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nail mile away. There are a number
Of other incidents in the valley where
they invaded the corrals and killed
calves. and it is nothing infrequent
fer a killing to be made in a pasture.
Until within the last few years
our section of the country has been
free from this curse of the range.
and it is only IN isolated cases that
gray wolf was ever reported. Now
they go in packs and hunt systemat-
ically. | can remember the older
men of the valley telling of seeing
wolf packs in the early '70s, but those
old time hunters were SO relentless
in their hunt of the animals that few
escaped, and it was believed the en-
tire wolf tribe of that part of Mon
tana was practically exterminated 1t
is only during the last few years,
since the establishment of the forest
reserve system, that the wolves have
become particularly pernicious. There
is some talk of the forestry bureau
putting in a trapper to hunt the
wolves in the Madison reserve this
winter.
THE situation regarding the wolves
in the upper part of the Ruby Valley
is really serious one and the stock
men of the county are feeling the loss
keenly, for wolf is almost as big as
st. Bernard dog and has an appe.
tite in proportion. 1t takes a lot to
feed him and he generally likes to
feed On warm flesh and DO the kill.
ing himself or else be in on it. He
is not a coyote to play the jacixal
and feed off carrion.
For while / secuted at the idea
of wolves being in the valley in num-
bers, but | had occasion to change
my mind few weeks ago. | was
above the upper canyon looking after
some stock and camped out near the
Carruthers cabins. Before daylight
| got up and found that the horses
had moved out of the little valley
and / started after them. Before
had gone more than a mile = began
in get light, and in the sage brush,
not over 200 yards away, | could
make out thirty or forty objects NOV
ing about, which l mistook for deer.
Thinking it queer that deer should
be in such locality, l went a little
nearer to investigate. Then my hair
stood on end, for / could see that
they were wolves, all big, gaunt,
hungry looking chaps.
Seeing me, they sided slowly
away, trotting on hilltop, where
they came against the skyline and
could distinguish them clearly I
counted eighteen in the bunch, and
fully that many more went below the
skyline. so that they were lost in
the shadows. That was my first sight
of wolves, but / can assure you I do
not want to see any more of the
critters, especially when am on foot
and unarmed. Anaconda Standard.
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the lack of prosperity in Germany and
the United States?



1t is surprising to find Secretary Taft
reiterating that stale old Republican
idea that the United States receives
gold. in payment for the apparent bal
ance of trade on our foreign commerce
In his speech at Boston he said:
1--WE were able to settle for the one
hundred millions of gold that We with
drew from Europe by the ex-
cess of our exports over our imports in
the single month of October"
This reasoning Is. of course, intended
to show how prosperity produced by
the tariff follows the footsteps of the
Republican party and compels foreign
countries TO pay tribute to us. But the
facts do not warrant the assumption,
but entirely disprove it. The official
reports of the United States treasury
show that our merchants exported an
excess of gold, silver and merchandise
over their total imports, of 1881 ,00O,-
600 during the last seventy years. Dur
ing the past ten years there has been
exported $5,00S,000.00O more of gold,
silver and merchandise than has been
imported AS this Is greater than the
entire visible gold supply of the world,
how can Mr.. Taft, or any other Repub-
lican statistician, explain why we have
not all the gold in the world in ex-
change for our enormous excess of ex-
ports.
The gold imported during the panic
was forced here by bidding more for it,
in the free gold market of England,
than the Bank of England or anyone
else was willing to pay for it. The
bankers who imported it made a large
profit, for currency here was selling for
three per cent premium and gold, of
course, was quite as valuable as paper
money. AS the balance of trade Is adj
justed from time to time, this gold
may, and probably will return to
London unless we are able to pay our
debts there with wheat, cotton and 9TH
er merchandise. The disputed question
of where the enormous balance Of trade
goes to and why We do not receive pay
ment in gold for it, which we evident
ly do not. can probably be explained by
the large sum paid annually for ocean
freights, interest on our bonds and
stocks held in foreign countries and
the enormous sum carried abroad an
lually by the ever-increasing flood Of
visitors from this country to Europe,
every summer, not forgetting the mon
ely taken by immigrants and what our
foreign population send to their rela-
tives abroad.
That we receive from abroad all we
are entitled to cannot be disputed, and
the attempt Of the Republican pollti-
clans to show for partisan purposes that
we are receiving vastly more is m
worthy of those who aspire to be known
as statesmen.
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The Busy bee.

