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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
The McLeans Ahead.

The following is an amusing instance
of the tenacity with which the High
landers hold to the honors and an
tiquity Of their kindred. A dispute
arose between Campbell and Mclean
upon the never-ending subject. Nc
Lean would 10 allow that the Camp
bells had any right to rank with the
McLeans in antiquity, who, he insisted,
were in existence as a clan from the
beginning of the world. Campbell has
a little more Biblical lore than his an
tagonist, and asked him if the Clan
Mclean lived before the flood. 'Flood!
What fiood!" said Mclean.
THE flood that you know drowned
all the world but Noah and his family
and his flOcks," said Campbell.
Pooh. you and your food" said Nc
Lean; my clan was before the food
Il have not read in my Bible OBJ
served Campbell, ''of the name of Nc
Lean going into Noah's ark"
'Noah's ark retorted Mclean in
contempt, who ever heard of a Nc
Lean that had not a boat of his ownr'
Household words.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
Electric Launch Ferry service.

An application has been made IN
Norway Of the electric launch that is
sure to be widely followed. The city
of Bergen, which Is the center Of the
Norwegian land and sea commerce,
ranges on two sides of a narrow har-
Dor forming an inlet and surrounded
by rapidly rising ground. Rapid transit
from one side of the harbor to the
other became imperative, and q line
of electric ferry boats has been es-
tablished. AS the harbor Is very mar
row, only about $3.50. yards, it was
found desirable to construct the boats
SO that they could operate without
turning about to GO from one station
to another. They were. consequently
made double-edged, with two screws,
n at each end, both connected di-
rectly to the motor shaft. The motor
weighs ego pounds and is Of three
horsepower capacity. Thirty-two cells
of storage battery, weighing $3.50
pounds, are placed in each boat. The
speed Of the boats is seven feet six
inches per second, quite enough for
threading safely the crowded ship
ping of the harbor. Each boat covers
th~irty-seven miles daily and the aver.
age number of passengers carried since
the boats have been in service has
been 1,SOO per day. The cost of the
fleet of eight boats was SIS, 600 and Of
the charging station, $12,80O.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
ThOrOughness.

There is one point that should De
strongly emphasized at this time ana
that is thor,ughness in every de'aii vi
farm work. A lack of thorouGhness III
mona ring the soil, in cl.ltiyatlng the
crops, or in harvesting will maternity
affect the growth and yield OF the
crops.
With nearly all the crops the next
two months work will practically de-
termine the growth and yield. In the
cultivation it is often the last one or
two workings that pays the best
fit: with this as with much other
arm work no set rules Can be fol
lowed every year and the best results
follow. The a and the conultlon
of the soil, as well as the growth OF
the plants, must be considered in de-
termining how the cultivation should
begin and how many times it should
he reDeated in order to be thorough.
But thorough cultivation Os m of the
essentials necessary to the securing
of n coed crop.
So far as possible the work should
be planned ahead so that everything
can be done in good season A few
DAYS delay in cultivating a crop when
il needs to be done, or to harvest the
crops at the right stage will affect the
weld and the quality of the crops. 1t
is fully as important to harvest the
crops in II good condition as it is to
grow them well.
Not only in the growing and har-
vesting of the crops, but in he feed
ing and management of the stock is
thorough work necessary. Every de-
in the management must be
liked after, the stock must be cared
for in a way that will make the most
out of them. and this implies thorough
work in the breeding, feeding and
care. Generally the better the treat
ment the better the protits.-N. j.
Shepherd in Farm, Field and Fireside,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
The Dog UnderstOOJ.

Sir Walter Scott tells of the remark
able comprehension of human Ian
guage evinced by his bulldog terrier,
named Camp. He understood so many
words that Sir Walter felt sure an in
~tercourse with dumb animals might
be enlarged. Camp once bit the baker,
for which Sir Walter thrashed him
and explained the wickedness of his
act. To the last moment of his life
this brilliant dog understood every
alusion to the circumstances, and
would, when it was mentioned, get up
and retire into the darkest corner of
the room, with the appearance of great
distress. If Sir Walter said the "ba-
ker was not hurt" Camp came for
ward, barked, capered and rejoiced;
If. however it was said that the baker
died or was very ill Camp would re-
main sorrowful for a long time in his
retreat.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
The Sybarites.

