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|%irrigators Protest

Belle Fourche-At a meeting of the
directors of the Belle Fourche Water
Users association, representing several
acres OF land holders under the new
irrigation project near here, a formal
protest was made against the policy
of the government under the reclama-
ton act. One protest was against
the clause providing that an owner
of decided land under the project
must live on or in the vicinity of
the land, within fifty miles, this be-
ing held to work "a hardship on
the wne Another resolution pass
ed protests against tho recent ruling
of the department ordering all fences
removed from the canal right Of way
because ditch riders do not have TO
daily open gates and go through
fences, say the landowners, will
throw the land open and make II i'm
possible to keep stock on 1t. The de-
partment Is asked to withdraw the
order.
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TINY BABY'S PITIFUL CASE

Our baby when two months old
was suffering with terrible eczema
from head to foot, all over her body.
The baby looked just like a skinned
rabbit. We we're unable to put clothes
on her. At first it seemed to be a few
mattered pimples. They would break
the skin and peel off leaving the un-
derneath skin red as though it were
scalds. Then a few more pimples
would appear and spread all over the
body, leaving the baby all raw without
skin from head to foot. On top OF her
head there appeared a heavy scab a
quarter of an inch thick. 1t was aw-
full to see so small a baby look as she
did. Imagine! The doctor was afraid
to put his hands to the child. We
tried several doctors remedies but all
failed.
Then we decided to try Cuticura.
BY using the Cuticura Ointment we
softened the scab and 1t came off. I'm
der this, where the real matter was,
by washing with the Cuticura Soap
and applying the Cuticura Ointment,
a new skin Don appeared. We also
gave baby four drops of the Cuticura
R~esolvent three times daily. After
three days you could see the baby
gaining a little skin which would peel
off and heal underneath. Now the
baby is four months old. She is a fine
picture of a fat little baby and all is
we'll. We only used one cake of Cuti,
cura Soap, two boxes of Cuticura Oint.
ment and one bottle Of Cuticura Re-
solvent. If people would know what
Cuticura is there would be few suffer
ing with eczema. Mrs. Joseph Koss-
mann, Z st. Johns Place. Ridgewood
Heights, n. Y, Apr. 80 and May 4, 90"
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Macon Man Wakes Eloquent Over the
Excellence Of the Eating Com.
mon in His Territory.

Come down in the goober fields OF
Georgia II you want to know what
good eating is" said Mr.. James Jack
son of Macon. Ga, to a reporter of the
Washington Post. did you ever eat
a possum stuffed with COOLERS and
sweet potatoes. with corn pone and
gravy or the side. topped of with ice
cold buttermilk right from the spring
house? II you haven't, you have
missed something" declared Mr.. Jack
son. You can talk about your can
vasback duck. your terrapin. and your
mc
finest of fare here. but wait until you
eat what have described. Or try q
fat turkey. cooked with chestnuts, like
only one OF before De war black
'mammies' can prepare IT. The goober
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In Praise of Georgia Grub

country in Georgia is the most
porous and contented anywhere in the
SOUTH" continued Mr.. Jackson. THE
people down there are extraordinarily
hospitable. and no stranger travelling
through the country can possibly get
away from the farmers. who will in.
sist that the traveller stop and stay
over night to enjoy some of that cele.
brated eating. When you conn that
way, If o ever do, will show you
what sure enough grub is"
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Book ~Companionship.

Books are a guide in youth and an
entertainment for age. They support
us under solitude and keep us from
being a burden to ourselves. They
help us to forget the crossness of men
and things; compose our cares and
our passions; and lay our disappoint,
ments asleep. When we are weary
of the living We may repair to the
dead. who have nothing of peevish.
ness, pride or design in their con
versation.-Jeremy Collier.
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Fires in February

Pierre-The state insurance de-
partment places the number of fires
in the state in February at S3, Is
shown by the reports OF fire wardens
to the department. The total loss
In these fires reached $51.6S3. TIE re-
ports for March will - doubt be
much larger as they will include the
loss in the fire at Murdo. where the
loss was near what the total was in
the state for February.
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CHAPTER XII.

