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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
SOME LATE NEW THINGS.

a combination razor and case in
which the strop slides into one side of
the case has just been patented.
An electric roller for massage pur-
poses is composed of plates of copper
and zinc and generates it's own cleo
tricity.
A recently patented solder for alumni
mum consists of thirty parts tin al
10y. four parts aluminium and three
parts zine.
A newly designed double barreled
gun has only one trigger, a lever being
used to change the action to either side
as desired.
A handy device for opticians con-
sists of ar indicator to tell the angle
at which the nose-piece of eye glasses
must be set to fit the nose.
Backing brushes for use with liquid
backing have a reservoir in the dau-
Der, together with a tube running into
the bristles through which the polish
runs.
A Massachusetts, woman has a pat
ented leather dressing consisting of Il
compound of wax, rubber, gutta per-
cha, Spanish licorice and paratin oil,
the proportions being secret,
Circular ext 9nsion tables are made
with a number of slots on the under
side into which the supports of semi
circular leaves are pushed to increase
the circumference of the table.
a New York woman has designed a
glass oven DOR in connection with d
device for opening and closing the
hampers by means of the expansion
and contraction of the glass plate.
a recently designed watch-carrier
for bicycles has a screw clamp to at
tach it to the head of the wheel, the
watch being held in place by a number
OF springs to grip the stem and watch
case.
Pneumatic roller skates having one
wheel on each skate are just out. In
connection with the foot plate and heel
and toe clamps there is a brace run
ming up to the calf of the leg to make
it more rigid
The latest CERTAIN pole is cut into
two equal sections lengthwise, hinged
10 each other and having a hole bored
through it to hold a rod on which the
curtain is hung, thus putting the hang
ers out of sight.
A new combination tool will drive
OF pull a nail ald can be used as a pipe
wrench, 1t has a movable beak, one
side of which grips the heads of nails.
the other side having teeth to hold the
pipe solidly for turning.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

A new form Of dandy roll has been
invented for producing watermarks
in paper. The matchmaking of paper
is ordinarily accomplished by means
of a light revolving wire cylinder upon
the surface of which the lettering or
designs are fixed. This necessitates
the use of a separate dandy roll for
every watermark. The new invention
obyiateG this necessity, inaSmuch as
the matchmaking letters OF designs
are made interchangeable, thus avoid
ing the removal of the roll itself. The
saving in the number of rolls will be
appreciated by the papermarkers. A
further advantage is that it will be
possible to execute small orders with
any special watermark ut q small cost
simply the cost for the lettering or
design.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
LIVING IN
What the Ancient Tablets Reveal
About DOmestic EXistence There.

IN
About Domestic Existence There.
Glimpses of family life in ancient
Babylonia are given by the Scriptures
from Sennacherib's palace, now in the
British museum. From the tablets it
appears that the family and the laws
concerning it were the foundation of
the social system of Babylonia. Take,
as an example, the relation of fathe"
to son. A son could repudiate his
father by the payment Of. q certain
sum of money, but not his mother. In
the tablets on family law it is writ
ten that a son who wished to deny his
mother should have his hair cut off
II be banished from the community.
h law relating to husband and wife
was curious. If a wife should say to
her husband, Thou art not my hus-
band" which was the Babylonian way
of saying that she did not want to
live with him any more. hen the Of
Tending woman was to be thrown into
the river. But if the husband wanted
a divorce, it was Il comparatively easy
matter for him to obtain it. All he
had to do was to return to his wife
her dowry, if any, and pay her a GER
tain sum of money; he was then a free
man, and could marry again if he felt
disposed to do so.
The position occupied by women in
B~abylonia was very different from
their position in the east at the pres
ent day. The harem did not exist at
all and the wife was looked upon as
the head of the household. A oma
could buy or sell property independent
of her husband, could enter into agree
ments or contracts and could possess
slaves. In Assyria, which was a col
ony from Babylonia, the modern
harem system was in use and women
on the whole occupied a very inferior
position.
That slavery existed in Babylonia
from the earliest time there is ample
proof, but the power and authority of
the owner or master We're limited. A
slave had q definite position, and could
not only enter into contract and agree
ment to his W advantage, but could
even buy and sell rs well as possess
property, and after u certain time
could buy his freedom. The slaves,
from some or other, seems to
have come upon evil days during the
reign of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, for about
this time many of their privileges
were withdrawn and the custom of
branding each slave with the name Of
his master came into use. This Gus
tom led to all sorts Of disputes which
had to be settled at law, and a large
number of tables relating to such suits
have been found. Education was com
mon throughout Babylonia and schools
Of theology and astronomy were
founded and attached to every TEN
pie of importance.-New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
Truth Crushed to Earth,

