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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-10

questioning the Regularity" of the pro-
ceedings against him, ever though the
be of a purely circumstantial
but he is quick to note the un-
warranted severity of the courts decree
when some midnight pistol-manipulahng
marauder makes a plea for liberty. i,
Men Ill Joseph Hurst. who have
well among their fellows, prior to
their arrest for murder, have been hustled
off into eternity. with a prayer for mercy
on their lips and a plea for time to prove
their innocence staring brutal authority
in the face. In such cases, where circum-
stantial evidence has wrapped its deadly
coils around the life of a suspected man.,
the governor permits the law to take Its
course. But when some miserable high
wayman pleads severity of sentence he
finds a pardon at the other end of his
prayer. Governor Smith may be able to
adjust his course of procedure to the OPP
erations of his own conscience, but if con-
sistency be a jewel, the g~ubernatorial
office is shy on jewelry.
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retirement, provided he wishes to retrieve
fore the world. Another feudal light,
however, involving the political methods
with which each wing of the democracy
has disgraced the state, will be looked
upon with horror By the citizens Of Mon
tana: yet it may prove to be the finale
that will ring down the curtain on public
debauchery and crime.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-10
or herd men at the various primar-

wards, or herd men at the various primar-
les!
1t was only the %villainous republicans
who turned out enmasse to help Mr.. Clark
lay the foundations for the election of a
democratic legislature, to prevent he
election of a republican senators!
For two years the Standard has held it's
peace, trying to think out some explana-
ton as to why it all happened as it did;
and at last it realizes the truth of the old
adage: Everything comes to him who
waits"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-10
A FAR-SICHTED EMPRESS.

The empress dowager of China believes
in letting we'll enough alone.
In ordering the execution of two re-
formers she has served notice on the
world that she does not care to include
in the assets of the yellow empire any
modern innovation.
AS old Polonius might put it, there is
method in her madness. Doubtless the
aged empress dowager is controlled less
by her %prejudices tina by her fears.
h realizes, as does every fa%r-sighted
native of China. hat the Introduction of
modern ideas into that country would
breed discord and create contentious that
would shake the empire to its founda-
tions.
Centuries of groove-governed ideas
have filtered through the Chinese mind,
not a cerebral tissue has for ages
been subjected to the strain of origi-
nality.
habit the celestial kingdom suddenly
confronted with pictures of the worlds
progress, and a reasonable percentage of
the queue-wearers caught in the tidal
wave of modern thought. the mental
friction in China between the advocates
Of the old and the disciples of the new
would be something fearful to contem-
plate.
It has required centuries for the eau
casian race to adapt itself to the gradual
growth of modern ideas, yet enthusiast
stereotyped civilization of the Chinese a
new system of thought and action within
the limits of a decade.
The empress dowager realizes that the
pressure of the world is on the portals
of China, and that the commercial activi-
ties that would pre-empt her territory
and control her output of products. are
but the fore-runners of the so-called CIV
ilizing processes which the nations of the
earth would seek to inject into the veins
Of her people.
4AC Nul1lGSC 1IdSScS dIC IN llpS 1OI
the innovations to which the world
would introduce them.
The conservatism of centuries can be
mellowed into an appreciation of a new
order of things only by long years of
, careful nursing at the breast of civiliza-
ton.
The powers behind the Chinese throne
do not intend to take chances on what
might happen in their domains were the
golden threads of a fixed conservatism
broken by the work Of modern re-
formers.
When the empress dowager surveys
history and notes the effect Of civiliza-
ton upon those races which have been
suddenly introduced to it's conceded de-
lights, who can doubt the sagacity If
the frigid dam in ordering the execu-
ton of the reformers?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-10
CLARK W/LL BE UNSEA7ED.

