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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
EYEsIGHT OF THE BOERs.

Sir Redvers Buffers statement that
the ordinary Boer could see a man
coming toward him two miles before
the man could see the Boer excltes
neither surprise nor skepticism among
the eye specialists.
Really" said a high authority to a
London Mail representative, If you
apply your common sense to the mat
Ter you will see it must be so. The
Boer is, comparatively speaking a Ear
barian. At least he has few indoor
occupations, and does little reading
For generations he has been training
himself to see long distances, for MS
livelihood depends on sighting his cat
tie or on tracking down game. Mr..
Atkins will never possess such fine
vision until his conditions of life APP
proximate to those Of the Boer. Like
all civilized peoples, his vision is CON
fined to a limited range. Even at the
butts he is not called upon for any
very special effort of long sight, and
he is not there very often"
The fact was mentioned that sew
eral officers had come home from the
war with greatly improved eyesight'
Some, who had worn glasses, now
found their sight quite cured, and
attributed the fact to the effect OF the
fine clear air of the veldt.
"A clear atmosphere" said the au-
thority, would be an important fac
tor in sighting the enemy, of course;
but the real truth is that these officers
have benefited by their experience in
South Africa. 1t is all a question OF
the ciliary muscle. Here is the clliary
muscle on this diagram, attached to
the choroid coat of the eyeball. The
ciIiary is an involuntary muscle-one
of the few muscles we cannot control.
It's function is to adjust the vision to
different distances, and it acts some
thing like the screw of an opera glass.
At long ranges there is practically NJ
call ON the ciliary muscle, but when.
for example, you want to read, II
screws up till the proper focus has
been obtained. l have known toe
much study induce a sort of artificial
shortsight, easily cured by months Of
rest. We use our ciliary muscle toe
much-the Boer hardly at all"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
Rods Are Not Necessary.

A total Encouragement of the sys-
tenn Of lightning conductors on st.
Paul's cathedral, London, is now Writ
ually complete. 1t is interesting to
learn from Killingsworth Hedges, the
electrician under whose superinten-
dence the work has been carried out,
that the old idea that the erection of a
lightning rod on the highest point of
a structure protected an area all round
is quite illusory. The safeguarded area
was supposed to be the space within
a circle whose radius was equal to the
height of the lightning rod. This
theory, we understand, is now dis
credited and the cathedral has been
protected by a system of conductors,
perpendicular and horizontal, compris-
ing over a mile of cables, on which at
various prominent points are placed
about fifty 'aigrettes"-groups of solid
copper spikes %radiating upward, and
effectually connected at the base with
the cables.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14

paratus consists OF a light framework
of bamboo or aluminium, supporting an
endless web of canvass, the whole be-
ing secured to the arms of the swim
mer by elastic bands or straps. The
braces forming the frame are pivoted
at their inner ends to a sectional base
running parallel with the arm, and
the swimmer adjusts the device so that
this base Is at the back of the arm
in taking the stroke. AS soon as the
canvas catches the water in the back
ward stroke it expands and causes the
framework to open out into a fiat web,
which affords the swimmer greatly in
creased leverage on the water, but as
soon as the forward stroke is begun
the frame again assumes a folded posi-
ton and does not interfere with the
action of the arms. AS the frame is
either of wood or light, alright tubes,
the swimmer is enabled to place his
hands in any comfortable position and
the apparatus will support him in the
water as long as desired.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
ANIMALS WITH VOICES.

The toy shops rival the Tower of
Babel in confusion of sounds just now.
The baa of the lamb, the bray of the
donkey, the consumptive bark of the
small dog all unite to make the hours
hideous for the clerks and such shop
pers as are not of an experimental
frame of mind, for, of course, the furry
animals don't do their stunts of their
own volition; they're impelled thereto
by the grown-ups who anticipate pur-
chasing them.
One poor little sheep--it was brown,
by the way, but the saleswoman in
sisted it was a sheep-had become
voiceless from too much vocal exer-
tion and was lying, an awful example
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14

