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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

ton. If the medicines of the fakir hap
pen to kill the patient. they have accom-
plished just what many incompetent and
unWise practitioners of the regular
professional life.
But there is little room for the honest
physician and the fakir to quarrel over
the quality of medicines used when med
zeal science has reached a point where
poisons are used to prolong life. Strych-
MIA is regarded as an Indispensable nerve
the rattlesnake is being used by men
eminent in the profession to counterfeit
piosons in the system. The apparent riv-
airy to the Chinese prescriptions of dried
frog legs and powdered beetles, and the
like, a new medicine consists of dried
bullock's blood in a mixture of brandy
use the several parts of animals to
strengthen the corresponding parts in
man. an essence made from the brain of
an OK. for instance. being used as a brain
tonic. while the stomach reduced to a
medicine cuts a figure in the cure of dys-
pepsia.
Probably. there is a great deal of merit
IN all these experiments. but they show
that the modern physician should look
with some degree of charity on those who
believe in the laying on OF hands. the
magnetic massage and the mental cures
effected through force of the will. The
true remedy for the elimination of the
quack is to maker no higher claims for the
efficacy of medicine than a long series of
experiments Will justify, and to place
each practitioner where he belongs in the
sphere of usefulness. If the local physi-
elan makes the patient believe that medi-
cines are all powerful in effecting a cure,
and the cure is not effected. thai patient
will try the first fakir who comes along
with a new remedy. If he is taught to
believe that medicine is an experiment at
best. he will do his experimenting unde,
the eye of a local physician of character
and standing rather than risk his health
in the hands of the irresponsible travel
ing doctor.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06
AN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN.

1T seems to be the settled policy of the
administration to undertake an agrees
sive campaign in the Philippines, with
a view to the speedy ending of the war.
To prevent the destruction of property,
on the theory that such a course would
lead the Filipinos to respect the humani-
ties Of the nation, was a course Of pro-
cedure that failed to impress upon the
barbarians any other idea than that the
Americans We're weary of the war and
seeking to bring about "a condition OF
peace through absolute terror and mill
tary i~ncapacity to carry the war to fur
Their lengths.
With an aggressive policy of conduct
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06
JUDGE COODW/N'S ADVICE.

In his able address at the opera house
in Anaconda last night. Judge Goodwin.
the veteran editor of the Salt lake Trib-
une. gave a great deal of excellent adj
vice TO the press. His speech was a poem
in prose, and it was not only received
with enthusiastic approval by the splen-
did audience that greeted the speakers
of the evening, but it made a deep i'm
preston upon the newspaper fraternity.
No one could have pictured in a clearer
light the duties and responsibilities rest
ing upon the shoulders of the journalist.
He dwelt at some length on the quail
ficatlons of the successful and infuen-
tlal newspaper mantle man who grad
ually but none the less surely shapes in
no small degree the character and course
of the constant readers of the paper
which he edits. In his opinion the sue
cessful editor should have a good knowl-
edge of the best literature of the age.
as we'll as the most valuable productions
of the great minds of the past. He
should falniliarize himself with the Sci
ences-not that he might reproduce as
his own the great truths evolved by
others, but get in touch with the best
thought of the world. In this way the
editor Is enabled to grasp the eternal
fitness of things, and give to his work
the basic principle of power.
AS to the responsibility of sowing good
seed IN the field Of in~tellectuality. the able
speaker was pronounced. To build up
character Alright, to impress truth upon
the public mind, to shape the trend of
thought along desirable channels. are
considerations of duty which no Journal
list can afford to ignore. The suggestions
made by Judge Goodwin came from the
experiences of a MAJ who is looked upon
as the Nestor Of journalism in the west
and all that he said will find an abiding
place in the hearts of the men
OF Montana.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06
THE SULTAN or SyLU.

