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DROVE OFF SEA SERPENTS.
Men, Shot Themselves, Had Been
Shooting Them in Vain.

"I learned more about sea serpents
some ten years ago than I ever knew
before" announced the man who al
ways tells what kind of whisky he
wants when he has occasion to use the
article.
Il was not particularly busy that
summer, so a party of us concluded to
make a yachting cruise down the At
lantic Coast, the main object being to
do some fishing in the Florida waters
Our crowd was not only intelligent,
but jolly, and the way in which we
stored in knowledge while having fun
was something to be envied- 1t was
about off Old Point Comfort that we
began to see sea Serpents. 1t was only
few days before we came upon them
in all styles, sizes and colors. Though
they were not all of one brand they
had some things in common, such as
flaming eyes, arched necks, and black
fringed f1ippers.
cat first we made light of them and
used to protest one to the other that
there was nothing unusual in sight.
But they grew more numerous, and
down about Cape Hatteras they were
thicker than sea gulls They had
brilliant colors like tropical birds of
plumage and we did not sight one that
was not gliding toward US with an
open mouth like that of an alligator
Something very like a reign of terror
was created aboard. We shot SER
penis as fast as we could load, but they
only appeared to multiply in number
as well as fierceness. One evening we
We're in despair and without hope till
the young doctor aboard induced US to
turn. in, assuring US that he would
find way to dispense our horrible and
relentless pursuers. For a day or two
we were all taking sedatives, but not
another serpent crossed our course"
How did he do ftp
Dumped all our whisky overboard.~
Detroit Free Press.
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NV Little Sweetheart.

When early sunshine brightly overnoWs
The city roofs and spreads along the
street,
Down town to work my little sweetheart
goes,
And we, each morn, at the same corner
meet,
And Oh, for all the world, I would not miss
The long days comfort that ma III thls'
Sometimes her step is quickened when she
sees
Me from the distance fastening apace.
Sometimes her glances seem inclined %
Sometimes they meet my own, with
friendly grace, -,
Sometimes she bushes, but through all
She never smiles. though oft my eyes en-
treat.
Onward she hurries with the hurrying
throng;
I, too, go onward by another way,
Wondering if her sweet maiden thoughts
To me. for one blest moment of the day
AS all the hours my tender thoughts IN
close
Her lovely soul, like buds about rose.
My little sweetheart, whose dear name
alas,
1 know not-neither how she lives nor
where,
Nor to what toll her light feet daily pass;
only know that she is good and falr,
And that the sad old worlds better
And heaven is nearer since I've seen her
face.
Madeline s. Bridges in Ladies Home
Journal
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men are breaking the rivets of the iron
plates, which are to be melted over
again.
When the four big sections of the
sunken steamship We're dumped on the
farm" about ten days ago, their drip
ping sides We're fairly covered with deep
sea mussels. Men. women and chill
dren swarmed about the mound to pick
them off. Children started fires and
steamed the mussels in bottles. Women
carried off basketfuls of the sea food,
which they pickle in vinegar. These
food hunts occur frequently in the Erie
Basin, in the neighborhood Of which live
hundreds of poor persons. Other parts
'of the Ailsa are being landed at Staple
ton. Staten Island.
The wreck of the Ailsa lies on the edge
>of the Main Ship Channel and about 600
yards south of Fort Lafayette. Not far
distant lies the wreck of another Atlas
steamship, the Alvena, which was sunk
in collision with the steamship British
Queen.
Mariners frequently complain of the
presence of the submerged Ailsa because
during thick weather or in fog YES
sells straying from the channel were
likely to strike the sunken hulk The
Government, in awarding the contract
for removal to the wrecking company,
stipulated that the entire wreck must be
gotten out of the way.
The task has not proved easy, for the
divers cannot work under water while
the tides are running. The wreck, be-
sides, lies where the current is strong
and the flood tide works in before the
water has ceased to ebb in midstream-
The wreckers are breaking I'D the
hulk by means of dynamite cartridges
of moderate size. The steamship is be-
ing destroyed in sections. The divers
fasten cartridges around the section to
be destroyed.
The action of dynamite on plates or
submerged iron is to make a clean cut
through the metal. The heavy iron
plates are warped, twisted and torn as
if they We're cardboard Heavy boilers
are rent and iron bars and pipes are
twisted.
Working at such times as they could,
the divers shattered the boilers and en-
gines and attacked the hull. The latter
is of iron, and measures 200 feet inches
in length and 81 feet 2 inches beam.
About one third of the hull is now lying,
exposed in the farm. !"
The parts detached by the explosives
were hoisted on board lighters and
towed ashore Extra precautions are
taken to guard against accident to the
workmen. When the cartridges. hneo
off in a section, are ready for exploding
they are set off simultaneously with an
electric current-New York Herald.
The record-union., 1897-09-05
NEWSPAPER WAITS.

