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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

In India and Africa the charmcrs
pretend the snakes dance 10 the music,
but they do not, for they never hear IL.
A snake has no external ears. and per-
haps gets evidence OF sound only
through his skin, when sound causes
bodies in contact with him 20 vibrutc.
They hear also through the nerves Of
tho tongue, but do not comprehend
sound as we do, But the snakes eyes
are very much alive 10 the motion Of tho
charmcr, or TO the moving drumsticks
of his confederate. and being alarmed,
lac prepares % strike a dancing cobra,
and no other snakes dance. Is simply a
cobra alarmed and in n posture Of at
tack. lie Is not dancing 20 the music,
but Is making ready to strike tho
charmcr.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30
Catarrh Cannot lie cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, az they can
no. reach the seat u the disease. Catarrh "a
blood or constitutional disease, ard ia order
% cure e you must take lntcruai FcneiIes.
Halls Cuiarrh Cure Il tAkcu internally. and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
face. ENrs Catarrh Cure Is not quaek
medicine. j, as prefcribed b. onc II Tie best
physicians In this county Tor Years, and u q
regular prescription. Il . composed u tho
best tonics knOsu combined ulth Tie best
blood pgHAers acting directly on tie thu.
cous surfaces. Tie perfoct combination %
wonderful results Ia curing CEtafrh. sebd
for Testimonials free.
~ CHENEY i co, Props, Toledo, D.
Sold b. druggists, price 7Jc,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

That the earth's motion has an ap.
preciable effect upon artillery fire, de-
fecting the projectile from a straight
course, may be news to many and as
such would probably seem a novel
notion. 1t has, and the exact nature
and extent of effect is an important
point Of study with artillery experts.
An English army expert told of the
results of many interesting expert
ments along this line in paper read
before the Royal artillery institution
the other day. Firing from north to
south there is divergence of pro-
iectiles to the left, due to the earth's
rotation, and firing due north the di-
vergence is to the right. The extent
of the pull varies at different points
on the earth's surface and with pro-
jectiles fred at different speeds and
elevations. In England dehextion
of five inches is found to occur with
the projectile of twelve FOUNDER in
a 40 ,O-yard range.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

One day during the war, while mid.
die Tennessee regiment was stationed
in the city OF Nashville, an Irish re-.
cruit was put on guard duty on one Of
the principal streets in the city. lie
thought il his duty to challenge every
one who came along, just as he would
in camp. by aud by a well-dressed
citizen approached halt! Who goes
there" says Mike. "a citizen,
answered the man. Advance, citizen,
and give the countersign'' ''But /
don't know the couutersign. said the
citizen; 'and il did, ! think il is very
strange aud unusual that IL should DO
demanded in public place like this. +"
"Nell, lie jabers then" said Mike,
Eve don't pass this way I'LL we've said
'Boonker llill1" ''Bunker liill, said
the man, with a grin. Right Pass
on said the scntiuelat present" and
the citizen went on about his Affairs. -
ArgOuaut
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

will written with a pencil on a
shingle was once admitted to probate
in the United States
The author of Gossip of the Cen
tury' tells story still more curious.
Two British soldiers, comrades,
while talking over the chances of war
on the eve of battle, agreed that
which ever one of them survived the
other should inherit all his possessions.
To insure the carrying out of their
agreement, they made their wills As
paper and pens were not at hand, they
scratched their last will and tesla
ment" on horn lantern with rusty
nail
The battle was fought, and one of
the comrades was killed. The other
man, in course of time, returned to
England, carrying with him the sin
gular document. He took it TO Doc
tors Commons, where it was proved
and allowed.
Then it appeared that the poor fell
low who had died in battle had, with
out hearing of it. inherited property
yielding 200 year, and the legatee
under the horn-lantern will received
the inheritance.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

