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, they are nearly all cross animals or cattaloes.
 Charles Goodnight" he states, "has a herd of eighty buffaloes but he has been crossing them with Galloway cat tie for the past few years, and making no serious attempt to keep them pure. Tn recent letter to the writer, Mir Goodnight himself says T have about sixty full-blooded buffaloes and seven ty-five hybrids.'
 After a brief mention of the herd of c. D. Conrad of Kalisnei, Montana of which he does not give the number of indivuals, he concludes;
 These herds, Wt&D the Rockefeller | herd in Kansas and those of Yellow stone National Park, constitute the buffalo population of the United States, a little remnant of the great herds which formerly roamed the ranges He might just have mentioned the Corbin herd at Newport, N. H.. seeing | that 1t is the largest herd of all pure- 1 blooded buffalo in the country. But as he didn't mention this, we could hard ly expect him to refer to the Dooly herd in Utah, the J. J. Hill herd at Carorgan Minn. the Lenander herd at ] Bancroft, Iowa, the Montebello kennels herd, or of the buffaloes in tine zoolo- 1 gical parks in New York; Chicago, Cin- l cinnati, San Francisco, Buffalo City, St. Louis Pittsburg, Toledo, Rochester, ! Omaha, Worcester and other places, i Oh, well, he only left cut about four hundred buffalo, which isn't so bad when we consider that he tells us in 1 another paragraph that the most re- cent census places the entire number of pure4bred bison at 94S. Neither is | he to blame in the least, because there are some five hundred buffalo in Can- | ada which he never heard of. In fact, 1 l should not have been so fussy as to call attention to his trifllng errors, had l he not undertaken to prove that there l is mo profit in buffaloes." If there is no profit in them, of course we want
 to know it, but Te prefer to get our in
 formation from some one who knows
 at least something about buffaloes.
 Now, let us see how he arrives at
 his conclusion that ttEe notion that
 there is money in a great herd of buff
 faloes has passed. The facts are these
 A few years ago, Messrs. Burgess and
 Hansen, of Luana, Iowa, purchased a
 very small number of buffaloes, not
 more than five or six, if I remember
 right. The firm of Burgess & Hanson
 failed last December, and their buffalo
 herd was sold at auction. Therefore
 says the authority there is mo prof
 it in buffaloes, But, as the bankrupt
 firm also sold lot of land at the same
 auction, 1t would be just as reasonable
 to say that there is no profit in real es.
 tate. To be sure, Messrs. Burgess anc
 Hanson did not realize what our in-
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But what's the use? The whole arti- cle is made up of inaccurate, illogical. and self contradictory statements. The writer of it begins by stating that there is no profit in buffaloes, passing his ar- gument on the result of one tiny and probably poorly conducted experiment with half a dozen animals. And dur ing his ramblings he tells us that the animals increased as fast as domestic cattle would have done, that they weighed from 1,200 to 1000 pounds apiece and that the meat when sold brought more and sometimes very much more than ordinary beef. He tells us. toe, that great value is placed on the heads and the robes of the buffalo. A Well-mounted head Is worth from $50 to $500, while the luxury of a robe is worth $75." It would be interesting to know how much money he would con- sider it necessary to get for a buffalo in order to make a profit. If he ever escapes again, care should be taken that he gets hold of nothing so dan- gerous as pen and ink.
 Ernest Harold Baynes,
 Secretary of the American Bison Society
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THE CONGO STATE.

Is the King of Belgium high finan- oier? Professor Felicien Cattier, of the University of Brussels, seems to think he is no better than that. Professor Cattier says: "An examination of the Congo State administration reveals the clear and incontestalble fact that the Congo is not colony in the proper sense of the term; it is financial speculation. The real aims Jf those in authority are pecuniary-to increase the amount yielded by taxation, to ex- ploit the natural wealth of the country, to effect all that can stimulate it's pow CTS of production. Everything else is subordinate to this end. The colony IS administered neither in the interests of the natives nor even for the economic interest of Belgium; the moving spirit is the desire to assure to the sovereign
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PREssIMIsM CONCERNING BUFFA
 LOES.

