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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03
A Spelling Parrot.

Pollys cage, when at the seaside.
hung upon a piazza where the little
children were in the habit of study
ing aloud. The bird, apparently listen
ing, would make an effort to repeat
what she could catch. Then suddenly
she would burst out with, SRI spell
fly Tat Ca strong emphasis on the
~, continuing with a low chuckle
of satisfaction. and ending in a hearty
and long-continued laugh at her sue
cess, the little one joining in the Choir
us. She was very fond of the children.
Inthe early morning, when her a g was
opened to give her liberty, she would
walk about for a time, climb the stairs
to the children's room, and crawl into
their beds before time for rising. Cot
fee was almost absolutely necessary
to her existence. She would call early
and steadily for it in the morning,
adjusting her tones to the length of
time spent in waiting-ordering
begging, beseeching, as the case might
be, holding her cup meanwhile, to
hasten matters. Avery retiring, modest
ervan maid had been long in our en-
plOy. She had a follower named Thorn
as, who nightly paid his visit. 1t
CHANGED one morning hat Polly's cof-
fee had been long delayed. A gentle
man of the house coming to breakfast
met the girl and made an inquiry re-
garding the meal. She turned to reply,
facing the questioner, when Polly see
ing her opportunity for revenge, took
1t, and, in a mans voice, called out:
Mary, how's Thomas?" The woman
retreated in confusion, while Polly
laughed an ugly, low laugh; but the
coffee was forthcoming.-Our Animal
Friends.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

The loss to the country by forest
fires, largely ~preventable, has been es-
timated at $50, 900, 900 every year. In
regions where wood and water are
abundant the tendency is to take them
for granted and forget all about them.
But without cheap lumber our indus
trial development would have been Sc
riously retarded. And agriculture de-
mands water. All through great parts
Of the West the people are coming to
see that on forestry and irrigation to-
gether depends their future prosperity.
Vice President Roosevelt has called
this the greatest internal question of
the day.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Prince zu ~Lcewenstein, president of
the German Catholic Union, has I'M
dertaken a systematic campaign
against duelling. He has therefore
drawn up a statement, to which he
has obtained 11S signatures among his
own friends and acquaintance. The
prince declares that the number of sig
natures would already be incompar-
ably larger If officers of the active
army thought they could publish their
real views without imperilling their
military position.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

A case was recently before Judge
Case of Hartford, in which a bicycle
rider brought suit to recover damages
for injuries sustained by being thrown
from his machine by the attack of the
defendants dog. Judge Case found for
the plaintiff, but, as the latter had
been riding on the sidewalk at the
time of the injury, he had this to say
in his memorandum: The question
here is whether the dog was really re-
,sponsible for the mischief and directly
caused 1t. I think he was and did,
and that under our statute, which
throws a considerable responsibility
upon dog owners, the defendant is liza
BILE. My personal sympathies are with
any sel~f-respecting dog in his efforts
to keep bicycle riders where they be-
long, In the street, and l believe he
should be accorded some latitude in his
methods. but Mr.. Hulburt's dog went
too far"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Captain Smiley, of the Fifteenth
regiment, U. S. A, returned recently
from the Philippines. where he was on
the staff of General j. G. Bates, was
recently telling of his visit to the sui
tan of the Sulus at his island capital.
"The sultan, the day saw him." said
the captain, wore a dress suit with
out collar or cuffs. For headgear, he
had a skull cap, on the front of which
was set an m diamond. He
is a little man, with a no more strik-
ing personality than is given him by
his costume. When standing he hard
ly comes above the elbow of the aver
age American"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Jewelry stealing under cover of ac-
complished skill in dentistry is the lat
est device of Partisan rascaldom. It's
practitioner is an ingenious and ele-
CANT young man of rs named Pasteur,
who operated by preference among
ladies Of a certain class. One OF these
whom he met some weeks ago com
planned of toothache, which he under
took to cure, and did SO effectually.
This cure obtained him many patients,
upon whom he operated at their own
residences. After his visits articles Of
jewelry were missed, and complaints
were made to the police, but they were
quite unable to obtain any clue to the
culprit, until the other day one of his
victims accidentally saw him in a cafe
and promptly gave information which
secured his arrest.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

According to a Cairo correspondent
the directors of the great French com
pany enjoying the practical monopoly
OF the Egyptian sugar and molasses
industry have just completed arrange
ments by which they become conces-
sionaires for a number of years of
some 40, O0O acres of land in the vicin-
ity of their great works at Nag
Hamadi, in upper Egypt. These lands
will be devoted principally to the Gull
ture of beetroot. The company al
ready possesses extensive fields of
canes. Egypt is now not only able to
cater for herself as far as sugar is
concerned, but has begun to success
fully compete with French and Aus
Itrian sugar in the Levant markets.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03
stockmen and oleo OIL.