Nothing is Of more help in selling
butter at good price than to have
it in neat, clean, attractive looking
packages, says the Homestead OF
courSe IL the butter Is taken to the
store and traded for dry goods and
groceries the kind of packages does
not make so very much difference.
for the price is usually adapted to
butter of the very poorest quality
and the most hntidy appearance
Those who are satisfied with taking
butter to the country store and trad
ing it will not care to improve their
methods OF packing. anyhow They
are very easy people to satisfy and
the store keeper can pay about what
he pleases for their butter SO long as
he pays the same price for all, both
good and bad. But there are some
farmers and dairymen who want to
improve the quality OF their butter
and increase the price they are get.
ting for 1t. They sell to grocers who
viii retail it in the original packages
to consumers who have learned to
appreciate that brand, or TO
private customers. The neater the
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

naekage the better the butter Will
sell and the easier TO establish reg
ular demand for it. Wooden pack
ages give good satisfaction. They
can be boughtof different sizes from
two pounds up They should be
soaked in water or brine before using
and be kept perfectly clean and fresh
on the outside. Glass jars are com.
ing into use and seem to give good
satisfaction. They are usually too
costly to give away with the butter and
are used where they can DO returned
regularly to the dairyman. Another
neat package that we have seen is in
the form of small galvanized bucket
with q tight fitting cover Inside Is
a glass receptacle that will hold
about five pounds of butter; this
does not entirely fill the bucket,
there being room around tho glass
containing the butter to pack Ice or
cold water. This makes very neat
package and by using 1t the butter
is pretty sure to reach the consumer
in good shape. A number OF other
packages have been introduced
which we have not space - mention.
II is not so much a matter OF what
kind of packages to use as to have IL
neat and inviting. This is absolute
In essential to success in building mp
profitable trade among private Gus
toners.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

1t is reckoned that within ten miles
of Chattanooga more fighting was done
than anywhere else during the late
war, and the battle-felds IN that
neighborhood are particularly inter-
esting on that account. At that point
the Western military operations were
concentrated, writes q Washington
correspondent of the Boston Tran
script. Into the valley below Mission
Ridge the bold eminence of Lookout
mountain projects. Thus from the
top of Lookout mountain spectators
can view the whole scene of the con-
fiict of Mission Ridge. The lines are
to be marked along Mission Ridge
where Bragg's army was stationed
and where the regiments of the army
of the Cumberland attacked MIN.
Likewise the Union and the Confed-
crate lines viii be indicated on Look
out mountain, which battlefield can
be viewed from the top OF Mission
Ridge.
From Lookout mountain the OBJ
server can look down upon the de-
lenses which the army of the Cumber-
land, under General Thomas, threw
up around Chattanooga. Although
the town has been extended over q
great part of the works, some of the
Notifications still remain and will be
preserved intact. The sites of other
forts and earthworks will be marked
with tablets placed on buildings or
otherwise.
At Chattanooga the Tennessee river
makes turn so as to leave a point of
land known as Moccasin point, be-
cause it is shaped like an Indian moe
casin. just at the big toe OF the moe
casin was stationed a Union battery.
1t was directly under Lookout noun
tain and the Coufederates kept firing
at it constantly, but they could rarely
hit it. Because men are accustomed
only to aiming at objects at or nearly
on level they find It very difficult TO
shoot down hill or up hill with accu-
racy.
I That is one reason why the Federals
/ We're able to storm successfully the
precipitous ascent Of Mission Ridge.
Their adversaries could not hit them
as they came up. The ideal place ia
defend is not steep, but gentle
slope. One of the most extraordinary
incidents of the war occurred at this
very battle. General Sheridan rode
up the mountain on horseback
wonderful feat in itself. At turn in
the pathway he suddenly found him
self close in front of hostile battery,
almost at the muzzles of the guns. A
touch of match and horse and rider
would have been blown to atoms.
But, not losing his nerve for an in.
slant, he waved his hand with q
gesture of command to the soldiers
who manned the cannon, saying:
STEADY, boys! Don't shoot-don't
shootn'
And they were SO taken by surprise
that they did not shoot. Before they
had time to consider the matter fur
ther the Union troops had come up
and they fed
During the fighting which went OF
about Chattanooga General Grant haC
his headquarters on little hill callet
Orchard Knob, The place ne occupied
for this purpose will be suita blJ
marked with tablet
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

wonder how many people ia Wash.
ington who handle the Congressional
Record every day are aware that il en-.
ioys a unique distinction ia the matter
81 postage rates? have certainly wit
messed with my own eyes hundred
times the efforts 81 strangers in tho
city, who have bought a Rccord 70 send
home, 10 get Il properly weighed and
stamped Their trouble Is thrown
away. In the view Of the postal law a
Record Is a Record. regardless Of
weight; and any Record Will go 70 any
part Of the United States for one cent,
no matter whether il Is a big book con-
tanning an eight.hour speech by sena-
tor George and house debate over the
the pension question, or il boiled down
to single sheet, holding only tho
prayers Of the two ChaplalnA aud Il vote
on two motions 70 adjourn. = kRto
Fields Washington.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30
Lincoln at Gettysburg.