They are a great acquisition to our
water fowls, being hardy, easily rear
ed, excellent table fowls, good layers,
while their yield Of feathers is nearly
as great as of any ordinary goose.
They are creamy white in plumage,
with a medium-sized deep yellow bill,
and legs of a reddish orange color.
They are large in size, and their fluffy
feathers make them look still larger.
While swimming no other duck shows
so much body above the water as the
Pekin. The eggs hatch we'll, the duck
lings are easily raised and mature rap
idly. They are excellent %foragers, and
can be easily raised where there is
only sufficient water for them to drink.
The one-time champion stallion AK
tell, ZIP, was sold in New York re-
Gently to close the partnership which
has existed since 1889, when a syndi-
cate of wealthy horsemen purchased
the horse for sos, 900, after he had &C
quired a 3-year-old record of 2:l2 to q
high-wheel sulky. Fox several season
he stood at a fee of $1,000 and his earn
ings in the stud Appropriated $240,000.
Frederick T. Moran of the syndicate
became the individual owner at the
end of a sharp contest for &14.700.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14

A. A. Brigham, in a report OF the
Rhode Island Experiment Station,
says: Fecundity, which in fowls is in
Dictated by great prolificness in the lay
ing Of eggs, is a quality which has
been greatly increased in domestic an
imals by domestication. To-day some
breeders are striving to bring their
1ocks up to an average egg production
of 200 eggs annually per female fowl.
Food, shelter, care, management and
functional exercise all affect the fowls
egg production, but first of all the
poultryman must seek for his flock a
~parentage and an ancestry prolific in
egg production. BY means of record
ing nests and personal study of his
fowls he is able to select females which
are large producers of eggs. Win
those fowls he mates a male bird Sc
lected from the progeny OF a prollnc
mother. The progeny of such a pen
will certainly show the quality OF pro-
life egg production, but not all IN the
same degree. The pullets obtained
will, under like environment and WIN
apparently equal opportunities, snow
considerable difference in their egg
laying capacity. Some of the female
parents will have transmitted to their
offspring more strongly than others
the desired quality of prolific egg pro-
duction; in other words, some great
layers among hens have stronger
power of %heredity han other equally
great layers in transmitting the quail
ty of prolific laying.
BY the closest study and watchful-
ness the poultry breeder is enabled tc
gradually select on both the female
and the male sides birds which in the
highest degree have the power o.
transmitting the quality of prolific egg
laying to their offspring. Continuing
this process of selection from genera
ton to generation, there may be de-
veloped a long line of breeders pos
sessing the predominant power of he
reditary fecundity. In the same way
brown-egg laying family of Wyan
dottes or Plymouth Rocks may be de
veloped. Likewise there may be oh
tanned as hereditary characteristic
plump breasts, early maturity, I'm
feathers and almost any desired colo
Of plumage or shape or size Of body.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
TIRE PUMP.

A number of automatic tire infators
have already been patented and placed
on the market, but the majority OF
them are somewhat clumsy affairs.
which are both unsightly on the BIZ
!cycle and heavy enough to increase
the weight of the wheel ~perceptibly.
tThe device which we show in the GU
has just been patented by a Canadian.
In the first place, it is entirely out of
sight, the exposed portion taking the
!place of the ordinary valve, which lat
ter it resembles. When the tire is
formed an oval elastic she'll is inserted
through the spring valve, and as the
valve closes against the return current
.tof air its only means of escape, when
las shown. This shell has an intake
the section of tire reaches the lowest
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
Money In Hogs.

A Michigan farmer has this to say
on the question of making money out
of hogs:
1 have always believed it best to
raise the most improved breeds, be-
lieving that h%igh-bred animals are the
most profitable, but think there is a
great deal Of truth in the old adage
that the breed is in the mouth; in
other words, there is more gain in
good care and management than in the
breed. l have always had the best sue
cess with March or April pigs. Early
pigs are best for two reasons: LIST. II
designed for fattening the first year,
they will have acquired a reasonable
growth before winter, and can be
turned off before very cold weather.
I'd. Early pigs stand the winter far
better and make faster growth during
fthe cold weather, if wintered over, and
are larger in the spring in proportion
to their age, than shoats two or three
months younger, and when turned int
clover pasture have larger frame hi
eat more, making a greater growth
through to the end. I think 1t a goo'
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
AND


