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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

by Colonel s. Herbert Lancey (editorialll
Known as sidney Herbert') judge adrocat
u the department OF Florida.l
We are the vets" OF sixty-one,
As forth we en- marched Al ii Dusy SO call
The biz and little, short and tall.
One noble impulse led US forth
The grandest army of the earth
To save the Nation from the blows
That fell from our MISGUIDED foes
VINO sought By war 70 rend in twain
A union none could join again
Up mountain heights. DER valleys wide,
Our Taior Oft was sorely tried:
Sometimes we wavered and fell back,
Leaving dead comrades in our track,
Yet never from the first 10 last,
However dark the shadow cast.
Did COURAGE falter, hone depart.
Or vain reyret invade the heart
On marches weary and footsore
Our burdens we with patience bore,
Nor fingered when the hu. le call
in line OF battle babe US fall.
One hope, one purpose, ever grand,
To keep intact our Native Land.
Upheld u By its magic charm,
Made bold the heart and strong the arm
Long was the struggle fierce the fight
or shronded in the darkest night
Gave Us the hnal victory.
All hail, the heroes passed away,
Whose lives went out amidst the fray:
God bless their loved ones who remain,
And keep them safe from needless pain.
Be il our pleasure, Comrades true,
To suecor all who wore the Blue,
When age and want and sickness come
And find them without friends or home
That they may feel that not in vain
They passed thro peril and thro' pain.
Old comrades brave, wherever met,
The bond Of union ne'er forget
Bound by ties unlike all Others
We stand to-day band OF brothers:
So then, 10 all upon whose breasts
The badge we honor proudly rests.
Let me this dnty clear present
And with the very test int-nt
stand BY the principles we love,
Born OF an impulse from above
And in all places and all times,
In torrid or in arctic chimes.
Proclaim the purpose-dear as life
For self and children, home and wife,
To have while we're above the sod,
One Flag, one Country, and one Cod
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

A NEW YORK policeman arrested a
man tho other night for looking mys-
terious. He took his victim to a
police station where search revealed
that the person was wearing three
suits of underclothing. two pairs Of
socks, two hats, five suits OF clothes,
with silk handkerchief in pocket
of each suit Two overcoats we're
slung over his arm and in his hand
he carried several pairs OF gloves
The man was detained while the po-
lice are looking for the owner Of the
clothes.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

The practice of hazing at college
is decidedly an ancient one. Pro-
fessor Williams Of Johns Hopkins uni
versity says that in Heidelberg,
where he received part of his educa-
tion. he came across an old rule
printed in 1880 forbidding the prac-
tice OF the older students OF shaving
the heads of new students and filling
their ears with wax. 1t is proposed
TO abolish class distinctions at Johns
Hopkins to put an end to hazing
practices-iust as if any one couldn't
tell freshman half mile away.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

The French government has de-
termiued to suppress two new and
peculiar industrie, ). One is the
process Of turning OLD playing cards
into new in order to escape the heavy
tax. The authorities have seized
three such factories. The treasury
has already lost $611,O0) through
their operations. The other trade is
in renovated secondhand graveyard
ornaments, which the French use ex-
tenslvely. The object OF the latter
reform is to stop the wholesale de-
spelling OF cemeteries.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

An Industrious Yankee is at work
on gun that can do some powerful
shooting under water. Torpedoes
are taught 10 swim off with almost
human intelligence that can send
war-ships skyward in job lots, while
perfected balloons are getting ready
to drop dynamite By tho ton over
whole fleets Who knows but that,
before half the vast naval furniture
now in prospect is complete. some
newly discovered application Of the
terrific forces now in hand will con-
sign it all to the junk dealers.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

The earl of Aberdeen has notified
the Canadian government that Rid
eau hall, the viee-regal residence at
Ottawa. is altogether too small for
the household, which consists of
forty-two persons, which naturally
raises the question: how much of a
suite would the earl require if he
had some duties TO perform other
than looking pretty and laying
corner-stones at infrequent intervals?
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

A MAN and woman of San Francisco
have been divorced from each other
five separate times. Seldom, indeed,
do burned children show so marked
a yearning for rushing back into the
fire. The insanity commission ought
to take up the case and give the
courts a chance to attend to regular
business.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

