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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-10

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Pronounced by Mr.. Pullman the
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Wheels"
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No Exta Fares.
Leaves st. Paul Union Depot at
sos p. m. daily-after arrival of
trains from Montana and the Pacific
coast.
Tickets at offices of connecting lines.
H. B, sEGUR, General Agent,
Billings, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-10
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag.
netic. full OF life nerve and vigor, take No-To
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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-10

Nobody need have Neuralgia. Get DIR. Miles
Pain Pills from druggists. Zone cent a Dose"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
TIE WORLDS ESTIMATE.
1t Is Usually Not Far from Correct,
Witness the Incidents.

Men, as a whole. form quite accurate
Judgments OF the characters OF their
associates. Occasionally. when this Is
expressed in the quaint words OF FOR
eigners, the aptness of the Judgment is
very apparent.
Some years ago W young men 90
tanned employment under an influential
company In Calcutta. They were broth
ers, and set up housekeeping together.
The six native servants whom they en-
ployed were not long In forming an es
innate OF the new arrivals.
"Our mas, ers,r they declared, lie
long to a new alste that We have not
known. They do not smoke. nor drin%
strong drink, neither do they swear
and they speak and behave kindly 10
MS. We like the new caste we'll
As true an estimate was formed by
a student In the University OF Peking'
He entered the university for the pur
pose of studying English, n not long
after went TO d native teacher 10 u
n Bible. He was not conteTn until ne
had procured an expensive copy OF the
Old Testament, a parallel English IN"
Chinese New Testament. and a hymn
book. Then he tod his reason for
wanting them.
The professor whose classes he at
tended had excited his admiration. be-
cause he was wholly unlike the Chinese
teachers by whom the young man had
been previously taught.
why" he said. Professor King
seems to love his Luplls. He sympa'
thizes with them, ne yer becomes lmpa-
tlent when they are stupid. and his con
duct and language show that he pos
sesses something that | never knew =
Chinese teacher to possess, and do
not know where he gets 1t unless FROM
the Bible. For this reason ] want to
study the Bible and learn some Chris
tian hymns"
The world" does iiot hesitate to de
clare Its approval Of the legitimate
fruits of Christian belief. Ii men ever
condemn Christianlt y, 1t is because
those who profess TO accept 1t do mol
bear these fruits.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
stanIey's Cat.

As the bonds OF friendship are
strengthened by a heavy nftilction. 50
does a prolonged s%oJourn in foreign
places, amid strange scenes. turn the
most common OF everyday sights at
home into Injuries. A magazine tells
a story Of Henry NJ. Stanley. who, ar.
ter his return from Africa. was buslly
engaged In writing his story Of the
Dark Continent
lie Used to spread his reference map,
upon the floor of his room. and ON this
particular day. after searching In his
near neighborhood for a chart which
he much needed, he spoke to his assist
ant, who presently deserted 1t near the
fireside. with Stanley's fayorlie eat
upon Il asleep.
He started to turn the intruder of,
when the great man interrupted him
saying:
Never mind; don't disturb the cat.
I'll get along without the chart until
the eat wakes W. II you only knew
how good the sight OF that domestic
cat curled up In front OF that bright
English fire Is 10 me, you would never
chase her away
The eat slumbered on. and not until
she arose with a lazy yawn. scratching
her front nails on the rug ms she
stretched. did the famous explorer
reach for his map.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Profitable Hens

In my operations in the poultry line
| have never found any breed to pos
sess so many points of excellence, with
the ordinary treatment of the average
farmer, as the Plymouth Rocks. They
pay me. l have had a flock of forty
Plymouth Rock hens average me $1.45
per hen for the year, with a country
market for poultry and eggs. They
had the run of the farm and barn, with
an abundance of sour milk and such
grains as the farm produced. This
seemed TO furnish all they desired, ex-
cept grit, which was supplied In plas-
ter scraped from the walls of IN old
house. Now. with a larger flock, l am
feeding buckwheat mostly, raking II
deep into chaff and straw, with bone
aud meat scraps obtained from butch
ers. The hens have plenty of warm
water to drink, and they take lots of it,
100. My lIens are kept in what was
once a hay bay, now fitted with win
dows and devoted to poultry. 1t is
light, warm and roOmy, Joins the main
barn floor by a sliding door, and the
hens are let out a while each day and
given the run of the entire barn, both
for exercise and TO say scattered
grain. 1t works as well as a more cost
~ arrangement and keeps the fowls In
splendid vigor. Last spring there was
scarcely an infertlle egg In all my
hatch.-Maine Bulletin.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14

