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moment, like a lightning fash, comes
the thought Of the matador who had
taught him, years ago, that tiptoe
thrust, the most effective and graceful
kill" there is known. Poor Joaquin!
The faintest glimmer of remorse touch
es the nan who killed him-but before
he has time to think the bull is close
upon him, quivering with rage, and all
blood covered.
Quickly the matador leaps forward,
his arm raised high, and the glittering
point of his blade on an exact line with
the vital point Of the neck-he half
closes his eyes to see better-yes, that
will just do it! 1t will be a pretty
stroke!
Even as he smiles triumphantly with
the thought, a voice is raised high
above all noise of the ring-a voice
that makes the matador CULVER from
head to feet, just as the bull, almost
upon him, does-a voice. heavy with
hate, and sweet with the southern &C.
cent of Spain:
DOG Of a murderer! Remember Joa-
quinr"
Paralyzed, unable to move, the mata-
dor stands helpless; before the people
up above can W see that something
is wrong, there is a sickening crunch.
a horrible cry that ne one present can
ever forget, and the bull, at last tri-
umphant, is trampling and tearing a
still. bloody mass of violet and silver
and gold, that is now trickling all over
with blood; men and women are ours
ing and fainting and weeping. but to
no avail; for the matador "Diablo" has
met his death thrust; he has gone now
to settle his accounts with the Judge
even of bull fighters, for the man he
had murdered!
No n can locate the owner Of the
voice that had cried out, in the stir and
excitement and terror she is forgotten.
And while they are all screaming and
cursing and jostling, and the bull is
still tearing and paving at the some
thing that had been eel Diablo," a
very dark and still beautiful woman
over In the "sol," half hidden by a
big pillar, looks down into the ring
with a triumphant smile on her face,
and hate and satisfied revenge in her
Spanish eyes 1t Is Dolores!-Cairo
egypt Sphinx.
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a baby he is becoming in his old age!
Dolores-of course she is in Lisbon,
where he left her seven years ago. Yes,
seven-not so long after they had Sc
cretly, in the night, hidden the body of
Joaquin, whom they had decoyed and
foully-Carajo! What is he thinking
about that for now? now, when he has
two bulls to fight, and when the first
one Is just to be turned in!
Pope always fights in his own pecu-
liar fashion, and alternates cloak play
with the banderillos. The horses he
will not permit, holding that bull fight
ing is an art, a science-not butchery.
So no picadores are allowed, AMI twice
are the banderillos put in, until the
beautiful Andalusian bull is in a rage
and passion of fury and agony that
cannot be described. The blood is
running down in streams from where
the banderillos have pierced and torn
his neck and shoulders; the dust is
binding him, he is aching and CULVER
ing and singing from the cruel thrusts
of the sharp points as they twist and
cut; before his blood and foam covered
eyes there is always the dancing, agile
figure, in violet and gold and silver,
that waves red cloths at him, and
mocks him, and thrusts red-hot points
into his flesh-he will get at it and
trample and grind it under foot! And
yet, furious, believing, paving, and
making great wild rushes, he is foiled
each time-the slim, quick figure al
ways avoids the charge. :
But the "Diablo" is getting short of
breath, for this is a very persistent
bull, and he must not do any more hui
moring. So he filings down the ban
derillos, and shouts for the sword. 1t
is hastily pushed over to him from be-
hind a barrier, and he has barely time
to slip it in his satin cloak and dodge
to one side, as the bull m at him
again with a loud below, and fiinging
out clouds of earth in his fury.
The bull must know what the sharp,
cleaning blade is for, because he be-
gins to charge sideways-never with
full head and shoulders on, SO that the
matador can get the vital point. So
charge after charge is made by the
bull. and skillfully avoided by the obi
ablo," who is getting somewhat piqued
and altogether mad. Never before in
his life has he fought with the superb
skill that he now displays-Calfambas!
this 'toro" requires skill. The audi
ence is wild with enthusiasm-from
loud roars of applause, and showers of
purses and hats and flowers into the
ring, they have passed into absolute
silence, all on their feet, watching with
breathless delight the magnificent dis
play of brute force against mans skill,
of Spanish bull fighter against Spanish
bull. In truth, it is magnificent.
The ball is beginning to pant and
tremble even more as he plunges at
the matador. 1t is time to kill, be-
cause If not more play will exhaust the
beast. and the killing will be less eff
fective. So now for the death thrust!
"El Diablo" places himself ready and
lifts the sword. just az the bull recov-
ers from a rush forward and turns
again to attack. On tiptoe, with sword
raised, the matador Is ready. AT that
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15

