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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
ON THE STAGE.

A new variety of chrysanthemum,
ter Lillian Russell.
Henry Arthur Jones has sold to
Charles Frohman the American rights
to his latest play, 1.-THE Liars"
Augustin Daily is apparently much
incensed at the action of Beerbohm
Tree in offering Ada Rehan the part
of Katherine in Katherine and Pc
truccio" and is freeing his mind with
considerable vigor.
Maude Adams was for several years
known as the youngest leading lady on
the New York stage. Her successor to
that title is pretty Florence Rockwell
of Cumberland, '61," who is said to be
just 1S-a couple of years younger
than was Miss Adams when the dis
tinction was hers.
A day or two ago Miss Olga Neither
sole received a parcel containing the
manuscript of a play, which has been
following her around for two years
The first legible date on the cover is
Sept. %, 1895, Sydney, N. S. W., and
the last Oct. 10, 1897, Liverpool. 1t was
marked by the Dublin %postoffice, RE.
ceived at Grafton Street Walk in this
condition." The parcel was originally
addressed to Miss Nethersole, in Lon.
don, and forwarded from her former
residence to Days theater and thence
to the Savoy hotel. Being returned tc
the dead letter Office, Sydney; it wa
Endorsed there January, 1885," anc
| lay dormant some months. Then 1t Sc
forth on it's travels again-to lev
York, May IS, 1896; to Chicago, Jun,
10; to New York again. Thence, IL
July, it came to the Gaiety, London
Several other addresses in Londor
were tried, and again the unlucky par
eel got to the Sydney dead letter ofiic,
on November 26, 1896. Not until March
1897, was another attempt made a
delivery. Then it made a journey
through America, crossed the Atlanti,
and followed Miss Nethersole on hel
English tour. with the result now re
corded,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
Native Trees Best.

Professor l.. c. Corbett, South Da-
kota Experiment Station: Ever since
the first true home builder staked out
his claim on the great plains Of the
Northwest the problems Of tree
growth, both for fruit and protection,
have been continual subjects of exper-
imentation. Each person brought
either seeds or plants from the South
or East, depending upon the section
whence he came. These plants were in
a majority of cases failures or disap-
pointments. History is said to repeat
itself, and If we were to judge all his
tory by the records of tree planting,
both by the early pioneers of this coun-
try and by their descendants as they
ventured into the interior, we should
find that the later generation pursued
the same plan as that tried by their
fo%refathers. The colonial settlers
brought seeds and plants from the
mother country. The pioneers of the
Northwest carried them from the
mother state. In both cases, however,
the results were practically the same
both failures. The younger genera
ton thought, perhaps, that because
they were not going outside the limits
Of their own country, the experience
which came to the Puritans would not
come to them. 1t has taken years for
this lesson to become firmly impressed
upon the people, but the great majority
have come to appreciate it's import
ance. The unsuccessful attempts to i'm
port from the East forced those that
were determined, to look about them
and to see what nature had here pro-
vided. In the search for plants for
groves and shelter belts, the native
woodlands that border the rivers and
lakes and have survived in the ravines,
furnished the desired material, but the
source from which to draw a truit sup
ply was not so easily found. The pion-
eer In an unknown climate may accept
1t as an axiom that success will be at
tanned much more quickly from the
adoption OF native plants than from
the Introduction of foreign ones. 1t
would be a very extraordinary portion
of this earth's surface which would, by
nature, be supplied with all the plants
needed to provide for the several wants
of II we but reflect a moment
and consider the origin of the several
cereal grains and fruits now considered
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
When the victory of a party deter

