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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14


There are now more dairymeh In the
United States than there ever were be-
fore. I mean that among the great
mass Of men who own cows and man
ipulate theft teats twice a day, there is
at present d greater proportion desefv-
ing the name Of "dairymen." A man
may live on a tract of land cultivating
1t after a fashion, maintaining COWS and
imagine himself both a farmer and a
dairyman, when by rights he is neither.
This term "dairyman" should cease to
be applied Unfortunately, as it then
becomes too often a misnomer, casting
unjust reflections on men who are real
~ what the term implies, says George
E. Newell in American Cultivator.
A dairyman is a man who knows
how to properly breed, rear. care for,
feed and milk cows, and also subse-
que1tly preserve the quality Of that
milk perfectly till it can be placed in
the manufacturers hands, or manufac-
ture 1t himself into a first-class product.
To do this he must understand cows
as a tanner does hides, or a miller
AAAuStOuCS. 1 OttCH tHlAh tudl Il Z
tain a~daptability to dairy work is worth
more to the individual than anything
else. Certain 1t Is that those who find
COWS and their surroundings distaste-
full, will never make money from the
business except by selling out, One of
the most encouraging signs for an in
creased improvement in dairy methods
in the future is the number of farmers
sons who are taking courses OF learn
Ing in agricultural colleges. Even
a farmers son, however, If he Is not
adapted to the pursuit of his father,
should not be encouraged to take it up
for a livelihood.
A mans trade or profession makes or
mars his life, according as 1t is suited
to his capabilities. And by this rule l
see a great many dairymen's lives
marred. Let every one who owns or
milks a COW strive to be a true dairy
man, for only such dairymen can hope
to make money out of milk produc-
ton. Remember that grass only, and
not weeds, are needed in the pastures;
that cows bred at haphazard are about
as likely to turn out profitable as other
haphazard arrangements; that milk is
now valued by the percentage of but
ter fat it contains, and that breed and
iced control this condition.; that many
a rundown, almost abandoned farm
has been reclaimed and turned into a
prosperous dairy place, by dairymen
who had learned their trade well, and
daily practiced all hat they had
learned, and that just now while agri-
culture is the most reliable pursuit in
the land, intelligently conducted dairy
ing is the most profitable branch of
agriculture.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Value of Cultivation.

One Of the most important things in
the growing Of fruit is good thorough
cultivation. If l were to name only one
thing essential to fruit growing. 1
would say that one thing was thorough
cultivation. For instance in fruit
trees. We all think that when the
spring sunshine comes, the fruit tree
is all ready to send forth blossoms, and
if the temperature and weather are
suitable, we will have a crop OF fruit.
Now the fruit grower knows that the
fruit buds are not developed during the
winter, nor during the spring; but de-
veloped the season before. and if you
are going to have fruit the coming year.
you must have prepared the foundation
for it last year. Essential to the de-
velopment Of fruit buds is good thor
ough cultivation. If you have good cuI-
tivation you have good foliage; il you
have good foliage at the base, of every
healthy leaf you will have a bud. and
If the conditions are right, a proper
percentage of those buds will be de-
veloped into fruit buds and there will be
stored UP plant food not only sufficient
to develop those buds into fruit buds.
but to make them so strong that the
northeast winds will not destroy their
vitality to such an extent that they
will drop from the tree. When l see
a tree along in August or September
with a leaf surface that is small, and
practically stripped of healthy foliage,
l am as certain as I am that the sun
| will shine when the clouds clear away,
that, the man who has that tree upon
his place will not realize any fruit from
lit the coming season. because the. con-
ditions are. such it cannot properly de-
velop fruit buds. In the seasons we
have had in the past, in the month of
May we have sometimes had a storm
from the Northwest of forty-eight
hours duration when the temperature
was very low and the leaves on that
; side of the tree, which were young and
tender, were whipped about by the
breezes until the foliage was so bruised
it either dropped from the tree or be-
came diseased, and there would not be
any fruit upon that side of the tree the
next season. The storm had the same
effect as lack of cultivation. If you
have your fruit trees well Cultivated.
you will be almost certain to have a
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
ORIENTAL NOTIONS SHOCKED.
Indian Who Found He Had 20 Tall
"Upy tn NEufnau.


