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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

tower to the gun captain the direc-
tlon and distance of the enemy. This
is fitted on nearly all our ships.
Captain Sigsbee of the st. Paul, is an
inventor. The navy now uses a deep
sea sounding apparatus and parallel
rulers for navigation of his invention.
Lieutenant Dashiell invented a
breech mechanism which was a great
Improvement on all that had preceded
it. 1t was adopted by the navy depart
ment in 1892, and was introduced on
many rapid-fire guns. This device en-
abled the man at the bTeech of the gun
10 do with n motion what had always
taken two. In the breech mechanism
the plug had to be turned with one
motion until it unlocked, and then
Withdrawn with another motion. But
by an arrangement of cogs Lieutenant
Dashiell made the pull of a lever turn
the plug until it was unlocked and
then withdraw it. The reverse mo-
ticn OF the lever drove the plug home
and then turned it until it locked. The
Dashiell mechanism has been supplant-
- ~ SHN L StIlCt hlGCDdHlSm, DuJ II
is still to be found on some rapid-fre
guns.
Lieutenant w. H. briggs and Lieu
tenant Seaton Schroeder are the inven-
tors of a rapid-fire mechanism, which
Is OF the same class as the well-known
Hotchkiss gun. 1t is applied to one
FOUNDER and ~six-pounder guns. This
invention is owned by a private cor
poration, unlike most of the navy in
v%entions, which belong t. the govern
ment.
Commodore John A. Howell is the in
yentor Of the automobile torpedo,
which bears his name. It's mechanism,
consisted chiefly Of a heavy cog wheel
made to revolye at a high rate of speed
before the torpedo is put in the water,
Commodore Howell sold this invention
to the Hotchkisg company, and for a
time drew a royalty on it. OF late i,
has been supplanted by the White
head torpedo.
Lieutenant Joseph Strauss is the in.
venter OF Improvements in mountins
turret guns. He conceived the idea O
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
odd Delicacy In Russia.

To most people a tallow candle ap-
pears more in the way Of a necessity
than a luxury, but the Russian blue
Jackets who are enjoying shore leave
lust now from the Russia and the Ad-
miral Nakimoff appear to find In as
Stimulating candles of the Chinese make
as much gusto as an English child
would have in eating a sugar stick.
The other day a party of stalwart Mus
covite blue-jackets were to be seen 60
ing along the Queens road, and the
avidity with which they polished off joss
candles was a sight for the gods. Some
Of the men, who were evidently petty
officers. elected to dine off candles as
thick as ones arm-regular No. l joss
p,dgin arrangements-and streams OF
grease trickled from the n OF
each mans mouth. British and Amer.
lean Jacks like their beer and rum
nut they draw the line at Chinese-madt
tallow candles.-Hong Kong Telegraph
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
OFFICERS WHO ARE FAMOUS INVENTORS.

little or nothing. Nearly every i'm
proyement has been invented by its
naval officers. One instance OF a naval
officer who received compensation for
an invention was that of Chief Con-
structor Wilson, now retired, to whom
the Navy Department paid $4,000 for
an air %port-hinge. But most OF the
work of naval officers brain have been
given ito the government free.
How much the inventive faculty OF
It's keen-minded officers has meant to
the Navy Department Is illustrated
In the case of Lieutenant Frank F.
Fletcher, now on duty in the ordinance
bureau. 1t was said at a hearing be-
fore a committee of the Senate last
winter, on a bill to give naval inVen-
tors compensation, that a gun-mount
of Mr.. Fletcher's had saved the gov
eminent more than 100000. All rap
id-fire guns are now placed on this
and the Worlds Fair Com
m~issioners awarded it a diploma. Brief
ly described and without technical
terms, this gun-mount is the applica-
ton of ball bearings to the upper car
riage of the gun, with a hydraulic
check to take up the recoil after firing,
and a spiral spring to return it to its
place. There is also elevating and
training gear of a complicated charac-
ter.
Mr.. Fletcher is the inventor Of sew
eral other devices. One Of these is q
breech mechanism for heavy guns
This mechanism is used for handling
all the heavy breech plugs, weighing
from 500 pounds to half a ton, Of our
8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch and 13-inch
guns. The army has also recently
adopted it. These plugs were formerly
handled by hydraulic machinery, but
Fletcher's device enabled this to be
done by hand power by one man. &c
gsccessful was the device that man
with his left hand turning a crank
can unlock from the breech of the CUR
its plug, weighing 1,150 pounds. with
draw it to the real and swing it cleal
In seven seconds.
Finally Mr.. Fletcher is the inventor
of a rapid-fire gun which is now tbs
| standard Of the navy. His device |
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

