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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-19
FIRST ACTIoN-sECoND ACTION
THIRD ACTION.

So said the wise Athenian. We shall
be wise to follow his advice in many
matters; in none more so than in Crap
ping with a cold or with dyspepsia; or
IN seeking relief from consumption in
it's earlier stages. 1t is absolutely use
less to sit down and bemoan our bad
fortune. We must act-act-act. The
first and most imperative action neces-
sary is to procure a bottle of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
The second action will be to use it.
The third action will naturally follow
we shall proclaim abroad its virtues.
Sardis, Big Stone County, MINI.
R. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sir-Having felt it duty IN
write of the good received by taking
your medicine, 1 now would say that
one year ago today was given UP by
my family physician and friends; ali
said / must die: My lungs were badly
affected, and body reduced to a skele-
ton. My people commenced to give me
your Medical Discovery and l soon
began to mend. 1t was not long be-
fore I became well enough to take
charge of my household duties again.
/ owe my recovery to DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
Respectfully,
NIP A. MTTI,g
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NAPOLEON AND EUGENE.
He Had Not the Faintest Idea of
Making Her His Wife.

Louis Napoleon had not the faintest in
tention of making the handsome Spanish
girl his wife, either IN the near or remote
future says the North American Review
If proof of this were wanted it would be
found in the fact of his having as good as
solicited the hands of several royal prin-
cesses during the period-the twelve
months Immediately preceding his mar
riage-wilen he was supposed and not un-
JUSTIFY to be simply frantically in love
with Mdlle. de Montijo. Coelebs in search
of wife was nothing to- it. The dowager
duchess of Baden, Stephanie de Beauhar-
rails; the Duke of LeIshtenberg, another
relative on his mothers side, and Don
Francis d'Assis, the husband of Isabella
of Spain. were successfully but fruitlessly
appealed to by him to provide linn with a
spouse. Finally, just a month before the
public announcement of the emperor'S be-
trothal to Ndlle. Eugene de Montijo, he
applied to Prince Hohenlohe for the hand
Of Princess Adelaide, and a week later
the queen and Prince Albert were still
discussing a letter from Prince Hohen-
lohe OH the subject.
The new elnperor's offer was kept pro-
found secret at the time at the urgent re-
quest of Prince Hohenlohe himself, who
feared that the prospect Of being empress
of the French might prove too dazzling
was in no way fascinated by it From his
point of view the proposed union was not
desirable; he had misgivings about the
settlement and objected, moreover, on the
queen herself did not oppose the alliance,
although with a kind of prophetic in
stinct she alluded feelingly to the fate of
Marie Antoinette and her successors on
the throne of France. Prince Albert tried
hard not to let his personal dislike of
LoSS Napoleon influence his counsel-a
dislike by the by, he shared with nearly
all the Coburgs.
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The spring is the best time to plant
peaches, and only the budded ones of
the preceding year are generally
planted. This tree wants lime mostly,
and does best on a light. sandy, but
fertile soil. But while the tree re-
quires potash, literally supplied, 1t
seems to do best with liberal appHca-
tons of lime. AS wood ashes contain
more lime than anything else, this fer
tilizer would doubtless be useful
The farm is not like a silver mine.
1t must be fed literally. We depend
too much upon the irrigating ditch,
and we see the results already in
many localities. where whole farms
are worthless from the rise of the
alkali in the soil or from unsightIy
seepage sloughs. The irrigation ditch
cannot take the place of either cult
walton or fertilization. Let US grow
more alfalfa, cultivate better, and use
less water.
A. F. Hunter, of South Matte,
Mass, says he kept last year, on an
acre of land, $50 fowls, of which 90
were one year old hens and 200 were
early Matched pullets. In the month
Of December, last year, those fcwls
laid 1858 eggs. That was the month
in which most farmers hens were not
laying. Those December eggs brought
$3.50 and a few cents. The cost of food
was s42.75, making a net cash profit
for the month of sS725.
Bone dust. which is all manner OF
bones ground up into flour, is one of
the best fertilizers known. 1t has to
be ground fine so roots can feed at
once upon it. Otherwise it is not
available until time rots it. We have
all heard of carcasses being buried
under fruit trees, asparagus beds and
so on, because the roots feed only as
the mass rots, and that may run into
years. If, therefore, it is in your power
buy a bone-grinding mill You would
be astonished at the bones you could
collect and the benefits you would de-
rive. Green bones, with more or less
meat thereon, is the very food for lay
ing hens. Even animals, old and re-
jected, can be turned thus into ex-
cellent account.
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preached the abyss, and stopped her en-
CINE, when l particularly ordered a full
mead OF steam TO be carried; the result
was that for a moment her hull d:sap-
peared from sight under the water. Ev-
cry one thought she was lost. She rose,
however, swept along over the rocks with
the current, and fortunately escaped with
only one hole in her bottom, which was
stopped in the course of an hour The
iindman and Usage both came through
beautifully without touching a thing; and
L thought if | was only fortunate enough
to get my large vessels over the falls, my
feet once more would do good service on
the Mississippi The accident 10 the dam,
instead OF dlSheartening Colonel Bailey,
only induced him e renew his eXertions
after he had seen the Success of getting
four vessels through.
A New Dam Built as Swiftly as the
Old.
1.-THE noble-hearted spiders, scei r. :9Isr
labor of the last eight days swept away
IN a moment cheertullY wknt TO work to
repair the damages, being confident now
that all the gun-boats would finally
be brought over. These men had been
working for eight days and nights, up to
their necks in water, in the broiling sun,
cutting trees and wheeling bricks, and
nothing but good humor prevailed among
them.
"On the whole it was very fortunate
the dam was carried away, as the two
barges that were swept away from
the center swung around against some
rocks on the left and made fine cushion
for the vessels, and prevented Them as it
afterwards appeared. from running on
