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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Many Females Are Now
Employed as Clerks
in Cigar Stores.

An American woman with a cigar
cite in her teeth rarely if ever looks
fascinating, or even endurable. She
has a difficult time, in the first place TO
cover up the guilt, not to say the
shame. which consciousness OF her
b~razenness produces within her; and,
in the second place, she has not the
grace in her way of handling the Gig
arctic that the women smokers OF
over the sea exhibit. AS a matter OF
fact, most of the women b smoke
cigarettes in the restaurants look and
act just as if they wanted to be ba-ad
and d~ay-vilish enchanting and they
make a dismal hash of it.
And, speaking of women and toDac-
co, the retail tobacconists of this town
have been rapidly replacing their male
statesmen with young women during
the past year or So. Perhaps one
third of the leading cigar stores on
Broadway now employ female clerks.
In all cases the young women behind
the counter are decidedly and distinct
ly pretty-indeed, not a few OF them
are absolutely beautiful. And the pref
tier the girl in the cigar store the more
trade the establishment gets. The
cigar dealers nave been quick to n
out that men rather like to be handed
their cigars by young women with
roguish eyes and pretty teeth. The
dealers have ascertained, moreover,
that they sell a better class of goods
with young women statesmen in charge
than they ever did when their counters
were presided over by male statesmen.
The dealers attribute this to the fact
that no man likes to ''show himself
up by purchasing a cheap cigar, say,
from a pretty girl with a winsome, baf-
fling smile on her face.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Women SmOk-
ers in New York

is not unusual in New York,
writes a correspondent, to see women
smoking cigarettes in the best restau-
rants. They are not ostentatious or
o~btrusive about it, but they smoke
right along as a matter of course, with
all the nonchalance of the men accom-
panying them. Not all of them are of
the flash sort, either, although the ma
jority of them are women OF the
theater. They do not often produce
their cigarette cases before midnight.
But at the petit souper, when all hands
around the after-theater tables are
more or less mellowed and ~indisposed
to be critical of their neighbors, out
come the cigarette receptacles n
the ornate wax match boxes, anq the
women who like that sort of thing get
to putting with all the apparent zest
in life. The women who tried this
smoking business in the better class
restaurants of New York a few years
ago were summarily sat down upon
by the proprietors of the establish
ments. They stormed and raved and
declared that women were permitted to
smoke a clay pipe if they so elected, in
the best eating houses of London,
Paris and Vienna; but the restaurant
tours calmly invited them in that case,
to repair to Vienna or Paris or London
on the earliest available steamer. True
for a great many years the frowiy
lot of women who move about in the
society called Bohemian" circles OF
New York have been RECALLING them
selves with tobacco after their dinners
at the cheap tables d'hote; but it has
only been within the past two years
that the really h~igh-grade restaurants
have tolerated such a thing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Some Uneducated Dogs.

Cardinal Pedro Gonzales who was a
pious man and believed in the gospel
of peace, once noticed that a priest in
his train carried a weapon under his
cloak. Whereupon the cardinal re-
proved him, saying that a cleric
should not carry arms. "True," an
swered the priest humbly, "but l carry
the weapon only to defend myself
should 1 be attacked by a dog" ''In
that case" said the cardinal, "and if
1 saw a dog running toward me !
should begin to recite the gospel OF
John" "That," returned the priest
would be a wise thing, indeed, but
may it not be that there are some dogs
that do not understand Latino"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
ONLY AUTHENTIC PICTURE OF LHAsA, "THE FORBIDDEN CITY"
CFrom a sketch by a native artist) -