Today the senate committee on privil-
eyes and elections reported unanimously
in favor Of depriving Senator Clark of his
seat in that body. AS but one result is
likely to follow this report, when final
action is taken upon it, it is more than
likely that Mr.. Clark will at once tender
his resignation and retire from the SEN
ate.
During the long-drawn struggle over
the title in issue, the synpathies of the
people of this state ave been largely
with the defendant, familiar as they are
with the character of his enemies and
the disreputable political methods they
employ. While it was shown during the
progress of the trial that unwholesome
political way, reaching far beyond the
legitimate requirements of a campaign,
thus affording the opportunity for an un-
favorable conclusion or the part of the
committee, Montanians have not been
slow to recognize the fact that the Clark
men We're merely fighting their political
enemies with the same weapons that were
employed against them.
AS the Inter Mountain-an independent
observer of an interesting situation-has
so often put it, it was a case Of the pot
calling the kettle black. But a showing
as to the methods of Mr.. Clark's enc
mics could not be looked upon by the
committee as justifying the enormous
expenditures of money in a political way
to which the defendant confessed. The
investigation has justified every charge
laid at the doors of the anti-Clark demo-
Gratis, but the proofs of their perfidy and
dishonor does not explain away the use
of more money by the Clark men than
the legitimate demands of a campaign
would warrant.
While the verdict reflects no credit on
the aims n purposes of the anti Clark
democrats, and they can extract from the
situation nothing but the brutal elation
which a beast feels over it's fallen prey,
no n should question the motives of
the committee in seeking to rebuke the
political system which has grown up in
this state, and which has made the UNI
limited expenditure of money and politi-
cal success synonymous terms. The Mon
1anlans who have forced Mr.. Clark from
the senate ave done SO at the expense
of their own regulations, for they were
unable to show up on one side of the
democratic machine without %uncoyerine
the stenchpots OF the other side as we'll
The only advantage possessed by the
DAILY men in the investigation was the
fact hat they were not on trial and has
no seats to lose. They had nothing tc
lose but their regulations, and these the,
freely offered as a sacrifice 10 the Molocl
of hate.
The course which Mr.. Clark will pursue
is yet to be determined, insofar as publ,
information goes, but it is prob,
able that he will ask for q yindi
cation at the hands of his friends in thi!
state. This may NEAR a contest betwee,
the two factions of the democratic part,
more intense and bitter than was eve,
before known in the history of the state
That Mr.. Clark can control the demo
cratic party in Montana, with his part,
associates n friends aroused to tn,
fighting point. cannot be doubted. H
49, E>~4@ ~ 4ns,ocfAs-- ~. =.
!
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THE QUALITY or r

Yesterdays Inter Mountain contained
highway robbers will be released from
the penitentiary at Deer Lodge on the
21st instant, as the result of clemency
on the part of Governor Smith. These
highwaymen, known throughout the
state of Montana as 1.-The long and short
men, We're for a time a terror to the
the shape of a seventeen-year sentence
for invading a residence in Helena and
holding up it's inmates Clemency was
granted on the grounds that the sentence
was excessive, a few dollars in silver
| alone being taken. The fact was appa-
rently overlooked that the reason more
was no more in sight. However, it is the
fact rather than the detail that concerns
the public.
Governor Smith, in turning these ban
dts loose upon the world before their
! sentences expire, has merely followed q
long line of precedents established by
himself. His term of office has been
! characterized by the open-door policy.
AS a rule the Inter Mountain has not
seen fit to criticize exhibitions of execu-
tive mercy, for unquestionably there are
cases where the guilty are excessively
punished and where the innocent are in
carcerated for the crimes Of another. No
learn the merits of cases hastily passed
upon by the courts, n to weigh the
value of new evidence adduced as time
rolls by, than the chief executive officer
of the state. Hence, there are occasions
wherein the governor is justified in re-
versing the action of the courts, in the
interests of justice.
But in the exercise of his prerogatives
in this line there is room for his excel
lency to add consistency to the quality
of mercy. If bandits of 1.-THE long and
short men, type are to be released from
the penitentiary, on the theory that the
court erred in giving them too sever 6
sentence. is it not possible that Other
courts have erred in giving the deatf
sentence to men accused of murder an6
found guilty on circumstantial evidence
alone? Why should the governor holt
that the courts are subject to error il
trying thieves, burglars and bandits
thereby justifying executive interference,
with their DEGREES, when he invariabl.
looks upon the judiciary as infallible il
a murder trial?
A large number of convicted criminal
have been pardoned from the penitentiar
by Governor Smith. 1t being alleged i
many cases that the court erred in on
direction or another. But wheneve
; clemency is asked on behalf OF a ma
. convicted of the crime of murder, tn
governor invariably refuses to interior
, promptly assuming that judicial error
!. are impossible In a case Of that kind. HI
. excellency seems perfectly willing to Sc
, an alleged murderer hanged. withou
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-10
DOES THE TRUTH HURTs

