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Killed by a Fall.

Great Falls. July "a telegram from
Sand Coulee this evening says that
Jacob Poomala was instantly killed and
Otto Matson seriously injured by a fall
Of rock in the Sand Coulee Coal COM
pany's mine this forenoon at IL o'clock.
They were employed in the third east,
at the job now as drawing pillars.
They had just fired a shot, which is
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Receipts. Shipments.


Chicago, July 9.-Cattle-The demand
for cattle to-day was good and prices
about unchanged. Choice steers, S5d5.35;
medium, 81. 55a4.75; beef steers, Ad4.50:
stockers and feeders. 81. 25a4. Is: bulls. S3d
10; cows and heifers, 3.15a4; Gamers,
81. 50d3 10: calves, S.50G7: Western
steers. 81. 2Oq5.15; Texas steers. s3.75@
ass.
Hogs-Buyers operated quite freely in
hogs at "A reduction of fully Sc. Fair to
choice. s.. 90d4. 92ia: packers. s3.75q3.9 90;
butchers. s3.sed3.95; mixed. s.. 75n3. 50;
light, So .65G3.92lz.
Sheep-Sheep were steady under light
offerings with prices unchanged. Spring
lambs. 50. 7Od6. Is: native sheep, $4d4.75;
old ewes. s.. jOd3.50.
Receipts-Cattle. 700; hogs. 5000; sheep.
100.
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London. July s.-Ther was an excellent
attendance at the wool auction sales to-
day. A miscellaneous catalogue was Of
fered and sales were made at firm hg-
ures. New South Wales greasy was in
demand and was taken largely by the
continent at full prices. Fine Geelopg sold
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Santiago de Cuba,

The streets, harbor and MORO Castle
are fully pictured in The Standards
wal premium. THE American Navy"
1t will pay you to subscribe for che
daily for a period in order to obtain
the work. The daily for six months for
So. including the book, or the daily one
year for so, with the book free.
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The Wool Market.

Great Falls. July 9.-The only wool
sale of the day was that of McGrain
Bros. of Pondera to c. p. Mum. repre-
senting Dewey, Gould & Co. of Boston,
at 1875 cents. During the afternoon
there were 40 sales. The buyers had
all adjourned to the baseball ground at
Black Eagle falls.
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San Francisco. July 9.-Spring woods
Nevada. l0al4c. Oregon. eastern. 10a12c:
Oregon valley, i5al7c: Northern. l4alJc.
Fail wools-Northsrn mountain. 9dllc;
mountain lambs, sd10c; plains. 6decs
Humboldt and Mendocino. I1di3c.
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RnckIen,. Arnica saIye.

THE BEST sALVE in the world for
Cuts. Bruises. Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum.
Fever Sores. letter. Chapped Hands. chill
blains. Corns and all Skin Eruptions. and
positively cures Piles. or no pay required.
IL is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton or money refunded. Price . cents per
box. For sale by all Druggists.
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New York Mining Stocks.
Money Market.

New York. July 9.-Money on call. IL
per cent. Prime mercantile paper. 3hG4
per cent. Sterling exchange steady. with
actual business in bankers bills AT l.S2.
gI.s6 for demand and A~.siza4.s47. for %
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days. Posted rates. a.S5aI.Sh and s4.ssis
m4.s7. Commercial bills. SASH. Silver GER
tihcates. 5s%n591zc. Mexican dollars, SIC.
Government bonds strong, state bonds
dull, railroad bonds firm.
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Rudyard Kipling is said to have been
so dissatisfied with The Recessonal'
when he first wrote il hat he threw the
rough copy into the waste basket. whence
IL was rescued by his wife.
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New York. July 9.-Pig iron warrants.
quiet; Northern. sl0al0.J0. Lake copper
quiet at 1i%c. Tin firm. market easy. Lead
firm at 3.sOc. Bar silver. 5Sac.
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Boston July 9.-Oregon Short Line. 2s
Boston & Montana, 2nSA Butte & Boston
PAS; Calumet & Hecla, $40: Parrot. 222a.
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STILL KEEPS A-COM|NG
Over Eight Hundred Dollars for
Company A.
ARE PROUD OF THE RECORD
Much More Viii Be Realized by the
Ball. Which Will Be Generously
Patronized by the People
of the City.

Great Falls, July 9.-The Standard
office desires to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the following contributions for
the ComnanY A fund.-:
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Spanish Fours

Paris. July 9.-Spanish Is closed at
81. 40. a new gain of So.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Queer Causes or Death.