certain destruction. The force of the wa
ter and the current being too great to
construct a Continuous dam, at six hun
cred feet across the river. in so short a
time, Colonel Bailey determined to leave
gap of f1fty-flve feet in the DAM and
build a series of wing-dams on the upper
falls
This plan had been already suggested
In the beginning by Colonies Pearsall and
George D. Robinson, but had been deem
ed inadvisable by Colonel Bailey who
hoped to avoid the additional time and
labor necessary to the construction of
two dams if one could be made to serve.
1t now became evident however that the
river must be INSTRUCTED on the upper
falls in order to obtain sufficient depth to
relieve the larger iron-clads, such as the
Mound City, the Chilicothe, the Caronde-
let and some five others which were still
lying above the rapids.
Two Big Ironclads Aground.
A series of light wing-dams, consisting
of log cribs dashed together that resulted
in fourteen inches additional depth of
water were completed in less than three
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themselves 10 those who probably aided
them in their flight from the country.
Arriving a the cabin IN the woods
where the. brothers lived the sheriff
called upon them to surrender. This they
agreed to do provided they might be al
lowed 10 retain their arms. The officer
knew both the men and good-naturedly
agreed to this condition. He then started
with his prisoners back to town While
still some distance from Nevada they
were obliged to pass through a thick
growth of timber where the road became
little more than a bridle-path, compelling
;, The three men to ride single file. Just
5aShy. at this point. the wary officer al
Ned one of mis- prisoners to drop behind
MIN viii always remain a profound mys-
Very. Such, however, seems to have been
/the case. His body was found some days
later dragged into the thick brush a
little way from the path-a single bullet
hole in the back of his head. Large re-
wards were offered for the assassins, but
they were never captured.
Thus came to a violent death al the
hands of ruffians none othe- than the gal
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employed on the work would ever have
the heart TO renew their enterprise.
The Lexington succeeded in getting
over the upper falls just in time-the wa
ter rapidly falling as she was passing
over. She then steered directly for thS
opening in the dam, though the water,
was rushing so furiously that it seemed
as If nothing but destruction awaited her.
anxius for the result. The silence was So
great as the Lexington approached the
ham that pin might almost be heard to
fall She entered the gap with full
head of steam on, pitched down the roar
ing torrent, made two or three spasmodic
rolls, hung for a moment on the rocks be-
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decided 10 abandon the undertaking and
retreat down the river.
Great expedition was necessary in order
TO save the fleet, for the water, which
had been barely sufficient to allow the
larger boats to PASS the rapids at Alex
andria, was falling rapidly, and it was
extremely doubtful whether any of them
would be able to do so on their return.
one vessel, in fact, the East Pert, was al
ready aground and abandoned, although
lieutenant Colonel Bailey afterwards
General and then acting engineer of the
-kneteenta army corps) had proposed to
ftef< it over the hass by constructing a
caEIes of wing-dans similar to those af-
Edwards built at Alexandria This as
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low, was then swept into deep water by
the current, and rounded to safety into
one deafening cheer, and universal joy
seemed to pervade the face of every man
present. The Neosho followed next, ali
precaution taken against accident She
did not fare as well as the Lexington her
pilot having become frightened as he ap-
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The rapids extended one and one-fourth
miles in length, making gradual descent
OF eight feet and some inches, the width
OF the river at this point being 1853 feet,
and the depth of the water from to 6
feet. The current was very rapid run
ming about ten miles per hour.
The Building of the Dam.
The work was done Immediately. It
was now the 1st of May, and every day
meant enormous additional labor as the
river was still falling rapidly Four large
coal barges We're first towed to ledge of
rock in the middle of the riVer-Scuttied
and sunk. They We're placed lengthwise
with the current, two and two, with a
channel OF forty feet between them, and
fastened to the yielding soap-stone river
bed with long bars of iron, sharpened and
These bar2es We're then filled with such
heavy material as could be readily pro-
cured. they We're to serve as the akS
ments for the dam to be built out 10
them from either side of the river. The
current was thus to be INSTRUCTED and
deepened, and ii was through the forty
foot channel between the abutmentS that
the big IRON cIadS and transports were to
pass into deep water and safety below
From the north bank it was decided
best to build a tree dam formed of the
bodies of very large trees, brush brick
and stone, cross-tied with other heavy
timber, and strengthened in every way
which ingenuity could devise. This was
constructed under the personal supervis-
PearSal was assigned the task of filing
the barges and projecting an obstruction
from the south bank. The swift current
was thus to be gradually diverted and
forced between the abutments in the CEN
ter.
The dam from the south bank was to
he a series of log cribs built above and
foa ted down into place, there to be filed
with brick, stone and iron, such as couli
be. procured quickly regardless of cost.
All the neigh boring sugar mills were de-
StroYed for this purpose, costly machin-
cry hammered into fragments or because
it was heavy, and the weighty debris thus
Obtained was carried by an endless pro-
cession of men with hand-barrows and
dumped into the river
Six thousand men were divided into two
forces, which relieved each other every
six hours, working day and night
Trees We're falling Nth great rapid
ty," says Admiral Porter: teams were
moving in all directions bringing in brick
and stone; quarrieS were opened; fiat
boats were built to bring stone down
from above, and every man seemed to be
with a vigor I have seldom seen
equalled, while perhaps not one in fifty
believed in the success of the undertake
ing''
At last, on Sunday, May Sth, the dam
was completed. But, alas, the very next
day it broke.
A FrightfuI Passage Over the Falls
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-19
Copyright, 1896. by S. S. Mcclure,
United
b Albert 3. Painl

