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The record-union., 1896-11-02

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proverbial
| Removal! Removal!-More room be-
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Office removed to Tenth and O. Orders
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Prescriptions reliably compounded at
Green's new drug store, corner Seventh
and K. Golden Eagle Hotel block.
| A secondhand square Steinway nj
ano. also an upright, very cheap. Pom
mer's Music Store, corner Ninth and
j.
| Chrysanthemums in variety at Ills
d street. Come and see them. Miss
Mary NJ. Barrett.
| Electric light fixtures and electrical
supplies. Tom Scott. athe plumber,
303 ].
Cranberries, 1Oc per quart; 3 cans Tip
| Top condensed milk, 25c; crushed Java
coffee, 2Oc per pound. c. c. c., Granger
| building, Tenth and K.
| Removal, Removal.-Morer room be-
| ing required, Fair Oaks Wood Yard
office removed to Tenth and @. Orders
| left at Alsip & Co.'S office will be filed. y
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Hot chicken pie, 15c; charlotte russo.
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The record-union., 1896-11-02

Upon the shoulders of the men who
are only seen on the public streets as
they pass from their home gate to the
shops gate does the responsibility Of
government rest. Generals direct the
course of battles, but it is the rank and
file who win them"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
THE TWO WOMEN.

Said Doris: "You are just as 1 pict-
ured you. May l call you just Anne?
How long they prayed. 1 did not
know you would come. I could not
think who you were, standing beside
his grave, so beautiful and fearless. l
could not see well for weeping, and the
wind was cold. and my head ached.
oh, the wan face! The black clothes
l did not like the black. / wanted to
lie down there with him and be coy
cred up. The clay was SO cold and
wet. oh, how cold my heart grew!
Did you think they prayed long? l
was so cold!"
II have never been told how he
died." said Anne.
81 entered the library where he was
waiting for me-" Doris replied. st
was near twilight. He sat by the
window looking out. When l came in
he turned. and his face was pale. The
room was cold. Tie fire had gone out.
l never saw him pale before; | was
frightened. and cried cut. He came to
reassure me, and his face was so pale!
He looked at me long and anxiously-
so a~nxiouSly. l did not understand this
look, it was so strange. 1t hurt me be-
cause did not understand it. Now l
know 1t was physical suffering. He
went back to the window and sank in
to his chair. Are you not i'll? I asked.
He answered a little and added, it
will pass But he did not speak at
all, or touch me, and when l stroked
his forehead. he leaned suddenly for
ward. his face in his arms. on the
window sill, and would not answer me.
I ran out to tell them he vas i'll.
When the doctor came l was told he
was dead. They gave me this letter to
send you, and tell you"
"You did not WISH" said Anne, to
read my letter?'
Doris did not reply.
lit would make you less able to real
ize that he is-gone," said Anne,
gently.
Eyes" said Doris. "And then it
voc to you-not me-"
Inc others face "a suffused with
tender pity. She spoke impulsively.
and yet with a timorous boldress, as
n who ventures upon hazardous and
novel ways.
Doris, he loved you with all his
heart"
HE told your"
Yes"
HE spoke Of you so often, Anne.
We shall always be friends"
"Yes, always"
"Iou are-sure he loved me OF" The
girls mouth tremored at the corners.
HE did not tell me often enough"
HE loved you dearly" said Anne.
"Ah, If you knew what sweet COM
fort you give! You are sure-quite
sure?"
He loved you with all his heart"
repeated Anne.
Il will go, Anne. I thank you so
much! l think l can weep again, now.
For a while, goodbye. Give me both
your hands and kiss me."-Edward
Cummings, in the Chap Book.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16

