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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

He Watched Her Out OF sight.
grove Sarah slowly and painfully crept
till at last she reached q little glade,
bordered by a primeval forest, carpet
ed by the thickest green moss, and
shaded with a canopy of maple leaves
and above them the bluest of skies.
Maiden hair and sweet modest or
chids grew all around, and above, in
a leafy branch, a pair of hermit
thruSheS were ~caroling their love
song.
In this sylvan solitude she sat
down and wound her head in her
apron, that she might not hear the
sound of q distant shot, and there she
moaned and sobbed all day long.
The sun was sinking in glowing
splendor behind the western hills.
The pools in the little brook were inky
black and a cool, quiet shadow en-
veloped the cottage under the hill
when a wan and dismal figure crept
slowly from the forest. No glad bark
welcomed her No Jackie came
bounding and %curveting around her.
All was quiet and still and sorrowful,
and under the lilac tree in the orch
ard was a little mound.
The next day Miss Larcom came, and
a fretful peevish voice replaced the
quiet tones of Jacob, and a thin and
scraggy yellow cat sat down in
"Jackie's" corner and glared and snarl-
ed at every passerby.
Six months later the snowfakes
were falling gently on the little mound
under the lilac tree and the earth be
side it was disturbed for another
longer, deeper grave, and Sarah slept
beside her dog.
A decline, the neighbors said, and nc
one knew or cared that Sarah hat
died of a broken heart for the love OF
a foolish. paltry dog.-Clementin;
Dawes Manner.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

A Journey of nearly 700 miles
through the bush was necessary for
the new bishop of Mashonaland, South
Africa. to reach the center of his do
cese, and he says: at was a very
rough journey, with scarcely any
sleep and little food. On Sunday after
noon, after many hours travel in
choking dust and heat, we rested for
an hour at a wayside shanty of poles
and mud. Prospectors were lounging
around. and one man had put on a
clean shirt, but all were hearty and
glad to see the bishop. / expect that
l was the only bishop in the world on
that particular Sunday, sitting astride
a plank cutting slices of 'biltung' with
my pocket knife and washing them
down with digger tea out of a billy, a
sort of tin pot which ~prospectors
carry about"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
tie he had sustained by the inroads Of

tie he had sustained by the inroads of
q big lion.
When the American made a PROPOSE
ton to the cantankerous, pessimistic
chief to go out alone to kill the lion,
the old savage smiled with delight, for
he thought the conditions would be re-
yersed, and after the beast had en-
joyed a savory meal off the white man,
then the expedition could be looted
and a bushel of heads secured. A
goat was tied in an open space in the
forest, and the cowboy, with his ele-
plant rifle, secreted himself near by.
All night long he waited; the goat
bleated, and yet the lion came not.
Just as the sun was rising a large
male lion, with a terrific roar, sprang
into the open space and upon the goat.
Two quick reports from the rifle We're
heard, and the king of beasts rolled
over dead, almost at the feet of the in
trepid hunter.
One day while enjoying a swim in a
tributary stream of the Congo river a
large ~hippopotamus bobbed up Sc
renely between him and the shore.
The situation gave him a goose-flesh
feeling, because he could not argue
with the monster. He began slowly
to swim toward the middle of the
stream, with the idea of reaching the
opposite shore, and to his consterna'
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

The Japanese Emperor has had
twelve children, four of whom are liv-
ing. three being girls and one boy. The
Prince Imperial is the object of the
greatest solicitude, for of curse. much
is supposed to depend upon his pros
poets of living and growing into n
strong man. He has been i'll all sum
mel and is under the care of three ply
sicians. His trouble is water. on the
brain. His head is abnormally large,
and, although his intellect Isl bright
and he is in full possession of his mon
tai powers, he is peculiarly sensitive
to diseases of the brain and nervous
system. All of the imperial family are
troubled in the same manner. The
Prince is 16 years old.-Bulfalo EX-
press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

