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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
1T IS
Roman Catholic Priests Organize 4,
Grand Army Post.

Roman Catholic Priests Organize o
Grand Army Post.
A Grand Army post has just been
formed in Indiana whose membership,
with one exception, is made up of Rom
an Catholic priests and brothers of the
Order of the Holy Cross. This unique
addition to the Grand Army is located
at Notre Dame, the seat of Notre Dame
university. The formation of the pest
was suggested by the presence In the
university of so many instructors who
fought in the war or were chaplains.
A brother who fought all through the
wal in the Irish brigade was receEtiy
transferred to Notre Dame from IN
university, and a list of eligibles was
a member of the Grand Army and
wanted to remain one. The Very Rev.
Father Corby, who was chaplain Cf
tn, Irish brigade, is o superior of
the Order of the Holy Cross. He APP
proved the suggestion of a post at the
university, and a list ofeligibles was
made. Enough were found to make a
quorum and six over. Accordingly the
post was organized under permission
regularly granted by State Commander
Dodge. Notre Dame has a fine war
record. In all, eight priests left there
to serve as chaplains, most of whom
are now dead. In addition. there were
sixty sisters of the Order of the Holy
Cross who went out as nurses. under
Mother Mary Angela, a cousin of
James G. Blaine. Most of the veterans
among the brothers Joined the organic
alton after the close of the war. Gel.
Olmstead, who now belongs to the or
der, is also a member. The only lay
man who has been admitted to this
branch of the church militant is Col.
| William Haynes, who is the dean Of
the law school. Brother Leander, who
was a private in the Fifteenth Regi-
ment of the regular army all through
the war, was chiefly instrumental In
the posts organization.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
FACTS.

Only 9 per cent of cases of amputa-
ton are fatal.
Australia harbors one species Of kan
CARGO no larger than a rat.
One pound of Sleeps wool is capable
Of producing one yard of cloth.
Down to the Norman conquest the
Britons had living money" and dead
money" the former being slaves and
cattle, the latter metal.
Alexander the Great had a lage num-
Der of wives, and was accustomed to re-
duce them to obedience by using the
fiat of his sword as a corrective.
When old coins are worn SO that it
is hard to make out the inscription,
gradually heat the coin, and in almost
all cases the inscription will appear.
A Dakota mar has. after 20 years
efforts, succeeded in collecting SIS from
the government for supplies furnished
Clusters army on it's way to the Little
Big Horn.
Alexander McIlroy, who died the 9th
er day at his home in Philadelphia, was
a delegate to the national Wing con-
vention that nominated Gen. William
Henry Harrison.
Sidney Smiths wife was such a good
cook that he calculated that during the
course of his life he had eaten forty
eight four-horse wagon loads more
than was good for him.
The longest continued cataleptic
sleep known to science was reported
from Germany in 1892, the patient hay
ing remained absolutely unconscious
for four and a halt months,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
AS TRUE AS GOSPEL,

A man that can be fattered is not
necessarily a fool, but you can make
one of him.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow
from a joyous heart, for without kind
ness there can be no true joy.
The failures of life come from rest
ing in good intentions, which are in
vain unless carried out in wise ac-
ton.
Only the brave know how to for
give; it is the most refined and gener-
Gus pitch of virtue human nature can
arrive at.
The most exquisite times in most
peoples lives are those when they are
(perhaps unconsciously) expecting
something.
Love has no commandment. She
does all, and delays not. 1t is enough
to her that it is only shown her: she
needs no driving.
Absence lessons small passions and
increases great ones as the wind ex-
tinguishes the taper and kindles the
burning dwelling.
1t is more honorable to the head, as
we'll as to the heart, to be mislead in
our eagerness in the pursuit of truth
than to be safe from laundering by
contempt of it.
That which we acquired with the
most difficulty we retain the longest; as
those who have earned a fortune are
usually more careful of it than those
who have inherited it.
Temptations are crises which test
the strength of a mans character.
Whether we stand or fall at these
crises depends largely on what we are
before the testing comes.
Some folks, like tug boats, seldom
accomplish anything without Il great
deal of putting and blowing; but unlike
tug boats, they often puff and blow
without accomplishing anything.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

