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A Marvellous Feat of Memory.

Maretus tells us that during his tray efs over Europe he met the marvel of maryels'' at Padua The marvel in question was a young Corsiean, who was in the city for the purpose of pur- suing his studies at the university. Ma retus, having heard that the young man was gifted with an extraordinary mem ory, desired to put the student to the test
 The person who had informed the traveller concerning the wonderfnl re- tentfveness of the young Corsican's memory declared that he was so gifted in that faculty that he could repeat aa many as 86, GOO words if read over to him but opce. Maretus and three diHtin- guished Venetians agreed tp test the ac- ouraoy of the statement A ooihmittse visited the student of extraordinary memory and found him willing to Sub nit to tho ordeal. Accordingly there was read over to him ap almost inter- minabie list of words strung together without any consecutive order and without any meaning whatever,
 The young man stood all the time with his attention deeply fixed and bis eyes half closed. When the long string of words had been read off, he looked up cheerfully and repeated the whole of the uninteresting catalogue of words without single fault Then, to show how carefully his woaderful memory had retained every word, he wont through the list backward. When that task was finished. he took each alter nate word-frst, third. fifth. eto -and repeated them until the company was thoroughly convinced that they were in the presenc of the most wonderful prod igy of memory that the world had ever produced. St. Louis Republic.
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Evolution of Women.

Mr. GlCeson White discusses ill Cas- sells Family Magazine the subject of the evolution of women. MT, White approaches the matter from an artistic standpoint. There arc, he re- marks, several distinct aspects of beau ty-beauty of form, beauty of colof. beauty of wit and beauty of pathos. But the ideals embodying them have not been evolved in the above, nor in any order nor has any one preserved its en- tire supremacy for long. The matchless head of Aphrodite still appears absolute ly satisfying to cultured taste today, but when you see it translated to celaf. :s' Albert Moore often re-embodiftl u, T Il is something lost At the hea1 Alr. Mhl'e considers thc GTeol, "s' toman types are unemctifir '..6 ,4, not awaken more than acs..a. .t.c rapture, for in those days ey,a portraiture aimed to elevate the indL vidual to type.
 He would have us go back to Reyn- clds in order to find the highest type of the modern ideal Sir Joshua's DOT trait of Lady William Gordon caught the pathos of the Madonna ideal with the intelligence that has become the woman's share. Iii the Botticeli vir- gins, or the Raphael, 2 sweet forgive ness is absolute h the types of Reyn- olds and Gainsborough, to this charm is added a sense of justice and distinct substratuln of wit and yiyacity. h short, 'sthe ladyp has been evolved, not fine saint or the chatelaine, the minis tering angel or the bluestooking, but the t,q,e woman who can be all these
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
ALPINE LIE ERpsWoMEN.
They Wore Trousers Before Bioomers
 Were Heard Of.

They Wore Trousers BetoTe Bioomers
 Were Heard Of.
 Long before tho days of bloomers women on the higher level of the Alps wore trousers, and no one thought any thing about it. The Alpine women wear tho bifurcated garment for utility and not for beauty, as ono may judge if he or she has seen ono of these girls. Come liness and tue Alpine herdswomen are far apart, but the style of the garments they wear and the hard life that is theirs arc at the root of the trouble.
 These women have little of tho grace and agility seen in the maidens of Nor way. They will leap across ohasms with nonchalance, but there is nothing wild and free about their movements, While she is talking to you the Alpine herds woman is quito apt to thrust out an un- gainly leg, plant heavy boot on tho neck of goat and stand thus while she conyerses.
 With the exception of the blacks who endure life of hunger in the interior of Africa thore is hardly any one in tho world who fares so badly IS the herds
 