British foreign-trade returns are not
as satisfactory as those of our own
country, and English journals com.
menting on this fact do not hesitate to
say that the lack of demand from this
country is being seriously noticed. The
export trade of the United Kingdom in
March this year vas valued at EGO, 1884,
600, a decrease of 3.75 per cent. from
March a year ago. For the first three
months of the present year the exports
were than fl, 800, 900 smaller than
in 1897 and $4,000, 900 smaller than in
1896. The import trade. on the other
hand, shows an increase, the higher
price Of cereals being a not unimpor.
tant factor in this latter result. The
total imports for the first quarter az
gregate f119, 099, 900, an increase of Ell.
400, 900 as compared with last year said
to have been due almost entirely to
the higher price Of wheat and flour
imports.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15

According to latest mail summaries,
which are not refuted by later cables.
there is not a country in Europe that
does not hold out the prospect of a
good wheat return, says San Francisco
Commercial News. In England farm
ers feel confident, and in France a yery
large and early yield is looked for. All
the smaller producers make favorable
reports. and even Russia. regarding
which SO many adverse reports and
surmises have been industriously and
persistently launched, comes to the fore
with a prospect that is particularly dis
c%ouraging to the extremists, who have
all along drawn and insisted upon the
least favorable conclusions. The Ar
gentine is shipping freely, and there is
no prospect of an early shrinkage in
exports. India has not been releasing
wheat on SO large a scale lately, but
there can be no question as to the ca
pacity of that country if crop reports
were anywhere neal the facts.
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bull ring. Six most brave and AFRO
CANT bulls are to meet their death at
the skillful hands of the famous fight
ers, Ell Bote, Ell Gallo de Sevilla, and,
as a special feature, the noted matador
Ell Diablo' is to handle both banderil-
los and sword, without picadores, in
the lighting Of Spanish bulls. The
spectacle is to take place at the hour
of g."
1t is after 3 now, but eel Diablo"
otherwise Pope Moreno), who is the
principal figure in the fight, doesn't
care a bit! What if he is late-let
them wait for him. Por Dios! A mar
who has fought bulls for fifteen years
in three different countries can afford
to let people wait for hi-,! They'll
like him all the better when he does
come. And, though Ell Gallo. who
comes before him, has killed his bull
in good style, and been applauded out
of the ring, and the poor 'toro" has
been dragged out too by the six gayly
decorated white mules, and the audi
ence of 5000 people are with m voice
and one accord yelling for eel Mata-
dor! Que venga ell Matador!" that
gentleman is seated on an upturned
box in the bull fighters private place.
smoking a cigarette and having the
bucklesd on his low shoes attended
10. Not until the latter suit his fastidi-
Gus taste and the former is smoked
to the stub does he regretfully rise
and stroll through the matador's en-
trance to the ring.
He is a great favorite with the peo-
pie, and the moment they catch sight
OF him there is loud applause and
handclapping, and the band changes
from the DANA to the beautiful "Mata-
doris March," composed in honor of
the "Diablo" himself, In Spain.
Accustomed to such receptions, Pope
waits m%otionless, with folded srms,
and smiling, until the burst of ap-
plause is over and the music stops.
Then, throwing down his t~hree-corner-
ed hat. and bowling haughtily all
around to the great crowd, he takes
two banderillos from a ringman and
moves over close to the wall, waiting
for the bull. His bold eyes rove over
the boxes, with their loads of beauti-
fully dressed women, all of whom gaze
at him admiringly. AS his eyes glance
along he gives a sudden start, for
there-over in the "so1'-he could
have sworn that he s~aw-Dolores! And
then he shakes himself angrily-what
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15