By Albert 3. Paine.
On the morning of the 18th of April.
1867, the sheriff of Vernon county, Mis-
souri,, set out on horseback from the town
of Nevada for the purpose of bringing in
two brothers by the name of Pixley.
against whom complaint had been lodged
for hog stealing. The Pixley brothers
lived in a somewhat remote neighbor-
hood. and had been known as despera-
does and guerillas during the war. The
officer however, being a man of unusual
daring, declined assistance and went un-
accompanied to make the arrest What
happened later was told by the Pixleys
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| days time. The Chilicothe now managed
to work her way through and the Caron-
! delet attempted to follow her example
| The water in the lower dam, however
had been slowly falling, and as the huge
vessel came through she swerved a little
from the main channel and grounded in
dead water, her stern lying down stream
and pointing diagonally across the chan
mel. An attempt was made to haul her
off with a Spanish windlaSs, but was
abandoned as unavailing. Admiral
Porter, believing there was still sufficient
room in the channel for other boats to
pass, now gave orders for the Mound
City to make the attempt. This she did
Immediately and grounded abreast of the
Carondelet. Five more iron-clads were
still lying above the falls.
How the New Emergency Was Met.
At this crisis Colonel Bailey came rid
ing up in hot haste to where Colonel
Pearsall was standing. Colonel Bailey
was a dark, stern-looking man at all
times. His unkempt raven hair and his
restless black eyeS-wild and blood-Shot
from nervous tension and loss of sleep
made him seem now almost ferocious.
Neither of these officers had slept to
exceed thirty hours during the past ten
days, and their nerves We're terribly over
wrought By the fearful strain. 1t was
no time for idle conjectures and none was
offered.
To the abrupt question, What in the
name of God are we going to do now
Colonel?" Colonel Pearsall as abruptly
replied:
Give me what men and material L
want and will put foot of water under
those boats the Mound City and Caron-
deleo in twenty-four hours
Colonel Bailey. You shall have what
ever you want. Only tell US what it is,
quick"
Colonel Pearsall. 81 want the Thir-
teenth Army Pioneer corps to report to
me on the left bank at midnight, and TO-
600 feet of Pinch plank to be here at 8
O'Clock tomorrow morning."
Colonel Bailey at once assented to
these requirements, and the orders were
promptly given. Immediate steps were
taken by Colonel Pearsall to get his men
across the river, but it was now dark
and the transports refused to put off
boats until morning-for what reason
does not appear.
The Whole Fleet Set Free.
Colonel Pearsalls report briefly mar
rates this part of the work.
1T was sunrise before all were across
to the opposite side. / Immediately in
trestleS for a bracket DAM" They work
ed with even greater energy than ever
before, and the trestles were all made by
8 a. m. Some pieces OF iron bolts (size
one-half inch) were procured and one set
into the foot of the legs of each trestie
also one in the cap pieces at the end rest
ing on the bottom, up stream. The place
selected by me for this bracket DAM was
at a point opposite the lower end of the
.Carondelet extending out Close to this
Men, (all familiar with logging and dam
hSdlding in the Wisconsin woods select
ed $and headed by myself, placed these
fres&les in position under very adverse
circu Instances, the water being about
four md one-haf feet -deep and very
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How Admiral Porter's Fleet Was
Saved From Destruction.
GLIMPSE AT 'SIXTY-FOUR.
AN EMERGENCY AND HOW 1T WAS
NET.

