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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-08-16

Gov. Tanner in an interview in
Denver last week, stated that Illinois
is sure for 100000 Republican ma.
jority this fall.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-08-16

All the plants under the control Of
the American Plate Glass company
will resume work September first.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-08-16

Charles Reynolds was killed Sun
day BY the explosion of = 'smisssds
sAet b ~ Ne~hosss tunnel Iroa
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-08-16

Eugene v. Debs has accepted the
nomination for president on the
Social Democratic ticket.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-08-16

cry. WnoIu tne IOus Wouio oeStrOy
they first make mad
Senator Wolcott is half owner in
a new and rich copper mine near
Battle Lake, Wyoming.
The London Times is consoling
itself that America is debtor nation.
That is all right to us here SO long
as America has gold to loan to the
Britishers whose new war bonds sell
at 9S cents and bring three per cent.
interest. Americas bonds are in de-
mand at two per cent. at par or bet
ter.
Dave Davis, coiored, was found
Saturday night at Salida With his
throat cut from ear to ear. A colored
man named Collette has been ARE sted
for the crime.
Mitchell Roscoe, miner, while as
cend the shaft of the Prince Alice
mine, Cripple Creek, Monday, was
struck by a falling rock and killed.
The sheriff of Socorro county, N.
NJ, has had serious fight with cattle
thieves killing one and wounding
one.
By = serious mistake in the fight
ing at Yang Tsun, the Russian artil-
lery opened fire on the American
troops. sevsral Of whom were killed
and wounded before the mistake was
discovered.
Charles Reynolds was killed Sun
day BY the exploeion 0f n ssminnadv
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26

not worth reproducing. And while the
$4,000 horse may not fully reproduce
his own qualities, speed and achieve
ments, he is liable, gk some happy mo-
ment in his prepO mcy to produce a
horse approximate D himself. In other
words, under natu HB universal law,
that pervades both Che vegetable and
animal kingdoms, like produces like
not just alike, but often better and
sometimes worse. A Canadian student
of Darwin recently made the expert
ment of crossing English fox hounds
with Esquimaux dogs. AS these polar
half-wolves are much the longest bred,
under the theory Of heredity the OFF
spring would more largely partake or
the characteristics of the more savage
Esquimaux product than the more do
cile, domesticated English hound. The
experiment, according to this Cana
dian, has fully demonstrated that the
product, even in the sixth generation
retains the qualities and characters
tics Of the polar product. One of these
dog products, three generations re-
moved from the original polar tree,
was sent to the West, Indies and quar-
tered in a stable WI 1re there was no
| chance for night chi. Is. But this dog
| continued to howl al sunset, after the
style of his grand parents, and in the
| morning would shake himself like a
Labrador fox trying to knock the snow
out of his shaggy fur. And it would
not be unbecoming to mention here
that those hereditary forces and IN
stincts that pervade the canine kind
are just as potent in the horse KIND
and are just as fo~rcefully illustrated
in our human kind. Don't waste your
time and precious money. in fighting
| this theory.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH.
Twenty Years Have shown a Remark
able Growth In Dixie.

