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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
Substitute for CamphOr.

High explosives and smokeless pow
ders have caused such a run on cam
phor that its retail price has more than
doubled, and housewives and others
who used to keep it as a preservative
against destructive vermin and mil
dew have had to fall back ON naphtha-
lene, in spite of its very repulsive
smell. AS usual, the enhanced price
has set chemists to work to find a sub
stitute, and they have already sue
ceeded in producing something like
the camphor of commerce that only eX-
perts can recognize the difference.
This new substance is prepared by
passing a current of dry hydrochloric
gas through spirits of turpentine, cool
ed by a freezing mixture. The liquid
darkens and deposite crystals, which
are dissolved in alcohol and precipi-
tated by water. The separated crys-
tails are drained and dried. They are
perfectly colorless and have an odor
like camphor. This artificial camphor
melts at 115 degrees, c., and boils at
| 1855 degrees, c., with decomposition.
At the ordinary temperature it's vapor
tension Is sufficient to cause it to sub
lime like ordinary camphor, in small
brilliant crystals in the bottles In
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

made her a terror to the community.
The old woman regained her reason
after a year or two, and was set at
liberty. She came back and took up
her abode with Matte, in a one-roomed
log cabin in the Lavender mountains.
There the two held high revel. The
place became the headquarters for a
number of tough characters, until the
people could stand it no longer, and
both women were placed under arrest.
The mother was released, and died
soon after, but Matte was sentenced
to the chain-gang. Out of pity for her
youth and friendless condition she was
allowed to remain in the common jail,
and was afterwards released on a
promise of reform. Soon after her re
lease she took up her old habits, and
was again arrested, and, after belng
| confined in Jail for some time, was
| tried, convicted and sentenced to one
| year on the chain-gang. The mar in
the ease paid his fine and escaped the
chains and stripes.
Matte had a big time while in the
chain-gang. Her associates were the
toughest white men and the lowest
class of negroes in all this mountain
region, she being the only white wo-
man in the prison at the time. She
found means to escape from her cell
. at night by raising a plank in the floor,
and would go out and attend the
mountain frolics that are of frequent
occurrence in that region. She would
dance all night and, just before day,
creep into her cell, where she would
be found next morning sleeping as in
nocently as if nothing had happened.
At last she was detected, and when
the superintendent asked her why she
came back, she laughed at him.
"Why, you must be crazy" she said
II have a better bed here, and more tic
eat. than l would in my cabin. I'd be
q fool not to come back
Along in September some benevolent
people learned that she was the only
! white m in the chain-gang, and
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
A Cat Wears Glasses.

Max, the handsome Maltese pet Oh
Miss Thompson Of this city is perhaps
the only cat ON record that wears spec
tacles.
Miss Thompson says she has owned
Max since her early youth, and has
found him a most invaluable posses
sion, besides being a loving little COM
panion in her loneliness. A few months
ago, much to her distress, Miss Thomp-
son discovered that Max was losing
his eyesight, so she carried him to a
we'll known oculist to be treated. At
first the man of science refused to
make an experiment, scarce knowing
how to begin; but at Miss Thompson's
suggestion he secured a line and the
picture of a mouse, and by holding
these alternately and at varying dis
tances before Max, was finally enabled
to test his eyes quite thoroughly. After
the necessary treatment the doctor fit
ted Max with a pair of glasses, the
gold frames having to be made to or
der of course, and now the big cat
looks as wise as the proverbial owl
with his double eyes, and Miss Thomp-
son declares is as good as new again
San Francisco Letter.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

