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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
Lincoln Bucks for Sale.

The Fergus Live Stock & Land Co.
will have about q hundred grade
yearling Lincoln bucks for sale at the
fair grounds during the Fair.
1.-THE above lot of bucks are still for
sale at the Fergus ranch. They were
not at the Fair because of the ina
bility of the company to spares man
from the ranch to drive them to
town.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
For Sale.

Five hundred high grade bucks.
Sires were the famous "Bullnrd"
MerinO rams from California. Price
s. or $3.50 to pick. Also 15O head
of high grade short horn stock cattle.
SAGE CREEK SHEEP Co.,
Utica, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
House for Sale.

1 offer for sale my house on Fifth
avenue, occupied at present by Mt
John War;. House has nine rooms,
woodshed, good, dry cellar, well
barn, chicken-house, etc. includes
one-half block of land. Will be sold
cheap for cash OF part cash and bal.
ance ON time. A bargain for some
one. A. w.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
RambOuillet Rams.

One hundred and twenty head Of
the famous Rambouillet rams for sale.
Yearlings and choice. Reasonable
terms. Can he seen al HendersOn's
pasture, Billings. Call on or address,
d. G. HERvEY,
Billings, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
Great
Northern
Railway.
MONTANA POINTS,, PACIFIC
COAST AND THE EAST.

Palace Sleeping and Dining Cars,
(meals q la carte.) Library Observa-
ton Cars, Family Tourist Sleepers
and First and second-class coaches.
Direct route to the KOotenai Min
ing Country of Montana, Idaho and
British Columbia.
Connects at Duluth In summer sea-
con with Northern steamships North
West and North Land. for Mackinac,
Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo.
Connects at Seattle with steamers
for California, Alaska, Japan and
China.
Stages leave LewistOwn Mondays.
Wednesdays and Fridays at z q. m.
and connect the same night at Ben.
ton with trains going east and west.
Stages leave Lewistown daily at
1 d. m. and make connections the
following day at Great Falls with
trains going east and west.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
i
WE Invite COmParisOn.~

For WE carry only one line of goods and that is everything pertaining to a hstcaSs drug store
w have one of the best and largest aSoredd drug t0ksn the state. So w have no REASON FOR SUB
STUTNG5 AM INVITE COMPARISON
Our sk is ahaysh fresh and of the best quality in the market and w e INVITE COMPARISON
Om prescriptions department is in charge of Ued the BEST Pharmacists the State HIS DPIOMA
hang in the store WE INVITE COMPARISON
WE 10 not advertise our honest and square dealings through the papers, WE do that om business
AND INVITE COMPARISON
We thank our many pauons for past vOs. psPOmpt auendong given mano orders
&c. III. LILLIAN
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.
LEwIsrows-Moruing service. HOO: evening
serv. ce. 1880. Sunday school immedtateiy after
morning service. Christian Endeavor meeting
every Thursday evening 1t 1880.
ALBkRr PYAUs. Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
LEwIsTowN-Services at IL a. m. and 7:30
p m. every Sunday. Sunday school. 80 p. m.
Epworth League before evening service.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
BEAVER CREEK-Service at 8 p. m. first and
third Sundays of each month.
UPPER COTTONwOOD-Services last Thurs
day evening of each month at $50.
JOEL VIGUs, Pastor.
Philbrook and Ubet charge M. f. Church.
Preaching at Pleasant Valley at 1880 a. m. the
first and third Sabbaths of each month; at Phil
brook 1850 p. m. first and third Sabbath; at
Utica 3 y. m. first and third Sabbath 1880 a. M;
ubet l0:Da m. second and fourth Sabbaths;
Rock creek 3:D p. m. second and fourth. Sab
bath school, Pleasant Valley. IL 80 a. m: Phil
brook. 10 a. M; TIBET, H:O a. m; Rock creek.
ESQ y. m.
w. ID. LUTHER. Pastor.
ST. JAMES CHURCH.
Services once a month, conducted by Arch
deacon Robbins.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13

10 euro Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic.. 1oc or 80.
II g. C. G. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-10-13

We want two or three good men in your
county to sell our Minnesota Grown Nursery
Stock, Seed Corn, Seed Potatoes add Grain,
for Spring delivery. The Most liberal terms.
Three plans. Write for particulars.
The JEWELL NURSERY Co..,
Lake City, Minnesota.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
NOTHING LIKE PRINTERS INK
How 1t Once Induced James Gordon b
nett to Raise q Pressman's Salary.

