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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-30
Japanese Women Nursax


The petition has been made by num-
Der Of Japanese women to the Emperor
to enroll them as army nurses and send
them to the seat Of war, and so wise a
man as Mutsuhito will not | feel sure.
says correspondent, refuse so admir-
able suggestion. Cooks are taught some.
times, statesmen made, poets nlanuract.
ured as often as not, but nurses are
born. The knack of nursing is gift
from God. Japanese women have this
gift to delightful degree Physically,
they are ideal nurses. Their voices ire
sweet. low and clear Their movement
is gentle and graceful. Their touch is
cool, but comfortable, soft, comforting.
They have not a single quality among
them that could rasp the sorest nnr:cs.
A Japanese girl (now the wife Of lieu,
tenant in the Japanese navy) used to
make illness perfect treat to NE when
W: were girls ut school together. 1t was
Il Zig family ours, almost THOUSAND, If
l remember. but Singh nursed us all,
from the lady principal to the college
cat. We always thought her inSrir"i
with a gentle, loving talent for helping
and soothing the sick. Certainly. she
was the best nurse l ever knew; but
when l came to live in Japan learned
that every Japanese woman is an al
most ideal nurse. The Chinese hospitals
ore hells of horror. The Japanese hos
pitfalls are heavens of hower-perfumed
rest and consolation. The women of
japan will excel always and everywhere
in the llolier half of war-the binding Of
wounds. the staunching of blood flow, the
decent shrOuding of the dead.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-30
C6cos Before Breakfast.

The woman who is awakened by the
hrst streak of dawn will do we'll to drink
a hot cup of cocoa, if many hours are to
elapse before, breakfast is served. Cocoa
furnishes both food and drink and is cas-
liy dlgested by most people. 1t will relieve
any faint feeling and give one the neces-
SarF Strength to tlfess. The cocoa may
be made the hight before and can be heat
"a ia three minutes over an alcohol lamp.
II me cocoa as made with fresh milk it
VIII keep perfectly over night.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-30
The Newest Styles in Rings.

There will be many new and beautiful
designs in rings this fall and winter. The
little finger will lead all it's fellows as
wearer Of rings. Its most frequent adorn-
ment will be the ''pinky hoop dainty
circlet of the finest gold. set with FIVE
stones. These stones are those generally
appropriate to- the birth month of the
wearer: Thus, a girl who first saw the
light of day amid the showers of April
W, VIII have diamonds in her .'pinky,'", while
Der will choose thestopaz for hers The
stones are usually small. about half ID
.afat. and the ring is cheap and effective.
Tie edlchess' aad the princess" are 9th
er new designs:
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
Highest of all in Leavening PowerIatest u s Govt Report
RH!A!:'!,!!. q. BskiRg Bs&5sgz
ABSOLUTELY PURE

dorf said he could clean away one
fourth of it, and still got poor -four,
but when the same wheat goes in Mr..
Fergus name they cleaned out as low
as three pounds to the hundred and
made the best OF flour. This seems a
little strange to me, but perhaps if |
were miller it would beplain enough.
AT any rate they kept my thirteen
pounds and gave Mr.. Fergus his three
pounds; maybe that had something
to do with it. They gave me the
privilege of keeping mine if L would
give them 1Oc. 100 pounds for clean
ing it. Mr.. Fergus they cleaned for
nothing.
A few words more and | am done.
Mr.. Fergus says we ought to be able
to keep out Dakota wheat. l have
Just received letter from friend OF
mine in South Dakota stating that he
was obliged to sell his wheat for 45c.
per bushel and also to let his farm go
on a mortgage. Now 1 for one am
willing to quit raising wheat il we have
got to raise it at that price or any
where near it in order to satisfy Mr..
Stiles, for don't think he deserves it
after the way he has treated the
ranchers. Why not quit raising wheat
until Mr.. Stiles is willing to do his
part. We can surely do better by 60
ing into the sheep business, or any
other business will pay better than
raising wheat at a cent pound.
f. T. CoLvER.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
English Cleanliness.