A Rome (Ga.) correspondent Of the
New York World says: For the first
time in the history of the state a white
woma has been hunted and chased
down by bloodhounds.
This woman is known as Matte
White, and the immediate cause of her
arrest was the attempted murder of a
white man named William Mason, a
young merchant to the suburbs of
Rome.
The immediate assassin of Mason
was a negro, but it was soon learned
that he was only a tool of Matte
White, and the object of Mason's at
tempted murder was revenge.
Mason's brother had testified against
Matte White i'll a criminal proceeding
against her, and it was the brother
who was marked out for assassination.
The negro made a mistake in the dark
ness, and shot the wrong man.
Matte White is simply an eXagger-
ated type Of the depraved white peo-
pie who live in the hills about here
called the Lavender mountains. She
is about nineteen years old, and, in
spite of the exposure she has incurred
in her half-savage life, she has a GER
tain kind of wild beauty. Her com
plcXion is fair, her eyes clear and keen
and she has remarkably beautiful
hair.
She is the daughter of an old county
officer who died several years ago
leaving a widow and six young chill
dren, Matte being the oldest, and
about twelve years of age at the time
Her mother bore a very unsavory rep
utation. and finally became insane
from the effects of an evil life, anC
was sent to the asylum.
Matte got a home in a respectable
family by the name of Harbour, bu'
she showed her vicious tendencies by
running away and taking up with 6
wcll-to-do farmer, who had a wife ant
children of his own. She was only
about thirteen years old at that time
but she soon acquired a name tina
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
A Twisted Quotation.

Most famous sentences are some
times quoted inaccurately, and some
of them are almost always twisted out
of their proper shape, but there is one
that never, ven by accident. appears
nowadays as the author wrote it.
Therefore, it was quite a matter of
course that when the Rochester Post
Express wanted to eXpatiate on Mr..
Bryan's last attitlde, it began with,
"a MAJ convinced against his will is
of the same opinion still" Now, no
man who has been convinced. whether
voluntarily or involuntarily, can possi-
bly, remain of the same opinion, and
only misquoters like the Post-Express
ever asserted anything 81 absurd. On
the other hand: He that complies
against his will is Of the same opinion
still" both states a fact, and states it
in the exact words Of one Samuel But
Ter, who, something more than POO
years ago, wrote "Hudibras."-New
York Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
Better Schools in the South.

While the South in the last twenty
years has increased "a per cent in
population, it has increased 100 per
cent in it's school enrolment. One in
five Of the population attends school, a
higher proportion than any country of
Europe except Saxony. The value OF
school property increased in h South
between 1874 and 1894 from $4,000
600 to sol, OOO, 900. The average value
of a school house has risen in that
time from 1878 to S643. While in 1874
the Southern college students In
Southern colleges numbered 11,1O3, in
1894 the number vas 25,3O4. In the
eighteen years preceding 1891 there
was spent from public taxes on the
schools $500, 100000, of which $S0,OOO,-
600 went to the education of the ne
groes. Ninety-ive per cent of the
whole sum is paid by the white tax
PAYERS. In every 100 whites % are
enrolled in the schools, and 10 of every
100 colored. In 1874 there were en-
rolled 81 O6 colored and 1,S27,139
white children; in 1894 the figures were
1924 colored and 3,335,593 white
Baltimore Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
Important to All the Readers of This
Paper.

Important to All the Readers of This
Paper.
We have decided to extend time to
January %, 1897, that we will send to
every reader Of this paper prepaid
one Csc bottle OF 5 drops for 10c. Large
bottles 600 doses), $500.
8 drops is not sold by druggists. On
ly by us and our agents.
This wonderful curative gives al
most instant relief and Is a permanent
cure in rheumatism, sciatica, neural
gia, dyspepsia, backache, asthma, hay
fever, catarrh, sleeplessness, nervous
ness, nervous and neuralgia headache,
heat weakness, toothache, earache,
Group, la grippe, malaria, creeping
numbness, bronchitis, and kindred dis
eases.
at is not often that we commend in
these columns anything of a medicin-
al character, but our Chicago repre-
sentative has had personal access to
the correspondence of this Cob1pany,
and has seen some Of the many shous-
ands of genuine testimonials ANA let
tiers they receive daily, and assure us
that the cures affected by this remedy
border on the MISUNDERSTANDING
Opinion.
If suffering do not delay, but order
today. Your money refunded If 5 drops
falls in any way short of what we
claim.
SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO..
167 Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Ill.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
Caked Udder in a Cow.

