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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
THE QUEENS SUNDAYS.
She Has a Drive, a Sermon and Som'
Music.

'"e MAJ q Drive, q Sermon and some
Music.
Among the articles in the November
QulVer is one by Mary Spencer Warren
telling how the queen spends Sunday.
In former years 1t was customary for
her majesty to rise quite early on Sun
Gay morning-as, in fact, she did every
day in the week. OF late years, how
ever, she seldom leaves her room much
before 10, at which hour breakfast is
taken with n members of the royal
family h may be there, a cup Of
tea and a little toast having been pre-
Viously conveyed to her majesty's bed
side by one Of the "dressers." After
breakfast the queen has a turn round
the grounds in her donkey carriage, the
donkey being the one that she bought
at Florence. To preach before the
queen is, of course, a greatly convicted
honor and etiquette formal and pre-
scribed has to be observed. No per-
sonal reference to her majesty Is per-
Missile, a pure gospel discourse being
de rigueur, delivered as though. her
majesty was not present. Many have
tried to evade thes rules. The queen
likes and enjoys a plain practical dis
course, selected from the lessons or
gospel Of the day, to occupy about
twenty minutes in delivery. Questions
of the day and, above all, politics, must
be entirely excluded. A celebrated d.
vine broke this rule one Sunday and
preached a very strong political SER
mon; but it was his last opportunity
the royal pulpits have neither OF
them been filled by him again. Wherever
her majesty may be it is now her in
variable custom to drive out in a pair
horse carriage on Sunday afternoon.
Dinner subsequently is somewhat
stately. Very often the queen partakes
OF it with only the members OF her
own family present or any royal guest
who may be staying there, save and
except that the officiating clergyman of
the day and the minister in attendance
generally receive an invitation. As a
rule, other guests are not asked. At
ter dinner the queen retires direct to
her W special drawing-room, where,
together with any of her family who
may be present, she will enjoy some
music of the old masters, preferably
Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The
queen herself often takes part in duets
with one Of her daughters, and the
Duke of Edinburgh, when present, CON
tributes with his violin.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
American Women and Royalty.

During the tour through Canada I
had attributed the strange conduct of
the ladies to IN excess of loyalty. AS
soon as the prince had left a hOted they
would rush into his room, seize all
sorts of articles, from q furniture but
tCL to a SOilcd towel, rs souvenirs. aid
even bottle up the water with which lie
had just washed his face" writes Ste
phun Fiske, in the January Ladies'
Home Journal. "But in the United
States, the women were equally curl
Gus and ~sycophantic. The luggage of
the royal party vas carried in small
leather truliks-a trunk TO every suit
of clothcs-and whenever the train
stopped. the crowds would beg that
some of these trunks might be handed
out, and women would fopdle and kiss
them. | need not say that the train
men were never too particular as to
whose baggage was subjected to this
alteration, and l have had the pleasure
of seeing my w r"Drtmanteau kissed
by mistake. Before the prince arrived
in Richmond, his room ut the Ballard
house was entered by the ladies and
the pillow slips and white coverlet
were SO sOiled by the pressure of hum
dreds of dirty fingers that they had to
be twice changed by the cllambermaid.
When he attended church, Oh Sunday,
the whole congregation rose as he de-
parted, and climbed up on the seats to
get n better view of him."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
THE GENIUS WAS OVERTURNED.

