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A NEW ANAEsTHETlc.
Patient Conscious and Calmly Watched
an Hours Operation.

M Hours Operatlon'
Great interest Is being taken b5
physicians in the Successful use OF
aucaine, a new anaesthetic, III "a
operation recently performed in Belle
vue hospital, New York City.
Not only was the drug used with
entire satisfaction in serious opera
ton, but the success of the exper.-
ment is full OF promise for the future
usefulness of this new drug.
Owen MCGOWAN, sixty-eight years
old, was the patient upon whom the
new anaesthetic was used. 1t was
necessary for him to undergo an
operation that was risky i'll itself, and
that was made more so by his advanced
age. He was taken to Bellevue hos
pital suffering from an inguinal hernia,
and fear was felt that to use cocaine
might be dangerous to degree. 1t
was decided, theref1e,to to try eucaine,
and the test was so sosuccessful that the
patient retained full CONSCIOUSNESS
during au operation that lasted an
hour, and in which he often talked
with the doctors as he watched them
at work.
DR.. G. E. Pierce, one Of the physi-
clans who assisted in the operation.
said that the new anaesthetic was used
in this case because it would reduce
the danger of poison to the minimum.
He explained that cocaine usually was
used for operations on the hand, arm,
foot, or other parts of tue body where
measures could be taken to prevent
the drug from getting into the sys-
tenn. But its use for operations on
the trunk OF the body, he added, b 4
been little attempted because of this
danger. Eucaine, DR.. Pierce said,
seemed to be much better adapted for
this important line of work, as it re-
duced the danger greatly.
When MCGOWAN was taken to the
operating room euca;ue was injected
into his abdomen, and the patient
then lay calm and painless, while he
saw the doctors conduct the opera
tion, During the process, wolcn oc'
cupied fully an hour, MCGOWAN
cheerily responded to the questions
of the doctors, and when they asked
him at different times If he suffered
any pain he invariably answered that
he did not. He remained entirely
conscious from start to finish.
Although eucaine is drug that has
been known for two years, it has been
used little until recently. The new
anaesthetic first was introduced in
Bellevue hospital, DR.. Pierce said,
about two months ago. 1t has been
used since then in minor cases, but
the operation on MCGOWAN was the
first important one for which 1T has
been used there. The reporter tried
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THE EXPLOIT OF ANTOINE AND PIERRE.
isy Franklin wclles caii<ins:

