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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Value of Evidence in Turkey,

A few years ago an English traveller
In Turkey reported a case Of stealing
as it was tried in the courts of that
country. The Armenian newspapers Of
that time, commenting upon the case,
said that it proved that the testimony
Of a calf was worth more than that of
two Christians. A Turk, converting a
cow belonging to a Christian, succeed
ed in stealing it. The owner COM
planned of the theft to the nearest
Judge, bringing a friend to corroborate
his story, and he demanded the resto-
ration Of his property. The judge de-
clined to believe either the injured man
or his friend. On this the injured man
said, 81 have the calf of this COW at
a place very near the court, and IL your
honor will have the COW brought to the
calf and will observe the two togeth-
err, he will Immediately perceive by
their affection for each other that the
cow must be the mother of the calf,
and this will prove that she belongs to
me-" Accordingly, the judge ordered
the COW to be brought to the calf, and
went himself to see the two. No soon
err had the calf set eyes on the COW
than it claimed her as mother. The
judge was convinced, and ordered the
cow to be given up to the Christian.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Omcial Scandals at Berlin.

Five German editors have been con-
victed at Berlin Of libelling distin-
guished officials, and have been SEN
fenced to fine and imprisonment. These
sentences and the arrest for perjury
of the chief Of the political police have
occasioned a stir in the German capital,
because the evidence goes to show that
certain members of the Emperor's Of
fetal household have %conspired to ira
duce and destroy other officials OF
whose preferment they were jealous
Taken in connection with the Bismarck
disclosures, these trials have produced
a painful impression as to standards
of official rectitude in Germany.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
In the Wrong Town..

She looked like a woman from a re-
mote tier Of townships and the way in
which she was dressed tended to con-
firm that impression. She seemed in
a world Of trouble and approached the
foor-walker.
See here, mister" she said nervous
ly, I've been robbed in this here
store. Josh lowed me to come down
here to do my shoppin' cause it would
be a savin'. I had $50 five minutes
ago, an, now I hain't got a cent. o,
dear! I'm more'n q hundred miles
from hum with no way to get back an
nothin' to eat;' and the woman buried
her face in a handkerchief, while
threatening to collapse.
You'd better report the matter to
the police at once. Or I'll attend to
that for YOU"
mot on your tin-type," she respond
ed quickly. I'm no Rube." Then she
gathered herself and between artis-
tically executed sobs asked that she
be lent enough to keep her owe night
and take her back to Josh.
But she had tipped her hand. The
foor-walker led her back to the office
and in the long bag within her dress
skirt was found a choice collection oil
dry goods. She made the air sui.
phurous and at the police station pro
claimed herself a Gay" for leaving
Chicago, where there seems to be &
special immunity for the transgressor
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
A Railroad Puzzle.

Between the forty-nine and hfty-nve
mile posts on the Carolina Central
railway there is a piece of track for a
distance of nearly six miles that pre-
sents a singular condition that so far
amounts to an inexplicable mystery.
All trains going and coming go to
grinding and start a terrible ~squeaking
when they get on this six miles OF
track. The noise comes from not only
one car, but every locomotive, every
coach, and every car of whatever kind
sets up a grinding as if turning a
curve. 1t is something like the screech-
ing of an OK cart that has no grease on
it, and it is made by every truck on a
train. The track is perfectly straight,
and as there is no curve at all, the
cause of the grinding and s~queaking
has mystiied the railway people. Ev-
cry effort has been made to ascertain
the cause of the difficulty. The loco
motives have been scrutinized, every
crosstie and every rail has been in
spected, every joint has been looked at
and every foot of the track has been
regauged, but no explanation could be
found. 1t is one of the railway puzzles
of the age, and has been going on for
twenty years. During that time the
crossties and rails have been replaced
several times with new ones, but with
out effect.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
TREE-TOP
Pleasant Place from Which to Fish on
a Midsummer Day.