THE GENIUS WAS OVERTURNED.
while the full power means a leap of
anything from twelve to twenty-five in
height. In point of fact, it would only
require a hard run of about a couple
of miles to generate sufficient power to
carry me over a telegraph wire or a
small house."
At this point there was a loud clang
and hiss of escaping air and the bicy-
Gle made a vigorous dash for freedom.
The genius was pulled violently up the
garden and overturned, while the BIZ
cycle made several futile attempts to
leap the fence at the end 1t failed,
however, and the genius, after several
Intellectual trials, succeeded in putting
the lever back to stop" In a fit of
observation-disclosures he had shifted it to
easy"
He led the machine back again and
began explaining breathlessly.
"Confound the thing" he growled:
81 just touched the lever to see if il
was in proper order and it went off.
Oh, for goodness sake, don't stand
laughing like an idiot! l believe you
are the most irritating man in the
world, Here, hold this, while l brush
myself"
When he had finished he said he
would not try the bicycle until 8
o'clock.
l assented TO the wisdom Of this
and said that then nobody would be
about if the thing ran away with him
again.
He turned on me fiercely.
81 tell you I have the machine under
the most absolute, perfect control"
l replied that this was obvious.
Thereupon he completely lost his
temper and after making several I'M
founded suggestions as to the ccndi-
ton of my mind, stalked into the
house. However, at tea he generously
forgave me and became enthusiastic
once more and said he would write
out an agreement giving me a third
share in his invention before he went
to bed-which share represented, ac-
cording to some close and intricate cal
culations of his, a capital sum of
f24o,o00. Then he borrowed half a
sovereign from me for a couple of
days in the kin6est possible manner
and said he didn't mind me at all, be-
cause he understood me and knew that
there was not a bit of harm in me.
The next morning l met him as
agreed. The first trial of the machine
was to take place down the Chalk hill,
as it is called. This is a steep, grassy
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
CRIBBING AT HARVARD.
1t Is No Longer Winked at by the In
stru ctors,

IL Is NO Longer Winked at by the In
structors.
The faculty of Harvard university
has announced it's intention to separate
the college students handing in writ
ten work not their own, and to post
their names On the college bulletin
board, says Harper's Weekly. The Of
Tense thus to be dealt with is Familiarity
known as "cribbing." The Harvard
faculty has determined and announced
that it is dishonorable and merits pub
lie expulsion. The conclusion thus
reached is somewhat revolutionary and
with reluctance and after solemn
thought and full discussion. In
old times at Harvard, as in most
other colleges where what is
known as the honor system" in ex-
aminations does not prevail, cribbing
was not regarded as dishonorable,
though it's e%Xpediency has always been
freely questioned, even by the patrons
Of the practice. 1t used to be the GUS
tom, when written examinations were
held, to garrison the examination
rooms with proctors, who patrolled the
aisles and made it their business to
restrain as far as possible the propens-
ity of the examined to cheat. The re-
suit was that twas regarded as a.
fair game to beat the examiners and
students of honorable character often
used what furtive aids they might to
exc out their hating scholarship. On
ly when the examinations were in some
degree competitive, as where students
were trying for high rank or for schol-
arships, was cribbirg felt to involve dis
honor. But conditions are declared to
have changed at Harvard. The rela-
lions between instructors and students
are more familiar than they used to be
and the majority of the students are
believed to take their work more seri-
ously than they once did and to look
upon their instructors more as foun-
tains of information and less as hind
rance to ease. The faculty feels that
there are certain childish things that
ought to be put away from Harvard
forever, and cribbing is one of them.
Hence this severe penalty for an Of
Tense which, it seems, is still very
prevalent among the more frivolou7
undergraduates.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
A New Treatment of Measles.

The secondary symptoms of measels
and the dangers attending relapse have
turned the medical mind toward re-
search, in the hope that some means
would be found by which such after
effects could be avoided. Experiments
with jacket-poultices prove their great
value in cases of measels. AS soon as
the disease is clearly indicated, the
patient is put into one of these poul-
tees and not allowed to become chilled
until the severity of the attack is past.
In renewing the poultices the utmost
~precaution must be taken, and the old
n should not be removed until the
new one is at hand. Inded, it is best
to take the old one off little by little
and at once apply that which is fresh.
The operation should be performed
in a very warm room. In open houses
ing up the proper temperature, a band
age made of cotton-batting should be
wrapped around the entire body and
limbs. If there is any trouble expert
enced about keeping the cotton in place,
it may be secured by quilting or tack
ing it into the inside of a knitted shirt
and under vest. 1t must be applied very
thickly and the garments must fit
snugly and be worn continuously. The
great value of this form of treatment
seems to be in keeping the patient per-
fectly warm, and avoiding any exposure
of the surface of the body to cold. Out
of three hundred children treated with
jacket-poultices all but three recov-
cred.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

