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PLA TT6 M O CTTII WEEKLY HERALD, TimRSDAY, MAY 12, 1887
&!'t yhittnmouth Qhchhj rnld.
KNOTTS BROS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
Extinction of the Buffalo-
The annual report of Professor Haird,
of the Smithsonian Institution, discloses
the fact that tho once numerous and char
acteristic buffalo race has practically
ceased to exist in the United States. So
rapid has been the rate of destruction in
the last few years that it is now almost
impossible, we are assured, to procure
specimens of this interesting class of ani
mals for preservation in the National
Museum in Wasingtou. Itualiziug the
importance of securing such specimens,
Professor Baird sent an expedition to the
far West last summer for that purpose;
and although a number of skeletons and
skulls were found on the plains, it was
with great difficulty that one buffalo was
killed. There are supposed to be still a
few small and rambling herds in North
ern Dakota, well up toward the British
possessions; but with this unimportant
Yiiimn tli a Rtorv of the buffalo has
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reached its conclusion, and the vast do
main over which he once roamed by mil
lions is now entirely shorn of his familiar
and typical presence
It seems only yesterday that shaggy
and haughty quadruped occupied the
whole countrv from the Missouri Iliver
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to the llocky Mountains. Ho was, strict
ly speaking, the first inhabitant of that
great scope of territory. The Spanish
explorers found him there long before
coming of the Pilgrims across the Atlan
tic to Plymouth Itock, and he held his
ground tenaciousaly through all the suc
ceeding years until after the rebellion,
thriving and multiplying in a most re
markable manner. The Indians gave
him considerable trouble and found him
very useful, but they could not frighten
him from his systematic grazing, nor
compel him to relinquish his serene faith
in himself and his mission. The grass
was to his liking, and the climate suited
liim thi l.indacane met his views of
roominess, and he staid. It was not un
til the rambling instinct of the American
people, as Lieutenant Pike called it iu
his report of the memorable trip which
took hiui across the plains and to the
peak that bears his name, and entered
earnestly upon the task of founding new
States west of the Missouri, that the buf
falo began to lose confidence and to yield
his supremacy, and even then he surren
dered only step by step, and with a show
of courage which, if misdirected and fu
tile, was nevertheless admirable and
pathetic.
There is some reason to believe that in
a fair ana even contest, the buffalo's
reign would not have been supplanted
for at least 100 years after civilization
touched his dominions. But civilization
invoked the aid of the locomotive, and
against such a novel and potent force the
poor bewildered brute was comparative
ly helpless. He made the best fight he
could, and was able from time to time
to stop the trains by taking posession of
the track for several miles and grimly
contesting their right to proceed except
by his permission. One need not be
very old to remember when the operation
of Western railroads was frequently and
seriously obstructed in that way. Dur
ing several years a train rarely made the
trip from the Missouri River westward
without encountering several herds of
these abundant and venturesome animals,
and having to halt until they leisurely
conceded the right of way. Thousands
of them bravely perished in such attempts
to defeat the philosophy of the locomo
tive and to postpone the penalty of dis
aster which its whistle sounded in their
ears. It was no uncommon thing to see
a multitude of them that covered the
country almost as far as they could reach;
and no attack was strong and fierce
enough to disperse them or to change
their course. They had their rules and
plans from which they never deviated on
any account Possibly they foresaw the
ultimate result, and resolved to march
stoically and consistently to their doom
in preference to seeking safety in presipi
tate and ignobile flight. At any rate,
they faced the danger intrepidly and
freely died where death was apparently
a matter of unconcern, if not of deliber
ate choice.
It cannot be claimed that the great
American bison, as the naturalist persist
ed in calling him, though that name
never properly designated him, was at
his lest a handsome zoological figure.
His peculiar hump was against him, to
bgiu with, and his horns lacked length
and sweep, and his legs were unsymmet
rieal, and his tail was a sheer absurdity.
But he had good blood in his veins and
deserved a fate less harsh and melan
choly. It cannot be forgotten that his
instinct taught the value of an extensive
tract of territory which we in our super
ior wisdosrBBmiJSfeated as a sterile and
worthklThe l;:t overlooking the fact
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Afitr all were
and wheat that are being annually raised
out there; but the buffalo knew it away
back yonder when the early geographers
were insisting that the entire country
west of the Missouri was a flat and hope
less desert. It is proper to bear in mind,
also, that the buffalo discovered the best
routes through the plains region, and
that the various railroad lines now sub
stantially follow the trails alang which,
he used to make his way in obedience to
the changes of seasons and in search of
new and better grazing privileges. He
was one of our distinctly national beasts
in short, and his disappearance marks the
close of a significant epoch in the history
af the country an epoch presenting a
greater measure of growth and progress
than has ever been known in the exper
ience of any people since civilization
started on its triumphant and beneficen
cnurse. St. Louis Globe-Dispatch.
Ungrateful and Impudent.
