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The Yale expositor., 1903-10-16
nroke Into HIa houae.

). LeQuinn, Of Cavendish, W., was
robbed Of his customary health by in
vasion OF chronic constipation. When
DR.. King's New Life Pills broke into
his house, his trouble was arrested and
now he's entirely cured. They're guar
anteed TO cure. 25c At Grant Holden's q
drug store.
The Yale expositor., 1903-10-16
To Cure n Cold i'm one Day.

Take Warmers White Wine of Tar
Syrup. the best cough remedy on earth
% aud 80 cents. Mathews a Wight.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
Looking GlaaseS.

In the mirrors of today the light is
reflected by a layer of silver or an
amalgam of tin, but proportion of
light is lost in the process of reflection,
and the image is less luminous than
the original.
The value of looking glass is usual
ly estimated by the thickness of the
glass, because the thicker it is the
stronger it must be. But speaking sci
entitically thick glasses are defective,
because the outlines of the image re-
Elected are less clearly defined.
There are really three reflections and
consequently three images in every
glass mirror. one from the upper sur
face of the glass. the second from the
lower surface and the third from the
metallic layer at the back.
An ideal mirror is one with a per-
fectly fiat surface. but it is only pos.
sible to obtain this result in compara-
lively small. glasses. The larger glasses
do not reflect true image, because it
is not possible to make them quite fiat.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01

Another American girl is hugging
herself in ecstacy of delight because
she possessed the necessary wealth to
purchase a foreign duke. The pur-
chasable commodity in this case is the
Duke of RoXburghe and the purchaser
is Miss May Goelet, a New York girl.
The price paid for this youthful scion
of royalty is understood to be $40, 900,
600 in cash besides other property
turned over to him to the value of $780,
600, 900 more, interests in a New York
hotel, wharf and landings, a sum that
would be far in excess for a ship load
of kings, not mentioning ordinary dukes
not even good looking. But such
luXuries as foreign titles have family
attraction, and the beautiful May
would not be satisfied until she had
made the purchase, even though the
United States was BANKRUPT to supply
the funds.-Sheridan Enterprise.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
Resourceful Major Pond.

Major Pond was never upset in diff
culties. Once he was travelling with
Ian Maclaren. There was a break
down on the railway and the prospect
of lecture engagement being missed
and $1,000 lost. What he did was to
telegraph long and merry message to
the audience about the breakdown. say
ing he and Ian Maclaren would be ar
irving not more than half an hour late.
Singing was provided to entertain the
audience. When the half hour was up
in came another telegram more cheer
full than ever, saying that they were
coming along and that Ian Maclaren
was determined to lecture to that au-
dience if all the railways in the world
had broken down.
The Americans are an emotional peO-
pie, and they were interested. Every
twenty minutes in came a fresh tele-
gram with something funny and bright
about it and always declaring that the
great novelist was advancing. 1t was
half past 10 when the couple reached
the platform. and the welcome given
them was hilarious.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
The Ubiquitous MOSQUITO.

The mosquito wanders pretty much
all over the world, and is found from
the tropics to Lapland, where it is also
great pest. So numerous are mos
quitoes in some localities in South
America that the wretched inhabitants
sleep with their bodies covered over
with sand three or four inches deep.
the head only being left out. which
they cover with handkerchief. Even
thick clothes afford at best a very par
tial protection, being readily penetrat-
ed by the proboscis.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
English Servants md Caste

Between the two classes of upper
and under servitOrs in England the line
OF demarcatiOn is drawn with even
greater sharpness than between those
of master and mistress Often for the
meat course these two classes dine to-
gether in the servants hail. When
this is the case absolute silence is D. =
served during the time, as it is point
of honor with the upper class, COM
posed Of butler, lady's maid, groom of
chambers, valet, housekeeper, etc, not
to share household secrets with those
below the salt, and also they have no
mind to list IN to the prattle Of their in
feriors. For subsequent courses the up
per servants repair to the "housekeep-
er's rOom," where are spread relishes
and desserts superior to those provided
for the Others and conversation goes
On unchecked. AT the present day this
"hOusekeeper's room" is the scene of
regular late dinners, at which visiting
servants, if of the upper GLASS;" are
present. AT the servants parties. in or
der to avoid confusion. it is customary
for them to adopt the names of their
masters, so that while real dukes and
duchesses feast above stairs their du-
pllcates or doubles masquerade below.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01