Young John c. Fremont, who recent
ly acted as a pathfinder in Cuba of a
dark night, recalls the romantic cam
paign of fifty-six, when his father was
the first national candidate of the
%hrand-new Republican party. Colonei
Fremont had run away with and mar.
ried Jessie, daughter of Senator Thos
H. Benton, otherwise known as Olo
Bullion; and the lady accompanied
him on one Of his expeditions overland
to California. One battle-cry of the
campaign was Fremont and JESSIE
and 1t was frequently remarked by Re.
p%ublicans, We'll give 'em JESSIE
And, on the whole, If those of our wo-
men who wan to fight are serious, ii
might be we'll to let EN- do it.
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Uncle Ito the children, who have
just had a dose Of codliver oil all
around)-"Well, do you like codliver
oil?" Children-"Oh, no; uut,mamma
gives us five cents for every spoonful"
Uncle-"And then do you buy some
thing nice?" Children-"No, mamma
puts it into the savings bank" Uncle
And then you buy something by and
by" Children-"No, m buys
more codliver oil with it,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15
HE'LL NEVER PLAY AGAIN.
why . Business Man Has Concluded to
Quit.

why . Business Man Has Concluded to
Quit.
II am ahead of poker, but I am eve
going to play the game any more"
said a business man. For seven
weeks l have been playing at the club
regularly every Wednesday night, and
l guess I have had the most remark
able experience of any man who plays
more for amusement than gain. Luck
or fortune or whatever 1t is that regu-
lates winnings and losings has given
me a pretty strong hint seven times to
stop playing and l am going to take it,"
He is known to play in a somewhat
stiff" game, where board Of trade men
plunge as heavily on card combina-
tions as they do in the daytime on
fluctuations. His friend was curious
to know what had made him weaken"
1.-THE game always lasts all night" he
explained. Nov, on each Of these
seven occasions l have commenced the
night by losing heavily-far more than
l could afford to lose-and continuing
to drop my money until the last stages
of the game. But here is the remark
able part of the affair. When the time
comes to break up the game we play
n big jack pot before any player
cashes in his chips. Every play night in
the last seven weeks 1 have entered
that last pot the heaviest loser in the
game and have emerged from it the
biggest winner of the game. That
means that I lose all through hun
dreds of hands and then in the best
hand of the night have been seven con-
secutive times the lucky man. Why, it
raises my hair to think of it. The fun
niest part of 1t is, though, that l have
invariably had a lively and profitable
play on what the boys have come to
call my hand. The very first night I
beat a flush and a small full hand with
three aces and a pair of kings. The
next time l had a pat flush and made
a big play before the draw, and last
night l won the last pot with four
sevens. I've figured it out that my
poor luck is a warning to me to stop
playing, while my good fortune or the
last hand serves to emphasize the hint.
It's just as if Dame Fortune was tell
ing me that she had been tolerant
enough to let me pull out of the hole
sever times, and 1 ought not to ex-
pect such luck always. I'll stop"
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FROM BUCcANEER TO PIRATE.