 cannot affort to eat the berries they find on the mountain side, and they cannot afford to drink the milk supplied by their f1oeks. Their fare is meat that has been dried, saIted and turned into un- sayory leather, rye bread that is like blaokened einders and cabbage stalks in pickle, that contain about as much nutri- ment as walking stick. Hungry as tho herdswoman may be on her return homo, she must eat but sparingly of these dainties, for fear they should come to an end before another trip to tho valley can De made.
 These women breakfast at 3 ill the morning and then answer the response of the eattlc lowing at the door of the chalet, begging to be attended to and driven up to some fayorite Alp. They eat again some 12 or 14 hours later, when the weary tramp back to the chalet is about to begin. Between times, with sickles. they reap the long. coarse Alpine grasses, which are to serve as food for the cattle during the winter.
 This grass Is bound into bundles as large as the women themseives and car ried on their backs down to the home steads. The winter firewood is brought the same way. The ehalet, tue home of ono of these women, is the most piotur- esque of any peasants dwelling place, but inside 1t is not desirable. It is usu- ally perched on the crags of tue Ober- land and is dark, for the windows are constructed not so much to admit light as to keep out the heavy snows of the winter. Tn one corner is a low, broad platform with sacks of hay and cou. pie of blankets upon it. The less luxuri- ous dispense with the blankets and the herdswoman usually goes to rest in the same attire she wore during the day. In the autumn. when the cattle are driven down for the last time, dance is given by the herdsmen and the women. and ou these occasions the girls exchange their trousers for the usual skirt. Kansas City Times.
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Rsp.ies to nsrry's Challenge.

ToEoSro. Nov 2o.--Jacob Gaudaur has replied to Barry's challenge to row for the championship. The champion says he will not go to England unless he Is allowed fair expenses. but if Barry will come to Canada he will row him for any amount Should the Englishman decline to do this Gaudaur will row him on the Thames next spring for e25o z side.
 The most fashionable hat now is the one that does not resemble any other.
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4 Sure Ad.

Have we had protest from any one recently" asked tho sultan as he lit a fresh cigarette.
 No. your majesty" replied the grand vizier.
 sNo nation has deigned to cry out against the continuance of the OtFo- man empire?" said the sultan. scowling
 None, your highness.
 ."Then have some more Armenian 2 killed at once. I will not be neglect in this shameful manner. = Lond., . Fun.
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Lady Hayter.

Lady Hayter, known in London as the zenobia of the Liberal party. is not only an accomplished woman of the world, but also one of the most inde- YatigabIe of women travellers. With her husband, Sir Arthur Hayter, she has journeyed twice around the world. hunt ed kangaroos in Australia, elephants in Ceylon and tigers in India and has explored the Yellowstone park and the Yosemite valley Ill spite of her taste for outdoor life, she is said to be con. summate artist in dress, and her toilets serve her as the frame to charming ..;ct--e
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
More Eloquent.

"They say there is character shown in the way a man combs his hair. y
 Well, think that often there IS more character shown in the way ne doesn't comb it. ''-Detroit Free Presa
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

The Atlanta Woman Suffrage associ ation is discussing the adyisability O calling a state suffrage convention il that city.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

Study of questions pertaining to the
tariff leads to the conclusion that there
is no east and west, no north and no
south, in the sense of half a century
ago. In the period preceding the war
the east was the manufacturing sec
ton, the west wasathe producer of ag-
ricultural products, and the south
yielded little but the crops peculiar to
that section. But conditions have
changed. Some of the greatest manu-
featuring concerns are in the west and
in the south. The varied industries of
a great nation are more evenly dis
tributed than they were. The ideal
tariff Of the future will be made in
recognition of the fact that sectional
interests are of much less account
than in the past. Beside being Of i'm
portance to makers of tariff schedules,
this fact. should be a matter of salts
faction to all citizens of the republic.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
A FREE AND EASY JAIL,
One Prisoner Gave the Jailor's Wife
8, Bicycle Lessons.

One Prisoner Gave the Jailor's Wife
Bicycle Lessons.
The Nantucket Jail stories which
have been current court room topics
.or the last century have been entirely
eclipsed by recent stories concerning
The convicts of the Barnstable Jail,
says the Nantucket Inquirer and Mir
'or. Mr.. e. G. Knapp. who is
10 be serving a five years sentence
.or stealing national bank funds, was
recently seen in the streets in prison
garb, giving the wife of the iailer, Mrs.
j. H. Cash, bicycle lessons. Mrs. Cash
IS SO years old and has a daughter aged
lS years and the convict is said to oc-
,upy a place of c%ongenital companion
ship in the j~ailer's family. Another
;onvict, named Lewis Rogers, was re-
GENTLY allowed to take a cow to Var
mouth and back while the sun was
bright and the air invigorating for a
pleasant walk. There is another pris-
oner, a Portuguese named Joe, who is
here on complaint of a Portuguese girl
famed Rosa and her story is that Joe
promised to marry her while he was
serving out a previous sentence in Jail,
and hat she often met Joe outside
he Jail. 1t is a pitiful story, because
when Joe got out of Jail he married an
other girl, after borrowing $50 from
Rosa. And all this in Barnstable town.
where the Jail is. The stories of Nan
.ucket's easy-going Jail pale into insig-
n%ificance in comparison with our con-
mental neighbor.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

