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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-29

IF all the devils were cast out Of some
people they would look like walking
skeletons.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-29

Trust a woman with your heart but
not with your pocketbook.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-29
COMFORTING
EpPS'S COCOA
BREAKFASTS SUPPER

by thorough knowledge of the nat
ural laws which govern the operations of
digestion and nutrition, and by a careful
application of the fine properties of we'll
selected Cocoa, Mr.. Epps has provided for
our breakfast and supper delicately
flavoured beverage which may save rs
many doctors bills. 1t is by the judcious
use of such articles of diet chat a constitu-
ton may be gradually built up until
strong enough to resist every tendency to
disease. Hundreds of subtle maiadies are
floating around us ready TO attack wher-
ever there is Il weak point. We may escape
many fatal shaft by keeping ourselves
we'll fortified with pure blood and Il prop
erly nOurished frame. "-Cica ScrcIce
Gazette.
Made simply with boiling water or
milk. Sold only in half-pound tins,
by Grocers, labelled thus
JAMES EPPS ~ Co, Ltd.
Homeopathic Chemists.
London, England.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-29
Coal W Gather
Is Coming on Apace.


Now is the time TO lay in your Coal for
winter use. am PREPARED 70 anpPs 9'"'
Have the following kinds Oh hand
Gayton Red Ash Coal.
For CRATES. stoves. ranges and tobacco
factories. Burns freely. easily ignited aud
does not crumbIe. Requires but very little
draught, and makes no smoke or SCOT.
Russell Creek and
Pocahontas Lump.
Excellent for CRATES and stoves having
upright pipes or short horizontal pipes.
The most popular ard probably the most
economical fuel 10 be had.
West Virginia and
Tennessee SpIInt.
4 splendid lump coal. These kinilc
/ easily, make cheerful, blazing hrc Tor
CRATE and burn up clean. No waste
Iellico and Royal Spllnt.
! Very fine for CRATES. Among the best
and cheapest Goals to be had.
Pennsylvania Anthracite.
Egg. Nut and Stove. The best, cleanest
and cheapest in the end. For stoves. MY
Drices will be as low as coal can possibly
Be sold for Your patronage solicited.
Promp attention to all orders.
J. S. POYTHRESS,
Miners Agent.
| Henderson, n. {.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-29

Hoods Pills are hand made. and perfect
IN proportion and appearance. &c box.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-29

The fellow who wrote the following
card now going the rounds has evil
IDENTIFY been up Salt river many times
and drank of the bitter waters between
her briny banks. His ghoulish glee
and overjoy in 90 may be turned into
a sadder requiem than ever broke upon
the ear or startled the human heart,
but still there is something in it to
amuse. Read.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
A Curious Superstition.

Natural phenomena often give rise
to superstitions, and when these are
of long standing and have been aug
mented by tradition credulous peo-
pie seem to pin their faith to them
unquestioningly. The natives of the
vicinity of Laos regard with awe a
a certain plateau that divides their
territory from Anan. This plateau
is covered with trees and dense TO-
liage and is a region of almost per-
petual rains. Hunters are forbidden
to speak aloud, to fire guns or make
any unusual noise, and fires must
not be lighted lest they should cause
the rain to fall. These untutored
children of the forest long ago grasp
ed the idea that rainfalls could be
precipitated by conclusion or by dis
turbing the strata of the air. They,
however, regarded the matter as
something supernatural and Won
derful, not being able to grasp the
idea of natural cause and effect
New York Ledger.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
The Tailor Bird.

Sewing seems so ingenious an art
that it must be reserved for the hui
man species alone. Yet the tailor
bird, the Orthotomus longicauda,
and other species possess the ele-
ments of it. They place their nests
in large leaf, which they prepare to
this end. With their beaks they
pierce two rows of holes along the
two edges of the leaf. They then pass
a stout thread from one side to the
other alternately. With this leaf,
at first fiat, they form a horn, In
which they weave their nest with
cotton or hair. These labors OF
weaving and sewing are preceded by
the spinning of the thread. The
bird makes it itself by twisting in its
beak spiders webs. bits of cotton and
the little ends of wool. Sykes found
that the threads used for sewing
" ere knotted at the ends.-Popular
Science Monthly.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Leather Guns.