Nelson Clark, q steamboatman OF
Paducah, Ky, was scalded to death
or the steamer Jennie Gtlchrist. He
placed a plank on the boiler and went
to sleep, when the safety valve opened
with fatal result. MIS-. Helen Sayers,
Of Clicopee Falls, Mass, was drowned
In what Is known as the Dleaclo-y
pond, in the rear Of Dunn'5 blea2herr.
Mrs. Sayers was giving heG GGg 4 bath,
and in some name lost her balance
and fell forward into the water. Her
head was submerged and she was IN
able to call for assistance or to get out.
William Kaufman. of Wright County.
Iowa, was attacked by h~;ccoU@ls. He
swallowed the ~proyerbial nine cups OF
water, and his family attempted 10
frislten the mild commissions from
him. but he grew worse. lie vas a
man of strong constitution. but vas
compelled to take to his bed, and soon
after died in terrible agony. William
Johnson, Of Richmond, Va. was in q
beat out in the stream, with compan-
ions. He lost his balance and fell over.
board, sinking quickly out Of sight. A
fruitless search was made for the body,
and when Johnsou's friends went TO
pull in their heavily laden se;nes they
were Mortified TO find the dead mans
body entangied in the tTine.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Strange Forms of Suicide.

Suicide is developing strange forms
in Paris. A dressmaker was working
with her three assistants n evening
recently, when they began to talk OF
their troubles, and three of the
women, all about twenty-five years OF
age, coming to the conclusion that
life was not worth living, decided to
kill themselves at once. The fourth,
a girl of twenty-one, said that she did
not care to be left alone and would
die too. They all wrote farewell let
ters to their friends, sent out for a
bottle of cherry brandy and some
charcoal, stopped up the openings
into the room, lit the charcoal, and
drank the brandy. They were heard
laughing and singing until late in the
night by the neighbors, and all four
were found dead the next morning.
A few days before an actress in one OF
the minor theatres, who was supping
with three female friends, told them
that she meant to kill herself. They
discussed the best means for accom-
piishing her purpose and decided OF
poison. She went at once to a drus
store and procured what she wanted,
drank it III the presence Of her friends
without interference, and after watch
ing her commissions and seeing thai
The poison had done its work, they
called in a policeman and told hin
what had Representatives. York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Shells as Money.

The relative value of coWry money
varies. In British India and Siam
about 1000 pass for a shilling. The
ordinary gradation in Central and
Western Africa, the true home Of
| cowry-trading, is as follows: Forty
| cowries make q string; two and one
half strings equal a penny; fifty
strings, q head; and ten heads, one
bag. A bag of 20, 900 coWrles just be-
fore the founding Of the Congo Free
State was worth lis. Cd. English
money. Yet this value was not uni
form, varying slightly according to
locality. Slaves and elephants tusks
however, have always been settled for
in barter, not in cowries. Prints and
cotton cloth, iron spikes and brass
wire have proved the most acceptable
payments for such articles of mer-
chandise. But with a few exceptions
of this kind, which belong to export
commerce, cowries have for ages
furnished the money medium. Barth,
the traveller. tells us that in Mumyoma,
Western Africa, the kings revenue
was reduced at 3O,OUU, OOU smells, eacn
male adult being assessed so many
shells poll-taz, SO many for every
slave and pack animal. There was no
evading the tax collector either. 1t
was either prompt payment, or else
the headsman collected a poll-tax in
his fashion, and the victims property
was confiscated.
The establishment of the Congo
Free State, with its railways, steam
boats, trading posts, and the opening
up of this enormous territory to COM
merce on a great scale will probably
before many years exterminate cowry
currency in all but the remoter re
.gions. Such money ceases to be OF
use with the coming of civilized
usages,-Harper's Round Table.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
4 MONUMENT OF LOVE
Story OF the Buildlng Of the Famous
Moorish Palace of the kihanbra.


