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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13
HEAVY GUNS AND A r
From Rlackwood's Magazine

From Blackwood's Magazine.
The stunning report Of each gun as it
is fired is something that a stranger on
the deck will long remember. There is
an old saying deaf as a post" Now.
In the royal navy this is changed to
deaf as a post captain" No mar can
go through a long series Of gunnery prac-
tees without having his hearing very
seriously affected. Some men put cotton
wool in their ears, but even this precau-
ton does little to deaden the terrible
shock. And If the firing of one or two
guns has such a shattering power, what
would be the effect if the whole arma-
ment were in action together.
1t is almost impossible to conceive the
strain Upon nerve and senses of the
rendirg concussion. If a visitor watches
the firing of one of the monster nine-inch
guns, and then places himself beside one
Of the smaller pieces the report made by
the one will not appear much louder
than that Of the other. The extra dis
tanee to the muzzle Of the big piece dis
counts the sound. The only apparent
difference between the two appears to
be that the small pieces I've a sharper,
higher-pitched note, and that the six
and nine-inch guns speak with more of
a believing rear. One piece of advice
may be given to any one who finds him
self in the neighhorhood Of a gun in
action. The noise will not have nearly
the same effect if you are watching the
gun as If the crash comes unexpectedly.
Unconsciously nature epares you to re-
sist a shock which is known to be i'm
pending
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13

Mediterranean. Suffren had baffled us in
the indian ocean,, and even in the Chan
mel and the North sea, after Hyde Park
cr's indecisive action off the Doggerbank,
we could barely hold our own, and had
to endure the humiliation of a French
attack on Jersey. But the worst of all
our bad moments was assuredly that
which came upon us in the sprng of 1897,
when too many other misfortunes and
anxieties, there was added the appalling
news of the mutinies r Spithead and
the More. Lord Rosebery, in a recent
speech, has called this period the most
critical in the whole modern history OF
Great Britain, and the estimate does not
seem excessive.
Never, certainly. since the age of Eliza
beth, had UGH tremendous forces been
arrayed against England; never had her
rulers to deal with SO many simultaneous
difficulties, foreign and domestic.
Pitt and his colleagues might we'll have
lost their nerve at the prospect which
faced them, when they heard that a
naval rebellion at the mouth Of the
Thames had been added to their per-
plexities. "Everything.". as a historian
OF the period says, seemed to be failing
at once. Their armies had been defeat
ed. the bank had suspended payment.
and now the fleet, the pride glory or
England, appeared on the point Of de-
sorting the national %colors." The three
per cents, which had stood at 90 seven
years before, had fallen to As. The great
edifice of British credit was in danger of
collapsing.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13
CAUSES FOR SUICIDE IN CHINA.

From 1.-THE Yang-tse Valley. and Be
yond," Mrs. j. F. Bishop.
So far as I have been able to ascer-
tain. the causes of suicide in hin are
not. as in Europe. profound n~elancholia,
heavy losses. or disappointment in love,
but chiefly revenge, and the desire to in
flict serious injury on another. Suicide
enables a Chinese to take a truly ter
rible revenge. for he believes hat his
spirit will Indignantly haun and injure
the living; m the desire to save a
suicides life arises In most cases, not
from humanity, but from the hope of
averting such a direful catastrophe. If
a master offends his servant or makes
him close face" or a shOpkeeper his as
sistant or apprentice, the surest revenge
is to die on the premises, for it not
only involves the power of haunting and
of inficting daily injuries, but renders
it necessary that the body should lie
where death occurs until an official in
curry is made. which brings into the
house the scandal and turmoil Of a visit
from a mandarin with a body Of officials
and retainers. 1t is quite common for a
man or woman to walk into the court
yard of a person against whom he or
she has a grudge, n take a fatal dose
of opium there to insure these desirable
results!
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13
A DARK HOUR FOR ENGLAND.
(Sidney Low in the Fortnight,