Uncleanliness is the worst of sins
in the English eyes. 1t is in Eng
land, of all European countries, that
cleanliness is esteemed next to godli-
ness. The Frenchman's paradoxical
exclamation, What a dirty nation
the English must be that they are
forever bathingp is not as funny as
it seems The Englishman is the
finest animal on earth, and it Is be-
cause other nations forget that one
must be a fine animal before he can
be fine man that the English have
outstripped them in colonizing the
world and imposing on it their par
ticular forms of culture and man.
ners. The fogs and smoke would
make the English the dirtiest people
on earth, as their ignorant classes
show, if they were not instinctively
the cleanest. 1t is to the magic OF
the tub and the towel that the match
less complexions and superb figures
of the English women is due.-New
York World.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
Such Opportunity for buying GOOD GOODS Cheap should not be Overlooked

wheat would be likely to remain in
the bin another year, Mr.. Colver was
anxious to sell it and named a price.
Mr.. Stiles was asked for terms. His
first were not satisfactory. He was
written to again and he replied, not
in the best humor, but Offering better
terms, which were accepted. Made an
arrangement then with Mr.. Colver,
taking large quantity of the flour at
his own price, paying him cash for the
same, he keeping the rest and the offal.
1t was simply ground for me and in
my rame, that is all. Now Mr.. Stiles
is blamed for giving me a better clay
out" as they call it, than he offered
Mr.. Colver. There is this to say in
his favor. | was a millwright, foun-
dry man and machinist in my younger
days, had built, furnished machinery
for and been connected with FIGURING
mills, had raised wheat in Minnesota
and twenty-seven seasons in Montana,
had taken great interest in getting q
mill here and had given Mr.. Stiles the
benefit of all my experience. He was
therefore under more obligations to
me than he was to Mr.. Colver and in
fact had offered me a present of flour
on two occasions which were declined,
but his offer for grinding was accepted
and my friend Mr.. Colver got the ben
eft of it. Let all the facts come out,
let miller and farmer understand each
other. 1t may be a benefit to all in
the end, but let us avoid personalities.
JAMES FERGUS.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
Automatic Writing.

The sister of Washington young
woman died two years ago. The sur
vivor was sitting at a desk one day
with a pencil in her hand, when all
at once she felt sharp thrill like
that caused by the application of an
electric battery, and spontaneously,
without any impulse on her own part,
she began to write. She rolled off
page after page until she had written
several hundred words. The matter
purported to be message from her
sister and was composed of elevated
thought, expressed in most felicitous
English. This message was followed
by a number of others at different
times. The young Lady and her par
ents were of very practical turn or
mind. They had never had anything
to do with spiritualistic matters and
were as much mystified by the phe-
nomena as any one could be- 1t is
certain that the young lady, who Is
very young, could not produce work
of such high literary quality. There
was no reason for fraud, as the peo-
pie are of the highest character and
the manifestations were made known
only to a few.-Chicago Post
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
Asserted His Rights.

A Maine man home from Boston
says there's good deal of talk about
being run over by the street cars.
but they didn't dare run over him.
why" he exclaims innocently and
with proper personal pride, Il stood
right on the track when one of
them dummed skypole cars came
a-buzzing along, and / thought I'd
Just see if they'd run over me. They
hollered and yelled for me to get off
the track, out didn't bulge an inch,
for had as much right there as they
had, and they just hauled the thing
up stock still afore they got to me.
ALI a mans got to do is to stand up
for his rights, and them Boston fell
lers dassn't run over him" And he
looked just as if he believed there
was no danger.-Lewiston Journal.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
THE PLOT THIcKENs.
Mr.. Fred Colver States Some Incontrovertabls
Facts in the Wheat Controversy.
MAIDEN, Feb. 5, 1894.

