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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
WARNER CROSSING THE
TEQUENDARA CNTARAeT.

itators, especially of Warner, who has
dared not only on a wire to cross the
cataract of Niagara, but has just per-
formed the wonderful feat of crossing
the terrible abyss of ~Tequendama on a
rope. The crossing of Niagara gave
iondi a universal reputation, he
being the first to try this daring act;
but if considered conscientiously, that
is nothing compared with the crossing
of ~Tequendama, for the conditions of
the two cataracts are quite different.
At Niagara an acrobat who became diz-
zy and lost his equilibrium would fall
into waters that are perfectly TRANQUIL
and very observation-disclosures which
taken in connection with the fact that
the fall would not be more than about
one hundred feet, would give the equili-
brist the assurance of salvation, for he
would not encounter rocks, and if he
knew something of swimming he would
rise to the surface and swim to one of
the banks or to a boat, which would
pick him up and land him safely. AT
~Tequendama all the conditions of the
abyss are against the equilibrist who,
in case he experiences the slightest dir
illness and falls, would be very certain
of breaking his neck, for he would fall
into a raging torrent from the terrible
height of 479 feet! What would be the
size of the largest fragment of the &C.
robat that could be picked up at the
bottom of such an abyss?-Scientifc
American.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
LAKE MICHIGAN.


Inc means Dy which LII Is Nhauo NaNig-
able All the Year Round.
Navigation on Lake Michigan Is new
er closed. Steamers run back and forth
across h lake and between the ports
of the west shore of the lake during
the entire winter with remarkable reg
ularity. The first attempts at winter
navigation in the TRANSLATE routes
were made by the Detroit and Milwau-
kee Railroad Company and by the now
defunct Engelmann Transportation
Company many years ago. and the sue
cess of winter ventures became estab=
lished as the character of the steamers
was improved and developments were
made in marine enginery. Now winter
navigation proceeds almost hninter-
ruptedly, and the new car ferries steam
back and forth with little regard for
weather or for ice. The success of the
car ferries ON Lake Michigan and the
car ferry which defies winter in the
Straits of Mackinac is probably the
cause of the announcement that nego-
tiations are in progress looking to the
construction of ~ice-breaking freight
steamers that will enable their owners
to keep them in commission on the
Lake Superior and lower lake route
during the winter. The report is with
out foundation.
There is a vast difference between the
navigation of Lake Michigan from one
shore to the other and along it's west
shore and the navigation of the great
lakes throughout their lengths and
through the inter-lake channels. Ice
breaking is expensive, and occasionally
the ice foes defy the crushing powers
of the best of the so-called ice break
ers. One of the car ferries was recent
ly stalled by a foe near Menominee,
which defied not only the steamer, but
the explosive power of dynamite. The
trouble of winter navigation OH the
chain of lakes would occur in the in
ter-lake channels and in the canals.
Owing to the clogging effects of the ice
1t would be almost impossible to oper-
ate canals during midwinter.
Another and a very serious bar to
general lake navigation in winter is
the prevalence of snow-storms, during
which nothing whatever can be seen.
Snow is more obstructive to the sight
than fog and during a driving snow
storm it is impossible to see anything
ahead, even in the daytime. Winter
n~avigators on Lake Michigan, who are
never out of sight of land for any great
length of time, experience their chief
annoyance from snow-storms. They
manage to steam into port when snow
Is flying thick, because of their famil-
iarity with the route, but they occasion
ally get into trouble while they are
wrapped in 1.-The tumultous privacy of
the storm"
1t does not follow, by any means,
that because winter navigation is sue
cessful on Lake Michigan it can be
made successful in the upper and lower
lake service.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
Excited Over Buried Money.

