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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
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Immense Orchards Planted I'm the
Pacific States.

Pacific States.
The county of Yamhill has trees set
out and two years old that should pro-
duce 100000 pounds for commerce
in three years from now. AS many
trees are planted in Marion, more than
as many in the Umpqua region, and
through Western Oregon nearly in the
same proportions; so that by the year
1898, with fair crops, these Western
valleys may turn off a total of 100000
600 pounds of prunes, while Clark
county, Wash, will urn off more than
any valley county of Oregon at that
time. A reasonable calculation of pro-
ductiOn based on acreage Of land
planted to prunes will show that by
1898 the Pacific Northwest will turn
off a total of 10000, 900, and by the
end of a century an average yield
should be 50,OO0,OOO pounds, fully is
much as California has ever produced
in a single year. To give a compre-
hensive idea of the extent of this in
duStry let us survey the field in all it's
extent.
Enter the state from the south, and
prune orchards are in sight from the
summit of the Siskiyous, and spread
through Rogue river valley; they line
the waters of the Umpqua, and the
hill ranges and valley reaches Of the
broader Willamette in all it's length
and breadth. Ascend the Columbia,
and they are on the shores along the
lower river, find place on the noun
tain sides, through Hood river valley
and the region around the Dalles. Fol
low the rivers to their sources in
Idaho, and even Montana. Wherever
you go by rail or water prune or
chards are here and there as you
traverse Western Washington; or,
crossing the Cascades, traverse the
inland empire on all the railroads that
develop that grand region. Montana,
Idaho and Utah are said to furnish
good fruit, and prunes are soon to be
as staple a product as wheat. and we
hope far more reliable. If all the land
planted will bear full crops no doubt
the result will be over-production.
California alone may produce $780,
100000 pounds per annum when all
her prune trees bear, but it has never
happened that they have borne full
crops. In 1893 the output of that state
was 50,000,O0O, and it was supposed
the product of 1894 would greatly *
coed that; but the yield fell to 100000
600 pounds because of drouth and 9TH
er causes in the spring of last year.
A very intelligent California prune
grower, who was lately here, whose
orchards are in the foothills near
Santa Cruz, assured me that much
land is planted to prunes in his state
that is not favorable to their success.
Fol instance, on the west side of the
Santa Clara valley, whence three
fourths of the prune crop of the state
comes, 10 per cent of the trees die
each year because the roots reach a
close subsoil they cannot penetrate
Portland O%regonian.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19

Miss Helen Gladstone, the daughter
and companion of the Grand Old
Man." is a tall, stately woman of 43.
The genius of her father seems to
shine through her deep earnest eyes.
For a number of years she has been
vice%-principal of the Newman college
for women at Cambridge. Notwith-
standing her work for and her intense
belief in the higher education of wom-
en- Miss Gladstone has a great dislike
to the masculine girl. She believes
that the great mission of woman is TO
be womanly, and that college life has
no influence in rObbing women of their
chief charm. This gifted daughter.
not only comedies with her fathers
political views but like him is a be-
lever in the virtues of hardy exercise,
1t is not on record that she ever felled
a tree, but she is an interchangeable
walker and climber and endeayors to
nave her college girls follow her exam
pie.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
WHAT CONSTITUTES a LETTER
some Points Not Generally KNOWN
About Foreign Mails.

