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STAMPSFOR WORLD'SFAIR

The post Office department has an
bounced that a special series in stamps.
in five denominations, to commemorate
The Louisiana purchase of 1903 and to
be known as the commemorative series
of 1904, will be issued beginning April
II, for sale to the public during the term
of the st. Louis exposition, from April
80 to December l, 1904 A supply of the
regular issue of stamps will be kept in
stock by all post offices during this
period.
The commemorative stamps will be as
follows: One-cent, green, with portrait
of Robert r. Livingston, United States
minister to France, who conducted the
Louisiana purchase negotiations; two
cent, red, portrait of Thomas Jefferson,
president of the United States at the
time of the purchase; three-cent, purple,
portrait of James Monroe, special am
bassador to France, who, with Living
ston, closed the negotiations for the pur-
chase; five-cent, blue, portrait of Will
liam Mckinley, who as president ap-
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lowed the coming in of the men of
many wants and many dollars.
Almost anything up in these forests
that is built of logs is camp" wheth-
err it cost $50 or $4,000. My friend
Hendricks has been little spoiled by
contact with certain class OF sum-
mer folk and ostentatiously gives to
his woods home the ambitious name
of "lodge," but DR.. Seward Webb, Mr..
Augustus Low, Mr. Pierpont Morgan.
Mr.. Alfred Vanderbilt, and others OF
wealth of high degree, have camps.
That these camps are fashioned accord
ing to artistic models, that they fire.
uuently shelter treasures gathered from
the four quarters of the globe, that the
life led therein has little about 1T OF
discomfort or asceticism, doubtless 1t
is needless to emphasize.
Here come together multimillionalre
and native woodsman, and the meeting
is of mutual benefit; the former emp
ties welcome coin into the hands OF
the latter. who imparts of his wood
lore to the inquiring city man. AS
rule they enjoy each other thoroughly,
and class enmities seem rather the eX-
ceDtion.
There is and has been for years, an
outlaw class in this region, men that
seem to prefer a deed of darkness just
for it's own sake. And they have been
regarded askance by the natives as well
as by the private preserve owners.
They paw no heed to written game
laws. or do not observe the unwrttten
one that makes it breach of forest
etiouette to enter into and kill where
another hunter has made camp. They
are unsocial, degenerate fellows, and
residents of the Adirondacks, of high
and low degree alike, are on their trail.
Rich gifts have been made by the
landlords to the Adirondack forests.
A while ago, the late Mr.. William
Whitney placed % elk in the woods
and afterwards sent 40 more from his
private preserve at Lenox, Mass.
Moose. too, are being let loose in the
woods. and there is general enthusiasm
felt towards the movement to restock
the Adirondacks with moose and elk.
Guides, looking to the preservation of
their occupation, second the efforts of
the state in protecting these valuable
animals, and hold the bestowers of the
gifts as good fellows. When, not long
ago. one of the moose was killed by
some vandal hunter, great indignation
was felt throughout the region, and mil
lionaire and native would have dealt
summarily with the offender if that
individual had been discovered.
The animals that feed within the pri-
vate preserves are, as rule, intelli-
gently cared for, as well as protected,
from the hordes of hunters, and have
multiplied to a degree that should en-
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was in the days when the value Of the
Adirondacks as a health resort was
just receiving recognition, and there
were not the swarms of health and rec
reation seekers there are now. A gen.
tleman, man from Chicago, came to
the pine woods in hope the air would
prove tonic to his two fragile daugh-
ters, and engaged Smith to get horses
for his party and to take the ladies
about. The city folks remained many
months, and under Smiths direction,
lived out-of-doorS and wandered the
country round. Health rewarded these
rational methods, and the grateful par
ent rewarded the guide with a gift OF
the horses and with good round pay,
The money was happily invested in
camp" the camp grew and grew and
grew; and now Paul Smith has a pri-
vate preserve of 18,484 acres, an inn
that only moneyed folk can patronize.
The Adirondack preserves held as
private property by sportsmen's clubs
and individuals have an aggregate acre
age of 791 ,208 acres. The Rockefeller
preserve is situated in the central part
of Franklin county and consists OF ST.
1886 acres, embracing the De Bar Noun
tain park and Everton park. Hon. Will
liam c. Whitney owned an Adirondack
estate of 1921 acres, Hamilton park.
which is situated in the northern part
of Hamilton county and contains Lit
tie Upper, Round and Big Salmon
lakes, and other lesser lakes and ponds.
DR.. William Seward Webb is lord of
Lake Reserves, $40 acres, and of Me-
hasane park, 42,848 acres. Brandreth
park, 1929 acres, is owned by Frank
lin Brandreth, Ralph Brandreth and
Gen. E. A. McAlpin. Henry G.. DORIS
Childwood park is an estate Of 1900
acres, and the Cutting preserve con-
sists Of $500 acres. Litchfield park,
owned by Edward II. Litchfield, is siz-
able, IL, APT acres, as is also Santonini
park, II ,205 acres, Hon. Robert G.
Pruyn owner. Wilderness park, pre-
serve of 29,567 acres, is owned by w. S.
De Camp; and the Villas preserve, 49,,
OTIS acres, by e. A. Carpenter
The Derrick Rapids club has $500
acres; the Adirondack Mountain re-
serve, 1912 acres; the Bog Lake camp,
5,G18 acres; Caughnawage club, 1888
acres: the Grasse River Outing club.
$500 acres; the Inlet club, 600 acres;
the adirondack League club owns 1912
acres; the Fenton Game Preserve asso-
citation holds leased land to the amount
of 10000 acres; there are 1852 acres
in the hands of the Granshue club;
1883 acres belong to the North Woods
club; $3.50 acres constitute the Pleasant
Lake preserve; there are 1875 acres in
Read and Strong park, and 10000 acres
belong to the Saltwater club preserve.
KATHERINE POPE.
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courage those who fear the Adirondack
game is fast vanishing. But the fires
of last summer laid waste tracts in GER
tain of these preserves, and at least
one large landowner has had to take
down his fences and let the deer out to
search for food in the public lands.
Whether or not they will be able to
satisfy their hunger is a question, as
the cold has been of such severity this
winter the deer have had to keep to
the heart of the woods and have found
little TO feed upon save the MOSES,
balsam and hemlock boughs.
Other aristocracy have we besides
that of men coming to us from the out
side Some of our guides have risen
to prominence and wealth, to the eX-
allied position of keeper of fashionable
mountain inn and hotel. Perhaps it is
safe to say that most of the Adiron-
dack hostelries are under proprietors
that began life as penniless guides, At
the foot of the ladder thus, they be-
came familiar with the tastes and
whims of large public and. early APP
prenticed to ministering to these
tastes in individual cases, by
and by became able to cater
on larger scale, with profit to them
selves and satisfaction to their guests.
Take Paul Smith for instance, the
man who keeps the famous paul
Smith s." who has a station named aft
er him Cor rather his house,, who is
hero of commerce to guides far and
near, Some years ago he was but
guide, so a guide tells me, guide with
no very large patronage, either. That
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Says Railroads Dodge Tax Laws.
State Railroad Commissioner John w.
Thomas has reported to the governor
that his investigation of the books and
records of the railway companies oper-
ating in Wisconsin shows that they owe
the state $67, 923.07 in back taxes, due to
their failure to report their entire gross
earnings, upon which their taxes are
computed. The investigation, he says,
is only partially completed, and will con-
sumo considerable more time. The re-
port gives the results of the investiga-
ton for four roads only, and for the years
of 1901 and 1902. According to the re-
port the gross earnings for the period
named is 81, 698, 076.63.
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Heavy Loss for Farmers.

