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WARRIORS ON SEA AND LAND

Hardtack is doomed in the French navy. M. Lockroy has ordered that soft bread baked on board shall henceforth be served out to the sailors instead oi ships biscuit.
 Anovel means of defense has been tried at the town of Holguin, Cuba. As proof against sudden onslaught that town has been surrounded by thousands Of yards of barb wire.
 Gen. Saussier, military governor ot Paris, who in case of war would act as commander in chief of the French army, though he has reached the age limit, has been continued in office by the minister for three years longer.
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TUNNELING PIXIES PEAK.
Colorado Springs Driving a Hole
 Through a Granite Mountain.
For New Water supply-The Historic Mountain to Be Pierced at a Height of Two MiIes-Route and
 Construction.
tcoPYR1GHT. 1896. l

The engineer has wrought wonders in Colorado. He has enabled railroads to climb mountains above the timber line and bracket trains in the clefts of dark canyons over rushing streams. He has followed veins of precious ore half & mile below the surface, and con- structed irrigation systems the canals of which thread valleys and plains like inland rivers. A new triumph is now to be added Pike's Peak is to be tun- neled This tunnel will be driven through the southwestern slope of the
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well set up, athletic and manly Nor is their tan of much deeper tint than that the girls wear, in spite of the uni- yersai veil and -brimmed sailor hat. The tan visible through any amount of rice powder looks queerly enough above the white necks, bare in full evening dress.
 But there is comfort in numbers.
 New York and London mingle queer ly in the styles, the tourists rathershin- nlng by comparison with the officers wives and colonial magnates who get their styles many weeks late from dear, dowdy, old London. Colonial dressing is less daring than that of New York in one respect. A married woman of ma ture years may put on the most start ling of raiment, but the young girls, as well as unmarried belles not so young, go simply and modestly clad in pink or white gowns cut but moderately l low in the neck, and not elaborate of decoration. 1t is a custom worth ob- serving everywhere.
 The skirts of the New Workers ball dresses are as wide as ever, which means that thus will they be cut, also, in New port. The square yoked bodice is far the most usual, and there is great use of lace and velvet and of bands of down or light tinted feathers. The new sleeve is here, wrinkled meusquetaire-wis and masked by huge epaulets or fan shaped contrivances of lace. A disposi- ton resented by the glove maker is this new sleeve, since 1t renders possible shorter lengths and fewer buttons.
 Other skies have other customs. The favorite amusement of a Bermuda swell, apparently, is to get into one O, the absurd little donkey carts, the knees almost touching the chin, and in this attitude, and in ones best suit of clothes be photographed After this duty, the donkey can be induced to travel faster than a snail either by the laborious process of constant beating with oleander stalk, or by rattling a few stones in tin can, which may be worth remembering as an easier method One donkey named Prince, especially desirable because of his light color, has Hooked pleasant" before d camera probably 800 times and is a l privileged character.
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Plenty of Poker Chips.

Enough poker chips are manufac tured in the United States every year tc make astaek over 60 miles high if placed one on top of the other. For years the novelty and speciality companies have been turning out the chips, and, taking into consideration the lasting qualities of the disks. one may estimate conserv- atively that there are many more than 25o,o0o,0oo of these tokens that are usee to represent the coin in the game of ckance.-N. \. Sun.
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Purify Your Blood

Now, as when warmer weather comes and the tonic effect of cold bracing air is gone, your weak, thin, impure blood will not furnish necessary strength
 That tired feeling, loss of appetite. will open the way for serious disease, ruined health, or breaking out of humors and impurities. To make pure, rich. red blood Hoods sarsaparilla stands un. equalled Thousands testify to it's merits. Millions take it as their Spring Medicine Get Hoods, because
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bring Medicine

Your blood in Spring is almost certain to be full of impurities-the accumulation of the winter months. Bad ventilation of sleeping rooms, impure air in dweIll ings, factories and shops, over-eatinv heavy, improper foods, failure of the kidneys and liver properly to do extro work thus thrust upon them, are tbs prime causes of this condition. It is of the utmost importance that you
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Napoleon's Change of Manner.

