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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
Couidn't Beat Him.

A little boy from California who has
been about a great deal is spending
the holidays with his Washington cous-
ins. He has enjoyed the sights of the
capital, but he hasn't permitted himself
to be in the slightest degree overawed
by anything he has seen. His cousins
took him-"carried" him, they said Of
it themselves-to the National Museum
ons day, and called his attention to a
great log Of petriled wood lying just
outside the door. The little Califor-
MAN had been a little depressed, but
he frightened up at the sight. 1--WE
seen a whole tree like that" he said.
The Washington cousins maintained
their composure. We've got a whole
forest of trees like that cut west" went
on the young westerner. Still the
Washingtonians were not at all i'm
pressed. The California boy drew a
long breath. We've got a whole woods
Of putrefed trees" he said. yes, and
they's putrehed birds sitting on 'em,
and-and," with one last effort to dis
turb the calm dissatisfaction of his
companions, they're singing putrefied
songs, too."-Washington Post.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
VARIOUS

The tomato Is native to Mexico and
South America. 1t takes its name from
a Portuguese word.
Celery was unnoticed for many years
in Great Britain until it was finally
put on the table as a choice dainty.
The watercress and the sour-dock,
which is used as a salad in Germany,
for many centuries wasted as weeds
before they were put on the table OF
civilized man.
Beans, native to Europe and the
East Indies, have been cultivated from
the earliest times. The pea is a native
of Asia and was brought by the Aryans
into Italy and Greece.
Lentils, which come from the Hima-
layas, were probably the first plants
man ever cultivated. The lentil is Gull
tivated in India, Persia, Syria, Egypt,
Nubia and parts Of Europe.
The turnip anne from Rome. Spinach
is from Persia, brought into Spain by
the Arabs. Lettuce comes from the
east and the ancients called it the food
Of the dead. 1t was eaten at the end
OF a feast to counteract the heating
effects Of the wine.
Asparagus has always been a favor
lite. 1t was originally a wild seacoast
weed Of Great Britain and Russia and
the Greeks and Romans were very fond
of it. 1t is closely related to the IA
mous asphodel, which the ancients SUD-
posed was the leading flower OF civ
SUM. Asparagus is so plentiful on the
Russian steppes that the cattle eat
1t like grass. In some parts of south
ern Europe the seeds are dried and
used as a substitute for coffee.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
ART IN THE
Some 81 the Things We Should Be
Rid OF.

Some 81 the Things We Should Be
RID OF.
Miss Mary Ware. a recent speaker
for the Monday morning talk Of The
School Of Housekeeping in Boston, ac-
cording to the Boston Transcript, said.
IN part: I'm trying to beautify a
house that has been long occupied, let
h first move be to dispense with per-
haps q third Of the furniture, pictures
and ~bric-a-brac. There is nothing
more dign1fed or restful than space,
provided that space does not suggest
emptiness. A well-proportioned room
(most city rooms are too high studded)
with broad windows placed sufficiently
high In the walls, with floors and walls
OF good color and texture, is harmoni-
GUS and restful sven without furniture.
Consistency is a prominent fault in
modern furnishing. A pink room or a
blue room, II interesting at all, is not
so because of it's consistent color
scheme. An article of furniture whose
lines and proportions are not refined,
whose necessary construction Is not
good, can never be redeemed by the
addition Of ornament, however good.
The article which most directly and
beautifully fulils its purpose is the
best OF its kind. A brass cherub
poised on a ball and bearing aloft a
painted porcelain bowl, surmounted by
a frilly umbrella, is not a good lamp.
Any realistic imitation is a parody on
art. The apple that proves to be a
silk p~incushion, the chicken or pug dog
that proves to be a box of candy, the
cabinet or chest of drawers that proves
to be a bedstead, these things we should
be rid of. Mere manual dexterity or
patient execution is worthless unless
1t produces objects of intrinsic beauty.
The thoughtless purchase Of inartistic
OF badly made things, or of limitations
or shams, causes more such things to
be made, and defects energy away
from the production Of real beauty. AS
demand creates supply, we can have
really fine and true art in our homes
when we know enough to demand it"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