The recent blizzard and cold snap in
the vicinity of Kendall was costly.
Farmers were caught unprepared and
livestock suffered severely The largest
loss is caused by the killing of clover
that had started to grow. Farmers will
be short of hay, as they had largely de-
pended upon clover for their supply.
Lambs and young poultry that were ex-
posed froze to death in a temperature
of ten degrees above zero Because OF
the long, cold winter feed is scarce and
farmers are selling their stock, fearing
a still greater shortage next year. Some
of the farmers had begun blowing FOL
spring grain, but seeding will now be
delayed some time.
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the future warrior. At the age of three
he learns to sit astride a horse in the
courtyard OF his fathers house. Two
years later he shows himself on horse
back in the village street, and exercises
with his young comrades. No wonder
that at the age of 20 he seems almost to
be one flesh with the sturdy beast that
carries him. when the wife of Cos
sack, becoming a mother, went to the
church 40 days after her confinement for
the prayer of publication, and returned
home with her son in her arms, the
father buckled a sword to the waist of
the child, and. handing it to his wife,
congratulated her on having given birth
to a Cossack."
The COSsackS were not always under
Russian government, and indeed are
said by some authorities to have orig
mated from emigrants who could not
stand the slavery of the Russian sys-
TEN, and preferred so far back as the
tenth century to lead a nomadic robber
life in the Steppes of the Tartars.
These nomad hordes grew in power and
number till they became a formidable
force. and as the Cossacks. or free
men" were more friendly to their Rus
sian kinsfOlk than to the Tartars, they
gradually formed as a convenient buffer
state. They elected their own atamans
(hetmans) or chiefs till the beginning
of the present century; they owned
large herds of cattle and many of them
attained considerable wealth. AS they
grew in power they probably absorbed
Tartar and Circassian stock. Those in
the neighborhood of the Don and Dnie-
per became skillful bOatmen and fisher
men. though at least till the days of
Yermak they gained the major part of
their livelihood from pirate attacks
upon Russian merchantmen plying on
these rivers.
Under the present regime there are
no less than 81 regiments of Cossacks,
under II main tribal divisions Chief
OF these are the Cossacks of the Don,
who give name to a province of a mill
lion and half Inhabitants. These were
The most ready to resume the Russian
yoke and show most adaptability to
civilization. The Cossacks of the Don
supply two regiments and one battery
of horse artillery to the guard, II regi-
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The News Condensed.