10 its family. neglected and forsaken
on the floor.
The best Southdown in the flock,
you know, would be nothing to Willie
if it couldn't b-a-a.
One has only to invade the fascinat-
ing precincts of these shops to dis
cover just exactly how popular is the
furry animal with the squeak, says a
writer in the Baltimore News.
Some persons buy EN- who haven't
any children in the house at all, just
to amuse their friends confided a
small saleswoman yesterday. Yes,
it is rather hard to tell the dogs from
the bears before you're used to EN-.
If the dogs didn't always have on coll
lars it would be right embarrassing
for me sometimes. I'd be sure to make
mistakes.
"The voice doesn't last long after a
child gets hold of the animal. The
mechanism is so delicate that a rough
touch or two is fatal"
The latest things found for Miss
Dolly are rocking-chairs of wicker
ware that are fully as attractive as
the ones sold for milady herself, and
swings of the sort that delight the
children in Druid Hill park are plen-
tiful. Then there's a little hammock
for her dainty ladyship, so it's plain
she can be m:de comfortable if her
mistress wills.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
INITIATING DEVICE.

point of it's circuit and is compressed
by the weight of the rider, is through
the slotted tip Of the oval shell. AS
soon as the pressure is removed from
the oval it again expands, drawing a
fresh supply of air through the valve.
The pumping operation will continue
until the tire becomes inflated to a suf-
ficient degree to overcome the riders
weight and stop the contraction and
expansion of the oval shell.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
Pekfn Ducks.

This breed of ducks was imported
into this country from China in 1873.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14

plan to sort out, give away, XIII anu
destroy the scrubby looking pigs while
running with the mother, as l have
noticed that the scrubs continue to be
scrubs in most cases to the end. 1t is
always best to get the pigs to eating
well before weaving, and feed well I'M
til they are ten or twelve weeks old,
on ground feed and milk we'll soured
in a barrel before feeding. Well kept
pigs at that age will have acquired suf-
f1cient size to run in a pasture, being
large enough so they will not get
through a good fence and into mis-
chief. Glover pasture is as good for
young pigs, with a reasonable amount
OF swill, as twice or three times the
amount of feed, when fed to them
while shut up on a floor or in a small
yard. The pigs should be kept in the
pasture until the grass has lone grow
ing in the fall, and without having
been crowded at all should weigh over
one hundred pounds each. Then If the
price of pork seems to justify, the
farmer may shut up as many as o n
venient in a warm pen and fatten for
market, as they will then be in splen-
did condition for fattening and will
grow and take on flesh very rapidly.
Care should be taken not to over
feed, feeding only as much as will be
taken up readily, keeping the appetite
sharp, for if allowed to become cloyed,
they will not do well afterwards. Pens
for feeding should be open toward the
south. Have tried feeding hogs with
pen open toward the south, and also,
at the same time, had hogs shut up for
fatting in q pen open to the north,
and without sunshine. Those having
the sunshine and light thrived splen-
didly, while those in the pen with the
northern front scarcely made any
progress at all, with the same feed and
care. Some might think this idea to
be a blue grass theory, but the prac-
tice is not. l think that thinking and
observing farmers will bear me out
in this assertion. The pigs taken in
the fall and fattened, should weigh,
when nine months old, two hundred
and fifty pounds live weight, without
having been crowded on expensive
feed but a short time, comparatively.
l have not found it profitable as a rule
to fatten and sell pigs the first year,
preferring to winter and sell them
early the next fall. In wintering
shoats, l find that they do best to have
plenty Of room to run about, a large
yard with a field adjoining being very
good. Care should be taken that they
have a sheltered place. with plenty of
reasonably clean straw for bedding. l
think it pays best to feed them suffi-
GENTLY well in winter to keep them
growing well. / have found that hogs
will eat clover hay in winter with as
good relish as cattle or sheep, and will
pick up the hay cleaner than cattle.
This winter l have made a practice OF
feeding clover to the shoats every day
at noon, and think it profitable, saw
ing thereby one-third of the corr
which would otherwise have to be
used.
1 see no reason why clover when cut
a little green for hay, and saved bright
should not be as nutritious. and do as
much good, as when eaten in the pas
ture, it making a very good change
once a day from corn, and being cheap
feed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
Compulsory Vaccinations.

