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Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

He finds silver foxes in filters with red
and cross and black. Therefore, he says,
1t is not distinct species, but 1t is a dis
tinct kind, and he ascribes its kind directly
to its parentage. Either the father or
the mother fox has been silver fox. In
view of the disputes of the naturallsts, the
hunters opinion is worth considering.
Besides the silver and black fox, the
standard furs are what they have always
been-beaver and mink and marten and
otter and fisher, not forgetting the common
little fellows with whose pelts we line our
coats-muskrat-of which as many as
100000 year have come out Of the west
worth from Is cents a pelt to cents.
What does the native trapper earn?
Again, that varies with the caprice Of
fashion and the luck of the field, but unless
the field has beeen visited by a pest that
carries on the rabbits, which are the food
OF many other fur bearing animals or an
early severe winter comes that freezes
the beaver up before they have laid in their
stores do not think that I am missta ting
1t when say that the poorest trapper need
not earn less than $500 a year, and the
average for the good trapper would be
$1,000 or more-higher when the conditions
are considered, than the professional earn
ings Of many an educated man.-Youth's
Companion.
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TIghting for Pence.

The end Of this all the world knows
drugged whisky, the stab of assassins dag
ger on the dark wooded trail ambushed
raids on each others posts, starving each
other out of certain regions by stealing
incoming provisions, retaliating by steal
ing outgoing furs, open massacre of Hud-
son Bay men at Red river, open destruc-
ton Of the Northwesters fort at Lake Su-
perior-the bandltti warfare Of the lords
of the north continued till out of sheer
exhaustion the two companies were COM
PEELED to amalgamate.
When the rivals united peace prevailed.
So passed almost 100 years Even when
the company surrendered its monopoly Of
the fur trade its peaceful prosperity was
unaffected, for after 1871, when colonsts
began to pour into Manitoba, the company
still had the territory of the Saskatchewan,
in area one-third greater than Germany;
and the basin of Mackenzie river which
is half the size Of Russia; and the Yukon
region, which may be compared TO Spain;
and northern British Columbia, a third
greater than Germany and all the region
enclrcling Hudson bay, from Labrador on
the east to Coppermine on the west
Colonists might keep pouring in for 100
years and the fur trader retreating before
Them yet there would remain a game
preserve larger than European Russia
The company could bring goods into the
country cheaper than the individual trader,
and offer better terms to the Indian hunter.
Besides, every Indian of every district was
personally known to the chief factor Tho
company man could speak the Indians Lam
guage Of the campfire, the free trader
was either run out of the country or
went broke" and was compelled to sue
for provisions from his rivals
For hundred years all the free traders
who poached on the cOmpany's domain
had very little other effect on the Hudson
Bay fur traders than to drive the game
farther afield, from the Red river to the
Saskatchewan, and from the Saskatchewan
Quebec, frontiersmen from the Missouri
and Texas and Pacific coast. descendants
of the old Northwesters, who refused TO
go into the union a hundred years ago.
All know the Indian language All have
been born and bred TO the life of the hunter
The majority know the field as well as the
Hudson Bay men. For the first time in a
century the English company IS evenly
matched in its rival
How the French company first gained a
roofing among the Indian hunters OF the
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On every conceivable joy and sorrow of
the camp he will be consulted, and woe to
his yearly returns If he fails Of effective
advice! He may demonstrate beyond any
reasonable doubt the nonsense. Of their old
customs and superstitons. They will not
believe him and he will lose their hunt I'M
less no can give instant answer and effect
i've remedy.
For instance, last year when a leading
trader came home to his fur post from
trip aleld he found one family I'm deep
and noisy distress Tomtoms were pound
ing. Old and young were dancing some
religious dance, wringing their hands and
tearing their hair. The medicine man in
the tepee howled like demon possessed.
What was the matter? "Oh, very bad
medicine Quck! It was the evil eye!" The
lover who had been rejected had cast his
baleful glance on the happy bride with
dire predictions that in such and such a
time would she begin to fade away: and
now she lies on the bearskin robe in the
tepee' colorless as ashes, literally. phy
sically, hopelessly Ill with fright.
Inc medicine man is bowling to friRhten
the evil spirit away. The tomtoms are
drumming to terrify the mallgn mower
The dance is to propitiate the good powers.
and the father is turning handsprines round
the tepee to let the evil spirit know thar
he sees it. is after it, and Will presently
land a blow with the skull cracker in bis
hand that will smash the Uranium, NJ tho
invisible spirit to nothlngness. Now the
young trader might argue himself bIacl,
IN the face that there is no such thing &c
an evil eye. He will lose that fariIy,s
hunt unless he can rouse the fair bride
to instant vigor.
so he joins his efforts to theirs. Yes
let the camp fire burn low Evil spir,ts
escape best through the dark. Let the
medicine man keep up his powwow. Here
someone, give him knife! Let the father
watch through the dark for a fash. LET
the girl call out If she feels the thing es-
Gaping through her arm. A quick slash
OF the Knife! The father has seen the light
on the blade, the girl has felt the cut They
swear they saw It escape from her arm
And all the young trader has done ia ex-
acuy what the physicians Of our fore
iathers did-let little blood and cured
hysteria by localizing real pain. And the
bride rises from her bed.
Today the rarest furs are undoub+a7,,,
Sil'er ana plack fox. In a single year as
many as LOCO of these have been taken
from the Canadian northwest, but not all
were equally valuable. The silver fox. per-
haps' is worth from $50 to $500 a pelt the
black fox from S26 to S76O, although as
much as $4,000 has been paid for a fancy
pelt OF absolutely perfect texture.
What is the silver fox? Science considers
II freak sport, among the black foxes
caught at the moment when the hair IS
turning from black to gray, or gray 10
black according to age and season. Against
to the AthahascO. Only recently has the
scattered guerrilla warfare Of the FREQ
traders opposition been concentrated and
mustered into what may be considered a
serious rival to the ancient Adventures.
The newcomer is known as the French
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

