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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-01

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The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Relieves in Suffocation.

Following upon the revelations con corning the self-immOlating fanatics in the district of TiraspOl, Russia, the newspapers now report that there is a sect in the province of Kazan, the mem- bers of which advocate death by suf- location, believing that heaven can only be gained by suffering martyrdOm in this life. Consequently, when any member of the sect is believed to be on the point of death a small cushion is placed over the sufferers mouth and held there until suffocatiOn ensues, the other members standing round and singing psalms.
 The work of suffocatiOn is usually performed by an old woman, who is paid by the sect, and who is obliged to attend at once when a member is dy ing As, however, it would be danger ors to carry on these practices in dwelling houses. the person to be suf located is transported to secret ren- dezvous, and, after death, is buried in some wood or ravine. all traces of thn grave being carefully obliteratcd.
 The report was recently current at Kazan that the police had discovered one of the meeting places of the sect, but no confirmation of this is obtain ible.-LOndOn Daily News.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
The Power of Modern Shells.

A 12 inch rife is 3S feet long, with 4 feet external diameter at the breech, and weighs AS tons. Its $50 pound shot. driven by 430 pound charge of brown prislnatic powder, leaves the muzzle with a velocity exceeding 1,40O miles Der hour and would reach target at its effective range of R miles in 24 sec onds, while it would take the report of its discharge 27 seconds to traverse the same distance. At a range of E miles this shot would perforate 19 inches of solid steel.
 The 25O pound projectile of the inch rife will penetrate foot of armOr at the range of a mile. The six inch rapid fire guns within the superstructure each deliver eight 40 pound projectiles in a minute, while the twenty 6 pound CTS distributed over the vessel can be re- lied upon to clear an enemy's decks or to disable torpedo boats by maintaining terrific hail of explosive shell, capable of destroying any unarmored position The final offensive resources of the cita- del are the four torpedo tubes, each pre- pared to launch automatic and dirigible destroyers containing l5O pounds of gun cotton.-Chautauq
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
A PopuIar Naval Hero.

One of the heroes of. the British navy whom old soldiers of the Crimea still recall with warm fondness was Capt. William Peel, the third son of Robert Peel. Many stories of his gallantry are told, of. how he picked up a shell with his own hands and carried it away from the boxes of powder near which it had fallen during the bombardmept, and threw it over the top of the earth works just before it exploded; of how when the sandbags around the maga- zine caught fire from another shell he. before any one else was on top of the magazine pulling away the burning rags, and of how he always set the example in his battery of walking up- right, no matter how fierce the firing and without due haste; but the best story of all when you know what brave man he was is of how once when in 1851 he was crossing the Nubian desert he astOnished his companions by dismounting from his camel and gave some of his store of water to a little bird that was lying on the sand dying of thirst This was the man of whom Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood spoke recently, when he said that of all the officers he had ever known Peel did most to in- spire his men with his own spirit.
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the Illinois side was the same and after working a broader bed for itself at the expense of thousands of acres of valu able farm lands in Illinois, the river be- gan working a straight course for itself, and slowly but surely ever since then the eating away of the land has gone on in ceaseless silence.
 Two years ago the river threatened to turn it's current upon the Missouri shore and had already begun making great inrOadS upon the banks opposite Clearyville. When this was found to be disastrous to the towns on the Hi nois side of the river efforts were made by the business men of those places which resulted in an appropriation being made by the government and work be- ing done on the river at that point.
 The work had the desired effect and since then little. attention has been given to the river at that point But now a picture most disastrous in its execution is spread before the inhabi- tants of the towns along the river from St. Genevieve to Redwood. The fate or 1LOChNOOu JlLCilChS u OC lllC AdlC of Chester and Menard. The same ter rible fate of historic old Kaskaskia hangs gloomily over Clearyville and Boise Brule. These villages lie along the rivers bank all ObliviOus of what seems to be the inevitable.
 The serious and rapid encroachments of the rivers current upon Kaskakia island at point directly opposite the Southern Illinois prison has caused great sandbar to form along the Illinois shore immediately above the prison. The gradual growth of this bar has been continually watched by the prison officials for the past ten months, it be- ing interesting to them from the fact that it was seen that as soon as the bar had pushed itself sufficiently far enough down stream the water supply of the prison would be shut off.
 The further into the island the cur rent ate the further down the stream the hoary-headed bar pushed its way, and a month ago all hopes that the bar would not advance to a dangerous po- sition were abandoned by the prison
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
The .wtcked. Lonsdale.