the double turret, having an eight-inA
turret placed on top of a thirteen-inch
turret, as used on the battleships
hearsarge and Kentucky, which were
launched not long ago at Newport
News.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn in
vented the Franklin life buoy, and sold
1t to a concern in Bath, Me. 1t is a self
lighting buoy. Two small tin cases at
tached to 1t contain, p~hosphide of cal
cium. Shoppers to these cases are. at
tached to the ship, so that when the
buoy Is thrown into the water the stop
pers are withdrawn, and when the buoy
strikes the water the combination OF
the chemical with the water makes a
bright fame.
Lieutenant Very. late of the navy,
devised a set of signals which are now
in use, not only in our navies, but in
all the navies of the world. Lieuten-
ant Herbert 0. Dunn invented a stock
less anchor, which is now in use on
some naval vessels. Lieutenants Van
DuZer n Mason were the inventors
or an ingenious electric steering gear.
Lieutenant Fiske and Lieutenant Lu-
Glen Young are the joint inventors of a
boat d~etaching apparatus. Chief Engi-
neer Harry Webster invented a elmo
meter, used to determine the angle roll
of a ship. Chief Engineer Nathan P,
Towne is the inventor of an improved
boiler. L~ieutenants Diehl and Gibson
are inventors of a compromising bin
nacle,' designed to neutralize the mag
netism of a steel ships hull. Passed
Assistant Engineer Tobin is the in
ventor of the famous Tobin bronze
much used for bulls of racing yacht:
and for the shells of torpedoes. ant
Prof. f. C. Munroe, of the navy. i
the inventor of the high explosiv'
"jovite."
These are only samples of the man.
contributions to inventions which nava
officers have made. Their inventiv'
talent and their skill in designing hav,
made the ships of the United State
navy superior in every convenience an
efficiency to those OF Europe. In fact
many foreign governments pay tribute
to the superiority of American idea
in royalties on the inventions of Amer
lean naval officers.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

The manufacturers OF Castoria have been
compelled to spend hundreds Of thousands of
dollars to familiar 20 the public with the sig
nature of Chas II. Fletcher. This has been
necessitatcd b. reason Of pirates counterfeit
,nE the Cas- oria trade mark. This counter
letting is a crime rot only against the proprie-
tors Of Castoria, but against the growing
generation. All persons should be careful to
zee that Castoria bears the signature OF Chas.
II. Fletcher, If they would guard the health OF
!heir children. Parents and mothers, In par
ocular, ought to carefully examine the
Castoria advertisements which have been APP
pearing in this paucr, and TO remember that
Fletcher. under who e supervision it has been
manufactured continuously for over thirty
TearS.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
BEACON FIRES IN CHINA.

The payment last month of the great
war indemnity from China to Japan
has again aroused the question why sc
little patriotism was shown by the Chi.
nese during their late war. 1t is MOI
generally known that a vast secret so
ciety fiourishes in that country to op
pose the present emperor, and hat 4;
majority of the Chinese army is sale
to belong to this society. One reason
for this opposition is that the pvesen
emperor is not strictly a Chinaman
but belongs to a Tartar dynasty.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
STONE IN HER STOMACH.
From the Gazette, Blandtnsptlle, III.

The wife of the Rev. A. r. Adams, pastor
Of the Bedford Christian Church at Blan-
5insville, ILL.,, was for years compelled to
live a life of torture from disease. Her
case bafied the physicians, but today She
Is alive and we'll and tells the story Of her
recovery as follows:
about six years ago" said Mrs. Adams,
81 weighed about lao pounds, but my
health began to fell and / lost flesh. Ny
food did not agree with me and felt like q
stone in my stomach. began to bloat all
over until l thought had dropsy.
81 had pains and soreness in my left sida
which extended clear across my back and
also into the region of my heart. During
these spells n lard ridge would appear in
the left side of my stomach and around
the left side.
These attacks left me sore and ex-
hausted Alllast summer / was SO nervous
that the children laughing and playing
nearly drove me wild. l suffered also from
female troubles and doctored with ten diff
ferent physicians without receiving any
help.
'My husband having read in the navs-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

House-clenning is a duty in every we'll
regulated household. People don't wait
until the filth becomes painfully apparent,
but it stands to reason that in every day
use more or less dust or dirt accumulate.
1t Is so with the human blood. From the
enormous variety of eatables taken into
the stomach, a quantity of useless ma
terial is bound to accumulate in the blood
and clog the free and wholesome flow in
the vessels. Every person should from
time to time nave a "blood-cleaning'' and
the best leanser and blood purifier Is
Cascarets Candy Cathnrtic. We recon-
mend them to al our readers.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