AS for practical politics, Senator
Hanna has been standing as far apart
from the other republican leaders as
William c. Whitney, a democratic
leader. and Thomas c. Plat, repub-
lican leader ever stood. Mr.. Hanna
was bent and determined that Mr..
Roosevelt should not he next years re-
publican candidate. The republican
state conventions compelled Mr.. Hanna
to lie down. Especially in Ohio Mr..
Hanna was grimly resolved that there
should be no declaration this year for
Mr.. Roosevelt. On that point Sena-
tor Foraker. republican, of Ohio, COM
PEELED Mr.. Hanna to lie down and
keep still. Indeed, the difference mani
testing themselves in all sorts of rivalry
between Mr.. Hanna, republican, of
Ohio, and Mr.. Foraker, also republic
can, of Ohio, are sharper and more
bitter than they ever were between
John Sherman, republican senator for
Ohio, and Calvin S. Brice, democratic
senator for that state.
So that it isn't all one way. The let.
ter written for Mr.. Hanna is sprightly
and jaunty and all that. But it is not
at all conclusive. Mr.. Clarke proposed
joint debate which was to deal spe-
officially with certain very live and sig
niticant state issues. MIR. Hanna
lodges, and the manner Of his action
must be taken as clear indication
that, in fact and on the merits of the
situation in Ohio, he is afraid to meet
Mr.. Clarke in joint debate. Anaconda
Standard.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
A Natural Weather Vane,

1t was an old belief that if the pre-
served body Of a halcyon or kingfisher
were suspended by thread from the
ceiling it's bill would always turn to-
ward the quarter from whence the
wind was blowing.
Thus Barabas in Marlowe's Jew OF
Malta" says:
"But now how stands the wind!
Into what quarter peeps my halcyon'a
bill?
Ha! To the east? Yes"
Shakespeare also alludes to it in
king Lear" when Kent in his reply to
Cornwall rebukes those who
Turn their halcyon's beaks
With every gale and vary Of their mas
ters.'
In more modern days a stuffed king
fisher has be en- seen hanging from tbt.
beam of cottage ceiling at Botley.
near Southampton, and in other places
Of that neighDorhood. where there is a
kindred belief that if dead kingfisher
is hung up by its beak it's breast will
turn with the ebb and flow of the tide.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ROSEBUD COUNTY

man spends his time on his ranch, and
hires deputies which the county is
compelled to pay, to do the work which
he was appointed to do and for which
he is receiving pay?
Has it ever occurred to the people Of
this county, and more especially to the
people of Rosebud, that he might per-
form the duties of his Office himself and
if the law allows him more than one
deputy that he might detail that deputy
to part of the county in which an
officer of the peace is needed?
Why does not Mr.. Davis do the
square thing by the county and occupy
his Office literally instead of nominate.
ly and then give the town of Rosebud
his second deputy?
If the law allows a county of this
class two deputies in the office of sher.
if, is it to be construed that they are
all to be established at the county seat,
when, if there is not enough to occupy
them all, one of them may choose tc
devote himself to his own private pur-
suites?
This is not, in our opinion, what is
granted by the law, and we will ask
the people of this county at large tc
pass judgment upon Mr.. Davis for
themselves.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
USES FOR NETTLES.
They Are GOssd to Eat and Furnlss
Thread and Clothing.

are ~WSO 10 Eat and Furnls s.
Thread and Clothing.
There was time once when tbe
common nettle was not the usually de.
spised weed it is now. People did not
root 1T out of existence or shun it as q
nuisance, but cultivated it for use as
food, for clothing and for paper manu-
facture.
1t certainly does not look inviting as
q food, and yet during the Irish famine
hundreds of poor people existed entire,
~ on 1t, cooking the young plant as
green's. There was a method of blanch-
Ing 1t by "earthing up," as is now used
for sea kale.
Animals, while refusing to touch the
growing nettle, devour it eagerly when
made into hay, and in Russia, Sweden
and Holland it is moved several times
a year for fodder.
The common name given to the nettle
In some languages means that with
which one sews," for the fiber was
used as thread several centuries ago.
In Kamchatka the natives use the
thread for fishing lines and cordage. In
France it is used for paper. In Hindu
stan and China it is woven into grass
cloth. and the Scotch have prepared.
spun and woven it into as good linen
as the flax makes.
The Chinese nettle yields a fiber as
soft as silk, and there is now in Dres-
den a "China grass mandatory de-
voted to the industry of weaving cloth
from this and the common nettle.-
Stray Stories.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
Uu0ucStiOnQble Irony.