There was something seriously amiss with the central figure. He was often sullen and morose, often violent and even hysterical, To calm his nervous agitation the court physician ordered warm baths. which he spent hours in taking. Then again he was irregular in his habits, being often somnolent during the daytime, but as frequently breaking his rest at midnight to set the pens of his secretaries scampering to keep pace with the flow of his speech. With old friends he was coarse and se- we're; even the brutal Vandamme con- fessed that he trembled before the ''devil of man." while Lannes was the only human being who still dared to use the familiar thou in addressing lis old comrade To the face of his generals the emperor was merely cold; behind their backs he sneered, saying, for instance, of Davout that he might give him never so much renown, he would not be able to carry it; of Ney that he was disposed to ingraiitGss and turbulence; of Bessiezes, Oudinot and Victor that they were mere mediocri- ties.-Prof. Sloane. in Century.
 In 1889 occurred the great fire" at Seattle, in Washington, im which property to the value Of Sao, ,oao.0oo was
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17

districts whose attention and energies
were devoted to other occupations than
agricultural pursuits, but there was
enough of a surplus to export to the
value of $553,215.34 10 per cent going
to European countries. The agricult-
ural exports of the country constituted
69.6S per cent of the whole.
The secretary of agriculture estimates
that there are 10000, 900 of the total
population who do not live on farms. so
that onc-third of the population only
was engaged in producing the vast
amount indicated by the figures given.
The year covered by the report. COM
paratively speaking, was not a good one
Tor the farmers. In many sections Of
the west there was a total failure of
crops In consequence of long-continued
drouths. so that a much better showing
would have been made had the year
been an average me-.
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lie Kept His Word.

1t was a sailor, up before a London
judge for assault. He got bail, and was
dismissed, pending trial. He disap-
peared, and his bondsmen might well
have worried, especially had they
known that he had gone, on some BUSH
ness, to Cardiff. 40 miles from the
court There he found himself
almost penniless and the day for the
trial approaching. What did he do?
He set out to walk the distance. IL
took him seven days. To get food. he
pawned most Of his clothes. For the
last two days of his toilsome journey he
had no food at all. In the meantime the
sailor on whom the assault had been
committed had recovered and sailed
away, so that the judge not only dis
charged the defendant. but gave him
ten dollars from the poor box.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
Love and Religion.

Here Is an interesting story OF the ef-
feet of Christianity upon the love-mak-
ing Of Ceylon. | find 1t in The Mission
airy Review of the World: 1T Is the GUS
tom among the ~Singhalcse," writes n
missionary of Ceylon, ito receive a
dowry with the bride; and this varies
from 80 rupees to 10000 rupees. a
dowerless girl has not much chance
nowadays OF getting married. How
ever. there are exceptions. A young
Christian man fell in love with a very
poor, fatherlcss girl. who at the time
was also a Buddhist. He wished to
marry ner, but would not do so until
she became n Christian. He put her
under the care of n catechist and his
wife, who taught her, and he paid for
her board and lodging. After n few
months she was baptized, and n month
later married, the bridegroom paying
for her wedding attire"
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
RHODY STANDS pRE-EMINgNr.
She IL SIN the Most Denseiy Populated
State In the Union.

