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The state herald., 1898-04-01

The dry gun cotton primers and de-
tonators We're slowed in the cabin aft
and remote from the scene of the ex-
pl0si0n.
The waste was carefully looked after
on board the Maine to obviate danger.
Special orders In regard TO this had
been given by the commanding officer.
Varnishes, dryers, alcohol and other
combustibles Of this nature were
slowed on or above the main deck, and
could not have had anything TO do with
the destruction of the Maine.
The medical stores were slowed aft
under the ward room and remote from
the scene of the explosion.
No dangerous stores of any kind were
slowed below in any of the other store
rooms.
The coal bnnkers were inspected. or
those bunkers adjoining the forward
magazines and shell rooms, four We're
empty, namely, B3, 81, B5. BG, and
Al5 had been In use that day and A1G
was full of New River coal. This coal
had been carefully inspected before
receiving !, on aboard. The bunker in
which 1t was slowed was accessible
ON three sides at all times, and the
fourth side at this time, on account of
bunkcrs Bi and BIG being empty. This
bunker, Al6 had been inspected that
day by the engineer officer on duty.
The fire alarms in the bunkers We're
in working order. and there had never
been ease of spontaneous combustion
of coal on board the Maine.
The two after boilers of the ship
were in use ut the time Of the disaster,
but for auxiliary purposes only, with II
comparatively low pressure of steam,
and being tended by reliable watch.
These boilers could not have caused
the explosion of the ship. The forward
boilers have since been found by the
The state herald., 1898-04-01

While 1t is not to be supposed that
Great Britain is going to offer to spend
OF its substance in helping the United
States fight its war there is no doubt
that Great Britain more and more ap-
preciates the fact as the years roll by
that 1t Is well for 1t to be on good
terms with the United States, and that
1t can place more dependence upon the
friendship of the latter than upon the
friendship OF any other nation. But Just
so long as England is the center OF the
money power this country will look
upon Its overtures with suspicion. In
other words. England is not England
at all. 1t is controlled, owned and
operated by the great octopus which
seeks empire over all the world. To
talk Of an alliance with such power
Is worse than treason.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The American is not entranced with
the idea Of soldering. He has been
described as warlike. but not military.
He will fight on occasion, but he never
thinks of war as condition or occu-
patton or the army as a profession. He
becomes n soldier when he deems 1t a
necessity and quits when he is no
longer needed. The ''pomp and cir
cumstance of war" is not attractive to
Americans, and especially when II is
kept up in time of peace. They are
not unpatriotic nor cowardly nor ham
pered with conscientious scruples
They simply do not care about bearing
arms till the time comes.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Probably the child-wife of Casslus NJ.
Clay is greatly shocked at the determ-
ination of the old man to get divorce.
She Is perverse and tickle and has dis
graced him in many ways: but that he
should want to get rid Of her is an
ahront to her self-prlde and her un-
conscious ignorance. Perhaps, howev-
er. the old man thinks that his threat
OF divorce is the only means to get her
to live with him, for the two are q
pair in all essentials.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

1t is a great physical disadvantage
OF the president of the United States
that his home and his Office are in the
same building. Ex-Prosident Harrison
has pointed out how much good 1t
would do the chief executive II he had
TO walk TO his work every day like
other men. Even If he rode he would
draw breath OF fresh air daily. Viewed
from this standpoint of hygiene It is a
barbarity that congress does not have
an office building erected for the presi-
dent some distance from the official
residence.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The daring that marks the true ex-
plorer is described impressively when
1t is said of woman famous for her
travels that she never hesitated to go
even where 1t was not safe to take a
husband.
The state herald., 1898-04-01
neautx Ia Hood Daep.

