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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
CORAL BORING IN THE PACIFIC
Results of the Expedition Sent Out
from England.

ANGouhtS Va GnG ExpcultlOh Goub Oub
from England.
From the Sydney Herald: The
steamer Birksgate, which arrived on
Saturday from the islands. brings fur
Their news from Fiji concerning the
CONDITIONING expedition at Funafuti, in
the Ellice group. News has been
taken to Suva by H. NJ. s. Royalist OF
the progress made by the expedition
after the departure of Professor David
in the John Williams. When Profess
sor David left Funafuti on Sept. I
the bore was down 557 feet. On Sept.
IL, when the Royalist left Funafuti tine
bore was down 643 feet. The Royalist
took to Suva a letter for DR.. Corney
from G. Sweet, f. G.. S., who is now
the leader of the expedition, stating
that the boring for the last ninety feet
was chiefly in coral rock. and that no
sign OF volcanic rock or of rock other
h a coral had yet been met with IN
h bore. When the Royalist arrived
the expedition had consumed all their
coal, but Commander Rason was ell
abled to supply sufficient coal to last
them till the arrival of the steamer
Archer, from which it was hoped IN
additional supply would be obtained.
Professor David states that, the bore
having already exceeded the depth for
which Darwin stipulated in his CLASH
cal work on coral reefs, and a good
core having been obtained throughout,
1t may o be looked upon As a sue
cess. Information likely to be of con-
siderable scientific value has been OBJ
tanned, and he considers that the
general evidence so far appears strong
~ to confirm Darwin's theory that mos
of the coral atolls of the Pacific have
been formed on areas of the earth's
crust which have been undergoing a
prolonged subsistence. A detailed re-
port of the results obtained by the ex-
petition will probably be incorporated
in the report of the Royal Society of
London on the coral atoll of Funafuti,
the earlier portion of which will be
written by Professor Sollas, F. RS,
the leader of the Funafuti expedition
last year. The bore at Funafuti is
lined throughout with the best ar.e-
sian tubes, four inches in outside di-
ameter. Every foot of the bore had
to be lined with these tubes to prevent
fragments Of coral rock and coral sand
choking the bore. The work of boriog
has proved very difficult on account Of
the variable nature of the strata
(quicksand alternating with coral
rock), and also on account of the ca
vernous nature of the coral rock, which
has caused such a Earring as to re-
peatedly break some of the strongest
cast iron wheels in the machinery. The
diameter Of the core obtained from
the bore is two and one-half inches.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
WORRY AFFECTS THE MIND.
1t Destroys Certain Brain Cells BY d.

1t Destroys Certain Brain Cells BY d.
minishins Their Vitality.
Modern science has brought to light
nothing more %curiously interesting
than the fact that worry can kill. More
remarkable still, it has been able to
determine, from recent discoveries,
just how worry does kill. 1t is believed
by many scientists who have followed
most carefully the growth Of the sci
ence of brain diseases that scores OF
deaths set down to other causes are
due to worry, and that alone. The
theory is a simple one-so simple that
amy one can readily understand 1t.
Briefly put, it amounts to this: Worry
Injuries beyond repair certain cells of
the brain, and the brain, being the
nutritive center of the body, the other
organs become gradually injured, and
when some disease of these organs, or
a combination of them, arises, death
finally ensues. Thus does worry kill.
Insidiously, like many other diseases,
it creeps upon the brain in the form
OF a single, constant, never-lost idea,
and, as the dropping water over a per-
iod of years will wear a groove in a
stone, SO does worry gradually, i'm
perceptibly, but no less surely destroy
the brain cells that lead all the rest
that are, SO to speak, the commanding
officers of mental power, health and
motion. Worry, to make the theory still
stronger, is an irritant at certain
points, which produces little harm If
it comes at intervals or irregularly.
Occasional worrying of the system the
brain can cope with, but the reitera-
ton of one idea of a disquieting sort
the cells Of the brain are not proof
against. 1t is as If the skull were laid
bare and the surface of the brain struck
lightly with a hammer every few sec
onds with mechanical precision, with
never a sign Of a let-up or the failure
of a stroke. Just in this way does the
annoying idea, the m~addening thought
that will not be done away with. strike
or fall upon certain nerve cells, never
ceasing, and week by week diminish
ing the vitality Of these delicate or
ganisms, SO minute that they can only
be seen under the microscope.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
Paid to Keep Cards Out.