From the Atlanta Constitution: A
worthy colored deacon, who had early
impressed upon his only son and heir
the moral of the George Washington
cherry tree story, was fortunate
enough to find a fat 'possum recently.
he bore 1t in triumph to his dwelling,
and, assisted by his son, cooked it to a
juicy brown.
Now" said he, de bes' way ter eat
a poSsum is col; so we'll jes' let him
stay in de pantry, en- when mawnin'
comes he'll be mo- jucier den ever!"
His son seemed sadly disappointed,
but he made the best of it, and both
retired for the night.
The old man was up early next
morning, but the boy slept on.
On opening the safe the astonished
parent discovered nothing but bones
i'll the dish that had contained the
possum. He brought the drowsy
youngster to his feet with one vigor-
Gus jerk, and dragging him to the
scene of the wreck, he said:
What does dat mean, eh?"
The boy fell on his knees and cried:
Daddy, | can't tell a lie; / got up in
de night en- eat it wild my little mouf!'
The old man said not a word, but
dragging the boy to the front door he
held him by the collar while he
jerked a piece of Misunderstanding
from the side of the house.
Daddy" cried the boy, lis yer
swine to lick me fer tcllin' de truth"
mo, You kinky-headed debbil.
you!' Numbered the old man. Il
gwine ter frail de hide off We for eat
in de 'possum!'
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

Don't wheel up a steep hill. Leave
that sort of thing to fellows who have
not enough sense to go in when IL
rains. What gain is there in it, any
how? Yau con walk up and push your
wheel just as fast, and With one-quar-
ter of the eXertion. If too much wheel
ing on the level road is bad, too much
hill-climbing Is ten times worse. If
you could look into the minds of the
smart hill-climbers, you would find
that they half kill themselves TO make
~bystanders think they are wonderful
riders. Really, that sort of thing is
too silly to talk about with patience.
Don't coast too much. If you feel
that life without coasting Is a mock
cry, then 60 to some hill that you are
thoroughly familiar with, where there
are no crossings, where you can watch
the road for ut least ore hundred miles
ahead, and then take care. No matter
whether you have coasted down the
hill a hundred times before or not, the
danger is always just as great. Per
haps we are never in 81 great peril as
when we think we know it all.
Don't "scorch'' in the streets. At
any crossing you liable to run over
some pedestrian or to collide with a
big truck or carriage. Either one NAV
mean a life lost. or at least broken
bones, You wouldn't drive a horse at
a 2:4O gait through the streets. Re.
member a bicycle is quite as danger.
GUS.
Don't ride on the left side Of the
street. Your place is on the right side,
because a bicycle is a vehicle in the
eyes of the law, having the same
rights and subject to the same rules
as any other vehicle. If anything hap
pens to you because you are on the
wrUng side of tho street YOU cannot
recover damages.
Don't think, because somebody you
know has wheeled a century" that
vol must do it. too. There is really
very little satisfaction in riding one
hundred miles merely for the sake of
saying that you have done it. If any
other Wheelmen chooses to tire h is
muscles and oyerstrain his heart for
a mere bit of boasting, let him do it.
l know that most of us are sorely
tempted by the century folly. But
think a moment. If you owned a fine
thoroughbred horse, would you run
the risk of running him forever by
speeding him to the utmost limit of his
strength for a whole day? Yet is not
your own health more valuable to YOU
b all the horses in the world ?-Har-
ner'S Round Table.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
One of the Wonders of Physics.

