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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

kee e. st. Paul has already placed Or
ders for $4,000 tons of rails with the
Illinois Steel company, which will cost
$3,500,000, and 10000 tons of steel
rails will be laid on the Pacific coast
extension during the present year.
Railroad building in Montana during
the coming summer promises to
eclipse anything of the kind ever wit
messed in the state before and Fergus
county and its southern border will
be the center of the greatest activity.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

The fact that settlers are coming
into Fergus county this early in the
season means that there will be a
great rush for land before the arrival
of midsummer. For the first twenty
two days of March there were sixty
three entries made in the local land
office on hOmesteads
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

Railroad news promises to come
thick and fast with the budding OF
the trees and the appearance of green
grass. Contractors are preparing to
begin work as soon as the frost is out
of the ground. This Chicago, Milwau
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27
circulation
IS the STOCK IN TRADE
OF A LIVE NEWSPAPER ,

When an advertisement is placed in q
paper it is for the purpose Of reach.
ing possible purchasers-those who
may be interested in what the ad.
vertiser has to sell.
Every advertiser has q right to know
just how many copies of his adver.
tsement are being distributed
whether that advertisement is being
placed before 100 readers or 200
readers, 1000 or 1000.
The Argus claims a much larger cir.
culation than any newspaper pub
lished within Fergus county;
the records of the Office and the
subscription list are always open to
our advertisers.
State of Montana
County of Fergus
says: That he is the business manager of the
Fergus County Argus. published at Lewis
town. Montana. and that the total number OF
copies of the Tuesday edition of the Argas
subscribed for and sold during the months OF
December. 1905. and January and February,
1906. was 20,36). an average of
1866 Each Issue
and that the total number of copies of the Fri.
ay edition of the Argus subscribed for and
sold during the same three months was 1850.
an average of
1910 Each Issue.
(Sigued) HALSEY X. WATSON,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this sth
day of March. 1906.
(SeaD g. W. COOK
Notary Public in and for Fergus County,
Montana.
is YOUR ADVERTISEMENT REACH.
ING OVER Fifteen HUNDRED
ACTUAL PURCHASERS OF A
NEWSPAPER EVERY ISSUE?
IF PLACED IN THE ARGUS 1T GER.
TAINlY 49,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

Col Norris, who was severely injur-
ed in a runaway a short time ago, has
now nearly recovered from the effects
of the accident and left for his home
at Judith Sunday
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

The anarchist, Herr Most, left moth.
ing behind but bad order Others
of his kind will endeavor to perpetuate
that.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

If Harlowton becomes a division
point OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul road the Musseshell town will
have promising future. Everything
comes to those who wait.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

David B. Hill favors George B. Nc
ClellaD for president in 1908. His
chances would be better if the Sage
of WOlforts Roost' would keep quiet.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27
Notice of Election,

To the taxpayers Of the city of Lew
istown, Montana, affected by an extern
sion of the limit of Indebtedness Of
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27

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, 1906-03-27

Subscribers failing to receive their
papers will please notify this Office.
that the cause may be Investigated
and reported to the proper authori-
ties
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09
Is the Horse a Coward?
+. NJ. Wave in Outing.

y. NJ. wave IN outing.
Imprimis, the horse is a coward
nature made him so-an unreasoning
coward, who fears everything with
which he is unfamiliar; nothing, how
ever horrible, to which association has
accustomed him; a creature given over
to sudden and uncomfortable panics.
and, in their paroxysms. stopping at
no injury to self or to those who cherish
him. His overpowering instinct in such
cases is flight; frequently, but not al
ways. associated with a determination
to clear himself from any hampering
surroundings. He has no feelings OF
revenge. unless trained to cunning by
the abuse or mistakes of mankind, and,
when these prevail, he rarely wreaks
his vengeance upon any particular in
dtvidual. but upon humanity in gen.
eral, with no regard for age or sex.
The sentiment of revenge is SO usu-
ally associated with cowardice hat it
may almost be classed as a phase of
that instinct. C%owardice manifests it.
self in equine connection in MANY ways
with n it is terror Of the dark,
which will make him kick his stall at
night, doing himself possibly serious
injury: yet in nine cases out of zen
pletely reassure him that he will not
lift a foot. Another is alarmed at
blowing paper, yet stands yawning
While cannon are fired in his face. It
is this very attribute of cowardfce
which enables us to handle the ami
NAL as we do; to train him to our will
and for our purpose; which makes
him, once he is thoroughly deceived
and intimidated. the useful servant we
find him; not a willing slave but one
who fears again to tempt reprisals
which have always proved effective;
and who labors for Us because he has
been made to do so, and fears to rebel.
Give to the most docile the idea that
he may successfully disobey, and
presto! you shall discover another at
tribute Of the c~oward-for your steed
forthwith becomes a bully, and a very
dangerous one; since each little act
OF rebellion which succeeds awakens
him to the idea that he need not obey
and that in power and will he is SUI
perior. Forthwith disaster impends.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09