Browbeating lawyers sometimes find
their match in female witnesses. An
instance illustrating this Is recalled in
which Il once famous member of the
Philadelphia bar was quietly but eff
fectively "squelched" by lady whose
evidence was very damaging to his
client.
He realized this. and. being nettled
Mt the impertinence of her manner. he
resolved to embarrass her if he could.
So he said: Madam, observe that in
giving your testimony you make fire.
quent use of the word irony May
ask if you understand its full mean
ing?"
II think do. sir" she replied. LET
me illustrate. If l were to call you a
gentleman should unquestionably be
indulging in irony" = Philadelphia
ledger
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
A Letter WRITTEN FOR MIR.
HANNA

Aiming to make the democratic cam
paign in Ohio appear ridiculous, and
lodging challenge to joint debate,
Mr.. Hanna has caused a letter to be
| written. This letter suggests that J.
II. Clarke, who is campaigning as
MIR. Hanna's rival, get up a joint de-
bate with Bryan, on imperialism, or
with Towne, on silver, or with German,
on the tariff the attempt is, in
facetious way to make it appear that
the democratic leaders are not agreed
on essential points in party policy.
That sword cuts both ways. Read
the letter and then remember that, at
the worst, the differences between Mr..
Clarke and leading democrats is not
greater than between Mr.. Hanna and
leading republicans. Mr.. Hanna. some
time ago, made the proposition that his
ship subsidy bill was a cardinal pro-
position in republican policy. Trying
to pass this measure, he found himself
and other republican leaders as far
apart as Bryan and German ever were.
More recently Mr.. Hanna boosted for
the Aldrich clique in the senate, on
the proposition for a currency measure
which, were it to pass, would be the
most important currency Legislation of
the decade. On this radical question
of party policy, as we'll as of finance,
the Aldrich-Hanna republican coterie
and other eminent republican leaders
are as wide apart as Cleveland and
Bryan ever were on the silver question.
In sneering way Mr.. Hanna refers
to the Philippine question, as one re-
specting which the republicans are
unite and the democrats divided. The
most eminent living republican senator
is MIR. Hoar. On the Philippine ques-
ton he differs with Mr.. Hanna as
widely as Abraham Lincoln and Jeffer-
son Davis ever differed. In joint de.
bate of the Philippine question, Mr..
Hanna, republican,, could not stand up
seven minutes in front of Mr.. Hoar, re-
publican. Respecting the tariff, the
difference between Mr.. Hanna's kind
of republicans and the Iowa and Mid
die West kind is greater than it is be-
tween Pacific slope democrats and
Theodore Roosevelt. AS for Cuba, the
Roosevelt administration and the re.
publican majority in the senate have
been standing as far apart as Grover
Cleveland, a democratic president, and
a republican senate majority ever
stood.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
is IT JUST?