Tho Brethren of the Coast Warrcd
Against Every Nation.
Mr.. Frank R. Stockton continues in
St. Nicholas his series of narrative
sketches Of "The Buccaneers of Our
Coast" In the May number Mr..
Stockton says: The buccaneers had
grown to be reckless f%reebooters. And
when they became soldiers and march
ed in little armies, the patience of the
civilized world began to weaken. Pan
ANA. for instance, wa an important
Spanish city; England was at peace
with Spain; therefore, when a military
force composed mainly Of Englishmen,
and led by a British subject, captured
and sacked Panama, If England should
not interfere with her buccaneers she
would have a quarrel to settle with
Spain. So a new governor was sent to
Jamaica with strict orders to put down
organization, and then it was he set a
thief to catch thieves, and empowered
the ex-pirate, Morgan, to execute his
former comrades. But methods of
Cancellation. as well as threats Of pun
ishment, were used to induce the buc-
cancers to give up their illegal calling,
and liberal offers were made to them
to settle in Jamaica and become law
abiding citizens. But these offers did
not tempt the Brothers of the Coast;
from active pirates to retired pirates
was too great a change, and though
some OF them returned to their original
%avocations Of cattle butchering and
beef drying, some, 1t Is said, chose
rather to live among the wild Indians
and share their Independent lives,
than to bind themselves to any form
of honest industry. The French also
had been active in suppressing the op-
erations Of their buccaneers, and soon
the Brethren of the Coast, considered
as an organization for pfeying upon
the commerce and settlers of Spain,
might be said to have ceased to exist.
But it must not be supposed that be-
cause b~uccaneering had died out that
piracy was dead. Driven from Jamaica,
from San Domingo, and even from Tor
tuga, they retained a resting place ouly
at New Providence, an island in the
Bahamas, and this they did not main
tain very long. Then they spread
themselves all over the watery world.
They were no longer buccaneers, they
were no longer Brothers" of any sort.
they no longer set out merely against
Spaniards, but their attacks were made
upon people of every nation. They con-
fined themselves to attacks upon peace
able merchant vessels, often robbing
them and then scuttling them, delight
ed with the spectacle of a ship, with
all its crew, sinking hopelessly into the
sea. The scene of piratical operations
in America was now very much chang
ed. The successors of the Brothers of
the Coast, no longer united by any
bonds of fellowship, but each pirate
captain acting Independently in his
own wicked way, were coming up from
the West Indies to aflict the more
northern sea coast.
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The captain Of a Spanish vessel at
Manila who wanted the fight postponed
until he could get some ammunition was
treated with great severity by Commo-
dore Dewey. The courtesy was brutal
ly refused, and presently the poor fell.
low excused himself and went down
with his crew. We learn from this
how cruel war is. 1t destroys all man
ner Of politeness, and substitutes death
for the amenities. And yet Commo.
dore Dewey, SO far from being dropped
from the service, is promoted. Nc
wonder the Evening Post bowls.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15
X Rays and Vegetation.

An Italian scientist who has been
investigating the effect of Roentgen
rays on vegetable life concludes that
their action is identical with that of
light. Continuing his experiments in
the realm of heterogeneous, he
thinks he has discovered that on these
also their action is similar to that of
light. Various investigators have pre-
viously obtained negative results, but
these he attributed to the brief dura-
ton of the exposures.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15
BROKEN MATRIM ONIAL PACT.

Connecticut Brother and Sister Who
Bound Themselves to CeIibacy.
From the Buffalo Express: An in
teresting case of broken contract has
come to light in a New Haven court,
where former Representative Michael
P. Harding of Brantford, Conn.,, asked
for a reduction in the amount of at
tachments which his sister had placed
upon his various properties. Thirty
years ago Mr.. and Miss Harding made
a compact never to marry, but to live
always for each other. In 1896 the
man broke the compact and attach
ments of $780, 900 we're the result of a
suit for that amount for services at
the rate of $50 a month instituted by
the sister. The judge was as kind as
he was wise and reduced the attach
ments to 81, 900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15
CHERRIES ALASKA WEATHER.
on the Oregon Have. a Cold
and Dismal Experience.