which made the echoes ring back
again from the hedges on the hills and
scared the little fishes In the brook
and a runaway chipmunk on a tree
back to the homes of their mothers.
1t made Sarah look up from her apron
and throw her arms about .ackie's
neck for u long embrace.
The mex two nights were sleepless
ones to Sarah. Over and over again
the battle was fought; the situation
vas considered in every light, but at
last she decided what was too evident
TO her that there was but II thing to
do, and that meant death to poor
Jackie. Miss Larcom's will should be
respected. She thought she could not
complain when a home and where
witbal to live was offered her. Indeed,
what more could she ask; unworthy
and helpless as she was? No, she u
not ask more, and still she seemed
ld-blooded and heartless to ring the
death knell of poor Jackie.
The day but n before Miss Lar
CONS arrival dawned brilliantly beau
tiful. The birds were holding carni-
val all around, and the distant ring or
the moving machine sounded in the
still, clear air. Early in the morning
a little figure crept from the little red
house on the terrace and across the
brook, and Jackie bounded gaily from
his bed under the lea of the wall and
rushed after, barking in ecstatic joy
at the prospect of an early morning
walk. But the poor little woman. on
the border of the wood was forced to
turn and with tears streaming down
her face and choking voice bid him
go back and be on guard. Accustomed
to obedience he dropped to the ground
and watched her out of sight with
wistful, loving eyes.
Deep into the recesses Of the maple
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
A Young Explorer.

Joseph Thomson, the famous ex-
plorer of Africa, who died the other
day in London, was only thirty-seven
years old. He was the son of William
homson, of Gatela wbridge Quarrries,
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and was
born at Pentpont on Feb. IA, 1858.
He obtained his early education, as so
many eminent Scotchmen nave done,
in the parish school of his native
place, from which he went to the Uni
versity of Edinburgh. There a pre-
objection for natural history which he
had early displayed led him to enter
the science classes, in several of which
he gained honors, carrying off the gold
medal in geology and zoology. He
went to Africa for the first time in
1878. Among his best known books
are Through Nasal Land" and Life
in the Atlas Mountains ."-Chicagc
Chronicle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
JAPAN PLAYING AT WAR.
Even Her Games and Toys Now Ex-
press Her ENuItatiOn Over the De-
feats of Poor John Chinaman.

Even Her Games and Toys Now Ex-
press Her EXuItatiOn Over the De-
feats of Poor John Chinaman.
The very %playthings of Japan have
now a warlike character, says a recent
newspaper from that country. Chess is
n favorite amusement of the Mikado'S
subjects, and the shapes of the pieces
have been changed of late to meet
the popular taste, the pawns being
made to represent Japanese and Chin
csc soldiers, and the bishops, knights
and rocks the officers of higher rank.
The market is also being flooded
with II great variety of mechanical
toys. of tin and wood, which, 10y turn
ing ii crank or by simple clockwork
are made to show Chinese soldiers III
various unenviable positions. Some
of them represent the Celestials pur-
sued by Japanese troopers, who make
terrific sweeps with sword or lance
iii a stately see-saw; others show prls,
oncrs caught by their queues II try
ing to avoid the rising and falling
blades. \ ~fayOrite paper-Weight or
desk ornament is Il clay figure of q
Chinaman pleading for mercy. The
most ambitious bit of mechanism re
presents a Japanese war vessel grad
ually closing with Il Chinese ship
The latter is struck, its flag comes
down with IL rush, and the doomed
vessel sinks beneath the turbulent til
waves.-New York World.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
Taking

Poor Harry .Shelman, the l~ong-haired
poet, who dressed his entire person
20 resemble Buffalo Bill, and who was,
n fact, startlingly like the greatest
If scouts. used to tell me of a literary
friend of his who had a novel method
If taking exercise. His workshop was
III the top floor of his house, far from
The noise of the street, and he used
20 write about fifteen hours Il day.
He was not a Howells or a Bronson
Howard, whose working hours never
exceed four in any II day. He
worked; he labored; he toiled. He had
10 time for a bicycle and could not
afford a horse. He hated walking.
Run he could not. Swimming was out
Of the question. Still he must have
exercise. He kept his dictionary in
he basement and his theSaurus i'll the
kitchen. AS he used both very often
It was necessary to make many trips
1own stairs and up again, and i'll that
way he kept himself in splendid phys
cal condition. A visitor once saw him
1ashing down stairs like 4 mailman
and soaring up again like IL kite, and
was distressed till Informed by Johns
wife that John was simply hunting
for a word and had found it.-New
York Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
DANGER IN THE USE OF SLANG.
Experience in Brooklyn shows Peril
in the Word Rats"