The ALA&mora OF SPAN mas &s'ALHed
a fame e4ualieu Iy 10 other pi.-Ace Oh
earth. This niarE@.oN5 creation OF
Moorish fancy IS ".-Eatt II WHAT was
IN is time Ole q TIE strongest a-'4
largest foEtreSseS II the Wof'i. C2pa-
BIO OF containing an army 0T 4V,uUo
men, it was At once TIC attenuation q
the Moors and tie dread o. t-e Span
iaTis. The Noors called II fie AafNeN
Fortress, and had a superstition tHaE
when 1t feu the Moorish power II SPAN
would ONE to ali end. The belrf WAS
justified by the event, for A2'-2--lL@-l'
vah. the Red Castle, vas the ia>l Moor
i-.t S~trnnrHD.i 10 SLA.tI-GtI ~ LlA5
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Accounting for Her Appearance.

A lady who is a city missionary be-
came very much interested in a very
poor, but apparently respectable Irish
family named Curran, living on the
top floor of a great tenement-house in
the slum district.
Every time she visited the Currans
the missionary was annoyed by the
staring and the whispering OF the other
women living in the building. One
day she said to Mrs. Curran:
"Your neighbors seem very curious
to know who and what I am, and the
nature Of my business with you"
"They do So" acquiesced Mrs.
Curran.
"Do they ask you about it?"
sIndade they do, ma'am."
"And do you tell them?'
"Faith, thin, an OF do not"
"Wha do you tell them?'
"Oi just tell thin you are me dress
maker, an let it go at that. "-Har-
per's Bazaar.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
An Aged Medical Student.

M. Boryski, a medical student of
Warsaw, has just obtained his diploma
at the age of seyenty-five. He began
his studies at the age of tw~enty-one,
but his funds ran out, and he took to
tax collecting to earn a living. He
was twenty years saving enough to
resume his medical studies, and just
then there was a Polish risingin which
he was concerned, and he was sent to
Siberia for life. In 1895 his sentence
was RENTED. He hurried back to
Warsaw, recommended his studies,
and is now ready to practice. But it
is not fair. People always wish an
old doctor, and II. Boryski will be in
demand from the start.-New York
SIM.
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Doves Growing Wise.

The doves which make their homes
in the iceboases on the Penobscot
river, below Bangor, have multiplied
so rapidly this summer that they have
been obliged to swarm and go outside
to build their nests. Most of them
went to barns and farm sheds, though
a good number are building among the
forked limbs of the red oaks, which
grow near the shore. The nests are
crude affairs, made of sticks and mud,
and are generally put up in groups Of
four aud five. In general appearance
they bear a close resemblance to the
nests of the wild pigeons, which were
very plentiful fifty years ago.
The domestic dove is far ahead of
the wild pigeon in matters Of thrift
and fecundity. The pigeons reared
from three to four broods Of two each
in a season and always moved to new
nesting grounds as soon as the young
were able to fly. The doves produce
eight or ten broods in a year, occupy
Jag the same large fiat nests in which
the nearly tiedged youngand the newly
laid eggs lie side by side. The pigeons
went south during cold weather and
thus secured q perpetual food supply.
The doves have not learned to migrate
as vet, and many die from starvation
during the cold weather. The fact that
they have begun to utilize trees for
sites for their nests indicates that they
may soon acquire the habit of passing
the winter III the south. For more
than a century the country people
have believed the old rhyme:
When a dove shall light in a tree
The lame shall walk and the blind shall see
r Now the doves not only light on
trees, but build their nests among the
branches. For this reason people be-
lieve the doves will gain migratory hab'
its in the course of time, and eventu.
ally supplant the wild pigeons, which
are practically extinct New
York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
A Parsons story.

An itinerant parson tells that way
out Sin the back woods" he came, one
dar, TO Il settlers house, and entered
to have a talk with it's inmates. The
old woman OF the house became much
interested in the preachers discourse,
and requested that he conduct family
worship. She also insisted upon
hunting up her family Bible, to be
nsel upon the occasion.
She left the room to look up the
Bible, but seemed to have hard work
finding it. The minutes passed, All
she came not. The preacher had tlme
to grow impatient before the old
woman reappeared, with a few tattered
leaves in her hand.
She handed them over, with an apo
logetic air. TIN awfHlly sorry. par
SON" she explained, ''but the fact is,
| I didn't know I vas SO near out o.
Bibles!"-Harper's Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19

We call the readers attention to the ad-
v%ertisement of Montgomery Ward & Co, Of
Chicago, which appears in our display col
iginators Of the mail order system of doing
business, and have the largest business of its
character in the world. They employ 1000
a stock Of goods representing over sf,G0o.UW in
money. and receive from GOO to 1900 letters
and orders every day. They sell everything
one can wear or use, and everything is sold
resented, or the purchaser can exchange for
other goods, or have his money refunded, as
he prefers.
Knowing the high character of the firm, we
have no hesitancy in saying that What they
promise to do, they will do, and that they are
thoroughly reliable in every way.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Hoods Pills a ~seh II io Sa's %s s,a's % ria
DR.. Webb's Locomotive searchlixhs.