Perhaps it is safe in asserting that in
proportion to labor and capital Invest
ed no crop pays as large a profit as
blackberrles. Growers who complain
that blackberries do not pay should
first estimate the expense. There are
blackberry fields that have borne crops
for ten years, which have never ~
ceived a pound of fertilizer or manure
and, outside of cutting away the old
canes, with rough cultivation in the
spring, have received no labor. What
b~lackberrles would do for the grower
If treated like strawberries Is yet to be
demonstrated by ONE
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Growing

A tomato grower of Charlestown, W.
VAL is reported to have grown last sea
son many tomato vines from thirteen
to fifteen feet high, trained up to long
edging strips, II end of which was In
the ground. The tomatoes, which were
of the common varieties, were trained
to this unusual height by pinching off
the runners or branches as they APP
pear, and when quite small. The soil
In which they grew was composed
chiefly of well-rotted coal ashes, which
had been on the ground for several
years. The vines produced well and
ON Sept. p We're full of smooth, green
tomatoes, but not of very large size:
Many farmers do not know that to-
mato vines can be so trained.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14

General Wade Hampton is writing a
book which Will be entitled THE His
tory of the Cavalry of Northern Vir-
ginia.'
+. Marion Crawford waited over IF
teen years to see his first magazine
article published. In the meantime he
had written about a dozen two-yolume
novels.
Rudyard Kipling has made u new
price for his prose. His railroad story,
'007." published In scribner's, num-
bers 1000 words, for which he received
$500. or about 81 cents a word.
r. d. Blackmore when asked abou.
his rate of speed replied in verse:
The proper point about a book Il
Or be it praised or smitten- Il
Is not to ask how long it took. Y
But what il is when written.
Sir Walter Besant says that he finds
the rate at which a novel advances In
his hands, taking n day with an
other, Is not more than about LOO
words a day. A long novel of, say.
IoU,ObO NOFus, ldkts liohh clSht " ~
months. He does not find that 1t Is
the least use attempting to work at ne
tion for more than about three hours u
day.
Hal Calne says: "As a novelist |
have never been able to consider my
work In relation to speed and time. As
n journalist In the old days | was com
PEELED to do so, and can remember that
at the death Of Prince Leopold | wrote
n memoir OF many long columns be-
tween Z O'Clock al night and the time
OF going to press with the morning pa
per. The Deemster' occupied, | think,
about nine months In the writing or
the text, but 1t had been nearly u year
In hand before | began to write. Some
thing like the same circumstance oc-
Cured in the case of The Bondman.'
The S%capegDat' WAS written either
two or three times. word for word. The
first half of The Manxman' was writ
ten twice. liz | do three or four days
writing In the week and produce 5000
or 5000 words with which | am con
tent | am satisfied, and more than sat
iStied."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
MAKING SUGAR IN AFRICA.
Dark Continent to BE a Great Produe-
ing Country.