From time to time some unforgiving
and unrepentant rebel rises to put on rec
ord his implacability toward the Union
soldiers who defeated him, or the gov
ernment which pardoned him. The latest
is the rebel General Thomas It Rosser,
and the one whom he especially can nev
er forinve is Phil Sheridan. Rosser writes
to a Winchester, Va., friend as follows:
I have seen it reported recently in news
papers, that General Sheridan contemp
lates at an early day another ride up the
Shenandoah valley. I have hoped that
the beautiful valley would never again
be desecrated by his foot prints.
I hope you will allow this man
to make his triumphant ride up the val
ley in peace, but have him go like amis
erable crow, carrying his rations with
him."
Mr. Rosser forgets that war the world
over, and in all times, is and has been
destructive and unpitying; that it is a
consuming fire. He forgets that the lead
ers of the rebellion stimulated their states
to secede by assuring them that the rav
ages of war would not be felt by them,
but that northern villages would be pil
laged and laid waste, that the granarise
and the storehouses of the north should
feed southern soldiers, that northern hor
ses should mount them, northern mer
chants clothe them, northern bankers pay
them. When this was found to be im
practicable their diabolic hate sought to
spread pestilence in northern cities among
women and children by the introduction
of infected rags. The plea was that the
end justified the means, that when the
people of the north felt at their own fire
sides what war really nient they would
call for peace.
And yet Mr. Rosser pretends that to
destroy in the Shenandoah valley the
food and all other means of support and
movement of rebel armies was something
more than war, something beyond that.
He forgets Napoleon's axiom that "an ar
my moves upon its belly," that it is justi
fied in taking all the food it can use, and
in destroying all that its enemy could use,
That is war; that is what rebellion invit
ed. Because they that took the sword
perished by the sword, can they com
plain ? Rosser being unrepentant is there
fore ungrateful. After war was over,
and when he much needed help, the Un
ion officers who were his old friends in
the army before it, gave him that help,
and put him on the way of making a for
tune. He has found prosperity and a
home in Mineapolis, a northern city which,
if he could have reached it with his
troops, he would have pillaged and cTes
troyed. And yet from his prosperous
home in the north, in a city which he
would have made as desolate as Sheridan
did the Shenandoah valley, and justified
it by the same principles of war, he wiites
to condemn Sheridan for doing his sim
pie duty ar a soldier. He would regard
Sheridan's foot-prints in that valley as
desecration, but does not reflect that the
foot-prints of an unrepented rebel, an
ingrate to the country which fed, clothed
and educated him, is equal desicration to
loyal northern soil. He has never found
it necessary to travel like a crow, but so
he would have the head of our army
travel in the south. We commiserate
Minneapolis for being the abiding place
of so much southern impudence.27.r.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent,
Washikgtox, 'May 8th., 1887: The
cabinet officers are enthusiastic in praise
of their southern trip to attend the un
veiling of the Calhoun statute. The ora
tor of the occasion, Secretary Lamar, has
been afflicted with neuralgic ailments
since his return.
Equally delighted with the National
Capital will be the thousands of visitors
who will flock here during the present
month. Of course these crowds of stran
gers from every part of the United States
will expect no hospitable favors such as
were heaped in profusion on the Charles
ton guests. They will have to look out
sharply for their own breakfasts.lunches,
dinners and beds. But theywill see the
most beautiful city in the world in the
month of flowers, and they can have a
glorious time in many ways for Washing
ton is more than a thing of beauty. It is
by far the most interesting city in Ameri
ca, as well. !
It is to be regreted t -the elevator in
the Washington Monument will not be in
active operation during the National drill,
when so many sight-seers will be in the
citv. But instead of being lifted rapidlv
througd the shaft they will be compelled
to tramp up and down rive hundred feet
of iron stairway by the light of candles
icld by themselves. The arrangements
are complete for lighting the interior of
the monument with seventy-five incan
descent electric lights, with which the ef
fect is very striking. The electric light
ing plant was provided for by the appro
priation for completing the monument
as was also the elevator, but there is need
of more congressional legislation and an
other appropriatson before either can be
put into regular operation.
The monument was lighted at its ded
ication but few persons knew it as but
few entered the monument on that occa
sion. Since then it has only been lighted
for testing purposes, and once when in
honor of Mrs. Cleveland who made a trip
to the top. The lights are at the stairway
landings and are fastened to brackets ex
tending from the iron framework in the
center of the shaft. The effect is very
striking as one looks up the shaft from
the bottom and sees the briliant lights on
alternate sides extending all the way to
the top and brilliantly illuminating the
entire interior of the structure.
Workmen have placed the memorial
stones in the panels prepared for them in
the interior of the monument, all the way
up, and the inscriptions on them show
with perfect distinctness in the electric
lights. When some of the cement was
taken out in fitting in some of these stones,
it was found to be as stolid as the marble
surrounding it. Curiosity seekers think
they ought not leave Washington with
out having been to the top of the highest
structure in the world built by the hands
of man, and although the past winter has
been unusually inclement and unsuitable
for such an excoursion, about two thous
and people trudged up the winding stair
way to its dizzy height during each
month.
