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The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
Only an Essay

Here is an essay written about edi-
tors. 1t also brings in the doctor and
we thought that it is so real in life that
we would reproduce it and give it to
our readers. Here it isl don't know
how newspapers came to be in this
world. I don't think God does. for he
hasn't anything to say about them and
editors in the bible. I think the editor
is one of those missing links you read
of. He stayed in the bushes until after
the flood and then came out and wrote
the thing up and has been there ever
since. / don't think he ever dies. l
never saw a dead one and never heard
of one getting licked. If the editor
makes mistake people say he ought to
be hung; but if a doctor makes mis-
take, he buries them and folk dare not
say anything because doctors can read
and write Latin. When the editor
makes one there is lawsuit and swear
ing and big fuss, butif doctor makes
one there is funeral, cut flowers and a
perfect silence. A doctor can use a
word mile long without him or any
body knowing what it means, but if the
editor uses one he has to spell it. If the
doctor goes to see another mans wife,
he charges for the visit, but if the edi-
tor goes, he gets acharge of buckshot.
When the doctor gets drunk it is case
of being over come by the heat and if
he dies it's from heart trouble; when an
editor gets drunk it is plain case of
too much booze, and when he dies, it's
from cause too disgraceful to speak
of. Any old college can make doctor
but an editor has to be born.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
HOW GOOD NEWS SPREADS

Il am 70 years old and travel most of
the time," writes B. F. Tolson, O f
Elizabethtown, KY. Everywhere l go
I recommend Electric Bitters, because
owe my excellent health and vitality
to them. They effect cure every
time.'' They never fail to tone the
stomach, regulate the kidneys a n d
bowels, stimulate the liver, invigorate
the nerves and purify the blood. They
work wonders for weak, rundown men
and women, restoring strength, vigor
and health that's a daily Joy. Try
them. Only SOC. Satisfaction is posi-
lively guaranteed by all druggists.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
COFFEE ONCE HELD {"
TO BE INTOXICANTH
Something Of the Early History of Coffee
and Its Uses and Abuses After Being
Introduced in Europe by German
BOtanist in 1873.
Pope, in 1.-THE Rape of the Lock-"

Pope, in ''The Rape of the Lock, :"
speaks of
Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half
shut eyes
and this coffee, the early history of
which is involved in considerable OBJ
scurity, has been, when used in moder-
alton, comfort and blessing to man.
: kind for centuries. Its use began in
Abyssinia, and according to manuscript
in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris,
it was known and used as early as 875
A. D., and was introduced into Arabia
about the beginning of the fifteenth
century by learned sheik with an un-
pronouncable name. Owing to its pecu-
liar property of dissipating drowsiness
and preventing sleep it was regarded
with disfavor by certain religious classes.
1t was then considered as an intoxicant
and it's use was forbidden by the Koran.
1t rapidly grew in favor among the
Mohammedans and is in almost univer-
sal use in he East, and, indeed,
throughout the civilized world. 1t was
made known in Europe by A. Ranwolf,
aGerman botanist, who visited the Le-
want in 1878 in order to study and iden-
tify plants noticed by Pliny, Galen and
others.
A coffee-house was established in
London in 1862 by Greek, Pasqua Ros-
sic. They soon multiplied in numbers
and became centers of discussion on
public affairs, to which men resorted
daily. In 1875 Charles II. undertook to
suppress them by royal proclamation,
which stated that they were the resort
of disaffected persons "who devised and
spread abroad divers false, malicious
and scandalous reports to the defama-
ton of His Majesty's government and
to the disturbance of the peace and
quiet of the nation"
Macauley says: every cofee-house
had one or more orators, to whose elo-
quence the crowd listened with admira-
tion and who soon became what the
journalists of our own time have been
called, fourth estate. of the. realm =
The coffee-house. spread to America,
and until few years ago the old Lon
don coffee-house stood at the corner of
Front and Market streets, in this city,
but was unfortunately removed to make
place for a modern business building.
The United States consumes about
one-half the worlds entire commercial
crop, the average consumption per
capita being about II or IL pounds per
annum, which is equaled or exceeded
only by Norway, Sweden and Holland.
Comparatively, this is enormous, the
consumption per head in Great Britain
being less than one pound per head per
annum. Philadelphia Press. 4
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16

