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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
d. & o. IMPROVEMENTS COM


The improvements On the Main Line of
the Baltimore and Ohio, west of, and be-
tween Martinsburg. w. Va. and North
Mountain, were completed November LIST.
They cover a distance of nearly four
miles, starting three miles west of Mar
tinsbug, and extending some distance
west of Myers Hole which is near the
North Mountain station. At Myers Hole
the line was changed, taking put some
very Objectionable curvature, and the
road-bed raised nearly fifteen feet, ELI
minating grades of AZ feet per mile, which
came together at Myers Hole and substi-
tuting therefor an almost level track.
This point on the road has always been
a dangerous one and many freight wrecks
have occurred there. Apart from doing
away with the dangerous feature of two
sharp down grades coming together, as
was the case in this instance, the saving
in operation of the road by the change
will be very large, as it enables the tons
per train to be greatly increased and re-
duces the liability to accident to the mini
num-.
At Tablers the rold-bed has been low
cred about 13 feet, and the same at
Tabs, besides taking out Objectionable
curvature and reducing the rate of
grades at these points from AZ feet per
mile to 10 feet per mile thus increasing
the cars that can be hauled per train.
Though these improvements have cost
quite a sum of money, the expenditure
Is fully justified by the great saving in
operation.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
AMONG THE CHINS.
Men, Women and Even Babies Drink
To Excess.


to Excess. /,
The most m illnesses among
the Chins are cholera and other bowel
complaints, as is not unnatural, con-
sidering the climate, their filthy hab-
its and their righteousness, says
Chambers Journal. For If the Chins
have one quality which may be count
ed as a virtue it is hospitality. No
pretext for a feast is allowed to pass
unused, whether it be a birth, a death,
. marriage, a sacrifice, "the payment
of a debt, the making of an agreement,
the slaughter Of an enemy, the shoot
ing of a deer; and a feast implies
IA drinking bout, sometimes of many
days duration" They drink a liquor
named 'zu,'' which is made from rice,
millet d. Indian corn. 1t is described
as "a most refreshing drink after a
hot march," and is said to pull one
together more quickly than any other
stimulant in times of great fatigue
Its effects do not appear t. be very
deleterious, for the Chin usually lives
to a good age, though a habitual
drunkard from childhood. Men, wo-
men, and even babies at their mothers
breasts, all drink; and a state of in
toXication is considered as creditable
as it is pleasant. No event is complete
without liquor, and nothing is an Of
tense when committed under the in
nuence of liquor. Not to ply a visitor
with liquor is considered the height
OF ~discourtesy, and the warmth of a
mans reception is gagged by the num-
Der of pots of liquor preached for
him." Consequently, as may be imag-
ined, a feast is not a very edifying
spectacle. On the arrival of the guests
pigs and oxen are slaughtered and
their flesh hacked off and boiled. Dur
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
An Odd Fish.

In the Pacific ocean, among the
islands of Santa Barbara and in the
seas of California, a queer fish spends
a lazy life, floating on the surface for
the most of the time, and basking in
the sunshine, with part OF, his body out
OF the water. 1t is called the "mola-
mola' by the natives, and the mole
OF moon fish by the whites. I'm
like other fish, it has no tail in the
proper sense of the word, only a kind
OF fringe acting as a rudder. It is
sometimes over ten feet across the
fins, and round as a bladder. Strange
to say, it serves as a floating island
for large numbers of sea-birds, D
cially gulls and cormorants, to rest
upon and preen their plumage. When
chased, the indolent moon-fish dives
like a duck, to reappear at a distance.
Nevertheless, it would be easily caught.
were the fish good to eat. but its
toughness renders it only fit to dry in
the sun as a substitute for India-rub-
Der balls. /
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
FROM RECENT

