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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

time. reminds me of q ludicrous but
striking experience in which shared
some four-and-thirty years ago. Cen
eral Banks was besieging Port Hud-
son, Louisiana, the 0Southern gateway
to the control of the Mississippi River.
A body of troops had marched
into the back country to
look for lowering confederate cavalry,
and were sleeping one mOOnless night
behind stacked rifles in readiness for
q night attack. The attack came in
an unexpected form. Some six or
eight army mules, getting somehow
detached from the wagon wheels to
which they were tied at night, were
seized with panic, and came charg-
ing down almost the entire line of the
SD Massachusetts volunteers. Every
man lay covered with q
shelter tent" piece of white cotton
cloth about five feet square. AS the
mules rushed over each one of us he
woke suddenly with q cry and sprang
up, raising his sheltertent in one hand
or upon his front, 80 that he seemed
like a sheeted and gibbering ghost.
This successive rising of over four hun
dred apparitions added wildness to the
panic of the mules, and they fairly flew
down the line.
Now, the remarkable thing is that,
while many a man had his side rubbed
hard or his scalp abraded by the hoof
or the leg of q mule. not q man was
really stepped on or really hurt It
was for months q subject of comment
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

water by the big sand wheels in order
to secure the necessary fall to permit
the water to sweep the sand freely
along with it. Many millions of tons
of sand have been poured into the lake,
and hundreds of acres of dry ground
now appear where there was from ten
to fifty feet of water q quarter of CEN
fury ago.
Not the least fascinating thing about
the Lake Linden works of the Calu
met and Hecls is the big pump which
furnishes water for twin mills. This
is by all odds the greatest pump in the
world, and is housed in q tall building
by itself. The pump stands some thir-
ty feet in height, and at each stroke
forces nearly five hundred gallons of
water to the top of the mills. It feeds
from big cement cistern having free
connection with the nearby lake and
for every minute of the working day
raises from 30, 900 to more than AZ, 600
gallons of water, having . capacity of
60, 600, 600 gallons day, or more than
twice that of the next largest pump
ever constructed. Its nearest neigh
Dor in capacity on this continent is the
big "a, OOO, 900 gallon pump which is
deservedly the pride of the Philadel-
phia waterworks.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

stamp, the rock passes through jigs
and vanning machines, where an ever
continuous but gentle motion, assisted
by innumerable sprays of water, sepa-
rates the cOarser particles of copper
from the worthless rock, the greater
weight of the copper causing it to fall
into receptacles calculated for its re-
tentiOn, while the water carries the
lighter sand from the crushed rock to
further siftings. This process of &C.
lection is carried on from one machine
to another, under ever-present jets of
water, until the very finest grains of
copper, and they are very minute in
deed, have been saved and only the
worthless sand remains from what was
rock carrying to 10 per cent of native
copper when it entered the big bins ON
the top floor of the mill. AS something
like four thousand tons of copper-bear
ing cOnglOmerate rock are fed into
these two mills daily, all of which must
be crushed into sand, the waste sand
from the mills would bury the machines
In twenty-four hours it it were not re-
moved. The process of removal is
most simple, the only agents being
wooden launders and plenty of running
water. Small launders run from the
side of each machine. carrying the
sand in solution. aAs these runlets
join the size Of the. leunder grows, IN
I'LL as Inc streams emerge from the
mills there are dozen rushing tor
rents of brick-red water. These are
carried to big cistern, not far distant,
where gigantic wheel 100 feet in
diameter keeps turning, its big buck
cts on its inner periphery scooping up
the water from the cistern and dump
ing it nearly hundred feet above into
an enormous wooden launder which is
elevated high in the air on great tres
ties, and which carries the rapidly
running sand and water q quarter of a
mile into the lake, where q reddish
Niagara spouts increasingly from the
wooden trough during the working
hours of the mill. At first the water
carrying the sand ran into the lake,
near which the mills were placed, but
the lake was filed and it became neces-
sary to resort to the elevation of the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09
REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY

fewseconds after reaching the breast,
whore Q large flow of.water was coming
out Of the ledge, 1 found that 1 was
getting very short of breath.
tried to recover, but could not do go.
My candle was burning brightly. 1
tuned and ran back toward the mouth
of the tunnel perhaps one hundred
feat, at the same time calling to my
bother to come to me.
began to lget weak, lost conscious
ness, and fell to the floor. 1 could not
rise again, although trying hard to do
20. 1 felt just like one in nightmare.
trying to move, but unable to do so:
bot felt no pain whatever, not even
or coughing sensation. At
this point my brother reached
me, and pulled me back
toward better air, where I re.
vived within a minute or two.
In this case asphyxia was probably
caused by chlorine gas. 1 have sever
81 times helped to take men who had
been suffocated out of mines, and their
faces and positions showed no signs of
pain or any suffering. L had wondered
at this, but now I know how q person
might be asphyxiated while his light
burned brightly, and would suffer no
pain whatever to warn him of sp-
danger.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09
Pressure of The Sea.
Chicago Chronicle.

