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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-30
He Was Not a Spy.

Laredo, Texas. April est turned
out to-day hat the mar arrested yes
terday on the charge of being a
Spanish spy is DIR. Pabla Diaz. a Gu
ban who has served seven or eight
months in the insurgent army. He is
known in his vicinity and was re-
leased.
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ENGLISH SENTIMENT.
Lord woiseley Thinks America will Hav.
a walkover.

Lord woiseiey Thinks America will Have
a walkovsr.
London, April "a prominent Eng
lishman who believes in the justice of
Americas cause, n who is also of the
opinion that the United States will GER
tainly have a walkover. is Lord Wolse-
ley, the commander-in-chief of the
British forces. During a dinner party
conversation, Lord Wolseley drew a
parallel between Cuba n Crete, say
ing:
while England interfered in Crete
on moral grounds, the United states
has both moral and material justifica-
ton for intervention. I believe the
quality OF the American army and
navy is so much superior to SPANS
tina the Americans will have no diff
Guilty in defeating SPANS ships and
and forces. which are their equals or
superiors on paper only"
The weeklies, except the Saturday
Review, continue to favor the United
States and have faith in her success.
The Statist thinks that If the CONT
mental powers threaten to intervene.
Great Britain ought to veto their ac-
ton and urges the government to make
this clearly understood.
The Spectator expresses confidence
that Commodore Dewey will be VIC
torious at the Philippines and says:
I'VE see great difficulties before the
Americans. though not from Spanish
ships"
The Saturday Review pursues its at
tack upon America. and the following
extract will indicate the tone of Its
comments: American action. unfor-
tunately. suggests the attitude OF a
huge and boastful bully attacking an
effete, but old roue with whom one
cannot help sympathizing. especially
when the bully, not content with
thrashing his feeble opponent and
stripping him of his v~aluables, bellows
out with tears and protestations that
he does II unwillingly and WITH me
highest moral purpose"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-30
Perplexity.
From Judge

From Judge.
Willie tpicking up a cocoanuo-My! |
don't see where the faucets are that they
milk IL with.
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Conferred With Polo.

Toronto. April 2s.-Capt. L. Lopez,
Spanish naval inspector from New
York. and Lieutenant Espa. his assist
ant. arrived in this city yesterday and
held a long consultation with Senior
Polo y Bernabe. To-day the consulta-
ton was prolonged and the W officers
left tonight direct for Madrid.
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THE SIZE OF THE GUNS

the horse power. the cost of the vessel.
the number OF men on each. In fact. a
World Almanac tells you what you want
to know. IL also shows you tire strength
Of Europe on land and sea. n very useful
book for %. Postoffce News Stand.
Butte.
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Established for the special treatment
and obstetrical cases. Regular sanitarium
Special accommodation for lying-in cases.
board. address Or. Anna r. S~teuernagel. II
street, or II. NJ. Hall. NJ. D.. consultant. I "a
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IN. Churoh .ad Gambling.

II Is interesting to consider the vie"
which the early church took OF gam
bling-a vice prevalent in Rome dur
ing the time Of the emperors- Inc
Christians In the first century were
very lenient in their Judgment on
xames of hazard. and frequently re-
9arded them as merely games Of pas
time. Recent excavations have shown
that the graves In the cataeombs con-
tain the various implements Of such
snort. Friends would bring one OF
their number to this last resting place
and lay in his CONN what had. during
his lifetime, been his fayorite play
thinrs. The Christians evidently dio
not consider the game with the httie
cubes wrong in itself; the members OF
the church never played for money.
and never quarreled over their games.
And gambling with them did not seem
10 lead to evil consequences
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Lambs Folbles.

Charles Lamb was generally late in
getting to his desk in the India ONCE
in the mornings, and remained no lon
ger than he was obliged to for decen-
cy's sake in the afternoon
One day the chief in his department
remarked, You are late this morning.
Mr.. Lamb; indeed. you are always
late"
Yves" replied Lamb, but you
must remember that / always ego
away e-early."
II IA said that most Of ELIAS" es-
says were written there. and when not
engaged on these he was scriobling ont
Of his unsuccessful plays. His last
play. so written, was loudly Kissed on
the night of its production at Drury
Lane theater, and Lamb. sitting in the
nit with a friend, Kissed and booted
as loudly as any at his folly, making
ervards against the Spaniards-
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Destroying Locusth