Il WoAGy 4G6rS nave SnOWn u N0maEk-
able Growth In Dixie.
The Industrial progress of the south
during the past twenty years has been
phenomenal. In the past ten years the
production Of wheat has increased 81
per cent in the south, and the number
Of hogs raised there during that period
has nearly doubled. Seventy-two vari-
cites of field crops are now grown
where Their formerly was nothing but
cotton, and sixty-fve varieties of vege-
tables, fruits and melons are raised in
the south for markets in the north.
While five years ago the cotton mills
in the south consumed but720, 900 bales
of cotton, their consumption amounts
to nearly 1900, 900 bales in the $50
mills, with 1852, 092 spindles and 1884,
446 looms. The number of mills has
increased 206, and of spindles and
made in the country are now manu-
featured in North Carolina, where 104
wooden mills are in operation. The
finest grade of wool can be grown in
the south almost as cheaply as cotton.
Two decades ago the south produced
annually but 5000, 900 tons of bitumin-
Gus coal; that product has now passed
the 40, 200, 900 mark, and of the At, 900
square miles of coal fields in the south
only about 1000 are under develop
ment. While two decades ago less
than 100000 tons of iron were pro-
duced, the production has now grown
to $500, 900 tons Of a very superior ar
ticle. And the iron industry of the
south is as yet in its infancy. There
are enormous iron ore deposits in diff
ferent parts Of that section of the
country which have thus far not been
touched at all. This is but a short
summary of the progress made in the
south during the past twenty years,
but it suf1ces to indicate the possibili-
ties of that part of the country and
what is in store for it in the future,
since 1t is no longer limited to cotton,
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IN NO MANS LAND.
Freak Island in the Missouri Near the
Borders of South Dakota.

Freak Island In the Missouri Near the,
Borders of South Dakota.
A freak of action of the Missouri,
river near the southeastern portion IL
South Dakota in 1881 which resulted
in the loss of several million do1larwA
worth of cattle and property, the wsp-l
ing out Of an entire township and the
forming of an island In th river has
caused no end Of trouble in the yeaEMa
that have interviewed. The most dtf1-1
Guilty has been in connection with the
island. The damage was caused by q
flood which resulted from the melt ing
of snow in all parts of the state, and
which caused the Missouri to spread
far over its banks. When the waters
had subsidized it was found that the
river had cut through some Of the
best farms in the northern part Of Ne
braska for a distance Of about two
miles, thus shortening the old chan
mel by seventeen miles. The island OF
land thus formed has been in the courts
of the state ever since. The last l1gis-
lature Of the state annexed "the is
land to South Dakota for judicial and
taxable purposes. There is a provision
in the state constitution which sayR
that land cannot be added to or taken
from a county without submitting the
question to the people Of the county
for a majority vote. In order to get
this island into such condition that
the inhabitants can vote it is necessary
to have it annexed to Clay county. It
was expected that this election could
be held last November with the judi
cial election, but the secretary Of the
state decided that it would take q
general election, which will not be held
until the fall of 1900. At that time the
people all over the county will vote
on the question whether or not the
island shall be annexed.
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Is AN OLD INVENTION.
FISHHOOK is ALMOST CO.
EXISTENT WITH MAN.
Story of It's Revolution as 1t Journeys
Through the Ages-Prehistoric Relics
Found in Switzerland Prove the Age
of the Idea. 81

Men have doubtless been fishers from
very remote times. Hunger would
teach them to catch fish as well as to
hunt mammals, but while the evidences
of the latter are so abundant in the
shape Of stone weapons the weapons
or implements used for catching fish,
being made of less durable material,
have disappeared. The exceptions to
this general statement are the few in
stances where fishhooks made entirely
of stone or of a combination of stone
and wood or bone, have been preserved
with the other implements of similar
material, says Popular Science. Fish
hooks of silicfous material have not
been found in America, but hooks COM
posed Of flint or ~chalcedony and bone
have been found in Greenland. The
invention OF rude implements to IA
cilitate the catching of fish would not
require the exercise of any great in
genuity or mechanical skill. From
watching the fish snap at or swallow
objects thrown in the water, the idea
of trying some tempting bait on the
end of a string and throwing it into
the water, to be seized and swallowed
by the fish, which could then be pulled
out by can of the string, would be
very simple and from this to the earli-
est known attachment for making the
capture Of the fish more certain that of
attaching a silver of wood to the end
of the string or line in such a way that
any attempt at escape on the part of
the fish would make it's capture more
certain was very easy. Afterward
pieces Of bone or wood sharpened at
each end and sometimes grooved in the
middle to keep the string from slipping
were evolved. Implements of this char
acter are still used by the Eskimos for
catching seagulls and other water
fowl. A cord made of braided grass,
looped around the groove in the bone
and fastened to a trawl line, kept eX-
tended by anchored buoys, the bone
being baited with small fish, into which
the implement is inserted lengthwise.
The trawl lines are placed near the
~ SSNAA5 PAoNNo III @hS No ~ WAN
be equally effective in, the capture OF
certain kinds of fish. AS man gained
experience and advanced in knowledge
other forms of implements would be
evolved, better suited for the purpose
but with the exception Of better mate
rial being used in the manufacture the
fishhooks of the civilized nations of to
day are but little in advance of those
used by savage races and prehistoric
peoples. Prehistoric fshhooks of bronze
and others made from the tusks of the
wild boar are found in the Swiss lakes
Another form of bronze fishhook, found
in the lake of Morat, is almost identi.
cal in form with those used today
Chippel flint fishhooks are found il
Sweden. Among the a~borigines o.
Wisconsin native copper was used IL
the manufacture of various weapons
and implements and f1shhooks of beat
en- copper have been found in some o
the mounds of that region.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26