John, John!' shouted the rosy lit
tie wife of my host in central Florida,
from the h~oneysuckle porch. John,
if you're going to have fish for supper
it's time to go up the tree" relates
the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Well, now, I've f1shed for all sorts
of fish and in some odd places, but
thus far l never climbed into a tree
to get them, but I didn't ask any fool
ish questions. John simply replied
over his shoulder, Cali right!' and we
continued our walk through the FROST
blackened orange trees, which were just
beginning to recover, those that were
alive at all, from the havoc Of the pre-
ceding winter.
We passed beyond the plantation and
through the cool shadows Of a ham
mock where cypress and palmetto
trees were matted together and a wind
ing creek was bridged with a single
log. Somewhere along the path John
picked up his rod and a can of bait.
Then we came out upon the edge of the
bayou. Laze alligators floated at a lit
tie distance or stuck their noses out
from their mud beds in the PUSHES,
and having satisfied themselves that
neither John nor the stranger had a
gun they went on doing sereneiy. A
heron tapped away and rested himself
In a convenient tree. A moccasin
snake rolled from a dry log into the
water. None Of these incidents dis
turbed my friend, who led the way Sc
renely to the foot of a big tree over
hanging the still waters Of the bayou.
Up this tree we walked by a regular
series of board steps, and at the top
we crept upon a well-fastened plat
form, thoroughly shaded by the thick
drapery of moss pendant from the
framework branches; and, thus en-
sconced, John proceeded to business,
and In half an hour we had the inny
wherewithal for a delicious supper.
John enjoyed and l suppose still en-
joys a practical monopoly of fishing
IN hat lake, for NO one Whereabouts
owns a boat, and, anyhow, the alliga-
tors don't approve of boats, the shores
are too sedgy and water too shallow
for casting, and Fishing trees" are not
found in any considerable number
whereabouts. So borrowed Johns
primitive tackle and thus earned the
right to boast that l had fished, among
other methods piscatorial, from a tree
TOP.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
PlanOs Catch Cold 4.

Half the pianos OF this country catch
winter colds exactly as we do. They
get hoarse or have a cough, or a stiff
note, or some similar complaint which
cannot be cured by fome remedies, but
which require tedious and expensive
doctoring. In order to prevent these
~avoidable ailments a piano should be
Kept in q moderately warm room,
where the temperature is even, say,
sixty or seventy degrees, the year
round-not cold n day and hot the
next. The instrument should not. how.
ever, be too neal the source Of heat.
1t should be kept closed and covered
with a felt cloth when not in use, par.
ticularly in frosty weather. Always
place the Piano against an inside wall,
Dnd a little out from it.-Answers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
To Make q Neat Patch.

Here is an uncommon way Of mend
Ing a silk or wooden garment in which
a hole has been worn, and where only
a patch can remedy matters. The
frayed edges around the tear should
be carefully smoothed out and any
long threads trimmed off. Moisten a
piece of the material with very thin
mucilage and place it under the tear.
Lay this part of the garment on a fiat
surface and place a level weight upon
the tear and let 1t remain until the
mucilage is perfectly dry. The patch
will scarcely be perceptible.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

The Best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hoods Pills cure nausea, INDIGESTION.


This girl thinks that trainmen are
just horrid. One of them nearly scared
her into a fit the, other day. She was
going down to the levee ferry landing
to 90 over to East st. Louis to visit a
friend whom some unkind fate had
driven over there. 1t was her first
trip and.she had heard awful stories Of
how murder was committed several
times a day down on the levee, whose
denizens she had been told thought less
Of cutting n throat than of wringing a
chickens head off.
She was nervous and scared as she
penetrated the city's purlieus. A long
freight train was being switched down
there and a loud-mOuthed switchman
was giving instructions to another OF
his craft. Switchmcn have n language
all their own, which is incomprehensi-
BILE to the plain, everyday, non-railroad-
ing citizen. Among other things they
call a train cher" and "she," just as a
sailor refers to a ship, and just as she
neared the switchman this is what he
yelled:
Head her off, Jim, cut her in two
and send the head end up here"
She fled from the murderOus villain
and postponed her voyage across the
raging Mississippi. Meantime the other
switchman Obeyed orders. He cut the
train in two and sent the head end
back.-St. Louis POSt-D Dispatch.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
WOULD I NOT STOP!

