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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-06-01
HEARTS AND CROSSES
Sign by Which the Ranch Queen
Recalled a Wanderer.
Rv O. HENRY.

lCopyrigtt, 1907. by the Mcclure company. ]
Badly Woods reached for the bottle
and got it. Whenever Badly went for
anything he usually But this is not
Baldy's story. He poured out third
drink that was larger by finger than
the first and second Badly was in
consultation. and the consultee is
worthy of his hire.
I'D be king if | was you." said
Badly. so positively that his holster
creaked and his spurs ratified.
IF man marries a queen 1t
oughtn't Il. make him two spot" de-
clared Webb. epitomizing his griev-
ances.
"Sure not" said Badly. sympathetic,
still thirsty and genuinely solicitous
concerning the relative value of the
cards. by rights you're king If |
was you Id call for a new deal. The
cards have been stacked on you. I'll
tell you what you are. Webb Yeager."
'What:" asked Webb, with hope
full look in his pale blue eyes.
You're prince consort."
Go easy" said Webb II never
blackguarded you none"
Its title" explained Badly, .up
among the picture cards, but it don't
take no tricks I'll tell you, Webb,
it's brand they've got for certain ami
mails in Europe. Say that you or me
or one of them Dutch dukes marries
in royal family. Well. by and by
our wife gets to be queen Are we
king? Not in a million years. At the
coronation ceremonies we march be-
tween little casino and the ninth grand
custodian of the royal hall bedcham-
Der. The only use we are Is to appear
in photographs and accept the respon-
sibility for the heir apparent. That
amt any square deal. Yes. sir, Webb.
you're prince consort. and If | was
you I'd start interregnum or ha-
beas corpus or somethin', and I'd be
king if | had TO turn from the bottom
of the deck"
Badly emptied his glass to the ratifi-
cation of his Warwick pose.
Badly" said Webb solemnly. me
and you punched cows in the same out
fit for years. We been runnin' on the
same range and ridin' the same trails
since we was boys. | wouldn't talk
about my family affairs to nobody but
you. You was line rider on the No
palito ranch when | married Santa Nc
Allister. was foreman then. But
what am | now? | don't amount to
knot in stake rope
when old McAllister was the cattle
king of west Texas" continued Badly.
with satanic sweetness, you was
some tallow. You had as much to say
on the ranch as he did,
Il did, admitted Webb. ''up to the
time he found out | was tryin' to get
my rope over Santas head Then he
kept me out on the range as far from
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-06-01

ARE YoU GOING TO LEAVE ME, wEBB2'
the ranch house as be could When
the old man died they commenced to
call Santa the cattle queen I'm boss
of the cattle-that's all. She tends to
all the business. She handles all the
money. | can't sell even a beef steer
to a party of campers myself. Santa's
the queen and I'm Mr.. Nobody"
I'D be king If was you.' repeated
Badly Woods, the royalist.
The smooth brown face Of Yeager
heightened to mask Of wounded mel
ancholy.
I'm ridin' back to the ranch to-
day. he said half heartedly. 1--WE
got to start bunch of beeves for San
Antoine in the mornin'."
I'm your company as far as Dry
lake." announced Badly. i've got a
roundup camp on the San Marcos cut
tin out two-year-olds.n
The two companeros mounted their
ponies and trotted away from the little
railroad settlement where they had
foregathered in the thirsty morning.
At Dry lake. where their routes d.
verged. they refined up for a parting
cigarette. Webb offered an addendum
to the conversation that had begun ten
miles away.
You remember yourself, Badly,
that there was time when Santa
wasn't quite 20 independent. You re-
member the days when old McAlIIsteg
was keepin' us apart and how she used
20 send me the sign that she wanted
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-06-01
apology in his look and fancied be saw

apology In his look and fancied he saw
commiseration.
You deliver them cattle" be said
grimly. ''top-
Barber finished Santa sharply.
Let that settle 1t. Is there anything
else you are waiting for. Bud? r.
No, NM" said Bud But before
going he fingered while a cows tail
could have switched thrice.
you hear your boss.r cried Webb
sardonically. He took off his hat and
bowed until it touched the floor before
his wife.
Webb" said Santa rebukingly,
you're actin mighty foolish today"
Court fool, your majesty" said
Webb In his slow tones. which had
changed their quality. What else can
you expect? Let me tell you. was
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