'''''s
The census recently taken of the in.
habitants of little Rhode Island pre-.
serves the states claim, which, al
though often disputed, has rot been
overcome for more than q century. OF
being the most thickly populated state
In the union. Rhode Island is the
smallest Of the states in respect of
Hrea, covering oIly 300 square miles,
while Delaware has only 2,1OO, Connect
icut 400 and New Jersey $500. But
the poulation of the state is in excess
OF $4,000 and increasing rapidly. Dur
ing the first twenty years following the
revolutionary war Rhode Island. which
became n state in 1890. gained very lit
tie In population. and in the year 1860
the total population reached only 49,
600, or less than half of what it is to-
nay. with the enormous increase Of
manufactures, however. during and
since the close of the war, the indus
trial population of the unions small
est state, which now has $40, O0O, 900
invested in the cotton factories, and as
much more in wooden mills, has taken
u rapid jump upward. Since the taking
or the first federal census i'm 1890.
when there were on the average sixty
three persons to the square mile in
ithode Island, until the present. when
the average number is 35i, the state
mas retained it's distinction of being
the most closely populated in the
country. Massachusetts has held the
second place and Connecticut had the
third until 1870, when New Jersey su-
perseded 1t, and Connecticut fell TO
Fourth place. Compared with some
European countries. however, the pres
ont density of population does not APP
pear so great. BY the last official
enumeration the population per square
mile IN Belgium was $50 and in Eng
iahd 800. Rhode Island has a water
area or 165 square miles, which Is more
than 0nc-tenth the total surface of the
state. The gain in its population has
been greatest, of course, in the large
cities, but the manufacturing indu-
tries of Rhode Island are diffused so
generally that there are more than a
dozen small towns with RAPIDLY in
unjust pUDuldllOn. bc-
tween 1870 and 1890 Pawtucket in
In population from $500 to
2I,OOO. Woonsocket from II 900 to 90
600 and Providence from 6S, 200 to 1872
ooo. Bristol county. Rhode Island,
which is south of Providence on the
Massachusetts border, has an area of
only twenty-five square miles, where
as New York, prior to the annexation
OF the new Westminster territory, had a
land area OF forty square miles. An
notion prevails in many
quarters that what regulates the dem
sity of population in II state or county
Is the compact habitation of all parts
OF 1t, but the fact is that a high per-
centage Of population to the square
mile comes from the number of cities
and towns within the state or county,
and railroads or waterways ccount
for these.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
Never Served His Sentence.

A maj who eighteen years ago was
sentenced to serve a year in the peni-
tentiGTy, but who had been ut home ever
since, no effort eve having been made
to take him to Jail, appeared before
Governor Brown of Kentucky a week
acc and asked that he be permitted to
serve his term or else that he be par
doned. The man said that in 1877 a
jury found him guilty of malicious
cutting and he was sentenced to serve
q year in the penitentiary. No one Of
fered to take him to the penitentiary, so
he went to his home in Clark county.
He was never asked to go to Jail, SO he
never went. What was the reason for
the remarkable failure to carry out tho
sentence he did not know. The govern.
or pardoned him.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
CHIPS.

Folly is simply pleasure which hurts.
daughters wrinkles mock those of
time.
Theory makes laws for necessity to
break.
A fault acknowledged is n fault re-
paired,
You can't be happy If you expect too
much.
Every man either has n hobby or the
catarrh.
Fate means anything which gets the
best of us.
Charity is something everybody else
should have.
We are born crying, live complaining,
and die disappointed.
Egotism is harder to endure than
tyranny or falsehood.
A good character Is in all cases the
fruit OF personal exertlon.
Education is a better safeguard TO
liberty than n standing army.
In forming n bad habit remember
that IL will be very hard to quit
Every difficulty slurred oyer will be a
ghost to disturb your repose litter on.
The best education in the ,(orld is
that got by struggling TO get a living.
Ambition thinks no face so b Iwautiful
as that which looks from u1der n
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
No Water.

In India one Of the scverest punish
ments meted out to a convert to
Christianity is cutting off his access to
the village well. His family Is COM
PEELED at once to tramp through hot sun
and with a heavy water pot, to some
distance to get whatever water they use
for bathing and cooking. This Is all
against the law, but sometimes the per-
secution is so severe as to compel a re-
turn to the forsaken faith, or exile
from the village. To prevent this the
missionaries often have to engag in
behalf Of their converts, in long and
bitterly fought contests. Most of these
prosecutions are instigated by n few
high-caste people, who virtually own
the villages, and the majority of the
villagers are usually glad to see the
cases decided In favor of the converts.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
\ Hindoo AscetIc.

There has been reported to the Lon
don Missionary society the conversion
Of a Hindoo devotee, a man who lived
as an aecetic in lonely places, and de-
voted his life to quiet meditation. The
missionary found 1t extremely difficult
to show him that Christianity de-
manded of him quite a different mode
of life-to go out and mingle among
men AID preach Christ in the noisy and
Quarrelsome market place. Though
the ascetic shrinks from this hard duty,
no nevertheless bravely performs 1t.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
Muuures.