The Anaconda Standard this morning
criticises the Inter Mountain for publish
ing a verbatim report of Mr.. Days testi-
mony before the senate committee in the
Clark case. f
The objection is not based on the allie
one, but on the fact that it is too wildly
and picturesquely accurate to be comfort
able.
The fact is, Mr.. Days testimony was
taken from the official records. without
any attempt to place classical embellish-
ments Upon any of the figures of speech
used by the founder Of the Standard.
What Mr.. Days statements may lack
in the graceful polish so characteristic of
the editorial columns of his newspaper
organ, when it is classifying the differ
ent offenses perpetrated by the Clark
men, they make up in the directness of
their aim and the infexible positively of
their purport-as it were.
In the story books one reads of h con-
fusion into which men on the witness
stand permit themselves to confuse, when
trying to unearth crime and prevent n
guilty man from escaping.
But such was not the case with Mr..
Daily in real life.
When questioned about the democratic
primaries in Butte, in 1898, when more
votes were cast in some of the precincts
thar there were male Inhabitants, Mr..
out a mathematical problem which would
have given old Euclid himself a mental
cramp.
He frankly and candidly admitted that
he didn't know anything about it.
Though the wards were colonized with
hoboes from Anaconda, sent in over MI.
Days railroad, and were herded from
precinct to precinct by Mr.. Days u b
bosses. it does not necessarily ollow
that that gentleman knew anything
about it.
How could he be expected to know,
when his political manager, Mr.. John r.
Toole, was in absolute ignorance concern
ing the fact that any primaries were held
that year in the city of Butte?
Even the Anaconda Standard itself, SO
we'll posted on many things which It
knows nothing about, never betrayed any
symptoms of information concerning the
excessive democratic vote cast at the pri-
maries aforesaid.
How, then, could Mr. DAILY be expected
to nave any inside information ina mat
ter which was of no particular interest te
him, for the carrying of those primaries
only meant the defeat of MI. Clark's sen
atorial aspirations, as Mr.. Daily so clearly
expressed it in his testimony.
Just why the Standard sees fit at this
time to essay an explanation of the pri
maries held in Butte two years ago, afte1
having. ignored the subject SO long, can b.
accounted for only on the hypothesis tina
it wants to have the matter cleared up II
time to give the purifiers a good start II
the forthcoming campaign.
Getting its cue from Mr.. Days testi
mony, the Standard is of the opinion tina
! the republicans all turned out and vote
at the democratic primaries that veal
thus giving the body polite of the m
racy an abnormally distended appearance
in the region of the waistband! 1t !
strange this wasn't thought of before!
How clear it now Is that the DAILY me
: didn't pack the caucuses, or colonize tn
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29
The MusKRA1 AT HOME.
How Ho Builds and Liyes and Masqucr.
ndes ~ Terrnpin.

ndes ~ Ierrnpin.
The muskrats have begun to build
their winter houses and put on their
winter coats. Among the waving
flags thousands of coneshaped musk.
rat houses are in course of construc.
tlon. The family habitatlon is made
of dry, coarse flags and grasses. small
pieces of water-soaked wood and small
stones, all cemented together by pc.
culiar mortar which only the muskrat
knows how to prepare by chewing clay
ana mud into n fine preparation. The
old negro hunter declares thai the &C.
mentlng is done with evenness and
precision by the Industrious little
worker by means Of Its paws Two
or three holes or leads" allow the
rats to pass out or enter below the ice.
The houses are rough on the outside
and are built from three TO five feet
high. Old hunters and close observers
of the habits of the muskrat say that
the little marsh dwellers know in ad.
vance how high the spring tides will
rise. AS verlflcaton of this claim
1t is observed that all beds In given
marsh are of the same height.
The houses below the water line
are bare, mud inside. with a floor of
sticks and grasses few feet above
the water. Upon this scaffold-liSe
floor the rats are said to lie with
their heads toward the lead" ready
at moments notice to dash out and
appear at the surface 200 yards away
in deep water. The law passed by'
the last Legislature gives added pro-
lection to these, the most popular fur
producers on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and Delaware. which are
caught by the hundred thousand
each winter The little animals
are In many eases caught in steel
traps secured by strong chains.
AS soon us the rat is trapped il plunges
into the water weighed down by the
trap, and is drowned. A muskrat au.
thorlty gives the interesting bit of in
formation that, while a muskrat is
compelled to breathe under water 1t
can travel FOR miles under the ice by
scientific air-producing process
which enables 1t to remain under the
Icy covering for hours. In order to
do this 1t must stop as often as once
in twenty minutes and eject its breath
into the water. This air rises to the
surface, forming big pale bubble.
After 1t has been exposed To the water
for few minutes the bubble becomes
oXygennted, when the rat inhalcs tho
Slobule and resumes its journey.
Muskrats when served by the East.
ern Shore cook MS "mock telTapin" win
challenge the epicure to distinguish
1t from the real Chesapeake diamond.
back. When properly skinned the
musky taste and odor entirely dlsap.
pear and when properly cooked the
almost black flesh is juicy tender and
sweet. The food of the rat is the roots
OF marsh grasses and shrubs which
grow on the shores and no morsel of
food Is touched until it has been thor
ouShly washed-Chesterto Ntdl
Correspondence in the Baltimore sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29
Tho Gold Bullet.

