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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
EDISON'S DEBT TO HIS WIFE.
Theft Life Rerutes the Saying That
~ Genius %ShOuIdn Marry.

Theft Life ReTutes the Saying That
n Genius Shouldn't Marry.
Thomas A.. Edison has been married
twice. To his two wives he owes con-
siderable of his success as the greatest
llvlng inventor and the greatest in
ventor that ever lived. They looked
after his health and physical welfare.
enabling him to retain that vigor with
out which he could not stand the strain
of day after day in his laboratory,
without a wink of sleep.
twenty-five years ago Edison's
friends urged him to marry, hoping
that domestic life would compel him to
eat at least II good meal a day and
sleep with some regard to regularity.
Edison said he had no time to court.
but If some decent girl wanted to mar
ry him he had no objections. One
day, while watching q young woman
who was working one of his instru-
ments and to whom he never before
had spoken. he asked her, somewhat
a%nXiously. if she would be his wife.
She said yes, and in three days they
were married, though he came near
forgetting the hour for the
being busy on a complex machine.
Walter 2. Phillips has been quoted
as telling this story of Edison: One
night a friend of the inventor found
him in his Newark laboratory. and
went in, saying: aren't you going
home, Tom? It's late
"How late? said Edison, yawning.
About 1 o'clock returned his
friend.
rs that so? exclaimed Edison. "Ry
George, / must go home. | was mar
ried his morning"
BY his first marriage Edison had
three children-Thomas William and
Marion. The last two were nick
named by their father Dot and Dash.
and Dot has chung to Marion ever in
her days of early ~womaLhood. She is
well educated and has spent some time
in Europe.
The second Mrs. Edison was Miss
Nina Miller. daughter of Lewis Miller
of Akron, Ohio. Lewis Miller, besides
being the founder and early financial
hacker of the Chautauqua Assembly.
is a rich manufacturer and an inventor
of some note. To his daughter Edison
was married in February. 1886. They
have had two children, Madeline and
Charles. When Edison spends whole
days at a time in his laboratory, Mrs,
Edison goes to him, sleeping on a cot
near his workbench. She is a good nj
aniSte and is well read. She is young
and ~fine-looking,, has dark eyes and
hair. and is of a vivacious disposition.
Now York Press
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
The EXactinr IAN

a great deal of dissatisfaction has
been caused to manufacturers who
have exported their goods to Japan,
by parts, and in some cases the whole
of the consignment being thrown on
their hands. The explanation is that
the Jap's standard of excellence is
very high, and he declines to take any
thing that does not come up to it.
Other nations are ready to accept
their purchases so long as they are
practically equal to their operative re-
Quirements, but the Japanese insist on
a minuteneSS of construction and
finish which may almost be regarded
as "~tinicky." They are said to be
most exact in their tests of goods
made under contract, expecting even
large pieces of machinery to be ma
dramatically true in every particular.
In Il instance, $50 tons out of 700
tons of galvanized iron telegraph wire,
imported from Germany, were reject
ed because they had become slightly
oXidized in places when on board ship,
and in another case Il large quantity
of telegraph wire was returned be-
cause its diameter was found to be
three-thousandths of an inch too largo.
large.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
QUICK Make FAT MEN.
Curious Result of the Habit of Eat.
ing in n Hurry.

Curious Result Of the Habit of Eat.
ing in n Hurry.
Another evil result to the deadly
quick lunch has come to light. and the
complaint has a foundation of scienti-
fc probability.
"I've noticed" said a man, chat
every person who acquires the quick
lunch habit gets fat as soon as he
m under the regular influence of
the system. Men who have beer thin
their whole lives have begun to acquire
noticeable stomachs, and others with a
disposition to stoutneSs take on flesh
rapidly. 1t is perfectly plain to see
why it happens. These daily lunch
cons supply bread, bread, bread, the
most fattening thing a 1 can eat,
unless it be the cakes and pastry that
supplement the bread. There is sugar
in most of the bread, and it is impossi-
bic to get any II thing in these places
which does not have a tendency to
make a man fat. I've watched it in a
dozen cases. and there has not been an
exception. It's all right for the thin
men, but for the fat men it's dreadful.
It's so much cheaper for n man to get
fat than to keep thin. When he COM
mcnccS to diet and confines himself to
such things as meat and salads. his
luncheon costs him three or four times
as it would if he could eat the sand
witches and the cakes, and the quality
of the food is not so good. Some phil
a%nthropist ought to open a lunch place
where Il man can eat Chcaply and still
keep his figure. But l don't see how
he could make it pay. Something his
got to be done, however, to keep us all
from getting fat because we can't af-
ford to pay for anything but dough-
nuts, sandwiches, cakes and milk
The Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Vacuum Tube Ltnhtinr.

