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NO PERSONAL DEVIL.
The Notions of Orthodox Clergymen I'm.
dergOinG Change.

The Notions of Orthodox Clergymen I'm
dergoing Change.
It is not too much to say that the raising
of the question among orthodox c!erRymen,
as to whether there is personal devil, and
the failure Of the intelligent clergy to af
firm, with positiveness, the existence of a
personal devil, is a great departure from
notions that have prevailed within the re-
collection of persons who are by no means
in advanced life. says the Milwaukee Senti-
mel. How an abandonment of the belief
in personal devil must affect old theology
it is useless to inquire. Theology, i'll spite
of all arguments to the contrary, is subject
to evolution, and must change with the
changes of intellectual! progress. 1t may
never quite conform to, but 1t must al
WAYS be affected by, the moral sense of any
particular age. The idea of punishment is
hardly consistent with the moral concep-
tions Of to-day; while it is not formally
abandoned all the same nobody thunders
| warnings of punishment for original sin,
but the pulpit even, rather points to suffer
| ing IA consequence OF wrong-dolng and
not as u punishment. This shakes conf
| is not consistent with the intelligence of the
age to sny that All innocent person can re-
lieve wrong dosr of the consequence of
his act.
The doctrine of original sin, too, is not
urged from the intelligent pulpit, although
it is still an article of faith. We are in
danger of going to the extreme of thinking
that every person born into the world would
be angelic If his conditions were oil right
that everybody is disposed to do right anc
should be allowed to pursue his own way
without restraint: that the restraints
placed on the free conduct Of men are
largely responsible for their failure to d.
right. mo compulsion" is an expression
that is heard frequently, and it is based OF
the assumption that all men are ready, o
would be ready if all restraint were re
moved, to be guided by those moral princi
3 pies which appeal to the best intelligence
: However, practical experience is likely al
ways to show that there is good deal Q
the old Adam in men, whether original
! implanted there by the creator and nurture
Q by the devil or the result of ages OF har
0 struggling for existence with few restraints
o It Is we'll that the devil should go. Hi
doors, who have cheerfully put the respont
Q In literature he has been magni6cen
!, creature. almost entirely free from despic
:, able meanness. full of courage, sublime an
dacity, and with fine sense OF humor. ]
is hard not to prefer him to the archange
!. since he has had the attractive quality c
) action and superb daring. There hs
. been no sickly sentiment about him. Whe
Thurlow came to the end of "Paradit
% Lost" he exclaimed: "What fine, irs
"a rate devil he is! DIN him, l wish he
= Won!'
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The coming convention OF the State
Teachers association promises to be
both pleasant and profitable. The at
tendance will be large and the pro-
gramme will include many subjects Of I'M
usual interest to teachers. They will be
gladly welcomed by the citizens of
Helena, and will be royalty entertained
during their stay, and in this connection
lot us observe that all should join in
this work. The teachers who will be
with lis next week are hard workers in
profession that draws constantly on
the brain and nerve forces. They will
devote a few days of the Christmas vaca-
ton to gathering intended as relaxa-
ton from grinding work and here they
will exchange ideas and experiences for
mutual benefit. From present indica-
tions it will doubtless be the most sue
cessful convention in the history of the
association.
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SECRETARY RusK has organized an ex-
petition to explore the Death Valley, a
barren and arid region lying between
Southern Nevada and California. So
far as Is known no man ever succeeded
in crossing it though several parties
have been organized for that purpose.
1t is fitting place for scene from
Dante's Inferno. There is neither
water nor vegetation and the heat is SO
intense that animals do not decompose
The atmosphere is so poisonous that
birds are said to fall dead while flying
over the land. Many wildly romantic
stories have been written of adventures
in this blighted region though practi
cally nothing is known of it. Great
mineral wealth is said to exist there
Two expeditions now working in the
southern part Of the country will meet
near the valley and join for the explora
ton. The trip will be made for scien
tific purposes and if successful viii
bring to light many hidden secrets Of
this terra incognita. Secretary Rusk'
plans do not contemplate the establish
ment of national vegetable garden il
that unfayored spot, but he is deter
mined to know just where French pea
will grow in this country and where the
will not.
