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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
1t Made History.

Such slight circumstance as glass
Of wine changed the history of France
for nearly twenty years. Louis Phi
lippe, king of the French, had SON,
the Duke of Orleans, and heir to the
throne, who always drank only a GER
tain number of glasses of wine, be-
cause even one more made him tipsy
On a memorable morning he forgot to
count the number of his glasses and
took one more than usual. When en-
tering his carriage, he stumbled, fright
ening the horses and causing them to
run. In attempting to leap from the
carriage his head struck the pavement,
and he soon died. That glass of wine
overthrow the Orleans rule, confiscated
their property of f2O,OOO.OOO and sent
the whole family into exile
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
TRAPPING ERMlNE.
Different Methods For the Full
Grown and Baby Animals.

Different Methods For the Full
Grown and Baby Animals.
The colder the climate the finer the
fur, says the author Of '"The Greatest
Fur Company of the World" in Frank
41eslie's Magazine, and the difficulties
of obtaining the rare furs are many
Ermine is at its best when the cold is
most intense, the tawny weasel coat
turning from fawn to yellow, from yell
low to cream and then to snow white,
according to the latitude and the sea.
son.
Fox, lynx, marten, otter and bear the
trapper can take with steel traps of a
size varying with the game or even
with the clumsy but efficient deadfall,
but the ermine, the fur OF which is as
easily damaged as the finest gauze,
must be handled differently
The hunter going the rounds of his
traps has noted curious tiny tracks like
the dots and dashes of the telegrapli.c
alphabet. Here are little prints slur-
ring into one another in dash; there
dead stop, where the quick cared
stoat has paused, with beady eyes alert,
for snowbird or rabbit; here, again, a
clear blank on the snow, where the crafty
little forager has dived below the light
surface and wriggled forward like a
snake, to dart up with plunge of his
fangs into the heart blood of the un-
wary snow bunting
From the length of the leaps the trap
per judges the age Of the ermine. The
full grown ermine has hair too coarse
to be damaged by snare. If, there
fore, the tracks indicate full Gown
animal, the trapper suspends the moose
of a Topped Irvine or wire across the
runway from bent twig, which, when
released, springs upward with jerk
that lifts the ermine off the ground
and strangles it.
If the tracks are like the prints of
baby's fingers, close and small, the
trapper hopes to capture a pet fit for a
throne cloak. Perfect fur would be
married by the Irvine snare, so the trap
per deyiSes as cunning death for the
ermine as the ermine devises when it
darts up through the snow and fixes its
spearlike teeth in the throat of rabbit.
First he smears his hunting knife
with grease; then he lays it across the
track The little ermine comes trotting
in dots and dashes and gallops and
dives to the knife. The knife is frosted
like ice. Ice the ermine has licked, so
he ticks the knife. But, alas, for the
resemblance between ice and steel! Ice
turns to water under the warm tongue:
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Coffee Chewing,

Coffee chewing" says a doctor, sis
habit easily contracted, for the taste
OF the crisp roasted berries is not I'M
Aeasapt. and the exhilaration the slim.
1lus, that the berries give is quite as
marked as that which would be obtain
ed from Il glass or two of beer or from
drink of whisky.
at is this exhilaration, am convinc
ed, that causes the habit to be formed
and that makes it hard habit to break
away from. 1t should be broken away
from. Its effects are highly injurious
They are more injurious than those of
tobacco chewing.
''The coffee chewing habit wrecks the
nerves, it makes the skin sallow and it
destroys the appetite. l have had oc-
casion to treat number of men for it.
l always advise such men to break off
by imperceptible degrees; to give three
or four months to the task Some sue
coed and some do not. Men who work
in coffee plants find it almost impossi-
BILE to succeed. York Tribune
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
A Quaint Old Custom.