Though it is true, as the proverb says,
that "the poet is born, not made" yet
it is also true that the great poem is
both born and made. A critic boosted
to Tennyson that in reading a poem of
his he could always pick out those lines
which wrote themselves from those
which had been elaborated. Being
asked to illustrate his discrimination,
he quoted a line, %whereupon the poet
remarked:
II smoked a dozen pipes over that
line before I gave to it its present
form"
AS with poetry, so with oratory-the
speech that influences public opinion is
not only inspiration, but a task. The
fact is illustrated by a conversation re-
ported in Mrs. Clafin's Under the Old
Fins" She says that she remembers
a delightful visit from Mr.. Sumner
when he spent most of the time de
scribinG President Theirs ann of
entertaining his guests.
Sumner told every detail-the ar
rangement of the table; who were the
guests: how they We're seated; how
Nine. Theirs conversed, and how cour-
teous her husbands manner was to-
ward her; and how the president ut the
close of the dinner gathered the guests
around him, as he sat upon the sofa
in the salon, and rehearsed the speech
he was 10 make the next day in the
French assembly.
Thus" said Mr.. Sumner. taking adj
vantage Of any sugg ostion or criticism
that might be made before he gave the
speech to the public
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16

All, there was another chance! With
out a moments hesitation Joe raised
his hands above his head and dived
from the bank and with two or three
quick strokes under water, he canae up
several yards ahead of his pursuer.
h man had dashed into the water
without realizing that he could not
swim, and Joe was ahead of him and
over his head now.
AS Joe calmly climbed the opposite
Dank. after his refreshing bath. the
nalf-droWned ruffiian was being pulled
from the water by his companion, who
a secured the clothes and followed
as Iast as possible. Awful threats of
vengeance were poured on Joe's head
from across the water when the ruff
nan recovered the use of his lungs. and
the volley of stones that came nearly
across the river a appalling. Joe
coolly occupied himself in wringing
inc water from his clothes and in shak
ing his fist at the men and returning
some of their threats.
When he had rested a while he pre-
pared to start home, which must have
Deen some eighteen miles distant. He
rolled the trousers up. and. depositing
them on the bank, shouted to the men
that they We're ready as soon as they
cared to call for them. Then, taking
on his hat with a flourish, he turned
his back, and was on the road for
meme. Hereache d the house of a
friendly farmer at nightfall and spent
the night there. The next morning he
reached home safely aud handed the
money bag to his father.-Exchange.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
A STRANGE CAREER.
The Remarkable Story of a Man
Once in the United States Senate.

The Remarkable Story of n Man
Once in the United States senate.
Gov. Bob" Stewart, who was the
chief executive of Missouri once, and
afterward United States senator from
that state, had a strange career.
During his ~gubernatorial incumbency
he was one day looking through the
p~enitentiary at Jefferson City. when
he saw among the convicts an aged
man whom he recognized. On the fol-
lowing day he sent to the warden of
the prison orders to have that man
brought to the executive mansion.
When the man appeared the gov
ernor, calling him by NAME, asked him
if he hadn't one been the mate of a
Missouri river steamboat. The con
Wet admitted that he had been, and
then the following conversation en-
sued, the governor beginning:
DO you remember at one time of
having taken blankets away from a
boy who was a stowaWay Oh the boat
and kicking him ashoreT
"The circumstance doesn't occur to
me now, but doubtless 1 did it. A
steamboat mate in those days had to
be considerable of a brute"
Eyes, sir; and you filled the bill adj
mirably. l was the boy you robbed
and kicked ashore very near to this
capital city, and thus became enabled
to give you your pardon. Here, sir,
take it. Now, right about. March out
Of that door and off these premises,
and never let me see your brutal old
face again."
The old convict walked away quite
briskly for one of his age.
A little while ago a senator told me
that n day, about the close of the
war or perhaps a little later. he was
walking down Pennsylvania avenue in
Washington with another senator,
when his companion abruptly called
his attention to a rather distinguished
looking man in a gang of laborers who
were cleaning the streets, and l think
he said under police surveillance.
DO you know who that MAI ISL"
the second senator asked.
No"
"Well, that is ex-Gov. Bob Stewart
of Missouri. He was of conyivial ma
ture, and the convivialities of Wash
ington proved too much for him.
Chicago Times Herald.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16