A weird story is told of man by
the name of Van Bosboom, who Is dis
tlnguished in the Transyaal as the
best shot in the Republic. He is fifty
five years old and never, ii is claimed,
has he missed an object at which he
fred. \ few months ago he had
productive gold mine and Il fl1urishiug
family, but he lost his mine recently,
and soon after his two sons were slain
as they We're lighting against the Eng
lish. The loss of his mine troubled
him little, but when he learned that
his stalwart sons were no more II
change came over him. lie took his
old flintlock rife. which he calls Lo-
bengula, and with bag of golden
bullets he went to the front TO fight
the foes of his country. And it is said
that during the recent battles when
the ambulanccs removed each day
those who had fallen in battle, the
physicians could readily pick out the
officers who had been killed by Van
Bosboom, for instead of two ounces
Of lead or steel they had two ounces
of gold either in the heart or in the
forehead.
Whether this be truth or fiction I
know not. but ! do know that there
are multitudes OF men and women who
are shot to death in these days, not
only in South Africa, but in Europe
and America as well. by the bullets
of gold.-Homiletic Review.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29

The work that Is being carried on in
the Gale de las Escalcraillas for the
laying of the sewer mains has led to
important archaeological discoveries,
for as is well known, that street, as
well as the present cathedral, formed
part of the site of the great temple of
Huitzllopochtli the Aztec god of war.
The latest discoveries seem to be the
most important of all. Foremost
among them are two figures of the
god Ehecatl (god of air), the compan-
ion of QuetZaceatl. One OF these fig
ures Is painted red, yellow and black,
and in spite of the dampness of the
ground where 1t has lain for centuries,
the cOlors have remained fresh and
vivid.
These idols are adorned with disks
of gold, which are polished and en-
graved in remarkable manner. The
disks are about twenty centlmeters in
diameter and the gold plate is of fair
thickness.
Other objects found at the same time
were four ear ornaments of GOLD, II
gold jewel case belonging to the god
of air, beads, amulets of green stones,
axes of slick, small idols of stone,
lances of sharp stones. n curious mask
of pyrite of iron, knives of large di.
menslons, n mask of diorite, censers
of carthenware painted in colors, and
many other figures of stone and ce-
ment, the latter being always poly
chromatic.-Mexlcan Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29

and should be nailed TO the studdng
before they are raised into position
The joists O.. o, O. should be of two
by four, and the supports for the roof
should be of the same material. The
space above the joists may be filed
with straw or leaves, or hay, to pre-,
vent freezing in the cellar. The plates
which are secured ut the top of the
studding, may be placed somewhat
above the level of the surface of the
ground. Part of the earth which Is
removed In eXcavatlng should be
banked UP against the walls under
the roof, so that the slope of the
ground will be away from the cellar
Doors may be placed Mt intervals in
the roof so that roots can be shov
eled from wagon directly into the
cellar. At one end of the pit there
should be solid double doors, so that
entrance may be had to the cellar IN
cold weather without permitting the
cold to enter. The upright center
piece "a, II should not be more than
i've to six feet high, and the length
of the cellar may be MS great as de
sired. The width may he from eight
TO ten feet. If this can be constructed
on slight slope OF land it will be al
the better.-Country Gentleman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29
weeds Rob the soil of Mols,urc.

There Is probably nothing. except
irrigation. that will 10 so much to help
crop resist drOughts as frequent but
shallow cultivation. This cultivation
prevents great waste of moisture
by destroying the weeds as well as
checking evaporation, although some
farmers would not believe this TO be
the case.
Some believe that weeds are detrl-
ment to the farmer only by increasing
the labor of harvesting crops ana in
using up the plant food that would
otherwise be taken up by the cult
yated plants.
This is all true, but there is another
way in which the weeds are detri-
mental, and that Is by using the wat
er or moisture in the soil which is al
ways needed by the growing crop
and this is especially true during dry
seasons.
The farmer who keeps his land free
from weeds is, so TO speak. putting
barrels upon barrels of water upon
his land and il Is done with great
deal less labor than II the water were
applied directly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29
snyed the ChIcl,en,s Llfe.

Mrs. William Ditchfield, of Upland,
has not studied medicine or surgery,
but she has performed n surgical op.
Grafton on chicken at her home and
the chicken is now living and we'll,
having entirely recovered.
Mrs. Dltchlicld prldes herself on her
chickens. The other day Que Of them
was taken sick. After diagnosing the
the case she determined that If the
chickens life was to be saved an op.
Grafton was necessary. Accordingly
she whetted up knife and, screwlng
up her courage to the necessary notch,
she cut open the chickens craw and
there found imbedded in the side a
small silver of bone. After much tr0u.
BILE she succeeded in removing it. Fin.
ishing the thing in style almost pro
fessional, she neatly sewed up the In
cision with silk thread.
The chicken Is to-day running around
as lively as any of the brood. Mrs.
Ditchfield Is now looking for more
chickens with bones in their craws.--
Philadelphia Inquirer.