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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-05

reappear an instant later with tears in
his eyes, and cu5sing in four languages,
vowing vengance upon all and any one
who had stolen his condurango, the
great cancer cure.
While the papers are full of plants
concerning the drouth, the heat, poor
prospect for hay crops, in other Iocali-
ties, this neck of the woods is veritable
oasis in the desert. Less than the nor
NAL amount Of precipitation has fallen,
but it has come in such splendid
showers, with short intervals between,
that much good has resulted therefrom,
which has not been effected by dry
winds to any extent whatever. The hay
crop is magnificent, and gardens are fine,
while stock is in better condition than
usual month or two later in the season.
The highest temperature in June as
recorded by the weather bureau observer
was 81 degrees on the 21st, the lowest
% degrees on the 18th, the mean tenn
perature was GO degrees, an excess OF
degrees above the normal. Killing
frosts occurred 1910 12-13th. The pre-
cipitation amounted to 1,84 inches a
departure LAT inches below the normal.
There were clear days, q partly cloudy
and no cloudy days. Two animals were
killed by lightning, one woman killed
two others stunned. Joseph Kipp's fine
residence was ruck by bolt of light
ming which raised havoc inside, and
badly shocked the occupants sleeping ia
their rooms.
j. 3. Monroe has lost his menagerie OF.
wild and untamed beasts. A fifty dollar
Alpine goat recently went the way of all
goats, and yesterday his two mountain
sheep lambs were no where to be found,
they having escaped during the night.
Ii any one runs across an only and origina1
grand aggregation of wild beasts on the
prairie, let Jack know Of it. They be-
long to his show.
Jimmy Douglass is very wroth because
we haven't said something nice about
him in the past. We are grieved over
this and hasten 10. say that he is all
wool and yard wide, that he crowded
the roundup to an early finish, and the
only thing he forgot to brand was Patsy
Higgins pig which is roaming about
! without So much as an ear mark.
Major Monteath, Dr. Martin, Mr.. Van
Senden and others have been in atten-
dance at the U. S. court in Helena the
past week as witnesses in the John
Kennedy shooting case, wherein Gus
Limebeck lost his foot.
1t is reported that funds are now
available to pay the employees at the
agency, who have not received any of
their salaries for six months past. We
learn that on Monday the 2nd large dis
bursemonts will be made to the greatjo
OF the long waiting contingent who have
arrears Of pay due them.
The great camp of lodges moved owe r
to the race track Sunday, and from now
until the 4th all will be excitement ana
run ming to and fro.
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-05
Thoroughbred 8uIfs fog Sale.

We have just imported from the east
a carload of Registered Thoroughbred
Shorthorn Bulls They are pronounced
b. all who have ecen them to be the best
lot ever brought to Montana for sale
All parties interested in the cattle rails
ing business should call ana inspect
hem. Prices right.
GEFAT FALLS NEAT Co.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-05
Terms of Court Fo1. 1905.
FLATELl.AD COUNTY.
-
NGtio1.

I Will sell my lrrigatiag ditch taken
from Birch creek, and carrying 25533
inches Of water to the right party This,
ditch irriGates some Of the best land in
Teton county and viii sell either tbs
whole ditch or al interest therein, as ma;
be desired
Taose AIcGovEEE,
DaRuyer, Meat
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-05
/. A. ENDERS & co..

We carry the largest stock Of Wall.
Paper, Ready mixed House Paints,
Roof Paints, Marking Paints,
Brushes, Varnishes, Stains, Enamels.
Window Glass, Alabastine, Gypsl7c,
Pictures, Picture Mouldings, Etc.
CT any house in Northern Montana.
There IS 10 order too large for us to fus
or to small to command our immedi-
ate attent on.
Leave orders at Jos. Hirshbcrg & Cos.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-05

For nice glass of keg beer, call at
Medicine, Lodge saloon,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
THIS AND THAT

