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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
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SUGAR 70 H)RsEs.s

/ have found that tie addition of a
pound of fair quality of moist brown
sugar to a horse feed of chaff and
corn doubles it's work-producing pow
er and that, therefore, the ordinary
feed may with this aid be greatly re-
duced in weight, without proportion
ately reducing the efficiency Of the
animal getting it. When no other
feed is obtainable, says a writer in
the Contemporary Review, a few
pounds of -four, mixed with enough
water to make them easily drinkable,
have great staying power, but few
horses would take this, however hun
CRY, unless they had at some pre-
vious time been made accustomed to
it. / have known horses, when there
was little grass, to habitua1ly rob the
camp of fresh, salt or dried meat. 1t
is even more certain that no horse
would touch flesh unless at some time
accustomed to it.
What strange food gramnfyorous an
imals will eat, when habituated to it,
horses and cattle are frequently fed
on dried fish. | have known sheep to
eat meat, fruit, bread, pastry and the
like, and even tobacco in considerable
quantity, without harm ensuing. Dur
ing the early times of the diggings,
when gold was being found in large
quantities and horse feed, beyond the
grass, was not procurable, many of
the rich claimholders fed the horses
used in their work on the mine with
bread sooner than suffer delay. Bread,
even unleavened, is better food for
horses than raw -four and water, but
1t takes time to prepare, and is rarely
available for an emergency, while -four
is much more likely to be. In Singa-
pore it is not uncommon for horses
to be given a loaf Of bread soaked
with a bottle of beer, which they eat
greedily.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
Statue Of a Cb,mpanzeo.

Paris Cor. New York World: The
Municipal Council of Grenoble has
voted a large appropriation to erect a
bronze statue of the famous chimpan-
zee Charlemange, who has just died
there. He was brought to Grenoble by
Explorer Marvotte, and for nine years
had enjoyed the freedom of the town,
being allowed to enter every house
and to help himself to anything in the
vegetable and fruit shops. Charlie
mango, who was perfectly tame, dress
ed like a laborer, though he preferred
to travel on all tours. He used to sit
with the card players in the cafes or
by the fishermen at the river bank by
the hour, looking to be the wisest and
most sedate crony among them. His
funeral was attended by the whole
population.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
China's Women Soldiers.

Women have superior rights in Chi
ma, even to the privilege of fighting in
the wars of the country. In the rebel
lion of 1850 women did as much fight
ing as men. At Nankin, in 1853, $780,
900 women from various parts Of the
country were formed into brigades of
13, 900 each, under female officers. OF
these soldiers $1,000 were picked WON
en-, drilled and garrisoned in the city.
But they not only fought as men, but
took their share of the drudgery, dig
ging meats. making earthworks and
doing all the things that fall to the
lot of the common soldier in any war.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
Biblical Dogs.

The Arabian and Hebrew dogs were
in bad repute, as may be seen from
the sighting way in which Moses and
the prophets speak of them, CHASING
them constantly with wrong-doers and
outcasts and calling them unclean.
They were considered very different
however, by the Greeks and Romans.
for the great poet Homer, who wrote
his wonderful epic over 1000 years
ago, speaks tenderly of a noble dog
who was faithful unto. death to his
master, who loved him. There is a
legend Of the dog of the seven sleep
ers. The seven noble youths who fell
asleep for 300 years had a dog which
accompanied them to the cavern in
which they were walled up. 1t re-
manned standing for the whole time.
and neither moved from the spot, ate,
drank nor slept. This dog, named Kat
mir, has been admitted by Mahomet
into Paradise. At least that is what
the Koran says.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
The ChiNngton Twins.


BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.
Copyrighted 1900: Daily Story Pub. Coz
Hello, Jack Chivington! Hello,
Chiy twin! Hellol Hello!"
A young fellow had just got out of a
cab in front of the Auditorium Hotel.
At this curious sort of hail he turned
and saw a neat automobile road wa
gon dashing by. The man in it was
waving one hand excitedly and with
the other slowing down the machine.
The woman with him was looking
back, her face alight with interest.
The young fellows glum face broke
into a smile Of pleased recognition, and
as the other man made a skillful turn
and brought his machine up to the
curb, he stepped forward to shake
hands, saying:
Hello, Tom Butterworth! Glad to
see you, old man."
What in the name of all that's Gu
rious brings you so far away from
home OF Christmas Day?" began the
man in the wagon, giving him some
sort of a cabalistic hand grip. "And
what makes you look so glum? Hope
nothing's gone wrong. / say-hold on
I've forgotten my Manners Ha!
Ha! Miss Manners, allow me to pre-
sent to you Mr.. John Agnew Chiving-
ton of New York, one of the famous
'Chiv twins of whom you've heard SC
much; my classmate at college, and
my very good friend"
Il am pleased to meet you, Miss
Manners" said the young fellow, rails
ing his hat and clasping a hand that
was small and warm and very neatly
gloved. "And l am proud to be intro
duced by such a past master of the art
There's only one thing wrong, and
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
LOOKS THE SHUTTER NOOK.