1aA w III
ing Country.
In the distant future Africa prom.
lses TO he a great sugar producing eoun'
try. \ number of Englishmen have
demonstrated after several years II
difficulties that the industry can be sue.
cessfully worked.
The first expedition of the company
proceeded to the Zambesl late II 1870.
The river had no been opened for traf-
fc; the men were landed at Quillmane,
and padded up a small river Ia a point
called Mopea. where 1t almost Joins the
Zambesi at about a hundred miles from
the mouth. Here the men settled, with
katiir huts TO live in and katfir food 10
eat.
The first work was the planting. Up
to this time there was no sugar cane In
the whole of the Zambesl DELTA, conse-
quently hundreds of tom of plants a
I o he imported from the neighboring
Colony of Natal. The cane plants were
brought up the river in fleets of native
canoes. rude enough vessels, made by
simply seooplng out the trunk of a
tree; but, owing to the black mans
innate penchant for sweet things
than half the plants We're eaten ON the
way, the native children swarming like
monkeys along the banks for "A bite Of
sugar-cane. The next task was the edu-
cation of the Katirs, a tedious bust
ness. for before they could be started
OH tn. A, Il, c of the work, they had
to be initiated in the reason for work ut
all, and then to be convinced OF the alb
solute necessity that the worker should
do a regular full days work. They pre-
ferred an hour or two AT n time with a
corresponding amount of sleep TO FOL
low. and II the Overseer turned his back
for a moment, he would find half his
men fishing In the river or catching
rats, the latter being a very tasty NOR
sci to a Kaffir. However. perseverance,
fair treatment and good temper have
had their reward; and to-day the COM
pany has several hundred good work
ers. In June of 1893 the first.crop was
reaped, amounting TO six hundred tons.
bat it was only finished in November,
wv luR ~ int iluhIliti ubit blillN AiAAie
and delays before the natives could be
taught how TO work with machinery
In 1894, eight hundred tons of sugar
were made in three months. which
showed an immense improvement. IL
give the Kaffir his due, 1t must be said
that the tedium of instructing him IS
not without its alterations. II was lis.
tinctly humorous to watch the utter
surprise on the negro's countenance
when he first saw the sugar made and
tasted ii; and that of The man who.
trying to stop the hy-wheel of one Of
the engines with his hands. found hinr
seif precipitated into a heap of saw.
dust some four yards oil. The humor.
however. was not always so unmixe1
with pain. \ common accident was FOR
the men to get their toes iaiumed In
trying TO stop the loaded trucks of can
with their naked feet. One lnquisiriye
fellow, wanting TO Test by feeling the
revolutions of the circular saw, did so
with disastrous result. and AZ the sight
of his hand minus a finger be bolted,
and has not been seen again TO this
day.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Straw stack Stables.

Wherever grain is largely grown the
straw left after threshing will make
il cheap and warm stable for stock the
ensuing winter. All that Is needed Is
to set posts in the ground close enough
together so that they viii form Il good
support for IA fiat roof, and pile the
straw over 1t and on at least three
sides. The side not built up against
may be used wholly as a door for stock
to run In and out, or 1t may be boarded
up, and one or two board doors made.
Sometimes this straw stable is made
against the side of a stack, and the ami
mails are allowed to eat into 1t. This,
however, is a dangerous practice, for
late In winter stock may eat far enough
so as to disturb the balance of the
stack, bringing 1t over on them, and
smothering them. Where the stack Is
built owe a stout shed there is no such
danger. 1t can be easily made as warm
as any Basement barn, and without
much cost except of the straw.-Ameri-
can. C~ultiyator.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Sowing Grass Seed.

One Of the questions being discussed
at the farmers institutes Is whether
the old-time custom of sowing grass
seed, on grain Is as beneficial of good
results as sowing the seed alone. 1t Is
true that the grain shades the grow
Ing grass, but the stronger root growth
of the grain crop must to a.certaln ex-
tent affect the young grass. Then
there Is the advantage, when grass seed
Is sown without using grain land, OF
thorough preparation of the soil for
the grass crop, which is. not the case
when grain Ii" seeded In the fall and
grass In the spring. 1t Is possible that
II grass seed Is sown on land that is
fine and ready fot the seed 1t will make
much greater growth than when sown
on grain and thus escape the effects of
the dry season, which usually comes in
summer. On sandy soil clover and the
various grasses may be seeded down
In August, but on clay soil the frost
may throw the plants out during the
winter. 1t Is n mistake, how ever, 10
suppose that a grass crop can not be
grown from spring seeding without the
aid Of a grain crop.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Miles and Knots.

