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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25
EMPLOYEES OF GOVERNMENT.
About SSo,OOe,OOO in Wages-No Hard
Times" in Washington.

Times" IN N~aShlnSLOns 3
According to the latest official list
there are 19, 446 public functionaries of
various kinds and degrees employee
exclusively in the District of Colu ~
bia in conducting the numerous de-
partments and bureaus of the fe deral
government, says the Washington COR
respondent of the New York Tribune.
These are the civilian appointees in
the executive departments, and do not
include senators and representatives,
and several hundred employees of the
houses who vibrate between the capital
and their homes in other Parts of the.
country. Nor does this aggregate in
clude $50 or 400 army and navy Off
GERS, active and retired, Who form a
large permanent colony here. The,
monthly compensation of these 10, 446
civilian employees amounts to $685.
TOSS Therefore, the aggregate sum
in salaries annually paid cut in Wash
ington by the government disbursing
clerks reaches the enormo is total Of
$40, 628, 505.72. Besides, probably not
less than $4,000, 900 additional! goes to
senators and congressman, and their.
highly paid subordinates, and Perhaps,
$1,250, 900 more to the army and navy
officials, most Of whom are Of hish
rank, with large pay, there being con-
stantly here not less than sixty gem
erals and admirals. active and retired.
These totals form a grand aggregate of
1923, 878, 505.72 annually paid out in
Washington I'm the single item OF SAL
aries. 1t is a vast, unvarying, constant
stream of cash flowing from the gov
eminent Golfers into the hands of the
banks, business houses and profession
al men Of Washington, the official per-
sonnet Of the United States acting
merely as middlemen, because this
money is largely spent or permanently
invested here. In all the departments
salaries are paid semi-monthly, and
IL desirable the officeholder can draw
sums oftener, if the money is due to
him, but this is dependent wholly on
the courtesy of the disbursing clerks.
Il is not singular, then, that there are
3 never any hard times In Washington
How can there be such a thing as hard
: times in this town in such circum'
Stances?
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family should be permitted TO take up
this number. so that the control or the
concern should remain in the nanos ol
their little c%cterie,( Some years ago.
however, all that was changed; n the
paternal Blanc-Bertora administrator
gave place to another of a very diner
ent character, with two Paris bankers
at its head.
Five thousand shares were, as al
ready stated, given to the Prince OF
Monaco; Prince Radziwi!l took 4,e0O;
Prince Roland Bonaparte, 4,0CO; M. Ed
mcnd Blanc, 1920; M. Camille Blanc,
1900; Count Bertora, 1000; the Wag-
atha family, related to the Blancs,
1000. Then the bank in Nice, which
had always financed the Casino, got .
large number, and several ,pc,I- -
and Paris iorrnaliat~ "Ru helpeu "
80 49, e. were favored with the
noror 1,Itogether about ta.f the
tLa.as were distributed in this way,
! the rest were offered to the public.
A Gambl ng Enter. rse That ku'e@ a
Principally.
AS Pore Blanc remarked: He who
breaks the bank to-day will be broker
by the bank tomorrow" The winner
at Monte Carlo returns to make a little
more; the loser returns tn try to get
his money back again. And SO, in the
end, the bank wins.
Let us now proceed to the debit side
Of tha CcSinO %accOunt To AXE thk
items of expenditure in the order giveI
upon the balance-sheet, of a recent
year, we note first the $250,000 paid
annually to the Prince of Monaco, IN
der the contract, for the concession tt
carry on the gambling business in thu
principality. When Prince ALDER
'came to the throne in 1889, he wa
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25

