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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-17

A United States report on Austria
rs a grain-producing country saws:
From statistics 1t is evident that a
marked change has occurred during
the last few years as regards the grain
situation in Austria-Hungary. Not
only in the case Of wheat, but also in
that of the various other cereals, the
tendency has been towards a larger
HON consumption Of the national pro-
due and a consequent reduction of the
surplus available for shipment to 9TH
err lands. To such an extent have the
exports declined and the imports in
creased that most of the cereals are
now brought into the country in lar
ger quantities than they are exported.
barley is the only grain Of which any
considerable amount continues to be
shipped abroad. In respect to other
cereals, the status Of the Monarchy Is
apparently that of transition from an
exporting into an importing country,
While it is hardly to be expected that
these changed conditions will to any
considerable extent create an enlarged
demand for American cereals, the facts
set forth are certainly of interest as
indicating the lessened Importance of
Austria-Hungary among the countries
with which the United States is oblig-
ed to compete in the grain marts of
the world.
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q 4
1 Five Generations in a Living Chain. \


Chicago Letter: In the upper story
Of a coy brick apartment at zoos
Gladys avenue lives a sweet-faced wo-
man who enjoys the proud distinction
OF being a grandmother at the youth
full age of So and of forming d link
In a living chain of five generations.
Mrs. Frederick w. Packard is the name
OF the sweet-faced woman and she is
the wife of a prominent Chicago law
yer.
Along the edge of the boisterous
Niagara river, between the city Of
Buffalo and the famous falls that
tumble over the precipice in their Gag
erness to reach Lake Ontario, in the
little town with the pretty Indian
name of T~onawanda. live four genera
tons OF the remarkable family to
which Mrs. Packard belongs. The
Observation-Disclosures, the great
grandmother, the father and the grand
children, all add their lanes to the
number of inhabitants which the little
town boasts, proud of it's wharfs piled
! with lumber and the record of
wrestling from Chicago it's title of the
greatest wood market in the world.
Mrs. Packard is the only alien. All
the Others reside close beside each
other in the east. but husband and his
business interest brought the grand
mother of the five generations to the
west.
One year yer th~ree-quarters of a
century is all that separates the grand
child from the MISREPRESENTATION
er, and few lives of n years enjoy
the blessing of living posterity extend
ing beyond even the Bible limits of
the third and fourth generation.
Shakespeare is authority for the state
ment that youth and grabbed age can
not live together" but there is no dam
ger OF fear of disturbance between the
little ~grandchild of a single twelve
month and the hearty old lady of II.
Mrs. Robert Cole is the lame of the
Observation-Disclosures. The great
grandmother is Mrs. Dwight Bedell.
The grandmotherly honors are borne
by Mrs. Packard with 3S youthful years
to her credit. Ernest A. Logic is the
son of Mrs. Packard and the father In
the chain of five generations. Viola
and Oscar Logic are the tiny grand
children, one a trife owe a year old
and the other a few months.
Between the great-grandmother and
the Observation-Disclosures there is
only a difference Of twenty-one years.
Mrs. Cole is II and Mrs. Bedell is Sc.
Mrs. Bedell is also only eighteen years
older than her daughter, Mrs. Packard,
who in turn precedes her son, Mr..
Logic, by only seventeen years. The
father in succession governs his tiny
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The Baltimore & Ohio railroad Is now
reaping the benefits of the improvements
that have been made to the property
since John X. Cowen and Oscar G. MUIR
ray were appointed receivers. 1t was
stated by a noted critic of railway opera
tons a few months ago hat If the re-
ceivers succeeded in increasing the train
haul per ton per mile to 300 that they
could be commended for having spent so
much money In buying new locomotives,
strengthening curves, lowering grades
and laying new rail. Since Tune 80 a
careful record has been kept and the re-
suits have been more than gratifying to
the management. Before new locomo-
tlVes were purchased, before track i'm
provements were made, and before the
tonnage system of loading trains was
adopted, the average train haul per ton
per mile on the Baltimore g. Ohio rail-
road was less than 225 tons, and some
old employees think it did not exceed 200
tons. There are 10 figures for compare
son. but III July the average was 334.76
In August 356. Al and in September 361.4.
q very large and satisfactory increase.
The average would have been still larger
but for the fact that on several divisions,
depending on coal for tonnage but little
or none was moved, owing to the strike.
The main stem figures are considered
very satisfactory, as that part of the
road crosses the Alleghenies, some grades
being 125 feet to the mile. The averages
on the several divisions range from 1921,
on the Wooster branch, to 534. 10, on the
PittSburC division.
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daughter by the wisdom of twenty ad-
ditional years experience with life.

