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life and strength wire
that stretches true and tight
and yields just enough under impact
to give back every jolt and jam it
receives.
Made of materials selected and tested
in all the stages from our own mines,
through our own blast furnaces and rolling
and wire mills, to the finished product. Our
employment of specially adapted metals is
of great importance in fence wire; a wire
that must be hard yet not brittle; stiff and springy yet
flexible enough for splicing best and most durable
fence material on earth.
To obtain these and in addition apply a quality of gal
vanizing time will ettectuany protect against weather
conditions, is a triumph of the wiremaker's art.
These are combined in the American andElhvood
Icnces tho product of the greatest mines, steel
prouuciug piunis anu wire rams in tno world.
And with these good facilities and the old
and skilled employes back of them, we
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cellence possible for human skill
and ingenuity to produce.
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EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Tho Commoner, of Lincoln, Neb
is conducting a vigorous campaign of
education, by discussing at length
yet In an interesting and authorita
tive way weekly, some subject of na-
Parmlet ereSt,"SaylrSbUrg (Pa-
Tho most valuable fentnro f o,.
' cess is the struggle that precedes It
By W. M. Maupin
A Vanished Industry
An industry that sprang up coinci
dent with tho building of the rail
road westward from the Missouri
river, that flourished for a year or
two, and then vanished almost in
stantly, as in tho twinkling of. an
pvp that ia the story of- the "bone
industry" of Nebraska and Kansas.
Of course any story that relates
to pioneer days in the prairie states
of Nebraska and Kansaa must in
clude something about tho buffalo,,
and -this story of the "bone industry",
is founded wholly upon that, now al-
niost ektinct animal.
People who can. not readily: be
lieve the stories of the almost- count
less millions of buffalo that once
roamed the western plains would
have been speedily convinced had
they witnessed the flourishing of the
"bone industry" in the years between
1878 and 1885. The spectacle of
long trains of freight cars loaded to
the roofs with the bones of buffaloes
would have been proof enough that
what they had deemed impossible
stories of buffalo slaughter were but
a faint inkling of the terrible, ruth
less and wholly unnecessary slaugh
ter of these noble animals.
The early settlers of Nebraska and
Kansas found the fuel problem a
most perplexing one until they dis
covered that "buffalo chips" made a
hot and lasting fuel, and these
"chips" were found in plenty scat
tered everywhere on the plains. In
deed, the supply was so great that
the settlers were supplied with fuel
for several years at no cost to
themselves save the work of collect
ing them into huge piles and hauling
them to their sod shanties. By the
time the -railroad came the "chip"
supply was exhausted, but the rail
road tided over by hanling in coal.
And almost coincident with the com
ing of the first trains into Kansas
and Nebraska was born the idea of
the "bone industry" which flourished
like a green bay tree for a year or
two, and then died as quickly as it
was born. But death was due not
to a lack of profit but to a "pinching
out" of the vein.
While the pioneers were waiting
for the railroad they had plenty of
time to think, and one of them
thought to good purpose as he looked
out over his homestead and rioted
the glistening bones of countless
slain buffalo.
"Bone dust makes good fertilizer,"
ruminated the pioneer, "and here are
bones in plenty. There comes the
railroad, and back east Is the mar
ket. Now to see if the market nricfi
will pay for the gathering and haul
ing to the railroad and pay the
freight."
History' does not record tho name
of the pioneer who thoucht of nil
this, and a pity it is, for certainly the
name is worthy of a place in history.
The idea put thousands of good dol
lars Into tho pockets that had long
been unused to their presence, there
by making it possible for pioneer
children to be warmly cloth art n-nri
pioneer tabled to provide something
in the way of edible variety.
This enterprising nioneer wrnto
a few letters It took a few to con
vince the fertilizer factories that
there were "some bones" upon the
plains. The managers were inclined
to hoot at the idea that there were
train loads of bones. Of course a
score or two of carloads micht hp
collected In Nebraska and Kansas
but when the pioneer wrote that
there were thousands of carloads
they laughed. But finally the
pioneer convinced them to such an
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Ruptured, persons- can lorever end tho chafing
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Adams, N. Y. for hia famous freo method.
COL. L. W. BI88ELL
Thousands havo dono this and aro now cored
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Col. L. W. BIssell, Chester Depot, Vt. wroto for
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Don' t pay outhundreds of dollars when you can bo
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