A TEAM of horses, stung by couple
"A of bees, plunged madly into TWEEN.
ty hives, upsetting them, releasing an
army of $4,000 angry bees, which
stung the horses to death, a few days
ago, over on the Virginia side of the
Potomac river.
The negro driver, who ran at the
first alarm. did not escape unwounded.
Thousands of bees pursued his flight,
and he was terribly stung, but lives.
A dozen or more irresponsible bees
were flying about the grounds at the
home of DR.. Reginald Munson, on the
Columbia pike, near Arlington. where
ne has forty hives. The horses, at
tached to coal wagon, worried by
their humming, slapped at the bees
with their tails. The bees retaliated.
singing the horses.
The horses, wild with alarm at the
unusual attack, plunged madly about
the yard, upsetttng twenty hives and
releasing some t'~n bushels Of bees
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

4 STORY told at-police Headquarters
"a by Clarence Davis of Glenallen.
Va, recalled to older members of the
force the day when confidence men
had full sway here. The Virginian
related that three men had inveigled
him into matching twenty-five-cent
pieces in a room at the Raleigh hotel,
and that they had disappeared, one of
them taking $45S belonging to him.
When Davis reached the city and
ne registered at hotel near John
Marshall place and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., he was seated on the coping at
the northwest corner of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue and 9TH street when strang-
or spoke to him. He did not hesitate
to tell the stranger he was from near
Richmond, and the latter said he was
acquainted with people in Richmond.
The Virginian informed the strang.
er that he was thinking of going to
New York, and that he was a brick
layer by trade.
$50 am a bricklayer," the stranger
said, "and I'm out of work.
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Fervid Vocabulary Cause of Arrest

And then there followed a contro
versy. 1t was heated, to use a we'll
worn but perfectly good phrase. and
in the end the policeman hoped into
the buggy and took the broad.hatted
gentleman around to police station
No. 1, where it became evident thai
the prisoner was southerner and
was being charged with profanity
and lots of 1t, varied, variegated, lurid,
personal and original
The southern gentleman kept it 20.
ing to some extent even while he was
being examined at No. 1, but he did
quit in time to let them know that he
was not the owner of the horse.
About this time hatless, breath
less real estate agent rushed out OF
the District building.
Somebody's run off with my horse
and buggy! Where did they GOT" he
shouted.
Meantime No. had managed to
cool the southern gentleman to state
where he would disgorge IS a. col.
lateral, the price of his profanity. And
all this time no one had found GU,
that the southern gentleman was dol
the owner Of the horse st all.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
l[RE.''

The word was passed around
among amateur firefighters of the gov.
eminent printing Office one afternoon
recently. The fire brigade is said to
consist of about a dozen laborers.
Really there was no fire about the
big printing Office, save in the engine
room furnaces and under the smelling
pots.
Some one high in authority at the
printery had read a newspaper &C.
count of disastrous conflagration in
the west. The story of the blaze put
the notion in his head to resurrect a
general order" Of several years
standing which provides for fire drill
at intervals.
1t was near to the hour for closing
down 1.-THE works." 80 o'clock, when
the edict went forth that the fire bri
gade was to assemble quickly and
from the new building attack an i'm
aginary conflagration in the old struc-
ture across the alley, which separates
the new from the old.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

I rather than into cheap tallow, as is the
case with the majority of the dairy.
bred steers. But it would be the height
OF folly to say to the feeder of beef
cattle that he should use upon his
farms dairy cows because, besides sup.
plying calf that would be worth one
half as much as the beef calf, he could
produce twice as much milk and but
ter-fat as though he kept a beef COW.
He would be very sadly surprised when
the time came to market his steers If
he found that he had made no profit
from them, and this surprise would
probably be just as great and just as
keen disappointment as the disap-
pointment which the dairyman finds
after he has produced and put beef cat.
tie into the dairy with the guarantee
that the calves which he produces will
be worth more two years hence
when he goes to sell them, even
though his cows do not produce half as
much milk and butter-fat.
Now, Oh the other hand, if we look
through the origin and the develop
ment of the dairy breeds of cattle, we
find that for hundreds of years there
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