Leather guns are somewhat of a
curiosity, the honor of having in
vented them being a matter of dis
pute between the nations of Sweden
and Scotland. According to one &c
count, they built of the most
hardened leather, girt about with
hoops of iron and brass. According
to another, they had a core of tin and
were bound round with cordas. In
neither case could they be expected
to last long, though we are told that
they could be drought to discharge
as often as ten times in succession,
but when we reflect how few are the
rounds that a be fired from the
monster guns of u own day with
out renewal of the inner tube we can
not afford to sneer at the shortness
of their life.
They were at any rate mobile, for
they could be carried on a pony's
back or stacked together by the half
dozen in ''barricados of wood" borne
on wheels. Moreover, they did good
service more than once, as, for in
stance, at Newburn and at Cropredy
bridge. Later on they seem to have
fallen into disrepute, for we hear of
the leather guns by which the king
and country hath been cheated"
though even at Killiecrankie Mackay
had some of ''Sandy's stoups," as
they were called, with him.-Macmil-
iau's MAGAZINE
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
strinxing

With narwhals ''stringing" is a most
favorite trick and tried by the har-
pooners when at all possible. 1t is
intended that the harpoon should
pass clean through the first, skip
over the surface of the water and
30 into the second. 1t is necessary
that the boat should be much nearer
than in the Use of harpOoning one,
and a considerable distance between
the animals may be allowed, pro-
vided always that the line is a direct
one.
This, then. is what we are about to
attempt.
We have been padding with
breathless care, and scarce 20 yards
now separate us. Davidson sights
steadily, and suddenly there is a loud
report, causing a piece Of loose snow
to break off from the foe and tum-
BILE into the sea. At the same mo-
ment two unicorns spring into the
air and fall back with a single splash.
The stringing is a C Up
goes a ringing cheer that skips over
the sea and filings itself from point
to point of the ice foe in waves of
sound. Away flies the line over the
bow, but the next minute the strain
ceases, and they come to the surface
dead.-All the Year Round.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Cut Flowers In Japsn.

There are great differences in APP
pliances and taste between our own
street dealers in cut flowers and those
Of sunny Japan. The light frame
work of bamboo, with its short
lengths of bamboo cut at a node, so
as t retain water wherewith to pre-
serve the freshness of the blossoms,
grasses, iris stems and leaves, and
the basketlike arrangement of the
bottom tier, is as unlike a ~coster's
barrow or the flower girls fiat basket
as it is possible to find. Apart from
the prettiness of the whole as astreet
picture, compare the greater security
enjoyed by the flowers, carried as the
contrivance is by means of a pole
resting on the shoulder of the man,
to that of being ratified Over the
stones in q donkey cart to the detri-
ment of everything carried.-Gar-
deners' Chronicle.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Able Fasters and Feasters.

The Jains of India are the cham
pion fasters or long distance do
without food sect of the world.
Fasts of from 81 to 40 days are very
common among this curious sect,
and once each year a ''radimi" comes
forward and undertakes the grand
fast" a period of rs days, during
which time he allows nothing but
warm water to pass his lips. When
the fast is nee begun, the faster
will carry it to the prescribed limit
or die in the attempt. In curious
contrast to this startling feat is the
religious eating contests of the South
Sea islanders, where the competitors
actually hoop themselves like bar
rels with ropes made of grass and
bark to keep themselves from burst
ing through overeating.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13

The Things That . Woman VIII Do "a
AgHravnte . Timepiece.