Sunrise saw the brothers we'll
mounted and galloping hard to west.
ward. The broad trail of the herd
led straight away toward the Bad
Lands of the Little Missouri. The ami
mails had evidently been taken from
their corrals in the early night and
were being pushed hard, for when the
pursuers had mounted the bluffs above
the Missouri they saw no cloud OF
dust upon the miles aud miles of near
ly level plain. At night they passed
down into the valley OF Thunder Creek,
which marked the limit of the country
they knew. They camped on this
creek, nearly 10 miles from home.
They were up aid off again at break
of day, and night brought them to the
breaks of the Bad Laads-warm, at
last, upol the trail of the stolen stock.
Hitherto they had passed three camps
where the Ogalallas more than 90, as
the brothers had made out by the
sign-Lad halted to rest and gaze the
stock, and at one of them the skull
and freshly picked bones of horse
were found.
Just before sunset the brothers rode
to the summit of red butte and
looked back over their trail We're
the stockmen following the stolen
horses? o. all the vast stretch of
sun baked plain there was no slightest
cloud or trail of dust to cheer the boys
with hope or aid from the settlements.
In another direction lay rough ridges
of chalk cliffs and narrow, gorge
like valley cast in forbidding shadows.
At some point or turn in that tortuous,
fading canyon the stolen horses would
be guarded for the night. But dared
any two pursuers venture their lives
in that narrow pass?
Did the brothers turn back? Did
the lazy Pierre, dust-begrimed, choked
by thirst and half-famished from a
slender diet of dry, chopped beef, want
to go home? Not he. The Siouy's
persistence and the white mans bold
ness had seized upon the lads aud
urged them on to deed almost in
crediblv daring and vet planned with
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them, and Antoine and Pierre were In
no danger of discovery from these SEM
tinel pests of an ordinary indian camp:
Thanks to the shelter of the creek
bank and its fringe Of willows, they
passed this camp i'll Safety: The
horses were farther on: Presently the
brothers ascended the creek bank
upon the grass land and were in the
midst of the grazing herd: They
walked Garelessly among the animals;
talking id low tones and in the Sioux
tongue; whici they spoke with d per;
feet accent:
They were some time in finding rid.
ing ponies among the herd: At last,
by cautious and friendly advance; each
secured pony, bridled the animal;
strapped his blanket! .!pon its back and
mounted. THey rode together boldly
along the creek bank. As they passe |
the limits Of the herd Sioux arose
from the grass d few yards distant and
hailed them. Antoine replied.
"Wego to the hills" he said, grufly,
"to look for pursuers when light
comes.
The Indian grunted approval, and
the riders passed leisurely on. This
simple, bold proceeding, and the noise
and confusion of the stamping, snort
ing herd, saved an alarm. Its success,
and the knowledge that the Indians
were herding their booty unmounted,
filled Pierre and Antoine with elation.
The Sioux, as they had hoped, were
giving all of their ponies complete rest
for the night.
The daring riders passed on down
the valley until they were we'll out of
sight and hea ing of the herd. Then
they hobbled their ponies and flung
themselves upon the grass. Here they
waited, resting and talking in sub
dued voices until that darkest hour
which comes before the dawn. Then
they remounted, uncoiled their grass
ropes and lode back toward the herd.
They approached, riding cautiously,
until warned by coughing snorts that
the horses were near at hanl.
There was no longer the rustic of
trampling feet-the herd were lying
at rest So much the better for the
plan the boys had adopted,a u plan SIM
pie and bold, requiring dash and cour-
age beyond ordinary conception. They
were to stampede this herd of 500
horses aud ride ut its heels directly
through and over au Indian camp.
Truly, it was to be neck or nothing
with them! They rode dozen rods
apart aud halted. They scratched
matches under the cover of their
horses fanks and lighted the frayed
ends of their grass ropes.
In the next instant Antoine fired
his revolver in air, and with shrill,
terrifying whoops the daring fellows
rode at top speed directly at the sleep.
ing herd. They whirled their lighted
rope ends, famed to flame as their
animals ran, and rushed in upon q
startled crowd of horses, epcir"'-'
1;ee;no ,,ritL:--
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the grass.
Then there was wild and most ex-
citing rout. The whole herd of horses
fled like mad things before those cir
cling, shrieking snakes Of fire.
Despite a mob of yelling Indians,
aroused from their blankets and rush
ing frantically hither and thither, the
horses, gathered in flying mass,
swept resistlessly on, taking their
own back trail instinctively.
Antoine and Pierre galloped into
the Sioux camp ground, riding at the
heels of the herd and in a smothering
cloud of dust. They were fired upon
by several Sioux, whom they nearly
ran down as they came together at the
tail of the herd; but bullets aimed
chiefly at whirliug streaks of fire and
in dust and darkness, went amiss, and
the daring stampeders came off with
out scratch.
They yelled and whirled their fire
ropes until those effective torches had
burned nearly to their finger ends, and
when that happened they were beyond
the Sioux camp and had the whole
herd with 26 Ogalalla ponies beside
in front of them and going like the
wind. A score of disconsolate Sioux
bucks were left to make their way on
foot to the Niobrara country.
-Four days later the French-In AN
boys drove the recovered stock, minus
four or five head killed and strayed,
down the bluffs at La Saussail.
The owners of the stock had not
thoughtit worth while to follow the
indians, but they were delighted with
the exploit of Antoine and Pierre.
Even the lazy brother was man of
consequence thereafter and was al
lowed to assist in looking after the
herd.
This recapture of stolen stock was q
piece of daring SO admired by the most
renowned Sioux braves that even
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull always
spoke of the LIE Beau boys with some
envy and great respect Youths
Companion.
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cranks who profess to trace back his
lineage through English barons and
medieval kings even to the pagan
gods, will do we'll to carry their wares
to q cheaper market. George Dewey
is no proper subject for trifing ofthis
sort.
The lively baby who was destined
some sixty years later to smash the
bubble Of Spain's pride was born at
Montpelier, VT, December 26, 1887.
His father was Julius Y. Dewey, a
physician of Montpelier, and one of
the founders of the National Life In
surance Company. lie was fine,
dignifed specimen of an old school
New England gentleman, very scrup-
ulous about small things. He was
one of the FIRST communicates OF
Christ Episcopal Church, in Mont
pelier.
George Dewey's mother died when
he was five years old. His lnsepara-
BILE companion and closest confdante
from infancy was his sister, now Mrs.
Mary P. Greeley, of Montpelier.
The affection between George and
his only sister, Mary, is touching.
They are of about the same age-only
some eighteen months apart-and
were constant playmates during their
whole childhood. When George got
up "show" in his fathers barn, with
buffalo-robe for drop curtain, Mary
was the leading lady," whose duty
it was to fall on her knees and weep
when George "shot off the pistol 1t
was Mary who would glory when
George was victor in fist fight. 1t
was Mary who would so along to bait
the hook when George went fishing in
Onion River or Dog Creek. This same
sister, now Mrs. Greeley, a cultured
widow, is living in Montpelier.
Like Nelson and Lord Give, George
Dewey was very bad boy at school.
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ANOTHER CASE OF MAUD.
Maud Muller went on summer. day
To try the old racket OF raking hay.

