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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Dolls

For every girl a doll. We have an
elaborate assortment of pretty and
amiable dolls in cloth, leather and
rubber. Give your little girl a happy
family of dollies and her joy will be
complete.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Other Suitable Xmas
Gifts

ALBUMS-Photo and autograph.
Just the thing for the family EN-
tire table. In plush and celluloid.
SMOKING sETs-Your gentle
man friend will be delighted with
an ebony metal trimmed set. Get
n for him.
MISUNDERSTANDING designs
in brass relief and beveled glass.
No present will be more sure to
please than one of these.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Carpet Sweeper

The ambition of every little girl is
to own a real carpet sweeper. Make
her happy with one on Xmas.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Music Rolls

Best leather, all shades, metal buck
lie, leather lined, sewed edges. Moth
ing more pleasing to the singer, player
or student of music.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Drawing States

Your children must use the pencil.
Why not get them drawing states
which will help them to govern the
little fingers and amuse them with the
pictures. Keep them quiet in this
way.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Animal Toys

DoNkEYS-Santa Claus brought
some gentle Missouri mules with
him this year. They wag their
heads and ears and are anxious
to play with the boys and girls.
Lead n to your play stable and
have lots of fun.
ELEPHANTS-Our India Eleph-
ants have tusks, are able to wag
their heads and wigsle their tails
till you almost die laughing.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Other Suitable Xmas
Gifts

GLOVE ~BoxES-Celluloid, silk
lined, dainty and handsome. An
appropriate and acceptable gift for
your sweetheart.
CHINESE GONGS-Beautiful in
sound and workmanship. An artis-
tic gift for your wife.
comb, brush and hand mirror.
Hand painted porcelain back. Gold
trimmed. An exquisite gift for
mother.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Tenpins

They will keep your boy out OF mis-
chief for a long time and will train his
eye and hand. Splendid game for
indoors.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Boats

Boys and girls are always glad to
play with boats. We have the little
boat pulled by a string and the larger
boat that plows through the water of
itself. Come and see them.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Travellers Comfort

Manicure and toilet set in handsome
stamped leather packet. No gift on
the market will give greater satisfac-
ton and more real Christmas Joy than
this. Examine it.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07

You wind them up and they give
beautiful music at the same time
they spin around so quickly that it
makes your head swim. If you are a
boy you need one.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Balls

Made of the best rubber, in all
sizes. Cannot break windows or hurt
the boys and girls. They are soft and
bound easily. As an Xmas gift 1t
ranks with the best.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Beds

Spring beds for doll babies. Just
too lovely to be true. Your little girl
will love you for a year if you get n
for her.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
RattIeS

Nothing amuses baby SO much and
SO long as a good rattle of bells in
many %colors, and we have all kinds.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
m Toys

DOG JUMPING RoPE-One of the
funniest toys Of the season. Makes
you laugh all the time.
TRIcYClE-Goes alone. guided by
passenger with servant holding a
bright-colored umbrella.
CLOWN RIDING OONKEY-Bet.
ter than a real clown. Has a hard
time keeping his seat and acts TOO
funny for anything.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Water Sets

Including table dry rack, wringer.
wash board and washing machine.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Horns

No horn. no Xmas. You cannot af-
ford to be without a horn at your
house if you have chiloicn. We have
all sizes at all prices.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07
Guns

Our air guns are something new in
this town. They hold As shot and are
safe in a small boys hands.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07

AUTOMOBILE WITH CHAUFF.
EUR-Goes very fast. Has steer
ing gear, and looks like $4,000 We
hicle. Get one for your boy.
FIRE ENGiNE-Just like the real
thing. Runs to fires with firemen
in charge. No horses. An auto
fire engine.
DELIVERY Notwithstanding
toy for boys and girls. Delivers
goods without guiding.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07

pERRIcKs-Made on the plan OF
the real article, with platform,
windlass, chain arm and ratchet
complete. A very instructive toy.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-07

