Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-13

nal.
Three men sat over the ashes of a fire
in the gray light Of a winters dawn. On
the table behind them We're many empty
bottles and a couple of packs of cards.
AS they sat in silence a rat scurried
across the hearth into the darkness be-
yond. The three men shifted their feet
and looked at each other uneasily. After
a long pause the man in the middle spoke.
Il know what you fellers are thinkin',"
he said, you think I saw a rat. I didn't"
london Chronicle.
Fuzzy Henpeck never seems to have
any decided views.
Wuzzy-That's where you are mistak-
en-. All his views are decided by his
wife. ,
Germany, too, is having it's ladies"
and gentlemen question at the present
moment. A controversy has arisen with
regard to the styles which should be
adopted in addressing married women.
There are, in the language of fatherland,
four names whereby that delightful class
may be acknowledgements (consort),
gatlin (spouse), frau (lady), and webb
(wife.) To save the not infrequent dis
putes and ~heartburnings which arise
from Impotence and ignorance in the use
of any one of these terms, 1t is now pro-
posed that one shall be officially allotted
to each Of the recognized gradations of
the scale social" In this manner, a
generals wife shall be known as his
"consort," she Of an official Of the next
lower grade shall be that happy persons
Spouse" the middle-class partner be-
comes her husbands lady" and the
w~orkingman's helpmate is simply his
Observation-Disclosures Press.
,,rrl. $500 lT. =.
planned to hold soon a Dewey celebration
in the town of Gilsum, N. H., which was
the home of the ancestors of Admiral
George Dewey. The Admirals great
great-grandfather, Ebenezer Dewey, and
his grandfather, Ebenezer Dewey, jr.,
lived there between the years 1865 and
1885. They were among the prominent
and patriotic citizens. The town history
mentions the family as 'one of more re-
finement and culture han was usual in
those times 1t has been proposed that
a monument Of rocks be built by citizens
Of the town on the day of the celebration
on the lot formerly occupied as the Dew
ey homo, which long ago disappeared, the
monument to bear the single word
Dewey"
Bill speer wanted to go into Blanco's
palace at Havana, but he found himself
unable to get a pass. He was standing
at the gaze talking to the lieutenant in
charge of the guard, when a major of the
Regular Army stepped up, and taking
hold of Bills Scottish Rite watchcharm,
said: you're pretty we'll along, aren't
your Bill said he was, and then the
major, who was a thirty-third degree Ma
son, told the lieutenant to send Bill with
a guard all over the palace. Bill" got
into the throne room and sat on the
throne ard put a gold crown on his head.
He wanted to steal the crown, but the
guide said it really wouldn't do.-Kan-
saS City Journal.
The COrean Minister in WASHINGTON,
Chin Pom Ye, visited Salem, Va, a few
days ago to enter his son, Chong Xxi Ye,
as a student at roanoke College. Cor
cans have been attending this institution
for five years, one of whom took the de-
gree of A. b., there last June. Young Ye
is not the first sen of a minister from the
Orient, however, to attend Roanoke, as
the son of M~unemitsu, Minister from jap
an, was q student there some years ago,
With representatives from seven foreign
countries, three Indian tribes and twenty-
five states in the last ten years, and with
visits from four Corean, three Chinese
and three Japanese officials and four SUD-
~erintendents of education for the Choctaw
Indians, Roanoke may justly claim to be
a sort of cosmopolitan institution.
Now that | think of it," said the pale
raced young soldier, who had lust re-
turned from Santiago, sit must have been
the embalmed meat that brought on this
coffin fit"
And he continued to cough.-Chicago
Tribune.
Editor-Why don you finish that
obituary? ~
Reporter-It is finished.
Edltor-1t is, Ell? Then how is it I can't
ma in it that ''the services
We're solemn and impressive ?"-Roxburv
Gazette.
a writer in The English Church Gazette
says: Most of the manuscripts I have
received from clerics have been novels.
pure and undiluted novels, which did not
make even the p%retense of being religious.
l remember one case. The author had a
reputation for exact orthodoxy, and he
was and is to my knowledge a cleric of
extreme propriety of life. To my sur
prise, his lucubration advocated not big
amy, nor ~polygamy, but trigamy, and he
argued his case with a lucidity and
power that astoniShed me. Possibly on
account of their position the problem of
the sexes specially appeals to clerical
nOvel-writers, and they are apt to treat
it with a plainness very useful to the
scientist, but at which publishers shud-
der"
PRESIDENT AS ELEVATOR BOY.