In China, such beacon fires as spread
the alarm of the Spanish Armada
through England, still call to war
Some years ago, the story goes, the
emperor sat with a beautiful woman
looking toward the beacon hills. She
would like to see those waiting piles
lighted, and upon her insisting the
thing was done. The greatest excite
ment prevailed throughout the prov,
inces, and troops came hurrying from
all sides.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
An Awakened Nation,

What have we to fear? We have ex-
haustless resources. We are able to
nut millions Of men in the ield. An
alliance OF France with Spain, armies
coming from three-quarters of the globe
need not alarm us. The nation has
been awakened by honor,-Rev. Hugh
johnson.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
own Hnsband Rend. :.

have been greatly benefited.
II was also troubled with nervous pros
tration and n%unlbness of my right arm and
hand so that at times l could hardly endure
the pain, but that has all passed away. l
now have a good appetite and am able to
do my own work. Have done more this
summer IT, in the past four years put
together. Dr.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People cured me, and l think it my duty to
let other sufferers know it"
Hundreds OF equally remarkable csses
AVE been cured by DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
Manila is pronounced Mah-neela by the
natives.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

you may roughly divide nations as
the living and the dying" Lord Sails
bury declared in a recent address be
fore the Primrose league. China be-
longs to the second class; but she will
not have existed in vain if her ex-
ample teaches living nations that faith
in their rulers and the patriotism of
the people are the sure defence of ma
lions.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

When the leaders learned that no
danger menaced, that the fires were
lighted to satisfy the within of a
woman. their wrath fed on their lost
confidence, and with the actual call to
arms the response was slow and I'M
enthusiastic. 1t was a repetition of the
old story in Webster's spelling-book.
Wolf" had been cried too often.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
Beauty Is Blood Deem.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, By
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
purities from the body. Begin to-day,
Danish pimples, boils, blotches. black heads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, Csc, 500
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
Wheat AZ Cents a Busbel.

How to grow wheat with big profit at 10
cents and samples of Salzer's Red Cross $50
Bushels per acre. Winter Wheat, Rye, Oats,
Clovers, ETC., with Farm Seed Catalogue
for 4 cents postage. JOHN A. SALZER
SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. w.n.u.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
MITE. Win.Iau,a ann.ninn nrrn.

The ostrich industry in Africa is profta
bic. There are $50, 200 tame birds there.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Coffee was introduced into the Philip.
pines from Brazil in the latter part of the
eighteenth century.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

For lung and chest diseases, Piso's Cure
is the best medicine we have used.-Mrs.
]. L. Northcott, Windsor. Ont, Canada.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

The gold stored in New York would out
weigh ten fifty-ton locomotives.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

COSMO BUTTERMH.K TOILET SOAI
makes the skin soft, white and healthy
Sold everywhere.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

For a perfect complexion aud a clear,
healthy skin, use COSMO BUTTERMILK
SOAP. Sold everywhere.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

The government has ordered 250, 900 Hes
sian bags, for fertilization purposes.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

A substitute for honey has been intro
duced in Germany, called sugar honey.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

All persons who visit the emperor of ia
pan are compelled to take a bath first.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 15c.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

German schoolboys study harder and play
less than those of any other country.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Black roses are on exhibition at Vo
renzu, Russia.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Tulu Tulu-The new Pepsin chewing
gum is delicious. Call for it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Parsley is entirely effective in removing
the odor o onions after q meal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

No-To-Bac or Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed bacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong. blood pure. SOC, IL. All druggists
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
& read in The news

paper of DR..
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Pink Pills
for Pale PEG.
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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

A bath with COSMO BUTTERMILK
SOAP, exquisitely scented, is soothing and
beneficial. Sold everywhere.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. f0c or 25y
nc. &C fails to cure, druggists refund none:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Partisan BARRIERS are legally compelled to
wash their hands before waiting on a Gus
toner.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

To perfect these devices in foreign
navies the government have had to pay
millions of dollars for improvements
and inventions that tended to make
their guns and ships more powerful
in their keen comretition for supre-
macy. In this Gu try, the home of
the inventor, our government had paid
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

For children teething ,softens the gums. reduces innar
nation. nllays pain, cures wind collie. 9s cents a bottl
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