In 1899 there were slaughtered in
this country 5000, 900 head of cattle.
During the same year "a, 000,0 900
pounds of cleo oil made from the fat
of these cattle were used in oleomar-
garine made in the United States. At
8 cents per pound the cleo oil was
worth $4,000, 900. Divided among
5000, 900 head of cattle it amounts to
43 cents per head as oleo oil. Sold at
half-price as tallow, for which there
is unlimited demand, it is worth 81 IL
cents per head. Wipe out oleomargar-
inc altogether in this country and sell
the fat as tallow (the Grout bill would
only wipe out the illegally colored ar
ticle at best) and it would mean a
loss of but 81 IL cents per head on
cattle worth on al average of about
$50 per head. How absurd to think
of stockmen feeling this infinitely
small item!-C. Y. Knight.
From market centers it is reported
that the storage of butter is going on
rapidly, and that at the present time
the amount in the cold storage plants
east and west is fully up to that of
previous years. Just what the rela-
tive amount will be it is very difficult
to estimate, as a good many new men
are going into the business of storing
butter. Some of these men reside in
the smaller cities and are storing their
butter there. How deeply they will
speculate remains to be found out by
the actual fact. They will doubtless
draw away from the larger cities much
of the stock that has been going thith-
er, or, rather, they will prevent the
supplies from reaching the great mar
ket centers at all. This movement was
inevitable. Hitherto, from the vicin.
ity of the smaller cities, the butter
has paid freight to the big cities, been
stored there for months and then paid
freight again back to the smaller cit
les to be consumed. This extra freight
could but act as a factor in develop
ing the storage idea in the smaller
cities. The movement will further de-
velop till innumerable small places will
have their own storage plants. This
will be helped by the increase of stor-
age facilities for tubers and for fruits.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

poultry business. Often novices rush
n poultry keeping on a large scale
and lose all they have, while If they
had been held back and induced to go
slow success might have crowned their
efforts.
Houses and runs should be in pro-
portion. 1t is seldom that the yards
are large enough for the houses. In
cities and villages it is no unusual
sight to see a good-sized house and a
run no larger than the house il the
area covered. The result is a per-
fectly bare and often dusty ground
plot. The area of the yard should be
at least ten times that of the house
in which the birds are kept, and IL
the yard is still larger it will not be
OF excessive size. In fact, it is best to
nave the area of the run SO large that
it will remain green through the en-
tire growing season
A writer on poultry subjects says:
Put 100, 200 or 800 eggs into an in
cubator, and after the second day you
SN~A OAAN tnO OuO1 I'll WAdt TIC obO@h
that laid them have had access to.
This is no fanciful idea, any careful
operator has noticed this. Likewise
such a fowl when boiling in the pot
gives out the same ~unmistakable odor,
and while the same can not be detect
ed when cooking the egg the flavor can.
A fowl with access to the manure pile
or pig pen is not fit food for man, nor
are the eggs" Doubtless there is more
truth in the above than we generally
believe. We are in the habit of look
ing upon fowls as perfect strain
ers, thinking that we can feed them
anything and that they will eliminate
from the food all that is undesirable,
even in smell. Scientists are coming
to believe that only pure food should
be fed u domestic animals al any
time.
A successful poultry raiser says:
There is a class of enthusiastic nov
ices who write to know if they can
make a living at poultry-keeping. They
might as well ask if they can make a
living at bridge building. A'living can
be made at bridge building, by one who
knows all about it, but for one, we
would soon be in the poor house if we
had to depend upon bridge building, as
we would not know how to begin On a
bridge. And one can make a living
at the poultry business-if he knows
how. No novice can do it, and we are
frank to say so, but it will at least
cost the novice less to begin and try
to learn at the poultry business than
in any other direction" 1t is rather
strange that a man should expect to
succeed in a business in which he has
had no experience; yet we find new
men every year rushing into poultry
keeping, certain that they will sue
coed, though without a moments ex-
perience in poultry-raising.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Science has proved that moonlight
Is more fatal to the complexion than
the sur in his splendor, and they are
10 selling in Paris little moonshades
made of a double thickness of nous
seine de sole with a light fringe, the
handles of which fold back like those
of the marquises of our grandmothers'
time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