There are spots in the ocean where
the water is five miles deep. If it is
true that the pressure of the water on
any body in the water is one pound to
the square inch for every two feet of
the depth anything at the bottom of
one of the ''6ve-mile holes'' would
have pressure about it of 1920 feet
to every square inch. There is moth
ing of human manufacture that would
resist such q pressure. That it exists
there is no doubt. 1t is known that
the pressure on a well-corked glass
bottle at the depth of three hundred
feet Is so great that the water will
force it's way through the pores of the
glass. 1t is also said that pieces of
wood hav g been weighted and
sunk in the sea to such a depth that
the tissues have become so condens-
ed that the wood has lost its buoyancy
and would never float again. It could
not be even made to burn when dry
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

sible for a torpedo boat to get within
range without exposing itself to in
slant destruction, and after q torpedo
fleet has once met with q serious re-
pulse, it is believed that it would be al
most impossible to get the crews 70 go
into action again.
The torpedo boat destroyer, contra
ry to general belief, does not carry any
heavy guns, but depends on its great
speed and its ability to cripple q tor
pedo boat G with its slx-pound.
ers while keeping out OF
range of the enemy's tubes. All tor
pedo boat destroyers carry torpedo
tubes themselves, so that they can be
used against the enemy's Dsttlesalps
or cruisers If the occasion offers. The
fastest boat in the navy is the Destroy
er Bailey, which can steam tn'rsy-four
miles an hour.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09
speed of about twenty-seven miles an

speed of about twenty-seven miles an
hour.
The weakest class of all ia composed
of the unprotected cruisers, which
have neither armor belt nor protect
i've deck. and carry only light batteries
of rspid-fire guns. When these vessels
are slow, like the Detroit, they are
intended for long voyages and for
duty in foreign countries and are of
little use in a. sea fight.
The very fast unprotect-
ed cruisers, like the American line
steamers ST. Paul and st. Louis, at
tach little Importance to their arma-
ment and rely for protection upon
slowing the coal behind the place &C.
cupied by the armor belt in other ves-
sells.
Torpedo boats, as their name implies,
depend entirely upon the torpedo as
weapon of attack and they carry no
guns except few very light calibre
rapid-frers to keep off small boats.
Their success depends on their ability
to approach q vessel very rapidly,
launch their torpedosand retreat before
thew are detected and sunk. Speed is
their great requisite, and torpedo
boat like the Porter can steam thirty
two miles an hour. Naval experts con-
slider their bark worse than their bite,
because with the modern system of
lookouts and searchlights and the &C
curacy and rapidity of the second
airy batteries, 1t Is lmpos-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

Bad management Keeps more people
in Door circumstances than any other
one cause. To be successful one must
look ahead and plan ahead SO that
when favorable opportunity presents
itself he is ready to take advantage of
it. A little forethought will also save
much expense and valuable time. A
prudent and careful man will keep q
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house,
the shiftless fellow will wait until
necessity compels it and then ruin his
best foregoing for q doctor and have 8
big doctor bill to pay, besides; one
pays out Is cents, the other Is out q
hundred dollars and then wonders why
his neighbor is getting richer while he
is getting poorer. For sale by all
druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

with us that the mules, in their in
teDsifed panic, should nevertheless
have been able to see where to
step, should have cared where they
stepped, and in their speed should have
been able always to step on the ground
The men presently lay down again,
but for half an hour afterward laugh
at the righteousness of the experience
would start somewhere among the
recumbent forms and go pealipg up
and down the line.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

Mr.. P. Ketcham of Pike City, Cal,
says: "During my brothers late sick
ness from sciatic rheumatism, Cham
berlain's Pain Balm was the only ~
medy that gave him any relief"
Many others have testlneo to the
prompt relief from pain which this
liniment affords. For sale by* I'll
druggists*
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09
So. Pac, Co. to KlOndike.

Through tickets via San Francisco,
Seattle or Portland. Rates OF fare,
and freight and general Information
furnished on application or by mail.
T. e. HUNT. Commercial Agt
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09
Animal Instinct.

Letter in The Spectator.
Your article in 'The Spectator" of
October %, 1897, as to the power of
animals to see in the night, and as to
their tendency to panic at that
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-09

Good eating at Smiths Creamery.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29
One army Of the living God,
To his command we bow:
SPANS Power 800 Years Ago.