1.-THE prisoner seems not to have the
truth in him." said the Judge. Il
fancy he lost it when he was bailed
out, your Honor" said the Prosecuting
Attorney-Harper' Bazaar.
Il see that a number of women are
going to Klondike" Yes. 1 noticed
it. L was thinking of going up there
and selling potatoes at 50 cents
apiece. indianapolis Journal.
He-When I first met my wife ]
thought she was one of the most eco
nomical women, in the matter of
clothes, 1 had ever known. She-You
met her at the seashore, 1 believer
Yonkers Statesman.
Mother-You naughty boys! Why did
you take away your little sisters cake?
Boys-Its her own fault, mamma She
passed here just when we were play
ing robber- barOn.-F1ienge Batter.
Tourist, in country quarters, appre-
hensively-How about the mosquitoes i?
Don't you find them pretty vicious
creatures? Native, indifferently-No
at ALL Not at ALL Why, they'll eat
right out of your handi-Household
Words.
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A FEAST OF MUSSELS.
Breaking Up of the Steamship
AiIsa.

On the grass grown edge of the
farm, in Erie Basin. lies the forward
section Of the old Atlas line steamship
Ailsa, which for almost eighteen
months has rested in the mud of the
lower bay. During heavy fog on the
afternoon of February %, 1896. the
Ailsa plunged under, having been run
into by the French line steamship Bour-
gogne. She is now being broken UP and
raised by the Merritt Chapman Wreck
ing Company.
After many Intellectual attempts to
raise the submerged steamship as a
whole, she is at last being brought TO
the surface in sections. The old ocean
wayfarer is now nothing but great red
mound Of rusted iron, whose ragged and
distorted edges arouse the curiosity of
passengers carried past the farm" on
ferryboats.
The parts of the Ailsa now lying in
Erie Basin are the main deck, the mid
die deck, two sides of the forward Sec
ton, the smokestack and two donkey
engines. Rust has eaten far into the
great mound of tangled iron, from which
there rises daily an alarming din, for
The record-union., 1897-09-05
BUFFALO HENRY.
How That Nickname Game to Sena-
tor Hansbrough.

Before Mr.. Hansbrough was sent to
the United States Senate from North
Dakota he held some minor offices in
his State, and before that he used to
run little paper in the roaring town
of Devils Lake. 1t was an average
country paper, just as he is an average
country editor. Sometimes it came
out on time and sometimes it didn't,
but it made money-plenty of it-be-
cause all of the registrations of Govern
ment lands in an immense territory
were published in it. Hansbrough did
so well. in fact, that he was able to
turn it over to an assistant and put in
his time whooping up the voters. He
is not much of a humorist, but he likes
a joke, even when it is on himself, and
one day he told me of his first attempt
at newspaper parag graphing.
He was working on sman daily in
San Jose, Cal, and the editor of it was
an old fellow. remarkable chiefly for
laziness. One day he came to Hans
brough. then a young reporter, with
this statement: 'tSon, I'm feeling pow
erful weak to-day, an if you can get
me out about half yard O. paragraphs
I'll go home an rest With this
heart beating like a trip hammer be-
cause of the honor thrust upon him,
HansbTough said, "Why, certainly, GER
tainly," and the old man went home.
Aiming himself with a hundred
exchanges, Hansbrough buckIed to his
work. He ran across a dispatch in
the Chicago Times" stating that five
Indians had been found dead on a Da-
kOta nfaiTi0 and that fhoxT
posed to have been poisoned by buffalo
meat put in their way by hunters He
remembered the old ballad of "VilIikins
and his Dinah," and how a bottle of
cold pizen lay down by her side" He
remembered that the family name of
buffalo is bison, and he wrote: "a
Dakota dispatch says that five Indians
have been found dead on the prairie.
They are supposed to have been slain
by buffalo meat poisoned and put there
by hunters. Like the catastrophe of
'Villikens and His Dinah,' this is evil
IDENTIFY a case of cold bison" He
laughed when he wrote it,
They were days when it was custom
airy to italicise puns that appeared in
the editorial columns. Looking over
the proofs that night Hansbrough
found that the printers had used the
word poison" He called the foreman
and laboredly explained the joke to
him. The foreman howled with laugh
ter said it was the~best thing that was
ever written on the paper and prom
ised to correct the proof with his own
hands. Hansbrough went to bed sat
isfied. and the foreman, as subsequent
ly developed, took six drinks. Next
morning, by the exercise of great self
control Hansbrough kept away from
the office until 10 o'clock Not being
able to stand it longer. he rushed in.
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How She Was Cured.