OF converting a given amount of feed
into two things at the same time. The
aim OF the breeder of beef cattle has
been to produce beef and he has done
SO at the expense of the milk-giving
functions Of the animal in his charge,
The Beef Breeders Accomplishment
The wonderful results that have
been accomplished by these breeders
of beef cattle are not to be belittled, be-
cause they have produced a wonderful
work. They have produced an animal
that is capable of making two pounds
OF valuable beef where one pound or
less was to be found in the animals of
the past. They have made wonderful
improvement in beef production and
today we find in the beef breeds, steers
that, although they are not capable of
making any more gain out of bushel
of corn than Is Jersey or Holstein
steer. still they have the ability OF con,
vsrtlng their food into high priced beef
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
1ROFITABLE DA[RYING
By HUGH G. VAN PELT
Dairy Expert Iowa State Dairy Association
What the Dairy Cow Has Been Doing

Perhaps there is no better explana.
ton of why one breed of cows is better
for milk production than the other,
than to look into the history of them
as breeds. In doing this we find how
they were produced and why. We
find, for instance, that the beef animal
has been bred in her native country by
breeders who were past masters in the
art of breeding. For hundreds of
years they have devoted their efforts
along the line of producing an animal
which would convert the very greatest
POSSIBLE amount Of food consumed, into
teef and fat to deposit over the back
and loin and rump, over the ribs and
Gown deep in the twist They have
sliven to breed such an animal be-
cause there has been a demand for
lu>t such an animal, and this demand
hes sprung from the consumer of beef
u through the retail clerk in the meat
market, through the jobber and on to
the packer, and from him through his
buyers to the commission men and on
down through the feeders of steers to
the breeders of beef cattle. In the
meat market the demand from the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
Con" Men Find Virginian Easy Mark

Come to New York with me-" Da.
Wis told him. land 1 will see that you
get job
Soon a second man, a red-haired in.
dividual, who said he was an English.
man, appeared and was introduced. A
drink was suggested. The men had
one in a saloon on Pennsylvania ave.
nue..
Davis said he would go back to
Richmond and draw his money from
bank in order that he might have
funds enough to see him through his
trip to New York. Accompanied by
Smith, the man who first accosted
him, Davis went to Richmond, drew
his money and returned the next day.
The red-haired man and a friend met
them and the quartet went to the no.
tel where the alleged swindlers had
taken room.
A game of matching quarters was
INDUCED in and Davis lost what silver
change he had. 1t was then necessary
for him to get out his roll of bills. It
was the first time Lawrence and Hop
kins, as the two "con" men were
known, had seen the roll. At the sug-
gestion of one of the men, Davis
handed his roll to Hopkins to hold.
Lawrence then said he wanted to get
check cashed, and it was while he
was pretending he was looking for a
man to cash it that those in the party
became separated.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

THE lone policeman who stands
l guard by the District building in
Washington was making his rounds
placidly when there dawned upon his
Mortified mind the fact that a horse
was standing with his fore feet upon
the District buildings own sidewalk.
The horse was hitched to a two
seated surrey. Upon a seat of the
surrey sat gentleman with broad
black hat.
Get that horse off the sidewalk"
said the policeman
IF you want this horse to get off
that sidewalk you put him off your
self, you--" The remainder of the
sentence was more in the way Of ex-
pletive than explanation
You better shut up and get that
horse where It belongs" the police.
man pursued.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

