The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-17

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see why that is necessary. l think you
might take a lady's word"
MIR. JEROME (embarrassed)-"Of course.
under any other circumstances, but our
rules forbid US"
YOU'VE LApy-"Well, but who can I find
to, to, what is the word?"
MIR. JERoME-''Identify."
YorNa LApY-"Yes, who can ! find to
identify me-
MI. JERoME-"Oh, any responsible man
known to the officers of the bank"
YOUNG LADY-tYes, but who?'
Mr.. JEROME (smiling)-'I really don't
know"
YOU'VE LADy-"Well, that is odd. You
want some one to Identity me, and yet
you can't tell me where to go. l think l
will Just 90 to a better bank. / think you
ere trying to find some excuse SO you won't
have to pay the money"
Mr.. JEROME (still very pleasant)-"Not at
all. Let me explain again. Now you see"
YOUNG LADY Ga trife weak in the eyes(-
'Oh, l don't understand it at all. Papa
Just sent that piece of paper from the east
and said, Just 60 to the bank and show that
and you will get the money"
Just at this point a gentleman who had
dropped in in time to catch the meaning
of the discussion came forward and stayed
the hood-gates of tears by Identifying the
Young woman. She received the money,
smiled sweetly on the friend and walked
out of the door with a pretty pout. l
walked down the street until a young soci-
ETY. man came along.
II just heard the funniest thing" he
said. A young lady wanted to cash a check
at the First National and she could find no
one to indemnify her. Funny, wasn't it?'
No." l replied. 1T was serious"
~
Advice to the young minstrel monarch:
Remove that street parade and start a re-
form in the brass and and orchestra. Then
YOU will be the Barnum of minstrel mana
gers.
I am glad to note that a new opera house
is in sight. While it will not be called
Minp's I am assured hat there will be no
finer house west of the Mississippi river.
John Mcguire will be in charge.
~
NY friend, DIR. Cole, is very tired of being
interviewed by Chicago newspaper men.
This is what he says: you saw the inter
view in which l appeared as the dictator
of the national administration. The aver
age reader would think that | had the habit
of making and unmaking cabinets as
pleased. 1t came about in this way. One
evening Mr.. Root and l were in this Audi
forum hotel, when we were introduced to q
newspaper man. He said something about
Mr., Carter, and l replied that l thought
Mr.. Carter had made a phenomenal record
since his entrance into politics. consider,
ing his brief experience before his election
to congress-. This was all that was said
] opened a Chicago paper the next day, ant
found that l had received a letter with The
information that Carter would succeed
Secretary Noble. and about a col
umn of political gossip s%ubjoined
When l went to Minneapolis another col
, umn interview appeared in the Minneapoli
Tribune, though | do not remember O
meeting n reporter of that paper. When
90 east again l will be accompanied by
large sized and we'll equipped 49, TIL
next newspaper liar who appears in my wa,
q will receive an introduction to my t~ravelin,
q companion" t
*
The business office was somewhat startle
the other day by an outcry from a breath
less man. He rushed through the dool
), rammed his head through the window an
yelled:
"Say, where's dey a reporter?"
u "Out OF the street working for his dali
- bread" answered the obliging treasurer.
"Well say, you'd better find one. Dere
j, two car loads of millionaires gets here fro,
- de east on the Northern Pacific, in ten mir
utes, and dey wan to be Intervene,
See?'
G. The two car loads of miIlionaires wei
poor but honest ''capitalists" from the ca
'u on the way TO Washington looking for gol,
" They will return to Helena where. accor,
ing to the guide books, milionaires gro
like sage brush.
Col. William T.. Wheeler, the untiri1
custodian of the state library and museum
y. has received u letter from Fairweather, n
Bill, but Tom. He is the Fairweather wi
id was seen in San Francisco by Col. Locke,
Con kohrs and Martin Hotter. &c
is Wheeler sent several newspaper clipping
to Mr.. Fairweather at his home in Mort
- Bloomfield, CAL, and received the folio,
err ing letter:
II am glad to learn that light begins
TX break after sixteen years of darknef
When l was in San Francisco last Februa
an | met several gentlemen from Montan
10, Mr.. Woody, of Missoula, WAS Mt the Ru
a house, where | was stopping. Mr.. Holt
as came there one evening. He looked at /
~. and | at him and at last | asked him "
lv he was and where he was from. He to
n me his name was Hotter from Heller
an Says |, the hell you are. Ny name
hi Fairweather. He asked, Bill Fairweathe
and ! said Bills brother, but he called Al
~ introduced me Us Bill, and among strange
IL | most always go by hat name. At I
,no time | did not think any more OF it,
now | am glad because l did I
in know when my brother died a
~ where he was buried. The Bozem
as people are Il little off when they think II
,.r buried him in 1872 for | WIS with him u
ant GEAR. | mined in all the gulches from
der gulch to Lincoln. William never |
but one picture taken that | know of q
that was sent to the New York Morn
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