Notwithstanding is too sacred
for mans vulgar and profane touch
Rev. DR.. Hills, Independent, Chicago,
Ill.
Right Is Might.-Right is hight.
God is more than nature, spirit is
more than body.-Rabbi d. Phillipson,
Hebrew, Cincinnati, o.
Inward Power.-Look inward, for
you have a lasting fountain at home
that will bubble up if you but dig for
it.-Rev. H.. O. Pentaoost, Independent,
New York City.
Rest.-Man needs n days complete
rest in every seven in order that he
live long in the land, healthy in body
mind and spirituality.-Rev. Lucian
Clark, Baptist, Washington, D. C.
His Point in View.-No man sees
life as the minister. He sees the fraud,
deception and sin in it, and by this is
prepared to preach the truth unto the
people.-Rev. j. w. Sullivan, Baptist,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Unselishness.-Love, from its very
nature, mea unselfishness, but it
means something more-it means the
power to reproduce in myself states of
consciousness which others feel.-Rev.
Thomas Van Ness, Unitarian. Boston,
Mas,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
HUSBANDS sTlNoINgss.
The Future of This Couple May BE
Clearly Prophesied.

The Future of This Couple May BE
Clearly P~rophesied.
Eve heard a discussion lately as to
who should keep the purse in the mar
riage partnership. Now it would seem
that in that kind of a firm there ought
to be a fair division. 1t may be that
both are adding to the exchequer, but
whether one or both, they should freely
share their united income. Woman
kind says that If statistics were taken
on the subject, only about n man in
a thousand would be found just enough
to give his wife a separate purse. IF
she Is a proud woman, she will suffer
cruel deprivation rather than put her.
self in the position of a beggar for
aims"
Apropos of this, Eve has heard a
little story that belongs right in New
Orleans. A young couple after the
wedding had settled down to board
with the brides parents. The girl had
been provided with a very ample trous-
seau, and her husband paid board and
laundry bills very promptly, SO that
several months passed before her
mother noticed a very painful en-
barrassment about her daughter. Pin
money from papa having ceased, she
never had a nickel for car fare OR the
plate in church, for thread, or any
thing, her mother supplying all this
when they went out together. At last
one day the mothers purse ran short,
and she said: Fannie, haven't you
some changer" mot a cent gulping
down a sob. Hasn't Ingram given you
any money at all? Never" well,
you must ask him; he may be one of
those men who don't think of such
things-having a wife is new to him.
Say you need a little COIN"
Fannie had made an engagement to
60 out with a friend next morning, and
the friend called just as breakfast was
over. This was her best chance,
thought Fannie, so running back from
the parlor door to where her husband
was getting his hat, Fannie said, blush
ing %furiously: ooh, Ingram, l shall
need some money for car fare" Ger
tainly," putting his hand in his vest
pocket" and you may need a glass
of soda, too" He took out Is cents
and handed it to her, g%raciously. The
future career of that couple may be
clearly prophesied.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
HE FOOLED HIS PA.
And the Old Man Has Never Suspcctcd

When the young married man tells
this story he makes sure that his father
is not within ear shot, says the De-
troit Free Press.
II never had but one falling out with
the governor" he Declares. when ]
went home n evening and told him
that l was engaged he cross-questioned
me like a lawyer, and both answers in
creased his wrath, till he positively
forbade the bands. l have something
of a temper myself and after a stormy
interchange we agreed upon a COM
promise. He did not like the girls
family. He would have it that she was
a fortune hunter. He could never ap-
prove of her under any circumstances,
but if 1 would go abroad for two years,
see other women, hold no communion
ton with my fiancee and then return
to marry her he would interpose no
obstacle. 1 accepted his terms.
After l had been in Paris a year I
met an American girl who was in all
respects my ideal. She was with a
wealthy aunt, whose name she had
taken and whose fortune she was about
to inherit. l wrote to the governor
about her, sent him the opinion of
some of my countrymen whom he knew
and said that his scheme had proved
a good one after all. With his per-
mission l would wed the girl in Paris.
HE cabled his permission and his ap.
prevail, but in the letter that followed
there. was a tone of mild reproval for
my inconsistency. You notice that my
wife is a prime favorite with him. He
never tires of singing her praise and
doesn't allow a day to go by without
reminding me how he saved me from
the blunder that would have spoiled
my life.
But wasn't it a little hard on the
one you left behind?"
Not at all She's the same girl /
met in Paris. But he doesn't know it,
and l mean that he never SHALL"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
THOUGHTOGRAPHS.