Once In the corridor Mrs. Dimes put
out an unsteady hand to her friend.
MY tablets. Henrietta. II Is SO an.
noying to be weak"
, Weak" echoed Miss Winstanley;
"you were magnificent" She clicked
open her bag and produced a small
white box. whose lid she quickly
slipped. extending II to the suffering
lady. while | begged them to come
into my Office until Mrs. Dimes had
rested and felt a little recovered. But
Mrs. Dimes declined.
I'VE must go to Barbara at once"
she said. why. the poor child Is
probably getting into her wedding
gown at this minute. Think Of It.
Ankony will go to her. OF course. with
some explanation: but she must have
enough of the truth from us to prevent
any further mistake"
And oh. the blessed relief il will be
to herr" breathed Miss Winstanley.
"You forget that she may love him."
/ suggested.
Mrs. Dimes spun round on me at
Isdt iihC q nu6ts t0UOi AOuoty opiuuihS
top.
"You think that possible? Gracious
heaven. | hope not! came to bring
her happiness, not to break her
heart"
"You need have no fear as to that"
Miss Winstanley FASTENED. assuringly.
"You have done her a service beyond
words. You see. she has been very
clever in carrying forward her part
of the hideous program which she
mapped out. and her cleverness has
deceived MIR. Twining. am willing to
stake everything l have that she
doesn't love Ankony. and that she
does" She paused. her significant
glance full upon me.
MRS. Dimes lifted her brows. and
comprehending suddenly, held out her
hand TO me with gratifying and unex
pected wai.nth,
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Heap-B Big Heap Happy

Sisseton Indian Agency-The In
dams belonging at this agency have
just been made happy by the distri-
button among them Of an aggregate Of
more than $50. 900 interest money due
them by the United States govern
ment. As the Sisseton Sioux are not
a very numerous tribe some of the In
dtvidual members received. cQnSI1sya,
SNSSSrNs .N SSe% NNSSSsSssSjH SM SSf
payment. AS the result OF the pay
ment the merchants in tho towns y
the vicinity OF where the Indians 1--we
now are enjoying a fine business sun
plying the wants OF the redmen and
lhair women and children.
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Technically Discussed,

$50 there is to be a divorce" said
the woman who discusses everybody.
1T seems but a little while since he
asked for her hand"
Yes" replied the rude man. He
got the hand all right. But it turned
out to be a misdeal."
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80 you think you would like tc
Journey In African"
~csU-rvNS~etsN~ z ; sfnsoT
fancy 1t would be a sweet relief to
travel in a country where there are
no overwo~ked railway ticket sellers,
nor Pullman povters, nor hotel cfefxs.
nor head waiters."
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Fear not lest thy life come to an
end; but rather lest it never had a be
ginning.-Newman.
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Ing. she said; Il do indeed
You cannot hope IT as do" re-
pIied earnestly; but have none OF
her. assarasce. and q great many
doubts"
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Chew WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT-
promote saliva-release mint leaf
juice. Fine for digestion!
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The decay OF poetry may be due to
the fact that so much of it is rotten.
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HEAD. BACK AND Legs ACHE.