The plague Of locusts in the west
and northwest has become so serious
thst the most strenuous efforts are to
be made to devise some means BY
which they may be destroyed. One e1-
pertinent Is Identical with that en-
ployed for destroying chinch bugs. A
number Of insects are inoculated with
a fungus disease and turned loose
among the locusts in various localities.
The result is that the disease spreads
rapidly and sweeps on entire colonies
of the insects. This means Of Kidding
the country OF a pest is a great dis
covery, but 1t entails possibilities that
are by no means agreeable to contem-
plate. The sparrow was imported to
destroy caterpillars, and now it has be-
come necessary in some localities to
take the most thorough measures to
get rid of the sparrows. As far as
the locusts are concerned, nothing
could be worse than their devastation
and we may well take the chances on
clearing them out by the help OF I'm
ported fungus.
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VIII Paint Eldel Tower.

The aesthetics want the Eiffel tower
pulled down. They say 1t is huge.
ugly scaffold. The plea was put In
when the plans for the exposition Of
1900 was first discussed. Unfortu-
nateIy for them II cannot come down;
1t Is leased to a company whose con-
tract runs for twenty years from the
date of building-a good many years
vet to come. This was the arrange
ment to reimburse NJ. Eiffel. The only
thing, therefore, that the commission
could do for the aesthetics was to study
some means to make the tower more
agreeable to their, eyes Two Jears
they have cogitated and have hit upon
an idea. They are going to paint the
tower from the Ted-brovn II Ii to Sill
sVSr-white. This Is not the small
change IL may seem, either mechanic
ally. since It will take fifty men two
months with $1,000 kilogrammes OF
uaint and the operation must be re-
peated a second time or aesthetically.
for instead Of. a. now. seeming to rise
from the earth, II will appear rather
To descend from thez ether regions.
Lighted At night its whole length with
streaming lines Of light, ir will look
like some great ladder let down from
heaven. The aesthetic Jacobs on the
ground will, therefore, have wherein to
give their imaginations full play.
However the aesthetics may grumble.
Parisians would eertainly miss the
great candle that lights them democrat
icaIIy. one and all, to bed; that sways
its head in the clouds-it Is said &c
sway three yards and more out Of the
perpendicular-a monument to French
science. II is another matter what the
thoughts may be Of the man that built
n whose name is constantly by its
means on the lips of Parisians. while
he himself, by an irony Of fate, seems
forgotten. NJ. Eiffel. since the Panama
AFFAIR which involved him, Is heard Of
no more. Up in the top Of the tower
he has some private rooms. where dur
ing the Panama trials the wags pro-
posed that he be imprisoned. Has he
taken refuge there to expiate his faults
or to ruminate on the ingratitude OF
his felioW-men'
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fne readers Of this paper viii be pleased %
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Etrength By building up the constitution add
ssSistinR nature In doing its work The pro
nrfeeorS have so much faith In tts curative
noWers that they oner One Hundred Dollars foS
snV case that Il fails 70 cure Send for LIST 4
E 1saress +. J. CHENEY 4 Co. Toledo. O
Sold by druggists 7oc.
HaIlS Family pills are the best
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To the sirdar.


have the voice. the words, the phrases.
have the air Ga tunefuI thing.
Great Kitchener. to sing thy praises.
And yet. alacki cannot sing.
Poor darvishes. how didst thou trounce
them!
A theme for every poets tongue:
Yet TIL I know how TO pronounce them,
Ny song must stay unmade. unsung.
How could break forth thus: "Hurrah!
he
Turns all the Mahdists' plans awry
And routs the hordes Of AbdullahiT'
When should say .'Abdulla-hf'?
Wouldst thou not utter In thy grief
Remorseful and expressive "Ah!"
To hear me cry. Poor doomed Khalifa!'
When thou mayst call him "Khalifa"f
Thou'dst preach at me . wrathfui SER
mon.
Should sing how thy skillful plan
Has brought thee safely TO Omdurman.
When really It's to Omdurman:
And tbs an irksome task and dreary,
More dreary than this sad song tells.
To md how to accent Karerri.
Jebel and various Wad els.
Hence. though no strain could well be
sweeter
Than mine Will be. when mine Is made.
The alternating laws OF metre.
And also rhyme, must be obeyed;
But cease thy hitter lamentation.
III sing q song that's worthy thee
When Soudanese accentuation
Is not mystery to me!
p. n. G. In Pail Mall Gazette
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the fact that she could have no nower
garden. Finally her house plants be-
came 50 troublesome that she turned
them into the sand bed. digging holes
and dropping them in regardless Of or
der or system. and left them. as sne
supposed. to die. Her astonishment
may be imagined when she grew such
verbenas. petunIas. geraniums ana
other plants as she never raised IN her
life. The neighbors insisted that she
must have used some commercial fer
tilizer, but the fact was that the roots
found abundant nourishment In what
would be considered absolutely worth
less soil
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FsrocIou. African Dwarf.