(Sidney Low in the Fortnightly.)
There was a very dark day on "Black
Friday 1745. when the Young Pretend
er, with the Highland clansmen, was at
Derby, with nothing between him and
London but Cumberland's half organized,
half hearted force at Finchley, and when
a French invasion, supported by a great
Jacobits rising all ovef England appear
ed imminent. Again, there were some
gloomy days in the autumn Of 1871, when
England, badly worsted on land by the
American colonists. had temporarily lost
the command of the sea, and was OBJ
posed to a coaiitiNn Of the maritime
states of the world. She had the three
great navies of the continent-those of
France, Spain and Holland against her.
at the same time that the northern pow
ers. with Russia at their head, had con-
stituted the armed neutrality. which was
mainly intended to hamper and limit the
British naval operations. While Corn.
wallis was playing out the last scene of
the losing military drama in Virginia.
the fleets Of England Tor once found
themselves unable to face the enemy.
In spite of Rodney's capture Of St.
Eustatia, the allies under De Grasse were
too strong for us in the West Indies. and
in the European waters We were SO weak
that we could do nothing to avert the
surrender Of Minorca, the gem Of the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13
And the New Things That Were
Therein.
THE WHITE %TROUSSEAU
Ola Paris Bride-New Styles of Dress
ing SacQueS--Night Robes,
Empire and Modern.

Paris, Dec. IA lingerie chest was one
Of the gifts to a recent bride by her
younger sister who had taken pleasure,
the last three months, in preparing it.
And a beauty it was, a delight to every
woman who saw it.
An oak chiffonier, fitted with six small
drawers, eighteen inches long, and a foot
wide by a foot deep, was their inside d.
mansions. The drawers rose one above
the other to the height of the shoulder,
above which was a square Of baveled
glass fitted so as to swing. The whole
piece of furniture would fit into a space
two feet Wide, it was so light and compac
that it could by unscrewing the glass, be
taken away for the summer a canvas
case slipped over 1t, and cords securing it,
would suddenly transform it into a trav-
cling piece of baggage.
But 1t was the contents of the drawers,
with the brightest Of gold tacks.
Each draw had it's own garments for
which 1t was sacredly reserved. Con-
trary to the usual custom the pieces did
not come in ~"sets," but Were made up in
dividaully to be worn as desired. This
old fashion of making garments up in
sets has gore out. The sets wore out un-
evenly, pieces soiled and wore out sep
arately, and a woman found herself with
EulllluC SdIlllCAtS, VI LO ISIdllOu u each
other.
In the bottom drawer which was deeper
than the rest there were nightgowns-
robes de mutt, as the French call them.
These were built of light weight cambria
and of nainsook and of French lawn in
all colors. Nearly all were white but were
trimmed with colors. For example an
Empire nightgown was gathered just be-
low the bust with a ribbon of turquoise
blue satin. The narrOweSt pink satin
ribbons shirred the neck. the sleeves were
Shirrred with the ribbons also.
This empire nightgOWn deserves a no.
tice beyond it's ribbons. 1t was very long,
too long to show the pretty crocheted slip
pers which We're packed away in an up
per drawer, and vas as full as a teagown.
The waist arrangement was made per-
feet by the tucks which confined the gown
under the arms. The ribbon which ex-
tended around the waist was secured by
narrow straps of white silk braid under
which the ribbon was run. The neck was
dressed with a wide ruff1e, at the head of
which there were tiny ribbons, running
Through old fashioned eyelet holes. Rib
bons played an important part in the
shape of the sleeve, which was gathered
up by them II tied upon the shoulder.
For the laundry the ribbons could be un-
tied and the sleeves released. Such a
nightgown could be- worn in a room Of a
morning; and it is a fact that, with a
simple blue silk yoke and sleeve, such q
gown a be made into a very respecta-
bile morning or lounging robe.
Another low necked nightgown had a
kerchief neck. A very long, narrow strip
of lawn was bordered on one edge with q
ruff1e. The kerchief was caught a. the
back Of the neck, brought across the
shoulders and fastened at each side Of
the front to form a square neck. This
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13
A FORTUNATE