Ache all over; Throat sore, with chills? That is l.
Grippe. Perry Ddr s Pdinkilpr will break IL up /
aiken promptly. All dealers, 25c, S5c and soc bottles
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YOU that the ship is blown up and is sink
ing
Nearly thirteen years have ground by
since that mid-February night when
Brave Bill Anthony, with uncanny ad-
herence to discipline. stepped into his
captains cabin. crooked his heels to-
gether. struck his visor with his white
gloved hand and thus announced the ex-
plosion of the battleship Maine. Mean
while the lion-hearted private of marines
has gone to a suicides grave. and hun
dred inventive geniuses. ambitious to re-
cover the wreck on salary or percent
age basis, have presented TO the govern
ment a score of odd schemes for digging
the monster out.
One proposition has been to calk the
hull and pump it full of air; another to
fill it with paraffined cork and thus float
it, Other contractors have proposed to
sink big dry docks on either side of the
wreck. connect them with chains passed
under the submerged keel and, by pump
ing them out. lift the Maine high enough
for another dry dock to slip in underneath
and scoop her up. Still other engineers
and contractors have presented plans for
blowing up the battleship and recovering
the fragments.
Not rrtil the other day did the right
man with an acceptable scheme present
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dug into and explored for fragments of
wreckage lying alongside her.
Before hair of her has been dis
turbed government board will go
down into the cofferdam, examine her
and determine whether the court of in
quiry which inquired into the disaster
Immediately after it's occurrence, in
1898, was correct when it found that
1.-The Maine was destroyed by the eX-
plosiOn of submarine mine, which
caused the explosion of two or more
of her forward magazines"
Spain has been invited to send to Ha-
vana representative, who will be given
access to the Maine as soon as the
cofferdam has been unWatered, and q
similar invitation has been sent to Cuba.
The international aspect of the under
taking was one cause which moved the
President to intrust the delicate task to
the army engineers, rather than to con-
tractors. Economy was another consid-
Grafton, for Cuba had offered our gov
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took fork and stabbed it into a cube
of the sweet, and thus conveyed it to his
mouth. II was delicious.
BY and by the patriarch entered He
talked first with some of the priests, and
l had good chance to study him.
Imagine tall, fine-looking. full-bearded.
fair-faced man of thirty-five. dressed in
long. black gown and a rimless black
cap, which rises eight inches over his
forehead. The gown is cut full and it
falls to his feet. His cap is draped with
black cloth which covers his shoulders
and about his neck is a long, heavy gold
chain. to which hangs an ivory medallion
as big as the palm of your hand. The
rim of this medallion is studded with dia-
monds and inside the rim is painting of
the madonna with the Holy Child in her
arms.
/ watched the man as he talked. He
gestured now and then and / saw that his
hands were soft and his nails well kept.
His face changed with the subject and
the maR he spoke to. At times he was
serious. again his eyes sparkled with
animation, and now and then he broke
into a smile.
My talk with him was through the
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-R27NWG TIE STEEL IRIHNG

