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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10
LEWISTOWN, MONT, Oct. 1O.19o5
THE STATE FAIR.

The Fergus county delegation which
attended the state fair in Helena last
week returned on Sundays special
train. All speak in high terms of the
fair and say it was the best ever.
The exhibits in every department
surpassed all previous efforts, espec-
tally is this true of the grain and
stock departments. The race pro-
gram was an excellent one, the wealth
er good and the crowds large, fully
ten thousand people being admitted to
the grounds in one day-Wednesday
Although this was the third exhibit
ton to be given under the state fair
organization it's success was so pro-
nounced that the management feels
that it has passed the experimental
stage. To the steady increase in pop
uiation, the development of agricultur-
better railroad facilities, and the gen.
eral prosperity that prevails, can be
attributed the success of the fair.
1t goes without saying that the in
terest and success of the state fair
will increase in the coming years. But
the larger the crowds and the vol
ume of exhibits the greater is going
to be the expense of maintaining the
fairs, SO it will require judicious man.
agement to make ends meet Doubt
less many improvements or additions
will have to be made before another
year, in order to care for the people
and the exhibits. Already a healthy
rivalry exists between a number of
counties in the matter of agricultural
exhibits, and as a matter of course,
those counties which have been rails
ing such products and experimenting
for good many years, and which
have the advantage in railroad faci-
tiles and in nearness to the place of
exhibition are likely to take the lead.
Fergus has been regarded chiefly as
mining and stockgrowing county
until recently. But it is coming to
the front as wheat growing and ae-
rlcultural county. While a good ex-
hibit of wheat and grain from this
county, grown without irrigation, was
on exhibition, it did not compare in
quantity with the displays from sever
al other counties, which were to be
seen in car load lots. Quantity at
tracts attention and goes far in taking
premiums. 1t stands for interest and
enthusiasm on the part of the exhibit
ors. That is all but that is enough
to win prizes.
We have the products here and DOS.
slbly next year we'll directed effort
will be made to have crditable show
ing at the state fair Our people have
been to busy to give much attention
to such matters. A promoter, an en-
thusiast, must be chosen for such
work and paid for his time in secur-
ing an exhibition that the people who
visit the fair will be proud of.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10
AN APPEAL FOR HIGHER IDEALS

Long ago Herbert Spencer in lay
emotional education, and in deprecat-
ing tendency to worshipm ere intel
lect, declared that you cannot get gold
en- conduct from leaden instincts
Right feeling is more essential to So
ciety than knowledge, since there is
no necessary connection between
knowledge and action, and it is even
more the business of educational agen-
cies to cultivate character than to i'm.
part information.
These truths have been so strikingl y
illustrated afresh in recent develop
ments that it is not unreasonable to
expect a healthy reaction in favor of
genuine moral culture. President
Butler of Columbia following Har-
ward, University of Chicago and other
educators, has just spoken with much
directness and force of the evils con-
sequent upon neglect of character
building.
Whatever new legislation insurance
and graft scandals have proved to be
necessary, We must remember, DR..
Butler told the student body he was
addressing, that statutes will not put
moral principles where they do not
exist" Statutes do not enforce them
selves, and the paramount need is a
sound public opinion, a high standard
of rectitude and conduct.
There is no greater, graver symp-
tom of decadence than the substitution
of the criminal code for the moral law
as the national standard 1t is
against such substitution by any ele-
ment of our population that all edu-
cational and elevating agencies must
ceaselessly work. President Roose-
welt has referred to able lawyers who
put their skill and learning at the
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10
Managers of New York

Managers of New York theaters,
where straight drama are given, are
considering the question of dispensing
with orchestras altogether. They as
sert that as a great portion of the
patrons of the theater always leave
their seats between the curtains, the
music is practically lost, and there
fore is an unnecessary expense. Con-
sidering the character of the modern
plays the orchestra is the better part
of the entertainment. For the con-
venience OF the male patrons with a
unquenchable thirst the bar might be
placed in the rear of theatres.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

Commenting on the Teachers Insti-
tute, held in Gallatin county recently,
the Republican-Courier, of Bozeman,
while not discrediting the advantages
gained by an interchange of thought
and the comparison of ideas and meth
DDS, raises the question as to the pro-
priety or policy of conducting such in
stitutes at the expense of the public
school fund.- The editor says: There
is another point in connection with
these county teachers institutes that
many of our citizens do not entirely
approve, and that is the custom or sys-
TEN of maintaining the institutes at
the expense of the public school funds.
In other words, they do not believe
in the principle of depriving the en-
tire school going children of the coun-
ty of three days to a weeks schooling
each school term, or school year. as
the case may be, in order that the
teachers may be better trained and in
structed in their work. They argue
that if the teachers, already properly
educated, examined and holding the
requisite certificates, need this extra
teaching, and training, it should be
acquired either at their own expense
or some other fund outside of the dis.
trict school fund, which is levied and
apportioned exclusively for the edu-
cation of the children, and not any
portion of it for the education of
teachers
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10
Colonel Watterson as a DipIoma at.