daughter by the wisdom of twenty ad-
ditional years experience with life.
The remarkable family that can
point proudly to five living generations
is noticeable as we'll for its early mar
riages as for the youth of it's men,
bers. The Observation-Disclosures
was welded at Is, the age when a
child Of the present day is just bud
ding into girlhood. The great-grand-
mother followed her parents example,
with the supplementary waiting of two
years. The grandmother became a
wife at sweet 16 and her son became
a husband at 10, and at the present
day as the father of two children. he
has just attained the majority Of
years proclaimed necessary by the
state law to turn a youth into a man,
so that he may put away the things Of
a boy.
The Observation-Disclosures of The
five generations is a hearty, healthy
specimen of feminine good cheer.
Seventy-seven years ago Mrs. Cole was
born in Quebec of French descent and
sprang from a long-lived ancestry.
She was the happy mother of eight
children and is as young today as the
generations under her. She is active
and jolly and a fine example of the
precept that "a merry heart goes all
the day." No work is too heavy for
the Observation-Disclosures to per-
form; no exertion too laborious TO be
denied her energy. When the great
grandmother, Mrs. Bedell, followed
her husband to Grand Island in the vi
entity of Buffalo, the g~reat-great-
grandmother stayed behind in Quebec.
But not long afterward she journeyed
the road her daughter had travelled and
soon the reunited family moved to the
little bustling lumber town of Tona-
wanda, where it still resides in happy
companionship, with the exception Of
the sweet-faced grandmother Of the
generations. Mrs. Packard was
born in the east and leaves her son.
daughters and grandchildren in the
nection of the nation where she spent
ner girlish years. But her home is
now in Chicago, in the cozy brick
apartment far out on Gladys avenue,
the little t~horoughfare situated close
to the western end of Garfield park.
Mrs. Packard not only enjoys the
distinction of being a youthful grand
mother of 50, but she is a remarkably
clever woman in her own personality.
When little more than a year married
she was obliged to earn her own sup
port, and provide for the education of
her four children. She had no means,
but plenty of spirit and she resolved
to make her will work out a way. She
travelled to New York to consult with
some influential friends and through
their advice, but without their help,
she proceeded to Washington to see
the then secretary Of state. James G.
Blaine. On her arrival in the national
capital, the applicant for position pos
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sessed only the very slenderest portion
Of actual money. But her brains were
active and her pen rallied to her sup
port, and through influence she man.
aged to support her life. Four or five
days, the youthful applicant clamored
at the important door Of the secretary
Of state without hearing the welcome
summons to enter. 1t was weary wait
ing, but perseverance o its trial.
She was finally ushered into the pres
ence of the famous cabinet officer, who
asked her what she could do. Imme-
diately, she told him her desires and
Immediately Blaine granted her per-
mission to put them into execution.
The work she asked for was work in
the emigration service for the govern
ment, and entailed a prompt depar-
ture for Europe. Returning to New
York she borrowed the money to pay
her passage across the Atlantic. Never
once did her energy fail nor her spirit
falter; only, standing alone on the deck
of the steamer as it entered Liverpool
and watching the Majestic outward
bound for home and family and
friends, the heart OF the worker was
lie with the pangs of parting. But
in spite of lack. of experience and lone
Illness, the worker succeeded. She
travelled and correspondent for the
newspapers at home and abroad, anil
worked well and wisely in the service
of the government. Ten times she
crossed the ocean in the interests of
Uncle Sans laws. The family of five
generations was reunited last Febru-
airy, when Mr.. and Mrs. Packard trav-
eled to TOnawanda to admire the first
grandchild, who also claimed in her
tiny person the honor of being the
first great-great-grandchild.
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The English language is practically
the only language as a means of COM
munication or instruction in the Ha-
Wallan schools. And here lies the diff
Guilty OF the work. Just imagine the
teachers Of California trying to teach
the children Of that state through the
Arabic language. Yet English is prob
ably as difficult for the children Of
Hawaii as Arabic for those of Califor-
MIA. History, literature, natural
science and even arithmetic must be
taught Under great difficulties. Edu-
cative instruction under these condi-
lions is a well-nigh unsolved problem.
But conditions are rapidly changing.
The English language is coming into
use as a means of communication
among the graduates of the common
schools, many of whom have no other
language in common. Thus it is creep
ing into the homes of the people, ven.
When the children learn crude Eng
fish from their mothers, the teachers
tasks will be much simplified. FOr
many years there have been schools in
Honolulu and Hilo especially adapted
TO the needs of the children of Eng
disappearing parents. Lately similar
schools have been opened in a number
of other locations, and still others will
be opened shortly. These are not es-
sentially different from schools of sim
liar grade in America. A regular pub
lie high school is in process of organ
ization in Honolulu, the greater num-
Der of the departments being already
in working order. The endowed insti-
tuition known as Oahu College has long
offered full preparation for any college
in America, and many of it's graduates
have entered leading colleges on adj
vanced standing.
But the English-speaking children
do not enjoy a monopoly of the priv
ileges of education beyond the com
mon school course. The Kamehameha
schools, with their magnificent equip
ment and no less magnificent endow-
ment are open to those of native Ha-
waiian blood and to no others. Man.
ual training and industrial education
are leading features Of these schools,
and few similar schools in America are
so we'll equipped for work on these
lines.
The natives are very fond of music.
The guitar on account of the softness
of it's tone, is their favorite instru-
ment. The royal Hawaiian band,
which a few years ago made a tour
through the United States, was COM
posed of native Hawaiians, all of
whom were accomplished musicians.
RED FANTON.
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AS FOOD.