Illinois, with 2SS federated wom-
ems clubs, has more than any other
state.
Boise City can talk over Tie tele-
phone with SanFfancisco, 1,O0Omiles
away.
A modern Atlantic liner must
earn about $4,000 clear per trip
before a penny Of profit is made.
The average of President McKin-
ley's official household is just IL
months less than that Of the English
cabinet.
A British division on the march
along an ordinary main road without
an advanced guard would be five
miles in length.
United States naval authorities
say hat seldom in the history Of this
arm Of the service has there been so
good a chance for young men enter
ing the navy, Tor the reason That there
is a shortage Of officers.
The British war office has been
testing a new electrical range-fnder
for the last two years. 1t was invent
ed by an Australian, who says that it
will give the range and bearing Of a
fixed or moving object, and at the
same time will give information to
any number Of fortress guns attached
by wire to the instrument, thus n
abling 100 guns, for instance, to con
centrate their fire simultaneously on
a single ship.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
FOOD MAY BE SCARCE.
Gloomy FOrebodings Of a Modern Dis
Ciple of Nautilus.

gloomy E~OLeDOu4ngS OF q MODERN DIS
Ciple of Nautilus.
If Sir William Crookes is to be be-
lieved, says the Spectator, scarcity of
food is not by any means remote; it
may come within sight of persons now
alive, and these not very young. The
case may be very easily stated. At
present the deficiencies of the wheat
eating countries are supplied by
North America, especially by the
United States. In 1878 the wheat
crop of the United States was about
$40, 100000 bushels. Of this guam
tity 1000, 900 bushels were export
ed to Europe, where no country, ex-
cepting Russia and Turkey, grows
enough for its own population. The
states are able to do this without
trenching on the home supply because
the total population is not more than
100000. In 1881, if the increase
of population goes on at the same rate
as that Of the last 80 years, the 49,
100000 will have increased to $780,
100000, and the surplus for export
will be no longer available.
Whence, therefore, will the wants
Of the world be supplied? Russia at
present exports largely, the total be-
ing something more than two-ffths
of that from the states. But it cannot
be hoped that Russia will come to the
rescue of a hungry world. It is al
ready hungry itself, exporting food
while its own people are starving.
Any change here must be in the way
of distribution. This change will be
the more speedy because the Russian
population, in spite of its s~ufferings,
increases. Indeed, the difficulty of
the general problem is aggravated
by the fact that, up to the point of ac-
tual starvation, scarcity not only does
not check, but actually stimulates,
the rate of increase. Aperfectly we'll
fed, well-educated and generally com
Portable population has a tendency to
diminish rather than 70 grow.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

Cattle Were Butchersd in the Same
Manner as To-Day.
The earliest records Of Egypt show
us that cattle were used as draught
animals and that beef was the favor
lite meat there cons Of time before the
founding Of the kingdom of Menes.
That our vaunted progress after all
is but comparative is forced upon our
attention in observing that these an
Gent records depict a butcher cutting
up an OK exactly as is done to-day out
side Of the great slaughtering estab-
lishments, with a knife that he sharp
ened upon a steel that hung at his
side, and that the cuts of meat were
precisely like ours. They used leath-
er, and they did better tanning
than we do; the blood, instead of be-
ing processed into fertiizing, was
used for cooking purposes; and our
Spanish newly-made friends never
see a better bull-fght than was daily
purveyed for the delectation of those
ancient sports"
A little later in the worlds history
we find records Of tricks being played
in the cattle trade; for do not some
historians aver that Jacob exercised
undue influence upon the COWS Of La
bans herds as well as upon the ewes
Of his hocks? And others tell us that
Zaph-u-to-otherwise known as 90
seph the Wise" stockbroker in chief
for the Pharaoh Apophies, who, Of
course, was not known in the deal
cornered the cattle as well as the grain
of all the countryabout.
There we're Chicagos, too, in those
days. Damascus was an old city in
the time Of Abraham, and the great
est cattle market of the world. Per
haps some day it viii be discovered
that they refrigerated their beef and
canned it, although there have been
no charges, as yet, that they en-
balmed anything other than their
relatives.-Self Culture.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
RICE IN e%UTTAPRRcRA
Philippine Islands Have an Unlimited
Supply Of Material