Macauley drew the picture of the
power of Spain 800 years ago, that it is
interesting to recall at this juncture: =.
The empire of Philip the Second was
undoubtedly one of the most powerful
and splendid that ever existed in the
world 1t is no eXaggeration to say
that during several years his power
over Europe was greater than even
that of Napoleon. In America his do
minions extended on both sides of the
equator into the temperate zone. There
is reason to believe that his annual
vevenues amounted in the season OF
his greatest power to a sum ten times
as large as that which England yielded
to Elizabeth. He had standing army
of $4,000 troops when England did not
have single battalion, in constant
pay. He held, what no other prince
in modern times has held the domin-
ion both of the land and the sea. Dur
ing the greater part of his reign he was
supreme on both elements. His SOL
diers marched up to the capital Of
FRANCE, HIS SHIPS meHdceu the snoIcS
of England. Spain had what Napo-
leon desired in vain-ships, colonies,
and commerce She long monopolized
the trade of America and of the Indian
ocean. All the gold of the west and
all the spices OF the east were received
and distributed by her. Even after
the defeat of the Armada, English
statesmen continued to look with great
dread on the maritime power of Philip.
Whoever wishes to get well acquaint-
ed with the morbid anatomy of gov
eminent, whoever wishes to know how
great states may be made feeble and
wretched, should study the history of
Spain. +,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29
Bamboo suspension Bridge.

The construction of the bamboo sus-
pension bridge of Shi Tsuen, which
spans a distance of 300 feet. tends to
show the Chinese as possessing a great
deal of rough engineering skill, this
bridge having been erected without the
help of any of the foreign devils"
Eight cables of bamboo strips. woven
together and the thickness of a mans
leg are loosely thrown across the river.
The cables are doubled at both ends
and hitched through wooden posts of
a heavy weight that are fixed in ma
sonry, but in such a manner that they
can be turned around like windlass,
enabling the natives to tighten the ca
bles. Fixed under the cables at in
tervals of four and half feet are cross
girders made of thin strips of bamboo
which are brought up on both sides
and made fast to great bamboo cable,
about five feet above the bridge, which
acts as a railing or banister.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29

ciety. IN the Tract Society, in the For-i
eign Missionary Society, shoulder 70
shoulder all denominations.
Perhaps ] might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling your attention 10
an incident which took place twenty
five years ago. One Monday morning
at about o'clock, while her nine hun
dred passengers were sound asleep ln''
her berths dreaming of home, the,
steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars
Head. Five hundred souls in ten min
utes landed in eternity! Oh, what a
scene Agonized men and women run
ming up and own the gangways, and
clutching for the rigging, and the
plunge of the helpless steamer, and the
clapping of the hands of the merciless
sea over the drowning and the dead,
threw two continents into terror. But
see this brave quartermaster pushing
out with the life line until he gets TO
the rock; and see these fishermen gath
ering up the shipwrecked, and taking
them into the cabins, and wrapping
them in the fiannels snug and warm;
and see that minister of the Gospel,
with three other men, getting into
life-boat, and pushing out for the
wreck, pulling away across the SURF,
and pulling away until they saved one
more man, and then getting back with
him to tire shore. Can those men ever
forget that night? And can they ever
forget their companlonshlp in peril,
ompanionship in struggle, companion
ship in awful catastrophe and rescue?
Never! Never! In whatever part OF
the earth they meet, they will be
friends when they mention the story of
that night when the Atlantic struck
Mars Head Well, my friends, our
world has gone into a worse shipwreck
Sin drove ii on the rocks. The old ship
has lurched and tossed in the tempests
of six thousand years. Out with the
lifeline! | do not care what denomi-
nation carries it. Out with the life
boat / do not care what denomina-
tion rows il. Side by side, in the mem
DRY of common hardships, and common
trials and common prayers, and COM
mon tears, let us be brothers forever
We must be.
$50
One army of the living God, TtIs>
To his command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the food,
And part are crossing now.
And expect to see the day when all
denominations of Christians shall join
hands around the cross of Christ and
recite the creed: Il believe in God the
Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the
Communion of Saints, and in life ever
lasting. Amen" ~
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29
Harcourt as a ConIurer.