Clean blood means Glenn skin. No
beauty withoutit Cascarets, Candy Cnthar-
tic cloans your blood and keeps 1t clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purties from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples. hollis, blotches, ,blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cnscnrets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists. satisfaction guaranteed. l0c. 25c, Soc.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

People cry out. This is an unheroic
age! and while they are yet speaking
some act of splendid daring, like that
OF the Boston flremen who lately died
In the defense of property, puts them to
silence.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The bulldog is a pet of many society
ladies of Washington, but we don't be-
!ieve that accounts for the several sui
cides by ladies which have recently oc-
CURED there.
The state herald., 1898-04-01
Spring Medicine

These two words emphasize q neces-
sity and indicate remedy.
6pRING-the season when tho blood is
most impure us result of the win.
ter's closer confinement, higher liv-
ing, slower action of the kidneys
and liver; when humors of all kinds,
boils, pimples and eruptions are
most liable to appear; when the
weak, languid condition of the whole
bodily structure demands and well
comes help.
MEDIcINE--that to which the millions
turn ut this scason--HooG's Sarsapa-
rilla. The original and only prep.
aration especially adapted to the
present needs of the human family;
that which makes the blood pure and
clean, us shown by its thousands of
wonderful cures of dreadful blood
diseases; creates an appetite and
cures dyspepsia, as shown by its
magic touch" in all stomach trou.
bles; steadies and strengthens the
nerves, as proved by people for
merly nervous, now calm and self
possessed, thanks to
The state herald., 1898-04-01

General Weyler is quoted as denying
that he had any mine laid in Havana
harbor. But the people will believe the
report of the torpedo in this case.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The Siamese make coins out of
porcelain. One ought not to find 1t
difficult to break ten dollar piece
In that country.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The water in Havana harbor is so
bad that the people are led to suspect
1t comes from the Chicago river.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Spain must be almost sorry today
that she ever gave Columbus money to
discover the United statcs. II she ever
declares war against us she will make
another discovery that will dwarf that
of iig2,
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The prison doors have shut on Ac-
tor Ratcliffe. In the language of the
scene shifters, he has been CLOSED in"
The state herald., 1898-04-01

1--WE temperance people are going to run
root beer out of existence" THAT'S right :
I'm down on such miserable limitations my
self"
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Foreign dispatches state that the ref
erendum vote In Switzerland has re-
suited In popular approval OF the pro-
posed state purchase OF the railroads
of Switzerland at cost OF about n
billion francs ts2ooooO.00o,. Tho vote
was 3si.iiG In favor TO i77.i3o against.
The bill thus indorsod was passed by
the National Council by vote OF ss
10 20. According TO recent of'iciai re-
turns there are 2,3oi miles OF railroad
open for traffic In Switzerland on the
Ave principal lines. Tho goyernmcn,
In projecting loan for the purchase.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Louise. let me read you this Interesting
article. How to Stay Young" mo:
know all about that; move into some neigh
borhood where no one knows your age"
The state herald., 1898-04-01

used to be such Il coward" ''Yes; but he
has been married three times since you
knew him.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

SIS Betty really In love with Blllyf" "She
Is so infatuated that she doesn't make u
fuss when he sends her typewriter letters.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Say, Guv'nor. can't you use n good live
man In your bnsinessf" mo, ] can't. I'm
an undertaken"
The state herald., 1898-04-01

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quininc Tablets All
Druggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure. cSc
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Limitation Is the sincerest ilattery." "Not
N II Is worked OF on you by ten-year-old
hoy"
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Only those who have been relieved
of great suffering can fully appreciate
the gratitude with which the testi-
monials overflow written in favor of
Hoods Sarsaparilla. Just read this:
The state herald., 1898-04-01

The city OF Manchester. England
owns and operates the water. gas and
electric lighting plants. and II pro.
pores. beginning In 1901. TO acquire
and operate the stree, railways MUM.
cipal ownership haa been more conspic.
uousiy successful In Manchester than
In any other city In tho world
The state herald., 1898-04-01
State OF Ohio. City of Toledo,
Lucas County,