Maud Muller went on summer day
To try the old racket Of raking hay.
She'd heard how it shared Judge, and
thought
There migG. be another to be caught.
And'oft she glanced down the lanes long
To see IL be came on his piebald horse.
But the Judge came not, nor sleek court
clerk,
Nor even chronic juror came
To ask her to share his oft called-naue.
Yet she raked away with q tireless WILL.
For Maud was slayer from Stayerviile!
Greae blisters rose on her hands so fair.
And hayseeds lodged In her wind-tosssd
hair.
But nary Judge came riding by,
And her swollen bosom vas filled with sign.
One spark OF hope in said bosom burned,
That mebbe the court hadn't yet adjourned.
Or he might have halted to feed his face
With lawyer who'd got away with q case.
And vet she rakoQ WITH uuLlTluS Zooii
The damp sweat trickling from headto heel.
The spur-grass pricked at her zebra hose
Meath the southern bound OF her SUNDAY
clothes.
The breezes blew on her bloomin' cheeks
And scattered the sweat inso crlss-croS5
streaks.
The sun sank lower adown the west,
And the hope-star dittoed In Maudies
breast.
One last glance fired she along the lane,
Then sank on the stubble with moan OF
pain
But she rose again with impromptu spring,
For the st;bble was sharp as hornets
sting
Then cried, as to splinters she stamped
the rake:
"This bayfield, raeket's bloomin' fake
.The feller that writ that portry ought
To be taken out an fatally shot!
'sDon't think no gal ever made a play
To rake up feller this-a-wAy"
And she said as she limped to Tor home
again,
Her accents keyed to note of pain:
"Of all darned suckers that ever bit,
I've sneakin' idee that am 1t J"
Denver Evening Post
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she said. 'I wish you'd go buy me.
my pretty maid" 81 intend to go by
you, SIR" she said.
A. Irish man-servant was discovered
in lie. On being accused by his
master of stating what was not the.
truth, lie excused himself by saying,
'Please, sur, I lost my prisence OF
mind"
Any man Is nerved for battle,
Fearless facing strife and scars,
Who hns borne the crash and rattle
or the deadly trolley cars.
sRiches take unto themselves wings
and fly away" said board school
teacher. "What kind of riches is
meant?" And the smart boy at the
bottom of the class said, "They must
be ostriches. "
Uncle Rich-It seems mighty h"rd
when man has accumulated compe-
tence to have to die and leave it all.
Ben Poore (his nephew)-O I don't
know. Don't you think it depends
good deal upon the point of view?
Laughin' Time-Jock's sweetheart
wrote from town: "My Darling Jock
4 have no time to write; be sure
and write long letter." Jock wrote:
"Dear Jean If you Lave no time to
write, you can have no time to read. "
A clergyman's bright little boy has
remarkable faculty of quoting Scrip
ture. One morning he spilled his cup
of milk on the tablecloth, and, antici-
pating reproof, he dropped his head
instantly, and murmured, "My tup
runneth over"
Miss Homewood- Sue, don't
you want to Join our new society? It's
going to be very exclusive. Miss
Point Breeze-What society is it?
sThe G. W. N. K. r." "What do
these letters stand for?" "Girls who
never kissed Hobson."
Teacher-Now, Thomas, the hy-
pothenuse of right-augled triangleis
equal to the sum of the squares of the
other two sides. Do make myself
plain that way? Thomas guess so
ma says too much eddication is what
makes you so homely.
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WASHINGTON, b: q: Special :-Ad-
miral Dewey will arrive at New. YORK
about October /: This Information
was received by Secretary Long afeW
days ago; and was Immediately an
nounced by the officers of the Navy
Department.
Two or three days before Secretary
Long cabled Admiral Dewey at Hong
Kong asking him to state about When
he would arrive id the United States:
Admiral Dewey was informed that ne
was to govern himself entirely by his
own wishes in the matter of coming
home. The Department desired that
he feel no official restraint whatever.
The hero of Manila Bay was to take
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HUMOROUS.