Ex~perience in Brooklyn shows Peril
in the Word "Itats."
A new illustration of the dangerous
confusion that often is created by the
prevalence of slang is furnished by the
following incident:
A professional rat-catcher went to
/ fashionable club on Tuesday evening
md at midnight he had bagged fifty
ats. With the living fifty rats in a
oag-for this professional scorns to
kill any rats on the 'premises-he left
he fashionable club and started home.
Chen appeared an unknown policeman,
who said:
"Where are you gOing!"
"None of your business" answered
The rat-catcher.
$50 that's your swag," said the po-
iceman, sarcastically tapping the bag
With his club.
"Nary swag," said the rat-catcher.
What have you in the bag, e e
Here we come to the first crisis OF
The story, for the reply was RATS
The policeman then punched the pro.
'cssional for what he, perhaps reason
IDLY regarded is his lmpeftlnence
Moreover, he grabbed the bag anc
thrust in his inquiring official hand
Here comes the second Crisis OF the
story, for at least sever rats GRABBED
hat hand. The policeman yelled ant
shook off the rats and the other forty
,hree leaping from the bag the stree
vas soon full of rats. The poor police
nan, with rats to the right of hin
md rats to the left of him and rats IL
IN indefinite vista before and behint
him. fled into the night. .
This is rot the first time that sian;
ias indirectly created confusion in TIL
world. The ~rat-catcher had no susplc
on that the policeman would take III
NDlanation amisS. This is the trouble
The slang that creates disaster is gen
rally used unwittingly. May the pres
s,it picturesque warning be Needed
Brooklyn Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

1t is curious that the word 'black-
guard" came into the language just
about the time when coal came into
domestic use. In the sixteenth cen
fury Golfers were far from popular,
and in great houses the unliveried
menials employed to carry Goals to
the fires were called "black guards"
Putting two and two together, as 1t
were, the word "blackguard" Don be-
came a term of %reproach. The reason
why Golfers were disliked was that
Goals were for a long time popularity
supposed by the ignorant masses to
be unwhOlesome. Thus a man who
would carry Goals was easily judged
capable of almost any indignity. The
"knavery of the GOLFERS" of Newcastle
is referred to by Decke in 1907, and
| contemporary and earlier writer's have
also sneering OF d~epreciatory refer
enceS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
LAD AND LASS.

o, lad and lass, the old earth spins
away!
To-day is sweet, and sweet was yes
terday;
TO-morrow's dawn may rise up chill
and gray
All! lad and lass.
Alb, lad and lass, some day you will
awake,
Stand hand to hand and feel the heart
strings break,
Drink sorrcw from loves cup for old
times sake
All. lad and lass.
All, lad and lass. the world is hard
to read,
And non may tell what fruit shall
crown the seed,
But hold forever to the old, old creed
All! lad and lass.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
Two Quick REPORTS Were Heard.

Two Quick Reports Were Heard.
ton he discovered hat the amphibian
was following him and gaining on
him. 1t was a trying moment, n
Cooper to this day asserts that his
umber-burnt head might have turned
white if he had not kept it under wa
ter. 1t was only a question of a few
minutes when the huge hippopotamus
would overtake him and consign him
to a watery grave and mince meat OBJ
livion. With the instinct of a strate-
gist he turned and swan directly to-
ward the behemoth. When he came
within five yards of it he lifted his
head and beard out of the water and
gave utteEance to- an e~ar-pierclng,
Comanche yell that echoed far up and
down the banks of the stream. Quick
as a flash the monster sank out OF
sight, and the senior swan to the
shore. He waited On the banks of the
stream a week, and finally killed ne
hippopotamus, which a resident Afrl
can chief asserted was the disguise OF
an old enemy of his, who had beer
killed a year before. This caused the
chief to sell a great deal of ivory tt
the expedition and present the seno
with a half-dozen wives, which he de
clined with thanks.-Rocky Mountain
News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

The Australian Secretary for Agri-
culture has received Il letter from Mr..
Berry, of the Agent Generals office,
stating that it is expected during the
coming season that the price of rab-
bits will be from 10d to lid each. The
charges for dock dues, carriage and
commission at London are about Id
per rabbit, and to Hull or any other
manufacturing provincial cities about
| penny extra. He adds: There is not
the slightest doubt that a very large
trade indeed is open to Victorian rab-
bits in the great manufacturing dis
tricts, such as Leeds. Manchester, and
Sheffield. where all the members of a
family work at the mills. and there
fore have not much time to spare for
cooking. Rabbits can be easily cook
ed. and are accordingly much favor
ed by mill workers. and it is no unus
ual thing when rabbits are cheap fol
them to be the sole meat food eaten
by the family during the week. He
STRONGLY urges Victorian shippers ia
take Il small profit in order to assist
in pushing trade in rabbits in these
Observation-Disclosures Argus.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
Metal Wheels for Your Wagons.

