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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
SUDDEN WEALTH.
n. s. Sherard Reported to Have Struck II
Rich In Africa.

Sundays eastern papers published
the following dispatch from St
Louis, which cannot fail to be of
interest i'm these parts. owing to the
fact that the III. $. Sherard mentioned
can be none other than the party of
that name who was for a year or so
i'm charge of the Gilt Edge mine i'm
Fergus county, and consequently
quite well known i'm this city:
Benjamin Harrison, citizen of
South African mining fever and a
$500 investment realized 100000 or
more for him. This interesting in
formation was CLEANED this after
noon from III. S. Sherard of Helena,
Mont, who has just returned from
South Africa and is now en- route to
New York. He is a mining engineer,
and two years ago a syndicate COM
posed of ex-President Harrison,
John C. Wright of the Chase National
bank of New York city, and others
sent him to. the gold fields of the
dark continent to examine a piece of
mining property.
Lately the mine was sold and Mr.
shares i'm the new company to be
formed. Sir Richard Brown of the
Bank of England, bought the prop
erty for $750,000 and issued to the
syndicate 10000 shares of stock in
the new company. John c. Wright
received about half and the remain
der was divided between ex-Presi-
dent Harrison, the Chase National
bank and minor stockholders
The story is hardly credited by
some in this city who We're intimately
connected with Sherard i'm business
way. They claim he has not been
out of the United States since he
severed his connection with the Gilt
Edge management about two years
ago. When last heard from he had
charge of a stamp mill i'm California
Great Falls Tribune. The ARGUS
has received several letters from Mr..
Sherard written from points i'm Cali
fornia and Arizona during the past
few months and does not believe that
the gentleman as referred to in
the above article is the one known
i'm these parts. though we trust that
it is.
INEIANAPoLIs, Nov. I7.-John c,
Wright, when shown this dispatch
from St Louis today stating that
|ex-president Harrison had realized
800, 900 out of an investment of 500,
said it was a regular Baron Mum
chausen story; nothing i'm ii what
ever.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28

Penland was reported as shooting at
her husband, they living upon a
ranch about eight miles north of
Bozeman, and from that day to this
she has been constantly before the
public airing the family row which
started with the bullet which struck
her husband i'm the leg upon that
morning. Neither would have the
other arrested, and so nothing was
done about the shooting. Later,
however, it developed that this affair
was owing to Penland having be-
come infatuated with the young
daughter of a neighboring ranchman
and her being frequently at the Pen
land home, and they more loving
toward each other than was wise,
had been more than Mrs. Penland
could stand, and there followed a
row over this which resulted i'm the
shooting. Then as soon as Penland
got well he eloped with the young
ranch girl. Miss Florence Cook, and
was married to her in Livingston,
from which place he went to Lewis
town, in Fergus county, to there
establish him new home. Mrs.
Penland followed the couple there
and had Penland arrested, but a
change i'm venue then occurred. Pen
land said that Ola b. was not his
wife, that he had never been married
to her and as Mrs. Penland could
not prove that she had, the case was
dismissed, she failing to get a charge of
adultery established against Penland,
although she attempted to do SO.
Mrs. Ola b. then returned to BOzeman
and tried to get evidence of her mar
riage to Penland, spending a number
of months making herself prominent
here by her methods of procedure i'm
her unvailing efforts i'm trying to get
proof of her marriage or evidence
which should incriminate Penland.
Now comes the sequel, however, the
happy ending of this long story of
love, passion and estrangement, the
end being a most pleasant one to all
concerned, as Mrs. Ola B. Penland
left for Los Angeles, Cal, on Wednes-
day morning. where she will meet
her future husband and be again
welded for better or for worse, the
man i'm the case being a Mr.. Thomp-
son, ii is understood, of Los Angeles.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
To Enrich the Soil.

