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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
A Deal in Canadian Money.

All through that part of the country
(Northern Ohio there is a discount Of
20 cents on every Canadian dollar. OF
course, Canadian money is not as
much in circulation as is the legal ten
der of the United States, but there
was enough for this purpose. A man
advertised in all surrounding country
towns that he would redeem Canadian
money for 80 cents on the dollar. 1t
was some time before he had any re-
suits from this advertising. 1t was
like the man who stood on London
bridge at midnight and offered to give
away sOvereigns. People laughed at
him. The farmers were shy. They
thought it was a swindling game of
some kind and left him severely alone.
One day a man came in with $40 in
Canadian money. 1t was of all shapes
and sizes from the 5-cent piece that
looks like a dime to a dollar bill drawn
ON the Bank of Montreal. If he had
spent it he could have secured SO
worth Of goods for it. My man gave
him nine big silver dollars in United
States money for it.
Before the week was out he had eX-
changed United States dollars for $3.50
worth of Canadian money. This
would give him a profit of $25 wher-
yer Canada money is as good as our
own. From that time on the business
gradually increased until to-day he
averages about $3.50 per week. In
stead of having farmers come to him
he goes to them and buys their accu-
mrlated savings of Canada coin. They
are all his customers and know him
well in the five years they have done
business together.
care you not afraid of competition
in your business in case it becomes
generally known?' 1 asked" said the
drummer.
"'No,' said he, you see, it requires
a comparatively large amount of
money as a starting capital. Then l
have to have men in the frontier cities
who will give me United States money
for my Canada currency. l generally
take a trip twice a year to Detroit.
Cleveland, Chicago and Buffalo, where
l make these exchanges. All this re-
quires years of preparation, and no
outsider could step in and make ex-
changes with my patrons, as they
have all the money they can handle
now, even at a 2 per CEN commission
on the dollar buffalo Express.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
HIS WIT WON THE PRIZE.


The Clever Retort of an Art Student
Snatches Victory From Defeat.
How true it is that fame and fortune
both hinge on some trivial circum-
stance. The most successful artist at
the annual exhibition Of the French
salon one year was a young gentle
man named Baldwin Sewers.
MI. Sewers particular line is the de-
%lineation of still life, and so he paint
ed a cheese.
After it was hung some malicious
person. says Vanity Fair. slipped into
the gallery the night before the exhi-
bitiOn and cut a round hole in the can
vas, completely removing the cheese.
When the examining committee were
on their rounds they came to the de-
faced picture and angrily sent for the
artist to give an explanation. An Or
binary individual would have been
overcome with despair at the outrage.
Not so Mr.. Sewers. When the chair
man said sternly:
"Where is the cheese?" he responded
calmly.
"Alas. gentlemen! I perceive 1 have
painted it with too great fidelity. The
mice have eaten it."
They awarded him the first prize.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
LAssOING A DROWNING MAN.
A Hint to the life Saving Service on
the Value of the LariaI,

