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WAGNER &- SVTTER Leading Jei£eiers Fine Repairing of EOerything in the JeWelry Line ALL WORK GUARANTEED E. SUTTER, Graduate Optician Office OOer Judith Hardware. MONEY TO LOAN! REAL ESTATE INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS Abstracts of Title WRIGHT BROS. 'PHONE 30 OM wafa uvwtoffliy Lewistown, Mont. Hardware Woodman SSi Charters Headquarters For StoVes Ideal Steel Ranges Coal and Wood Heaters Box Stoves Camp Stoves Call in and examine our line Woodman Charters Fifth A vo., < >|>j». Land Ottlee. LEWISTOWN, - - MONTANA. Hardware a WHEN STAMPS WERE NEW. Trouble In Gettlnfc People to Stielc Them on the Envelope. -When postage stamps lirst came in to use." said a veteran postal clerk, "the public didn't know how to handle them. You remember how, when tea and coffee first appeared among us, the people fried the tea leaves and the cof fee berries and served them with salt and pepper? Well, the people treated their st nps as absurdly in 1854. "Some folks would put the stamps in side their letters, out of sight. Here is the official notice that we issued to stop that practice." The clerk took from the drawer an aged bulletin that said: "The stamps upon all letters and packages must be affixed on the out side thereof nnd above the address thereon." He put back this bulletin and drew forth another one. "People would pin the stamps on their letters instead of gumming them," he said, "and when they did gum them they would not do it right; hence this second bulletin," and he read: " 'Persons posting letters should af fix the requisite number of stamps pre vious to depositing them in the letter receivers, as when posted in a damp state the stamps an- liable to rub off and thereby cause the letters to be treated as unpaid. Do not pin on the stamps.' "Still," said the clerk, "the public didn't understand. Think of it—-it didn't understand tlie simple matter of sticking a postage stamp on a letter. So we got out a third bulletin." The third bulletin, in big, impatient letters, said: "The simplest ahd most effectual method of causing stamps to adhere firmly is lirst to moisten well the out side of the stamps and afterward the gummed side slightly, taking care not to remove the gum." The clerk said that a philatelist had offered him $12 apiece for these three queer bulletins.—Galveston Tribune. COTTON SPINNING. The Scheme by Which a Workman Kept Ilia Bobbin* Clean. The father of the famous Sir Hubert Peel was a cotton spinner in a com paratively small way until he sudden ly went straight ahead of all his com petitors. The earliest cotton spinning machinery gave serious trouble through filaments of cotton adhering to the bobbins, thus involving frequent stoppages to clear the machinery. The wages of tile operatives were affected by these delays, but it was noticed that one tuan in the works always drew full pay. His loom never stopped. "The onlooker tells me your bobbins are always clean," said Mr. Peel to him one day. "Aye, they be," said the man. whose name was Dick Ferguson. "How do you manage it, Dick?" "Why, you see, Hester Peel, it's sort o' secret! If I towd yo', yo'd he as wise as 1 am." "That's so," said Peel, smiling in response to Dick's knowing chuckle. "I'd give you something to know. Could you make all the looms work as smoothly as yours?" "Ivery one of 'em, mester!" "Well, what shall I give you for your secret, Dick?" Tlie man smiled and rubbed his chin. "Well, Dick, what is it to be?" "Come, I'll tell thee," was the re ply. "Ui' me a quart of ale ivery day as I'm in the mills und I'll tell thee all about it." "Agreed," said the master. "Well, then," returned Dick, beckon ing Mr. Peel to come closer and let him whisper in his ear, "chalk your bob bins!" That was the entire secret. Ma chinery was soon invented for chalk ing the bobbins, and Dick Ferguson was given a pension equal to many daily quarts of beer. Old Time lleinedien. Strange as it may seem to some, the Ingredients of the witches' caldron in "Macbeth," at least a part of them, were once standard remedies among Europeans. In the tenth and eleventh centuries a sovereign cure for ague was the swallowing of a small toad that had been choken to death on St. John's eve, and a splendid remedy for rheumatism was to fasten the bands of clothing with pins that had been stuck into the flesh of either a toad or a frog. Physicians frequently recom mended the water from a toad's brain for mental affections and that a live toad be nibbed over the diseased parts as a cure for the quinsy. Letter* of Ictrod action. Letters of introduction should not be worded in too complimentary or highly flattering terms. As they are left unsealed and delivered in person it is embarrassing for the caller to de liver them. The letter should simply introduce Use bearer, state that he is a friend and that any courtesy or en tertainment shown him will lie great ly appreciated. What, Indeed f Tess—I think Belle acted ratber shabhiiy in breaking her engagement to .Tack Huggard. Jess—Well, lie broke his arm. Tess—But, good gracious— Jess—Yes, good gracious! What use is a fiance with a broken arm?