Water that Is now In the ocean and
in the river has been many times in
the sky. The history of q single drop
taken out Of a glass of water is really
a romantic one. No traveller has ever
accomplished such distances in his
life. That particle may nave reflected
the palm trees of coral islands and
have caught the sun ray in the arch
that spans a cloud clearing away from
the valleys Of Cumberland or Califor-
mia.
1t may have been carried by the gulf
stream from the shore of Florida or of
Cuba, to be turned into a crystal of
ice beside the precipices of Spitzber-
gen. 1t may have lowered over the
streets of London and have formed Il
part of the murky bog and have glis-
tened on the young blade of grass of
April in Irish fields. 1t has been lift
ed up to heaven and sailed in great
Wool-pack clouds across the sky, form
ing part of a cloud-mountain echoing
with thunder. 1t has hung in a fieecy
veil many miles above the earth at the
close of long seasons of still weather.
1t has descended many times over in
showers to refresh the earth, and has
sparkled and dubbed in messy foun-
tains in every country in Europe.
And it has returned to it's native
skies, having accomplished its purpose,
to be stored once again with electricity
to give it new life-producing qualities
and equip it as heavens messenger to
earth once more.-Museum.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
A VEGETABLE SALAMANDER
"A South American Wood That Re
sssts Fire.

sists Fire.
The Gardeners Chronicle gives some
interesting details concerning a tree
Oh colombia which truly merits the
name vegetable salamander. This tree,
the D odorata, of the order pro-
teaceae, presents a remarkable power
OF resistance to fire. In the district of
kolima 1t Is customary every year,
turing the dry season, to set fire to the
plains IN order to destroy all the dry
weeds that. during rains, might inter
Iere with the growth Of the young and
tender vegetation. This periodical con-
na2ratlon naturally produces the most
disastrous effects upon the trees,
which gradually disappear without be-
ing replaced. and Still more so for a
young shoot of n or two years. A
single tree forms an exception, and
tnat is the one above mentioned-the
rhopala. Small, distorted and scraggy,
and having q wild and desolate appear.
ance, this tree not only does not suffer
from the lire, but derives profit there
from. 1t gradually establishes itself
III localities abandoned by other trees
n lnstalls itself therein. We have
mere a very tropical case of a survival
OF the fttest. 1t, alone capable of re-
slsting fire, witnesses the disappear
ance of its rivals, and is seen to grad
ually encroach upon an always more
extended domain. Its resistance to
ire Is due to its bark. The external
portion of the latter, more than half
an inch thick and formed of dead cells
and f1bers, acts like a protecting jacket
with respect to the more central and
living parts, and it is this that assures
it's triumph in its struggle for exist
ence against fire.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
THE BREAD OF THE WORLD.
What This Important Food Is Made
nf I'm niHerent CnunfrlPS


of in Different Countries.
In England and America wheat bread
is within the reach of all and scarcely
is a thought given to the fact that only
a small portion of the earth's inhab-
itants enjoy it. 1t is only during the
last century that wheat bread has come
into common use. A hundred years
ago wealthy families in England used
only a peck Of wheat a year, and that
at Christmas, eating cat cakes during
the remainder of the time.
The German "pumpernickel" IS a rye
bread with a curious sour taste, but
after eating it awhile II acquires
quite a taste for it. 1t is less nutritious
than that Of wheat. In the poorer parts
Of Sweden the people bake their rye
bread only twice a year n store it
away, so that eventually it is as hard
as bricks.
Further north still, barley and oats
become the chief bread-corn. But in
the district North is where man is put
to thought to provide himself with
bread. In Lapland, if a man trusted to
grain he would starve, so the people
exc out their scanty stock of oats with
the inner bark Of the pine, and after
grinding this mixture it is made into
large fat cakes which, after all, are not
half bad.
In dreary Kamschatka the pine or
birch bark by itself, well ground,
pounded and baked, constitutes the
whole Of the native bread food. Bread
and butter is represented by a dough of
pine bark spread with seal fat. In GER
tain parts of Siberia the people not
only grind the pine bark, but cut off the
tender shoots, which procedure must
give the bread an unpleasantly resinous
flavor.
In Iceland the lichen Is scraped off
the rock, made into bread ~puddings and
put into cup In Russia and China
bu~ckwheat is pressed into service. IL
makes a palatable bread, though Of a
dark violet tinge.
In Italy and Spain, chestnuts are
cooked, ground into meal and used for
bread and soup thickening. Millet fur
nishes a white bread in Arabia, Egypt
and India. This grain is credited with
being the very first used in bread-mak-
ing
Rice bread Is still the staple food Of
the Chinese, japanese and Indians.
In the Indian archipelago the starchy
pith of the sage palm is made into
bread, and in parts of Africa the M
tives use Il certain DOT for the same
purpose.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16