A dude is a cross between a fashion
plate and an unpaid tailor's bill.
If some people we know had any
thing to say, they wouldn't talk SO
much.
Perhaps it is because doctors disa-
gree that their medicines are so dis
agreeable.
The good that is inferred with the
bones of most men doesn't. as a rule,
cause overcrowding.
Marriage would be still more popular
II, in doubling u joys, it didn't charge
for the extra supply.
A monopoly is a good deal like a
baby-a man is opposed to it on gem
eral principles until he has one of his
own.
After all, what is the good of going
up to Alaska and bringing back a
trunkful of Klondyke fruit. Your wife
will only spend it.
Now that the gold cure has been
found to be so successful as a treat
ment for the liquor habit, some genius
ought to invent a preparation to cure
the gold fever, and inoculate some OF
these Klondykey maniacs who are try
ing to break through Chilkoot Pass
with. about seven pounds of clothing
upon them and their provisions tied
up in a ten-by-fourteen handkerchief.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Three Italian physicians, Drs. Lus-
tig, Gaeotti, and Malenchini, have re-
turned from Bombay with a preventive
serum for the plague, which they as
sert is superior for the purpose to Dr..
Yersin's. 1t is not intended to cure,
says Scientific American, but to pre-
vent the disease, is more easily pre-
pared than Yersin's, is free from bac-
teria, dry, and harmless to mar and
beast. 1t is introduced by injection in
small doses mixed with sterilized wat
er, producing a slight local rash. which
disappears in "a hours. The doctors
tried it on their own persons.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

ing this process drinking begins. The
guests sit in long rows with their liq-
uor pots between their knees, suck
ing hard at the tube and talking very
little. When the food is ready, all fall
TO, still silently, until, hunger salts
hed, they revert to drink. Then their
spirits begin to rise, gongs and horns
are produced. and dancing and singing
Begin. "As the night wears on the rev.
elers become hopelessly drunk. Some
sit modify in corners, some lie with
their faces in the dirt, and others
quarrel and fight with fists"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Has Catamounts for PETS.

Mrs. Helen Link, who resides at the
foot of reversing mountain, near
Reading, Pa, has two catamounts for
pets. They are about full grown, are
allowed to run at large, and never
harm anybody. They and their family
dog get along very we'll together. They
frequently roam over reversing noun
tain, but always return.
Mrs. Link found them in a hollow
tree near Joanna Heights about a year
ago, while she was out hunting. They
were but ten days old and as playful
as kittens. One is named Nancy, and
she is striped like a tiger. The other
is Josie. somewhat larger.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
VARIETIES OF MUSHROOMS.
M~ycophagists Have Tested 800 Species
and Found Them All Harmless.

M~ycophagists Have Tested 0 Species
and Found Them All Harmless.
From the New York Evening Post:
In each season when mushrooms,
which are taking each year a firmer
hold on the taste of the general pub
lie, are found most abundantIy, it is
well for the timid lover of this article
of diet to remember that there are ov-
err 300 species that have been thor
oughly tested by mycophagists and
found to be entirely harmless. The
fine books now published on this sub
ject, with colored plates, where the
growing fungi are exactly reproduced,
give the most wary an opportunity to
discover for themselves whether the
specimens they may have gathered
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

List of Patents Issued Last Week tt
Northwestern Inventors.

1L1Sl w L AtCANS SuS pS -
Northwestern Inventors.
William H. White, Harold, s. D.
Fork for holding ears of corn.
Orlando Grattan, Elkton, S. d. Shoe
for grain drills.
Walter Munich, st. Paul, MINI. Glu-
ing Press.
John r. Morrison. Minneapolis, Mimi.
Water closet repair.
August w. Linton. Minneapolis. MINI.
Machine for kneading dough.
Fred r. G. Pitzler, Lester Prairie,
MINI. Washing machine.
Charles w. Pollock and w. Kurth,
Casselton, n. D. Lace holder and un.
winder.
Lars I. Solem, Minneapolis, MINI
Brush holder.
Waldemar H. Spanier, Devils Lake,,N N.
d. Word register for typewriters.
Melvin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent
Attys, 010 p. p. Bldg, st. Paul, MINI
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

during a country ramble are safe to
use. There are several varieties of
mushrooms which, while gastronomi-
cally disturbing, will not prove fatal.
In fact, there is now thought to be but
one variety that is sure death. And
for this-the deadly amanita-an
antidote is said to lie in atrophine.
This is an equally deadly poison given
in one-sixtieth of a grain doses in n.y.
podermic infections.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
AVOID ALUM BAKING powpEns.
Their Use is Dangerous to Health.


