Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-21

Oxford. a correspondent of the Chicago
Post says: One, a young prince, was q
fascinating little creature whose strong
English accent seemed strangely out of
place with his almond shaped eyes and
stiff black hair. He is the nephew of the
king of Siam. and Is to be an ambassa-
dor, though he ingeniously admits thai
he would prefer to be a policeman. He
was an interesting study, with his inn
penetrable Oriental features and his con-
Trajectory esprit and animation. Dressed
in the height of English fashion, playing
cricket and riding a wheel. it seemed hi
zarre and like a comic opera to know
that he would eventually go back to his
native land to wear the picturesque toys
of his native country and presumably
marry some dainty Siamese princess"
Alderman Green, the new lord mayor
of London. is most proud of the fact that
he helped largely to give London the
Tower Bridge. AS chairman of the
bridge house committee. he had charge
OF the report which led to the building of
the finest bridge which has ever been
thrown across the Thames. HI took an
active part. too. in passing the pro-
posal for the electric lighting of the city.
Senior Alvarez Calderon, the new PERU
Wan minister. has placed two sons and
two nephews as students at the Mary
and Agricultural college. at Hyattville.
They will take the regular course in agri-
culture and mechanics.
Joseph Arch. the late member of par
lament. who is to retire. began his ca
reer by frightening birds off the crops at
fn1rrpanra n Hov :In 1879 COWS Tho
King, "Mr. Arch founded the National
Agricultural Laborers' union. on the back
OF which, thirteen years later. he rode
into parliament. He "a always a ia
miliar and friendly figure there. Every
body liked Joseph Arch, who a won his
way from the bottom to the top without
hurting anybody's feeling or doing any,
thing mean. 1t is one of the curiosities
Of politics that an agricultural laborer
should represent his future king in par
lament, and it is equally curious. per-
haps. hat the boy. whose mother was a
servant at Warwick Castle, should have
his Life edited and prefaced by the
Countess of Warwick. Mr.. Arch will be
missed in politics, but he will be happy
as he sits in his cottage in remembering
that thousands of lives are happier to-
day because Of his early struggles"
One Of the stories that the late General
John NJ. Palmer was fond of telling re-
lated to an aged g~entlewoman bearing
the same name as himself. who lived
somewhere down on the eastern shore of
Virginia. in the county where General
Palmer's grandfather was born. One Of
the Generals Washington friends hap
pened to meet the old lady down there,
and aSka1 har If Sha yrac mot a LinS-
woman of his. She did not know, but
thought perhaps she might be. The gen.
tleman was of Virginian descent, was he
not? And in the United States senate ?
Yes, she was quite sure he was a kins-
man. WAS he in the army" she asked.
Yes" answered the senator's friend,
he was In the army, and a general"
The old lady was positive he was a rela-
ton. But" went or the friend, "he was
a general in the Union army" The old
lady's face fell, but she rallied bravely.
''Well," she said, "you know there's a
black sheep in every family
Noting a recent statement in the
Springfield Republican that Oxford and
Cambridge used to be on the side of the
classes against the masses, Professor
Goodwin Smith says: This indictment
is too true. But what was the cause?
The cause was that till the middle of the
century just closing Oxford and Cam
bridge were still governed by medieval
statutes, and We're in complete thraldom
to the clergy of the Anglican State
church. Less than half a century ago
they were emancipated bp university re-
form acts, and they are now, I think.
showing clearly enough that culture.
though not likely to be revolutionary or
incendiary. is very much the reverse Of
hostile to liberty, freedom of thought and
| progress. Nor do I believe that you will
find in them any tendency to the aristo-
cratic exclusiveness of which, as a char
acteristic of men bred at universities
your editorial complains"
Professor Adolf Harnack, the rector of
the University of Berlin, takes this view
of missions: Protection should neither
be asked by missionaries nor given to
them in certain lands. 1t must b. rec
ognized that missionaries give up their
rights as subjects of their own countries.
The missionary ought not to go to re-
gions where he feels he cannot remain
during times. of persecution. If the
course of political events makes the
prosecution of missionary work impos-
sible, the missionaries must withdraw,
even if they lose all they had gained.
State churches as such should never en-
gage in missionary enterprise. This
should be a private undertaking. Mis-
sions should leave no doubt in the mind
of the Chinese that they are a purely
spiritual power. They should never be
recognized as identified with worldly
power, They should make it clear thai
they do not represent the interests nj
Europeans OF Americans, but the inter.
ests Of the natives"
Through Count Perigort
Emperor William has promised $40, Oy
for prizes to be distributed at the race.
of the Paris Automobile club in 1901.