While the advice to pasture the
orchard with hogs or sheep may be all
right as a theory, it is seldom prac-
ticable. Especially in the case of the
family orchard is it impracticable.
The fences are generally of a character
not suited to hold sheep and. hogs, and
very often the orchard merges into
the home grounds in such a way that
there is nc dividing line. The family
orchard is a thing of beauty and it is
not desirable to have the ground torn
up by hogs. Often the cost of fencing
would be greater tfnn the good OBJ
tanned. 1t may pa, to pasture large,
well-fenced CONNIE aIal orchards, but
as a general proposA Ion we doubt If it
should be entertained.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26
Eject of Salt in Butter.


Several years ago / experimental by
taking three unc of butter; ounce
No. l was sailed and worked and
formed in a block same as l do all
finished butter; ounce No. 2 was sailed
and worked but I tried not to evenly
distribute the salt; ounce No. 3 was
not sailed. 1t was put in the cellar
for two days. 1t was then brought
up and examined. Nc. 1 was perfect
in every way, No. 2 was badly mot
tied, No. 3 was Of a light color. The
light spots in No. 2 were Of the same
shade as No. 3, the yellow spots were
same shade as No. /. This test salts
fed me that not working the salt
evenly through the butter caused it to
get notified, and that salt also
changes the color of butter, says a
contributor to National Stockman. So
many dairy writer's advise too low
temperature of cream for churning. We
churned 25 pounds of butter today Jan.
2, and temperature Of cream was SO
degrees F. The butter came In very
nice granules. Had we started to
churn at a low temperature we might
be churning yet. Some writers advise
as low. as "a degrees. If any dairyman
will come and churn our cream, say
IL gallons, at "a degrees and get but
ter in n hour, he a have all the
butter he can churn out of that amount
of cream. .s
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26
PARIS
Eta Babbles of Genius, Skating ssAnnsV
and Jewels.