How 1t Once Induced James Gordon Ben
nett to Raise . Pressman's Salary.
James Gordon Bennett is very erratic
in his movements. He "drops in" upon
his branch offices in Paris or London
without any notice being sent of his
coming. and delights to surprise the
clerks by overhauling their books ana
examining their accounts. On one OF
these occasions, says the Utica Observer,
one of the pressmen, man who had
worked for the elder Bennett, and was
an excellent workman, though guilty
of an occasional lapse from sobriety,
had bad black eye and was in q
ouandary as to what excuse he should
offer if Mr.. Bennett noticed it. Act
ing on a sudden inspiration he seized
an ink roller and rubbed daub OF ink
on the side of his face completely con-
cealinQ the discoloration of the skin.
Presently Mr.. Bennett came into the
press room, and with the superintend-
ent, John Hays, went carefully through,
criticising every detail, and looking
sharply at each employe. When about
=, leave he turned suddenly, and,
s-,inting to the besmirched pressman'
he said:
"Mr. Hays, what is that mans names?
The culprit quaked in his shoes until
Mr. Bennett said, slowly:
"I want you to give that man three
dollars per week more wages; he is the
only man in the room who looks as Il
he had been working"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
MUSICAL SANDS.
cruahsd Coral ON the Pacinc COAST An@'
Makes . Noise.

Crushed Coral ON the Pacinc COAST A".'
Makes . Noise.
A microseopical examination Of the
musical or singing" sands at hana,'
Cal, proves that they possess . pecui.
lar structure. The grains are fonno 70
be chiefly composed OF minute 1ras
ments of worn corals, being more u
less perforated with microscope noles.
In some instances these holes 1orm
t,,he of the sand grain, but in most
cases tbey end in blind cavities, when
are frequently found to be enlarged II
the interior OF the grain, and commu'
nicating with the outer surface Dy
many smaller openings.
Resides these coral fragments other
elements enter largely into the compo,
sition of the beds, principally small
BLACK fakes and crystals OF ang11e
nepheline and magnetic oxide or iron
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
N.w Terror for French Convicts.

Life in the French penal colony at
New Caledonia has been pictured rs SO
agreeable, both by reason OF the GU
mate as well rs the leniency with
which convicts have been treated, that
transportation seems to have lost most
OF it's terrors. Criminals do not con-
ceal their preference for long SEN
tence in the beautiful Pacific island TO
a much shorter term with hard labor
in one of the penitentiaries at home'
and when perpetrating misdeed have
sought as a rule to render their o1fense
ns serious as possible. 50 as to entail
transportation if captured. 1t is with
a view of putting an end to this senti-
ment that the French government mas
now decided to stop sending convlcts
to New Caledonia, and is making ar
ranpements to deport them instead to
Gaboon, the fever-stricken and most
pestilential of all districts OF french
Congoland in Africa.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
sx KETCHUM IDAHO SATURDAY AUGUST 49, 1897

the latter sometimes embedded in a
CLASSY matrix. The structure of these
grains explains, it is believed, why
sound Is emitted when they are set in
motion, viz: That friction against each
other causes vibrations in their SUBJ
stances, and consequently in the sides
OF the cavities in that portion which is
made up of the dead corals. These vi
brations being communicated to the
air in the miniature cavities under the
most favorable conditions for produc-
ing sounds, the result is a loud noise
whenever a large mass of the sand is
agitated-the millions upon millions Of
resonant cavities each contributing
its share.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
RATS ON THE RAMPAGE.
They Invade . Farmers Premises Ant
Make q Great light.

