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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
'BEFO' THE A
The Sunsets Then Were Far More.

The Sunsets Then Were Far More
Beautiful.
Southerners who lived in more luxury
before the war than they have been
able to do since have a very natural
way of dating everything by compar-
ing every event of the present time to
those palmy days "befo' the wa" says
the Country Gentleman. 1t is quite I'M
necessary to add that all things suffer
by the comparison. 1t was the custom
of the guests at the sanitarium to as
semble on the porches just before sun
down, to watch the retiring process Of
old Sol as he slipped away to bed be-
hind Mount Pisgah, one of the Hottest
peaks of the Blue range. Some of the
guests were asserting they could see
the gray hairs on the back of the Rat"
another elevation, so called from it's
resemblance to that animal. A little
patch of f1eecy clouds had evidently
caught fast on the pines in passing a
cliff, and some one said Beancatcher
peak was flirting with Beaumont; while
the Balsam range, others said, had al
ready put on a nightcap of mist, with
now and then -h~lua-blaek peak pro-
jecting above the clouds. Otherwise
moi a cloud was to be seen save a few
mackerel scales just above the western
horizon. Just as but half of the suns
orb was left in view and shadows were
rapidly deepening and the last depart
ing shafts of sunlight were gliding the
domes of the most lofty hills and every
one was all but speeches. with admira-
ton at the splendor of the sunset, one
woman, a northerner { 4 a newcomer,
was able to keep her tongue going.
"Oh, l do think" she was saying to a
southern lady, that it is the most ex-
quisite sunset I ever saw; tell me, is it
a custom down here for the sun to set
like that?" "Oh, that's nothing" was
the reply; you should have seer it
'befo' the wa'w
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

The asparagus served at the Elysee
banquet cost the respectable sum of
3 francs per piece, or 80 francs the
bundle, and any one fond of reckon
ing may form a guess as to the prob
able total cost of this course alone
and the amount consumed among 200
guests. Still, the price was not I'M
reasonable, all things considered, as
asparagus during the month of October
has hitherto been an unrealized dream
of cultivators, who so far have only
managed with the greatest difficulty to
raise a poor apology for the real vege-
table in December by means of hot
houses and %unceasing care and pains.
Every one knows the difference be-
tween the latter and fresh spring
asparagus; but that placed before the
car vas freshly cut and in no whit
inferior to the very best grown in April
or May. The expensive dainty came
from the far-famed garden of Carpen-
tras, whence all the finest produce of
the kind in Paris comes, and the grow
ers of that district are justly proud Of
their latest success, which has excited
much interest in horticultural circles,
and will no doubt do lasting good to
the growers.-Gentlewoman.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
"I'M ASHAMED OF YOU"

how it happened, the big blue eyes
flashed for a moment into his and he
was on his feet blushing and bowling.
This was the beginning, and it be-
came customary to bow, later to sit side
by side and talk during lunch, and, if
time permitted, to walk with her as
far as the Monadnock building, where
she was employed. He had vainly tried
to discover her name, but when he had
naively informed her that it was aWk-
ward to call her Say" she had asked
him to call her simply Miss Margaret,
adding that this was what she was most
generally called and was most accus-
toned to.
This went on for several weeks and
Joe had several times been Oh the verge
of asking for her address hat he might
call, or asking her to accompany him
to the theater, but he kept delaying,
fearing that he might rupture the grow
ing friendship and be left again to
himself and the lonesomeness of feel
ing that he knew almost no one.
One noontime land Joe will always
remember it, she was not in her ac-
customed place, although the day be-
fore she had been specializing what the
bill of fare would be. He ate as slowly
as he could and spent his whole noon
hour in the restaurant, but when he
left, the chair was still vacant. The
next day the same experience. He re-
preached himself for not finding out
more about her-perhaps she was sick
or had met with an accident. At any
rate, she knew his name and address
why didn't she at least drop him a
line? Surely it was cruel to leave him
in such uncertainty. He brooded over
what might possibly have happened to
her, till his health began to fail. He
had never thought the daily walk of a
few blocks could mean so much to him.
Several weeks passed by and the
chair still continued vacant. On the
very day his two years was up Joe re-
membered that she had spoken OF
Oconomowoc one day in connection
with her family. He would ask for
a few days respite from work and go
up there. He had lever asked for a
vacation and they surely would not re-
fuse him. Besides, it was not far from
Chicago and many Chicago men went
up Saturday nights to spend Sunday
with their families who were stopping
there. Anyhow, he would go for the
rest of the week-possibly he might
see her or learn of her and the change
would do him good ven if he didn't.
The mex morning, Wednesday, he
started. He could only be spared for
for the rest of the week, but what
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
EVOLUTION OF THE UMBRELLA
From the O1d-Time Whalebone Spreader
Tn the gnxu rbarraI StaI

