Fergus County Democrat. [volume], February 07, 1905, Image 3

About Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919

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Jewelry
Made to
Order
Elegant Stock of Fine Jewelry
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■••EXPERT OPTICAL WORK...
WAGNER SUTTER
SAFETY
RAZORS
We can refer you to a
dozen well pleased cus
tomers who will tell you
that the Gillette Safety
Razor is all that is claim
ed for it. You run no
risk in purchasing one
for we unconditionally
guarantee them.
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Dear Sir:
t the slightest doubt as to its
listing and sutufying quality a trial
the
Gillette
Safety Razor
| will entirely dispel it. Any man can
shave with it as readily as though ho
had always shaved himself. The Gil
lette Safety Razor Is 84 Razors in
One. It has twelve keen double-edged
blades as thin os paper, tempered nrfd
l glass hardened by our process so that
it takes diamond Odust to grind
them. Each blade gives ten to
thirty perfect shaves. Case and
blades packed and sealed direct
. from the factory, showing them
I to be new. Always ready for use—
w No Stropping
I v !a "t/ or Honing
/ You cannot cut yourself or fall t<<
igf'W give yourself a smooth, delightful
^ / shave. A Gillette lasts for years.
When you have U9ed each of th *
edges until dull, return to us and
wo will give you six new plades Sr
exchange at no cost to you.
Twelve additional blades otnon*
i f r'- cost. 0
©xaniine the Gille^e.
If Jtv;i!l cost you nothing to see it.
Dezell Drug Co.
THE LEADING DIREG STORE.
S Daily Trains
St. Paul to Chicago
And each has a good'connection for St. Louis,
also for New York and all Eastern points
The} r leave St. Paul at 8.30 a. m., 4.00 p. m.
7.20 p. m., 8.35 p. m., 11.00 p. m., via the
Chicago , Milwaukee \ St. Paul
Railway
Three of these are electric lighted: all of them
thoroughly equipped. The Fast Mail goes at
7.20 p. m. The Pioneer Limited at 8.35 p. m.
W. B. DIXON
Northwestern Passenger Agent
36S Robert St., St. Paul
Write for Rates to St. Louis
REMEMBER
W HEN you are thinking or repairing
your house that The Big Red Shed is
there with the goods at the very lowest
prices, and can fill your wants on short
notice. ::::::::::: : :
The Big Red Shed
MONTANA LUMBER CO., Telephone 77
Subscribe fsr the Democrat
First National Bank
indM!,Tn Ave ' LEWISTOWN, MONT.
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus and Profits 40,000.00
Assets over..........$500,000.00
Individual Stockholders responsibility over 500,000.00
TOTAL OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
The First National B*nk. which succeeded the Judith Basin Bank, was'ortran
izod May 27. 1904. Practically, the entire capital is held in Fergus County and rep
resents its varied business interests.
It is noticeable that a number of the younger business men of au energetic and
progressive spirit are represented in the management of the bank amount lie officers
and directors. It has been their aim to eonduet a strictly banking business, using
conservatism in making loans, and nivintr particular attention to details, and the
interests of customers. They point with pride to the phenomenal growth of busi
ness which evidences the popularity of this crow inn institution.
WE SOLICIT YOVR BANKING PATRONAGE
Officers and Directors:
Herman Otten, Pres. David IIiloek, Vice Pres. A. B. Lehman
G. O. Shafer John Laux g. M. Stone
N. M. McCauley Geo. J. Bach, W. B. Miner,
Cashier Ass't. Cashier.
We Want Your Trade
You Want Our Goods
You want them because our goods are
ot the HIGHEST STANDARD.
Our line of X./VIAS GOODS
surpasses anything ever shown in Lewis
town. We want everyone to see them,
whether you want to buy or not. It is
always a pleasure for us to show goods.
Wilson fi- McKechnie
THE BIG DRUG STORE
P. S.--Da not forget the location, next dasr to Clias. Lehman &. Cu.
Money to Lend
—M—■ —PWUPlP M U.a a— im
We are now prepared to receive applications for
..Ten Year Loans..
------- UPON ----- r
Improved Ranch Property
In any amount. Reasonable interest
rates and prepayment privileges . . .
WRIGHT BROS.
Real Estate, Loans, Abstracts of
Title, General Insurance.....
Telephone No. 30. Opposite P. O.
LEWISTOWN, - MONTANA
Cewistown meat $ Provision Co.
..Wholesale and Retail Meats..
The company is again owned and managed
by John Borgh, who solicits his old cus
tomers and a share of the patronage of all.
Main Street, - Opposite Day House
Shamrock Buffet
J. W. KEARNEY, Prop.
Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Always on Hand
JUG TRADE A SPECIALTY
HUNTED BY AN ELEPHANT.
I Thrilling; Kipcricnct- That Almo.l
Ended In Death.