ten years old that you ever saw, but l
and did not understand how delicate
she really a I actually believe l
was in love with her then, but l was
at the most awkward age for such SEN
timent, and l covered my actual ador-
alton by teasing her. We were on
the hill behind my uncle's house, where
there was a steep declivity, and | was,
as usual, half romping with her, tax
ing her temper by my hateful manner,
when somehow, heaven knows how un-
intentionally, I pushed her over the
edge Of the hill, and she fell down to
the foot. When l reached her she was
white and senseless, and l thought
dead. Oh, the long agony of that walk
when | took her in my arms to the
house, staggering into the room where
her mother was and putting her into
her arms, only to rush away for a doc
tor. l was a murderer in my own eyes,
and for days while she lay between life
and death my misery could not be de-
scribed. 1t was some comfort that
she lived, but when | was told that the
injury to her spine would be a lifelong
deformity, then, boy as l was, l made
a solemn vow to devote my life 10
her."
The little figure on the lounge ouiy-
cred convulsively, the tiny hands
pressed each other closely, and only by
a great effort did the listener smother a
cry OF pain. Presently the deep, man.
iy voice resumed the story.
Il was sent back to boarding school
before May Ibid I tell you her name
was May Talbot? p was able to see me
and from school l went to college, while
my uncle and aunt were in Germany
trying the baths for their darling. Ev-
cry letter was a torture for me. vet !
longed for them, watched for them, and
shed bitter tears over the record of the
suffering | had caused. But it was ten
years before I saw May again. 1 went
abroad when they came home. but cir
cumstances prevented a farewell visi,
to Owls Nest, and I remained. as you
know, in Italy. on account of my faith
er's health, Do you wonder. Roy. that
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Japanese immigration is attracting
attention not only in the South Pacific.
where its effects have produced i'm
portant consequences in the relations
between Hawaii and Japan, but also on
the Pacific coast, says Bradstreet's.
The entrance of Japanese immigrants
into California has attracted consider
able attention there also, though the
number OF Japanese who have thus far
arrived to obtain employment in the
beet-fields is small. The men who ar.
rived were engaged with great prompt.
ness, a circumstance which gave rise
to the suspicion that they came to the
United States under contract to labor.
Up to the present, at any rate, the
movement has not been of suficient
volume to Justify the alarm expressed
over 1t In some quarters. According to
the best evidence obtainable regard
ing the situation, 1t appears that while
some Japanese are working in the
fields, about IS per cent of the labo,
Of raising beets at jacksonville. one
Of the centers of the industry, is done
by American laborers, so that unless
there should be a great increase In thu
volume of immigration the fears tina
have been expressed from time to tim,
regarding the threatening nature q
Japanese competition on the Pacif,
coast would seem to be exaggerated.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

VI this l0up liz
ard has just been brought to the Lon
don Zoo from South Africa. A natural
list who undertook to kill one writes:
Having caught one of the species
by the neck so that she could not bite
me, l got a large worsted needle, and
gave her several punctures with 1t, not
only in the heart, but in every part Of
the Uranium which was in contact with
the brain. This. however, was so far
from answering my purpose, which
was to kill her in the most speedy and
least painful manner. without mangling
or mutilating her, that she seemed to
have still enough life left to be able
to fun away.
After this, my host undertook to
put an end to her; and, having given
her several hard sdueezes about the
chest and tied her feet together. hung
her up by the neck in a moose. which
he drew as tight as he possibly could.
From this situation she was found,
in a space of forty-eight hours, to have
extricated herself, though she still re-
manned near the farm, appearing at
the same time to be almost exhausted.
Upon this we tied her feet close behind
her, SO that with her long and sharp
claws; of which she had five Upon each
foot, she could not damage the ~serpents
and other animals which / kept in a
eask of brandy, and among which / put
her with my own hands, holding her
a long time under the surface of the
liquor. Yet she was so far from being
suffocated Immediately that she fcunc-
ed about. and even a quarter of an
hour afterward convinced lis by her
motions that she had still some life
remaining In her.
The Nile monitor or varar rV~aranus
Nlloticus), of which the newcomer at
the Zoo is a specimen. is, perhaps. the
largest member of the family, n has
been known to attain a length of over
six feet. In structural character it is
somewhat distinct from other lizards,
approaching in several respects it's en-
envy, the crocodile-the largest of *
listing reptiles. 1t is on the eggs of
~crocodiles, or the young ~crocodiles
themselves, that it chiefly feeds, a hab-
1t which is said to explain the fact
that it appears on the monuments OF
the ancient Egyptians. 1t is still com
mon to the Nile, though it has also
been found in the rivers of South At
RIGA, as we'll as in Senegal and near
Sierra Leone,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