Hundreds of farmers in Weesaw
township in the northern part of Ber-
rien county, Mich, are excited over the
Mexican gold coins which were recent
ly unearthed by Mathew Paddock
while blowing. An old legend is that
years G a vast quantity of money
was buried in that part of the town
ship and the finding of the gold coins
of ancient date as far back as 100
strengthened the story. Thirty years
ago Indians sought in vain for the hid
den treasure. Now farmers are neg
Letting their work to search for the
wealth.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

f~estation of the grain before it reaches
him, even while it is %ripening in the
fields. Not long g a vessel arrived at
San Francisco from Calcutta with a
cargo of rice. When the matches were
taken off for the purpose of unloading
winged insects in clouds emerged; they
were grain moths and the rice was
found to be literally alive with their
larvae. OF such moths there are many
kinds, the worst of them all being the
angoumois moth, which gets its name
from a province of France, where 1t
appeared In 1886. 1t looks very much
like an ordinary clothes moth. In this
country it is vulgarly known as the
Fly weevil,'' having been introduced in
North Carolina and Virginia as early
as 1928. Thence it spread all over the
south, where it does vast damage. 1t
attacks grain in the field, as we'll as in
the bin, infesting all the cereals. In SIX
months grain infested by it loses 40 per
cent in weight and rs per cent of
starchy matter. The moth deposits her
eggs in standing grain and in the bin,
the minute grubs Matched from them
feeding on the starch of the kernels,
into which they burrow. On attaining
maturity the little caterpillar spins
within the kernel a silken cocoon, the
moth emerging d few days later. The
dreaded rice weevil" is derived from
India. whence it has been diffused by
commerce until now it is established
in most of the grain-growing countries
of the world. 1t occurs in every state
in the Union and occasionally
Canada and Alaska. 1t is a small snou
beetle, closely resembling the granary
weevil already described. 1t feeds on
rice. wheat, corn, barley, rye, hulied
oats. buckwheat, etc. Frequently it
iryades boxes of crackers, cakes ana
other breadstGffs, barrels OF hour ana
bags of meal in grocery shops. Both
the larvae and the adult beetles feed
on the grain or other food.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

The question of the right of an in
dividual to whistle is involved in a
trial soon to come off in a New York
court. A man undertook to silence a
whistler by hitting him with a brick,
and is held for assault and battery. The
outcome that would please the great
est number of citizens would be an
equitable balancing Of the injury done
en- each side. Probably the assault
with a brick was a greater injury than
the assault with offensive sounds, but
there was undeniable p%rovocation.
There is no harm in whistling while
going after the cows or walking home
along a country road on a dark night,
but that is very different from insist
ing upon whistling in a passengers ear
in a public conveyance or in front OF
4 window near which a person is work.
ing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
THE DRAMATIC CRITIC.
He tabors in a Good Causc--His Lot
Not a Happy One.

He Labors in a Good Cause--His Lot
Not a Happy One.
The dramatic critic Is little more
than human and his lot Is not so de-
sirable that 1 should advise young men
to aspire to his calling, or rather TO
his particular branch of a calling which
contains no sinecures and offers few
prizes, says the Forum. His hours
are long and irregular, his work Is hard
and he is continually at war with his
own moods, which must not be permit
led to obscure his Judgment. Necessar-
lily a man OF some strength of individ-
uality, he must night after night sub
iect his will to that Of others and keep
MS mind in a perfectly plastic condi-
lion; and, If he gains any sort Of dis
tinction in his labors, he will find that
The theater pursues him wherever he
may go in his rare hours of leisure.
He soon learns the common desire OF
mis- fellow creatures to talk about ac-
tors, to the exclusion of every other
topic. His authority, of which he
makes no boast at all, is both pro-
claimed and denied; for, though he is
likely to be transformed into a sort of
minor and inferior Iona cub perhaps
yet he never by any chance meets a
human being who does not feel perfect
ly competent to speak the last word OF
Judgment on any play or actor. Still,
if he have enough philosophy, he may
console himself with the thought that
he labors in a good cause, and that
even if, in his effort to make better
understood a form of art that can
never die, he has somewhat over
| stepped himself and helped to develop
a race Of imitation critics rather than
highly a%ppreciative spectators, thai
| evil will in time be remedied.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
TIE LAW OF HEREplrY.
An Assertion That Chifd-fteform Must
Begin with the Mothers.