A pessimistic article, entitled No Profit in Buffaloes," was published on the 7th of January in the New York Sun, and since then 1t has been re- printed in scores of different cities throughout the country, by other news papers, whicG3 doubtless thought that 1t was "so' Tt was written in Luana, Iowa, by some one who gives little evidence of sanity beyond the fact that he didn't sign his name to the article, and, after all, this may have been due simply to the cunning so often at tributed to the mentally unbalanced. He affects a wide knowledge of his sub jeet treating of buffaioes in general and of buffaloes in particular, and attempts to prove, by a series of wonderfully inaccurate and illogical statements that the animals cannot be reared at a pro- fit. As a matter of fact the arguments would have been more neatly correct had they been leveled against almost any one of our domestic animals which we rear and maintain under the im- pression that they are profitable to us. Let us see what he knows about buffaloes in general. He gives what purports to be list of all the buffalo herds in the United States. After men, tioning the Burgess and Hanson herd, which was recently sold at auction, he refers to the fact that it once was part of the big herd from the Flathead Indian Reservation, owned by M Fable and Charles Allard." At one time, he continues, "the Pablo Allard herd consisted of S20 head more than one third of the pure-blooded buffaloes in the world He evidently does not know that this is not, and never was
 herd of pure-blooded buffaloes but that it has always contained a large per centage of oross-bred animals.
 The next herd mentioned is the Philip herd. at Fort Pierre, s. D., which he states consists of sixty-one full -blooded buffaloes, and fifty head of cattalo, a cross between buffaloes and Angus cattle" We will assume that the owner of the herd knows what he has, and MT. James Phillip in the Jan uary number of Field and Stream says, in referring to his own buffalo herd: This, commonly known as the Philip herd, now numbers one hundred and twenty full-brooded buffalo, in
 cluding twenty-one calves"
 Then comes the herd of Major Con- don D. Lillie (Pawnee BID, which, oui
 authority" states, lis probably the most important herd of buffaloes in existence" As a matter of fact, this herd, as a buffalo herd is one of the least important, for the reason that there are hardly any buffaloes in it.
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THE FREE SEEDS FRAun.

Can 1t be that congressman are no longer to be allowed to flatter their constituents with free seeds? Represen- tative Cocks, of Long Island, has achieved great triumph for a man who has been in congress only three months He led fight in the Commit- tee on Agriculture Of the House that resulted in killing the usual provision in this measure for the free distrlbu- tion of seed.
 The Long Island man presented his ideas to the committee and moved to strike out the provision for seed distri- button for next year. After some spir- ited debate the amendment was carried by the narrow margin of one vote.
 MT. Cocks believes that seed distribu- ton as practiced in the past ten or fif- teen years is great fraud. He be- lieves that the money thus expended about $25O,OO0-is wasted, because it brings nothing of practical value to the farming interests. The tiny packages of turnip and tomato seed which the government sends broadcast with such a liberal hand every year are about as helpful to the average farmer as fifth wheel to wagon. MT. Cocks believes that the money that is spent for seeds could better be applied 10 introducing new and valuable varieties of foreign plants.
 But while Mir. Cocks is entirely right, l is 1t probable that the congressman will easily give up the notion that their constituents are flattered and pleased by little gifts of seeds that may or may not be good for anything? We trow not When this matter comes up in the House there will be some hot air in motion.
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SOME LOCAL PRIDE.

Local pride" is good thing. There is a lot of 1t in New Haven, and it is charmingly conspicuous whenever the Chamber of Commerce meets. Of course on those occasions it sometimes leads to extravaganza of expression, and yet it is generally perceived around here that we are much better off with such extravagance than we should be with out the pride that prompts it. Hart ford has local pride too, and there can be no doubt that it is, on the whole, a good thing for Hartford. It keeps it thinking that it is an important place for railroad station, etc., etc., and leads it to announce in trumpet and other tones that all trains ought to stop there just as they do in New Ha- ven. And that is not all it does. It moves the Hartford Times to remark Any reduction of railroad fares that makes it easier for people to buy tick cts for Hartford tends to promote the general welfare"
 This is calm and serene, as such manifestations of local pride ought to be. Indeed, it is almost sublimely calm and serene. We do hope that no mean minded person will bob up and call at- tentlon to the fact that the reduction of railroad fares also makes it easier to get away from Hartford.
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CA UTIOUS.