a move has been made in Newark.
n. j., which is significant in view of
the present changing condition of gen
eral freight service. A bread bakery
which runs out fifty delivery wagons
daily to points within fourteen miles
Of the city. finds that it can do much
of its freight delivery in a simpler and
DetIer duu Cheaper way. Eighteen of
it's wagons are sem to Jersey City in
the morning, loaded with hot bread,
which is delivered to the locked boxes
in front of the grocery stores before
the stores are open. To save a drive
Of from fourteen to twenty miles a day
for each Of these wagons, the firm has
made a contract with the local electric
car company to run trolley freight cars
from the bakery to a new delivery de-
pot in Jersey City. The cars will be
run at an hour of the night when they
will be unobstructed and will not in
terfere in any way with passenger
traffic. If the venture is successful
the firm proposes to run cars to more
distant cities. On the other hand, the
traction company is now seeking to
make similar contracts with tile brew
ers Of the city, who now deliver large
quantities Of beer in Hudson county
and New York by wagons. 1t is but
natural that the strongest pressure
should be brought against this innova-
ton, but under its franchise the COM
pany has the right to III freight cars.
Should the night trolley freight service
become general it will readily be seer
what an important modification of city
and suburban delivery traffic will fol-
low.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
FRENCH
NJ. Bertillon Advocates a Race of
Frenchnen for the Future Devel-
Opment Of Madagascar.

NJ. Bert1llOn Advocates n race OF
Frenchmen for the Future DeveI.
Opment of Madagascar.
One of the things which is most
closely studied in France by the sa-
wants and statisticianS in the govern
ment employ and out is the steadily
diminishing birth-rate. A recent writ
er on the subject, NJ. Jacques Bertil-
lon, who has been making some eX-
haustive researches, says that the rea-
son why there are so many foreigners
in Paris holding lucrative positions
and doing all sorts of skilled manual
labor is that the demand is greater
than the nation of itself can supply.
In a pamphlet which NJ. Bertillon
has written on the subject. he dWells
on the necessity of colonizing and de-
veloping the rich natural source in
Madagascar. He closes his monograph
with these words:
at is the French woman who holds
in her hands the development of that
beautiful and UNNECESSARILY rich ISL
and. The I'M of France have few
children, and they cannot endure the
thought of having them depart for a
far-diStant land. though they will
serve their mother country well by do
ing so. In the interest of France and
of Madagascar the mothers of France
should zeal childrena tionETAOlNH
should bear six children in toad OF
two, and to fulfill that purpose for
which they are created"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
SWEET POTATO WHISKY.
A New Intoxicating Horror Distilled
by Inventive Georgians,

A New Intoxicating Horror Distilled
by Inventive Gcorgians.
J. w. Grow has a small bottle of
sweet potato whisky that is a very in
teresting commodity in this section Of
the country and not a familiar one to
the world at large.
The liquid is crude and white, as all
rev whisky is, but it is the genuine
stuff and not a counterfeit.
Among the homeseekers who have
been to this section lately was Mr..
Harrisburg, a German. who is skilled in
the distillation Of spirits. When he
saw how abundantly sweet potatoes
were raised in this section of the coun-
try it occurred to him that he could
distill whisky from them. Several
bushels of sweet potatoes were ship
ped to him and soon Mike Brown re-
ceived a half gallon Of sweet potato
whisky.
AS a result of the success of the
scheme arrangements are being made
to distill the liquor for commercial
purposes.
If the residue can be converted into
starch the sweet potato will soon be-
come n of the most valuable prod
ucts of Southern soil.-Augusta Chron-
icle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
USE OF THE DOLLAR MARK.
How the World Fell Into the Habit
of Reversing 1t.