Electricians are not the only per
sons who have varying opinions as to
the merits of vacuum tube lighting. A
society lady, who is renowned for the
artistic light grading of her reception
rooms, says it is much too compromis-
ing TO the complexion to become popu-
lar, or even to be thought of for social
functions. She considers the glare of
the electric lights now used as an or
deal at times altogether too serious:
but she holds that "this new white
light will be worse than daylight" In
II W homes we can use lamps and
keep soft shades on them, so that the
little wrinkles and the mean places in
ones skin are sOftened and toned
down. But nothing will ever get away
from the garish new light, and YOU
might as well receive a caller out in
the yard at midday as i'm a room light
ed by it. 1t shall certainly never come
into my house" 1t is hardly strange
that such a misconception as this
should have arisen; but the fact is that
the vacuum tube light will be lust as
amenable to control and modification
as the incandescent, with the added
advantage that its diffusion and it's
artistic possibilities will be much
greater.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
SarsaparilIa
Transporting PerishnbIc Food.


In no more emphatic manner are
modern facilities of transportation en-
phasized than in the safety with which
periShable food is conveyed from a
great distance. In this particular Aus
tralia, South America and the United
States are no further removed from
Europe than a single province form
erly was from the capital of the coun-
try of which it formed a part. Algeria
is now supplying Paris with camel
meat. An extensive plant has been
created in that French colony for the
killing and refrigerating of those ami
mails, and daily shipments are made to
Paris. The meat of the camel is de-
scribed as not unlike beef, with the
tenderness of veal. The hump is tho
choicest portion. Eggs that formerly
were gathered near the localities
where they were sold now come from
distant points. -Four million daily are
received in London from foreign
tries. Most of them come from Rus
STA. They command in England twice
the price they bring in the home mar
ket. The export of eggs from Russia
in 1885 amounted to pa, 100000 and
increased in 1895 to 50,O00,O 900.
These are official figures. The larger
proportion of this product goes to
England. In addition, great quaint
ties of dressed fowl are annually eX-
ported from Russia to all European
countries.-New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
POINTS of FUNERAL ETIQUETTE.
Hearse Driver Drew the Line at
Smoking on the Sent

Hearse Driver Drew the Line nj
Smoking IN the Seat.
Funeral etiquette is a particular and
variable sort of thing. 1t differs wide
ly in different partrs of the city.
There occurred yesterday an incident
affecting an Eighth avenue funeral
which wouldn't have happened to a
Fifth avenue funeral. OF the two
principals in the occurrence one was
driving a hearse. The other was on
an Eighth avenue car. AS the car
drew near the hearse the passengr
waved his hat and shouted:
Hey, Bill! How goes it these
days?'
Hello, JIM" replied the driver,
with a grin of recognition. at goes
to Greenwoor."
"That SOP" said the other. pull W.
I'll go along with you"
He jumped off the real platform,
where he had been standing smok-
ing a cigar, and went over to the
hearse. The hearse stopped, and the
entire funeral procession stopped. Up
climbed the new acquisition to the
procession, shook hands with his
friend, and took a seat beside him.
The hearSe started on, and the entire
line of carriages followed. Presently
however, there was difficulty on the
hearSe top. What was said wasn't
audible to the passengers on the car
but the gestures were easily intellig-
1ble. obviously the hearse driver was
e~XpoStulating about the cigar, which
had assumed a defiant tilt in Jim's
mouth. He would pass the time of
day from a funeral procession, Bill
would. and he would even stop to
take a friend up, but he drew the line
at having cigars smoked over any
corpse that was under his care.
With great expressiveness of gesti-
culatlon jim indicated that his cigar
was a good cigar, a 15-cent cigar in
fact, and he'd be smoked himself if
led shake it for any corpse. There
upon Bill shook his fist in Jim's face
and Jim shook his in Bills face, and
there was every prospect of some
casualties resulting. But better coun-
sells prevailed. With a very disguised
expression the driver pulled up his
horses, and the whole line stopped.
with great de~liberation his friend got
down, holding his cigar tight between
his teeth. The hearse moved on. and
the procession moved on. Jim re-
turned to his street ar, which had
kept pace with the hearse, and pro-
tested vigorously to the conductor
because he had to pay another fare
New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

