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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-22

which gave a shrill whistle and set
the sails of the windmill in motion.
The power of the blow and the length
of the gyration were indicated in a
small dial upon the front Of the mill
and also in some degree testified to the
state of the Among the
songs Of Burns is one upon a whistle
used by n Dane of the retinue Of Anne
of Denmark. which was laid upon the
table at the commencement OF the
drinking bout, and won by whoever
vas last able to blow il. The Dane
conquered all corners until Sir Robert
Lawrie of Maxwelton. after three
days and three nights hard contest,
left the Scandinavian under the table"
Oct. 1G, 1889, a similar contest took
place. which as been immortalized in
Burns verses.
Among the Lancaster miners there
is still prevalent an old superstition of
whistling ghosts, and when Il miner
has heard its Ominous note nothing can
induce him to descend into the mine
the following day. A. certain shrill
cry or whistle during the night Is said
to come from the "seven whistlers.'
whose identity seems to puzzle. Spen-
ser, in his "Faerie Queene," takes cog
Dizance of these supposed phantom
birds Of i'll omen. He speaks of Tho
nation Of unfortunate and fatal BIRDS
thus lowered about Sir Guyon. His al
fusion reads:
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SMUGGLING BY PROXY
CLEVER SCHEMES TO AVOID PAY
ING CUSTOMERS.
Goods Purchased by TOurists-"PrIv-
iIege" Is Given to Return Them
at the American once IL They De-
sire.

Smuggling has a fascination for very
many peeps. Some make a business
of it, getting in merchandise to sell.
Others smuggle and break the law,
bringing in wearing apparel, silks, laces,
jcwelry and precious stones, either TO
obligc friends or to give away as pres
cnts. The former rarely continue long
in certain lines of goods befOf, they are
found out. The regular dealers soon
learn of sales at suspicious prices, and
the smugglcrs are traced and stopped,
says the New York Herald. =
These irregular importers are seldom
possessed of large capital and pay more
for the same kind of goods than the
large dealers, so that if successful they
do not get all the advantage of the duty
they save. Small articles of large
value, as watches, jewelry and precious
stones, are most easily struggled. Those
in it fo~ business have tried number
less schemes to get the goods in. Many
Of them are known to the officers.
There is comparatively little done now
trying to bring in pr scious stones in
cakes of soap. in cavities of large corks
used for perfumery and toilet articles,
or in hollow n and umbrella sticks.
But some still work this way.
One old-fashioned silver-mounted cane
made twelve successful trips. The sup
posed unllcky thirteenth was started
as a new number, one, with a new cane,
which is still on its travels. Diamonds,
etc, of value $25 to $4,000, have been
carried in that old cane on each trip.
Most frequently it came in through
Canada. 1t is now tapping the pave
ments of Chicago as an ordinary walk
ing stick.
The ways and means adopted to
throw dust in the eyes of the officers
are various.
The goods are concealed in very or
binary, travel worn trunks, bags, etc,
in such a way as to defy a close ex-
animation. To find them would neces-
state the breaking or materially dam
aging the bag OF trunk. 1t has been
done on information given from abroad,
prompted by jealousy or quarrels of
parties interested. This was suspected
once and the smuggler fooled the Gus
toms officers by filling the receptacles
with imitation diamonds. They were
thought to be real at first and a big
prize, and the trunk was sent down
to the seizure room, while MIR. Snug
gler walked off the dock with the real
gems in he crown of his hat.
The best imitation diamonds, no mat
ter under what fancy name they are
sold, are worth from So to So per gross
for good-sized ones. They retail at a
bigger percentage of profit than the
real. but you have to sell several tons
of them to make Il fortune, so that Il
pint or two found in the trunk did not
amount to much although they made
the officers eyes bulge at first and then
set them to thinking.
The smuggler was watched for some
time, but nothing came Of it. He had
two brothers i'll business in st. Louis
and San Francisco, who sold the goods.
How Suspicion Is Avoided.
The smugglers know how to arIange
their trunks to avoid suspicion. False
dry goods business cards and papers
are left within easy reach of Tho Off
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-22
HI In CoIOrS.