foolish school companion ever sought
to impress me with the mysteries that
cloud reason until it seeks explanation
call ever hearing that dreams go by
contraries. Yet | had not thought
over that dream for a day before l had
an unalterable desire to visit Monte
Carlo for the purpose of restoring what
my fiance had lost. | would not ap-
ply to him or to my father. This was
not because of their impaired fortune,
but because l could not defend the re-
solve. | had a family physician to
whom I went for funds and who was
willing to respond without asking any
questions that would have embarrassed
me. He went farther and assumed the
professional responsibility Of sending
me abroad, though he could ney er ex-
plain why he thus compromised his
conscience.
When l reached what seems to me
one of hell's p~rincipalities, l felt as one
going into battle. All my surround
ings were familiar. | passed through
the glittering attractions as though
they had been Il part of my whole life.
/ could not have delayed to scan the
daily papers or to avail myself of the
fine stationery that suggested a duty
to those left behind. The fever of the
gambler was upon me, and yet l knew
nothing of gambling. Entering the
Hateful rooms, | passed the trente-et-
quarante table. 1t might be surer, but
it was slower, and | had read as much.
My fight was to be Il Waterloo, with
the role of Napoleon assigned to the
bank.
After confidently seating myself l
played with an abandon to astonish
eve the stioca feeders of the tiger. l
had no system. No color, no number,
no combination was tried as the result
OF any previous thought or sugges-
ton. | was an automaton with eyes,
placing my money as the divinity scat
ters the scented blossoms. When a
goodly heap of gold was in front of
me an old Prussian officer made an
elaborate apology for addressing the
handsome young American, but he had
seen SO many give back a fortune after
winning it. The devilish fascination of
the game was the chief dependence OF
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

The number Of statesIin which aliens
are permit ed to vote at elections after
having simply declared their inten-
ton of becoming citizens has been
diminished by one At a recent cleo
ton the voters Of Minnesota approved
a constitutional amendment which re-
peals the provision conditioning the
vote of persons of foreign birth upon
a declaration Of intention. Hereafter
no alien can vote in that state who
has not been a resident of the United
States for at least five years, and ad-
mitted to full citizenship at least three
months prior to the election. 1t is es-
timated that more than one hundred
thousand voters in Minnesota have
never been fully naturalized.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There 10
only one way to cure deafness, and that
caused by an inflamed condition OF the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is infiamed you have a
when 1t is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the Inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored to it's
stroyed forever; MIN cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but
an infiamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give one Hundred Dollars for
any case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family pills are the best.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

An observing tourist who vista
Rome and walks through the streets
is doubtless surprised that there are
very few houses bearing the number
'I3,' nearly all the houses that shoulN
bear that number being marked "1sRn
or IA" Nor is the s%uppositiou r..
garding the fateful l3 absent frons eel.
entific and phlegnatic Germany: fog
the other day a merchant In Beilin APP
piled to a magistrate of the district to
have the number II his shop changed
from No. 10 to No. LIB. The magis
trate, however. REFUSE d to grant the pc.
tition. In Frank ,rt, on the other
hand. the owners of buildings bearlny
the number 10 are allowed to change
the figures upon a simple application to
tn G proper authorities.-New York
Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Monkey and Kitten.

Herr Brehm, the great German nat
u~ralist, relates the following droll In
ecdote of a monkey: "a female baboon
which I brought up in my family got
hold of a kitten with the intention of
making a pet Of it and mothering it,
but was scratched by the terrified
founding. The monkey carefully ex-
amined the kittens paws, pressed the
claws forward, looked at them from
above, from beneath, and from the side,
and then bit them off to secure itself
against further scratches"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
A Very Popular Calendar.