n Hint to the Life Saving Service on
the Value of the Lariat.
"You were asking me awhile ago
about the lariat and it's uses" he
said, land it reminds me Of a time on
n occasion when it served an excel
lent purpose as a life preserver."
ut is isn't always used for that, is
IT, queried the writer.
well, no." laughed the westerner,
I've seen it do prompt service when
there was no other rope handy and
the boss thief was. But this time was
different" he went on. Il know, be-
cause l was the one preserved. We
were up in the canyon country looking
for some cattle, and one of the boys
II / had zone off the trail, to u
stream to take a bath, as you might
call it in the east, for 1t was hotter
than blazes and shade was not plcnti-
full. We went into the water some dis
lance above a turbulent rapid and a
waterfall of 25 or 80 feet, and as we
didn't go to swim so much as to get
cool, all we needed was enough water
to cover us, and that's all my COM
panion took.
Il was, however, more ambitious,
and having been a fine swimmer when
l was in the east, l thought l would
branch out a bit. I was soon branch
ing out extensively, and the first
thing l knew, the swift water caught
me and down l went toward the fall.
l tried to pull for the shore, but it
was no good, and then l set up a yell
that made the canyon echo, and my
partner came after me along the shore.
l was 5O feet out in the stream, Strug-
glinS and there wasn't any more sign
of %.alvatiOn for me than if l had been
in midocean.
"Down 1 kept going, whirled and
turned upside down and fired around
promiscuously. until, about a hundred
yards above the final fall. l caught
on a rock. 1t was just high enough to
keep my head out of water and l hung
to it till my finger nails seemed to be
imbedded in it. My partner at this
juncture showed the kind of a fellow
he was in an emergency, for he ap-
peared on shore with our two lariats
tied together, and just as l was about
to let go and be smashed on the rocks
below, he swung that lariat as cool as
he eve did from tie back of his mus.
tang and it dropped square over my
head. The rest of 1t 1 am not very
conscious of. because by the time he
had pulled me ashore by the neck
was about as near hung as l ever
want to be, but he brought me around
all right in the course of a half an hour
or so, and 1 was quite as good as new
again."
THAT was a narrow escape" re.
marked the writer.
"And that was an old fellow who
saved me-" added the Westerner. "foI
he was so mad about the scare l had
given him that I'll be blamed if he
didn't turn to before the day was over
and give me the worst licking I ever
got in my life for soaring him So"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
A FILTER INSIDE YOU
How YOUR BLOOD IS KEPT PURE.
Health Comes From Pure BLOOD.
Pure Blood Depends ON Your
Filter Inside tOO.
Your Kidneys Keep Your Blood Pure
If They Are Well. A Few Facts
About Them, and How to
Make Them Well When
They Are. Sick.
Your blood Is what nourishes your

Your blood Is what nourishes your
body.
New blood is made every minute. 1t
goes to the lungs, gets fresh air, and
then passes through the body. In pass
ing, it deposits new flesh, fat, bones,
ETC., and takes up worn OIL matter.
This worn out matter goes to the
kidneys. The kidneys filter 1t out OF
the blood and throw it out of the body.
That is, when they are well, they do.
When your kidneys are well, they act
as perfect filters, to keep your blood
pure. When they are sick, they act
imperfectly. They leave the bad mat
ter in. Sometimes they take out the
good.
There is nothing more poisonous
than bad blood.
A proof of this is rheumatism. 1t Is
simply q blood-poisoning caused by
the bad matter left in the blood by
sick kidneys.
Bright's disease is the kidneys work
ing the other way-taking the good
food out of the blood.
Both kinds of kidney sickness are
dangerous.
Both can be cured by DR.. Hobbs
Sparagus Kidney Pills.
One of the most wonderful facts or
our body is this natural filter inside us.
Our kidneys are very important Or
gans. We don't take enough care or
them. We are sick oftener than there
is any need for. 1t is simply because
we take no heed to our kidneys.
Sick kidneys show their effects III
many different diseases.
Rheumatism and Bright's Disease
are very common. Anaemia, Neural
gia, Pain in the Back, Dizziness, Bad
der Trouble, Gravel, Diabetes, Sleep
lessness, Nervousness.
These are only a few symptoms, or
| so-called diseases" Back of them all
are the sick kidneys.
Once the filters can be made to work,
| all these symptoms will disappear.
DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills
| are made principally from the roots or
the asparagus plant, which has a spe-
cial curative action on the kidneys. il
| gives them new life and strength. 1T
| helps them to do their work as 1t ought
to be done. 1t cures their sickness. lt
cleans and reDews the filter.
When the kidneys are well you VIII
feel a great difference at once. Your
complexion will clear. and your whole
| BODY will get renewed life and fresh
| ness.
This is the effect of DR.. Hobbs Spar
agus Kidney Pills on the sick kidneys,
| Of the r~e-vitalized kidneys on the i'm
pure blood.
With a course of DR.. Hobbs Spara-
gus Kidney Pills you will get new life.
They will cure you when other medi-
cines, which do not reach the real seat
of disease, cannot help you.
DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills
are for sale by all druggists, price, SOC.
per box, or will be sent prepaid to any
address on receipt of price.
An interesting booklet, explaining
about the kidneys and their power for
good and evil, SEN free on request.
Address Hobbs Medicine Co, Chicago.
or San Francisco.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

