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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
HARsH
These People Are Stunted by 1t More
Surely Than by Heredity.

These People Are Stunted by 1t More
Surely Than by Heredity.
In Limousin there is a barren range
of low hills which lies along the divid-
ing line between the departments of
Dordogne, Correze and Haute-Vienne,
about half way between Perigueux and
Limoges, says Popular Science Month
ly. The water courses show the loca-
ton of these uplands. They extend
over an area about seventy-five miles
long and half as wide, wherein average
human misery is most profound. Dense
ignorance prevails. There is more IL
literacy than in any other part Of
France. The contrast in stature, even
with the low average of all the sur
rounding region, is clearly marked by
the dark tint. There are sporadic bits
of equal diminutiveness elsewhere to
the south and west, but none are so
extended or so extreme. Two-thirds
of the men are below five feet three
inches in height, in some of the COM
munes, and the women are three or
more inches shorter even than this.
One man in ten is below four feet
| eleven inches in stature. This is not
due to race. for several racial types
are equally stunted in this way within
the same area. 1t is primarily due to
generations of subsection to a harsh
climate, to a soil which is worthless
for agriculture, to a steady diet of
boiled chestnuts and stagnant water,
and to unsanitary dwellings in the
deep, narrow and damp valleys. Still
further proof may be found to show
that these people are not stunted by
any hereditary influence, for it has
been shown that children born here,
but who migrate and grow up else
where, are normal. in height; while
those born elsewhere, but who are sub
ject to this environment during the
growing period of youth, are proper
tionately dwarfed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

nodding plumes, the privileged vest :
ments Of those whom the accident OF
birth had lifted SO far above the tur-
bid, filthy, bitter u~ndercurrent Of
Partisan life. A keen eye might have
read ominous symptoms amid the
heaving, swaying throng of human be-
ings, who knew SO we'll all the hard,
direful experience of want and care,
burning eyes, fierce gestures, muttered
imprecations betrayed which way that
undercurrent was setting. Amid a
crowd of rough workmen in their grey
blouses stood a young man with a
SLOUGH hat and a cloak wrapped closely
around his form. He Joined not in the
mutterings and coarse jeering going on
about him; he did not even manifest
the curiosity to be expected of one who
had come out at that late hour to see
such a show, for as coach after coach
came on he only threw one swift, keen
glance at the livery, and then turned
away expectantly toward the next ap-
preach. At length, what he had looked
so long and patiently for seemed at
hand, for his eye kindled, and he
pressed nearer the curbstone.
The Beauvais coach drew on slowly;
the press of the crowd was now infring-
ing upon the pavement, and the long
line of equipages came to a complete
standstill. While the Count was an
grily matchmaking the plebeian
crowd, Lady Violante looked out list
lessly. In the bright glare of the lights
she saw an upturned set of faces; an
extended arm drew her attention, and
as the slouched cap was thrown off her
heart leaped up in joyful recognition
of a familiar and beloved face. Only
a moment did it gain her eye, for as
a tiny bouquet was thrown unerringly
into her lap, the surging dodge of
heads swept it away. Grasping the
bouquet closely she leaned back with
a thrill of delight, ever in the midst
Of her despair, to know that Bernard
was still lowering near her. Once
again she saw him as she was pass
ing, leaning on her fathers arm, into
the magnificent Sale des Marechaux,
the vast ballroom in the center of the
palace.
Yet when all was over Lady Vio-
lante's happiest moment was when,
once more at home, she sank into the
easy chair, and allowed Celeste to d.
vest her of the cumbrous robes and
heavy jewels. Then for the first time
she pressed the bouquet to her lips,
and examined it carefully. A slip Of
paper was dexterously wound amid
the close mass of leaf and stem. Hasti-
ly disengaging 1t. she read:
stormy times seem inevitably at
hand. l have heard a score of proph-
ecies today that tonight King Louis
gives his last fete. If you have any
influence with you father, return to
Beauvais Chateau at once"
(To BE CoNTINUED.l
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
ENTHUSIASTIC EVERY TIME.
No Danger of Time Hanging Heavily or
This Mans Hands.