The fall is the time OF the year
when the country demand for broken
down street car horses is the great
est During the cold weather the
animals get used to their rural sur
roundings, recuperate, have only
enough exercise to keep them in con-
dition and by spring are able to &C
comptish the heavier tasks OF plow-
ing and narrowing.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

The man who defined genius as an
infinite capacity for taking pains
probably had just realized that ne
was not a genius himself and was
trying to belittle all his acquaint-
ances who were.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

TIE British minister at Rio jan
GIRO advises his couutrymen to get
out of the shower of deadly insur-
gent missiles. He ought to advise
his government to make them safe
where they are.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

MONTE CARLO seems to have pros
pcred this year more than it ever has
done. The shares are now worth five
times their original value, and plans
are being made for increasing Oper-
ations. There were nine suicides
last year on the premises.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

A FEATURE of society wedding at
Covington. Ky, was the publishing
OF the list of presents, with the value
of each. People who eat pie with a
kPife are not apparently the only
sort who resolve themselves into vul-
gar exhibitions
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09
Too Much Work.

There is nothing gained By work
ing our teams too hard. The result
Of overwork in man or beast is per-
petual injury. A strain will leave
its mark forever upon the muscles
and the life. We wear out our teams,
as rule, much too soon The or
binary man thinks that he is doing
his work economically il he can haul
an immense load-all that his team
making two loads of it. n he has
three horses, he will thoughtlessly
let one stand in the stable while the
other two may be seen on the road
straining under a heavy draught.
Ny methods differ from this.
load lightly and make
more loads. 1t docs not strain or
otherwise injure a team 10 walk or
trot before an empty wagon. In
hauling. the only chance of injury is
in loading too heavily, and il this is
avoided by making more loads, all
the loss that occurs Is found in the
loss Of time and in additional wear
Of the wagon. IL is better to lose
time than 1t Is to lose horse or i'm
iure one. Then again. 1t is my Gus
tom to use three horees in the team
in hauling when have them. Why
notP What is the use in letting a
horse stand in the stable, eating hay.
while two do the work? Even II the
load is not more than heavy enough
for two horses to draw, why not
Tighten the burden by putting the
work on your three horses?-Farm-
ers Voice.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09
Baa-a-a-a.

General Mouton of Louisiana, while
one of the most gallant officers from
that state, on one occasion made him
self very unpopular with his command
by the issuance of some order the men
did not see the necessity of, and when
reviewing his troops was met with a
loud ''baa" behind his back in mockery
of his name Mouton mutton in
French) The general wheeled short
ly about but it was only to find every
face addressed to him with a stolid
stare of passive obedience But again
from the direction to which his back
was now turned there came rapid fire
Of 'Baa, baa, baa." He sprang about,
but the line Of solemn countenances
gave no clue to the perpetrators. Then
from every quarter rainel "baas." If
the fellow was only doing it because
the Others were or from mischief, the
call was short, quick 'baa," but If
the order had greatly displeased or
offended any one the result was pro-
longed "baa-a-a-a-a. At length the
officer gave it up and retired to his
tent. After that he never noticed the
cry that sigma ed his approach and the
men gradually forgot 1t.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09
For Travellers who Have msadasbss.

Those who suffer from headaches,
and feel the fatigue OF railway Jour
ney disagreeably, should take with
them two leather or sillS-covered eush-
LONESOME for the small OF the back, an
other 10 rest the neck and head. An
eminent doctor once stated this was n
capital antidote TO the evils arising
from the jolting OF the train, liable to
cause slight congestion OF the head In
very long journeys lie furthermore
advised no reading in the train 30 those
subject TO headaches.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

