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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
Strange Chinese Headdress.

Occidental fashion oftentimes dictates
what men are apt to regard as freaks
in headgear. but the style does not last
long. Fol thousands OF years probably
the women of Tee-Klen province In
China have on festive occasions worn a
headdress which is outlined In the IL
lu~stration. Not i~nfreauently IL meas
ures five feet from end to end. and OBJ
viously the festivities when such head
gear is worn must be carried on out or
doors, otherwise not more h two or
three so adorned could ind room
in the small apartments peculiar to the
howery land. The various bars and
ropes of the complicated structure are
solid silver, while the folded cloth on top
IS, of course, heavy white silk. The
lady's gown IL Of brilliant blue color,
and altogether she presents as bizarre
an appearance as 1t Is possible to mag
Inc.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
JAckiE'S MONEY ON SHORE.
He Has No Trouble in Getting Rid of
II.

Within recent years ii has been the
custom TO give every first-class man IN
the navy his entire wages when ne
reaches port, with the exception or a
sum equal to his months wages, which
is retained on the books. In the days
of the old navy Jack was compelled,
perforce, TO accumulate a large sum, as
the law said that he was to receive
each month only %one-third of his month
ly stipend, the balance being left to his
credit. This naturally resulted in the
having of a crew at the end of a voyage
in sums of generous proportions. To
go ashore at the conclusion of The three
years cruise with several dol
lars was the common thing a few years
ago. :
The gate of the Brooklyn navy yard
was formerly at the foot of York street.
Small tradesmen ined the thorough
fare with their shops, but i~nterspersed
here and there were M-lighted, grlmy
saloons with WORKOUT furniture and a
meagre assortment of bottles. There
generally lurked in these places several
tough-looking men and youths, VINO
sailed forth now and then in search OF
their legitimate prey, the naval blue
jacket. If they found one and succeed
ed in dragging him into a saloon, doc
tored drinks and robbery and iH-treat-
ment would follow often. When a war
ship was paid off at the expiration OF a
cruise, York street and its tributaries
fairly swarmed with decoys and land
sharks. Thefts became so frequent that
finally more than one captain arranged
10 have his crew taken from the yard
TO New York city or a government tug.
In 1888 the corvette Nipsic reached the
Brooklyn yard from a long cruise on
the European station. In her crew was
a eaman who had managed to gain the
rating of chief quartermaster by strict
attention to duty. His pay was $50 a
month, and he contrived to save $50
On previous cruises he had been g
s%pendthrift and a "fourth-class man
OF the worst description, and this
change of attitude surprised his ship
mates.
Whats up with Bill?" they asked
He's either getting nutty or else some
widdy's got him in tow. He wouldn'
draw any monthly money last time, anC
the pay clerk almost turned a fit. Bill
will be in the asylum at Washington
before long"
But Bill continued to ave and alsC
TO add to his income by making cap.
and fine shirts for the less thrifty mem
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
70 wall, Of the recess. half upright, and

the wall OF the ItNtsS' hoi piiS" 49,
blood streaming from a score OF
wounds. with one straight dovn-driv-
en- stroke the Mexican plunged the blade
to the hilt in his breast. 1t leaned for
ward, doubling convulsively and struck
at him with all the force OF the gigan-
tic muscles OF his right forepaw. The
blow landed on the left side of his neck,
cut through to the jugular, and, rang
ing down. left a trench three Inches
wide and 10 inches long across his
breast. He fell as If struck with a pole
ak, the panther rolling over him In
agony. two hounds still chnging to his
launches. 1t died almost Instantly
and the Mexicans, not AFRAID then "a
descend from the saddles. all kicked
1t v~iciously.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
Excursion TO Pittsburg. Pa. via the Bur
lington Route.

account of the knights Templars'
convention. the Burlington Route has
made a rate Of one fare 6S56.90) for the
round trip. Butte to Pittsburg. Pa, and
return. Tickets viii be on sale october
eth to 10th. inclusive. and can be MADE
good for return until October 2lst. For
further information apply TO your near
est ticket agent, or 10
PHIL DANIELS,
IS E. Broadway, Butte. Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25

You bet they are all right. Those
chiIdren's school shoes for Sl.O0. Tas-
sells Shoe sale, 70 W. Park.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
waiting Irish Potatoes.