In many Of the provinces of France
chestnuts annually contribute a large
part of the public food. The PRINCIPAL
value of the chestnut is it's easy diges-
tibility over all other fours, especially
when boiled or baked.
Many chestnuts are superior to M
tatoes for food. There is as much AZ
ote matter in a kilogram of chestnuts
when the kernel contains so per cent
of water as in half a kilogram of bread
When dry it has at least four times as
much sweet and feculous matter as tbe
best kind of a potato.
A doctor from Petra Santa saws that
the chestnut groves during a large part
of the year yield the principal nourisb-
men to the poor of Cevennes. Limou-
sin and the Corse. Cakes are made
from Chestnut flour which will last a
long time. BY mixing the flour in a
little sailed water a bouillon is made
which is very agreeable, especially if
a little fresh milk is added to it. II
was the p%olenta, a favorite food of the
agricultural population of the ancient
duchies of Lucques and Modene. These
people never ate meat nor drank wine.
and they worked from ten to twelve
hours a day; they often lived in close
huts and yet enjoyed perfect health
n great muscular strength.
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A GLIMPSE OF HAWAIIAN SCENERY.
that choke the vale, and blot the sides
of the beWildered hills"

that choke the vale, and blot the sides
of the bewildered hills"
Although sugar ane is indigenous in
Hawaii, little attempt was made to-
ward it's cultivation until 1885, when
a plantation was started at Kauai, and
several sugar mills were built. THESE
mills were worked by the aid of mules
and oxen, and the process was SLOW
and laborious. What a contrast to the
mills of the present day, where the
cane is taken and made into crystals OF
sugar. There is no royal road to
wealth in Hawaii, and any one who an
~ticipates such a condition had better
stay away. No nan can go about
blindfolded and pick up dollars in the
streets. but no country offers a better
opportunity and final reward for hon
est, earnest and constant labor. Els
pecially is this true in the coffee in
dustry. The pretty homes and coffee
areas of Olaa are an evidence of this.
Butter is selling in Hilo at 81 a roll.
1t is quoted in San Francisco at ice.
to 24c. a pound. There every field is
as dry as a bone. In Hawaii every
field is perpetually green. The dairy
business offers q much better opening
than any line of merchandising. And
as a %by-product to the dairy, hogs will
pay magniticently. Pork is retailing
at rs cents a pound. The advertising
columns of the local papers tell a Curl
Gus story of the strangely backward
condition of some of the smaller in
dustries. From Australia: peaches,
plums, oranges, apples, grapes, nee
~tarines, lemons, celery, caulifiowers,
potatoes, cheese, roll butter, crab APP
Piles, ounces, onions. These are i'm
ported from a country over two thous-
and miles distant.
The Hawaiian Inspector-General of
Schools, Mr.. Henry Schiller Townsend.
speaking of the educational system of
the islands, says that the population of
the Hawaiian Islands is small and the
school system is necessarily small.
The total population exceeds n hun
dred thousand slightly, of which four
teen thousand were attending school at
the end of last year. Ten thousand
were in the public schools. Fifty-six
per cen of all the children attending
school at that time were OF native
Hawaiian descent, and twenty-five per
cent were Portuguese. The remain
ing nineteen per cent represents a
larger number of nationalities.
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One of our visitors from the COIN
