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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
CLERICS
HIS VICTIMS

One morning a man came to me with
a letter written on stamped paper and
signed with the name of a clergyman
of my church in a town in Massachu-
sets, says a writer in the Ladies'
Home Journal. His story, told in great
embarrassment, was that he had run
away from home. According to the
letter his aged mother was dying with
grief, and the appeal of the rector
was to the man to come back at once.
The minister's check for So, drawn on
a bank in the same town was inclosed
with which to pay car fare. He was
distressed and was anxious to go, but
the difficulty was that he had been in
New York only five days, knew no one
and could not be identified at any
bank. Would I cash the check? I told
him to come back in a couple of hours,
and meantime I ~telegraphed inquiries
to Rev. c.. The answer came back:
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
THE LAW IN THE
~BouNDLEsS IN SECT
WORLD.

Birds presumably know certain poison
Gus insects by instinct. At the sight
of some c~aterpllars one would be re-
PEELED and naturally think of these OBJ
noxious insects as most poisonous.
Their is where one is mistaken, for.
as a general rule, this ferocious APP
rearance is simply for the purpose of
throwing dust in the eyes of their
prey1ng brethren. The birds, however.
as o 0 as they sight one of these gor-
geously-attired caterpillars, are all a
nutter, and eagerly bouncing upon
him. they forthwith devour him with
avidity. AS soon as he is Matched,
sometimes before, the caterpillar has
enemies lying in wait Tor him. While
the butterfly is depositing her G
anctner insect comes along and as soon
as the former gets out of sight the lat
ter proceeds to lay her eggs among
those OF the butterfly. This insects
young are similar to human parasites.
and rapidly developing, they hatch
before their unfortunate neighbors and
as the butterfy's young appear they
~POS0AAJ oOFOQ1OQ. IL is DlLlIul 10
note the tragedy that occurs when
the handsome butterfly's hereditary
enemy, the ichneumon fly, discovers
them. This winged economist lays her
eggs on the back of the caterpillar, just
previous to the latter's going into Sc
clusion, preparatory to metamorphos-
ing into a butterfly. After the cater
pillar has spun it's cocoon and costly
ensconced itself in it's shell, the 1y's
eggs hatch and the young insect preys
on the poor caterpillar until strong
enough, when it eats it's way into the
outer world, there to still further pur-
sue its work of destruction. Thus il
may be demonstrated that an insect
must kill or be killed." for the laws
OF destruction among insects are i'm
mutable.
The largest fresh-water lake is Lake
Superior, $4,000 square miles, or nearly
one-half the size of Missouri.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
POLITICS IN FRANCE.

In France political parties have no
programs in a strict sense; no pre-
else formula that defines their politics
and their demands. They have senti-
ments, passions, if you prefer it so,
and general tendencies which suffice
to classify the politicians and those
who elect them. Politics in France is
purely a matter of sentiment; the
elector votes for the candidate whose
political feelings approach most nearly
to his own; he is guided by the sym
.pathies and antipathies manifested by
the candidates, and by the personal
relations which they entertain towards
the people of one or the other party in
each locality. This criterion allows
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
The Many Difficulties
That Beset the Path
of the Owner.

gether to such an extent that when the
morning comes there are several hun
dred dead. Sometimes it is a Welt or
some animal passing suddenly ia the
night that will cause a stampede in
the corral and several hundred sheep
will be crushed in the jam. The:.- there
are the poisonous grasses wh@h are
round on the ranges in the spring time.
Last spring a sheep owner drove a
fresh band in upon the same n
which his other sheep were grazing
upon, and in less than a week there
were $500 dead. Then there are the
Wild animals; a moments ~inattention
and the wolf has rushed in, and a few
more dollars are added tx the loss side
of the account.
A man is pointed out on the street
who has $4,000 or more sheep, and per-
haps the stranger wonders that he is
roughly dressed and covered with mud
and dirt from hard riding or hard
work, 1t is because of the hard riding
and harder work that he can point to
his herds of thousands, and it is the
Woodworking man and the man who
puts intelligence into his work that
wins out-more SO than in any other
business.
But always in the sheep herd there
is n who is more faithful than the
herder, more conscientious than the
owner, whose work is more than all,
and without whom there would be no
successful sheep raising upon the
ranges-it is the meek little shepherd
dog. Others there are who work
among the bands, but none like the
little four-legged bundle of intelligence
who goes way round 'em' during
every hour of the day, and whose vigi-
lance never relaxes for a moment win
ter or summer; one who has not seen
the almost human intelligence of the
little dumb brutes of the plains can
never realize how much the sheep rails
er owes to them, and cannot under-
stand the affection with which he
views them.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
A Slick Swindler Who
Made His Living on
That Glass.