In the raising of potatoes there is
room for much improvement. First,
as to seed. Very often we hear the
expression that potatoes haverun out.
If potatoes are properly taken care OF
they will be sttong and all right for
good number of years. 1t is, how
ever, good plan to get new seed
every few years. In getting new seed
it is we'll to remember that climate
has very much to do with the growth
habits of the potato, and endeavor to
get seed from locality similar to the
one in which you reside. Where seed
can be obtained at reasonable figures
we believe the acreage of potatoes will
be increased this year, and we believe
it will be all right within proper
bounds.
Irish potatoes, like all other vegeta-
bles, have soil preference, and it
will not pay to plant on any other
than the best that we have. They
prefer high clay or sandy loan, and
will not very often do well on low
black soil. The ground should be
we'll supplied with plant food and full
of humus. Potatoes will always do
best in rotation following clover.
Very early and very late paintings
are generally best. We have always
had best success when we planted the
last of April or first of May, and be-
fore we planted corn. Planted thus
early the potatoes come up and make
their growth before the usual drought
LOFT
say from 1st to 10th of June, the late
rains generally help them out. Rows
from thirty inches to three feet apart
will be found about right. Plant
about twelve to eighteen apart in tine
row. Cut seed to two eyes and drop
two eyes. AS potatoes are scarce and
high i'll price now, where the piece is
sound perhaps one piece in a place
will do.
They should be kept clean. The
first plowing should be given as soon
as the vines make their first appear
ance, SO as to follow the rows. The
first and second plowings should be of
good depth, the remainder shallow.
The main thing is to keep the soil as
mellow and moist as possible, for a
mellow and moist soil is a potatoes de-
light. The earth should be drawn up
around the vines somewhat at the last
blowing in order to prevent sunburn-
ing of any tubers. They should not
be hilled, however, to any considerable
extent, and all cultivation should cease
when the tubers begin to set. Fight
the bugs, get some good insecticide
and stay with them until victory is
yours. ''Seeth thou man diligent
in business, he shall stand before
kings. He shall not stand before
mean men''-A. N. Springer, in Agri-
cultural Epitomist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27

Dreyfuses, fought duel with Colonel
Henry, and then came the last chapter
of Henry's confession and suicide.
Captain Dreyfus did we'll to rely oD
his wife to solve the truly horrible
mystery, and that she will certainly
succeed in liberating her husband or
vindicating his memory if he should
die there can be no doubt whatever
Nine. Dreyfus mades this declaration;
"I am convinced of my husbands alb
solute innocence and mean to prove
it. Jehovah, God OF Providence will
ere long crush his enemies and restore
him to me-" This prediction Ger.
tainly seems about to be fulfilled.
Nine. Dreyfus is still beautiful
woman Notwithstanding the trying
time she has passed through and the
great grief she has felt. The sympa-
thy of the world is hers. Newspapers
and people who formerly proclaimed
that Dreyfus was guilty, and that his
partisans, called the Dreyfusists,
wanted to surrender France to the
practical domination of Germany and
the German Jew financiers, have given
up that criminal and stupid theory.
They are clamoring now for prompt
revision of the trial of 1894, under
standing ut last that this is the only
means to restore to the country the
interior peace which has been so vio-
lently disturbed, especially during
the last two years.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27

The suicide, in his prison, OF Lieu,
,enant- Colonel Henry is the latest ACT
performed in the drama of the Drey1us
,ase, and everything seems to Indicate
hat the fifth and last act will END, as
IN classical tragedies, by virtue being
,ewarded and crime punished. InaG
is to say, a revision of the secret and
illegal trial of Captain Dreyfus will be
granted. This is all that is wanted by
universal conscience, for the question
Of the guilt or innocence of the prison
sr of DEVILS Island is a secondary one
when contrasted with that of the su-
preme right of any man in civilized
nation to be judged not within closed
doors, and not without being shown
the documents which have led to his
indictment, sentence and degradation.
1t is this aspect of the Dreyfus ques-
ton which has made it subject OF IN
terest throughout the world.
For the last two years tremendous
fight has been kept on in France IN
favor of a revision of the Dreyfus case,
by the lovers of justice and fair deal
ings in the courts. Emile Zola, Gle
menceau, Jaures, Pressense and host
of other celebrated men have fought
in vain for the revision. The French
people refused to listen to any accusa-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27