His idea was that If he could only get
Norma back to the country h would
become we'll and strong once more, and
able to walk out in those green places
and amongst those grassy strealnlets
which neither she nor he had ever for
gotten.
Il am sure she would get WELL" he
thought, as he leaned over the stone
parapet and watched the river glide
away under the moon.
But how to carry her there? She
was like a log, as she said, with limbs
which were wholly useless, without
power to move any part of her except
her lips, dependent IN her neighbors
for every bit and drop. Nothing but a
miracle could ever raise her again on
her feet; but Lillino believed in mira
Giles or, more truly speaking, miracles
seemed natural to nina constant part
of daily life.
True, he saw them no more in the
streets and the houses, but he saw
them in the frescoes, in the sculptures,
in the carvings in the churches, and
he thought the halt and the blind and
the sick could all be cured if Some One
unseen and unknown would be good
enough to do it. Blu all he saw and
heard in the unkind streets began to
make him feel thai the real meaning
Oh miracles WIS IiiOlleS-llldl orange
dirty, ugly paper thing which was, he
saw so powerful in such amazing ways
What was it if not a miracle hat a
scrap of soiled paper, crumpled N
~dog-cared, could procure bread for the
hungry and wine for the weak? Even
those Undetermined bronze coins-how
much they could do. only passing from
hand to hand! Lillino had not much
understanding, and Mamma Rosa had
been too busy herself all day long to
attend to his education, either moral
or mental. He CROPPED his way es he
could to his few ideas, and his thoughts
We're confused and tangled. But these
two We're clear to him: Norma would
get we'll If she went back to the coun-
try, and with money she could be taken
there, carried, he was not sure how,
but in some way, back to those vine
yards and pastures and running brooks
where his babyhood had been spent
and her whole life had passed. But
the extremely scanty means he ever
gained did not even suffice to keep life
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09
VANISHING Forests.

In the Pacific northwest. nearly 2oo.-
900 men are employed in cutting down
the last primeyal forests of this coun-
spruce and fir and cedar into 5000, 0OO,-
900 feet Of lumber and 5000, 600. 900
sbingles every year
natural treasure of the American con-
tinent. compared with which the gold
mines of Alaska and Nevada are of
plcayune value for this and for COM
ing generations.
1t is so wonderfully rich a treasure
that, according to Ralph d. Paine in
Outing, its owners are squandering it
like drunken spendthrifts. A billion
feet of lumber is wasted every year.
enough to build 100, 1000 comfortable
American homes.
1t is characteristic of western men
and methods that the ways of logging
in the east should have been flung
aside as crude and slow. The giant
timber of the Washington forests on
the slopes of the Cascades is not hauled
by teams or RATED down rivers. Steam
has made of logging a business which
devastates the woods with incredible
speed, system and ardor.
The logging camps Of the Cascades
differ as strikingly from the numbering
centers of northern New England as
the electric gold %dredgers of HI Sacra-
mento Valley contrast with the placer
diggings Of the forty-niners. In other
words, h greater the need Of presery-
ing the forests, the greater is the Amer
lea ingenuity for turning them into
cash as fast as possible.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09
Our Burnt Offering.
From Golfers Weekly