d not know any such man. When
the fellow returned he was arrested,
and in his pocket a neatly kept mem
orandum book was found containing
the names of nearly every clergyman
in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Pittsburg and Philadelphia. This had
been his route. On each page of the
book were four columns, headed,
Name, date, amount and remarks"
and in these were such entries as:
REV. R, 81. Got after an hours
work" "Rev. S.. No good. Can't
work" "Rev. T, Sc. An easy
mark" The dates ran back through
three years. When he had completed
his tour he would probably either have
sold his book for some one else to use,
or he would have changed his appear
ance, invented a new story and APP
preached a second time the people who
were worth it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

the French countrymen to know the
representative of their personal senti-
ments in so sure a way that they can
rarely be deceived. The ~elector, when
he sees a candidate arrive whose opin-
ions are not clearly known to him.
does not stop at the party appellation
that the unknown parades, but he OBJ
serves what people patronize him and
what company he keeps and the cleo
tor soon knows to which side he be-
longs. French politics are directed
not by parties, but by tendencies, and
those who desire to understand them
must have heed, not to the program
of the candidates, but to the senti-
ments of the electoral masses.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

AS a result of a tangle in the steer
ing gear of his automobile, Arthur
Fasker of Philadelphia met with a pc-
culiar accident. He started to take a
spin down to Baltimore recently. but
turned aside from the high road when
a few miles out from the city. He was
courslng at a speed of eleven miles
when suddenly, without apparent
cause, the machine spurted and veered
to one side. 1t was going at the rate
of seventy-fve miles an hour when If
jumped a fence and struck a tree. For
tunately, instead of being an upright
tree, it was leaning, and instead of be-
ing crushed by the impact the ma
chine slid up the tree and lodged in
the branches, forty-fve feet from the
ground. Mr.. Fasker was unhurt. He
climbed out of the seat and slid down
the tree and walked to a farm house.
where he hired a farmer TO bring him
to town.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
Regarded as a Brute by
His AristoCratiC
Officers.

air with jibes and curses and all the
old obscene language of the barrack-
room, strips them of all the romance in
which fiction has clothed them and
leaves them in the light of men who
90 not value life because they do not
know it's significance.
But there Is every excuse to be made
Tor Tommy Adkins. The army takes
MIN In his ignorance and, instead of
attempting to make a man of him. tries
TO crush all the s~elf-assertive element
that might make him insubordinate
When ~lll-treated, and leaves him sim
ply a machine to execute military ma
w So long as he keeps out Of
trouble and is present at roll call no
Turther notice Is taken of him. Usu-
ally the officers over him are rich and
arlstocratic and absorbed in social
life. According to their standards a
soldier is little better than a brute.
That he is young ignorant, among
strangers and surrounded with temp
tations that would corrupt any but the
strongest characters is all ignored bv
those who profess to have him in
charge. If he breaks the law the ex-
tenuating circumstances of the case
are not considered.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

According to the Medical Record q
gang of swindlers has been PLAYING a
d~esp1cable trick on numerous pharma-
clsts in Brooklyn. A man goes to a
drug store with a simple prescription
mas 1t made up, and takes the mix
ture away with him. In an hour or
two, or the following day, the pur-
S returns with the medicine
which he says he gave to his wife or
child, as the case may be, and thai The
patient was nearly killed by poison
which was there through the bIunder
OF the c~ompounder. He says his phy-
slcian has analysed the mixture and
demonstrated the presence of poison
and he allows the druggist to test II
then and there. The poison is of
course, found, as the swindler has
added it himself, and he thereupon an
nounces his determination to sue the
druggist for damages to atone for the
results of his alleged blunder. If the
pharmacist becomes frightened at the
Idea OF a suit for damages, and thinks
1T may be possible that a mistake has
been made, he may accept the sugges
ton Of the blackmailer to settle the
case out of court. The amount of SET
Element is said to vary from $50 to
5000.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28
The British
SOLDIER.

