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The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06
Truce In Samoa.

Washington, May 4.-The following
cablegram has been received at the navy
department from Admiral Kautz:
Auckland, May 4.-Subdated Apia,
April 27).-To Secretary Navy, Washing
ton: All quiet at Apia. Mataafa and his
chief agreed to keep outside lines pre-
scribed by British officer present and
and to until commits ,ion-
there will be no more fighting.
"KAUTZ."
The cablegram was mutilated in trans
mission, but the meaning is plain con-
firming the press report that truce has
been agreed upon in Samoa, and there
will be no more hostilities pending the
reaching of conclusion by the commits
sion now on the way to the islands.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06

Butte, Mont. April 30-Lathrop Dunn
Wallace, aged II, member OF this years
graduating class Of the high school, died
yesterday morning from the effects Of be-
ing struck by baseball white practicing
yesterday. "A swift liner struck him un-
der the ear and fractured the base Of the
brain.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06

Rome, May 4.-The Italian ministry
has resigned.
The resignation Of the ministry is the
sequel to scene in the chamber Of depu-
ties yesterday. In the course of q pro-
longed and animated discussion regarding
the governments foreign policy, the min
lister of forign affairs, Admiral Canevero,
created lively sensation by producing a
response to the attack upon his policy at
San Mum bay.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06
Snow in Utah.

Salt Lake, Utah, May 1.-The ground u
covered with about four inches of snov
and the storm, which started In at 4
o'clock this morning, still continues ct
noon. It Is feared much damage win b
done to the fruit crop.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06
Pacific Coast Cracker Trust.

Trenton, N. j., May 5.-The Pacific
Coast Biscuit Company with an author
lied capital of 100000, was incorpor-
ated yesterday at the Office of the secre-
tary of state.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06
Extra Session of Congress.

Washington, May 5.-There is belief
among members of congress that the presi-
dent will call congress to meet in extra
session this fall, probably in October.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06
Three schooner. Ashore ON Cape Cod

Highlang Light, Mass, May 4.-As
result of the foggy weather and brisk
gale three schooners lay stranded on Cape
Cod yesterday morning. Their crews es-
capped.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06

Forty.four per cent Of all the land
in Sweden is mortgaged.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06

A male adult has half an ounce Of
sugar in his blood.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

iginal with the Miner, and can be copy
righted by that sheet without anyone
claiming that it is an Infringement, it is,
to say the least, an interesting one. 1t
shows versatility on the part of Our
morning contemporary, though it is quite
a serious reflection upon the Jeffersonian-
ism of a state which produced such men
of iron nerve as the present governor OF
Montana. 1t is strange that the demo-
cracy of Kentucky has never been taken
out quietly behind the woodshed by some
friend in the cleaning and told that it
was being worked to a finish by the re-
publicans.
There are some observers of the situa-
ton, however. who will not concur in the
view taken by the Miner. To them it
looks as if the machinery of the demo-
cratic party in Kentucky is controlled by
as vile an outfit of political greasers as
ever soiled a public escutcheon. They
have carried things to such an extreme
that the rank II file of that party-the
farmers and laborers and business men
of the country-are compelled to rise up
in revolt and utter a protest by placing a
decent and respectable ticket in the field.
The honest yeomanry of Kentucky are
struggling to rescue the ark of the cove
nant from the assassins of silver who
have stolen it from the temple of de-
mocraoy. They would again enthrone
free coinage and burn incense to its honor
upon the affairs of their faith. But in their
cry for purer politics and better men-i
their plea for the financial system of their
sires-they are met by the stern rebuke
of the leaders of the pretended silver wing
of a hypocritical democracy n told to
sacrifice their principles to party success.
Insult is added to injury when these
faithful adherents to a lost cause in Ken
lucky are accused of being worked" by
republican manipulators, in the columns
of a Montana newspaper that assumes to
champion the interests Of silver.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
THE TRUE PROGRESS or man.