Here is a woman's invention which
has both practicability and cheapness
to recommend it, being an arrange
ment for the locking of the blind
hooks after they have been inserted
in the notched plates to fasten the
blinds in a closed position. 1t is a
common practice for housebreakers
to open the shutters by reaching
through from the outside with the
fingers and lifting the interior hook,
and it goes without saying that a bur-
glar is apt to be just as deft IS any
m else in this matter. With the
idea of preventing an occurrence of
this kind and thus hindering the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
monument Robbed of Its Cannon,

Nearly twenty years ago Congress
passed a special act giving an 800
pound cannon to a Grand Army post
at Attleboro, Mass, and the piece was
mounted on the top of a tall granite
shaft as a soldiers monument. Re-
Gently a gang of daring thieves carried
the cannon away in broad daylight,
and parts of it have just been recov-
cred from a junk dealer who innocent
ly purchased the same. Most of the
metal has been melted up and run into
various kinds of castings.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
TO MoRAss.
An African Lake Which Has Disap-
peared.


peared.
A great lake has Vanished in South
Africa, says the New York Herald.
Ngami is its name, and a may drawn
in 1903 shows that it was then one
of the conspicuous features of the
country. When Livingstone, however,
visited it on July %, 1849, he found
that it's water was slowly disappear
ing and that its banks were being cov-
cred with rank vegetation. Today
there is no water in the lake, it's place
being occupied by a spacious morass,
which quickly swallows any one who
is so adventurous as to set foot on it.
Beneath this morass Is still some
water, but in order to bring 1t to the
surface the ground must be bored to
a considerable depth. River Tauchs
formerly flowed into this lake, but now
the tributaries that led to the lake are
dry, and the river itself is also choked
up about thirty-two kilometers north
of Ngami. During the last ten or
twelve years the water has disappear
ed very rapidly, and the reason appar-
emily is because the mouth of the river
was gradually filled with the thou
sands of small floats or RATS on which
the natives are wont to take their
yearly tribute of corn to Denokana.
These RATS were left year after year
and travellers maintain that the water
found itself powerless against an OBJ
stacle like this. the result being that
the river and lake have become dry,
and that what was once a fertile agri-
cultural region is now bleak and bar
rem. Formerly there were several viii
lagos near the lake. but now these,
too, have vanished, and only a few
cattle kraals are to be seen. "And il
will be impossible to restore the lake"
says S. Parrarge, who visited the
place recently, ''since in it's present
condition it would require more water
than the river could give it. Lake
Ngami is gone forever"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
FOR COOLING BEVERAGES.

1t has been proved by figures that
the American people are the greatest
consumers of iced beverages in the
world, except possibly the Esquimaux
and Laplanders, and the inventor has
already done much in the way of cool
ing the liquids automatically. That
there was room for another new idea
has been proved by an inventor who
has designed the combined cooling and
dispensing apparatus shown in the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14

THE APEX OF THE SUN.