meeting of the Poor Clergy Re lief society in London story was told of Bishop Waldegrave of Carlisle and "wicked'' Lord Lonsdale. The bishop rode we'll, and on his going up to Low ther castle Lord Lonsdale admired his horse and his management of 1t, The bishop pleaded the cause of clergyman passing rich on $40 year, whose well educated wife took in tourists washing to add to their scanty income.
 Lord Lonsdale said: Everybody locks on me as a very sinful man, be- yond all possible hope of salvation. You have spoken to me as gentleman; you have spoken to me like a good servant of the great head of the church; you have spoken to me encouragingly about the salvation of even my poor soul you have pleaded the cause very nobly TOT that young clergyman. Here IS my checkbook. Put down what you llke' and will sign it.
 The bishop said, "No; that is mat ter between God and you. "
 Lord Lonsdale gave the bishop a check for e1O, 900 and afterward two further checks for e20, 900 for poor clergy of the diocese of Carlisle.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Burns Won the Dinner.

There is story told of Robert Burns in his youth. Burns was living in the town of Ayr and, though still young, had attained more than local reputa- tion as a poet. One day he was passing through the main street of the town and saw two strangers sitting at one of the inn windows. With idle curiosity he stopped to look at them. Seeing him and thinking that the rustic might af- ford them some amusement while wait ing, the strangers called him in and asked him to dine with them Burns readily accepted the invitation and proved merry, entertaining guest.
 When dinner was nearly finished, the strangers suggested that each should try his hand at versemaking and that the one who failed to write rhyme should pay for the dinner. They felt se- cure in the challenge, believing that their rustic guest would pay for the meal. The rhymes were written, and Burns read the following: "I. Johnny Peep, saw two sheep; two sheep saw me. Half a crown apiece will pay for their fleece, and 1, Johnny Peep, go free. The strangers astonishme1t was great, and they both exclaimed: Who are you? You must be Robbie Burnsp'
 New Castle (England) Chronicle.
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waters and they are yet UnsaCisfed. The current is working q straight course for itself and this is what makes the gloomy picture to the prison Offi- cials and the inhabitants of Chester, St. Mary's, Clearyville and Boise Brule. The current in the Strengthened course will strike the Missouri shore about half a mile up the rivers old channel and once more the river will begin its strengthening action, but this time 1t will be much more accelerated, owing to the conditions favorable to the nat ural action of the current
 The old course of the river will give the current easy access to the Missouri soil, but instead of following the old slough and cutting through the point of land and emerging opposite Chester the current will manifest a tendency to a straight course and the water will spread out over the broad fertile bot toms of the Boise BrUle while the cur rent will gradually work channel along a course so natural as to appear to have been destined long ages ago to be the future bed of the river.
 The muddy stream will rush along the Impressions back of Clearyville and Boise Brule and will then enter Fish
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
A MIsMATEO COUPLE.
Prince and Princess of Wales Agai
 the Subject of Gossip.