An Assertion That C~hifd=seform Must
Begin with the Mothers.
A lecturer, in addressing a woman's
club on the cause of wickedness
among children, says, according to tho
Pittsburg Dispatch:
"All this discussion to me is simply
like cutting off the branches of a tree
to remedy the crookedness, instead O.
beginning at the very start to shape
the mold. The start for reform must
be made farther back of the child, with
the mothers, II you please. 1t is he
feditary influence that mains chill
dren, both morally and physically. II
the mothers were all right we would
heed no reformatories for criminals
Of asy1ums for the feeble-minded or
for foundlings: Unwilling motherhood
is filling the world wifi MANNED and
deformed children; immoral mother
hood is making thieves and criminals;
intempefate motherhood is building up
d race of drunkatds. Fathers are not
exempt, bit as women, we MUST deal
with Womefi and begin Our reforms
there. There Is one child In this
town to-day whose mother was ob1ig-
ed to pilfer her husbands pockets for
money to purchase her baby's outfit.
The mar was close and stingy. At six
years Of age their child was a thief
and both wondered why. Mothers need
not wonder why any more When they
see some reckless trait developing In
their offspring. They car find the rea-
son every time. The laws of heredi-
ty are fixed. Save the children all you
can, but instead Of viewing your task
as q duty, just MEASURE out the love
and sympathy some other woman has
shirked and give these outcasts equal
privileges with your own. Beget con-
fdence by your sincerity in doing good
for those crimihally inclined; see that
care and comfort are the lot Of the
feeble-minded, and the dependent and
orphaned ONES take into your hearts
and homes. In the meantime bend
your energies toward a reform in pa
rents and teach the awful penalties re-
sultant from q violation of moral and
physical laws"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
SCRAPS.

Australia could be made to support
400, O00, 900 inhabitants of the black or
yellow races, able to endure the eli
mate. The present population is only
5000, 900.
The MISUNDERSTANDING fancy, that
there dwells in yonder the soul
of a lion or tiger!' The Material-"She
does seem full of animal spirits, doesn't
she?"-Detroit Journal.
The Right Hon. Sir William George
Venables Vernon Harcourt, M. p, Lib
eral leader in the house of commons,
has been fined ten shillings and costs
in a London police court for allowing
his chimney to catch fire through not
having been cleaned.
The Pastor-'I don't see your hus-
band at church any more?" The Wife
No; he never goes now" Whats
the matter?" Why, you know, he's
a vegetarian. and he says there 10 too
much meat in your sermons to suit
him."-Yonkers Statesman.
Mr.. Jones lat 2 a. m. up the speaking
tube)-"I want DR.. Grab to come out"
Dr. crap lWho opJeelS W oeihS Touseu
at such an unearthly hour)-"Dr, Crab
isn't in" Mr.. Jones-"0h, isn't EA
Then | must go and inform the police
that there is a strange man in his bed
oom."-Pick-Me-Up.
The city of Duluth, Mimi. already
finds itself old enough to warrant, as il
thinkp, the organization of a historical
and scientific association. Its especial
effort will be to rescue from oblivion"
the memory of early pioneers OF the
country and to obtain and to preserve
a narrative of their exploits,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

purposes, says a Washington corre-
spondent of the Boston Transcript.
Each colony, representing a single spe-
cies, is kept in a good-sized glass jar or
else in a wooden box and is supplied
with the food which it likes best. One
jar, for example, contains two ears OF
corn, and every individual grain on
these ears is occupied by n or WI
unpleasant-looking little worms. Other
receptacles are partly filled with oats,
wheat, rice and various dietary prepa-
rations, such as housewives commonly
keep On the pantry shelves. They are
simply alive with crawling d~epredators,
which are busily engaged in feeding
and breeding. Indeed, the conditions
are the same as those frequently repro
duced most disgustingly in the barrels
and boxes of the household commits
sariat. The appearance of such pests
in cereals and other stored foods is
often SO mysterious and their propaga-
ton is so enormously rapid that the no.
ton that they are generated spontane-
ously is still widely entertained. Not
very many years Age the theory that
certain small animals under suitable
conditions might be created literally
out of nothing, as in manure or in de-
composing food substances, was in
dorsed by science. Now, however, it
is known that an egg must be laid by
a bug in the co~rn-starch or hominy-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