and inscriptions, large and small, cut
in the rocks, of prayers and sacred
s%entinels. AS one tramps along a
against which the weary foot stumbles
may be found on examination to bear
the inscription, "Om mani padmi,
ON" 90! Thou Jewel in the Lotus, OD,
a devout aspiration which, in a slight
ly altered form, will be familiar to
readers of Sir Edwin Arnold's Light
of Asia"
Ever since the days of Marco Polo,
who entered Thibet in the fifteenth
century as the envoy of Venice, Thibet
has been famed as the nursery of East
ern magic. Marco Polo tells in his
book of travels weird stories of magic
wrought before his eyes and those of
his companions at the table of a per-
sonage whom he calls the Khan. It
was Marco Polo, too, who told of the
ladder trick" and so earned for him
self the reputation of a splendid liar
through twenty generations, until,
early in the nineteenth century, the
same ladder trick was performed again
and again in India and was circum-
stantially recorded by DR.. Norman Nc
Leod. Psychologists of a material bent
explain many of these marvels now
adays by hypnotic suggestion, but
many Western followers of Buddhist
occultism still associate Thibet with
the great Mahatmas. How far the
sublimely intellectual cult of Gauta-
mas s~tricter followers corresponds
with the religion of the Thibetans may
perhaps, be gathered from Mr.. Knights
account of the ceremonies which he
was fortunate enough to witness at
Himis. One Of the most striking fea-
lures of the whole days celebration
was it's remarkable resemblance here
and there to the ancient ceremonial OF
the Catholic Church, a resemblance
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Merchant
* Fleets

TIE statement made in connection
with theannouncement of the purchase
of the Leyland line by J. Pierpont Nor
gam, that it was one OF Great Brit
aims greatest shipping institutions,
came as a surprise to many people.
The name was an unfamiliar one. The
Leyland line is only one of several
great fleets which have been modified
TO meet the demands Of IN The
fleet of the Leyland line, according to
Whitaker, ranks seventh in point of
tonnage, that Of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line being first. The Hamburg
American line feet includes 202 ves-
sells, with a tonnage of 541,O83 tons.
OF these, however, a large number are
river steamers, tugs and lighters The
steamships number n~inety-five, with a
capacity of more than 500 900 tons.
The second fleet in point of capacity
also flies the German flag. 1t is the
North German Lloyd line, with nine
ty-one ocean steamers, having a tom
mage of about 500,0 900. Three British
companies rank next-the British In
dia Steam Navigation company, which
has more than 100 vessels and a capac-
ity Of nearly 400, 900 tons; the PENN
sular and Oriental, with a feet OF
more than sixty vessels and a capacity
of over 300, 900 tons, and the fleet OF
Elder, Dempster & Co., ranking fifth
not only in point of tonnage but also
in number of vessels. A French line,
the Messageries Maritimes, occupies
the sixth place, although in point OF
tonnage it does not greatly exceed the
Leyland fleet, their. respective capaci-
ties being given as 247, 1888 and 245,OOu
tons. A line flying the Italian flag
the Navagazione Generate Italiana, is
placed next, with a tonnage of 233,0OC
and a feet of more than 100 steamers
The Union Castle, with 10000 less
tonnage, has forty-one steamers. The
next place in the list is accorded to 9
flag that no n would expect to fine
among the number; the Japanese. The
Japan Mail Steamship company, witt
! it's head Office at Toxic, has sixty-eigh'
steamers in it's fleet. Then follow the
White Star and Wilson lines, the for
|, mer with t~wenty-four steamers ant
r the latter with eighty-seven vessels
and with respective tonnages of 21O,OO'
and 100, 900 in round figures. Of thu
. twelve fleets in this list seven fly tn
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14

The system of workingmen's insur-
ance in Germany is a huge piece OF
state machinery. The magnitude of
the system may be estimated by the
fact that it pays out, in n way or
another, about 1000, 900 marks ESQ.,
OOO) a day. The sick workman has
no longer to trouble himself as to how
he shall obtain money to pay for medl-
cal treatment. and what will become
of his family should he himself be
rendered unfit for work. The work
man whose earning power is reduced
by an accident connected with his e4t-
ploymen. now obtains just compensa-
ton, and the aged poor have the sat
faction of knowing that although they
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Leyland Seventh
Among the Worlds
Steamship Lines.