It is a rather curious coincidence
that the scriptures should have caused
the first dispute about copyright of
which we have any record, and also
the last. In the sixth century, st. Co
lumba, when a monk in the north
of Ireland, visited a monastery where
there was a celebrated psalter, and
while the members of the religious in
stitution were asleep or at work he
made a copy Of the book, which he
intended to carry away with him. But
the prior found out what he had done,
and ~impounded the manuscript. A
terrible dispute arose, which was ulti-
mately decided by the local king, to
whom it was referred, against the in
fringer of the copyright, the Hibernian
monarch sententiously declaring that
ITO every COW belongs its calf" But
the quarrel did not end there, and this
question of copyright gave rise to a
great wal between st. Columba's parti-
sans and the others, which did not end
until the saint fed to Iona for refuge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
GEMS N SETTINGS.

More valuable than diamonds are
green garnets, because they are so ex-
ceedingly rare. They are of an unsur-
passed rich shade far beyond that Of
an emerald and are very brilliant. On
the other hand red garnets are so COM
mon that they cost next to nothing.
1t was thought at one time that wear
ing emeralds was good for the eye
sight. The story is told by old histo-
rians that a carved stone lion on the
shore of Cyprus had such brilliant
emeralds for eyes that the fish in that
part of the sea were all frightened
away, and not till the fishermen had
stolen the emeralds and replaced them
by green glass did the finny inhabitants
return to be caught.
OF late years the ruby has become
average mortal. 1t was considered dur
ing the dark ages a protection against
evil and a help to a cheerful DISPOSE
ton. In China a ruby is put in the
corner stone of a building to insure
good luck. Our best rubies come from
the Burmah mines, which. before the
English took possession, belonged to a
king who ~jealously guarded them. No
foreigner was able to secure one of
these matchless gems unless it was
smuggled out.
Low settings, which of late years
have rather been overlooked, are very
beautiful, especially for stones like the
turquoise, opal or topaz. When a stone
is sunk flush with the surrounding
metal 1t becomes a spot of color in the
midst Of a molding or chasing which
is attractive in itself, but the modern
method permits no decoration Of the
gold or silver. Antique jewels are al
most invariably sunken. A diamond
| does not look we'll set this way, for 1t
has no color of its and needs the
; light to help it out. Another good set
ting consists of four or five strong
claws which hold the gem up, exposing
it fully.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
ANSWE

Miss Willing-The idea of a 1s-year-
old girl sending a "Bless-Our-Hcme"
motto to a young man is absurd.
Scribbles-There is a number o, so-
called remedies for writer's cramp. hut
probably the most effective is a pub
lisher's check.
Sylvia-We may be wrong. Sylvia
but, confdentially. between us and our
selves, we believe the best time to
marry is on the 31st of February.
Young Father-No, papa. the Ding.
ley bill will not increase the tacks on
carpets. The pleasures of your mid
night walks will not be interfered with
Farmer-Our experience in fence
making has grown somewhat rustv
but we think the best way to make
fence posts last is to make the fence
first.
Jagssley-No, there is no earthly rea-
son why you shouldn't use a shoe horn
to aid in putting ON your hat, after
a sherry cohbler not wisely but
too we'll,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

When Joseph Henry Lumpkin was
chief justice of Georgia a case was
brought before him in which a wealthy
citizen asked for an injunction to pre-
vent the construction of a planning mill
across the street, alleging that the
noise of the mill in the early morning
would make it impossible for him to
sleep. The chief justice decided that
the mill might be built, adding: 81
know of but two noises in all nature
that a man cannot become reconciled
to, and they are the braying of an ass
and the tongue of a scolding woman"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

An English trade journal thus re-
ports concerning the wheat prospects
in continental Europe: Although the
French wheat fields promise we'll, it is
feared they are affected by rankness
and weeds. Austria-Hungary is suf-
fering from a plague of field mice and
moles, which is spreading over the vast
plains Of the Leytha and Danube. The
news from Russia Is satisfactory, so
far as the Azima wheat of 1898 is con-
cerned; but the threshing of the 1897
crop indicates that the yield Is very
small in the provinces which have
hitherto been credited with an average
crop"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

