The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-28
We Don't Believe 1t.

-CAACfSO 1IIOuuc. xbICuS Ddlys Cu0
mining millionaire, had an experience at
the R1chelieu Saturday evening which out
strips any of his trials in the rowdy west.
When in the city Mr.. Daily usually calls on
some friends on Michigan avenue. An
interesting member of this family that he
visits is a little girl. The last time the
wealthy miner was here he promised to
bring the child a:music box on his next visit.
Saturday morning. with this promise in
mind, he picked out a large instrument in
down town store and ordered it sent to
the Richelieu. It had been wound up and
needed only the turn of key to send forth
its music. Later in the day Mr.. DAILY got
the music box from the hotel office and
started out the front door of the hotel for a
carriage. In some way he accidentally
rubbed the musical instrument against the
door. turning the key.
just as Mr.. DAILY reached the sidewalk
"Annie Rooney" pealed forth from the box
under his arm. The westerner put on Ms
spectacle and nimbly ran his fingers over
the box in the hopes of finding something
to choke off "Annie Rooney" but of no
| avail. 1t was the first music box Mr.. DAILY
had ever owned, and he did not know how
to choke it off. As he stood on the broad
walk in front of the hotel, holding the
| queer-looking instrument which was play
| ing street air, he presented something of
the appearance of an itinerant musician,
for there is nothing about the appearance of
Mr.. DAILY to suggest the possession Of
millions. His efforts to stop Annie we're so
ludicrous that large crowd gathered about
him. The wealthy miner didn't seem to
mind the people till a messenger boy
yelled out: "Play somethin' else"
At these words the music-box switched
off into "McGinty." The old miner could
stand it no longer. Dropping the box
down on the walk he sneaked through tie
crowd and into the hotel rotunda, from
where he sent one of the bell-boys out for
the runaway music.
To make matters worse, Mr.. Bemis and
Mr.. Haggin, who had seen the perform
ance from the hotel windows, twitted Mr..
DAILY so numerically about his musical at
tainment that they drove him to drink, and
they went with him.
Harper's Magazine for May contains the
first complete account of an absolutely
unique episode in the history of our national
credit. Between twelve o'clock on a GER
tain Friday in 1862, and four o'clock a. m.
on the following Monday, L. Z. Chittenden,
at that time the register of the treasury,
signed twelve thousand five hundred bonds.
He tells how he accomplished the feat. and
explains the important interests involved.
In the Importance and the novelty of this
article is struck the keynote of this num-
Der. Importance and novelty belong to al
most all the other contributions. Theodore
Child opens the number with "Some Mod
ern French Painters stating clearly the
distinguishing traits of contemporary
French artists, and, with the help of elab-
crate engraving, giving an exposition of the
new art influences initiated by Corot, Mil
let. and Courbet. Paul Renouard supple
ments the biographical details of the arti-
Gle with portraits of NM. Puvis de Cha
vannes, j. @. Cain, Anne Morot, Dagnan-
Bouveret and Henri Lerolle. Professor S.
H. Butcher. LII. D., of the University of
Edinburgh, contributes an article on 1.-The
Evolution of Humor," denying the posi-
bility of explaining the perception of the
ludicrous on strictly Darwinian principles,
and suggesting provisional hypothesis by
which the origin of humor may be recon-
ciled with the evolutionary theory. Quaint
historic imaginings are the twenty-six
drawings in which Howard Pyle makes Wis
ible the life of the olden time, described by
John Austin Stevens in his paper on "Old
New York Taverns.' William Sharp,
in an illustrated paper entitled
'rhrough Bush and Fern" describes
} the contradictions and fasci-
tions of the fauna and fora in 'the Oldest
land in the world" Louise Imogen Quincy
gives summary of the lives and works of
the charming old poets, y who wrote ENG
| lish Lyrics under the First Charles" Mary
L. Wilkins and Aubrey De We're contribute
poems; and there are three short stories
one by Edward Everett Hale, revealing
what Boston girl can do without an escort
another, by S. B. Elliott, having reference
!, to business booms in the south; and the
third, by E. H. Lockwood, making a new
departure in transferring the scene of ''in,
Q ternational episodes to Germany. w. d
Howells concludes his dramatic analysis Of
. a remarkable complication in 1.-The Shadow
Q of Dream" The contents of the editoria
departments are characterized by the same
! novelty as the body of the magazine.
Jackson's Music House.
You can buy Knabe piano for 500
. Who will cffer one for less?