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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

The other day a Sun reporter saw a
small boy run out of Chinatown pur-
sued by a ~bare-headed Chinaman. The
boy held a soft hat in his hands,
which was presumably the property
of the Chinaman.
AS the boy turned the corner of the
street he threw the hat into an unoc-
cupied basement. The Chinaman i'm
mediately stopped running and skip
ped nimbly into the cellar after his
hat. On his temperance on the side
walk his face was a picture of despair.
He looked for the boy, but In vain.
He explained in broken English that
he had $50 in bills inside the band of
the hat. and that the money was gone.
A neighboring s~tOrekeeper said that
in the last week several Cinnamon
had suffered in a similar manner 1t
appears that they have a habit of car
rying money inside their hatbands.
The small boys have discovered this
fact, and under the pretense of teas
ing the Cinnamon they have been
snatching their headgear. While run
ming they abstract the money and
then, so as to insure their escape. they
throw the hats into a basement. BY
the time the Chinaman understands
the situation the boy is out of sight
New York Sun.
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care a rap. He will find out his mis-
take yet. 1t serves me right. l was
stuck up about him. l ought not to
have looked so high. And l am glad
things are as things are"
My wife was in the kitchen seeing to
the high cookery. After the confess
sion of the boot-throwing she must
have watched poor Jane Tuning with
a certain dismay in those brown eyes
or hers. But l imagine they softened
again very quickly, and then James
must have met them
"Oh, ma'am," said Jane, with an as
tonished change of rote. think of
all that might have been. Oh, ma'am!
l could have been so happy. l ought
to have known, but l didn't know.
You're very kind to let me
talk to you, ma'am + It's
har-r-r-r-rr--"
And 1 gather that Mariana so far
forgot herself as to let Jane sob out
some Of the fulness of her heart on
a sympathetic shoulder. My Mariana
thank heaven, has never properly
grasped the Importance of Excepting
up her position" And since that fit
of weeping much of the accent of bit
terneSs has gone out of James scrub
bling and brush work.
Indeed something passed the other
day with the butcher boy, but that
scarcely belongs to this story. How
ever, Jane Is young still, and time and
change are at work with her. We all
have u sorrows, but l do not believe
very much In the permanercy Of
broken hearts.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
FAKE STOPS IN THE ORGAN.
A Trade Secret in the Construction
of the instrument.

"A trade secret In the Construction
of the Instrument.
OF all musical instruments known in
the present day the ryan is undoubt-
eddy the ''king." Not only in it's COM
plicated and ingenious mechanism or
in it's wonderful control by one per-
former, but in it's powers of express
sion and imitation of the various in
struments of the orchestra it is unex-
celled. Unlike other instruments that
are perfected both in voice and sim
plified methods of playing-such as
the violin, flute, clarionet. etc, the or
gan. as 1t now stands, is still open to
considerable improvement, both in
mechanical and acoustic principles.
To trace back it's history as far as
eve Father Smith and "Renatus
Harris" Q684) in their competition for
the organ at the Temple church. Lon
don, England, and then trace up to
the present day, noting all the real
gradual improvements. would be an
interesting and laborious work; but
our object now is to take a glance at
the modern instrument and Enable us
in choosing the very best, both must
cally and economically; by the latter
we do not mean parsomony of bag
Cling for a bargain but making the
most of the means, whether 1t pro-
ceeds from contributions or gifts. AS
our churches are the ~disbursers of the
funds. very often perseveringly col
lected nde no very encOura ging cir
cumstanceS, 1t will be as well to I'M
derstand what Is really required and
what Is to be rejected.
The word stop" means a 'set'' or
frank" Of pipes-one to every key on
the keyboard. The word does not re-
fer in any way to the knob" that the
organist pulls out or pushes in. 1t
seems necessary to explain this, as
many persons are of it, and
are dazzled by the amount Of knobs
they get for the money, and say. ooh,
our organ has thirty stops, and cost
so and So" and 'such a ones has
thirty-six and cost only half that
sum-" Now, In almost every specih-
cation received from organ builders n
certain number of flake stops are
announced in order to make it appear
a great deal for the money. Among
them are certain "mechanical" con-
trivances, which produce certain eff
fects on the mechanism only, while
tliltlS are uStu W dllttt llf SlDtttH
of the pipes. Others again are mere
"clap-trap," and as a rule whesa these
are inserted the tender may be put in
the fire, as the builder is untrust-
worthy.
An idea may be formed of the use
lessness of some of these by the num-
Der of them run into a parlor organ.
In the latter one may find eleven
"stops," and actually only two rows of
reeds. 122 in number therefore really
only two stops, divided into treble and
bass to swell the number to four-the
remainder being made up of mechani-
cal "clap-trap." In the organ a good
many of these "accessorieS' are in
Guided as stops. Now. let us examine
them. Among the really necessary
mechanical "knobs" may be noticed
the various "couplers:" these act on
the keys and enable the player to get
the power of two or more rows of keys
with n pair Of hands.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
"a Mexican Lion That 1 Had Choked
to Death"