some POtnuS NOT ueHeTaIiS huONA
About Foreign Mails.
Most people have supposed that any.
thing sealed against inspection and de-
livered to the postoffice constituted III
effect a letter. which at the regula
ton rate of &c postage Ter ounce the
mail service would be obliged to For
ward to it's destination. SO far as the
domestic service is concerned, lis sup.
position may be correct, and would
seem to Le impelled by the wording
of official decisions, which declare n
''all matter sealed or otherwise closed
against inspection Is also of the nrsC
Glass; But with the foreign mail ser-
vice. at least, the condition is different.
A provision in the postal treaty speci-
fies that letters Gin their usual ana or
binary form are to be forwarded Mt
q given rate. Just what constituted
this usual and ordinary form
not till now been defined and officially
declared, and this is the way in which
the definition was brought out:
A Boston architect offered at the
Dostoffice in that city a sealed roll adj
dressed to the Commissioner of Pa
tents at ottawa, Canada, on which the
proper amount of postage at letter
rates, had been paid. The clerk in
charge of the window declined to re-
ceive the roll as a letter, and on the
matter being referred to him, Post
master Coveney decided that the term
letter is to be construed to mean and
embrace sealed packages consisting OF
an envelope of any size, but fiat, as is
the usual letter. The obiector did not
think that this ruling and definition
of a letter was correct, and gave his
opinion that Il letter twas a package
containing personal matter of no sala-
BILE value" The matter being referred
to the authorities at Washington for
decision, the Superintendent of For
eign Mails in due time forwarded u
decision embodying the joint opinions
of Il Canadian and American postal
authorities, to the effect that "the term
letter, in it's usual and ordinary form,
is to be construed to embrace sealed
packages consisting of an envelope Of
any size, but of Che usual letter shape,
and it's contents; but that rolls or a
package not inclosed in an envelope
as the word envelope is generally
used, cannot be considered to be a
letter in it's usual and ordinary FORM
A sealed package in the form of a roll
is, therefore not entitled to transmits
sion in the mails exchanged between
the United States and Canada; and
your office was correct in declining to-
receive the sealed roll mentioned"
This would seem to settle the matter
as to what constitutes a letter within
the meaning of the postal treaties.-
Paper World.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
WOmen's Patents.

Up to the present date 5000 patents
have been registered in the United
States Patent Office by women. Many
of these are as curious as they are in
genious. An Ohio matrOn devised a
combination washing machine and see
saw. 1t consists of a hollow receiver
containing a rotary clothes holder,
which is evolved by the action of q
see-saw. The merit of the invention
is supposed to lie in the fact hat a
washerwoman a save her own en-
ergy and at the same time afford
pleasure and recreation to the child
rem of the neighborhood by inviting
them in to "teeter' the machine,
inside which the linen to be washed
and a proper complement of soap and
water have been placed. A fair Phil
adelphian, in protest against the un-
becomingneSs of the ordinary life-pre-
server, has designed a shapely life-pre-
serving corset, to be worn 'by either
men or women" when a boating acct
dent is anticipated. One woman want
ed a patent on a trimping pin, which
could be used also as a paper-cutter,
skirt supporter, letter file,, child's pin,
bouquet holder, shawl fastener and
DOOkmark. Another woman took out Il
patent for a skipping rope, the handle
of which contained a music box. AS
soon as the child began to skip the
music started. A Pennsylvania maid
en- tried to convince the public that.
as I rule, human bodies were not kept
at the proper temperature in the inter-
val between death n burial. and to
emphasize her ideas she took out a
patent for q corpse cooler. One of the
most novel patents gel issued was
seured by a Boston woman on a de-
vice for restoring facial symmetry.
The idea embodied in the patent was
that if Il gentle continuous outward
pressure was maintained on the cheeks
from within the mouth the full and
plump effect of the youthful face
would in curse of time be restored.
TO effect this two disks mounted on
prODgs We're made to press on the in
side of the checks by means of Il
spring attached to the teeth. The
gems of the collection, however,iS a re-
quest for Il patent on artificial dim
pies A small spot is to be smeared
on the cheek or chin with cOlorless
shellac varnish mixed with glue, and
the center of the spot is to be pressed
firmly with a pencil point until the
substance on the face becomes dry
and hard. "The stiffened indentation
thus retains the exact shape of q
dimple, and Il little face powder dust
ed carefully over it will completely
conceal the varnish-glue compound
The person who adopts this willy de
| yTi1n iS FnrnnI mot tn A.Ctnt1n Zoo pttI
denly, or the dimple may be broken,
although with gentle usage it will last
a whole evening, if not longer" The
specification concludes with an i'm.
portant reservations; "While the dim,
pie process is applicable to those
whose faces comprise a soft, ~velvcty
or plump surface. as then Il very do
ceptive dimple can he produced, it is
not so available for thin or bOny faces
nor where the skin is very thick? ant
unyielding."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
UNFAMILIAR NOISES IN MACHINES
One Rider Uses the Idea of Chastise-
ment rs IL Remedy.