Col. Henry Watterson, the great
Kentucky authority on Democracy and
the splash of mint juleps, told story
the other day. in which he demonstrate
ed that an editor to be successful must
be diplomatic.
An editorial acquaintance of his, Col.
Henry said, was recently sitting in
his sanctum, when an office boy rush.
ed in and disturbed the mighty trend
of thought.
"There are two gentlemen outside
who would like to see you, sir" an
nounced the boy.
"Who are they?" asked the editor.
dropping his shears. "What do they
want?"
II don't know who they are, sir"
replied the lad. 'but one is poet and
the other is stone deaf"
ooh, that's all right" responded
the editor, as he picked up the paste
brush; you just go and tell the poet
that the deaf man is the editor"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

Pat Groves Identification was made
positive by two Omaha detectives, who
have returned to Omaha with the IA
nous criminal. Grove expressed a
Willingness to return to Omaha, but
requested that he be not ironed, some
thing that the officers could not grant,
as they had strict orders not to take
any chances with him. After being
identified Grove was the center of at
traction in Butte, crowds visiting the
jail to get a glimpse at the noted out
law. AS usual, there We're a few SEN
timental idiots of the gentler sex, who
carried fruit and flowers to bestow
upon the object of their admiration.
1t is a pity some punishment cannot
be inflicted upon such people.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

Representative Townsend, of Mich
igan, one of the authors of the Esch-
Townsend railroad rate bill, which
passed the house of representatives
last winter by an overwhelming ma
jority, was in Washington last week
and had a conference with the presi-
dent relative to railroad legislation.
Although not authorized to speak for
the president he intimates that the
latter is firm in his determination to
urge the Importance of such legisla-
ton upon congress. Mr.. Townsend
has no doubt that rate legislation in
some form will be enacted at the COM
ing session. Some amendments will
be made to the Esch-T Townsend bill,
which he thinks will strengthen it and
meet the approval of the president.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10
R0OSEVELTS
BEAR HUNTS
THE PRESIDENT TELLS HOW HE
HAS KILLED BIG
GAME.

(F'rom Scribner's Magazine for Oc-
tober. Copyright, 1905, Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons.)
Bears are interesting creatures and
their habits are always worth watch
ing. When used to hunt grizzlies my
experience tended to make me lay
special emphasis on their variation of
temper. There are savage and cow
ardly bears, just as there are big and
little ones; and some times these var
iations are very marked among bears
of the same district, and at other times
all the bears of one district will seem
to have common code of behavior
which differs utterly from that Of the
bears of other districts. Readers of
Lewis and Clark do not need to be re-
minded of the great difference they
found in ferOcity between the bears of
the upper Missouri and the bears of
the Columbia river country; and those
who have lived in the upper Missouri
river country nowadays know how
widely the bears that still remain have
altered in character from what they
were as recently as the middle of the
last century.
This variability has been shown in
the bears which have stumbled upon
at close quarters On but one occa-
sion was l ever regularly charged by
a grizzly. To this animal had given
a mortal wound and without any effort
at retaliation he bolted into a thicket
of what, in my hurry, thought was
laurel cit being composed in reality,
suppose, of thick growing berry BUSH
esq. On my following him and CIV
ing him second wound he charged
very determinedly taking two more
bullets without flinching. l just es-
capped the charge by jumping to one
side, and he died almost Immediately
after striking me as he rushed by.
This bear charged with his mouth op
en-, but made very little noise after
the growl or roar with which he greet
ed my second bullet. l mention the
fact of his having kept his mouth
open because one or two of my friends
who have been charged have inform
ed me that in their cases they partic-
ularly noticed that the bear charged
with his mouth shut. Perhaps the
fact that my bear was shot through
the lungs may account for the differ
ence. or it may simply be another ex-
ample of individual variation.
On another occasion, in windfall,
l got up within eight or ten feet of a
grizzly, which simply bolted off, pay
ing no heed to hurried shot which
l delivered as l poised unsteadily on
the swaying top of an overthrow
dead pine On yet another occasion
when I reused big bear from his
sleep, he at the first moment seemed
to pay little or no heed to me, and
then turned toward me in a leisurely
way. the only sign of hostility he be-
trayed being to ruffle up the hair on
his shoulders and the back of his neck.
l hit him square between the eyes
and he dropped like pole axed steer.
On another occasion I got up quite
close to and mortally wounded bear,
which ran off without uttering sound
until it fell dead; but another of these
grizzlies, which l shot from ambush,
kept squalling and yelling every time
| hit him, mt king a great rumpus.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