1t is considered artistic and becoming
o choose ones gown in harmony with
he particular color of ones eyes or
lair, and l have noticed the exceeding
uccess of this advice, and also of choos-
ng a pink to match the tint of ones
complexion; but girls with pale, sallow
skins and lack of coloring generally
should forget the suggestion and emily
IN themselves with a touch of bright
less. l have sometimes met those little
women who literally look II sheet of
irab, from bonnet to toe, just for all
he world as if they had been dipped"
md the other day I sat opposite to IL
'golden-brown' lady, whose shoes,
iress, gloves, veil. bonnet, feathers,
yes and hair matched to a ST" The
fleet struck me as most peculiar.
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The whistler shrill,
That whose hears doth die.

1t is thought that this bird is the
queen plover. Many a belated traveller
over a lonely trail at midnight has been
startled by its awesome, shrill, almost
human Cry, carrying in its wierd note
something inexpressibly mournful.
About these birds there is a tradition
that they harbor the souls of those Jews
who assisted at the crucifixion, and in
consequence are doomed to be ever on
the wing, moving through the lonely
hours of the night bewailing their fate
by their Borrowing cries.
All this is very interesting, but still
more so is the fact. of which many no
doubt are unaware, that there is a peo-
pie among whom even to-day whistling
is a full grown language. A French sa-
want, who has recently visited Gomera,
II of the Canary Islands, says that
among the natives whistling is still the
mode of expression. The Guanches,
as these people are called, have viz
tuaiiy lost their identity as a race, hay
ing been merged into the Spanish popu-
%lation, but they nevertheless preserve
many of the habits of their ancestors.
Being shepherds it will be readily un-
derstood that their language of whist
ling stands them in good stead as a
means of COMMUNICATION from long dis
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-22
Led Pencil Wood.

Most persons know that the wood of
the best lead pencil is from a form of
the American red cedar. The best for
the purpose is said to belong to the
variety known as Juniperus Virginiana,
variety B~ermudiana. This form of red
cedar seems to have its home on the
island of Bermuda. it being the only
tree found on the island. 1t is sup
posed originally toy have been started
from seed of Our common red cedar,
brought to the island by birds, or in
some other way, and that the contin.
lal force of circumstances, different
from those under which our red cedar
exists. has caused it to change in some
respects its character. The same form
is, however. now found i'm the south.
possibly from seeds brought again from
Bermuda by birds. as in the, first in.
stance. 1t is said that Mr.. Faber,
whose name is inseparabiy connected
with the best class of lead pencils, has
growing on his estates at Schloss Stein,
near Nuremburg, Germany. some
twelve Of thirteen acres of this kind
Of cedar. from which he expects in the
future to raise enough wood for his
pencils without importing it from the
new world.-Meehan'S Monthly.
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should be denied. In fact it is rather
probable that they did whistle.
In the excavations of prehistoric
mounds there have been found a num-
Der of curious whistles, made of stone,
shells, bone and other materials, which
go to show that men of every age have
been addicted to whistling. DR.. Borden,
who has made this subject a special
study, found in a burial mound a pecul-
lar whistle made from Il boar's tooth,
which he believes to be the Oldest
specimen in the world of it's kind. The
same gentleman has several samples
of prehistoric whistles made of the
bone from reindeer joints.
Mythology abounds in deities Of
more Or less renown who prided them
selves Oh their musical ability in this
line, all of which goes to show that
whistling is eminently respectable as
far as age goes. But here, at least as
far as general opinion is concerned, the
responsibility of whistling seems to
cease. Indeed, it is more than re-
markable to find how bitter is the pre-
judice and superstition about whistling
even to this day. Among the stern Pu-
ritans of New England the belief was
current that the mouth of the whistler
would remain impure for forty days,
which fact no doubt had a dampening
effect on many a peak-hatted youths
desire to whistle the "May-fower's
Hornpipe" ''Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.' or
some of the Pilgrim Fathers solemn
dittics.
The devil comes in for a large share
of attention in relation to whistlipg,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-22
FOR LOVES SAKE.
How One Young Lady Stole q
March ON Her Rivals.