The American navy has supplied
hundreds of the inventions which have
played important parts in the develop
ment of the modern navy. The first
essential step, the introduction of the
ironclad and the monitor, was Ameri-
can born. Another initial advance
quite as important in its way was the
construction of the modern high-power
rifles, requiring in their design a high
order of mathematical ability and an
intimate knowledge of the Characters
tics of modern steel. All guns in the
navy have been designed by Professor
Philip R.. Alger, a former graduate Of
Annapolis, who has since been trans
ferred to the corps of the professors
OF mathematics in the navy, and who
Is the highest authority on ordinance
matters in this country, if not in the
world. Professor Alger received a di-
ploma from the Worlds Fair Commits
sion for his system of gun construction,
now in use in the navy.
In order to make these guns efficient,
methods had to be devised for handling
them on board ship; opening and clos
ing the breach for loading, mounting
them on carriages for sighting and
training, protecting them with armor,
supplying them with powder and shell,
developing smokeless powder for their
use, designing primers, fuses, telescope
sights and a hundred little accessories
used in connection with their services.
1t was also essential to provide the
necessary appliances for using the mod
ern automobile torpedoes to be fired
from Il ships and torpedo boats; ap-
paratus for signaling orders from the
coming tower to the guns and to ev-
cry part of the ship, for measuring
the distance of the enemy, for counter
mining harbors and clearing channels
and many other devices more or less di-
rectly connected with the ships as a
fighting machine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
l0e.2oc- IfC. c. c. fail druggists refund money
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

New Zealand freezes 4, 900, OG0 sheep year
ly for European markets.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

Cotton of twelve different colors grows
In Peru.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27

The collection of coins and medals in the
British museum Is $50. 000 specimens.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
SALT LAKE CITY DIRECTORY.
Salt Lake Electric Supply Co.
SMITH g. ADAMS

e. q. Airs, Pres. X. W. Nicol, Sec. Contracting
Electriclans. Wholesale and Retail Electric Sup
plies. Phone g.: Is W.. First South St., Salt Lake.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-27
| Officers Of Our Navy
Who Are
Distinguished Inventors


being used on all the 3-inch, 4-iuch, :
inch and 6-inch guns in the service.
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ST. ELMO HOTEL, EES aIO enS s Plan q. s Cor;
Lake. Rates SOC, zoe, 81. II. Brisacher, Prop.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-07-02
Homestead Patents in ST. Lendry.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
New Orleans, La, June IA, 1898. !
Hon. B. BLOOMFIELD, OPELoUsAs, La,
Dear Sir Il herewith send you q list
Of Cash Patents now on file in
this office, belonging to parties residing
in your parish. 1t is important that the
patentees should secure their patents at
an early date. To obtain possession of
them, they must transmit to the Regis
ter their Final Receivers Receipt; and
in cases of loss of Receivers Receipt,
an affidavit of loss must be substituted
In event Transfers OF property has been
made, the present owners of the land
must file an affidavit showing owner
ship.
Zenon A. Ar.lon, Benjamin Avant,
Nicholas Amy, Emeiien Bernard, Fran
coise Beard, Homer Bertrand, Jean
Louis Bernard, Charles Bertrand, Sr.,
Joseph Burgo. Sr., c. Comeau. c. Co.
mean, Bartholomew Dejean, Dalicourt
Duplechain, Bartholomew Dejeap, Va
lery Landreneau, Dr.. Hugh Montaom-
cry, John Dunn McDonator, Robert w.
fred Collins, Emile Hebert. Wm w.
Humble. Samuel Haas, Thomas $.
Isacks, Jacob, B. EDgstrom, Lucius T..
Guillory, Louis Gradnego, James E.
Bredon, Paul Duplechain, Henry p.
Fontenot three entries, Onite Fruger,
Gerard Fruger, Honore Fuselier, Onile
Fruger. Thomas Fair. A. B. Fontenot,
Pierre Forest. Bennett johnson Felicite
Jeansonne, Wild. Carmelite Laheur,
Paul Lafeur, Andrew Miller, Pierre B.
Manuel. John B. P. B. Manuel, Joseph
Marcantel, Eugenie Muller, Raphael f.
Manuel, Rebecca McIntire, Michel Pru-
d'homme, George Provost, Jean B. F.
Reugeau two entries, Jean Bite. F. Rou-
geau, Heirs of Marie Felonise Thibo-
deaux, Valerien VeiIlon.
Very respectfully yours,
CHARLES p. JOHNSTON,
Receiver.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-07-02

The efforts made to resume the
publication Of the Daily Monitor
are not meeting with the encour-
agement the enterprise deserves,
and many Of those having large
interests here do not seem dispos-
ed to give the project any encour-
agement whatever. It is true sew
eral of our enterprising and lib
eral business men have done all
that could be expected Of them,
but it looks strange that many
who are far more interested, and
by virtue of their ample means
and prominence in commercial
and financial matters, ought to
show some interest in the project,
have thus far refrained from do
ing so. A glance at the daily pa
rers Of Alexandria, Donaldson
vile, New Iberia and other towns,
all show that nearly every busi-
ness house in those towns are
properly represented in the ad-
columns of their papers.
Why is it that Opelousas can't do
as we'll.