United States Senator ]. P. DOLLY
er recently assumed the garb of
minister and delivered sermon in
Fort Dodge, Ia, for the benefit of the
local Y. M. C. A. A few good sermons
delivered by him on the floor of the
senate might have wholesome ef-
feet They are badly needed there.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

The spectacular William R. Hearst
York on a municipal ownership plat
form. There will be something doing;
plenty of red fire" and red lines,'
but he can hardly expect to win out
against George B. Mcclellan, who is
backed by the Tammany Democracy
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

Texas is going to have a new post
office named "Damsite,' because engi-
neers are building large irrigation
dam at the place where it is to be
established This reminds us of the
fellow who went out to look over
the mill site, but no mill by a dam
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

From the photographs of Pat Grove
in the Butte papers one might take
him to be a college professor or an
ordained minister of the gospel in
stead of kidnaper and hardened
criminal
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

The Lewis and Clark exposition
proving a notable exception, is likely
to be a financial success. The chances
are now good that the stockholders
will be reimbursed for large part
of the money they subscribed. If the
present attendance continues to the
end of this month the treasurer hopes
to be able to pay so per cent divi-
dend, if not more. The number of Wis
itors has been larger than was antici-
pated and the exposition from first
to last has been ably managed. While
it would not be fair to compare the
effort at Portland with the great eX-
positions of recent years, and no at
tempt has been made to rival them,
the show is good one and fairly rep
resentative of the Pacific coast and
states. A writer, speaking
of the expenses and receipts, says:
"The expenses have averaged only
about $4,000 day, being increased
" $o,uUV Oh special occasions by QlS-
plays of fire works and other special
features. which have proved profit
able. The attendance has varied from
10000 to $4,000 a day, averaging 49,
900; the biggest record-56, OOO-hav-
ing been made on the Fourth of July.
The receipts have varied from $4,000
to $1,000 a day. Sometimes they have
run up as high as $4,000, but there
has scarcely been a day when the
treasurer was not able to put half of
his collections in the bank. The rev.
enues from concessions have also been
large Coming right after the Louis
lana Purchase exposition, there was
some doubt of success, but all this
has been long since removed In some
respects the Lewis and Clark exposi-
ton has proved greater attraction
than the big show at st. Louis.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

The strangest part of it is that
President Mccall, who contributed so
literally of the policyholders' money
to the Republican national campaign
dyed, bown-in- the-bottle Democrat
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

The explosion last Thursday night
still remains a mystery. 1t looks as
though We would have to attribute the
defamation to falling meteor and
let it go at that.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

August 10, 1905-The trouble with
most adv-writers is that they spend
too much time studying how to write
the advs and too little finding out why
the customers don't buy.-Rusty
Mikes Diary.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10
OPTICAL PAPER OF FERGUS COUNTY.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
JOHN n. VR00MAN, Editor and Proprietor.
HALSEY R. WATSON. Business MANAGER.

No subscriber will be carried on our
books whose arrearages are greater
than six months. All subscription &C.
counts are payable in advance.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

Having once had the buck fever"
and survived, President Roosevelt is
not afraid of the yellow kind.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

Subscribers failing to receive their
papers will please notify this Office.
that the cause may be investigated
and reported to the proper authori-
ties.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

For job work in any line. neatly
executed, call on the Argus job office.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-10

For job work in any line, neatly
executed, call on the Argus job office.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
ALL IN THE BREAKFAST.

The man who can sit down TO q
breakfast table covered with a
mussy. spotted cloth. and partake
of muddy coffee, and soggy bis
cults, and watery potatoes, and
leathery steak. and still maintain
cheerful and atfectionate atti-
tude toward his wife, is more
than human.
He is a demi-god, with the
stomach of an ostrich.
II, after eating such a break
fast he goes down town to quar-
rel with his clerks, insult his best
customers, refuse gilt-edged in
vestments and let golden oppor-
tunities for extending his trade or
buying corner lots for a song slip
by him, his wife has no right to
reproach him for his lack Of
financial sagaclty.
1t is logical outcome of his
breakfast, which has filled HIM
with dyspepsia and gloom, and
given him n dark blue outlook
that makes him feel that the
country is going to the dogs, and
everything is bound to come
to smash.
If you will look over your list
Of acquaintance, and see the
men who are branching out in
business and pushing their trade
who are acquiring valuable pieces
of real estate and who are rising
in their professions, you will fine
that almost without exception
they are men with good diges
tions-men who feel we'll anC
strong and who are optimistic o
the future.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
KEEP HUBBY HEALTHY.

theoretically h does. Practi-
cally he has no more idea of it
than II babe in arms. Very few
men know enough to come in out
of the rain, or to change their
shoes when they get their feet
damp. Besides, it is the custom
of the American husband to eat
what is set before him and ask no
questions for peace's sake.
This leaves the matter of her
husbands health almost entirely
in wife's hands, and viewed from
even the most sordid standpoint
Of wishing him to make as much
money for her to spend as pos.
sible, it hehooves her to keep the
machine in good working order.
The old superstition that
whether one was we'll or i'll de-
pended upon mysterious dispen-
sation of Providence is FORUM
ately dissipated
We know now that our health
and that of our families is almost
entirely the result of the intelli-
gent care of our bodies, and in
reality every housekeeper holds
the physical well-being of those
under her roof in her hands.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
Origin of the Four Post Bedstead.