DR.. Webb's Locomotive searchlixht.
Persons who happened to be In the
Union Station yard last night about
1890 were struck with the unusual
briiiiancy of the Place The reason for
this was that the private engine OF DR..
Seward Webb, the Nehasene, was in
the yard with a new searclllight on its
pilot, which threw a very powerful
light on the track and the objects with
In It's range. The searchlight is about
the size Of the ordinary light carried
on the pilots Of locomotives, only it Is
many times more brilliant. The power
for the light is generated in a small dy-
namo operated Independent Of the
mechanism Of the engine. The engine
was in charge Of Engineer McFadden,
who was kept busy explaining the light
to a curious and interested crowd OF
railroad men. The engine was ordered
to Utica. and left On its run at 1880.
The light is able to allow the engineer
to discern objects distinctly at the dis
lance Of a miie.-Albany Argus.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
THE COOLEST COUNTRY.
The Thermometer Occasionally Drops t.
90 Degrees Below Zero.

% Degrees Below Zero.
Symon's Monthly meteorological
Magazine gives an interesting account
OF Life in the Coolest Country in the
World" which las been taken from
the bulletin Of the Royal Geographic
cal Society a Irkutsk. The name OF
the place is Wercloiansk, III Siberia,
longitude 133 degrees 81 minutes
east, latitude 81 degrees 81 minutes
north, where the lowest temperature
Of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit has
been observed, and the mean Of Janu-
airy IS minus IS degrees Fahrenheit.
1t is Inhabited by about 10000 per-
sons Of the Jaklt and lanai races.
In a large part Of this regioN ac.
corIin@ TO Prof. koyalik, the air is sc
dry and the winds are SO rare that the
intensity Of the cold cannot be fully
realized. II the most distant part OF
the e~Ssre are sometimes terrible
stS1~, which are most fatal to life
<their consequences. During the
Vsummer time1the temperature oc-
~casionally rises to IS degrees Fahren-
heit in t~shale, while it freezes at
night. IfSAatttr part of the season
is often marked Ivy copious rains and
extensive ~inunlations, which invari-
ably lay wast1a vast acreage of land
and prove to Be a serious obstacle to
the cultivation Of the soil. Eegeta-
ton is very scsstv. There are prac-
tically no trtes-only wide, open
meadows. The people hunt fur-bear-
ing animals, fish and raise cattle and
reindeer. 1t requires about eight
cows to support a family, four being
MIXED in the summer and two in the
winter. The cattle are very small in
size, and are fed on haydn the winter.
Occasionally they are allowed to 60
out when there is the slightest break
IN the weather, but their teats are al
ways carefully covered up. Milk is
the principal food. This is supple
mentel with hares, which are quite
abundant, but not very relishable.
The houses are constructed ofwood,
covered with clay, and as a rule con
sist Of only Il room, in which the
people and animals live together. The
upper and Weather classes are better
provided with lodging and food. AS q
race they are exceedingly courteous
and very hospitable, and they are ex-
cessivelypunctilious concerning points
Of honor, such as the place at the
table and the proper place as festivals.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19

81 local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion Of the ear. There is only one
wav to euro deafness, aud that is by constitu-
tional remedies. d afness is caused by an n
famed condition OF the mucous liningo of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
n LINED you have q ruinbiing sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness / tia result. and unless the infam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to it's normal condition, hearing will be
destroy d for YER. Nine cases out OF ten are
caused by cstarrh, which Is nothing buta an in
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Humid cd Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cam
not be cured by Halls tatarrh ture. Send
for circulars, free.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. 0.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Ns;a.aLen Pride,

Phil May, the artist and caricaturist,
tells Of a funny experience lie had on
his return from a tou for the Graphic;
When l came back to London l has.
tened to the Office, and imagine my
qualification when l saw everywhere
scription in large letters, welcome to
May"
"Thts Ia indeed fame" I thought;
and when l got to the Graphic office
there was another inscription, with
flowers and all the rest Of 1t: wei.
ccme to N. and c." The G. worried
me n bit, but then the name Of the man
who went out with me commenced
with G.
l told the editor Of my qualification
"Why you egotistical IDIOT ne re-
marked politely, its nothing to do
with you! It's the marriage OF Prince
| George and Princess May
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19

Fuddy-Detween you and me, I be.
- INV wife thinks more OF the butch
Nv than she does Of ME.
nrddy-You don't mean it.!
Fuddy-I do; but I am not jealous.
Duddy-Not jealous?
Erddy-You wouldn't be surprised II
~, knew what Kind Of thoughts she
ss.nts of him.-Boston Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
An INTERRUPTED Reyerfe.