1t has been suggested by the demo-
cratic press that the sultan of Sulu ought
to be invited by President Mckinley to
visit the United States, bringing with
him such portions of his carefully assort-
ed harem as might be deemed advisable
for a travelling man of his type. For
this idea to come from democratic news
papers that have heretofore bestowed all
their compliments upon A%guinaldo is en-
couraging, to say the least. The sultan
of Sulu is on terms of profound peace
been regarded as an Objectionable char
acter by the democratic press. While
Aguinaldo has been praised as a new
George Washington, with so high a char
acter that dynamite couldn't raise it to
any appreciate degree the sultan of Sulu
has been held up to public scorn and ridi-
Guile for permitting the star spangled
banne to do business in his section of
the country. Having failed to induce the
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the instruction a pyrotechnic success, it
is indeed a condecension for the demo-
cratic newspapers to request the presi-
dent to invite the former to visit this
country before that honor can, in the
nature of things, be enjoyed by the lat
ter. Had these been techni-
cal as to the order of precedence they
would not ave asked for any such rec
ognition Of the sultan on the part of the
president. Aguinaldo should have come
first, for modern George Washingtons
are few and far between, and usually
when found their clothes do not fit them.
The rebel chieftain has, by fidelity to
the cause of anti-imperialism, won the
lasting gratitude of every democrat who
survived the civil war of thirty years ago.
Were he naturalized he doubtless would
be given second place on the democratic
ticket hex year, whether he was civilized
or not. For the democrats to extend a
courtesy to the sultan of Sulu, the man
who refuses to fire on our flag, while
A%guinaldo is unavoidably detained at
home looking after the great principles
of civil and religious liberty, can be ac-
counted for only on one theory. It will
be observed that the democratic editors
who request the sultan to visit the United
States lay down the promise that he shall
bring his harem with him.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06
THE FIGHT ON QUACKS.

When a few travelling doctors manage
10 STIR up the state to such an extern.
that the different towns and cities revise.
their ordinances to keep them at bay. he
situation becomes an Interesting one
Since the days of Neno, when a fakir who
was perhaps guilty of obtaining money
under false pretences, was found guilty
OF grand larceny, a great many intelli-
gent people have discussed the question
as to where quackery in the practice Of
medicine begins and leaves off. The
usually accepted theory that the line of
demarkation between the honest practi-
TONER and the quack lies in the fact that
the latter travels from town TO town and
advertises, While the former does nor
Will hardly Withstand the force of an in
telligent investigation.
There are undoubtedly many instances
wherein the travelling doctor is as highly
educated in his profession as the average
local physician, but takes the road be-
cause there is more money to be made in
mat way. AS a rule, however, it is fair
10 assume that whatever may be the per-
sonal qualifications of the travelling doc
tor, he is less liable to conscientiouslv
perform his duties and give value receiy-
ed for the money paid him than is the
local physician whose reputation in the
community is at stake. But the travel
ing doctor, be he a fake or otherwise. is
on earth and doing business in response
to a demand. If there was no room for
him he would disappear. If there were
not hundreds OF cases of inyalidism upon
which the skill of the local physician has
no appreciable effect the travelling doe
tor would be like Othello-his occupation
would be gone.
The fact that medical skill, with all its
boosted Advancement during the past
century, is still in great part a series of
experiments which measurably fail 10
touch the chronic Affections of mankind
accounts for the crowds which swarm
around the fakir who promises new re-
suits from new medicines, or a new APP
plication of old formulas. If the medi-
cines of the fakir fail to cure they have
done no worse han the medicines form
erly given the health seeker by the regu-
lar practitioner. 1t is simply another les
son learned in the line Of experimental
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

ing the war an impressive lesson will be
purpose well in dealing with them after
the conclusion of peace. The abandon
ment of the peace commission will prove
a step in the right direction. To impress
upon the natives that war is hell is the
first duty in the fight for peace.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Captain James Fl. Mills, the Nestor of
Montana journalism, is a capitalist now
and out of the business, but he will al
Ways have a warm place in the hearts
of the press gang. Drink a toast to the
old man in his retirement, for he never
told a lie when the truth would do just
as well, and not even then except in a
good cause,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Senator w. A. Clark was an honorary
member of the old Butte Press club. He
bought his way in with a case of cham
payne and a box of perfectos. So did
everybody else who ever got in. including
Messrs. DAILY, Murray, Frank, Mueller,
Mantle and A. J. Davis. w. j. Penross,
afterwards foully murdered, was the or
ganizer of the club.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

You can get patent envelopes for mail
ing photographs at the Postoffice News
Stand.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Major Anderson of the Bozeman Cour-
Ter grows more eloquent as he grows old
err, but he really must not complain that
the welcome he receives from the young
err editors and reporters is not SO enthusi-
astic az Of yore. Two lovely girls who
always accompanied him to the press
gatherings and who We're. the daughters
of the journalistic regiment are absent
this year. both being married. The good
major is loved for himself alone now, but
not so hard.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