The condemnation of alum as an un-
wholesome ingredient in baking powders
by the Government authorities as well as
by the Iowa and Minnesota State Boards
of Health and physicians generally, has
not deferred manufacturers of such pow
ders from foisting them on the public.
Following is a partial list of the con-
demned alum powders found in the stores
in this section.
Calumet, Unrivaled,
Hotel, Echo,
Snow Ball, ZIpp's Crystal,
Palace. White Rose,
Loyal, Hatchet,
Columbia. Crown,
Cameo, Grants Bon Bon
1t is safe to reject all brands sold with
n prize. All powders sold at twenty-five
cents or less a pound are sure TO be
made of alum. DR.. Wiley. the Govern
ment Chemist, in his official examination
of baking powders at the Worlds Fair,
threw out all the "alum powders" class
ing them as unfit for human food.
But the Worlds Fair could approve as
well as condemn. After the most clabo-
rate tests, it bestowed the highest award
for purity, leavening power, keeping
qualities and general excellence or DR..
Prices Cream Baking Powder.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
SIOO To Any Man.
WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
OF Weakness In Men They Treat and
Fall to Cure.

Fall to Cure.
An Omaha Company places for the first
time before the public a MAGICAL TREAT
MENT for the cure of Lost Vitality, Nervous
and sexual Weakness, and Restoration Of
Life Force in cd and young men. No
WORKOUT French remedy; contains no
PHOSPHORUS OF other harmful drugs. 1t is
a WONDERFUL TREATMENT-magical in its
effects-positive in its cure. All readers,
who are suffering from q weakness that
blights their life, causing that mental and
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man
hood, should write to the STATE MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Neb., and they will
send you absolutely FREE, q valuable
paper on these diseases, and positive proofs
of their truly MAGICAL TREATMENT. 1hous-
ands of men, who nave lost all hopo Of a
cure, are being restored by thom to a per-
feet condition.
This MAGICAL TREATMENT may be taken
at home under their directions, or they will
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to all who
prefer to so there for treatment, if. they
fail to cure. They are perfectly reliab!oi
have no Free Prescriptions, Free Cure.
Free Sample, or C. o. D. fake. They have
100000 capital, and guarantee to cure
every case they treat or refund every dollar;
or their charges may be deposited in a
bank to be paid to them when a cure is
effected. Write them today.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

]. T.. Galbraith, who has been appointed
Traffic Manager of the Cleveland Ter
minal and Valley Railroad Company with
headquarters at Cleveland will also be the
General Agent of the B. and o. at that
point. These two positions were formerly
held by l.. Rush Brockenbrough who is
now General Freight Agent of the B. and
O. lines west of the Ohio river, with head
quarters at Pittsburg.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
A Valuable Franchise secured.

The franchise Of easy digestion-one of
the most valuable in the gift of Medical
science-can be secured by any person
wise enough to use Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, either to suppress growing dys-
pepsia, or to uproot 1t at maturity. Bill
ious, rheumatic and fever and ague suf-
%ferers, persons troubled with
and the c~onstipated, should also secure
the health franchise by the same means.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Read the Advertisements.

You will enjoy this publication much
better If you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most interesting study and
will put you in the way Of getting
some excellent bargains. Our adver-
Users are reliable; they send what they
advertise.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Both Fugitive.

The Editors Assistant-"Here'a
some fugitive poetry, left today" The
Editor-"By whom" The Editors
Assistant-"A fugitive poet. l ran
him out with a shotgun."-Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Her Thoughts About tho Butcher.