From the whalebone spreader
to the Bow Channel Steel.
Forty years or so ago umbrellas were
made with stretchers or bows of whale
bone. These bows were rather bulky
In themselves, and they were apt to get
a little permanent bend from long use
SO that they bulged when the umbrella
was rolled up; making the big, baggy
umbrella, familiar to middle-aged and
older people, and occasionally still
seen, though on the stage oftener than
in real life. With the introduction OF
petroleum oil into general use as an
Illuminating oil, and the consequent
very general abandonment of the use OF
whale oil came the decline of the whal-
ing industry. Fewer and fewer vessels
went after whales, because there was
less and less demand for the oil. OF
course, the supply of whalebone de-
creased with the supply of oil, but the
price did not, nor did the demand.
There are still some uses for which
whalebone is considered most desira-
BILE, and with constant demand and de-
creasing supply the price of whalebone
steadily advanced, as it has continued
to do. Whalebone soon became too
costly to permit of its further use for
umbrella stretchers. At first a slender,
round, tempered steel rod. With these
%slenderer bows the umbrella could be
more snuglv rolled and the old baggy
umbrella began to disappear, and the
modern tight roller to take it's place.
Then came umbrella bows of light steel
rolled in V shape, and then, in the
quest for a still tighter roller, umbrella
handles were made of metal. The first
tubing handles were made of brass.
Steel would have been cheaper, but
there had been discovered no satisfac-
tory method of brazing steel tubes such
as are used in umbrella handles. There
is such a method now, however, and
umbrella handles of steel tubing are
now made in great numbers. And
nowadays many spreaders are made OF
steel, rolled channel-shaped. In cross
section this spreader is shaped some
thing like a capital letter E without a
tongue, and the ribs of the umbrella
the steel rods that run from the slid
ing f%errule, or runner, as it is called,
on the handle of the umbrella, by
~eans of which the umbrella is spread
are SO attached and adjusted to the
%spreaders that they shut into the chan
nels when the umbrella is closed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

Il have been making some inquiries
regarding you,' said the old man.
''and, from all reports. you seem to be
a man with whom 1 may safely intrust
my daughters happiness
II am. glad to hear you---"
LAS / was about to say" broke in
the first speaker. 81 have learned moth
Ing against you, and, somehow. VOTE
face seems familiar to me. and l in.
voluntarily associate it with the Grill
inal CLASSES"
"The criminal classes, sir?"
Yes, sir; the criminal classes. Is it
possible that you were brought before
me while | was on the bench?'
Possibly sore of my youthful esca-
pades may have given me that honor
responded the reformed b~rok-ageut,
II under his breath he murmnred:
"By ginger! l was afraid he was 60
ing to recall the time l took his sub
scription for that encyclopedia DE
tr0it News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
A Society Education.