Few people in these busy days are willing
to live wi hout a calendar to mark the pass
ing OF time. This fact, no doubt, accounts
for the calendars Of all kinds, co ors, shapes
and sizes which flood the mails at this
season. Among them all the one that best
suits MS Is the one issued bv N. w. AVER Z
Son, the "Keeping Ever. astingly At IT,
Newspaper Advertising agents of Philadel'
phia. We have just received our new copy
and are fixed for 1897. 1t is not difficult to
see whv tn s calendar is so greata favorite.
The figures on it are lar. eenough to be read
across a room; its handsome appearance
makes it worthy OF a place in the best fur
nisned office or libra v. while it is business.
like all the way through. The pLb isher-
state that the demand for this calendar has
always exceeded The supp y. This led them
years ago to pace upon it a nominal price
25 cents, on rece pit of which it is sent, post
paid and securely packed, to any address.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
The Sultan'S Trade.

According to a writer in the Contem-
porary, the sultan of Turkey never
sleeps before dawn for fear of assas-
sins, but sits up reading detective
stories. A good French translation of
Sherlock Holmes would be quite a
boon to him. OF the sultan's intel
lectual capacity, this illustration is
given: abdul Hamid is impatient and
of a hasty disposition; he cannot brook
any hindrance to his intentions or ca
prices; when he has given an order he
does not admit that events can develop
otherwise than in conformity with his
trade. A grotesque instance of this and
one of very frequent occurrence may
be cited. When a fire breaks out at
Constantinople or in the environs the
sultan sends an aide-de-camp with or
ders to the commandant of the fire.
brigade to eXtingluish it at once. When
the fire battles the efforts of the fire.
men and spreads, which happens more
usually than net, other aides-de-camp
arrive in quick succession to announce
that 'Efendimiz is angry to find his
order is not yet otsyed, and there is
an trade that the fire should cease i'm
mediately,'"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
She Knew,

The examiner W shed to get the chill
dren to express moral r~eprobation of
lazy people and he led up to it by ask
ing them who were the persons who
got all they could and did nothing in
return. For some time there was ST.
lence, but at last a little girl, who had
obviously reasoned out the answer in
ductively from her own home expert
ence, exclaimed, with a great deal of
confidence: please, sir, it's the baby!''
-Tit-Bits.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
SUPREME JUSTICES GOWNS
Our Early statesmen's Task In Selecting

Our Early Statesmen's Task In Selecting
a Court Dress.
Ex-President Harrison tells Of the
contention created over the question
Of an appropriate court dress for the
justices Of the Federal supreme court
in the January Ladies' Home Jour-
nal. when the constitutional Or
ganization of the court had been set
tied and the high duty of selecting the
justices had been performed by Wash
ipgton," he says, "the smaller, but not
wholly unimportant question of a court
dress doomed up, and much agitated
and divided the minds Of our public
men. Shall the justices wear gowns?
And If yea, the gown of the scholar, of
the Roman senator, or of the priest?
Shall they wear the wig of the English
judges? Jefferson and Hamilton, who
had differed 50 widely in their views as
to the frame Of the constitution, were
again in opposition upon these ques-
tions relating to millinery and hair
dressing. Jefferson was against any
needless official apparel, but if the
gown was to carry, he said: "For
heavens sake discard the monstrous
wig which makes the English judges
look like rats peeping through punches
Of oakum.' Hamilton was for the Eng
lish wig with the English gown. Burr
was for the English gown, but against
the inverted woolsack termed a wig.
The English gown was taken and the
wig left, and I am sure that the flowing
black silk gown still worn by the JUS
tices helps to preserve in the court
room that dignity and sense Of So
lemnity which should always charac'
terize the place of judgment"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Christian Charity.

A man too modest to let his name
be known went to the Boston postof-
fee last Christmas eve and paid out
of his own purse all the postage on
letters and packages which otherwise
would have been delayed in transmits
sion or not delivered at all by reason
Of insufficient stamps. That was a
very original and thoughtful act, not
to call it charity.-EX.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
BROUGHT BACK.
Five Years of Agony. Re.
leased at Last.
The Past Seems Like a Terrible Night.
mare, and tho Present Health and
Happiness.
How the Indian Accomplished a Won.
derful Restoration.