Henry N. Stanley, in describing his
journey through the forests Of Africa,
says that the most formidable foes he
encountered, those that caused the
greatest loss Of life to his caravan ana
came nearest to defeating his expedi-
ton, were the wambutti dwarfs.
These diminutive men had only lit
tie bows and arrows for weapons, 50
small that they looked like ehildrens
playthings; but upon the tip OF eacn
tiny arrow was a drop OF poison
which would kill an elephant or
man as surely and quickly as q ri1e.
Their defense was by means Of poison
and traps.
They would steal through the dense
forest, and waiting in ambush, let ny
their arrows before they could be dis
covered. They dug bitches and care
fully covered them over with sticks
and leaves. They fixed spikes in the
ground and tipped them with poison.
Into these bitches and on these spikes
man and beasts would fall or step to
their death. One Of the strangest
things about 1t was that their poison
was mixed with honey.
The account OF these small people
and their successful warfare influences
one 20 remember the small enemies We
all are apt to encounter in habits seem
ingly harmless. but dangerous to wei
fare and happiness.
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0egtinE Down 70 IN HHs~
The professor Of natural science, In
one Of our best-known colleges, was
discussing in a recent lesson the proc
ess Of fertilizIng plants by means OF
insects carrying the pollen from one
plant to another.
In order to amuse the class. he ex-
tended Darwin's ingenious Illustration
used in the Origin Of Species, about the
connection between cats and clover,
and said that old maids were really
the ultimate cause OF 1t all. The atten-
ton OF his hearers was strained to It's
utmost as he proceeded.
The bumblebees carry the pollen.
he declared; ''the field mice destroy
the nests of the bumblebees, therefore
IL is quite evident that the more held
mice there are in any neighborhood'
the fewer the bumblebees and the less
pollen variation Of plants. But cats
devour feld-mice, and old maids pro-
tect cats. Therefore, the more old
maids, the more cats. the fewer Held
mice, the more bumblebees.
Hence" was the professors tri-
umphant conclusion, "old maids are
the cause OF variety in plants"
At this point a fashionable youns
freshman, with q single eyeglass and
general appearance indicating that
he was got up regardless Of expense
rose and asked:
Il Salty. professah. what Is the
cause-ah-of old mads-don't you
know?"
Perhaps Miss Brown" q quick
witted member OF the class) can tell
YOU" suggested the professor.
"Dudes!" said Miss Brown sharply.
and without q moments hesitation
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The Value of Sugar As Food.

During the last German army
manoeuvres a series OF experiments on
the value Of sugar as food was carried
out by the chief Staff-Doctor Leiten-
storfer. Twenty men we're selected
from the same company Of each Of the
three battalions, ten Of whom we're
subjected to the sugar diet. while the
other ten received exactly the same ra-
ticps as the rest of the company. In
choosing the men for the special diet,
preference was given TO those who
were without private means and were
weak eorporeally.
The results OF the experiment have
now been made known. According to
the official report the weight of the
sugar men increased during the man
oeuvres more than that OF the con
troll" men. 1t was proved that during
the long marches the feelings OF hun
ger could be kept down for q longer
time by the use of sugar. that the
sugar people suffered less from thirst
than the others and that a few pieces
VI sugar buuCeu " bbliA lulIoI luz q
considerable time. II was also OBJ
served that symptoms Of exhaustion
or Of sunstroke were quickly over
come by q small ration Of sugar.
None Of the men experimentsd upon
showed the slightest disinclination to
the new food during the whole course
Of the trial
As . practical result OF these ex-
periments.s Dr.. Leitenstorfer now rec
ommends that sugar be considered a
regular article Of soldiers food. that
It be stored with the other provisions
for fortresses. hospitals, and ships, and
that. above all. soldiers on the march
should have supply of It.
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October