Why would it not be WELL" said q
clever woman, half sarcastically and
half in earnest, ito introduce the fash.
ionable game of the day into the cur.
riculum of a modern young lady's edu-
cation? For instance, just now It
might be golf. A young woman who
eXcels in this popular sport obtains
much more desirable as a companion
than a proficient in music or an artist
OF merit. A young woman who rides
straight across the country need never
really care If she knows much about
science or history. 1t really seems alb
sure to see the way a m who ex-
GELS In sport is talked about and the
interest she excites. But since 1t is SO,
why not make it a part of education?
why teach a girl music and spend
Tune and money Over what will never
be OF any use or advantage? How
much better it would be if she were
taught games scientifically, so that she
could play them with credit to herself
and pleasure. to others. My own preju-
dice is in favor of a good, old-fash-
loned education, but when one sees the
russ that is made over u women ath-
!etes, L am obliged to ask myself. If 1t
is the spirit of the age, why they fight
against it? Why should not the in
structors Of the new girl seek rather
to direct this superfuous energy, or
whatever 1t is, and, recognizing the al
tered condition of things, out-Herod
Herod?"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
The Upper Air.

Scientific curiosity knows no bounds.
One of its latest manifestations is the
attempt of Messieurs Basancon and
Hermite at Paris to ascertain the COM
position of the air at great heights
above the earth. Fol this purpose they
send up balloons containing an instru-
ment invented by Monsieur Hermite,
which consists of a tube exhausted of
air and fitted with a valve which auto
matically opens at a time fixed in adj
vance. AS soon as air has rushed into
the tube the valve closes. The height
at which the tube was filled is known
by means of a self-recording barome-
ter. No important discovery has yet
been achieved with this instrument,
but interesting results are expected
from it. 1t is the converse of the in
struments which are used to bring up
specimens of water from great depths
in the sea.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
BIO COMET COMING OUR WAY.
"A splendid Traveller Due to Be Within
Human Vision in 1911.

"A Splendid Traveller Due to Be Within
Human Vision In 1sII-
Halley's comet is coming back-the
comet which in the veal 1866 shed a.
celestial splendor over the Norman
conquest and whose demonstrating
visit was commemorated by the hand
OF Queen Matilda in the Bayeaux
tapestry, says the Providence Journal;
the comet that in 1456, the year of the
battle OF Belgrade, scared the Turk and
Christian alike and was nathematized
by a bull from the pope; the comet
whose strange, scimiter form still
chilled the marrow of the ignorant
and superstitious at its latest return
in 1885. 1t is yet far away, but the
eye of science sees it, already within
the orbit of Neptune, rushing sunward
and earthward with constantly ~increas-
ing velocity as it falls along the steep
curve Of it's orbit. And a call to arms,
a call for preparation, has just beer
issued from n of the chief watch
overs of astronomy. Prof. Glassnapp
announces that the computing bureau
CotdpllouSu ny lie IluSSldu ASlTOQOW-
ical society has undertaken the calcu-
lation Of the true path of H%alley's
comet with a view to predicting the
exact date of the next return. He
hopes that astronomers acquainted
with unpublished observations of the
comet will communicate the informa-
ton to the society. After it's peri
helion the comet was watched retreat
ing out into space until May, 1886, when
it was finally swallowed from sight.
1t will be in perihelion again about
1911, but with the great telescopes now
in existence, and the greater ones that
may then have been constructed. it
is probable that the comet will be de-
tected coming sunward a year or more
earlier than that. The fact that the
labor Of computing the precise time
Of it's return is already about to be-
gin gives assurance that the next time
it will not be a question of how many
days, but rather of how many hours,
or wen minutes, the calculations will
be in error.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
ITEMS OF