MAIDEN, co. d, 1OOt.
JAMES FERGUS, Dear Sir: As you
have started the subject of wheat
raising in the Judith basin and have
taken the miller's side of the ques-
tion, please allow me to make few
remarks on the opposite side. We
will start at the beginning and treat
the matter as we 60.
In the first place Mr.. Stiles had the
pleasure of selling us seed wheat at
four cents per pound. And when
bought my seed of him he made the
statement that he had no doubt but
what he would give 1hc. per pound,
and &c. if he could. But he would not
agree to any certain price.
Now. did he keep his word? Every
rancher can say no, for before the
grain was in the shock he came out
with statement in the ARGUS that
he would give 14c. That shows he
never intended to pay more, if he
could help it. And then in the next
place, how long did he buy wheat!
Not over four weeks. Why did he not
keep on buying? For this reason:
He saw that if he did not buy the
wheat the ranchers would take theiI
grain TO him anyway to get it ground
and by keeping half of it for grinding
he would not have to buy any. Ant
you might say from that on he hal
not offered fair price for wheat.
Now in the next place what kind o
treatment did rancher get when h'
took grist there. will tell you my
experience. The first grist / took Ire
ceived two sacks of good flour. Th'
next grist was eight sacks OF the poor
est kind of flour. 1t was so poor thai
the most of it went to waste. Ispok'
to Mr.. Stiles about 1t and he said
should have got good flour. Tha
was all the satisfaction got. Then
thought 1 would try it once more
That time got good flour and ono
or twice after that 1 got good -four
but each time they were small grists
Then began to have confidence ant
took q larger grist and got very poo
flour, the flour being from froste'
wheat and it would not rise at all
, At that time my wheat was over
year old and was not frosted particle
! as we will show later on. This dis
} gusted me entirely of taking grist t.
, him to get it ground into -four.
. held that wheat for two years try
) ing to realize something for it, bu
, could not Mr.. Stiles offered me Ii
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
Extensive Japanese Newspapers.

Everything is cheap in Japan but
newspapers. Those printed in the
English language are 20 centsa a copy;
weekly editions, so cents a copy;
daily papers for one year, usually $50
to S25. The newspapers quote and
copy largely from the American
press, and when a mail arrives from
America the next days Japan Mail,
Gazette and other English printed
newspapers contain a digest OF al
the topics of the day, from Judge
Gopgin's decision down to the last
railway acoident.-Chicago Record.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
The Men stiII Ahead.

DIR. Sergeant of Boston has secured
measurements of over 5000 girl stu
dents of different colleges and as
many Harvard students, with the re-
suit that he finds the normal young
man is much finer in physique than
the normal young woman. Possibly
10 years hence the comparison may
not be so much to the woman's dis
advantage, considering the increas-
ing attention paid to physical cul-
ture.-Americap Womans nlustrat-
ed World
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
THE ADAPTABLE GIRL

Go walkin with her2
You bet did.
An 'twan't like walkin;
Jest slid
Along down the pike,
Past houses an things
An people / knowed,
As eff had wings.
reckon l talked:
Leastways, s'pose
A man wants to tell
About all he knows
When he walks with a gal
An I'm on the plan
Nv yer plain. everyday,
Averidge man.
But 'twan't whut I said;
That amt ter count;
It was her, an she talked
A right peart amount
Bout the birds an the fields.
An this an that tree.
An hosses an cows,
An sometimes bout me.
She knowed all about
All sorts o. things
More'n bird knows
buuI llc oolk thdl ~ 5iA6or
An she never once rtz
Beyont the hight
whar couldn't keep her
Always in sight
amt wuth shucks
With yer larnin girls
That goes in fer high
Interlectuals;
Gimme the plain ones,
Them Is the kind
That amt too weighty
Fer my sized mind.
What's 'at2 Git outl
Yer mean ter state
That she a Wellesley
Graddiateg
An likewise that she Is
Interlectual?
Well, I'd never "a thought it
Nv that thar gall
Detroit Free Press.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15
His Crop.

what are you trying to raise
hereg" asked the traveller, and the
farmer looked up from his work long
enough to reply, "A mortgage. ~
Christian Intelligencer.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17
AN EXCITING SCENE.
FIVE OIL TANKS EXPLODE AT
BRADFORD, PA.
one Hundred People are Severely Burnt
aud Many Badly Bruised-Dr Tat
IMAGES Tabernacle Burned Again with
"A Loss of About 100000.