Much has been said about the hardi-
hood and bravery of the British sol
der, writes Bradford Daniels, who
served 10 months in South Africa dur
ing the present war, but as 1 saw him
both on the veldt and in the hospital
his robustness may be seriously ques-
toned. Often the regular, when he
arrived at Cape Town, was not in q fit
condition for an arduous campaign.
Excuses had Slapped his strength to-
such an extent that a body of regu-
lars, trained as they were to carry a
heavy kit and to march, could not fol-
low any of the colonial corps for even
two hours of hard marching. Many a
regular died in the hospital from COM
paratively slight wounds because his
blood was tainted while beside some
dangerously wounded colonial who had
lived a clean life, recovered.
The regulars bravery cannot be
questioned, however. He simply laughs
at death; and, all through the war,
the English infantry would attack i'm
pregnable positions which the more
wary colonial troops would never think
of attacking. But this courage is large
ly the courage of the brute which does
not realize what death is. To live in
a hospital filled with regulars after a
big engagement and hear them, even
before their wounds are closed, fill the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

youthful aspirants who plan to
make a living by writing poetry ought
70 mote n fast that the livelihood of
the English poet, Austin Dobson, was
earned as principal of the fisheries and
harDor department of the Board of
trade He has just resigned after
nearly half a century of service. A
lew men only can earn fame as poets.
Fewer still are they who can trust to
the productions of their muse to paw
the butchers bill.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

AS soon as the weather will permit
and proper locations can be selected.
there will be pitched near Boston the
first of a number of camps for con-
sumptives. This camp (and each sue
ceeding camp will be like IT'D will con-
sist OF ten piano-box tents, arranged
in a circle, with an open-air fire in the
center, and surrounded by a duck wall
eight feet high. Each of these tents
will be a consumptive's home: a CON
sumptive will sleep there, even
through the coolest weather, with no
other protection than plenty of felt
blankets. felt sleeping boots. and a
two-inch gallon jug of hot water.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

A railroad company that operates
coal mines in Pennsylvania recently
prevented its striking miners from in
terfering with non-union workmen,
who were employed in pumping water
u OF mines, by building a barbed
wire fence eve feet high about the
pump house and dynamo plant and
charged it heavily with electric
ity.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

England is initiating the pension
system in the United States. There is
a bill in parliament providing for a
scheme for pensioning the widows and
orphans of soldiers who have died in
the South African war. This measure
is being fastened by the officials of the
war office in order to stimulate enlist
ments in the army, which are now
very slow.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

Commander-in-Chief Frederick st.
George de la Tour Booth Tucker of the
salvation army, is now a citizen of the
united States. The commander has
secured his final naturalization papers,
having been in the United States the
required five years. He will vote at
the coming election but will not say
what ticket he will indorse.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

A famous entomologist says that not
one mosquito in four hundred ever
tastes human blood. To know how to
avoid making the acquaintance of thai
one Is the important thing, and on
that problem the scientists seem to be
making good progress.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

BY the will of the late Jacob H.
Rogers, the locomotive builder, the
bulk Of his fortune, possibly eight mil
lion dollars, is left to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, as an en-
dowment fund, the income to be used
for the purchase of objects of art. This
Will place the museum on a splendid
footing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

The Nebraska State Game Warden
a forbidden the farmers to fight the
grasshoppers longer with poison, say
ing that the loss of birds and game is
too costly a price to pay for the de-
struction of comparatively few insects.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

A woman always has her suspicious
OF a man who never lies to her.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-28

The largest fresh-water lake is Lake
Superior, $4,000 square miles, or nearly
one-half the size of Missouri.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
Base Ball.