head of cattle, and they were to be
run" on the range by Ferris and Mer-
rifield. The first ranching undertaking
was at the Maltese Cross ranch, about
eight miles south of Medora on the Lit
tie Missouri river. 1t was at this ranch
that Roosevelt spent.a part of one fall
and winter, and from it he dedicated
his book, Hunting Trips of Ranch
man." 1t was this cabin, also, that was
afterward purchased by the State of
North Dakota, and stands now on the
state capitol grounds at Bismarck, as a
memorial of the time when Roosevelt
was a Dakota ranchman.
HUNTER AND "COW HAND".
Following this ranching enterprise,
Roosevelt established another ra nch,
which he called the Home Ranch, or
the Elkhorn, on the Little Missouri
river forty miles north of Medora. This
was an immense log structure, built
right at the edge of the river, and. in
the midst of veritable paradise for
sportsmen. The brush an d woods
abous were splendid covers for grouse,
and they could be shot within stones
throw of the ranch door. The waters
of the river teemed in the fall with
ducks and geese passed near in their
northern and southern flights. The
rough "brakes" and hills about shell
tered many bands of mountain sheep,
the wariest game of the hills, and the
most difficult to track and bring down.
There were also white tail deer in the
thickets of brush along the river, and
black tail in the hills, and the delights
of hunting were numerous in the late
fall, after the first of the winters snow.
1t was here with his books, his guns
and his plains friends that Roosevelt
spent many enjoyable weeks, and found
material for many Of is Western
sketches.
Pant of one summer the young ranch
man spent as roundup hand, riding
his string of horses, taking his turn at
night guarding the beef herd, and get
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16

ting experience as real 'cow hand. "
From 1882 until 1890 he visited his ranch
ing properties frequently, but after 1890
his visits became more infrequent, al
though as late as 1896 he made a trip
from Medora to the Black Hills country
with team and camp outfit.
HE WAS sTUDIoUs, QUIET AND RESERVED
In his demeanor in the early days of
his ranching he was studious, quiet and
reserved. There was little to suggest
the fire, the enthusiasm and the popu-
larity of his later days. He spent little
or no time with cow hands or plainsmen,
aside from the necessary association of
the range or trail. But he gained lot
Of health and breadth that were invalu-
able to him in his later years and to
which he continually refers in his allu-
sions to his ranching life.
In the early nineties he closed out
what remained of his cattle interests to
his range foremen, Ferris and Merrifeld.
Both of the ranch buildings with which
he was associated have been dismantled
and have disappeared. Occasionally a
steer may be found on the range with
his brands, which were two, the Maltese
cross and the elkhorn. The Northern
Pacific has erected an immense sign
board just on the west bank of the Lit.
tie Missouri river which tells passengers
on trains that Theodore Roosevelt once
ranched in this valley.
Most of the plains associates of Roose-
welt have disappeared from the scenes
of his ranching experience. Merrifeld,
who was one Of his foremen at the Elk
horn, is United States marshal of Mon
tana. Joe Ferris, with whom he went
on his first buffalo hunt, is now a mer-
chant in the Yellowstone valley north
of Glendive. S. M. Ferris, another
range foreman, is register of the United
State land Office at Dickinson. Sewall
and Dow, two Maine woodsmen, who
built the Elkhorn ranch, have long since
disappeared from the Little Missouri
valley. And practically all of the cow
hands of those days are gone. The big
cattle outfits have been crowded out by
the homesteaders. The big slaughter
ing plant erected at Medora by the
Marquis de Mores, whose enterprises
followed Roosevelt's first visit, is burn
ed down. And the sleepy little hamlet
cf Medora, named for the wife of Mar
quis de Mores, which was the scene of
much activity in the period from 1885
to 1890, and which was the center of
the Western experiences of these two
meteoric men, nestles quietly in the
Bad Lands hills, with barely a vestige
Of the glory that surrounded it in those
palmy days of the ranch and range.-J.
W. Foley in St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
WHEN ROOSEVELT
WAS RANCHMAN
His Western Visit Recalls Experience on
Plains of North Dakota Twenty-Eight
Years Ago, When He ,Ranched
in the Bad Lands.