An experienced mechanic who was
asked what he regarded as the most
wonderful thing for general utility, re-
piled: The tracking of a car wheel
is the most wonderful thing to me in
the whole range of science and inven-
ton. Here are two rails, up hill and
down hill, around the sharp curves
and along false tangcnts ana upon
them flies at more than n mile a min
ute, without jar n iostle, q dozen
heavy cars drawn by an engine weigh
ing sixty tons. Passengers realize no
danger, yet there is only the little
fange of a wheel between them and
eternity. An inch and a half of steel
turned up on the inner side of the
wheel holds up the whole train as Sc
curely to the rails as if it were bolted
there in grooves."-Albany Express.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
Cost Moro Thnn He's Worth.

\ dog who has eaten up a farm and
4 set of buildings has been found in
eastern Maine. This dog killed 4
neighbours sheep. The neighbor Of
fered to call it square if the dog was
killed. The dogs master refused to
agree to this, and a lawsuit came next.
10 pay the costs and damages assessed
by the court the owner of the dog had
to mortgage his farm for 500. The
mortgage had a bigger appetite than
the dog, and soon his farm was gone
and the owner had to move away. The
dog is now dead.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

The Paris Journal des Transports
publishes some interesting statistics
showing the rapid development of cleo
trio tramways in Europe during the
past year, "the number Of lines in
working order having increased from
70 to Ill. while the total Length of lines
has gone up from 437s miles to 564.
Germany heads the list with a total
length Of 255 miles and S57 auto-motor
vehicles, France being second with
S2h miles and 223 vehicles, while Eng
land is third with 81 miles and 1853 We
hicles, Switzerland coming fourth with
2eh miles and sc vehicles. Bulgaria
and Denmark are the only countries
which have no line with electric trac-
ton. Of the Ill lines now being
worked 81 are driven by wires over
head, while 8 have a central rail-. s
accumulators. and 3 an underground
current"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
Combined Brake and BELL for Troll
lev Enra

An electrical engineer, who has just
returned from Germany, speaks of
the attractive appearance presented
by the street cars in Dresden, which
is largely due to the fine dark colorS
in which they are painted. Many OF
the cars are American; but there is
room for plenty moro, and American
manufacturers who desire TO push
business in Dresden are advised to
correspond entirely in the German
language. The Dresden car drivers
use a peculiar bell for warning pedes-
TRANS. The bell is fixed on the top of
the level handle, and even while
braking, the motorman can sound the
alarm by simply raising and lowering
the tube on the brake handle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
COAL FROM CHINA,
The Flowery Kingdom Proposes to Sup
ply Uncle Sam With Fuel.

hoPoSSs " sup
ply Uncle Sam With Fuel.
From the Detroit Free Press.-China
has thrown down the gauntlet to the
big coal miners of this country. An
American bark recently brought to the
Pacific coast a mixed sample cargo of
anthracite and manufactured coal,
mined and made in the Tonquin dis
trict. 1t is intended to push the
Chinese fuel at prices greatly below
those which Pennsylvania and Welsh
Goals of the same character are now
bringing. Experts have pronounced the
Tonquln coal bed practically mex
haustible. The manufactured coal is
entirely new to American markets. 1t
is made by the Chinese natives from
coal dust. The dust is mixed with a
pltchy substance and compressed into
egg-shaped humps. The inflammable
cement aids combustion, and the coal
makes a very hot and a very clean fire.
The imported coal is said to be of
the finest quality, fully equal to the
best American or British Goals, while
1t can be sold probably at a price much
below the standard rates. Pennsylvania
and Welsh anthracite for house use
are now selling on the Pacific coast at
about $13 a ton. The TonQuin coal
of the same grade can be sold to give a
good return at SO a ton, while Tonquin
anthracite steam coal can be quoted at
least 81 a ton under the present price
of Welsh coal of that grade.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