brought against him, and to discuss
the value of the real or the forged
documents which were not commuui-
Gated to him or his advocate at the
time of his trial, which took place in
December, 1894. Two months before,
"bordereau," or memorandum, re-
vealing, as said above, the programme
of the mobilization of the French
corps d'armee, was brought to Colonel
Sandherr, chief of the Intelligence
Bureau of the General staff, who died
soon after, and whose place was filed
by Lieutenant Colonel Henry, the too
famous suicide and forger. The
"bordereau" had been found in the
waste basket of the German Ambassa-
dor at Paris by servant, who acted
as spy in the interest of the French
Intelligence Bureau. At least such
was the explanation gwen at Drey-
fuss trial, though it is more than
strange that documents of such inn
portance shoula be carelessly thrown
by diplomat n his basket. AS
to this docum int, it was asserted by
the accused captain that it was not in
the handwriting of Dreyfus. On flo
other hand, some papers circulated a
story according to which the captain,
having been summoned to the General
Staff and required to write few lines
dictated from the "bordereau, threw
himself at the feet of Colonel Du Patty
de Clam, and admitted that it was he
who wrote the treacherous document.
Since then it has been discovered that
the real author was probably Com
mandant Esterhazy, who was twice
acquitted by two courts-martial, but
who is reported in the latest de-
spatches from Paris to have disap'
peared as soon as it was stated thai
the Government had decided to grant
a revision of the trial of 1894.
The trial resulted, as is we'll known,
in sentence condemning Dreyfus tc
imprisonment for life and degradation
from all military rank and honors
Alfred Dreyfus is a Hebrew from the
the city of Mulhausen, in Alsace, wht
had elected French nationality aftel
his native place had been annexed t.
the German Empire. He was an ar
tillery officer, married man, fathel
of two children, and possessor of for
tune sufficient to exclude the ide,
that he would resort to treason in or
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27

ton against the General Military Staff,
the only accusers of Captain Dreyfus,
who practically hypnotized the nation,
to which they represented themselves
as the immaculate chiefs of the army,
upon which the French confidently re-
lied for obtaining the recovery of the
two lost provinces, Alsace and Lor-
raine. But the suicide of Lieutenant
Colonel Henry, the factotum of the
General Staff, and his avowal that he
had forged one of the secret docu-
ments used against Dreyfus, have
opened the eyes of the French people.
Thus it has suddenly been shown
that not only had the captain been
condemned without being allowed to
see and discuss the documents which
influenced the opinion of his judges,
but that one of these documents, at
least, was forgery, confessed by the
forger himself. The first illegality
was admitted by Paris paper,
L'Eclair, the recognized organ of the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27

along the front Of the troops; and dur.
ing this awful funeral march he did
not cease to cry that he was innocent.
The captain was embarked at the Tie
de Re, in February, 1895, for the
Devils Island, where he remains un-
der the guard of twelve men, in q
cabin or hut, enclosed recently by a
high board fence which cuts off view
of the sea.
If there is any hope for Captain AL.
fred Dreyfus that hope will be realized
through and by the splendid efforts OF
Lucie Eugenie, the captains beautiful
wife. Soon after his arrival at his
place of exile he wrote to Nine. Drey.
fus: "I rely upon you tc solve this
horrible mystery" Then this faithful
wife, who had offered to share her
husbands awful fate and was pre-
vented doing SO by the French Gov
ernment, set to work to free the cap
tain, or at least to secure for him a
new trial. She went to Berlin and
flung herself at the feet OF the EN-
peror. One word from him, she
pleaded, would release her husband.
"Say," she prayed, ''that the German
Embassy received no information
from Captain Dreyfus. The EN-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
Hand Separator Creamery Success.