The Things That . Woman VIII Do TO
AQgravste . Timepiece.
Perhaps q woman can't sharpen
pencils and throw stones in just the
orthodox way, but she can take care
Of q watch. Her m-inistrations be
gin with winding a watch, which she
never thinks of doing unless she is
going shopping or on a journey.
Then, if she doesn't break the main
spring, she tucks the watch inside
her dress, where the multitudinous
the case and where it requires a half
hours investigation when she wants
to see what time it is.
At night, when she takes of her
dress, she sends it whizzing under
the bed as she throws back her bod
ice preparatory to wrestling her
way out of it. If it stops. she isn't
at all disconnected. With a serenity
born of long experience she picks it
up and shakes it until it ticks again.
After all, it is only the unusually
careful woman who wear her watch
inside her dress, for the intricate
fastenings of the fashionable bodices
render it well nigh impossible. She
has the happy fashion of tucking it
into the pocket of her cloak or dump
ing it into the bottom of the bag she
carries about with her, and which
usually contains everything, from
cough lozenges to her marriage GER
tificate, or tucking it away, along
with half a hundred samples, her
latchkeys and small change, in her
portemonnaie.
Jewellers have wise instincts, no.
tice quickly and cater well to sweet
woman's whims. They understand
that there Is no earthly use in re-
m~onstrating with women and ex-
planning that it is their own fault
that their watches never keep accu-
rate time and are constantly in need
of repair.
No, they philosophically set about
making little purses and cardcases,
with q separate apartment for the
watch and an aperture in the outside
through which the hands may be
seen. They set them in bracelets to
be clasped about their wrist; they
introduce them into the handles of
umbrellas; they bnry them into the
heart of petals, with a pin at the
back, and last of all they have pro
duced the woman's delight-the chat
elaine.
This octopus arrangement of sill
yer and gold pins on the one side
or slides over the belt or winds CIR
dlewise about the waist, but in any
event it keeps the watch swaying
and banging against all the other
knives and smelling bottles and
shears and things with which she
burdens herself in a perfectly de-
lighted way that is warranted to
thwart the purpose of the best dis
posed timepiece ever manufactured.
There is only one other way in
which she shows her ingenuity to
better advantage than in the matter
of watch management. She can
think of a few more things to do
with a cross baby than she a with
a watch, but not many.-New York
Dispatch.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Why should We Wash?

Professor Vivian Lewes, at the Lon
don institution, furnishes the answer.
Twenty-eigh miles of sweat glands
in our skin are discharging 26 ounces
of water per day and leaving upon
the outer surface of the skin a full
ounce of solid matter. These are
aided by the oil glands of the hair,
which facilitate the adherence of ex-
ternal dirt; hence the refreshing
qualities of the morning tub, and
hence the necessity forgrease absorb
ing alkalis in soap.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
seekinr a P.inless s<par.tiop.

"Do you give gas here2" asked a
wild looking man who rushed into
q dentists Office on Clark street yes
terday morning.
I'VE do" replied the dentist.
Does it put a fellow to sleeps"
'Tt does"
Sound asleep, so you can't wake
him ups"
yes"
"You could break his jaw or
gouge out his eye, and he wouldn't
feel it,"
He would know nothing of it,"
How long does it make him stay
asleep7"
THE physical insensibility pro-
duced by inhaling the gas lasts one
minute or a little less"
II guess that's long enough. Got
1t all ready for a fellow to take9"
Eyes. Take a seat in this chair
and show me your tooth"
Tooth nothing" said the excited
caller, beginning rapidly TO remove
his coat and vest. Il want you to
pull a porous plaster of my back
Chicago Tribune.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Eall'a Foliage.

There r many beautiful legends
connected with the foliage of the dy-
ing year. The Housatonic Indians
believed that the stars in the dipper,
which, by the way, is called in Eng
land Charles wain-wagon-were
men hunting. They began the chase
early in the spring, and it lasted all
the summer. But in the autumn
they succeeded in wounding the great
bear, and his blood, dripping upon the
leaves, dyed them crimson. Our Gus
tom of using evergreens at Christmas
came from the Druids, who thought
that in taking the mistletoe and hol-
ly into their houses they were intro
ducing the good spirits who would
bring them luck. Surely the treas
ures we gather in the fall, the beau
tiful leaves, the curious cones, the
punches of grass and the velvety
bulrushes, may well bring the fairies
of pleasant thoughts into our homes,
so perhaps the old Britons were not
SO far wrong after all.-New York
Times.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
The Most Attractive Route for Travellers fol
the Summer Season.