The largest standing army is pos
sessed by Russia. Germany and France
come next.
The West Point Academy has this
year a class of 33o cadets, the largest in
the history of the institution.
Michael Faraday, the noted chemist
and philosopher, began his business
career, at the age of thirteen, as a
London newsboy.
In the Baltic Sea there are more
wrecks than in any other place in the
world. The average throughout the
year is one each day.
The late Mrs. Hicks-Lord, of this
city, so appreciated the faithfulness OF
her colored maid, Maria, that she be-
queathed to her $500 a month for life.
Russia, with a population of 10000
900, has only 1884 physicians. In the
United States, with a population OF
about rs, 200, 900, there are 100000 ply
sicians.
Paul Hogue, of St. Joseph, Mich,
tried to kill q calf by striking it with
the butt of his gun. The gun was dis
charged by the blow, causing the death
of Mr.. Hogue.
The cultivation Of sugar Deets has
proved so profitable this year on Grand
Island, Nebraska, that farmers have
sold their crops for sums double the
value of the land on which they were
grown.
The problem of cheap living has been
solved by the Rev. Miles Grant. of
Boston. His daily diet is graham bread,
milk, cheese and vegetables, and he
continues to maintain good health at
a cost of 81 cents a week.
The eyesight of a San Francisco cat
became defective, and the owner, Miss
Thompson, induced an oculist of that
city to make a pair of spectacles for
the animal. Now the cat can see as
we'll as ever with their aid.
Stout canes in large numbers have
for some time been conveyed across the
Prussian border into Russia. The
czar's officials at last examined the
canes and found them stuffed with nj
hilistic literature, printed on tissue
paper.
Columbia college is to have a gymna-
SUM which will cost 100000. There
will be a running track one-ninth of a
mile in circumference and 112 feet
wide. The main room will measure 35
feet high, 100 feet wide and 100 feet in
length.
An uncommon accident befell the lit
tie daughter of Washington McKinny,
of Sparta, Ohio. She was coming from
school, holding a pencil in her hand,
when she stumbled and fell. The pen
ell penetrated her chest, touched the
| heart, and caused death.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

What to wear on the head requires
more consideration again. Bonnats
and big hats with feathers are, of
course, out of the question. Stiff hats,
such as Alpines and Derbys, are not
always becoming, so that the choice Of
styles narrows down to the different
shapes in the toques and turbans. This
season the milliners have evidently an
ticipated the demand for never were
there so many and such fascinating
models to choose from. Cloth and vel
vet trimmed with fur, or all fur, are to
be had; those in deep red, dark green
or black, trimmed with mink or sable,
being the ~handsomest, not forgetting,
however, the dark brown.
Turbans made of Persian lamb have
a stiff aigrette, a pompon at the left
side made with felt, and a velvet
crown. The fur is put on to give a full,
rich look, and some of the latest are
~pheasants' breasts, with a bunch of fur
or fur tails. Ermine or any of the
light-colored furs are not fashionable
on skating toques or turbans, and bea-
yer or otter is the lightest that is used.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.

At the bottom of the deep seas the
water is only a few degrees above the
freezing point.
Ships built of steel are said to be
able to carry 20 per cent more freight
than those of iron.
The year of Mars is almost twice as
long as it is on our planet, bein exact
ly 687 days of terrestrial time.
Microscopists say that the strongest
microscopes do not, probably, reveal
the lowest stages of animal life.
Sun spots are believed to be openings
in the suns p~hotosphere, or luminous
envelope, through which the orb is
seen.
There are more wrecks in the Baltic
Sea than in any other place in the
world. The average is one wreck a day
throughout the year..
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
Learning to Walk,

One of the puzzling things to the stu
dents of the new science of pathology,
or child-study, is the different methods
which children employ in learning to
walk. One child will never creep, but
will rise up suddenly and toddle off,
another will creep entirely with one
knee and in a sideways direction, but
he, too, finds the use of his legs and
feet i'll good time, while a third bitches
along the floor in q sitting posture for
weeks before he stands and starts
away. Many more variations of the
plain straightforward creeping have
been discovered, and the experts are
wondering why this should be, as walk
ing is Il of the most instructive hab-
its Of the human animal, and ought to
be reached by a similar process in all
cases,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
ITS LATTER-DAY DEGENERACY.