Did you ever hear Of Il frozen soap
bubble? \ boy out in Colorado last
winter was amusing himself blowing
them when it occurred to him to try
the effect of the cold outside air on
one. His father, who tells the story,
says the thermometer registered about
IA degrees below zero at the time, and
when the bubble was released in the
usual way it fell TO the snow perfectly
frozen as Il hollow sphere OF ice.
It was subsequently found that
when the temperature rose to zero
the bubbles would not freeze, but
whether this vas due to the change in
temperature or change in the air could
not be determined.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

Daniel Mayer, the English musical
agent, says America is the only coun-
try besides England where great
money" Is made by musicians. On the
continent charges for admission are
small. and there are not so many big
halls, consequently artists have to be
content with lesser receipts. A fee OF
ESQ is considered as something very
high indeed for a single performance
across the water" The musical life
is a very uncertain one, it seems. Only
those who have made really big names
make big incomes. A great many
"big" vocalists and instrumentalists
receive pupils, even while at the height
Of their popularity. Musical suns are
apt to set very suddenly. Singers go
out Of fashion quickly and do not get
into fashion again.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

Elizabeth Wood, the S-yeaz.
daughter of a prominent merchant of
Edenton, Va, lost her life while trying
to save her playmate from the flames.
The child was playing before a fire with
another little playmate, and, stepping
out OF the room for a moment, she re-
turned in time to see her playfellow en-
deavoring to extinguish her burning
skirt. The brave child rushed to the
rescue and succeeded in saving her
companion, but in the excitement she
herself caught fire and received burns
from which she died within a few
hours.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

In the heart of San Francisco is the
city's principal cemetery, where are
buried the bodies of her famous dead,
and where loom UP in the sky the
grand mausoleums Of her millionaire
mining and railroad kings. A move
ment to bisect this cemetery with a
new street has aroused much opposi-
ton, yet it is by no al certain
that soone or later the whole ceme-
terry will not be moved to a quarter
where the dead would COS less in real
estate and taxes.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

Latest Tacoma mail advices from
China state that the Russian govern
ment has secured permission from
China to extend the Siberian railroad
through Northern Manchuria, and also
in case Of war, to have possession of a
warm water post on Chinese territory.
These important concessions, it is set
forth in the articles of agreement, are
made in consideration of Russia's
friendship to China in the settlement
Of the China-Japan war, in which set
Element Russia prevented Japan from
taking possession of Manchuria."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
DRIED UP ON AN ISLAND,
Four Sailors Turned Into Mummies b,
Solar Heat.

" IA AuAItu INTO nlunlmIaS nv
Solar Heat.
The warmest weather that ever
experienced" writes a navigator who
has been all over the world, was on a
small island called Johns Biscuit. off
Cape Gracias, on the coast of Hondu-
ras. The Elizabeth Jennings, on which
| sailed in 1879 from Portland, stopped
there for water, and a boats crew went
ashore for it. 1t was a little volcanic
island and awful dry and hot. We
didn't know whether there would be
any water there or not, but We did find
a spring with a stream as large as
a b~roomhandle pouring out all the
time. And, do you believe me, the
water was dried up and soaked I'D be-
fore it had run four feet in the sand.
The place was covered with dried trees,
and a little distance away was what
looked like q hut-a habitation for
man. We went in and found the
shrunken remains of four men, sailors
probably, who had died in one night, to
judge from appearances. One was
leaning against the wall in a sitting
position. There was dry food on the
table, dry meat in a box and everything
was burning dry.
"A letter in the pocket of one man
was dated Liverpool, 1916, and on the
table was a bottle with a note in it,
evidently intended to be cast adrift.
1t said they were four English seamen,
marooned by the captain, left to die.
The note was dated 1916, and l suppose
they had been there dead in that hut
Tor over thirty years, and they must
have died of heat one day and dried
right up. We left them where we
found them"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

A novel lawsuit has just terminated
land. On November 5, 1894. Humph-
rey johnson shot and killed his wife
Nellie, at their home in C%ollinwood.
Then he committed suicide. Both had
children by former marriages. The adj
ministrator for the wife's children
bands children for $40, 900 damages for
the killing of Mrs. Johnson. The jury
brought in a verdict for $4,000.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
THE KEYS.
An Ancient Midnight Ceremony ut
the Tower of London.