South Australia holds the best honey
records of the colonies, nearly 10000
pounds being produced in one year
alone.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

The asbestos mines of the province
of Quebec supply nine-tenths of the
asbestos produced in the world. The
mines were discovered in 1873.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Some Eamb-Feeding Experiments ,
The facts resulting from the lamb
feeding experiment at the Wyoming
Experiment Station are here reported
In brief. The principal objects sought
In the undertaking were to make a
comparison of the feeding value of al
falfa with that of native hay and to
determine the cost of feeding lambs
for market under the conditions prev
alent on the Laramie plains and in
other parts Of the state.
In December when the experiment
was authorized good average lambs,
such as were most desirable for the
work, could not be secured and it was
found necessary to select the one
hundred made use of from a
bunch of culls. After a week
of preliminary feeding, the lambs were
divided into two sets equal in number
and as nearly so as possible in weight
and quality. The experiment began
December 28th, and continued for a
period Of ninety-fve days. closing
April 2, The two lots had a limited
amount OF corn and all the hay they
would eat. The lambs were slaughtered
and consumed in the home market.
The butchers were highly pleased with
the way they cut UP and especially
well satisfied with the demand for
them. The meat was of excellent quail
ity. The people of Laramie consider
it the best mutton ever placed on sale
In this market. The following Is an
extract from the summary:
Native Alfalfa
Food hay, lbs. hay, lbs.
Hay eaten daily per head. LOG LAS
Grain eaten daily per head. 80 80
Total food consumed daily
per head .................. 1855 2.25
Hay consumed for 100 lbs.
gain APO 460
Grain consumed for 100 lbs.
gain corn and oil cake). .317 24S
Gains
Average weight per head at
the beginning of the ex-
pertinent ......-......... 49, All
Average weight per head at
the close of the experi-
ment 1913 us
Average gain per head in. 50
days 24.1 oU.S
Average daily gain per head .253 .S2i
Values
Value of food eaten per 100
IDS. $4.Sl 1910
Selling price ................ SAGE $4.6o
Profit per 100 lbs. gain on
food consumed ............ "a .6S
1t viii be seen that the lambs fed
alfalfa ate the more hay. made the
larger gains and returned a higher
profit. In the above calculations both
kinds Of hay were estimated at $500
per ton and corn at 80 cents per hum
dred pounds.
During the latter half of December
good lambs for feeding were worth
$3.50 to $500 per 100 pounds on the
Chicago market. At these prices the
market value of the lambs at the be-
ginning of the experiment would not
have exceeded $500 per head. Averag-
ing both sets the feed eaten cost $1.13
per head. The selling price at $4.65
per hundred brought 1888 per head,
leaving the small net profit of 25 cents
per head and this after allowing $500
per ton for all hay fed and 80 cents
per hundred for the corn. In large
quantities both hay and corn could
have been purchased at considerable
lower prices. Taking the results given
above as a basis Of calculation a
farmer, by purchasing grain and feed
ing lambs, may secure a return of
$11.05 per ton for alfalfa hay and $10.-
SO per ton for native hay.-Luther
Foster.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Boys have a great desire to pose as
heroes, and to have authority over
men. Soldiers and policemen are
boys in whiskers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