English flag. 1t is said that of the 400
odd steamships of more than 5000 tons
burden in existence more than 300 are
under. the British flag. OF these eight
cen are in the LeyIand feet, which Mr..
Morgan is to control. Should he also
get possession of the Atlantic Trans
port company's fleet the number would
be increased b%yseveral irst-class ships,
two of which-the Minnehaha and the
MinneapoIis-are listed among me
h~a1f-dozen biggest ships in the world.
The gross tonnage of the seventeen
ships owned by the Atlantic Transport
company is 99,741. Six ships, includ-
ing two of 13,401 tons each, now build
ing, will add $4,000 tons to the total
capacity of this fleet. One is surprised
to find that only three of the big trans
Atlantic passenger-carrying lines are
in the list of big fleets. 1t will be OBJ
served that the White Star lines feet
in proportion to its tonnage is small
in numbers. Eleven of its twenty
four steamers have capacities of above
1000 tons. 1t owns the Oceanic, the
biggest steamship in the world, and is
building the Celtic, launched a few
days ago, which will have a gross ton
mage more than 5000 ton greater than
that of the Oceanic. Steamship men
say that a big steamship is much more
profitable than a small one to operate,
as it can be handled by a crew much
smaller in proportion to its size. VI
the steamship companies using Ameri-
can capital, and having their head Of
fees on this side of the Atlantic the
one having the largest fleet is a line
trading in the West Indies and Next
co-the Munson line. 1t employs six
ty-three steamers, with a total capac-
city of between $50, 900 and 10000
tons. It owns only eight of these, the
others being chartered vessels. 1t Is
said to be waiting for the passage or
the ship subsidy bill, when 1t will re-
place many of these ships with Ameri-
can-built ships. The international
Navigation company, which owns the
American and Red Star lines, has a
tonnage of 1876, divided among
twenty-one steamers, and is building
four more, whose aggregate tonnage
will be $4,000. The New York and
Cuba Mail Steamship company owns
seventeen vessels with a tonnage o.
so. 740.-New York Tribune.
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Is MYSTERIOUS IfllDER'A
|IoDEODLNED TO nENopAD9
1p

Buddhism, some idea of the country
itself is necessary.
The bulk of Thibet is the Chang, or
Great Thibetan Plateau, the highest as
we'll as the largest, tableland on the
earth. AS to area, it occupies all the
central and northern and most Of the
western sections of the country. An
idea Of it's elevation may best be OBJ
tanned from the statement of Captain
Hamilton Bower, one or the most
highly regarded of recent authorities,
from the end of June until the mid
die of November the average attitudes
Of our camps was over 10000 feet, the
lowest being 14,621, and the highest
1890 feet" OF the climate the same
explorer says: No amount of wool
en- clothes will keep out the wind on
the Chang, so skins must be taken"
During the period already referred to
the enormous stretch of country
crossed by Captain Bowers party did
not show a single tree, and only two
species of shrubs, and these rarely ex-
ceeded six inches in height. They
found a large number of Towering
plants and grasses, however, while for
variety the landscape, both on the
Chang and elsewhere, is diversified in
many places by gigantic masses Of rock
and terrific p%recipices. This is, in
fact, what is POLITICALLY known in
Asia as the "Roof of the World" and
at the southwest corner Of it, at Gilgit
on the borders of Kashmir, is the place
where Three Empires Meet" the title
of Mr.. knights work.
The hideousness or sublimity-ac-
cording to the view one takes-of ma
ture on the Chang. and in other parts
of Thibet, is not left to itself. AS II
the Tyrol and other Catholic countries
one sees wayside crosses and pic
turesque shrines, so in Thibet, only
far more frequent, are the huge rock
cut images which are supposed to rep
resent the Buddha, the "chortens" 0
monuments Of a religious character
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14