try during Merchants week became
hungry and, going into a restaurant.
ordered dinner, says a Boston paper.
Being asked by one of the walters what
he would have, he replied: ooh, bring
me a good dinner" The head waiter
was consulted, with the result that
soup was first placed before the hun
cry man, also celery. He drank his
soup and although he eyed the celery
suspiciously, he ate that. Then came
a dish of spaghetti, and the country
man revolted: Il have drunk your dish
water, eaten your bunch of weeds, but
I'll be gol burned if I'm going to eat
your worms"
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L COMRADES.
Lord Clyde Wanted Jock M~acklnnon"

Lord Clyde Wanted Jock M~ackinnon"
to Die Like a Gentleman.
Mr.. w. H. Russell, the famous cor
respondent, sends to the London Times
the following anecdotes of the late Sir
William A. Mackinnon and his old
chief, Sir Colin Campbell: "'Jock
M~aeainnon,' as he was known 10
friends and enemies, had to fight his
way like a Gordon highlander at OAR
gal, and rather enjoyed what King
lake calls the rapture Of the combat.
After the repulse of the Russian de-
tachment by the 93d, his own loved
regiment, on Oct. 25, Jock became so
full of warlike ardor that he resigned
his appointment as assistant surgeon
and applied to Sir Colin Campbell to
obtain him a commission as ensign.
which l believe he actually received,
although his Chief as he called the
general, e%ndeavored to divert him from
his purpose by the remark: My good
man, why, if you want to kill people,
depend upo, it you'll be more deadly
with the lancet than you'll be with
your sword The link that was forged
between him and Sir Colin in the fire
OF battle was never broken, and Mack
innon was wont to rage at large when
he spoke of the repulse at the Sedan.
We meaning the highland brigade)
would have just driven them like
chaff before the wind If Sir Colin had
had the word When Campbell took
the command of the army in India he
selected Mackinnon as his personal
staff surgeon. And an awful time l
have of it! said Jock. He is not
amenable to advice, and it's RESPONSE
bility for a whole hospital to look at
ter him. When Sir Colin. riding flu
riously to check a troop R. H. A. that
were g%alloping after some flying Sc
poys, was thrown from his horse and
broke his collar bone, Mackinnon ex-
claimed: Well! He will have to be
quiet for a time now at all events!
1t was a short while before this that
there was a temporary GOODNESS be-
tween the chief and his body surgeon.
Mackinnon rushed into the tent of a
friend one morning, with staring eye
and every symptom of bodily suffer-
ing. exclaiming: I am poisoned! l am
dying! The apothecary gave me a
deadly dose of %belladonna in mistake.
Heaven have mercy on met! His friend
rushed off to the tent of DR.. Tice, the
P. M. O., who hastily caught up some
specifics and made both for the tent
where Mackinnon lay in agony on a
charpoy, which they reached just as
Lord Clyde was entering it with the
brusque demand: Whats all this noise
about?' I am dying. Sir, l am dying
That's ALL exclaimed Mackinnon In
great agony. Dying! Then why can't
you die quietly like a gentleman, sir,
n not make such a row?' And so re.
tired. And to think 1 have saved his
life half a dozen times said Jock
when he recovered, which he soon did
Let him mind next time we laughed.
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HOMES IN HAWAII.
OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION
OFFERED IN THE ISLANDS,
Farm Crops That Can Be Properly
Grown-Description of the Beautiful
Scenery-The Musical Kananka-FIrst
Cultivation Of Sugar. v