Had Sir William Harcourt not taken
to politics, he might have earned re-
spectacle livelihood as a conjurer. At
sleight-of-hand tricks he is a pastmas-
ter, and often amuses any young peo-
pie who may be staying in his house
by making an egg pass from his hand
into a little box standing on the man
telpiece. Artful Sir William has had
this box specially constructed for him;
in fact, it has false bottom, but his
young friends are not aware of this.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29

The Seasons In Australia.
In Australia spring begins August
20; summer, November 20; autumn,
February 30. and winter, May 20.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-05

a pleasant visit with her daughter, Mrs.
John Harmon.
Isaac Blum, of the firm of Blum
Bros, is home from business trip
through the East
w. j. Jones and wife, of Wellsburg,
W. Va. spent yesterday in the city as
guests of friends
J. L. Foreman is at Steubenville,
having been called cnere by the serious
illness of a friend.
Mrs. Aubrey Noble, of Melville, n.
j., arrived in the cIty yesterday to
spend a while with her husband, who is
employed in the bottle works.
Ohioans in town yesterday were: J.
H. Beard, Belmont; Mrs. Doudney,
Smyrna; G. G. Boyd, Kennon; Mrs. J.
NJ. Miller and son, C. H. Devore, s. T.
Devore, Woodsfeld; Miss Martha Jack
son, Dorsey Station.
Five attachments have been issued
by Squire J. w. Morrell against J. A.
Fletcher, of Martin Ferry, for VIM j.
Mccain, the amount claimed being
over $1,000. The attachments result
from differences over a contract for
foundation.
The Duquesne hook and ladder COM
pany are in receipt of a handsome pic
ture of the tomb of Gen. Ulysses G.
Grant, presented by Blum Bros, the
dry goods merchants, and for which
the entire company expresses thanks.
The date for the installation of the
local lodge of Elks has been changed
from the 10Th to the 9th inst The in
stallation is to take place at Odd Eel
lows hall beginning at two o'clock in
the afternoon. The Elk lodges of
neighboring towns have been invited to
be present and big time is promised.
President S. l.. Mooney. Of the b.,
z. Il c., has leased about 5000 acres
OF coal land lying in the southern part
Of the county for a Columbus syndi-
cate Three large mines are to be
opened and will be equipped with the
latest electrical machinery. A large
tract of coal land along the B. & O.
railroad in the county has been leased
by a New York syndicate.
The funeral Of Mrs. Written. who
died "Wednesday night, took place from
her late residence in the First ward
Yesterday afternoon. and was attSnd-
ed by large number of Borrowing rel
atives and friends. The Daughters of
Liberty, of which order the deceased
was a member. attended the ceremony
in a body. At the conclusion of the
services. the body was borne to Rose
Hill cemetery for burial.
A pleasant surprise was rendered to
Charles Wilson Thursday night at his
home in honor of his forty-seventh
birthday. Mr. Wilson is an employee
Of Stewart & Wards flour mill, and
quite number of his fellow workmen
we're present and presented him with a
pair of gold spectacles. An elegant re-
mast was served at midnight, to which
all present did justice, and departed
after expressing many good wishes for
the host.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-05
DON'T NEGLECT
A COMMON CASE OF PILES.
1t May Lead to Serious Results.


When people generally understand
that all such fatal diseases as fistula,
ulcer OF the rectum, fissure, ETC., almost
invariably begin in a simple case of
piles, they will learn the wisdom of
taking prompt treatment for the first
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The Pyramid Pile Cure will certainly
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bleeding, protruding or blind piles,
ana hundreds of lives have been saved
by using this cheap but effective rem
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cases, several packages are sometimes
necessary before a lasting cure is eff
fected.
Physicians are using the Pyramid
Pile Cure in preference to surgical OPP
erations and with uniform success.
The remedy is prepared by the Pyra-
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This firm receive hundreds of testi-
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| am convert to the merits of the
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-05
DISTRICT S. S. MEETING.

A district Sunday school workers
meeting Of the counties of Hancock,
Brooke, Ohio. Marshall, Wetzel and
Tyler will be held in this city Tues
day, March 18th. under the auspices of
the West Virginia State Sunday School
As-~ iation. The meeting will have
two sessions, one in the First Eng
lish Lutheran church at 2 O'Clock D.
M, and the other in the Second Pres
byterian church at 745 o'clock D. m.
The afternoon meeting will be Of a
normal nature, in the interests Of
teachers, officers and Old scholars,
while the evening meeting will con-
sist of devotional exercises and an adj
dress by Prof. H. M. Hamill, field
worker of the International Sunday
School Executive Committee, who viii
have charge of both the afternoon
and evening meetings.
Prof. Hamill has national reputa-
ton as a Sunday school worker, and
never fails to please and instruct his
audiences.
The principal objects of the meeting
will be to interest the Sunday schools
Of the above counties and to CONSOLE
date Sunday school workers into coun-
ty organizations, also to make prepare
tons for the State Sunday school con-
vention at Clarksburg, April 10Th to
21St, inclusive.
1t is expected that special railroad
rates will be secured for those desiring
to attend from a distance.