BRADFORD, Pa, May ID. - The
barrel house at Emery's refinery in
this city took fire Saturday afternoon
presumably by spontaneous combus-
ton, and was destroyed. The load
ing racks and five oil-tank cars stand
ing on a sidetack OF the Buffalo
Rochester and pittsburg road, were
also burned. The fire was fierce
one, and attracted immense crowds
of people from all over the locality.
While the frcmen We're making
final stand and thousands OF people
were watching them. there was
tremendous explosion. tank
car holding 400 gallons OF
benIne had let so with Il mighty
roar. Fortunately the burning ben
zine that was flung into the air in
sheets OF liquid fire, had consumed
itself before settling down over the
crowd. The explosion was followed
by a panic that cannot be described
in words. The blind, unreasoning,
pitiless instinct OF sell-preservation
showed itself, and the weak went down
before the strong in multitudes of
cases in the frantic rush to escape
what seemed to be a horrible death.
In the stampede men as well as
women and children were thrown
down and trodden over by the dying
masses that surged up from behind.
Thirty-fve of the fremen were burned
so that the skin peeled off their faces
and hands and the hair was singed off
their heads and faces. OF the men
who are slightly burned there is no
record, and the total number OF those
burned and injured in the stampede
will probably reach 100 persons, With
all the suffering this fire will cause,
the property loss will not exceed
$4,000.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

+bo iournol tho snaoker laid haforn
tho house Sartaip senate bins and
raso,ntions Armono +base ,os ras-
ointion for rrinting sooo COMES Of tho
enIogies IN Tho late Randall loo Gin
con sonotor RON fonisiana and NJ
Ricbardson oslSed nnanimons consent
for lie considora+ion NJ obioction
was made Init Mr. Rnrrows took &C.
casion N ovr,ass Tho boro that n
ston would soon bo mt n +bIs nseless
evnenditnre Of ,nonev NJ, Rurrows
thangbt mat tbe ynomhers of CON
cross novcr rood +boso enlogies
Int thar tbey either gave them
away mr. throw tbom ayav At least
be NAV n wos en- In his own
cnse Tho resolution was then AGREED
TO- The house missed the bill to
authorize the East ST Louis and st.
Louis Bridoo and Construction COM
nanv 70 b1ild a bridco across the
NisSissinni river Mt ST. Louis. The
house Iii GRANTING the Columbia irri-
cation comnnnv the RIGHT of wav
througb the Yaouima Indian reserva-
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

DuRANT, l. T., May ia family
by the name of Scott was moving in a
wagon from Lawrence, Ark, to Van
Alstyne, Tex, and camped five miles
west of this place Thursday night.
James Scott and two brothers were
sleeping in a covered wagon when g
storm came up at 1890. Lightning
struck the wagon and killed James
Scott, tore a hole in the wagon bed
and killed a dog under the wagon.
Strange as it may seem the two
brothers sleeping in the wagon by the
side of James escaped unhurt and
were not aware that the wagon had
been struck or that James was dead
until morning.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

Nine, Lao Arraga, OF the Guate-
malan legation in Washington,
speaks perfect English, says Kate
Fields Washington, having lived
for seven years in an American con-
vent school. Although the minister
himself only began to study our
language four months ago, he will
talk politics in English for hours
without his companions suspecting
that he has had only four months
experience in the tongue but few
days ago he had an engagement with
the dentist. At the last moment he
turned back to his wife, and in o
tone of despair announced; You
must go with me, / don't know any
thing about the American dictionary
on teeth, and madame had to go to
talk teeth
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 9.-Reports
from Hillhouse, Cohoamo county,
Mississippi, are to the effect that a
serious race trouble is imminent. A
white planter named Lombard inter
fered and prevented mob of negroes
from lynching one of their own color.
Since then his gin house and other
buildings have been burned and at
present both sizes are armed and
the blacks are swearing ven
geance. The place is remote from
railroads and telegraphs, and the
blacks number about fifteen to one
white. Considerable apprehension is
felt for the outcome of the trouble.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 10.-The house
committee on labor yesterday consid-
cred representative McGann's reso-
luton for the appointment of Joint
committee to investigate the cause
of the industrial depression. Coxey
was allowed to address the committee
in favor of his bills for the con-
struction of roads and the issuance
of non-interest bearing bonds Coxey
answered various questions regarding
the bills and said their passage
would solve the industrial Ques-
ton and set all men at Work. !. Il.
Dean member of the executive COM
snittee of the National Farmers Ali
ance, followed with recital OF the
depressed condition OF labor.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 10.-After
receiving three formal notices to quit
work, which they refused to obey, the
negro miners at Milldale, Tuscaloosa
county, went out yesterday and joined
the strikers. The cause of their
yielding to the pressure was an anony-
nous note posted about the mine
Tuesday night, which read "You
have been given three notices to quit
work. If you do not obey them by
tomorrow morning you will not live
to disobey long" The notice was
decked with skull and cross-bones
and purported to be signed in blood
with drawn dagger.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