A statute mile is $3.50 feet long. 1t
Is our standard OF itinerary measure
adopted from the English, who In urn
adopted 1t from the Romans. A RIO
man military pace by which distances
were measured was the length of the
step taken by the Roman soldiers, and
was approximately five feet long; "a
thousand of these PAGES were called in
Latin a mile. The English mile Is
therefore II purely arbitrary measure,
enacted into a legal measure by a stat
ute passed during the reign Of Queen
Elizabeth; 1t has no connection with
any scale In nature.
A nautical mile, on the other hand, is
equal to one-sixtieth part of the length
of a degree of a great circle of earth.
But the circumference Of the earth Is
nowhere Il true circle; Its radius OF cur
vature Is variable; hence the nautical
mile, as a matter of fact, depends upon
the shape as well as the size OF the
globe sailed over; and hence, strictly
speaking. the length of the nautical
mile should vary with the latitude from
6,O46 feet at the equator to I, LOO feet ut
the pole. Such extreme accuracy Is
not necessary In navigating. and can
not be well attained without undue la
Dor. The English admiralty, therefore
have adopted 5000 feet as the length OF
a nautical mile. which corresponds
with the length OF one-sixtieth of a de.
gree-or n minute of arc-of a great
circle In latitude 4S degrees. The Uni
ded coast survey has adopted the value
OF the nautical mile 'as equal TO one
sixtieth part Of "A degree on the greai
circle of a sphere whose surface II
equal to the surface of the earth. Thii
gives the length of one nautical mil,
as equal to 6,0s0.27 feet, which Is yer,
nearly the value Of the admiralty mil,
adopted In the English navy. Pract
cally the nautical mile Is 300 feet longe
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Fell Weighing OK Tons.

For some time past there has been "A
sort of deal heat between the two big
gest bells In the world, the ono at the
Cathedral In Moscow and the other at
the unfinished pagoda of Mengoon, n
little north Of Mandalay. across the
river. IL the former was the bigger OF
the two. IL was cracked. and, therefore,
useless as a bell, while the latter,
though whole. had dragged It's sup
ports down till 1t rested on the ground
and would not emit a sound. Now,
however, It has been reswung, and can
claim attention az The biggest bell, Ia
working order, In the world. II aver
ages over a foot In thickness. The bell
itself Is over twelve feet high, and the
shackle, which was Intended for logs
Of timber, about twelve feet, The pin
In the shackle has a diameter of SIX
teen inches. The bell was cast abou
the beginning OF the century by King
Boda as an accompaniment TO
the huge brick pagoda which he never
finished. 1t Is said to have been cast
ON an island and RATED across. No
proper means yet exist for striking the
bell, but when hit with a heavy piece or
wood II gives a deep, vibrating boom'-
New York Journal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14

which winds will soon break from their
hinges, making 1t impossible to operate
them except by lifting the door and
carrying 1t around. The sliding doors
on iron rollers are easily kept in order,
and are worked so easily that a little
child has power enough to operate n
of them. They have also the advan-
tage that the door may be slightly open
ed and kept in that position, which
would be difficult to do with a door
swinging on hinges. The sliding door
came into use when basement baras
were constructed. In such case the
doors on the lower side, where they
were 10 to - feet above the basement,
had to be put on rollers. The convent
ence Of the sliding door now makes II
more desirable on barns, however they
may be constructed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14

Glover seed on grain is sown as early
as it can be done. 1t will be an advan-
tage to go over the grain field with a
smoothing harrow, which will not only
benefit the grain but prepare the
ground somewhat for the seed. Do not
try to seed by using the hand. but sow
with a seed sower, a wheelbarrow seed
sower being excellent. Ii the wheat
plants have been loosened by frost SOW
The clover seed and run the roller over
the land. The weather conditions
must, of course, influence the matter.
Many farmers sow clover seed on the
snow, allowing the rains and melting
snow to carry the seed down; but there
will occur a large loss of seed, which
will be eaten by birds, some will freeze
and become worthless. portions will
not be covered by earth and the
catch" will largely depend on spring
conditions.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Potatoes After Corn.

1t Is possible to grow a good potato
crop after corn If the latter has been
planted on an old sod heavily MANFRED.
In such case a good deal of the virtue
crop, and there Is besides a dressing
of well-rotted manure TO be turned up
by the spring blowing. 1t Is much bet
ter to plant early potatoes on such land.
and to plant them as early as a good
seed bed can be had. Without a fresh,
sod to decay and furnish plant food.
and moisture in midsummer. the re-
suit with late potatoes would he that
they dry up just at the critical time.
for making a crop.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
rAE CRATER oE klLAUEA
1t ExcItcs Fascination by Day and
Terror by Night.