An Ancient Midnight Ceremony ut
the Tower of
A custom continued down into Vic
toria's reign is described as follows:
A few minutes before the clock
strikes the hour of IL the head ward
er (yeoman porter clothed i'll a long
red cloak, bearing a large bunch of
keys and attended by a brother ward
err carrying a lantern, appears in front
of the guard house and loudly calls
out: escort keys The sergeant of
the guard with five or six men, then
turns out, following him to the Spur"
or outer gate, each sentry challenging
there?" Keys" The gates being
carefully locked and barred, the pro-
cession returns, the sentries exacting
the same explanation and receiving
the same answer as before, Arrived
once more in front of the main guard
house, the sentry there gives a loud
stamp with his foot and asks: who
goes there?' Keys "Whose keys?''
'Queen Victoria's keys, and all's
well!" The yeoman porter then ex-
claims, God bless Queen Victorian
The man with the lantern then says.
"Amen!' The officer on duty gives the
word present arms!' the firelocks rat
tie, the officer kisses the hilt of the
sword, the escort fall in among their
companions, and the yeoman porter
marches across the parade alone to de
post the keys in the l~ieutenant's lodg-
ings.
The ceremony over, not only is all
egress and ingress totally precluded,
but even within the walls no one can
stir without being furnished with the
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
LAWS OF MODEM WARFARE.
A Summary of Them as Observed by
Civilized Nations.

"A summary or Ihem as observed by
Civilized Nations.
The laws of war; as at present
formulated by the civilized nations,
forbid the use of poison against the
enemy; murder by treachery, as, for
example, assuming the uniform or dis
playing the flag of a foe; the murder
of those who have surrendered, wheth-
er upon conditions or at discretion;
declarations that no quarter will be
given to an enemy; the use of such
arms or projectiles as will cause I'M
necessary pain or suffering to an
enemy; the abuse of a flag of truce to
gall information concerning an
enemy's positions; all unnecessary de-
struction of property, whether public
or private. They also declare that
only fortified places shall be besieged,
open cities or villages not to be sub
ject to siege or bo%mardment; that pub
lie buildings of whatever character,
whether belonging to church or state,
shall be spared; that ~plundering by
private soldiers or their officers shall
be considered inadmissible; that pris-
oners shall be treated with common
humanity; that the personal effects
and private property of prisoners, ex-
ceptlng their arms and ammunition,
shall be respected; that the population
of an enemy's country shall be con-
sidered exempt from participation in
the war, unless by hostile acts they
provoke the ill-will of the enemy. Per-
sonal and family honor and the re-
ligious convictions of an invaded peo-
pie must be respected by the invaders,
and all pillage by regular troops or
their followers strictly forbidden.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
DO Not Want Sunday MnrL

BY order of the city council of To-
ronto, Canada, a ballot was taken
among the street railway employees TO
ascertain their sentiment on the uues-
ton OF running the street cars on
Sunday. Two hundred and fifty men
voted. OF these 22O were against Sun
day work.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

of the free homestead hill fear thai The
measure has been killed, So far as
this congress is concerned. by the at,
ton of Speaker Reed in referring ii IL
the house committee on public lands
for consideration of the senate amend
mcnts. The house committee j. MOI
strongly in favor of the plan.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18
His Chief TroubIe.

"What's the matter:'' asked the 20
Iiceman; haven't you any place to go?"
"Any place to go!' replied Meander-
ing Mike, With contempt. I've got
the whole United States before me.
I've got 50 many places ter go to dat
it's worrying me dizzy MAXIM up my
mind which way ter start."-Washing-
ton Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

The total output of the Cripple Creek
district from 1892 to 1895, inclusive,
was $13,7 100000. 1t is expected that
this years output will reach $40, 900, 900,
making a total of 1923, 700, 900. 1t is
claimed that of this years output 3d.
500. 900 will be net profit to the owners
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

The women do not possess full SUI
frage In Kansas, but they secured more
public Offices in the last election than
did the women of Utah or Colorado
twenty county superintendencies Of
public instruction, and all the offices,
from mayor to chief of police, in two
cities.