Abraham Lincoln and Edward
Everett spoke at the dedication Of the
National cemetery at Gettysburg,
November 10, 1863. The place, the
occasion, the audience, the associa-
tions were in the highest degree in
spring. Everett was an orator
OF deserved renown, with copious
and glittering voca bu ary graceful
rhetoric, strong, cultivated mind,
elegant scholarship, rich, flexible
voice, and a noble presence. His adj
dress occupied two hours in delivery,
and was worthy of the speaker and
his theme. At the close, Lincoln rose
slowly on the platform of the
pavilion. From an ancient case he
drew pair of steel-framed spectacles,
with bows clasping upon the temples
in front of the ears, and adjusted
them with deliberation. lie took
from his breast pocket few sheets of
foolscap, which he unfolded and held
in both hands. From this manuscript,
in low tones, without meditation or
emphasis, he read 266 words, and sat
down before his surprised, perplexed,
and disappointed auditors were aware
that he had really begun. 1t
left no impression, 50 it was said,
except mild CONSERVATION and a
modified sense of failure. None suppos-
ed that one of the great oratlons of the
world had been pronounced in the five
minutes which Mr.. Lincoln occupied
in reading his remarks. But the stud
led, elaborate and formal speech of
Mr. Everett has long been forgotten,
while the few sonorous and solemn
sentences of Lincoln will remain so
long as constitutional liberty abides
among men. Henceforth, whoever re-
calls the story of the battle of Gettys-
burg, when the fate of freedom and
the union hung trembling upon that
awful verge, will hear above the
thunder of its reverberating guns,
above the exulting shouts of the vic
tors and the despairing cries of the
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

The practice OF dipping the sheep
in the spring and fall is useful and
healthful in two ways 1t gets rid Of
the innumerable cutaneou, parasites
that iufe Il the flock and weary them
by their continual biting and the
consequent exhaustion by the loss Of
so much blood. and il + equal 10 a
warm bath, which so reireshes the
owner. tired and annoyed By the con.
slant gathering Of unwholesome ex-
cretious from the skin. This eN-
erection is enormous in the sheep and
as the yolk and grease which collects
in so large Il quantity on the sheep
prevent the hcalthful Precipitation
which would otherwise carry on i'm
pure matter that must necessarily
te got rid OF to pre- -erye the animal
in good health. and as this inter-
ieres rs every other unhealthtul con-
dition. with the growth OF the fleece,
as well as with the yigor OF the
sheep and the prosperity OF the
lamb, it will pay to dip the flock al
though there may be no ticks OF
scab to make il imperative. Col
mans Rural World.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30
conundrums at the Wrong Time.

Army teamsters have always been
proverbial for the scientific volubility
of swearing Modern times have not
altered this fact A teamster with the
Cumberland army got stuck in the
mud and he let fly stream of black
and blue oaths that would have aston
i>hed our army in Flanders" even.
A chaplain, passing at the time, was
greatly shocked to hear such solid
balls of nouns substantive whizzfng
around.
my friend, said he to the tsamster,
in plaintive accents, ''doyo know who
died for sinners?'
d your conundrums! Don't you
see I'm stuck in the mud?"
The worthy chaplain here became
SO confused that he tried thirteen
times in his mind to make joiner's
work of the question and answer, b,lt
was obliged, like Dogberry, to ''give it
up. American Tribune.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

The woman who talks had the man
who writes jokes in her tcu:aclcs and
he was squirlu,ng.
Really. she said ebullIcntly, how
do you ever manage 10 write all those
things? couldn't do il - save my
life.
"No2" he replied. evaslvcly.
NO, ! couldn't aud sometimes don't
even see the point IN them.
"No, presume not. " hc said. rather
sadly. you know 1t requires quite as
much talent 20 see the point 70 good
joke as Ii does TO write one.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