ment as a Remedy.
Queer and unfamiliar noises, the
causes of which are difficult to local
ize, develop occasionally in machines.
They may result from the chain rub
bling the gear case, or through a wheel
not being truly central, thus causing
a slight alteration in the travel of the
gear. There are other sounds, more
mysterious, which come and go with
out their origin being discovered, and
so long as they come and go quickly
there is no yeXatiOn or likelihood of a
breakdown. 1t is strange, however,
to notice the treatment melted out to
machines when some unfavorable sys-
tenn arises. A few days ago a rider
came bouncing his machine on the
road with the only object, as far as
could be seen, of replacing some dis
lodged piece of mechanism, or jerking
oil into a thirsty bearing, and, on be-
ing asked the reason of this maltreat-
ment, he promptly said that the ma
chine started grunting after every
twenty miles or so, and the only way
to cure the noise was to bang it re-
peatedly on the road. Queer mechan-
zeal noises are sometimes cured by let
ting the machine rest, but it was not
known that chastisement produced the
same result.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
Face EnameIfng in Paris.

1t is rumored that q lady of conspic-
uous standing in Chicago society has
recently been in Paris for the purpose
of being re-enameled. 1t is said that
this lady was enameled for the first
time four years ago. The art of en-
ameling the face and bust is most
skillfully practiced by certain Paris
ian experts, but even the work of
these geniuSes does not last forever.
The Oma who nee submits to the
proceeding, has in all self-defense, to
return to Paris every fourth year to
be ~re-enameled, for the enamel, when
it wears off, leaves the skin so parched
n yellow that it can never recover
its natural elasticity or natural color.
The earlier attempts at enameling the
human skin impaired IA doll-like eX-
preston to the face, and prevented
play of the facial muscles. The art
has progressed and improved to such
an extent that the %enaynelee can now
smile, laugh and express every variety
of emotion without any danger to her
bogus complexion or to herself. The
process of enameling is a very delicate
one and involves Il considerable ex-
penditure of time and money.-Chi-
cagO Record.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
A Menace to the Book Trade.

A movement has been begun in
England which may possibly have Il
very widespread and important inhu-
ence. A philanthropist, for the bet
ter intoxicating of public taste, is
bringing out editions of English poets
at the low cost of 2 cents per volume.
The first issue was M~acauley's Lays"
the second "Marmion," the third
"Childe Harold" The fourth is to be
Selected Poems from Lowell" and
Longfellow wnl soon follow. This re-
wives the question debated long ago
whether it would not be cheaper for IA
public library to give away books than
to incur the expense of. a staff of peo-
pie, so as to keep account of the vol
umes going out or coming in. Statis-
tics OIL this subject, based on the one
hand on the average current expenses
of existing libraries. and on the other
hand on the production of the cheap
editions mentioned, would be of great
interest.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
WINNIE DAVIS MEMORY.
So Long and Accurate as to CaDti-
Xate Atlanta GA1lnnts.


Miss Winnie Davis has a surprising
memory for faces and names. While
she was receiving the people at the
Atlanta depot Monday afternoon, says
the Constitution, of that city, she fire.
oueptly interrupted Colonel Vests in
PRODUCTION by saying: "No introduction
is necessary-we have mel before
And in many cases the meeting had
occurred three or four years before
and was quite casual.
Major Frank Galloway stepped up to
shake the hand of the daughter of the
confederacy. Colonel West started to
introduce the young Georgian, but
Miss Davis interrupted him inc ex-
tended her hand:
"We have met before"
There was a mutual smile, and Ma
jor Galloway added in his gallant man
ner: eyes, il Athens"
1t was in Major Getaways school
days. He was prominent in society,
baseball military, athletics and study.
Miss Davis went over to Athens and
a german was given in her honor.
The young men of the university pass
ed in review before her and were liz
troduced by the chancellor. Gala
way ptSStu II ""S
turn. He decided that he would like
a second introduction, and taking un
his post at the rear of the line, he
came around again.
The chancellor had forgotten the
first introduction and presented the
young man.
Miss Davis looked at him wonder
ingly.
81 think we met a few moments
ago" i~nQuiringly. d.
The junior blushed.
"My twin brother, I suppose-he's
just like me-" he stammered.
ooh! how interesting. l could new
er distinguish you one from the other.
l am glad to have met you"
Several times during the evening he
met Miss Davis. and each time she
would inquire, in Il jolly tone:
(Which One-Mr. Galloway or his
twin brother?"
And this was the only doubt in her
mind when she met Major Galloway
at the depot Monday afternoon.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19