There was a miraculous cure out al
the Hennepins' night before last"
How was that?"
''You know Sarah, the oldest girl!
She's about thirty-fi now, and seemed
to give up all idea, several years ago.
of ever getting married"
YES; she's been bedridden for long
time, hasn't she?"
Couldn't walk a step. Doctors didn'
know what was the matter. Well, the
folks got to talking about this healing
business, and We're wondering If there
was any hope for Sarah. A Mr.. John
son, one of the neighbors, happened to
be there, and he ventured the opinion
that he could make her walk inside OF
five minutes. OF course the whole
family got excited, and wanted him to
try it. So he says to her mother
Now you go up stairs and tell her that
there's young man down here who
wants to see her."
"Well?"
''Wen, she came bounding down
stairs, in about three minutes, as well
as ever, and it was a mighty lucky
thing for Johnson that he didn't wait
to see whether his plan was going to
work or not i"-CleveIand Leader.
The record-union., 1897-09-05
A Seaside Romance.

They were sitting on the sands side
by side, looking out over the ocean.
How peaceful it looks" said he.
Yes" said she, s'but how very weti"
True" he observed, land yet how
calm and restful it appears! With you
by my side 1 could sail forever"
"Yes?" she queried.
Yes he affirmed, forever Will
you, dearest ~
"On one condition" she replied. 81
am a cautious girl, and 1 do not wish
to be over-hasty. But I will let you
make the test, and when the test is
made and you say it is successful, 1
will go with you
And that test, love?" he cried.
You take a boat and sail forever
and after you have sailed forever tell
me how it works she answered.
And she left him meditating.-Har-
Der'S Bazar
The record-union., 1897-09-05

Fort Ticonderoga. His grandfather,
Samuel Hitchcock, was born in Massa-
chusetts, but afterward moved to Yer
mont, where he married the daughter
of Ethan Allen
Henry Hitchcock, father of Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, was born in Vermont,
and moved to Alabama, where he prac-
ticed law and at the time of his death
was Chief Justice of Alabama. The new
Minister to Russia was born in Mobile in
1885. After his fathers death he re-
moved to Tennessee. In 1851, he re-
moved to St Louis and engaged in bus
mess. In 1860 he went to China and re-
manned II years in successful CONNER
cial venture Since 1874 he has been
actively engaged in business in st. Louis
and is quite successful. He will retire
from active business.
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then say that certain other things must
follow from these conclusions. First of
all, who knows by any methods of dem
onstration that the solar system is cool
ing off, and that the sun does not re-
cuperate its energies as fast as they are
given off? Unless it can be proven that
the sun is losing it's energy without
power of replacing it, all that follows
from that assumption is of no value
whatever Yet scientific men talk and
write of the cooling off and dying out
of our planet, as if they had been able
to demonstrate that such would be the
result. This kind of teaching is so
nearly on a level with the Millerite talk
about the end of the world that we
wonder persons of any scientific train
ing can endure it for a moment. 1t is
one of the most remarkable illustrations
of how the dogmatic spirit of the
church has been transferred by science.
The scientific man talks about his hy-
pothesis as the theologian talks about
his dogma, and with as much of as
sumption and authority
4
THE time is coming" says the Con
gregationalist'' of Boston, when or
CARNATIONS for women only in the
churches will be as exceptional as SIM
liar organizations for men only. The
American Board will have women in its
corporate membership and on its Pru-
Dental committee. They will be found
in the Executive Committees of the 9TH
er societies. They comprise about two
thirds of the membership of the church
es, and they will assume their part in
the management of the work of the
churches. They will no longer think
of combining their administration to the
affairs of their own sex, nor will men
wish them to do so. We may not all
approve of this change which has be-
come so manifest. Some of us may
study ways of retarding it. The Con
gregationalist" would not be understood
as positively advocating it. 1t cannot
afford space for the controversy that
would follow. But if others hasten the
inevitable we shall not condemn them.
They will be bringing about that ideal
condition of the church described by
much-maligned Apostle when he wrote:
There can be no male and female; for
We are all one in Christ Jesus.
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gathered up paper from the business
counter and went into the EDITORS room
to read his paragraphs and laugh. 1t
was there all right: ga Dakota dis
patch says that five Indians have been
found dead on the prairie. They are
supposed to have been slain by buffalo
meat, poisoned and put there by hunt
ers Like the catastrophe of 'Villikens
and His Dinah,' this is evidently a case
of cold buffalo, with buffalo in italics"
They called him Buffalo Henry in
San Jose until he had to quit and go
to the territory-Chicag Times Herald.
The record-union., 1897-09-05
The Man Who Rocks the Roat,