HOOK AND LADDER COAL the
boys are taken with it. Gives them
something useful and interesting to
play with. Runs itself and will
prove a fine Xmas gift.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
OF WHEAT
In FAR INDIA
A CROP TWENTY PER CENT
OVER LAST YEAR.
Last Year India Exported 54,36S,O
Bushels and May Ship Twice the
Quantity This Season-Other Feed
Grains Plentiful, Hence Much
Wheat Can Be Spared for Sale.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building
Washington

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, Aus. 20.-Consul General
Patterson, at Calcutta, reports to the de-
partment of commerce and labor that &C
cording to the Indian governments final
memorandum on the wheat crop Of 19o3-4
the season has been exceptionally favor
able for wheat, and the good crop OF last
year has been exceeded by 20 per cent In
area and q per cent in yield. In the
principal wheat-growing tracts of north
ern India, where the crop is most prolific
and from which the supplies for export
are so largely drawn, the area Is the
largest on record the excess over the
highest other year being $4,000 acres in
the United Provinces and 100000 acres in
the Punjab, where cultivation extended
on the Chenab and Jhelum canals. In
the matter Of yield this crop stands pre-
eminent, and the total, 100000 tons, is
800 900 tons more than the large crop
of 1923. The crop has been least sue
cessful in Bombay, but fortunately the
unfavora BILE conditions were most preva-
lent where the area in wheat is not i'm
portant, and Sind has had an extremely
good crop.
The exports of wheat the last five years
4S5, 204 tons; 1900-19O1, 2,501 tons; 1902
1856. os1 tons; 1923. 514oo7 tons: 1904
1,295,566 tons. Judging by the quantity
exported from last years crop Q,235, 56e
tons, or nearly 54,36S,O00 bushels) the ex-
port from the crop Of this year-in which
| there have been large crops Of all food
grains, releasin wheat from home con-
sumption-should be more than double
that quantity which will go to Europe and
come into competition with the wheat ex.
p0' 's0 = ''l' '''' n. &. Stevens.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
WHITE DEER
Regarded as a Priceless Rarity Was
Found Dead In Plano Box.

u
Detroit Tribune.
Like white crow, q snowy blackbird or
black tulip, white deer is rare crea-
ture and worth many times it's weight In
murderous lead. Occasionally such deer
has been seen in Michigan and such a deer
slain, and if the slaughter took place in
the closed season more pains was taken
to conceal the fact and the deer than a
feudal assassination in Breathitt county,
Kentucky During the shut" season Of
two years ago a. hunter near Newberry
leveled his lawless rifle and brought down
one of these rare creatures. It was worth
fortune If the matter was skillfully man
aged. But thing like that was too good
to keep and rumors kept coming to the
game wardens department. Immediate
ly the force was astir to capture both the
hunter and prize. But the lawbreaker
proved harder to track than venison out
Of the snow season. He must have taken
to the creek. for the authorities never
caught him. But the white deer! It was
as ubiquitous as a politician, as ephemeral
as a dream, as vanishing as a prediction
promise. Here, there, yonder and back
again sped the white deer, swift footed
ghost, and the sleuths sped after always
in the distance. but as surely just too late.
Thus two years passed. The deer has
finally been found and captured. In a pi-
ano box in an unused room Of a New
berry hotel the white pilgrim had taken
refuge-that is to say, the corpse had, for
it was but the mortal part that remained,
well preserved, but awfully terribly dead.
Living, its price would have purchased an
ordinary museum. Lifeless it was still
Of great value. Deputy Warden Coulter
had received quiet pointer where the
prize was to be found, and walking in.
arrested it In It's improvised catacomb. 1t
is now in possession Of Game Warden
Chairman.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
BUYERS CONSERVATIVE
CROP UNCERTAINTY MAKES FOR HEsITk
TON AND DELAY,