NJ. J. Treacey says that much of the
suffering undergone by cavalry horses
from sore backs and other causes can
be avoided by the exercise of a little
care and some common sense on the
part of the cayalryman. Sore backs
are mainly due to ignorance, and ig-
,norance goes hand in hand with care
l~essness. Soldiers should be taught
something of the anatomy of the sen
sitive structure called the horses
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19

From a Paris letter: AS a sample of
the payment of distinguished scllol-
ars in This country it may be mention
ed that M. Castor Boissier, who was
lately elected life Secretary of the
academy, only received 5000 annually
as rector of the College de France.
In his new position he is entitled to
$1,000, or double the sum paid him as
head Of the great educational establish
ment owe which Ernest Renan ruled.
The Immortals, according to the foun-
dation, rules, are supposed to be paid
$500 yearly, in addition to their fees
for attending meetings. AS Il matter
of fact. however, they only receive
5000 annually. The remainder of the
sum forms a sinking fund, out of
which eight aged academicians get al
lowances, if their private annual in
come falls short of 1900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19

When the train stopped a man with
whiskers got aboard and noticed with
the ready eye of a traveller that every
seat was filed.
Man III over just now" he casual
ly remarked, as he put his valise down
by the water tank.
The boy with the drab colored hair
sprang to his feet and dashed through
the car door. The man with the wills
kers Slipped into the vacated seat.
1.-The man run over the tracks lust
ahead of the engine he explained.
ut didn't hurt hir NY '--New York
Recorder,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
Of ScientifiC Interest.

From the Swiss meteorological rec
ords since 1883 DR.. G. Heiss finds that
hail is more frequent in valleys than
on mountains, that it occurs Oftener
near marshes and in lake valleys than
over wooded country, and that river
valleys in the path of thunder storms
favor its formation, while cultivated
land and billy forest reduce the in
tensity of hail storms.
The Russian government has asked
permission of Turkey to make meas
urementS of the sea of MarmOra in or
der to determine scientifically, what
changes have occurred through the
late earthquakes. The porte has given
the desired permission, but the Rus
sian man-of-war will be escorted by Il
Turkish vessel, and a Turkish naval
officer will assist at all scientific eX-
aminatiOns of the coast.
A cubic foot of air at the temDera-
ture of zero F~ahrenheit can contain
only 0.5 of IA grain of water vapor; at
b degrees it can hold 2.13 grains; ut
e. degrees it can contain 6.S grains; at
9S it can hold 1896 grains of moisture
in suspension. These figures go to
show that summer air can hold at
leaSt nine tlilleS the quantity Oh udllD'
ness that air cal when reduced to the
temperature of freezing.
At Augmagsalik, on the east coast
of Greenland, in latitude Go degrees 81
minutes north, a meteorological sta
ton has just been established by trt
Danish government. 1t Is provided
with self-recording instruments as wei
as the usual ones. Holm, who spent Il
year there ten years ago, found the
mean temperature for the year to he
: degrees (FahrenheiN below the freez
ing int, while the minimum was 1;
degrees below zero.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
MIGHT LIKE THE SENATE.
A Report as to EX-President Harri-
sons Ambition.

New York, Specidi.-A local paper
says anent the visit of eX-President
Harrison to New York and the Adj
rondacks: at was reported in this
city that ex-President Harrison had
taken to the political woods and that
OK teams cannOt drag him to the Re-
publican nomination for president.
This announcement is reported to
have come from the ex-president HIM
self. through the voice of eX-Attorney
General Smiley Nj. Chambers of In
d~ianapolis, in conversation with Re-
publican leaders in this city. 1t is
given out that Mr.. Harrison. how
ever, would not decline Il seat i'll tho
United States senate.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
For a Campaign Fund,

West Superior, Wis, Special.-The
aldermen who left the ommon coun-
Gil meeting last Saturday night with
Mayor Starkweather and who have
not since taken part in the investiga-
ton, were present to-day and wanted
a reorganization. 1t was refused by
the aldermen who have been conduct
Ing the investigation. Several patrol
men testified to contributing SO to a
fund supposedly to pay campaign ex-
penses. A recess vas taken until to-
morrow to allow attorneys for the de-
tense to prepare their case.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
QUEEREST OF ACCIDENTS.
How the Sun Fired Off a Gun an0
Killed n Man.