Frank ] Cheney makes oath that ne 10
the senior partner Of the fig1n Of +. j..
Cheney & Co. doing business In the city
of Toledo. County and State aforesaid.
and that said firm will pay the sum OF
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use OF Hairs Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence. this 9Th day OF December,
A. d. 1856.
(SeaD A. w. GLEASON.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Star Tobacco is the leading brand OF
the world, because it is the best.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials. free.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family pills are the best.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

very strong. About two years later had
running sore on my foot. It developed
into erysipelas and affected the entire
limb. At that time was
Very Much Run Down,
as had been troubled with dyspepsia
The drain on my system was SO severe and
my stomach was SO weak became o ready
victim Of malaria. feared could never
regain my health. My stomach rebelled
at the simplest food, and the medicines
prescribed for me gave but little relief.
sent for a bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilln,
and had taken this medicine but three
days when began to improve Continu-
ing with it, am now better and stronger
than ever expected to be. 1t has purified
my blood and given good circulation.
have had no return of my old troubles
sin O." Mrs. w. KANE, Media, Pa.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is
The Medicine For You
Because Of what it has done for others;
because you ought this spring to take
that which will do you the most good.
The state herald., 1898-04-01

&c. !. Hood G. Co., Lowell, Mass:
"Gentlemen;-"My first experience with
Hoods Sarsaparilla was when used it as
a tonic and spring medicine. 1t did me so
much good my faith in its merits became
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03
A Railway Incident.

A sleeping-car passenger on a train
running into Portland, Ore, strolled
into the smoking car and took a seat
just ahead of a squaw. He was putting
vigorously at a cigar, and the Indian
got more of the smoke than she
liked. She protested in pantomime to
the conductor, who, being something of
a wag, indicated that she should make
use of an immense umbrella she had
by bringing it down on the mans
head. She naturally presumed that
the conductors authority was a%ll-sufl-
cient, and forthwith acted on his sug-
gestion with native vigor. The mans
hat was knocked down over his ewes
and all but ruined, and the cigar was
sent spinning galley west. When he
got out of his hat he turned with not
inexplicable ferocity upon his assail-
ant, but the squaw merely looked at
him with aboriginal immobility of
c~ountenance and wouldn't understand
either English or sign language, and
while the other passengers were con-
vulsed with merriment he had to re-
treat TO another car.-New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03

The precipice was high in the moun
tains and in plain view of the stage
coach line, which wound around lower
down, and almost two miles away. The
medicine people were sharp enough to
know that if they could have a sign
painted on hat stone wall in letters
large enough to be read from stage
coaches passing by 1t would be a great
card for them. So two painters were
brought to do the job. The agent took
them out to the precipice. They took
one glance down the $40 feet of per-
pendicular rock and absolutely refused
to go down the face of the mountains
to paint the advertisement. The med
icine man anne back to the hotel be-
rating the men and wishing he could
find somebody who would tackle the
job. l told him l would do it if he
could make sufficient inducement.
THE agent offered me $500 and we
each posted a forfeit of $50. The two
painters who declined to make the de-
scent agreed to handle the ropes in
letting me down, and as soon as | was
ready we made III way to the preci-
pice. | looked over the ledge, and
I'll acknowledge the prospect was
pretty scary. About 200 or 300 feet
down there Were projecting lodges and
here and there on the lodges bald
! eagles had their nests. And they were
good big eagles, too-none of your owl
size.
THE men tied strong ropes to the
spruce trees growing at the top of
the precipice and the other ends of the
ropes were tied to a big basket, into
which / climbed with my buckets of
paint. Then they dropped the basket
over the cliff and let me slowly down
until l was about 125 feet from the
top, which l had calculated was about
the point where | wanted to begin
painting. | hadn't calculated on hav-
ing much trouble with the eagles, but
to be on the safe side | had taken a
club and a revolver with me in the
basket. Well, the first day l tell you
those bald old fellows made it pretty
hot for me. My basket hadn't any
more than stopped in its descent when
the birds set up a terrible racket far
down below me. They screeched and
screamed as if they were holding a
terrible indignation meeting. ! watch
ed them for a minute or two, but as
they didn't appear to be figuring on
committing assault and battery l dip
ped the big whitewash brush : was
using into the paint and started to
work, A minute or two later ]
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03
A TRAIN TEARING ALONG.