" WIN
and Dismal Experience.
The City of Topeka left juneau,
Alaska Feb. 20 and started for Kills
moo in a fierce north gale. A binding
snowstorm was then raging, and as the
captain and pilots could see nothing
but the white blanket of snow they
lay in the bay there over night. The
thermometer registered about eight de-
grees below zero, and the ship was
coated all over with ice about four
inches thick. Next morning they con-
tinued the voyage, still battling with
furious gales to Sitka, then, after TAX
ing aboard a few passengers and the
mails, back she went, with the north
ern wind bowling behind her, to Jun
eau. Here she found worse weather
than ever. The day before her arri-
val the steamer Oregon had dragged
her anchors, and on the morning of
the 22d was swept over the flats near
town. She listed over on her side I'M
til her decks were almost at an angle
of As degrees. -Four or five horses were
thrown violently against the vessels
side and killed. Her 400 passengers
were panic stricken, and, standing
along the bulwarks, they clamored for
the ships officers to lower the boats.
But even had the officers acceded to
their request 1t would have beer i'm
possible for them to live in the sea.
For thirty-siX hours the steamer lay
on the flats, swaying to and fro as the
wave swept over her. During this
time the passengers ate whatever they
could lay hands on, for so badly was
the ship listed that nothing could be
cooked in the vessel. During the whole
time m was falling heavily and the
thermometer stood about s degrees be-
low zero. The steamer at length was
fioated and 500 the passengers hur-
ried ashore. The flats being very soft,
no damage was done to the steamer
and, strange to say, only one accident
was reported among those on board,
the ships carpenter breaking his leg
by a fall,
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Lntfu va. SbayiU9 u,

Sir John Sinclair once asked Coch-
rane tombstone whether he meant to
have a son of his. then a little bow.
taught Latin.
NO" said tombstone; "but l mean
to do something a great deal better for
him."
"What is that?" asked Sir John.
"Nyhy," said the other, ''teach him to
shave with cold water and without q
glass."-ArgOnaut.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15

During our late war Robert Toombs,
If we remember rightly, declared that
the south would welcome northerners
into the confederacy with bloody hands
to h%ospitable graves. 1t was a cruel
declaration, and it seems strange o
that 1t was uttered by a brother with
regard to brothers; but war Is war
But If Weyler gets back into Cuba the
Cubans will probably translate it into
Spanish, and it will seem quite pleasant
and c~ommendable.
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The Why.

DR.. Winston, dining n day with
Lady Jekyll, she asked him why the
Almighty made woman out of the rib
of man.
Winston, after rejecting a moment.
replied: "Indeed, my lady, l don't
know, except it was because the rib
was the crookedest part about him.
Household Words.
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The specie holdings of the sixty-four
National and State banks composing
the clearinghouse Association OF New
York, now amount to $169, 400, 800. of
which it was estimated but about 2
per cent, or, approximately, IS, 900. 600
is silver. The remaining 1854, 400, 600
is the greatest total of gold ever held
by the New York banks. Eleven of the
banks have s107, 175, 800 Of the total
specie holdings. and one of them, the
National City bank. has nearly one
sixth of the total, and a greater
amount than any single bank has ever
held In the country's history.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-15
shawl.

The Duchess of Northumberland
a shawl which formerly belonged
to Charles X of France, and was man
ufactured from the fur of Persian cats.
Many thousands of cats skins were
utilized, and the weaving occupied
some years. The shawl measured eight
yards square, but 1t is so fine that it
can be compressed in the space of a
large coffee cup.
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Utterly ReDUIiUted.

"What's the matter with this money
we are issuing?" said the Spanish min
lister of finance, angrily.
II don't want it," replied the laugh
ty gentleman. "You weren't satisfied
with using inferior paper. You had to
go and print all over it, so that it isn't
even fit to write challenges on
Washington Star.
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eff it had not been for Miller's wife,
he would have squandered all his prop
erty in a year."
what did she do"
"She anticipated him.'-Fliegende
Batter.