How M Young Lady Stole "A
fare on Her Rivals.
Men say that all is fair in love, as
in war, and occasionally women have
profted by the axiom. Three young Ia
dies were staying at the house, of the
mother of a young English epicure.
Knowing that they had prudential rea-
sons for wishing to marry him-he had
a fortune-the young man resolved to
select a wife from one of them, and to
let his choice be determined by her
skill in cookery, the art he valued
above all others. Without revealing
the purpose of his proposal. he careful
ly preached the subject of cookery,
led the girls to boast of their skill, and
then suggested that they should COM
pete in making boiled custards.
Each competitor should have the
same opportunities, and be allowed a
private Dol as her peculiar kitchen.
The proposal was merrtly accepted.
When the custards were produced,
Fanny's was so clearly the best that
even her rivals did not hesitate to pro-
claim her the victor. Three months
later, she and the young epicure were
married. Now m the sequel, which
seems to prove that honesty is not al
ways the best policy.
About a year after the marriage il
was discovered that in the interval be-
tween the agreement for the tourna-
ment and the time for entering the lists
Fanny had bribed the housekeeper to
furnish her with a half pint of cream,
i'll addition to the specified materials.
She made the victim of her artifice
an excellent wife, nevertheless; the av-
nrage man does not find it impossible
to forgive a fault committed for his
sake, and there is no reason to be-
lieve that this Il repented of his
choice.
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They Made tho Officers Ewes Bulge
GERS. who may find Il dozen or two
kid gloves or neckwear, on which they
collect duty.
The smuggler does not go to IA hotel
but to a railroad depot. and is soon
on his way to an inland city. There
he meets his partner, and in private
the goods are brought out. They are
sold by degrees, and with the proceeds
another trip is arranged, Which the
partner probably undertakes.
Value in Few Stones.
Express, steamship companies. bank.
ers and others are used, and they do
not know 1T, by SmugglerS. All these
irregular importings are liable to fail
by the one chance in ten thousand to
which they may be subjected by some
accident in transit.
1t may be Judged from the following
that it takes but Il few stones of the
right grade to be of large value. A
very fine two-caIat diamond can easily
he worth $50 to $1,000: Il fine one
carat ruby, only il small size, $500 more;
Il two carat ruby. $1,000 to 50. 800; Il
threc-Carat emerald, $1,000; a pearl, the
size of a well developed marrowfat
pea, $500 to $500: if a black one. same
size, may be $1,000.
Smuggling by Proxy.
Take the case of Mr.. and Mrs. G..
Having gone over for a four months
trip it is within. say, three weeks of
the, end. They have made purchases
here, there and everywhere. Some
goods are to be shipped and some they
carry home. 1t occurs to them that
they must get Il few souvenirs for
nieces, ncpheWS. cousins and aunts.
After a serious talk and Mr.. C.'s re-
mindcr that the letter of credit is down
to small figures. they decide to 60
to the branch store of Astcroid 4 Co,
Paris. AT home they deal at the head
quarters of the firm in Bunion square.
Boston.
They call and are immediately rec
ognized and welcomed by two or three
of the Boston store clerks. statesmen
annually exported for the season by
AstcroiG n Co. After the usual stcreo-
typed Inquiries as TO enjoying the trip.
onc of the clerks takes Mr.. and Mrs.
&. in hand.
Several articles of moderate value
are put aside on a little velvet-covcred
jewel tray. While Mrs. G. is busy and
Sll stNNtlnS ~ lut tOlEttIlOn MI. I,
has been doing Il mental calculation
as to the balance of his letter of credit,
and has arrived ut the conclusion that
five will not go into three and leave
anything. He has Il half whispered
talk with Mrs. C.. and it results in a
TO reselect the jewels with Il;
show of putting some of them back.
The clerk is equal to the occasion.
This is n reason why he is here.
The opportunity Offering. he says, "Of
course, Mrs. G.. if You find when you
arrive home that some of these do not
suit, you may return them t. our Bos-
ton store, paying for those you keep at
your convenience He knows MI. C.
is Il solid" man and perfectly safe.
Mrs. c. looks at MI. G. and the thing
is understood. The clerk adds thai
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-22
COSTLY AMERICAN TEA.
Grown In Gadrcns in South Carolina
"A state AEricuIturist's Opin-