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FAvoRITE argument OF republican
orators in the last campaign was found
in the comparisons OF Industrial growth
in different countries. One phese of this
was reference to Germany as coun-
try able to furnish most satisfactory
evidence that high tariff was the only
true policy for the best development.
In view of these statements it is inter-
estinR to notice the claim made by Herr
Bebel the other day in the reichstag
He asserted that the policy Of protection
had worked great oppression to the
sasant farmers in Germany, and hai
enriched the landlords at the expense Of
the great mass Of consumers. Undoubt
edly the first cause OF poverty in densel,
populated foreign countries is the great
competition for work. Wages are re
ducsd and Of course living is cheape,
But the high tariff works the came wa,
with farmers in all countries. In Ger
many the peasants are in worse condi
tion bscauss they live under system q
landlordism. Thus they are obliged t
enay tvo burdsnA The conditions :,
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THE OWLS GHOST DANCE.
Billy's Experience With the Cup tina
Cheers and Inebrlates.

Buly's Experience With the Cup hhat
Cheers and Inebriates.
The 1O-year-old son Of Luke Tilson, Of
Lebanon, Tenn, has queer pet in she
shape of large screech owl. which Las
taken up its residence in a tree close to the
little fellows window, says the st. Louis
Globe Democrat. Billy is devoted to the
child following him about like dog, and
at night will sit on the railing of his bed
till Eddie falls asleep, when he will fly of
to his own business. Whenever the owl
finds himself in need of nap during the
day he crawls under Eddie's coat, and,
tucking his head into his breast. takes his
doze. Billy's manners being very good, ne
is permitted to sit on his little friends
chair while at table. and wears . napkin
pinned about his neck, sharing every olsn'
though his favorite Wand is irish stew,
from which, however, he carefully removes
the slices of onion and drops them IN q
saucer placed for that purpose.
Some weeks ago Eddie was threatened
with pneumonia, and the doctor ordered
him we'll stimulated with whisky todoy.
Billy seeing him drinking this from glass AS
son interfered and declared he should not
have it. So Billy retired to his tree Ill ~
of sulks, and Eddie falling asleep, the lady
went about her household affairs. In
short time however, she heard series OF
screeches followed by & kind OF hoarse
chuckiing an excited Auttelin1 OF wings,
| and her sons v, lie calling her. She ran IN
alarm to his room, where she found tue owl
promoting about on the floor. Tapping his
wings and screeching vociferously. eaton
ing sight Of her, he flew at her with dis
tended claws and drove her from the room
then continued his dance. He finally be
came very angry and attacked the different
pieces of furniture as if he fancied them tc
be personal enemies, and then, forgetting
what he was about, would resume his
dance till his angry eye cau2h,
his displeasure. His furious pas seui at last
became an idiotic reeling about the room
when chuckling and cluckng like all Old
hen, and with his head tucked to one sidt
and leering with one eve at the ceiling, ~
spent the next half hour very merrily. til
tired out, he he fell over in An undiRniheC
| heap.
Mrs. Tison then had him put out on the
lawn to sleep it out, and there he made
spectacle of himself for some hours, lying
on his back with his legs III the alr and hi
feathers standing out like quilts. The glass
which contained the whisky toddy Wal
found drained, and Billy's strange seizure
| was thus successfully accounted for. u
recovering from his spree he crept ava,
and WAS not seen for several days, whei
Eddie, quite distressed, finally persuaded
| him to come out of his tree. Since then h
has been very humble and quiet and OK.
tremely cautious about what he eats, re
fusing altogether to partake of anything il
| a glass, and, when offered some whisky AM
water, ruftling up his feathers anRriiy "a i
biphlv inSulted,
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hUMMONS-lNXHE Dish RIOT COUkf OF
the first judicial district Of the etafe OF MON
tana. in and FOR the county OF Lewis and clarke
Emma Weldrube, plaintiff. w. Fred Wcidrube.
defend Mt.