Fuddy-Between you and me, l be
lieve my wife thinks more of tn :.
butcher, than she does of me. Dudd I
You don't mean it! Fuddy-I do, bU i
| am not jealous. Duddy-Not jealousi
Fuddy-You wouldn't be surprised il
you knew what kind of thoughts sh J
thinks of him.-Boston Transcript.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

81 wouldn't wear my hair down over
my ears for anything"
Don't you admire the fashion"
Eyes; but suppose some man should
propose and / shouldn't hear him.
Chicago Record.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
neautx i blood Door.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty it. Cascarets, Candy Cathnr-
tic Cleans your blood and keeps it clean, BY
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples. boils, blotches, b~lackhcads.
and tbntsickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets. beauty for ten cents. All druf.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, loo, CSC, SOC.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Laura-What was the Queerest pro-
posal you ever had?
Jean-I think it was George Had
ley's. He didn't threaten to go away
and kill himself if l wouldn't have
him.-Cleveland Leader.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Lars Hike, who died not long g in
Norway, was the last Norwegian vet
eran of the war Of 1914 between Nor
way and Sweden.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

For the Summer Campaign.
Pretty Maiden-I want to get a
hammock just large enough to hold
one person.
Obliging Clerk-Yes, ma'am; how do
you like this one?
Pretty Maiden-It looks rather fraill.
l want II strong enough to hold two.
New York Truth.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

No bicyclist can make more than 100
miles in a century.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

My doctor said I would die. but Piso's
Kelner. Cherry Valley, Ill, Nov. %. 1895.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

The less the average man knows about
a thing the more he wants to talk about
it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Mrs. WInslow's Soothing Syrup
For children feething, softens the gums. reduces in1am-
nation. allays pain, cures wind collie. as cents q hottie.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

A man is never so easily deceived as
when trying to deceive others.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Some women, il successful gamblers,
have winning ways.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Boarders are apt to have liver complaint
when it is served to them seven times a
week.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
HOME OF SECR'Y GAGE
IT'S in MASSACHUSETTS AVE-
NUE., WASHINGTON.

Mrs. Gage as n uostess-Her First
Winter In Capital society-Some of
the Decorations New to OniciaI
Life. "
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 50c. 81. All druggists.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

To Cure Constipation Forever
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 1Oc or csc. II
C.. c.. c. fail to cure druggists refund money.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Some men have many good qualities,
but lack the one necessary to make use
of them,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

ASHINGTON Cor
dependence :-Th e
Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs.
are settled for
the winter in the
IL that they
will occupy during
the Mckinley adj
ministration. They
are among the first
of the members of
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Smoke sledge Cigarettes, 20 for 5 cts.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Substitutes for India Rubber.

Combinations of linseed, peanut,
rape or mustard oil with sulphur form
rubber-like substances whica are said
to be largely used in the manufacture
of india-rubber compounds. Pure, I'M
vulcanized india-rubber will float,
nearly submerged, in water, while the
oil substitutes, being slightly heavier
in proportion to their bulk, sink.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Bricks apparently as good as when
frs made were excavated in Babylon,
the marks on them proving them to
be 1000 years Old t-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-12
BY AUTHORITY.
OF THE MINISTER
OF THE INTERIOR IN RE THE
BANK OF HAWAII, LTD.

I, James A. King, Minister of the
Interior of the Republic of Hawaii, do
hereby certify that in accordance with
the requirements of Section Is, Chapter
XIII. of the Session Laws Of 1884,
the same being an "Act to provide for
the Incorporation of Banking Com
panies," l have examined into the
condition of the Bank of Hawaii,
Limited" a Corporation formed under
said Act and located in the City of Ho-
nolulu, and l am satisfied that the said
Corporation has fully complied with
the provisions required by said Act,
to be complied with before commencing
the business of Banking, and the said
Corporation, the Bank of Hawaii,
Limited" is hereby authorized to COM
mence business.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto placed my hand and OFF,
cial Seal this 23rd day of De-
cember, A. D. 1897.
(Signed) J. A. KING,
Minister of the Interior.
4S0G-2m