/ saw a field of rich, green clover grow
It's blossoms honey-laden for the bee.
And turning to the owner, who stood by,
asked what time the harvest should be.
Twill not be gathered in" How then"
l cried,
Have you no recompense for all your toll?
The farmer smiled; he was more wise
than /;
II pillow it under to enrich the soil"
And all at once / seemed to see more clearly
Some things that / had tried to compre-
hend.
Hast not the heart like the broad field it's
growths
That never seem to reach their destined
ends2
Its early dreams that perish unfulfiled?
Its youthful hopes that vanish ere their
prime?
Its fond affections and it's tender love.
Borne down before their perfect blossom
time?
mused on these. and as / turned my feet
Back to the city, with it's swift turmoil,
smiled and said in tranquil, sweet content.
GOD plows them under to enrich the soil"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
A MOCK JUNGLE.
Where Ferocious Wild Beasts Are to Be
PropsRated.

A wild animal stock farm i'm semi
tropical Florida is the scheme that
a circus firm Is talking of starting.
The land, plot about six miles
square, has been surveyed, it is said,
and the firm proposes to go ahead
next fall and turn the circus animals
out tn jungle, instead of going into
winter quarters. The circus men
claim that not only can they i'm this
way provide themselves with wild
animals, instead of being Obliged to
go to Africa and India for specimens,
but in addition they expect to be
able to supply animals for the zoolOgi-
cal exhibits of the country.
The firm claims to have secured an
option on a tract of land in the ex-
treme southern part of Florida.
about one-hah of it the thickest,
densest swamp jungle possible to
imagine An old traveller in India
and Africa, who was sent there to
look the ground over. says it COM
pares favOrably with any jungle he
has ever seen i'm the Orient.
The entire section of land will be
divided by solid walls of strong iron
fencing, SO as to keep animals that
will not affiliate separated. 1t is
proposed to first lay strong founda-
ton, then build low wall of brick
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
THE BOUNTY FUND.
A Deficiency of $4,000 in the Fund Up to
Date.
Helena Independent.1


Bounty claims are coming into
the secretary of states Office at "a
great rate, and the busy season is
just about commencing. The boun-
ties on wolves and coyotes fixed by
the legislature is $3 head. Up to
last evening the secretary had re-
ceived claims aggregating S5S,OOO; of
that amount $4,000 has been paid.
and there will probably be available
81, 200 more. This leaves a shortage
of about $4,000 up To date.
From reports that come in from
some sections. hunting wolves il
quite an industry. That was the
idea when the law was passed, SO
that the ranges would be cleared of
the pests. The other day a man
came into the secretary's office who
said he had been driven off an Indian
reservation where he had been hunt
ing coyotes. There was n great lot
of them, he said, land they were
Just coming down from the noun
tains in droves."
While the state will pay good
many dollars for wolf pelts the
amount expended will not equal the
sums lost in the last few years by
the stockmen from the depredations
of wolves and coyotes. The fund is
raised by a special levy on live stock
and i'm addition five per cent. of the
license fund from the various counties
goes into the bounty fund.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
God-Like Daniels Retort.

Daniel Webster was a firm be-
lever in the superiority of Northern
brains, as compared with the gray
matter" contained i'm the heads
south of Mason and Dixon's line.
This conviction led to many earnest
discussions often replete with wit.
Upon a certain occasion one of these
disputes occurred in the United States
senate chambers
Mr.. Webster had been getting the
best of a southern senator when his,
opponent rising, went to the window
and looked out. Il say, Webster
he called, ''come here a moment. A
number of your constituents are
passing"
When Mr.. Webster obeyed the
summons he saw a drove of mules
headed in southerly direction.
''Ah, yes" he replied, promptly: Il
understand. They are going south
to teach school"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
Some Figurers Showing the Deficit Caused
by 1t.