In the south of Italy there was once
a flourishing Greek colony called Sy-
baris. The town was well situated
for commerce, the surrounding country
was very fertile, the climate was the
finest in the world and for centuries
the Sybarites were industrious and en-
terprising, carrying on a profitable
trade with other countries and head
ing up immense wealth., But too much
good fortune finally proved their ruin.
Little by little they lost their habits
of labor and thrift, and instead gave
themselves up to pleasure. Finally,
leaving all kinds of necessary work to
their slaves, they laid aside the cares
of nfe, and spent their days in eating
and drinking, in dancing and in list
enlng to fine music, or in attending
the circus and watching the feats of
acrobats OIL performing animals
lanes Baldwin in st. Nicholas.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
A SCENE IN THE CHITRAL WAR.
FOfIing a Night Attack by Firing
Shells Giving a Brilliant Light.

VoIiIhS IL NISht AttacA ny TITIuS
Shells Giving a brilliant Light.
A wounded Pathan, who was cap
tured after the fight north of the
Panjkora bridge, has given our politi-
cal officers a most vivid account of the
enemy's action on that occasion.
Every movement of our men was
watched by the enemy from the hill
tops. They saw the efforts to o n
struct the bridge and ~reconnOitered as
closely as they dared the intreenched
camp of the Guides infantry. Then
the brilliant idea struck their chiefs
of launching the heavy logs up stream
to wreck the bridge.
He says: I'VE saw the floating
roadway break up and it's pieces
swept away in the floating waters.
Our Watchmen sigralled the news
from hill to hill, and rlG clans gath
cred for the fray, for we believed that
the soldiers, separated from their fell
lows, We're delivered into our hands.
Then Our mullahS came and preached
to us the righteousness of our cause,
and showed that Allah was mindful
of his children by placing 1000 rifles
and much ammunition within their
hands to grasp.
NOW, we sOrely desired those guns,
and the words of our mullahs excited
us greatly. We saw the men from
the river bank marching toward us,
and we believed victory to be certain.
But when they saw us they went
back slowly, and we coulG. never get
close to them, for some of their guns
NNnI'n ALWAYS tir,inO aT-nnO ZIG and
many were stricken and fell. When
the men had reached their camp and
the sahiDs across the river began
firing upon us, too, we went back to
the hills for shelter. Then our mullahs
II chiefs talked together and decid-
ed that we should creep upon our enc
mics in the night and fall on them
when the night was darkest. And
every man went willingly for the
guns we sorely needed.
There were 1000 hillmen who set
forth that night to crawl up to the sol
diers' camp. We lay for hours in the
wet fields, with the rain falling
steadily, waiting for our chiefs to give
signal for the great rush. Word came
round from chief to chief TO be ready,
and every man crouched, grasping his
weapon, to run forward. But at that
very moment a devils gun boOmed
forth, and 10! instead of bullets and
balls coming out, there burst over us
a mighty light, so great that we
thought the night had suddenly be-
come day. And we cried aloud to
Allah to abate his wrath against us,
and when the great light faded we all
hurried away, and ever our mHllahs
had no word to say"
The explanation is that, in order to
guard against any such nocturnal at
tempt to rush the position, a star shell
had been fired from the British camp.
When the shell bursts it shows a
brilliant magnesium light, wildly it,
Eliminating the surrounding country
Correspondence of the ICL.don Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
Adopt a Signature.