Grown I'm Gadrcns in South Carolina
"A State AEricuIturist's Opin-
ION.
Some specimens of American tea
have been sent from Fayette, N. c.,
this season to northern markets, and,
according to the New York Evening
Post, the results Of the sales seem to
indicate that the culture of this crop
in parts Of. the South may yet lead to
large fortunes. It is not generally
known that attempts were made to es-
tablish tea gardens here before the
war, and that since the end of that
outbreak systematic efforts have been
made to revive the old gardens. Pro-
lessor Massey, of the State Agricultur-
nj College, has been instrumental in
trying to spread information among the
Farmers concerning the culture of tea,
and q few have been induced to put
II gardens. The tea sent from the
old Smith farm this season brought
30 cents a-pound, and some from South
Carolina brought as high as 81 a pound.
Last summer the cut at Summerville
amounted to a dozen or two pounds,
and this year several times that
amount has been sold.
DIR. Shepard says that the leaf grown
in the South is better for black than
for green tea and that the cost of
picking Is about 25 cents a pound of
cured tea. On a large scale, and with
the best apparatus for gathering and
curing, the cost might be largely re-
duced. He feels confident, however,
tina cheap-rate culture could never be
made profitable here on account of the
lower wages that rule in Japan and
India and China, but the higher grade
teas can be. grown with considerable
profit. DR.. Shepard is increasing his
Tea gardens every year., and when the
plants arc-'oh enough to yield good
crops he proposes to put in good ma
chinery and start into tea selling for
money. Professor Massey says that
the finest tea he ever tasted was grown
i'll h South, and he has no doubt but
lt Will be a future profitable crop in
the Carolinas. Mr.. Jackson, an expert
tea grower from Assam, who had
charge of the Summerville plantation
d General-Lc Due, says that with,
negro labor he can raise tea more
rheaply than is done with coolie labor
in India because of it's greater RELIABLE
ity. In regard to the hardness Of tho
tea plant, all observers seem to agree
that north of thirty-five degrees it is
unwise to attempt to cultivate IL.
Around Old Point Comfort, where some
plants have been growing more OF less
feebly for years, the winters cut the
plants badly, and on the upper parts
of the Delaware Peninsula they were.
entirely killed. But south of these
points, in the piney woods country ex-
tending from Raleigh to the gulf, tea
plants can be grown with great sue
cess, and the time may not be far dis
tant when American tea will compete
openly in the market with that shipped
from China, Japan and India.
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Condition of Trade.