Fruit sent to market should be
packed SO it can't jostle,
Make an effort to constantly I'm
prove the quality OF the fruit.
A mule colt will ALWAYS sell a.
some price. though il may BE low.
Skin.mtil, Ground oats aud mid.
dlings will make pigs grow RAPIDLY.
Sheen that arc 60 h, uartn,cd
should ho VOL fa,tcnod befors scll.
inc
e., a...t. i,.r..
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

Ether will take out water marks
from silk.
A lump Of sugar saturated with
vinegar will cure hiccoughs
Rendered beef fat makes an excel
lent piecrust used with butter.
Leather bindings will supersede
velvet on the bottom Of dress skirts.
A little parafiinc rubbed on screws
will make them enter wood more
easily.
Diamond ivy leaves and pearl ber.
ries form long sprays for the front of
an evening gown.
Madras muslin or printed fr.lled
curtains are effective bedroom
draperies and are much sought after
by reason of their artistic coloring
The Vandyke sleeve caps which
taper to point above the elbow are
now quite as often added TO the short
open jacket as the square-shapod
Russian model.
Sleeves, sashes and corselets are
made Of the very elegant light velvet
shot oil Two colors called zephyr vel
vet, or OF the soft, bright satin which
goes by the name Of liberty satin.
Nervous headache may be greatly
relieved by the application of hot
water to the temples and the back
OF the neck, particularly II q hot
footbath is used at the Same time.
Brass should be cleaned at least
once a week. Alcohol, spirits Of
turpentine. benzine or kerosene will
generally remove all ordinary spots
ON this metal. The final cleansing
and polishing should be done with
powdered rottenstone, oil and
chamois skin
There is only one right way to
clean wall paper. and that Is with a
week.old loaf Of bread cut in halves.
Begin at the top of the wall and
wipe downward, with the crumb side
OF the loaf, making the strokes u
half yard or so In length. Never
rub crosswise or upward, but always
downward. Generally after this
operation the paper will look az
good as new.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30
RESAcA.
tin ncrnss the valley

All is still across the valley,
AS we lay our guns al rest
Save the pisket'S random volley
Below the frowning crest
While along the horizon rim
Streamed pillows of fire and smoke
And then the foe, gray and grim.
When all our batteries woke
By columns massed they rally and charge
On the heights of the rivers shore,
Retreating down the shady marge
With rumblins vOlley and roar
AS wall in that dreadful fray,
When they came with hery breath,
Harrison's regiment stood thlt day
When they met the ire OF death.
They checked the tide Of the rebels gay
And scattered the troops Of Hardee
AlOnZ Oostanullu'S sandy way,
When johnson charged with his army.
&c. ". Mcclure.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

SCIENTISTS now declare that the
bodies OF victims Of consumption SOW
the ground with tubercular bacilli,
which they load upon earth-worms
and thus manage to distribute. The
information would be more appalling
but for the fact that there was
already much of a similar sort ahoat
$50 much, indeed that if half were
true the human race would have
long ago vanished and be skimming
through space now in the form OF
unwholesome microbes.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

REV. GILBERT REID, formerly
Presbyterian missionary in China,
says in the Independent that the
proper way to dispose of the Geary
law is to have the whole matter de-
termined by treaty, whereby the
Chinese government could cooper
ate and assist. "Repeal the law Of
1888 as well as 1892" he says, land
then have proper certificates with
proper Identification in China signed
by representatives Of both govern
ments. Then the frauds can be
kept out"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

The New York World, in printing
the pictures Of shop girls and the
pictures of society girls side by side
and asking its readers to guess
(which is which" is giving them a
hard task. Nature puts no mark on
the shop girls forehead to indicate
her work, and there is no halo about
asociety girl which will enable any
one to distinguish her as such. The
shop girl OF to-day, too. may be the
society girl of tomorrow, and vice
versa
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

THE divorce secured by two
months bride in Superior, Wis. be-
cause her spouse refused to scratch
her back suggests the necessity of
an amendment to the Wisconsin mar
riage formula so that the masculine
element of the community may know
just what they undertake when en-
tering upon the state of matrimony.
How would Love, cherish and
abrade" do for part OF the marriage
ritual?
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