James Croft, aged So years, for many
years agent for the Milwaukee Railway
company in Beloit, while on his way
home had fainting spell. Citizens as
sisted him to his residence, and he fell
dead into the arms of a friend.
The brides mother being stricken with
smallpox during the wedding festivities
80 families who attended the marriage
of Andrew Baxter and Miss Gusta
Krause, at Newton, Vernon county, are
quarantined.
Mrs. Charles M. Morris, of Berlin, will
represent the Wisconsin State Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs on the pro-
gramme of the biennial convention OIL
the general federation, to be held at st
Louis May 1925, she baving been re-
quested to take part in the library con-
ference.
All of the leading merchants of Ken.
osha have signed an agreement refus-
ing to offer trading stamps as prem.
iums.
John Novak, lahorer, from Mani
towoc, fell off the Goodrich docks al
Two Rivers and was drowned.
Judge Helms, at Hudson, has sen.
fenced Robert Kingsley to the peniten.
A. Markham last January.
While tarring the roof of a stable al
Stoughton, Robert Daverkosen, Of
GAINESVILLE, fell to the ground and broke
his neck, dying few minutes later.
The third annual convention of the
Wisconsin Gideons, the Christian trav-
cling mems association, will be held in
Earaboo April % and a.
The Amen Candy & Biscuit company
plant was damaged by fire. smoke and
water at Racine to the extent of about
5000. The flames started in a cal
load of excelsior.
Fire destroyed the opera house, St
Marks Episcopal church, the Park no.
tel barn, and two private barns at Wau-
paca. The loss on the opera house is
SIS 900, fully insured, and on the church
50 900. insured for 81 $50 The fire orig
mated in the opera house.
During the quarter beginning January
and ending March 81, the county poor
office in Milwaukee gave aid to 1,061
families in the county. Of these, 977
were in the city. This is the largest num-
Der of families receiving aid during the
winter and surpasses the total for the
same period in 1908 by 1875, an increase OF
13 per cent.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Harp. of the town of Freedom, aged
seven and nine years, procured a loaded
gun while the parents were away and
accidentally pulled the trigger. The
charge lodged in the arm and breast Of
the little girl.
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cold, while no better foFager has yet
rope. The army of Napoleon on its re-
treat from Moscow had only too good
reason to regret the proves of this
nimble scout, who harasSed the dis
pirited TANKS of the once victorious
army. On the first day of the Russo
Turkish war of 1877 COssack regiment
covered 20 miles in "a hours to secure
an important bridge, and the latest re-
ports from Korea show that Cossack
scouts have made daring dashes to the
south, in spite of the immense superb
GRITTY of the Japanese forces in the tri-
angle of Seoul and Pingyang and Wen
san.
A remarkable feature of the Russian
and Cossack soldier is his insensibility
to pain. In the Balkan struggle men
suffering from incredible wounds used
to march stolidly to the ambulance, so
that soldiers left in the fighting line
should not have to be detached to carry
them away.
A good story, though not strictly Cos
sack, is told of the soldiers in a redoubt
at Sebastopol who were about to par
take of the usual soup from the usual
pail. A shell fell in their midst, but a
cool-headed Russ ran and dropping it
into the pail, cried: Welcome, Maria
Ivanovna, and taste our soup"
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Couldn't See the Joke.