archists claimed to be the especial friends.
that that claim was a sham and a pretense
ADOPTED only as means Of bringing manual
laborers into their ranks, and that the coun-
sci and advice OF the anarchists, If fol-
lowed by the workingmen, would expose
them to the danger OF becoming in law
murderers."
The conclusion Of the Century paper after
the history not only OF the trial itself is
given but the events Of the previous
months in Chicago and the conditions then
existing throughout the country, is worth
quotingyas giving the position Of the Judge
who tried the case. In this concluding
paragraph Judge Gary says:
Right-minded, thoughtful people who
recognize the necessity to civilization Of
the existence and enforcement of laws for
the protection Of human life, and who yet
may have had misgivings as to the fate of
the anarchists will, trust, read what /
nave written and dismiss their misgivings,
convinced that in law and in morals the
anarchists were rightly punished, not for
opinions, but for horrible deeds"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

back Of your neck
It's a good plan to MI a bottle with
water at a spring on Easter morning be-
fore sunrise. There amt any medicine ad-
Vertised IN the papers that can equal such
water, because it'll cure more things and
is sure every time. Drink a little of It
il anything is the matter inside OF you,
and II you have a sore rub it on the out
side. You'll be surprised to see what II
docs for you, no matter what disease you
got
when you're out drivin' in the winter
and your feet get cold, take off your hat
Thatll warm 'em even II they're like ice
You see the cold air drives the blood from
the head and your feet can't help but get
warm.
Don't cut twig to string your fsh on
until you ketch your first fish. II you do
you won't ketch any.
when you see the first robin in the
spring notice whether II flies up or down.
II it flies up you will go up-that is, you
will have good luck during the year. but
II It flies down you will have bad luck.
Never carry a cat across running water
II you want to have good luck. II Will
ruin your life. You might just as well
take a dose Of deadly poison and be done
with IT,
is a sign that you are going TO have COM
pany,
spit for luck on your friends new shoes
and he will never wear them 10 a place
where he will be unhappy.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