The value of $25,000000 placed on
the annual output of honey puts this
farm crop only slightly behind raw
cane sugar, which had valua ton at
the refineries of $2S,000,000. Compare
sons with the output Of the sixty-four
beet sugar factories, which have a ca
pacity of 1880 tons of beets daily,
may seem odious. Yet the product of
this coddled and fostered industry
$45,000,0 00-was less than double that
of the busy hive communities.
The bee in effect pays the interest
on the public debt-$24, 310,326. Shall
not the insect which Napoleon made an
imperial emblem, have some state recog-
milton such as Massachusetts gives to
the Goldfish in its legislative halls? AS
a matter of fact, the products of the
New England fisheries, which have been
the subject of treaties and interna-
tional conventions and occasionally
raised the specter of war. amount in
value to only half the bees product.
At least the bee deserves a share In
the national affection which is law
ished on the hen. This industrious
worker maintained it's reputation dur
ing the year by giving poultry products
a value of S6OOOOO,OO0, exceeding that
of the wheat crop. That the dairy
products counted for more than any
crop except corn testiies to the impor-
lance of another of the humber farm
industries The great proportions to
which the lesser agricultural products
have grown, the orchards with their
minor item of 1,754,927 barrels of cider,
the $113,0O0.0O0 worth of miscellaneous
vegetable, the 100000 tons of cotton
seed, once plantation waste but now
furnishing the equivalent in value of
seven 20O00-ton battle ships, make a
nature wonder story of never-failing
interest.-New York World.
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The cops and the 4psad Cat

A favorite dodge by New York po-
licemen on pay day to get their en-
velopes from the station before they
report off duty is to find dead cat
somewhere along their beat. BY or
der of the department they are re-
quired to report this find to the sta
ton Immediately. but nothing hind
ers a friendly cop from passing the
cat over the line into another police
mans territory. Then he, too, may
report to the station the discovery
Of a dead cat. But at the West 9th
street station house the other day
the lieutenant behind the desk got
wise when five of his men reported
a dead cat within two hours He
ordered a roundup of a half dozen
street cleaners on Tenth avenue, and
with one accord the white wings tes-
tilted that it was a discarded muff
which the cops had been reporting
and then passing along down the line.
New York Correspondence Pitts
burg Dispatch.
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HOW Animals Persnire.

Prof Z. L. Trouessart of the Paris
Museum of Natural History, in re-
cent lecture on animal heat, remark
ed that the dog, whose respirations In
repose number only % or 80 minute,
may In running acquire a rate of re
spiration as high as $50 a minute, says
the Youths Companion. The effect Of
this acceleration favors the dissipation
of animal heat by evaporation from
the pulmonary yesicles.
The dog perspires very little, or not
at all, by the skin, pulmonary taking
the place OF cutaneous Transportation.
1t is this fart which enables the dog
to pursue Its game so long and persist
emily.
Animals Of the cat family, on the
other hand, do not possess this pc
culiarity, and for that reason tigers,
panthers and lions lie in wait for their
prey, but do not pursue it over long
distances. The bird possesses pull
monary Transportation in very high
degree.
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National Finance.

On January 20 the National banks of
New York held $72,021 900 of public de-
posits, $41 100000 OF which was placed
with them during the October panic.
On the same day the depository banks
paid over to the government the first
installment of $10,0OO,OOO which Secre-
tary Cortelyou has called for. This
return of a small part of the immense
sum loaned to the banks without in
terest, was necessary as the receipts of
the government are running behind the
expenditures. This is the second call
on the banks the Secretary has made
since the panic. the banks having paid
the government $10,000,000 under the
call of four weeks ago. The interior
banks viii also have to be called on
for the return of part of the amount
deposited with them, for at least S25,-
100000 more will be needed before the
end of the fiscal year.
To tax the people to produce a sur
plus to be loaned without interest to
favored banks is the Republican idea
of prosperity.
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Ne,x Nnme for Dinense.