hill run slap into him before | knew
it. He was laying for me up there,
and had me covered with a ~siX-shooter
before could get my knife. | turned
10 run. and figured to a dot when he
shot. AS he cracked loose | jumped
way up in the air and did a split, just
like what those show gals does, only
mine wasn't on the ground by six
foot. The bullet went under me. !
knew he had five more cartridges. so
| hit the ground running, and squatted
low down when his gun barked the
second time. That bullet took off my
hat. and sent it spinning forty feet in
front of me. l was to 1t in a second,
and as | stopped the third shot came.
1t hit ME just on top the lowest end
of my spinal column, and plowed up a
streak of meat clear to the nape of my
neck. | was running like the devil
right down the middle of the main
street, and him right after me. There
wasn't a soul in sight, everybody run
in his hole, at the first beginning of
things. l never lost track of the num-
Der of shots, though, and had my fig
gers on the bowie. Next fire | jump
ed sidewise, and the bullet hit my
hind pocket, and scattered Il deck of
monte cards all over creation. At the
fifth crack l made a C~at-a-cOrnered
whirlagig sort of n jump, and got Il
hole in my coat tail. Only one more
shot left. Just in time / took another
straight-up jump, only l forgot to do
the split this time, and the bullet took
away three of my toes. l turned
while up in the air and was onto him
before he could StOD himself. The
coroner found forty-two cuts in him,
all done in f~orty-seven seconds. My
best record, gentlemen. / had a hat,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
81 just Cut OF His Head With One
SWipe of NV BoWie.v

give up his gun, 3nd | too the money,
his hats and boots. Fortune of war,
you know. | Il off one of his ears
and let him go. Never liked to be
bothered with prisoners, and still
wanted some token of the capture.
Why, when the war was over / had
two water buckets full of ears. They
are up to my house now if the hounds
amt got away with them"
"Oh. my!' said one of the GONZALES
cents turning pale. Liquor all around
was procured and Ananias went right
along.
you've all heard tell, l reckon,
about old Judge Bean, up at Vinega-
room, acquitting q man for killing a
Chinee because there wasn't nothing
said in Texas law about a Chinee at
all. l was that man. l amt proud
over killing a Chinee, for them and
niggers and Mexicans don't count.
But this cussed heather was running
a eating joint, and me time waiting
for grub, l see him stir up a plate OF
soup with his pigtail. l just cut off his
head with II swipe of my bowie.
My favOrite weapon, gentlemen. l
took the pigtail home, and my wife
uses it right now for a switch in her
back hair. It's never got over being
greasy. Whether it's from the soup,
or because Chinee hair is Oiler than
peoples is | don't know"
81 never heard anything about that
before" said the other cOn%valescent.
Refreshments all around, and the false
hood factory went to work again.
did you ever hear tell of Jim
Blood? They called him Trigger jim
No? Well, he was one of the worst
men ever in this country. His range
was from Waco down to Austin, and
he III that country 10 suit his own
self. lie did what he burned please,
and nobody give him No. | was a
was a bowling coyote myself in them
days, and there wasn't anybody who
could out-jump, Outright or get away
with your humble servant. I used to
roam from the coast up here to San
tone, and l heard of Jim. l sent him
word that l was coming over to Austin
and tame him; that l wouldn't bring
no gun, as | didn't need it to tame
such n lamb as he was. l run On
siderable chances in this business for
| went right over, and took nothing
but my bowie.
You know how Austin's built,
don't you? There's u big wide main
street running from the river up a hill.
straight for near a mile, to where the
capitol building is. l looked for Jim
all up that hill everywheres, and did
not find him. l began to think he
wasn't around, when way up on the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
A Millionaire Anarchist.