The trouble with the COW is doubt
less due to the sucking of the calf,
which does not suck the teat dry. 1t is
a bad practice to let a calf suck a
COW, as it spoils the COW for milking
and gives the calf an inclination to
bad habits afterward. The treatment
of the cow should be os follows: Give
her a pound of EPSON salts, dissolved
in some oat meal Cruel; battle the I'D
der in hot water, rubbing it we'll with
the hand; after wiping dry apply cam
phorated soap liniment. If the milk
cannot be drawn from the teat which
the calf will not suck-and no blame to
it for this, for a calf knows when the
milk is not good-take a small syringe
and inject into the teat half a cupful
OF solution of common soda, leave it a
few minutes and then milk 1t out with
the dissolved thick milk.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

they interested themselves in her be-
half, and secured a pardon ON the
promise to reform. In a week after
her release she was back at her old
tricks, and was surrounded by a gang
of the worst characters in this section
of the country.
The suburbs of the city began to be
infested with highwaymen and thugs,
and the police and county officers were
unable to do anything with them.
Hold-ups became frequent, n the
same negro who shot Mason answers
to the description of the principal in
many of the highway robberies. He
and Matte are believed to have been
the ringleaders of the gang, and the
officers think hat since the arrest of
Matte, he has been hiding in the hills.
Several of the gang have been arrest
ed since her apprehension, and the OIL
GERS think that there is a regularly-or-
ganiZed gang of mountain bandlttl,
with Matte at the head, which has
been causing all the trouble in the
n~eighborhOOd.
When young Mason was shot down
all that saved his life was the fact II a
the bullet struck his ~suspender buckle.
He was badly wounded, but was able
TO give Il general description vi 'Ao he-
gro who had shot him. This opened
| up the clew by which the crime was
traced to Matte White.
Matte was back in her old haunts
in the mountains, and she might have
been pursued for months without be-
ing captured had not the b~loodhounds
been resorted to. After a long chase,
the hounds ran her down near the
ramshackle old hut in which she lived.
She climbed a tree to escape the dogs,
and grinned at the sheriff and his pos
Sc when told to come down. She
obeyed, and took her capture quite
coolly.
She is back in jail now, and ap.
parently in excellent spirits. The
worst she anticipates is another turn
in the chain-gang.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
PRICE OF WIVES ON ii DECLINE.
The Chinese Product Obeys the Law
of Supply and Demand.

The Chinese Product Obeys the Law
of Supply and
The price of wives is falling in Aus
tralia, because the supply is exceeding
the demand. The Cinnamon of Austria
liza, when they take a notion to marry,
write to a matrimonial agent in Hong
Kong.
One letter was as follows: II want a
wife. She must be Il maiden under
twenty years of age, and must not
have left her fathers house. She must
also have never read a book, II her
cvelashes must be half an inch in
length. Her teeth must be as spark
ling as the pearls of Ceylon, her breath
must be like unto the scents OF the
magnificent odor0us groves of Java,
and her attire must be from the silken
weavers of Ka-la-Ching, which are on
the banks of the greatest river in the
world-the overlooking Yang-tse-ki-
ang."
The price of a Chinese woman, deliV-
ered in Sydney, is $3.50, but two Chi
nesc Ome only cost $500; therefore,
the Chinese import the women in coup
les. The importer never sees the Wo-
men before they arrive, and then he
generally selects the ~best-looking one,
The other is shown around to a mum
Der of well-to-do Cinnamon, and after
they have inspected her, she is submit
ted to what may be called public auc
tion.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
,rurpans Away. fashionable.

Turbans are always worn, and this
season sees them in many shapes and
styles. For travelling and general wear
they are particularly appropriate on
account of usually having Il trim air
and being quite close-itting. Further
more, they are decidedly becoming to
the majority of women Feather tur-
bans are again shown as new and de-
sirable, the prettiest being made of an
entire large bird, the wings Of which
form the crown and sides, with the
head in front as the only ornamental
ton. Soft turbans, made of plaid ma
terials to match wraps and gowns, are
trimmed with quilts or other stuff, up
standing garnitures to give them a Sc
we're style, black being used almost ex-
clusiyely.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
LONG-DISTANCE MAIL CARRYING.
How Rural Free Delivery Works IN
u Colorado District.