A London shop assistant says: ut is
my duty every night to go out to the
rear Of the premises and fire off an old
flintlock pistol. This curious custom
dates back to the middle of the eight
zenith century. Our shop, now in q
crowded north London district, was in
those old days practically in the coun-
try. and it was the custom of the then
proprietor, who was timid, eccentric
man, to fire pistol off every night to
let the would be burglar know he was
armed and prepared for him. Think
ing his custom such good one, seeing
that his shop was never attempted, he
stated in his will that the custom
should be continued, which has always
been carried out, although, Of course,
we do it now merely to keep up
quaint old custom"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
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We must not falter in our claims for
the Angoras as brushwood destroyers,
said George F. Thompson in his ad.
dress at the Kansas City goat show.
Too much has not been claimed for
them in this respect, but there are
many people yet in the United States
who look upon these claims as great
exaggerations. So long as we have
as we do have at this time-millions Of
acres Of land covered with brush
which, when cleared, will become by
the natural processes the best of pas
lures, just so long will there be de-
mand for the goat to eat it. This is so
because the goat will do it better than
man can and at the same time save
to the owner from $40 to $50 per acre.
Credit the animal with this work; cred
1t him also with four pound fleece,
with $3.50 per year for fertilizer pro-
duced, with his proportion Of the an
nual increase of the flock, and charge
him with his first cost and small
amount of feed in winter, then we have
an idea Of his worth upon brush land.
Fences and sheds Should be for perma-
nent use and SO not be charged against
the goat.
The prejudice which was few years
ago so strong against goat meat is dis
appearing, but it is still prevalent to
some extent. This association should
never cease to teach the palatability
and wholesOmeness of Angora venisOn.
Everybody in the United States must
know it is good and be as ready to eat
it as mutton.
A Big Missouri Goat Ranch.
The Frisco Live Stock company, cap
italized at 100000, 100000 paid up,
has decided to locate a ranch Of 5000
acres in Crawford county, Mo-, near
the town of Cuba. the country being
particularly adapted to this industry.
The plan is to stock the ranch with
about $4,000 goats, composed Of all
grades of Angora and common goats
In addition to the sale of the goats for
meat. the farmers throughout the
southwest will be supplied from this
ranch with small focks of from fifty
to 100 goats for the purpose of stocking
their farms.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

"One of the most curious races ever
saw" writes correspondent of the
London Taller, was on Mr.. Carl Ha-
genbeck's lawn at Hamburg. Some
seven children mounted ON the backs
OF large turtles or tortoises raced across
the lawn. To give impetus to their
queer steeds most of them armed them
selves with cabbage which they tied
to the end of Sticks ever and anon
dangling them as tempting morsels in
front of the turtles. 1t was strange
race and occupied some time. Every
now and then a turtle would grasp
piece of cabbage and then quietly eat
1t before resuming it's Journey"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
A Heaven on Earth.

The ancient mogul buildings in the
palace Of the kings of Delhi are mar
vels of beauty. Two of these = the
Diwan-i-am, or hall Of public audience,
and the Diwan-i-khas, or hall Of pri-
vate audience-were built by the EN-
peror Shah Jahan about two and a
half centuries ago, when the mogul
style Of architecture had reached it's
most decorative period. The smaller
of the two, the Diwan-i-khas. is ia
nous for it's jewel-like finish, and it is
round the walls of this apartment that
the Persian inscription runs, "If there
is a heaven on earth, it is this" The
larger hall contains the great mogul
throne. Both buildings are of marble
inlaid with designs in precious stones.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

earth was in the throes Of mountain
making. The Alps, the Himalayas,
the Alleghanies. the Andes. attest the
power Of her activity in those days. At
their termination our continents stood
greatly higher than they do now, and
this aided their glaciation, although it
does not fully account for II.
But as they became loaded with ice
Europe and America gradually, and we
may venture to say contemporaneously,
sank. This was inevitable. Owing to
the extreme heat and pressure prevail
Ing In its interior the earth is an en-
inently elastic body. Its surface ac-
tually bulges in or out with very
slight increase or decrease of the load
upon it.-Edinburgh Review.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
THE: TARTAR CUE.
Said to BE Worn Out of Gratitude
to the HArae.

Said to BE Worn Out of Gratitude
to the Horse.
Herbert Allen Giles in "China and
the Chinese" says that there are
strange misconceptions as to the mean
ing of the Chinese cue, which has
really been worn by that nation for
only about 25O years.
1t was imposed by the Mantchoo Tar
tars, the present rulers of China, as Il
badge Of conquest. Previous to 1644
the Chinese clothed themselves and
dressed their hair like the modern Jap
anese-that is, like the Japanese who
still wear what is incorrectly known
as the beautiful native dress of ia
pam" AS matter of fact, the Japan
csc borrowed their dress as we'll as
their literature, philosophy and early
art from the Chinese. The Japanese
dress is that of the Ming period in
China, 1863 to 1G44.
But where did the Mantchoo Tar
tars get the cue? They depended as o
race almost for their existence upor
the horse. The accepted theory is that
out Of gratitude and respect for his
noble ally the Tartar, so far as he
could, took on himself the equine form
and grew a cue in imitation of a
horses tail. This somewhat grotesque
theory might fall to the ground save
that it is supported by striking evil
dence.
Official coats as seen in China at tn,
present day are made with peculi.s.
sleeves, shaped like horses leg ard
ending in an unmistakable hoof GOV
ering the hand, which are known az
horseshoe sleeves" Incased therein
Chinaman's arms look much like
horses fore legs. The tail completes
the picture.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