Elm Babb1es of Genius, Skating gsans
and Jewels.
I'VE had fewer New Years CARDS
this year than aver before" writes Fin
in a letter from Paris to the New York.
Commercial Advertiser. 1T is not at
all chautelaire to send shop-made i'm,
ages to ones friends, and only the
poets and the authors and the painters
send cards now. Ordinary persons
content themselves by posting their
ordinary visiting cards, with a few
words of greeting, and perhaps a wee
photograph of the sender placed in one,
corner of the card. But If one is al
personage-ah! then it is lone differ
emily. One paints a charming little
picture and has it reproduced on as
many cards as one wishes to send
away; or one writes some pretty little
triolets and has them printed in gold
and powdered with diamond dust, or
n writes a touching and beautiful
little story suitable for New Years
reading and has it printed and bound
for private circulation. All this for
the friends Of clever folks. If one is
not a celebrity or the cherished friend,
of a celebrity n is forgotten in these
days. But if we have not had New
Years cards we have had skating, and,
as you know, ckating in Paris is a pic
turesque proceeding always, but es-
pecially so this season, as the 'batons
de velours' (velvet staffs) of the second
empire have been revived, and added
much to the beauty of the scene at the
Horseshoe pond on the Bots de Bou-i
logne. These stats were brought into
use by the poor Empress Eugene when
that exalted unfortunate took her first
lessons in skating. The empress had
two instructors, but etiquette forbade
their holding the hands of their pupil
to guide her uncertain glides over the
ice. M. Carter was at that time the
king of skaters, and he invented the
staff, which consisted of a stout rod
covered with wadded velvet. The ends
of the rod were held by two professors,
while the empress, placing her hands
in the center and leaning her weight
upon it, was supported and guided
without having occasion to touch the
skating masters. The stats have APP
peared this season in great numbers
and are of all colors, but bright red
and blue predominant. It is impos1
sible, ma chere, to imagine anything
prettier than a pretty woman holding
one of these stats and accompanied by
two beaux cavaliers, gliding birdlike
over the ice. Do not say, Birds do not
glide 1 always think of seagulls when
l see fine skating. l have seen a won
derful jewel in the Rene de la Paix. It
is a pigeon-blood ruby, surrounded by
smaller rubies, to represent a burning
flame, the shape of the fame being out
lined in brilliants of exceptional bril-
liancy and beauty. Beneath the fame
and attached by an invisible gold
thread is a large moth composed OF
curious gray crystal found in the
mountains of America-on dit-and
surrounded by diamonds, the flmy
outstretched wings also of diamonds,
with an outline of pale-colored emer-
aids! VOLTA, ~est-ce-beauH"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26
Planting Shade Trees in Oklahoma.

RlanC1n SHADE trees IN OklanOmds
A bulletin of the Oklahoma Expert
ment Station says: Those who failed
to set out shade trees during the fall
should prepare now to do so in the
spring. At the Oklahoma Experiment
Station, in one experiment on a hard
soil, the following method resulted
successfully: Holes three feet in di-
ameter and three feet deep were dug in
the early winter and allowed to remain
open so that the soil could weather and
become porous. In February, three
forkfuls of well-rotted manure were
put in the bottom of the holes and on
top of this two ~shovelfuls of leached
ashes. This was then covered with
surface soil and the holes filled up to
within about a foot of the top. This
was then allowed to settle and become
firm before the trees were set. The
trees were set out in March and the
soil within three feet of the trees was
hoed after every rain during the sum-
mer. Naples and locusts were planted
and they made a vigorous and rapid
growth. While this method is per-
haps too expensive to be used for ex-
>ensive paintings, it is recommended
for use in towns and about the house
and lawn. Whatever method of plant
ing is followed, little success will fol-
low unless the soil is thoroughly cul-
uvated and the surface kept free from
ES6te and weeds.
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Horedlty.

Of course the theory of heredity does
not account for the fact that one horse
sells for $780, 900 and another for $40,
says the American Sportsman" But
where heredity has a potent voice in
the market it Is because the 500, 900
horse has a chance to produce another
$4,000 product; while the 500 horse is
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26
Aroused Her Anger.

care you engaged?" said a gentle
man to a young lady at a country.
dance. 81 was" she replied. with fash,
ing eyes, "but If that Pete Thompson
thinks that I'm going to sit here ana
see him squeeze that freckle-faoed
wilkins girls hand all evening, hs'n
be mistaken, diamond or no diamond
Ohio State Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26