'.There is a young man In Chicago
saws a local physician. "who now has a
good business and bright prospects, who
received his start in life by securing 81
that did not belong to him. l scarcely
know urder what to class the incident of
obtairing the money. l will let the story
explain his actions. This young man ar
rived in Chicago n day without funds,
but with plenty O. nerve and push. He
wanted money to secure a meal and nay
his room rent until he could secure a po-
sition. Believing he could find some man
who would help him II he told his story
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13

ment is put on over the head and is
tied around the waist with a cord. 1t
Is very pretty. The same style of cut
can be used in dressing sacques and
little room waists of all kinds. Hav-
ing no opening except the oun n at
the neck the garment can be put on in
a second. The new striped silk and sat
in materials are used for .%lounging robes.
being of quaint design and with odd
ing one of the old-fashioned DAYS.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13

hurry exclaimed the storekeeper. Tho
young man was pushed toward the door
with the money in his hand. and, try as
he would, the s~torekeeper would not let
him Ill Once in the street the bewild-
cred fellow considered the matter in every
detail and decided to keep the money.
This he did, and a month or so later he
again walked into the cigar store and told
his story and returned the money!
Chicago News.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-13

in a straightforward amer he entered
a cigar establishment in Dearborn street.
He was about to explain his condition and
for assistance until he could get a
position. when the proprietor looked up
with a fierce scoWl. He turned to his
partner and they held a consultation in a
whisper for a few moments. Now, take
this 81, and don't bother me about that
bill again. That's all you will get, and
now you can get out of this place in a
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
MANY RETIRING M. P.'S.
Several Scottish Members OF Pariin
ment VIII Not Return to
Their Seats.

Scotland will send more new faces 10
parliament when Lord Salisbury &C
vises her majesty to issue her election
fiat than any other portion OF the king
dom, says London paper. Those two
eminent authorities on matters OF ma
rine. Sir Thomas Sutherland and Sil
Donald Currie, have signifeo their In
tcntion to retire from public office
The latter has aged considerably oil
late. but Sir Thomas is the same keen
eyed. healthy looking time-defying
rubicund complexioned Caledonian
that he has been any time these ~
years past. The career OF Sir Thomas
Sutherland is one of the romances oil
the contemporary commercial world
From the representation of the P. and
o. in faraway Hong-Kong he has
worked his way up to the presidency
and supreme direction of one OF the
biggest shipping businesses in the
world.
Another Scottish member who vii
be missed in the next house is Sir Wal
liam Vedderburn, the leader of the lit
tie band of earnest Indian reformers
and a retired Indian official OF many
years experience, whose knowledge OF
all the problems connected with the ad
ministration of our great Asiatic de
pendency is quite cyclopaedic. sil
Charles Cameron, who has for many
wears been conspicuous figure II
Scottish science and journalism; Sil
r. Gibson Carmichael, for whom five
years of the weary round at Westmin
ster have suficed, and w. McEwan, tn
Edinburgh brewer and benefactor, arr
also going on the retired list.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
IN THE SAHARA,
A Traveller Tells of Recent Pleas
ant Visit to the Great
Desert.

A traveller from the Sahara desert
has just returned to Washington with
500 young date palms which will be
planted in Arizona, many parts OF
which have a climate similar to North
Africa and Arabia He found the
nights pleasant on the sandy desert,
there being often a difference of 90
degrees between noon and midnight.
The sirocco, or hot wind and SAND
storm. made the days unbearable,
but the nights were wonderful-cool,
clear and MINDLESS and filed with far
stars. He travelled at night, and the
long caravan of which he and his
baggage was a part swung silently
along in the shadow of the sand
dunes. The Arab guides steered their
way by the stars.
This traveller witnessed the mag
nificent rising of the sun over the
limitless waste of glittering sand
rocky heaps and promontories and
clustered plumes of date palms that
rose from green GASES. where gay
tents sheltered bands of Bedouins
and their hocks and herds of sheep
and camels. In such places as these
he visited during the day and was
served with goats milk and bread and
dates and good mutton and Arabian
coffee. 1t was all so like story book
that he was afraid he would wake up
sometimes and find it was all dream
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
RHODE ISLANDS HoMING HEN:
The Faithful Fowl Takes FOOD Else
where, But VIII Lay Only In
Her Native Nest.