How Rural Free Delivery Works in
a Colorado District.
The rural free delivery of mail is in
operation in one district in Colorado.
This district is n portion of Larimer
county, lying along the Big Thompson
river Just east of Loveland. 1t IS aDou
six square miles. and is inhabited by
about 100 families living on well-lnl-
proved ranches. 1t IS an ideal district
for a favorable test of the advantages
of free delivery in a farming district.
The roads are always good, even in
winter, and the weather is seldom bad.
Probably no class of farmers any
where in this country are more in
clined to read than the Colorado ranch
men. They are from Eastern states,
and they seek to keep in touch with
their former homes by means of news
papers. They take metropolitan news
papers and country weeklies. They
are subscribers to weekly and monthly
periodicals of all sorts, and they do
considerable mail order business with
firms in Eastern cities. A daily mail
is, therefore, to the farmers of Lar1-
wer county, a great boon.
The district is covered by two car
| riers, making daily trips. They travel
| about twenty-five miles each day, de-
livering and taking up all mail to be
| forwarded from the ranch homes. The
routes have been laid out carefully,
and wherever it is found more con-
venient to leave the mai for several
persons at the foot of a side road this
is done, boxes for the purpose being
placed on posts.
The carrier rides in a blackboard,
with seat space for one passenger, and
under his contract with the govern
ment he is permitted to do a parcel de-
livery and general express and mes
senger business. He takes orders from
the farmers for supplies, medicines OF
messenger service. He carries for a
small fee % and from Loveland. Like
the ship grocery along the New Eng
land coast, the country carrier does al
sorts of errands. AS a means of in
terchanging the gossip and news of the
township he is an undoubted success
New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

Some of the men who have gone to
Alaska have returned to complain of
the hard work, of the cold, the heat.
the frost or the snow, but the real dis
couragement which makes life in the
far North a great burden is the deadly
mosquito. from whose ~insinuating bill
there is no escape.
"They are there in such swarms that
sometimes you seem to be looking at
the sun through a snow Storm" said
H. A. Fredericks of this city yesterday.
Mr.. Fredericks has just returned from
a long trip in the Yukon country, and
it was to that region he had particular
reference.
"They are the worst thing in the
country" he continued, " and beside
them the other difficulties amount to
nothing. At the settlements they do
not bother the people much, but when
a man goes up one of the creeks pros
pecting he must envelop his head in
a mosquito frame of cheese cloth
their bills would go through netting
like a knife through tissue paper-and
must wear gloves and tie his trousers
| and shirt sleeves close about his ankles
and wrist."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

walter Baker & Co. of Dorchester, Mass,
U. S. A., have given years of study to the skill
full preparation of cocoa and chocolate, and have
devised machinery and systems peculiar to their
methods OF treatment, whereby the purity, palata-
bility and highest nutrient characteristics are re-
tained. Their preparations are known the world
over and have received the highest Endorsements
from the medical practitioner, the nurse and the
intelligent housekceper and caterer. There is
hardly any food product which may be so extern
sively used in the hOus hold in combination with
other foods as cocoa and chocolate; but here
again we urge the Importance of purity and rutri-
et value, and these important points, we feel
sure, may be relied upon in Bakers Cocoa and
Chocolate. '-Dietic and Hygienic Gazette.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.
A Similarity That Was
in the Nick of Time.

A Washington young woman who
collects autographs is the envy OF her
feminine acQuaintances. She has Sc
cured the signature of the new Turk
ISL minister. The eccentric Inscription
might be anything else, so far as the
impression which it conveys to the An
glo-SaXon mind is concerned, but it's
authenticity is indisputable. II its
value is great in the eyes of its posses
sOr.
She had been suffering with an at
tack of malaria, and h physician
bad left a prescription. Her mother
after the doctors departure, plckcd up
Il piece of paper, and was almost out OF
the room, when a cry of II ar
rested her.
"Be careful of it,. the ~daughte' eX'
claimed. what are you going TO do
with that?"
Are you delirious?' was the re,
Spouse.
NO. Don't you see what you are
handling in that careless way! It's
the Turkish minister's autograph!
Her mother looked at i carefully
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
To Keep Ferns in Winter