The dead plant Is prepared for feed
ing the growing plant through the ac-
ton OF microdemes or bacteria or, to
use a name hat will become general
among farmers, ferments; low orders Of
plant life similar to what raises bread
or ripens cream. There is much to learn
regarding the processes, but it has been
fairly well settled that each successive
STEP Is taken by a different living or
Sanism. The practical value of this
comes from the necessary conditions TO
nave the dead plant-manure changed
10 soluble plant food-and this Is under
the control of the farmer. According
10 warrington ammonia Is made first,
nitrites next, then ~nitratcs. The plant
may Feed on all of them, ~ all are
soluble, but the organisms may change
ammonia and nitritcs to %nitrates before
the plant feeds upon them, as condi-
lions favorable to plant growth favor
nitrificatiOn, that Is, heat and moisture
suitable, together with the ingredients
necessary to form the nitrates, which
supplies. Light Is not favor
able to nitritlcation. So we c9.s..de
that manure spreaS on 70 surface in
dry weather, ,n.ast wait until rains
wash IT. !nto the soil. II 1t is put on
lightly, in the spring. grass may cover
and shade 1t so that the organisms can
work. II Is plowed under in
our soil from four to six inches the
moisture and heat will be suitable for
forming nitrates or soluable plant food.
III Is packed solidly in a pit It
will not nitrify IL kept wet and cold.
and If put In a great heap in winter,
while the weather Is cold 1t will no
produce nitrates until turned over in
the spring, because the oxygen in the
air Is n necessity in the process. A
heap of manure left In the barnyard
all summer will waste on the outside,
because it gets too much air, while at
some distance from the outside II will
have proper conditions for nitrifcation,
and when rains come they will dissolve
the nitratcs and wash the solution
away. SO manure heaps carried over
should be covered to avoid this, and
kept moist and cool to prevent fire
fanging or loss of ammonia in gaseous
shape. A loose heap of manure will
thus waste away, and in the fall a
load OF 1t Is OF no more value, II as
much, than a load Of green manure.
We must then spread the green manure
at once on the surface or pillow it I'M
der, or put 1t in condition to make nj
trates and then keep the rains off.
1t Is not practical to put manure in
cold storage, nor to build houses for
1t. The best We can do Is ia put the
fresh manure on the land. There is
no loss from sun drying, and when
rains come they will wash it into the
soil, where the ferments can reduce it
to plant food.-Prof. James Wilson.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17

was also a friend OF Gussie's and who
was to pilot Gilbert through the wing
OF the house where Gussie was TO meet
them, when the two would escape nv n
side door.
The girl had taken her ~fayorite
brother Tom into her confidence. but
Gilbert did not know this. Tom was 10
entertain the old folks and keen them
In the family sitting room until after
nine. the hour which was set for tho
elopement.
THE great mistake that people make
when they elope,' sail Gilbert, lis in
setting the hour too late, when the least
sound attracts attention to them"
1t might have neon supposed from
those sage remarks, that he was an old
hand at the business. But he had vet
much to learn.
have not stated the fact that Gus
sizes father was wealthy, but Gilbert
would have scorned the imputation that
this had any part in his plan of marry
Ing her OF hand, lie knew that in
stead of the paternal benediction of the
novel. bless you, my children: bless
yop" he might receive the paternal
taboo, and be left 10 love, ashes and a
crust In a cottage. But he was willing,
brave boy, to risk It,.
An open window in an unused and I'M
lighted wing of the building Is always a
suspicious incident. A policeman was
regarding this one from n convenient
tree on the opposite side of the street;
but love Is blind, so Gilbert did not see
him. He went through the window
with the agility of a fireman.
"H-i-s-t!' came from within.
"W-h-i-st'"
These were the pass words.
as II you?"
VESTS me-" was the hasty and un.
grammatical reply.
where's Gussie?"
"Gussie who""
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17