The wreck will be fioated after X has
been examined by the Spanish, Cuban
and American representatives but this
cannot be effected until the badly dam
aged portion of the bow has been cut off.
This having been accomplished. a water
tight bulkhead of timber will be built
across the front of the remainder OF the
hull
simple matter. Gen. Bixby tells me. Two
or three years ago a big vessel built up
on the lakes had to be taken out to sea.
but was found to be too long to go
through the locks of the Welland canal
leading from Lake Erie into Lake On
tario. So the owners placed her I'm dry
dock. cut her in two, put a bulkhead in
each open end and towed the halves. sep
arateIy, out to the St. Lawrence, where
she was put In drydock again and riveted
together
The three-acre cofferdam about the
Maine will serve as drydock for this
purpose. and after the big bulkhead has
been put in place the doors in her COM
partments will be closed. Finally all OF
her leaks will be calked and after the
wreckers have gathered up all of the
bow fragments the water will be run
back into the cofferdam. Then what re-
mains of the old Maine will rise again 10
the bosom of the sea and the steel pick
cts of the great fence will be pulled up.
The final disposal of the wreck will be
determined by Congress soon after 1t
convenes. Various offers have been re-
ceived from interests DESTROYS of exhibit
ing the recovered hull as a whole or In
fragments. and one application has been
made by a concern offering the govern
ment one-half the gate receipts If allow
ed to make a show of the recovered
parts From past debates in Congress
Gen. Bixby assumes that any public ex-
hibition of the wreck would he offensive
to the better element of the American
public, and that Congress will prefer that
the Maine be given a deep sea burial and
he thereby disposed of beyond resurrec-
tion," as he put it.
If this burial at is decided upon
the body of the dead leviathan will BE-
allowed to descend gently into some deep
abyss far below the reach OF passing
keels The bursting of her ascending
bubbles will then be mans last visible
reminder of our worst tragedy of the sea.
and only the monsters of the shadow
realm below the waves will witness the
gradual dissolution of the one-time ma
jestic warrior.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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eminent the storage yard, dock front,
steam holsters. dredges. pile drivers and
pumping apparatus needed for the work,
and these nave since been accepted.
Moreover, the government already had
the services of Gen. Bixby, who is recog-
nized as the most distinguished water
way engineer of this country.
Indeed. for this branch of engineering
the government especially trained him
at the beginning of his career, for as n
reward<for his graduating at West Point
at the head of his class he was sent to
France and given a postgraduate course
in the National School of Bridges, High
ways, River and Harbor Improvement
He has been president of the Mississippi
river commission for several years. and
it was he who had charge of all the
great harbor and channel improvements
on the great lakes between Buffalo and
Duluth, including the channel connecting
Lakes Huron and Superior, and the great
Sault Ste. Marie locl>
He has also had charge Of the improve
ments of the entire Ohio river, as well as
the upper Mississippi. and last year he was
assigned as special advisory engineer to
the national. waterways commission. In
working out the scheme for the recovery
of the Maine he has been advised by a
board of three engineer officers, Col.
w. NJ. Black, Lieut. Col. NJ. M Patrick
Il
named among whom will have direct
charge of the work in Havana.
Recovery of the bones of the victims
still in the wreck will be gruesome
function of the corps of men at work in
the cofferdam. The total complement of
the Maine was 3j5 officers and men, of
whom o53 were killed or drowned on
the night of the explosion and seven
more died afterward in the hospital, MAX
ing total of 26O victims. Altogether
17S bodies were recovered from the ship
and surrounding waters, but seventy-five
corpses were never found. How many Of
these went down inside the hull and how
many fioated out to sea nobody knows.
The work of caring for such of the re-
mains as are found within the compart-
ments of the wreck will probably be
supervised by a naval chaplain, who will
save every article which might aid in
identification.
The skeletons recovered will be placed
in caskets and borne aboard a naval YES
sci to the Arlington National cemetery.
opposite Washington, where the Names
military mast will be erected as the
browning feature of memorial monu-
ment to be dedicated to all of the victims
of the tragedy Of February IL, 1898.
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eventually unite and work together as
one for the salvation of man.
His beatitude was much interested in
America, and at my request gave me the
blessing which he gives to all true be-
levers, saying that i might transmit il
to the American people, each OF whom
could regard ii being made especially
for him This blessing was given to me
i'm golden frame. The words are printed
in Greek in letters of gold. Literally
translated, ii reads:
Almighty God, the Father of Mercy
and God of Prayer, bless, purify and
strengthen these thy disciples who now
bow before Thee.
From every wicked work withdraw
them, and in every right action give them
thy aid
Make all things smooth to each ac-
cording to his wants BE with those
travelling upon the water and upon tn
land. Comfort the poor and heal the sick.
We praise Thee. Our Father. tine
Father. Son and Holy Spirit, the source
of all graciousness and glory.
And now may the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ. the love of God the FatleS,
and the communion of the Holy Suirit
be with you. Amen
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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reling Greeks, ArmenianS and Copts in
order to separate them. Ddrng the fight
knives We're drawn, and it is not an un-
common thing for blood to pollute the
Holy Sepulcher on festal days.
! went last week to Bethlehem to visit
the Church of the Nativity. In the stable
where Christ was born a line has been
drawn across the center of the floor. On
one side of that line the Greek Catholics
claim their rights and the other side be-
longs to the Romans. AS the two sects
We're worshiping, a Mohammedan soldier,
with gun and whip in his hand, stood
at each end of the line and kept order.
Other Mosiem soldiers were guarding the
services in the church overhead.
1t seems dfsgraceful to think that Mo-
hammedans should be necessary TO keep
the peace among Christians. Neverthe-
less, Palestine belongs to the sultan. and
ii is his troops who must maintain order
A year or so ago pilgrim had fight in
the Church of the Nativity during which
he shot one monk and wounded two
others, and such troubles are liable to
arise any day in the Church of the Sep
ulcher.
This is especially so at Easter time
when the thousands belonging to the diff
ferent sects go marching about singing
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broad. half-inch thick in the center and
sixty feet long. They will be driven into
the harbor bottom to depth of fifteen
feet. which means that when pumped out
the great steel fence will be fOrty-f1ve
feet high. or about as tall as three
story house.
To make them water tight the steel pill
ings have a unique interlocking feature.
Viewed endwise-i e., seen in cross-sec-
tion-each Of them looks like a long, slim
wrist terminating at either end in half
closed hand. with thumb bent and the
line of the fingers curved. So. if you
were to look down upon the cofferdam
it's top edge would look like an endless
chain of hands. each clasping the other.
These interlocking joints are self-calk-
ing and render the steel wall water tight
no matter whether they are set to de-
scribe a straight line, curve or an
angle. They need no rivets, screws or
bolts and as soon as one has been driven
fifteen feet into the tarbor bottom the
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Greek priest, who spoke English. / ask
ed his beatitude as to the condition of the
church and whether it would improve in
the revolution which is now going on in
Turkey. He replied that he had no doubt
of that. saying that the church was a
democratic body and ii ought therefore
to do well under a constitutional gov
eminent, such as Turkey now has.
His beatitude spoke of the many sects
of Christians which were now in the Holy
land, saying that they were gradually
growing more liberal, and that they
would work more in harmony than they
had in the past.
l asked his holiness as to the life Of
the priests and whether he thought it was
as pious as that of the hermits who
lived in the second and third centuries
after Christ. He replied that he doubted
whether man was as good now as theI.,
but that the church was doing what it
could to bring him back to the faith He
said he believed that the time would
come when all mankind would be Chris
tians, although that time would probably
be far in the future. 1 was surprised to
hear him speak well of the Professionals,
and to say that all Christian sects would
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MN az MBM QEMNE. ENM AT