The dogs that are now enjoying their
day in Chicago answer to the greatest
collection of fancy Applications ever
bestowed by unkind sponsors on the
canine tribe. There are Rum Punches"
and Gin FIXES" and Cocktails" and
"Absinthes" until the noise Of a peace
full neighborhood resembles the intox-
icating furore of a barroom. There are
'Patricks" and Tim Toolans' and
Peter Kelleys' and Brian Borus" I'M
til the mind is filled with the thought
of the shamrock and the shadow of
the s~hillalagh hovers unpleasantly
near. Rob Roy McGregor" is the dig
nified title of a frolicsome Scotch col
lie: "Paderewski" calls a musical ter
rier with a chrysanthemum shock of
tangled yellow hair; BILLY Sykes is
an ugly bull; "Fingal," a dainty poodle
and uncle Dudley" a harmless pug
Fly
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
BULLET PROOF,
A Remarkable Cloth Tested That Comes
Very Close to 1t.

n remarkable cloth Tested That Comes
Very Close to 1t.
This week there is to be a further
test in Chicago of the power of Zeg-
ler's b~ullet-proof cloth to resist the
steel-jacketed missiles of the Krag-
%Jorgensen rife. The test will be made
in the presence of the German and
Austrian consuls by their request. Last
week the first test was made by two
soldiers from Fort Sheridan. Col. Hail,
the c~ommandant of the post; Lieut.
Col. Carpenter and a number of other
officers were present. 1t was the first
time that the army's new rifle had
been tried against any of the so-calIed
bullet-proof cloths, and the officers
were quite confident that the II
would win. Lieut.. Saranecki attached
the cloth, which measured twenty-four
by sixteen inches, to the wooden figure
of a man which is used by the soldiers
OF the fort as a target. The first shot
fired was at 400 yards distance, and the
bullet fell to the ground twisted after
tearing a hole half an inch deep in
the cloth. At $50 yards the bullet
penetrated the cloth a quarter of an
inch and stuck. At 300 yards the bull
let went in deeper, and at $50 yards it
went half way through. At 200 yards
the bullet passed through, it's head O
jecting a sixteenth of an inch. The
army officers were much impressed by
the tests, but say that the cloth can
not be made into uniforms on account
of its weight. The piece used in the
tests weighed fourteen pounds. Be-
sides, the shock of impact would be suf-
ficient to kill a man, even though the
ball did not break the skin. The Krag-
Jorgensen is the most powerful of mod
ern rifles and will kill a man two miles
away. 1t is thought that Zegler's
cloth may be utilized to make shields
for Calling and other machine guns.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