GALEsBURG, ILL.,, May 12.-The
probability is the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy will be the first company
to run passenger train from Chicago
to the Missouri river with oil as fuel.
In the Aurora yards the engines are
now being supplied with apparatus to
this end, and Superintendent F. Q.
Rice reports the experiments as very
successful. He is enthusiastic over
the advantages oil gives, being cleaner
lasting longer and leaving more space
for water, thus making longer trips
possible, He says the company en-
gines can speedily be put in shape to
burn oil.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE snail
pace in the senate continues, and the
"era of business is still a broken
promise. Tuesday, after two days
debate, the duty on acetic acid was
agreed to, Friday, after seven hours
OF work, the fate of boracic acid,
chronic and citric acids were decided
and Saturday after five hours of
work the rates on fannie and tartaric
acids and alcoholic perfumery, in
GLIDING cologne and other toilet
waters, were fixed.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE SOM
bre elements of mourning covered
the desk of Representative Robert +.
Brattan of Maryland, on which lay
bunch of roses, when the house met
yesterday. The message of the pres
ident transmitting Hawaiian corre-
spondence, received Wednesday, was
laid before the house. Some routine
busiaessewas transacted and Mr.. KEN
OF North Dakota called up the house
bill for ~ resurvey of Grant and
Hooker counties, Nebraska, and asked
unanimous consent for its considera-
ton. The house bill granting the
railroad companies in the Indian ter
ritory additional powers to obtain
right of way for depot grounds was
passed, Mr. Talbot, Democrat. OF
Maryland, briefly announced the death
of his colleague, Mr.. Brattan, and
offered the customary resolutions.
The resolutions were adopted and the
speaker appointed the following com
mittee to attend the funeral: Messrs.
Talbot of Maryland, Jones of Vir-
ginia, Causey of Delaware, Berry OF
Kentucky, Meyer of Louisiana, Hep
burn of Iowa and Hudson of Kansas,
and the house then adjourned.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE idea is
growing here that the Democrats in
the senate cannot pass tariff bill at
all. What the bill will be when it
passes the senate, il it passes at all, no
one can even guess. and what it will
be then will be of little interest, for
the conference committee will present
an entirely different bill to that passed
by the senate. That body can then
drivel again on the conference report.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

SPOKANE, Wash, May l2.-United
States Marshal Pinkham has gone 10
Sand Point on a special train with
twenty deputies and fifty United States
regulars, At that point there is
drawbridge over which point Pinkham
will establish headquarters. All Great
Northern trains will stop at the bridge
and will not be allowed to pass until
stripped of every tramp who may be
trying to steal ride.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17

He was a justice of the peace but
that did not prevent his falling in
love with pretty widow, and ask
ing her to marry HIM.
"But this is so sudden" she said,
"you must give me time
lie was afraid OF a rejection and it
upset him so he said hurriedly in a
Official voice:
Ninety days and costs. Next
case.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-05-17
A NEW RULE SCHEME.
AN EFFORT TO PUT ON A SU-
GAR RIDER


WAsHGNGToN, May 14.-An interest
ing question will be presented to the
house this week when the committee
on rulos, of which Speaker Crisp is
chairman, reports on the resolution of
Representative Breckenridge OF Ar
kansas for a new rule submitting a
tarill amendment on sugar as a rider
to one OF the appropriation bills. The
committee has not yet acted on the
resolution, but Mr.. Breckinridge has
no doubt the rule will be framed. He
says there has been no hurry about
it, as the legislative, judicial and
executive appropriation bill will
not be presented fol several days.
1t is on this bill that it is purposed to
attempt to engraft the sugar amend
ment. The rule, after being framed
by the committee, will have to be
passed by the house. The Louisiana
delegation in congress are alive to the
Importance of the new rule. They do
not want the rules committee to re-
port, and if reported, they will seek
to defeat it in the house. They will
urge that a tariff rider to an appro-
priation bill is without precedent;
that it IS an unjustifable confusion of
tariff it'll appropriations, and that
such rider at the present time would
be reelection by the house on the
senate.