There are thousands of women throughout
our land who are living the lives of hopeless
invalids, unable to enjoy their existence, let
If more of them would follow the example of
Mrs. Harriet Jansen, 554 Bay St., st. Paul,
MINI, there would be much less misery in
the world. Mrs. Jansen was en- invalid for
five years and had spent an untold amount of
money for doctors and medicines without
experiencing the slightest relief. She was at
last urged by n friend to purchase a bottle of
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa. 1t is best perhaps
to let her tell the results in her own words -
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

l did not need. the evidence of a
mirror to convince M that was hand
some. Friends and strangers told me
so till / was weary of it, ever as the
monotony of a song bird may make
one weary. That | was young, had
affirmation in the thick family Bible
with it's brazen clasps and we'll
thumbed leaves. That | was not dull
was attested in a diploma from Vassar,
a knowledge of French that did not
puzzle F~renchmen, music that must
clans liked to hear and a literary abili-
ty that never brought back more than
one out of four of my contributions.
In social life l had the rare luck OF
success without envy, save as those
who are less fortunate long to join
those who are more so.
But n quick move of fate changes
this life of sunshine and brightness.
Father failed, and when milliona1res
fail it seems as though one never could
fathom the depths of disaster. To me
the one great tragedy of the wreck was
the impoverishment Of Charley. or
course 1t is necessary to explain that
l mean Charley Truman, for the famil-
iarity Of our set does not extend to the
reading public. Charley was ruined
with his eyes open, but to me that only
mean that there was suspense as well
as actual suffering without the buoy
ant influence of hope. He had insisted
upon coming to the help Of my father
though the great risk incurred was
made plain as day.
How like physical torture this was to
me can be inferred when it is known
that Charley and l we're engaged. 1t
was not a matter of eXpediency, but
an old-fashioned love match. He
made light of the calamity in which we
were all involved. But to me it was
the saddest reality that could have
come into my life. That may accoun'
for all that follows, but l have though
over it much more han aRy n elst
will do, and am inclined to doubt. MY
one thought was to restore the fortune
that Charley had so generously sac
riflced. l invented a score Of quixoti
schemes, but had the good sense t.
opolluoA tlClh DCAouoC LlCy "Oic IuAh
otto. But I can only plead the perver
sion of human nature in admitting tina
/ adopted what seemed the most quix
otto of them all.
I dreamed that l went to Monte Car
10 with a mint of money and lost it al
l had only read of the place, but it wa
spread out before me as a vivid picture
l saw the ~esplanade, the cafes, tn
clean asphalt pavements, the pair
trees, the grass plats, the arcade, tn
Hotel Metropole, the haggard faces c
those who wander up the hillside t
disappear forever among the foliage
the false ch~eerfulness of the electri
lights, the bright red and black of tn
tables, even the many-colored meta
discs over which the ball of fate dance
and skipped as though it brought moth
ing but happiness into the world. n
less graphic were the details of m
losing. Bet after bet was swept int
the omniverous NAV Of the great gan
bling Mecca, and the mechanical move
ment of the Unsuitable rake seemed
harrow my vitals.
If I had any superstition it was tn
result of heredity. No old nurse {
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

List Of patents issued last week to
Northwestern inventors:
John M. Bloom, Butte, Mont, shoe
string fastener; Andrew Gutenberg,
Minneapolis, Mimi, runaway horse
check; Christian Jensen, st. Paul,
Mimi, mangle; Godfried Laube. HUI
ron. S. D., trace holder; Rosetta II.
Reilly, ,Newhouse, Mimi; watering
cart; Samuel J.. Turner, Minneapolis,
Mimi, cigar lighter.
I. D.. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 90
Pioneer Press Building, st. Paul, MINI.