Fergus County Democrat. [volume], February 14, 1905, Image 3

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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.
Dear Sir:
the slightest doubt as toi*«
M 'ung and satisfying Quality a trial
Gillette
Safety Razor
rill entirely dispel it. Any man can
shave with it as readily as though ho
had always shaved himself. The Gil
lette Safety Razor U S4 Razors In
One. It has twelve keen double-edged
blades as thin as paper, tempered and
^ glass hardened by our process so that
it takes diamond adust 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 bo new. Always ready for use—
No Stropplnd
or Honing
You cannot cut yourself or fail to
give yourself a smooth, delightful
shave. A Gillette lasts for years.
When you have used each of the
edges until dull, return to us ana
we will give you six new plades in
exchange at no cost to you.
Twelve additional blades at nom
inal cost. •
Call and examine the Gillette.
It will cost you nothing to see it
Dezell Drug Co.,
THE LEADING DRUG STORE.
5 Daily Trains
St. Paul to Chicago
And each lias a goodjconnection for St. Louis,
also for New York and all Eastern points
They 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 \ 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 arc thinking or repairing
your house that Tke 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
Fresh Fish From Salt Water
W E are receivilig daily, besides oysters, clams,
lobsters, etc., and all the delicious tidbits that
the epicure likes to tickle his palate with we are
preparing to his order whenever lie likes to drop
in for a meal to delight his dainty appetite. Ev
erything that is good and toothsome that our mar
kets can afford is served in an appetizing manner
at the SILVER MOON CAFE.
G. F. HIRSCH & SON, Props.
Main Street Lewistown, Montana
First National Bank
LEWISTOWN, MONT.
Corner Fifth Ave
anil Main
Capital : : : :
Surplus and Profits
$100,000.00
40,000.00
Assets over..........$500,000.00
Individual Stockholders responsibility over 500,000.00
TOTAL OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
The First National Bank. which succeeded tin- .ludltli llasiu Hank. was>nrun
Ized Slay Sr, 1SHH. 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 me n of an energetic and
progressive spirit are represented in the management of the bank among the officers
and directors. It lias been their aim to conduct a strictly banking business, using
conservatism in making loans, and giving particular attention lo details, and the
Interests of customers. They point with pride to the phenomenal growth of busi
ness which evidence^ the popularity of this growing institution.
WE SOLICIT YOVR BANKING PATRONAGE
Officers and Directors:
Herman Otten, Pres. David IIilgek, Vice Pres. A. II. Lehman
G. O. Shafek John Laux G. M. Stone
N. M. McCauley Geo. .T. Bach. W. M. 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 XJVIAS 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 <S- McKechnie
THE BIG DRUG STORE
P. 5.--Da not foroet the location, next daar to tthas. Lehman & Ca.
Culver & Culver
Photographers
Milliners
Sell Kodaks, Amateur
Up to Date Line of Fash
Supplies, Etc.
ionable Wear.
Fifth AOenue and Washington Street.
Money to Lend
We are now prepared to receive applications for
..Ten Year Loans..
= UPQN=
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
Ccwistown 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
JVG TRADE A SPECIALTY
MAN AND HIS ATTIRE
SOME DRESS TO KILL, WHILE IT KILLS
OTHERS TO DRESS
Bret Ilnrte'a Dainty Idea, on Sar
torial Harmony itnd Mr. 1'olnnd'u
Srimltile ttulc About Iteing Meas
ured— Disraeli'* Feeent ricitieN.
Some men dress to kill, while it kills
others to dress. Mon may talk about
the absurdities and discomforts of fem
inine dress as much as they please—
and it pleases some of them to do so
a great deal—but when warm weather
comes the women have an opportunity
to take their innings in this little game
and make an overwhelming score.
A champion of man's superior com
mon sense can receive no greater set
back than to stroll along the street a
J uly morning and observe the appear
ance and actions of the different sexes
in their habiliments. Here, for in
stance, comes along a man with a tall,
stiff hat on his head, a tall, stiff col
lar around his neck, a stiffly starched
shirt bosom covering his breast, stiff
cuff's on ills wrists, woolen coat, vest
and trousers upon the portions of his
anatomy adapted thereunto, perspira
tion and dust upon his brow.