I'd hate TO go out rowing with the man
who rocks the boat
Oh there's a chap who ought to be shut
up with the insane.
For it generally happens that he keeps
himself afioat,
While the luckless people with him
sink beneath the troubled main
Let US moan
If I could have my way.
You can bet that from to-day
The rocker of the boat would always
put to sea alone.
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Modern Art.

Teacher-Give me few simple sem
fences. Pupil-The sky is green. The
tree is red. The sea is yellow. Teach
er-Who taught you such nonsense?
Where did you ever see such things?
Pupil-In my fathers pictures.-Flieg-
ende Batter.
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read and write it, but he is poor hand
with English. When Is years old, he
killed his uncle, Jacob Lewis. A short
time after he killed Bull Henderson. A
council of twelve of his tribe acquitted
him of the crimes on the ground of
their being justifiable. Both crimes
were committed while under the inf1u-
ence of struggled whisky. Last Decem-
Der, while carousing, he killed his uncle,
Mason Going, Deputy Marshal. He was
sentenced to be shot on August 10Th, but
was reprieved to October. He says he
will go back and pay the penalty at
that time
The record-union., 1897-09-05
WALLA TONEHKA.
Death Sentence Suspended Until
the Baseball Season Is Over.

One of the unique figures before the
American people to-day is Walla Toneh-
ka, the Choctaw ball player, whose SEN
tence of death has been suspended I'M
til October in order that he may be able
to finish the ball season and strengthen
his team.
Walla Tonehka is % years old and was
born in Eagle County, Indian Territory.
At 3 he was an orphan. He Is We'll
schOoled in his own language, and can
The record-union., 1897-09-05
ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK.
Appointed by the President as
Minister to Russia.

The President has appointed Ethan
Allen Hitchcock of Missouri to be Min
lister to Russia. His great grandfather
was Colonel Ethan Allen. who captured
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A Natural Conclusion.

Mrs. Simmons-They say the season
Of mourning for a dead husband is
only three weeks in Persia Mrs.
Proudfit-Dear met Persian women
can't look well in black.-Cleveland
Leader
The record-union., 1897-09-05
A Wise Lad.

Teacher-Into what grand divisions is
the earth divided? Tommy (who reads
the papers)-Civil-servic reformers
and office-seekers.- Philadelphia North
American.
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zone of these (scientific) dogmas,"
says the Christian Register Unit) of
Boston, ''is that our solar system is
gradually to cool down, and become as
the moon now is. all life gradually be-
coming extinct. Why is it that scientific
men do not put this teaching on its own
merits, tell US the full truth about it.
and permit us to understand that it is
nothing more than q. hypothesis which
they are thus giving? They first as
sumo that certain things are true, and
The record-union., 1897-09-05

Tt is a reflection on the dengeneracy
of the times that the modern man and
woman needs such constant supply of
pick-me-ups. At the soda fountain
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-12-08

Omaho, Dec. IA novel petition
has been filed in the district court by
Joseph BARLEY, ex-treasurcr, now
Under a % years sentence for looting
the treasurer Of $500, 600. The petit
ton is an answer TO the states suit
in which Eartley is made co-dctcnd-
ant with his bondsmen.
The petition declares BARLEY can
not be sued since he is dead, having
been sentenced to the pcnitcntiary
His attorneys declare that under the
state law no convict can be sued. Ii
this contention be sustained, the
suit filed against the bondsmen can
not be maintained, since the princi
pal must be sued with or before sure
fties are sued in Nebraska.
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-12-08
The Kansas board Of a0ricultui