Vaccination against typhoid fever
seems to be an assured resource in the
war on disease. Two professors con-
nected with the Army Medical School at
Netley, England, have elaborated a
process of antityphoid vaccination.
Cultures of the bacilli are used in the
process. Observations were made up
on a number of persons. mostly medi-
cal men, with satisfactory results. A
medical journal says the vaccinations
can be practised without risk, and their
adequacy, also. "a be easily controlled
by examinations of the blood. Persons
exposed to the risk of typhoid infec-
ton may secure immunity through this
process If the present degree of sue
cess Is maintained.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

Come with me this evening and see
my boys" The speaker was a leading
business man of New York city. The
friend went and found that the boys
were in the Children's Aid Society
rooms The banker who had given the
invitation took charge of the meeting,
read the Bible, prayed and talked to
these city waits. How long have you
been doing this thing without my ever
having suspected it?" asked the friend.
Sixteen years." was the reply. Every
other Sunday night in all those years
the rich banker had gone to meet his
boys and to tell them of God and duty.
That banker was Howard Potter, who
has just died in London, where he was
head of the London branch of a house
known the world over.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

In a recent lecture Judge Daniel Bed
niger Lucas of West Virginia suggested
that a monument be erected on the
Potomacs at Shepherdstown by the Vir-
ginias and Maryland to the memory of
James Rumsey of Maryland, who, it is
said, had launched at that point the
first boat propelled by steam. In the
early days Of the state of Maryland,
after the revolutionary war, Rumsey
and Fitch were applicants for aid in
developing their invention, and their
petitions were referred from session to
session.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
CURE FOR
Effectiveness of Several Lashes of Tw,
Birch Rods.

f.HectlVenesS or Several Lashes of Two
Birch Rods.
An Englishman believes he has a
cure for kleptOmania. He is a west
end shopkeeper, and the west end
shops have been said to suffer greatly
since Mrs. Castles case of kleptomania
has been brought before the public,
says the New York Times. There is
a great difficulty in dealing with these
peculators, he says, and by making an
object lesson of some one he is in
danger of bringing discredit upon his
establishment which would more than
offset his losses by theft, and in expos
ing the guilty person many innocent
people are made to suffer. The oper-
ators are also exceedingly artful, but
his method, which worked a cure in
n case, was a success as far as it
went. The shopkeeper claims that it
is the most merciful method he could
employ and the guilty person is the
only sufferer. He had watched a wom-
an n day and caught her with a guam
tity of valuable goods from his estab-
lishment in her possession. He in
vited her to the office, where it was
found that she had a shoplifter's
| pocket. In the Office the proprietor ex-
planned to the woman the disgrace that
| would come to her and her family If
| she were prosecuted and imprisoned,
! and gave her the choice of that or a
punishment he would suggest. He ex-
planned the nature of it to her and she
| accepted the alternative. A muscular
| sister of the shopkeeper was then
called in and left alone with the WON.
an, to whom she administered home.
made discipline, by means of two
birch rods, until, after ten or a dozer
strokes, the woman screamed fol
mercy. She was allowed to depart ant
was never again seen in the shop
This proceeding brings up the question
of corporal punishment. The idea ad
vanced is that the woman was in Thu
case mercifully cured, while If brough
to trial she would probably have es
capped with nc more punishment thai
the disgrace. Evidence would hav,
been brought in as to her mental ir
responsibility and innocent peopl
would have been paraded before tn
public with her.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
Curious Names,

There is a county in Missouri in
which the following curious surnames
are to be found: Red. White, Blue,
Green, Gray, Brown and Black. There
are also Kings, Queens, Earls. Dukes,
Marquises and Lords. In animated ma
ture are to be found Wrens, Birds,
Crows, Hawks and also Hawkins and
Fowiers. Among the quadrupeds are
Wolfe, Lamb. Lyon. Bull. Stier and
Redheffer. At one time in a county in
western Kansas there lived Redwine,
Sourbeer. Drybread and Pancake
New York Tribune,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

The Pennsylvania oil-felds, which
are about three hundred and fifty
square miles in extent, have already
yielded five hundred and sixteen mil
lion barrels Of petroleum. There are
other great fields in Russia, Mexico,
India, Canada and the Argentine Re-
public, and it is said the area of the
oi[producing region in Peru alone is
seventy-fve hundred square miles. The
boy at the head of the arithmetic class
Is invited to estimate the number Of
centuries that must elapse before his
descendants will have to 90 to bed in
the dark.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
Some Belated Snow Stories,