Prince and Princess of Wales Again
 the Subject of Gossip.
 The rupture, for it has come to be looked upon as nothing less, between the prince and princess Of Wales con- tinues to be eagerly discussed by the London smart set. Ali their various differences in the past, and they have been not few are being recalled and everyone is wondering how long It will be before a reconciliation is brought about, for there is little doubt that eventually the mismated couple will make up once more. IL ls.pretty we'll understood that the princess conduct has at times been very exasperating to the princes and it is equally well known that the latter has a temper which, when it breaks loose, indulges
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officials and preparations were made for a new supply to be in readiness when the other was shut,O Recently the bar manifested its destructive work. The prison pumps refused to work. The sand had reached the point where the pipes entered the river and they had become clogged.
 About a mile above the prison the river makes great bend into Kaskas- kia island, forming a half moon-like which has existed ever since the river cut across from its old bed. The current makes a great sweep along this depression and the frail soil is rap idly washed away and sand bars from continually along the Illinois shore. During the past year almost a mile of land has been washed away from the south end of the island by the hungry
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
DESERVES MUCH CREDIT.
Wisconsin Boy Who Won Fame for
 Bravery in the War with Spain.

Wisconsin Boy who won tame TOT
 Bravery in the War with Spain.
 Carl W. Jungen, the lieutenant of the navy who was in command of the Wampatuck when that little auxiliary boat was used to cut the cable from Santiago to Kingston, is one of the few survivors of the Maine disaster, and braver man does not wear the button. In war full of incidents like those that have made this war unique, ex- ploits must be of an extraordinary and unheard of character to attract atten- tiCn. Jungens feat in cutting the ca ble under a shower of Spanish shells has been dwarfed by other dramatic matters, but not even HobsOn was braver than were Jungen and his men on the Wampatuck. For fifty minutes the little tug worked at the cable, while a Spanish gun poured a continuous fire upon it, supplemented by fusillade from soldiers on the shore behind fOri-
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
CHINESE SHOES.
The Comfort and Healthfulness of Woven
 Straw Sandals.


 Straw Sandals.
 "I may seem to be quarreling with my bread and butter,'' said an up town chiropodist to one of his best customers the other day, ''but in my humble and somewhat professional opinion, the most sensible of all men in the matter of foot wear is the Chinaman. Did you ever notice his feet? don't believe there is such a thing as a corn or buniOn in all China. Chiropodists would starve to death there SC far as the requirements of the masculine foot are concerned. Whatever the deformities inflicted on the feet of women in China may be, the men certainly enjoy sound and comfort able understandings. Look at the Chi nese laundrymen here in Washington. They stand at their work IS hours day. No class of workingmen know of spend so many hours on their feet as they do. Yet they never break down there, and, physically, they are a won derfully healthy race.
 "Simple living and freedom from the nervous pursuits of our civilization may
 
 tribute their exemption from foot weak ness and disease to the kind of house shoe so universally worn by them. have a pair that have worn for several years, and I wouldn't wear anything else for genuine indoor comfort. They are woven of straw and seaweed and sOIed with horse hide. There is thick sole of straw above the leather, and through this the air can circulate free ly, keeping the muscles of the under part of the foot always cool. The laun- drymen, you notice, are usually bare foot, which is an added advantage in the matter of healthfulness. There is about as little material in the uppers as is consistent with the idea of a shoe, and this is just enough to keep the thing on the foot. This upper, too, is woven loosely of seaweed, so that the air can have access to the foot Nowhere does this shoe pinch or in the least de- gree press the foot.
 "These' are the indoor shoes of the Chinaman. On the street here in the United States nowadays he wears very commonly the leather shoes or boots of American manufacture. That is one of the ways in which he is becoming Americanized. But the outdoor cloth shoe of China is great deal worn also. That, like the indoor shoe, is very thick and soft in the sole, and the foot is never pinched or strained by it. The healthiest footgear ever known prOba- bly, was the sandal of the Greeks. It had no upper, and, as you will see i'll statuary, the feet of men and women were ideally perfect. All the sandal af forded was protection from the ground. TO him who wears sandals, say the Arabs, it is as if the world were shOd with leather The Chinaman seems to follow out this motto and his shoes are nearly soles and nothing more But the great secret of the excellence of his in- door shoe is the half inch straw sole. " Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