The Covlngton Juniors defeated
the Madisonville Juniors last Sun.
day by ascore of 22 too.
The Covington Seniors and .he
Stauffer, Eshlemann & Co., started
a game in the afternoon, which was
stopped by heavy downpour OF
RAIN. The visitors had been given
three innings and the home team two,
and the ecore stood 4 to 0 against
Covington when the game stopped.
These clubs will probably cross bats
again in the near future.
The Covington Juniors defeated
the Clalbornes last Tuesday, by a
score of l3 to IL. On Wednesday
the Claibornes defeated the Cow
lngton Juniors by score of Is to
4.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
What a Tale It Tells

II that mirror of yours shows a
wretched, sallow complexion,
jaundlced look, moth patches and
blotches on the skin, it's liver
trouble; but DR.. Kings New Life
Pills regulate the liver, purify tn.
blood, give clear skin, rosy cheeks,
rich complexion. Only 25c at the
City Drug Store, J. l.. Watkins
proprietor.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
eyAS1HEEED ygAESE14R2!E 5000 5000.

Men and women of good address TO
represent US, some to travel appointing
agents, others for local work looking
after our interests. 5000 salary guar
anteed yearly; extra commissions and
expenses, rapid advancement, old estab-
lished house. Grand chance for earnest
man or woman to secure pleasant, per-
manent position, liberal income and
future. New, brilliant lines. Write at
once. STAFFORD PRESS,
IS Church St. New Haven, Conn
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
Astounded the Editor,

Editor $. A Brown, of Benefits
vile, s. c., was once immensely
surprised. Through long suffer-
ing from Dyspepsia he writes.
''my wife was greatly run down.
She had no strength or vigor and
suffered great distress from her
stomach, but she tried Electric Bit
ters which helped her at once, and
after using four bottles, she is en-
tirely we'll, can eat anything. It's
a grand tonic, and its gentle laxa-
tive qualities are splendid for tor
pid hvec. For Indigestion, Loss of
Appetite, Stomach and Liver
troubles it is a positive, guaranteed
cure. Only SOC at the City Drug
Store. j. L Watkins, Proprietor.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Mr.. j. o. Bourg, contractor and
builder, cistern and tank maker,
has located in Covlngton, and So
llcits share of the public patron
age. He makes a speciality Of
frames, mantel and cabinet work,
His residence is on the corner o1
Boston and Florida streets, east OF
the Town Hall square. We call at
tention to his advertisement, in an.
other column.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

l hereby notify all teachers to be
present at the meeting Of the
Teachers Association, Saturday,
August 10, 1901, as desire to give
Instructions for the coming session
OF the public schools. Allteachers
are mostearnestly requested to at
/. nd. JOSEPH B. LANCASTER,
Parish Superintendent.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
NOTICE.

A reward is offered by the under
signed for any party or parties caught
tresspassing or cutting any timber on
my land, known as the Crossman's
land,) situated three miles from Abita
Springs. They will be prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law.
MRS. A. S. T. GUINAULT.
us Esplanade street, New Orleans.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

The electric lights proved to be
great convenience during the stormy
nights of the past week, and en-
abled pedestrians to see and avoid
the dangerous holes that are to be
found III the sidewalks in some
parts of town.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

When you go to New Orleans
stop at Penn's Hotel, corner of St.
Charles and Poydras streets. All
front rooms, newly furnished
throughout. Charges reasonable,
by the day or week
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
BARGAINS At BABINGT0NS
IN CLOTHING.
In order to reduce
our Large Stock OF
Clothing, we will sell
at Greatly Reduced
Prices. Don't fail to
call and inspect our
stock.