Much as has been written concern
ing Hawaiian scenery, it is a subject
ABOUT which literature can never be
exhausted. People Of all nations and
OF all climates are still continuous in
thelr praise of the tropical verdure
and scenery that can be found in the
MIDST OF the Pacific Ocean. There has
been resident in the islands for some
time a Scotchman-Mr. Charles H.
EWart, OF Dalbeattie, Scotland, whose
soul was moved by the beautiful vision
winch he describes in the following
poetic language:
we are in an amphitheater of
mountains rising to an altitude of s.
oOo and 1000 feet, with a glowing raj
ment of leaf and blossom from base
to summit, save in spots where the red
earth peeps through the radiant cur
tain, as a foil to the flames of irrides-
cent greens, and the fire Of the bios
SONS that have EMBODIED the hills in
their shining embrace. Here and
there a pinnacle where no plant has
found grace to grow, stands out a
purple silhouette against the soft blue
OF a topaz-tinted sky. Caves and ifs
sures are cleft in the sleeps of these
mountaln walls, and torn from the
nearly perpendicular cliffs which sur
round it, alone and apart, stands a
pillar OF stone twenty yards wide at
the base, nearly a thousand feet high,
and pointing 'Godward through the
blue, like the spire OF some mighty
cathedral. This monolith carved and
fashioned by some bygone CONFUSION
or nature when the hills 'glared at
heaven through folds of fiery hair
Is swathed in a glorious garment of
green and gold chequered with the rose
and the azure of the bells of the con-
volvuli that dangle from the Gordon
of vines that engird it,"
The valley in the early morning NAV
be clear OF mists, and a soft mountain
breeze murmuring among the foliage,
but at times it is filed with the noise
less ebbing and flowing of white vapor
borne in from the sea, and out of this
shimmering sea of mist the towers
and minaretes Of the mountains arise
clothed with moses and ferns, and
draped with garlands of eddying vines,
that cover the faces of the cliffs, and
droop over the edges of giddy preci-
pieces in "cataracts of bloom" till they
are swallowed up in the white mists
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THEATER HAT IN FRANCE.
The Mayor of Montpelier Deals with 1t
with Gallo Tact,

with Gallo Tact.
The mayor of Montpelier has been
called upon to deal with a very
thorny problem and he has acquitted
himself with conspicuous tact and with
genuine Gallo gallantry as well, says
the Paris correspondent of the London
Telegraph. The question is not one
that is limited to Montpelier. 1t is
exercising the minds of theater man
ayers and of male play-goers all over
France. The 'voluminous hats so be-
loved just now by the graceful sex
may set off beauty but they bar the
vision of would-be spectators seated
behind the wearers of these ribboned,
lowered and plumed triumphs of the
milliner's art and there is considerable
heart burning in consequences. Every
thing at its proper time, argue the vic
timized men. We are glad to admire
the ladies, but we want to see the play
as we'll; and if they would only be a
little more accommodating we could
do both in the self-same evening. Now
the mayor of Montpelier has not is
sued a decree full of circumstances
and threats, for he can we'll guess,
worthy man, what this would lead to.
He has adopted a far more pleasant
and polite course. In the neat little
address which he has just published he
says that he has the hons of respect
fully inviting ladies attending theat-
performances to leave their hats
in the cloak rooms placed at their dis
posal, and he mildly adds the express
sion of the hope that they will "spon-
.taneously" adopt a measure which is
intended to prevent any demonstration
to disturb the tranquility
of the play. The result of this kindly
appeal may be awaited with con-
fidence.
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TakinG a Lady's Photo in par;s

When a lady is sitting to a Parisi.,
photographer for a portrait the oner-
ator does not, in a perfunctory manner
coldly request her to look pleasant
now, if o please! He says to her.
in the most natural and graceful man
ner in the world: st is quite IN
necessary to ask madam to look pleas
ant; she could not look otherwise ),
The lady, of course acknowledges tho
compliment with her most gracious
anu high-bred smile. Click" goas
the camera and the picture is oh
tanned, revealing the sitter to thu
greatest advantage.