CROP UNCERTAINTY MAKES FOR HEs1TA-
TON AND DELAY,
New York, Aug. 2o.-Bradstreet's of today
Conservatism rules the. buying movement,
which, while gaining in force at some leading
The iats1ess Of the crop season for one thing,
fortified by. continued wheat price advances and
revtsions Of quotations notable in iron and steel
Reports S from l' the great Industries show little
change Outing the week Cotton goods buying at
FIRST rs to m
There Is, however, more doing in tobbing cir
cles. and the tone of that trade is better than
is at a low point, because Of the Fall River
STRIFE and also of of thu the cSSrg ro
old htgh-prced to new low priced raw material
Wool Is steady and od rates ap rmer on quiet Fii
Inquiry. but the higher basis of cost is bar tc
the fullest Development n In this i, line Little
e OF III as eaSsdS iF he
down of number of tanneries, and the strength
me nsr Is Sn1T bgsr n
and one and a half cents higher than year ago
Eastern shoe shipments are 9 per cent smaller
season than year ago.
The feature Of the iron trade this week has
been the open recognition of conditions claimed
to exist for some time past in finished products
A wholesale cut in steel prices, particularly
in wire and nails, has been announced, and ex
material and plates, are reported shaky. Ligh
rails are being cut in price, and even some heavy
sections are selling below the S2s standard. I'm
certainty to how far the cuts will go restricts
buying and also affects the cruder forms. Their
Is no particular change to note in pig iron.
Business failures in the United States TO
the week ending Aug. 10 numbered 20s. agains
1877 last week, 1855 in the like week in 1903
1s1 in 1902. 1s1 in 1901 and 135 in 1900. II
Canada failures for the week number %, a
against 16 last week and ID in this week yea
ego.
Wheat including -four, exports for the wee
/ Psi, 300 last week, 3,372,27S this week las
year. 1854, 100 in 1902 and 6,60e,9se in 1901
From July to date the exports aggregate 9. $40,
1902 and As 1873 S95 in 1901.
Corn exports for the week aggregate sos
bu against 695 202 last week. 509495 a yea
ago 81 $40 in 1902 and 523, $3.50 in 1901. Fror
July / to date the exports Of corn aggregat
3,7os,473 bu, against Z a5se75 in 1903, $50, 40
blu in 1902 and S,257, JOB IN 1901.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
COCKTAIL. CHERRY
10 Filled With Glucose and Favored With
PrussIc Acid.
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer

Philadelphia Inquirer.
That things edible "are seldom what
they seem" was demonstrated the other
day to the members Of the College club
leges, by DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief Of
the bureau of chemistry Of the United
States department of agriculture. The
lecture was the closing one in a course
on Household Economics
Cocktails and Coffee jams and jellies,
were in turn shown to be subject to
shameful authorizations. The cocktail was
introduced apo1ogetically by the speaker.
who said he didn't suppose the ladies
knew anything about it, but that it was
the cherry that adds the finishing touch
to which he objected What he then told
about that cherry was calculated to add
to the membership Of the total abstainers.
He declared that it Is only the skin and
cellular structure of what was once a
luscious fruit, after it had been bleached
with sulphur, soaked in brine, filled with
glucose and favored with prussic acid.
The cheapness of coffee frees it from
much adulteration, the fraud on the pub
lie consisting mainly in selling the Bra
lillian bean, which costs from 4 to Z cents
a pound wholesale. as Mocha and Java,
and getting IS to 40 cents. DR.. Wiley de-
clared that the limited quantity Of the
latter brands coming to this country is
all for filling private orders, and that
hardly a pound Is sold over store counters.
Canned peas and beans are sometimes col
ored with blue vitriol, he said; vinegar is
made from the poorest grade Of alcohol;
imported Germany sausages are often full
Of boric acid; much olive oil never saw
an olive except the one on the label OF
the bottle, and jams and jellies made from
the cores and skins Of apples colored and
favored, masquerade under any name the
| purCha ser chooses to call for,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
HERMIT CRABS TROUBLES
Having No Shell it Must Hunt Around
I For One.
Country Life in America.