The sheriff's Office, as conducted at
present, is sinecure beyond the i'm
agination of the most credulous. In
looking over the commissioners proceed
ings of the last meeting, we find that
the amounts allowed to the several oc-
cupants of that office for four months
are as follows w. H. Lyndes, salary,
$500; Chas. Davis, mileage, ETC.. $797. :.
ga, and e. M. Huff, salary for four
and twothirds months, 1862. Mr..
Davis has been unable to get his sal
airy bills allowed, of course, until the
contest over his office is settled. The
amount of salary due for these four
months is 5000. 90, and must ultimately
be paid by the county. Now we come
to the amount it has cost the county to
support the sheriff's office for the past
one-third of a year: %
Lyndes, salary, $500 90
Huff, salary, filing fees, S62 90
Chas. Davis, mileage, etc 7o7 81
Salary due sheriff, with
held upon contest, 900 o6
Total, SEQ 90
Mr.. Lyndes apparently draws his
500 per month for wearing a star and
loating around town, aiding in the
general political worl, which falls to
the lot of our republican friends (0,
anu keeping up his acquaintance with
the ninty-tive per cent of the people Of
this county, which it is that worthy's
esteemed privilege to know, (accord-
ing to his sworn statement on the wit
ness stand.) Mr.. Davis is the man
with the real "swag," however. He
holds his job and has his bills al
lowed without so much as going to his
othce once month. He devotes his
entire attention to his sheep raising
business and we doubt if he so much
as carries key to the sheriff's Office.
AS to Mr.. Huff, we have nothing to
say. He draws the least salary of all
and is the only one that ever presents
a suggestion of being occupied.
If two men are amply sufficient for
the sheriff's office, why should we he
compelled to bear the expense of three?
Why should salary accrue to the credit
Of Mr.. Chas. Davis to the amount of
81, 666.6 6, the amount due for ten
months as sheriff, when that gentle.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01

In the last issue of the Times w. A.
Clark is referred to as ''stingy."
There is one good republican in town,
we venture to say. would beg to differ
with Mr.. Cole on that score.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01

One trouble about ''tariff revision
by our friends is that it is always
revised in the interests of it's benefi-
Charles.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01

Will Uncle Ira of Montana please
tell us how much he pays Uncle Ira
of Nebraska for the privilege of using
his poetry?
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-01
His Fate.

Casey-O'Rafferty is a sick MAIN.
He has heart complaint an consoomp-
ton.
Murphy-Sure, consoomption's bad
disease.
Casey-It is thot same: but it's slow.
He'll die av the heart throuble a year
afore he'll die av the loong throutle.-
Kansas C1ty Journal
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12
Like tbe Dungeons of Old
 Zs This Jail in Arizona

hair to match. Neither hair nor whiskers have been cut or trimmed for years. In the past he has done duty as miner, but now he earns his three meals by keeping the keys to the iron, door and bringing food and water to the prisoners.
 The jail was blasted out of the rock in 1880 by the Longfellow Mining com pany, and used by them to put away the miners when they had partaken of too much frewater.
 As the town of Clifton grew and became more pretentious a jail was found necessary, and the city officials have, with the permission of the min ing company, made use of the dungeon. The river flows between the city and the cooler" A story is told how, dur ing the flood of 1891, a character of Clifton known as Friday came near passing fn'' through the route said to. be in force in some of the Russian prisons
 Friday had done something which
 put him out ofrsociety for short re- tirement and was enjoying the solitude when the flood broke on the town. The river rose in single night and car ried away the only bridge for a known
 distance that led to the other side. Higher and higher rose the river, and by the middle of the next day 1t had touched the adobe house at the entrance of the jail Friday had been forgotten in the excitement Tn viewing the rise of the water some one thought of poor Friday"
 A brilliant thought struck the sher- iff He painted large sign, Get Fri day Out of the Balliwax," and stood it up so that the miners on the other side could read it. Signals were passed back that it was understood, and short ly they could be seen working along the cliff to the jail. It was impossible to work the bars free, so they had to cut another open ing down through the top. This was tic]klish work, for 1t means blasting, l and heavy charge would have f1n-
 ished Friday" All the day and night they worked, taking the rock away in
 blasts as large as they dared use, but | 1t was slow work at the best, and by
 morning it became race between the
 rescuing party and the flood.
 Just before Noon, nearly A hours l after the sign hSd been painted, the
 last charge sent a shower of rock on l the poor man and the opening was
 made large enough to set him free. Friday" was found in the water to his
 waist and bleeding from tho last blast, but by the time the waters had sub l sided and he was able to get to town
 he was none the worse for his experi- ence except that he became better citizen through his wholesome feaF @f ] the county jail.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12
FELONY FOOD.
Black Rubber. Leather and, Silk PaLrned Off on German Stomachs.