A TRAIN IEARlNG ALONG.
Of a locomotive and the thunder of a
train broke the silence. Our horses
Quivered with fright SO that their har-
ness shook, and they began plunging
and rearing. Bending forward to peer
out, we saw, high up on the crags, the
whistle, a rumble, and it had van
ished.
"Heavens!" exclaimed Charlie, eve
have seen the phantom train"
Phantom train!" repeated Miss AL
den, Il see nothing remarkable about
it."
Nothing remarkable when there is
not a railroad track within twenty
miles of here! That train," said Char
lie, eff it did not float in the air, ran
over the points of stones bristling sew
eral feet apart, and at an altitude that
surveyors have thus far not interfered
with"
"Is this true?" I asked.
at is indeed" he replied. Il have
heard of this phantom train, but never
believed in its existence until now. 1t
only appears one night in a year, and I
suppose, luckily Or unluckiiy, we have
CHANGED upon that night"
Absurd as the story has always ap-
peared to me, l did not, in the I'M
canny darkness which surrounded us,
find it too strange for belief. Indeed,
the phantom train?
Shall | tell you the story as heard
it?" asked Mr.. Ackley.
30, no, not until we are out of this
glCom,' said I.
IF We ever are" said Miss Alden.
We went on. past N or two lum-
bering camps, untenanted and solitary,
and just as we began to feel hopelessly
shut in by dangers, seen and unseen,
We entered a cleared space, and in a
moment drew rein at a large, pleasant,
well-lighted hotel, the Dix house.
The change was wonderful. Out of
the dreadful darkness into the cheerful
house and the pleasant parlor where
quite a number of guests, remnants of
the summer visitors, were sitting cozily
together.
See it? Yes, / see it every Goth of
September for years till the landlord
took to having me here to tell the
story of his company" broke from one
corner of the room, and then we OBJ
served a tall, weather-beaten old man
who looked strangely out of place in
the midst of the group of w~ell-dressed
city people.
"Hezekiah Winters" said one gentle
man, rising and placing chairs for Miss
Alden and myself, was about to tell
of the Phantom Train which is popu-
larly supposed to appear every 10th
OF September"
Let us not interrupt his recital"
said Mr.. Ackley as We all exchanged
glances.
"You see,' said the old man, Il was
hostler down to Cohos, and l was a
tendin' to my duties, when into the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03
THE HOLY ALLIANCE.
of Russia Il Man of Religion
Mind.

Mind.
The Emperor Alexander of Russia
was a man of a mystical, it may be
said a superstitious, habit of mind,
deeply impressed with the divine right
of kings, and, it must be added, with
a corresponding conviction of the obi
cation to govern according to what he
regarded as Christian principles, says
the Nineteenth Century. He proposed,
therefore, that the sovereigns in con-
gress should enter into a holy alliance,
in which each pledged himself person
ally to rule according to the Christian
standard, and to come to the assistance
of any other in the ease of domestic
as we'll as international difficulty.
Lord Castlereagh, as the representative
of this country, demurred to a pledge
which his sovereign could not under
take independently of parliament. But
he desired to avoid all possibility of
disagreement with the other powers,
and especially not to offend the suscep-
Utilities of a parsonage who had been
SO influential in overcoming the COM
mon enemy; and after correspondence
with Lord Liverpool at home, the
prince regent wrote a friendly letter
expressing his personal interest and
sympathy with the aims of the other
sovereigns, while r%efraining on the
ground of constitutional necessity from
entering, on his W part, into IL
obligations such as were proposed.
The other powers had no such hesita-
ton. They undertook the sacred duty
of crushing trouble at the beginning by
lending their forces to put down any
movement, whether strictly domestic
or not, which threatened to interfere
with an established organization. The
general outcome Of the settlement was
a series of guarantees against interna-
tional aggression, supplemented by the
special obligations of the members of
the holy alliance to suppress internal
disorders.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03