Country Life in America.
The most disconsolate fellow that
walks the beach is the hermit crab
whose shell has become too snug for
comfort If it were his own, as the
CLAIMS is, it would grow with his
growth, and always be a. perfect flt:t
but to the hermit there comes often
moving day." when a new house must
be sought. Discouraging work it is,
too. Most of the doors at which he
knocks are slammed in his face. A
tWeak from a larger pincher than his
own will often satisfy him that the
shell he considers distinctly possible
and hopefully ventures to explore, is
already occupied by near but coldly
unsympathetic relative.
Finding no empty shell of suitable
size, the hermit may be driven to ask
vor. The proposition is spurned indig-
nantly, and a fight ensues. The battle
is to the stronger. Often the alta cking
party has considerable trouble in
cleaning out his shelly having to pick
his adversary out in bits. A peri
Wrinkle or whelk may be attacked
in a like manner by a hermit who is
to that particular shell. If the house
holder be feeble, the conquest is easy.
If lusty he holds the fort.
At last the search is over. The shell
is cleaned and ready.
Eyes, this will do but how my back
does ache! I mustn't delay a minute!
Is anybody looking? Here goes, then;
and may I never have to move again!"
In the twinkling Of an eye, the
caudal hooks let go their hold deep
in the spiral of the old shell. and
have safely anchored the weak and
faccid body to the inner convolutions
of the new one.
It is all over; an empty shell lies on
the sand, and a larger one is near it
with sleepy looking hermit crab in
it. Poke him and he leans languidly
over his pearly balcony, as If to say,
IF this deadly monotony is not brok-
en- soon I shall dle!'
But behind this society mask" the
| cramped muscles are stretching out
and adjusting themselves in absolute
contentment to the rooay spaces of
| fered them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
FEW CATTLE LEFT
TO CARRY OVER
GOOD CLEANUP AT THE SIOUX
CITY YARDS.
An Uneven and Declining Market for
killing Stock and Prices OFF All
Around-Hogs Run Lighter and
with Demand Good the Tendency
Has Been Towards Moderately
Higher Price Levels.

Sioux City Stock Yards, Sioux City,
Iowa, Aug. 20.-2 p.m.-Receipts Of cattle
foot UP 4,500 which is 1000 head more
than were on sale last week and the in
creased marketing was due to the market
ing of range cattle the first to arrive this
season The stocker and feeder trade this
week has been well taken care of and al
tho there was no very great activity to
the trade the market was well maintained
at last weeks best time At the close Of
the week there was the usual decline in
values on the few cattle that in all prob
ability would have to be carried over
The strong weight stockers and feeders Of
good quality were in demand and the best
Of the offerings changed hands at $3.50
$3.50, while the bulk of the fair to good
steers Of all weight sold at $2.75@$3.25
The common steers were hard to get rid
of at the low point Of $2.25@$2.50 There
was practically no trade in heifers as any
thing arriving on the tieshy order was
bought up by the killers and the few odds
and ends in stock heifers sold at $1.50@
$40. The dealers close the week with
quite a few cattle in their pens which they
will hav con sale the coming week and
this will naturally have some effect on the
trade If receipts art at all liberal
The condition Of the market on killers
has been very uneven and prices close the
week lower in sympathy with the break at
all other points. The heaviest decline has
been IN the just fa1r steers running to
grassers selling at $4.00%s 4.S5 which in
many cases were 15c@25c lower. There
was nothing on sale In choice beeves and
load Of pretty good cattle topped the
market at $500 which was not considered
any lower than last weeks close. The
cow market was very uneven and while
some Of the best grassers selling at SIZE
@$3.25, were not any lower, the fair tt
good cows selling from s2.25@S2.6O were
generally 10c@15c lower than last week
Gamers sold at the old price of $1.5O@
$2.e0. The Cudahy Packing company have
bought the larger share Of the receipts
but some cattle went thru to other points
and In the majority of cases sold at
lower figure than the bids offered at Siou,
! City.
Hogs.-The marketing of hogs at thi
point was moderate and with 1880 OF
sale there were 4,300 less than last week
i With a limited marketing at all points tn
general tendency of the market has beel
upward and the decline Of last week ha
been mostly regained. With hogs sellin
from $4.90@s5.25 the market close tn
week 20c@25c higher than the close Q
last. The Cudahy Packing company ha
bought freely and there have been order
on the market for good mixed and butch
ers to more than take care of the suppl.
Hogs Of heavy weight and packing orde
have been drug on the market.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
GLOVES FROM RAT SKINS
Only One Pair Made and 1t Was Very
Small.
Pail Mall Gazette