There was II millionaire among the
anarchists recently expelled by the
federal council Of Switzerland. lie
VAS an Italian, aamed Borghesti, and
Il temporary resident nj lESano. The
great anarchist ME Of Europe. For
ghctti is only - years old. lie WAS
dressed very simply but kept open
house for his fellow revolutionists,
who frequently had also to
his purse. Borghetti's father, who did
not share the antipatriotic and anlrch-
chistic ideas of his son, used to hoist
the Italian flag on national occasions
but young Borghetti promptly replac-
ed it with the red banner of the revo-
lutionistS.--Nsw York Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

or a perforated carcass for these many
years; that the enthusiastic person
who used to ride his cayuse into bar
room shoot around q few times and
force everybody to drink whisky, is a
myth-fOr no man ever needed a gun
to make a Texas crowd drink with
him, an invitation is sufficient; this
given, he would need the gun to keep
from being trampled to death in the
rush-tell the visitor these things, l
say, and he fatty refuses to believe
you. He wants blood, murder and
lynchings. He yearns to hold con
verse with the bad mar and admire
him and be filled with fear and won
der. Hence, he is easily imposed upon
by the most preposterous pretenders.
Down near the court house in San
Antonia is a saloon that Is a fayorite
resort of the visiting amateur con
sumptives, n Is also the %lOunging
place of a select assortment of queer
old buns of half way responsibility,
to whom a free lunch is specially at
tractive n an invitation to take Il
drink a special dispensation of an all
wise and kindly providence.
Among these is the king of all the
liars in the Southwest. He is an an
tiquated Ananias run to seed. whose
wife runs a boarding house and don't
allow him around in the daytime. A
lifelong application to whisky of all
kinds has given his face the color of
a tainted beefsteak, and his eyes would
disgrace a mud turtle. His voice is
coarse and husky. conveying the i'm
preston that its owner has spent
many years down somebody's chimney
or in a dense or damp fog. This old
caricature poses as a one-time des-
perado and the hero of countless imag-
mary experiences, to these gaping.
wondering sons, Of the effete East,
who give him all he can drink to hear
him talk, and who believes implicitly
every word he utters. Hence he is
able to keep drunk all winter. He diff
fers from other reptiles by lying tor
pid all through the summer.
Old Ananias was sitting the other
day at a table with two convalescents,
who were listening to him with open
mouths and close attention. They
kept the whisky coming just often
enough to KEEP him going we'll up and
In fine spirits.
"Of course, gentlemen. in the late
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
QUEENS HOUSE SERVANTS.
They Number 1900, With but Two
Additions Since Henry VIII.

They Number 1900. With but Two
Additions Since Henry VIII.
Queen Victoria's household is q
large one, consisting of just a thous-
and persons, for the maintenance of
whom the nation sets apart the sum
of $2,5O0,00O every year. Most of the
posts are s%inecures or fixtures for
life.
In the early part of Queen Victoria's
reign a mistress of the robes may DOS
sibly have done q few hours work in
the year, giving orders that the ap-
parel of h sovereign should be care
fully preserved from moth and dust,
renewing the regal ermine, velvet and
lace at stated times. and seeing that
h crown jewels were aIwayt locked
up safely after a public airing. She
could alSO affiX her name to warrants
empowering n worthy tradesman to
sell sewing cotton to the royal house
hold and allowing others to put up
the royal arms over their doors be-
cause their various wares were bought
by ~personages of ilIustrious degree.
Harriet Sutherland's signature was
almost as good an addition to business
advertisements as "To the Queen en-.
blazoned in big gilt letters over the
shops.
Some of the posts are entirely Orna-
mental and others have very little
duty attached to them. Probably the
only additions to the household since
the time Of Henry VIII. are two
steam apparatus men. Although there
is no longer a royal barge nor any
p~ageantry on the Thames there are
still a barge master and a waterman,
with a salary each of $1,000 a year.
FOr the past 300 years there has
been nc hawking in the forest of
Windsor, but the office of grand fall
coner, held by the duke of st. Adams,
has only been suppressed within the
last two years.
There are four table deckers whose
sole duty is to lay the dinner cloth
and see that the plates, dishes and
cutlery are fairly set forth.
There is also a wax filter, who sees
the candles properly disposed, and a
first and second lamplighter. who re-
ceives the same salary as that of the
poet laureate, which is $500 a year.
This may seem shabby payment, but
it must be confessed that most of the
poets laureates have been overpaid
for the stuff supplied.
Then there is the keeper of the
swans" who annually pockets $3.50
for looking after the sacred birds on
the royal waters. Lastly, there is the
queens rat catcher" who is especi-
ally attached to Buckingham palace.
His salary, $40, iseprOvided outside the
civil list. Every session the house Of
commons, in committee of supply, con-
siders this vote and gravely agrees to
it
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