About a year and half ago Mr..
x. who lives on the Riverpoint side
of Cough avenue, in Providence, K. L.,
saws the Journal of that city, built a
henhouse and embarked in the keep
inc of fowls-not the web-footed,
white Wyandotte variety, but just
plain, ordinary hens. A neighbor, Mrs.
X. who lives on the Jericho side, IN
order to help the young man start hen
housekeeping, as it were, gave him a
pullet. which he fed and cared for until
it reached maturity and an age when
it could be expected, in the natural or
der of things, to pay its board by con-
tributing an egg occasionally to the
family larder. 1t wasn't that kind of
a bird. however. Like some other BIZ
peds, it preferred the coop of ITS birth
to the henhouse of its adoption, and,
after feeding on the substance proVid-
ed in The latter, the hen would HE her
across the avenue to Mrs. ks coop
and deposit her egg in her native nest.
She had been feeding on ks corn
and laying in Mrs. ks coop long
time before the fact was discovered.
Then she was watched, and day after
day she was seen to run over into Jeri-
cho. lay an egg, announce the fact in
the hen vernacular, and then run back
to where she found food and shelter in
the Riverpoint hencoop of her owner
This Riverpoint hen will lay for no
one but the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that-sat-on-the-egg from which this
homin0 hen was Matched.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
FEEDING THE CALVES.
Description of n Method That Ia
Recommended by the North Car
OIina Experiment Station.

Milk from many dairy cows is too
rich in butter fat to feed to calves.
Besides being wasteful of butter, so
much fat is not needed and may de
range the digestion of the calf. Aver
age cows milk contains about 3.5 per
cent. fat. This amount of fat being
natural to the calf does it no harm.
But the calf can thrive on less fat,
which may be obtained from some
other source than natural mothers
milk. The difference in market value
between milk fat and such fat as may
be supplied, may be so great as to
leave a good profit for the feeder. The
substitution of skim milk and "old
process" hnseed meal cruel for moth
er's milk by easy stages is possible,
and has been accomplished at the sta
ton with gratifying results. The
young calf y taught to drink freshly
drawn mothers milk at one to four
days old. The Cruel is prepared by
scalding the meal in water, using one
part of meal to seven parts of water
by weight. The change is of skinned
milk and one-fourth pound of the lin
seed meal cruel at every successive
feed, If the calf appears we'll and di
gestion is not impaired Calves should
be closely watched and the amount o.
cruel or food varied to suit the indi.
vidual. A few ounces of ground oats
and good fine hay should be kept with
in the calf's reach at all times unit
it eats both, then regular feeds should
be supplied the same as of milk and
cruel. A little green food may be Of
kered If possible, or If in summer the
calves may be turned into a small
shady pasture.-North Carolina Agri.
cultural Experiment Station.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
MIIdnexa of PORTO Ricana.

For tropical people the Porto
Ricans are singularly mild, and the
majority of them accept any state
of affairs as a matter of course. A
correspondent declares that he never
heard but one Porto Rican make a
protest of any kind. A merchant was
walking along the street when he was
attacked by stray steer. The ami
NAL chased the man about block
and finally gave him a toss that
landed him on the veranda of a
house. The American fastened to his
assistance, and was agreeably sur
prised to find that the merchant was
not injured. But his feelings were
hurt. "Senor," he said, 81 like it
not. The beast should have rolled
me in the ditch, instead of tossing me
here. Never before was l tossed upon
this veranda, and 1 can't under
stand it,"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
ANOTHER DAIRY FRAUD.
How the Nasty stun Is Prepared
for Market.

The Pennsylvania experiment sta.
ton has published the following on
how process butter is made:
This product is comparatively new
competitor Of creamery butter, and
it is country butter of various de-
grees of rancidness and color Chat is,
so rank in taste, smell and appearance
as to be unstable for direct consump-
tion). It is thrown into tank sur
rounded with water at temperature
of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or over, and
melted. When the mass has become
thoroughly melted the vat is SKINNED,
leaving the butter fat at the bottom.
1t is now removed to another vat sim
liar in construction to the first. The
mass at this stage of the process has
very bad odor. The next step is to re-
move this disagreeable and disgusting
smell. This is done by pumping the
fat up in pipe by means OF rotary
pump and discharging it into the vat
again through strainer, which al
lows it to fall into small streams. The
exposure of the fat to the air for some
time removes the odor.
After the fat has been sufficiently
aerated in this manner it Is ready for
the next step. This is the adding Of
about one-fourth as much skim milk
as there Is fat. A perfect emulsion of
the fat and skim milk is made by the
same pumping operation, except that
the strainer is removed. The emulsion
Is then run into a vat of ice water,
where it is quickly chilled, taking the
granular form and looking like butter
before it is sailed and worked. 1t is
now sailed and worked and printed or
packed in tubs ready for the market
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08

1T SHOWED IT'S QUALITY.
ar. HuntinEtOn's Switch Engine DIG
Not DisappOint Him In
It's Power.