Behind him comes a cloud of mus
lin and tulle, a broad brimmed hat of
light, perforated straw, a mass of semi
diaphanous lace from which two bare
arms and one ditto neck appear, and
between the hut and the lace a wom
an's face is seen, cool, complacent,
wholly comfortable, unknowing per
spiration, innocent of dust, altogether
satisfactory to behold. A vision of this
sort makes amends for all the out
rages of theater hats in the winter
and for once gives man a pang of envy
that he also is not permitted to wear
comfortable garments In midsummer.
But the man has his inning as soon
as fall comes, for then he Is comfort
able In the garb that made life miser
able a few weeks previously, while the
diaphanous vision of July has become
a blue nosed, shivering reality, trying
to prevent the chilly wind from cut
ting through her shirt waist.
It is told of the late Bret Harte that
his wife, coming down late to break
fast one day and being asked for her
spouse, explained that she left him
trying to match a cravat with the
stockings he laid decided to wear for
the day.
As a contrast to this take (In' story
of a Mr. Poland told in tin* "Heml
niscences of Montagu Williams," pub
lished in England. Mr. Poland caused
his family great anxiety by the had
flt of Iiis clothes. lie was persuaded
to go to a certain tailor and be meas
ured, but the new suit lilted the wear
er worse than the old. Tlio tailor was
interviewed by Mr. Poland's friend Un
derdown.
"It Is not my fault, sir, I assure you.
Every care was taken, as you desired,
but how could we lit. a gentleman who
would insist on being measured sitting
down?" Underdown did not know
what to make of this and at once pro
ceeded to the temple to solve the mys
tery. On learning the object his vis
itor had in calling, Poland said, with
the imperturbable manner peculiar to
him: "Well, it's my business and not
yours. I like to be comfortable. I spend
three parts of my life sitting down,
and I prefer to he measured so."
This recalls the anecdote of the poet
Wordsworth, who, going to a London
tailor and striding around the room,
throwing Ids arms around like a niad
mnn, asked the astonished knight of
the shears if he could make a suit of
clothes for a man accustomed to walk
in that manner. The poet was in the
habit of composing his versos while
Striding through the fields and woods
and didn't care to have Ills gesticula
tions hampered by the cut of his cloth
ing. The divine afflatus must have its
flow unrestricted by the outward garb.
In his youth and early manhood the
late Earl of Beaconsfleld showed much
eccentricity in ills attire. In Maltn, for
example, he donned as his walking
dress "a blood red shirt, with sliver
studs ns big as shillings, an immense
scarf for girdle—full of pistols and
daggers—red cap, red slippers, broad,
blue striped Jacket and trousers." The
whole town was agape, and several
people asked the erratic young Eng
lishman to dine with them on the
strength of Ids peculiarities. At a later
date, In a Turkish town, with the unit
ed assistance of his English, Spanish
and fancy wardrobe, as lie naively put
it, be sported a costume which pro
duced a most extraordinary effect on
that costume loving people. A great
many Turks called on purpose to see It.
but when he had won his hosts Disraeli
let Ills oddities fall partly out of sight.
Savages dress for warmth and decen
cy, but as a rule civilized men and
women dress not only for these indis
pensable purposes, but to delight the
eyes of those who look at them. There
Is no expense that a rational man
should more gladly Incur than that of
dress for not only himself, but for the
women who are dependent upon him.—
George Bancroft Griffith in Chicago
Record-Ilerald.
Church Composed of FokkIIm.
There is a church in the quiet little
village of Mumford, near Niagara
Falls, which Is composed entirely of
fossils. At first glance the walls ap
pear to he constructed of rough sand
stone smeared with an uneven coat
ing of gritty, coarse plaster, hut a
closer view reveals the error of tills
first conclusion. Instead of plaster the
eyes behold traceries of delicate leaves,
lacework of interwoven twigs, bits of
broken branches, fragments of mossy
bark and splinters of wood, all pre
served against the wasting of time and
decay by being turned into the hard
est of flinty limestone. As a matter of
fact, every block of stone in the four
walls Is a closely cemented mass of
deinty fossils.
BELL LORE.
Probable Origin of (he Saving "Mn«
Tailor* Make a Mini."
The metal used for a hell is three
rarts ,ff copper and one of tin, and tills
composition is almost as old as the
known history of mankind, for It was
discovered by Laynrd in the bells of
old Nineveh. The tin hardens the met
al, hut too much makes it brittle, and
a bell is a dainty and delicate creature
and above all things must not be driv
en to cracking. Sometimes an enthu
siastic ringer will bump the bell
against the wooden stay above and
crack It. Sometimes the long falling of
the clapper on a particular spot will
make a crack, and the bell should be
turned every generation or so to make
the clapper fall on a new place. Clock
hammers are Hie bell's great enemy,
for they strike It sideways and not in
the direction of Its swing, and besides
they sometimes catch it as It sweeps
pasl. A ringer who to save his muscles
rings by a rope attached to the clapper
will destroy the hell in next to no
time.