indian Who Found He Had 90 Talk
Up to Women.
What an educated inhabitant Of fn>
dia thinks of modern women, her ways
and the ways of men outside the Orient
toward her Is told in an ingenious and
diveftihg book recently written by an
Indian gentleman after his first visit
to western Europe. In London and
Paris Through Indian S~pectacles," by
G. P. Pillai, B. A., of Madras, the au-
thor m to the great woman ques-
ton in his own way. His visit to this
country increased his respect tor NO.
men a hundredfold. In England you
have to talk up to the woman; in In
dia it is all talking down. But the
privilege has its endorsements for
the native. His endorsements in
crease on reaching the drawing-room
and entering the presence of his
friends mother" She drops her hand
kerehief. What Is he to do? Is it the
proper thing to pick 1t tip? At home
you dare not do that. Then, In comes
your friends sister, and her ~"eagerness
to shake hands with you sends a thrill
through your whole frame. Fancy
your friends sister being introduced to
you at home in India! Can anything
be more at%rocious? But it is the US
tom in England" He is still far from
the end of his troubles: And then,
the time for dinner arrives. And as
the chief guest of the evening, you are
asked to lead the lady of the house,
your friends mother, to the dining
room. You are mor perplexed than
ever! The idea of giving your arm to
a lady whom you respect as your own
mother! You never touched your own
mother-at least not after you became
a man. And how could you now touch
your friends mother? Secondly, what
is the proper thing to do? Are you
to give your right arm or your left arm
to your friends mother? But hardly
have you time to reflect on these things
when you are led away by the mother
into the dining room, followed by all
others. And at the dining table your
perplexities multiply still further. You
are placed to the right of your friends
mother. That is bad enough. But
what is worse, to your right you find
your friends sister," The only set-off
to all this is the shocking taste of your
friends sisters hat. These decorative
vegetables and plants are all very well,
but they had better be grown in the
kitchen garden-not on your friends
sisters head.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Blind People.

So far as the most recent statistics
go, the known proportion of blind peo-
pie is about one in 1 1900, which would
give a total of one million blind in
the world. The largest proportion is
found in Russia, which has in Eu-
rope 200, 1000 blind in a population OF
5000, 900, or one in 480. Most of these
are found in the northern provinces Of
Finland, and the principal cause is
ophthalmia, due to bad ventilation OF
the huts of the peasantry and the in
adequate facilities for treatment. There
is a great deal of blindness in Egypt
due to glowing sand.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Training Grape Vines.

At the beginning of the third season
the vine consists of a root system three
years old, and of two canes growing
from the upper portion of the stem
each one year old. These canes should
be cut back SO that they will not extend
further than one-half the distance to
the next plants in the anne row.; weak
growing varieties should be cut back
still more, the important point to OBJ
serve being that the amount of wood
shall be reduced to such an extent that
the vine will not overbear. In case
the destined to form the arms are
cut so short that they do not extend to
the of the adjoining plant, the
shoot s%pringing from the last bud
should, the fourth season, be cut long
enough to fill it's share of the vacant
space between the vines.
The trellis should be put in the vine
yard during the second season. al
though it need not be finished. The
use of the lower wire, which should be
from 20 to "a inches from the ground,
is desirable, as it allows the shoots
which are to form the permanent arms
to grow in the position they are to re-
tain, and the pruning also can be more
easily done. Two other wires should
be added some time before the begin
ming of the next, or third, growing sea-
son. The second wire on the trellis
should be about 20 inches above the
first, and the third an equal distance
above the second. These distances
may require some change with varie-
ties which are exceptionally weak or
strong growers. Either number 10 OF
number IL ungalvanized iron wire will
answer; the former is of special value
when the posts are set far apart and in
positions where an extra strain is put
upon the trellis. All the wires should
be firmly stapled to the windward side
of the posts, yet the wire should be
allowed to slip in the staples.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