Judge Gary, in his younger DAYS consid-
cradle Of rolling stone, caught the gold
fever, He had some way drifted out to
Springfield, In southwest Missouri, and was
pracdcing law. When the news came that
gold had been discovered In California
there was nothing for Gary TO do but pack
his grip and start. Pay dirt In the law
business was as yet an unknown quantity
with the future judge. He has since de-
clared that the only difficulty he expert
enced was In getting enough things to-
gether 20 MI grip. He attached himself
20 u wagon train going out TO California
by the southern trail By the time they
reached New Mexico young Gary was
ready 20 ditch his tent. Three months on
the road, with a continuous diet Of bacon
and coffee, interpreted with coffee and
bacon, had taken the edge on his appe-
lite for the yellow metal. He stopped first
at san Miguel. where Judge Tuley was at
tending United States court From there
he went over TO Las Vegas, On the invita-
ton OF Judge Tuley, and set up In the
law business II has been said often that
the two friends struck up an acquaintance
while serving In the Mexican war. This
is a mistake, because Judge Gary did not
serve in the Mexican war.
Among the stories told about Judge Gary
at that time, the following is the most
characteristics; He was acting as Judge adj
vocate in a military trial The prisoner was
sentenced 70 be shot There was dissatis-
faction, and a new trial was asked for.
After consideration, Judge Gary granted
the request but 70 the CONSERVATION Of
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

limit should not be given him the prisoner
simply said, in a disconsolate way, that he
mad nothing to say. The judge asked If
there was present any relative or friend of
the prisoner, and a woman arose in the
body OF the room, and In a harsh, rasping
voice declared that she was the second
woman he married. The judge looked at
her and WINGED at the vinegary accents Of
her voice, and then said, half to himself
and half to the prisoner:
Yes there are some things worse than
the penitentiary. You deserve three years
ana VIII give you one. You have lived
with this woman the other two"
Luther Lafiin Mills recalled the anecdote
OF Judge Gary and the young man who was
looking for his overcoat.
The young man was moving about In the
rear OF the court room, scraping chairs and
looking under tables.
Young man, you are making an unneces-
sary amount Of noise" said the Judge
grimiy. What is the matter with you?"
i have lost my overcoat," responded the
Humph'" said the venerable Jurist, "Peo-
pie OFTEN lose whole suits in here and don't
make half as much noise about IT,"
On one occasion Judge Gary saw that
trial would be delayed indefinitely by
the pickering Of attorneys. Calling the
attorneys before him he said:
Il see that you gentlemen are spelling
Tor hight Ny advice to you, IS that YOU
so into an adjoining room and chew each
others ears for awhile. It will save time
later on"
The lawyers did not take the advice, but
they became less belligerent.
The judge detested having fuss made"
over himself He insisted that his rela-
tiyes refrain from making the celebration
OF his wedding anniversaries formal events.
He did not want them even dignlned by
the term anniversary.
Now, don't call this a golden wedding, Of"
he said, when a reception was
given for him by relatives MY wife and
] don't go in for that"
Neither did the Judge like 70 see inter-
views from himself in the papers. In
fact II was his rule not 10 give any
Il won't be interviewed for the papers
although they always have treated me
kindly" he said MY longest interview
was when Conkling died. Reporters were
sent GROUND getting opinions, and TO one
OF them / said; I admired Conkling as
a man OF great ability. He was too big
a man Tor me 70 talk about That WAS the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

north is a story that will probably remain
untold. 1t Is a story Of the Individual and
single handed courage Of men who, year
after year, went alone into the snow padded
forests westward Of the Saskatchewan
and Peace rivers with nothing but the
packs on their backs and who came out
In their own words-"broke." The In
dams, whom they had QUILTED to hunt for
the season. carried their furs to the Hud-
son Bay company-in all likelihood we're
already In debt to the company.
From the beginning II has been the Gus
tom Of the Hudson Bay trader to build
his fur post in a good region, entrench him
self there, and let the Indian hunters radi-
ate from his post to their distant fields
The French company's men have followed
different methods. They too, have built
their fur posts, but their men scour every
hunting field like scouts. II is nothing for
man of theirs to set out in midwinter
with no companion but his dog-man and
dog carrying provisions on his back-and
blaze his way one, two three hundred miles
through an unbroken forest, to seek a new
he followed the fleeing herds till he came
to that paradise Of the hunter-the Atha-
basca.
To attract and hold the yearly hunt Of an
Indian tribe the white trader must be on
the most friendly relations with every man.
woman and child Of the Indian camp. Ac-
cording TO his age, they will probably call
him uncle or brother, and IL he has any
distinguishing mark, like red hair, they
VIII call him by that mark, Red Head
Chief.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

extent Of the interview. I have tried to
mark out line Of conduct and to follow
IT, That's as far as I care to CO."
Another anecdote refers to a juror who
wanted to be excused. He came up to the
bench and began 70 whisper to the Judge
You can't whisper In here" said Judge
Gary Speak up what you have to say
Why do you want to be excused?"
The man turned red with embarrassment
as he answered: Il have skin com
plant"
Scratch him on" commanded the Judge
turning to the clerk.
When the judge was placed on the bench
OF the appellate court some years ago
he was asked what kept him so busy.
Reversing the decisions OF Judge
Blank" he responded naming another
well-known judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
Trial of the anarchists.

