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The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

scious victory Is In his ten thousand a ow-
cry eyes. The others are only ordinary
looking individuals. trifle NANCY in
their leaves and bark, and all much under
size, standing about four feet In height
while their big brother it ut least ten.
Now the secret. Our mammoth friend.
like Tam O'Shanter, had got planted
unoo right" at the side Of drain leading
from the house hydrant to the outside
world. This drain is about three feet
deep, a foot wide and one-sixth full of
broken stone. Here is the meat upon
which this Caesar fed that made him so
great. Only water. Be it remembered
that of surface irrigation all these trees
enjoyed equal advantages.
In the grove the primitive method has
been used to dam ''draw' and the result
is some magnificent cottOnwoods. box-el-
ders and pluns, all plainly showing OveI
their fellows the advantage Of growing
within reach of the storage water from on
high.
MIR. Curtis plant has been running al
most constantly for three years and has
cost for repairs-just nothing.
Three miles east of Speareville, Mr..
Reed, of Topeka, has piece of land
which he begins to improve by wisely
starting out with an irrigating plant. In
a 6S foot bored we'll he has inch pump
which throws wooden pail full of water
at each stroke when the wind is strong.
He has five-acre patch of onions within
a few feet, which he hopes will make the
wind strong enough at all times. The
seed was drilled in March and the green
shoots are beginning already to pierce the
mold. A little reservoir five rods in di-
ametcr, with an embankment about three
feet high, liprapped inside with broken
stone, holds crystal lake. and the way
the zephyrs kiss its dimpled face into rip
pling laughter is a sight to see. This well
is unique, water having been found in a
rock formation into which channels were
cut horizontally in all directions until an
irregular vault was formed at the bottom
of the hole. This vault is supposed to he
full of water.
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

he Csntaar Company n Murray Street, New York
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

Mr.. Waller, tie eolOred gentleman for
whom France is just now making life un-
pleasant, made 4 political speech in
dodge City during HarrisOn1s first cam
paign. The speeches made that year Sc
cured him the foreign appointment, the
position gave him unlimited advantages
for piling up wealth, and his propensity
for bucking the opposition got him twenty
years.
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

Chief Justice Horton resigned his po-
sisiOn with Kansas, to take the railroad
attorneyship because of difference of
$4,000 in the salaries. This is good evil
dence that the Chief Justice has sound
.anind for decisions.
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

John J. Ingalls, says he will be can
'didate for the vacancy which is at present
occupied by Senator PETER. Kansas is
rapidly coming to point where she will
gladly exchange the waggle of the angle
worm and coo of the dove for the back
bone of the rhinocerOs and roar of the
lion
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

A.. A. Hurd, the Santa Fe roads gener-
al solicitor, use to practice law in Dodge
City when Sam Peters was judge and
Nike Sutton county xt' Orney
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

The eastern two thirds of Kansas will
show the largest acreage of corn this
year ever planted. In some of the south
eastern counties corn has been plowed
once. and in parts of the state all the
early planting is up. Reports from all
counties speak favorably of the pros
.DectS
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

Yesterday was an unusually warm day
at Topeka, but Coy. Morrill, was afflicted
with ''cOld chills'' the entire afternoon.
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26

State of Kansas, Ford County, IS:
b. Lombard Jr., James l.. Lombard and H.
| W. L. Russell, trustees.
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26
FRIDAY, APRIL %, 1895.

Eight Kansas counties have but one
paper each. and there are several more in
which one would he sufficient.
The Globe-republican., 1895-04-26
CastOria.

dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good eject upon their children"
Dx. G. c. OsGooD,
lowell Mass
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
Some Great Renders.