have been men with ability just as
great as that used by the developers
OF beef cattle who have been working
and tussling with the laws of breeding
for years, striving to produce an ami
NAL that would convert every possible
bit Of it's food into milk and butter
fat They have cared little for the
beef that might be found on the ami
mails body, but what they have striven
to do was to develop an animal that
after consuming and digesting a large
amount of feed would assimilate it
into blood which would carry it, in
stead of to the top of the back, and
ribs, around through we'll placed and
large udder and there convert it into
milk and butter-fat. Like the breed
ers of beef cattle their results have
been wonderful and they have to a
large degree accomplished their end;
but in so doing they have developed
an animal radically different in form
and conformation from that which the
producer of beef cattle has DEVELOPED
Instead of being rectangular and
square in form and covered with beef
from one end to the other they have
produced an animal that Is wedge
shaped, open jointed and angular in
form. Now, they have not produced
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

trade has been for cuts of beef that
are taken from over the back and the
loin and the other parts mentioned, be-
cause the beef found in these regions
is more suitable to the taste, richer
in it's flavor, more tender, better
grained and, in fact, more to be de-
sired than is the meat which is found
in the neck, brisket, plates and in
those portions considered the cheaper
part of the animal. Because of the de-
mand, the better parts of the animal
have demanded higher price and,
consequently, the animal which is
most greatly developed in these high
priced cuts is the more valuable ami
NAL, and because of the fact that like
begets like or likeness thereof, it has
been necessary to breed animals the
likeness of which would be we'll devel-
oped in these qualities. This is the de-
mand that has caused the breeder of
beef cattle to produce an animal that
would convert every possible portion
of its feed into beef and fat and lay it
over the top of the back, the ribs, etc.
During this process of breeding up, he
has paid very little attention to milk
production, probably due to the fact
that it is most difficult thing to pro-
suce an animal which has the power
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
Army of Bees Sting Horses to Death
about $4,000 in all.

about $4,000 in all.
These bees Immediately attacked
the horses, singing them so badly
that both animals died within an hour
DR.. Munson has long been an en-.
thusiastic apiarist. His hives are 10.
Gated in the yard at one side of his
house.
The coal wagon, driven by George
Low, drew up in front of the place
about o'clock in the afternoon. Low
was a little dubious about venturing
inside. He could plainly hear an &C.
casional buzzing that was not alto
gether music to his ears.
A black swarm of buzzing bees i'm
mediately flew toward the horses and
Low. The latter went scampering
down the road with his hands up to
his face, brushing away a thousand or
more of the insects which had gath.
cred about him.
The frightened horses were almost
instantly covered with the insects.
They started to turn toward the road,
but sank Imply in the traces, whin-
neying wildly with pain.
The entire neighborhood was in
stantly aroused. A crowd collected
at a safe distance to watch the un-
usual event. No one dared at first
TO go to the rescue of the horses.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
Fire Drill in the Big Printing Shop

upon the receipt of the order from
the front Office the amateur f1remeu
got busy without delay. There was 9
dragging forth of hose and other ap
paratus for fighting "the red demon
A tall man, who seemed to be in su.
preme command of the firemen, gave
the orders in cool, confident tones.
Innumerable hose lines were con
nected with fire plugs in the new
building. MOBILES were aimed at the
venerable structure across Jackson al.
ley. AS the streams of water began
to play and the spray was rising in
clouds, like the mist from Niagara
Falls, the printers, bookbinders, wo-
man folders and other workers began
to file out of the buildings.
There Is an order that the exit of
the WOrkmen and wOrkwomen must be
through the side doors along the al
ley and G street. Consequently, as
the head of the line of workers reach
ed the doors on the alley and wit
messed the deluge of water crashing
against the walls of the old building
and flying back in foaming masses,
they tried to force thier way back in.
to the new structure.
Hundreds of toilers behind. not
aware of the conditions in front,
pressed forward and forced the front
rank out into the alley and into the
torrents of flying water. The ensued
a scene of excitement.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

this animal of this shape because they
thought that long neck, bony ribs,
an open jointedness and spareness in
flesh, prominent hip bones and lean
ness in appearance all over, were an
indication of beauty, but in their great
interest in the question of developing
an animal that would convert every
portion of it's food into milk and but
ter-fat, they have given up this result
and they have found that it is impos-
sible to produce an animal that will
take a given amount of food and con-
vert 1t into two different products at
the same time. Consequently, they
have found that if each animal pro-
duces every available portion of food
into milk and butter-fat there is moth
ing left for the production of beef to
cover up the bones of the body, and
the result is the above described con-
formation.
And SO we have breeds of cattle for
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
BOY TORTURED BY ECZEMA

