The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-07

tnfec SecIiOuS u 1dho covering LHe pAO-f
posed town.
The railroad rumor has simmered
down to the following statement made
by j. j. Hill, at st. Paul, the other day:
81 have nothing whatever to tell, ex-
cept that we are going to buid uptoward
the Canadian border to meet the people
on the other side, who will build down
toward u.s."
Nineteen Of the twenty four assessors
of the different counties in the state met
at Helena last week and agreed upon the
following schedule for the assessment of
stock for this year: Cattle s22
per head; y~earlings S15; two-year-
olds $40; beef cattle at the discretion of
the assessor and dairy COWS at $50 AS
compared Nth the recommendations
made last year by the assessors associa-
ton this is an increase of fifty cents per
head upon stock cattle with no changes
in the valuations of the other classes.
The same committee recommended
that stock sheep be assessed at $3.50 per
head including lambs and that rams be
valued by the assessors. Last year the
assessors agreed to assess stock sheep at
$2.75 per head and lambs at 50 so that
this years recommendation avored the
sheep men. The stock committee de-
cided to leave to the assessors the valua-
ton of the different classes of horses.
Hogs are to be valued at IS per head.
In "A Journalists Note Book" Frank
f. Moore (The Cleveland Medical Ca
zette) tells ar amusing and significant
story of the infu ence of imagination
upon health.
A young civil servant in India, feeling
tagged from the excessive heat and from
long hours Of work, consulted the best
doctor vii hin reach. The doctor looked
him over, sounded his heart and lungs,
and then said gravely: II will write you
tomorrow"
The next day the young man received
a letter telling him that his left lung
was gone and his heart seriously affect
ed, and advising him to lose no time in
adjusting his business affairs. "Of
course, you may live for weeks" the let
ter said, "but you had best not leave
important matters undecided"
Naturally the young official was dis
mayed by 80 dark a prognosis-nothlng
less than a death warrant. Within
twenty-four hours he was having diff
Guilty with his respiration and was seized
with an acute pain in the region Of the
heart. He took to his bed with the feel
ing that he should never arise from it.
During the night he became so much
worse that his servant sent for the doc
tor.
"What on earth bra We you peer doing
to yourself?" demanded the doctor
"Fhere were no Indications of this sort
when l saw you yesterday"
1T is my heart, 1 suppose" weakly
answered the patient.
Your hearth" repeated the doctor
"Your heart was all right yesterday"
"My lungs, then
What is the matter with you? You
don't seem to have been d~rinking?"
"Y1ur letter." gasped the patient
"You said l only a few weeks to live"
care you crazy?" said the doctor. Il
wrote you to take a few weeks vacation
in the hills and you VIZ uld be all right.
For reply the patient drew the letter
from under the bed clothes and gave il
to the doctor. Z
'Heavens!" cried that gentleman as be
glanced at it. This was meant fol
another man! My assistant misplaced
the letters"
The young man at once sat up in bee
and made a rapid recovery.
And what of the patient for whom the
direful prognosis was intended? De
lighted with the report that a s%ojourn il
the hills would set him right, he started
at once, and five years later was alive
and in fair health.
A Sweeping Decision.
The register and receiver OF the Helen;
land Office last week received word frop