1t is worthy of note that despite the
doubters in whose veins flow the tainted
red %corpuscles of a long line of ancestral
pirates, the concensus of opinion
peace congress at The Hague accom-
plished much good. The impression is
world wide that a decisive step has been
taken in the right direction. and that a
new era Of influence has dawned for the
agencies Of peace.
No like conference had ever been held,
and it was popular to believe that Milton
was right in his theory that the prince
Of darkness had been hurled out Of
heaven by an insulted Infin:ty and would
10 permanent penance making trouble
call for a peace conference came like a
ray of light through the envelop of dark
ness that enshrouded the world, and it
is hard for men to realize that a step
has been taken in the direction Of that
era when the nations shall learn war
no more.
1t was over the tomb Of Grotius on the
Fourth of July that Ambassador White
delivered an address in behalf of peace,
in which he pictured that great humane
tartan as addressing the representatives,
lowing is a striking excerpt from that
address:
Go on with your mighty work; avoid,
as you would avoid the germs of pesti-
lence, those exhalations Of international
hatred, which tax shape in monstrous
fallacies and morbid fictions regarding
alleged a~ntagonistic interests. Guard
well the treasures of civilization with
which each of you is intrusted, but bear
in mind that you hold a mandate from
humanity. Go on with your work
Pseudo philosophers will prophesy ma
%lignantly against you: pessimists will
laugh you to scorn; cynics will sheer al
you; ZealOts will abuse you for what
you rave not done; sublimely impractical
thinkers will revile you for what you
have done: ephemeral critics will ridicule
you as dupes; enthusiasts, blind to the
difficulties in your path and to every
thing outside their little circumscribed
fields. will denounce you as traitors tc
humanity. Heed them not; go on with
your work. Heed not the clamor OF
zealots, or cynics, or pessimists, oil
pseudo philosophers, or enthusiasts, OF
fault finders. Go on with the work o.
strengthening peace and humanizine
war; give greater scope and strength t.
provisions which will make war less
cruel; perfect those laws of war which
diminish the unmerited sufferings of pop.
u%lations, and above all give to the worlt
at least a beginning of an effective, prac,
ticable scheme of arbitration.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
THE MINER EXPLAINS.

In an attempt to explain the democratic
row in Kentucky, Senator Clark's news
paper this morning sets up the claim that
II is all due to republican Interference
with the affairs of that party. 1t appears
from the Miners standpoint of view that
the republicans make ii a regular prac-
tice. whenever a campaign is on. to Or
eanize enough democrats into a compact
association of kickers to defeat the NOM
1nees Of the democracy.
Though his explanation is wholly Or
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
HIS GRANDMA'AM,

At a ball in Berlin this spring a colonel
came up to a young lieutenant who was
wearing a large badge richly set with dia-
monds, and said ~brusquely:
What thing is this you've got, young
man?"
1T is an order, colonel" answered the
lieutenant.
"Anorder?" calculated the colonel. cts
not German then. for l don't know it."
"No, it is an English ORDER" said the
younger officer.
''English? And what on earth gave you
an English order??" demanded the super
Tor.
my grandmother"
"And who might your grandmother
be-"
Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Eng
land!" answered the young lieutenant,
who happened to be Prince Albert of
Schleswig- Holstein.
The colonel suddenly took his depart
ure.
$40 sets OF teeth SO. DR.. Wix.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
TALK OF THE DAY.

One of the girls at Waterville, Me-,
several months ago wrote her name and
address on a piece of cotton. The other
day she received a letter from a woman
in Arizona, who said that the cloth had
been bought by Uncle Sam, and was be-
ing cut up for garments in a school for
the Apache Indians there. 1t was but a
few years ago that the Apaches were
taking scalps instead of making shirts.
A Friendly Suggestion-"I'm afraid
I'll have to move again." said Smith the
other morning as he boarded a down.
town car.
whats the trouble, now?" inquired
his friend Jones.
''The kitchen chimney smokes dread
fully" replied Smith, 'and I'm unable to
stop it."
I'll tell you what to do" said Jones.
Give 1T n those cigars like you gave
me yesterday, n it's a 10 to 1 shot it
VIII quit smoking of it's own Accord
Chicago News.
The Chicago Penny Savings Society.
operating through the public schools
teachers, last year received from the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCEN7S.-