The mosquito never has had any
friends. He has been In the experience
and Imagination of everybody a mon
ter of hldeous mien which no familiar
ity could teach people to endure. He
has been at the same time noisy and
vicious. to all persons painful visit
ant and to many persons almost dead
ly foe.
IF, however, the mosquito has been
pursued hitherto with more or less
earnest rage, In the future be VIII re-
ceive absolutely no quarter, but win
be hunted down until exterminated-
For the name Of malaria, painful and
facilitating disease which has been at
tributed to poisonous gases from
swamps and sewers, has been changed
to mosquito fever.
The International sanitary congress.
In session In the City Of Mexico, has
changed the name formally and official
Iy. 1t is up to all the world that has
suffered from the MOSQUITO In the past
to accept the cue of this learned body
OF men and enter upon the work Of ex-
terminating a pest that Is proved even
a worse enemy than was thought
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

the statement that the city of San An
tonic, Tex, has developed In its public
school a system of school gardens that
is one of the finest In the country. The
expert, who made tour of inspection
through the South, finds great interest
in the movement to make gardening
and agriculture a part CT public edu-
cation. Soil and climate conditions
have combined to develop thousands Of
acres of gardens in that section, that
ship annually thousands of car loads
of vegetables to the North and East.
The school children have caught the
agricultural enthusiasm and made
display Of the products of their gardens
at the San Antonio Fair, closed recent
~, that was astonishing Their toma-
toes. corn, beets, peas, cabbage, beans
and peppers of every variety were as
fine as those displayed by any of the
professional gardeners.-Buffalo Com
mercial.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
NEW RAILWAY SIGNALLING.
System Appeals to Ear Instead of to
Eye of Enqne Driver.


Consul Frank w. Mahin reports
from Nottingham that the Great West
ern Railway has successfully expert.
mented with and just installed on a
branch line method of audible sig
mailing as a substitute for the fami-
liar semaphore system, which, it is
believed, will be entirely displaced in
course of time.
The new system Is electrically
worked and is declared to be SIM
plicity itself. The engine as it trav-
els along the line comes into contact
with an apparatus fixed to the track
which is worked from the signal box
and sets in motion a form of mech
anism on the engine. Instead of the
engine driver having to look cut for
his signals they declare themselves
to his ear Enthusiastically. Line clear"
is expressed by the blowing of a
whistle, which continues until the en-
CINE driver with his own hand turns
it off,
Both bell and whistle are fixed in
side the engine cab, close by the driv-
er as he stands to his lever, and
should afford more telling means of
notification than a dial on which
signs appeared. The substitution of
audible for visible signals would re.
lieve drivers of the strain of perpet-
ually looking out for any particular
signal or lamp The apparatus is so
constructed that if anything went
wrong anywhere the whistle signal
would operate. The chief value or
the audible signals would be found in
foggy weather, and the new system
is therefore of particular Importance
in a country so fog-afflicted as Eng
land.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
CHICAGO Firemen,s Coffee Car.

Fire Marshal Koran today made
an announcement that was received
by the members of mis- force in the
same spirit as a Christmas gift. He
told Mayor Busse that the coffee
car" which is to aid the men work
ing at bad fires when the weather is
cold, would be in service at the end
of the week.
An old ambulance has been con,
verted to this new use, and three urns
installed. Two are for the coffee,
holding five gallons each, and the
third is to contain ten gallons of hot
water.
When big alarm comes in the car,
which is to be stationed at 14th street
and Michigan avenue, will make the
run and be attached to a fire engine,
steam being used to make the coffee
Chicago Evening Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

