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City of Butte ON q Slide.

The city of Butte, Mont, which started
to slide down the mountain several years
ago, has just made another move. That
part Of the town between Montana and
Wyoming streets, east and west. dis
tance of three blocks, and between Park
and Quartz streets, north and south,
distance of three blocks, has shown de-
cided down-hill movement in the last two
DAYS. A number of large buildings within
.he territory show cracks, due to the
movement. The street railway tracks at
several places have been pulled apart for
several inches and the water mains on
Wyoming street have broken at several
places. Two years ago the western part
of the city was affected by a slide. 49,
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does not become locked in place until
the hair strikes the corrugated or
twisted portion. A secondary advan-
tage of the design is that the hair, be-
ing held securely-practically locked
in position-the hairpins can be made
of much lighter material, great de-
sideratum from the wearers point OF
view. The inventor lays considerable
stress on the fact that the pin can be
used just like the ordinary hairpin,
being pressed into and withdrawn
from the hair in the usual way. The
elasticity in the shorter central leg
adds very much to its effectiveness.
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SfGN LTHOUGH armOrClaQ SulpS
4 " . are generally considered
6 n 8 to date only from the mid
4 "A die OF the last century. &C.
FON cording to high authority.
armor. in the general extended use of
the word, has been used for the pro-
lection of ships for hundreds. nay
thousands, of years. Not. OF course.
nickel-steel or even iron armor. but
protective covering of various mate
rialS; for as the warriors of the past
wore steel, iron. brass, leather. and
even quilted cotton armor. so have
ships been protected by a variety OF
different substances. The modern
word .:cuiraSs." which we apply solely
to body armor as worn by the Life
Guards, and which is Of French deri-
yation, is used also in France for the
armor of battleship and reminds one
at once that armor was originally made
of leather or CUR"
As with men SO with ships. The
ships of the ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans were often fortified with thick
fence Of hides. which served to repei
the missiles Of their enemies and at
ford protection to their own crews.
Hides. possibly BRASS and iron, and
certainly thick timber, entered into
the construction OF the turrets and
towers with which the fighting ships
of ancient and medieval times were
fitted. especially when used for harbor
defense, as in the Venetian turret ship
Of the ninth century here illustrated
Felt made an early appearance as de-
feaSive armor on Shipboard, as we
find that in a sea fight off Palermo In
1OT1 between the NormanS and Sara
Gems, the former hung their galleys
with this material by way of a de-
fensiye cuiraSs. The Norman knights
had probably adopted this device from
their enemies. for felt had been used
for sume time for this purpose on board
the huge "dromonS' Of the SaracenS.
These, the "battleships" of those days
In the Mediterranean, usually roWed
fifty oars a side, each oar being
manned by two men. so that here we
have a couple of hundred seamen ac-
counted for at once. When the soldiers,
sail trimmers. and artiicers who
worked the war engines and siphons
for Greek fire are added, it is evident
that the crew must have been very
large, and have required ship OF
considerable dimensions. These great
warships were armored with wooden
cloth soaked in vinegar to render it
fireproof, and hung with mantlets of
red and yellow felt. 80 that their cui-
rass was not only useful. but orna-
mental as we'll. At this period, and for
many hundreds OF years Later, addi-
tional protection was afforded to those
ou deck by the ranging Of the bucklers
aud shields of the warriors on board
along the gunwaleS. Later, in the fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries, special
~pavesades." or bu!warks. were pro-
yided in lieu. composed of large OBJ
long shields supplied for the purpose.
In addition to felt. the time-honOred
leather armor also entered into the de-
fensive panoply OF the "dromons.
and in the war of the Sicilian FesperS.
Pedro III. of AragOn. who commenced
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crescent in the arms of our greatest
naval port-was equipped with leaden
armor. This was in 1191. and probab-
ly lead was occasionally used for pro-
tective purposes throughout the next
two or three centuries, although there
is no record of any ship so protected
until 1880.
In this year the Knights Of st. John,
those sworn opponents of the Turk.
built one or perhaps two "leadclads. :"
At any rate, one account says that they
built such a ship in this year at Malta.
while another describes a ship Of this
kind called the "Santa Anna"
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openings, as would be the case were
the box level The garbage collector
removes the accumulations Of refuse
by means of a shovel. The greatest
drawback to the device is that it does
not possess accessibility for sterilizing
from time to time. as is necessary for
its maintenance in an unoffending con-
dtion.
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Grizzly Doesn't Care For Human Flesh.
In the old days. before the deadly
magazine rifle was invented, hunting
the grizzly was a very different affair,
and no animal on the American conti-
nent was more dreaded. his hercenesS
and vital force when wounded filling
the most reckless hunters with a
wholesome dread. 1t was not at all
unusual for a grizzly with bullet
through his heart to pursue and tear to
pieces the hunter, whose long single
barrelled muzzle-loading rifle, with its
one round lead bullet, was altogether
inadequate for such contest. 1t is a
strange thing too, that while the griz-
zly bear is an omnivorous feeder, living
on anything from roots and nuts to
steer and buffalo meat, he has never
been known to devour human tlesh.-
st. Nicholas.
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90 LIVES LOST IN SHIP CRASH
English Vessel is Sunk by a German
Off Dublin Bay,