The fact that a man is brought in con-
tact with the August fashions in flies
whenever his hat isn't on straight, espe-
cially when deep, grinding philosophical
problems have ground more or less of
his hair down to the roots, suggests the
thought that after all the millinery BUSH
ness is cutting altogether too wide a
swath in modern civilization. Flies are
increasing because the insects that prey
on them-exclusive of men-are decreas-
ing, and these scavengers-not men, but
other things that kill off flies-are de-
creasing because the rodents, of various
makes and styles in the economy of ma
ture, are killing them off. These rodents
would be killed and thereby permit the
insects which kill the flies-to say moth
ing of man-to increase, were 1t not for
the slaughter of birds by the milliners.
The birds. the professional insectolo-
gists, are like hop-yeast-they work all
the time. Noxious and destructive in
sects and rodents of the smaller type
are slaughtered by the wholesale by these
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Our multi-millionaire contemporary,
the Butte Miner, contains an article on
"The Pleasure of Poverty" 1t was ever
thus. Now let some other democratic pa
per, whose editor doesn't know where the
next dollar is coming from to play poker
with. publish an article on "The Pleasure
of Wealth"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Advices from Manila today state thai
the Minnesota and not the Montana VOL
unteers will leave for home next Tues
day. The error appears to have been due
to deciphering the cablegrams at the war
democratic press to demand the resigna-
ton of Secretary Root.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Notice to the public: For interesting
editorial matter on General Alger or Cen
eral Otis, see tomorrow's Anaconda
Standard. p. S.-Any other date will do
Just as well.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

The new cars to be used on the inter-
urban line between st. Paul and a small
place named Saltwater will be unique in
their equipment. They will have COM
pressed air for brakes and whistles. to
be supplied by a small motor operating
an air pump. The air whistles will be
used in the country, where the cars will
be run at a high rate of speed. Each car
also will be equipped with a telephone,
with fifty feet of wire and a switch plug.
At intervals Of a quarter of a mile there
will be places where the conductor can
cut in on the telephone wire between st.
Paul and Saltwater, and communicate
with the power house or car barn.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
Excitement is frequently the cause of

Excitement is frequently the cause of
strange kilograms as well as of other
strange manifestations. A man who had
been one of the passengers on a ship
wrecked vessel was rescued almost by a
miracle. On arriving at a place from
which he could send a Geographic mes
sage, he forwarded the following dis
patch to his brother: II am saved. Try
to break it to my wife"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Kent county, Md, has a peach tree that
is believed by State Entomologist w. G.
Johnson to be the largest tree in the
United States. The tree is on the farm of
Allen Harris on Eastern Neck Island,
and is Of the Crawford variety. 1t has a
full crop of peaches this year, and has
never failed to pea a crop since it be-
gan growing. 1t measures 67 inches in
circumference and % inches in diameter.
Three of the limbs are 90 inches, 30 inches
and 30 inches in circumference, respec-
lively. 1t is seldom that the large trees
are the best bearers. but the case of this
Maryland giant prove to be al eXcep-
ton.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

SCHOOL children of that city over $40, 900.
ms means that at least $40, 900 less a
year is being spent for candy and chew
ing gum, and that over 1000 children are
becoming capitalists at the rate of five
cents a day.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
UNCLE PAUL.

UNCLE PAUL.
Is it true that you have quit,
Uncle Paul?
Can it be you've lost your grit,
Uncle Paul?
oh, we're plunged in deepest gloom
If we've lost our dear old Dom,
Are you in the has beens' tomb,
Uncle Paul?
Was it done with British gold,
Uncle Paul?
Were you bought or were you sold
Uncle Paul?
We will wait until we hear
Choking back the bitter tear
That they've laid you on your bier,
Uncle Paul?
cleveland Plain Dealer.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Even the discreet and circumspect
Butte Miner calls the trouble in the demo-
cratic party in Kentucky a revolt"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

nisgraced.-"Did you known our horse
baked yesterday"
"Gracious! What did you do?"
"Hitched an automobile to him and
dragged him home."-Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

The glass trust will not be seriously felt
in Montana. Mugs can be used just as
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Herman w. Cramer, a Missouri boy
with the troops in Porto Rico, writes Of
a laundress who has taken the contract
to do all of his laundry at 81. 20 a month,
and says: "She was not pleased with the
rundown corners on my straight up COL
lars, and for fear they would not lie
down she sewed them"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Not What He Wanted.-It's time for
you nourishment now, Mr.. Peppery.
Mr.. Peppery (who is convalescent)-
Hang your nourishment! What I want
is something to eat.-Judy.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