When courts decide eases as the French tribunals have decided those against Emile Zoia there is something so radically wrong with the national system that without reform no hope of sound continuance may reasonably be entertained. Without justice as the immutable foundation rock, without orderly procedure and equitable judg- ments no judiciary can profit the peo- ple, whether in an army-worshiping republic or an anarchy-infested king dom. When in the-oven court to the defendants appeal "Let me produce my proofsr' the attendant rabble may shout: Down with Zolar' Down with the Jews" there is a scandalous assault on justice far more dangerous to the state than to any possible de- fendant. Twenty centuries ago, at an- other trial. the rabble cried: Cruelty Himr' and Away with Himr' And
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lake and passing onward the stream will find the least resistance along the course of Boise creek. Once the cur rent begins to run along this route 1t will be matter of but a few weeks un- til the main channel Of the river will exist there. Where are now rich farm lands, which each years sends forth the richest products of the state of Mis- sOuri, there will then be the dashing muddy waters O. the Mississippi. h. stead of q great rushing stream in front of the Illinois state prison and the city of Chester there will be a great stretch of white sand, dotted here and there with pools of muddy mmky water and one standing high up on the bluffs on the Illinois side will see the great river steamers plying along their course five miles away.
 The villages Of Boise BruIe and Clearyville will be destroyed, as was Kaskaskia; Chester will be little more than a settlement and tue prison will be located in a spot so remote that it will possibly necessitate its removal. The Centralia and Chester and the Wa bash, Chester and Western railroads will be left without a terminus and the great Father Of Waters will flow
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
RlvER's oMNIVERous MAW.
How the Mississippi Is Eating Away
 the Towns of Southern Illinois.


 the Towns of Southern Illinois.
 During the past ten years some of the most remarkable changes that ever take place in the course of any river have occurred in the channel of the Mississippi from St Genevieye to Ches- ter. When the current of the Mississip- pi broke across the narrow neck of land which separates it from the Kaskaskia river, and, changed it's course to the shorter route, the extreme efforts of the turbulent stream, the rolling, rushing waters of the mighty Mississippi and the slow, peaceful current of the Kas- kaskia, to find room in the narrow bed of the Kaskaskia caused a surging and a crowding of the waters that soon ate away the frail soil which formed the rivers banks.
 The tract of land upon which old Kaskaskia was situated was formed into an island and it was not long un- til the current of the river succeeded in washing away the fertile soil and un- dermining the buildings of the old set clement causing the destruction of the village. The washing of the soil along
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

TWO boys, aged nine and ten years, nearly succeeded the other day in throwing 8 train off the rails near Lon doa. Subsequently the police caught the boys, who confessed that they found the idea and all the details of op- eratiOn in penny magazine circulated surreptitiously among boys of their age. eve knew some hero like Lord Hildegarde would spring forth to the rescue" exclaimed the smaller boy, "and we wanted to see him." Decided ly, the vicious story-paper is power in the land.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