Mex. Thureday. August 10: the
Feast Of the Assumption OF the
blessed Virgin Mary, is day o.
oblira,ion, to be kept the same aa
sunday. There will be holy mass s.
n Madisonville At 8 A. n. ana III
:, Peter's Church At 10 4. n.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Our Pearl River letters are un-
avoidablY crowded out till next
week.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

rE PEKIN DUCKS for sale.
Fifty cents each. Leave orders
at E. j. Frederick store.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

DO you want piano on terms
to suit you? See Prof. Suther-
land. He represents Wcrlein.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Rev. F. q. Hocutt will preach
IN the Methodist Church Sunday
morning and evening.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

FOR SALE--$150O will buy the E.
Prophet residence and three lots. APP
ply to Hardy H. Smith.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Misses Nina and Dick Wilson
left for their home, Wednesday,
after a very pleasant stay of
several weeks iii our town.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LA.
-
NEW ORLEANS.
E.A ALDERMAN, IL. o., PRESIDENT.

Full courses in Languages, Sciences,
Engineering, Law, Medicine. -Four
new chairs established for next session.
Tulane makes leaders in all vo-
cations. Its facilities for instruction
in Engineering are unsurpassed. Un-
excelled opportunities for the study
of Sugar Chemistry. Many Scholar
ships in the academy department.
Board and accommodation at lowest
rate. Opportunities afforded for self
help. No worthy boy, if needy, shall
be turned away from its doors.
Next session begins Oct. l.
Send for Catalogue.
r. X. BRUFF.
Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Rolla Lee, a negro wanted in
+ Pontchaloula for robbery, was ar
rested here last Wednesday night
by deputy sheriGs Cook aud De-
priest.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

The popular New Orleans Min
strels will give grand entertain
me,,t on Saturday night a,'t. matinee
Sunday afternoon, Aug. "a and 20.
on the Delano grounds, for The
beuefit Of St. Peters Church. Ad-
mission, 25 cents. This promises
to be rare treat, and large at
tendance is assured.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

See Council proceedings in an.
other column.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
~ Tau''uat1y farmer,
y. A. Q. D.

boeue Falaya Grove, No. RI
meets on the first and third SATURDAYS
y M.m !ne month, at 7:3o P. NJ, at Castle
nan' \. OF F., Covington, La.
EDWARD THEoBALD, Noble Arch.
+. b. HEMPEL. Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

FoT1cE. Round trip railroad
tickets are not transferable, and
are only good in the hands Of the
original purchaser. We call at
tention to the notice at the end OF
the advertisement OF the East
Louisiana Railroad Co., in another
column.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

See the dog ordinance, in anothe,
column.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Mr.. J. l.. Beaucou dray has pur-
chased the broom factory, and it
is now located in the seltzer water
factory, on Columbia street. He
is prepared to furnish brooms and
brushes equal to the best made
else~ mere, and at prices that defy
competition. This is new home
industry that should be encouraged
by the public with liberal patron
age. We call attention to his ad-
vertlsement, in another column.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

STRAYED - From Vaudeville,
a small iron gray colt, three years
old, las scar on front leg. A re-
ward of S5 90 will be paid for lis
return to Simon Pujol, at L. Levy's
residence, Covington.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Sealed bids are invited for build
ing bridge across the Bogue
Chitto, at the old Steve Mlzell
ferry. See advertisement in an
other column. The Police Jury
has appropriated $500 towards
paying for the bridge.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10
WEATHER REPORT.

6Iu1dII ~ uur1Hgg The past week, 2 .46.
Z. H. RICHARD, Observer,
Covington, La.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Mr. and Mrs. l.. Beaucoudray
celebrated the tenth anniversary
of their wedding last Sunday.
There was a large family gathering
and banquet in honor of The event.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

Mr.. JOS. Cook, after a pleasant
stay in our town, left for his home,
in Houma, Wednesday evening.
Like all other Hoama people, he
thinks there is no place like Gov
lngton.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

FOR SALE.-A lot OF Old Iron.
Apply to =. MILLER,
Covington, La.
St. Tammany farmer., 1901-08-10

The Crescent Normal school, for
girls and small boys, Prof. A. L.
Sutherland, Principal, will open
Sept. is, for a session of nine
months. See advertisement IN
another column.