—Philadel phia Press. Safe. Merchant (to hawker)—Call those safety matches? Why. they won't light at all! Hawker—Weil, wot could yer 'ave safer?—New Yorker. Silver money 250 years old is still in Circulation in some parts of Spain. Subject to sinking spells— divers.— Philadelphia Telegraph. ! THE COCOON CRADLE MODE OF WRAPPING UP THE LITTLE REDSKIN PAPOOSE. Bead Bedecked llmkakin Hir la Which the Indian Baby BantlnK Grow* and Thriven—Origin of Thl* Queer Cramped Cradle. Fancy a tiny copper colored papoose buckled up snugly in a queer buckskin hag that resembles nothing in nature so much as the cozy cocoon cradle of a baby butterfly and then draw upon your imagination still further, pletur ing tiffs odd receptacle swinging from the leafy canopy ot an Indian wickiup or brush arbor, and you have before you an Indian baby and his wonderful cradle. Gorgeous yellow butterflies and brown Kiowa babies are seldom linked together in song or story, yet in real life their wrappings while in the chrys alis state bear a remarkable resem blance to eacli other. The cocoon cradle proper and its various modifications as found among the different tribes of North American Indians are constructed from the skins of animals. And right here we may pause and trace the origin of another famous nursery rhyme to the Indian cocoon cradle, for did not the father of Baby Bunting go a-imnling to get a little rabbit's skin to wrap that myth ical baby in? All full blood Kiowa babies are born into the pho-ii yo-yo, or rabbit circle, and are taught to dance in the mysterious circle of rab bits as soon as they learn to toddle, belonging to the rabbit oilier of the Kiowa soldiery. Hence a rabbit skin would lie a very appropriate wrapping for a Kiowa Baby Bunting, though neither large enough nor strong enough for his cra dle. The red deer of the forest, quarry of the redskinned hunter, gives of liis beautiful covering to make the cradle that is to swing from the tree top, lit erally tree tops cut from the cottou woods and elms that fringe the clear little streams rippling through the 'Kiowa reservation and piled high on a framework of poles to serve as a "sum mer parlor" in front of ins father's tepee. The crude deer hide is carefully dressed by a tedious and secret process known only to these Indians, and when finished is as soft and pliant as the most expensive chamois skin. Then loving lingers skillfully embroider with quills benutiful beadwork designs up on tlie delicately tinted deerskin. Kio wa cradles are more ornamental than those of other tribes, and Kiowa squaws excel in that marvelous Indian beadwork now the popular fad of their paleface sisters. Some of this bead work embroidery is not only very beau tiful, but very elaborate. Tin: Sioux squaws, who alone rival their Kiowa sisters, ornament the cradles of their little oues with bands of deerskin, up on which are wrought in colored beads gorgeous patterns of men, horses, birds, fish and flowers. Instead of a wooden framework they substitute a basket work frame of reeds and sometimes they use seed and grasses instead of beads. The Cheyenne, Apache and Coman che Indians all use cocoon cradles pat terned after tlie Kiowa cradles, but theirs are not ornamented us elabo rately as those of the Kiowas. In truth, the grim and warlike Comanche of the plains wastes very little time in decorating the receptacle of ids off spring. A stout piece of deerskin, fas I teued to an equally stout wooden frame and laced up securely with rawhide thongs, suffices his simple need. The origin of tlie cocoon cradle itself, like that of the redskins, seems wrap ped in mystery, though we might with reason trace this primitive cradle back to the Lapps of northern Europe, whose babies sleep in little hollowed out af fairs swung down from the lower limbs of trees. They are lined with moss and laced up, and in shape are exactly like the primitive Indian co coon cradle from which the modern cocoon cradle, beautified and improved, has been evolved. After the beadwork embroidery is completed the deerskin pouch or hag is fastened securely upon a strong board whose two upright handles, pro jecting above tlie headpiece or hood, are strengthened by a crosspiece at the hack. These handles are very con venient when the mother is busy about her many tasks; if it he warm weather, baby is swung from tlie top of the brush arbor, his round, brown face peering smilingly from out its trap pings of guyly beaded deerskin, Ills bright little eyes blinking at tlie sun beams shining through the leul'y