From the Washington Post: A
bright little boy-one of the pages OF
the senate-sat at one of the senate ell
frances the other day, when a lady
approached him with a visiting care
in her hand. Twill you hand this TO
Senator Blank" she said. IT cannot
replied the boy, "for all cards must
be taken to the east lobby" The wo-
mar was inclined to be angry and
went away muttering. Then a thought
struck her, and taking out her pocket
book she found a 25-cent piece. With
it in her hand she went back to the
boy. Here, my lad" she said, in a
coaxing tone, here is a quarter to
take my card in" Madam" said The
boy, without a moments hesitation,
II am paid a larger salary than that
to keep cards out"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
HOW TO PREVENT DREAMS,


Simple Remedy Advanced by q Physi-
clan to Insure wholesome Steep.
From the Washington Star: After
a series of experiments on myself and
others ventured an experienced phys
ician, Il am convinced that many an
noying dreams, which in many in
stances rob sleep of much of its recre-
alton and benefit, car be prevented II
persons will take the trouble to do SO.
There are dreams which are produced
by an overloaded stomach and indigas-
ton. These can be prevented by not
overlooking the stomach and taking
care, especially in the evening, to not
eat that which experience has demon
strated is not easily digested. A fairly
filled stomach, however, is less con-
ducive to dreams than an absolutely
empty one. | think I can safely say
that If those persons who are troubled
much with extra dreaming will wear
extra long sleeves in their nightgowns
they will find a remedy thereby. What
is even better than long sleeves is 20
put a rubber cord in the hem Of the
SbCCNC, . ~ IhdI thCs Al hOL Sllp w
on the arm. The rubber cord should
not be tight enough to interfere with
the circulation of the blood in The
arms, but tight enough to keep the
ends of the sleeves well down on the
wrists. To the bachelors and others
who cannot have their sleeves prop
erly arranged the same enect can be
secured by wearing a wrislet on the
wrist or, better yet, to pull a sock over
the hands and pin the leg of it to the
sleeves of the nightgown. In addition
to preventing dreams this simple ar
rangement will be found extremely
comfortable during the cold nights of
the next couple of months. A little in
quiry will convince anyone that those
whose wrists and forearms are uncov-
cred are annoyed most by dreams.
The sock used as a kind Of an extended
glove will effectually stop them, but it
must be attached to the sleeve of the
nightgown, otherwise the sleeve will
work up the arm and the desired effect
lost. My remedy, in brief, is to keep
the hand, wrist and forearm well COW
cred"
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sion as well as in love matters. He
had wooed and O the most charming
young lady in Wisdomfield. and his
prodigy!
She could speak French and English,
could analyze flowers, bound every
state in the union and give their capt.
tails. She knew the populations Of
the great cities. She was studying
grammar and history. Such a won
derful child!
There was but one drawback to The
fond parents happiness, and hal was
In spite of all their care and pain, the
little girl grew delicate every day,
and seemed to be vanishing into a
shadow!
The gossips Of Wisdomfield said the
child could not live. mo, she has too
much brains to live" and they shook
their heads %sorrowfully.
Mr.. Turner determined to consult
Dr. Goodman, The eccentric physician
could cure any durable disease; indeed,
SO potent was this mans influence, that
his name seemed to have power to
brighten away disease! His patients
declared that they felt better at the
very moment that DR.. Goodman was
sent for.
In answer to the fond parents sum
mons, DR.. Goodman called, and found
his little patient languidly reading. He
seemed deeply moved as he took the
child's emaciated hand into his plump,
brown palm. Mrs. Turner said, with
a proud emphasis:
Doctor, u child Is not like other
children"
"Humph!" exclaimed the physician.
She does not play with mol care
for children, but talks of things far
beyond her years." continued the fond
mother.
"Humph!" calculated DR.. Goodman,
as he brushed away a tear with mis-
coat sleeve.
Mrs. Turner saw the action, and a
wild terror seized her heart. Was
her child dying that this strong man
wept? The startled father seized DR..
Goodman's arm, and exclaimed wild
ly:
"Tell me, is there no hope for my
child?" .
DR.. Goodman wiped his eyes, blew
his nose, and put on his glasses, as he
said:
Hope! Yes, if you will follow my
advice"
I'VE will do anything" exclaimed
both parents in one breath.
Are you sure Of that?" asked the
eccentric physician.
Sure! Would we not die for our
dear little BELIEF"
DR.. Goodman smiled, and seemed lost
in thought. and thus soliloquized:
Eyes, they are killing her. This lit
tie embryo woman will die just as my