/ will never forget the appearance
upon this field of General Giles A.
Smith and his adjutant general, Colo
mel c. Cadle, jr. They came down
through the brush and stopped with
Colonel BelSnap, asking how the bat
tie was going.
Smith had succeeded General Ores
ham. and had been sent from the Fiji
teenth corps, much to our discomfort,
as we thought we had men in our own
ranks who ought to command us.
Smith and Cadle rode down through q
very tempest of fire, stopped, and
commenced talking TO Colonel Bel
KNAPP
General" said Belknap. get off
your horse, for they are shooting
grape and canister up through here by
the bucketful every minute from can
non captured from u.s."
The faces of these brave men were
as white as the paper upon which this
is written, but they remained on their
horses and talked about the battle as
unconcernedly as l now write about
it. Ii was an exhibition of nerve and
GOODNESS that | have never seen
equaled.
During this fight General Belknap,
then colonel of the Fifteenth Iowa,
won his commission as brigadier gem
eral by personal bravery. He was in
every exposed position and urging his
men to stand fast. The FoIty-fifth
Alabama (Confederate) charged upon
Belknap's regiment. II any of them
got away we did not know it at that
time. Lampley, colonel of the forty
fifth, came clear up to our lines, and
was hauled over the works by General
Belknap by the 'seruf of the neck
and seat of the breeches -
This is a fact, which can be proved
by any man of the Crocke (Iowa)
brigade present on that occasion, and
by the fact that our "Old Uncle Billy
Sherman made him a brigadier gem
eral a few days later for conspicuous
gallantry," although there were sew
eral officers in the brigade who ranked
him, one of whom was so incensed
that he Immediately resigned.-Blu
and Gray.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09
A Typical Armored BattleshIp.

The British ship Inhexible, the typi-
cal armored battleship, is 500 feet long
and 76 beam. The citada is IS feet
high. . above and below the water,
its walls are IL inches thick. "a Of iron,
the rest teak; the two turrets are o
feet high. with rs feet internal diame-
ter, each holding two s0.ton guns
capable Of firing / ,70O-pound shot with
a charge OF $50 pounds of powder. It
carries 600 tons of coal, enough 10
make voyage Of $500 to 5000 miles
ut speed of ten knots.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09
Got Elm Mixed.

4 sergeant was once drilling a squad
OF miitiamen. One of them, country
pumpkin, did not know his right hand
from his left. The sergeant proceeded
TO teach him and, after holding them
out several times he seemed TO have
some idea of which was which.
Nov" said his instructor, hold
them in front of you and twist them
around quickly one over the other.
Stop! Now which is the right and
left?'
After staring at them a moment. he
said:
I'm bIowed il I know now; I've
gone and got n mixed"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-12-09

The University OF Chicago has now 81
10000 endowment.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-28
LOOK 10 YOUR WIRING.
A Costly Error Due to Defective Chi
Biography.

4 French newspaper tells Of an amusing
error made bv "a merchant IN Marsellies,
who once wrote to correspondent on the
coast Of Africa. asking HIM 10 send him al
his convenience two or three monkeys OF
the rarcst and most valuable species, says
the Philadelphia Press. As chance would
have il the merchant, IN stating The num-
Der. wrote the gu lor) between tue hGures
= and with very small O and an even
more dirnluutive II. How great events
NAV issue from small causes Will appear
from the sequel.
A few months passed over, when. at last.
a messenger was sent. IRON the haroor 10
inform the merchant that his menagerie
had landed.
MY nenageriel" was the astonished
reply. 90,
Yes, IA menagerie in fact. whole car
90 Of monkeys has come for you.
The merchant could not believe the man
until letter was delivered 10 him from
bis friend IN Africa. a person OF the most
scrupulous eXactness. IN Wnlcn ne graIey
apoloClZed for his not having been able,
notwithstanding all his efforts, to procure
more than 100 monkeys, instead OF 2o3 as
ordered. but promised 10 forward the re-
malnder as soon as possible. Imagine the
feelings Of the merchant on going down 10
the port to convince himself with his own
eyes OF the existence OF his lou monhey7,
which were all comfortably housed. and
which grlnned al him through the bars Oh
their cages.
The moral Of this tale, if 1t has any spe-
cial moral. is that when YOU are writing
for monkeys or anything else. do not send
your letter until you are surs that you
have made your meaning clear, not only
in the manner % your phraseology, but IN
the leglbibllity OF your handwriting.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-28
MARKETS BY TeLeGasP+
NEW YORK TAKES HOLIDAY.