The Kansas board Of agriculture
places the aggregate value OF thc ag-
ricultural products Of that State for
1897 at sta6, 335, 25S: adding to which
the y:ille of the live stock, $94 ,O74,-
SGj, a grand total is reached Of $3.50, :
40, ,123-an increase Of $4O,0O0,O
or 2l per cent, over the values Of
last year. Kansas Vent populistic
in 1896, but has been too prosperous
this year to repeat such a foolish act,
The mott0W of the SunfloWcr state
is, Rcpublcanism and Prosperity
now and fOrcvcr-.onc and INSOFAR
ablc.-Intcr Ocean.
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-12-08
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

CONGRESSIONAL
U. S. Senators-lIon. Lee Mantle, Bu11e; Hon
Thos. II Carter, Helena:
Rcprescntatirc--llon. q. hartman, hoZe"
man.
STATE.
Goyernor--Robcrt B. Smith.
Lieut. Governor-A. +. Sprtggs.
Secretary Of State--T. S. Hogan
State Auditory. ". POindcxter
State Urea surer-r. +. Collins.
Attorney Generate. z. Nolan. --
Supt. of Public Instructions -, a. carleton.
Chief Justce--W. Y. Pcmberton.
ASS. Jnstices-W. II. Hunt, Il: X, Bpck.
Clcrl. Supreme Court-Ben1 WeDs1er.
COUNTY
District JudgeTTranl1 H.: Woody.
Clerk Of District Cpurt-AllcnL Shappce
Sheriif-Y H. Irvine
Clerk nnt Rccorder--,Jas. r. T.EitZ-e1ad.
| Treasurer--J. Il. Squcrs.
Asscssor-.I1oward D. Smart.
County Attorncy-lienry L. Myers.
supt. Public Instruct tion-Kittic, pstermeyer
Survryor-W. S. FOrtiner.
| COron 1T. b. Owngs.
|Publc a !ministra tor--J:M M. Higgins. >,
| County Commissoners--Ferd Weir, John j.
Hendricks, John W. Mayhem,
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-12-08
WON'T SAVE DIRRANT.
i}lanthcr in Atlanta When Blanche La
mont Was Murdered.

Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 2.-J. f.
Blantller, better known as Arthur B.
Forbes who was manager and pro-
prictor of the Southern Purchasing
agency in Atlanta, and who recently
committed suicide in county Jail in
Texas, was in Atlanta on the Gay
Miss Blanche Lamont and Minnie
Williams wore murdered in San
Francisco. The statement is made
BY persons in Atlanta who knew
Forbes and who had business dealings
with him AND to support their state"
ments, the books and records which
were in Forbes Office here hayc been
consulted and it is shown that be-
tween April and H.. 1895, the time
of the murders in San Francisco,
Forbes was here and doing business
with Kelly Brothers & Co: and Other
FIRMS. If these statements be true.
and there appears to be no reason tt
doubt the proofs submitted, Forbes,
alias Blanther, could not possibly
have been the murderer Of the young
girls, and the declaration made in. {
written confession admitting that llt
killed the young woman, is false.
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-12-08
Low Estimate of Deficit.

Washington, Dec. 1.-Secretary
sGage said today that in the 'andual
estimates he would send to congress,
lie would name aboit $40, 100000 and
not above $25, 900, 600 as the amount
forithe treasury deticit*fOr the fiscal
year ending June $50, 1898. The
secretary said lie expected the re-
ceipts from customs Ito increase
steadily, and that in the spring
months he anticipated quite large
>importatiof1s.
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-12-08
1 SlccDcr From TnN,

Pete l}rcdcn reports an Interesting
piece Of information TO tic eject
that a man bearing the rather rare
name Of Bill Snitll, went to bed at
the La Glide on Monday and slept
without waking for fifty-thrcc hours
straight. The hotel people were
alarmed, but they were assured that
Bill was Ill right, SO like the band,
they let him sleep on. If there are
other champions wishing to contest
for the slecpcr's belt. Bill will GO
them round~iust for luck. k.-->Chron-
ic]o