Oh reversing III.
A st. Louis exchange calls attention
to the singularity of u custom of
placing the dollar mark before the fig
ures instead of after without giving
the real explanation. A high authority
says that the explanation Is found in
the fact that in the colonial times,
when the word dollar was American
lied, It's equivalent was the Spanish
piece of eight" or eight "reals," later
known as the "York shilling" At first
the Authorization for a dollar was the
figure s between two straight lines
0Sp, and then the two lines were
drawn through the eight. After a
while the 8 itself was changed just a
little, making the sign stand as now
in use. This is a highly probable ex-
PLANTATION. In all civilized countries
money marks are in use, and our st.
Louis exchange throws some interest
ing light on the custom when it says:
I'm every country which has a writ
ten language and a system of coinage
the Authorization for the unit of value
precedes the figures. In England the
pound mark e. is used in the same
manner that the dollar mark is used
in this country, while the same pecu-
liarity is noticeable in Germany. where
the Authorization m (for mark appears
preceding the number, just as the
French Authorization fl. (for france is
used in France"
If the Authorizations are not used the
legend is more apt to be correct. We
find that in Mexico they have n so ID
pesos instead Of p. 21-2," as one
might expect, and in Newfoundland
they have a plain two-dollar piece. So,
too, in France, where the Authorization
is not used, we find such pieces as 10
francs" go francs and 80 frances
In Germany they have a piece marked
IL thaler," which is all very plain,
but the moment q clerk, bookkeeper or
other person makes an entry or jots
down a memorandum he tells you that
it is a 9Th. X" The English pound
sign, which is believed to be the Oldest
monetary a~bbreviation now in use, is
the old initial letter by which the Ro-
mans expressed pounds" just as we
use the Tbs" 1t has been suggested
that we use our money ~abbreviation
backward because the Romans, i'll eX
pressing pounds" always said 'libra
decem," instead of ''decem libra" the
first being pounds ten' and the latter
'ten pounds" When their initial let
ter or character was used it always
preceded the figures, thus, "f10," in
stead of the reverse. Thus the whole
world has got in the habit Of doing
these things Observation-Disclosures En-
~cyclopedia Monthly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
Cremating the Killed In Battle.

The advance of military service in
the invention of weapons of greater
precision and fatality, such as the i'm
proved rifles, and the Maxim gun and
the use of smokeless powder in battle.
have led students of warfare to ap-
prchend a greater carnage in combat
and directed attention anew to the dis
posal of the dead on the battlefield.
Recently the German emperor called
for the opinions of the medical staff Of
the war department en- the question Of
using cremation to d~isincumher Il bat
tlefeld after a ~sanguinary combat. An
invention of this kind would he OF Sd
preme interest to all governments as
coming from a nation that most care
fully studies the art of war. The idea
is not novel, however. nor is Germany
the irst government to consider il. At
the international congress in Paris
tWenty-eight years ago Dr.. BCrt0ui OF
Genoa proposed cremation as tho hui
manest and. from a sanitary point Of
view, the soundeSt method Of d;spoSing
of the dead in battle. and his accu-
mertS were supported by DR.. CastlS-
lsini. another Italian s%apitarian.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16

and the eyes, the blue eyes, that had
for ME such exquisite language. You
are repose-heaven! And l am in a
hell of my own making, and, dearest,
could not help it. All, l am pleading,
| did not mean to plead.
Did you have a dream of me, Is no
bic, say? Here am l, who love life be-
cause of you, who love you more than
that life or my hope of heaven. But
what to you is such a love?
She is coming soon, and | shall tell
her. l say l shall have no more decep-
ton. l an yours-yours! l dare not
write the prayer that is iii my heart.
l cannot say farewell. Remember,
when you despise me most, l am
yours,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16
Lake and Ocean Commerce.

While 102 American vessels were
constructed in 1895 for the ocean coast
trade, siXty-tive vessels were con
structed for the lake trade. The small
er number of lake vessels, however,
is offset by the greater average ton
mage. Not a single seagoing vessel
was built of the size and capacity of a
dozen large lake vesselsA The COM
lnerce of the lakes and rivers is now
as valuable as the coastWise COM
merce on the Atlantic. Foreign COM
merce in American built vessels would
revive if the burdens of taxation We're
removed. With the handicap of tariff
eXtortion abolished American vessels
would oon have a full share of the
ocean traffic, and the United States
flag would cease TO be Il novelty and
surprise in the harbors of the world
Chicago Chronicle.