The state of Montana sends creating to The
above named defendant ;.
fouars hereby required g appear u On sG ss9a
brought against you By the sbove NAMED pisin9 I.
of the state Of Montana, in and Tor tho county 9.
fled therein. within ten days exclusive q the
day Of service) after the service on you OF this
summons. if eerved within this county: or. Il
seryed ont OF this county, bu. within this dis
trict, within twenty days: otherwise within forty
days. or Judgment BY defant will BE- taken
against you, according to the prayer OF saao com
plant. ,
The said action Is brought to dissolve the
bonds of matrmony heretofore and now exlstlns
bstwesn said plaintiff and defendant, for "
reason thst . id defendant abandoned easd
plaintif yillfuily and without cause. and ~
continued go to do for more than twelve monfna
And ron are hereby notified that il you hi! e
appear and answer the sid complaint - abGve
required the said plaintiff will obtain jude
ment by defanlt against you, and ask for the ~
lief demanded in complaint.
| Given under my hand and the scal OF the dis
trict court Of the First Judicial district OF tAl
state of Noptans, in aAd for the county Of Isewt
and Clarke. this twenty-eigheh day OF October, u
the year OF our Lord. ono thousand eight hum
IsEA1- JOHN BEAN. Clsek.
BSM. r THoxrsos. Dspaty 1lsTE
! G. = NOLAN. Atty. tse Plaintiff
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THE CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION.

A campaign Of education is not ex-
actly the kind of gift that is most in
favor with republicans just at present
Their brief but emphatic experience Of
its results in the month OF November
has led them to the conclusion that a
snorting cyclone is decidedly preferable,
and that even the gentle zephyr that
famed the cheeks Of our citizens on
Christmas night was compared with it,
as mild as cooling dove. They begin to
have a sort of smacking sympathy for
the czar Of all the Russias. They can
understand now why that potentate
halts the carrier at his front door on
Christmas morning and compels him to
execute hornpipe on every package
that ls capable Of containing an atom OF
dynamite. So far as our knowledge of
him goes, the car has no religious pre-
JUDGES against dancing on his own &C.
count, but on explosives there he draws
the line. The republican party has not
hitherto enjoyed tho wide advantages
possessed by the Russian emperor for
experimenting on the resuitants OF
forces. A campaign Of education was
an innocent enough package to look at;
they undertook to dance on it, and just
missed-oblivion
Now they are wiser. Having come to
q knowledge Of what it was that struck
them, they resolved to take leaf out of
the democratic book, and organize cam
paign of education on their own behalf.
Fortune seemed to smile on their ef-
forts. Before the scheme was
we'll formulated, came the an
nouncement that Professor James,
of the University Of Pennsylvania,
had been offered a chair at Harvard.
The republican mercury rose fifty
degrees at jump. Harvard WAS saved.
It had at length found salvation in pro
tectionist principles. What blessing
it was that the young men OF the uni
versity, the hope and the future OF the
nation, should be privileged to sit at the
feet Of a Gamaliel, like Professor James,
a protectionist of protectionists! The
senate was with the republicans. 1T was
plain, the intellect Of the country was
on their side. The grand professional
leaven would leaven the whole lump
and the party of Quay and morality
would once more be triumphant.
But the paans OF victory were as shor,
lived as they we're IN November, and
the dance is only ghost dance after all
This installment Of the republican cam
paign of education has gone to Sitting
Bull. President Eliot coldly declares
the astounding fact that Harvard is 1
university, and consequently can b.
neither free trade nor protection
school, He has the audacity to affirm
that "the students are referred to thu
whole literature of the subject, both TO
protection and for free trade. In tn
class room and lecture room there is NJ
advocacy of either system. The instruc
tors merely expound principles an
study their application" And this
an American university. And these ar
the men who are guiding young Amer
lea, What chance has Matt Quay to sc
in his work, when principles like thes
are instilled into the mind OF our you'll
College professors are set of cracked
Drained theorists, and the republica
campaign OF education is in state {
total eclipse. Hooray for Quay!