From three years practical expert
ence with the hand separator system
of carrying on creamery, will say,
in my Judgment, it is the system.
We have about two hundred hand
separators running, and 1 do not think
you could buy single one of them, if
the patrons had to sign contract to
do without a separator for one year.
To illustrate what revolution the
hand separator has made in our field
of labor: Three years ago our creamery
gathered and worked up all the cream
in our county, and the edges of the
adjoining counties. Within the past
two years there have been four other
creamery plants put in on the same
territory, and Notwithstanding the in
crease in factories, we are doing
eighty-fve per cent. as much business
as we did before. In other words the
output of cream from this same terri
tory is three times greater than it was
when the hand separators were intro
duced here.
OF course the number of cows have
increased, but this is very largely due
to the separator. Where dairymen
were becoming discouraged and threat
ened to discontinue milking, they have
taken fresh courage, are milking more
cows, caring for them better and TAX
ing pride in their work, all because
they see SO much better results from
the same amount of labor.
I firmly believe we have brought
three dollars for every one that we
would have done on the old gravity
plan. Not only is the quality of the
cream improved and the quantity in
creased by the use of the hand separ-
ator, but the question of raising young
calves and pigs is solved by its use.
Our farmers have demonstrated be-
yond doubt that the milk fed fresh,
sweet and warm from the separator is
way ahead of any other system known.
1 have had scores of men tell me il
they did not get aLy more or any bet
ter cream, they would have the separ-
ator for the convenience and superior
ity of it for raising young calves and
pigs. IF. NJ. Housh, Neigh, Neb., in
Hoard's Dairym IN.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
Brooder rner,nometers.

Not only are the practical poultry
raisers making larger and larger use
each year of incubators and brooders
but we find farmers coming more and
more to make use of these aids to the
early Matching of pullets and the tooth
some broiling cockerels. Getting the
chicks out in early March makes il
possible to sell the young cockerels in
midsummer at the summer hotels at
as great a profit as could be obtained
from them if kept and fed until Thanks
giving time, while the pullets catch
the cream of the years egg prices by
commencing laying in the fall. Many
farmers are using both incubators and
brooders; but more are to be found
who hatch by hens and then put the
chicks into homemade brooders. Now,
it is possible to make excellent home.
made brooders, as know by expe-
rience, but those who make their own
brooders are quite likely to make the
mistake of either using no thermom-
eter whatever or of depending upon
the cheap affairs that are sold for q
trife in the stores. A brooder should
not be lun without reliable ther-
mometer. 1t is folly to hatch out
chicks and then risk spelling them by
over heat or under heat in the brood
ers. But where one has half dozen
or more brooders the purchase of q
reliable glass for each makes quite an
expense, especially in view of their
liability to breakage. A way out OF
the trouble is this: Have one reliable,
tested thermometer. If one is rum
ming an incubator also the incuba-
tor thermometer may be used. Buy
the necessary number of cheap ther-
mometers and paint their graduated
scales white. Then, when dry, put
them with the tested thermometer,
and mark the divisions of five from
seventy up to ninety-five. putting
them all for this testing into the in
/ cubator chamber or other place where
steady graded heat can be secured.
These cheap thermometers thus be-
come tested thermometers and can be
relied upon. They are not thus tested
| by reliable thermometer at the fac
tory where made, but are turned out
by the hundred; one is tested and the
scale marked for all the others by
that. The result is variation of from
one to perhaps six or seven degrees
Don't try to raise chickens in brood
ers without knowing just what the
temperature is within the broodel
chamber. New York Tribune.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
Farm and Garden Notes.

Investigations made officially in
Illinois show that pound includes
2,1S5, 600 seeds of blue grass, 1,421,-
600 of timothy, 1858, 600 of white clover,
152, 900 of red clover, and 243, 700 of
alfalfa.
Free range, plenty of shade and
loose soil, good feed and clear water
are the essentials in the growth OF
young chicks. Such treatment makes
large, early matured and vigorous
cockerels and causes pullets to begin
laying at four and one-half months.
Pure drinking water and regular
sailing of cows has more to do with
the quality of milk than is generally
supposed. Salt is an aid to digestion
and it is we'll known that milk from
cows regularly salted keeps sweet
longer than that from animals stinted
in salt.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
Growing Cucu,nbers for Pickles.