The great epoch in Judge Gary's career
was the anarchists trial at which he pre-
sided In 1856 At that time he had TO deal
with questions which had not been raised
before. and in 3 measure set important pre-
cedents for future trials. The supreme court
reattrmed his rulings, deciding that while
there might have been some errors, none
were Of sufficient magnitude 10 AFFECT the
final verdict
The trial last almost four months, long
enough to prove a severe physical and
mental strain upon a robust Judge. Al
though Judge Gary was then 6 years old,
he showed no traces OF fatigue or alarm
during the proceedings. His life was be-
heyed to be in danger, and a year or more
afterward conspiracy to assassinate him
was unearthed For some months he was
constantly under the surveillance OF a de-
tectlve and constantly dreadng the bullet
or bomb OF fanatical avenFer
During the trial and afterward the friends
OF the accused bitterly denounced Judge
Gary for his rulings and conduct OF the
case, He Is not known to have ever made
any reply 20 these unless the article writ
ten six years afterward in the Century
Magazine could be construed into a replv
To criticisms. In that article Judge Gary
announced It as his motive for writing I'm
these words which would take II out OF the
line OF a reply to personal criticism
The principal motive for this paper is TO
demonstrate 70 my own profession and 10
make plain to all fair minded and intalIi-
gent people that the verdict OF the Jury
In the case was right, that the anarcbists
were guilty Of murder, that they were NOT
the victims Of prejudice, nor martyrs for
free speech but in morals, as well as in
law, they were guilty Of murder"
In the same article, which is one ~ the
valuable documents OF the time as showing
the position OF the principal actor IN this
most intensely interesting dramatic episode
IN the history Of the nation. Judge Gary
says:
Another motive OF this paper is TO show
TO the lsboring people, % whom the an
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$50 to $500 an Acre Yearly Net Profit
from land which you can buy NOW for SIS an acre.

That may seem too good to be true.
But It is true. You can go down and
see 1t for yourself. Low rate excursions
twice monthly-only SIS from Chicago,
$50 from St. Louis, round trip, with
thirty days limit.
This land is paying such great profits
because it is unrivaled in productiveness
by any farm land in the country. The
climate is like that of Southern California,
even tho 1t is within 4S hours of Chicago.
No extremes of heat and cold-practically
no winter. Crop after crop can be raised
the year 'round-vegetables in midwinter
when the markets are anxious to pay the
fanciest prices fer them. Crops are always
sure because you have plenty Of pure
aTtesian IOGter on your OtOn property
for the cheapest irrigation. This land is
safe because ii is from 10 to IS miles
inland, and from 90 to 100 feet above
tide-water. No land will produce a
greater variety of fruits, vegetables,
staple crops, or produce them more album
dainty. And this land will produce crops
at seasons when no other land can, in
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

company. 1t is backed by the capital OF
Paris, London, and New York fur traders,
and has gathered into its ranks the disor-
ganized forces Of the opposition. rich indie
pendent traders, French trappers from
hunting field or secure the hunt of a
strange tribe Of Indians, or make sure Of
pelts which might otherwise find their way
to the enemy's warehouses.
Among the cosmopolitan hunters that the
French company has gathered into its ranks
are many old frontiersmen, whose lives
would be in themselves a book Perhaps
the most famous Of these is an old Texas
trapper, who began as a buffalo hunter on
the frontier of Mexico and followed the
trail along the foot of the Rockies three
quarters of the length of North America,
clear up to the Athabasoa lake.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
When Grant Met Lee