AGHEON " AAk"t
It Is no wonder that the nature-loy-
ing and manufacturing natives defied
the cause of this tremendous display
and that they held their fire goddess
perhaps In greater reverence than any
other. Restless. easily provoked anu
jealous of all restraint, no pathway
seemed open to gain her good VIII Dht
hat of absolute submission. Livery
effort was made to paclfy her capflcl-
Gus and wild f~ancies, and yotiVe oher-
ings of the most costly character, even,
IL Is said, of human lives, were tfeel4
given to turn aside her wrath. unill
within IL few years it has been II UT
ticult matter TO persuade a native III
approach the caldron. Their old super
stitions have fingered down 10 Tue
present generation, and the memory OF
the deeds of the dread Pele are still TOO
fresh In the minds of most OF them 10
be easily set aside. The crossing Oh
the Intervening crust between rne wall
of the crater and the caldron by ia!
light Is about as serious an aualf rs
most people wish. but more than hall
of its glorles and hidden dangers are
lost through the effect of mat same
daylight. Wait till the stars are ont
and then pass carefully down TO the
surface of the same floor, II IL De
comes a very different place. Ii had
all the fascination OF danger by day,
It inspires all the terror of an approach
Ing catastrophe by night. You feel
YOU way by the lurid glare of the
lake which lies ahead of you. and the
half-gloom of your surroundings l.
lighted up by the ftful CLEAN OF lire
which sheds Its grewsome-colored tints
upon the knotted and gnarled lava
which crunehes beneath your feet.
Where there were dark cracks unde
you In the daytime, you now see that
you are crossing a pavement Of blocks
each edge of which Is fringe1 with
glowing light, and as your eyes Chances
down along those lines the white hot
molten lava is plainly visible but n few
Inches from the surface. To say that
the persplration rises all over You when
you first experience the full meaning
OF your situation under such cOndi-
lions, expresses your feelings only loo
mildly, for ofteu the native who may
be acting as your guide trembles ard
wants to turn back from this test OF
his nerves. Mona Of them go out over
this crust at night with any degree Of
willingness. The trip should he made,
however, IL 1t can be done safely, aud
one can generally judge of the amount
Of danger from the condition of the
caldron. as the volcano has heretofore
been a very law-abiding one. At no
time can the full beauty of the spot be
apprehended so well as by night. BY
daylight much of the color of the bright
lava and the burning gases Is lost;
while by night the whole effect is most
impressive. and the mind is nearly
stiied by the rush of sensations, II
only the fear OF immediate danger is
lost sufficiently to allow you to give
yourself wholly to the enjoyment OF 4
scene which, in the elements OF grand
eur. Is not 10 be surpassed on the face
of the globe.-From "Kllauea, the
of Pele." by Prof. william Lib
hey in Harper's Magazine.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
Money in Sheep.

Many farmers who got rid of their
sheep because wool did not pay have
found that they made a mistake In so
doing, as the ewes could have been
made the foundation for something bet
ter. Sheep are not as easily procured
nov as two years ago, and fewer COM
plants are made regarding the profits
from them. oxford sheep, which pro-
duced heavy, ~earcasses last year, on an
Ohio farm. averaged eight pounds of
wool per sheep also, thus proving that
mutton breeds alse pay as wool pro-
ducers. 81
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-14
OH from Mesquite Beans.

The problem Of how TO utilize the
vast quantities Of mesquite beans that
grow on the prairies of Western Texas
has. 1t is believed, been solved. MI
merous experiments at converting the
bean into IL marketable commodity have
been made IN recent years. but have
been productive of no permanent re
suit. A. j. Conley. manager OF the
Luling cotton oil mill. believes he has
solved the problem. lie has gathered II
ton Of mesquite beans and treated them
In the same manner as cotton seed.
From the top OF beans he secured SIX
teen and one-half gallons Of clear, am.
b~ereolored oil. very rich and with II
very pleasant, aromatic smell. The cake
u dark brown, quite oily and Is eaten
greedily by stock. 1t Is a well-known
fact that stock fatten rapidly on the
beans, and that the year when the crop
Ii a heavy n Is always a prosperous
one for stockmen. Last year the beans
were very plentiful, thousands Of tons
ef them falling from the trees and rot
ting. II they could have been saved In
the shape OF oil cake there would have
been almost enough TO carry stock
Through the winter.