An interesting fact brought out by
the recent elections in Colorado is the
marked tendency of Colorado men to
elect women as city ~treasurers. Mrs.
Margaret Robins was unanimously
chosen city teasurer of Idaho Springs.
At Aspen Mrs. E. A. Kenney was re-
elected to the same office by a Large
majority. Mrs Jennie Gale was elect
ed city treasurer at New Castle. Mrs
Emma c. Palmer in Greedy, Mrs. Clara
A. Clark at Alma. Mrs. Mary Shank
at Ouray, Miss Nellie E. Donahue a
Victor and Mrs. A. N. Frowine at Mar
itou.-Chioago Chronicle,
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edges of the sciences. 1t is easy to
gain access to them, for they are al
ways at my service, and I admit them
to my compay, and dismiss them from
it whenever I please. They are new
troublesome, but Immediately answer
every question I { ask them. Some relate
to me the events of the past ages,
while others reveal to me the secrets
of nature. Some teach me how to live,
and others how to die. Some, by their
vivacity, drive away my cares and e
hilarate my spirits, while others give
fortitude to my mind, and teach me
the important lesson how to restrain
my desires, and to depend wholly or
myself. They open to me, in short, tbs
various avenue Of all the arts anC
sciences and upon their Information
1 safely rely in all emergencies.-Pe
trarch.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25

The prediction that the king would
follow the example Of his ancestor,
Henry ", daily finds fresh coairma-
ton. Since his accession he has devel-
oped a "standofishness' towards his
old intimates. which Is little short of
startling. limitations that he will not
in the future dine OF sup with a sub
ject have caused endless heartburn
ings. "Favorite" is to- be an unknown
word in his court, according to present
Observation-Disclosures cable.
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The cAsINr

Prince Charles granted a thirty years
concession to a company with a capital
of $500, 600 to carry on the gambling
business.
Pere Blanc, who was a man OF the
French bourgeois type, simple in his
habits, but clever and strong-headed in
finance, died on July 9th, 1877, leaving
a fortune of nearly $35, O0,OOO; and
this Notwithstanding the immense
sums that were spent during his re-
markable career upon his several
gambling establishments.
The Casino was carried on for the
Blanc family by Count Bertora (who
aspired to marry the old mans Widow
until the original concession expired,
in 1888. In October of that year he
was successful in concluding another
thirty years contract with Prince
Charles for a consideration of $25O,OOO
per annum from the profits of the
gambling and 5000 shares in the new
company which it vas then decided to
form.
The statutes of this the existing
company are dated December IA, 1852;
they were approved and signed by
Prince Charles on March Is, 1888; and
in them are embodied all the con-
ditions of the original concession, GER
tain notifications being made to meet
the requirements demanded by the new
management.
A Close Corporation with S6.OOO,OOo
Capital.
The capital of the concern was fixed
at s 900, 900, divided into $4,000 shares
of 500 each, to bear a fxed interest
at the rate of 5 per cent, or S. per an
mum. payable after the half-yearly
meeting in November and a dividend
upon the profits of the gambling of thu
year-the amount to be divided by thu
directors at the annual meeting IL
April. A clause was inserted in thu
statutes to the effect that, in order t.
be able to take part in these meetings
a shareholder must own at least 20
of the shares, or $40, 900 worth of III
Casino stock; and, when the allotmen
was made, good care was taken tina
only members and friends of the Blan
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a
Rough and Tumble Custom of J%apancas
Fishermen of Hawaii.