In Holland a law making v%accina-
ton of school children compulsory
went into effect in 1873. Prior to that
smallpox was eighty-nine in every
10O,0 O0. For the ensuing sixteen years
the average was eve in 100. 900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
INCREASES SWIMMERS SPEED.

The apparatus shown in the draw
ing below has been designed by a Cali
fornia inventor, as an aid in increasing
the speeds of the swimmer in the water
or allowing him to float in a comfort
able position when desired. The ap-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14

1t is easier to see through a window
glass than it is to see a glass eye.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19
EMMA GOLDMAN
MAY mot BE HELD
No Proof duplicating Her ir
the Alleged Anarchist
Conspiracy.

CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-Emma Goldman
and nine other anarchists under arrest
on the charge of conspiracy to assassi-
nate President Mckinley, stand q good
chance of being set free Friday, at least
of being released on ball.
Habeas corpus proceedings were be-
gun today In the case of the nine men,
and they will be decided by Judge Chet-
/ lain tomorrow morning. While Emma
Goldman was held by Justice Prindiville
without bail today, her case is on the
same basis as that of the others, and it's
outcome will decide her fate also
Police, brought in close range with the
problem of how to hold their prisoners,
today were forced to admit that there
was not one scintilla of legal evidence
in their hands connecting any of them
with the plot in which Czolgosz was the
chief actor Everything depended on
knowledge in the hands of the Buffalo
authorities, and demand after demand
from Chief of Police O'Neill went over
the wires that either sufficient proof to
make case against the prisoners here,
or else requis.tion papers to take them
TO Buffalo, be furnished at once. The
only answer was that letter, with full
particulars, was on the way from Buff
falo, and finally Chief O'Nein telegraph
ed Chief Bull in most urgent terms that
evidence or requisition papers must be
Forthcoming by Friday, or there would
be no hope of keeping the anarch SITS
longer in confinement
The news from Buffalo was even less
encouraging to people who are morally
convinced that Miss Goldman and her
anarchistic friends are responsible for
the attack on the president, and who
want to see them all prosecuted. The
long examinations failed to show any
good prospect for getting the anarchists
extradited. 1t was admitted that, how
ever often Czolgosz was interrogated, he
revealed nothing more. than he did in
his first statement, and in the evening
the best States Attorney Penney of
Erie county could say was, 1T depends
largely upon what they do in Chicago
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19
fe Is Resting Easily and
Keeps His Good
Nerve.
Emma Goldman, the Anarchist,
Arrested in Chicago for
Conspiracy. <

washed and fed the president and moved
him to another bed"
rs he still improving?"
He Isl and to prove 1t I desire to say
that a count of his blood shows that it
Is ina normal condition, and we feel
that we can announce definitely that
| there Is not the least indication of blood
poisoning,
| He referred the reporters to DR.. Was
/ din OF the Marine Hospital Service, who
!, was standing at his side, for scientific
Interpretation. The latter explained
that a count of the blood was a micro
fscopic examination of the relative num-
Der of white and red eorpuscles in the
blood to determine whether inf1amma-
| ton of any kind existed. An increase of
white corpuscies relatively speaking,
I would show inflammation and deterio-
alton of the blood that might indicate
! peritonitis.
| He said that this morning few drops
: of blood were taken from the lobe of the
! ear and mfcroscopically counted under
his direction. I'VE found.'' said he,
that the number of white corpuscles
was just about normal, while the red
cells were slightly below normal due
to insufficient nutrition since the opera
ton. The count was not made" con-
tinued DR.. Wasdin, "to verify the fact
that blood poisoning did not exist, of
which we felt certain, but to remove
that we feel safe in announcing that
not a trace of blood poisoning exists
The test could not have been more sat
isfactory."
.Is the president out of danger?"
No I would not say that; he is a
! very sick man, but his condition, under
the circumstances, could not be better.
That much 1 will say emphatically."
WAS any trace of pus found in the
exterior wound?"
Not a particle. Pus means the ex-
istence of an abscess, and there is not
the suggestion of pus about the presi-
dents body"
The bulletin which followed Dr. Was
dins statement officially confirmed what
he had said.
DR.. McBurney remained in the house
| awhile longer than the other physicians,
! leaving shortly after IL o'clock. He con-
firmed the statement made in the bulle-
tin to the effect that the examination
| of the presidents blood showed no evil
dence of blood poisoning; nor did it, he
added show any sign of pertonitiS.
While the examination of blood was not
made to determine the latter fact, yet 1t
would Enthusiastically, have shown 1t had
there been peritonitis. The examination
was simply a way of testing the condi-
tions of the presidents blood
| The doctor will remain over night and
attend the consultation of the physicians
! tomorrow. The time of his departure
/ has not been determined.
| DR.. Mann who has attended every con-
sultation of the physicians, was not pres
ent tonight, feeling that his attendance
was unnecessary.
DR.. Park also expressed his satisfac-
! ton at the condition shown by the presi-
dent. and at the manner in which his
system was responding to treatment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19