In medieval times, when life was
very insecure, 1t was usual for people
to sleep on bed which was surround
ed by sides of boards with strong posts
at the four corners. These sides con
tanned sliding doors, which could be
fastened inside. When men retired to
rest they took n weapon with them. If
attacked in the night they were arous-
ed by the noise made by the crushing
in of their wooden dcfcnscS and We're
able TO defend themselves, When the
law became strong enough to protect
human life the sides of the bedstead
were gradually dispensed WITH but the
four posts remained. The boXlke bed
stead still survives In the rural parts
Of Scotland and IS almost necessary
where the carthcn floors and imperfect
ceilings cause much damp. Emily
Bronte in "S'uthcrlng Heights" de-
scribcs one of these bedsteads In the
old mansion as forming little closet"
Mr. Lockwood who had to sleep In It,
says, II slid back the panel sides, got
in with my light, pulled them together
again and felt secure"
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
he Kind Today.

Less spent on the dead and more
spent on the living would bring about
many happy results. Hearts are break.
ing, loved ones wait and tears flow all
because of the Withholding Of kind
words unspoken and letters never sent.
The aged father and mother far off In
the country would often be cheered did
the son or daughter more frequently
send them letter. Behold the sad
mistakes of others, their remorse, and
profit by the same before 1t is too late.
Today, now, speak the loving word.
send the tender message, write the let.
ter you put off day by day, and don't
wait until you forget 1t or until bitter
memories haunt you.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
A whales spouting.

The whale does not discharge water,
but only It's breath. This. however, In
rushing up into the air hot from the
animals body has the moisture con
dcnscd to form n sort of rain, and the
colder the air, just as In the case of
our own breath, the more marked the
result. When the spout Is made with
the blowholc clear above the surface Of
the water 1t appears like n sudden jet
of steam from boiler. When effect
ed, as 1t sometimes Is, before the blow
hole reaches the surface, Il low fountain
as from street fire plug Is formed and
when the hole Is close to the surface at
the moment little water II sent up
with the tall Jet Of steam. The cloud
blown up does not disappear Mt once,
but hangs little while and Is often
seen to drift short distance with the
wind
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
The Game of Checkers.

The game of checkers, whether we
call 1t checkers or draughts, is ancient
and almost universal. The Chinese
have form of 1t which they call the
game of circumvcntion." 1t was
known to the Egyptians, the Greeks
and the Romans, and, what Is stranger
still, antiqunrlans find It to be one OF
the amusemcnts of the aboriglnes of
New Zealand, people who were ap-
parently cut Off from all continental
associations and Influences for thou
sands OF years. So the pedigree Of the
game Is as long as that Of chess, and
indeed there have been skillful players
OF both games who regarded checkers
as the better Of the two.-Youth's Com.
panlon
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
COOKING AND OPTIMISM .

The success of professional men
is even more dependent on what
they eat, Many brilliant law
yer's eloquence is fatally choked
on underdone pork chops, and his
ability to see point obscured by
bile.
The reason that we never hear
again of so many promising
young poets after they are mar
ried is because they married bad
cooks.
Even the tint of clergyman's
Undergraduates he breaches
the glories of heaven and the love
of God or hell fire and damna-
tion-depends on the kind Of
housekeeper his wife IS.
And the world loves an optim-
list, and pays him to prophesy
glad things for it. We revere
Carlyle, but we buy the writings
of Laura Jean Libby.
The woman, then, who wishes
her husband to be a success must
keep him in good physical condi-
ton. OF course an adult, intelli-
gent man ought to have enough
sense to know what to eat and
! how to take care of himself,
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-05-25
Got the best of InpersoII,

\ man who was once in the plumbing
business told the following story on
Bob lngcrsoll "Ingcrsoll," said he,
'camc into my place and asked me to
fix II sink at his house. How much
money have you got IN your clothesr
says l. What! says he. That's what,
says |, and he went into his pocket and
pulled up II roll. 'Thatll do says /,
taking it. Never mind about counting
ii. I'll do the job
"What do you mcan?' says he.
""This,' says l.: Il was on II spree last
night and got locked up. In the next
cell to me was thief who was caught
with the goods. He sent for you, and
the first thing you did was to ask him
how much money he had and you took
II. I'm doing the same thing by you
"'Kccp the money says he"