OCtoDDr
Sun ana skies and clouds OF June
And flowers of June together.
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather.
When loud the bumblebee makes haste.
Belated. thriftless vagrant.
And goldenrod Is dying fast.
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;
When gentians roll their fingers tight
To save them for the morning.
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without q sound of warning;
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining.
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves OF woodbine twlningl
When AL the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing
And In the fields. still green and fair.
Late aftermaths are growing:
When springs run low and on the brooks,
In idle golden frelghting.
Bright leaves sink noIseleEs in the hush
OF woods. for winter waiting;
When comrades seek sweet country
haunts
BY twos and threes together
And count like misers, hour by hour.
OctoDer's bright blue weather;
o sun and skies and flowers Of June.
Count all your boasts together.
Love loveth best OF 81 the year
October's bright blue weather.
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pl,put.d Honor.

History being but a continuous sue
cession Of repetitions, we do not have
to search Tar In the past to find dis
pute regarding the award OF honors
for q naval battle which bears an In
teresting IL not a very close resem-
blance to the contemporary controVer-
sy concerning Schley and Sampson. 1t
stands out as one Of the picturesque in
cidents Of the war between the states
and Farragut is the central ngure-
After the capture of New Orleans oy
the feet Of that famous admiral ne
sent the report of his operations 10
Washington by the hand OF Captain
Theodorus Bailey. The captain; IN
nocent of the contents OF the report
which he bore from bis commander
was eagerly welcomed at the capital.
and In the presence of Senator Grimes
of Iowa was asked by the secretary OF
the navy to tell the story OF the faii
of the Crescent City. When Bailey
had finished Grimes exclaimed: Come
with me. The account Of this great
battle must be told on the floor OF the
senate"
In the senate chamber Capt. Bailey
was greeted with emotional cordial
ity, and members of the house hurried
over to listen to his recital OF the i'm
posing and stirring events. in which
be had taken an important part, lead
ing, as he did, the first division up
the river even in advance Of Farragut.
At the conclusion of his narrative the
representatives returned o their
chamber with the impulse to give
thanks Of congress to both Bailey and
Farragut, while Senator Grimes in
stantly arose in the senate for the
tame purpose.
But before the motion was Hlde
Secretary welles had read Farragut's
report, which did nor refer to Bailey
as having led the way, and indeed
represented the feet as ascending the
river in two columns abreast, himself
at the head OF one ef these. Welles
FASTENED a warning TO Grimes, and
the senator, in the midst of his eulo-
GUM, was ODllBco W Cdh q uAll On
the enthusiasm which was sweeping
the two houses along. He explained
the matter as well as he could to Capt.
Bailey, who still sat in the chamber,
but naturally that officer went. forth
filled with humiliation.
, Afterward Farragut alone received
the vote Of thanks for the victory. and
II was seven years later. and after
much correspondence between him
and Bailey. that he was brought to
see the error which he had committed
by inclosing in his. report a sketch OF
| the movements a. he had originally
planned them, but which had been
rendered vitality incorrect BY q subse'
quent change In his plans. It was
then thsf he wrote 70 his wounded
subordinate: my examination Of the
printed diagram has fully satisfied me
Of the justice Of your appeal ] shall
therefore forward to the department
! a correct sketch OF the final attack a
I we passed mp the river.
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curioa. Old Fortified ohurchs.

The Fortified Church OF the Old Be-
levers at Komareff, Russia, probably
was and still Is, the strongest fortified
church In Europe. This sect was for
long time cruelty prosecuted. and at
intervals something approaching civil
war was waged. They had several
churches, and these were fortified and
turned into castles. Several times
were the churches besieged, but in ev-
cry case they successfully resisted the
attempts OF the cars troops to cap
ture them With the exception Of the
Komaren church, the Notifications
have been allowed to fall into decay,
but this place is still maintained in
such a manner as to resist a siege,
large guns being mounted in points OF
vantage, and ammunition being kept
within the walls. The fortress church
Of Luz, In the French department OF
Hautes-Pyrenees, is surrounded by a
thick wall fifteen feet in height, hav-
ing strong battlements on the top and
loopholes through which shots or mis-
siles could be hurled against the enc
my. Large guns were placed in po-
sition on the roof, while inside the
church was q store of rifles, pistols,
cutlasses. etc. This church. which be-
longed to the Knights Templars, was
planted at Luz to guard the frontier.
and formed an outpost of Christians
against the Saracens at first, and aft
srwards against the Spanirds.
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me ouaIisy OF soil

