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Narrow Chests.
The old theory that consumption was
inherited is utterly discredited by modern
medical science.' The germs of con
sumption must be received from with
out. These germs are every where.
They are constantly being received and
cast out by the
h h y
^ It is the narrow
chested whose
hcritance is weak
ness
prey to consump
_ ^W f tion because they
are too weak of
lung to resist and
throw off disease.
Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery makes
weak lungs
strong. It cures
obstinate deep
seated coughs,
bleeding lungs,
weakness, emacia
tion and other conditions which if neg
lected or unskilfully treated find a fatal
termination in consumption.
$3,000 FORFEIT will be paid by
the World's Dispensary Medical Asso
ciation, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y., if
they cannot show the original signature
of the individual volunteering the testi
monial below, and also of the writers of
every testimonial among the thousands
which they are constantly publishing,
thus proving their genuineness.
"In the spriug of 1900 I was taken with
hemorrhage of the lungs, and became very
weak and short of breath, lost flesh and had no
appetite," writes Mr. E. !.. Robinett, of Xerxes,
Tenn. "I was persuaded to try Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Tbe first few bottles
seemed to do me but little good. Thought I
would soon be a victim of that dreaded disease,
consumption. Had almost given up in despair
when my friends persuaded me to give your
* Golden Medical Discovery ' a fair trial. I com
menced its use. I weigh 160 pounds now, and
when I commenced I only weighed 140 pounds.
If any one doubts this statement I will be
pleased to answer any inquiry."
Accept no substitute for "Golden Med
ical Discovery." Nothing is "just as good.''
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the
clogged system from impurities.
Call For Bids For Bridge and
Road Work.
County Clerk's office, Hamilton, Mon
tana, March 15, 1905.
Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received at this office un
til 10 o'clock a. in. on Saturday,
March 25, 1905, for t lie construction
of the following work :
A three (9) span combination bridge
across the Bitter Boot, river at a point
near the farm of D. (J. Bass, each
span to be one hundred and twenty
(120) feet long, road-way to be twelve
(12) feet wide and lloor of bridge to
be sixteen (10) feet above low water
mark. The two center piers to tie of
piling anti cribbed and cribbing to be
filled with rock, the end piers to be of
piling. Said bridge to be painted
with two coats of mineral paint and
all cords and cordai blocks to be cov
ered with galvanized iron.
A certified check of ten (10) per
cent of amount must he deposited
with bid. The board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received at this office un
til 10 a. in. on Saturday, March 25,
1905, for the grading and graveling
of about : j of a mile of public road,
beginning at a point oi the township
line between townships six (6) and
seven (7) north of range 20 west, near
the southeast corner of the southwest
quarter of the southwest quarter of
section 32, running thence east. Said
road to be graded and tlie graveled
to a depth of six (0) inches and to a
width of ten (10) feet and to have
turn-outs every three hundred (300)
feet, said turn-outs to be graveled to
a width of sixteen (Hi) feet and six (0)
inches in depth. The board reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
By order of the board of county
commissioners.
21 2t GEO. A. REESE,
Clerk of Board of Commissioners.
fcirtHWaaf:
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS
of FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR
On account of the great merit and popularity of FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR
for Coughs, Colds, and Lung Trouble, several manufacturers are advertising
imitations with similar sounding names with the view of profiting by the favorably
known reputation of FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR.
DO NOT DE IMPOSED UPON
We originated Honey and Tar as a Throat and Lung Remedy and unless you get
FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR you do not get the original and genuine.
Remember the name and insist upon having Foley's Honey and Tar. Do not risk
your life or health by taking imitations, which cost you the same as the genuine.
Foley's Honey and Tar is put up in three sizes—25c, 50c and $1.00.
Prepared only by FOLEY & CO., 92*94-96 Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois.
SOLO 1ND RECOMMENDED BY
J. E. Sherman, Hamilton, Montana.
OLD JAPANESE ARMORERS.
Btrniiffp I pkpihIm of the Temper and
Keenne«» of Tlieir Sword«.
The era of the sword tn Japan has
given place to the ritte, but long before
this period the exquisite art of the ori
ental armorer was lost We are told of
a blade composed of 4,104,304 layers
of steel and polished so that the finest
European polishing pastes only serve to
scratch it. Few people have any idea
of the art used In fashioning these
weapons. They doubtless appreciate
the beauty of the sheath, handle and
guards, but to them a sword is a piece
of steel made to cut, and that is all.