They have been very busy at the Na
tional Museum during the week trying to
get the Grant relics placed on exhibition
before the National drill begins. The
task is nearly completed and the cases al
ready exhibited have attracted much no
tice. Five cases will contain the whole
collection except the paintings and large
objects which cannot be put into cases.
Many of these articles are souveruirs of
Gen. Grant's trip around the world. There
is a splendid collection of old Japanese
coins of huge size valued at $5,000. There
are swords, gld headed canes, caskets",
medallions, rare woods, silver plate and
sparkling gems which vie each other to
attract the eye. There are invitation cards,
menu cards, reminders of entertainments
given in his honor, embossed on gold
plates. One invitation given to a mask
ed ball in San Francisco, upon Gen
Grant's arrival in that city, on his return
from his famous tour, is engraved on sol
id gold, and was enclosed in a silver en
velop with the address engraved upon it.
In the right hand corner is a two-cent
stamp and in the left the usual, "If not
delivered in ten days return to," etc.
There is a casket carved from the wood
of Shakspeare's mulberry tree, and many
other articles that have a value by asso
ciation.
The last public utterance of Abra
ham Lincoln was a pledge on behalf of
the restored union that the soldiers whose
gallantry saved the country would be
tenderly cared for, with the widows and
orphans of those who had given np their
lieves for their flag. Mr. Lincoln prom
ised a little more in the generosity of his
heart than is likely to be performed if the
bourbons of Kentucky truly represent the
majority of the people of the country to
day. Col. Henry Watterson addressed
the state democratic convention the other
day. He referred to a recent measure
passed by congress and vetoed by the
president providing a slight support of
twelye dollars per month' or 40 cents per
day, for invalid or worn out soldiers,
with no means of support as a "fraud's
own pauper lineament," "designed to
make every tramp a pensioner,,' which
would have been administered "but for
the fly that Grover Clevland dropped in
to the first box of ointment submitted to
his inspection," and was vociferously ap
plauded by the convention that nominat.
ed for governor the man who was a trai
tor to his own state, as well as to the un
ion, and was captured in arms by Gen,
Grant at Donaldson, levying war against
Kentucky and United States.
But the old soldier learned 25 years
ago to be patient under the fire of the foes
of the country, and he can lie close to the
ground for a while until another com
manuer rises wno will i "i s'amst
the treacherous hordes '
iag at him with mud I
epithets Time will co,
and vindicate Mr. Lincc.
er four years pass over ou
coin Journal.
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The May numhi-r of Ilaby hoot I over
flows with good things for young moth
ers. The opening article on "The Diet
of Nursiug Mothers," by Edward L.
Partridge, M. D., Obstetric Surgeon to
the New York Maternity Hospital, is pe
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is produced and how the flow of milk is
stimulated, showing the advantages of
lactation to the mother, dispelling some
groundless objections to certain articles
of food, and emphasizing the value of
others to loth mother and child. Dr.
W. B. Canfield discusses "The Develop
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utterances till the lormation of the child's
vocabulary, with its defects and peculiar
ities. There are many interesting hints
to be found in "What Not to Nane the
Baby." Dr. Yale treats a much debated
question in "Eight Months and other
Premature Children," showing how prematurely-born
children may often be
saved by care and attention. In the
"Nursery Observations" are rehersed the
peculiarities of some babivs, and in
"Nursery Problems" much valuable ad
vice is given to mothers upon such sub
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"Suppurating Ear," "Decaying Teeth,"
"Weak Limbs," ect. In the "Mothers'
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to Spell;" "Teaching the Use of the Nur
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Child-Culture opens for May with a
keen article under the title of "A Stran
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boy" who has ceased to be an infant and
has become a stranger in his own home.
An Auntie's Notions about children treats,
in this number, of "Infant Prodigies." A
charming story in the "Kindergarten De
partment" tells of Quercus Alba from the
cradle to the monarch's reign in the for
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Mother's Council," the first instalment
of a serial talk on the "Beginnings of
Beauty" opens the Department. Several
mothers contribute articles. "Teachers in
Council" is full of hints of value. The
same familiar names which are proof of
good things in store are there. Altogeth
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The little people will "cry for it," with
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elders are left in peace to peruse their
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The Swiss Cross for May comes to us
redolent with the perfumes of spring.
"Many Idle Weeds" treats of spring flow
ers, "Bird Studies" reminds of the return
ing songsters, while "Spring Among the
Mountains" calls forth visions of lillies
and running streams and trailing arbut
us; so that it seems as though the May
Swiss Cross were a part of the season, and
fore-ordained by nature. The article on
"The Pitch Lake of Trinidad" is interest
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Late Eruption from Kilauea," by Prof.
C. II. Hitchcock, is finely illustrated.
The current article on "Photography"
gives some valuable suggestions on por
trait taking, and enforces them by sever
al beautiful reproductions of art photo
graphs. "Early Man in America" giyes
an entertaining description and history of
the mounds in Mississippi and Ohio and
their builders.
The Swiss Cross should be read by ev
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