When growing cucumbers for pick
les it is necessary to pick off the Gu
cumbers before they exceed two inches
in length. Should the vines be per-
mitted to fulfill their mission grow
ing seed-they will cease to be pro-
ductive, hence not single cucumber
on vine should be allowed to mature.
AS long as the small cucumbers are
picked off it will increase the numbers
as the vine will continue to supply
others in their place in the effort to
mature them. A few vines well man
aged will produce large number OF
cucumbers of picking size.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
Exterminate the Farmers Pests.

During much of each season the
farmers time is taken up with COM
batting noxious weeds and insects. No
matter how thorough his work of de-
struction may be one year, he must
repeat the process the next season,
and so on, for in every community are
to be found careless people who will
permit weeds to multiply and go to
seed and harmful insects to breed and
increase unchecked. Consequently
the thrifty farmer has no permanent
returns for his work and eternal vigi-
lance is necessarily the price of his
crop.
Right here is crying need for ju-
dicious Legislation. 1t is the proper
function of the government to not
only protect the life and property of
the people, but stamp out everything
that is inimical to the public welfare.
A striking example is the progress
made in sanitary regulations, which
has practically stamped out diseases
and epidemics, which at one time
were thought to be in the natural order
of things. The idea of an insect in
spector with arbitrary powers would
excite derision, but probably not more
so than a health officer in the middle
centuries, when the black death was
devastating the populous centres of
Europe. The farmers might as well
as not have protection from noxious
insects and weeds. A few years OF
systematic fighting ought to stamp out
entirely many of the insects which are
costing the farmers millions of dollars
annually in the aggregate for even
temporary relief, and it is matter
that ought to be given more than a
mere passing consideration. The
farmers could get the necessary legis-
lation if they went after it in the right
way aud with an earnestness that
would permit of no turning down. =
American Agriculturist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27

city of Cayenne-which was denomi-
mated, together with its neighbor
Sinndendria, the "dry guillotine, +"
when it was chosen as place of de-
portation for the Terrorists and anti
Imperialists sentenced by the Di-
rectory and by Napoleon I. But it
appears, according to the latest de-
spatches, that Dreyfus, whose death
was often reported, is thoroughly &C
climated, and physically in good
health He will be able, therefore, to
answer any charges which may be
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
DU DIABLE SHOWING WHICH DREYFUs

peror said the word she asked for, but
it was of no avail. Next she visit
ed the Emperor of Russia, who
took keen interest in the case and
did what he could to help the plead
ing wife. Next the Pope was drawn
into the affair, and also the Queen
Regent of Spain. All of these eminent
persons used their influence to secure
reopening of the case, but with no
success. Still the work which Nine.
Dreyfus did was bearing good fruit.
The newspapers continued to fight
about Dreyfus. Zola and Max Nordau
took up their pens and wrote with gall
about some of the big people in Paris.
Count Esterhazy was tried on charge
similar to that on which Dreyfus was
convicted, and although not found
guilty, the fact was all in favor Of
Nine. Dreyfus's campaign. Then
Colonel Picquart, a friend of the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
Awoman,s Matrimonial ventures.

Mrs. Augustus Thistlew ood, of Provi.
dence, R. l., has been married six
times. At her last wedding four OF
her former husbands were present and
acted as ushers. The fifth sent his
regrets and present, and an invita-.
ton to the bride and groom to spend
the honeymoon in his house. The
average term of servitude for these
husbands was ten months; all the di'
vorces were granted upon the applica
ton of the lady without opposition
The dissolution of matrimonial ties
has been due to the tact and diplo
macy of the lady, who convinced hel
several spouses that they were mis-
mated.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-27
upturned PROV of the boat, thus form
ing highly convenient shelter for the
boatman and his numerous family.
Sharp.

Said an Irishman to a telegraph
operator: "Do you ever charge any
body for the address of message?"
"No," replied the operator. "And do
you charge for signing his name, sir?"
said the customer. ''No, sir, "Well,
then, will ye please send this? just
want my brother to know I am here"
handing the following: "To John Nc
Flynn-at New York signed Patrick
McFlynn." 1t was sent as tribute
to Patrick's shrewdness.