paint brush with one hand while he
fought eagles with the other. More
over, this was while the artist was sus-
pended in a basket 125 feet down the
perpendicular face of a precipice,
which was $40 feet from top to bottom.
Frank L.. Van Ness, who is now a por-
trait painter in this city, was the ar
fist who had this unusual experience.
MI. Van Ness says he is not likely to
forget the first and only sign he even
painted, for it was while putting a pat
ent medicine advertisement on the face
of a precipice in the Adirondack noun
tains that he made his too intimate
acquaintance with a colony of Amer
lean eagles.
MY adventure in the Adirondacks
occurred several years ago." said Mr..
Van Ness, but l remember it lust as
well as if it were only yesterday. 1
a gone to Keene Centre, a little town
in the mountains of Western New
York, with a friend to do some sketch
ing from nature. Some of the noun
tain scenery there is very fine, and we
wanted to take advantage of it during
the warm vacation months There was
then no railroad at Keene Centre, but
a stage coach line ran from the town
to Westport on the banks of Lake
Champlain, about 80 miles away. So
we had an ideal location. One day
there came to the little hotel, where we
were stopping, the agent of a we'll
known patent medicine company. He
was accompanied by two sign painters
and we were informed hat these two
men were going to paint a sign on the
face of a precipice about 900 feet high,
which was located about half way be-
tween Keene Centre and Westport.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03

To work ones way through college
is no great accomplishment-in a
story; but life and fiction do not ALWAYS
correspond, as we are told by a con-
tributor to the Brown Magazine. "If
some farmers son, with a constitution
equal to that Of his fathers hest
draught horse. has worked his way
through college on crackers and milk.
and is still living to tell the tale, it is
no guarantee that some weak chested
individual, with Z lung gone and the
other going, can do the same. This is
the. mistake that some physica,
wrecks are making. Their ambition
is ecommendable; their effort is do.
plorable." 1t is well TO be tbus 70.
minded that the question has twr
sides; but that does not alter the fac,
that necessarily, and properly, its deci.
sion must rest with the person chief,
concerned. Perhaps the poor student
feels that in going to college he make,
the best possible use Of his ION,
lung!"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. % cents.


A Long Island farmer, who had more
land than he knew what to do with,
has put forty acres into suntiowcr cult
walton. A fine table oil, worth S1.25
per gallon, is made from the suntlower
seeds, which yield two and n half gal.
Ions of oil to the bushel. The estimat-
ed yield of 100 bushels of seed to the
acre should give a handsome profit to
the oil. The cake left after the oil has
been expressed is II of the best forms
of poultry food, and the suntiowor is
to be run in conjunction with n poultry
yard of about 5000 chickens. The sun
flower stalks will be made into a fine
fiber, for which there is a great de-
mand in the manufacture of n certain
drapery, the texture of which closely
resembles silk. The new industry is
said to promise well.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-03

The dahlia, named after the famous
Swedish %botanist, Dahl, appeared early
in this century, and was as popular in
the flower garden as were the camellias
and fuchsias in the green house, and
still holds its own. This plant, which
is a native of Mexico, was practically
introduced into England by Lady
Holland in 1904. as it had been lost
since it's first appearance, some fifteen
years previously, when Lady Butte i'm
ported it from Spain. During the first
forty years of its popularity double
dahlias were all the fashion, and since
then the single varieties have had
their day, while at the present time
the new cactus kinds hold the fore
most place. A florist, writing about
1880, compared the fashion for dahlias,
which was then at it's height, to the
tulip mania two centuries earlier. and,
although the comparison is hardly
correct, it shows the dahlia craze must
have been very marked to have even
suggested it.