Senator Hoar says that the late John
Sherman had no conception of a joke,
in which opinion Gen. William T. Sher-
man conceded heartily. Mr.. Hoar once
asked Senator Sherman to drive over
with him to see new electric car, at
the same time cautioning the driver to
be careful. The horses, he said, were
very much afraid of the electric cars
Il suppose" said the Massachusetts
man, ''they are like the labor reform
ers. They see contrivances for doing
without their labor, and they get very
angry and manifest displeasure." Mr.
Sherman pondered for moment or two
and then said, with great seriousness:
Mr.. Hoar, the horse is very intelli-
gent animal, but it really does not
seem to me that he can reason as fa1
as that"
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Epworth League Convention.

DR.. William A. Quayle, pastor of the
Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church, of Kansas City, Mo, and con-
coded to be one of the most brilliant
orators in the pulpit of this country,
will give the opening lecture at the
state convention of the Epworth
League of Wisconsin, which is to be
held in Milwaukee April 21-22, inclu-
sive The convention is delegated one
each league in the state being entitled
to two representatives. 1t is expected
that fully 300 delegates from various
Darts of the state will be in attendance,
although many of the leagues in the
remote sections will not be represented
at all.
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ments and seven batteries to the cav
airy proper. and three independent
squadrons. The personal escort of the
car is supplied by the Cossacks of the
Kouban and the Terek. The following
are the names of the II main divisions:
/. Cossacks of the Don.
g. Cossacks Of the Kouban.
3. Cossacks Of Terek.
4. Cossacks of AStrakhan.
s. Cossacks of the Oural.
g. Cossacks of Orenburg.
7. Cossacks Of Siberia.
g. Cossacks of Semirietchie.
g. Cossacks of the Transbaikal.
TO- Cossacks of the Amur.
H. Cossacks of the Ussuri.
At Russian military reviews the Cos
sack always plays notable part. IN
other respects the Russian army is
much like that of other continental
powers; but the Cossack has his own
manual Of Instructions Every member
of the squadron is trick rider, who
could put the cleverest circus acrobat
to shame; and the firing exercises in
troduce features which only clever
riders with clever animals could per-
form. In one of these tricks the pony
lies down and forms a cover" for it's
rider. On campaign this unique skill
is largely in evidence, and the enemy
is COMPOUNDED by various forms of
tricks. On campaign, moreover, the
Cossack is particularly useful, as he is
accustomed to scanty food and extreme
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Urges Passage of Flag Law.

Members of the house of representa-
tives will be requested by the Milwau-
kee chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution to use their infiu-
ence to secure the passage of the ma
tional flag law in accordance with a res
olution passed at the Athenaeum. The
bill, providing penalties for the desecra-
ton of the flag, was drafted by Mrs. Wal
ter Kempster, regent of the Milwaukee
chapter, and was introduced in the SEN
ate by the Wisconsin senator's and passed
by that body March II.
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AT THE PLAY.

T. R. Benson will give another series
OF dramatic performances at Stratford-
on-Avon, this time during the festival
Of 1905.
"I have met people who roll their
eyes to heaven and rave about Shake
speare and yet they won't go to see
Shakespearean plays" says a popular
actor. And that, no doubt, is the rea-
son why e wellknown manager said
recently, or was reported as saying:
There's no use talking about it; this
man Shakespeare is played OUT
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
On the Road to Fame.