She was standing alone On the
beach, gazing pensively on the ocean.
A youth approached-then paused.
"No," he murmured, I will not dis
turb the current OF her thoughts. She
is committing with the gods!"
Then she saw him and, turning
toward him, said:
Il say, mister! How fur does this
here millpond go, and whar'bouts does
it stop at?!"-Atlanta Constitution.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
WHAT He MADE,
An Answer That Was Not Expected By
the Professor,

the Professor.
Professor B. who conducts the
clinic Of nervous diseases at --
Medical college Of Chicago, is him
self a very nervous and easily irritatel
man. Recently, at the close Of a long
clinic, when teacher and students were
yell tired out, the assistant rushed in
and asked to have exhibited a very
interesting case which had just arrived.
well, be quick about it" said the
doctor, and proceeded to emphasize
some previous remarks concerning
the influence Of occupation upon ner-
yous conditions, which point he pro-
posed to illustrate in the case to be
presented.
The patient, an awkward Swede,
having been hustled into a chair, was
now confronted by Professor b,
with the adinonition to be brief and
accurate in his replies, as time was
limited.
"Now, sir, what do you do ?" he
commenced.
CAV am not vera we'll"
"No! I say,Ehat do you do?'
ooh yas. ~ verk."
yes, I know but what kind Of
work."
ooh, eet es 1hrd vork."
Eyes; but do you shovel" (illustrat-
ing with gesture), ''or drive a car, or
work at a machine, OF do"
"Oh yas. Aw verk att masheen,'
"Ah! What kind of a machine::'
ooh. ct Us a big masheen."
BY this time the class were grinning
broadly and whispering pleasantries,
all of which caused the professor 10
redden AMI break into a volley at the
poor Swede.
"Nowlook here, sir; I want 40 more
Of this. You answer the questions |
ask you, or go home. What do you
make on this machine?'
4 ray Of intelligence lit up the face
Of the Swede, and, with II confident
smile, he said: ooh, now aw under
stan yo'. Yo' want t. know vat aw
max on the masheen. Easn't et?'
Eyes, sir; that is it. What do you
make?''
Jaw max seventeen cents an hour
And he and the class We're dismissed.
Editors Drawer" in Harper's
Magazine.
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His Prediction Was True.

"See here. That horse you sold
me runs away, kicks, bites, strikes,
tries to tear down the stable at night.
Yon told me il I got him once I
wouldn't part with him for a $1,000"
"Well you won't."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Only a Little Prema

Oniy a Little Premature.
Il can't hear a suit that isn't pend
Ing" said q Judge to a young lawyer
who was seeking advice.
Il know it isn't pending" replied the
young man, in some confusion, but Il
Is about to pend."-The Green Ba9.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19
Mere Bundles of Nerves.

! Some peevtsh, euerulens people seem mere
SnndIes of nerves. The Last sound agitate
satr sensoliums and lufles their temrers. No
So,bt they are born 50. But may net their
s.ryousnpss he eneltorated, If Not entirely re-
sersd2 Enthusiastically, and with licstetter's
1tnmach BiteIs. By cuitivating their diges-
1cn and insuring more complete assimilation
~ the food With his admirable corrective. they
Viii experience a speedy ard very perceptible
gain Ia nerve quietude. Dyspepsia, li.tous-
ness, constipation and rheumatism yield to the
EfIterS.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19

A conservative estimate made by
several reliable amer of the Pack
of salmon on the Columbia river to
July 1 for this season is 100, 900 cases.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19

I could not get along without Piso's Cure
for Consumption. 1t always cures.-MRs. E.
G. MouLroy, Needham, Mass, Oct. %, 1891.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-19

That describes letter, Eczema and other
akin diseases. 80 cents will cure them-stop
The itch at once. so cents pays for q box of Tet-
ter;ne at drug stores or postpaid for so cents
IN STAMPS from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.