Bismarck, N. D., Sept. SIT was
back in 1882, when he was young man
in the middle twenties, that Theodore
Roosevelt had his first western expert
ence-the experience that the Western
ers say fitted him for the strenuous po-
litlcal life of his later days.
At that time there was an immense
frontier country barely surrendered by
the Sioux Indians, of which the Little
Missouri river was the center. The
value of the Bad Lands as grazing
region had just come to be known, and
huge bands of cattle were being driven
up from Texas and turned loose on the
ranges that have now been given over
to the homesteader and the small ranch
man. The government maintained a
military post on the west bank of the
Little Missouri for the protection Of
the builders and surveyors of the North
ern Pacific railroad, for it was over a
year later. that the last spike was driven
on the transcontinental line of the road.
A few years previously the country
had been sportsman's paradise. and
great herds of buffalo in the Bad Lands
and on the prairies touching them, and
the deep trails they made to their wa
tering places are still visible through
the hills and valleys after quarter of
a century and more. Thousands Of the
animals were shot down and skim
ned, the hide being the valuable trophy
and the carcass being left to rot on the
prairies. And it was the possibility of
hunting and killing the buffalo that
first brought Theodore Roosevelt out
from New York to the West and made
him afterward a ranchman and regular
visitor to the great West.
HIS FIRST BUFFALO HUNT.
Roosevelt's first buffalo hunt was in
1882. At that time the slaughter of the
animals had been progressing for some
years and the number of the animals
had materially decreased. But Roose-
velt was willing to undergo any hard
ships to bring home buffalo head as a
trophy of the hunt, and it was late in
the fall Of the year that he and Joe
Ferris, a young Canadian, who had
come out of the Canadian lumber woods
to the West, set out from the then rail-
road station of Little Missouri for the
buffalo range, which were some forty
or fifty miles to the southwark. After
a number of days of hardship and no
small amount of tracking and trailing
they got their buffalo. The tenderfoot,
Roosevelt, had made good, to the sur
prise and wonder of the veteran hunters
and plainsmen who hung about along
the Little Missouri.
Upon his return from that trip the
young man Roosevelt was impressed
with the vastness and wholesomeness
Of the great Western plains, and with
the Ferris brothers and A. w. Merri-
field, who were partners in their West
ern undertakings and had come from
the same country to the West, he made
a ranching agreement. Roosevelt was
to stock the range with a number of
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
Oregon Lands Open.

Washington, Sept. IA. Oregon lands
aggregating !, 1878, ,280 acres were thrown
open to settlement today under the
provisions of the enlarged homestead
lands by authority of Acting Secretary
Pierce of the interior department. This
brings the total of lands in Oregon
which have been restored to date, up to
II, ,O4O, ,24O acres.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
AN AWFUL ERUPTION

of a volcano excites brief interest, and
your interest in skin eruptions will be
as short, if you us Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, their quickest cure. Even the
worst boils, ulcers, or fever sores are
soon healed by it. Best for burns, cuts,
bruises, sore lips, chapped hands, chill
blains and piles. 1t gives instant relief.
Csc at all druggists.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16
To Make Pictures Talk.

Edison is going to make picture shows
that talk and these will doubtless be
exhibited at prices that will talk also.
Soon we shall have the worlds happen
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-09-16

If you contemplate having a sale,
talk it over with Auctioneer Chas. j.
Kopriva. 1t will pay you to do so. 13tf
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-11-12


yates in positions. 1t will pay you
to write them for full details at Gin
c%innati. Ohio, Philadelphia, Pa,
Memphis. Tenn, Davenport, Ia, Co
lumbia, S. c., or Portland, Ore, &C.
cordin to where you wish to enter.
Charley Sue has reopened his restau-
rant. Give him a call.
+. M. Baker. the candy man, has
added tamales. chill and hot drinks
to his list of dainties. The same SER
vice which is a feature of the store
will be given with the new additions,
and will make the place a popular
one during the cold weather.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-11-12
Let 1t Alone, Mr.. Oddie