More than a century ago Sir Will
liam Herschel was able to fix roughly
what we call the apex of the suns
way in space, OF the point among the
stars toward which that way Is d.
rected. Herschel found that a COM
parison of old stellar observations
seemed to indicate that the stars in
a certain part of the sky were OPEN
ing out, as it were, and that the con-
stellations in the opposite part of the
heavens seemed to be drawing in, or
becoming smaller. There can be but
one reasonable explanation of this.
We must be moving toward that part
of the sky where the stars are sep
arating. Just SO a man watching a
regiment of soldiers approaching will
see at first only a confused body of
men. But as they come nearer the
individual soldiers will seem to sep
arate, until at length each one is seen
distinct from all the others.
Herschel fixed the position of the
apex at a point in the constellation
Hercules, says a writer in the Popular
Science Monthly. The most recent in
vestigations of Newcomb, published
only a few months ago, have, or the
whole, verified Herschel's conclusions.
Later investigators have increased
the precision Of our knowledge, until
we can now say that the present d.
rection of the solar motion is known
within very narrow limits. A tiny
circle might be drawn on the sky, to
which an astronomer might point his
hand and say: Yonder little circle
contains the goal toward which the
Even the speed of this motion has
been subjected to measurement, and
found to be about ten miles per Sec
ond.
The objective point and the rate of
motion thus stated, exact science
holds her peace. Here genuine knowl-
edge stops; and we can proceed fur
Their only by the aid of the magma
ton which men of science need to
curb at every moment.
But let no one think that the sun
will ever reach the so-called apex.
To do SO would mean cosmic motion
on a straight line, while every on
sideration of celestial mechanics
points to motion on a curve. When
shall we turn sufficiently upon that
curve to detect it bending? 1t is a
problem which we must leave as a
rich heritage to generations that are
to follow us. The visionary theorists
notion of a great central sun, con-
trolling u own suns way in space.
must be dismissed as far too daring.
But for such a central sun we may
substitute a central center of gravity,
belonging to a great system of which
our sun is but an insignificant mem
Der. Then we reach a conception that
has lost nothing in the grandeur OF
its simplicity and Is yet in accord
with the probabilities of sober me-
chanical science. We cease to be a
lonely world, and stretch out the bonds
of a common relationship to yonder
stars within the armament
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14

that is that I'm the other twin"
None of your nonsense, now, old
fellow" broke in Tom. 81 know your
tricks and ways. You can fool every
body else, but you can't put it over
me. I'm the only man that ever could
tell you two freaks apart. You're Jack
and / know it; and Jack goes. Now,
give an account of yourself, and do it
quick. I want to know all about it"
We'll I've been West on business.
I've been delayed all along the trip,
and ended up by missing connection
here this morning. So I'm stranded
here in Chicago on Christmas Day,
when I expected to be at home. Isn't
that enough to make a man look
glum?"
mo. sir. 1t isn't. Now, look pleas
ant, please, while l tell o what
you're going to do. To begin with,
anybody should feel happy to be in
Chicago and even more so on Christ
mas day. Next, you get into that
cab and follow me home. We're going
to keep Christmas in proper style at
our house today. I'm just tickled to
death to have a chance to show the
effete East how the Wild and Woolly
West celebrates. My better half is up
to her neck this very minute In all
sorts of schemes, and we're. going to
have a houseful of pretty. sisters and
cousins-of which the young woman
here present is an average fair sam
ple."
"Tom, I'm shocked at you. Please
remember that l am an engaged man,
and the most devoted lover in all these
United States, not excepting Hawaii,
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
Besides, a stranger at a family gather
ing is a regular kill-joy. Go away and
leave me to my misery"
Eyes, I know Jim's tied fast to the
apron strings of the beautiful Bessie
Lee, but Jim cuts no ice here. Get
into that cab and come along"
The young fellow was in the midst
of protesting that he couldn't and
shouldn't and wouldn't go. when he
h~appened-just happened-to catch a
glance from Miss Manners eye.
Whereupon he became confused in his
argument, was ANONYMOUSLY over
borne by his friend, Tom. and ended
by getting into the cab and following
the automobile down Michigan avenue.
Ladies and Gentlemen" said Tom,
rising from his chair and looking
around at the merry faces about the
Christmas board. Fill up your glass
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
FASTENER.

housebreaker as much as possible a
woman has designed this blind lock,
which is simply a fat strip of metal,
shaped to fit the sill and permit the
window sash to be lowered over it,
with a hook at the outer end which
slips over the head of the blind hook
and prevents it from being lifted from
the outside. To open the blind it is
necessary to lift the sash and olsen
gage the loop from the hook.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14
Wore Queen vletorla.s Gown.

The envied Of all at al old folks
concert in Wabash. Ind, was Mrs.
James Woodruff. who on that occa-
sion wore a gown which was once the
property of Queen Victoria. The gar
ment was given to an aunt Of Mrs.
Woodruff by n Of the queens maids
of honor.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14

One hundred and fifty firms in this
country manufacture school text
books.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14

Jim that first time-that Christmas
and"
Horrors! Then we've never been
introduced. Sir"
Nov, Lucy, don't; I-I-will you
marry me, anyway"
Goodness! How do I know which
one"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14

Ladies and Gentlemen" said Tom,
rising from his chair and looking
around at the merry faces about the
Christmas board. Fill up your glass
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
THE NORTH RIVER BRIDGE TERMINALS.