The showman's little boy had q
Noah's ark which he examined with
some contempt.
Say" he exclaimed at last. Noah
wasn't much Of Teller. was her"
1t was suggested to the youngster
that Noah succeeded in gathering to-
gether pretty good menagerie.
"Good!' exclaimed the boy scorn-
fully. Huh! Where's the two head
ed calf and the six legged goat and
the ishthyosaurus and the elegianto-
pard and the magnicintelope7 Why,
II Noah Get up as a Snowman In these
days he couldn't make expenses"
HE couldn'tY
"Of course he couldn't. Why, say,
he didn't have a thing in his ark ex-
cept animals that actually exist
Brooklyn Eagle.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Adam and the Tailor.

"This," said the guide. lis the grave
" ADAM"
Historic spot! With reverential awe
may, with feeling of deep thankful
ness-the wealthy merchant tailor on
his first trip to the orient drew near
and cast flower ON the tomb. Err
ing ancestor" he murmured, 81 should
be the last man on earth to revile your
memory. To your sin owe my pros
perity."-Chicago Tribune.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

1t takes very large dose Of chic
reform to an@sthetize the Chinaman.
He passes under it's influence more
slowly and rarely shows the excitement
often characteristic of the initial stage
OF anasthesia. Still more rarely does
he suffer from sickness on his return to
consciousness. This greater apathy Of
nature helps to recovery from severe
accidents and operations.-London Hos.
Dital
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Uncomfortable Position.

Finnicus-.I wonder why it is that
those who attain the pinnacle of sue
cess never seem to be happy.
Cynnicus-Because the pinnacle of
success is like the top of particularly
tall lightning rod with a particularly
sharp point, and those who succeed in
perching temporarily upon it usually
find that they are targets for all the
worlds ightning.-Town and Country
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
A Horned SNAKE

A very handsome species of snake is
the rhinoceros viper, which bears, as
Its name suggests, horns on it's nose.
1t is most beautifully colored when
freshly emerging from it's cast skin, but
Its form is by no means elegant, being
very thick in body, with bulldoglike
head. 1t may attain length Of more
than six feet and is very deadly ami
mal.-Quarterly Review.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Flowers on the Stare.

No actor who is imbued with the SUI
perstitions Of his profession will give
yellow roses to a friend, nor will he
accept them himself, as he fancies the
flowers are harbingers of misfortune,
jealousy and loss of friendship. Some
managers will allow no natural flowers
whatever to be used by way of prop
critics. upon the stage, but that is car
rying the matter further than is usual
ly considered essential.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Shelley Liked Plans.

The poet Shelley was walking one
day In London with respectable So
licitor when Shelley suddenly vanished
and soon after as suddenly reappeared.
He had entered the shop Of a grocer
and returned with some plums, which
he offered to the attorney with great
delight The man Of fact was 40
much astonished at the offer as Shell
ley was at his refusal.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Az the Stork Sees II.

First Stork-I just left baby at that
millionairs's house.
Second Stork-Funny things, these
human beings! I've just delivered three
to one woman in tenement house, and
her husbands out Of work, and they
haven't a cent.-BrOoklyn Life.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Why the Rasor was Dull

Why the Rasor Was Dull.
II wonder what makes my razor SO
dull" said man, looking at the blade
he had SO carefully sharpened only q
day or two before
"Why, father" spoke up little John
ME, playing marbles on the floor, 1T
was just beautiful and sharp only this
with it."
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

:'This, ladies and gentlemen. is the
celebrated trick mule. Dot" said the
clown as the animal was led into the
ring. "After many years OF effort |
am able to say can make him do any
thing he wants to-
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
Behind the Scenes.

Hurry up. Rowland" called the lead
Ing lady. 1.-The people are mad because
we are keeping them waiting"
'Then will not 60 on at ALL" storm
ed the heavy tragedian.
"Why not?"
Because refuse to play to a mad
house. News.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
A Self Evident Fact.

'Time was" said the tramp sadly,
when l owned a big plantation"
"You seem to have a good deal of real
estate on your hands yet" replied the
woman of the house, casting cold and
sarcastic eye upon his grimy paws
Washington Times.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
The AuctiOneer,

Said conscientious auctioneer: la
dies and gentlemen, there is no sham
about these carpets. They are genuine
tapestry carpets. l bought them from
old Tapestry himself"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

Different Investments In Mind.
Ju-;us-Would you like to live your
life over again?
Edgar-No, but I'd like to spend over
again all the money I've spent.-Sray
Stories.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
All Kinds.