: When the victory of a party deter
mines who shall be the governors Of q
people, an overruling Providence will
sometimes make the political choice a
fortunate one. The available" man
turns out to be a capable man. In
more than one instance. during the
history of our country between 1860
and 1865, untried greatness developed
where to human foresight promotion
was only an expedient. High quail
ties are not suddenly created. They
sleep, but God knows where they are.
In a grand crisis they leap to light
and men thoughtlessly say that cir
cumstances made them. Abraham Lin
coin, the Springfield lawyer. did not
put on any one else's greatness, or the
greatness of circumstances. He simply
found his own when it was most
needed. Mr.. Woodrow Wilson, in his
admirable critical essay, says Of this
remarkable man: "He was not fit to
be President until he actually became
President. He was fit then because
learning as he went, he found out how
much there was to learn, and had still
an infinite capacity for learning" II
is this capacity for learning that has
raised many a boy from a floor-sweep.
or to the headship of a firm, and fitted
many an official novice for RESPONSE
bilities which he never knew until he
was forced to carry them.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the. ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness.
Deafness is caused by an intiamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining Of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube is in
perfect hearing, and when it is entir ely
closed, Deafness is the result. and UNI
less the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored TO it's normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by ca.
tarrh, which is nothing but an inhamed
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case Of Deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars. free.
F. ]. CHENEY ~ CO., Toledo O.
Sold by Druggists. .Jc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

For we at our college out West boast
q Woodworking constituency; but our
strong point is certainly not oyer-fuil
purses.
Notwithstanding this limitation, we
girls were bent on a judicious mixture
OF missionary work with our fun MS
year. Our college is established on the
co-education basis, and the boys GER
tainly did ecu up last Halloween
disgracefully, making it uncomfortable
for professors and students for a long
time afterward. So this year, you see,
we girls made up our minds to do
something to entertain them and keep
them from INDUCING their mischiev-
GUS proclivities. OF course, we can't
understand where the fun comes in of
the stupid things boy students do on
Halloween, but we do want to stop
1t If we an, and that was the reason
why we made up our minds to ce.e-
brate it with a masquerade this year.
The boys were in raptures at the
idea, and set about hiring costumes for
the great event. Some of the richer
girls did the same, but as for us-well,
we had no money, and at first sight it
simply meant being shut out from the
whole thing.
Of course, as misery loves company,
we all met d%isconsolate in Loeta's
room. If any one could console us it
would be Leota, but to our surprise
she did not attempt anything Of the
sort. She and Addie, the bright Kan
sas girl, looked as gay as robins. and
what are you going to be?" became a
mutual interchange.
We sat round the room, Leota smil.
ing OF us from her perch on the win
dow ledge. The twins-big young wo-
men Of twenty-one-cast hopeful
glances in her direction. AS they said,
1T was worse for them than for the
rest, for they were two, not one, but
had only n purse between them; the
contents of said purse when raked fore
and aft producing only one dollar"
How could two masquerade dresses
be bought for one dollar?
Kitty Pringle, however, was worse
off still, for she %laughingly produced
NV Sot 40 hCl Oil ~ lullllCdldlS
current coin.
One can hardly go far astray IN five
cents" was her somewhat rueful re-
mark.
Kitty, like the rest If us, was work
ing her way through college; SO when
this is considered it will be readily un.
derstood that the time to spare for get,
ting up a ball costume on odds and
ends was scant enough. I can tel
you, we girls who work our way
through college want education!
But to go back to Leota's room. Ad.
die, our inspiration, was not the leasl
put out at the empty purses displayed
before her.
"Of course We shall all go to the
ball, and Of course we shall get uI
dresses somehow" said she cheerily
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