Supply Of Material
Rich as the Philippines were known
to be, it is in one product that they
promise to be Of greatest value. In a
monograph just published in Ger
many it's shown that the Philippines
are among the few places on earth in
which the trees from which gutta-
percha is procured will flourish.
The value Of this statement is not
to be moderated for two reasons:
One is that guttapercha is an indis-
pensable material for the making Of
submarine cables and golf balls; the
other is that the trees in Sumatraa and
.Borneo, from which the chief supply
has hitherto been drawn, are almost
entirely exhausted.
The cause of this exhaustion lies in
the primitive and destructive meth
DDS which were formerly employed
for gathering this valuable com
modify. The natives, who never have
any thought for the morrow, have
ruthlessly cut down whole forests Of
trees, SO that they might scrape the
guttapercha, which is nothing but the
sap from inside the bark.
This wholesale destruction, carried
on for years, has greatly diminished
the annual crop, but the discovery
that these trees grow and can be sue
cessfully cultivated in the Philippines
offers hope that anew mine Of wealth
has been found for American enter
prise.
The discovery Of guttapercha goes
back to the year 1847, when Sir vii
liam jackson Hooker and DIR. Ernest
Werner Won Siemens announced not
only the discovery Of this valuable
product, but also that it was adapted
to the isolation of wires along which
electric currents were to pass.
While the chief use Of guttapercha
is of course for the insulating cover
ing Of electric wires, a large quantity
is used for the manufacture Of golf
balls, for which no other material
seems so well adapted. Its hardness
after having been submitted to the
proper pressure and its toughness
make it the only golf ball material
yet discovered.
The amount Of cable laid since
1856 is some 41,853 knots, and as the
prospects II that during thenext so.
years many more cables will be re-
quired and laid, the demand for gut
tapercha is almost unlimited.-Bos-
ton Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
Confessions Of a Judge.

The "drearyH life of a judge was
the subject Of a confession recently
by Justice BuckniIl, Of England. In
acknowledging the gift to him Of a
silver bowl and two loving cups, he
said he could not say he was sorry to
be one Of her majesty's judges, al
though! it was rather a dreary life. .
As counsel, he said, he used to lookat
the judge and say to himself: "I won
der what the fellow is thinking
about" Now that he was on the
bench he looked down at counsel and
wondered whether that fellow was
saying what was right"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
v 1LL-W1LL.
The Morbid Sense OF Inquiry and Its
Effects.

The Morbid Sense OF Inquiry and Its
Effects.
By a curious fact, those who invite
i'll will seem often to get it. Society,
based on a reciprocity Of faith, seems
to have no smiles to bestow upon the
misanthrope. It bids him Laugh,
and the world laughs with YOU" It
so comes to pass that many Of them
acquire some real ground for their
Sense of injury" and in the long
run that real quarrels are precipi-
tated from this atmosphere of sus-
piciousness. Indeed, this is the psy-
chology Of most quarrels. The effect
of imaginary grievances comes in
turn to bethe cause of real ones. Thus
into an incident between two persons,
one of them mistakenly reads an af-
front to himself. He retaliates, and
the other person, unconscious of hav-
ing done anything to evoke any hos
tility, finds himself affronted, and in
his turn retaliates. By this time real
grievances have come, and the quar-
rel is on. Balzac, that master an
alyst, in abiding to friendship, in
one of his stories, says: cit died"
the friendship 'Gike other great pas
sions-by a misunderstanding. Both
sides imagine treachery, pride pre-
vents an understanding, and the rup-
ture comes" Just as the malevolent
feelings may arise de novo, so it is
with the benevolent ones. Nordau
shows how the n~ondescript state of be-
ing Gin love" often arises. Some in
cident between John and Mary leads
one of them-we will say John-to
think mistakenly that Mary has been
attracted to him. Pleased with the
fact, he r]eciprocates. Mary, alto
gether unconscious of the reciprocal
nature Of John's attention, finds pleas
ure in it, and in her turn re~ciprocates.
Mutual reciprocity thenfollows.
In irritable persons we find the
morbid sense of injury coupled with
resentment. Quickly interpreting
anything disagreeable to them as an
atfront by another, their first impulse
is to resent it, which they do more or
less violently, according to crcum-
stances, their second thought often
recognizing the irrational nature of
the outbreak.-W. f. Becker, M. D.,
in Popular Science Monthly.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
A New Leprosy Cure.