They Invade . Farmers Premises and
Make = Great Eight.
The village of President, an old-time
petroleum center, is in the Oil creek of
Pennsylvania. There is where the
Karnses, once famous family of oil
operators, had their home, and some of
them live there and thereabout yet.
One of these is Henry Karns. The
other day, early in the morning, he
heard his pig, which had reached the
proper condition for killing, squealing
in such an agonizing way in the pen
that he knew something was wrong
with it. Karns' first thought was
bear, for now and then, even at this
late date, bears venture from the dis
tant woods to the sleepy towns in that
part of the valley and try their skill on
pigs and sheep. So Karns took his gun
and hurried to the pig pen. But instead
of bears rats were the impudent in
vaders of the pig pen and hungry assail-
ants of the pig.
The stye was simply alive with rats
The pig was PROSTATE on the floor OF
the pen, and literally covered with this
horde of rats, which were squealing,
fighting among themselves for vantage
ground on the fat porker, and gnash-
ing and gnawing at the pigs flesh,
from his head to his rump. To fire his
gun into the swarming rats would be
the endangering of the pig, and think
ing that a prompt and vigorous attack
on the rats would put them to fight, he
clubbed his gun and began mauling
right and left with it. The pig had
plainly made desperate fight against
it's assailants, for scores of rats lay
dead about the pen. The moment
Karns pitched into the rats those in the
outer ranks turned on him. They came
at him in such force that he was uu-
able to fight them off, and after brief
attempt to hold his ground he turned
and fed. fastening back to the house
he drew the buckshot from his gun and
loaded it with fine shot. Returning to
the pen, he gave the great body OF rats,
shooting along the side of the pig SO as
not to injure it, the charge of both bar
rels. Many of them were swept down
before it, but their places were quickly
taken by others Karns fred five times.
The rats that were left still held their
ground.
The shots had attracted the attention
of the neighbors, who. ran to the place
to see what was going on. This arrival
of reinforcements alarmed the rats, and
the survivors retreated, scampering
away in all directions. The pig was
dead The flesh had been stripped from
it clear to the bone in many places. Its
eyes had been ,plucked out, and its
heart half eaten in two. A half-bushel
basketful of dead rats were taken from
the pen. Where the rodents came from
so suddenly in such great numbers is
not known. None of them has been
seen since.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
MILITARY SYSTEM OF GERMANY
The Country That Has Been the War
School OF Europe.

The Country That Has Been the War
School OF Europe.
The military history and successes OF
Germany have easily made her the war
school of Europe, and the scien tific de-
velopment OF the military art, to which
she is indebted for the overthrow of
Austria and France in her later wars,
has compelled the others to follow her
example and initiate her methods even
to the particulars of organization and
equipment, though unable probably to
rival her in systematic thoroughness Of
preparation and sustained attention to
detail. The system evolved by Germany
and now substantially common to all
the continental states, says the North
American Review, is as whole simple
enough, and has for its practical object
the conversion, SO far as may be, of the
entire nation into a military BODY with
the largest amount of training that the
finances and other public exigencies
will permit.
The controlling principles may be
summarized as follows: I. Liability
to service universal, and actual service
compulsory at the discretion of the
state. 2. The thorough training and
maintenance under arms in readiness
for immediate service of as large force
as practicable. 3. A secure simplicity
and perfection of organization and
equipment in every particular, large
and small. 4. The formation, as rap
idly as may be, of regular reserve,
from which the active ranks can be at
once expanded from a peace to war
footing with fully trained men. 8.
The formation and partial training ofa
militia, which in the absence of the
regular troops is to occupy garrisons
and forts, construct defenses, maintain
order at home, and supply the waste of
war by filling vacancies in the field. 6.
The enrolment of every citizen into q
force that may be levied en- masse in
case Of invasion. z. Careful study and
solution, in advance, of every possible
military complication in order that
prompt and concerted action shall fol-
low q declaration of war.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28

make deep depression by taking some
stitches through the board bottom
with carpet thread and a sailors
needle. A large furniture button or
short cord and tassel tied in bow is
sewed over the gathering. The brioche,
which originally won its name from its
resemblance in the shape to the French
cake of that name, is knitted of double
zephyr wool in stripes, 16 of them being
narrow and 16 wide, the latter narrow
ing to point at the center of the
cushion. Cast on 40 stitches in black
wool and knit seven rows of the narrow
stripe; then with an old gold color knit
two stitches and turn, knitting back to
the end of the row; continue to knit
hack and forth with the old gold, taxi
ing each time two more stitches of the
black until within two stitches of the
top. Then knit down and commence
again with black, making another mar
row stripe, knitting in the two black
stitches at the top in their turn. When
the last stripe is finished it should be
sewed or knitted to the first stripe.
These directions nre contributed by
knittcr who has had an experience of
over sixty five years, and they ought to
be reliable. But should advise anyone
who thinks them complicated to cut a
pattern of the wide or gored stripe, max
ing the top like q melon piece, and, in
knitting narrow, by taking up two
stitches together till the shape corre-
spends with the pattern. 1fthe brioche
is to be stuffed with down it must be
made with an interlining of ticking or
stout unbleached muslin, else the fill
ing will continually be escaping in fluffy
particles.-Harper's Bazar.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
Famous for It's Canoes.