roof, or the flumes of the nightly campfire leaping up to mingle with the moon light. When "trading" at the agency stores, the squaw props tlie cradle, "baby and all." against the counter and goes calmly about tlie important business of laying in a supply for tier fumily in their tepee far out on the reservation. Mother love fills the heart of a poor squaw as completely as it does that | of her more fortunate paleface sister. : Her clumsy lingers fashion playthings I of shells, odd shaped bones, carved | wooden beads, bright pieces of tin, i china or glass, which she hangs about ' the hood of the cocoon cradle in reach j of the chubby brown lists. Baby soon i learns to rattle these primitive play ! things gleefully. Srtange as it may appear, the red skinned Baby Buntings seem to thrive in their cramped quarters, but they en joy as a famous treat a change to the blankets upon their mothers' hacks, when the tolling squaws are forced to go down to the scant timber stretches along tlie creek to bring up firewood and water for tlie camp.- Los THE CROPS OF TREASURE STATE Director of Weather Bureau, Younq, Issues Important Bulletin for the Crop Season Just Past. CROPS GENERALLY BELOW AVERAGE The Lack of Water During Season Is Evident-Although Short the Qual ity of Produce Is Excellent. in the final crop bulletin for (lie season, issued yest erday, It. F. Young, director of the weather bureau for Montana, says: Tlie first pari of 11 it* week was marked by unusually high day tem peratures. |lie last, three days were cloudy and much cooler. Dry weather prevailed throughout tlie state. Threshing lias l»een pushed rapidly: the wheat crop is below the average as a rule, in many sect ions very short. There are some exceptions, however, in the southern and central portions, where good yields are reported. The grain is of excellent quality. The oats crop is light where not irrigated: on many bench lands a failure of this crop is reported. The second crop of alfalfa is nearly all harvested and in some places a fairly good third crop will be cut. Corn has about matured in Choteau, bill is still quite green in Dawson and I lose bud counties. Drought and trust have cut the potato crop short in many localities. Apples are ripening rapidly and picking and shipping have commenced; the crop is lielow the average in quantity, hut the quality of the fruit is good to ex cellent. The condil ion of stock and ranges varies greatly: the most favor able reports come from the central and southern count ies'and Valley county. Extracts from reports of correspon dents. by count ies: Beaverhead Dillon; A good week for harvesting; grain is being cut and threshing lias begun, crop not heavy: second crop of alfalfa being put up; range is in Ixid condition, and cattle are getting thin, and will tie in bad condition for winter. Broadwater Glenwood: Feed get ting short in the hills and cat t le coin ing down; second crop of alfalfa nearly all up: apples ripening last; potatoes a poor crop. Canton: Early grain cut and some threshed: cattle on the range generally thin. Winston: Sec ond cutting of alfalfa in the stack; wheat and oat s n ot, up to the average. :„Carhon Deer Lodge: Unusu ally hot first part ;|t hresliing progressing Vap idly: yield excellent: cattle are doing well so far. Cascade Riceville: Wheal crop short, hut good quality: alfalfa doing line, normal yield: oats half crop, though good grained: potatoes a fail ure except where irrigated. Great Falls: Shock threshing finished, yield rat her below medium. ^Choteau Saint, Pauls : Light frost •on 5th, hut, no damage: !bird crop of alfalfa has been cut: potatoes late. Hays: Country getting green since the rains: no frost yet : corn nearly ripe: potatoes doing well: third crop of al falfa ready to cut: range condil ions much improved by rains: slock fat. Teton: I laying finished: no frost heavy enough to injure vegetation. Whit lash: Water on range very scarce: creeks all dry: range is all eaten off. Big Sandy: Itanelier.s are through hay ing: crop light and poor quality: most of spring seeded grain cut for hay: potatoes very small anil not many of them. Steele: A dry. hot week, very hard on stock. Custer Erieson: lla.v and forage crops about, all saved: range stock do ing well. Dawson Tokna: Warm days and cool nights: haying still in progress: some corn quite green yet, and will not mature unless frost holds off two weeks. Fergus New Year: Grain most all stacked and some are threshing: grain is fair quality: potatoes will make an average crop: range i>, short and dry, but the late rains helped water sup ply. Kendall: Grazing is good, stock doing well: threshing has commenced in certain localities: some light crops, ot hers ext ra heavy. Gallatin Bozeman. Week has been dry and very warm: harvest ing and threshing are progressing very well: crops making fairly good