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sets me wondering what manner of
people they must be who look no fur
Their for their authority than the friyo-
lous gossip of the day, who never take
the trouble to go down into the heart
of Nature and the impulses that govern
humanity. to find out why things are.
Now somebody comes forward and
publishes statistics of marriage in the
various cities, and bewails the fact
that the proportion is in some pIaces
much greater than in others. Then
they sigh and mourn over 1t, and really
fall to wondering what we all are COM
ing to. There seems very little in the
situation to wall over. for marrying
and giving in marriage is going on ev-
cry day, and there is no good reason
to suppose that the end of this Ia any,
where near. Counting is just as deli
cious nowadays as it was a hundred
years ago, carping critics to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. The prosnect
OF a little home of their own is tust as
alluring as 1t was to our forefatherc
and, everything taken into c~onsidera-
wa ~ Al " u HIOIe OlI0CnIt IN
maintain a family now than It was
then. There are always foes to fight
contingencies to provide against. al
ways chances of disappointments: but
In the main the sweet old story gets
told with quite as much sentiment az
ever, the good-byes are just as hard
to say, and the welcome just as warm.
1t seems to me that people might he
a great deal better employed than in
worrying over the ~decadence of matri-
mony. Every article of this sort that
js put into print is read by some one
whom it may discourage or fill with
forebodings. This sort of literature IA
bringing about the very condition of
affairs that 1t %deplores, and more's the
pity that those who engage in It ara
unable to see the mischief they are do
ing"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The New Haven company of horse
guards has voted to go to the Paris ex-
position In 1900.
Among the natives of Mexico there
are, according to Lumholtz, about $780,
600 survivors OF the Aztec race.
During British rule of Egypt the cot
ton crop has doubled and now amounts
to over SOC. 000, 900 pounds a year.
A naturalist of eminence finds that
land birds make their journeys in the
day time and water birds at night.
The senior partner of Bass, the boss
brewing concern, is alleged to have
made an income Of 81, $50, 900 last year.
An English ag~riculturalist has sue
ceeded in the cross-fertilization of
grasses. clover, cereals and other food
plants.
An antiquated case in a st. Louis
court was dismissed because every-
body that was ever connected with it
Is dead.
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child died-just as thousands of other
children die; or perhaps she may lin
ger through life a helpless invalid.
Will they listen to me? l will make
the effort, but may get little thanks
for my pains"
The parents gazed at the physician
with establishment. DIR. Goodman
turned to them and said:
you manifest a willingness to be
guided by my advice. / know of 10
better way Of explaining myself than
by telling you a true story of a blight
ed life. The story is so fixed in my
mind that l think of it every hour of
my life. l will sketch 1t for you In
the shape of a tableau.
"The curtain rises and discloses a
pretty picture-a young father and a
mother and a dear little child. How
happy they are! The father is teach
ing his wee girl to read. See how his
eyes fash as the ~infantile lips lisp he
long words! Admitting friends ex-
claim: What a prodigy
The curtain drops, only to rise
again on another picture. The little
girl of 4 years is now 16. Beautiful,
budding, bright 16! No, pale, weary,
haggard 16! Her form is slender; her
eyelids droop. She is talented. To-
day is her graduation day; her exam
ination was faultless; she is crowned
with the laurel wreath. Father and
mother are there, proudly looking on.
They have been rewarded for their
tolls and pains. Yet they gaze anx-
iously on the form and face of their
daughter, and wish she had somewhat
o body.
"The curtain again falls, and then
rises on the last scene. In a luxurious
home, where wealth had contributed
every adornment, lay the corpse of a
woman.
Only % years have passed over her
head. yet the drawn. haggard face has
grown old with suffering. Death set
his seal on the brow of the laurel
crowned maiden. Good Christians
crowded around the bereaved parents
with consoling words. Oh, why was
their daughter taken? Their only
child, who had all that wealth could
give! Too bright to live! Too much
brain-too little strength. What mat
tiers 1T now that she once solved the
most difficult problems of Euclid?
Ihatt these pale lips and that icy tongue
mao once spoken many languages?
lhey are silent now-happy, happy
child! A merciful God took her home.
DO not blame me, friends, when I
weep. The vision OF my dying child
is before me. ! have shown you
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
Sha kespeare's Birth Place.