A young girl went to a bank not long
ago and tried to draw out money she
had deposited. She wrote her name
but was astonished to have the sigma.
ture disputed. Her indignant protest
was met by the statement that the
name she had ujst signed bore no re-
semblance to that written when the
money was brought to the bank. Fort
unately, she was able to prove her
identity, but the person who testified
in her favor said frankly that he
would have refused payment on such
contradictory signatures. LET me give
you a piece of advice" said he, 'alter
your writing If you choose, but adopt
a signature which can always be rec
ognized. 1t is often of the greatest
Importance to a man or woman
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
England's Chestnut at Torworth

1t is said that the largest chestnut
tree known in the world is at Mount
Etna, in Sicily, but one of the oldest
and most remarkable trees in Great
Britain is a chestnut at Torworth, the
residence of the earl of Ducie, near
Bristol. In the reign of Stephen, who
assembled the throne in 1135, it was, we
gather from the Naturalists' Journal.
deemed so remarkable for it's size that.
as appears upon record, it was well
known as a signal boundary to the
Manor of Torworth. 1t seems prob
able that this tree is 1000 years old at
least. 1t is still in very fair vigor, and
last year produced a large crop of nuts.
1t measure nearly fifty feet in circum-
ference; the body is short-only about
ten feet in height-and it then divides
into three huge trunks, one of which
measures nearly 30 feet E girth.-West-
minister Gazette.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
AN INJURED PROPRIETOR.
why There Are No More Tins for
Taking Trunks I'm Stairs.

why There Are No More Tips for
Taking Trunks Up Stairs.
This is the narrative of Potter Palm
err and his chief porter, as told in a
Chicago paper:
Mr.. Palmer has what he considers
an educated taste for horsefiesh. He
thinks he knows Il trotter when he
e e him, and has little doubt of his
ability to pudge of the aforesaid trot-
ter when he sits behind him with rib
bons In his hands.
Mr.. Palmer some time age bought
a horse with ar alleged ability to do
a mile in 2:5O, that struck him as be-
ing extremely desirable. He paid a
good deal of money for the animal,
and he was filled with delight when he
thought of the easy and brash manner
in which he would pass the various
turnouts on the Lake Shore Drive.
He asked Mrs. Palmer to come out
with him to try the new horse, and,
having nothing better to do, Mrs.
Palmer consented. The wagon was
yoked up and the driver attached.
One by one the speedy horses of the
n~eighboring ArmOurs and Trees and
Healys were passed, and Mr.. Palmer
was just beginning to rejoice in his
purchase when there came the rattle
of a badly constructed village cart.
1--WE will have to have one more
run my dear" said Potter Palmer.
Just this once, love-" said Mrs.
Potter Palmer.
The Gathering came nearer, ana
nearer and then presenter n present
er, and at last PASSENGER and passin-
ger. until it faded away in the dis
lance far beyond anything Potter
Palmer and his new horse could do,
but as the vehicle went by Mr.. Palm
err recognized the driver.
1t was his own head porter! The
man who had brought him to open
shame was the person who told II
slaveys how to pile trunks around In
the Palmer House.
He said nothing just then, u ike
the parrot in the story, he thought a
heap. Mrs. Palmer made such con
versation as there was held in the rest
of the trip, and Mr.. Palmer got back
to the hotel as soOn as posslhle.
"How much does that head porter
get a month";" he demaLded.
Fifty dollars" replied the
"How can he buy trotting stock on
$50 a month"; demanded Mr.. Palmer.
ooh. you forget his fees
"What fees?'
"Why. the tips-the money people
give the head porter when their lug
gage is brought to them"
"Hereafter," said Mr.. Palmer, mo
porter is to be permitted to collect
fees. You see that he does what he
is paid to do for what he is paid for
it. And, by the way. find out what he
will take for that horse he mad ou'
to-day"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18

Everybody who has ever travelled III
Germany or the rest of Europe de-
nounces the "trinkgeld" or 'pourboire"
nuisance. Many people in Germany
denounce it, too, but the habit is
deeply rooted. Yesterday the associa-
ton of German h~otel-kepers, about
1000 strong, were in convention here
and discussed this very question,
many desiring the organization to put
it's foot down ON it. But the merry
waiter and his "trinkgeld" proved too
strong. The association decided not
to NEEDLE with the time-honored Gus
tom. Thus when next you go to Ger
many you'll find the waiter in his
swallowtail as usual, smiling and with
an itching palm.-New York Adver-
tiSer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
AnecdOte Of LessfnE.