We wish ii were possible to pass over
In silence the Presidents recent mes
sage This feeling is prompted by the
fact that the document reflects not the
best but the worst aspects of the Presi-
dents character. The spirit of 1t is
that of anger. resentment, and intense
personallsm and when this kind of
a spell is on him. Mr.. Roosevelt is not
a pleasing object. Too often of late
he has permitted himself to be over
mastered by the faults of his tempera-
ment. to exhibit his inability to meet
criticism or the miscarriage of his
plans in that spirit which unfailingly
marks the man of poised mind and of
true moral courage
The nominal occasion for this mes
sage was the failure under decision
of the supreme Court of a law upon
which the President had set his heart.
But the real purpose of the message
apparently bears small relationship 10
its text. Ii is a ease where the PreSi-
dent has forced an opportunity TO fly
into the faces of his critics and TO
scratch, and to bite. and to kick like a
spoiled hoy IN a paroxysm of bad TEN.
per. The incongrulty of the whole mat
ter becomes painfully obvious when we
try to imagine Lincoln or Grant or
Cleveland in such a role. OF course
1t all comes TO nothing. because it Is
on its face no more than a petulant
outburst. Those who read it-and
there are few indeed who will really
read it misunderstanding discount II
as the extravaganza OF one who with
all his opportunities and responsible
ties. has never learned the simple
moral lesson of self control-Sau
Francisco Argonaut-
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Faineant Philanthropy.

President Manuel Amador of Pana-
ma, tells this little tale of a certain
Cuban millionaire:
IAN unfortunate man once obtained
access to this millionaire and started
to lay before him his woes. He de
picted his wretched poverty in most
vivid colors. Indeed, so graphic was
the mans sad story that the million
aire felt himself affected as he had
never been before. With tears In his
eyes he summoned his servant and In
a quavering voice said:
John, put this poor fellow out.
He ID breaking my heart nssss
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al Cow,s Grnfitude.

When | lived on ranch in Western
Colorado, saw a remarkable thing
done by a COW, writes G. Mitchell to
Our Dumb Animals.
Each season our hay on being NOW
ed was stacked in a field about 200
yards from the house. We had a mich
COW named Turvey. One winter Tur-
vey's calf, which had not been wean-
ed, was kept tied a part Of the time
to a post near the hay.
One morning my attention was at
tracted BY the persistent cries of the
cow. I looked OUT and saw Turvy
standing at the bars. She was calling
me and was almost frantic. l snatch
ed up a shawl, threw it around me
and ran to see what the matter was.
Quick as she saw me coming she
turned aud ran back to the stacks.
When l reached the place / found
her calf almost choked to death. He
had wound the rope with which he was
tied round and round the post, and
twisted It 30 tight that his tongue was
lolling out and bloody foam dripping
from his mouth and nose. / quickly
united him. and his mother, by her
every action, showed her joy at the
rescue.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Curing Hams.

An Ohio farmer gives the following
as his method of curing hams and ba-
con: For one hog weighing, alive, 200
pounds, use a gallon and half of
salt Put 1t in a kettle and get it very
hot Add one tablespoonful of pulver-
lied saltpeter and mix well with salt.
Cover sailing block with this and lay
the meat with the rind down on it.
Then cover the meat with the rest of
the hot salt and let it remain ten days.
Scrape off all the salt and turn the
meat over and salt as before, using
less salt and a teaspoonful of saltpeter.
II eight days resalt and hang it up and
smoke brown, using hickory wood if
possible Put in muslin sacks, with
straw around to prevent molding, and
hang in a dry place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
DEMOCRATS Responsible.