THE PLATFORM of the Re pubhcan party declares for the cleo
ton OF the Railroad Commissioners. also the fastening of the Board
of ASSESS or onto the Railroad Commission. Mr.. Odde has been
elected Governor OF Nevada. He has promised the people of the state
that he will work for their interests Should he insist IN remodehng
the Railroad Commission and making it a n elective office he will have
handed the matter " to the Southern Pacific.
The action of California is an example of this kind of work. The
California Railroad Commission is elective. The RAILROADS always ell
ect two members OF this Board. The result is that California docs
nothing in the interest OF the people with ner Commission while Ne
vada, through her Commission, has accomplished more in two years
than California has in fifteen.
Mr.. oddie received votes from all party followers as is shown by
the returns. The people who cleo ted him expect him to keep faith
with them. They have every reason to believe that he will refuse to
yer consider such a move as the platform suggests, IS it as too
much sound of Mr. Blakeslee in it.
Neyadas Railroad Commission is working for all the people. We
believe That Mr.. Oddie~ intends to do the same.
LET IT ALONE, GOVERNOR ODDIE.
THE vote, under the primary election law resulted in a showing
to the effect that Pitman, Dickerson and Sprague, averagey beat
their respective opponents, Nixon, Oddie and Roberts for U. S. Sena-
tor. Governor and Congressman, respectively, by about l5O votes
The genertl election reverses this showing, and Nixon. Odde and
Roberts ire elected by about 1900 votes whereas the primary vote
showed their defeat by about $500 votes What is the matter?
NO me ever abused William Jennings Bryan except malefactors
factors OF great wealth are opposed to him and his policies. OF course
the abuse is expressed through tine subsidized press
COLONEL ROOSEVELT added his abuse and his great weight
to all the abuse that has been hea ped upon William Jennings Bryan
Now the Colonel is getting a teri fife dose of his W medicine. Col
onel Bryan must be a-erinning.
OF course the word economy" Is ued in the platforms OF the
Democratic and Republican parties, will be clearly defined by the acts
OF the incoming Legislature, Maybe nit.
THE question what shall we do with u ex Presidents has been
solved by the State of New York: that state didn't do a thing o the
Colonel
THE dmtiest campaign YER held in Nevada is over. and now, all
the candidates are prominent and influential citizens again.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-11-12
A GOOD POSITION

Can be had by ambitious young men
and ladies in the field of wireless"
or Railway telegraphy. Since the g.
hour law became effective. and since
ne Wireless companies are estab-
fishing stations throughout the coun-
try there is a great shortage o teleg-
rapners. Positions pay beginners
from so to $50 per month, with good
chance of advancement. The Ma
tional Telegraph Institute operates
six official institutes in America, un-
der the supervision of the R. R. and
Wireless officials and places all grad
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-11-12
Call at BARKLEY'S,

Call at BARKLEY'S,
If you love the goods that's old
Call at BARKLEY'S.
'Taint no use to sit and blink
If you really need a drink,
Just make a sign or ring a bell.
And you bet they'll treat you right
Up at BARKLEY'S
For your job work and printed sta
tionery { any and all description. call
1t The Appeal office. We are better
cquipp than ever TO handle the
work in good shape. Give us a call
when you need -printing of any kind
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-25
AuTolsT GETS PERMIT
Mnrylandcr Fined In Virginia for
Running Without license.

with a oountenance full of voc, D.
w. Williamson. of Baltimore, yester
day morning appeared at the office OF
the Governor. 1t appears that he had
motored into Fairfax county from
Maryland. where he is licensed, and
was arrested for running over the
Virginia roads without the requisite
number and license He parted with
S12 of his good money.
Mr. Williamson protested that he
had right to a few days in the
State. and was told that he could get
his money back when he produced the
authority. Ae asked the county au'
thorities. for the love of Mike, to be
reasonable. but they stuck to It.
The Governor acting under the pro
visions OF the new automobile Jaw
granted the same privileges which are
granted Mr.. Williamson the same
privileges which are granted to Wiz
sinia autoists In Maryland-the righ
to use the roads for two periods O.
seven consecutive days each In oni
wear
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-25
"A Wreck In 1892;
Well and Strong Now
owing to the curative value of
Warner's Safe Cure