No city in the United States surpass-
es Philadelphia in the average intelli-
gence and honesty Of it's citizens. No
city in the United States equals Phila-
delphia in the rascality of its govern
ment. Why Is it that Philedal-
phia instead of being among the
best governed of American munich
palities, is ~undeniably the worst?
Why Is 1t that the city which ought
to be a model is an awful example?
Philadelphia has a noble company of
political economists, and a grand ar
ray of philanthropists who never fail
to take an active part in national af-
fairs. And all the while the looting of
Philadelphia's treasury goes on, brib-
cry and corruption continue, and po-
litical banking robs the widow and the
%fatherless.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
DOG SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
Succeeded In Saving Both Ducks-How
He Did 1t.

Succeeded In Saving Both Ducks-How
He Did 1t.
A friend Of mine, living on New riv.
er, In an adjoining county, was tina
fortunate owner of a superb black set
ter called Don, says a writer in the
Richmond Dispatch. He was a splen-
did dog In the Held, and by far the best
retriever I ever shot over. While we
were hunting one day in the low
grounds neal the bank of the river. a
gang Of wild ducks alighted in the
stream within shooting distance. My
companion at nee fired into them,
killing n and wounding another so
That 1t could not fly. The current was
somewhat rapid, but about 100 Yards
below a small island had been formed.
Don, who, by the way, seemed to revel
IN water, was at once sent out into the
stream to bring the game ashore. But
when he attempted the task he was
greatly perplexed. He could not mouth
both OF the ducks at one time, for the
wounded bird would escape from him
every time he attempted to take up the
other n He evidently saw 1t would
not do to come out with only one and
w the other, for If he left the wound
ed n 1t would hide and escape before
ne could swim to the bank and then
return for it, and if he brought the
wounded duck first the current would
o o carry thedead duck beyond recov-
cry. He made several Intellectual eff
forts. seemingly, to solve the problem
how to save both birds before he sue
ceeded In accomplishing the task, and
by this time the water had ioated the
ducks close to the island. This was
Don's opportunity, and he grasped the
situation at once. Selling the dead
duck, he swan rapidly to the ppe
point of the island and laid. it down on
h sand, and then dashed into the wat
er again in pursuit of the disabled one.
He soon overlook and captured it, and
at once struck out for the bank where
we were standing. AS soon as he
reached us he went up to his master,
who received the game from him. In
stantly, when this was done, he plunged
into the stream again, and, reaching the
island, took up the dead duck and
again reached us with his trophy.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
nuMoHs or CLERICAL LIFE.
One BOY Thought He Knew Why the
Sea was Salt,

One Boy Thought He Knew why h
Sc. Wal Salt.
Some Of the ideas held with regard
to ecclesiastical matters are as funny
as they are extraordinary, though they
cause one to reflect on the methods
adopted by the church and the various
religious bodies, says the Cornhill
Magazine. A woman same to me n
day to say she wanted her daughter to
be confirmed. "Mr. -" she said,
from the chapel over the way, as
been a-trying to convert 'er, but I
pretty soon told him what 1 thought
bout it. l ses to i'm, I'll ave my gal
confirmed, but I won't ave 'er con
verted. SO now you know. I don't b.
lieve in conversion" What the min
lister said or thought of this truly mar
velous statement Of doctrine l don't
know. The m%onograms 1 H s and X
P c, which are so often to be seen In
Of the congregation, a larger proper
ton, I am inclined to think. than is
generally supposed. A certain vicar,
soon after his arrival in the parish,
placed a new cloth upon the altar upon
the center Of which was embroidered
a large cross. Such strong opposition
was raised to this symbol Of Christian
ity that the vicar gave way before the
storm and had the initials l H s sub
stituted. A parishioner who was not
at all in favor Of the change, on being
asked the meaning Of the letters. re-
piled: why, don't you know what it
means? 1t means, 4 hope you're sat
iefed.'" Children's answers are al
ways a fruitful source Of amusement.
A girl Is or Is years old, who had re-
ceived what was supposed to be a good
education, was describing to me her
recent visit to the Tower Of London.
Among the many wonders which she
had seen was q sword given to Henry
VIII by Max Muller, an amusing though
not altogether unnatural substitute for
the Emperor Macmillan. II children
are allowed to think for themselves
their answers are amusingly original.
What do you think makes the sea
salt?" was a question put to a national
school class. A brilliant idea struck
a boy. please, sir, the 'errings."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
A missionary Medicine.