Dublin, Ireland.-The German bark
Mona met in collision with the English
ship Lady Cairns off Dublin Bay. The
Lady Cairns sank in few minutes.
Her crew of twenty-five were drowned.
The Mona, badly damaged, was as
sisted into Dublin harbor.
The Lady Cairns was a three-masted
iron SKIP Of 1855 tons, comm: I'd by
Captain T. Evans, and was bound from
Liverpool for Timaru. New Zealand.
She was built in Belfast in 1869 and
was owned by L. Tulloch, of Swansea.
The Mona was commanded by Cap
tain Schwarting and was last reported
at Ardrossan.
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MAJOR BEAN SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Army Officer Who Conducted Cheap

Food Experiments a Suicide.
Omaha, Neb.-After calling to his
wife to play for him on the piano while
he was preparing some baggage for
his approaching departure f6r the Phil
ippines, Major William 81. Bean, chief
commissiary for the Department Of
the Missouri, shot himself through the
temple and died instantly.
"Play something with a so in it."
he said; something lively" She
struck up a march. and in the middle
Of it the pistol shot startled the house
hold. So far as can be ascertained
the act was unprecedented.
Major Bean was particularly dis
tinguished for his successful efforts
towards perfecteing the emergency
army. ration.
He was forty-three years of age, a
graduate Of West Point, and had been
"''fering from insomnia for several
months. His body was sent to his old
home at Chester, Pa, for interment.
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Keeping Fit.

Any one does his best work and does it
most easily when he is physically fit for it.
It therefore follows, says Wellspring, that
he should keep himself fit for it, 80 far az
he knows how, and there are very few who
do not know that over-rich food and eat
ing, staying up late Of nights, indulging In
sweets and smoking and drinking are sure
in a measure to unfit one for taxing duties:
Young people may be sure that they will
need all their physical resources to meet
the demands that will be made upon them.
Some are so full of vitality now that they
are as careless of their health as some
foolish people are with their money-scat-
tering right and left that which would be
their stay later on. The editor does not
think that one should always be anXlousiy
concerned over each little symptom ne may
have; he only suggests that one should not
knowingly transgress the plain rules OF
right living. When one is in good condl-
tion it is easy to keep so; it is hard to re-
cover health when it has been lost. 10 en-
10y life, work hard, be abstemious in mere
pleasure eating, avoid dissipation, play Wig
orously when you can without sighting
your obligations.
There Is such thing, too, as keeping
morally fit for what one has to do. There
are certain things which one cannot do
without spiritual letting down. The soul
needs communion with God just as much
as a plant needs sunshine. Anything
which interrupts that communion should
be promptly put aside, if you would be
equal to the ethical emergencies which you
will have to meet. Here is one who read
lily yields to temptation. Why? Because
he was net in a spirit to resist it. If a
great temptat VI should "'me to you, are
you sure sthat It would no. overcome you!
You may save yourself from awful shame
and disgrace. by becoming morally ut t. to to
cope with ife's daily problems and then
Geonipu
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invention. 1t is therefore not aston
ishing to find that the Japanese pos
sessed a paddle propelled armorclad
in the year 1000. This quaint craft.
like the old leatherclad ''barbotes" Of
the twelfth century. was turtle
backed. with ports for firing from. She
was covered with iron and copper
plates fitted together like the cells of
honeycomb mounted ten guns, and
like the Ark Of Delft was moved by
central paddlewheel. Though there
is no record of any more ironclad ships
before the nineteenth century. our own
navy. at any rate, used various de-
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Worlds Fair Pointers.

