynasty Sun Ssumao. All these
were famous physicians and left some
writings behind them.
Alas! how the present race Of dee.
tors has degenerated. How many of
them trade on the ignorance Of their
patients, quite forgetting that though
they may deceive men they cannot
escape the eye Of the gods.
Tseng Kuofan heard that in the West
all physicians must pass 4 stringent
examination in the scien and art Of
medicine before they are allowed to
practice. Hence their patients rarely
suffered death under the hands Of doc
tors. This Is the very antipodes OF the
entire absence of law and control OF
physicians in China, where anybody
with or without a snattering about
pulses, etc, can hang out his shingie
and begin practice. Individual govern
ors have tried occasionally to examine
physicians. But the Government
should take it in hand. At present the
number Of Chinese who have conf
dence in Western medicine is very
small, but increasing especially among
intelligent men. Although hospitals
cannot suddenly be called into being.
yet beginning should be made by
compelling aspirants in the medical
art to pass regular examinations, and
only on receiving diplomas to begin
operations.-Shen Pao.