On the walls of Paris are official pla-
cards announcing that an inquiry Is
to be held concerning the proposed new
reservoir at C%haronne, "in accordance
with a royal decree dated August %,
1885" The decree was made by Louis
Philippe in the early part of his reign
and after lying in the allegiance for
more than threescore years, is now
about to be executed. Since it was made
France has been a kingdom, an empire
and twice a republic, and has passed
through two revolutions and a cout
d'etat. Yet the old decree is honored
and held to be in force by the govern
ment that has exiled the family of the
king who made it. There could scarce
ly be a more striking example at once
of the premanence and the mutability
of government. ~4.s.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
AMONG TITLED ONES.

China is decidedly waking w. The
new Chinese minister to England Is
a good English scholar and his wife
is studying the language and customs
with a view to taking her place in
society. 1t is understood that she will
be presented next year, and that she
and her husband will then be enter
tanned and go into society. 1t is, in
deed, a great change, and no doubt is
Changes reception at the court of st.
James.
The Empress Frederick has been SER
iously i'll at Berlin from influenza and
bronchitis and all her majesty's plans
have been changed in consequence of
her physicians having prescribed sea
air as essential to her speedy recovery.
The empress is, therefore, going to
Kiel, on a visit to Princess Henry of
Prussia, and will stay there for sew
eral weeks. 1t is now probable that
the empress will not, go back to her
place near Homburg until she returns
to Germany after her visit to Eng
land.
The emperor and empress of Russia
have abandoned their intended visit
to Copenhagen at Easter. The empress,
who has been seriously ill for several
weeks from measles and bronchial
complications, will not be able to leave
her apartments in the winter palace for
at least a fortnight, and then the i'm
perial court will remove from st. Pet
ersburg to Tsarkoe Zelo. 1t is very
likely that the empress will soon &c
to Livadia for a few weeks, accom-
panied by her sister, Princess Louise
of Battenberg.
The young duchess Of Marlborough
has evinced great judgment and abil-
ity in restoring Blenheim palace to its
former magnificance. Since her resi-.
dence at Blenheim all fees taken at the
gates from tourists who visit the pal
ace have been devoted to charity, and
out of her own pocket the duchess de-
vises many schemes for amusing and
benefiting. her husbands tenants. In.
side the park gates her presence is
quite as emphatically felt as in the
village, for since her coming the parl
lake has been dug out, cleared of weeds
and stocked with water fowl and the
garden is in perfect order. Ten years
ago Blenheim palace looked neglected;
now it blossoms again in all the glory
for which it nee was famous.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

The queerest statistician on record is
undoubtedly a clerk in the Italian ma
val office. He is the creator of the
new science of "spotology." This
genius occupied an important post in
the service for 35 years, during which
time he made a vast number of ink
spots which fell from his official pen.
But he didn't obliterate them. BY. a
painstaking process the Scientist" re-
moved each one from his books, docu-
ments, and things, and pasted them in
an album. These ink-spots served as
the nucleus of a strange but interest
ing psychological study. He, evolved the
theory that the long-pointed spots
clearly indicated the irritation he was
suffering under at the time he made
them while the round, heavy spots ave
an indication of weighty, bureaucratic
reflections. Frequently the spots re-
sembled all sorts of creeping things,
birds and beasts, of weird and fantas-
tic shape. When his mind was weight
ed down with thought he sometimes
finished off these accidental creations,
producing likenesses of birds, fishes,
and frogs.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Forty girls were at work in q higt
building in Chicago last month, wher
the cry of fire threw them into a panic
Kate Carney, the superintendent, re-
called them and m~arshalled them safe
ly into an elevator. There was not
room for her to enter, but she ordered
the elevator boy to descend. She es-
capped by stairways and halls, thorS Oh
almost overcome ct times with flames
and smoke. Kate Carney's name lends
itself to a popular ballad; her art of
unselfish courage to the approval of
tho world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Wheat continues to steadily advsnce
In price. High grades of cash wheat
at Chicago command from $1.07 to $1.1O
and the May option ranges from Sill
to SIPS. In all of the markets of the
country wheat has passed the dollar
mark and nothing but the frantic eff
forts of bear spectators keeps it from
going much higher. Up to the present
time wheat has advanced in spite of
the general depression incident to the
long-continued strain. Never in the
history of the market has there been
such a scarcity of wheat abroad and it
is difficult to see why wheat will not
make new high records before the next
crop is harvested.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
italian ColOnists for Venezuela,