yield: stock in good condition. Reese Creek: Threshing progressing rapidly: grain is first-class quality, hut average per acre is under one-half yield: potatoes alHtut tlie same: too much hot, dry weather: fruit is excellent, hut short. Lewis and Clarke Clemons: Har vesting is about finished, tlie larger part of tlie grain crop having been cut for hay: third crop of alfalfa well under way, with good prospects: springs and streams get ting low. Madison Past week warm and crops t made good progress: second crop of al falfa lieing cut and is very good: grain nearly all cut: potatoes only about half crop. Meagher Oka: Haying finished, quality of hay good and alxtve Hie average in amount: grain all cut, a good yield. Dorsey: Everyone through haying in t ills section, a heavy yield reported; oats and alfalfa are doing well,also po tatoes and garden vegetables; range is good and cattle looking well. Shaw mut: Alfalfa curing slowly, so fer yield is good; grain about all cut, some late grain damaged by frost. Missoula Plains: Potatoes are very poor, timber range is good and stock in good condition: stock water plenti ful. Woodman: Second crop of clover about ripe, a good crop: harvesting about done; gardens are excellent; apples a good crop and ripening fast,; water low in small streams; range entirely gone. Park Muir: Feed on range scarce, but cat 1 It; in good condition; thresh ing in full progress: second crop of ;tl lalfa is heavy. Bruffeys: ltaugcpoor, wheat very good: potatoes lighter Hum usual: berry crop very good. Powell ()vando: Country again very dry. t hresliing begun, yield poor, though quality is good: potato crop almost a total failure. Rosebud Lock: Corn allcut a |toor* crop witli few exceptions; range in good condition for water and feed. Sweet Grass Howie: grain all cut,. CLEVELAND AND BRYAN. Both of These Wheel Horses Will Take the Stump for Parker. New York, Sept. ill. Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, was in confer ence with Chairman Taggart at dem ocratic headquarters to-day. He told Mr. Taggart that the Montana demo crats would renominate Governor Toole at tomorrow's convention, and that Governor Toole's re-election was assured. He also pledged I he Montana elec toral vote for.Judge Parker. Chairman Daniel McCnnville, of t,lie speakers' bureau of the democratic, national committee, to-night,gave out the names of a hundred or more dem ocrats who will, he states, take the stump in the so-called doubtful states during the coming campaign. It is said that these speakers will be as signed to begin work during Hie final work of September. "11 is known," Chairman MeCon ville says, "that .lodge Parker, Grover Cleveland and W. .1. Bryan will each take pari in tlie campaign." In addition to these are named many prominent democrats who will speak, some of whom are: Former Secretary of State Richard Olney; Lieutenant, General Nelson A. Miles; Former Senator Charles A. Towne, Bourke Cockran, Senators Gorman, Bailey. Culbertson, Stone. Cockrell, Teller, Patterson and Newlands; For mer Senator Hill, of New York; May or McClellan, of New Yorki Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, and Former Secretary of !h.» Interior Hoke Smith of(leorgia." AliiiH HununonH. Stale of Montana. County of Fer gus, ss. Before Orlando Sawyer, Justice of the Peace, Magiiuiis Township. R. VV. Blake, plaintiff, vs. W. I). Claim, defendant. Alias Summons. The State of Montana sends greet ing to tlie almvc named defendant: Yon are hereby summoned to appear before me, Orlando Sawyer, a just ice of the peace in and for Magiiuiis town ship. in the county of Fergus and state of Montana, at my office in Gilt Edge, in said county and state, on Friday, the Kith day of September, A. D. hint, at lo o'clock a. m. of said day, then and there to make answer tottie complaint of I!. W. Blake, the above named plaintiff, in a civil action. The said act ion is brought, to re cover from you (lie sum of two hun dred sixteen and 50-100 dollars for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered to you. at your special instance and request, between the 27lhdayof June. 1004. and the 15th day of Augiist. I!M)4. And you are hereby notified that, if you fail to appear and answer, judg ment will he taken against you, VV. I). Claim, the al>ove named defendant, according lo I he said complaint, and for costs of suit in hislichalf expended. Given under mv hand this 22d day of August. A. I), loot. Orlando Sawykk, .1 list ice of t lie Peace in and for said Township. First publication Aug. 2!5 Reward. For information leading to a know ledge. of any one driving my stock from their accustomed range or pas ture: or mutilating or changing the brand of my stock. R. C. Matters. Forest Grove. — THf ------- - FERGUS COUNTY DEMOCRAT Gives all the local news all the time. Subscribe for it. . $2.50 per year.