blanks, and those bearing a few have
partially recovered. Where the fruit
ago is heavy the recovery has been
more complete. 1t costs as much 10
cultivate the blanks and half fruiters
as it does those fruiting heavily.
The great secret, then. is to maintai
strong and vigorous plants hat may
throw their whole life into producing
fruit instead Of foliage. What Is said
of Strawberries holds good of all fruit
bearing plants. Pedigres plants may
be said to be plants that have, been
bred lip by careful seiectioh and High
cultivation until It produces fruit true
to type and in the %gtandest perfection,
and transmits this ability to its off,
spring or breeds. When It cannot
perform this Office it is said to have lost
its pedigree.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Eraa-With ExnenResl

gospels free-free to all dis con-
gregashun," said Brother Sparhawk,
AN salvation's free. Y on'y got to
walk right up an hep yo'se'f, or call
on me to glib yo' some"
But when the collection box was
passed around there was a murmur OF
discomfort, starting in the corner
where sat the Venus chapter of the
sisters of Mary and extending to the
masculine pillars of the church.
How yo' reckon salvation s free
wen yo' sergashiate de lection box
roun' de congregashun?" asked Mr..
Smallwood.
IVY, it's dis way, frien's. Oars a
spring O. pure Twin water way up de
mountain, free-free to all; but dere's
pipin' laid to bring dat water down
whar yo' all can use it, an pipin' cost
money. Now de gospel fount am free,
but de pipin' am 'spensive-an' I'm
de pipin'."-Judge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
GEMS OF

No pleasure is comparable to the
standing upon the vantage ground of
truth.-Bacon.
All virtue consists in having a will
ing hand, if only you do not doubt, and
are filled with love for Him rather than
fear for yourself.-Fenelon.
The ill-natured man gives himself a
large field to expatiate in; he exposes
those failings in human nature which
the others would cast a veil over,-Ad-
Olson.
To be in company with those we love
satisfies us; it does not signify whether
we speak to them or not, whether we
think on them or different things, to be
near them is all.-Sumner.
The happiness of life depends very
much on little things, and one can be
brave and great and good while max
ing small sacrifices and doing small du-
ties faithfully and cheerfully.-L. M.
Alcott.
No great truth which has once been
found has ever afterwards been lost;
nor has any important discovery yet
been made which has not eventually
carried everything before it.-Henry
Thomas Buckle.
A mans generosity of sentiment
should not merely be a part Of his poll
tics; it should also be a part of his re-
ligion; and, indeed, we may be quite
sure that he who is without it is with
out religion.-Crocker.
Life is made up not VI great sacri-
fees or duties, but of little things, In
which smiles and kindness, and small
obligations given habitually, are what
win and preserve the heart and secure
comfort.-Sir H. Davy.
The first law of success at this lay,
when so many things are clamoring for
attention, is concentration-to bend all
the energies on one point, and to go
directly to that point, looking neither
to the right nor to the left,-William
Matthews,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Notes on Strawberries.