An Italian named Dotti has entered
into al agreement with the Venezue-
Ian government to colonize in Vene-
zuela 1000 Italian families per annum,
to establish a bank for the benefit OF
agriculturists, with a capital of 3d.
100000, and to maintain a line OF
steamships between the colonies and
Italy. To encourage the scheme the
government grants large rebates OF
taxation and other privileges and as.
sures the new ~colonists general well
come and protection.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
ARTIFICIAL FISH NESTS.
Black Bass P~rOpaSators Make Use of
Machine-NI Made Homes.

Black Bass P~rOpagators Make Use Of
Machine-Made Homes.
From the New York Press: Men
engaged in the work Of fish breeding
have noticed that black bass often had
trouble with their nests. Sometimes
they could not find enough suitable ma
terial on the bottom to build them
as they wished, and at other times the
storms or currents would destroy them
after the bass had spawned, thus caus-
ing the loss of all the eggs. 1t is ex-
tremely difficult to propagate black
bass artificially and this led the breed
ers to supply artificial nests for the use
of the bass. They are made of earth
enware and have a little gravel &C.
mented in the bottom. The fish have
taken kindly to them and lay their
eggs cheerfully in the factory-made
nests.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Reason Enough.

Captain Ito stowaway)-"So, you
young rascal! Ran away from home,
did you? You ought to be thrashed for
leaving home, and thrashed again for
getting aboard a ship without permits
SION Stowaway-"Please, sir, my
sister commenced takin' music lessons
an practicing scales on the pianer, an
| thought there wouldn't be no pianers
on ships" Captain-"Come to my
arms, my son! had a musical sister once
myself."-Tit-Bits
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
So Modest.

Say, sergeant" exclaimed n woman,
as she came into the Denver police sta
ton half out of breath. Then h hes
itated.
what is it, ma'am?'
II don't like to tell you"
proceed. Have you been burglar
ized?"
mo, but some one stole q lot of
clothes from my line last night
Just give the detectives IA list of the
stuff stolen
Il couldn't do that, for they took two
pairs Of" -,
go ahead" v
ooh no; l couldn't do that, but, Mr..
Policeman, if you see anybody wear
ing them, arrest them"
With this brief explanation, she de-
parted, and the police have no clue
Denver Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Was Not ALWAYS Late,

Old Moneybags-'Mr.' De Stoole, you
must be more punctual. l notice that
you are late getting to the Office nearly
every morning" Mr.. De Stoole-%Yes,
but, Mr.. Moneybags, did you ever no.
tice how punctual am in going away
from the office every night Punch.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
A Poor Trade.

Family Friend-"I congratulate you.
my dear sir. on the marriage of your
daughter. | see you are gradually get
ting all the girls off your hands" Old
Olive Branch-"Off my hands-yes!
But the worst of it is I have to keep
their husbands on their feet."-Tit-
Bits.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Rabbit Traps.