NEW YORK, April 27.--Genoral holiday. TX.
changes all closed.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO. H.. April 27-A sensational bulge
Of over a dollar q barrel for PORK occurred on
Change here to-day. There was general panic
among the shorts in that commodity. The day
was \ wearing one upon brOkersior commission
houses, for With jumps u from 10 10 2Oc. per
barrel between trades-now up and now down
the execution " orders at specified limits was
frequently impossible. Ii was a lively day m
the pit from start 20 nnisn. Several d1Ys
ago September delivery WAS about az
steadily until this last raise OF olir
brought the price 20 nearly go. A. thcre ara
only 10000 barrels OF pork IN Chicago. aud a.
cordlng TO the rules OF the Board Of Trade no
pork can be manufactured between now and
October lst, which the speculative purchaser
could be compelled % take delivery on, II will be
eeen Just how much Of a ctnch the bull END has.
The market finished strong. though az
some reaction. Compared with tho last
prices yesterday, the close showed net
gain OF 90c. per barrel tor May AMI
September pork and al per barrel for
July. Lard, since yesterday, Is 20c. per 100
pounds higher. aud RIBS are up lJc. IL was .
case Of Whipsaw Ia the wheat market. Tho
opening was weaker az a h.. decline Tor May,
aud after jsc. advance the market receicd
40 rallied lc, and closed steady. July opened
he lower declined &C.. rallied lc., and closed
with gain o. ic. September held within n fair
range aud closed with gain u AaA.c. In corn
there was n continued seiug pressure ol
May on the market. The market ruled
sioady snd closed with Iialac. gain. The most
tmportant business IN oats WAS m the way OF
changing from the near 70 tho distant future.
Prices had haii cent range, the % ming
being at about The same prizes ~ yesterdays
close, anl after a reduction u asalac. ihe mar
ker rallied and closed &c. lover Tor May, -.
lower FOR June. AMI unchanged for July aud sep
| TENDER.
cash quotations.: f!our steady. WITH little
more doing. No. spring wheat, Flc. No
| corn fla.c. No. - oat-, 2Sa-a2SAtr. Mess-pork
| sIg.O5aS1n.lu. Lard, elO.i0atlOi5. short
ri1-sides Qooscl sl0i2lyaStOlJ. Dry-salted
| shoulders iboxedl. s0.15aslo. snort clear sides
| (boxed), sl0.@5aslO.j0. Nhskey. sl.lA
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-28
SKINS ON FIRE

with torturing, disfguring eczemas, and
every species Of itching, burning, bleed
ing. scaly, crusted, pimply, and blotchy
skin and scalp diseases are relieved in
the majority OF cases by single apph'
cation, and speedily permanently, and
economically cured by the CuTIcuRA
REMEDIES when the best physicians,
hospitals, and all other remedies fail.
To those who have suffered long and
hopelessly, and who have lost faith In
doctors, medicines and ell things human,
the CUrIcARA REMEDIES appeal with
force never before realized in the history
OF medicine. Every hope, every ex-
pectation awakened by them, has been
more than fulfilled. Their success has
excited the wouder and admiration Of
physicians and druggists, familiar with
the marvellous cures daily effected by
them. They have friends in every quar-
ter Of the civilized world. People in
every walk of life believe in them, use
them, and recommend them. They are
in truth the greatest skin cures, blood
purifiers, and humor remedies OF modern
times. Sale greater than the combined
sales of all other skin ard blood rene
dies. Sold throughout the world.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-28
DEATHS.

FUKER. Died, in Marburg. Germany,
on April 9th. MR. DIETRICH EUhLK. IN
the cath year of his age.
FANEAR.-Died. at the residence Of bis
mother-in-law. Mrs. A. G. Woodson. No.
Dos south Washington street. at o:45 O'Clock
A. NJ, April Il. 1893. after an illness OF one
week with pneumonia, GEORGE +.
FANEAR, in the 3ith year OF his age He
leaves a wife and two little girls to mourn
The funeral will take place THIS Fri
day) AFTERNOON at 4:SO o'clock from
ST.. Andrews Episcopal church, south Lau-
rel street. Friends and acquaintance are
respectfully invited to attend without
further notice.
baltimore Md and Philadelphia pa
papers please copy.
LFAKE. Died. at the residence. Of his
parents. at Taylor's Crossing, Henrlco
county. THURSDAY, April q, 1893, OTIS
MANSON, younges. child Of Pembroke $.
and Bessie V. Leake; aged years and IL
months.
Funeral services at Greenwood cemetery
FRIDAY, April 2Sth, at 3 o'clock +. nj.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-28
LARGEST eABY EVER BORN.
lie Was the Offspring of "A Wcii-known
Giant Couple.