The season for cutting corn fodder
being close at hand, it may be well for
farmers to get a set of these low metal
wheels with wide tires. They can be
had any size wanted from 90 to Sc
inches in diameter, with tires from l
to 8 inches wide. By having low wheels
enables you to bring the wagon box
down low, saving one man in loading
fodder, etc. 1t is also very convenient
for loading and unloading manure,
grain, hogs, ETC., and will save in la
Dor alone their cost in a very short
time. These wheels are made of best
material throughout, and have every
possible advantage over the high wood
en- wheels with narrow tires, and Will
outlast a dozen of them. There will
also be no resetting of tires necessary,
and consequently no blacksmiths' bills
to pay. Wide tires save your horses
and prevent cutting up your fields.
For further information write The
Empire Manufacturing Co., Quincy,
H., who will mail catalogue free upon
application.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

the Cooper Trading company. He had
Il regular expedition fitted out, with
elephants. Ianibari guards and por-
terS and Il few missionaries. to help
him buy ivory. For six or seven
months he was absent from the coast,
but when he returned he had secured
enough ivory to clear $4,000 above al
expenses. Mrs. Cooper was with him
every moment. and carried Il rifle,
which she used effectually on more
than II occasion. This WAS some
years before Mrs. French Sheldon pen
ctIated to The intcrio" of the Dark
Continent.
one of the petty African chiefs. who
bad plenty of ivory stored away, re-
fused to sell it to Mr.. Cooper. He
also complained of the loss to the cat
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
NO BLOOD IN HIS VEINS.
Human Curiosity From East Indies
Puzzles Surgeons.

1u1ZIeS
The human puzzle struck Washing
ton the other day. His name is Niz-
beno, or Harry BenO, of Port of Spain
Trinidad, and he is en-route to New
York, where he declares he has been
offered 500, 900 and a ticket back to
Cuba for letting the doctors amputate
his left arm in the interest of science.
The human puzzle is a short, stocky
looking knight of the road, and his
great speciality is self-torture and mu-
tilation. He sticks pins and needles
into any part Of him he can reach,
and he is decorated all over with scars
inflicted by the obliging individuals
who at his request have experimental
on him. The puzzle says he has no
physical sensibilities and no blood in
his body. This last is very thorough
ly disproved by a strong healthy pulse
at the wrist, but the former one might
believe from the fact that he sticks
darning needles through his tongue and
hatpins through both sides of his jews
while he invites anyone who is inter
ested and skeptical to run a long bon
net pin through the biceps or his legs
or any part of his body he chooses.
He has a hypodermic syringe needle
that he has fixed up for a cigarette
holder. and this he thrusts through his
w%indpipe and smokes a cigarette will
his mouth shut. He declares that he
does not mind being burned, and
shows a number of scars which he
says are from recent electrical eN'
periments. The puzzle is shy Il third
finger on his left hand. This, he says
was amputated in New Orleans just tC
show that he would not bleed, and the
proposed amputatiOn which he says
is to take place in Bellevue Hospita
in New York will be the consumma
ton of n long and interesting public
career. After that the puzzle says hi
will walk back to New Orleans t.
enjoy in an affluent old age the fruits
of his Youthful travel and adventure
Reno says that he is a half caste
Spaniard. his mother being " an Eng
lishwoman.' but he, the Washington
News says, looks the pure article o
Bowery Americanism and bears on hi
arm a number of patriotic cmblems il
tatOoing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
CAN CURE ASTHMA.
A Leading Physician at Last Discover
the Remedy.