11EagHHpad2QW
"8SS14
ICE For THE MILLION.
New Ice Machine That Will Reduce
the Cost of Ice.

New Ice Machine That VIII Re3uce
the Cost OF Ice.
The promises with which a new ice
machine has been launched on the
market seem most too good to be true.
The first cost Of the machine is COM
%paratively small, and it is guaranteed
to supply an average family with ice
for a whole year for the extremely
modest sum of 81. 40. 1t is hardly sur
prising. in view of tho ordinary size of
ice bills at this season of the year, that
many of the people who have to pay
them are somewhat skeptical as to the
claims of the new machine; but the
operation of the new appliance itself.
as described, is feasible enough. Down
the center of a box of the size and
shape of an ordinary ice box runs a
cylinder for the reception of the water
that is to be turned into ice, and
around the cylinder are cells in which
freezing chemicals are placed. On the
top OF the box is a handle, like that of
a street piano, which is attached to the
shaft on which are fixed fan blades,
In order to make the ice supply of the
home for the dpy, it is only necessary
TO I'LL the cylinder with water and turn
the crank for fifteen minutes. The fan
acts on the chemicals, the chemicals
act on the water. and at the end of the
prescribed time the cylinder is taken
out, and out of it slips a block of glist-
ening ice. The nature of the chemicals
is the secret of the inventor, who will
only say that they have heretofore
served no useful purpose. as none
could be found for them, although they
were known to chemists. The materi-
ais, however, have been fully protected
by patents. This novel freezer con-
tains compartments for the storage of
such household supplies as are usually
kept in the ice box. In addition to be
ing near the ice, the provisions will be
kept cool by the currents of air that
freeze the water. The chemicals.
which will last for one year, are to be
supplied only by a company which I'M
dertakes to keep the ~freezers in good
condition.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Crops In Good Condition.

Milwaukee, Special.-President Ros-
well Miller and General Manager Earl
ing, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul. have just returned from a gem
eral tour Over the western and north
western portions of the system and
state the general crop outlook through
u the West and Northwest was never
better or more promising than at the
present time. They found the crops in
the very best condition everywhere
they went on all portions of the sys-
tenn, and it is apparent that if nothing
i~ntervenes to change the prospect the
crops will be larger and better than
ever this year.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Many physicians, according to a lee
turer on dietetics, are ordering thin
bread and butter for delicate patients,
especially those suffering from dys-
pepsia, consumption and anaemia, OF
any who need to take on flesh. This
thin bread and butter insensibly in
duces persons to eat much more but
ter than they have any idea of. 1t is
extraordinary, says the lecturer, how
short q way a pat of fresh butter will
go if spread on q number of thin slices
of bread. This is one advantage, and
q great one, in the feeding of invalids,
for they are thereby provided with an
excellent form of the fat which is so
essential for their nutrition in q way
that lures them to take it without re-
bellion. But the thin bread and but
ter has another advantage equally as
great-it is very digestible and easily
assimilated. Fresh butter made from
cream is very much more digestible
when spread upon thin slices of bread
than h same amount of cream eaten
as cream, per Sc, would be.-TrOy
Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