When the Japanese armorer forged a
sword lie did it as if it were a sacred
thing, and indeed it was in his eyes.
He forged the metal tenderly, with spe
cial tools for each operation. He tem
pered it with processes as secret as the
confidences of the gods. lie had his
methods of securing in the metal most
marvelous color effects and of produc
ing markings from an imitation of
which tlie most expert armorers of Eu
rope would recoil in despair. Strange
legends are told of those old Japanese
armorers. Masa-Mune, a gentle smith
of the fourteenth century, could lot fall
a hair of the hard shelled ndzuki bean
across the edge of one of his swords,
and it would he split in two, or. like
Regin, lie Mould stand the weapon up
right in a little stream of water and
let tlie current carry along a little scrap
of paper, which, as it touched the edge
of tlie blade, would float away in
halves.
Of a different character was the
fierce old Mura-Masa, who forged
swords to the cry of "Tonka taira!"
(War to men!) and quenched each one
In the warm blood of a fresh human
victim. This so inspired tlie steel with
endless thirst that it would cleave iron
like bronze and bronze like a melon in
the search of human life. If left too
long in its scabbard It possessed its
wearer with a fierce desire to kill, and
if drawn only for display it would hash
the lingers of tlie one who wielded it.
be lie ever so careful. So terrible was
the slaughter of these semihuman
blades that tlieir use was prohibited by
one of tlie Tokugawa shoguns, and
thereafter they were forced to languish
in the sword racks. Minor smiths were
content to pile up copper coins and
display an edge unruillcd after cleav
ing the stack or to cut through a half
inch copper bar, hut the great masters
smiled at such tests. The same blade
which in their case could split a hair
or divide a silk scarf which a gentle
breeze wafted against it could slice the
Iron or bronze like cheese.
Tlie Horse anil tlie Ilonkey.
The ancestors of the horse were ac- j
customed to roam over the plains,
where every tuft of grass or hush
might conceal an enemy waiting to
spring upon them. Under these eir- |
cumstanees they must often have saved j
their lives by starting quickly back or !
jumping to one side when they came ■
without warning upon some strange
object. This is a habit which has not
left the animal even after long years
of domestication.
On the other hand, the donkey is de
scended from animals which lived
among the hills, where there were prec
ipices and dangerous declivities, and
from these conditions resulted his
(Jowness and sure footedness. Ills an
cestors were not so liable to sudden at
tacks from wild beasts and snakes, j
Besides, sudden and wild starts would ,
have been positively dangerous to them. I
Consequently they learned to avoid the j
very trick which has been so useful to j
the horse. The habit of eating thistles, j
which is peculiar alone to tlie donkey,
Is also descended from these ancestors.
In the dry, barren localities which they
inhabited there was often little food;
hence they learned to eat hard,.dry
and even prickly plants when there
was nothing else.
Forbear and Forgive.
Do not expect too much from others,
but remember that all have some ill na
ture. whose occasional outcropping we
must expect, and that we must forbear
and forgive, ns we often desire for
bearance and forgiveness ourselves.
WnaliiiiKton.
"My father," said Wellingtons non.
"deemed Washington the purest and
noblest character of modern time—pos
sibly of all time—and, considering the
raw troops with which he had to op
pose the trained and veteran soldiers
of England, also a great general."
Another interesting statement which
the second duke made to General Wil
son. who writes to the Cornhill, was
that when his father was assigned to
the command of an expedition to be
sent out against the city of Washing
ton and New' Orleans in 1S14 he de
clined the command chiefly on the
ground that he would not tight against
Washington's countrymen. And when
his government asked for the names
of three officers from whom a com
mander could he selected Wellington
wrote, "Sir Edward l'akenliam. Sir
Edward Fakenham, Sir Edward Pak
enliam," and so poor Sir Kdw'ard, his
brother-in-law, was sent to New Or
leans to meet his death in the most
disastrous defeat ever sustained by a
British army. St. James' Gazette.
Roman Gorina ikIn.