The Belgian Building at the Worlds
Fair, one Of the largest and handsom-
est in the foreign section. is remarka-
BILE in that the walls are not broken by
a singls window. The large structure
is well lighted by immense skylights
seventy-tve feet above the floor
A pack train Of twenty-five horses.
with all of their ac|outrementS, will be
one of the novelties at the Worlds
Fair. The unusual spectacle will be
sent by citizens of Wyoming to mark
Wyoming Day. The horses will all be
equipped as if ready to start on the
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Without God.

I may be angry with man who might
carve statues and paint pictures il he spent
his life in making mock flowers out of wax
and paper, but when man who might
have God for company shuts. up. and dis
through which God can enter, and lives
without God, his loss is too dreadful to be
angry with You merely mourn for him
and long and try to help him if you can
Philips Brooks.
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DoWie Begins to Paw Un,

Creditors Of John Alexander Dowie
have received the first installment OF
their claims, according to an arrange
ment made shortly after the receiver
ship proceedings. Ten per cent. Of
lhe claims was the first of four INSTALL
ments to be paid. Further payments
are planned as follows: June II, 25
per cent; Sept. 12, % per cent; Dec.
II, 40 per cent.
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The Word Of God.

Charles Darwin, being asked, in his lat
ter days, whether science supported the
Christians faith in the being Of God, re-
piled that science presented probabilities
both for and against it, and that the "de-'
gliding vote" had to be given by each indi-
vidual, according to his personal makeup.
Neither the being of God nor the inspira-
Eion of Scripture, says the Chicago Inter
ior, can be proven as one proves problem
in geometry. Moral ratiocination starts
not with axioms, but with postulates; not
with premises which it is impossible to
deny, but with assumptions which men OF
exemplary life are bound to accept. What
it is impossible to prove to a scoundrel, 1t.
is unnecessary to prove to saint. The
normal soul has its perceptions as truly as
the normal body. You do not need it To-
demonstrate the beauty of the rainbow to
the unclouded ID eye, or the obligations OF
virtue to the heavenly mind.
To the Christian the word is living
presence, from which he cannot escape. It
speaks to him with voice exceeding In
authority that of any earthly state or SOW.
ereign. 1t restraints his passions, curbs his
appetites, moderates his conduct, forbida
indulgences and proffers satisfactions which
are most, real and vital experiences. He
may not; be able to define inspiration, butt
he responds to it. He is not expert int
uuestionSiof canonicity. but he knows the
flower by its honey. What. he Is, the Bible
has made him. 1t found ,bim in "the ship
perry paths of youth" pursuing. pleasure;
as Addison says, with needless feet" and
it arrested him, turned him about and
brought him up to man"
He believes in the word of God. more
over, because men he abhors do not believe
in it. He knows it to be the word of Cod
because the minions of the pit hate it. He
gives it the place of honor in his home be-
cause it is kicked out Of the saloon: he
sends it forth with his blessing because
the gambler curses it; he pillows his dying
head upon its promises because in every,
age every son Of Belial has fastened to
consign it to the flames. Against faith
so founded waves of adverse criticism beat
in vain. The word of God rests not upon
tradition, but upon our hearts.
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HOSTILE MORO LEADER KILLED.