Tilghman's island, a part Of Talbot
county, Md, and connected with the
mainland by bridge, is famous in the
Chesapeake region for it's canoes. The
island is about three square miles in
area. and is densely populated by q
hardy race of eastern shore men, who
rain their living in the waters OF the
bav. When ice or the laws of Mary
land interfere with their ordinary pur-
suits. the Tilghman's islanders build
canoes, and do it admirably well. The
true Chesapeake canoe isstin dugout-
Sometimes two or three logs are mol
lowed for the purpose and joined to-
pether. The result is remarkably
stanch boat, good in all waters, and al
most indestructible.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28

her and secure the signature. Then the
purchaser asked to know what she
would take and sign the deed, fearful
that she would be exacting beyond his
inclination to comply. After good
deal Of hesitancy she said she thought
she ought to have two dollars, which
he promptly handed her, and she
signed the title. She turned over the
silver dollars time and time again,
laughing over her good luck. She said:
"Well, well, this is the first money
have ever had in my life that could
call my own and spend it as may wish
to do to suit myself"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
Notice of Publication.

10 3. W. Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
Nelson F. Kirnball. your heirs, devisees
aud assigns:
:, You are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended SlG0, in the year 1895,
Ill iaoor and improvements upon the
lEXlCAN
iode mining claim in Warm Springs Greek,
95 q5 boulder, mining district, Blaine county
Lnaho, IN order to hold said premises un
yer me provisions of section 1924, Revised
statutes OF the United States. being the
alhount required to hold the same during
ana 1 Tor said calendar year 1895. and if.
MI nithin ninety days after the expiration of
sae publication of this notice, which will be
bupiished for ninety days, you fail or re
,;n ,use W contribute your respective proper
aa .,oiis OF such expenditure as co-owners,
ss;s ssso;Ss9rulng to your respective interests in
sala claim viz: b. w. Watlington, one
,,saeehtl, ,a, $6.25; A. H. Rahm, one-six-
siieh.h' sie' s62 Is. and Nelson F. kimball, one
'Snth, visI sl2.50, your interests in said claim
ar,n ",tn DC forfeited to and become the prop
.uy .n.y oi the undersigned, under and by yir-
A"e VI SAID section 2324
EDWARD BRISBIN.
first publication, Feb Is, 1896.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
MACHINE-MADE SPEECHES.

Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by =
Recent English Invention.
There is no doubt that both the type
writing machine and the phonograph
are very ingenious and useful inven-
tions, but the chief difficulty with
them, says the New York Times, is
that they cannot be made to act auto
matically. 1t is in order to fill this
want that distinguished inventor,
whose name is for the present with
~!Ald, has invented an automatic writer,
ana, Judging from the private exnlol-
ton of the machine which was recently
given in London to committee OF
members of the Royal society, it bids
fair to prove the greatest invention OF
this or any age.
In appearance the machine is said to
be not wholly unlike typewritlng
machine. It, however, is provided with
sort of hopper, in which are placed
blocks Of type metal, each one OF which
is provided with complete word, in
stead of q single letter. When this
hopper is filed and the small electric
engine which furnishes the motive
power of the machine is set in action it
Instantly begins to print. OF course,
what is printed depends in good de-
gree upon the selection of words which
are placed in the. hopper, but it is un-
derstood the machine can be used for
almost uny sort of composition.
At the exhibition already mentioned
the hopper was filed with supply of
words relating to the English political
situation, and in ten minutes after tho
engine had been started the machine
had sprinted two.fuu columns, each OF
about the length Of an ordinary col
umn of a newspaper. When these were
read they were instantly recognized to
be speech on home rule in the general
style of Mr.. Gladstone. The hopper
was next filed with choice selection
of the very finest words in the lam
puape, and the machine thereupon
printed what was at once perceived to
be an essay after the manner OF Mr..
Ruskin on political economy. More
words were added and three pages OF
what any critic would have unhesi-
tatingly accepted as passage from
new novel by Mr.. Meredith delighted
the committee. The last experiment
was made with the hopper filled with
words taken from the Slang Diction-
ary and the result was apry in dia-
lect which was held to b6 superior to
almost any dialect story hitherto pub
liShed.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
A eR,ocHE.