The magnificent. exclusively passenger
steel steamship. North West. running in
connection with the Great Northern rail-
way, will start from Duluth every Friday
at 4 ID. M, for Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit,
Cleveland and Buffalo, affording tourists
and travellers a charming trip over the
Great Lakes in IA floating palace. which is
Acknowledged to be a marvel OF marine
architecture. Her length is 3S6 feet and
width forty-four feet, the stateroom, dining
room, saloons and smoking room are su-
perbly appointed. There are also 1876 first
class cabins fitted up withevery knowncon-
venience for comfort. Her motive power
consists of two quadruple expansion en-
eines, 1000 horse power. There are dis
tributed throughout the ship 1900 incan-
descent lamps, 100 more than are used on
the Atlantic liner 'Campania," and she
carries a search light of 10000 candle
power.
Passengers lea ving Great Falls Wednes-
days on the atlantic Express mt 4;45 p. m.
reach Duluth in ample time to make the
ira nsfsr to the steamship.
For rates, diagrams. berths ana Al, IN
formation, apply at the Great Northern
tisket Office, No. O North Main street.
C. W. Prrs.
G. F.. DUTroN, City Ticket Agent,
GenI Agent. Helena, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
NOT PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY.
ComnoH Errors In Placing the Accent
Familiar Words

ComDon Errors In Placing the Accent I.
Familiar Words.
Why should SO many persons say
spontanightity instead of sponts-
neeity7
There is no excuse for saying ap-
pricot for apricot, or eck-quable for
e-quable, or ERIN for Erin, or ASA
hdity for asafedtida, or Ven-e-zu-el-a
for Venezuela, or Adonis (short o.
for Ado-nis Dong o., or Dian-na for
Diana dong a., or mattron or pat
iron, and so on. 1t is just as easy to
accent the last syllable as the first in
'.pre-tense." Some persons call bomb
''boom" instead of -'bum," because
the spelling seems to warrant it, but
when they call tedious ''tejus" they
have no such apparent warrant. In
the west and south the Il" in isolate
is made long, and nearly everywhere
educated persons say truck-u-lent for
true Gu lent, a-men-able for a-meen-
able, lev-ver for lee-ver and give the
sound of ~" in up instead of Il" in
it i'll such words as squirrel, stirrup
and strip. There are many words
in which the accent Is persistently
misplaced by persons who know bet
ter. 1t is common to put the accent
on the second syllable of peremptory
instead of on the first, on the first
instead of the second syllable of
coquetry, ON the second instead of
the first syllable of exemplary, etc.
Aonxr narSpnS ntana tho naaanf ON fha
first instead of the second syllable of
inquiry and do not give the Il" its
proper length. The accent in gladi-
olus should be on the second sylla-
BILE, with a long il" but many place
it on the third.
The exasperating thing about it is
that some of these persons who are
SO careless about common words
take the utmost pains to learn how
to pronounce Bouguereau and are
convulsed when they hear anybody
Inexperienced Chopin and Beethoven.
Recently they broke out with vawz
for vase, though the weight of au-
thority is against it. Knowles alone
allows it. Webster authorizes only
one pronunciation, the long IA and
kissing IS" Worcester prefers the
''z'' sound, but not the Jaw" The
improper use of the sounds of "a" is
most serious. Those who have the
courage to use the Italian or the
modified Italian "a" often use it un-
lawfully, as in cawn't and rawther.
The proper sounds of 80" particu-
larly in God, dog and some other
words, are widely ignored. The COM
mon usage is wrong in the case of
the terminal line" in the names of
chemicals, as morphine, chlorine,
iodine, aniline, benzine, ETC., all of
which should be pronounced as
though there were no final e. 1t is
morphin, not morpheen.-New York
Advertiser.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Grammatical Construction.

A small boy in knickerbockers, evil
IDENTIFY a stranger and apparently
from Boston, was lettering along a
country road in the suburbs. A gen
tleman stopped him and said:
MAY l ask the way to the station,
my little mani"
You may, sir"
The gentleman waited then for di-
rections, but as they were not forth
coming he said:
We'll, where is It'll"
Really, sir, I have not the remot-
est idea on which to form even the
slightest conjecture" came from the
lad.-Philadelphia Call.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
b

In st. Louis an expert craftsman,
judging from his style of work, en-
tered a warehouse and spent several
hours in boring a hole into an iron
safe in order to destroy the combina-
ton lock. He was, however, fright
ened away before he had completed
the job. 1t was afterward found that
the door of the safe had been left I'M
locked, and had the burglar but
grasped the knob and armed it the
door would have come open without
effort.-Exchange.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
ENGLISH FOR THE WORLD.
Humanity Wants a Muscular and q Grow
ing Language.