At a meeting recently in London uf
the committee intrusted with the res
~toration Of Stratford-on-Avon parish
church-celebrated as the burial place
of Shakespeare-it was decided to re-
build the electric organ and to improve
the heating apparatus of the nave.
Other work contemplated is the relay
ing Of the floor Of the nave. the pro-
vision Of new oak benches and repairs
to columns supporting the arcading.
The utmost care is being exercised in
preserving all the ancient characters
tics of the edifice. On the work Of res
toration $4,000 has already been ex-
pended, and an additional sum of e5.-
600 is required.-New York Advertiser.
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fish an industrial school in that city
at which negro girls may be trained in
cooking, sewing and in general house,
work. The movement has met a ready
response from the housekeepers Of
Columbia and may be the means of
solving the sevant-girl problem, in that
vicinity at least. The negro popula-
ton has expressed itself as favorable
to the enterprise, and the Industrial
school promises to have all the pupils
that 1t can accommodate. The school
will have regular instruction given by
Columbia women and be managed on
the same lines as an industrial school
for white children which Is now In op-
Grafton as a part of the mission work
under the control of the churches Of
the city -
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27

The dogs in the United States kill
nearly 2 per cent of the sheep Of the
country every year. They killed more
than 100000 sheep in the year ending
June 1, 1890, when the last statistics in
regard to the focks were gathered.
The damage done by them is greater
than that from any other cause except
unexpected storms, in which whole
fiocks Of sheep are killed, and disease.
In six states more damage was done
TO the flocks of sheep by dogs than
by anything else. In Florida $3.50
sheep were killed by dogs, and only
1850 by the weather and disease. The
number killed by dogs was about 9
per cent of the total number of sheep
in the state. The Florida sheep are
not exposed to such changes in tenn
vada, where 12S,S50 died of cold and
disease. Only 1872 sheep were killed
by dogs il Nevada in the census year.
The m number of deaths from
changes in the weather was due to
unprecedented storms, which caught
the breeders unprepared and almost
halved their focks. In South Caro-
lima. Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and
Arkansas dogs do more damage to the
sheep than anything else, and more
than weather conditions and disease
combined. In Massachusetts,. Rhode
Island and Connecticut the number of
deaths in the 1ocks due to dogs is al
most the same as that due to disease
and the weather. The record is al
most as bad in all other states where
dogs and sheep are caught.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27

Good and healthy girls are almost
always cheerful. No novelist would
consider his youthful heroine complete
If a ringing laugh" were omitted from
the list of her charms; and in real life
the girls who do not laugh now and
then are seldom trusted or liked by
their companions. Even beauty will
not save them. A belle who fails to
understand the jest of her admirers
and smiles in amiable bewilderment
while other people are laughing is soon
left with no consolation ave to Won
der what anybody can see in her rival
"a girl with 'tip-tilted" nose perhaps,
and a large mouth and freckles, but
the happy possessor of a pair of merry
eyes and a cheerful mind. The gift of
gayety is indeed Of great value; but
it must be gayety which originates in
a kind and CHEEKY heart, not that
which is born of mere excitement or
gratifed vanity.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27

Rev. Edith Booker is delivering a
lecture through Kansas on What Is a
Man?" A man, dear Edith, is a ten
der, shrinking creature. whose wide
fawn eyes look out into the great whirl
about him with startled inquiry-an
innocent, trusting dove, nesting upon
the neck of a hard world-a sweet field
flower, lifting up its face for the sun
shine of your womanly affection. That
is what a man is. Edith. You your
self are the sturdy oak. Don't forget
chat.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27

Rational protests against legislative
invasions Of personal liberty are never
untimely. The disposition to run to
the legislature for a law to cure evils
that are not to be cured in that way is
q growing thing. In a vast majority
OF instances a law to cure an evil af-
fecting private persons causes graver
faults than it is intended to cure. It
is nonsense to say officials will never
take wrong advantage of unwarranted
authority placed in their hands. HUI
nan nature has not changed in all
the centuries and men are as ready to
abuse or usurp authority now as at
any timesarl BY chs history.
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An AlI-Yellow Gown.