Loeta's room for a general overhaul
Ing by our artistic, Addie.
Loeta, the nun, passed first under
the critical eye. Next came Joan OF
Arc, in a vest spangled with bits OF
tin; quite a fine appearance she made,
too, on nothing but ingenuity. Addie
herself, as Ceres, was perfectly Lovely,
and could not be mistaken for any n
else, as Ceres" was carefully sewn on
her belt in grasses. Loeta's curtains
turned our pretty Kitty into a charm
ing "Portia," and here were the twins
transformed into graceful Greek la
dies.
Dear me! what may be done with
one dollar, when you possess "a frugal
mind'!" cried Addie, in triumph, turn
ing the Greek maids about. "Let me
see-eighteen yards Of cream cheese
cloth at five cents per yard, ninety
cents; two masks at five cents apiece,
ten cents; slim total, one dollar. No
M would believe 1t who did not have
a realizing sense that necessity is the
mother of invention'!'
In point of fact the Greek dresses
were considered the most beautiful
costumes of the evening. The twins
had good figures as we'll as brains,
and had skillfully copied the classic
designs. The long folds hung to a
nicely, the scarfs were gracefully
thrown over the shoulders, and they
had brought all their miscellaneous
stores of brooches and studs into rep
u~isition to fasten the folds over the
arm and on the shoulder. For belts
they had borrowed some gilt curtain
links from a kindly neighbor, which
made a very Joyful effect" and the
tout ensemble" was universally voted
perfect.
Ceres had borrowed a sickle from the
same kind neighbor, so that the party
leaving Loeta's room for the gymna-
SUM hall of the college felt them
selves to be very we'll caparisoned in.
deed.
1t is not necessary to follow then
farther, into the company of Hamlet:
and others of fame in history ant
Shakespeare. 1t Is enough If their lit
tie difficulties, and they way they ge
over them, may suggest to other girl!
that fun can be had without spending
a large sum of money on a toilet. Fo'
this is what we used to call, as chill
dren, a real, true story, and they ar,
all real, Woodworking girls, but a
fond of fun as any girls I ever knew
AS for the boys, not a bit Of mis-
chief was lone on Halloween by an.
Of the college boys; SO you see tn
Masquerade ball was a success in NOR
ways than one
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
Cheapest Place to, Shop In Russia.

Thieves Market" a traveller de-
%clares, sis the cheapest place to shop
in all Russia, even for a foreigner. 1t
is in Moscow, which is the railroad
center of the empire, and quite likely
the clearing house or exchange for
stolen goods. The merchants tell the
buyer frankly that the reason they can
sell things cheaply is because they are
all stolen. Notwithstanding,
monsieur; all are stolen. We deal
only in that which costs us nothing.
We charge you for storage, that is all.
Curios from the whole Eastern world
are there. 1t is a desperate place for
one to go if one would not spend
money. Do not buy presents for
friends at home until you a W looked
through the Market"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

Proportional representation is be-
coming a rather live question in this
country. The more the people inves-
tigate the idea the more favorable 1t
appears. What can be more just than
the proposition that each party be rep
resented in congress or elsewhere &C
cording to it's voting strength. The
present congress-, for instance, is over
whelmingly Republican. Yet on the
popular vote the Democrats polled
within half a million as many votes as
the Republicans. Therefore to proper
ly represent the wishes of the people
congress should be nearly a tie. The
Populists, Silver Republicans, Prohi-
bitionists, Nationalist and woman
suffragists would also have represen-
tation according to their proportion OF
the vote cast. Big majorities are al
ways dangerous to political parties
and therefore double danger
Gus to the welfare Of the
whole people. Every congress that
has had q big party majority has made
a bad record. Every congress thai
has had a small majority has done
well. Proportional representation il
bound to become a very live question
and that in the very near future.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

The experiment Of putting a woman
in charge of a part Of the street clean
ing work in Chicago pleases tho sweep
ers. One CT them said. through an
interpreter, "We like the oma She
doesn't curse and swear at us. Man
foreman drive us around like slaves
and call us bad 9 I" . She
say, How do?' and other nice things,
and then we do good work. She see
1t and say SO. That make us feel
good, and we work more" You can
set better work even out of a dumb
beast by being kind to him; much
more out OF a man, as this woman's
dealings with unpromising material
a%bunLantly show.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
THE NAoGIN WOMAN.
Bow She Destroys All Peaoe and Com