The presence in st. Petersburg Of a
mission Of four high officials of Thibet.
the first representatives of that prac-
tically unknown country to visit
Europe, and the announcement that the
Dalai Llama, ruler of Thibet, has been
persuaded to himself visit Russia, is
looked upon as indicating that the bar
riers which nave closed the white man
out of 1.-THE Forbidden Land will soon
he let Town to civilization.
A Buria from Transbalgalia, named
Akhorambo Atchwan Dorschieff, who
has gained the favor of the Dalai
Llama Of Thibet, came to Livadia last
October and was received by the En-
peror. He returned to Thibet and sue
ceeded in ~persuading the Dalai Llama
to send a special mission to st. Peters,
burg to open friendly relations with
this country. This mission has ar
rived under the guidance Of Dorshieff,
and has been received by Count Lams-
dorff. 1t consists of four persons, one
of whom is the Dalai Llama's second
secretary. 1t brings an autograph let
bSA AAOAA LLO LbCSCAL VI Lh1OOI w IAS
Gar.
The Russian newspapers attach much
Importance to this journey, and no
doubt properly. 1t marks another step
in the extension of Russian influence
toward the ndo-Chinese possessions OF
France. The Russians regard the es-
tablishment Of a chain of communica-
lions across the rear of the Indian EN-
pire and the permanent isolation o.
India from the Yang-tse-Kiang valley
as practically assured.
The present is the first opportunity
that Russia has had to make overtures
to Thibet-for, although it is a coun
try of 651,500 square miles, with &
population estimated at over 5000, 900
1t is an unknown land except to the few
intrepid Adventures who have explored
it at great personal risk. The countr!
IL in central Asia, bounded on the nortl
by the Kwenlum Mountains, on tn
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
The Neglect Cure for Warts.

Warts are curious things. They
come and go mysteriously, although
their going is frequently marked by
ex%asperating delays, and they are al
most as many infallible cures Is there
are warts, the only trouble with these
cures being that they are useless when
applied to the particular wart you
happen to have. They are only good
for other peoples. "In my opinion"
said a club man, who was discussing
the subject with a friend n day, "a
wart is merely the outward CORE
spondence of some mental excresence.
Get rid of that, and it goes away.
Let me give you a bit of my W ex-
perience," he continued. Last year
1 went to Europe. For about three
years I had had a wart on my little
finger, on which I had tried every
thing I could hear Of, but without eff
feet. 1t only grew larger. Well, in
the excitement of preparing for the
trip and of the journey itself, 1 for
got all about my wart, and when ]
looked for it, about six weeks later
it had vanished, without leaving the
slightest mark. I simply forgot it, ana
it had no mental condition to feed on
l see you have one on the back of youl
hand. Forget all about it for a few
weeks, and it will go away of itself.
Youths Companion.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14

east by China proper, on the south by
the almost impossible Himalaya
Mountains, and on the west by Kash-
mir. The mountain range on the south
separates Thibet from British India,
and Eastern Turkestan separates II
from Russia. The country, which be-
came subject to China early in the sew
enteenth century, contains the sources
Of the Yang-tse-Kiang, the Indus, ana
other large rivers, and the country is
for the most part a high tableland.
The reasons why Thibet should be
called '"The Unknown Land have been
reinforced and more wildly impressed
upon the Western mind within the last
two years by the bloodcurdling narra-
tive of torture which was brought back
to his government by Savage Lander
in 1899. Mr.. Landor's experiences also
serve to remind the world at large that,
unlike any other country, even in Asia,
at the present day, Thibet is under
what may be said to correspond in
some fashion to the Christian idea OF
theocracy-a government in which the
religious hierarchy also yields despotic
temporal power. Such as it is, the re-
1igion of the country is the prime mo-
tive of all it's life, whether for good or
evil. ct have lounged through Asia
Minor, lived in almost every country
in Europe, ransacked India from Co
MORN to the Himalayas, and become
fairly we'll acquainted with China"
49,. C@o4oI o. ~ rO1nT. fGhNIf
nowhere in the world have 1 seen a
people so wrapped up in what they
considered to be religion as in Thibet."
This religion, with the always neces-
sary Asiatic exception of certain Mo-
hammedans in the western parts, is a
highly idolatrous corruption of Budd-
hism. But, in order to get a reason
ably lively conception of the peculiari-
ties and the intensity of Thibetan
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14