A stoker was taken from the boiler room of the monitor MonadnOck, when 1t reached Honolulu en route to Manila, insane, He had stuck to his work in the furnace-rOOm with blistered hands and raeked bones until one stage of the voyage was finished. and then he col lapsed. He was an enlisted volunteer. and 1t was not until a chance acduaint- ance saw him in Honolulu that it be- came known that the man who had un- complainingly stuck to his work until the heat and unusual labor drove him insane was a well-tO-do professional man who, because he thought his coun- try needed his service, had enlisted in the navy, taking his chance for heavy or light work. There is an instance which has a profounder meaning for those students of the deStinies of na- tions who are telling of the future of the United States than have the facts relating to our facilities for making armor plate, our food production pos abilities, or even the accuracy of our gunners. A nation whose patriotism is the kind which sends men unqueStion- ingly from places of luxury into the stokehole of a warship, or the trenches where privates fight and die, is an in- Fincible nation.
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 higher than the Washington mOnu- ment.
 The start was made from a ledge sixty feet from the base of the cllf When MT. Voight was raised about lOO feet from the ledge the twist in the rope caused him to whirl around very rapidly and, to use his own expression, the cannyon was full of cliffs. There were cliffs to the right of him, cliffs to the left of him and cliffs all around him. It looked as if he were turning fast enough to throw his boots off. The children yelled, the women screamed and some shed tears of sym pathy for, as they supposed, doomed man, but the twist was soon out of the rope and the brave German was hoist ed to the right point and did his work according to program.
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the power which was Eot strong eroGgl to insure it's feebIest citizen an honeS hearing was topping at that hour to1 everlasting fall. X0la may he rU'nc in fortune. He may Gie il prison F. sery friend who has espoused his caas may be pursued relenilessly. But IL nation which punishes him GEA@Gr,i
 storing up wrath against q day Of eel tain retribution France should be tc great to settle any case in this fAshiol Where there is DO justice in the c0Url there is no safety in the country.
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deadly weapons are handsomely fin ished. It is said, however, that the workers of a couple of centuries ago put more elaborate skill in the decOra- tiOns of the arms of those days than is used now. But now the wish of the bearer is to own thing of usefulness rather than beauty, and no one pre- sumes to compare the rapid, fatal little implements of to-day with the clumsy, slow, blundering arms of the early days of the pistol
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in some very picturesque pyrotechnics. However, the princess, who is a thor oughly good vouan, has forgiven in the past ana doubtless will again. As prospective queen of Great Britain she is not likely tQ break permanently with her rather trying husband.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Inc Cunning FOX.

The sagacity of the fox is most won- derfuI. It is related that he is tor mented by fleas. and when the infic- tion becomes unbearable he gathers a mouthful Cf moss and slowly walks backward into the nearest stream until only the mouth is left above the suFf.tN~ of the water. The heas meantime take refuge on the moss, and when the fox is satisfied that they have all embarked he opens his mouth, and the moss drifts away, while the willy fox regains the bank, happy in freedom from his tor mentors. s.-Exchange
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The St. Louis Star says that ''near the close of the last session of the house of representative MT. Ball, dur ing a heated controversy, invited MT. Cannon to come outside but the invi- tation was declined" Very properly, too; one canDon-ban controversy at a time is enough.
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A special correspondent telegraphs from Oklahoma that an intoxicating spring has been discovered down there. If the search is continued we are afraid an intoxicated correspondent will be discovered next.
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It is an instructive fact in history and a striking proof of the failure of Spain's colonial policy from the beginning that all her colonies have been anxious to get rid of rule that has dwarfed and blasted everything it has touched.
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Thia seer,a Correct.

Riprap-Tbe eyes are the windows of the soul.
 Wigwag the soul of the man whose eyes have been blackened looks out of stained glass windows-New York Herald.
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f1catiOns. Jungen's name has been freely mentioned in the dispatches, and he deserves all the credit that will be given him. Cutting cable is, a prOsaic job, but the Wampatuck and her men made it spectacle. Jungen is Wis consin boy, and was raised to his pres ent rank in 1895.
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The compromising of raspberry jam from tomatoes, aniline dyes and hay seed Is wickedly deceptive, but it illus trates the important commercial truth that raw products are less profitable than those converted by thought and skill into finished product. A bard of Wales once expressed Mir. Gladstone's grasp of everyday affairs in these words:
 We asked Mir. Glasdon
 The best thing we was done, And he send back answer by first tele-
 gram:
 Tn times of deprisson
 And stiff competition, Why, mak' all the turnips to beautiful
 jam.'"
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That's How,

MT. Cawker-But how do you know that 1t is a secret?
 Mrs. Cawker-How do know? Why, everybody knows that it's a secret.- Detroit Free Press.