Experiments r to be made in
Hawaii with q new leprosycure, which
is said to have accomplished remark
able results. 1t is a product Of a
Venezuelan shrub, the culture Of
which has been introduced in the is
lands under the care Of DR.. Carmich-
ael, Of the United States marine hos
pital, who has been directed Ry the
department at Washington Ia sake.
experiments with is
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
PAWNHR0KER ~ a 80
Fable Of q Man Anxious 70 Hslp q DID.
trssssd Patron
&c yoa thg paWn6Tokgr24

trssssd Patron
care you the paWnbroker?@
lit was a woman dressed in the deep
est mourning, and the voice gave the
man behind the counters curious sen
sation.
II am" he said, as soon as he could
control his futtering heart.
sAlasl that I should be driven to
thisl" sobbed the woman as she adj
vaneed a step. aTo-night-to-nigh
must either part with my wedding
ring or be driven from the Waldorf
Astoria. O, sir, you cannot imagine
my feelingsl"
'But do not give way" he replied,
in a voice full Of deepest sympathy
and respect.
els it possible that you win aid
me?" she asked, as she threw aside her
veil and showeda Grecian face stained
with tears.
cit is possible. nfact, you can de.
pend on it. I was born that way and
couldn't help it if / would. How
much money do you need?'
81 dare not tell you"
"Speak up, lady"
ST. ought to have at least $50,
but, O, sir, Of course you can't adj
vance"
"But I would scOrn to take your
wedding ring as a pledge" he inter
rupted. "HerC is $4OO. That viii
keep you at the hotel for a week or SO,
and if you want to remain longer come
and see me again. Never mind about
the security. If you can pay mi some
time you may do so, but DON'T worry
about it."
90! sir, how can ever"
"You needn't try. You came here
thinking I would offer you about Is
cents on your wedding ring, and that
my heart would be proof against your
words and tears. You have discOv-
cred your error. From this time on
you will know the profession better
and give it its just dues. We are not
in the business for money, but forthe
sole purpose of assisting our %unfortu-
nate fellow-beings."
"But you will let me pray for youP'
protested the grateful woman as she
prepared to go.
"Well, yes, but don't exert yourself
or let it interfere with your regular
routine. Permit me to assist you to
your carriage, and to hope to see you
again. By the way, if you are short
on diamonds come around and I'll
lend you a bushel or 50 for a few
weeks. Yours truly-au reyoir
Boston Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
ANIMAL INA oil mfna


AAat u A&aate
Mars possesses So many features IS
common with The earth chat It Is fm-
possible to resist the thought that it
also has inhabitants. Thisn hoWeYel
by no means equivalent to sayingtha
Marian folks are constituted id ths
same way as human beings; indeed.
every consideration points 70 theeon-
trary. Whatever atmosphere exists
on Mars must be much thinner than
ours, and far too rare to sustain the
life Of a people with our limited lung
capacity. a race with immense
chests could live under such condi-
tions, or a folk with gills like fishes
could pass a comfortable existence
in spite Of the rarefed air. The char
acterof life anywhere Is, Ia fact mold-
ed blythe external circumstances and
as these are known to be different on
Mars from what they are on earth,
Marian inhabitants must have de-
veloped peculiar characteristics in or
der to adapt themselves t.. their en-
vironments-the forms Of life capa-
bic Of hourishing ia attenuated air
have survived, while those requiring
denser air have dropped out Of exist
ence.
The tenuity Of the atmosphere Of.
Mars is not the only fact which sug-
gests that the inhabitants Of that
planet are not fashioned after The
image of man. 1t is known beyond
the possibility Of doubt that the force
with which a substance is attracted
to the surface of Mars is but little
more than a third as strong as it is on
the earth; or, to express the point in
figures, 100 pounds on the earth
would only weigh % pounds on Mars
if tested in a spring balance. In con
sequence Of this weaker pull, it would
be possible for a human being to per-
form astonishing feats on Mars with
out excessive muscular -exertion. "a
man who could Jump five feet here
could top Is feet there; he could
lift three hundredweight by putting
out the same strength as is required
TO raise one hundredweight on the
earth; he could spring across a road
as easily as he now leaps over a mud
puddle, and a couple Of bounds would
carry him to the top Of a fight Of
stairs.
But, paradoxical as it may seem,
the smaller a planet, and, consequent-
ly, the less the pull Of gravity at its
surface, the greater is the probable
ity that its inhabitants are giants
compared with US. Terrestrial giants
are generally weak in the knees; they
are crushed by their own weight.
But on Mars they would only weigh
one-third as much, and would there
fore be able to move about in a
sprightly fashion, so that an ele-
plant there might be quite a nimble
animal.-National Review.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
POISON IN HOUSE PLANTS
A Pet Cat which Met a Remarkable
Death.