ROugn and rumble NuStOA L OApAANNo
Fishermen of Hawaii.
Where several years ago the fishing
for the supplying of the Honolulu
market was done almost exclusively
by the natives in their canoes and a
few Cinnamon, now the bulk of the
work is lone by the Japanese, who
are at it in great numbers. The boats
which they use are built here after
patterns used in Japan, and once in q
while an Oriental steamer arriving
from the west brings an imported fish
Ing boat, which the fishermen think is
superior to those of local manufacture.
The boats are of a peculiar shape and
are of different sizes, some able to &C
commodate but three men, which is
an ordinary crew, and others are large
enough for seven or eight men. Up to
the time that the vessel is launched
there is no captain selected for the
boat. The choosing of this important
factor in every case Is left until the
boat Is in the water. 1t Is known who
the members of the crew are, and from
them the captain is selected. When
the boat is in the water and moored
securely, the members of the crew,
who are generally the owners of the
boat, strip themselves and get into the
boat. Then the fun Of making the Sc
lection Of the commander begins.
There is no voting or drawing of lots
to settle the matter. At a given signal
from one Of the crowd on o who
are watching, the men in the boat be-
gin with all their might to try to
throw each other out into the water.
Each man is against the other, n SO
the struggle, as a usual thing, lasts
a long time and is remarkably exclt-
ing. All the time the play goes on the
friends of the contestants yell words
Of cheer to the struggling men in the
boat and throw buckets of water on
them and into the boat, seemingly
with the idea of making the battle
ground more slippery as we'll as re-
freshing to the men at work. AS soon
as a man is thrown out of the boat he
must stay out, but may assist with
water if he so desires. The man who
stays III LHe DOdL lOnS0oI' AoIHSA
who is able to put all the others out
Of the boat, has by his prowess shown
himself competent to be captain, and
so he is greeted with much applause
and showered with congratulations at
the termination Of the scufie. Their is
no appeal from the selection so made,
and the captain so chosen continues to
be captain until he voluntarily retires
or sells out his share in the Doat.-Ex.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25

Charles L. Teller, of Providence, has
lately acquired possession of a copper
coin of the kind used as passports by
runaway slaves coming north long pc
lore the war. The coin has Liberty
IN a laurel wreath on its face ana on
ene reverse the kneeling figure OF d
save woman and the inscription. "Am
| not a woman aud a sister,"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25
Records Kept In ChImpav.

The city of South .Norwalk, Conn.
keeps a part of it's records in a
chimney. This unique "safe" is found
at the municipal electric lighting
plant. The space usually utilized as a
sioot pit in the base of the 50O-foot
brick smokestack has been utilized for
keeping the records n books Of the
plant.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25
Friends.

I have friends whose society is ex-
tremely agreeable to me; they are of
all ages and of every country. They
have distinguished themselves both in
the cabinet and in the field, and OBJ
tanned high honors for their knowl-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25

The object of this article is to show
the demoralizing effect of gambling
The craving to get something without
honest, hard work can n3ver be the
true foundation on which to build a
successful career. Gaming is seen IN
its most vivid phase at Monte CARO-
No thinking man can witness tie play
there without realizing the utter
emptiness and folly Of it. Even nnathe-
matical statistics show that every
player must sooner or later lose his
all if he continues to gamble, and With
his losings his self-respect also S'eS
I'D.
Five million dollars per annun, OF
nearly so, have been realized during
the past few years from the gambling
tables at Monte Carlo. Let it be stat
ed briefly how the gambling tables
were taken there. Francois Blanc was
father to the schemes which have COM
pletely transformed this natural
beauty spot of the Riviera into an
earthly paradise, and centralized in
the picturesque little principality all
the luxuries and comforts, as well as
all the vices that belong to mankind
at the beginning of the twentieth cen
fury. But there were gambling tables
at Monte Carlo long before Pere Blanc
arrived. AS far back as 1853 the late
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-25
Found Guineas to Lose Them.

One of the most cruel stories that we
have read for a long while is that of
the remarkable find of guinaas, some
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02
PALACES FOR EVERYBODY.