Continued from Page FlveJ
answer was, About 25.OOO" and 1 author
lied him to send his own commissary and
quartermaster 20 Appomattox station, two
or three miles away, where he could have.
out Of the trains We had stopped, all the
provisions wanted. AS for forage, We had
ourselves depended almost entirely upon
the country for that.
Generals Gibbon, Griffin and Merritt we're
designated by me to carry into effect tho
paroling Of Lees troops before they should
start for their homes, General Lee leaving
Generals Longstreet, Gordon and Pendle-
ton for them TO confer with in order 70
facilitate this work. Lee and then separ-
ated as cordially as we had met, ne re-
turning 10 his own lines, and all went into
bivouac for the night at Appomattox."-
From Personal Memoirs Of u. s. Grant"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18

What a baby weighs at birth Is just
one-twentieth Of what it viii weigh as a
grown person.
"A baby should be carried upstairs be-
fore it is carried down, even II YOU have
to take it into the garnet. To carry It
downstairs first would make 1t low
minded, and it would never rise In the
world.
IF you find a cluster of bubbles on your
coffee that means money IS coming.
You may know that a man has money
TO lend II he wears his hat pushed back
on his head. New England Magazine
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
New England superstitiOns
Mend your clothes upon your back
Ll.a-nr-ar- L.nllLlI ....-.r. Ia II.


Poverty you'll never lack.
when the world was new the devil
spent a lot Of time sowing it with stones.
He carried the stones In his apron, and
where you see spots that they are very
thick you can know his apron strings
broke there.
ITO stop the hiccoughs see how near
you can hold your little fingers together
without their touching.
IF you don't want 10 have the tooth
ache cut a little bit from each toenall
and finger nail. Then wrap the cuttings
In a white paper or birch bark and put
'em in a hole bored in a pine tree Close
the hole by plugging and you won't have
any trouble with aching teeth as long as
you live, though this won't prevent your
losing your teeth by decay.
You can cure your rheumatism by put
ting mustard in your shoes.
II you have the stomach ache
Eat a piece Of burnt cake
you can stop the nOsebleed by putting
a piece Of paper under your tongue. You
can stop It. too. by placing a key on the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
Lure of Rnre AnimnIr.

Sometimes 1t was that rarest of animal
freaks, the white buffalo, that lured his
feet. Sometimes he hunted with the Black
feet and the Snakes and the Sioux in the
days when buffalo herds roamed the plains
In millions, leaving great ruts like a trench
where they had marched single file over
damp ground. But always as settlement
pushed back the frontier Of the fur trade
this I wish to set down the opinion of
the experienced hunter on the field.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
Romance of the Fur Trade

"7T is sigmncant that just 100 years
I8t from the last great contest waged
ksAk by the Hudson Bay Fur COM
I0GHSDI yany against rivals in the vast
49, same preserve Of northern Can
su,, ,ue old company should be called
upon to face new and powerful opposition
And for the third time In the record Of
its ywarfares that opposition is French.
Since Charles Stuart granted the region
inland from hudson bay to the Cen
tlemen Adventures" headed by Prince
Rupert, the whole history Of the "Ad-
venturers' has been one of strenuous
struggles against rivals Their territory
in itself was equal In area to the whole
Russian empire.
Including furs taken by free traders
peddlers, the company called them-the fur
country Of the north yielded pelts to the
value Of more than S1,OO0OOO a year Such
a prize was worth fighting for, and like
a lion the old company has fought from
the beginning.
First there were the French poachers,
lramping 1000 miles through the painless
forests, from the st. Lawrence to the OF
tawa, up the Ottawa and overland to
the bay, or sailing around Labrador with
a fleet of men of war, like Iberville and
La PerOuSe, 10 sweep the EnBnsh from
the bay and sail away with a cargo Of
half q million dollars worth of furs.
When new France passed into the hands
of the English an enemy as persistent
as a hornet swarmed into the northern
domain. This was the Northwest COM
pany, made up Of Scotch merchants, who
hired the hordes of CASTOR French hun
ters-bush lopers, voyageurs, traders-set
adrift from the old French fur COM
panies.
Pushing up the Ottawa IN their brigades
of ninety foot birch canoes, their voyageur
songs keeping time to the rhythm of their
paddles, across the Great Lakes, up the
Saskatchewan, down the Mackenzie river
to the Arctic, down the Columbia to the
Pacific, these free lances Of a wild world
warfare camped under the noses of the
cannon bristling through the walls of the
Hudson Bay peoples palisaded fur posts.
They allied themselves with the Indians
and laughed TO scorn the worst that the
old lady, as they called the company, could
do with her monopoly Of royal grant.