Cleanliness begins within. If a man
isn't clean inside, he is far from Godli-
ness. A constipated sinner is a stencil
in the nostrils of the deity. A man
whose food sours in his stomach, and
whose liver is leaden. can't help looking
at he world hatefully with jaundiced
eye, and conjuring up evil thoughts in
his tortured brain. Cleanliness of person
begets cleanliness of thought. Cascarets,
candy cathartic is the missionary medi-
cine which puriies mems bodies and
minds. Pure, fragrant, palatable, mild
and positive, they clean out the intestinal
canal, stimulate the liver and strengthen
the bowels. Then a man enjoys again
feeling of charity and brotherly love for
his fellows and recommends others to
take Cascarets and be as happy as he.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Nowhere in the south is such cor
tempt shown for the negro as was ex-
hibited for the negro who succeeded
in being elected to the Office of council
man in Boston, says the Atlanta Con.
stitution. In that city a negro is made
to feel that he is a negro. Here in the
south every well behaved and respect
able negro is treated courteuusiy. In
Boston the negroes are shut out of the
trades. In the south they are found
in all the trades. Boston should her
self deal fairly with the negro before
finding fault with the south's treat
ment of him.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Lovers Of orchestral music in New
York find it rather difficult to raise the
necessary $125.00o for a five years
guarantee fund for a permanent or
chestra in that city. They have Sc
cured subscriptions for about $4,000
and there the good work halts, for
some reason not apparent to the unin-
itiated masses. The metropolis should
not play second fiddle in this matter to
Boston and Chicago, cities which have
found no difficulty in sustaining per-
manent orchestras of surprising ex'
cellence.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
No M, a

Juneau Jake-So the boys lynched
old Chilkoot Sam? why, he was a
harmless old c%ritter! Couldn't tell
gold dust from brown sugar. What'd
he done? Placer Pete-Why. n night
last week, when it was freezin' the
lamp blazes so that a Teller could take
'em and use EN- fer w%hetstones, that
driveling old chilblain said it remind
ed him of a cold New Years day back
in the sixties.-Judge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

In the western hemisphere the
slaughter Of birds has been tremen-
dous, and in this country it has almost
annihilated some varieties, and the eff
feet is felt by farmers in some states
in the increase Of injurious insects.
which the birds used to eat. The fem
mime pride of ornament has wrought
q fearful work, and it is gratifying to
SEQ that the movement to prevent this
wholesale destruction of birds is large
ly pushed by women, who see the folly
OF annihilating them for hat feathers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Mexico doesn't sympathize with
Spain in the latter's trouble with the
United States, although Spain is Mex
ico's mother country. This is not at
all strange. Mexico once has expe-
riences very like those which Cuba il
now having. 1t was at one time a de-
tendency of Spain. Up to 1921, when
its independence was achieved, it bore
the calling yoke of that kingdom. The
immediate ancestors Of the present
generation of Mexicans were victims Of
Spanish cruelty and i%nhumanity. The
Mexicans of today have not forgotten
the past.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Members of the royal family have
frequently been lords lieutenant of Ire
land, under various titles. In vol. 215
state papers, Ireland, James L., 1903,
there Is a list of ten members of the
royal family who had filled this place,
beginning with John, early Of Morton,
afterwards King John. Since 1903 no
member of the royal family has been
lord lieutenant of Ireland.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
All He Could Say.

~Yabsley-You know that blind beg
gar l gave the dime this morning?
Well. l found him ten minutes after in
a saloon, buying a drink. Wickwire-
What did he say? Yabsley-He grinned
and said. Here's looking at you."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Lead and zinc, 6Os degrees; iron, L.
992 degrees; copper, 1895 degrees;
gold, 2,2s2 degrees; steel, 2,400 de-
grees. The greatest heat obtainable
in a cooking stove is $50 degrees. Some
metals would boil, others would dis
appear in vapor, if subjected to heat
measuring $500 degrees.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

victim-I want to prefer a charge
against this man, but l hardly know the
proper one to make. Oficer-What did
he do? Victim-Struck me on the head
with a chunk of ice. Ohcer-Well,
why not charge him with carrying con-
gealed weapons?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
New York,s wealthy Bootblaek.