earshOt of an open window whose close
blinds were deceptive, inasmuch as
they kept out sight but admitted
sound.
One of the men, Roy Somers, had late-
ly returned from a three years soJourn
abroad, and had accidentally met at the
dinner table his old college chum n
dear friend, Robert Blake, a young law
yer rising in his profession. Or MIN l
will say here that he was yet young,
about twenty-six or seven, a good o
ing, manly fellow, with a handsome
| income. Now let him speak for him.
| self.
Lying upon a wide lounge, just under
the window of which l made mention,
was a little figure hidden by an Afghan.
| but above his could be seen a face of
delicate beauty, with child like i
eyes, wistful and pathetic in express
sion and loose curls of pure golden tint.
Over this face was a perplexed shadow,
and more than once the pretty lips
murmured:
ooh. how mean, how wicked 1t is
| to listen. But I must hear! l mus
hear"
The friends had discussed current
| topics until. as 1 nave said they became
confidential, when Roy said, rather abb
ruptly:
81 heard some gossip about you as l
passed through New York
Yes? l did not know l was of sufii-
cient Importance to be a subject for
gossip. What, if it is not a secret, did
you hear?"
Tell me, first, if you are engaged to
be married?"
No.
"Short and not particularly sweet. l
heard then that you were engaged to a
~hunchback, a little monster"
The face on the other side of the win
dow grew white as snow, but Robert
Blake gathered his brow in n heavy
| frown.
Don't be angry, old fellow." his
friend pleaded. Il was foolish to re-
peat it. 1 might have known it was
false, being we'll aware of your fastid-
ious love of beauty"
False, yes! But I would give all
own to make it true. You have heard
the gossip, shall l tell you the TRUTH"
See here. Bob! I've made a mess
somehow. Do forget it,"
Look at that" said Robert, open
ing a small velvet case he took from his
breast pocket. 'Tell me what you
think of it,"
"It is beautiful! Lovely; One of
the few faces one may call angelic"
And mind and heart are as beauti-
full. as angelic as the face
: II can easily believe it. The expires.
sion is pure and sweet as a Babes"
"Yet you just called her a little mon
ster."
Bob! You cannot mean that she,
the original of this miniature, is de-
formed"
Eyes. She was crippled in childhood
by me-"
by you!"
"She is a connection of mine, a step
child of my uncle, and when we were
children we spent our to-
gether, as l was a yearly guest at Owls
Nest, my uncle's place on the Hudson.
She was the sweetest little fairy at
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Since the cities of this country have
begun to give attention to the matter
of street cleanliness the resulting ben
efts have been so striking that the
movement has received an impetus that
nothing can check. Clean streets mean
a low mortality rate, and no other rec
ommendation is of SO great advantage
to a city. One of the first requirements
to enable a city to be clean in respect
to its streets is smooth pavements.
Paris has probably the ~cleanest streets
OF any city in the world, and the rea-
son why its streets can be kept so
clean is that most Of them are smooth
paved.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

1t was said recently that il women
bonnets the congregation would have
"a more devotional and homelike as
pect.. Were ~fossbring their
knitting the aspect would be even
more "homelike." Nevertheless, the
apostles word about women being
covered in church remains in force.
The distinction between a pew and the
porch of a summer hotel is a vital one,
both for behavior and for dress.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Believers in the wooden nutmeg leg
end can say once more that time makes
all things even. A stranger sas ap-
peared in Connecticut with a prepara-
ton warranted by him to keep flies and
mosquitoes away from domestic ami
mails. , One package dissolved in ten
quarts of water was said to be sufi-
Gent to protect twelve oxen, or TWEEN
ty-four horses. After the seller had
disappeared the stuff was examined anu
found to be oak sawdust scented with
camphor.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
KNICKNAMES OF CITIES.

New York-Gotham.
Louisville-Fall City.
Aberdeen-Granite City.
Keokuk-The Gate City.
Pittsburg-The Iron City.
Hannibal-The Bluff City.
Chicago-The Garden City.
Rochester-The Flour City.
Pittsburg-The Smoky City.
st. Louis-The Mound City.
London-The Modern Babylon.
New Haven-The City Of Elms.
Detroit-The City of the Straits.
Indianapolis-The Railroad City.
Raleigh, N. C.-The City of Oaks.
Brooklyn-The City of Churches.
Baltimore-The Monumental City.
Nashville-The City of the Rocks.
Springfield, Il.-The Flower City.
Cincinnati-The Queen City of the
West.
Cleveland and Portland-The Forest
Cities.
Buffalo-The Queen City of the
Lakes.
Ancient Rome-The Mistress of the
World.
Washington-The City of Magnificent
Distances.
Philadelphia-The City of B~rotherly
Love and the Quaker City.
Brussels-Little Paris. The name is
sometimes applied to Milan.
Observation-Disclosures. This name
has sometimes been applied to Chicago.
Boston-The City of Notions, the
Puritan City, the City of Culture, the,
Modern Athens, and the Hub Of tn
Universe,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Charles Titel, a poor man in search
of work in Milwaukee, received word
from Chicago that he was left a legacy
of So, 900. Being without money to pur-
chase a ticket to Chicago, he resolved
to reach there by stealing a ride on a
freight train. In attempting to do so he
was drawn under the wheels and al
most ground to pieces. He died a short
time after the accident.-Ex.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