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OF NO SCHOOL WHATEVER.

Yet Joe Meeks Made ~ Success rs Doctor
for Awhile.
have said that there we're no regular
physicians in California, says Gen. Bidwell
in the December Century. Later. in 1s4a.
in company that came from Oregon, was
one Joe Meeks, a noted character in the
Rocky mountains. On tine way he said:
"Boys, when ! get down to California
among the Rreasers am going to palm my
self off as DOCTOR" and from that time
they dubbed him DR.. Maeks. He could
neither read nor write. IA soon a. the Cal
| ifornians heard of his arrival at Monterey
| they began to come to him with their diff
ferent ailments. His first professional ser
ice was to boy who had toe cut of.
Meeks, happening to be near, stuck the toe
on, binding it in poultice of mud, and
1t grew on again. The new governor,
Mioheltorena, employed him as surgeon.
Meeks had q way of looking and acting
very wise, and of being reticent when peo-
pie talked about things which he did not
understand. One day he went into little
shop kept by man known as DR.. Stokes
who had been kind Of hospital steward
on board ship and who had brought ashor,
one OF those little medicine chests that wer'
usually taken to sea, With apothecar,
6c0leS, anu pdtupu!ee KivAnK sOOr
synopsis Of diseases and table OF weight,
} and medicines, So that almost anybod,
could administer relief to sick sailors
Meeks went to him and said: "Doctor
want yon to put me up some pow
2 ders." So Stokes went behind his tabl
: aud got ont his scales and medicines
Z ana asked: what kind of pow
derss" "Just common powders-patien
not very sick.'' IF you will tell me wha
kind of powders, Dr.. Meeks-" "Oh, JUS
common powders" That il all 10 woul
: say. DIR. Stokes told about town tina
]. Meeks knew nothing about medicine, bu
people thought that perhaps Aeeks ha,
given the prescription in Latin and tina
DR.. Stokes could not read it. But Meeks
. reign vas to have an end. An America
o man-of-war came into the harbor. Tnoma
/ o. Larkin was then the United States con
. sui at Monterey, and the commander an
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mrs. Plumb, the wife of Senator Plumb,
of Kansas, has been an invalid for several
wears.
It is announced that Julia Rive-King is
to make her home in Chicago, where her
husband has become engaged in business.
The pen with which President Harrison
signed the disability pension bill. on the
o7th day Of last June, has been presented to
the Kansas State Historical society by the
Hon. Z. N. Morrill,.
Mira, Smell, the widow of Amos ]. Smell,
has renewed her offer to pay $4,000 for the
arrest Of William B. Tascott and his deten-
ton until identified. The reward will hold
good for one year.
Frank Dewitt TalmaRe, son Of the FAM
GUS Brooklyn preacher. is lecturing in west
ern cities. He Is young man of p. of
dark complexion. and somewhat resembles
his father in facial expression. He shows
evidence of having been carefully trained
in oratory, but his delivery 10 crude and
his gestures are not spontaneous.
No one ever talks out loud when taking
dinner with Queen Victoria. unless in re-
Spouse to direct question from her majes-
| ty. The guests converse among themselves
in whispers. From time to time the queen
speaks to some one of her guests. but as it
is not proper to disagree with her. the con-
versation is necessarily subject to strict
limitations.
Lady Lytton has inaugurated tea cafe
in Paris, which bears the gorgeous sign OF
the Indian Palace" Externally it is 4
veritable Aladdin's palace, and internally
it is decorated with wonderful carvings
from Cashmere. One room is fitted up t.
represent the tent Of an Indian prince. ani
is lighted by wonderful stained glass win
dows.
Everybody in Kansas is discussing: tn
change in the appearance of Justice Brew
er, which was brought about by his Shawn
, of his beard aud mustache. His face
now quite smooth, and his old friends al
:. displeased thereat. Others regard it az
great improvement and are glad that /
marked his ascension to the supreme benc
i BY assuming the mien of an ancie,
: Roman.