In a paper read before the jefferson
county, ILL.,, farmers institute, and re-
ported by "Our horticultural Visitor"
w. w. Anderson said:
The berry grower knows that all
Strawberries have pistils. or female
parts, while a greater number have no
pollen. The strawberry propagates
itself in two ways; first, by seed, and
second by runners forming new plants.
If it is free from exhaustion, it will
throw it's whole life and energy into
the formation of seeds, which is so
detrimental to plant life that it soon
becomes unable to lmpart vigor to the
seeds, hence the failure in fruitage. II
the seeds are not vigorous the pulp, or
what we call fruit, will not develop.
Take an apple with q shrunken side
and cut into it and you will find no
seeds on that side. A hard spot on a
strawberry, or monkey face, or button,
is always caused by lack of seed
growth. If a strawberry plant bears a
big crop of extra large berries it would
bear a good crop the coming year; but
If it bore the same number of bushels
of very small berries. it would be ex-
hausted, so that the second crop would
be a very small n and very inferior,
because there are as many seeds in the
small berry as in a large one. In a
bushel of small berries there would be
many times as many seeds as in a
bushel of large ones. The pulp or
fruit part is not eXhausting at all. You
can reach the limit of production in
pulp or fruit and never run out or
weaken the plant. but If you allow all
the seeds to ripen year after year the
plant becomes unable to grow fruit, or,
as we term it. II m out. True. they
may in the course of ear recover in
a measure, but the better plan is to
prevent than to cure. Visit the plan
cations Of the neighborhood. Notice the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

! One of the most interesting features
OF the present cotton situation, viewed
from a commercial standpoint, is the
growing Importance of Egypt as an ex-
porting country. In 1879, the first
year for which there are official statis-
tics Al to the quantity Of cotton ship
ped from Egypt. the total exports
we're returned at 27O. 6 1913 pounds,
whereas in 1895, the latest year for
which we have figures, the exporta-
tons amounted to 521, 427, 1853 pounds,
or nearly double the quantity shipped
in 1879.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

Mrs. Plougher-Thet almaneck IL
~onreliabul, Hiram. Hyar yew staid
few hum from taown ter-day cause it
perdicted rain, an a purifier day never
wuz. B.
Mr.. Plougher-1t sartainly air on
sartain in foretellin' the weather, but
it dew beat all creashun how it kin tell
'ithout a miss zackly wen tn moon
liz goin' tew be full. An eff yew ricol-
leck, las summer we noticed it sed tibet
Crismus wum cum on Friday an, by
jinks! wen tn time rolled roun' it wuz
jest ez TIL. almaneck s~ed.-Judge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

An important experiment has been
made on the New York & New England
railroad, which seems to establish the
fact that trains propelled by electricity
cen be run on the cracks used for steam
trains, without interference with the
regular traffic. An electrical train was
run between Berlin and Hartford, a
distance. of thirteen miles, on a regular
schedule. between two trains drawn by
steam locomotives. in the ordinary way.
The power was conveyed by the use of
a third rail in the center of the track,
and n o intermediate feeders were used.
The distance was covered in eighteen
minutes. ~
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

In a discussion of the social changes
in England during Victoria's reign, one
who had lived long is quoted as max
ing this distinction: When he was
young, every young man, even if busy,
pretended to be idle; now every young
man, If idle, pretends to be busy. This
seemed to be progress to the clear-eyed
observer. Accepting the ANALYSIS, it
needs to be said. that if public senti-
ment. drives men into a pretense of
working, it does not make the shame
Of idleness less; 1t merely makes the
disgrace less repulsive to superficial OBJ
servers. - t,GS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
WHEN 4 LIE SEEMS ExcUsABLE
What Are We to Do with Impairment

What Are We to Do with 1mpertinent
QuestionersY
/ Said a woman to me: David re-
marks in one of his psalms, And
said in my haste, all men are liars III
l had written that verse l should have
added, And l have had occasion
to change my opinion"
''Why?" asked a writer In Harper's
Bazaar.
And then she told me that men land
wofnen) were not truthful, that the
best of them told f~alsehoods. For in
stance, several months before this con-
versation she had asked a certain
young man if he were engaged to Miss
b. He gave her tt understand h a
he was not. Now, his engagement to
Miss b was announced, and 1t was
acknowledged that it was an AFFAIR OF
six months standing. Had he not
lied?
l, who happened to know the facts OF
the case, was aware that it was the
wish of the fiancee and her family that
the fact of the engagement be kept
quiet until they were ready to an
nounce it. The man in question was IN
honor bound to keep the secret.
"All the same" declared the indig-
nant woman, "if. according to the old
definition of a falsehood, it is a thing
told with the intention to deceive he
told a falsehood."
The conversation recalled TO my
mind the speech made by a friend long
ago.
IF any n asks me an impertinent
question which I cannot in honor an
swer l do not hesitate to lie."
All of us, it is to be hoped, love the
truth, but what are we to do when a
truthful answer is a breach of prom
Use? If one says 81 decline to answer
that question" he may cause offense,
not to mention the fact that he virtu-
ally admits there is a confidence to be
kept. And this admission is often I'M
Intentionally the first step to the be-
trayal of a secret. Since we cannot al
ways answer truthfully and since we
would not lie it would be we'll if a So
ciety could be founded for the suppress
sion of the impertinent q%uestioner. But
pending the formation Of that much
needed organization what are those of
us who would be honorable and truth
tul to do?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Patents Issued.