= FrightfuI Passage Over the Falls
and Through the Dam-RemarIa-
BILE Engineering Feat of General
Bailey and Colonel PearsaII-Tvvo
Big IrOncIads Aground-The
Whole Fleet Set Free.
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THE Big RED RIVER DAM.

sistanee was declined by the officers of
the fieet-counsel from army officers ap-
parently not being as yet regarded IN
nautical affairs.
The tired disheartened foot soldiers now
set out to fight their way down the river
as they had fought it up. Their path
was 1ntersected by bayouS and SWampS,
and barricaded by almost impenetrable
woods. They were constantly under scat
ter1ng fire, for the enemy lowered about
them like vultures, and what was still
worse they were assaulted day and night
by myrladS OF ravenouS moSqultoeS-an
enemy against which Warfore was use
less.
The naval forces likewise worked their
way down stream as best they could, i'm
peded constantly by snags and bars, and
frequently annoyed by the enemy. Ar
irving at last at Alexandria their worst
fears were realized. Not one of the boats
could passi Here was an emergency in
which failure meant the total loss of the
entire Mississippi squadron, and the con-
sequent prolongation OF the war Tor an
indefinite period. Unless the fleet could
be brought below the rapids 1t must be
destroyed or abandoned TO the enemy, it
being manifest that the army. already on
short rations, could not remain there to
guard 1t all summer.
Col. Joseph Bailey Offers Il Rescue.
1t was in this crisis that the genius of
Colonel Joseph Bailey became manifest.
Notwithstanding the previous rebuff he
had received from the naval officers he
now proposed to build a series of dams
across the rapids that should deepen the
channel and relieve the fleet. He con-
suited with his assistant Lieutenant
Colonel Uri B. Pearsall, who promptly
agreed with MIN that such a plan was
feasible Both had been lumbermen and
dam builders in the woods of Wisconsin
previous to the war, and neither seemed
TO consider the gigantic undertaking i'm
practicable. Notwithstanding the fact
that the plan suggested was ridiculed by
the West Point engineers of the army.
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liant officer and engineer General Joseph
Bailey, under whose command and by
whose direction was constructed the ia
nous Red river dam, a feat of engineer
ing which for rapi6ity of construction
and magnitude of result is claimed to be
without a parallel in the history of mill
tary works.
General Banks and Admiral Porter
in Close Corner.
Early in the spring of "a the army of
ne Red River, General Banks command
Z ing and supported by the Mississippi
aoaval squadron consisting of some fif
SRfeeTl gun-bcats, iron-clads and monitors,
Besides numerous transports) under the
command of Admiral David D. Porter,
had assembled the Red River to a point
a little beyond Grand Ecore, Louisiana,
With Shreveport as an objective point.
Their progress up the river had been al
most a constant skirmish, and after
severe battles at Sabine Crossroads and
Pleasant Hill-the former a union defeat
and the latter 2 fruitless victory-it was
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| FrightfuI Passage Over the Falls
and Through the Dam.