Just as we expected it has at last
been discovered that the Democrats are
responsible for the panic, according TO
that undoubted authority the Milwau-
kee News, which declares If it hadn't
been for Bryan. Roosevelt might have
stuck to Republican policies" We have
noticed there has been considerable
emulation between those two leaders
for something new in the way OF poll
cies. but doubt whether Mr.. Roosevelt
would have stuck TO anything long
enough to entitle ii TO be called n
'DoIicy"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
WOLVES COME INTO FARM
YARDS.
Kill Horses and Cattle in Montana
Hunt in Biu Parks

Hunt in Big Parks.
For some unknown reason wolves
are coming back into our section OF
the State" said Frank Metzei, prom
nent as stockman and ranchman
Of the upper Ruby Valley for many
years. 'and they are creating consid-
cradle havoc. They think nothing
nowadays of coming into a barryard
and making a kill. and a number of
valuable animals have recently been
destroyed by the varmints.
-Only few days ago a pack in
vaded one of the pastures near the
G. x Larabie Brook Nook ranch and
killed two finely bred colts while
their dams were powerless to prevent
II and with ranch hands less than a
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investigating ROOSEVELT.

The Presidential choler has been
raised by the many reports of federal
appointments for partisan purposes.
President Roosevelt has inspired a
statement that the charge that he Is
misusing federal patronage In Mr..
Tafss behalf "is an unqualified lie"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

pending against Republican politicians
OF Pennsylvania. including former state
officers, contractors, etc. charging
them with conspiracy to cheat and de-
fraud the state in the building and
furnishing of the state capitol. Yet
large majority of the people of Penn
sylvania vote the Republican ticket
and keep the party Of graft in power.
Turn the rascals out
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Garden and FARM Schools.
An agent Of the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington has lately made
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Have a wind break in the cattle
yard SO that the livestock can find
protection on windy, stormy days.
Never stop to argue with fool who
gets to fooling around fire with a
stick Of frozen dynamite just run.
The dollar earned by honest toll is
the dollar whose influence for good
rests not only upon the recipient but
upon the spender as WELL
The landlord who becomes noted for
driving sharp bargains with his tenants
must, as general rule, put up with
tenants with whom it is necessary to
drive sharp bargains.
A good straight cottonwood tree It
quarter of century old will yield
around six hundred feet of good tim
ber On this basis cheap land could
profitably be put to growing lumber.
You can generally conclude that a
farmer who does not have a tele-
phone nowadays is about five years
behind the times, which means as
much as twenty years would some
years ago.
All this talk about the simple life
and simple ways of living is timely and
proper, but some people carry it so
far that they might justly be suspi-
cioned of leading the simple life that
some follow at State institutions
Before attempting to climb into an
old well, lower a lighted lantern to its
bottom to insure that there is no dead
ly gas therein. Altogether too many
sad accidents occur on this account that
could easily be prevented by a little
thoughtfulness.
Remember that the horse has a small
stomach and cannot eat large amounts
of roughage like the COW. You cannot
expect the driving horse to live on
hay, and all he wants of it at that,
and maintain the trim body lines that
he would were a proper combination
Of grain and roughage given him.
Fruit growers more than any other
classes of farmers find organization
helpful both in the cultivation and
handling of their fruits and also in
shipment of the same. Where q num-
Der of growers are working together
1t is easier to get cars, and large ship
ments can secure a better market.
Something Of the extent of the sheep
inspection service in the West may be
imagined from the fact that in Mon
tana alone the inspectors handled over
a million head during the past year.
Although the service is still in its in
fancy it is rapidly covering the ground
in getting sheep diseases under control
on the range.
From a horse selling establishment
comes the statement that he most no
ticeable effect of the introduction of
automobiles has been to greatly IN
crease the demand for better horses. 1t
is said that people have now become
accustomed to riding fast and they will
not stand for following anything that
has less than a three-minute gait.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Have wind break in the cattle
yard so that the livestock can find
protection on windy. stormy days.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Few men can look themselves over
al.d give their faults fair aearinG
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Molasses is growing in favor as
feed for stock, including dairy cows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

The landlord who becomes noted for
driving sharp bargains with his tenants
must, as general rule, put up with
tenants with whom it is necessary to
drive sharD bargains
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

A good straight cottonwood tree It
quarter of century old will yield
around six hundred feet of good tim
Der. On this basis cheap land could
profitably be put to growing humber.
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Never stop to argue with a fool who
gets to fooling around a fire with a
stick Of frozen dynamite. Just run.