The European powers. like the fisher
nan in the Arabian Nights who re.
leased the genie from his imprison-
ment, are finding it no easy task 10
crowd Turkey back into its former
compass. The sultan, who has prof
tied by the exhibition of vacillation and
indecision which was given by the pow
ers last spring, demands a slice of
Greek territory, and adds with con-
siderable force that il they could not
dislodge vassos and his two thousand
Greeks from Crete he is not afraid of
their driving three hundred thousand
victorious Turks out of Thessaly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Boston Traveller: The president of the
Woman's Advancement society was Wis
IDLY agitated. So was the secretary.
Mrs. Nimbelung, who was to deliver
the address at to-day's meeting, cannot
be present. said the former.
why not?" asked the latter.
"Her husband has been seriously i'll for
three or four days."
But a woman of her strength of prin-
ciple won't neglect her work in the great
cause to attend to the paltry needs of
an individual-and a male Individual at
that?"
Certainly not, but he writes her
speecheS."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Think of Timothy Reynolds of Os-
wego Falls, N. Y, who left home last
week for the Klondyke country with
only SIS in his inside pocket. There's
nerve for you. Tim insists that he will
get there, and get there right.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

Any Weary Waggles who is think
ing of going to Alaska can assure him
eelf a measure of respect by getting,
incorporated as the North Pole Cornu-
copia Company, limited, capital $1,00o,-
600, 900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23

In some of the great department
stores of Paris there Is In operation
for the convenience of customers a
moving staircase in the shape of an
endless leather belt transferring them
from n story to another. 1t is called
a transporting carpet. Endless belts
of canvas have been used for some
time for conveying packages from mi
part of a store to another.
When the cowboy of Venezuela
wishes to catch a bull or COW for
branding he rides alongside it and with
horse and bovine on the dead run
stoops from the saddle, grasps the
creatures tail with a sharp and pecu-
liar twist and sends the animal rolling
on it's back. From the force with
which 1t falls the animals horns al
most Invariably pin it to the ground,
giving the cowboy time to dismount
and sit on Its head while a companion
ties its legs.
In the kingdom of Poland there was
formerly a law that d person convict
ed of SANDER must walk on all fours
through the streets of the town. ac-
companied by the beadle, as Il sign
he was disgraced. At the next public
festival the delinquent had to crawl on
hands and knees Under the banquet
table and bark like a dog. Each guest
was at liberty to give him as many
kicks as he chose and he who had been
slandered must at the end of the BAN
quet throw a picked bone at the cul-
prit, who, picking it up in mouth, would
leave the room on all tours.
Kentucky has $500 miles Of turn
movement against these which devel-
pike controlled by private companies.
Several months ago there began a
oped into a general uprising. In mobs
of forty to one hundred, armed with
shotguns and axes; citizens rode from
town to town leaving a trail of broken
toll gates in their wake. Gate keep
ers were warned not to repair gates
mol to collect more toll under penalty
of being burned out. The gates de-
stroyed represented 1900 miles Of turn
pike, valued at $4,000. 900. Public SEN
timent largely sustained the raiders.
The cost Of six-tenths of the toll-roads
in their construction was borne by the
state or by the county through which
the road runs. Under the enabling
act of 1890 the counties are gradually
acquiring the roads. The chief diff
Guilty in the way is the high price at
which they are held by the companies.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
Princess Chimay Making Butter.

The Princess Chimay and Rigo, her
gypsy lover, are, it is said, living on a
small farm in the Tyrol, where the
princess superintends the making Of
butter. She gets a small income from
her photographs in the nude, but be-
yond that and the farm her income docs
NOT extend
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.


TWO HIM anu II CuU.
"GeOrgie, have you seen papa's
straw hat?
"Yes; mamma wored it away on her
wheel"
"And where's papa's capY'
"Aunt Nellie wOred it to the tennis
match"
".And papa's plug hat""
"Sister wOred it a horseback ridin'."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-23
willing to Please.

"1his is too much." he ex claimed,
when his wife appeared in her new
bathing suit for his inspection.
"Do you think sO?' she asked. swell,
I'll take off six inches more of the
skirt. "-Chicago Post .
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FacetiOusIy Intended.

"One of Mack's bridal presents was
a lawn mower, and it made him furi-
ous.'
Furious! He ought to have been
pleased"
mo; you see he married a grass
widow."-Puck.