Constantin Nossiloff. reporting in LIE
Tour du Monde his scientific re-
searches in Nova Zembla, furnishes al
interesting description of his sensa-
tons and experiences during the long
Arctic night, which began November
3 and ended January 90.
September was pretty comfortable,
he says. Then suddenly O covered
the mountains. The ~Samoyedes, his
only companions. put on their winter
clothing, the fishing boats set sail for
Archangel. the ground froze, the sun
lost it's warmth and heavy SHOWS fell.
Winter had come in carr est.
On the day when the sun showed it.
self for the last time, all hands went
out Of doors to bid it farewell. 1t re-
manned in sight for half an hour only.
For a few days there was a morning
twilight. Then this faded and gave
place to black night. The stars shOne
the whole twenty-four hours. The
huts of the colony We're buried under
the snow, of which thick whirlwinds
filled the air. The wind shook the huts
to their foundations. Sometimes for
days together the inmates of the differ
ent huts could hold no communication
/ with each other, though the huts were
size Dy size.
If anyone went out he was seized by
the wind and had to be dragged back
by means of ropes.
In this darkness and desolation the
Juror borealis did much to entertain
and cheer them. 1t lasted sometimes
for five days in succession, with splen-
doris of color that Mr.. Nessiloff tries in
| vain to describe. To enjoy the specta-
Gle he used to remain for hours in a
hole in the snow, sheltered from the
wind.
81 have never seen anything more
terrible than a tempest during the pol
ar night" says Mr.. Nossiloff. Man
feels himself overwhelmed in immen-
sity."
When there came a lull in the storm,
the men ventured out, to breathe the
air and purge their lungs of the ex-
halations of the smoking lamps fed
with seal oil.
Twilight appeared again In the mid
die of January, and on the Goth the sun
rose above the horizon, while the men,
bers of the little colony stood in line
facing it and fired a salute. No one
had died or been seriously i'll, but all
had the look of corpses, and were fee
BILE as convalescents after a long sick
ness. Health returned with the ap-
pearance of the sun.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
ChecRSnbated AHrain.

Hot Springs, Ark, Specialization
having opened court this morning
Judge Dutfie asked for the sheriff.
Sheriff Uoupt answered the summons,
aud Judge Dufiie stated to him that he
had been Informed and believed that
an attempt would be made to bring
The Corbett-Fit2simmons fight off in
Hot Springs, and that he wished to
call his attention to the fact that in
Icing 10 the principals would be break
ing the laws of the state and outraging
the dignity of the State of Arkansas.
He would inform the sheriff at what
stage it is his duty to interfere. Gov.
Clarke now says that he will be able
to stop the fight
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
Presence of Mind.

What is it to have presence of mind?
Why. to have your wits about you
when they are most needed.
A boy was passing an examination
in one of the public schools last week
and, although not very successful, the
teacher remarked: "That boy has a
good mind. / couldn't confuse him."
In boy p%arlance, he didn't get rat
tied" He had presence of mind.
A few days ago, in attempting to
swing off a moving cable train, Il boy
lost his hold and fell between two
tracks. Luckily he landed clear of the
stretched across the track opposite,
on which a car was rapidly approach
ing. No time for min to rise. and to
attempt it between two moving trains
was extremely dangerous. What did
the boy do? He had presence of mind,
and, shifting his legs from off the
track, Strengthened his body out and
lay still, while the two trains whiZzed
by him, each within a few feet of the
other.
In one OF the big apartment stores,
not long ago, IA small cash" girl had
her hand imprisoned by the heavy lid
of a box closing unexpectedly. Under
the fright and pain the young girl
tainted.
Get some water. quick" command
ed the f1oorwalker to one of the clerks.
| And she ran quickly and-turned out
the electric lights!"
That was want of presence of mind.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
Wholesale Murderess,

Catania. Sicily, Sperlal.-A woman
known as Gaetano StomolO has been
arrested here for the wholesale pois-
oning of children with phosphorus.
She administered the poison by mix
ing it with wine and prevailing upon
the children to drink it. Her victims
already number twenty-three. 1t Is
stated that they all died in fearful
agony. The woman has confessed to
having committed the deed. and Of
fered as an explanation that she want
ed evenge for the death OF two of her
own children who had been be-
Yitcbed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

A Springfield, Mass, high school boy
was initiated into IL of the schools
societies the other day in a rather
novel manner. His schoOlmates per-
suaded two Italians to wheel their
street piano in front of the building,
and then the would-be member COM
menced to grind out such classic mu-
sic as "You Can't Play in My Yard"
and "The Bowery." After both arms
were tired one of the Italians tied a
rope around his neck, and he collected
more money than any monkey could.
After filling Mr.. Monkeys place to per-
lection for about five minutes he
mounted the front steps and delivered
a short but appropriate speech.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
OF PITY.