List Of patents issued last week to
Northwestern inventors:
Henry o. Amuf1dson, Clear Lake, S.
d. clothes line reel; Ernest j. Bauman,
WaseGa, Mimi, extension table; Frank
A. Johnson, Minneapolis, Mimi. LIMO
type machine, matrix-making machine,
making controllers for composing ma
chiiies, type-casting and composing ma
chine, machine for making controllers
for composing machines, type-setting
machine; Samuel O. Jones, saltwater,
Mimi, lubricator; John J. Waldner, Mil
town, s. D., indicator for engines;
R0essner Manufacturing company, Wi
mona, Mimi, Grade mark liquid polish
for shoes and leather.
T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, $40
Pioneer Press Building, st. Paul, Mimi
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Adulter.ted 6Sbdev.ed M,Ik.


In the British Dairy Farmer of
March 10th there is a short article on
condensed milk. Quoting from a let
ter regarding the business in England,
1t says:
In a daily contemporary a state
ment is made to the effect that the in
creasing imports of condensed milk
prove that our home herds are INSULT
eiefit to yield an adequate supply of
people reply az follows: Will you al
low lbs To say that, as far as condensed
milk is Concerned, this conclusion Is
quite erroneous? There are two rea-
sons why so much foreign milk is
brought into England. In the first
place the public seems to be imbued
with what Mr.. Herbert Spencer calls
the "anti-patriotic bias" and prefer
foreign goods simply because they
are foreign, buying Swiss milk when
they could obtain for less money Eng
fish milk of equally good quality. Sec
ondly, u laws permit condensed skim
milk to be sold under the misleading
name of condensed milk" SO that
our poorer classes are inveigled into
buying a fraudulent article, at many
times its value, to the injury OF botn
themselves and the English agricul-
tural community. That our retail
dealers are themselves awakening to
he iniquity of this law appears trem
a speech made in Manchester only h
other day by the chairman OF the
Northern Grocers' Council, who had
the courage to say that those who buy
this milk ought to be ffade elearly
aware that the milk had been
skinned, and that it is not fit for
children. 1t is time that every Eng
fish housewife knew that full cream
English condensed milk, equal in quail
ity to any foreign milk, and preferred
almost everywhere but in England,
can be bought at a lower price than
imported full cream condensed milk,
and at only a triie more than German,
Dutch and Italian condensed skim
milk, deprived Of its most valuable
constituent-the cream"
We are not, says Elgin Dairy Re-
port. sufficiently we'll posted on the
amount Of skim condensed milk that
has been placed upon the market ! n
this country; but presume there Is con-
siderable condensed milk sold that has
been SKINNED either partially or
wholly. This is only n of the evils
If our lax legislation on the question
If adulterated food, and it may be that
this may be the reason why the New
York Condensed Milk Co., in their
contract at Elgin last month, were
obliged to cut off SO many of the farm
ers; as it is a we'll known fact that
heir brands are always honest and
straight, and they cannot meet that
kind of competition. II this is the
case, it again proves the statement
hat we have so often made, that the
farmers as the food producers are the
ones who suffer from the sale of adul-
.erated food products Of every kind.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Ere the Farewell Is spoken

On the dock of the steamer, or on board
the train that is to bear you away from
those dear to you, you Will, If you are
wise, have safely slowed away in your
luggage a sufficient supply of that safe
guard against illness-Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. Commercial travellers, tour
lists and pioneer emigrants concur In testi-
flying to the fortifying and saving proper
ties of the great tonic. Use for constipa-
ton, biliousness, malarial and kidney
complaints and nervousness.