1t is not widely known that at the
present time, between all important
telephone centers of the United States,
while the trunk wires are being used
for transmitting speech, there are be-
ing sent over them simultaneously
Geographic messages without produc-
ing any interruption of the spoken
words. Were it not for immediate
laws of nature, which cannot be varied
by man or corporation, one might be
listening, and take off the t%elegraphic
message thus traversing these very
conductors. What a tantalizing pros
pect for the wiretappers! Although
these Geographic impulses actually
traverse the coil of wire in the tele-
phone held to the car and actually
speed along the identical copper CON
ductor at that time conveying the
voice currents, you hear neither dot
O dash of the Geographic message.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Place sitting hens in dark places.
where they cannot be disturbed by
other fowls.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Reports from the northwestern pOr-
tons of the United States and from
Canada indicate hat there is a good
demand from western ranches for
stockers, at good prices. Many are be-
ing shipped from Canada and from
points as far south as Texas. The
western movement of pure bred bulls
is also very noteworthy, and the ex-
pansion of the ranching interest is
said to be greater this year than ever
before.
The Billings Gazette reports that
shearing in Wyoming is progressing
nicely with but few delays. The clips
in almost every instance have been a
surprise to the -1ockmasters, in that
they are much lighter this year than
ever before. The wool is shorter,
looser and cleaner than for years. One
large clip is said to have fallen short
of last years weight over 25. 900 pounds
and the same number of sheep were
sheared this year as last. Others will
fall short from 5000 to Is, 900 pounds.
The fockmasters of hat section are of
the opinion that the clips will be much
lighter than last year.
The Rocky Mountain Husbandman
says hat while the owners of live
stock, horses, cattle and sheep, have
been very much frightened about the
season, and not without reasons the
indications at this writing are that
Montana is to have an exceptionally
fine grass crop. The snowless winter
and the dry spring, especially in the
eastern part of the state, and the fact
that a succession of snowless winters
and dry seasons were followed by an
exceedingly dry summer, created con-
siderable alarm about the beginning of
April. But the fact of general rains
throughout the entire country. and
some rain in the eastern portion of the
state, with the opening of Nav. is
rather ~reassuring, and it is scarcely
probable now that the grass crop will
be short. Had things been as favor
able a month ago stock cattle would
have ranged at least So per head high
er than they now do, and much larger
purchases of southern cattle wonId
have been made.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03
Environment of some Literary Folk.

Environments of Some Literary Folk.
Literary people are evidently not in
need of holidays. So long as they have
pens, ink and paper and access to a IL
brary, they can write their books any
where, and many choose to write them
in the quiet seclusion of a country
house. Rider Haggard enjoys the seclu-
sion of a Norfolk farm, George Mere
dith leads a reclusive life among the
Surrey hills, G.. A. Henty writes all his
boys books on board his eighty-ton
yacht, and DR.. Gordon Stables has for
his study a gypsy caravan, in which
he wanders at will for a half of every
year.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03

Sprinkle -four of sulphur In nests of
sitting and laying hens.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-03
Poultry Briefs.

Dilapidated old shacks for poultry
houses do not indicate success with
poultry. A few may make a fair show
ing under such conditions, and aspire
to nothing better. But to most men
the dilapidated affair means non-in-
terest in poultry. The best way to
repair" such buildings is to tear them
down and build new ones.
The well-versed poultryman should
not be too ready to give advice to anna
tours that will enthuse them in the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-01
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

COTTON-Savannah to Boston, per
100 pounds, Csc; to New York, per 100
pounds, zoe to dock 23c lightered; to
Philadelphia. per bale, 81; Baltimore, 81.
FOREIGN DIRECT-Barcelona, 45c;
Genoa, Acc; Liverpool and Bremen, 800
35c; Reval and st. Petersburg, SIC; Ant
werp, 35c; Rotterdam, 40c; Hamburg,
32c: Havre, 33c: Venice and Trieste,
4Sc
DIRECT-Liverpool, via New
York, S5c; Hamburg, 40c; Antwerp, 40c;
Reval, ST. Petersburg and Gothenberg,
SOC; Genoa, 45cy Venice and Trieste, SOC;
Manchester. 35c; Havre, 45c; Bremen,
35c.
LUMBER. By Sail-Freight active;
to Baltimore, S4.75; to Philadelphia,
1925; to New York, S.; to Portland.
Sc. so.
LUMBER. BY Steam-Savannah to
Baltimore. IS: to P. r. r. or p. and
o. docks, IS so; to Philadelphia, 16 2-3
per cwt. "a pounds to foot; to New
York. 1925 per NJ. to dock; lightered
81; to Boston to dock, $8.75.
NAVAL STORES-The market is
firm; medium size vessels. Rosin-
Cork, for orders, Ss sd per barrel of 80
pounds, and per cent. primage. Spir-
its. As Cd per 40 gallons gross, and 5
per cent primage. Large vessels, ros-
in. IS; spirits. As Sd. Steam, lie per
100 pounds on rosin, 2115c on spirits,
Savannah to Boston. and 91kc on rosin,
and l9c on spirits to New York.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-01
Shipping Memoranda.