Old Lady lat insurance Office ~
want to take out fire insurance policy
at once. Our house is on fire.
Conversation is only the art of
talking back" "Not much; CONVERSE
ton is the art of getting somebody to
to listen to you.
'sSome men can take new furniture
and make it look as if it was made a
century ago." says a journalist. So
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Animals Which Enjoy Jokes.

Many animals not only enjoy having
fun, but play practical jokes on each
other. The stork has singular habit
of standing on one leg and in that at
titude he tries to mediate on the
transitory events of life. While deep
in revery, and perhaps a little ab-
sent-miuded, he will take up position
near the water. A pelican will waddle
mp and with chuckle send the poor
stork splashing into it. This is fun
for the pelican, but the stork fails to
sppyaeiate the joke.
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Wrecks Around Sable Island.

Since 1902 wreck register has been
carefully kept Of the disasters around
Sable Island which shows more than
$50 wrecks. Once entangled in the
shadows of Sable Island, once stranded
upon the bars, and it is all over with
the hapless craft. Men.of-war and
stately frigates have been wrecked
here as we'll as steamships, barks and
fiohtinc smacks.
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school. Here George learned the
manual of arms and prepared for the
Naval Academy, the one goal on which
all his boyish hopes were centred.
Through the influence of Senator
Foote, Of Vermont, he was appointed
to Annapolis in 1854.
he graduated in 1858, and his pnb-
lie career since then is found in the
books of the Navy Department. AS o
lieutenant he was detailed to the Mis-
sissippi, one Of Farragut's feet in the
West Gulf squadron. The Mississippi
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ADMIRAL DEWEY
HOMEWARD BOUND.
Life Story Of the Hero Of Manila.
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write and multiply, he was a thorn in
the flesh of any one who had the mis-
fortune to Try to teach him. Teacher
after teacher left the school in dis
gust. 'aThat Dewey boy runs the
school," was the complaint of all Of
them.
But the Dewey boy found his match
aid his master at last in q. K. Pang-
borh; his teacher; WHO is now promi.
nent Id the politics Of New Jersey.
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w.rtl,1e,, Bargain.

sI cannot reach his heart" she ex-
claimed, passionately.
Further, the senorita wept.
"That is what comes" she exclaimed
some more, sof allowing myself to be
cajcled into buying stiletto at q BAR.
gain sale for 19 snts!''-Indianapolia
Journal,
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a good many numbers, was also deeply
attached to Miss Goodwin, and for a
long time all Portsmouth wondered
which of the two navy officers would
be Miss Goodwin's choice. Dewey
won and Commander Rhind sailed on
line old ship, the Narrangansett,
just about the time that Susie Good
win and George Dewey were married,
October "a, 1867.
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Staring Hin KnoNIelre.