JOHN A.. CREIGHTON. ....... President
.. w. sTAPLETON......VI Vice Presieent
T.. II. ...........s....Cashie1
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Corner Main and Park Streets. Butte.
Under State Supervision and Jurisdiction
Interest Paid on Deposits.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Sells exchange available In all this
Europe. Collections promptly ATTENDED
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

500 sets OF teeth SO. DR.. WIKI.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
State Savings Bank

PAD IN CAPITAL >.............. $106.003
Surplus and Undivided Irohts.... 60.0o4
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

D1RECTORS-J. A. Creighton. Omaha:
q. W. Stapleton. A. III. Barrel. e. d
Leavitt. s. v. Kemper. Z. N. Hodgens.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

WELL.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-03-16
PA AND FREDDIE ABOARD.
An Exciting Time For which There
Was Really No Occasion.


Was Really No Occasion.
AS passenger train on the Hannibal
was pulling oct tall cOuntryman, in
cUmbered with four Eundles, scythe
suath, al AK handle, bas OF bananas
and q small boy, came out cf the depot
ard began to take his bearings Up and
down the tracks his gaze wandered, up
and down the long lines Of coaches
drawn up under tla sheds, and at last,
as the rear coach was passing him, he
caught sight Of the moving train.
Come on, Freddie! Thar she Gocsr
he yelled and began to transfer some of
his belongings from his right hand to
his left as he ran Freddie made an
amazing record for one whose legs were
so short, and they were soon beside the
steps cn the rear end OF the last coach
There was a man standing Oh tho plat
form.
Hay, stop 'er, stop 'er!" cried Fred,
dies pa. "Put On that ar wind brake,
misterl Pull that ar rope up over your
head and make 'er atopH
But tie man only reached down and
caught Freddie, who was leaping and
swinging and dragging by turns i'll his
vain elfOrts to make his short legs
stretch far enough to get his feet on the
lower step. Pa held cn to him with one
hand and the man en- the platform
finally succeeded in drawing him up.
Pa slung the banana bag after Linn. 1t
slid on across the platform and went
overheard OIL the other side. Pa made a
leap for the steps, dropped bundle and
stopped to pick it up. The recovery OF
the bundle took bat second bat the
train was getting we'll under way ana
was a tails length ahead when he be
gan the chase again One Wild spurt,
with his coattails standing out behind
him, reckless leap, and pa, too, was
aboard, but bundle containing an un-
dershirt had been lost in the tussle.
An employee Of the depot picked the
bundle up, and section man who hap
pened by appropriated the bananas to
his own refreshment. The crowd that
had breathlessly awaited the result CT
the race melted away, and the depot at
tendants, who had been preparing to
pick xEith zatIoxsas'v went nn0ut
their duties.
Half an hour later a very angry man
came prancing down the depot platform.
He was holding a small boy by one
hand, and the ends of an AK handle and
scythe snath protruded from under his
arm.
1t was pa. He approached depot
official and said:
"Why didn't you tell me that WASH t
the Wabash? l wanted the Wabash; ;
that's what wanted. F"
The official tenderly handed pa his
new uudershirt and replied in the soft
tones that soothe the ruffled soul:
81 believe you forgot to ask me. -
Kansas City Times.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-03-16
WE'RE BIG ENOUGH.
Eut the Sheep Had Detects Painfully
Apparent.