 That man was waiter for ten years, and now he's worth a million' All for waiting ten years?" "es, his rich, uncle died then. Philadelphia Ledger.
 Hicks-"Brown Is an exceedingly cautious man, don't you think?" Wicks -"Caution! Well, he wouldn't pay a compliment without taking receipt for it."-Boston Transcript.
 Mary-'They issued a hundred and fifty wedding invitations.
 ane-"Did they get many valuable presents?'
 "No-they barely made expenses. "- Life. Isn't it fact, Professor, that the troubles of society are caused by one half of the world not knowing how the other half lives?" My dear sir, the trouble comes from the one-half trying to find out. Chicago Tribune.
 There's one curious thing about self made men," remarked the observant young fellow. What's that?" inquired his less observant friend. They never have daughters who care, for self-made dresses. ''--Woman's Magazine.
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sensitive enough to distinguish any diff ference between the two, the wonder is, not that Messrs. Burgess and Hanson received so little for their product, but that any one was foolish enough to pay them so much.
 The Emperor of Germany" says our natural, twas looked upon as a sure customer. He was said to have offered $5,OOO for the crazy bull of Lost Park, Col, and Hanson and Burgess saw no reason why they could not produce crazy bulls for less money" Whether the firm failed to produce a bull crazy enough to please the Emperor, or whether, when the bull was produced, the Emperor refused to come up with" the money, is not explained in the arti- cle One thing Is pretty certain, how ever and that is, if there had been any premium on craziness in Luana, Iowa, it would not have been taken by a buf- falo
 The correspondent winds up his for midable array of "proof' as follows:
 Tt was not long before the firm dis covered that the slow increase of buff .falo herds in numbers and the little demand for the meat, makes buffalo raising for profit an impossibility. 7 < Yet a moment before in the same par .agraph, he states: They found that a buffalo COW, after getting to be four or five years old, would give them one calf year, which invarlable lived; was able to stand alone when first born and usu- |ally wanted to fight within an hour af- ter 1t saw daylight" And MT. Tom Burgess himself. in a recent letter to nle states concerning his own buffalo They breed every year the same as do- .mestic cattle. I raised fifteen calves from four cows in four successive years
 Buffaloes being neither opossums nor guinea pigs, how much better than this could they be expected to do?
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formant states was ttleir ambition, viz, to make fortune out of the bison they owned, but then the noble beasts were hardly to blame if their owners were too ambitious. Suppose the firm had started with half dozen pigs, or sheep, or cows, or horses, is it at all likely that they would have made their sud- den and everlasting fortune? And if they had failed, would 1t have been any proof that there is no money in pigs, sheep, cows or horses?
 On what assumption did the concern base its hopes for quick and enormous profits? According to the correspond ent from their own town, they esti- mated that every animal would bring them $1,000, if a market could be crea- ted for the meat. I could mention a good many domestic animals, the sale of which would prove mighty disap- pointing if their owners had reared them In the belief that each one of them would bring one-fourth or even one- tentil of a thousand dollars. Yet all these animals are actually reared and dealt in by thousands of people, at a reasonable and satisfactory profit.
 Behold some of the prices at which 1t was expected the meat could be sold, and at which, the article asserts. some Of it was sold, for the holiday menus of the Plant and Flagler hotel systems of Florida, the King Edward at Toronto, Brown Palace of Denver and the Wal dorf-Astoria and Hoffman House of New York: Loin and porteH1ouse steak $150 per pound; short rib roasts, $150 per pound; round steak $1.00 per pound; haunch meat, S150 per pound, and all other cuts at equally reasonable prices.
 But" walls the writer of the arti- cle, "the sale was limited" How re- markable! "A number of fat animals shipped to the stock yards of Chicago brought prices only little above those paid for good fat cattle" Considering that buffalo meat is neither better nor worse than domestic beef, and since il is said that the human palate is not
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A Practical Girl.

Nay, say not that my heart is hard; III listen to thy prayers, And share thy lot if thou canst show Thou hast a lot of shares. I'll love thee long and love thee true, If golden be our fates; And III be Joined in bonds with thee, If they're United States. To live with thee and be thy love My willing heart consents; I'll take thee for it's tenant sole, Canst thou show heavy rents. I'll promise humbly to obey, And meekly take thy checks, If thou assure me every one
 Shall bear at least an X" Let poets live on love alone
 Not that way my heart tends; Of ends of wedlock to my mind, The best are dividends. So when your ardent prayers implore My love l give to thee, Remember, dearest. at your risk l ship it c. O. b.
 Baltimore American.
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king the maximum of pecuniary bene-
 fit" In dealing with the question of
 freedom of trade, M Cattier maintains
 that the restrictions arising out of con-
 sessions to trading companies are a
 contraventton of the Berlin Act. He attacks the method of recruiting sol-
 diers and especially the system of forced labor. The yield to the State,
 under this form of taxation, mainly by
 the collection of rubber, amounts to
 more than 50 per cent. of the entire revenue, against 15 per cent. in the
 British Protectorate. M. Cattier finds
 that the superficial area under this sys- tenn of jurisdiction equals half that of
 France, and brings in about 7O,00O,O00f.
 annually to the State coffers. In re- viewing the financial administration, he
 says: King Leopold has taken it
 upon himself to dispose of the Congo treasury as if he were sole proprietor. Conscious that he would be unable to
 persuade the Chambers to share his views, he has had recourse to loans through the intermediary of the Congo
 State, thus freeing himself from all
 Parliamentary control. But the coun-
 try will pay for it dearly in the long i run-first, because the money has been borrowed at low rate of interest; and, l secondly, because the works to which it
 has been applied could have been car l ried out more economically by tender"
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ADVERTISING RATES

Situations. Wants. Rents and other email advertisements, One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch- one insertion. sl.2O each subsequent inser" tion. 90 cents; one week. ss.2o: one month, s10; one year. s40.
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dian, I want swirling chair to go with it. Then I will sit before the roll top desk, cock my feet on it, hold a paper before my face, stick a cigar in my mouth, and say to whoever comes to see men; Go. away; this is my busy davi"
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4 STORY FOR THE T1MES.