The story runs that a man was
found lying dead upon a couch, his
life having been destroyed by a bull
let discharged from a gun lying near.
The circumstances of the matter posi-
lively proved that the case could not
have been one of suicide, and, there
fore, the only alternative which could
be reasonably suggested was that he
had been murdered. An acquaintance
was charged with the crime, but alb
solute proof of guilt was not forth
coming. One of the parties engaged
in the case was so far interested in
the peculiar facts of the death as to
seek a different solution to the affair
than that accepted by popular belief.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.
INTERESTING INErUit NATION ABOUT
THE USEFUL ARTS.
An Opening for American
-~CorrOsiOn of Metals by Sea water
Sense in S~addIing-Of
Interest.

The French Society for the En-
enlargement of National Industry has
published a list of prizes and prize
subjects for the year 1896 that may
be protitably studied by American in
ventors. The grand prize of 1900
francs, or, say $1,000, will be given
this year to the author of the discov-
cry most useful to French industry.
The list for 1896 is very comprehen-
sive, and covers almost every branch
of industry. There are sections, each
offering a large number of prizes in
electrical and mechanical arts, chemi-
cal arts, economic arts, and agricul-
ture. In the mechanical arts section
there are prizes for the best motor fed
with solne commercial oil; for an en-
CINE of from % to 1OO-horse-power,
using as a maximum when working
Z II kilogrammes of steam per hour
and per indicated horsepower; to the
manufacturer who first produces, me-
c~hanically linen threads, of which at
least 100000 meters go to one kilo-
gramme, or, in the case of hemp, To-
coo meters per kilogramme; for a
no'iou VI lcuuCIuS ledkdSe Ill uldIlIt
boilers; for the best memoir on the
o S price of the motive power of
steam; for a small motor suitable for
a home workshop, and which will
work by the use of some simple
power available in the house, or by
energy transmitted from a central sta
ton; for improvements in the pro-
cesses of retting linen and hemp in in
dustrial use. In the chemical art sec
ton the prizes cover the utilization of
waste products; a work or memoir of
use to chemical or metallurgical indus
try; an experimental stndy of the ply
steal and mechanical properties of
one or more metals or alloys in cur
rent use; Improvement in the produc-
ton of sulphuric anhydride. of chic
rlne and of cast steel and iron; also,
the discovery of a rev alloy useful to
the arts; of combustion in furnaces
used for the production of ceremic
clays and coverings; the substitution
of sulphuric acid in dyeing, and es-
pecially in silk dyeing, by another
compound which will give to the fl
bers the desired stiffness. without eX-
ercising any destructive action; and
processes capable of yielding by GER
tain chemical changes. useful organic
products, such as quinine. cane sugar,
etc. In the section of economic arts
prizes will be given for the invention
of 4 highly efficient petroleum for
lighting. for the discovery of methods
to diminish the number of chimney
fires and their resultant damage, and
for an incandescent electric lamp of
one-tenth candle-power when a cur-
rent of .O5 ampere is passing through
it at a potential of 100 volts. In the
agricultural section some of the sub
jects inviting competition are the
best varieties of barley for brewing,
the re-establishment of vineyards on
chalk soil, a new forage plant, study
on the culture of wine, and a work on
the influence of various processes ON
v~inification on the quality of wine.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-19

The SUMS Rays Fired the Gun.
The result of his observation and de-
duction vas very curious. The rays
of the sun had streamed in at the Win
dow of the apartment in which the
man had encountered his end, and had
explosive chamber of the gun, by
which means sufficient heat had been
engendered to warm the cap and pow
der, and cause a discharge. The gun
having been quite inadvertently placed
in such a way as to point to the un-
fortunate man, he received the bullet
while he lay placidly sleeping, nc
doubt meeting with instant DEATH
Strand Magazine.