rest. for want Of better Fairgrounds,
and the truckman has abandoned the
fight; and where they crowd thickest
Fairgrounds of their own are being
fitted up for them in school and park.
Hereafter no school house shall be
constructed in the city of New York
without an open playground attached
to or used in connection with the
same" says one of the briefest but
most beneficent laws ever enacted by
The people of the state of New York.
1t is all there is of it, but it stands for
a good deal. No child of New York,
poor or rich, shall hereafter be de-
spoiled of his birthright-a chance to
play; and as for the streets, does any
one imagine that New Workers will
ever be persuaded to barter away their
clean and noiseless pavements and
pure air for the whirling dust-clouds,
the summer stenches, and the winter
sloughs of old, seasoned with no mat
ter what mess of political pottage? If
so, he is ~grievously mistaken. Colonel
War1ng has shown us that the streets
OF New York can be cleaned, and any
future city government, no matter how
corrupt or d%espotic, will have to reck-
on with him. And right we'll the en-
envy knows it; he may not refrain from
picking u pockets in future, but he
will at least have to do it with due re-
gard to the decencies of life.
Mulberry Bend is gone, and in it's
place have come grass and flowers and
sunshine. Across the Bowery, where
$4,000 human beings were shown to
live out Of sight and reach of a green
spot, four of the most crowded blocks
have been seized for demolition, to
make room for the two small parks de-
manded by the Tenement House Com
mission. Bone Alley, redolent with filth
squalor and wr~etchedness, is to go,
and the children of that teeming neigh
borhood are to have a veritable little
Coney Island, with sandhills and shells,
established at their very doors. Who
can doubt the influence it will have
upon young lives heretofore framed in
cutters?
question whether the greatest
wrong done the children of the poor
In the past has not been the esthetic
starvation of their lives rather than
the physical injury. Against the lat
ter provision has been made by strin-
gent tenement house laws, by the Wig
orous warfare upon child labor, by the
extension of the laws protection to
stores as to factories, and by the re-
striction of the sweat-shop evil. In the
park to be laid out by the Schiff foun-
tain, in the shadow of the Hebrew In
stltute-one of the noblest of charities
"a great public bath is to rise upon the
site of the present rookeries, harbinger
OF others to come. All about new
school houses are going up, on a plan
or structural perfection and architectu-
raj excellence at which earlier school
boards would have stood aghast. The
first battle for the schools has been
fought and won, and though there be
campaigning ahead without stint on
that score, the day is in sight when
every child who asks shall find a seat
provided for him in the public school,
and when that scandal of the age, the
mixing of truants and thieves in a Jail,
shall have finally ceased, even as it is
now forbidden by law.-"Light in Dark
Places" by Jacob A. Riis, in the Gen.
fury.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

Claus Spreckles has a daughter who
inherits the old mans independence to
a marked degree. Just because she
chose to marry the man of her choice
her father tainted her with ingrati-
tude, when she straightway handed him
hack a million or two which he had
settled upon her, and gave him to un-
derstand that she and her husband
could paddle their own canoe. 1t is to
be hoped that the man is worthy such
devotion, but whether he is or not,
the spunky girl is a credit to her sex
ard sets an example which some Of her
t:tle-hnnting, sisters will do well to
emulate,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
In u Fine stew

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Portland, Me-,
are much excited over a peculiar can
vass now in progress in that city, I'm
der well organized leaders 1870 people
are making a house-to-house canvass,
and reporting to a central committee
of churchgoers the names of such as
neglect churc1ly duties. A rumor that
a list of d%elinquents is to be published
makes the stay-at-homes fearful that
their moral status, as gagged by
church attendance, may be in some way
affected socially or financially.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
LOUlSIANA'S UNSTABLE SOIL
A Man with a Paddle Dug q Channel
-Four Miles Wide.