Seeing this unfortunate accident" Che
break in the damn, says Admiral Porter.
Il jumped on a horse and rode up to
Where the upper 9 NesseS we " anchored en-
per falls If possible, and Immediately at
tempt 20 go through the dam 1 thought
might be able to save the four vessels
below, not knowing whether the persons
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FARM NOTES.

acy of the earth and of the heavens be-
longs to those who know how to love and
to Sacrifican
Evening star., 1895-07-27
MiN II eezEw
UNM, IN " s
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Copyright, 1905, by Irving BacheIler. !,
BY STANLEY J. WEYMAy,

Copyright, 1905. by Irving Bacheller)
1t was in the spring of the year 1909 that
et tho kings instance I had a suite of
apartments fitted up for him at the Ar
senal, that he might visit me- whenever 1t
pleased him, without putting my family to
Inconvenience; in another place will be
found an account CT the six thousand
crowns year which he was so obliging as
to allow me for this purpose. He honored
me by using these rooms, which consisted
OF hail. chamber, a wardrobe and
closet, two or three times in the course of
that year, availing himself of my attend
ants and cook; and the free opportunities
OF consulting me on the Great Undertak-
Ing which this plan afforded led me to
hope that Notwithstanding the envy of
my detractors he would continue to adopt
It That he old rot do so, nor ever visited
me after the close of that year, was due
not so much to the lamentable event. soon
TO be related. which within few months
deprived France of her greatest sovereign,
as TO a strange matter that attended his
last stay With NE. / have since had cause
TO think that this did not receive at the
time as much attention as 1t deserved; and
nave even imagined that had / CROPPED a
found clue to the future as well as the
past. and averted once more, and the last
danger from my beloved master. But
Providence would not have it so; a slight
1ndispoSition under which I was suffering
at the time rendered me less able, both IN
mind and body. the result Eeing that Hen
~, who W Is alw ays averse to the publica-
Evening star., 1895-07-27
ON THE STREET CARS.
GIimpses OF Human Nature That Are
Amusing and Annoying.

Glimpees of Human Nature That Are
Amusing and Annoying.
Travel Is an education, you have heard
great many people say. and Of course
they must not except street cars. One can
see more kinds of human nature, and more
Of each kind to the nickels worth In a
street car than anywhere else on earth and
to the street cars, In Washington. must be
added the huge carryalls. called "herdics. "
There may be education in street car trav-
el, but it's kind that one wants to get rid
Of speedily. as it has naught to do with
useful knowledge or polite manners.
Big sleeves are the terror of the hour to
conductors. and in the herdics they are an
abomination-to the woman who wears
them. and to the person who has to sit
next to them. A funny episode took place
in herdic Monday evening. There were
three young ladies in a row on one side.
the sleeves Of their spick and span new or
candies and lawns standing out like an in
hated balloon and almost filling up the
whole side Of the vehicle. On the opposite
side were four young ladies. in like regu-
lation, inflated sleeves, and the writer wo-
man.
There entered young male creature and
another pair of faultlessly inflated sleeves
attached to Young Thing, and seats were
made for the two opposite the writer wo-
man. The manner in which sleeve touched