the Remedy.
The majority of sufferers from
Asthma and kindred complaints, after
trying Doctors and numberless Rene
dies advertised as positive cures, with
out avail, have come to the conclusion
that there is no cure for this most dis
tressing disease, and these same per-
sons will be the more in doubt and skep-
teal when they learn through the col
umns of the press that DR.. Rudolph
Schiffmann, the recognized authority,
who has treated more cases of these dis
eases than any living Doctor, has
achieved success by perfecting a rem
edy which not only gives relief in the
worst cases, but has positively cured
thousands of sufferers who were con-
sidered incurable. These were just as
skeptical as some of our readers now
are. DR.. Schiffmann's remedy no douot
. possesses the merit which is claimed for
1T or he would not authorize his paper
to announce that he is not only willing
to give free to each person suffering
from Asthma, Hay Fever, Phthisic, or
Bronchitis one free liberal trial package
Of his cure, but urgently requests all
sufferers to send him their name and
address and receive a package, abso-
lutely free of charge, knowing that In
making the claim he does for his cure
a strong doubt may arise in the minds
Of many and that a personal test, as he
offers to all, will be more convincing
and prove it's merits than the publish
ng of thousands of testimonials from
others who ave been permanently
,ured by the use of his Asthma cure.
DR.. S~chiffnann's Asthma Cure" as it
s called, has been sold by all drug
yists ever since it was first introduced,
although many persons may never ave
heard of it, and it is with a view to
'eaching these that he makes this offer
This is certainly a most generous and
air offer, and all who are suffering from
my of the above complaints should
write to him at once and avail them
elves of the same, as positively no free
nmples can be obtained after Oct. 10. Ad-
res DR.. r. Schiffman, 325 Rosabel street,
1t. Panl, Mimi.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

Once mere through the path that
lI'oyg

Once mere through the path that
rays
On he low fields tangled edge;
BY mUrmurous waterways,
By hlossoming thicket and hedge;
Once ,ore with her filmy gown
Bcnuing the soft. new gross,
Her radiant eyes cast down.
soon shall see her pass!
For to-day in the sweet spring wood
The s'lken-tasseled wood
In Il Q sunlit wake of Il shower
And I osh from the dewy mold,
l saw her own loved flower
The tender, frail wind-Hower-
Lifting beneath it's haad
A welcoming eye of gold.
And straight within my breast
A slunIhering gladness woke;
And the spell of a deep unrest,
or a lingering sadness, broke;
For although moi love nor bliss
My heart hath found alas!
Yet fate doth yield me this;
l shall Once more see her pass!
Midland Monthly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

Some of the meanest of these are they
who seek to trade upon and make capital
out CT the reputation of the greatest OF
American topics, Hostetter's m Bit
ters, by initiating its outward guise. Rep
utable druggists, however, will never foist
upon you as genuine spurious limitations of
or substitute for this sovereign remedy for
malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia. constipa-
ton, liver complaint and nervousness De-
mand, and if the dealer be honest, you will
get the genuine article.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
The Quick Suicide.

"Plato, thou reasoneth welI' he NUT
tered.
There was but an instant to wait.
In that instant life spread before him,
It's Joys here, it's sorrows there.
Nevertheless" he exclaimed, with
new courage, Il will not die. One
strike!"
Before he undertook to umpire the
game, he had ascertained that the
svmpathies of the bleachers were with
the pitcher.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

ed Sarah to sit shiyering. in the door
step, with Jackie by her side and the
tears streaming down her fac OH
Jackie, Jackie" she cried. what shall
l do? My poor doggie! can't give you
up. l can't. If l could only 90 with
you; if | could-Oh! Jackie, Jacket
He was conscious that something
allied his mistress-what. he did not
knew. He could only throw himself
upon her i'll Il transport of affection
and lap her face with his great soft
tongue and gaze upon her with mild,
bcseeching eyes while she made her
moan. Failing to rouse her as she sat
weepi<:, he became frantic, and dash
ing to the woodpile, brought her a
splinter and threw it at her feet in
vain endeavor to rouse her To play.
Even that made no change. and so
he sat upon his launches and lifted
up his voice in II long piteous howl
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09

'VNe are ruined said the devoted
husband. mopping his haggard brow.
Il don't know but that | am glad of
it," said the devoted wife. AT last |
can move in ii sphere of society where
| will not be afraid to express my real
opinion of Wagner and the old mas
ters."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-09
Pointed.

"Oh, what a lovely baby! Boy or
girl?"
"Girl.'
"Isn't she lovely? You dear little
o~otsy-tootsy! How old is oose?'
-Four months last Friday"
"How cunning. Is she the young
est?"-New York Recorder.