Silver has now and then been tried
for bells, but, strange to say, is almost
as unmusical as lead. In the middle
ages, when a great hell was to he east
crowds of the faithful would some
times make sacrifice of their gold and
silver ornaments and plate by casting
them into the melting pot, hut the only
effect was to depreciate the tone.
I 11 China and other eastern lands
bells are rung to frighten away devils,
and some of the biggest bells in the
world are in Buddhist temples. But
even in Chrfcdlnn England it was long
believed that hells would dissipate
storms, and when they were east there
was a solemn ceremony, at which they
received names. This was called by the
common people the "baptism" of the
bell.
The bishop began the ceremony by
solemnly washing the bell with wafer
into which salt had been cast; then he
anointed it with holy and chrism oil
In the form of n cross, formally conse
crating and dedicating (he hell to the
divine service. Candles wore burned,
and the bell was solemnly Incensed.
Many old hells had quaint and curi
ous inscriptions. A hell at Sherborne,
In Dorsetshire, dated 1052, was evi
dently Intended chlelly as a warning
In case of lire, for it was inscribed:
Lord, quench IIiIh furious Home.
Arise, run, help put out Hie same.
The greatest hell in (lie world Is that
at Moscow, weighing 1HO tons. But up
pnrently there was some accident at Its
birth, for it Is cracked, and there is
no record of it ever having been rung.
In England the greatest bells are Great
Paul of London, made in 1881, and
weighing nearly seventeen tons; Big
Ben of Westminster, 1838, thirteen and
one-half tons, and Peter of York, 18-15,
ten and three-quarters Ions. Big Ben
and Great Peter were both east by the
Whitechapel foundry. Great Peter cost
about £2,< K id and Is over eight feet
across. It was cast at Whitechapel and
allowed twelve days to cool. Even Its
clapper weighs a hunderweight. It
took sixteen men to toll It. Now it is
little used, hut always rings the old
year out on the night of Dec. 81. It
Is also sometimes used us a minute
bell at deaths and funerals.
One curious thing about death hells
Is that in them probably originates the
foolish suylng thut "Nine tailors make
a man." In muny purts of the coun
try the death bell rings three times for
a child, six for a woman and nine for
a man. It is suggested that the true
reading of the proverb is that "Nine
'tellers' make a man."
Formerly the "passing bell" was rung
not after but before the departure ot
a dying person, which must have been
very disconcerting to the invalid. The
Idea was that the soul got up out of
the body and walked uwuy, although
Invisible. So the bell was rung to
warn'the invisible world, the door and
window of the sickroom were opened
to give the soul a free choice of ex
its uud all looking glasses were care
full}' draped over. Kor although you
could not see the soul, you might
catch a glimpse of It in the glass, with
dire results to yourself unless the mir
rors were carefully covered.—Loudon
News.
Shull and Will.
It is very well, writes a correspond
ent on that subject of grammar which
excites correspondents as meter excites
poets. It Is well and easily done to
rebuke the reviving Celt for his
"shalls" and "wills." But are we real
ly prepared to give him a rule? The
customary glib and complacent uuswer
that, roughly speaking, "will" Implies
volition, and "shall" compulsion (In
some degree), fails entirely to account
for the interchange of these verbs with
change of persons. And when we ex
press a mere future, without either vo
lition or compulsion, we use "shall" for
the first person and "will" for the sec
ond and third. "I shall dine at 8, you
will dine at 8, he will dine at 8." Why?
Wliat have we to say for ourselves to
the Latin and the Celt? And yet the
English child and the English coster
monger, who may get nothing else
right, never make a mistake In this
most arbitrary custom.—London Chron
icle.
Insect* and Flower*.
It lias long been a mooted question
whether insects are attracted to flow
ers by the bright hues of the petals
or by the ml or of the flowers, and re
cent experiments carried out on quite
an extensive scale seem to indicate
that the perfume Is the essential di
rective agent. It is concluded that in
sects are guided from a distance to
masses of flowers by their perfume
aloi. iiut that where flowers are
grown singly insects are attracted gen
erally by color, and where the distance
is small the odor doubtless assists In
attracting and directing the movements
of the flying insects.