when my boy was six years old. he
suffered terribly with eczema. He
could neither sit still nor lie quietly in
bed, for the itching was dreadful. He
would irritate spots by scratching
with his nails and that only made
them worse. A doctor treated him
and we tried almost everything, but
the eczema seemed to spread. It
started in small place on the lower
e1tremities and spread for two years
until 1t very nearly covered the back
part OF his leg to the knee.
Finally l got Cuticura Soap. Cuti.
cura Ointment and Cuticura Pills and
gave them according to directions. I
used them In the morning and that
evening, before I put my boy to bed.
l used them again and the improve
ment even in those few hours was sur.
pr1sing, the Inflammation seemed to
be so much less. used two boxes Of
Cuticura Ointment. the same of the
Pills and the Soap and my boy was
cured. My son Is now in his sew
enteenth year and he has never had
return Of the eczema.
Il took care Of q friends child that
had eczema on its face and limbs and
used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
They acted on the child just as they
did on my son and it has never re-
turned. would recommend the Cuti.
cura Remedies to anyone. Mrs. A. J.
Cochran, 1923 Columbia Ave., Phila-
delphia. Pa. Oct. 20. 1919"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
Wrong Angle.

wrong angie.
There's bright side to every.
thing
"A bright side! BAH"
"Well, there u.s."
do you mean to tell me, DOCTOR
that there Is bright side to my hav.
ing had my leg amputated?"
Indeed, there is: and If you could
put yourself in my place you could
really see It,"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

He who commits injustice is ever
made more wretched than he who
suffers it.-PlatO.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14
A Teacher In the Maxine,

She was popular young normal
student, who had been to a party the
night before, and as a consequence,
was mot prepared" in the geography
class.
The woman instructor. true to her
method of drawing upon the general
knowledge Of student rather than to
permit failure, after eliciting two o.
three inconsequential "stabs" from
her fair but jaded disciple. asked for
the products of China.
The victim frightened. "Tea." she
asserted. preparing to sit down..
Eyes, and what else?" encouraged
the Instructor.
The young woman smiled with
sweet hopelessness.
Nov you can mention others, I am
sure. Just think about it."
"Tea," drawled the fute-like voice
Of the pretty girl, "and," pickering
her forehead with an intellectual tour
de force, land laundry work.
Youths Companion.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-19
CHICAGO. MARKETS
UNUSUALLY NERVOUS
Wheat Declines and Closes
Weak: Longs Are Scared
Into Unloading.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1s.-Grain and pro-
visions declined here today. the market
being nervous In all the pits, Wheat
led The downward march. closing from &c
to lac lower than yesterday. The liqui-
dation i'm provisions left prices at tho
close from 1oc TO l7Ac lower than yes
Frightened longs, scared into unloading
by large receipts at the principal mar
kets and poor demand for cash wheat.
crowded the pit. The range for the day
was from &c to 1ic. May showing the
greatest activity and making the greatest
descent. May fell off TO s1.oSk from a
high for the. day OF s1,1Oa. The close
was weak at practically the low point
OF the day, with May 1l@1ic below yes
terdays final figures at SI.09
MID weather helped to put corn prices
Sc to lc. May fell off to 61i66Tgc from
SSlc and closed on the low point, sd
Trade in oats followed the general
course or other grains. although the
range was narrower. Shorts and eleva-
TOR interests stepped in at tho low points
and took large quantities of the offer
ings The range was from &c to &c. The
i7s047sc.
IN provisions pork ranged from 15c to
LAC lower; lard 12fc TO 17lc lower. and
RIBS from. 1lc to 10c lower than yester-
day final figures Closing prices on the
NAY NAY delivery were: Pork s2l75; lard,
5l2. 0J and ribs S1i 10