One of the best educated men in
Brooklyn says, regretfully that he ney-
er had a days schooling in his life.
He taught himself to read, a friend in
troduced him to the famous works of
modern authors and he has eagerly
devOured books, newspapers, and
magazine articles until he is an author
ity on literature. Yet he has found
time to make a modest fortune, not
by speculation, but close attention to
business; is devoted to his family and
belongs to several clubs, so that he
cannot be called a book worm.
George Peabody used to tell how his
uncle thrashed him for wasting his
time owe books" but the taste for
reading was never whipped out of
him.
John Wanamaker says: "Since l was
a boy l have read everything that
came into my hands. and / have been
surprised how useful odd scraps of in
formation have proved. When l see
a young fellow spending his spare cash
on magazines and papers l know he is
furnishing his brains for success"
Gladstone is an omnivorOus reader
and n of the best customers London
booksellers have. 'A
Cecil Rhodes, the richest and most
influential man in South Africa, one
whom English politicians watch with
suspicion, was described by a native
chief al "a man who eats a whole
country for his breakfast and sits
amid clouds of paper"
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A LOST TYPE.

Oh. for a glimpse of a natural boy
A boy with freckled face,
With forehead white meath tangled
hair
And limbs devoid of grace;
Whose feet toe In, while his elbows
flare;
Whose knees are patched all ways;
Who turns as red as a lobster when
You give him a word of praise;
A boy who born with an appetite;
Who seeks the pantry shelf
10 eat his "piece" with resounding
smack
Who isn't gone on himself;
A Robinson Crusoe'' reading boy
Whose pockets bulge with trash;
Who knows the use of rod and gun
And where the brook trout splash.
It's true he'll sit in the easiest chair,
With his hat on his tousled head;
That his hands and feet are every
where
For youth must have room to spread.
Bue he doesn't dub his father "old
man."
Nor deny his mothers call,
Nor ridicule what his elders say,
Or think that he knows it all.
A rough and wholesome natural boy
OF a good, old-fashioned clay;
God bless him, if he's still on earth,
For he'll make a man some day.
Detroit Free Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
WHY IS THIS.
What Makes Beginning Cyclists
Ride just Where They Don't Want

what Makes beginning Cyclists
Ride just Where They Don't Want
to Go.
One phase of bicycling affords an
admirable opportunity for investiga-
ton to societies for psychical research.
1t is that critical period when a rider
proceeds with tolerable ease until he
sees some in%Offensive object, say a
grocer's cart. The wheelman is per-
fectly familiar with the aforesaid OBJ
ject and is only overwhelmingly
anxious to pass by without notice. He
turns his handle bars with all possible
skill in the contrary direction; he ped
ais with all his power, yet his wheel
makes with undertaking directness
for the grocery wagon and he, an I'M
willing victim, is objurgated al a ma
liciOus fend. The question at once
arises is this caused by the total de-
pravity of inanimate objects, or the
unconscious cerebratiOn of the riders.
In these days the theory of total de-
pravity is generally dismissed without
consideration. Undoubtedly the gro
Gerry cart fills the mind of the unlucky
bicycler and it is a comfortable con-
clusion that his mentality far out
weighs the physical force of legs and
arms. Yet, until some authoritative
body passes upon the matter there
will continue to remain a lurking
suspicion in some minds that this ex.
PLANTATION does not wholly explain.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
OUR TWO LANGUAGES.
One Used in Conversation, the Othe
in written