Charles H. Swan, the secretary OF the New-York
and New-Jersey Bridge Company. said yesterday
that he did not know who induced State Senator
John Raines 10 introduce the bill TO grant power
10 the company build an elevated railroad along
the North River front to connect with the pro-
posed bridge.
'F'inanciers are ready 10 build the bridge" he
said. ~ terminal "a cilities be provided. The
bridge could not be made 10 pay unless II had
minal facilities. A whole continent is waiting for
entry 10 New-GOrk by way of a bridge, but the
bridge would be OF benefit without connection
with the steamship piers Passenger traffic alone
would not make a bridge pay. Il must have con-
nections for the transfer Of freight direct to the
steamships. II the terminal facilities are provided
and the bridge is built the commerce OF New-York
Will be greatly increased. All the railroads that
now end on the New-Jersey side Of the North
River can run trains over the bridge direct 10 the
steamship wharves.'
Mr.. Swan declared that IL was the purpose of
the bridge company not TO discriminate against
said that the Sinking Fund Commission OF the CITY
had not taken action 10 give the bridge com nv
the terminal facilities IL needs. The companV he
SAID orereo 10 pay any reasonable sum to the rity
Tor the privilege or constructing the elevated road
along the river front. ghe Sifkng Fund Commits
sion had demanded per cent OF the gross reoepts
oi the orlose Tor the right Of way. That was con-
.'Other ciries.' Mr. Swan said are xviIli,. %
sreno large sums for increasing their terminal IA
on such facilities" '"N
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
JUDGE APPROVES WHIPPING.
TELLS PRISONER HE DID RIGHT IN LAYING
RAwHIDE OVER MANS SHOULDERS.


Judge William c. kellogg, OF Workers. yesterday
afternoon surprised courtroom fun Of lawyers
and witnesses 10y approving the act Of a prisoner
who was arrested for horsewhiI ping man. Frank
Jones living at no. 26 West One-hundred- -and-fif-
tecrth-st this city, was charged with horsewhip-
ping and threatening to shoot Samuel Walters. of
No. 7G Palisade-ave. Of the firm OF Kerr
& Walters, proprietors OF the Putnam House.
Fourth-aVe this city. Jone. worked for Walters 8
aunt Mrs. Owens. in her shoe store at Seventh
ave. and One-hundred-and-twenty-e ghth-st, this
city. About three weeks ago he obtained place
IN a Sixth-ave. shoe store. He referred HIS new
employer Mrs. Owens He was laid off, the
superintendent saying that the letter from Mrs
Owens unsatisfactory.
He suspe cted Walters had written the letter, so
he bought a rawhide and went 10 Yonkers accom-
panied by his mother. He visited Walters's home
where Mrs. Owens also lives, but was unable to
see her. Walters ordered him from the house. As
ne about TO leave Jones says he became so
;ncensed this that he drew the whip and laid It
Walters's shoulders. When several Of the
household at him he pulled silver shoehorn
from his pocket and said he would shoot the first
who touched him. Walters. thinking the shoe
horn a revolver. called I'm the police.
Judge kellogg. after the testimony, handed the
whip and shoehOrn TO Jones, and. telling him he did
right 70 whiD any man who naligned his charac-
Ter discharged him.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
PSI US AT DINNER.

GOVERNOR oDELL ONE OF THE SPEAKERS AT
THE LAMBDA CHAPTERS REUNION
The twenty-nrst annual dinner OF the lambda
Chapter columbia University OF the Psi Upsilon
fraternity held last evening at the Holland
House. John Kendrick Bangs. OF the class of 7S,
was POSTMASTER. The speakers Governor
Benjamin B. Odell. jr.. of the class OF II; Julien
T. Davies the Rev DR.. George R. Van de Water,
George S. Coleman and Stephen Barker Governor
Odell in his speech dwelt upon his college days
and the good influence which secret fraternity
exerts undergraduates life. He did not
once refer to current political topics
Among those present were Rudolph Neeser, Har-
risen Kerr Bird. Frederick De Peyster Foster, DR..
George Henry Fox, Charles II. Shaw. G. ". Ogden.
Ernest Iselin Julian Augustus Barnard, Goelet
Gallatin and Henry Pelham Robbins. The dinner
committee included Edwin p. Shattuck Chairman.
Marcellus II. Dodge (treasurer). Julien T. Davies,
Frederick De p Foster Justus A. B. Cowles New
ton E Stout. Stephen Barker and Herbert r.
O6el, son of Governor Oden, an undergraduate at
Columbia.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
UMBRELLA DIPLOMACY.