Death.
Are there house plants the leaves OF.
flowers Of which are poisonous to ami
mails? Here is a story which is quite
remarkable. The letter comes from
a lady in Brookline:
81 have had a peculiar and trying
experience recently in the death BY
poison Of a dear house pet; a young
cat Of bright, loving and interesting
disposition. While arranging some
flowers in a vase early one morning
this kitten, who was fond Of flowers,
smelled of them, and in her playful
way bit the leaves Of some Of them.
Ten minutes later she was taken with
what seemed to be a fit, and, knowing
that fresh air was the best remedy for
that, we allowed her to run out. As
she did not return, after a little time
we went in search of her and found
her Ito our dismay and grief) lying
dead, a short distance from the house.
Az she was apparently in perfect
health before she touched the plants,
we are compelled to believe that she
was poisoned by one Of the plants in
the vase. I have learned that the
pinks, fuchsias and asparagus that
were in the vase were harmless, but
I am in doubt about the begonia,
which was there also. I know from
my own experience that the smell Of
certain flowers like the Spanish mar
cissus in a room viii affect some per-
sons most unpleasantly, and 1 am
told that domestic animals are more
susceptible and sensitive to the mhu-
ence Of plants than men and women
are. "-Boston Transcript.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
Progress and Food.

Greece achieved her greatest cul-
ture on two meals a day, consisting
of maize and vegetables STEPPED in
oil. The decline of a nation COM
mences when COMMANDING begins.
Rome's collapse was well under way
when slaves were thrown into the
eel pots to increase the gamy favor
Of the eels when they came upon the
table.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
ABsENT-M1NDED PROFESSOR
Served Fish to q Guest on the Bottom
Of q Plate.

I have a story Of a gentleman now
engaged in educational work which is,
I think, somewhat remarkable, and
is also quite true. This gentleman
was once a professor of Mathematics
in a fine New England college. He
was greatly interested in the work
and devoted himself so wholly to it
that a natural tendency which he had
to absent-mindedness became much
accentuated. One day when he had
guests at dinner and was helping
them to fish from a platter he took
a plate bottom side up, put a fish on
the bottom Of the plate and handed
it thus to one of the guests. There
was a laugh at once, and his wife said:
my dear, if your absent-mindedness
has gone so far that you are serving
people food on the bottom of plates
I shall insist on your resigning your
professorship." She did insist on it,
and he resigned and went into an
other and more general field ofteach-
ing. He is still a little inclined to
be forgetful-ike some of the rest of
us-but he has never since served
food OF the bottom Of a plate-Bos.
ton Transcript.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
In St. Petersburg.

Personally, says Jerome K. jerome
in the Saturday Evening Post, 1 know
of no other town where such late
hours are the vogue, except St.
Petersburg. But your st. Peters
burger does not get up early in the
morning. AT st. Petersburg the
music halls, which it is the fashion
able thing to attend after the theater
Ia drive to them taking half an hour
in a swift sleigh-do not practically
begin till IL. Through the Neva at
four o'clock in the morning you have
to literally push your way, and the
favOrite trains for travellers are those
starting about five o'clock in the
morning. These trains save the Rus
sian the trouble Of getting up early.
He wishes his friends good night, .
and drives down to the station com
fOrtably after supper, without put
ting the house to any inconvenience.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
MOst E1penslvs s~pecimens.

The most expensive animals in the
large collection at the sportsmen's ex-
hibition in Boston were the Rocky
mountain goats. On their way to
the show they managed to escape to
the top Of a shed and gave their keep
ers a long race over the neighboring
roofs.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
Not the Raven Of Peace

There is never smooth sailing
where iu-feeljng is halbored.-Chi-
Bago Democrat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19
A Drop Too Much.

Ultimatelytbeb ridge-iumper takes
: drop too muCh.-Chicago Demo-
erat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-19

No berries or small fruits arc
grown in the Philippines.