Iow She Destroys All Peace and Com
fort for Husband and Children.
The mistress Of a house feels that 1t
Is her ~duty-none the less clear be-
cause 1T is disagreeable-to point out
the faults of those in her charge, says
the Philadelphia Ledger. Beginning
with the maids and ending with her
husband-or sometimes vice versa-she
thinks it her mission in life to find
and condemn imperfections. And from
this attitude it is but a short step to
the position CT a family "nagger"-a
character which destroys all peace and
comfort. Business men often make a
similar mistake and act upon the be-
lief that no man does his best work
unless under the constant dread Of
sarcastic and bitter fault-fnding. The
work in general may be far above the
average-but that. the way to keep 1t
SO is to pick flaws in every possible
weak place is the decision Of certain
minds. Because a fault exists Is no
reason that it should be mentioned
without regard to time or place, and
to n open to conviction it would not
be difficult to prove that there is wis
dom in allowing people to make mis-
takes unobserved, or at any rate unre-
buked; but this wisdom can only flour
ish in the faith that the evil of today
is not a finality. No mother, for in
stance, really believes that her little
daughter is necessarily to be a life
long slattern because at IL years of age
she keeps an untidy room and hel
boots are often seen without the proper
button, nor does she think that a lie
in the mouth of her 3-year-old boy
condemns him to a future of fraud and
deceit. These things must be met, Of
course, but if they are met by the con.
slant incubation of better habits and
better principles the evil in itselI
needs little or nc comment. Indeed, {
word of censure withheld often is &
more effective rebuke than a storm o.
angry fault-fnding. To grow in thu
wisdom of this judicious silence W.
must first of all cultivate in ourselves
a just perception of values and proper
lions, we must learn what to see an(
what not to see, what to leave out ant
what to put in our mental pictures. l
may be, too, that then we shall Otter
give sympathy where others deride, O.
encouragement where the sternly jus
would condemn; but we should at leas
relieve those around us from a yer.
irritating insistence upon triles.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

Upon gazing at the stars from his
palace window, Napoleon exclaimed:
Look there, up there!" 81 see moth
ing but the pale, twinkling stars" re-
piled his companion quietly. "What!'
said the emperor, excitedly, lis it pcs
sible that you do not see my star-the
fiery red n almost as large as the
moon? 1t is before you now, and oh,
how BRILLIANT Growing more in
tense at the sight, he fairly shrieked:
st has never abandoned me for a sim
gle moment; it commands me to go
forward; l see it on all occasions; it is
my sign of good fortune and where it
leads, | follow"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
HIS WORD AND HIS BOND.
That Was All That the Merchant
Needed.

Tha Was All That the Merchant
Needed.
There, I've done IL at last said a
merchant, as he made an entry on his
books and closed the cover of his ledger
with an expression Of genuine salts
faction, says the New York Ledger.
Il have tried for a dozen years to get
that man for a customer, and this is
the first time he has ever paid me a
dollar or given me an order" "He
doesn't look very prosperous; but you
can't always TELL, said his friend. rs
he a landholder?" Doesn't own an
acre." was the response. "Manufac-
turer?" Works on a salary" money
laid by?" Don't think SO; probably
not above a~few hundred dollars at the
outside" Rich relatives-prospec,s-
Investments" Nothing of the sort.
All his folks are in moderate circum-
stances, and there isn't even a suspi-
cion of a rich uncle or a teapot or
stocking hidden by any old auntie in
some out-of-the-way chimney corner.
No, the secret of my interest in that
mans trade is that his word is as good
as his bond, and whatever he agrees to
pay or whatever he buys you may know
that he is to be depended upon. And
his family are of the same sort. He
has two sisters, one widowed and the
other a maiden lady, and everybody is
very anxious to sell to them because
they are such good pay" Merchants
49,. .4-, ~~1J h. ---- IL.
peculiarities of human nature, espe-
cially as regards money matters. They
find, and that very often, that those
with the largest bank account and the
broadcast fields often have the smallest
souls and the narrowest sense OF
honor.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
Trouble with Scorch ers,

The Chicago policemen have been
having some trouble in arresting early
morning scorchers, part 'cularly in the
parks. They recently resorted to the
use of barricades on one of the princi-
pal roads Of Lincoln park to stop the
would-be record breakers. The scheme
was entirely successful, as the wheel
men ran into it before knowing of its
existence, and while ridiculing the Of
fcers for attempting to capture them.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