"A new machine at the registry de-
partment in the general p~ostofice, New
York, is attracting a great deal of at
tention, and affording unlimited
amusement for anybody who happens
along. The machine is a "drop-a-dime-
fn-the-slot' affair, and it's object is the
registration of letters without clerical
aid. The thing looks like a cross be-
tween a barrel organ and an ice chest,
and has more intelligence and discrim-
nation hidden in its interior than q
whole corps of clerks-so claims the
inventor, Count Detalmo di Brazza
S~avOrgnan, who hOvers around it like
an anxious father.
Howard Nagle. who is in charge of
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

"Thrilling?" said the major; "well, 1
should say so. 1t was the most ex-
citing thing that ever occurred to me.
Why, l can't even think of it now
without shuddering a little. l was con-
siderably younger in those days than l
am now. AT the time | was a tele-
graph operator and dispatcher for the
Mountain Valley Railroad company / II
a Western mining country. 1t was a
wild and lawless country, and l was
not much in love with my place, but
being poor l was obliged to accept the
conditions with the best possible grace.
"Goldton, where l was located, was
really nothing more than a railroad
station. 1t was not on the main line of
the Mountain Valley railroad, but on a
spur which ran to the Ingot mines.
Travel was not very extensive; in fact,
but one train a day passed my lonely
station.
ION the 18th day of every month l
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

AS showing the diversity of uses in
put, there were received in the power
department of a large electrical COM
pany. during the first two weeks Of
last month, orders for motors to oper-
ate printing presses. saws and planners
in a box factory. mining machinery in
a coal mine, machinery in a large bak-
cry. blowers in a stove works. a fire
pump, q mine pump. large arc-liGhtic;,
dyllalnOS, a jig ccane. travelling crancs.
machinery in an uil-cloth works and an
inclined railway, besides several othel
appliances.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Data

You are an expert, are you not?"
said the caller.
Yes. SIR
"Wcll, | wish you would take these
two papers, and tell me whether they
were written by the same person."
as it a matter of litigation?"
every possibly"
"Then it would be really impossible
for me to comply with your request;
not unN l have learned upon which
side | have been misunderstanding
ton Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

A most effective remedy for sheep
scab and ticks is a preparation of pure
nicotine prepared from tobacco. Own
ers of sheep generally are using it in
stead of lime, sulphur and arsenic and
seem unanimous in believing that
sheep ticks and scab will soon be to-
tally eXterminated. Nicotine is a dead
ly poison to insects, but when diluted
for dipping does not affect animals. In
this respect it differs from the mineral
poisons. The Scabcura Dip Co. of Chi
cago are the largest manufacturers of
nicotine in the world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Some of Great Britain's latest guns
will be employed for the first tim
during the autumn campaign in the
Soundan. They carry a highly-explo-
sive she'll ten miles, and each shell is
capable of disabling 200 of the enemy.
These guns have such a rapid firing
capacity that beore the first shell
bursts three others are on their way in
b same direction.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Halls Catarrh Cure.
S a constitutional cure. Price, 75c.


Wheeler understand that you said
| was nothing but a tiend in human
shape when | took q notion to scOrch
a little.
Walker-I believe | did; but since
you seem so cut up about it, I'll take
the human shape part of it out.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Nebraska has taken n new tack on
her storm reports. Recent statements
as to the size of hailstones having
made the ice chunks as big as water
buckets the measurement of hailstoneS
has been abandoned, and hail to the
depth of two feet is reported from Me
geath Siding, on the Union Pacific rail-
road.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

The famous collection of violins
owned by the late r. D. Hawley OF
Hartford has beer sold to a California
man for $4,000. The collection con-
sists of twelve instruments, which are
among the finest in the world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Mr.. Gladstone was born III the year
of great babies-19O9. Among the other
p%ersonages who were born in 1909
were Darwin, Tennyson, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Edgar A. Poe, the
historian Kinlake, Mendelssohn, Jules
Favre, President Lincoln and Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Wallace-For the life of me | have
never been able to laugh at one of
these mother-in-law jokes yet.
Ferry-If you had a mother-in-law
worth $50, ZOO, al mine is, you would
laugh ut every joke she made.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