A South African newspaper has a
thrilling account of two Englishmen
Who went out to hunt elephants. They
were Captain Medllcott ami a Mr. Bal
lard. Accompanied by several natives,
they confronted a huge elephant. "The
tusker trumpeted 'charge.' and as the
rifles rang out—there was only his big
chest to aim nt, for he had raised aloft
his trunk—he came full speed across
the clearing, a red mouthed, glaring
tusked, screaming, active mammoth.
Ballard made a rapid flank movement
to the right, llis objective was a thorn
tree. He and the elephant arrived
there together. Down came the tree
In front of the elephant. Ballard's gun
was flung luto the middle of the clear
ing, und boughs and thorns pinned the
hunter to the ground. The elephant
swerved like n skater doing the outside
edge. Umhlope, the chief native hunt
er, did not wait. With a yell to Cap
tain Medllcott of 'Run, boss,' be made
a frantic leap for a fig tree. Then the
elephant charged Captain Medllcott,
who saw three foot In front of him a
hole In the ground. He didn't wait to
Investigate, but dived feet first down
the hole. Ills gun, which he had held
aloft, crossed the hole and remained
outside, almost dislocating his arm
with the jerk.
"He had landed in one of the old
mcnllo pits of a disused kraal, circular
excavations about live feet high and
eight feet In diameter in which na
tives empty their grain. Thinking of
Ballard, the captain crept quietly up
to the hole and listened. There was no
Bound. He raised himself cautiously
and pushed his head through the ori
fice. The sight that mot him froze
his blood. The elephant stood right
over him, both wicked eyes on the
watch, and ns he ducked his head a
long, nervous, sinuous trunk followed
him Into tho pit, seeking to drug him
from tho hole like a trout from the
stream. He began dodging the trunk
under It, pass It, behind It, round the
edge of the pit, luto the center, now
crushed against the walls and missing
it by a linlr, round and round and
round to the point of exhaustion. Umb
lope, tho nntlve trucker, from his
point of vantage In the tree saw tho
elephant drag forth In triumph every
article of clothing the luckless captain
had worn. 'The tusker waved them in
the air and then stamped on them.
"About this time the native hoard a
groan from Ballard, pinioned under
the thorn tree. Perceiving that if one
of the white men should survive he,
Umhlope, would be called to account
for his inactivity, lie slid quietly down
from his tree and, unseen by the ele
phant, set. off to 1 lu- nearest kraal for
assistance. When help arrived some
time later, the tusker was gone. Bal
lard was rescued from the bush, where
he lay seriously injured, and the next
move was toward the mealic pit. Calls
to come out brought 110 response. Then
two warriors descended and noun a hu
man shape, with nothing European
about it but tin' hoots, was passed to
the surface. The captain was caked
from head to ankle with red clay and
perspiration. The two Europeans were
hoisted on to Improvised stretchers of
wattle and carried home. One was ex
hausted after his three hours' scrim
mage and the other was not quite sure
which bone in his body was tho most
completely smashed.''
In tlie Other Pocket.
"I can't quite make your change,"
said the country storekeeper, painfully
recounting the pile of pennies In Ills
hand. "It's a cent out of the way."
"Oh, never mind," returned the inunill
cent summer boarder. "But it's my
cent," was the moving rejoinder.
Sometimes it does happen to make a
difference If we know who owns the
cent. The New York Press tells this
story of a man who, early on Monday
morning, came to the assistant treas
urer of a church.
"I attended service yesterday," snid
he, "and I made a. mistake when you
took up the collection. I lmd a penny
and a live dollar gold piece in inv Dock
et. I think."—
Here he stopped to take breath, and
the other man Interrupted him with
some impatience. He had heard Just
that complaint before. Somebody was
always hunting a five dollar gold piece.
"I think you are mistaken," said he.
"We had no five dollnr gold pieces In
Sunday's collection."
"That's just what I am trying to
get nt," said the old gentleman. "You
ought to have had one. I meant to put
mine in the bnsket, but I made a mis
take und dropped In the penny Instead.
Here is the gold piece."—Youth's Com
panion.
Cutting; Up a Whale.
When n fish, as the whalers will
forever call a whale, Is taken, the ship
gets alongside, and the creature is fixed
head and tail In a curious and ancient
fashion, so that by slacking or tighten
ing the ropes each part of the vast
body can be brought uppermost. A
whole boat may be seen inside the
giant mouth, the men hacking with
axes to slice away the ten foot screens
of bone, while others, with sharp
spades, upon the back are cutting off
the deep great coat of fat In which
kindly nature has wrapped up this
most overgrown of her children. In
a few hours all Is stowed away in the
tanks, und a red islet, with white pro
jecting bones, lies alongside and sinks
like a stone when the ropes are loosed.
Some years ago a man, still linger
ing on the back, had the misfortune
to have bis foot caught between the
creature's ribs at the instant when the
tackles were undone. Son.e eons hence
those two skeletons, the one hanging
by the foot from the other, may grace
the musenm of a subtropical Green
land or astonish the students of the
8pitzbergen Institute of Anatomy.~
Exchange.