Old Practitioner-Well, how did you
succeed with your first diagnosis? Did
you profit by my advice?
The Young Doctor think | did,
sir. ! told the patient that he was
suffering from a combination of liver,
stomach, heart, Iung and brain trouble.
o. P.-Good! No chance of mis-
take there.-Tit- Bits.
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FLAMES CAUSE
A GREAT PANIC
FIRE ATTACKS A HOSPITAL Al
INDIANAPOLIS.
ONE WOMAN LOSES HER LIFE
Leaps from Fourth-Story Window
Several Other Persons Seriously
Injured-Hotel in Same
City Destroyed.

indianapolis, Ind, April 18.-Whilo
the city fire department, reinforced b.
companies from the suburbs, was be-
ing taxed to it's utmost fighting the Oc-
cidental hotel fire Sunday morning, an
alarm was turned in from ST. Vincent 5
hospital When the first fire company
arrived one life had been lost and sew
eral were seriously injured in the panic
that followed.
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Lord Kitchener.

Capt. Won Tiedmann, a German Of
f1cer. read paper before the Military
society of Berlin recently in which he
had this to say of Lord Kitchener:
"One of the reasons why he is not
we'll liked is that when off duty he does
not fall into the unconstrained, famil-
lar manner common among English Of
ficers. A soldier body and SOUL his
instinct tells him that it is not right.
He seemed insensible to personal dan
ger, but there is nothing of the bravo
in him. His march into Omdurman
was not much better than foolhardi-
ness. There was something almost hui
morous in his calmness when, for ex-
ample, with shots flying in all direc-
tons, he stopped to light a cigarette
and carefully watched the smoke to
see from which direction the wind
blew"
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w UST as a king of England
found it good policy to call
Nv his heir Prince of Wales, so
IA NH a Russian car propitiated
ysU by making the Czarevitch At
amap. or chief Of the Cossacks. The
DersonaI escort of the Little Father is
also supplied from a Cossack regiment.
The world indeed has never yet seen a
finer body of light cavalry, and it is no
wonder that the Russian military au-
thorities have allowed the hardy horse
man of the Steppes TO retain something
of their own method of warfare, and to
grant them a set of regulations distinct
from those of the rest of the army.
The services that the Cossacks have
done for the Russian empire are meal
culabe 1t was they who conquered
Siberia under the leadership of the
valiant Yermak. 1t was they who de-
fed the Turk and without artillery cap
tured the fortress of AzOv. To them IS
entrusted the most difficult Of all tasks,
that Of guarding the ever-groWing IRON
tiers against Tesentful neighborS Re
cent travellers have described the Cos
sack outpOsts on the borders of Man
churia perched in almost inaccessible
wilds. showing that the old duty has
been assigned to this race Of fro tiers
men.
No wonder the COssack is a famous
horseman. A sympathetic writer has
recently described the average career OF
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Found Guilty of Bribery.

E. T. Webster, a sewer contractor, was
found guilty of bribing an alderman in
connection with certain contracts for a
city sewer Webster was sentenced to
pay fine of 81 900 and costs, which he
paid. There remain to be tried 35 other
cases against city officials, on indict-
ments returned by the grand jury.
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Aged Missionary Dead.

Miss Caroline Jones, who, as Indian
missionary in the fifties, worked alone
among the wild tribes of this state,
particularly in the Lake Winnebago
and Fox river territories, is dead at
Appleton, at the age of 81, of erysipe-
las. She narrowly escaped death by
fire at the hands of the Indians several
times and was more than once in cap
tivity.
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Fish Distinguish Sounds.

A Spanish naturalist, DR.. Ribera, has
proved that fish can hear and distinguish
sounds and words. Concealing himself
behind bush, he taught the carp in
pond to come to the surface for food
every time he spoke certain sentence.
To other words, not associated with
feeding, they paid no attention.
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At the Ball.

He-Who is the girl with the delu-
sion dress?
She-You mean illusion.
He-No, mean delusion. She is
very plain in the face, but her gown
is SO stunning it make her look really
beautiful.-Detroit Free Press.
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Bad BETTING.

''I have bet silk hat with that man
five times in the last year, and he has
never paid me one of them"
"That so? I didn't know he was in
the habit Of breaking his word"
'Oh, he isn't; he won the bets. -
Cincinnati Times-Star.