l jumps behind it and cocks my gun.
You see, the rock was 'twixt me and
them, and l heard them fix it up for
II to go round one way, and t'other
t'other way; the third man to lay low
where he was-a sorter reserve, you
understand. 1t was a good scheme,
but l was a fox in those days and
crawls up on top of the rock. The
two fellers come around, met each 9TH
er sudden-like, and each thinking the
t'other was me, cracked loose-bang!
and there was two dead Yankees. 1
pulled down on the third man from
top the ROCK, and he caved right there,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Now that spring is upon us. n the
weather gets somewhat summary to
a Northern man, our winter tourists
are winging their way back to their
homes. The winter tourist is usually
weak as to lungs, and comes down to
restore his breathing apparatus, and
to escape the rigor of the hard North
ern winter, so that his days may De
longer in the land that his forefathers
stole from the Indians. He carries
back a healthier pair of lungs, some
additional flesh, a better appetite, a
ruddier complexion and a big stock of
wild yarns that have been poured into
him by that past master of the i'm
probable, the laxative Southwest
erner Soon after his return all his
home papers break out with lurid
Western tales, like a baby with meas
les, obtained secondhand from the re-
turned wanderers, says a correspond
ent of the Globe-Democrat.
Nothing on earth gives the locals
more delight than stuffing the guile
less sojourner from the East. The
visitor is so innocent, so blandly ignor-
dAC duu 81 lid lllnSly leCepllNe. Iell
him the actual truth and he is visibly
disappointed and a positive disbeliev-
err. Tell him there is no place in the
world where a man who minds his
own business Is so secure as in Texas;
that there isn't the slightest danger in
wearing a plug hat; that it has been
years since a man was hung for steal
ing horses; that the crack of the six
rhNofnr fc not t1n Yn1ct ,N,,n rvs ~ ranipN
throughout the land; that the woolly
wolf, who growls as he walks, has
been In his grave with a broken neck
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
HER SMILE WENT WITH POSE
The Model in the Life Glass Smiled
Simply for the Sake of Art.

simply for the sake OF Art.
An amusing incident occurred not
long ago in a well known New York
art school. The girl students We're
drawing from life a study of the
Dancing Faun," A good lookingItaI-
ian boy Was the model, and as he as
sumed the requisite pose his face be-
came wreathed in smiles. He was
gazing directly at the class, and each
girl imagined the smile was directed
at her.
"How very embarrassing" said a
Long Island girl. Il wish to goodness
he wouldn't grin at me-"
In spite of the indignant glances
cast at him the son of Italy continued
to smile at the %blushing girls.
Presently a stolii German girl look
ed up and noticed the smile, which
she imagined was aimed directly at
her.
You schtop dot schmiling. We don't
want you to Scmile at us" The boys
figure instantly Strengthened up and
he stood before the class the very
representation of offended dignity as
he said:
Ladies, I no smile at any one. l
pose to you as re Dancing Faun.' Ze
smile goes wiz re pose."-New York
World.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

1t is suggested that the machine
gun. if certain economical considera-
tions could be adjusted, would find a
valuable place among the useful arts
of peace. AS a Teller of trees there is
no agency in the world like it. Adj
miral Sir Edmund Commerell, in al
luding recently to the superiority in
workmanship and effectiveness of the
Maxim gun, said that a 1903 Maxim
was capable of cutting down a tree
cnteen inches in diameter In a
after of a minute. He would not
only defy any other gun to do this,
but he would give any battalion in
her majesty's service five hours firing
as much as they liked, at whatever
range they pleased, and they would
not do the same thing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29
MATCHMAKING n Fire Brigade.