New YORK, Special-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review of trade says: An inn
portant change in the state of business
is near at hand. Congress will act on the
tariff question, one way or the other, in
all probability within a week. If it
passes the pending bill or if it fails, in
either case the definite basis for further
business will enable many to act who
are now waiting. Whether the one
course or the other would Stimulate the
greater increase, it is certain that either
would give relief from present paralyz-
ing uncertainties and cause some increase
i'll business at least for a time.
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of exquisite and expensive ornaments,
in diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires,
etc, etc. To make the story short, Mrs.
c. is induced to take two or three Of
them, with the proviso, return to Bos-
ton store if not kept. The clerk throws
in a little remark that they will look
fine in the salon of the steamer by the
electric light. Mrs. C.'s vanity is
tickled. her desire to shine gratified
and the clerk is satisfied.
The jewels are worn or taken over
as personal property, passed and go
through to Boston. The chances are
one article may be kept, with some of
the small ones, and the rest returned
to Asteroid & Co., on which they save,
maybe. $1,000 duty.
Suppose they only work a dozen lit
tie arrangements like this during the
season and you arrive at a considerable
amount of duty saved. Suppose, fur
ther, that Of the hundreds of dealers
half of them work these little games of
wear it over" and the government is
cut out of a very big amount of duty.
Asteroid and others do not smuggle;
certainly not. They get the benefit by
proxy smuggling.
Future buyers do not get any ad-
vantage, for Asteroid & Co. mark the
goods at regular prices. Probably the
stones are taken out of the settings
and made up into other jewelry.
Risks Taken by Dealers.
To illustrate the fact that there are
ways considered not very risky by some
dealers abroad, who certainly must
have had experience, or at least some
knowledge in regard to it, the following
is vouched for as true:
On a purchase of unset stones at
wholesale to an amount, say, to be
within the figures of an actual transac-
ton, of $25,O00 worth, the foreign deal
CT. of course, knowing well his custom
cr's responsibility, etc, offered to have
the whole put up in a sealed package,
and for an extra 2 per cent on the
cost agreed to deliver the package,
seal u%nbroken, to the buyer OF this side,
receiving payment only on delivery,
plus the 2 per cent.
The whole duty is 10 per cent. S.. 800,
the 2 per cent, $500, leaving a promised
benefit of $4,000 to the purchaser if
he is weak enough to be tempted.
OF the , per cent presumably part
WOnud De USED Ill the smuggling trans
action, leaving probably but 1 II per
cent advantage to the dealer who was
willing to take all risks.
There is really very little risk run.
These offers, it is certain, have rarely
been accepted by buyers.
1t is the general idea of bona tide
purchasers of jewelry abroad that they
pay less than they would at home.
The truth is that. with rare exceptions.
much more is paid. The foreign dealer
or storekeeper boasts that he puts on
extra prices for an American, and in
tends to beat all he can, since he may
never see the customer again.
Purchases made of American firms
at branch stores abroad will be at full
prices, but representations as to the
goods may be depended upon, while the
foreign dealers are utterly unreliable
in this respect.
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A contributor TO Il French scientific
magazine of recent date advances the
theory that our earliest ancestors,
long before they knew Of articulated
speech, had almost as comprehensive a
method of expressing thcmselves-that
of whistling. AS there does not ap-
pear to be any proofs to the contrary
there is no reason why this statement
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-22

Belle-I'm so glad Jack has got a
bicycle; it has helped his disposition
wonderfully.
Nan-His disposition? Why, how
:ould it?
Belle-Oh. when he gets up to give
,aby a drink and steps on a tack he is
glad that it is In his foot instead of
his pneumatic tire that he doesn't
iwear at all.-COurior-Journal
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they make lower rates of exchange
than the bankers, and. besides, it saves
letter of credit commission. Mrs. G..
Immediately adds q few more Jewels
to the collection.
All Parties Satisfied.
AS they are about to leave the clerk
seems to be struck with a sudden
thought. The truth is that he has
been waiting for this opportunity. He
asks Mrs. G. to step up to the other
end of the store to look at some per-
fectly new goods. Simply as a matter
of curiosity, he thinks Mrs. c. will
like to see them, since they will not
reach Boston for some time. They
are various articles in settings, copied
from the antique; also some special
designs by the best French artists,
quite new.
They are shown, a bewildering lot
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Her Wfse Pam.

She-Papa says that when coming to
see me you must not come in a street
car any more.
He-Really! Does he expect me to
walk all this distance?
She-Of course not. He says all he
asks is that you will come in a car
riage, hired by the hour.-New York
Weekly.
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Speckled Dominicker-I learned some
thing awful about Miss Plymouth
Rock to-day.
Mrs. Leghorn Whyte-For gracious
sake, what was it?
She prides herself on her family con
nectiOns you know. and she hasn't any.
She vas Matched in an incubator.
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An ingenious inventor has provided
himself with Il pair of bicycles for his
feet. The wheels are about four inches
in diameter and are strapped to his
feet like skates. They have rubber
tires and glide over the concrete pave
ment with great ease. They are very
superior to the common roller skates
and the owner moves along almost rs
fast as the bicyclist.