"You," to the twins, Maggie and Bes-
sic. "are the only ones with money to
spend. l consider a dollar riches. The
the rest of us manage by borrowing
one thing and another. We've all got
something we can lend one another.
Leota here must be a nun. That won't
cost anything, just a long cloak, a
shirt-front and a veil. That's easy
enough. But now for the rest of US"
Her quick eye, travelling around the
room, lighted upon Leota's curtains,
drawn owe her bookshelf, a dark, rich
red.
Gust the thing for draping," she ex-
claimed, "and how we'll the color suits
Kitty!"
service, and Kitty's dark head rose
from a mass of graceful folds.
What are you going to be, Addie?"
chorus.
ooh, I'll go as Ceres. I've done il
before. All want for that is a white
gown, some grasses and a sickle.
shall do we'll enough-if I can borrow
a sickle. The thing is, what are the
rest of us to do?"
Her eyes were IN the twins, who in
turn wore an agonized expression. Ont
dollar and two big girls to dress OF
it! No wonder they groaned.
The college bell changed. Was it the
remembrance of the Greek class await
ing the students that gave Addie the
brilliant idea?
Greek ladies!" she cried. Lets gc
and ask the Professor how they
dressed"
They caught the Professor on the
wing. OF course he was busy; tina
goes without saying; but equally, o.
course, he was not beyond recall, men
tally speaking. In answer to the in
quiries he walked to his bookshelf ant
took down several books from hi.
classical library. In some of these wer,
figures exquisitely draped.
Greek ladies it shall be-" cried AID
die, as she rushed off to her seat
Girls, you can have lovely costume!
out of your dollar"
The week went by, and we busy girl
were more busy than eve How W,
arranged our dresses and got our sew
ing done seems something of a miracle
now 1t is all over and we look bacl
upon 1t. Never mind-we were al
ready on Halloween, and met IL
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
Founding Asylums.

81 went through the largest found
ling asylum in the world when | was
in Moscow" said a returned traveller.
81 think there is no single building
as large in the United States. About
seventy babies a day were received.
Most of them were nursed by their
own mothers, who had gone around
the corner after dropping the basket
and applied at the front door to be
taken as nurses. Forty per cent of
the f%oundlings die, The girls never
live; the boys grow up into the army.
The government does not discourage
founding asylums."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

as necessities and grown by the people
of any m section of the United
States, we canno but be impressed
with the great Importance of the power
of naturalization and the extent to
which it has acted upon plants. But
while we fully appreciate the value OF
introduced species, yet for the more
primitive necessities, such as shelter
and fuel, we should look to native
rather than to introduced plants.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10

Judge Pryor of New York decides
that there is such a thing as verbal
outrage, and that it need not neces-
sarily be attended with physical force,
and accordingly grants a woman's pc
verbal husband. With this precedent
established there are likely to be Pc
titions from the ether half of the do
nestle establishment. for the ability
for abusive verbality Is more largely
developed on the part of the weaker
than the other sex.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
Protection of Perennial Plants.

William Toole, writing in the Wis
consin Horticulturist, says: The vigor
and Righteousness which our hardy
p%erennials may show mex season can
be strengthened by the care given to
them just before winter. Even the
hardest of them will show more vigor
if given winter protection. All her
baceous perennials which retain some
foliage through the winter should have
a little brush placed around them be-
fore being covered with straw or
leaves. This to prevent heavy pack
ing, which causes them to rot neal the
surface. Those which die down to the
ground may be covered with coarse
manure which can be raked away in
the spring. Tulips and other bulbs and
all plants which sometimes come out of
the ground before it seems safe to re-
move protection should be covered
with well-rotted manure, which need
not be removed in the spring, the
plants being permitted to come up
through it. Roses can best be protect
ed by covering with earth, being care
full when laying them down to throw a
little earth next the base of the stems
so that they will not break heal the
base. II carelessly done there is dan
ger of a bend at top becoming uncov-
cred during the winter. A little coarse
litter ON top of all will prevent the soil
washing down. Climbing roses and
such as are difficult to cover with earth
may be held down with boards covered
with straw and brush. Earliness OF
many kinds of ANIMALS can be promot-
ed by sowing just before winter, such
kinds as pansies, poppies, larkspurs, as
tiers, pinks and many others. Poppies
and larkspurs should be sown where
they are to grow. The rest may be
planned for transplanting. These will
come up before it is possible to have
them with spring sowing and be more
robust than plants started indoors.