The tenth anniversary edition of our
able and esteemed contemporary, the
Anaconda Standard, affords convincing
evidence of it's belief in expansion. Be-
sides is it not shouting ION to Manila"
in a dozen advertisements in every issue?
none put a malicious man will ever
call attention to the fact that Colonel
sam Gordon was ever a member of the
legislature. He really doesn't look il.
The same is true of Senator Eggleston,
yet ne is equally guilty. Eggleston used
to pray nightly for his defeat at the polls.
but the people of Deer Lodge county,
knowing that, once in the legislature. he
would have to stop writing paragraphs
for the Standard, elected him by an al
most unanimous vote.
The religious press of Montana should
be invited to a closer utilization with the
secular press at the annual gathering of
newspaper men and women. There is no
good reason why one-half the news
papers of Montana should be democratic.
Since charity begins at home, the Inter
mountain would suggest that the esteem
ed church organs turn loose their bat
terles on their erring journalistic breth-
rem who worship at the church of st.
Grover. st. Croker and st. Golden. in
stead. of looking for sinners in other di-
rections.
Hon. Marcus DAILY is an honorary men, |
Der of the Montana Press association and
is reported to have paid up his dues, re-
CARELESS of the needs of his family.
Though not personally engaged in news
paper work, he knows what |
are and what they cost. He has given
away several newspapers on the ground
that he likes to see other people prosper
as well as himself. The report tina he
sued the Standard for libel for publish
ing a cut of him some months ago and
then sending him a bill for the cut, is not
without foundation, but the facts will
come out later. i
In many respects the weekly news
papers of the state are the best. They
show the greatest versatility, they are
onducted with the most independence.
they represent the most hard work under
difficulties. The Dillon Tribune, the
Bozeman Courier. the Anaconda Re-
corder, the Boulder Age, the Fergus !
County Argus, the Whitehall Zephyr, The
Ravalli Republican, the Deer Lodge Sill
Yer State. the Livingston Enterprise, the
Billings Gazette. and neither last nor
least, the bright Chronicle of Bozeman-
where are better, clearer, more patriotic
or more ably conducted newspapers in
the United States or Missouri?
1t is rumored hat another story is to
be added to the Butte Miner office, by
digging a sub-cellar beneath the building.
Hon. w. A. Clark is not doing any
newspaper work now, but his early news
paper training is proved by the fact that
his business letters are always models
of pure and vigorous English. OF all the
rich men in Montana Mr.. Clark is the F.;
most polished in his conversation and de-
pertinent, but why, not being a populist,
he persists in wearing whiskers he has
never yet explained and his newspaper
the Miner, even refuses to discuss the
subject.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

About eight years ago, during the abb
sence of the responsible editor. Hon. Lee
Mantle once undertook to edit the Inter
Mountain for three days. He thought it
was an easy snap. He procured a bucket
OF paste. a pair of scissors big enough for
pruning shears, and hired a boy to stand
alongside of him to sharpen pencils. On
the first day Mr.. Mantle reached the Of
flee at noon and began to work. At 12:15
he took off his coat and vest; at 1890
he had consumed a gallon of mineral
water, and had got no farther than "We."
At l o'clock the foreman inquired if there
was going to be any brewer stuff that
day. "Stuff," said Mantle. what the
devil does that fellow mean? Doesn't he
know I { own this paper?" Then came the
reply: 'Send in our stuff or I'll fill up
with fimSy." What's that?" roared
Mantle. lis that fellow going to edit the
paper himself?' Then he sat down and
%perspired again and wrote: 1--WE fully
concur in the following from the Ency-
clopedia Britannica" adding, in a note
to the foreman: "Use enough of this to
fill up the paper and I will fill you up
later" The next day the coming senator
reached the office earlier, delivered a
speech to the ste~nographer and cut it
into editorial paragraphs with excellent
effect. The third day he retired and
raised the editors salary.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Peace reigns among h newspapers of
Montana. The day of personal vitupera-
ton and abuse commenced TO wanew when
the railroads came and school houses
and churches began to dot the landscape.
Gradually the blackguards hid their
diminished heads or shrunk discredited
from the commonwealth. For years the
newspaper men have ceased allowing
other men to pit them against one an.
other, like bulls in a pen, to furnish
amusement for the mob OIL vent the
spleen of the rich n jealous. The same
is true all over the west. 1t is only in
the rowdy and undesirable east, in Chi
cago, Boston and New York, that the
era Of mud singing continues.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

If old Tom Baker is not at the Press
association meeting it is because he is
so popular at home that the inhabitants
win not let him leave. Tom ought to
write a book of "reminiscences before
passing on to the great Golden Harp con-
cert. He is a rare old sou and is in the
democratic camp only for missionary
purposes.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