Customer Ito grocer)-How much is
your butter pound?
Grocer-Do you mean sweet butter,
dairy cream butter, best butter, fine
butter or butter STRAY Stories.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

He who is false to present duty breaks
thread in the loom and will see the
defect when the weaving Of lifetime
Is unrOlled,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

His wife has treasured all the let
tiers he wrote her when he was court
ing her; keeps them by her all the
time"
Gracious! She doesn't read them
over. does she?"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

During the long tertiary epoch, when
opossums disported themselves on the
site of Paris and mastodons tramped
along the valley Of the Thames. the
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

steel turns to fire that blisters and holds
the foolish little stoat by his inquisitive
tongue. a hopeless prisoner, until the
trapper comes.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

"Smithers is positively the most in-
hospitable man l ever saw"
eyes; never knew him even to en-
terrain an idaa"-What to Eat.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26

The man who doesn't amount to much
usually has his sign out. SO Atchison
Globe.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-26
RANGE RANCH
Ranchers. Cattle


sheepm ed tmakeuse of hes comns
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08
VEhEZOELANS
SUPERSnIODS
South American Peoples His
tory a Chain Of Legends.
STORY OF THE "SAVAGE"
Amazon Women and Their
Mythical Life.
STORY OF THE "SAVAGE"

In the comparative absence of prehis-
toric memorials. ancient ruins, HERO
glyphs. and other evidences of antiquity
the Indians of Venezuela, with their
legends and traditions, form its more or
less dim and shadowy link with the past
says the writer in the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. This fact invests It's aborigines
with peculiar interest, as the more a
country is destitute OF the remembrance
of generations which are extinct the
more important and imperative it becomes
to pursue the minutest traces of what
appears to be monumental There are,
however, few relics of those ancient ra-
ees. which left no other whitten records
PAGES which persisted at period even
beyond the reach Of historical tradition.
They reach back oven an abysm of I'M
known generations and from that mpthic
epoch, which must forever remain a sealed
book to the future, furnish rude testi-
monial.
pictured rocks" along the course of the
Orinoco where are found rude figures.
representing the sun, moon and stars. as
as well as the different animals traed up
on the face of the hardest granite rocks.
These hierogylphs are observed at Cay
cara. opposite the mouth of the Rio Apure,
where they extend so high up the precipi-
tous sides of the cliffs that lofty scaffol-
ding must have been necessary to reach
the point and execute the carving. The ma
tives viii smile when you ask them how
this work was done. Their answer will
be: AT the period Of the great waters
our fathers went to these heights in
boats. Crhis same Indian tradition con-
corning the deluse Is found at intervals
among different tribes rom Banin's Bay
to Terra del Fuego. The traditions of the
Orinoco exactly correspond with Scrip
tural account OF the flood. and they claim
that their nrst man. or God-Omaliyaca-
carved these symbols on the rocksl Near
where the Rio Cassiquiare empties into
the orinoco. and not far from Esmeralda.
are other similar hieroglyphs. while \
few have been observed along the course
OF the lower Essiquibo. Some tracings
upon the rocks OF the Uruan mountains
are very curious. and said To approxi-
mate closely TO alphabetical writing
These few evidences of anterior races
constitute about all that has so far been
discovered of their written records
and for additional testimony the only
reliance is upon legend and tradition.
which have been handed down from gen.
erstios TO generation. Possibly the mist
tangible footprints OF primeval man in
what is known as Venezuela, independent
of the herioslyphs Just mentioned. are TO
be found in the myths of FL Dorado and
tradition regarding the giant and war
like Amazon women. as well as the ieg-
ends of the famous jade stones
The STORY Of he. f,l-fhirat Norma
n Dorado. with all It's vast and febu-
loas treasures OF gold, was at one time
the supreme subject of the civilized
world IL was an alluring phantom.
which for nearly a century engaged the
science. learning. chivalry. and seaman
ahap Of two continents In the vain
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08
At THE WALDORF ASTORIA.
incident in Gig Hotel ard Unusual In.
teress IL Occzsicned.

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08

tons he hears and it is but step to
incorporate them as personal experience.
Even the truthful and charitable Alex
ander Won Humboldt says, in his me-
moirs: Amidst much incorrectness and
extravaganza, these stories Of the monks
contain curious observations"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08

Nearly AL the Russian leather Il tanned
with hsrrh hars- THIS gives Il The pe-
cuisariy pleasant otoT which IT, 80 sd-
ussred- and az the sane time protects u
<rcr, Insects
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08

Always Doing Something
That's the Rorabaugh way and it's not bad way.
either. Ones first impression is that this is busy
storetrue, too. The constant arrival of crisp new
goods the adding of dep irtments, the general
routine of work makes us busy. There's always some
thing doing. Our advance showing of new spring