An all-yellow house dress was de-
signed for a woman whose dark beauty
makes yellow a favorite. The skirt
was made of yellow crepe, trimmed
with panels of pale yellow lace. The
waist was made Of yellow and white
striped silk in tones that were almost
alike. The lining of the crepe skirt
was a thin yellow muslin, looking al
most like silk. This same material
lined the lace yoke and sleeves. The
stock and belt were of striped yellow
silk ribbon that exactly matched the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
fills my ear.

fills my ear,
l might forget that life had pain or
fear,
AND feel again as | was wont to do,
When hope was young. and joy and
life itself were new.
No miser, DER his heaps of boarded
gold,
Nor monarch in the plenitude of
power.
Nor lover, free the chaste maid to en-
fold
Who ne'er hath owned her love till
that blest hour,
Nor poet, couched in rocky nook or
bower,
Knoweth more heartfelt happiness than
he,
That never firing warbler of the old
elm tree.
From even the poorest of Heavens
creatures, such
AS know no rule but impulse, we may
draw
Lessons of sweet humility. and much
OF apt instruction in the homely law
OF nature: and the time hath been, l
Naught, beautiful or mean, but had for
Some charm, ever like the warbler Of
the old elm tree.
And listening to his joy inspiring lay,
Some sweet reflections are engendered
thence:
AS half in tears, unto myself I say,
God, who hath given this creature
sources whence
He such delight may gather and dis
pense,
Hath in my heart joys living fountain
placed,
More free to flow, the oftener OF its
waves I taste.
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Moral beauty cannot c~o-exist with
radical defects Of principle. The char
acter that is unable to resist tempt
alton, or unwilling to stick faithfully
to duty, is nc more truly beautiful,
Whatever be its generous impulses or
amiable traits, than a figure which
cannot support its own weight. Parts
OF it may be admirable; but, as a
whole, a unity, it cannot be rightly
called a beautiful character, for It
lacks the foundation.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27

Language is the most wonderful fac
ulty of man. The world is Gods phon-
ograph. into which we speak and hy
which every whisper OF whine, song or
SANDER is perpetually preserved. False
hood is n of the greatest crimes
against society. A deliberate lie is
more criminal than a forged note or a
counterfeit coin. Such 4 lie will girdle
the globe while truth is getting her
boots on. 1t car never be overtaken.
1t fills the world with it's iniquity and
floods every sphere with its poisonous
Kline.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27

The Bible prohibits perjury against
God and against man and forbids SLAM
ter, malicious gossip, injurious talk
against ones neighbor. 1t is the in
vention and propagation Of IN evil re-
port. A fool can give currency to a re-
port that will villi-J a prince. No
sword bites so fiercely as an evil
tongue. SANDER cuts honest Threats by
whispers. SANDER is the pestilence
which RACES at MONDAY, an arrow
which is shot in the dark, the revenge
of a coward.
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ReasonAb.s Ra who,
the
IS,
A Share Of Your Pathat
Respectfully solis to IL,

his alcusedRled intelligence and vigor.
An he demands now is that, if China
is hanged, drawn and CHARTERED, he
shall have a slice for every slice taken
by every other power. For example,
Germany grabs, then England grabs as
much; Russian takes something, then
England takes a portion; France alb
serbs a province, then England appro-
PIRATES II equally as large and pow
erful.
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Little Girls Box Coat.

The box coat is the new fashionable
garment for the little girl. Box is
the English term applied to any coat
that is long and loose and without
side forms. Cut the coat to within
two inches of the bottom Of the dress
and edge with ermine. There is an
imitation ermine that is very pretty
and quite cheap. Cut double lapels snd
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-10-27
MONTANA.

Greater New York contains many
wonders, but not one OF them is moro
remarkable, certainly none is. more
amusing, than the snobbishness which
is displayed by the leaders of "soci-
ety."