So heavy were the now drafts in
Sargent county, S. D., that 1t rs said
a farmer of Harlem township added
thirty-five feet of tubing to his we'll
pipe in order to raise water above the
snow. A hotel proprietor, z. o. Pat
ten, had to build a barbed wire fence
around the roof of his barn to keep
away stray stock, a horse having one
day crashed through the roof while
walking over what appeared to be a
snow-covered hill. Sidney Mullen
claims to have dug thirteen feet into
a drift to get at the top of his wind
mill.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
A Poor Mans Dog.

Mayor T. Y. Williams of Oakesdale,
Wash, has resigned his off C, rather
than sign an ordinance ~condemning a
man to Imprisonment in Jail for neg
lecting to license his dog. The mayor,
who has served two or three years,
thought 1t would be cruel and unjust
to confine a man if he has no money
with which to pay a dog tax.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
Child Meets a Peculiar Death.

The ~5-year-old daughter of John F.
Buckley of Des Moines, Iowa, met
death in a remarkable manner h
child was left playing on the piazza by
its mother and ten minutes later was
found hanging dead from the limb of
a small cherry tree. She had climbed
into the tree, and while there the rib
bons to her sunbonnet became en-
tangled in the branches. She slipped
and fell and was choked to death bv
the ribbons, with her feet but q few
inches from the ground.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

The plain of Bogota is sixty miles
long from north to south and thirty
miles from east to west. The river Fun
ga, formed by numerous mountain
streams which take their rise n hum
dred miles north of the city, traverses
the plain in a southwesterly direction
to Tequendama, where, through a gap
not over Sc feet in width, it leaps over
a rocky ledge upward of 600 feet high,
forming n of the most magnificent
cataracts on the globe, and thence rush
es down to join the Magdalena. The
height of this precipice is so great that
the inhabitants OF Bogota were terrified
by the daring and audacious act of the
Canadian equilibrist, Mr.. Warner, who
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

One Of the latest sanitary devices is
a germ-proof note-paper. But what
shall this profit the recipient if the
writer uses unsterilized ink, encloses
the letter in a bacteria-infected envel-
ope, and attaches to one corner there
of a postage stamp that is a veritable
bacilli ranch?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
Child with Three Ewes,

A remarkable birth has just occurred
in the family of John Higgs at Glen
ham, N. Y, his wife having become
the mother of three bouncing babies of
ten pounds each. What is still more
remarkable about this event and a
fact which is puzzling the medical pro-
fession is that n of the infants has
three eyes, one of them being located
just above the bridge of the nose, while
the other two eyes are in their normal
position.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

Elmer Geiselman, a member OF one
OF the most respected families around
Wooster, Ohio, was found guilty Of as
sault with intent to rob. He is one of
five men supposed to be members Of a
gang who have terrorized the farming
community for years by bursting in
doors with battering ans. All of the
others are under indictment. Elmer
will be the first to do some checker
playing with his nose.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
No Chicken.

Mahonoy City, Pa, is the home OF
Mrs. Kate Dermody, who has reached
the remarkable age of lis. Although
a native of Ireland, Mrs. Dermondy has
lived in the United States more than
100 years, which feat she says with
the help O. God she'll duplicate. Good
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
Stopped the COnfab.

BE careful what you say over the
line, Mrs. Brightly; you may be sure
the telephone girl is listening"
"Of course she is"
Indeed, I'm not" yelled the hello
maid, and the sizzling, cracking sound
with which she broke the combination
caused both of the women to run.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05

Bumm d. Way-Dey say it's worry
an not work wot kills people.
Leigh n. Rest-I don't see how dey
kin tell which it is.
Bumm D. Way-Why don't yer?
Leigh n. Rest-Why. supposed dey
both alters went together-TeXas Sift
ings.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-05
ACROSS THE FUNGA ON A TIGHT ROPE.

doubtless gave rise to more than one
story of fantastic apparitions. If his
tory has preserved for us through five
centuries the tradition of this descent
from the towers of Notre Dame to the
Pont de Change as a marvellous feat,
what can we say of Blondin and his i'm