The average daily expenditures of
81, 100000. Yet the official statement
of the receipts and expenditures of
the United States for the last day of
October, furnished by the treasury
department expended only $75,OO0.
That is an illustration of the way
i'm which the affairs of the treasury are
conducted. The treasury authori-
ties had simply withheld the pay
ment of matured obligations in order
that the deficit for the end of October
might not seem so large. This is
the method of "doctoring" the
accounts of the treasury by which
attempts are made to mislead the
public.
since the new tariff went into opera
ton, the law having gone into effect
Aug. ~, 1894. In that entire period
there have been only two months
when there was not a deficit. Yet
there have been many months when
the treasury has refused to pay
overdue obligations in order that,
for temporary political effect, there
might be an apparent surplus. This
was the case i'm the months of June
and September last. June was the
closing month of the fiscal year. 1t
was deemed desirable. i'm order that
administration officers and Demo-
cratic orators might not be so much
embarrassed by the failure of their
predictions. and that the Democratic
party might, as they thought re-
ceive less injury. Expenses were
withheld and a fictitious surplus
made to appear for effect upon the
campaign. The record of the treasury
themselves convict authorities Of
this Juggling with the figures. In
the month succeeding the June
surplus the deficit was -. 9.47S, 1866,
and i'm the month succeeding the
September ''surplus" deficit was
sc, ,161 ,O64. During the fourteen
months i'm which the Wilson law has
been in operation the deficit has
been $40. .236, ,391. or u monthly average
of $5,Ol6,SS
A comparison of the operations of
the first fourteen months of the new
tariff with the first fourteen months
of the McKinly law results greatly to
the advantage of the Mckinly act.
The Mckinley law took effect Oct. /,
1880. The receipts from it for the
first fourteen months were $423.-
go ,6S6, while i'm the first fourteen
months of the Wilson law the receipts
were only $347. .1OO,247. The receipts
under the Wilson law We're $76.S52,
439 less than those under the McKin-
ley law for the same period. During
the first fourteen months of the
Mckinley law the expenditures were
1896, III, leaving a surplus of
So. .0SS 1863, while during the first
fourteen months of the Wilson law
the expenditures were $417 .336, ,6:,S,
causing a deficit of $40, ,:..,6, ,39l. The
average monthly surplus under the
Me Kinley law i'm it's first fourteen
months was $2.OO6.2S2 per month,
while the average monthly deficit
i'm the first fourteen months of the
Wilson law was $5.016.SS5.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28

The BoZeman correspondent of the
Standard writes as fol-
lows concerning a woman who is
well known by the officers of this
county as well as many Lewistown
citizens. 1t will be remembered that
the ARGUS published a letter from the
woman i'm August last, telling her
side of her domestic troubles:
Mrs. Ola b. Penland il character
in the history of Gallatin county to
long be remembered by the residents
of this quiet agricultural district.
First she came before the public as
an authoress, having written a book
entitled .'The Young Wife; or Should
She be Forgiven" and although
much advertised and talked about,
bringing her into much notoriety, it
was never published. Then Mrs.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
GOOD ADVICE.

Every patriotic citizen should give his
personal effort and influence to increase
the circulation of his home paper which
teaches the American policy of Protec-
ton. 1t is his duty TO aid in this respect
in every way possible. After the home
paper is taken care of, why not SUBJ
scribe for the AMERICAN ECONOMIST,
published by the American Protective
Tariff Leaguef One of its correspon-
dents says: "No true American can
get along without it. I consider it the
greatest and truest political teacher in
the United States"
Send postal card request for free
sample copy. Address Wilbur F. Wake
man, General Secretary, I35 West 23d
st., New York.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
Whiskey Ruined Him.

Helena News: The daily papers
have told how Eugene Stanley,
whose right name was Il. W. DAILY,
died by his own hand Thursday of
last week, the day he was to be
sent to Deer Lodge. In a letter to
DIR. Salvail he said: ''Whiskey has
been my ruination." From the black
depth of the polluted stream which
had overwhelmed him, he cried out
to those who We're following i'm his
way, that they. travelling along the
brink, might take warning i'm time.
How many more must the black
waves of drunkenness drown body
and soul forever?
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28

jerome X. Jerome has writ N a
series of short stories for The Ladies'
Home Journal. They will be pub
lished during the ensuing few months,
under the caption of ''StOries of the
Town" Mr.. Jerome portrays we'll
known types or characters in these
stories, the first of which he calls
"Blase Billy" The series is interest
ing from the fact that it constitutes
the first short stories that Mr.. jerome
has ever written directly for an
American periodical.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: A wheat
crop of 5OO.OOO,OOO bushels. a corn
crop of 2,2OO. 100000 bushels and an
oat crop of s25,OOO,OOO bushels indi-
cate that the year 1895 in the United
States has been a pretty good one
for farming. Nearly all other produc-
tions of the soil have done as well,
and politics will catch up next year
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28

Dandruff forms when the glands of
the skin are weakened, and If neg
lected, badness is sure to follow.
Halls Hair Renewer is the best pre-
ventative.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-11-28
Dissolution Notice.