Pensacola. Fla, Sept. 3O.-Sailed,
bark Zeppord (Nor), Mockling, Buenos
Ayres.
Fernandina, Fla. Sept. 30.-Arrived,
schooner Clifford N. Carver, Thompson,
New York
Cleared, steamer Nordhvalen DAM,
Brinck Rotterdam, via Norfolk;
schooners Flora Rogers, Cooksen, Bos-
ton; Henry A. Berwind, Fisher, Phila-
delphia.
Sailed. schooners Mary B. Baird,
Cook. Philadelphia; Robert Mcfarland,
Peck, New York.
Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. 30.-Entered
steamer Seminole, Bearse, New York.
Cleared, schooner Emily F. Northen,
Pennewith, Philadelphia.
Charleston, Sept 3O-Arrived, steam
er Arapahoe, Kembel Jacksonville. pro-
ceeded New York; Standard Oil barge
No. 81, Wilmington, N. G.
Sailed, schooner R. 1. Hazard, Bulla
Brunswick.
Baltimore, Sept. 30.-Sailed, schooner
Sailie G. Marvel, Savannah.
Rotterdam, Sept 2S-Arrived, steam
er Chatburn, Fernandina.
Huelva-Sailed. Friday Horn, Pensa-
cola
Liverpool, Sept 2S-Arrived, steam
er Veva, Brunswick
Newcastle, Sept. 27.-Arrived. Leven
Port Royal
Garston-Arrived, Rosewood Fernan-
dina.
Shields, Sept. 2S.-Sailed, Iris, sa-
vannah. ff
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-01
GRAIN. PRovIsuoxs. ETC.

New York. Sept. 3O.-Flour dull and
barely steady.
Rye -four dull.
Corn meal easy; yellow western,
s1.1S.
Rye firm.
Barley steady.
Wheat-Spot steady; No. red, 753sc.
Options opened steady and were later
sustained by light offerings and large
clearances, in face OF big receipts,
lower cables and bearish statistics.
Closed steady; May 79c October,
1850; December 73Ac
Corn-Spot easy; No. 2. 62Ac. OPP
tions opened steady with wheat ana
then weakened under liquidation, bear
ish cables and poor cash demand. FL
nally rallied with wheat and closed
easy: May, 623sc; October, 61hc; De-
cember 61%c.
Oats-Spot dull; No. 2 white, Ale.
Options dull and barely steady.
Cut meats firm; picked bellies. 9A@
11kc: picked shoulders, 7AM7kc;
picked hams. 10% 611c.
Lard easy: Western steamed. s1O.35;
compound. SmSAc.
Pork Irregular; family. $l750@is.00.
Butter firm; fresh, 12lzGl41zc; state
dairy 5d2lc.
Tallow steady.
Rice quiet
sugar-Raw quiet and steady; re-
fined quiet
Coree-spot Rio firm: No. 7 IN.
voice. i3-16c: mild steady.
Coffee futures opened steady with
prices 3 20 70 points higher IN synpa-
ny with higher cables, an advance In
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-01
FAMOUS NELSON RANGERS.

The surviving members of the mel
son Rangers" will hold a reunion in
Macon during the state reunion. Oct
23 and "a in Macon. This famous old
company was recruited largely at Co
lumbus and Albany and did splendid
service in the army of the West, being
attached to Gen. Stephen d. Lees corps
of the army of Tennessee. The charac-
ter of the men who composed this COM
pany is best illustrated by those of its
members who have since succeeded In
civil life. Some of them are as fol-
lows: Samuel Spencer, who when the
war broke out, enlisted in the Rangers,
and after the war he entered into the
railroad business, is now president OF
the Southern Railway system. e. A.
Banks is prominent physician, OF Co
lumbus; r. K. Carter is druggist at
Columbus: Charles G. Flournoy is
prominent merchant at Chipley. John
n. Flournoy is president of the Co
lumbus Street Railroad Company. Hon.
L. f. Garrard is a prominent attorney
OF Columbus and is ex-speaker of the
House of Representatives; Mr.. I. w.
Grimes is an ex-congressman; q. Gun
by Jordan is the newly elected member
of the railroad commission and is pres
ident of the Eagle and Phenix mills of
Columbus Col r. A. Nisbet, who was
a member of the company, has charge
of the arrangements Tor the reunion.