HORSES AND HORSEMEN.
I.ou Dillon is mid to be forty pounds
heavier than at this time last year.
Hetty G., 2:04%, set the Clifton
(N. J.i track record at 2:10% a few
days ago.
The two fastest stallions of the year,
Locanda, 2:03%, and Redlac, 2:08%, are
by Allerton, 2:00%.
Bell Mac, 2:05%, is reported to have
worked a mile at Lexington in 2:04%
without the hopples.
A1 Thomas will prepare the horses
of II. IJ. Gentry of Bloomington, Ind.,
for the New York sale.
Ruth C., by Patron, goes into winter
quarters winner of about $4,000 with
out having won u beat.
Harold II., 2:03%, has been shipped
back to Canada for the winter, us his
bad leg failed to Improve.
Jim Ferry, 2:10, is the second 2:10
trotter bred in Colorado, the other be
ing Louise Jefferson, 2:10.
Davy Cahill still lias hopes of getting
Charley Herr, 2:07, to the races and
says he will be trained again next sea
son.
Totara, by Ringcn, 2:00%, was sep
arately timed In the Kentucky three
year-old Futurity in 2:10%, 2:11 and
2 : 11 %.
I'al Shank of Litchfield, Q., has sold
to K. \V. Smith of Plymouth, O., n
promising three-year-old gelding by
Elyria, dam Mary Tucker.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Czar Ivan, Shylock, Beau Brummel,
King Richard III. and Huron Chevrial
are some of the roles which Richard
Mansfield Is to play this season.
Lillian Russell has signed a contract
with Sam S. Shubert by the terms of
which she Is to star under the Shubert
management for five years, beginning
next December.
Adele uus der Ilobe has returned
from Europe and will make her first
appearance this wlntor with the Phil
harmonic orchestra in Carnegie hall.
New York, on Dee. 15 and 10.
Sam S. Sliubert announces that Ed
ward Terry will revive several of bis
earlier successes during his forthcom
ing tour of America. '"The House of
Burnside" will be Mr. Terry's piece de
resistance.
A new musical society has been form
ed in New York for tho purpose of giv
ing a series of concerts iif which new
ns well as classic and modern composi
tions will be performed by an orches
tra of sixty-live musicians under the
direction of Arnold Volpo.
MODES OF THE MOMENT.
ChllTon frills to match tho gown are
much used Instead of the lace frill.
Yolo s, collars, cuffs, lapels and pan
els arc embroidered In silks, spangles,
ribbons, heads and chenilles.
Traveling and walking gowns of
covert cloth, short skirt and long jack
et, are undeniably stylish and should
be very serviceable.
The fad fur this year is calfskin.
Neck pieces, flat, pillow shaped muffs
and coat collars in tills striking brown
and while fur are seen a great deal.
Fur and tulle will compose many
dress lints this winter. The combina
tion Is certainly a rich one. Usually
these hats demand little trimming be
yond a short plume or two or an
algret.
Heavy white cotton waists for cold
weather retain their vogue. Linen
sheeting of a heavy quality makes ex
cellent waists. With a bit of em
broidery a handsome garment may be
evolved at no great expense.—New
York Post.
FACTS FROM FRANCE.
A French suggestion for preventing
automoblllsts from "scorching" Is to
forbid the use of masks and goggles.
A Paris butcher lins been sent to
prison for three months for selling
goat's flesh dressed to resemble lamb.
Tho city of Paris 1ms purchased the
rooms which the poet Berungor Inhabit
ed from 1854 to his death in 1857. He
paid $120 a year for them.
In 1000 there were 2,897 automobiles
in France. This year 12,98-1 are regis
tered There has been a decrease of
20,000 horses and of 245,475 horse
drawn vehicles in that time.
France lias Issued a new twenty-five
centime piece of nickel, struck off In
polygonal form to avoid resemblance
to silver coins of about the same size.
The new coin has twenty-two edges.
Grapes gathered from the famous
trellle due Rol Cliasselus vine at the
palace Fontainebleau this year have
been sold for $550. The vine is one of
the oldest in France and was present
ed to Francis I. by the sultan.
BRITISH. BRIEFS.
The permanent stuff of tho house of
commons numbers sixty-six. Their sal
aries total $210,000 annually.
Yarmouth manages its own races.
This year it made $15,500 by the races,
reducing taxation to that extent.
Tlie urn containing the ashes of Sir
Edwin Arnold has been conveyed to
Oxford by his son and placed In the
chapel of University college.
A number of young men in London
have organized u club for the encour
agement of a revival of breeches and
stockings for men's wear instead of
trousers.
The British postal department is will
ing to establish C. O. D. parcel deliv
ery. The larger firms favor it. The
smaller Arms are protesting.
The number of visitors to the Shake
speare house at Stratford-on-Avon this
year has broken the record, having
been nt the rate of 30,000 per annum.
American visitors have become so nu
merous that a special register of their
names la now kept