The copartnership heretofore ex-
isting between j. c. Scott and q. w.
Anderson under the firm name of
Scott & Anderson is this day dis
solved by mutual consent Out
standing accounts can be paid either
party.
j. c. SCOTT,
G. w. ANDERSON.
Dated Nov. 22, 1895.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14

V-~s viva A@4oAefA ~ lla - %fV,f>r ~s-TsT
the Phoenix Insurance Company, OF
Hartford, Conn.
Always take bucket with you
when you 20 to fire, should be
your first thought. All the surround
ing community and even many from
the neighboring towns were repre-.
sented Mt the fire, and did good SER
vice. The bucket brigade is II grand
body to depend on, and all seemed
willing, yea more than willing, as all
good people are to save and protect
home and freside. But their work
was specially favored by providence,
there was scarcely any air stirring,
and tho fire occurred early in the
evening about dusk, when every.
body was up and astir, but this may
not always be the case. Should u
| fire break out on stormy night the
greater part of our town would be
swept away. This should admonish
us that we ought to provide some
thing better and more effective for
fighting and quelling the fire demon
than simply the bucket. If nothing
better, let us provide ourselves with
hooks and ladders. -.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14
He Won't Need an Oyercoat,

We frequently receive notice from
the postmasters of different towns
saying "your paper addressed to so
and SO is not taken out, but remains
dead at this Office giving asareason
refused" or moved away from
here" This is about the mcanest
way for IA subscriber to beat the
publisher out of the price of sub
scription, and there is not one case
in hundred in which he does not
owe from one to two years Mt the
least. We don't know of any treat
ment that would do Justice to a
man of this type. However, we
have one consolation in the fact that
when he dies-well, he won't need
to take an overcoat with him any
way.-Philipsburg JOurndI
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14
MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO.; PA, NOVEMBER H. 1896.
APES EUERY WEEK FOR So PER YEAR THIS INCLUDES THE OS
The Teachers Institute Proceedings.

The full proceedings OF the 3sth
annual session of the Snyder County
Teachers Institute will be published
in pamphlet form. The Institute
opens December 2ud 1895 and con-
tinues during the week. There will
be an edition Of 500 and it will cir
culate among the teachers and di-
rectors of Snyder county aud else
where. The book will contain about
40 pages. A limited number of
pages will be reserved for advertise
mepts.
The publication of the second vol
ume will be undertaken, not because
we met with the proper encourage
ment last year, but with the hope
of getting it this year. The under
taking was new one for this coun-
ty, but it is what other counties in
this state have done for many years
past, In order to institute pro.
gressive movement it was necessary
for us to make considerable of sac
rifice of time aud money and yet we
learn from list of last years teach
ers that "a OF them failed to sup.
port the movement. In one district
that employs six teachers only one
paid for copy Of the proceedings
and that teacher was lady. The
lady teachers supported the move
ment of progressiveness more freely
than the male teachers, only one
being delinquent. The movement,
of course, was new one and it al
ways takes time to institute new
movements and il is with this idea
and the encouragement Of the ma
jority of teachers that we again un-
dertake this task. We are glad to
announce to the directors and pa
t~pns that most of the teachers sup
Z "A the tirst volume aud We trust
" s.Ssytks fshers will this, pear
Join hands D cry pussiblc
encouragement to the preservation
Of the records.
The names of the teachers and the
directors and the full proceedings
will be published in this book. The
price for each teacher will be very
reasonable. We trust that the en-
tire teaching force will support this
progressive movement.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14