No Danger of Time Hanging Heavily on
This Mans Hands.
Talk about enthusiasm-there is a
fellow out my way who beats anything
in that line you ever saw" said Chief
Desmond to a St. Louis Republic man.
II won't tell you what his name is.
but l will point him out to you any
night you come out to see me. When
he was a boy he was crazy about
gathering postage stamps. He wrote,
advertised, hunted and would have
walked across the continent for a rar-
ity in his line. Suddenly he switched
to dogs and had everything from a
toy terrier to Great Danes. He had a
canine herd that made the neighbor-
hood in which he lived positively dan
gerous. The dog craze lasted until he
fell in love. He was just as enthusi-
astic about the girl as he had been over
the dogs and postage stamps. The girl
married him at last to have peace.
When the honeymoon waned he was
seized with the base ball craze. He
never missed a game for a whole sum-
mer. He yelled, jawed, bet and was
a noisy bleacher even in his sleep.
Then came another turn of the crank
and he was an enthusiastic fisherman.
He invented and suggested more
things to lure fish into a net or onto
a hook than he had fingers and toes
and he made them all himself in his
back yard when the fishing season was
over. Now he is a singer and every
house within a block of him is vacant.
| He has no more music in him than a
b~lackbird, but he is an enthusiast. He
is a good tenant, or the landlord
would have made him long ago.
His wife went down to pay the rent
the other day and she asked the agent
to Just have a little more patience; that
she was sure before long he would
have switched on to something else
over which he would go wild for
awhile"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
8 OF STUDIES.
'rhe wit May Be wrought out by FIJI
studies.

me VIII May ne WEOuBhS OuS W ER
studies.
Studies serve for delight, for orna-
ment, and for ability. Their chief use
for delight Is in privateness and retir-
ing; for ornament is In discourse, and
for ability is in the Judgment and dis
position of business; for expert men
can execute, and perhaps Judge of par
ticulars, one by one; but the general
~counsels, and the plots and marshaling
of affairs, come best from those that
are learned. To spend too much time
In studies is sloth; to use them too
much for ornament is a~ffectation; to
make Judgment wholly by their rules
is the humor of the scholar; they per-
feet nature and are perfected by expe-
rience; for natural abilities are like
natural plants, that need pruning by
study, and studies themselves do give
forth directions too much at large, ex-
cept that they be bounded in by expe-
rience. Crafty men condemn studies,
simple men admire them, and wise men
use them; for they teach not their own
use, but that is wisdom without them,
and above them won by observation.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor
to believe and take for granted, nor to
find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider. Some books are to be
tasted, others to be swallowed, and
some few to be chewed and digested;
that Is, some books are to be read only
in parts, others to be read, but not
c%uriously, and some few are to be read
wholly and with diligence and atten-
ton. Some books also may be read
by deputy and extracts made Of them
by others, but that would be only In
the less important arguments, and the
meaner sort of books; else distilled
books are like common distilled wat
ers, flashy things. Reading maketh d
full man, conference a ready man, and
writing an exact man, and therefore,
IL a man write little, he had need have
a great memory; If he confer little he
had need have a present wit, and II he
read little he had need have much
cunning to seem to know that he doth
hui. lllOtOlJ hldhCo ACh POSNS
witty; the mathematics, subtle; natur.
| al philosophy, deep; moral, grave; log
ic and rhetoric, able to contend:
"Abeunt studia in mores;" nay, there
is no stand or impeachment in the Wi
but may be wrought out by fit studies
like as diseases of the body may have
appropriate exercises; bowling Is gooC
for the stone and reins, shooting TO
the lungs and breast, gentle walking
for the stomach, riding for the head
and the like; so, II a mans wit be call
ed away, never so little, he must begiI
again; if his wit be not apt to distin
guish or find differences, let him stud,
the schoolman, for they are "Cymin
Sectores;" If he be not apt to- bea
over matters and to call upon on
thing to prove and illustrate another
let him study the lawyers cases; s.
every defect of the mind may have
special receipt.-Francis Bacon's Essa,
on Studies.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
Air Consumption of Gas.