If may accept the statements of Inventor Edison at
their face value shall enjoy large measure Of
condition which it the aim Of the late Henry
George bring about but without the application Of the
single system any other radical change in
poic0social arrangements shall in the future
have substantial beautiful homes at insignificant
cost compared with the present; We shall have lower
rents"sau palaces Of exquisite design which viii
for $40 each month";" shall not need to expend
thing Tor IRE insurance since these houses viii be fire
proof shall longer need to employ skilled labor in
house building, etc. This remarkable change viii result
Mr. Edisons discovery of a cheap method Of pro
ducing superior quality Portland cement That is
say. the cement viii be sold at s. a
The house of the future VIII be built poured
The contractor viii have standing forms of houses Of
twenty thirty varieties The builder viii select his
which viii be of wood and it viii be poured
the cement which viii harden to the frmness Of stone
Tie wooden form viii then be removed and when the
starways shall have been nodded from the cement the
1ouse VIII be ready for the few finishing touches
few hundred dollars house equal in all respects to
s0o0o structure Of today may be made. All the work
Mr. Edison maintains may be done by unsked laborers
Long AGO Sir Arthur Helps predicted that the great
changes in the material conditions of the people would
be due the labors of political and social economists
legislation. but would be brought by
covees of and the ingenuity of inventors Only
small Iart Of mankind be induced to favor rad
jcal Dolity which may be proclaimed Of ban
lsbiug poverty and TOLL practical discoveries
and Inventions work their way and produce their
without waiting public sentiment There is nc
doubt that If Ar Edison shall demonstrate the practicab-
ity OF making substantial houses from cement on steel
skeleton and shall place the cement the market
price he mentions there VIII be very material du.toa
i'm tile cost of living
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02

Ever since the announcement Of the invention Of NJ
Plante popular interest less than technical appreca-
ton has marked any progress Of the storage battery,
however slow The idea of boxing electricity and distrb-
uting it. milk is about in bottles. from
the first very fascinating, the electric automobile
appeared within very few years after the battery had
been made commercially practicable But notwith-
standing the extraordinary advantages Of cleanliness
safety and control possessed by the storage battery vehicle
its great cost and limited radius Of operation its extreme
fagty and relatively enormous depreciation have pre-
its widespread use For these reasons the electric
vehicle is still almost exclusively an instrument Of
pleasure.
It to solve the urgent problem Of merchandise trans
poration in cities from railway termini that
Mr. Edison undertook the perfection Of the storage battery
In great cite she expended annually for trucking are
enormous has stated the thus spent
in New Yor is greater than the Of Of her
largest railway systems entering the city. OF all forms Of
transportation use that by horse and truck is
most expensive # package is shipped from Boston to
New York for example the probabilities that than
half the total cost Of its transportation to the trucking
necessary for its delivery and from the terminal railway
stations. Here, then problem in commercial engn-
eeng worthy Of the endeavor and the latest Of Mr.
Edsons fruitful inventions promises to 60 far towards
solving it.
Assuming that the battery is all that is claimed
be its introduction will probably accomplish results Of
the most important and even revolutionary character
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02
THOMAS EDlsoN,s LATEST.

The meeting of the American Institute Of Electrical
Engineers in New York City las week rendered un
usually interesting by the fact new storage bat
terry, upon which Mr. Thomas A. Edison has been work
for the last years was described for the first
time ana vouched for by this body experts The
qualities claimed for this apparatus are little short Of
revouonary but the reception accorded tee new inven
ton hy the institute body composed Of the most euin
ent specialists in electrical eugineeng-goes far toward
removing doubt the AGILITY of the inventor TO
substantiae his claims for it. says the Evening Post
In brief the storage battery IS able To do two
and onehaf times much work for q siven weieht as
TIE most powerful batteries ct present use in automo
bies, while it shows larger proportion increase
in output fer weight batteries used in stationary
work In addition. the simplicity and strength Of its
mechanical construction together with the nature OF the
chemical reactions which operation depends are
such that its depreciation n win be insignificant
The battery IS made Of steel plates containing pockets n
which are compressed mixtures graphite and powdered
iron ard graphite and NIGEL oxide the ucud element being
a solution of caustic potash
Since the invention OF the storage battery l n psne
in ISIS there has been urgent demand Tor the psrfo
ton Of this muehneeded adjunct of electrical fnstra-
uons But progress has been dlscouraeinelv slow and
the accumulator has agged Tar behind other varieties f
electrical apparatus in development It has alvsv been
hampered by its great weight-an almost fatal obstacle -
its application in automobile or traction vork-its f-a-i
y and its rapid depreciation in service added 10 these
unfavoraoe Qualities the high initial cost Of sorae hat
teres has often prevented their where otherwise thev
might have been employed TO advantages
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02
8aifn sSZs .a9le
NJ. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
SOMETHING FOR THE INDIVIDUAL TO DO.