Tlie wealthy gormands of Rome cher
ished a strong partiality for song birds
Botli Horace and Martial refer with
approval to roast thrush, iiud Ovid
recommends "a crown of thrushes" as
a lover's present to his mistress.
Thrushes' breasts were one of the in
gredients of the celebrated Apician
dish. "Patina apieiana," which also in
cluded beceaficos, mushrooms, sow's
udder, fish and chickens, rivaling the
heterogeneous contents of a gypsy's
"pot an feu."
Horace relates that the sons of Ac*
this, to stimulate their appetite for
dinner, lunched on "nightingales of
monstrous price," and Varro tells us
of the aviary of Lucullus, which was
also a "salle a manger." so that tlie
epicure gratified his ears and his palate
simultaneously, feasting upon tlie deli
cate warblers whose congeners, uncon
scious of tlieir coming doom, were dis
coursing meanwhile the most exquisite
music.
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Ken Down anil Fen them.
Adulteration laws were quite as nec
essary in the good old days as in the
sophisticated twentieth century. Even
the adulteration of feather beds and
bolsters had to be provided against.
Oct. 14, 1495, is the date of a statute
prohibiting the sale in English fairs
or markets of these articles or of pil
lows, "except they he stuffed with one
manner of feathers." it expressly de
nounced tlu 1 use of such "unlawful and
corrupt stuffs" as "scalded feathers, or
fen down." The last substance is the
same as cotton grass and was evident
ly in great demand ns a substitute in
bed stuffing. In the eighteenth cen
tury again there were complaints
against people who bought fen down
at a halfpenny a pound and sold it
among feathers at sixpence.
Franklin anil KinjAN.
In the writings of Thomas Jefferson
are some interesting anecdotes of Ben
jamin Franklin. He says: "When Dr.
Franklin went to France on his Revolu
tionary mission his eminence as a phi
losopher, his venerable appearance and
the cause on which he was sent ren
dered him extremely popular. All ranks
and conditions of men entered warmly
Into the American Interest. He was,
therefore, feasted and Invited to all
court parties. At these he sometimes
met the old Duchess of Bourbon, who,
being a chess player of about his force,
very generally played wijh him. Hap
pening once to put her king into prize,
the doctor took It. "Ah," said she, "wo
do not take kings so." "We do in
America." said the doctor.
A Secret Society.
Carrie—I've got n dandy Idea for a
girls' secret society. Belle—A secret
society! Do you think it would be
practical? Carrie—Surely. We wouldn't
keep secrets; we'd swap them.—Puck.
Beyond Itcnson.
There he two individuals who cannot
be reasoned with—a girl In love and a
man who is determined to run for an
office—New Orleans Picayune.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual election of the town of Hamilton
will be held on Monday, the 3rd day ot
April, 1905, at which said election the
following officers will be elected:
Two aldermen, in First Ward of 1
said town.
One alderman, in the Second Ward j
of said town.
One alderman, in the Third Ward of i
said town.
The polls for said election will be ;
opened at 8 o'clock a. m. of'said day ]
and will remain open until 6 oclock p. !
m. of said day.
Given under my hand this 8 th day
of March, 1905.
R. C. PARMENTER,
2l-4t Town Clerk.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that in pur
suance of a resolution duly adopted
by the Town Council of the Town of
Hamilton, there will be submitted to
the qualified electors of tlie Town of
Hamilton. Montana, on Monday April
3rd, 1905, at the time and at the vot
ing places of the general election of
said Town of Hamilton, the question
of the issuance of bonds to the amount
of £7000 for the purpose of obtaining
a location for building and furnishing
a Town Hall.
Said bonds to he of the denomin
ation of £1000 each payable in 20 years
with the privilege of paying the same
in 10 years from date of issuance of
the same, bearing 5 per cent interest
per annum. By order of the Town
Council of the Town of Hamilton duly
made and entered this 12 th day of
■ March, 1905.
I In witness whereot I have hereunto
; set my hand and seal this 13th day of
! March 1905.
R. C. PAKMENTFR,
Town Clerk.
Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the Olli
cial Register of the Town of Hamil
ton will be open for Registration of
Voters, for the annual election to be
held in the Town of Hamilton, Mon
tana, April 3, 1905, on the 18th day of
March, 1905, at the Hamilton Book
store on Main street, in the said Town
of Hamilton and will remain open
for five days exclusive of Sunday,
and will again be opened for the pur
pose of registering those who were
unavoidably absent from tlie town
during the aforesaid five day period,
and for the purpose of correcting er
rors in the names on the 1 st day of
April, 1905. Said register will be open
from 1 o'clock p. tn. until 5 o'clock p.
tn. and from 7 o'clock p. in. until 9
o'clock p. in. ot each day above men
tioned.
J. J. SOUTH WICK,
21-4t Registry Agent.
Notice Regarding Stray Horses
and Cattle.
All horses and cattle not branded, or
j having a brand so obliterated that the
ownership cannot be determined, shall
V e turned over to the stock commis
sioner of the county in which they are
found and who will sell them, after
duly advertising them, for the benefit
of the stock association.
All persons having an animal upon
their premises not belonging to them,
must report the same to the commis
sioner at once, who will pay all actual
charges against such animal when it
is sold.
All owners of horses and cattle are
requested to send a full description of
their brands and ear marks so as to
facilitate the recovery of same, when
lost from their accustomed range.
L. E. MANNING,
Stock Commissioner.
Stevensville, Montana. 21 4t
bne Deserted House
(Original.!
My automobile was powerful, but
tlie snow was falling fast, and the
wild was hurling it about wildly. I
passed through a village where the
lamps shone dimly through the cir
cling flakes, but they were bright com
pared with the black road into which
I plunged beyond the town limits. My
four acetylene lamps forced a circular
hole in tlie darkness, and there would
have been no difficulty in iny getting
on had not the snow increased, while
the wind, rising to fury, blew it into
drifts. My pace grew slower, and
with each drift I avur in danger of be
ing stalled. The cold was Intense, and
1 began to grow sleepy.
At last I was stalled. My lumps
showed me. not fifty yards ahead, a
stone bridge, beyond «Nhich the road
forked at the foot of a large tree. Be
yond on the left fork 1 thought 1 saw
n light. Putting on all the force there
was in my machine, I plowed through
the snow and drew up in front of a
massive stone house, wit 1 » pillars rising
the Avliole height of the building, such
a house as was in vogue about 1840.
I rapped with the brass knocker, and
a man opened the door. He was not a
servant, hut a well to do looking per
son of the country class.
1 told him my story, and he invited
me to take my automobile around to a
slied in tlie rear and to spend the night
in his house. When 1 returned from tlie
shed, he met me at a hack door, brush
ed the snow off me and led me into the
living room, where his wife and chil
dren were sitting about a blazing wood
fire.
There was something uncanny about
these people, and for my life 1 couldn't
tell what It was. They were all as
white as if they had been long ill and
seemed hungry, not for food, for they
gave me a supper, never touching a
morsel themselves, hut for something
the nature of which I could not guess.
The wife and mother spread her hands
before the tire to warm them, and 1
could see tlie llame behind, not through
red blood, but white llesh. The chil
dren, too. had a blue-white look about
them that made me cold. I attempted
to caress a little girl of six years, seiz
ing her hand, hut she quickly drew it
away, and I was glad she did, for it
was cold and stiff, not the least of that
warm softness in it. usual to childhood.
I Avas glad when my host showed mi*
to a sleeping room.
In tin* night I nAvoke suddenly Avith
suffocation. A mouth was glued to
mine, and some one was drawing my
breath from my body. I avus just in
time to place my hands upon a pair of
shoulders and hurl the figure uavu.v.
In another moment I would have been
powerless. Gasping, 1 awaited tlie per
son's return, but when no one came 1
listened. There was no sound, and aft
er n time I wondered if 1 had not had a
spasmodic closing at the mouth of the
windpipe and dreamed the rest. I av.is
all in u tremor and resolved to "remain
UAvake for the rest of the night. Never
theless 1 became drowfiy, and the last
I remember was struggling Avith sleep.
I avus awakened by some one shak
ing me, the mouth of a flask put be
tween my lips and liquor in my mouth.
I swallowed a considerable draft, after
which I opened uiy eyes to lie blinded
by a powerful light, the light from an
automobile. Two men Avere chafing
me. When assured that I was alive
they told me that they were passing in
their automobile and had found me In
mine apparently frozen. They had
reached me Just In time to save me.