In dwelling houses lighted by gas
the frequent renewal of the air is OF
great Importance. A single gas burn.
er will consume more oxygen and pro.
duce more carbonic acid to deteriorate
the atmosphere of a room than six OF
eight candles. If, therefore, when sew
eral burners are used, no provision is
made for the escape of the corrupted
air, and for the introduction of pure
air from without the health will nee
essarily suffer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
peafnesn Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constt-
~tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition Of the mucous lining Of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infamed
you have arumbing sound or imperfect near
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition. hearing will be destroyed forever;
which is nothing but an infiamed condition OF
the mucus surfaces.
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.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

stately pilasters. The various APP
proaches to the palace were thronged
with elegantly appointed coaches, and
their liveried attendants, waiting their
turn to discharge the precious freight
they had brought to the royal leyee
of King Louis and Marie Antoinette.
AS usual a waiting crowd blocked
the sidewalk, to catch a glimpse of
flashing jewels, glistening robes, and
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Consul General Du Bots, stationed at
st. Gall, reports that the Swiss press
contains frequent and intelligent arti-
cles concerning the public school sys-
tenn of the United States, our colleges
and universities, our hospitals, our
asylums for the insane, blind, deaf and
dumb, and for those dependent upon
public and private charity for support.
To these institutions are given the
highest praise. Recently much has
been written about our public libraries.
In a late number of the lausanne
Bibliotheque Universelle ct Revue
Suisse an article was published by Mr..
Albert Schintz on libraries of the
United States. He described the as
%tonishing increase of public libraries
in our country, and says that not only
does the United States publicly and
privately contribute five times as much
annually for public library purposes
as any other nation in the world, but
it spends nearly as much annually fol
educational purposes as do England
France and Germany combined.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

The constitution of the United States
declares that the vice president shall
be president of the senate, but shall
have no vote, unless there is an equal
division of its numbers upon any meas
ure brought before it for decision. Such
a deciding vote is comparatively rare.
The breaking of a tie, as was recently
done by Vice President Hobart, shows
that the sdpposition that the Office is
u%nimportant, save in the contingency
where the incumbent is called upon to
succeed to the presidency, is entirely
superficial, 1t is quite within the pos
sibilities that an issue o 1.-the gravest
moment may be determined against
the judgment of half the senate by the
vote of a person not a member and
personally obnoxious, and yet the un-
welcome defeat would come by a pro-
cess indisputably constitutional. 1t is
never wise to regard any provision OF
the constitution as a political trifle.
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Sometimes inappropriate.

at is difficult to account for a great
many phrases in current use," re-
marked McSwilligen, cor even to see
their relevancy"
eyes, replied S%quildig.
"Now, there's that expression, on its
last legs meaning something about
the end. It's appropriateness is very
doubtful.
"For instance, a kangaroo is nearly
always on it's last legs, but where can
you find a more striking example OF
vitality ?"-Stray Stories.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

A society in Edinburgh gives its at
tention to cabs that stand idle on fine.
days, and by engaging them provides
free rides for poor old people and in
yalids. This is thoughtful and very
exemplary, but it is not at all nee
essary to organize a society for such
a .commendable purpose. If you chance
to know a poor invalid or a GONZALES
cent, and have the spare coin in your
pocket, as well as the generous i'm
pulse in your heart, you needn't call
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
She Had Had Experience.