Samuel Wittenmyer, Jr., of Buck
nell Academy spent Sunday with his
parents at this place.
II. Oppenheimer, Selinsgrove, has
a full and complete line of Nc
Intoshes on land. Call to see them
Anyperson desiring to see II. III.
Leitzell should call ut James
Ayers residence, one door east of
Garman's shoe store.
"MIsTAKEN SOULS VINO DREAM OF
BLISS. The following marriage Ii
censes have been granted since our
last publication
yChas. w. Walter, Union county,
Nora Baily, Monroe Twp.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bailey has dispos-
ed of her farm in Washington town
ship, to Jonathan Grubb, Centre
township, for $4,000. The an
nouncement in this paper last week
that the farm was sold to John
Bailey, was correct at that time.
Courier.
The Richmond Recorder says =
1T is curious how much faster q
street car humps along when you
are running after it than when you
are riding on it," II is also curious
how much faster the ATLANTA Spec
iar actually moves than it appears
to one riding on it, to do; but the
explanation is plain-the Seaboard
Air Line road-bed is 80 perfect that
trains move over it at speed of &C
miles an hour without Jolt or jar.
The "Atlanta Special is the Sea-
board Air Lines Vestibuled Limit.
ed Train, operated solid between
Washington, d. G. and Atlanta. Ga,
via fredericksburg, Richmond. and
Petersburg, Va, and Raleigh, N. G.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14

Mrs. John Rocky and child of
Bellefonto spent Sunday with David
Ocker and wife.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERs.- The de-
hnqucnt taxpayers of AIiddleburgh
should pay their taxes within twenty
days from the date of this notice,
especially the taxes of 1894. BY so
doing you will save yourself trouble
and costs. You can meet me Mt my
residence, Saturday, Nov. 23rd and
3Oth and Dec. 7th between the hours
of 8 and 7 o'clock, Z. Nj,
G. III. STEININGER,
Nov. IA, 1894. 2t, Tax Collector.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14

John Romig, Sr, another of Penn
Townships oldest citizens, died on
Sunday morning, after confine-
ment to his bed for period of three
years. He was well known through
out the county having served one
term as County Commissioner OF
.this o0untys He was born July 81,
|1s1s, hauce hn age at sbs timeo his
Heath was ~ vaer;; d'y
days. For many years Mr.. Romig
resided in Buffalo Valley, Union
county, but most of his life has been
spent in this county. His home has
been on the summit of Sand Hill on
the road leading from SelinsGrovo
to Freeburg.
Three children survive him, John,
Henry and Isaac II daughter inter.
married with Thomas Kantz having
died anumber of years ago. He il n
brother Of Andrew Romig, who re-
sides near Schoch's Mill.
Mr.. Romig was kind and affable
gentleman and spent his declining
years in leisure and fishing, one OF
his favorito ways of passing time.
The funeral took place from his late
residence on Wednesday morning
at nine o'clock when a large number
of his many friends paid their last
tribute of respect to his memory.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14
"She Do Not Even Hesitate "

RALEIGH PREss-NIsIroRD
THE negro of this region can of
ten throw in n word to describe II
situation when a scholar who is CON
versant with many languages would
fail. The other day at a station on
the Seaboard Air Line, this side of
Hamlet, n lady approached, and, be
ing stranger and seeing an old ne
gro man, asked Uncle does the yes
tibule train stop here 2" mo, marin"
answered the old coon, ''she do not
even hesitate"
The old darkey's reply will be bet
ter appreciated when it is remember
ed that the Seaboard Air Line Yes
tibuled Train is the fastest train in
the South-leaving Washington, as
it does, at s 40, p. NJ, and reaching
Atlanta at 4:O9, p. NJ, the next day.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14
COMBINATIONS.


a. We will send the y. Y. Weekly
IribuRe, The Boston 1rdUcier
Ctwice II week. and the Posi- all one
year this makes four papers every
week. for only two dollars.
(2.) We will send the Farm NewS,
(monthly), Womankind, monthly,
The n. Y. Tribune Tor the Boston
IraUelcy) and the PosT all one year
for only two Dollars. If.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-14
Our Clubbing List.

We have made arrangements with
n number of newspapers to club
them at reduced rates in connection
with the Posi-. The figures in the
first column represent the regular
price of the paper and in the second
column is the price of that paper
with the PosT: