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Pertinent and Peculiar.

Olympia shipped last week nearly $4,000
pounds of prunes to Omaha.
Calendars of burnt leather, mounted in
silver or gilt, are both new and pretty.
Small pocket diaries of snake skin, with
silver mountings. are the latest, and make
a handsome birthday gift.
Writing sets in all the different bright
shades of leather come to match the COL
oring of milady's room in her desk fur
nishng.
Trunks for the skirts and waists, to be
hung up wardrobe fashion, will be a boon
on account of their convenience, and the
fact that they avoid crushing.
You may have a choice of red blue,
green, white or back leather case for
your French travelling clock these days.
whereas a few years ago only black could
be obtained
Philadelphia is striving for "perma-
nent' orchestra, with Walter Damrosch
as its leader.
The new musical directory of New York
contains the names of over $4,000 profess
sional musicians.
About 81, 500 has been subscribed toward
the List statue at Weimar and COM
petition for the best design will soon be
opened.
II is told of Hasse the most popular
dramatic composer of the 18th century.
whose 200th birthday is to be celebrated
in Dresden in May, that after hearing
Mozart's youthful work, 'Ascanio in
Alba" he exclaimed. this boy will throw
us all in the shade"
England is the true home of the music
festival and there it fiourishes on a scale
unknown in other countries. Managers OF
American festivals may read with envy
that the net profits of the recent Leeds
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changd masters. A broad-minded man,
acquainted with the prevailing condi-
tions. trusted by the Cubans, is needed
in order that the relations between the
Cuban people and this country may
continue to be friendly. A statesman
and a man of brain is needed for the
position of military governor. Brooke
ton for others. He is too small man
for the place and the sooner General
Lee is substituted for him the better
will it be for the administration as well
as for this country.
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Pettigrew's Bill.

~ liver has had no inning in the
~ session of congress which will
~ close before the end of this week.
The only attempt that has been made
during the entire session towards f1nan-
cial legislation has been the bill intro
duced by Senator Pettigrew. That bill
provides for the coinage of the Ameri-
can product of silver only and taxes
foreign silver There is also a provis-
ion that silver certificates shall be used
to the amount of silver bullion on de-
post, and that they may be redeemed
in either gold or silver according to the
amount of each on hand. 1t is difficult
to see why such legislation should Of
fend the most rabid goldbug, but the
fact is that an unreasonfng prejudice
has been aroused in the East against
silver and any legislation, however jus.
and however harmless to the interests
of the goldbugs, at once excites strenu-
Gus opposition.
AS nothing has been done for silver
during the present session, so moth
ing may be expected from the next
congress when both houses will be re-
publican. Still, it may confidently be
expected that within the next year
there will be slight increase in the
price offered for silver. This will be on
account of the probable demand for sill
Yer in the new colonies. If the require
ment be made that silver dollars be
used in Porto Rico and the Hawaiian
islands. and if the American dollars
are introduced as rapidly as possible
into Cuba and the Philippine islands,
the time will soon come when the coin
age of silver dollars will have to be
resumed. When the surplus of silver bull
lion now in the treasury is used up the
price of silver may advance to a figure
which will make the mining Of silver
once more profitable in some of the sill
yer camps. In Montana, however
where the silver ore is Of very low
grade silver mining to any large ex-
tent is not likely to be resumed until
"a democratic president is elected, sup
ported by silver majorities in both
houses
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Famine in Russia.
~ HE terrible famine in Russia has
melted the government of that

~ HE terrible famine in Russia has
melted the government Of that
country to take measures for
the advancement of agricultural edu-
cation among the peasantry. The soil
OF Russia is very fertile but it's crops
are usually inferior and this is be-
lieved to be owing to primitive methods
and lack of knowledge of modern farm
ing
1t has been decided to found chairs of
agriculture in the universities and to
open special institutes for instruction
in scientific farming in various parts of
the. country There will be also agri
cultural schools for the direct teaching
OF the peasantry. There will be a free
course of two years. Young men who
pass successfully through the lower
grades will be relieved from some of
the military duties now exacted of all.
Public lands will be set apart for ex
periments in farming, gardening. cat
tie raising and the like and there will
be shops established for the manufac-
ture and repair of agriculture imple-
ments.
Meanwhile thousands of people in
some districts of Russia are starving for
want Of wheat and some towns have
been nearly swept out of existence by
the famine typhus. The car has di-
verified thirty-five million roubles from
the war budget to help the suffering,
but that is not enough to accomplish
much. The district most affected is in
southeastern Russia. Only of recent
years have these provinces been re-
claimed from the steppes by means of
careful irrigation and the planting of
trees. The dry winds from Persia and
the southeast sweep over the plains and
frequent droughts occur When the
drought comes the peasant sits patient
ly and waits until it is all over or un-
til death comes.
Certainly the action of the Russian
government in taking measures to
teach the peasants something of scien-
tific agriculture is to be commended
but 1t will necessarily be many years
before any good results will be obtained
therefrOm
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1T is evident that the administration
other blunder made by it for politi-
cal reasons. The general expectation
was that General Fitzhugh Lee would
he made military governor of Cuba. Be-
yond all question he is the one man
eminently fitted for that position. Dur
ing his service as consul general he be-
came thoroughly acquainted with the
Cuban people. He understands them
and they like him and regard him as
friend. The Cubans are certainly not
difficult people to handle if they are
handled the proper way.
But Fitzhugh Lee is a democrat, and
one who carries such an element of
strength on account of his popularity
that he has been regarded by this ad-
administration as a dangerous presiden-
nial possibility. So instead of appoint
ing General Lee the administration ap-
pointed General Brooke. The latter is
undoubtedly good soldier, but that is
all that can be said in his favor. It is
his record before he was appointed
military governor and since that time
that he is constantly getting into trou-
bile. He is uniformly at cross purposes
with those Immediately under him and
me has done a great deal toward stir
ring up the antagonism Of Cubans to-
wards this government.
Brooke was first made military gov
ernor of Porto Rico and succcp led in a
short time in getting American rule
very much disliked ON that island. He
was relieved and was subsequently
made military governor of Cuba. He is
almost wholly to blame for the antag-
onism which has been aroused among
Cubans towards this country.
By his splendid services as consul
general during the trying times jus:
preceding the war with Spain Lee had
earned the honor of appointment as
military governor. But by choosing fol
the position man utterly unsuited for
1t. although politically friend of the
administration. the government loses
most of all. The situation in Cuba is
peculiar. For years the Cubans fought
for freedom. They are now in doubt
whether they have really achieved
their independence or have merely ex-
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again and passed resolutions condemn
ing the closing of the India minis to
silver, thereby raising the true rupee
of eleven pence gold to E. false rupee of
sixteen pence gold. a covert act Ct eX-
acting forty-five per cent more taxa
tion from the Indians. and AZ the same
time increasing the salaries ii officials
and other government payments to the
same extent"
Dadabhai Maoroji. in statement
made before the British-India currency
committee last October, said that
there are two midas, one prosperous
and the other poverty-stricken. The
prosperous India is the India of the
British and other foreigners. They
carry away enormous wealth to their
own country. To them India is rich and
prosperous. The second India is the
India of the Indians. bled and extorted
in every way of their wealth, their ter
vices their land and all resources, gov
erned by the arbitrary law and argu-
ment of force, the poorest country in
the world after $50 years of British
rule
So the much talked of white mans
burden" becomes in some cases bur
den for the brown man rather than for
the white man.
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Pointed Paragraphs.

Want of tact is an ncurable infirmity
Some people can boiate II they can't be
president
bad setting.
The more bread the baker makes the
more he kneads.
Weather strips will soon be classed as
long felt wants
Cheap jewelry beats the more expensive
kind all hollow
Some people put on airs while others
merely whistle them
A tailor is sometimes able to mend ev-
erything but his ways,
Some people spend the most of their
time in nursing luminosity.
The early milkman catches glimpse of
woman's true compc Nion.
The gathering together of the dancing
flakes results in SNOWFALL.
listers and roll-top desks hide a great
many things from the public
Some men can't understand why the
fool-keller doesn't call next door.
Secret societies evidently originated in
Egypt. Mummies the word there.
No man who ignores small things ever
accompishes any very great ones.
Some peoples prospects are SO fine that
it is almost Impossible to find them.
The original settler in Tennessee was
probably the first man who tennis saw.
1t isn't vanity that makes man go out
between the acts and look in the glass.
1t must be hard on the fingers of the
jolly mute who Is always cracking jokes.
The man who always says exactly what
he means is more numerous than popular.
A few men .'think. others guess
some fancy" while still others "reck-
on"
The moth is not society favorite, even
if it does frequently appear in a dress
suit.
According to the old saw, every dog has
his day. So has every saint, for that
matter
The end of one mans failure is oft
times the beginning of another mans
success.
1t always makes a man feel cheap to
be caught looking at photograph of
himself
Social etiquette doesn't interest the man
who is wearing porous plaster on a hot
day.
An act of charity pushes a man further
along on the road to glory than an act
OF heroisin.
Many man who has the sand to pro-
pose to girl lacks the necessary rocks
to get married on.
It's pretty hard to make schoolboy
believe in an all-wise Providence when 1t
rains on a holiday.
When woman has troubles she con-
fides in a physician. When a man has
troubles he consults a lawyer.
Baseball players as a rule are not su-
perstitious, but most of them believe that
home run in time saves the nine.
There are times when the average boy
would like to assume the role of father
to the man for few brief moments.
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Prominent People.

Shubert Nichols. a blind man. has just
reached Seattle after a 2,SOO-mi.e journey
from the Nlondike regions. He was ac-
companied by two miners.
Governor Roosevelt will be the guest of
honor at the Appomattox day dinner Of
the Hamilton club of Chicago, on April
s. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Gen. Lew Wal
lace and Senator Lodge have also been
invited.
Archie Hogarth, who is to command
Sir Thomas Lipton's American cup chal-
lenger Shamrock, is a West of Scotland
man, residing at Port Bannatyne, Butte,
and Is still less than 40 years old. His
first command of note was the ten-rater
Yvonne in 1S90-91. He made a name for
himself in the Isolde, which was brought
out for Peter Donaldson in 1895. winning
1877 prizes of the value of G4,217 in fonr
seasons.
By the will of Washington G. Benedict
of Boston his estate of about 100000 is to
be held in trust, $500 of the annual in
come to be paid to his widow and the re-
mainder to be divided between three
churches in Boston and the branch of the
Salvation army in that city. On the death
of his widow his three sons will inherit
a part of the estate, and the remainder
will go to the beneficiary churches and
the Salvation army.
The late Congressman Dingley's con-
gressional district. the Second Maine, of
which he was a native, was also the orig
inal home of three other congressman
who attended his funeral. They We're
Representatives Alexander of New York.
Stevens of Minnesota and Boutelle of
Maine. 1t also produced Franklin Sim
mons the sculptor; ex-Postmaster Cen
eral Horatio King, Ex-Governor Perham,
the Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott, ]. S. c. Alb
bolt. the historian; Secretary Long, EN-
ma Eames, Nine. Nordica and Annie
Louise Cary and the Washburn family.
Quite an impromptu reception was ac-
corded John Sherman when he appeared
on the floor of the senate few days
ago. While a number of senators crowd
ed around the venerable Ohioan. Mark
Hanna came over. Mr.. Sherman shook
hands with the republican boss, but
there was nothing of cordially in his
greeting, and an embarrassing silence fell
on the entire party. The situation was
becoming unbearably strained when an
other senator made haphazard remark
to Mr. Sherman This broke the ice and
Hanna beat a rather undignlhed retreat
=
The marriage of Nine Patti to Baron
Cederstrom came to n painful pause wher
about half completed, it seems, because
the marriage license had been left al
Craig-y-Nos castle, instead of being taker
| along to Brecon, where the ceremony took
| place. After the performance of the &c
| cesiastical rites the bridal party Wen
| into the sacristy to discharge certain for
malties before the registrar. He refused
to finish the marriage without the license
until finally persuaded. after the bride
had wept in vain, by Lady Faudel-Philips
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1899.
TWENTY PAGES.
Help 1t Along.

III movement which should have the
warm support of all citizens has
| \ been started in Butte. Its OBJ
9ect Is to raise fund for the purchase
of additional supplies and a few luxur-
les for the Butte companies now fight
ing at Manila. Most of the states whose
volunteers are in the Philippines have
appropriated sums of money for resi-
mental funds. The Montana legislature
has not done this, and as only a few
days remain of the session it is not
likely that it will be DONE Most of the
Montana companies were remembered
at Christmas time by holiday boxes
sent from their homes but the Butte
companies, B, F and G, are among
those which We're neglected
The loss in killed and wounded has
been larger proportionately in the Mon
tana regiment than in any other regi-
ment in the Philippines. This shows
that the boys are an honor to the state.
1t should be shown that the state ap-
preciates them.
committee will start out in Butte
tomorrow to solicit contributions from
citizens generally for the fund. The
movement has been started through
the efforts of Lieutenant B. f. Calkins,
who recently returned from the Philip
pines, and is thoroughly enlisted in the
work of giving his comrades few COM
forts while they are marks for Filipino
sharpshooters The money raised will
bank of Butte, which will transmit the
funds free of charge. The money will
be used solely for the Butte COM
panies.
1t would be we'll if similar relief
movements We're started in behalf of
all the Montana companies.
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Flouted Alexander Dumas.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
A capital story is told by gentleman
who visited the Chateau diff. A good
woman showed party the decaying
dungeons in which Able Faria and Ed
mond Dantes We're immured and the
visitors sazed at these ruins medita-
lively. 1T seems to me- said the mar
rator of the incident, that these cells
are very near to one another, and Alex
ander Dumas describes them as being
farther apart" oh, indeed said the
woman with a contemptuous look,
when I am talking history, this gen.
tleman quotes a novelist"
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Current Comment.
Three of n Kind.
ON the Minneapolis Tribune.

From the Minneapolis Tribune.
General Otis, the army hero of Manila,
is in his 6lst year. He is not a West
Pointer, but entered the army from civil
life. 1t is rather singular that the three
generals who have been given most prom
inent commands since the outbreak of the
Spanish war-Miles. Shafter and Otis-are
not graduates of the military academy.
In the navy 1t is just the reverse. All
the men who have achieved distinction in
that branch of the service are graduates
of the naval academy.
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SenatOrships ut Auction,

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
So long as the senatorshps are to be
sold the state should manage the auctions
and pocket the proceeds. If the sales
should be properly advertised there might
be such active bidding that a better price
would be obtained than where the offices
are disposed of in a private way. Bust
ness is business, is it not?
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Music That Comes High.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
There Is class much affected by the
question as to who is going to haul down
the stars and stripes at Manila. This is
the sentimental feature of the business.
The heavy hand of taxation has not fall
en- with all the force that is in store for
the people. There is practical trouble
ahead. Before we allow our enthusiasm
to run away with US. let us remember
that the fiddler is to pay, and that he is
high-priced musician.
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festival were 100000, Of which 10000 was
given to Leeds charities, while the rest
was added to the already large reserve
fund. The total income was S57,450, the
largest in the history Of the festivals.
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Takes a Back Seat.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
1t is cause for surprise and chagrin to
the British to learn that English railroad
managers are purchasing locomotives in
the United States. A few years ago the
British makers were confident they had
the business for all time.
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Unanimously Approyed,

From the St. Louis Republic.
Perhaps the only question on which the
American people have been completely
unanimous since the Declaration of indie
pendence was the bestoWal of the title of
admiral on Dewey.
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Aggie'S Reliable Ally.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
The Filipinos. armed or unarmed. are
comparatively harmless. but they have a
brand of climate that is expected to get
in its deadly work from now on.
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Shubert Nichols. a blind man, has just
reached Seattle after a 2SOO-mi.e journey
from the klondike regions. He was ac-
companied by two miners.
The Monticellonian., 1899-08-18
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
So Says tie Leader of the Cleveland CO., street Railway Strikers
 The Boycott.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 15.-The fifth week of the second strike of the em- Pleyees of the Cleveland Electric street railway has opened. The re- ward of the company of 5000 for in- formation leading to arrest and con vietion of persons guilty of placing ex- plosiveS on the street car tracks has resulted in active work by scores of detectives. The company regards the strike as ended, but President Bryan saNa ii has just begun.
 We are just getting down to busi. ness, says Bryan. and people may expect long struggle unless the com panN Surrenders."
 The boycott is still in force, but its effect is weakening under the strong influence now directed against it.
The Monticellonian., 1899-08-18
THE MARKET REPORT.
TUESDAY. Aug. Ia.
Grain and Provisions.

St Louis Flour Patents, B. S56t3 5l: other grades. B. 75dS 20. Wheat-No ? red. 71d72c Coru-NO. mixed 32c, Oat. - Nc. . 2li2422c Hay-Prairie. S4 506pS 0N. timothy tnewl. s7 .5oG10 00. choice clover. SSDeui0.00. Butter = Creamery l7m1qc dairy. 1i4lsc. Eggs-Fresh l02c Lard = Prime steam. 5l0 Pork-New Mess, 800. Bacon-C1ear rib 5Ise Wool-Tub- 20a26lac; Missouri and Illinois medium combns. l9s.c. clothing. l9i.c. other graoes, i3d19e.
 Chicago-Closing quotations: Wheat 77lse Corn-August. 3lc. September. S0s, ,S. December. 2Sssc: May 39ss lf29isc Oats August. 20iaei September l9s4e: Decem- Der, l93sc; May. 21ssc Pork-August. Ss.31; September. SS.3t. October sS.S5 Do cember, S.i0 January, s. .42ie. I.ard-Au- gust, 4 20; September. S2Oq5.22i2; Octo- ber, $5. .25u5.2Ii2 December. $5. S2i2; JapU- ary. sa. i0HS. 42la. Ribs-August. Nn2ts September. s5 05 October. s5.0f gas 10; Jan uary S4 go
The Monticellonian., 1899-08-18
THE WEST INDIA HURRICANE
The Destruction of Human Life and Property on the Island
 of Gundnloupe.

New York. Aug. lo. X dispatch 70 the Herald from rointe-a-Pitre, Qua sIalouls,. saNs:
 In Grand Terre 50 deaths and 2s0 in- jured have been reported thus far. TEr towns of Le Monle Port Louis and St. Francois are devastated.
 poiute-a-Pitrc is greatly damaged. the estimated loss being $3.00O,000. Six steamers and 22 schooners were sunk or damaged beyond repair. -A great number of fishing craft were lost.
 Communication with the interior is impossible. but courier reports reveal flightful damage. The coffee and cocoa crops are runied, and the sugar eene is practically destroyed.
 The whole of DeSirade island was devastated. The people are starving and without shelter.