HIS Lack of Judgment In Time OF
Emergency Was DiscreditabIe.
There was a man from North Da-
kota sitting near me on the veranda
of a Cape May hotel when a mendi-
can't with a wooden leg came along
and took off his ragged old straw hat
and began:
"Kind sir, I am not to blame for my
present situation. From where you
sit you can see the iron pier"
Eyes, l see it," replied the guest.
about two hundred feet off the end
of the pier, four years ago this month,
a shark seized me while l was bath
ing and bit off my leg. He got hold
of both of them, but l managed to
save one-as you see. For months l
languished in a hospital"
"Ycu mean you were a patient in a
h%ospital?"
"Yes, sir. / thought languished vas
the proper term, but you know best.
When | recovered l hadn't a dollar to
my name and am now dependent upon
the charity of the public. Sir, If
you"
"You say the shark seized you by
both legs?' queried the man from Da-
kota.
Eyes, sir, he did. l was swimming
about when all at nee / felt both my
legs seized as if in a wise. l gave ut
terance to a shrek of terror and
"That is, you cried out?"
Eyes, sir. To utter is to cry, l sup
pose, but if the term utter is dis
tasteful to you we will mo- use it. The
shark had me by both legs, sir"
"Ah he had you?"
HE did, sir. By a supreme effort I
extricated my left leg from the nav
Of the %vOracious monster"
"That is, you yanked n leg free
from his hold?"
Eyes, sir, l made a supreme effort,
and he was a voracious monster, but
if you don't like the terms l won't use
EN-"
and you got your left leg free"
81 did, sir"
right"
Eyes, sir. I am sorry to have to ap-
peal to you, but under the"
mot q blamed cent? exclaimed the
Dakota man, as he brought his hand
down on his leg.
Put, sir, I am an unfortunate man.
| persisted the mendicant.
Cant help that. That shark had
you by both legs. 1t lay with you
which leg you yank away. Any man
who'll save his left leg when he can
saw the right is a blamed idiot, and
he needn't come whining around me
I'm tender-hearted and willing, but I'll
save my dollars for the man who
saved his right leg. Go on, sir-go
right on with your left leg and don't
try to make me responsible for your
idiotic blunders!'-Detroit Free Press
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

In the center of the plate draw, If
you choose, a big blazing sun with the
yolk of the egg-provided it be hard
and then moisten the edge, OF fiange,
of the plate with water. Place a seq
ment of the egg shell on the plate, as
shown in the illustration, and with a
gentle movement of the hand you may
make it not only revolve around the
track you have moistened, but also
spin on it's axis as it goes.
The upper arrow marks the direction
in which it will spin on it's axis, and
the lower one the direction of it's
course around the sun. If made with
care this experiment never fails.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

From November to April. beginning
and ending The count with the middle
of those months, New York will proba-
bly, I've called to enjoy OF endure more
than 100 concerts of magnitude. By
this we mean the subscription enter
tainme GAs of the city's established con-
cert in, fitutions, such as the Philhar-
monte, symphony and Oratorio SOcic-
ties. the popular orchestral nee rs
at the Metropolitan Opera House and
Carnegie Music Hall and the enter
tainments arranged by or for local and
visiting artists. We are to have Pad
ercwski, who is looked upon by manag
erS as so formidable a parsonage in
the concert area that practically no
one will be pitted against him. The
battle will be between v%iolinists, and
it will he a battle royal. The cages
of four champions, Ondricek, Marsick,
Sauret and Rivarde, already lie in the
aren't and there is talk of the com
ing of Nachez. The situation Is al
most comical, for recent occurrences in
London have shown that there is at
least on piano-forte virtuosO, who can
make Paderewski looks to his laurels,
and the violin stands NJ comparison
with the piano-forte in respect of popu-
lar attractiveness. Were there five
pianists Of the first rank in the field
and n yiolinist the arrangement
would be more reasonable. Ysaye's
success last year, however, seems to
have turned the heads of the violinists
so hat four, or possibly five, of them
will come to divide the kingdom which
he left behind him. The %piano-forte
situation is easily explained. Pianists
do not play for their health, nor are
the popular idols content with what
the pugilistic fraternity call the gate
money" They must have a handsome
stake besides. and this must be put
I'D by q nianO-fOrte manufacturer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