No COUNTRY in the world which
makes any pretensions to high rank
among the powers is so vulnerable
as England, and her leaders know it
as we'll as anybody. 1t is very we'll
to sing about Britannia ruling the
waves, but England will not risk her
ships of war in combat with the YES
sells Of any other maritime power
unless she has TO- The overturning
and sinking of the Victoria by the
Camperdown has been severe blow
10 the fancied impregnability OF
Britannia's bulwarks of steel and
iron.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

In Philadelphia some of the park
policemen have been mounted upon
bicycles and are thus enabled to per-
form their duty with much more
celebrity. This would be an excellent
idea everywhere, where cities are not
too hilly for bicycle riding. Police
men could chase malefactors with
certainty of success, and they could
go to each others assistance with
great rapidity. Besides that, an at
tachment could be made to the ma
chine so that every policeman could
propel his own jag wagon.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

THE high class music given by
Theodore Thomas at the worlds fair
was not appreciated by the exposition
directorate or the general public.
What they want is after the ball, !"
Tara boom-de-ay," Pepper won't
buy me bow-wow'' and other CLASH
cal symphonied.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

KANSAS may have her cyclones and
her drouths, but there is one sweetly
solemn thought comes to the man
who has to pay life insurance out
among the suntlowers, he is never
likely to die by the sinking of a
steam yacht. That is one place
where kansas has the edge on New
York.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

A WHITE and very refined lady who
has been conducting a Chinese mis-
sion school at Vancouver, b. c., has
been married to one OF the
Acknowledged brands that she
had snatched from the burn
ing. There should be a feeling
of gratitude towards the groom. If
he had not married the lady possibly
she might have caught Caucasian.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

THE other day an insane man asked
a New York policeman to shoot him.
The policeman would have complied.
but he didn't know whether it would
be suicide or justifiable homicide. and
therefore took the man to court in
order to find out.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

The position Russia has taken
in her relations with Germany is
scarcely tenable from a business
point of view. Exporting s147, 000,-
000 worth of merchandise into Ger
many annually she has practically
shut out the German imports. amount
ing to only $50. 100000. Russia seems
to have mistaken her own exports for
necessities, but the kaiser does not
so recognize them and has retaliated
by shutting out Russian imports.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30
A Fast Torpedo nont.

A new French torpedo boat, the
Lansquenet, attained a speed of
twenty-six knots, nearly thirty miles,
an hour on her official trial two weeks
ago. The boat is the fastest craft in
the French navy. She is 1Gj feet four
inches long, fifteen feet eight inches
broad, draws four feet three inches of
water and displaces 1873 tons. She
has twin screws, with triple expansion
engines indicating $500 horse power.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

DECISIONS from the bench have
prevented the Geary law from being
OF much use in itself, but the Chinese
find the apertures judicially poked
in it very useful indeed.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

One more prize-fighter, having re-
ceived a thump that created chaos
within him. has closed his bunged
eyes and gone hence. The incident
shows that the pugilist generally
should train for greater physical en-
durance, or keep his spiritual parts
in better condition than he has here
tofore considered necessary.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30

vanquished, the prophetic monotone
of that immortal refrain-
"Tha't government of the people, by
the people and for the people, shall
not perish from the earth. "-ES-Sena
TOR lnnalis
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-30
Northwestern Pass Agent, Omaha, Neb.
Good housekeeping for August has a

Good Housekeeping for August has
full complement Of valuable and inter-
esting papers, among which appear an
account OF Miss Parloas visit TO the
Chicago Fair, and some OF the things
seen there; another installment of tho
serial "A Noble Girlhood;" n very
sensible article on "PicRling and Pre-
serving by Margaret Fayerweather;
discussion OF Servants and Their
Quarters" by Mrs, Oliver Bell Bunce;
sound commentator Of Fruit as a
Food" by Isabella Gardner, NJ. D.:and
n notable paper on country comforts
in connection with city homes, by New
ton Norton. There is good story by
Mrs. n. A. NJ. Roe, two pages OF new
music, jnnumerable suggestions TO tho
housewife, together with much good
poetry and the usual magazine depart
ments. The Clark w. Bryan company,
publishers, Springfield, Mass.