So writes Mr.. J. b. Adams, 81 N.
s7th Street Philadelphia, Pa: I'm the
early part of 1892 | was a wreck, and
] found ! was running into Bright's
Disease. ! began to take Warner's Safe
Cure. had a terrible hard fight and
was not able to work mich of the time
for three years. must have taken
over one hundred and fifty bottles by
the time | could work at all steadily,
but your remedy saved my life-T am
positive OF that. Since then, when I
take cold or feel badly, use Warmers
Safe Cure with excellent results"
Warmers Safe Cure has been before
the public for many years and has to
its credit the cure Of thousands Of cases
and women, Of all ages, are to-day living
who would be in their graves had they
not taken Warmers Safe Cure.
When. the kidneys are disorganized,
and their structure, including the little
delicate tubues. are breaking down
when the face is pulled with a pale,
marblelike appearance and the whole
body is dropsical, Warmers Safe Cure
will remedy the trouble and bring health
where death would be inevitable. War
ner safe Cure IS put up IN oO-cent and
81 90 sizes and sold by druggists every
where.
Warmers Safe Pills, for constipation
and biliousness, purely vegetable, abso-
lutely free from injurious substances,
are a perfect laxative. They do not
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cents a package.
To convince every sufferer from dis
ease Of the kidneys and liver that
SAFE. CURE will abso-
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sample box of Warmers Safe Pills will
be sent FREE OF CHARGE, postpaid,
to anyone who will write WARMERS
SAFE CURE CO., Rochester, N. ",
and mention having seen this liberal
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by the publisher.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-25
NEW ASSESSMENT OF LANDS.
Increase In Spotsylvnnin for 1910 ove,
1908 Amounts to SS2,iI4.,J;,,
Especial to The Times Dispatch

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.
:, spotsylvania, Va. September "a
excepting the mineral lanes, A. c..
- IeedESie e. "A; d; Smith, G. II. Crop and
assessors of lands In Berkeley and ST
George Districts. of the county, have
MADE n their returns. which have been
med In the clerks office here. The
fs ~. SHOWS the reassessment to be
5or e 1slv. si,SSO,323.fS. as against ST.
is.s.s1S.65. the assessment of 1905 this
444.53. u @'-'-
81 Under an act of the last Legislature.
ssessed separately. and much conf,,sinn
mas been caused by this, as the asses.
sors mad nearly finished their work.
n the county before they. received mo-
we :, re, 81 TINS law This rccessitatcd the
.aa!s out OF q new set of books. con-
tanning the assessment Of the mineral
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-25
MILITARY SHOWS
! LARGER INTEREST
Inspection Discloses Problem OF
Caring for Increased
Property.
---------------
GOOD INCREASE IN VALUES
Northampton Shows Gain--Au-
toist Fined and Gets Gov
ernor's Permit.

Increased interest in encampments
and manoeuvres. in caring for the
property now furnished with such
liberality by the War Department, and
In military affairs generally, has been
noted by Lieutenant General 10 Lane
Stern, the inspecting officer of the
Virginia militia, in his annual round
OF inspection which he is now con-
Guiding. These he regards as hopeful
signs.
The problem OF properly preserving
the military property has become a
large one. Under the provisions of
the Dick bill this supply has grown to
a great extent, the aim being to equip
the national guard with material
equal to that of the regular army.
Large appropriations are annually
available. to be used in supplies and
uniforms, adding greatly TO the pro-
position of taking proper care of the
material furnished. Where formerly a
small locker would contain the SOL
diers one suit and small articles,
now a good-sized space, several feet
each way. is necessary. He must have
room for three suits, for the shoes
bought under the new ruling of the
State Military Board. for the haver-
sack, caps and the other munitions OF
war.
Kept in hrmory.
Under the regulations, this proper
ity must be kept In the armory, which
has been Impossible in some cases
because of lack of space 1t is
truism that property kept at the SOL
dier's home Is rarely properly cared
for, and that frequently 1t is missing
when the soldiers term OF enlistment
expires or he leaves the community.
At Emporia. arrangements are being
made for proper armory accommoda-
lions, while at Suffolk this matter
has received recent attention.
Care of the property varies great
ly. In one instance Colonel Stern
found that plates and other table
ware were separately wrapped. insur-
ing good condition. In other places
there is much carelessness In this re-
gard.
The inspecting officer finds that
there is much interest over joint
nnonoeuvres, stimulated by the re-
cent Gettysburg ercampment
Aside from these matters. Colonel
stern found no unusual condition In
his rounds. General condition and
spirit among the troops was about on
par wit hother recent years.