Lieut.. Peary reports that the Esqui-
mau women never wash their faces,
but then he never heard of n of them
quarreling or scolding. They have
worn boomers from prehistoric til
and, on the whole, the explorer pro-
nounees their dress prepossessing. 1t
is a ty none of the Arctic girls came
back With sim 10 show what {; be
done the way of picturesque cycling
In mid wlnter .
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

The promotion of Gen. Miles to the
command of the army will have a good
effect in the way of restraining the
hostile Indians on the frontier. They
know by experience that he is the kind
f a man who pursues them relent-
lessly when they go on the %war-path,
and who believes with Sheridan that
the best Indians are those ever whom
the grass grows.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

There is to be ga course in modern
fiction at Yale College, and that in
stitution is to be congratulated upon
having thus recognized the fact that
the modern novel is potent educational
force. There are more works of fc-
ton read in this country than books of
all other kinds, and a large majority
of the people derive the most of their
information about life and the world
from that source.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

There are quite a number of canals
in this country, built half a century or
more ago, that are almost abandoned,
but if the trolley experiment on the
Erie Canal succeeds they will probably
be the scene again of active commerce.
Signs are numerous that the twentieth
century will surpass all others in the
development of waterways.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

In forty Olympiads there were four
different kinds Of years; ~ a common
year of 345 days; (2) the embolismic
year of 3S4 days; (3) the last year OF
each alternate Olympiad consisted OF
3s7 days; a. the last year of each
f~ortieth Olympiad of S5T days.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

Health departments generally are
giving increased attention to the sub
ject of contagion in schools. The New
York authorities have ordered the eH-
clusion of states and sponges, and for
hidden the transfer of pens and pen
ellis from one pupil to another. Books
carried home must be freshly covered
with MANILA paper each month, and
each pupil is to have an individual
drinking cup.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
AT A DISADVANTAGES.

His Sentiments Were Satisfactory,
But His Voice Was Against Him.
81 have come this evening, Miss Mil
dred," began the youth lingering his
hat %nervously and clearing his throat,
"to ask you-that is
He cleared his throat again, swal-
lowed a lump that seemed to go down
hard. and resumed:
81 came this evening to tell you, Miss
Mildred, that-h'm that whether-I-
h'm-ever come again OIL not will de-
pend on your reply to what Ito what
| came to say this evening"
"Why, Mr.. Spponamore," said the
young lady, what can you mean?"
81 mean, Miss Billiwink-Miss Mil
dred-that the time has come when l
can no longer-h'm-can no longer pre-
tend to hide from myself the know
ledge that 1-h'm-have become too
deeply interested in you to endure the
thought that some other man-h'm-
ahem-some other man may win the
prize on which / have set my heart"
His voice was growing more husky,
bue he went on:
81 feel that l am laboring under a
disadvantage, Miss Mildred, and yet
h'm-if you knew the strength of the
h'm-of the feeling that nov me-
that compels me, l might say, to run
the risk of-h'm-of seeming to be In
too big a hurry, you would understand
why / have come to say-h'm-to say
what l have come to say this evening.
Him."
Don't you think, Mr.. Spoonamore"-
Miss Mildred, a man in my cOndi-
ton doesn't think! He can't think. He
ran only-h'm-he can only feel. That
ts-h'm-what ails me. If you would
would only-h'm-help me OUT
Mr.. Spoonamore," said the young
woman, in whose eyes there shone the
light of a sweet and tender pity, IF ]
had your voice l would go and get II
MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

Tommy"
No answer.
''Tom-me! !"
"WellT'
"What are you doing to your brother
Willie?"
"Nothin'."
Eyes, you are. You are making him
cry"
mo, I ain't-I'm bein' generous. I'm
givin' him half o my codliver-oil."-
Harper's Young People.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30

If resolutions of sympathy could be
utilized as effective military weapons,
the Cuban revolutionists would soon
gain their independence. Such express
sions of goodwill are by no means val
ueless, however, as Spain will discover
before she gets through with her cam
paign of subjugation and eXtermina-
ton.