In this day Of organization world and its AFRO
gance there is something left for the individual to DO
That something is to order his own life correctly to stop
1t the lie to halt short OF injustice get some conc
song from natural sehshness and keep tight rein on
pride
The example is not found often in great men or great
nations Success is no part Of it. and it advertised in
the individual It gets credit and this world goes is
identified with no profits. But it is needed.
The community in Florida which burned at the
rtake the other day was civilized enlightened
But it was not moral The individuals Of the mob who
lid the thing were mad with hatred and morally
barbarans No moral individual took part in it, moral
individual could No decent citizenship tolerate tor
ture.
But the mob giving rein to its madness and feeling
safety in responsibility furnishes only one example
Great Britain in its war on the Beers without justif
cation It is morally wrong The prostraton and devas-
taon Of rural neighborbood by the great army of an
empire is crime in reality theory is conquest being
the deed Of proud nation and ustihable among nations
In the eye of conscience it is insoent brutality.
The crimes Of part Of the allied armies in China
bounding but they viii meet no punishment other than
formal expression Of horror from the world George
lynch an English newspaper correspondent in corrObora
ton of other testimony tells what he the day after
Tung Chow had been occupied by the allies Two girls
had thrown themselves from cliff to escape the Russian
soldiery They were moaning piteousy" he "and
Une Of them appeared to be on point of death Their
legs or hips had apparently been broken docated by
their jump AS went toward the one who appeared least
injured she shrank away from with expression Of
loathng and horror until offered her drink out Of
water bottle. The hoarse cries Of the soldiers
mingled occasionally with a sobbng scream came from
the houses above telling what they had tried 50 desper
ately to escape from"
Though the world stood aghast at the persecution of
Dreyfus that only thing remarkable about
the Dreyfus case was its prominence In every country
the world in every community there persecu
tons. as there are hates lies and wrongs.
seems nonsense to look to law. society civilization
the remedy it is to stop the individual himself
win stop it. And he is Goofearing, he viii shut off
little hates lies and injustces and the pride which
however much they speed him in worldly affairs viii out
rage all heavenly mercy and veto further perpetuatOn
for him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02
sHIRT.wAIsT pEcENERAcY.

According Professor Frederick Starr the noted
thropOogst Of the Chicago university, who parts
his hair the middle displays unmistakbe evidence Of
degenerate instinct
The professor made this declaration in connection with
some very severe structures shirt-wast for
and tattOong all of which declared be evil
dences Of the alarming and growing dgeneacy Of mod
civilization He therefore felt constrained
students against atterday fads, wearing shirt
waists and tattooing their persons.
Prof Starr contends that among normal individuals
nobody is found tattOong himself These things
criminal in themselves but if person parts his hair in
the middle tatoo his body of these new
shirtwasts it is pretty good evidence that there de-
generate streak in his nature"
This new anthropological discovery comes just at the
opening Of the hat season. and may operate disas
trously to few timid knights OF the shirt But
win continue part their hair and their
the middle to the end of time individuals who tattoo
themselves a less unknown quantity, but it
would that among Of distinction in
vogue every should have the right to choose his
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02
ouR TRADE With EuRopE.

In strong contrast with the almost stationary condition
Of commerce with the Central and South American
states for the past years the great growth
commerce with Europe during the same period.
Within that decade total exports OF merchandise
all European countries increased from $704 98O47 to
$100167763 The total of imports from all European
countries is another story 1t actually diminished from
S4593O5372 in 1891 S440567314 1900 It is our ex-
port trade only with Europe that increased The exact
net increase including both imports and exports
European commerce was s96 during the same ten
years in which trade with all the of Central and
Of all the American countries to the south of
increase in her commerce with the United States the
same period amounting in round figures to s21 100000