Last or The IrrecOncllaDles N the ISL
and of Jolo Shot on q Mountain.
Manila, P. I.-General Wood reports
that the allied dattos in the island Of
Jolo drove the recalcitrant datto Pan
gilman Hassan, the last of the hostile
Moro leaders. from the place where he
had been hiding since his defeat, near
Siet Lake. One Of the dattos killed
two of Hassan's sons.
A detachment under Major Hugh
Scott Of the Fourteenth Cavalry sur
rounded Hassan on a mountain and
Hassan was killed. He was the pro-
moter of the troubles in the island of
Jolo.
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An Evening Thought.

An Evening Thought.
Softly, as when mothers hand
Tucks in her little ones at night,
The darkness folds the drowsy land, \
And fades and fades the lingering Eghea
On velvet slope and glimmer:ag fell
The tender shadows rest like love,
And wheresoe'er Gods children dwell
His peace is shed their lives above.
Gods children! Bird upon the bough,
And lambkin lying on the hill, .
And wild goat on the mountains brow,
And eagle where the great winds thrill
And all the wayward, wandering ones,
The tribes of men, or near, or tar;
God keeps the whole, meath stars or SUNG
Where life is found Gods children are
IF precious be the rocking nest
And guard He hath for hidden lairs
Are we not yet more truly blest,
And closer in His sleepless care!
So may we shut our eyes and sleep;
So may we have no tryst with fear;
The dear Christ stoops our souls to keep,
As Christ's own life, our souls are dear.
Lo! through the dusk seem to see
The lifting of an awesome cross,
Where once He hung for you and me
His ransom paying for our dross.
10; through the dusk hear the song,
That never ceases where they stand
The countless glorious white-robed throng
Who praise Him in ImmanuePs land.
Margaret E. Sangster, in The Interior.
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d-worked paddle wheels placed be-
tween the two huilS
1t is 4 curious but We'll known fact
that if we so to the far East, we can
find a parallel to almost any western
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seem to have gone one better in the
evolution of armor protection. FOR it
is said that ti:a Great Dro:non"-
whose capture by Richard Lion-Heart
is still commeinorated By the stars and
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Less than seven per cent. OF the pow
er used in manufacturing plants in the
United States is &ectric.
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Killed in Bull Ring.

"Cucko," a celebrated matador, was
killed by bull i'll the amphitheatre at
JuareZ, Mexico.
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johannesburg Plague.

An outbreak of the bubonic plague
has occurred in the Indian coolie Sec
ton, at Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Assassinatcd in His Cab.
Albert Ferguson. hackman, was
shot four men at Kansas City, Mo.
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Life

To i've is more than tc make living
Rams Horn.
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Stok LTHOUGH armorclad ships
4 b are generally considered
6 "A 6 to date only from the mid
II "A + die of the last century. ac-
Sa0E cording to a high authority.
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PRESENT THE STATEMENT.
University CIubmen VIII Not Take Up
Jeromes Accusations.

New York, March 18.-The statement
made by District Attorney Jerome at AL
bany yesterday that member of the
University club had been acting as a
tout" for an alleged gambling house
has created considerable excitement
among members of that club. Prominent
members of the club said today that un-
doubtedly an investigation would be made
Immediately, and If it should be found
that any member of the University club
was acting as tout for canfields or
any other gambling house, he would get
short shrift. Immediate action by the
board of governors of the club is ex-
pected
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POUCHES ARE MISSING.
Contained Thousands of Dollars in
Drafts and Checks.