Is not white arsenic formula FOL
spraying an Improvement on Paris
green, as the latter is SO difficult to
hold in solution? G. H., Lima, Ohio.
Rural New Yorker publishes the fol
lowing replies:
The white arsenic formula has been
perfectly satisfactory, and we have
used it quite extensively for three sea-
sons. So far as we have heard from
those using it, it has given general
satisfaction. 1t is an Improvement on
P~aris-green, both as regards efficiency
and cheapness. We use it in connec-
ton with Bordeaux Mixture altogeth-
er; the lime in the Bordeaux Mixture
prevents injury to foliage which would
occur if the arsenic formula were used
alone.-W. J. Green, Ohio Experiment
Station.
The white arsenic has nothing to
recommend it, except the fact that we
get a uniform product. The arsenate
OF soda, which is produced by boiling
white arsenic and caustic soda, is hor-
@J AOuo w PAOhS AOAAo6OJ la
unless it is completely ne~utralized with
lime or in some other way, it is very
dangerous. In the use of arsenic as
an insecticide, the chief point to be
looked to is the amount of actual ar
sentc in the mixture, and it's insolu-
b1lity. Paris green comes as neal to
being insoluble as any material on the
market, but it varies seriously in the
actual amount of arsenic, even when
pure, that is, free from authorizations
and when made by the same manu-
facturer. Personally I have had very
little experience with the white arsenic
formula, and what | have seen Of it
makes me hesitate to recommend it.
We have something very much better
in arsenate of lead, or as it has been
called, ~"Gypsine." This is more easily
made than the white arsenic mixture,
is always uniform, is absolutely harm
less to foliage, and if once the farmer
becomes used to it, will give him iden-
tical results when used under similar
conditions.-John B. Smith, New Jer-
sey Experiment Station.
We have not made very extended
trials of white arsenic as an insecti-
eide for general purposes, because OF
its color, being so like many other
harmless substances it will much more
endanger life than Paris green, and the
uncertain results obtained by the aver
age farmer or horticulturist, in the
combination Of the arsenic and soda
I do not think it in any way superior
to Paris green's. T. Maynard, Massa-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26
horticultural observa,l ions.

The following estim Hes of past apple
crops are going the rounds OF the
press, but we cannot vouch for their
accuracy. The estim De is in barrels:
1894, 81, $50, 900; 1895, 0,540, 900; 1896,
$3.50, 900; 1897, 41,537, 900; 1898, 49,
$40, 900; 1899, $500, 900. This makes
the crop of this year a great deal less
than that of any of the past six years,
if we except 1893. We have a strong
suspicion that the figures for this last
veal at least are far from accurate.
1t vas supposed that we had a small
crop and apples went up, but the large
supplies that have materialized have
dragged the prices down again. 1t can
be assumed therefore that the supply
is larger than any of the experts have
believed, or at least have professed to
believe.
In protecting trees from rodents
one should use exceeding care. Many
things are recommended that have
been tried by a few people and found
successful, but havB been tried by
others and found de bructive. One is
impressed with this oct at every hor-
ti%cultural convention attended when
the question of treI protection is
brought up. Some of the oil washes
and tars are deadly to trees at GER
tain ages and under certain conditions.
The conditions and ages vary so
greatly that the fact that a wash has
proved harmless on one tree is not an
indication that it will prove equally
harmless on another tree. It is better
to depend on protecting the tree with
something wound around it than to
paint it with anything.
Some Of our leading horticulturists
are complaining that the names of
fruits are being unnecessarily mixed
up. The American Pathological So
Strengthening out the nomenclature,
but it is a difficult thing to keep
Strengthened out. In the first place
we have to deal with the tricky nurs-
erymen that put forth an old variety
under some new name. Then we have
the man that is bound to give his va
riety of fruit some high sounding
name and does it, utterly regardless
of the fact that the name and the fruit
do not fit. One would naturally think,
on seeing the names of two standard
fruits connected by a hyphen that the
new fruit must be a cross between the
two named, but such is not necessarily
the case. In Missouri a good many
fruitmen are growing the same va
riety of fruit under different names.
One nurseryman wen to one county
and found a tree growing and gave it
a certain name. Another nurseryman
went to another county and found the
same fruit and gave it another name.
Each secured wood for propagating
and advertised a novelty. The prac-
tice amounts to a fraud 'bn the public,
for the nurserymen could find out the
truth of the matter if they cared to
do so
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-26

Ths loss of fortune only serves to
s@Crease the pride of the worthy.