A New York bootblack named Tony,
who has Ave different branches in the
city, does such a large business at one
Of these shops he has been compelled
to employ a young woman as
cashier. Tony pays more than 5000
a year for rent alone. His total ex-
penses annually are in the neighbor-
hood Of SIS, 000.-New York Evening
World.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09
STORYETTES.

A young fellow who drank much
vised by his friends to take the gold
cure, but he refused. But" protested
his friends, "your physician says that
If you keep on drinking you will sure
ly oon go blind. Now, the question
is simply this: Do you prefer being
cured Of the drink habit and retaining
your eyesight, OF do you prefer to keep
on drinking and go blind?" The young
mar paced the floor for some time and
was in a brown study. Finally he
turned to his friends and, with a re-
signed expression of countenance, re-
piled: We'll, I guess I've seen about
everything"
When Meade's army was marching
out of the Wilderness, a drum corps in
passing Grants headquarters caught
sight of the chief and at once struck
up a then popular negro camp meeting
air. Every one began to laugh.
Whats the ,f.nf" inquired the gen
eral. why" was the reply, they are
playing, Amt 1 Glad to Get Out OBJ de
Wilderness!'" The general smiled at
the ready wit of the musicians and
said, well with me a musical joke
always requires explanation. l know
only two tunes-one is Yankee Doodle
and the other isn't"
Mr.. Justice Maule once went on cir
cult with Judge Coleridge in a part OF
the country where the high sheriff was
a shy and modest man and very much
alarmed at having to entertain his Gym
ical lordship. Coming home in his
| coach with the two judges, he thought
1t his duty to make conversation for
them. He observed that he hoped
there would be better weather, as the
moon had changed. "And are you
such a fool, Mr.. Jones, as to imagine
that the noe has an effect on the
weather." said Maule. Really, Bro
Their Maule," said Coleridge, who was
politeness itself, you are very hard
upon our friend. For my part, l think
| the moon has a considerable effect up.
on it," Then" said Maule, you are
as great a fool as Jones is" After
which conversation in the sheriff's car.
rage languished.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

THAT reminds me of a story" said
one of a group OF men, looking around
eurtively, "as there are no ladies pres
ent." ono, but I am" promptly re-
sponded a tall young fellow, IS he turn
ed on his heel; land you need not tell
me any story that you would not tell
your mother" Each individual en-
or discourages. This young
hero did both.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Many thoughtful persons are begin
ming to believe that 1898 is yet destin-
ed to prove an epochal year in the
matter of history making wars. There
is assuredly a rather solid foundation
for the belief at the present moment.
The civilized world is anything but
peaceful in spirit or comfortable in
the relations existing among its great
powers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

What has the ancient and honorable
artillery of Boston to say in these try
ing times? These prandial patriots
have taken many Havanas, and could
be relied upon to take Madeira and
Amontillado, or any old port.-Kenne-
bee Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Commodore Letter of Chicago is
ready to send a large fleet eastward
whenever the warlike enthusiasm of
the country brings the price of wheat
up to the proper figure.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Bass-I suppose you think I'm a
fool? Cass-That's what troubles me.
If your superstition is correct, then you
are & mindreader, and therefore. O
cannot be a fool; and yet-well, you
understand.-Boston Transcript.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

nj. LIE Cochin-M. lie Cochin-M. Bif-
tex and Maurice met to-day and some
thing must have happened. His feel
ings seemed to be hurt .
Mile. Gazelle-Mon Dieu! There has
been a duel! oh, heavens! (Faints.)-
New York Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

He-See here, wife, a hairpin in the
soup!
She-Now l know at last where our
things go to; there is a bootjack miss
ing, too.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-06-09

Johnnie-Papa, see what I've found
"a bicycle cap. Papa-What are you
going to do with it, Johnnie? Johnnie
Well, amt you going to buy me a
bicycle to fit it?-New York World.