A Man with a Paddle Dug a Channel
-Four Miles Wide.
AS is well known, the Mississippi
river is a very erratic stream, and the
nature of the soil at and neal it's mouth
at New Orleans is such that the force
of the water continually changes the
channels, opening new ones and clos
ing the old. An important channel
yves it's origin to the work of
man. 1t is known as Morrison's cut
OFF in st. Mary's parish. 1t was once
solid land, but some forty years ago
a man named Morrison, finding that
he had to go a long way around to
reach st. Bernard bay, jumped ashore,
and, with a paddle, made a ditch
through which he was able to float his
boat. When he returned two weeks af-
ter by the same route.he found that
the waters of Bayou Sale and St. Ber-
nard bay had taken the new channel
and that the ditch vas 200 feet wide. 1t
is four miles wide to-day and the and
he cut off has been gradually washed
away until it now consists only of a
string Of small islands. Morrison's
cutoff is now the route for numerous
vessels running along the coast of
South Louisiana. 1t was made in the
course of a few hours with an ordin-
airy perogue paddle and by one man,
but would probably have cost the
United States thousands of dollars if it
had been undertaken as an engineer
ing enterprise and if the gulf waters
had not done the work.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
Rody Falls from Coffin.

During the funeral services over the
body of j. Frank Williams, a promi-
nent citizen of Seaford, Del, the floor
of the Dom gave way and precipitated
the entire party a distance of eight feet
into the cellar. The casket was broken
and the corpse rolled out. Several
women tainted, and great excitement
prevailed, but no one was seriously in
jured.-EXchange.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

right. I've succeeded at last!
whats the matter?" l inquired.
"Oh, you want to know, DO you:
he said. You're very curious, LOT d
wonder. But there is no reason no"
why 1 should not tell you about 1t
and even show the working OF the ma
chine. And you can prepare yourself
to be very much astonished.'
He was right in saying that l was
very curious about his machine. l was;
and following his instructions, l was
in the garden the next afternoon at
3 o'clock, anxious to see the Invention
that was to re%volutionize the world.
When he came he brought with him
a bicycle.
Hello" he cried, as 500 as he saw
me. What do you think of this? A
beauty, isn't it?"
l looked. 1t was not an ordinary
bicycle, but one more heavily built,
with numerous additional cogs INT
cranks and an air cylinder like that of
an air brake.
What on earth is this clumsy thing
for?' l exclaimed.
Clumsy be hanged!' he replied, ir-
ritably. "My dear fellow, if you will
start criticising anything before you
understand it, how can you ever ex-
pect to get On in life? Now, follow me
and l will explain it all. You remem-
Der my remarking some weeks age
how extraordinary it was that as yet
no n had hod the intelligence to in
vent a travelling machine which could
surmount obstacles in it's path, like a
horse, by jumping over them. Very
well; here you have the first mechan-
1cal invention 10 do so. This bicycle
is not an ordinary wheel, which loses
half its usefulness and charm by being
compelled to keep to the roads. This
is the famous jumping bicycle l have
had in my head so long. Observe, this
cylinder is full of air at a high pres
sure. AS vol see by this little gauge,
it now stands at $50 pounds to the
square inch. The cylinder is con-
structed to bear a pressure of 400.
These four bars with joints in them are
connected with the cylinder by means
of the cranks and cogs which you see:
they play the part of a horses legs;
the joints are, of course, the knees.
Now, how simple the whole thing is.
At my right hand l have a tiny lever,
with the powers marked easy
Strong and full Oh, by the way, l
forgot to remark that, as even you
can possibly understand, there is an
immense waste of power in the or
binary bicycle. Going down a steep
hill, for instance. enough power is
generated to run the bicycle on a level
road for four to five miles. All this
hitherto wasted energy l have uti-
lized in COMPRISING the air in the cyl
inder. When I come to an obstacle
say l want to get across a ditch-I
press the lever to easy and the ma
chine takes a leap in the air of about
eighteen inches, while the forward
impetus carries us easily to the other
side. If l put the lever on Strong l
can take a jump of six or seven feet;
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

"a big, overgrOwn fellow like YOU
ought to be at work instead of beg
ging," said the censorious citizen.
I'm willing to work." said Dismal
Dawson, "but Pm too blamed clumsy.
I've tried the shells and I've tried three
card monte, but the Rubes got on to
Inc the very first time.''-Indianapolis
Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
The sum of $4,000 has been Apr