"Ahr' he cried, kneeling at her feet,
"say you will marry me, and l will be
your devoted slave for life" &
arise, Harry" she answered, 'you
will not do. That was what my first
husband said, and before we had got
fairly out of the church he began tell
ing me how he wanted me to wear my
hair."-Chicago News. f
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Sheikh Mahomet Suleiman, one of
the foremost native magnates of
Egypt, declares that 80 per cent of his
countrymen are not only content with
British rule. but are earnestly DESTROYS
that it shall be maintained, and he
adds that if it were withdrawn the
country would within a short time re-
lapse into barbarism. Pr~otectorates
have a justification when such testi-
mony can be given.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

List of Patents Issued Last zee to
Northwestern Inventors.

Martin b. Donaldson, Duluth, Mimi,
artificial limb; Claus l.. Grimsrud,
Lead, S. D., vehicle wheel; Azor +.
Hess, Chatfield, Mimi, %threshing ma
chine; Abram r. Miller, Harvey, N.
d, device for injecting fumes; And
rev and D. Murphy, Washington Lake,
Mimi, steam engine; Abram Olson,
Dalstrop, Mimi, guitar bridge; Robert
D.. Parks, Pleasant Mounds, Mimi,
Acetylene gas generator; Peter A. Pc
terson, Webster, S. D., window; Jo-
seph Wilhelm, Wheaton, Mimi, gate.
torneys, 010 Pioneer Press Bldg, ST. auL
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

"How are you getting on" asked
Aguinaldo's friend. Making money!
NO" was the answer. Il haven't
attempted to do anything in the coun.
terfeiting line. The ready-made kind
is good enough for me, so long as it's
plentiful w Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
Faster Than the Wind.

Waves travel faster than the wind
which causes them, and in the Bay OF
Biscay frequently during the autumn
and winter in calm weather a heavy
sea gets up and rolls in on the coast "a
hours before the gale which causes IL
arrives, and OF which it is the prelude,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
Are You Using Aliens Foot-EaseP

It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Samples sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
CouIdn,t surprise HIm,

Pottson-I see they've got a yak out
at Lincoln Park. q
Panz-A yak? Fro, yes. The fact
cries here are building them by the
thousand. They're going to supersede
the horse entirely.-Chicago Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
oh That psllcIou. Cor.el

Costs but 1c per lb. to grow. Salzer has
the seed; German Coffee Berry, pkg, loo;
Java Coffee pkg. 15c. Salzer's New AM
erican Chicory 15c. Gu this out and send
l6c for any of above packages or send
SOC and get all 8 pkgs, and great Cata-l
logue free to JOHN A. SALZER SEED,
CO.. La Crosse, Wis. lw.n.l
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
Too NTucb IN Exnect.

seen you in a dogs age. How are you
getting on? Holding your own, l sup
pose?
Meeker-Not all at once, old chap;
hal triplets at our house last week.
Boston Courier.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit OF
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most amusing study, and
will put you in the way of getting some
excellent bargains. Our advertisers
are reliable; they send what they i'd
vcrtise.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

A New York church is going to open
a dry goods store where poor people
can make purchases at practically the
same prices charged by the jobbers.
There will undoubtedly be. a wide di-
vergence of opinion as to the wisdom
of this undertaking, but the expert
ment viii he well worth watching.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
Marked Down From 80.

"Nhile woman may have her face on
the dollar" said the Cornfed Philoso-
pher, looking thoughtfully at the coin,
''yet, to tell the truth, she is more apt
to have her eye on the 38 cents."-In-
dianapolis Journal. i,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Admiral Schley has another advan-
tage over Admiral Sampson when it
comes to banquet oratory. Admiral
Sampson can't talk of the destruction
of Cervera's fleet without having to
depend somewhat on hearsay for his
facts.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
Yet, There Must BE Some Test

Why should the cost per plate of q
banquet in honor Of the memory OF
Thomas Jefferson, and to the advance
ment of the Democratic principles he
advocated be made a test of Democra-
cy ?--NaShyille American.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
A Maiden,a Philosophy.