It is but due to he Montana Press as
ISOLATION to state that when Anaconda.
was selected for a meeting place this yea
the impression existed that it was a
dry town; but a rumor is current now
that there will be bottles opened at the
banquet and that the ceiling has been
already removed from the banquet hall.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

EX-Congressman Hartman of Roze-
man is said to be arranging to start a
weekly journal and has already selected
a site for a private graveyard where he
will bury those who do not subscribe to
his opinions and his paper. 1t will he
called the ~Sourdough Pancake, @F
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

The people of Anaconda are nothing if
not h~ospitable and wholesouled-they al
ways give away more than they keep.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

The full name of the chief Of the
Neracity department of the Anaconda
is Walla Walla Walsworth.
The town of Walla Walla, in the state Of
Washington, is named for him. OF course
it is an all-night town, and the govern
ment is democratic.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06
The Livingston Enterprise refers to
Rozeman as Sourdoughville.

The most modest newspaper editor in
Montana is Mr.. Harbour of the Benton
Press. He spells Harbour with a small
III never uses the editorial we" and
even refuses, to sign checks with his own
name.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Poor old John r. Wilson, erstwhile oil
the Dillon Tribune, is in an eleemosynary
in Denver. He got in before
he heard anybody try to pronounce the
name. n never left for fear some one
should ask him to pronounce it himself
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

The representatives of the Helena press
n attendance at the Anaconda news
paper convention are reported to have
purchased railroad passes My as far as
Stuart. where they left the train and
hired a wagon to take them to the Smell
ter City, being wholly nav of it's
having railroad connection.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Colonel Daniel Searles once sued Colo
mel James Brown of the Butte and Basin
Times for 1920 for three days work;
but, to prevent the case going to trial,
Colonel Brown gave Colonel Searles the
plant and good will of the Times n
81. 100 to boot. Colonel Searles accepted
the offer and before u o'clock that night
every dolIar of the money was gone. But
beer was 25 cents a glass in those days.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

The Smithsonian Institute at Washing.
ton contains the autograph Of the mar
who once succeeded in stopping his sub,
scription to the Virginia Madisonians wher
Tom Degarmon was owner of thAt paper
His name was James Smith and he was
reported to be a dead shot. 81
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

1t is rumored that another story is to
be added to the Butte Miner office, by
digging a sub-cellar beneath he building.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Ine tenth anniversary edition of our
able and esteemed contemporary, the
Anaconda Standard, affords convincing
evidence of it's belief in expansion. Be-
sides is it not shouting ION to Manila"
in a dozen advertisements in every issue?
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
STUDYING THE COAST.

I IHILE the Association of American Agricul-
(H tural Colleges and Experiment Stations is in
convention in this city, and the National Asso-
citation OF Editors is in convention Portland thou
sands of members of the National Educational Asso-
citation their way to the grand assembly to be
held at Los Angeles. It is evidently Pacific Coast
year for national conventions and every portion of
the coast is to be studied by observant men.
In his response to the address Of welcome on the
opening of the convention on Wednesday President
Armsby, speaking for the Colleges and Experiment
Stations said: 1--WE have heard much of California,
the Empire State Of the West and we anticipate with
pleasure our inspection of it. We accept your well
come in our representative capacity, for we have
come to and examine your resources, of which
we have heard so much What little we have seen Of
the State has been far beyond our expectations and
l can assure you that we shall make known through
out the country the things that we find here"
In that statement is summed up in brief but com
prehensive way the motive which has impeled our
Eastern visitors to come to this remote portion of the
Union for the purpose Of holding conventions The
routine work OF the meetings, the reading of papers
and the discussion OF various problems could be per-
formed in Eastern cities as well as here 1t was.
therefore, not solely for the purpose OF holding con-
ventions, but for the purpose OF studying Pacific
Coast conditions that the editors have met at Port
ldt tlIe III ana the educators
will meet in Los Angeles.
Our benefits from the study of such bodies Of men
as are now gathered the coast are certain to be
great. Even the language of exaggeration when ap-
piled to certain special features of the Pacific Coast
and its resources has fallen short of the real great
ness and variety OF the natural richness of the land
The more carefully conditions are studied from
Puget Sound to San Diego Bay, and the more
scientifically accurate the reports given of them,
the more impressive will their magnitude appear
and the more attractive will they be to the world
We ask neither Of the editors at Portland the edu
Gators at Los Angeles, Of the agricultural experts