From The Chicago News.
First stranger-Say. that's my umbrella you've
got there.
Second straneer-AN right. Just come with me tn
the police station and iii return IL you.
FIRST Stranger-But why is il necessary 20 60 TO
the police ststicn?
Second Stranger-Oh. merely a matter OF self
protection. You see. this umbrella was left In nv
house by burglar a few nights ago and
First Stranger-I-er-that is-er-now that look al
the handle closely. / see-er-that I mis-
taken. Pardon me. sir. Good day.
Second Stranger 1asde)-Gee, but that close
shaveI forgot tell him the burglar lef; prob
ably because he didn't happen TO see fl
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
A WISCONSIN TRAGEDY.
mot CV'.s.l Agitator.


A piercing scream rang out on the evening air A
wild shrek it was. beginning one struggling for
breath, and growing louder IL grew older until
after last supreme effort ii subsidized with mock
ing bafied gurgte
score of startled villagers started in surprise TO
their feet and hurried the rescue. no blood
had been dra II only the saw at the mill
ploughinS through its first log.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
EFFECT OF CONSULTATIONS.

Baltimore March SO.-President john X. Cowen
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was
asked to-day what would be the effect OF the
consultations which were in progress in railroad
properties. His reply was:
They will benefit the shipper, as this community
or interests means stability in rates The great
complaint in the past was from Determinations.
This is removed There has been no conten-
ton that rates high. but the trouble has
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
NEW SOUTHERN PACIFIC DIRECTORY

There is official authority from several sources
for the statement that at the annual meeting of
the Southern Pacific company, which takes place
in this city on Wednesday. the board of direct
ors will include +. H. Hartman, Jacob II. SchiT.
Mortimer L. Schn Otto II. Kahn. George ]. Gould
James Stillman. Charles H Tweed, Charles NJ
Hays Thomas II. Hubbt I'd and Edwin Hawley
There are vacancies In the list set forth. 1t
was announced that ii. L. Huntington, of the
presidents of the read and nephew of the late
Cells p Huntington. will retire altogether. The
first six names In the list of prospective directors
represent the interests which have recently ac
oufred control OF the Southern Pacific.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
SAYS WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE NOT SOLD

Cleveland. Ohio. March s0.-President Dickens
derfer of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Company again declared to-day that the Wheeling
and Lake Erie had not been sold Il positive
on that pcint." he added Asked If his company
had or would enter into arrangement with the
burg st. Louis and Kansas City Mr.. Dickens
derfer said: While ii Is of course, possible that
directors have entered into such deal. Off
cial information has reached me bearing on the
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
FOREIGN sOTEREIGNs IN BRITISH ARMY

From The London Chronicle.
King Edward has followed precedent in giving
rank in army foreign sovereigns. Few per-
sons, however have noticed the appropriateness
of his majestys selection of the Oxfordshire Light
Infantry the regiment which he bestows his
knsman. the King of Portugal The old i3d and
6ed regiments which form that famous corps, were
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
WINDING Up ITS AFFAIRS.
NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE COMMISSION
PREPARING To RETIRE.

The New East River Bridge Commissioners are
wiading uP the affairs OF the commission ana n-a
pairing 10 go out OF business. Their duties VIII, he
performed by Commissioner Shea. Of the Bridge I,e
parfment. The Charter Revision bill proyisAs ,o-
the abolition OF the board The Commissioner are
Lewis Nixon. president; Julian d. Fsirehnd. treas
urer; James H. beA secretary: James ". Boyle.
Smith Z. Lane and John W. Weber Ness-s Esn
Fairchiid and Weber are from Brooklyn: the Others
or the Commission are from Manhattan Mavor
Van MycA appointed them 10 Office early IN lssS
removing another board in order 10 do 4, .rjrs
Commissioners receive yearly salary OF e aaS
The commissioners were content remain i e,,so
In that they were not different OF co1,rsa .-o,o
he ordinary oficeholder But the Charter Pevisson
Commission noticed that Bridge Commissinnsr
Shea had sufficient Office force 10 take care % al
he business done by the commission - ~