T Chief Gall, who succeeds Sitting Bull ,
J. head Of the Sioux nation. led the Indians
n the battle that brought defeat and death
Q Custer. He is not only fond of fighting
d but il capable of handling body of Ind
= ans successfully when in the field, and b.
|. frequently exhibited the qualities of ge
eralship He il. moreover, an Indian
y some honesty.
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such in that country that they have
little or nothing to say about the gov
eminent. They do not have the privi-
leges accorded to citizens in America.
This year the republican party saddled
the Mckinley bill on the country and the
farmers turned out in great army and
declared themselves. A system of taxa
ton that increases the burdens without
bringing beneficial results cannot stand
in this country.
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all his officers went mp to Larkins' store,
am ing them the surgeon. who Was intro
duced to DR.. Meeks. The conversation
turning upon the diseases incident to the
country, Meeks became reticent, say
ing merely that be was going ont
of practice and intended to leave
the country, because he conld not
get medicines. The surgeon expressed
much sympathy and said: CDR. Neeka, if
You will make me out list I will very
cheerfully divide with you such medicine as
l can spare.'' Meeks did not know the
names Of three kinds CT medicine, and tried
evasion, but the surgeon cornered him and
put the question 90 direct that he had to
answer. He asked him what medicine he
needed most. Finally Meeks said ha wanted
some ''draps,' and that was all that could
be got out of him. When the story came
out his career a. . doctor was at an end.
and he soon left the country.
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The Denver News concurs with other
intelligent advocates of free coinage in
the opinion that the compromise silver
bill now before the senate is another
juggling illusion, like the present law.
1t says Of it:
Without hesitation We denounce the meas
ure as paltry and inconsequential. Tho
relief it promises is illusory. It is intended
to throw sand in the eyes of the people
that they may not discover the cheat until
after congress adiourns. The purchase OF
the 12,OO0,OOO ounces need not be completed
in year. Not an ounce is required to be
bought for eight months to come. 1t leaves
the time Of purchase within the discretion
Of the treasury, the only limit being that it
shall be bought within the year 1891, but
not more than 5000, 600 ounces in any one
month. The purchase of silver to replace
the retired bank circulation is
not to commence until the cir
culation has been reduced ia
$50, 200, 600 and the notes to be issued for
such silver. with the bank notes remaining.
shall never exceed SlS0.OOO,O00. This may
may not require the purchase of an ounce
of silver. The bank circulation may be SC
unanswered as that there will be reduction
below the fixed amount. 1t prohibits fret
coinage until the market shall have re-
manned continuously for one year at S1.2:
per ounce. Should silver have remained
for eleven months and twenty-nine days a
the required price. if it should fall to $1.2
per ounce the last day of the year, fire.
coinage must be postponed for at least an
other year. Under this provision it is utter
~ impossible to regain free coinage. Tn
issuance Of treasury notes to the value 0
the bullion in the trade dollars now in til
treasury will add mere atom to the none
now in circulation. It would not be appre
cieted the day after it was put afloat.
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HELENA, MONT, DEC. p, 1890.

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DAILY INDEPENDENT on file at their fayorite
hotels Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan. New
York: Grand Pacific, Chicago; West, Minneapo-
DO. Baldwin and Palace, San francisco; st.
Nicholas and McDermott, Rutte Leland, Hotel,
springfield. Ill
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The recent Farmers alliance conven-
ton at Ocala, Fla, adopted resolutions
denouncing the force bill. And yet the
republicans in congress go on tempting
providence just as if the farmers were
not going to have any vote in 1892.
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Poor nu.,ne.. ana Slow coll.etlon..

WooNsocKET, =. D.. Dec. 26.-The San
born County bank, run by Leon L. Stevens.
was CO ,ed this morning. The county treas
urer had 5000 of the county's money in
tho bank and number of merchants were
also caught. There was no run ON the
hank and the reasons given for the suspen-
sion vns poor business and SLOW collections.
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