"Millichent spent half the night maxi
ing paper flowers. Why is she in such
a hurry to- finish themT'
ooh, she thought If she hurried hard
she could get all the paper cut before
her shears got dull."-Chicago News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

A, movement has Just been started to
erect a monument to Noah Webster al
West Hartford, Conn, his birthplace
This only goes to show that the people
of New England seldom do things on
1.-THE impulse of the moment.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

The signs of increasing good feeling
between the north and south multiply,
Witness an inquiry from a southern
farmer, addressed to a newspaper OF
that section. as follows: "Will the Bos-
ton or Yankee bean grow here?"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Dropsy treated free by DR.. II. FL.
Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The
greatest dropsy specialists in the world.
Read their advertisement in another
column of this paper.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

At the restoration parliament voted
money on two occasions for the remov-
al of the kings body and its burial. al
Westminster Abbey, but on each occa-
sion Charles II. spent the money on
his favorites, and nothing was done.
One hundred and sixty-ive years after,
wards-in 1813-the coffin was opened
in the presence of the prince regent,
afterwards George ~. 1t was found
that the severed head had been care
fully adjusted to the shoulders, but the
assure made by the AK was clearly dis
covered, while the back of the head was
stained with blood.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
CHAPTER VI.

HE Tuilleries blaZ-
ed out upon the
cool air of a late
summer evening,
ike a huge car
buncle. Row after
row of sparkling
Zig h t s pictured
forth, with grand
effect, the lofty
windows, the grace
full arcades, and
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
SAHARA Saad Corn.

Does your seed corn test, Bro. Farmer7
Salzer's does-it's northern grown, early
and good for so to $50 blu. per acre! Send
this notice and Ice for 8 corn samples and
low prices to John A. Salzer Seed CO., La
Crosse, Wis. Nv. H..
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Vast changes are being wrought in
the worlds way of doing things.
France hasn't had a crisis and Aguin-
aldo hasn't issued a proclamation dur
ing the past week or more.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

More than twenty years ago Gam
BETA, speaking of the increase of ar
maments in continental countries. said,
If this goes on, Europe will be re-
duced to begging at the doors of the
barracks" And tsar and kaiser now
begin to think his words were true.
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g1E Pei, Week.

We will pay a salary of SIS per week and ex-
penses for a man with rig to introduce Perfeo-
ton Poultry Mixture and Insect Destroyer in
the country. Address with stamp. w. H.
Ward, State Agent. Wooncocket, S. Dakota.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

1t is said that German is already a
Maryland will be called up to fill two
years hence. The early candidate gem
orally catches fits.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

The Filipinos seem to understand
thoroughly that he who does not fight
but runs away may live to fight an
other day.
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80
\ THE HEIR
A BY M. II. CALDOR. Ia

CHAPTER v

Ark Q ated
Bernard, what is
that !"
His mother rails
ed her head from
his shoulder to lis
ten. Clear and dis
tinct, in a peculiar
mellow tone, ech-
oed on the still
evening air four
blasts upon a whis-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

An Ohio girl recently took the gold
cure for love. She broke her engage
ment with a poor young man and mar
ried a wealthy old one.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

The courtship of Romeo and Juliet
discloses a spark of Shakespearean ge'
MUS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

The scaffold had been erected in
front of the Banqueting House, lately
the Chapel Royal, and now the museum
of the United Service Institution, at
Whitehall, Sir Thomas Herbert states
that the king was led out by "a pas
sage broken through the wall" but &C.
cording to Ludlow a window had been
removed for the purpose.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump.
tion cured me of a bad lung trouble.-Mrs.
]. Nichols, Princeton, Ind, Mar. 20, 1895.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08

Lots of men who never think of
making wives Of their cooks make
cooks of their wives.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-08
CHARLES THE FIRST.

During the progress of the trial Of
Charles the First, in Westminster Hall,
which began on January 20, 1649, Char
les was taken each evening to Cotton
House to sleep. After his condemna-
ton his majesty returned to Whitehall,
but on his last night on earth he slept
in St. James Palace.