One of the incidents and expenses OF
orcharding on a large scale not like
ly to be thought Of by the casual OBJ,
server is the constant warfare which it
is necessary to wage IN the rabbits SO
likely to work great destruction to
young apple trees. This is illustrated
by the operations Of Wellhouse & Son,
of Topeka, Kan, who are recognized as
the Apple Kings, as reported by Seere-
tary F. D. Coburn of the State Board OF
Agriculture. For their orchard in
Usage county they used a carload OF
lumber in the construction of 1 ,7OO rab-
Leavenworth county they have 1000
traps, and in a Miami county orchard
400 traps. These consist Of a o %
inches long, made of ordinary 6-inch
lumber, / inch thick, closed at one end,
and with IN inward-swinging wire gate
in the other end, which is shut by con-
tact of the rabbit with a trigger after
he has fairly entered. About four feet
of lumber and four feet of No. IL gal
vanized iron wire are consumed in the
making of each trap, which costs, COM
plete, from 1871 to Is cents. This trap,
as now constructed, is considered we'll.
nigh perfect, cost and efficiency consid-
cred, and is the result of twenty years
of experimentation in making traps,
and studying the nature and habits OF
the rabbits. In this connection the
word rabbit applies only to the ordin-
airy %cotton-tail and not to the larger
j~ack-rabbit, which the Messrs. Well
house say is not especially troublesome
to the apple trees.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Mr., McKinley's proclamation of the
blockade of Cuban ports compares well
in mildness. and in favor to 'neutraB,
with II instrument of the sort. of
recent times, including L~incpln's- ia
nous blockade Of the south, and the
French blockade in 1870. 1t is 'arf ex-'
ample OF the comparative leniency that
has crept into modern war. and will
give friendly nations no reasonable
cause for complaint. E'T
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Perhaps that frenzy of enthusiasm
which the correspondents represent as
existing at Key West over the notable
victory of the Nashville was scarcely
warranted by the event if one consid-
CTS only the Importance of the prize.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Any dishonest contractor, whose
wealth accumulates while his work
decays, ought to read, with a blush
OF shame, a new bridge across the&Dan.
ube. Pillars of a bridge built at the
same place by the Emperor Traian are
to form a part of the structure. The
engineers attest the strengths of The
Roman work under an emperor whose
reign began exactly eighteen hundred
years ago. To do as the Romans die
may sometimes mean a descent. to- the
lowest vices, but it may also signify &
noble integrity in building. as in
being. \ ~
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Not So Unusual,

There's a man who has been in this
country thirty years, and still he can't
speak English" We'll, l know people
who have been here all their lives and
are in the same ix."-Philadelphia
North American.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Which?

,,Coachman driving stout old lady ON
"a lonely road in a very high wind)-
please, mum. will you old the 'orses
while / run after my at, er will You
lun fter my at while old the 'orses."
--Tit-Bits.,.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Miss Millington-I declare, that Mr..
Hartman hasn't even the first attri-
butte of a gentleman.
Miss Upham-Indeed! Why someone
told me he was rich.-Chicago News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

For cxtra-hazardcus war duty, some
thing in which daring and suffering
would count, why not enroll a special
corps C baseball umpires?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Spanish bank, and there will be anoth-
er On the Spanish main in a few hours.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

If there is any mystery about the
construction of any Of SPANS battle
ships the Holland torpedo boat ought
to be able to get to the bottom of it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

If it is desired to raise money for war
purposes, why not levy a tax on the
yociferous curbstone privilege CT tell
ing what ought to be done?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Speaking about Minister Woodford's
slowncss, it should be added that he
was alzo cOurageously slow about icav-
ing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Where the Noise Came From.

Little Johnny opened his drum to
ind out where the noise came FROM
Did he find out?" Yes. When his
father came home the noise came from
little Johnny."-Tit-Bit
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.

A simple remedy for sleeplcssness is in COM
mon use in Sweden. A napkin dippc din cold
water, slightly wrung, is then laid across tho
eyes .
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Thin people imagine that exercise will make
them thinner. This is not true; moderate ex-
ercise, especially in the open air, increases the
appetite and the power of assimilating food,
thus adding to the persons weight.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Americas foreign trade in horses is
on the increase. Some of the largest
shippers of these horses say that the
trade would be much larger If the
horses could be obtained with sufficient
merit to be. shipped abroad. This is a
hint to the breeders.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

When a sociabls man has a minute
to spare he goes and bothers some mar
who is busy.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-07-14

Gen. Woodford seems to have been
seared a little too low for expeditions
diplomatic action.