 Palmed Off on German Stomachs.
 In a report on the subject of food adulteration in Europe, Consul Gen. eral Guenther, at Frankfort, makes the following statements: ! An article on the adulteration of food products is going the rounds of the German press. It is stated, for instance, that an ordinary liver patty is made into fine tStrassburger' pate do foie gras (goose-liver patty) by means of borax or salicylic acid and of finely chopped and c1everiy distrfb- uted pieces of black silk, representing truffles.
 Cosmos, a German paper, guaran- tees the fact that under the label of canned holsters the soft parts of the cuttlefish and crabs are sold.
 'In Paris snails are of late very popular. and the. adulterators mix them with lungs of cattle and horses Even entirely artificial snails arc manufactured. The shells, recoated with fat and slime. are filled with lung and then sold as Burgundy snafIs.
 Lovers of fresh rooster combs are imposed upon with q substitute cut out of hogs intestines.
 Chopped artificial truff1es are made of black rubber. silk or softened leatl- CT, and even whole tTuf1es are made out of roasted potatoes. which are giv.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12

tion of women" is still living, having attained the ripe age of 84 years. That she has seen her cause considerably ad- ,vanced none will deny. ..
 .Du@ing the Crimean war, Miss Flor ence Nightingale exerted her womanly energies to lessen the sufferings entailed by that war, and owing to her zeal and faarlessness great reforms were effected in the care of wounded soldiers. When a grateful host desired to present her D testimonial of $250,0O0, she refused to accept it, hut suggested the fund be subscribed to an institution for the train ing of nurses. In our own country, re- forms in the care of soldiers were es- abolished by Miss Clara Barton, whose talents came into active play during the civil war. Then when the Franco-Ger- man war called for nurses, she aided the Red Cross in it's work abroad. For her services she was decorated with the golden cross of Baden and the iron cross of Germany. In 1881, she became presi- dent of the American Red Cross society.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12
A LOST BOY.

The old Noah's ark is stored away,
 And beside k Is a dusty drum; The soldiers have fought in their last affray And are battered, crestfallen and glum. The brown-eyed doggy is roaming forlorn In that self-same storage place, With pitiful pleading and eyes that mourn For his little masters face. The domino train is switched aside, ] The whistllng top is still, . .: And the old planchette where the checkers
 ride Has lost its wheels and it's skill.
 The football is idle, the skates careless lie, sa... Beside them the little oak sleigh; The small laddies he knew wander dis
 mally b4s <r In shivery, half-hearted way.
 Do you know where this storehouse of
 playthings lies hid? s~ Why the playmates are silent and wan? Why the dog wanderS restless, these , treasures amid? .... Where the dear little master has gone? Oh, it makes my heart ache and the bit ter tears fall, H,> And with loneliness fills life's flair cup; For the toys are but stored in fond mem
 ory's hall, s@ ,...- And their owner is only-grown up. Frank H. Sweet, in Farm Journal
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12
en aspeculiar a flavor by adding ether

en apeculiar flavor by adding ether. They are said to sell well.
 'sFish spoiled in spite of ice and po- rax is treated with salts of zinc, alum mum, and other metals. Rubbing the fish with vaseline to give it a fresh look, and coloring the gills with fresh blood or eosin-a coal-tar color is resorted to. The latter is also used to intensity the red color of inferior crabs
 'Imparting a greenish color to oy- sters is another adulteration- An oy- ster requires about one month in the beds to acquire the greenish color. As this is too long time, the dealers help them along with an artificial col- bring.
 ''The. chemists in the Paris munich pal laboratories have shown that to mato jelly is adulterated with turnips, and powdered pepper contains large admixture of powdered hardtack.n
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12

and when a visit was made to the place a few weeks ago they had six Mexicans in one cell and four Chinese in the other When the suns rays disappear candles are lighted Read ing or even card playing is imrcssible. One candle is allowed each cell.
 Sanitation there is none, drinking water is brought to the prisoners in cans, and as for baths and shaving, that would sound to criminal of that country like stopping in a palace. After 100 days in such place prisoner re- appears looking like a dime museum representative of a wild man.
 To intensity the bad conditions, the weather in that part of Arizona is al- most continually hot. To think of a place not as large as an ordinary bath room containing 12 to 14 drunken Mexicans, as is often the case after payday. carries one far back in history.
 The jailer is about as queer as the jail He has a grizzled visage, cov- erad Vjsh s1post white whiskers; and