From Golfers Weekly.
The International Society Of Build
ing Commissioners and Inspectors calls
attention to the fact that we have in
the United States ll,5O0.OO0 buildings.
valued at s14, 500, 100000, or more than
all the railroads in the country put to-
gether, and 1T asserts that of all these
just one is absolutely fireproof. That
one was built in Chicago by the great
insurance companies for a testing lab
oratory. There are only 1000 buildings
about 1 in 3,O00-that are even NOM
inally tireproof, and these a be dam
aged in a conflagration to the extent
of from 80 to 80 per cent. Of their value.
Yet the unburnable Underwriters Lab
oratory in Chicago. with it's walls OF
vitrifled brick, floors, roof n parti-
lions of semi-porous, hollow terra-cot-
ia, door and window openings framed
in rolled steel, window frames and
sashes of sheet metal, doors Of filled
copper and steel, and stairs of hollow
te%rra-cotta, cost only - per cent. mors
than a building that would shrivel UP
at the first breath of an advancing fire,
In 1905, which was a normal year."
we spent $500, 900, 900 for new buildings
and burned old ones to the value of
5000, 000, 600. We paid $300,0 600, 900 for
fighting fire and $195, 000, 900 in fire in
premiums, Of which we got
DdCk SS0,uUu,UUU from lIS IN
payment for losses.
1t cost US more to burn part of our
old buildings and protect the rest from
burning than it did to put up all our
new ones. This year San Francisco
has raised the fire losses Of the United
States to 100000 even if we dc
not let another city burn down be-
should burn up the whole of our bo-
wheat crop, on which we are
relying to give us prosperity, we should
think the country had suffered a ca
lamity; yet it is doubtful whether that
whole crop would pay for the property
ing this year. Our entire years gold
supply would not pay for a sixth of it
The entire gold production of the world
would not come anywhere near paying
for it all.
The $500, ooo 5000 worth of buildings
which we put up in a year to burr
down would cost about $3.50, 000, 900 IL
they were built not to burn down. For
the extra $4,000 900 we could save
most of the $500. 000, 900 we pay in nor
NAL years for fires and fire protection
In other words, we should have the
equivalent of another wheat or cot
ton crop added every year to the ma
tional wealth.
The Society Of Building Commission
ers and Inspectors has proposed a uni
form law, to be introduced into the leg
t%slature Of every state. making s%tricter
requirements for building; it urges that
insurance rates upon f1retraps should
be prohibitive, and it suggests that in
stead Of fining buildings in increased
taxes when they do good work we
should make the taxes lighter on solid
buildings and heavier on those that are
most dangerous to the community and
most burdensome in their demands for
fire protection.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09

1t was Il warm night i'm February,
and there vas the scent of narcissus
and violets already i'm the air, and the
Arno wac silvcred by the light of a full
moon as 1T flowed under the riches of
the Pontc Necchio.
A small boy was leaning over the
parapet and gazing at the water when
he ought to have been in bed. But
his bed was only a bit of sacking. with
some dead maize leaves underneath it;
and he liked better the radiant moon
light and the movements OF the fresh
clear. pungent night air.
His family name was a fine and an
cient one, but he was called only Lii
limo now. His parents We're dead; he
had only an old great-grandmother,
bedridden in the one room in Oltrarno,
where he lived with her. He kept her
and himself by selling matches, and he
was as thin as a match himself, but
was a pretty boy, with his great brown
eyes n his loose auburn curls, and
such a wistful, pleading smile that
hardly N girl or woman passed him
without buying, and no dog without
a kindly dab of his tongue.
His mother had died at his birth and
his father had shot himself after los
ing all he possessed at a gambling
club; the Offspring OF a secret mar
riage. the child was left to his foster
mother, Il COCO woman, Who cultivated
a little farm Oh the hills above Impru-
meta.
She and her spouse maintained him
sor seven years; then the husband de-
serted her and emigrated, and a year
later She was killed by the steam tram
near the Gelsomino, and there was only
her old mother left, the aged creature
whom he called his Norma"
She was turned out of their little
Farm, and Clinyinp to the child and tba
child to her, they went down into the
city to live. and she mended silken hose
and he sold matches.
1t was only in this last year. his
tenth year. that the veins of her legs
swelled S % much that they kept her
bedridden, and her sight failed her
also. and the matches became their
only support. One by one all the little
objects that his norma had brought into
the little town were sold, and there re-
manned nothing but the ragged clothes
which covered them both and a few
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09

miserable necessary things. They would
have died of hung and of cold but
for the charity of those who were not
much better off than themselves, and
for the occasional aims which ladies,
passing In the streets, arrested by the
pathetic beauty of Lillino's face, put
into his small thin hand. This was
not begging, for everyone took a box
or matches, knowing that if they did
not they would cause him trouble with
the police. for In theory begging is for
hidden.
Lillino's body was in the streets, but
his soul was in the country. 1t was
three years since he had seen it, but
he had never ceased to think of it,.
Let us go back, norma. Let US go
back" he said continually. But the
poor old bedridden woman could only
who would take us there? Who would
keep US when we got there? We are
here. and here we abide. Perhaps
II the saints would kill me outright
somebody would be kinder to you and
carry you out of this cruel place-all
Of food and drink for those who's bel
lies are full already, and never a bit
or drop for those who starve in it,"
DO not die, Nonna." said Lillino,
clasping his arms about her. DO not
die and go away into the earth. Pray,
pAdy w I1ol. L HaVe only you"
M poor little one, and what good
am II" she murn1ured, laying her hand
in blessing on his head An old log,
not even good for burning, for 1 have
no sap left in me. Alas! alas!"
But she was all he had to care for.
this bundle of rags under her ragged
coVerlet, and he a known her all his
life; she had been always exceedingly
good to him, and in that time, though
already aged. had been a strong and
hearty woman and his earliest mem
cries had been of merrily running be-
side her, with his hand on her skirt,
to cut watercresses in the bitches, or
drive the ducks to the rivulet, or gath
er olives, chestnuts, blackberries, wood
Strawberries, or do any one of those
other lighter labors which OCCUPY the
old people and the young children in
the fields and woods, and make every
body useful from 3 years old to 80.
Now Norma was of use no more and
Lillino tried with all his might to do
his utmost to be of use for two. He
ley doubted that he belonged to her,
or rather he thought about it;
he a always seen her near him, and
he had always heard Mamma Rosa,
whom he had been taught to believe
was her mother, call her grandmother.
NO one had ever told him that he had
patrician blood in his veins. This poor
old creature, scarcely alive, except in
the warmth of her affections and the
pains of her limbs, was all he had on
earth, and he chung to her with the
tenaclty Of a tender and tinid nature.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09