near edge of the bottom of its neighbor
will be fitted into the adjacent groove at
it's top and dropped. Then the pile
driver will do it's work. And after the
Maine has been recovered the pilings
will be pulled out one at time and, very
probably; sold back to the rolling firm
which is supplying them.
The water inside the big cofferdam, be-
fore pumping, will average about thirty
five feet in depth and there viii be alto
gether about 4, 725.O0o cubic feet of water
to be pumped out. After this water has
been sucked up the wreck will be braced
all around and the portion of the hull that
is found buried i'm the mud will be uncov-
cred with shovels and water jets, new
bracing being continually added all the
while, until finally the rusted and bat
tered man-of-war, redeemed from more
than dozen years strata of silt and
mud, sits high and dry upon her keel as
she would be in drydock. Afterward the
entire bottom of the cofferdam will be
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himself to the President. This was Gen.
William III. BiXby, the army's new chief
of engineers. who promptly obtained the
Taft O. X. to his plan. 1t was another
case where simplicity won
\ water-tight fence Is to be built about
the Maine. Then the sea water inside the
Enclosure is to be pumped out, leaving the
wreck high and dry within. That is the
scheme which has been sealed with the
Taft favor and Gen. Bixby has just given
me an hour during which he explained
the details of the work. which is to be-
gin at once.
This water-tight fence. or cOfferdam
will be 40 feet long by 800 feet wide,
and the area of dry, harbor bottom with
in will be over three acres in extent. when
the pumping is completed. In the middle
of this space will rest the Maine with
clearance of at least fifty feet all around.
This wall will be built Of success
sive circles of steel pilings of in
genious design, a little over foot
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Norfolk il may not like conditions al
Seattle, Brownsville. in Aroostook
county. Me. 1t all depends. When these
questions are settled. perhaps in six or
seven years more the department will
have something definite To say on the
subject.
Setting out seeding potatoes in pots for
the 3.W0.O0O acres in this country devoted
to the culture of this vegetable would
seem like an endless task, but any labor
which would improve the quality of the
potatoes in the country | per cent, and
make the 36,000.o0o bushels annually re-
quired for seed more dependable to a sim
liar extent. would be pretty well worth
while. The potato crop now amounts to
about 300, 600, 600 bushels annually.