Memphis. Tenn, March 1S-It is report
ed here that drafts and checks. repre-
senting many thousands of dollars sent
in two mail pouches from Memphis to
st. Louis have mysteriously disappeared.
Postoffce officials say the pouches were
routed via Hoxie. Ark, where a trans
fer of mail is made.
They were forwarded from this city
on February 26 and March respectively.
Postoffice inspectors are working on the
case. 1t is said that no currency was in
the missing pouches, and II is believed
the loss will not be great as the paser
can be depulieated to a large extent
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FOR CHAIR IN ECONOMICS.
GIFT of Carnegie Was Made at the
Suggestion Of Senator Hanna.

Mount Vernon. o., March 1S.-The gift
Of $4,000 in 5 per cent bonds to I.enyon
college by Andrew Carnegie is to establish
the Edwin M. Stanton chair of economies
Carnegie gave the money at the sugges-
ton OF the late M. A. Hanna. who had
given a similar amount for a dormitory
The heirs Of the late Senator Hanna
have given to Lenyon college $4,000 addi-
tional for the purpose Of fully complet-
ing Hanna hall.
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TORPEDO BOAT SUNK.
Eleven Persons Drowned BY c
at Sea of Portsmouth.

Portsmouth, March 1S.-The British
submarine boat No. AL was run down
and sunk off the Nab Lightship today
by Donald Currie liner, and eleven
persons were drowned, including Lieu
tenant Mansergh. the senior officer e.
gagged in submarine work. The linz
passed on and reported that she had
struck a torpedo.
At the time she was struck the yes
sci was off the lightship engaged in
the maneuvers and was lying In seven
fathoms of water, waiting the approach
of battleship. The boat was one Of
the newest of the fleet OF submarine
vessels, and was built from the latest
models, but she has always been bal
diver. She was inspected recently by
both King Edward and the Prince OF
Wales
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suIIy lakes Announcement.

New York, March 1s.-(By Associated
Press. )-Daniel ]. Sully. the cotton
operator who has for fifteen months been
the biggest figure In the cotton markets
of the world and who has pulled cotton
from cents a pound to over II cents. an
nounced his inability to make good his
engagements on the New York cotton ex-
change today
Within few moments cotton fell near
lv sl3 a bale from the highest figures OF
the day. Scenes followed the announce
ment Of the failure 1t has been the privi-
lege of few brokers to witness. Traders
In the street have witnessed stock panics
In previous years; corners have been
broken. and many crashes have been re-
corded, but none has been accomplished
nv such frenzy and confusion
While there had been no premonition
of the impending crash. no morning of
lied market. In less than ten minutes
of the opening, half cent had been
taken off the price Of Gotten. Prices
went up and down ten, twenty and thirty
points within two and three minutes.
NAV opened at 1859 and sold down to
ii.75 In less than fifty minutes, while
July opening at Is. %, went down to IA Sc
Sellers Start to Cover.
Toward the end of the first half hour.
eax2y sellers started to cover, and there
~ : rapid advance. There was moth
I-A - - news to GpfsDnf for the ex-
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CoGHLAN is RELIEVED.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee Leaves Pensa-
cola for Colon.

Washington, March 1s.-Rear Admiral
Coghlan. commanding the caribbean
squadron, shortly will be relieved from
service on the isthmus Of Panama by
Rear Admiral Sigsbee, commanding the
South Atlantic squadron. Admiral Sgsbee
left Pensacola yesterday for Colon in his
flagship Newark, accompanied by the
cruisers Detroit and Montgomery.
The Olympia, which Is Admiral Cogh-
lans flagship, Will soon start for Pensa
cola, where she will join the vessels OF
the North Atlantic fleet In target prac-
tice
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Girl Volunteers for Service.

Oressa, March ia Bulgarian girl,
named zorka Illiva, who fought and was
wounded in the ranks of the Macedonian
insurgents, has arrived here and volun-
teered for service in Manchuria. She
wears masculine attire, is an expert
horse woman and handles rife and sword.
The girl saw General Laulbars. the COM
mander-in-chief here, who promised to
endorse her application. She brought
with her full campaign equipment.