Pail Mall Gazette.
A report comes from Copenhagen that
great rathunt has been organized there
and that the skins of many thousands Of
the victims are to be used in making
gloves. If the rathunters in the Danish
capital cherish any such hopes they are
doomed to disappointment.
Ratskins cannot be made into gloves
fit for commerce. The belief that a val-l
liable raw material is being neglected here
survives only in the minds of the mex
pert. The glovemaker knows much bet
ter. A Norwegian merchant once came to
England and informed a well-known
glovemaker that he had collected over
100 900 ratskins and was prepared to re-
ceive offers for them. He was fully con-
v1nced that the skins were suitable for
glovemaking. But the manufacturer
found that the largest skin was only
some six inches long, and he held up a kid
skin for the smallest size of glove,
child's, which was eight inches long, and
asked how he was to cut such a glove out
of a ratskin.
Then he took up the smallest kid skin
for a lady's glove eleven inches long, and
when he asked how that was to be cut
out of ratskin the Norwegian merchanr
laughed at the idea and went away dis
appointed. The best offer he got for those
skins, which he had collected with so
much care, was shillings a hundreds
weight from man who was willing to-
boil them down for glue.
A famous glovemaking firm has a coll.
lection of curiosities relating to the trade.
and one Of them is the largest pair Of
gloves ever made out of a ratskin. The
| belief that such skins could be made into
| gloves was laid before the managers so
| confidently that they resolved to put 1t
to the trial and they ordered a number OF
| the skins of the largest rats which could
be found in Grin1sby. But the rat is a
fighting animal and bears the marks Of
many battles on his body, and 1t was
found that the skins were so SCARED and
i torn that it was with the utmost diff
Guilty that perfect pieces large enough for
the purpose could be obtained. In the
! end, after ten skins had been used a
| pair of gloves was cut and made, and
/ they are retained in the collection to this
1 day. But they are so small that the
would only fit the smallest of small boys.
| Thus 1t was shown that, however cheaply
ratskins might be obtained, they would
offer no advantage to the glovemaker.
The rabbitskin is equally useless for this
purpose. and humane people may also
dismiss from their minds the fear that the
skins Of pet dogs are made into gloves
The dogskin glove of which we used to
! hear is made of nothing but the skin o,
) the Cape goat.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS

NEW YORK COTTON MARKET, Aug.
20.-The cotton market opened Arm at an advance
of 100 points in response to bullish Liverpool
cables of botL a private and official character.
Shorts coveyI actively at first, being rendered
uneasy by the prospect for showers over Sunday
as we'll as by the firmness abroad and prices
after the opening We're advanced another few
points on the active months. But scattering
longs took profits at the higher level and with
the south still selling moderately the additional
gains were soon lost after which the market
ruled quiet and irregular with business of the
for Monday a range from 1900 to 1900 bales
against II last year.
Cotton futures opened firm: August 10.20c;
September, 9.99c; October, 9.77c; November,
9.I2c; December e.74c; January. 9.76c; March,
9.76c: May, 9.S0c.
September, 1o.o3c; October. 9.79c; November,
e.72c: December, 9.75c: January. 977c; Febru-
airy. 979c; March, 94s2c. April. 9.s4c; May,
9.s6c.
Spot closed quiet; middling uplands, 1O.s5c;
middling gulf. 11.1Oc; sales, 126 bales.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
PHONE SERMONS FOR SICK
All Philadelphia Hospitals Connected
With Baptist Church.
Philadelphia Inquire
~f,,1 I,o~ Loo~ th a

. -.
So successful has been the system Of
transmitting the sermon and song SER
vice at the Baptist temple, Broad and
Berks streets, to the patients in the
wards Of the Samaritan hospital by
means Of telephone connections, that
it has been decided to establish similar
connections in all of the city hospitals
as soon as practicable. At the morn
ing and evening services yesterday the
apparatus was again used even more
effectively than before, and SO clearly
did the sick in the hospital hear the
songs and sermon. that 1t seemed as
tho the services were being held In
the ward.
"The megaphones are now here per-
manently," said DR.. Conwell. The
system has proved entirely satisfac-
tory. All the expense thus TAR has
been betrayed by the Sell Telephone.
company, but the cost Of all further:
installation will, altho considerable, DO
gladly borne by the church.