~
The final supremacy of English
over all the languages of the world
was tie subject of one of the most
interesting papers read before the
American Social Science association
at its Saratoga session. This is a
question about which there can be
but one opinion.
That England carries with it ele-
ments of vigor sufficient to enable
it to outlive any of the decadent
tongues of southern Europe is an
apparent fact.
From the beginning of the four
teenth century, when the Saxon
Danish of the hardy peasantry slow
ly strangled on its own ground the
masculate Norman French, it was
the virility of the Saxon tongue
low German patois, as it was-which
triumphed, just as the Saxon people,
who spoke it through long years of
bondage, fostered the spirit which
afterward gave England the COM
mercial supremacy of the world.
There can be no question as to the
general utility of English. 1t is Ma
caulay who says that the Anglo-Sax-
on is the tongue best suited to make
love, to quarrel and to drive bar
gains. General experience seems to
show that when man is not doing
one of these three things he is apt
to be asleep or dead.
There certainly must be a univer-
sal language and that, too, long be-
fore complete miscegenation makes
of the varied races of mankind one
vast people. Commerce and quick
communication demand it.
What shall this language be? The
greatest of eastern languages are
welded to ignorance and paganism
and will die with them. Latin is a
dead tongue in a mummy skin; Ital-
ian is its wrath; German is too ele-
phantine; French is too mincing.
Were Russian spoken wherever the
black twin eagles float the Anglo
Saxon, might, in the Slavonic, meet
its only formidable rival.
No artificial gibberish will fetch
and carry for the world. Volapuk,
that dialetic bugaboo, died because
it had no virility. 1t did not develop.
1t was conceived of a bookworm and
pieced together of odds and ends in
the vocabulary shop of AN ~intellec-
tual Frankenstein. 1t was like the
laboratory wheat, which seems to
taste we'll, but won't grow if you wa
ter it "a thousand years.
The world wants no infant and no
dotard. 1t wants "a live, muscular,
growing language, and English is
that language. 1t girdles the globe
today, and is fast binding, link by
link, the great civilizing elements OF
society into II vast, amalgamated
whole.-Newark Advertiser.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13

Showers of fish and frogs are toler-
ably well authenticated. The living
creatures were PROBABLY taken from
their native element by a cyclone
or waterspout, were transported
through the air and finally dropped
with the rain.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13

In 1920 the population of Canada,
including Newfoundland, was $40,
600; in 1887 it was 5000, 900, doing a
business of f43, 600, 600 and having a
revenue e., 600, 600, and IL, 7SS miles
of railroad.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
Giving Himself Away.

Mrs Lovesique tenderly) You
never would marry again, would you,
dearie, should your little wife die2
Mr.. Lovesique (abstractedly)-
Marry again. Great Scottl Ishould
say not. A burned child breads
(Recollecting HIMSELF. Pshaw, Of
course not. Why do you ask such
silly Observation-Disclosures Times.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13

The manuscripts of Pope's trans
lation of the .'Iliad" and Odyssey"
are preserved in the British museum
in three large volumes. Most of each
work is written ON the backs of let
tiers. Among these are epistles from
Addison, Steele, Rowe, Young and
many other celebrities.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13

The Phoenicians were the first col.
onists, and evidences of their talent
for colonization are to be found all
along the Mediterranean and the sea-
board of western Europe and north
western Africa.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
A Bell Chime steam whistle.

The bell chime steam whistle con-
sists in producing three distinct
tones, pitched, for illustration, to the
first, third and fifth of the common
musical scale. thus giving an agree
able musical chord. 1t is more pen
etrating than the common whistle
and al be heard farther Hard
ware.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-13
NOT QUITE CONSISTENT.

When the rains a-tumblin down,
Amt no sunshine anywhere.
Wet as thunder in the town,
sky looks gloomy over there.
In the streets you nearly drown.
You're jes' lonely all the time
When the rains a-tumblin down.
Don't you wish the sun 'ud shine?
When the sun is warm an bright,
An it's hot as 1t kin be.
Not a shady spot in sight,
An you're wishin longingly
Fer the breezes fresh an light
Jes' to cool your heated brain
When the sun is warm an bright,
Don't you kinder long fer rain?
H. b.. McMeal in Detroit Free Press.