through Ohio. Kentucky. Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia.
In these several trips have been a
close observer from the car window.
n though had been over most of the
routes travelled, 1t was no less inter-
esting to me this time. for the diversity
OF soil and climatic influences are per-
ceptlDly noticeable rs We pass through
inc different sections of country.
NO where do the methods OF farm
ing present a better appearance of
lhrlft and home-like surroundings
TIA IN in sections whore diversified
farming is Systematically engaged IN
from year to year. by which the farmer
Srows as many or nearly all the staple
crops required TO meet the demands
OF MS own wants, and by converting
the products thus grCwn to a higher
rate OF values ready for use. sucn as
peer, pork. mutton. poultry, eggs, but
Ter, etc. The all corn, wheat, cotton
or what not class of farmers are u.s.
ually more dependent upon Others and
the uncertainties of market influences
mat cause an unhappy condition in
their accountg.
The crops in localities appeared TO be
exceptionally good, bat in many, slor.
to a very poor crop, and believe the corn
crop has been very much overostiinat-
ed by the reports. Corn is selling too
low to be of any practical value to the
producer in districts where 10 cents
per bushel is as much as 1t now COM
mands.
or a middle states farmer /. has been
said, plenty Of cora. plcnty of every
thing" which | woulG take ID mean h.
has plenty Of cheap food to allow lib
era feeding for the ,driOus kinds of
stock, converting 1t into many useful
articles necessary for getting on
WE'LL"
In some sections Of the West corn does
not mean so much for the situation or
the producer has not the advantages of
obtaining those results, and is COM
PEELED to submit to the inevitable by
taking what ever he can get after
freight and commission are paid
Aiiello, in Farmers Review.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17


sisters and all other relatives combined
He does not stop to analyzc feelings OF
motives. s % does not make the discovery
that his conduct is the result Of a lapse
into s%avagcry, his earlier ancestors
having doubtless been barbarians, who
snatched their savage brides from the
FAMILY. but in %obcyance OF the ancient
marriage customs. No, our modern
Iochinvar imagincs himself a valiant
knight who hurrics to save his beloved
lady from the cruel restrictions of dot
ing parents. who know thai her esquire
has not a fiat to his name. or enough
coin OF the realm to sustain life in two
persons with average appptitcs. They
ask him to wait. but he, Ignoring the
poctical truth that all things come to
him who waits. does not have patience
TO endure the long result of time. This
Is a matter he says In hat manly, res
olute way his sweetheart admircs so
much. with which parents have moth
ing whatever to do and with the same
weapon attributed to Sampson, he sug-
gestS n rope ladder. q moonless night. u
ilect horse which may belong TO his
prospective fa~ther-in-law, and u rapid
drive In the direction OF a minister
tcreeds do not form an important ele-
ment in an clopemenD: then the two
can defy any law OF separaiion-for the
present.
Gilbert Harding and Gussic Marston
were lovers. and they had planned an
clopcmcnt.
He was n squire of high degree,
She was n lady fair to see
This is n trife overdrawa. but II ap-
plies to their case better than any other
two lines in poetical literature. He
was really a clerk In . habcrdashery
store. and she had Just beer graduated
In n sweet gown trimmed with real lace.
she knew absolutely nothing of any
thing but school lore, and was as help
less and ignorant as a girl usually Is
who influences a young man to begin
ms career by running away with her.
He was quite sure, however. that he
knew enough for two, and what was n
man good for anyway. II he couldn't
face the world and fight ~ battles for
the girl he loved? So the time was set
for the %elopcment, the s;ony-hearted
parents refusing to consider his suit,
because. forsooth, he was poor!
But Gussie loved him ali the better
for his poverty. She had heard It said
that her father was poor when he mar
rlcd her mother, and they had been
happy and p%rospercd. She did not re-
fleet that young people of to-day want
to begin life whore their parents left
off.
1t was the night OF the clopemcnt.
There was no moon and Tho plpptric
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
Value of Farm Products.

The annual report of the secre-
tary of agriculture, which has Just been
issJed. states that the farm products
for the year ending June 30 last are
estimated to be worth s. 1900, 00O.-
900. The products Of these farms
were not only sufficient to feed
all the town and city populations and
a large number OF people in the rural
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17
MODERN IOCHINYAR.
BY Mrs. NJ. l., RaVnp.

IBltIIAh feature
of the season Of ro-
mantle youth isthat
known as the clopc-
mrnt period, when
Young l%LoChinvar
has reached the
conclusion that he
has more right 10
the girl Of his heart
than her father,
mother. brothers,
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-17

Elm Timber for Bicycle Rims-Tbe
so-called Blue Rock elm of Wisconsin
is largely used for bicycle rims. A hi
cycle factory at Plymouth, Indiana, /,
said to have out a contract for 3 900 Ooo
feet OF this wood, The wood combines
llghtness n fiexibility with strength.
This particular elm is undoubtedly p
variety Of the American or white elm