It has generally been supposed that
gypsum, when used as a fertilizer, Is
valuable largely because Il attracts
moisture and furnishes some material
which nourishes the plants in extreme
~ dry weather. As q soil for produe-
ing vegetation. It has never been con-
sidered, indeed II has not been sup
posed. that plants would grow in II,
but some experiments at agricultural
stations show that plants will flourish
in pure gypsum and make an almost
phenomenal growth. Grain and plants
were raised in this soil with most sur
prssing results. Experiments also
have been made in growing plants
and grain In clean. white sand. the
results Of these efforts may. IL Is said.
almost reYolntionize the growing Of
certain forms Of vegetation. As case
in point: Some years ago q family
moved into a new house which was
built upon an unpromising gypsum
bed. The mistress Of the house was
extremely fond Of flowers and bewailed
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and rushed TO meet Wheat In an em-
brace which showed tosus onlookers
how tender must have been their rela-
lions in the past and how great their
friendship still. After long embrace
Wheat told his friend to march on to
Richmond and he S0uld see that he
was well cared for and soon exchsng-
ed. Then, turning to us. Wheat ez-
planned that the Federal ofhcer was
Sol. wIndham. an Engiishman, who
had served with him on Gen. Abu-
sana's stan In the Garibaldian strug-
gle for italian freedom"
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when N.polsoa Slept in rs,er, LED

when Napoleoa Slept In rstsrf LED
Peter the Great hated Moscow, and,
above all, that Stronghold of Oriental
intrigue and moral darkness, the
Kremlin. II I remember right, says =
writer in the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, he never inhabited the palace
within its walls after he was a cnlio.
The old palace is network OF incree-
IDLY small, low, ill-ventilated rooms
some little bigger than closets. paint
ed in greens, blues and reds, after the
Swedish fashion; rooms which seem,
even today, to reek Of plots, intrigue
and murder.
Napoleon, always a trihe theatrical
insisted on sleeping in the bed Of Peter
the Great when he occupied the krem-
lin In 1872. The bed Of the boy Peter
fitted the hero OF Austerlitz to nicely.
1t is a very abbreviated couch. In
the very heart Of this Oriental palace
with no window which gives on the
outer day and open air. Is the terem
or women's quarters.
The ladies. even the Tsaritza and the
sisters OF the Tsar, were only permit
ted to look down into the hall OF coro-
nation through a carved wooden nat
tice. Just as ladies do in the hast
When Peter mounted the throne OF the
Tsars. the women of Russia were ORR
entails, imprisoned more Vigorously
than the I.Gies OF Constantinople to-
day.
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An old soldier once started can reel
them on by the yard. Here Is one OF
their stories:
During stonewan Jaekson's first
valley campaign, and the day before
the battle of Cross Keys. I was
standing" said an Confederate
oficer. with several other officers Of
ElweIl,s division under the shade Of
clump Of trees In an old field over
looking deep cut In the road through
which the troops were marching. Sud
denly observed Mai. Bob Wheat. the
famous commander or Wheat's hat
tarion OF Dick Taylor's Louisiana
brigade, looking directly forward at q
lot Of Federal prisoners approaching
under guard. Wheat was q most
magnificent specimen Of manhood.
ana. guided by his intense gaze. / soon
singled out among the prisoners the
object Of il, man Of like proportions
himself. In moment more Wheat
had rushed down the bank with out
=.retched arms. exclaiming:
-oh. yes. I thought that was you
giving US 50 mich trouble"
The prisoner opened wide his arms
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Twin cueumbsr.

Mr.. Alex. Weir. Rayensworth P. O..
Muskoka. Ont, writes to the Family
Herald and Weekly Star as follows:
I have taken the liberty Of forward
ing you per parcel post twin cueum-
Der which raised this year. and a.
Il d the first have met with in AL
my growing as . gardener. I thought
You might make use Of It In your curl
osity column. notice mention made
Of one In the Scotsman In June last.
but I consider this q more perfectly
formed ones-Family Herald