Continued on Page %.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19
Judges Bluster Draws Sharp Rebuke
From Attorney General
in His Office.
The San Francisco Chronicle Denounees the
Branded Jurist for His Propensity
to Tell Untrlths. =

and particular champion OF morality in
the Hawaiian Islands. Copies OF the
printed reply which he deposited with
the Attorney General have been offered
to newspapers and newspaper CORE
spondents with the suppliant plea that
he has been most terribly wronged by
the American press. Especially has he
dwelt upon his opposition 20 the stock
ade pen of Iwilei. trying to create the
sentiment that it Is on account of
supposed crusade which he made
against that institution which has
brought him into disfavor with the Ha-
waiian bar. 1t does net appear that he
has NADIA very strong impression in
that roiess
Meanwhile. the Judge has also been
indnstriously circulating the statement
that the Dole administration is on It's
last legs. and that he expects to accom-
plish the removal of Governor Dole
himself before many moons pass by.
E. G. WALKER.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19
CZOLGOSZ IN
A CONSPIRACY
SAYS That He Was One of
a Murderous
Band.

BUFFALO, Sept. 1o.-Leon F. Czol-
attempt upon the life of President Nc
Kinley was the result of a conspiracy.
in which many besides himself had a
part. So far as can be learned, Czolgosz
cept that of Emma Goldman, but papers
are In existence which. If they can be
discovered, will lay bare the entire con-
spiracy, and will result in wholesale ar
rests, followed by prosecution.
In his confession 'Czolgosz has told of
his attempt to destroy the written evil
dence of conspiracy. He said that time
did not permit him to burn the papers
as he had desired. Czolgosz said If he
was to meet the president at the Temple
ton he had to be in line early. Before
leaving his room in Nowak's hotel, he
gathered together all his papers, taking
them from his pockets, from his valise
were bound together in one package,
which he concealed beneath his coat.
Czolgosz says that he made a circu.tous
trip about the city, and that at some
came upon an open sewer. Into this
sewer he cast his papers.
Superintendent Bull has asked him to
take detectives to the spot, but he has
said he could not find his way there.
Inch by inch the sewers of this city are
being searched and, IL such thing Is
possible, those papers will be recovered.
But IL the search is fruitless, 1t, is not
at all improbable that Czolgosz can be
prevailed upon to reveal all the kncwl-
edge that is now in his possession. The
conspiracy extended to the following
groups of anarchists:
Chicago-No. 515 Carroll avenue, head
quarters of Isaak family.
Allegheny. Pa.-Garden avenue, district
headquarters of Carl Mold and asso-
ciates.
Paterson, N. J.-National headquarters
of anarchists of the United States.
st. Louis.-South Thirteenth street.
headquarters for anarchists, of which
branch Emma Goldman haG direct con-
troll.
Cleveland, O.-Anarchist group. of
which Leon Czolgosz Is Inemier.
Buffalo, N. Y.-Broadway branch OF
the Polish Society of America.
On authoritative Information 1t can be
said that within the last ten weeks
Emma Goldman has visited each one of
the six anarchist organizations mention
ed. She has been in Buffalo three times
since July 18th, having left the city the
last time four days before the attempted
assassination.