Observation-Disclosures has been fire.
quently a characteristic of men of
fame. 1t is to be supposed, no doubt,
that their minds have been so wholly
absorbed by great matters that the
smaller, more trivial things of life
have been considered unworthy of
their attention. Among men of this
stamp who have suffered in this way
was Leasing, a famous German wri-
ter Of plays and books of criticism.
Leasing discovered at one period of
his life that he was being robbed Of
his ready money by some person in
his home, and, unable to determine
who the culprit was, he put the SER
wants of his household to a test by
leaving a handful of gold upon his
breakfast table n morning.
Meeting a friend he told him what
he had done.
THAT was risky" said his friend.
"How much did you leave there?"
Dear mew cried Leasing. II quite
forgot to count."-Harper's Round
Table.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
ssYOu,re It.v

"Boys, do you know why you say
You're it when playing tag? OF
course not; the professor didn't either,
when we asked him the other day, but
he promised to put his entire mind
upon so important a subject and let
us know at once.
This is what he says, though with
some of his big words left out :
1.-The people who live in England do
not think much of the letter H. being
in the habit of dropping it from the
words where it belongs and putting
it where it does not belong. What
fun there is in it, or why they do it,
no n can tell; but they have been in
the habit of it for a good many hun-
bred years.
S when they played tag, as boys
do now, touching each other with their
hands whenever one boy hit another
he at once shouted out: you're it
for he could not say hit you know.
And all the generations of little
boys who have since then been play
ing the game continued to say tit
instead of nit even after our fathers
learned in America to always put
their his in every other word where
they belonged.
"Now, boys, let me whisper a word
of warning. Don't tell your teacher
what the professor says. If you do
she'll never give you any peace. but
will rap on the window at every re-
cess and tell you to say hit instead of
''it.'"-New York Recorder.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18

The farmers of England are labor
ing under serious disadvantages as to
area and climate in competing with
those who till the soil in America, and
improvements in American farm ma
chinery also are adding to the depres-
sion in English rural industry. One
unwelcome result in this decline of
prosperity is the decrease of rentals
received by the leading colleges, es-
pccially those of Oxford, whose net
income in the last ten years has fallen
off about ID per cent. Oriel College,
Oxford, has lost As per cent of it's rev
enue by the decline in farm rentals.
Judged by comparison American farm.
ers have reason to be the most hopeful
in the world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
Saved His Master.

"The most remarkable anecdote Of
this nature" said Uncle Joshua, ais
that regarding a Swiss chamois hum
ter's dog. This animal, being on the
glaciers with an English gentleman
and his master, observed the former
approaching one of those awful crew
ices in the ice to look down into it.
He began to slide toward the edge.
His guide, with a view to save him,
caught his coat, and both slid onward,
till the dog seized his masters clothes
and arrested them in their course to
an inevitable death. Both were saved
by the timely aid Of the dog and the
gentleman showed his gratitude for
the act by leaving the dog a pension
for life.".
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
A Magnifying Store Window.

There is a suggestion for the Amer,
can fruit merchant, which possibly
may be turned to account in the story
Of the device for attracting custom re-
sorted to by a fruiterer in a midland
town in England. Instead of an or
binary plate glass a large number of
magnifying lenses formed the win
dow. Seen through one of these an
orange looked as large as a modest
pumpkin, and cherries were as large
as apples. The only drawback to this
novel plan was that at the distance of
a few yards from the window it was
impossible to see into the store. Every
body knows that to see anything
through a magnifying glass you must
hold it close to the eyes. Neverthe-
less, the English countryfolk enjoyed
the sight Of Californian" fruit and the
enterprising proprietor did a roaring
business.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18

Can a criminal take advantage of
his own crime and acquire property
thereby? This question is now before
the supreme court of, Pennsylvania in
the case of J. B. Carpenter, who muir
dered his father, and whose mother
was convicted as an accessory after
the fact. While the mother and son
were in Jail awaiting trial they exc
cuted an assignment of the murdered
mans estate as his heirs, and the
court is now asked to annul the pro-
ceeding on the ground that they were
estopped by their crime from inherit
ing the property. There have been
several decisions upon the subject in
other states, but the question is still
a disputed one among the lawyers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18