This is a true story about we'll
known western merchan;.
-ILg1rr1I made his-M0ney il dry goods.
bot all tI,s,+e,' -ryy's!55s, Rangfhon ho vas
outwartiIS acrctts5 ---ss.Ldstic'; end
counter EgTaralg h5ziI.,.- -. :. ITO CO.
country sounds and scenes of his early
boyhcod and thought with pleasure Of
the time VIXEN he Coald retire from
active business and go out and run
farm for himself.
He was nearly 20 years old when the
time came. but it did come, and he
bought large old farm we'll ont in the
country and moved himself aid his
family Oh TO it.
With a dim idea that he might not
know as much about crops and cows as
about muslin and silk he hired farmer
to come and help him out, but never
theless he had not been head Of large
establishment for years for nothing
be wanted to have his say, and what
was more, his way, about everything,
and he had it.
Especially in the matter Of sheep; he
was determined to have flock Of sheep,
and also determined to buy them him
self. Nothing the farmer could say
would turn him from his course, and
SO in due time he started ont alone and
returned jubilant He lad bought such a
fine fi0ck-J0 Of the best and biggest
sheep yGu ever saw; guessed he could
buy good sheep he knew a good bit OF
wool even if it did happen to be III the
raw, and so on until the farmers fears
were aIlayed and his professional curios-
ity aroused to see those wonderful sheep.
He saw them. They came the next day,
under charge of hired drovers, who de-
livered them over with many grin,
and then fastened away beyond the
reach of that farmers wrath, for every
one of these great, beautiful sheep was
nothing but worthless old ram.
For once the farmer was loud in his
remarks, and the owner was silent.
Since then he gives out that he has IRE.
tired from the active business Of the
farm" But one thing is noticeable-he
hasn't a single wool growing animal
"a. ,.1e place. Cleveland Plain Dealc"
Doubted HfEl.
He-Give me one kiss that ! may
cherish it forever
She-Is that all you can say in proof
Of your Ioye---thGt if Kiss you you
won't give it itawdy?-Indianapoiis Jour-
nal
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-03-16
INSISTED ON PAYING.
4 Man Who Wouldn't Accept Legal
Advice For Nothing.

A Man Who Wouldn't Accept Legal
Advice For Nothing.
The other day an old fellow slouched
into Attorney Oscar Kabn's office, on
Legal row, and introduced himself as
Mr.. Smith, Jones, Brown, or something,
of a neighboring county. He said he
wanted to consult lawyer and was ac
corded a seat aud one Of the attorneys
sweetest smiles
He then explained that while he was
away from home the sheriff or some
deputy had attached bis wife's sewing
machine ard bureau for taxes He did
not propose to tolerate sEoh imposition,
he declared.
"What is the amount Of taxes?" i'll
quired the lawyer.
"Lemms soe-$1. 28, was tho reply
The lawyer could net conceal a smile,
but hastened to say: "Well, MIR. Smith,
if you want my advice, it is to 20 back
and settle that small amount. 1t hooks
like the easiest and best way out of it. !"
The old fellow thought moment
and replied that he believed he would.
Answering, he asked, "Eow much 90 l
owe you?"
sob, nothing, sir. - was tho reply
IL won't charge you anything for lit
tie advice like that.
"Put | al!us pays fer whut / git and
want ter pay yer jcs' Tie same. 4"
"Oh, that's all right; come in again
some time when you need advice on
something more important, and we'll
square it then"
Nav, want ter pay it now. Jes'
saueal out. Ef it's 20 cents, I'll pay it.
Ef ye want so, there it isl" And Re
threw down a half dollar and left
Paducah (Kyl Sun
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-03-16
"'E'hc Die Is Cast"

1t was in voice strangely calm that
he uttered the words and even the
most careful observer would have failed
to detect III the smooth, even tones the
faintest note of hopelessross or despair
Yet he was no fatalist locking for
ward philosophioally to the fullIllment
of destiny, no superstitious believer IN
the irrevocabIe.
No, he was simply an assistant III
firm Of statiCncrs,
1.-The die is cast he said, "bnt it
will be another day before we can fin
ish the printing.
And the customer, who had ordered
a ream of addressed note paper, said
very well, he'd call i'll again tomorrow
Ally Sloper
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-03-16
A Dad Bargain.

Irate Customer-That chair you sold
me month ago is perfect swindle!
Auctioneer-Hows so, madam?
Irate Customer-The covering has
begun to wear already in places and
shows the springs
Auctioneer with gentle Depreciation
All, but ny dear madam, don t you
remember that particularly mentioned
the fact that those fine springs would
CutlaSt the chair?-Boston Globe.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-03-16
Defined.

There is boy now in an academic
grade at the POLY" who, because of
his acumen, will probably become el
ther lawyer or a newspaper man Al
the close of lesson i'll grammar a few
days since the teacher was explaining
the new work for the next day, study
of word forms i'll gender Turning to
this boy, he said, Now. what would
you call the feminine of stag%'
Like fash came the reply IAN aft
ernoon tea. brooklyn Life