The Umbrella Is No Longer a Portly,
Respectable Instrument.
The real old family umbrella has
gone out. Call that slim, stuck-up, af-
fected, attenuated thing a family UNI
brella? Go away, says a writer in Lon
don Queen. l remember the genuine
family umbrella; it was kept in reAul-
ness behind every front door; it was a
large, portly, heavy instrument. AS an
emblem of responsibility it was highly
esteemed in middle-class society; it was
serviceable as a tent in rainy weather;
it could be used as a weapon of offense
n defense on occasion. | have seen a
picture of an elderly gentleman keep
ing off a footpad by means of this lethal
umbrella. He made as if he would
spear or prod the villain. Why, one
prod would alone make a hole of six
inches diameter in that murderous car
cass. The nurse used to carry it, with
difficulty managing the baby and the
umbrella; it went out to tea with the
young ladies; the maid who fetched"
them home took the umbrella with her.
1t succeeded the lantern and the club
formerly carried by the prentice when
he escorted his mistress to the card
party after dark. remember it, l say.
There were three brothers who came to
the same school where l was but a
tiny little boy. They lived at some dis
lance and had to pass on their way to
school through a stratum of inferior
responsibility. Every morning brought
to these three brothers the delight and
excitement of battle with the boys be-
longing to that inferior responsibility.
To the eldest brother, who carried the
really important weapon, the umbrella
was exactly what his battle-ax was to
the Lion Heart. So he raised it; so
he welded it; so he swung it; so he
laid his enemies low to right and left
of him, before him and behind him
while the other two, relying on the
books tightly strapped, brought them
TO bear, with shrewd knocks and
thwacks and poundings, on heads and
shoulders and ribs.
, Twas a famous family umbrella
green, too, if l remember Alright.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25
No-To-pAc FOR FIFTY crxr.

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addressing the Sterling Remedy Co., Chi
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paper.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

been fortunate in securing a position
at once, through a brother OF his town
postmaster, who was now chief clerk
In the office. Joe will never forget
those two years-lonesome two years
they were, the more lonesome, perhaps,
because he had never been away from
home and among strangers before. >,
When he first came to Chicago the
Worlds Fair and other attractions
made the city a wonderful place for the
country boy, but these soon paled or
passed away, and the loneliness settled
upon him as he felt himself a stranger
in a strange land.
For a time he attended church, as
had been his habit at home, but they
were such large places, and the con-
%gregation and young folks dressed and
acted so differently from the church
folk at home that he finally got in the
habit of staying away. He sorely missed
his town acquaintance, the compan-
ionship of his sisters and brothers and
the bright smile of Cousin Fan, who
used to pop in SO Unexpectedly and
leave such a volume of sunshine behind
her when her father would come to
town to do his marketing. The girls
with whom some of his fellow-clerks
associated, and with whom they tried
to make him at home, somehow failed
to fill the bill. Somehow it didn't seem
right for the fellows to greet them on
the street with a familiar slap OF the
shoulder and a Hello, Kit, old girl,
how you ISL" and in spite OF himself
he felt too much of an aversion to
them to enjoy himself or make himself
entertaining and dropped them.
At last a change came-gradually, to
be sure, SO slowly that Joe hardly knew
there had been a change till 1t was
there. For several days the seat at
the opposite end of the table in the
restaurant Joe ate lunch had been &C.
cupied by a modest-appearing little
woman, whose long lashes fringed the
darkest of blue eyes and whose slight
ly pouting lips and rounded cheeks
glowed with the natural health which
can never be duplicated by art, and
which only country air can give. The
next day she was in the same seat, and
the next and the next, and Joe soon
came to look forward, unthinkingly, to
seeing the bright face of the unknown.
n day the chair was vacant, and
Joe, with a sense of deep disappoint-
ment, knew why it was he looked for
ward so eagerly to the monday meal.
The next noontime he took particular
pains with his toilet and was so i'm
patient that he was at the table five
minutes before his accustomed time.
She was not there and his heart sank.
A minute later it bounded again as he
saw the well-known figure coming down
the aisle. AS she pulled back her chair
preparatory to taking her seat, some
how or other, Joe never quite knew
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-25

From the Ellijau Mountain Sentinel.
Mr.. Henry Shepard was in town
Monday, and showed us the head of a
squirrel which his little boy killed that
was quite a curiosity. 1t had only one
ear, and its lower teeth had grown
upward into its upper jaw and the up
per teeth grown downward through it's
tongue into the lower jaw. 1t is a
mystery how it lived, as it was impos-
sible for it to have opened it's mouth.