edith, what made you ask Mrs.
Crumpet how to make tea? You
know you don't like her tea"
Eyes, mamma; but, you zee, I think
T ought to know how not 30 make it. "
Chicago News,
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Institute or Lonuon mis. Tlncnes
of the British Museum said that some
old records recently discovered in the
rui:.s of Nineveh told the Biblical
story of the fall of man, representing
the tree of life as vine, and the tree
of knowledge as cedar.
Shells which have failed to explode
are not always dead. In 1872 Brit
ish warship on Lake Erie fired shell,
which, failing to explode, was treas
ured as q relic in Ashtabula for years,
but accidentally got into a pile of
scrap.iron delivered to the Phoenix Iron
Works foundry, aud performed its
functions 50 we'll that the furnace
doors were blown to smithereens.
The Knee club! This is the rather
odd namo of club which has just been
formed at. Hoogstraeten-les-B -Bains, in
Belgium. Several good fellows of the
neighborhood conceived the idea of
forming club of bald heads, which
should be known by the peculiar name
of the Knee club. TO be admitted as
a member the applicant must be able
to show a bald spot of twenty-one
square centimetres.
An East Brownfeld (Me.) man at
tended town nesting the other day,
and became so enthusiastic over po-
litical matters that he accepted IN in
vitation to ride home with q neighbor,
forgetting that lie himself had horse
and sleigh waiting for him in front of
the town hall. When he arrived at
his home, ten miles out in the country,
his wife asked him what he had done
with his turnout. Then he had to
walk back to East. .Brownield to get it.
The odd happenings of a recent
week were as follows: Five years ago
Chester Penn. woman gave tramp
his breakfast and he called on her and
offered to pay for it. He is nota tramp
now. Several soldiers who went
through the fight at Santiago, tainted
at Columbus, Ohio, when they were
being vaccinated. A Pennsylvania
trolley company has had topay young
man $1,000 because it's electricity got
into barbed- wire fence near the track,
and when he took hold of the fence
to climb it he couldn't let 60 until his
hand and arm were shrivelied. A
Georgia man struck his funny bono
against wagon wheel the other day
and has since been speechless with
paralysis. What was supposed to be
strange disease that was killing sheep
in Wabash county, Ind, turns out to
be porcupine grass, which punctured
the sleeps skins and poisoned them.
A locomotive on a Georgia railroad
picked up pig on its cowcatcber and
carried it six miles without hurting it.
A ten-year-old Georgia boy, while eat
ing chicken, got to laughing, drew a
bone down his throat and died in q
few minutes.
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No one in all Washington was more
sought after in clubs or greater
favorite in society than the quiet.
kindly, gentle man of the world,
George Dewey.
He had O suite nf anertrn r-.--.-',e
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Mayor Pangborn ouce when George
was unusually bad licked him within
an inch of his life. Says the Mayor,
describing the incident:
SS .'I escorted George home to his
father that day. He looked at the
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II were aman," the woman said,
Il d make my mark ere was dead;
I'd lead the world with battle-cry,
And I'd be famous ere should die
If I were man."
''If were youth, the old man cried,
sI'd seize all chances, I'd go with the tides
I'd win my way to the highest place,
And stick to honor, and seek His grace
II were q youth
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his time, if he desired, and stop wher..
ever he wished. Of course the official
despatch to Admiral Dewey conveyed
this information very briefly. btt
enough was said to let him feel that
he was to govern himself according to
his individual desires.
Soon after the Admiral cabled from
Hong Kong the announcement thathe,
would stop at various places on his
way home. Lieutenant Ward, of The,
Navigation Bureau, then made the
following official announcement:
admiral Dewey .telegraphs that.he
will stop at various places on his way
to tie United States and will lEreach.
NeiS York about October /.
George Dewey--the man who inoaet
day made his bare name bigger than
all the titles that could he fastened to
it and whose HON" r-----;a -. -. :s
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took part in the capture Of New Or
leans

1t was when Dewey was thirty years
old and stationed at the Kittery Navy
Yard, off Portsmouth, N. H., that he
first met Miss Susie Goodwin and fell
desperately in love with her. She was
the daughter of the fine old fighting
Governor of New Hampshire, Ichabod
Goodwin. Commander Rhind, of the
Navy Yard, who outranked Dewey by
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GUS in his attention to dress. He is
always fond of good cigar and
rood story.
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THOs. ). ADAMS PROPRIETOR.

"If were rich," the poor man thought,
"1'd give my all fo- the poor's support
I'd open my door, and I'd open my heart,
And goodness and would never part
n were rich"
And 10! il all these IFS came true;
The woman man, the man q youth;
The poor man rich-then in all truth,
This world would be; when we gotthrough;
Just as it is
james Oppenheim; In New York Sun:
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He used to be known in Montpelier
as ''That naughty Dewey boy" He
was a recognized leader among the

boys of his age in the town.
He could stay under the water OF
the Winooski River longer than any
of them. He could skate and swim
and run rs no other boy in Montpelier
could. But at the little old district
school where he learned TO read and