The baby which for general size. height,
aud weight takes the cake as being tne
LARGEST on record" was born in Ohio Janu-
ary12. 1873. saws the St. Louis RepUbi'c
The average baby" weighs from to
nounds This giant infants weight was
eyactIy 23s{ pounds. He 1t was boy
,,os1f/ feet IN length (the common run OF
banles range from lG 20 2Oinchesln height'
and had head measuring ~ inches. 81,
Its cute little pink foot measured %
inches and was as thick a. that OF an
average 1S-mouths-old chlld.,
About six years prior 70 this extraQrdl-
nary event the same woman gave Olrth ~
an is-pound baby which was It inches III
height. .t
wondertrl story bv those not informed as
To the real facts, II will be shorn OF soihe
of ITS seeming Mulhattonic ear-marks
when il Is known that the parents them
selye, yyeretwo Of the largest people OF the
United States Mt the time OF the recur-
renee related above.
They were Mr. and Mrs. VI. '. Bates. the
latter known Gs the - Nova scotia Glanl-
ess" and the former as the KENTUCKY
Wonder"
Mrs. Bates was Gt my memory Is not nj
tamil she died some five or SIN years ago
: feet 9 inches IN height, the father OF the
baby giant beng about two inches less in
stature. cr..,
Prior 10 the arrival of this Titanic IN
FAINT upon the scene. the largest oa9y 90
record was the giant baby" OF the
London Eng Medical Hospital. pre-
served specimen winch measured q inches
in height and has a head 49, inches IN cir
cumiorence.
In March. 1879 less than two months
after the birth of the gigantic hates baby.
Mrs. Reuben Grifiths. of Whiteorea.s,t
Township. Warren county. Ia, gave birth
to a ~ pound baby, p inches IN length
and with a head lacking less than haii an
inch OF coming mp to the London Medlcal
Hospital record. ..e .,o
OHIO and Iowa giant babies. but up 20 this
time have been unsuccessful.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-28
WATERMAN EXTENSIONS.
Four Ordered by the Committee Last Eve
niDC-Regular business Meeting

regular business meeting OF the Council
Committee on Water was held by tho Council
chamber at + o'clock yesterday evening. Tho
contract for the ice 70 DO used by the Watcr De-
pRrtmont this summer was nwardod 10 j. j.
DAILY NJ 40 cents per 100 pounds.
Extensions Of vater.mains we're ordered by
The committee az follows: on from Twenty
NH 90 IweGty-sixth streets, on grove avenue
from Vine 10 Walnut streets On Monroe half
way from Broad 10 Grace Streets aud on Taylor
street cast o! Reservoir street
Tho com Wittce on Health met in Or. Open
hIn"r's Office last evening. Captain Reeve, the
chairman, was absent on account Of sickness,
and Mr.. x. r. Davis hilcd the chair. Tho pay
rolls w9re approved ana a number OF bills were
ordered 70 100 p8id.
Dr. Oppenhimor GALE attention 20 mis- years
appropriation oi s2s 600 for pay-ro.,s, which
had boeu cut down $1,000
Tho committee agreed 90 keep tho city clean
a. long IS 'ao money would last. MI George ..
Davis subm ,tted tho amended ordinance which
provitcs FOR The appointment of p milk insprc-
tor. its adoption viii be recommended 10 no
Council
on motion Of Nr. Vaughan il was decided 10
purchase tho necessary supply of feed for the
department hereafter 10y contrast
a regular monthly session OF tho Committee
ON Second NurXct was held AZ $50 Oc.pck yes
tcrday afternoon. Only Toltino bueincss was
TRANSACTED.