There was a Californian in Los Ga
tos twenty-five years ago who died and
left the income of $500 to buy candy
for the school children. The fund is
still faithfully administered, and in
Los Gatos that man is bigger than
Washington.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Reristprs Mail

the registry department. says the ma
chine is a good thing for many reasons.
In the first place, it can't be "beat," in
the c%olloQuial sense of the word, for
If 1t is "worked' with a bad or mu-
tllated coin it likewise registers the
sender's name and address in register
Ing his letter, and the machine Is so
arranged that the bad coin can be
quickly and u%nerringly traced to the
perpetrator of the fraud.
Drop a dime in the slot and two
nickel-plated Tide fly up. the one dis
closing a larger slot for the letter and
the other a blank form on a roll of
paper, upon which one must write his
W name and address and that of the
addressee as well. When the letter is
dropped in it's proper slot another lever
at the side of the machine must be
pulled back. The lids then close with
a sharp click, a bell rings and from an
other opening in front of the machine
shoots out Il receipt.
The machine is not designed for use
in the larger postoffices, but in the sub
stations, where there is no registry de-
partment. as well as in hotels and
large office buildings, so that the
guests or tenants may register their
letters without going out of the house.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Miss Lillian w. Powell of London
had her little finger seriously crushed
by the slamming of a railway car
rage door, and recovered $50 damage
from the Great Eastern Railway COM
pany. The company gave notice of APP
peal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

In recent months Maryland has
achieved the proud distinction of hav-
ing more lynchings than any other
state in the Union. We mention this
fact for the benefit of those proud resi-
dents of that state who hold that she
is first in civilization and enlighten-
ment.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

In Canada no campaign buttons, rib
bons or badges can be worn between
nomination and polling day. The car
rying of flags as a party badge is also
forbidden. The penalty is a fine of
500 or three months in prison, or both.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

An English woman, coasting down
the steep hill above Dover, lost control
of her bicycle and ran into a regiment
of volunteers recently, but a serious
accident was avoided by her colliding
first with the big drum.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Hard Lines.

"He is a mighty unlucky man."
"In what way?"
"Well he married to get out of a
boarding house."
Yes"
and now his wife runs one to sup,
port him.''-Truth.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10
Insult 10 Injury.

Tyre-Did you hear how shabby
Newcoaster treated his family physi-
clan?
Biker-No; what did he do?
Tyre-Postponed paying the doctors
bill so that he could buy Il wheel and
become yigorous.-Philadelphin North
American.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

De Saulle, a member of the Pasteur
institute at Algeria, has just discov-
cred a vaccine which will prevent
sheep rot He has made many expert
ments, which he declares to be conclu-
sive. All the vaccinated sheep get a
very mild attack of the disease and re-
cover.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

We will soon know whether the pen
Is mightier than the sword. An Amer
lean newspaper correspondent will
fight a duel with a Spanish captain in
Cuba.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

The birthplace of the queen over
looks the public gardens of Kensing-
ton, and the suggestion is made that
the board of works should place a
tablet recording the fact under the
window of the room.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

A Delaware man has not been out
side of his house for Twenty-Five years
until a few days ago a cyclone struck
his dwelling. The cure was like the
doses of the old-time calcu.el-adminis-
tering doctor, but it proved effective,
and the Delaware man has since con-
cluded that it Is safe to travel.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

Mr.. Gladstone wants to prevent the
publication of books which are written
without any good purpose in view. 1t
would hardly be possible, however, to
wipe out the literature of the age in
this wholesale way.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-10

The order for 10000 900 feet of bicy-
Gle tubing placed with an American
manufacturer by a bicycle maker of
Birmingham, Eng, is interesting as
showing another revolution wrought
by the wheel. AS recently as last year
the United States imported tubing to
the value of $5O7,O41 from Birming-
ham.