The sum of $4,000 has been appro
priated to pay the expenses necessary
to dedicate the Grant monument in
New York. The date has been set,
April II, and President-elect Mckinley
pleted, will cost 100000, which sum
was raised by popular subscription.
The work of collection was somewhat
slow, however, for the metropolis Of
the United States.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

A vigorous conductor in Kansas City
compelled an offender against the non
expectoration rule to clean up the
floor, which he had prcfusely defiled
before leaving the car. This seems a
punishment which more nearly fits the
crime than any hitherto devised. The
cffense is the offense of either juven-
ility or br%utishness and should be dealt
with accordingly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

Chicago boasts Of a remarkably low
death rate; and yet C~hicago's drinking
water is so bad that the health depart
ment threatens to close the schools if
the board of education does not pro-
vide water that is fit to drink. The in
consistency of these facts proves that
the compiling of vital statistics to show
q low death rate is a bit of arithmeti-
cal jugglery.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
Dismal Is Very Superstitious.

Il have known some people," said
Weary Watkins, that was SO super
stitious that they wouldn't begin a Job
of work on Friday"
Il wouldn't myself" commented Dis
NAL Dawson. "Ner on Saturday. Ner
Sunday. Ner Monday. Ner Tuesday.
Ner Wednesday. Ner Thursday"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
1867 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE.

Don't believe it, nor did the editor
until he saw Salzer's great farm seed
catalogue. It's wonderful what an ar
ray of facts and figures and. new.
things and big yields and great testi-
monials it contains.
send This Notice and 10 Cents Stamps
to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, for catalogue and IL rare farm
seed samples, worth $40, to get a start.
W.n.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
Taking IL Chnnce.

He-I an endure this no longer, my
dear; you must choose between Blokey
and myself.
She-You are entirely mistaken, sir.
| have a list of sixteen from which to
choose.
He-An right. Kindly let me know
when the rattle comes off.-Detroit Free
TreSs.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
1t Takes Time.

~Fogy-Tell mi now, if you can, do
they learn anything at college besides
sports and yells?
~Fudge-Oh, they learn a lot of things
besides. =.
Fogy-For instance? '
~Fudge-Oh, well you can't exnect a
fellow to tell offhand.-Bost0n Tran.
script.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

Mamma-Now, Tommy, it's nonsense
for you to be so bashful. When the
waiter comes l want you to order your
lemonade yourself. You must learn to
speak up. Tommy-Oh, mamma! how
can you ask me to when you know
how my toe hurts?-Judge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

The late report of the state factory
inspector Of Illinois shows conclusively
that child labor in that state is on the
decrease. So much for the good to be
done by factory inspection.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

London is having some fine old win
ter. weather, which is to say that the
sun and air that made life pleasant for
us a few days ago have transferred
their favors to that town for a time.
Well, let the Londoners enjoy them
selves while they can. Everybody
knows they have more than their share
Of beastly weather.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

Prof. Victor c. Vaughn of Michigan
university vigorously attacks college
athletics, declaring that the life of the
average college athlete does not ex-
tend beyond middle age, and he is
peculiarly the victim Of heart or kid
ney disease. He would begin by pro-
hibiting foot ball.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

A baritone in Caracas has been jailed
for refusing to sing an encore. This
Is another example Of the way the
Spanish-American sees everything
through the big end of his opera glass.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

The Polytechnic hospital in Philadel-
phia is credited with the cure of a gen.
uine case of kleptomania in three
weeks treatment. This is nothing re-
markablc. Ten days Imprisonment
has worked cures in many bad cases.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

The appointment Of Won Hegermann
Lindenkrone, chamberlain of King
Christian Of Denmark, to be Danish
ambassador at Paris, is of some Ameri-
can interest because his wife was Mrs.
Charles Moulton of Boston, who had q
brief and bright career Is q concert
soprano q score of years Ago..
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

Mrs. Cobwigger-You're too young to
have a bicycle. I've noticed that the
boy next door hasn't one. Freddy
Well, ma, you surely don't think he is
as smart a little boy as l am; now, do
you?-Puck.