An authority says, concerning the
keeping of ferns in winter, that they
should be watered in the morning and
the earth or mold never allowed to
harden. 1t is a good thing occasionally
to stand the pots in water for about
ten minutes, especially with quite
young ferns. A gentle Swinging is
good for all ferns in winter, as it keeps
them free from dirt, which, if allowed
to accumulate, soon kills them. Strong
leaved palms and aspidestras should
be washed with soap and water every
week.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

Ihere is more catarrh in this section
or the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh TO be a constitutional
disease. and therefore requires constitu-
tlonal treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo, o., is the only constitutional cure on
the market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfui. It
acts directly ON the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer One Hun
cred Dollars for any case 1t fails to cure,
Send for circulars and testimonials Ad.
dress,
IF. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
How Wesley taught Sunday SchOOI.

John Wesley was DESTROYS at one
time of teaching his scholars that van
ity was a silly thing to possess. He
tried an odd plan to do it. Among the
Sunday school boys We're many whose
parents were too poor to provide them
with shoes and so they had to come to
school with bare feet.
The boys who wore shoes tainted
the boys whose feet were bare, tellinal
them their parents were too mean to-
buy them shoes for Sunday school,
where shoes ought to be worn. Wes-
ley heard about it, and when Sunday
school next assembled the scholars
were astOnished to see the minister
himself without shoes or stockings. He
didn't notice the sensation he created,
but went right on with the lesson as
though nothing out of the common was
happening. The boys who wore shoes
did not dare do any more haunting
after that.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

laid it down, and, with a grave count
enance, said:
My dear girl, you don't know what
a narrow escape you have had"
You mean ! came very near losing
the autographs
Worse than that. There is no tell
Ing what combination Of matoria medi-
ca might have been doing deadly work
if you had not spoken. | didn't notice
the writing on the autograph careful
ly, or | might not have made the mis-
take, but l was about to send it to the
drug store to have it Misunderstanding
ton Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
A Mustard Plaster.

A mustard plaster made according to
the following directions will not Bills
ter the most sensitive skin: Two
t~easpoonfuls of mustard, two teaspoon
fuls -four, two teaspoonfuls ground GIN
ger. Do not mix too dry. Place be-
tween two pieces of old muslin and ap-
ply. If it burns too much at first lay
an extra piece of muslin between 1t
and the skin; as the skin becomes &C
customed to the heat take the extra
piece of muslin away.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11
To Restore Frozen Plants.

When plants in pots have become
frozen they should be dipped into a
pail of cold water so as quite to i'm
merse the leaves, care being taken not
to break the brittle leaves. When
thawed by the water, they should be
placed in a warm room, BIT not neal the
fire; they should be watered with q
little artificial n We cannot
vouch for this treatment, but consider
it worth a trial,
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Patents

List of patents issued last wcek Il
Northwestern inventors:
John @. Barber. st. Paul. Mimi, car
truck; Harriet b. Ireys, Minneapolis,
Mimi, belt; Albert ii. Koehier, st.
Paul, whistling bicycle handle bar:
Herbert w. Lawrence, Montevideo,
Mimi, anti-rattler for thill couplings;
James Mcdaniel, Minneapolis, Mimi,
wheat washing machine; Godfrey w.
Papke, Echo. Mimi, threshing ma
chine; Moses Regnier. Client, MINI,
band cutter and spreader for threshing
machines; Reuben w. Rossitef, Mime
apolis, Mimi, grain separator; John L.
Sours, Anoka, MIMI. nippers; Sander
son " Co., Madelia, Mimi, trade
mark, veterinary remedies.
L. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910,
Pioneer Press Building, st. Paul.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-11

Those anxious to prolong this rapid transit
tory existence of ours beyond the average
span, should foster his digestion, negatively
by abstaining from indiscretiGas in diet,
and affirmatively by the use of that peer
less stomachic, Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, when he experiences symptoms of
indigestion. The impairment of the diges-
tive function is fatal to vigor. Subdue
with the Bitters, also, fever and ague, bill
~iousness and constipation.