I'll
where it does exist the present day
punishment of the 'cat," inflicted with
an instrument that carries no knots
and seldom more than fifteen or TWEEN
ty strokes, is not to be compared with
the savage f%ioggings of the past.
The Russian "knout," however, is a
much more terrible instrument of tor
ture than the "cat," as will be seer
from the accompanying illustration.
And, unfortunately, one never knows
for certain how much of the knout is
left in modern Russia. The telegraph
wire still at times carries the horrid
whizz of it from remote Siberia, and
only the other day came the news
from st. Petersburg of a new imperial
ukase ''abolishing the use of the knout
for the punishment of ~offenses com
mitted by the peasantry, who haze
hitherto been completely at the mercy
of the local judges in this respect, be-
cause statistics were submitted to the
car, showing tLat in ten years 5000
persons, mostly guilty of thefts of
produce, had died after punishment
with the knout."
F.. Granted the infliction of the knout,
the 5000 deaths are easily believed;
the instrument itself (supposing this
report to be true) evidently dies harder
than it's victims. But even in Russia,
where the roc and it's equivalents have
had a more extended and bloody exist
ence than in any other European state,
the humaner spirit of the age has been
felt, and one Is disposed to regard
as exaggerated the statements just
quoted. Certainly it had been gen
orally supposed that the knout was
abolished for all but the gravest of
lenses, as long ago as 1866. But Rus
STA has never been governed wholly
by it's written laws, and there are
regions of that empire where a ukase
may be slow to reach the local
Judges"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
Rich Gold Discovery.

Duluth, Mimi, Special.-The Her
AIDS Rat Portage correspondent says:
one of the richest gold discoveries
that has been made in this district is
situated close to Ash Rapids, on the
lake of the Woods, and is within
twenty-four miles of Rat Portage. The
vein is exposed by nature five feet
wide and II hundred feet long, and
the vein cuts at right angles through
the granite rocks. 1t has every APP
pearance of being n true assure vein.
one assay was made of a piece OF
surface rock, and the result OF the
assay turned out $1,235 gold and Sl?9
silver to the ton, --
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
LIGHTSHIPs,
They Are Now Connected with the
Shore by Telephone.

They Are Now Connected with the
Shore by Telephone.
For many years the desirability OF
telephone communication between
lightships and the shore has been rec
.ognized, but no one has hit on a prac-
ticable means Of providing it. The
trouble was that the ship, although
anchored, changes position with the
tide and wind over an area hat may
Measure several hundred feet in each
direction. This movement was de-
structive to telephone cables, which
We're inevitably twisted and broken.
Now Prof. Lucian l. Blake of a fresh
water college out in Kansas, has ap-
parently solved the problem. He sent
his first message from the Scotland
lightship off Sandy Hook recently, and
the experts say he has got the right
principle and that it is very queer no
M ever thought of it before. The
beauty of his scheme is it's simplicity.
He seems to be the first to observe
that, although a lightship moves about
a good deal, it is always in connection
with something that remains immova-
BILE, to wit, the anchor. Therefore he
took the anchor as his starting point
and attaching a supplementary chain
to this carried it off to a moderate dis
lance and there made it fast to the
end of the cable from the shore. Ex-
perts had said that 1t would be i'm
possible to make the anchor chain part
of the line of communication needed
for telephone use, but Prof. Blake
thought differently and has proved
his theory by fitting up the apparatus
at his own cost and then talking over
it from the lightship to the shore
C%hurchman.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18
Blood Circulation.

The mileage of the blood circulation
personal history. Thus it has been cal
culated that, assuming the heart to
beat s%ixty-nine times a minute at or
binary heart pressure, the blood goes
at the rate Of POT yards in the minute,
or seven miles per hour, 1913 miles per
day, and $500 miles per year. If a
man "a years of age could have one
single blood corpuscle floating in his
blood all his life, 1t would have trav.
eIed in that same time :. no. 0S miles.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-18

The report coming from Formosa
that the island is to be a republic is
amusing in consideration of the fact.
that the natives in the central ranges
of mountains are unconquered savages
and are accused of c~annibalism, while
the other inhabitants are chiefly Chi
nese immigrants. 1t is extremely
probable that Japan will take possess
ion of the island in force in due time
and give it the best government it
has ever known.