Ahead of me was the stone bridge I
had seen, beyond Avliieh tlie road
forked at the foot of the oak tree. I
was still stuck In the drift from Avhicli
I thought I had gone to the house far
ther on. I said nothing to 1113 ' rescuers
about this, and after they had turned
my machine I went Avith them hack to
the village, where I spent the remain
der of the night.
The next morning was bright, cold
and still, and after a hot breakfast I
proceeded on 1113 * way, passed the point
where I had been stalled and pushed
on by the left fork. What was my as
tonlshment to see that the house at
which I had stayed tlie night before
was where I thought it. But instead of
being occupied it was deserted.
I Avas paralyzed with a frightful
dread. Fortunately I had nothing to
do but hold the steering wheel to put
the horrible place behind me. Reaching
a farm house a Rhort distance beyond.
I stopped and, leaving my automobile,
hoicked. A woman came to the door.
• "You know the house half n mile
back on this side of the road—stone
house, big pillars?"
"Yes."
"Any one lived there lately?"
"Not since a few years after It was
built."
"How so?"
"I've heard the family that lived in
it all died of cholera somewhere in the
fifties."
I caught at the railing of the porch.
"Ever heard anything — strange —
about the place?"
"Oh, yes. There's lots of talk. I don't
believe any of it, but I can't get any of
my children to go past it In the dark.
One story Is that the d<«d sometimes
try to suck the life out of the living,
and this family"—
I waited to hear no more. Staggering
to my automobile, I pulled myself in,
managed to turn the starting gear and
went flying away, bent only on putting
miles between me and the house where
I did not doubt the dead had taken me
for the purpose of appropriating a life
that wits on the eve of leaving its body.
F. A. MITCHEL.
■ ' •'! 'll
HE above picture of the
man and fish is the trade
mark of Scott's Emulsion,
and is the synonym for
strength and purity. It is sold
in almost all the civilized coun
tries of the globe.
If the cod fish became extinct
it would be a world-wide calam
ity, because the oil that comes
from its liver surpasses all other
fats in nourishing and life-giving
properties. Thirty years ago
the proprietors of Scott's Emul
sion found a way of preparing
il soi hat everyone can
1 g t tlie full value of
bout the objectionable
u I "s i'.aiulsi ni is the
i > the world for weak,
nidi en. t an. delicate
r ! conditions of
l>. l st reugth.
cod liver
take it am
1 he oil wit '
taste. Set
best thin'V
baet war i
pcd]»!.*. c
wast ing .a :
SCOTT <\ BO tV.V
•lip to.
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401»--', 16 l'KAll ?. STRICKT, NKW YORK
50c. nml $1.00. All dm wist s.
Statesmen, Spare Those Rates.
(Appen 1 of the railroad magnates to
the most dignified legislative body on
eartli. )
Statesmen, spare our rates.
Touch not a single one.
Hands off rebates and fieights.
Stop ere you ha\'e begun!
This tiil! the house has planned
With evil things is fraught
Friends of the senate, stand
1 'irm now and pass it not.
That oil! familiar cry
Of "favors for a few."
Why, senators, "h wh*.
Should that hav
ght with you?
F orhearto ii.
Remember
This matter i
On you our
lit
str.,k
In
old t
jokt
si re
dts
Ifeed not (his idle fuss
Concerning "dread re
But leave < nr r.i'es to us.
Willi all tiled little faults.
We've made il) m just (he wav
We wi.- .1 to have them planned;
Now shelve ill.d measure, pray —
Stand with 11 hard in hand.
Our heartstrings to you Hing,
We hall you still as friends.
So pigeon hole this tiling
And thus still serve our ends;
See that it's safely jammed
In where they'll find it not,
The publie still he d —d;
Oh. leave* us what we've got!
— S. K. Kiser,
Card of 'I hanks.
I dost re* to express my heartfelt
thanks to the manv kind friends and
neighbors who assisted me at the sick
ness and eleath of inv beloved wife.
SYLVESTER IRVIN.
Before buying a wagon or buggy
don't forget to inspect the Woodside
Creamery Co's. Western King wagons
anti h'ex buggies. 23 tf
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Large Size, 60 cents at Druggists or by
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