Yesterday morning an outbreak of
fire occurred in one of the wards of
the smallpox hospital in Parkhill road,
and information was sent to the ZEN
trail fire station. Superintendent Will
lis and a contingent of firemen and
members of the salvage corps went to
the institution, and the fire, which was
not of a serious character, was soon
extinguished. Mr.. Willis and Inspec-
tor Smith, of the salvage corps. and
the men were about to return to head
quarters when they We're told that
they could not leave the hospital until
all had been v%aCcinated. The opera
ton was duly carried out, and fresh
clothes were sent for, in order that
those the men were wearing at the
time might be thoroughly disinfected.
Liverpool Mercury.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Prof. Rudolph, Falb of Vienna pre-
diets that the earth will collide with
a comet November 10, 1899. He is the
same prophet who set September,
1894, for the submergence of New
York City by a tidal wave and the
conversion of California into on island
as the result of an earthquake. The
professor has been of some service to
science, but he ought to realize that
his record as a seer has been dam
aged beyond repair.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

The census figures concerning the
insurance of fire and marine insur.
ance carried by the American people
in 1890 was $40, O67 ,235,s26. and that
for this protection the policy-holders
paid $1,156,4 ,512, or 96c on every
500. In the payment of losses, the
amount returned to the insured vas
SIC on every dollar of premiums paid.
The volume of insurance is now much
larger, of course, but the relative
facts are probably about the same.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

In showing how one sense is sharp
ened to supply the loss of another,
DR.. S. Millington Miller writes that
Alexander Hunter, of the land office
at Washington, though entirely deaf,
spelled without mistake $50 words
read to him from the dictionary. He
has become able to read the motion of
the lips of those addressing him.
This faculty is not rare among the
deaf, and by means of it some of
them, like Mitchell, the chemist of the
United States patent office, have been
able to understand the lectures neces-
sary for their graduation at college.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Red phosphorus combines with
chlorate of potash to make an eXplo-
sive of great violence. The London
Lancet thinks that if this fact of
chemistry had been more generally
known it might have saved h dis
agreeable consequences which recent
followed when a man who had not
studied chemistry put his safety
matches into the same pocket with
his throat loZenges.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Argon is understood to be one of
the most inert forms of matter, but a
loaf of bread can beat it in under
going no change in size when four
drops ~one-half. On the other hand,
the price of meat is livlier than
hydrogen. for if the wholesale figure
advances 2 cents. the retail price
scars away instantly to the extent of
5 cents.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

A German engineer reports that he
has discovered a short and compare
lively cheap route for a canal across
the IsthmusI of Darien. His plan con-
templates a ship tunnel under h
mountains-11,SS feet long, 112 feet
high. and SS feetwide. This feature
of the scheme is seemingly inconsis-
tent with the idea of small cost.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

The report that the Japanese min
lister of war is the long-lost Archduke
of Austria is on a par with the con-
t~emporaneous report that John Wilkes
Booth is still alive. Some reporters
are evidently short of material.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Max O'Rell in reply to Mark Twain
asserted that only about Z per cent
of the births in Paris were illegiti-
mate; but the Able Lemire. in a re-
rent statement, asserts that the pro-
portion is more than 33 per cent.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Last year the outflow of steerage
passengers from the United States
exceeded the arrivals, but now the
tide has turned and an migration
agent estimates that the net gain from
foreign immigration this year will be
half a million of people. This is an
other indication that business in this
country is reviving.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-29

Russell Sage is doing much to prove
himself the. meanest man in New
York. He made $4,000 on $4,000 bar
rels of oil and kicked because he did
not hold it and make 100000.