which has led many pious persons.
since Marco PoIo's first account, to
trace in these proceedings the handi-
work of Satan. It is also curious to
notice the close parallelism between
this and the extant accounts of some
of the graver miracle plays of me-
dieval Europe.
After a long account of the prelim-
inaries Mr.. Knight proceeds:
Under a canopy borne by attendants
walked a tall form in beautiful silk
robes, wearing a large mark represent
ing a benign and peaceful face. AS he
advanced men and boys, dressed as alb
bots and acolytes of the Church of
Rome, Frustrated themselves before
him, and adored him with informing
and pleasing chanting. He was fol-
lowed by six other marks, who were
treated with similar respect. These
seven deiied beings drew themselves
in a line = = = and received the
alteration of several professions of
masked figures, some of abbots, and
others beast headed, or having the
faces of devils. = : Throughout
the day, even during the above solemn
act of worship, certain Yamas, masked
as comic devils, performed all manner
of ~buffoonery, bursting into
peals of insane laughter each time that
one played some monkey trick on an
other.
Again there came a. change. The
solemn chanting ceased, and then
rushed on the scene a crowd of wan
shapes, almost naked, with but a few
dark rags about them, as Il they were
shivering with cold. They wrung their
hands despairingly and rushed about
in a confused way, as if lost, starting
from each other in terror when they
met, sometimes feeling about them
with their outstretched hands like blind
men, and all the while whistling il
long drawn notes which rose and fel
like a strong wind on the hills. . '
The sudden onrushing of these Wild!
whistling shapes occurred at frequen
intervals during the ceremony. Thu
change from one phase of this curious
mummery to another was Away
startling abrupt. One never knew
when some peaceful anthem and state
ly dance of holy figures would be sud
denly interrupted by the clashing dis
: cord of cymbals and trumpets and tn
whirling torrent of shrieking fends
. = y =
Sat one period of the ceremony
holy man with an Archbishop's mite
on his head advanced, to the beautiful
chanting of men and boys, the basse:
trebles, and tenors taking successiv
parts in solo and chorus. = " = Thi
holy man blessed a goblet of water b
laying his hands on it and intonin
some prayer or charm. Then he sprinl
led the water in all directions. an
the defeated demons staid their SHREK
ing, dancing, and Internal music an
gradually crept out of the arena, an
no sound was heard for a time but tt
sweet singing of the holy choir"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Potato Yield per Acre.

The average yield of. potatoes in the
United States is about 100 bushels to
the acre. Under halfway decent treat
ment this average could easily be made
200 bushels.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14
Workmen's Insurance in Germany

can no longer work they can still, ow-
ing to the insurance system. contribute
their share toward the expenses. of the
household, and are not obliged to de-
pend on the earnings of their children
or on ordinary public charity. The
system of workmen's insurance has
been gradually built UP within the last
seventeen years, but it is admitted
that improvements are required and
gaps have still to be filled in.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-14

Mrs. James Mills of Woodham, Ont,
who recently celebrated her n hun.
dred and thirteenth birthday. will visit
the Buffalo exposition with her son
a s~prightly youth Of &c. =.
The Washington times., 1901-12-22
CAME HOME TO WED AND DIE.
Edward Deery's Married Life of
Few Weeks Duration.

Pathetic scenes surrounded the funeral
yesterday OF Edward Deery, an honorably
discharged soldier of the Spanish war,
from the home Of his mother. at Green
point. Deery was tWenty-one years Old.
when. in 1898, he decided TO enlist for
three years service in the Philippines.
He was assigned to Company y. Forty
third Regiment. When he left Green
point Il was agreed with his nancee.
Marguerite Lynsky. that at the expiration
of his enlistment they would be married.
Deery contracted rheumatism of the
heart, and last July, when he received an
honorable discharge in San Francisco, he
was vFry ILL., He came East. and the
date for his marriage 10 Miss Lynsky was
set for November 2. His condition con
tinued TO grow worse. but on the ap-
pointed day lie insisted on the ceremony
being performed
He was conveyed in an inyald's chair to
the Church of 81. Cecilia at Herbert and
North Henry Streets. where the ceremony
was performed while Deery was being sup
ported by friends. After the ceremony
the couple went TO housekeeping.
Deery continued i'll. and on Sunday he
was transferred to his mothers house. in
Newell Street. where he died two DAYS
later At the funeral service yesterday
beth The bride and the dead mans mother
were so grief stricken that they were on
the verge OF collapse. The burial was in
Holy Cross Cemetery New York Herald.