It used to be pretty certain in the stories that the boy in the store or shop who was the most industrious and hon. est finally became a partner in the bus- mess, or bought "the old man" out. But times and stories have changed some- what, and now Judge tells this little story: Once there were two lads, Paul and William, who entered the employ of a great manufacturer at the same time. Paul devoted Glimself assiduously to his work, and so did William; and in time they were familiar with all the operations of the concern by which they were employed. Paul had the in- terests of his employer at heart, and after many years of thought and ex- pertinent he devised a plan for better- ing the product without increasing the cost. William also devoted several years of time and thought to the prod uct and at last he invented a process by which it could be made forty per cent. cheaper to the manufacturer by means of undiscoverable adulteration, and the price to the consumer could be kept at tile same figure. Ten guesses will be allowed each contestant, and the ques- tion is, which of the boys is now part ner in the concern.
 Perhaps 'the old man" liked Paul, and perhaps both the boys are now partners.
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A great increase in the number of students attending the twenty-one uni- versailles of Germany is reported. The matriculated students now number 42,- 3sO, an increase of 13,273 over the at- tendance of ten years ago, or nearly 50 per cent. The University of Berlin leads, with S,OS1 students; Bonn has 2,90s and Heidelberg 1,443. The faculty of law is the best attended, having in- creased from 4,975 to 12,1S9 in the de- cade One of the most remarkable facts attendant on this great progress is the rapid, continuous decrease in the stu dents of Protestant theology. Within the last ten years these have diminish ed from 4,947 to 2,1S6, while the stu dents in Catholic theology have increas- ed from 1,O79 to 1880.
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Information has reached England that Miss Mary Hall is nearing Khar- tum, having completed an exciting journey through Central Africa from Beira. She is the only European wom- an who has been so far inland, and is travelling with no other companions than her forty native bearers. The journey has been done on foot.
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Joseph Cowgirl, a man without hands, has been named for assessor of Wabash county, Indiana For ten years he was town clerk in North Manchester and ac- quired such proficiency in writing with the stubs of his arms, which are off just below the elbows, that he can write almost as rapidly as good penman who has both hands, and makes quite as legible record.
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The world isn't as cruel as it might be- The National Association of Audu- bon Societies reports that thirty-six states have organizations for the pro tection of wild birds and animals. Last year protective legislation was procur- ed in several states and in others ef- forts to repeal restrictive measures were defeated. President Roosevelt es, tablished four new reservations as pre- serves and breeding grounds for native birds, one in Tampa Bay, Florida, one in Dakota, and two in Lake Superior The Louisiana society has leased twen- ty-two islands and is negotiating foi the purchase of another of 100000 acres and in all of these preserves the birds will be safe.
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In the course of a recent lecture by at the Waldorf-Astoria, before the Ma tional Indian Association, MT. Leupp told the following story to prove the Indians sense of humor: "An Indian belonging to the Navajo tribe asked for a roll top desk. The request seemed rather peculiar to the agent and he asked the Indian: What do you want the roll top desk for? Can you write?' No. Read? No Then what do you want 1t for. Well, explained the In-
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NEW HAVEN. CONN.

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New South Wales has a new liquor law which is remarkable in being, on the whole, satisfactory to both the sa- loon and the anti-saloon people. There is provision for three-tifths majori- ty before a no-license policy can be in- augurated, licenses are graded, and clubs are brought under control of the law, and all these features please the saloon men. On the other hand, there are strict provisions against Sunday trading and sharp restriction of the employment of young girls in public house bars.
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The great dailies don't have all the good dramatic criticism. A raw com pany on the kerosene circuit" played Hamlet" in an Indiana town, and the next day the editor wrote: "Mr. Soand- so and his company played Hamlet in the town hall last night It was a great social event, and all the elite of our fair village attended. There has been a long discussion as to whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the play, commonly attributed to Shakespeare. It can be easily settled now. Let the graves of the two writers be opened. The one who turned over last night is the author"
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The Spanish Queen on Stamps.

Queen Victoria of Spain has lost no
time in lending the pleasing impress
Of her features to cOmplicate the anna
tours collection of postage stamps.
says F. T. o. of London. The new
stamp shows the arms of Spain with
the royal crown and the portrait of
the queen in relief. Although one or
two letters from Spain have of late
arrived with several of these stamps.
they do not appear to take the place of
the ordinary postage stamps of com
merce. Published at the price of about
4 penny apiece, they were privately
designed TO aid the funds of a society
for the prevention of tuberculosis.
somewhat after the fashion of King
Edwards hospital stamps in England.
Consequently every letter that bears
one of Queen Fictoria's stamps is real
ly only a contribution TO very useful
charity