How to Knit the Soft Foot Lushtons Thas
We're Onoo Popular.
There seems to be a renewed interest
in brooches, the soft foot cushions that
were once popular. urge that they
are to enjoy revival, like many other
luxuries, and think that readers may
be glad of a rule for knitting them
which has the merit of being an Oft
tried one. The foundation for the foot
stool is leather-covered disk of mill
board about nine inches in diameter;
to this the knitted stripe is sewed, and
stuffed with hair, land pulled down tc
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
Mora Pathetic Than Humoroua.

An aged couple living south OF
Brazil. Ind. who had devoted their three
score and ten to rural life and the
making of q farm, sold their posses
sions for the snug sum Of sixteen thou
sand dollars. When the purchaser
called with q notary to close up the
deal by taking the deed of title, the
husband having signed and passed it to
the wife, she positively refused to sign
without a consideration, saying she had
spent her life in making the farm, aid
had never realized anything she could
call her own and now was her oppor-
tunity. The husband failed to satisfy
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
A FOREIGN INDUSTRY.
We Use Millions Of Split Steel Rings, But
Don't Make Any.

We Use Millions Of Split Steel Rings, But
Don't Make Any.
'I've handled and sold forty thou
sand gross of split key rings since
1867" said the little man in an over
coat and white sweater, land not
one of them was of American make"
"Why, how is that?" asked New
York Sun reporter.
Because there are none made in
this country" replied the little man,
with smile that lifted one corner of
his gray mustache. "No, SIR" he con-
tinued, 1.-The making of split steel rings
is an art that we haven't got hold OF
vet, somehow, and must say l often
wonder at it,
"Where are they made, then?'
''The best, sir, are made about fifty
seven miles outside of Paris, at little
manufacturing town whose name l
can't just now recall. The next best
rings are made in Sheffield. England,
while rings Of inferior quality, made
from Swedish iron, are manufactured
in Alsace. l don't know that the steel
in the French rings is any better than
that used by the Sheffield manufac-
turers, but the Frenchmen in this, as in
so many things, have got the hang of
making their things look WELL The.
Sheffield rings are polished with oil
and emery, and that gives them dull
steely look, while the French rings are
polished by the dry process, with what
they call 'crocus powder, sort OF
coarse rouge"
"What are the extremes in size OF
split rings?" the man was asked.
"The smallest that Lever handled" i"
he replied, "were three-sixteenths of
an inch across. They are gilded when
they reach this country and are used in
cheap jewelry. The largest key rings
I ever sold were two and a half inches
in diameter, and those sold to the
wardens at Sing Sing. In fact, they
are called pri-on rings. That key ring
with the two little knobs or bosses
through which you slip the key, is also
French manufacture, and indeed
have never seen an American key ring
except that clumsy little thing where
you have to move around small round
double plate with notch in it, and
then spring but the open end of the ring
through this notch. ] must say" con-
cluded the little man, musingly, 81
often wonder why we don't make
rings over here. Even now there's a
forty-fve per cent. duty on them, and
they could be sold at half their present
price and still bring a good profit.
Why, just think, sell over one hun
dred and fifty thousand rings year,
and there must be millions of them
handled every year in this country
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-28
Deriding Terms.

"Wojen," the opprohrious epithet
which the Chinese apply to the Japs,
belongs to an interesting class ofnames
bestowed upon nations by more or less
unfriendly neighbors. Such names
are found in all parts of Europe. The
name Welsh is merely the Teutonic for
foreign people, and in America the
people who called themselves Dakotahs
were known to their neighbors, the
Ojibways, as Sioux or enemies 1t il
said that the word Esquimaux Is .
French corruption Of the Chippewa or
Cree phrase Ushkiumoog, or 'raw-desh
eaters"