One Used in Conversation, the Other
in written Language.
A writer in the current number of
the educational Review" prefaces
an extremely interesting article on
English literature in the college by the
declaration,"I is now, l think, gen.
orally admitted that the first principle
of rhetoric is, write as you speak.
The %pedantic, d~eclamatOry, Latinized
Giction that prevailed in literary cir
cles a hundred years ago is no longer
he standard Kings English. In or
der to write well, it Is necessary first
to speak well-that is, to speak natur-
ally, correctly and strongly"
This is a clever and cunning, as we'll
as complete begging of the whole
question. The assumption that we,
English and Americans, speak as we
write, and that the ordinary rules of
rhetoric and grammar I'll through and
underlie oral, as we'll as written Ian
guage, is an assumption which can
not be verified by evidence. The man
who says don't and can't and
isn't and who talks about him and
me" when he means she and |" or
who says ''done" for did or "seen''
for saw" can take his pen or pencil
in hand and write. English which is
uneXceptionable from the standpoint
of person, mood or tense, the fact be-
ing that written language is a refine
ment and. possibly an improvement on
spoken language, but at the same
time as different from it as the dia-
lect of Yorkshire from TINT of Corn
wall, or the talk of Yankeeland from
thn nntniS Of tho rnlanIc af Mouth,
Carolina or the lowlands of Louisiana.
The writer of the article In question
has fallen into the rhetorical error of,
as the vernacular has 1t, putting the
cart before the horse. Every written
language, protected and fey in as
it may be by rhetorical fences and
hedges, each of which is bristling
with rules and s~afeguarded by eXcep-
tons to those rules, is only n develop
ment from a spoken language, and
whether it be an improvement or not
is an open question. At all events
it must be apparent to every student
of language or ~philology that we have,
at least in English, two separate and
distinct languages, and that if we
should attempt to follow the dictum
of the writer in the "Educational Re-
view" and write as we speak, our con-
tributions to current literature would
be speedily sidetracked into the edi-
tors waste-paper basket. 1t might be
better for the genius of the English
language, and for the preservation of
its integrity, that we should speak as
we write, but to adopt the convers
proposition and write as we speak
seems the very climax of absurdity
to those who know and appreciate the
distinction between English "as she Ia
wrote and "as she is spoke."-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

1t was at the time of the agitation
for the cession of the Ionian Islands to
Greece, which was finally effected in
1863. Mr.. Gladstone was the guest of
Mr.. Henry DrummOnd Wolff, then
governor of the islands. and he i'm
proved the occasion by making a u
ing speech, from manuscript carefully
prepared, to the people of Corfu. AL
though he was cOurteOusly received by
the Corfiotes, and his utterances We're
greatly applauded, a bewildered ex-
preston on the faces of his hearers
suggested that they knew very little
of what he was saying. This proved
to be true. for the archbishop of Corfu
approached an English physician,
who, with his son, was near the dis
tinguished speaker, and inquired what
dialect of the English language the
great British statesman had been
speaking. Said the archbishop: 1--WE
all of us know more or less of English,
and we are also aware that in many
parts of your country strange .vernac-
ulars exist. Has not Mr.. Gladstone
been talking to us in one of these YER
| naculars, since his remarks have been
! quite unintelligible?" BY a little cum
ming ruse the great British Hellenist
was subsequently induced to grant a
chosen few a peep at his manuscript.
1t was written in the pureSt ROmaic;
but his strange pronunciation of the
same had rendered it incomprehensi~
ble.-LondOn Letter.
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as prayers, says the San Fran
cisco Call. The priests bless
the charm upon receipt of the
cash. The possessor prays by
sliding the little pouch up and down
the strings and saying something
similar to "'These are my sentiments"
He is very particular that these prayer
bags and charms shall not be %profaned
by the touch of a Christian forefinger
and resists the deputy's efforts to find
letters near the little sacred pouch
which reposes on the stomach of the
faithful. For this a the intelligent
Jap does not carry letters near the
bag. When the Jap is particularly anx-
ious to have his god answer his prayer
he removes the cover from the top Of
the pouch and prays with the paper
in his hands.
Still another evidence of Japanese
superstition is shown by the lucky
stones they nearly all (professed
Christians as Weld carry in their
pockets. In Japan the women place
locks of their hair and the men place
smooth stones the size of walnuts at
the feet of their idols. After a certain
time these locks of hair and the stones
become sacred and are either carried
in their garments or worn suspended
around their necks as charms to pro-
tect the wearer from evil and harm.
The Japanese immigrants wear and
carry the prayer bags and the sacred
stones until they reach the missions,
when they are hidden, so as to pre-
vent white Christians from discover.
ing these evidences of idolatry.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
How to Make Money.

The correspondent of a Chicago pa
per has been interviewing rich n.en
Edison alone gives practical advice
as to making a fortune. He says:
when you want to make money
give people something they want.
They will pay you money for it. If l
wanted to make a little pot l would
sit down to think what L. most need.
1t may be such a simple thing as
white neckties in the newest style,
of fine material. If a man comes
around with them 1 will buy of him.
Having settled this point for himself
| ask someone else what he wants.
Gould you use a small wooden foot
stool I ask him, if sold for 10 cents;
and how many would you takeY AT
ter l got his answer l would go on
asking people until l find out the
needs of twenty men Then / would
strike an average. l know a man
who made a snug fortune selling
Dutch mustard by the pint. and nnoth-
er who is trying to get over the $780,
600 mark patching shoes in business
offices. where, for a quarter, he puts
on Il patch, Sews rips. and even heels
and sOleS. He carries Il Satchel cut
fit and is prosperous, az he should be.
"That is the secret of getting rich.
Give the people something they want,
n they will pay money to get it,"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
OvERRULED BY THEIR WIVES

A Case Where All the Justices Of
the Supreme Court Changed Thett
Minds.
1t was a matter of some surprise
that Justice Shirls of the United
States Supreme Court should have
changed his mind within a few
weeks upon a matter of law, Du 1t Is
not many months since the whole
court changed their mind On such a
matter, and that in the course of II
few days.
The case before the court was one
arising out of a custom decision at
this port, and the counsel arguing
against the decision of the custom
house was a New York lawyer, then
for the first time before the supreme
court. The case turned mainly upon
the question whether an article of
importation should or should not be
classed as a The custom house
had called it a sauce and taxed it ac-
cordingly. The government maintain
ed this contention, and, of course, the
New York lawyer sought to show that
the article should not be claSsed as
q sauce.
When the supreme court came to
consult upon the case their unanimous
opinion was favorable to the cOnten-
ton of the government, and one of
the justices was instructed to prepare
a decision in favor of the custom
house. The justice. on returning home
told his wife of the case, and indi-
Gated the ground of the decision;
%whereupon the lady told him in plain
words that the justices of the SUI
preme court did not know what they
were talking about, and had agreed
upOna II unjust decision. The lady
vas entirely clear that the article in
dispute could not properly be called a
sauce, and openly ridicule1 the court.
The perplexed justice, instead of
preparing the decision in accordance
with the instructions of his brethren,
did nothing in the matter, but at the
next opportunity unfolded to the other
justices his wife's view of the matter
and asked them to seek domestic coun-
sci on the case and report at the next
consultation of the court. When that
consultation came around the justices
having taken feminine counsel, all re-
ported against their original view that
the article involved in the case should
he classed as a sauce and according
ly the justice originally charged with
the task of preparing a decision in ia
vor of the government was now in
structed to prepare one in favor of the
New York lawyers client. 1t thus
happened that the lawyer won his
first case before the supreme court
because the wives of the justices
knew more than the court itself
New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

1t appears that in Great Britain
ONE are competing with men in
various occupations less instead of
more than they formerly did. Late
statistics show that there is not a sim
in which the employment of women
has increased faster than that of men,
and that where the number of male
employees has fallen off, the number of
females has fallen off in the same pro-
portion. During the ten years from
1881 to 1891, the increase of male en-
ployes was at the rate of 272 for each
100. 900, while that of women and girls
was only 90 to the same number.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

Riding Wheel Upside Down.
took her first lesson on the wheel. Her
second lesson made her the mistress
Of 1t, and her progress since then has
been easy. The first lessons were
taken near Mobile, Ala, near old Fort
Morgan, where the last shot of the re-
bellion echoed and died away. Since
then Mrs. Fitzpatrick has been nearly
LII over this country giving exhibitions
Of her skill on the wheel in company
with her husband, the one-leggcd trick
rider.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick claims to be the first
woman to appear in rational Dress
on a wheel in New Orleans, and sew
aral other cities of the South. By
rational dress she means boomers
II Turkish trousers and the other gar
nents that go with them to make up
the skirtless costume for She
also claims that since her appearance
n boomers in the South that style Of
iress has been adopted quite generally
by women cyclists.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick has given several
exhibitions of her riding before the
fashionable clubs of Eastern cities.
She performs many exceedingly diff
,ult feats in which both strength and
skill in balancing are required. One
Of the best she performs IS riding on
the back wheel of her machile, hold
Ing the front n up in The air on a
evel with her head. Another clever
trick is that of riding the wheel back
ward, balancing on the Pedals with
the body over the front wheel and in
front of the handle bars. Standing In
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
Possibly Drowned.

Santa Barbara, Cal. Special.--The
sloop Restless is reported lost off
Santa Cruz island with sixteen per-
sons on board. Last Monday a party
of young people left port for a pleas
ure trip to the islands on the Restless.
The party a expected back two
days ago, and last night friends of
the party commenced to feel uneasy
about her return. This morning Fred
Forebush, port inspector, whose son
is on board, and MIR. Pratt, started a
searching party. -.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

San Francisco, Special Tel.-The in
ternal revenue officers say there are
two sets of registration certl1lcatcs
out for most of the Chinese here.
When the registration was first
passed a number of Chinese were reg
istered by Collector Quinn. The con-
stitutionaIity of the law was tested.
and when that was decided the regis
tration was done all yer again under
Collector Wells. Many Chinese sell
their second certificates and there are
said to be thousands of falsely regis
tered Chinese on the coast. They are
pouring over the borders north ana
south. At Ell Paso it is said they arc
passing without certificates.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
One Knee ON Saddle.

the saddle on one foot while the wheel
spins around the room Is easy fer Mrs.
Fitzpatrick. Resting the wheel upside
down with the saddle and handle bars
on the floor and then balancing on the
pedals and making the wheels fly
around is a little more difficult, but 1T
Is n of Mrs. Kilpatrick's best feats.
She does a great many others and all
are good.
Her husband, the ~one-legged trick
rider, became celebrated as a cyclist
by riding his bicycle down the capitol
steps at Washington several years
ago. Since her he has been on the
road with the wheelmen and is well
known to all the prominent cyclists Of
the country.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

The general idea that the negro
population of the south, increases as
fast as the whites, or even faster, is
erroneous, If the figures given by Dr.
De Saussine, of Charleston, are to be
credited. He says that the death rate
among the blacks is much larger than
among the whites in all Of the south
ern cities, and that the black city
population would soon disappear al
together IL 1t were not for the aces
sions from the country. The increas-
ing inclination Of the negroes to move
to town will cause a large decrease, he
his figures seem to justify his theory.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12
A Strange Shit.

According to the Pittsburg Journal,
Peter Gruber, the R%attlesnake King
of VenangD County has made the most
unique costume any man ever wore. 1t
consists of coat, vest, trousers. hat,
shoes and shirt, and is made entirely
of the skins of rattlesnakes. Seven
hundred snakes. all caught and skin
ned by Gruber during the past five
years. provided the material for this
novel costume. To preserve the bril-
liancy and the fleXibility of the skins
in the greatest possibleN degree the
snakes were skinned alive, first being
made unconscious by "'ehloroform.
They were then tanned by a method
peculiar to Gruber, and are as soft
and elastic as wooden goods. The diff
ferent articles for this outfit were
made by Oil City %tailors, shoemakers,
and hatters, and the costume is val
ued at S1yGO0-Harper's Round Table.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

Baking Powder Company, the public
Is under a large debt of gratitude
for the increased purity of articles of
food sold at the present day. The
reports of the official Government in
vcsligations of baking powders show
the Royal to be stronger and purer
than any other. 1t Is quite evident
that neither ingenuity, science nor ex-
pense can in any way improve upon
the Royal Baking Powder as now be
fore the public.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

The sign of "the three balls adopt
ed by pawnbrokers is borrowed from
that of the Lombards, or Italian bank
ers, who first opened loan establish
ments in England, and who gave the
name of Lombard street to the locality
where they resided. The most cele-
brated of the Lombard merchants
were. the Medici, afterward princes of
Florence, and their arms were three
pills, gilded of course.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-09-12

The Government Commission of Eu-
gineers sent to Nicaragua to make a
report on the present condition and
probable cost Of the proposed ship can
al concluded their labors in that coun-
examination of the route could not
have been very thorough in such a
short time, and the report they will
present will not pass for more than
a surface view of the situation.