Some II years ago, when Coils 7
Huntington was president OF thu
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad company
j. X. Murray, of the vice presidents
staff, with Capt. Rogers, California
railroad official, was with him on his
private car Capt. Rogers had been Of
fered the general managership OF the
road by Mr.. Huntington, and he was
going over the line. The train stopped
and a switching engine was attached
10. the end of Mr.. Huntington's car t.
pull it out.
At that moment, relates a Chicago
exchange, the party on the car was
breakfasting, and Mr.. Huntington was
seated at the table nearest the door
deftly carving a steak. The switch
ing engine had been coupled to thf
other end of the car and started of
and 1t happened that the brakeman
forgot to uncouple the bell rope be
tween the car and the rest of the train
so, as the switching engine pulled the
private car away from the train, thu
rope stood the strain until it became
taut and then broke with a rebound
that sent one end with terrific force
into Mr.. Huntington's car.
The flying rope with its metal enc
grazed Mr.. Huntington's head ant
shattered the meat platter in front o
him. He quietly began 20 pick up tn
fragments, and Capt. Rogers re
marked: THAT was a narrow escape
Mr.. Huntington"
The railroad king, with his name
unchanged, replied: II don't kno"
captain. 1 would have felt pretty meal
Il one of those new switching engine
of ours couldn't pull q bell rope l.
half"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
HOW TO MAKE FORTUNES.
The Late Coils Il. Huntington Said
1t Was by the Chemistry of
Manufactures.

Mr.. Huntington was of the opinion
that the field of chemistry applied to
commercial ends offered the greatest
opportunities probably for amassine
wealth which will open up in this
country in the twentieth century
writes Holland, in the Philadelphia
Press. The great fortunes from the
development of the transportation
business have been made. Hereafter
there is to be more and more distribu'
ton of these fortunes. But Mr.. Hunt
ington not long ago said that II a
chemist were to make a discovery OF
some combination that would take the
place of rubber he would have at his
hand fortune quite as great as that
gained by Bessemer when he dlscoV'
cred his cheap process of making
steel. In fact, Mr.. Huntington de-
clared that II he were a younger man,
or were beginning to-day his career,
he would go to Africa or South Amer
lea and undertake the cultivation OF
rubber, while at the same time he
would keep in close alliance with all
the chemists, with the hope that they
might be able to make an artificial rub
Der.
So, too. he said that the chemist OF
the botanist who was able to discover
in some leaf or shrub or annual plant
just the qualities that are in spruce
timber and by chemical or scientitic
process, of which he had the trade
mark or the secret, was able to deliver
a pulp to paper manufacturers as
good as that of spruce timber, would
not wait long for wealth or enormous
wealth, and in gaining great riches
for himself would add greatly to the
wealth of the world
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-11-08
OVER THE HoUsEToPs.


Over the housetops the hills OF blue,
And a river, in splendid race;
And meadows. sSeet-smiing, as II thdy
knew
Your beautiful dreaming face!
How can weave a rhyme of themf
Dear, there are singers grand,
Who reap the stars from the living blue
Not the lilies of the land
10 there's the hopel While they sing the
stars,
And anthem on anthem swells.
may hear Gods word-to seldom heardl--
In the song of the morning bells.
In the song of the bells! But In
dawn or dew
Whatever the world may be,
They are always singing a song Of you
One song to the soul Of me!
And that is a song Of Duty done
Not heard in the battle strife.
But where the hands Of faithful one
Reap In the lilies of life.
Where you wreathe with roses the brow
Of Care.
. And sing OF the light! the light!
When you bring the song OF the angels
near
And hear Gods voice in the night!
IF. L. Stanton. In Atlanta Constitution.