n great deal, he felt sure. With them
Norma would be able to buy their
farm. and they could live happily
there, both of them forever, seeing the
blossoms and the fruits come and go.
He longed to wake her, cut he dared
not; one of the women had told him
never to disturb her when she slept.
How glad she would be when she did
awake and heard that they could both
go home! There was a carter who
lived in the house; he would take them
up into the hills, making a couch of
hay in the cart for Norma; that would
be easy to do when once they could
give him a shining gold piece for his
trouble. Once there, all the rest would
follow of itself. When once she could
see the green grass again. and see the
buds on the fruit trees, she would be-
gin to move her limbs and get back her
strength, and they would pay to have
a mass said every day in the church
up above amongst the olives, a mass of
Thanksgiving to the Madonna and
Mamma Rosa.
He had eaten only a bit of black
bread all the day, and his brain was a
little dim, and his thoughts We're not
very clear. He had been walking about
head ached IL his feet ached, and his
brow and lips We're hot and dry, but
he was so happy. The moon looked
at him over the trees and seemed to
smile; he lay Town with his arms out
stretched so that they embraced tho
m%otionless body of his only friend, and
his hands. clasping the little purse.
rested upon the rags which covered
her.
"she will be so glad when she
awakes." ne thought; when she
awakes and hears We can go home"
Their he, too, fell asleep and dreamed
of angels and fountains of gold, and
the little red-throated birds singing
amongst towering fruit trees, and
grassy paths beneath the vines, and
brown ripping rivulets, and Mamma
Rosa standing smiling with the sun
about her feet and saying: Our lady
sent me-"
Then his sleep became loo deep for
dreams, and he breathed deeply, IN
consciously, whilst the moon passed
upward and it's light ceased to shine
upon his face and that of his Norma.
The tramping of feet on the brick
floor aroused him; a rude hand clutched
his shoulder and another hand seized
the gold. Here is the thief said a
brutal voice, and here is the lady's
purse"
."The little heartless wretch!" said
a voice as rude. Look! He is safe
here he thinks, because the old wom'
an is dead!"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09

Paris toughs nave thrown round the
Moulin more or less protects the citi-
zens h dwell Immediately beside it;
While, for the rest, a blind terror Of
every mouth.
Secondly, the Moulin is protected by
the Paris police of the secret service.
Did the Moulin not exist, l should
have to invent it," observed Goron
he was chef-de-surete. In a
word, the Moulin makes a magnificent
hunting ground for thugs and thieves
the best in Europe.
Once a Paris criminal Of the ordinary
brand has brought a coup off-has
made a condition." as they call it-he
feels the attraction of the Moulin ire
sistibly. He cannot keep away from it.
You may ask: "If he knows that the
bright halls with his illgotten gains,
why is he not wise enough to keep
away from them?"
The difficulty is more complicated
than that. The thug who has brought
off a coup" may quite as we'll argue
that his absence will be taken as still
more significant.
He may keep away one night, two
nights; but the thought will obtrude
itself: II look as il I were afraid to
show up!"
Sure to Come Back.
In n end he always shows up. He
breads that his absence will b. noted,
not only by the police, but by the
camaros Cor comrades)-dreads to be
sneered at as over prudent, breads that
a sinister type Of Judas comrade. shad-
owy n troublesome to think about,
the true deadly microbe of this life,
more feared a thousand times than the
police, shall note his absence and put
two and two together.
Every motive calls him to the Mou-
lin. His girl want to there show off
her newly acquired finery. She wants
to dance and drink and laugh triumph
antly with her man in these good mo-
ments of plenty. Both want to have
their fling beneath these glittering
chandeliers. And If the man have a
peculiarly black crime newly on his
conscience. he wants to forget it in
the dazzle and harden himself in com
partnership with others like himself.
He argues that to show up .in So
ciety" is normal. He shows up all right
when he has not done anything. That
he spends money will be a sign, yes:
but he will spend it p%rudently. He
has but to keep his mouth shut and
act normal.
So it comes about that the Moulin
is the great general stalking ground of
the Paris secret police.